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OK! So I’m back. Its been WAYYYYY too long since my last post here, but I’ve been busy with a lot of things. Work for one, takes up most of my time and when I get back home its almost midnight. So that doesn’t leave me with too much time. Plus I’ve also been busy playing the guitar and I’ve been practicing Canon Rock. Yeah I know its easily available of youtube, so I wont worry about putting up another version here. This is purely for fun and to learn.

Anyways – I haven’t done much else except downgrade my 2^nd PSP from 2.71 to 1.50. Also been using DevHook .46 for a while so that keeps me happy.

Nothing special to write about right now, except that I’m going to NY tomorrow and I’m gonna have a lot of fun. New Year will be in Chicago and I may just end up going to Lynchburg too – but its just 2 weeks so I dunno how much im going to be able to complete in such little time. But it’ll be fun for sure.

Apart from that the Skoar! Forums have been COMPLETELY revamped – all thanks to 1 in-duh-vidual – Krishnan. Genius stuck in a tub of lard , but whatever makes him happy. Do check it out when you can. Its got a completely new look, has moved on from phpBB to vBulletin and sports RSS feeds from gamespot as well. Visit it at http://www.skoar.com/forums

Till next time (and yes – I will be more regular)

Oh – I also tracked down a VERY good friend of mine in NY – so I really hope I can meet her. Its been 7 years since I saw her and its going to be excellent seeing her after all this time.

My video on YouTube.com

Sunday - 25/06/06. I'm just jamming with my friend Anirban at his place and we decided to play La Bamba - or whatever we could remember of it.

WE recorded this and I was just speaking to my friend Swati yesterday and told her about the jam. SO I sent her the video (a .3GP)! and now it's on www.youtube.com !

You can see the video at this URL:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDo6q-nOZS8&mode=user&search=

Oh man...this was one of the best Sunday's i've had in a while!

The sad bit is that I cant check this from work. I even tried using anonimizer websites, but they've got ALL of them blocked too!...Sigh...

Updates

Holy Miss Moly! It's been quite a while since I've posted something new here. Well, it's alot beucase I was really busy, but more because I was lazy too.

Anyways - I've been upto a couple of things. The first has been my resolution for 2006 - which is to play the guitar like I should and spend more time with it. SO i've been playing every night when i get back from work. The flip side is that you cant play too loud, so it kinda sucks. But i've worked a way around that - nowI just wake up early and play! Doing good so far. My and Saha recorded a small clip where we improvised for about 1.5 minutes - Saha came up with a really good rythm and the melody just followed off a minor pentatonic shape from my guitar! :-) Not bad!

I also picked up a wireless router to enable browsing on my PSP. It's quite cool although text input can be a bitch sometimes - correcttion - everytime. But if you're the sorts who loves to SMS, then you'll feel at home completely! I always use T9, so it is annoying.

Signed up for Yahoo! answers as well - just gives me something to kill time because my office IT guys have blocked www.skoar.com . Bastards! So now i cant get to the forum :-( . It's not too much fun from home - considering how slow my connection gets sometimes.
While we're at Skoar! I'll be going to the Skoar! Gaming Expo in July. 7-9th July to be precise. It's going to be a real blast because i'm gonna meet most of the guys from the forum and we've got a gaming farm idea all set up. The PSP and XBox will go with me along with a 40GB portable HDD (Just in case). Pictures of the expo to follow shortly.

What else - oh yeah - I also got the honor to install Quake 2 on the PSP. It playes great with the demo level averaging at about 15-16 fps. Could be more but I didnt really check. McZonk has done some excellent work with this project and I cant wait for him to finish this baby! Check out www.teamemergencyexit.com for more info and updates.

Thats about it for now. I promise i'll be more regular from now on.

Later!

The Aliens V/s Predator post

Well, I've always been a fan of Gigers works and the Xenomorphs are by far one of the coolest. But the Yautja's (or Predator's) are no less cool either. Both species are extremely strong and savage in their ways following only their instincts to kill and survive. Just fascinating!

Anyways...I got some AVP action figures recently and took a few pix after putting 'em together. Watch!

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Hope you liked these! Till later!

Read on!

Here's something really funny i got in an email. Thought i'd put it up here!

For all of us who feel only the deepest love and affection for the way computers have enhanced our lives, read on. At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated, "If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25.00 cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon."

