The Galaxy Tab is a bomb. Its brilliant. I'm wasting a humangous amount of time on it. Most of the time, I'm just staring at the live wallpaper. So captivating. I have to still find mind blasting apps for it and also update the "bragging rights" box of my Google+ account.
Today was an extra-ordinarily dull day, expect for a mini water fight that broke out in my class. Only 2 casualties reported.
Yesterday was a fun day. I bought a Galaxy Tab, and went to volunteer at Al Noor. Learning about Down Syndrome in biology is one thing and meeting a child with a trisomy of 21, something like porn and actual coitus. You know what to expect, since you have studied (or watched) it, but the experience of meeting (or banging) such an individual is awkward.
Son of Neptune is a good read. I love the way Rick Riordian connects the dots in the plot. PoeticWin.
I post this from a Samsung Galaxy Tab, bought today. Steve Jobs is so gonna hit me with lightning. I really did want to get an iPad 2, one of the reason being Jobs' legacy. Lets see what this Tab can do. Bitches.
I was reading my biology textbook, just to show my parents that I'm "studying". I was studying, though. While studying, I tend to think about topics completely unrelated to the chapter I'm reading. Today, while reading about how wheat, rice and cows are being mutated, improved I thought about an Apple. Then I thought about Steve Jobs and his legacy, after that I ended up thinking about Death, because I'm Batman. I'm still thinking about Death.
Steve Jobs' commencement speech at Stanford is bloody superb and inspirational.
"Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life."
Steve Jobs, Stanford Commencement speech, 2005
What is it about death that has so many people pondering over it? In Rick Riordian's Son of Neptune, the God of death is captured, mortals and monsters can't die because of that. In his previous books, Nico, son of Hades, tries to bring his(Nico's) sister, Bianca, back from the Underworld.
"The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death" is engraved on James and Lily Potter's head stone. The Deathly Hallows were created just to defeat Death. People ( and demi-gods and wizards) want to conquer death, not knowing that death is invincible, even the mightiest have to, inevitably, die.
"No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new."
I had to wake up for morning prayers with the sad news that my iCon had passed away.
At the age of 56, he had already accomplished more than what people hadn't been able to achieve in their 100 years or so of living, that is, changing how people felt about some things.
Now, when people think about music, they think of iTunes, when they think of smartphones, they think of iPhones and when they think of an amazing visionary, they think of Steve Jobs.
I took a moment to think, how did it affect US, the people?
It affected me a lot, being a geek/ tech nerd, Jobs was a father figure to us, in the metaphorical sense, but how did it affect people who just owned an Apple product because it was cool?
Then I saw my brother's status update on Facebook, which said, " Now no more Apple :/"
At first, I thought of reprimanding him, but I realized just how much Steve Jobs meant to his company.
People didn't see Steve Jobs as Apple, they saw Apple as Steve Jobs.
I'm sure, those who get what I'm hinting at, would appreciate what I just said.
Now, a little on the great man's life.
"Steven Paul Jobs, the co-founder and chairman of Apple, died Wednesday at the age of 56.
Born in San Francisco in 1955, Jobs grew up near Cupertino, Calif. After attending Reed College in Portland for one semester (and auditing classes for free for several more), Jobs took a job at Atari, designing circuit boards. In 1976, Jobs co-founded Apple with Steve Wozniak.
The two young men started out with a few thousand dollars in cash and a vision of changing the world. Over the course of the past 35 years, the company and Jobs have gone on to change the world, the personal computing industry, the music and film industries and the mobile industry as we know.
Apple released its first mass-market product, the Apple II in 1976. The Apple II helped ignite what would become known as “the personal computer revolution” and thrust the charismatic Jobs into the spotlight. By the time IBM released its first PC in 1981 and Commodore released the Commodore 64 in 1982, Apple was already hard at work on the product that would cement Apple’s place in computing history, the Macintosh.
Brazenly introduced to the world in 1984 via a Super Bowl ad directed by Ridley Scott, the Macintosh helped set the standard for personal computing paradigms for the next decade.
::::::Pixar, NeXT and Beyond::::::
Jobs was forced out of Apple in 1985 over disagreements concerning vision, style and attitude. At the time, Jobs was written off by many in the business and industry press as a flash in the pan. It was Wozniak, not Jobs, they said, that was the real innovator at Apple.
In the decade that followed, Jobs was out of the limelight. Bill Gates became the face of the industry and the tech story of the 1990s was the rise of Microsoft. It was Microsoft, not Apple, that would topple IBM.
After leaving Apple in 1985, Jobs and some of his Apple founded NeXT with a cadre of Apple alumni. NeXT was well-financed and its software and hardware were top notch. Still, the products failed to make an impact on the industry.
Jobs’s real success in the first half of the 1990s wasn’t in the computer industry, but in the film industry. Pixar, a small animation studio Jobs acquired in 1986, went from obscurity to industry game-changer after the release of 1995′s Toy Story. It was Pixar, not Apple — and not NeXT — that made Jobs a very rich man.
In late 1996, Jobs approached Apple to discuss his former company acquiring NeXT. Apple needed an operating system, NeXT had one, NeXTSTEP.
Within a few months of rejoining Apple, Jobs took over as interim CEO. It was at this point that the modern Jobs legacy began to take shape.
From 1997 until August 2011, Jobs was Apple’s CEO, presiding over what can only be described as the greatest second and third acts in business history. Under his tutelage as CEO, Apple not only returned from the brink of bankruptcy to profitability, but products like the iMac, iPod, iPhone and iPad have single-handedly changed the consumer electronics and personal computing landscape.
In August 2004, Jobs revealed that he had undergone surgery to remove a cancerous tumor from his pancreas. Jobs took a one month leave of absence to recover from surgery and returned to work in September 2004.
For the next seven years, Jobs would dodge rumors about his health. In June 2008, Jobs’s gaunt appearance at WWDC raised questions about his health. In January 2009, Jobs took a six-month leave of absence from Apple, to address “a hormone deficiency.” It was later revealed that Jobs had a liver transplant in April 2009. He returned to work in June 2009.
Jobs would continue to serve as Apple’s CEO until January 2011, when he took a medical leave of absence “to focus on his health.”
Jobs is survived by his wife Laurene and his family."
If you felt awed by this man's life and would like to find out more, be sure to buy his biography.
Also, last but not the least, comments about both life and death by none other than Jobs made at his Stanford's Speech.
Adele can set fire to the rain. Adele has set fire to my desire to find a suitable mate of the opposite sex, one that I am suitable for too. Adele's songs are having a profound effect on my mental and physical state. My metabolism is slowing down. My reflex actions are just actions. Time is moving slower. The universe is expanding. Neutrinos are threatening Einstein's reputation. One day we might hear - Theory of Relativity has fallen. Einstein is a noob. Neutrinos are faster. The world will end after that. My hair is on fire. Aah, fuck it.
I'm speaking shit.
Getting back to my mental state. I am forever lonely. Call me a desperate bitch, an emo fucker, but I know you're lonely too. You're still messaging that person you liked, hoping for a reply, even if it is as useless as the red angry bird. I know that one reply is going to make you jizz in your pant. I haven't found the person yet, and because of that, I'm losing the human touch. My heart is turning into stone. Hormones controlling emotions are depleting. I want a Cheese n' Weiner.
DON'T LISTEN TO WHATEVER THAT EMO BITCH IS SAYING!
Akshith has dissociative identity disorder. The emo Akshith is an asshole. This is the actual Akshith speaking to you now.
Shoaid Akhtar undoubtedly wins the award for the Most Apt Title Of An Auto Biography in 2011, till date.
He may have written shit on Tendulkar, Dravid, his team, his mom, etc., but I don't care about Breaking News his book has been causing. The news channels should have seen it coming by reading the bloody title. It freaking says Controversially Yours. What did they expect from it? Instructions to grow weed in their backyard? The real reason why the chicken crossed the road?
Similarly... Week 39 is a volatile post now that an inspector knows of my blogger half. If Week 39 lands on the wrong website... Khalas. Yea, that is the happening word now. Khalas. Finished. Even though this may seem like an exaggeration, Week 39 could have the potential to get my ass kicked. Physically harming my bottom. Worst case scenario, as I see it, is that The Indian High School gets condemned and I get deported. It is risky being. But I like it. On the other hand, I should really stop bitching about school for now. Dark times these.. Very dark.
I thought my emo period had set in today, but it was just a false alarm. But I did have brief thoughts about seizing opportunities, being an opportunist. The voice in my head said," Just do whatever you want to, Akshith. Fuck the world". I'm pretty sure that I was spoken to when I was listing out the pros and cons of having a girlfriend during the physics period. Its silly how the mind can wander off to utopia at the most inappropriate timings.
Today is the last day of week no. 39.
13 more weeks for Jan 1, 2012. 64 weeks till you die.
Today is also the first day of the Knowledge and Human Development Authority's inspection week. My school is going to behave as if Pippa Middleton is going to get married there. School is going to be fun for a week. the teachers are going to be on their best behavior. Even though they're not getting paid extra for it... Or are they? The grass is greener in my school. The sun is brighter is brighter in my school. Okay, how is that possible? Everything is possible my friend, when KHDA's inspection looms over your head.
I am ill. I have been a victim of rhinoviruses. They piss me off. October pisses me off. Last year, my larynx stopped functioning properly. I thought - nay, believed - that it was my voice maturing and when my larynx starts to function well, I'll have a deep, manly, beautiful voice. But I ended up with laryngitis, on my birthday. To make matters worse, I inhaled fumes coming out of some idiot's failed chemistry experiment in the chemistry lab. I think it was mine. I don't have laryngitis now though. Not yet, anyway.
I have the common cold. When I grow up, I will make a vaccine to prevent common cold. Mark my words.
You should listen to Like A Knife by Secondhand Serenade. The intro music is happy. I would like it to be the background music for when I successfully propose to a girl. I can even imagine it right now - She says yes I will, I get happy, hug her, the cameras circle around us, the applause, the music. It is that happy. The lyrics are sad though, like most of Secondhand's songs.