In response to Bill's comments, General Motors issued a press release stating:

' If GM had developed technology(!) like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics:

1. For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash twice a day.

2. Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you would have to buy a new car.

3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason. You would have to pull to the side of the road, close all of the windows,shut off the car, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could continue. For some reason you would simply accept this.

4. Occasionally, executing a manoeuvre such as a left turn would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine.

5. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast and twice as easy to drive -- but would run on only five percent of the roads.

6. The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all be replaced by a single "This Car Has Performed An Illegal Operation" warning light.

7. The airbag system would ask "Are you sure?" before deploying.

8. Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key and grabbed hold of the radio antenna.

9. Every time a new car was introduced car buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car.

10. You'd have to press the "Start" button to turn the engine off. '

How to avoid being roasted by lightning!

Hey there! Here's a poem I wrote sometime back and I had posted this on the Skoar! forums in the Verse or Worse thread. It's a poem about Death. Read it.


The lone wolf looks upward.
The crimson skies cry pain.
With a chilling howl it announces its master’s arrival.
Sorrow stalks the land again.

The populace flee, gripping children tight,
the reaper walks, treading light.
The scythe falls, a woman wailed.
The young boy fought, but pitifully failed.

All around, the land smelled of rot and decay,
could they possibly see, another day?
Death looked up, smiled and said :
"Fear not, for i'm a cleanser, not an abberration,
Death is not the end, but merely......a transition."

And basically, thats the only thing that saves you from becoming roast sapein when caught in a lightning storm.
See, there are always 2 kinds of people - those who chose to come out roasted after being struck by lightning. All black and charred and burnt and smelly and crispy. Then there are those, who realize that the electricity can be used to achieve something far greater - that instead of being roasted, you can come out of it galvanized. so you end up being much stronger than you were. Shinier than you were. Better than you were.

Thats how it's worked here. Things couldnt have been better. Sitting up at 6am, with a glass of hot lemon tea, cold water, Pepsi and pop corn in front of me. All waiting for me to ingest them. All this while listening to Pink Floyd! And thinking of that one great email that made my day. That one great email that made me smile like a schoolgirl with a crush on her teacher! I swear - this would never have come to pass had I chosen to be roasted! Awesome!

Other stuff - my company is celebrating the annual Townhall this Sunday - so i'm playing with my band of colelagues (well - directors really) and im really inspired to play the guitar more sincerely now. Especially since I saw a few Paul Gilbert videos and almost found myself a new hole! Damn - will I ever get to that level of mastery? If I could just play that fast - anything! God...even chromatics would do!! But i'm going to keep practicing.

Well...what else...oh yeah...I got moved up to moderator on the Skoar! forums. So now I get to play God (or at least God's errand boy). Good things happening. Life is beautiful and i'm a lot more shinier now.

I guess it's because if you dont know how not to get roasted by lightning, then you will learn it. And learning can never be bad.

Sounds Good to Me

Thought i'd post something different today. These are the lyrics from a song - Sounds Good To Me by this really really really amazing band called Annihilator. You gave to hear them to believe how great they are! I mean this is some serious talent! EVEN THOUGH THEY'RE CANADIAN! But their music is what - Prog rock, Metal, Thrash, Glam! All rolled into one tight package!! The riffs are just to die for! OK - shut up Reg! Here you go!

Say goodbye and close your eyes, let's drift away
Like a ship on the ocean, we'll set sail for a better day
Come live in a daydream, this is your wonderland
Let's swim in the deep sea, so jump in and take my hand

Dream away don't wait for the night
'Cause any old time at all sounds good to me
Hello, you can open your eyes, we're almost there
Can you feel all the energy, there's magic everywhere
Come live in a daydream, this is your destiny
Just let the feeling surround you and it will set you free
We've all got problems, don't let them get to you
Amd when your feeling down, there's only one thing to do

Dream away don't wait for the night
'Cause any old time at all sounds good to me
Dream away, everything's alright
I hope it sounds good to you, sounds good to me
Sounds good to me

We've all got problems, don't let them get to you
Amd when your feeling down, there's only one thing to do

Dream away don't wait for the night
'Cause any old time at all sounds good to me
Dream away, everything's alright
I hope it sounds good to you, sounds good to me
Sounds good to me.

Babe....this is for you. Thank you for swimming with me. With you by my side, I can swin against the tide all my life.

For those of you interested in the tab for this song, you can find it here.