The Awkward Moment When...

Yesterday, I was awarded for spending most of Gr 12 with books. Being a "Supremo" makes me sound like a large pizza from pizza hut.
During the ceremony, shit happened.
My thoughts varied from wait, what? to WHAT THE FAAACK? to omg, what is happening?, to who? me? and finally to oh, this is gonna be fun.
The awkward moment when I stand next to the CEO of my school with his arm over me for the entire audience to laugh at.
This is what I thought the moment looked like -


After the ceremony, in which people apparently forgot how to clap, or had I gone deaf? Never mind, I'll find someone like you.
OKAY. So after the prize distribution ceremony, I almost had a cardiac arrest at one point of time. A nice feeling though. Beautiful is the word. Why did my heart almost stop beating? You may never know.................. (notice extra full stops and imagine a person looking out a misty window on a misty, winter's night and the screen fades)

Did I enjoy the moment when I was next to the CEO? Yes.
Would I like another "beautiful cardiac arrest" moment? Yes.
Did I like the food? No.

A Reflecting Surface.

The person in the mirror is like the two sides of a coin. The person can either convert you into the Green Goblin or be your friend in times of despair. The person inside the mirror can tell you who the fairest of them all is. The mirror can bring back childhood memories, like what happened to Kancha. Kancha ended up breaking any mirror he saw.
The person inside the mirror, or rather the mirror itself can also be the source of a really good song.

Why are we talking to each other again?


I need to be inked.

Path of Fire.

I haven't posted for a while now. I had nothing exciting happening in life. Not that anything exciting has taken place today, I just missed the New Post window.

I watched Agneepath today with my family. It had enough bloodshed to gave my mom a headache and Dexter Moran a smile on his face. The movie is a really good one. Hrithik Roshan is boss. Sanjay Dutt could have replaced Ralph Fiennes as Voldemort, all 'Kancha' needed was a wand instead of the cigar.
The movie magically jumps 15 years from one scene to the other, and a young boy playing 'Vijay, transforms into Hrithink Roshan and somehow even changes the colour of his eye from a deep black, like his mother's to a mystical green. No contact lenses, mind you, Just pure magic.
Logic tells us that a person should die if he has his back bone stabbed couple of times and then have his chest slashed with a sickle and then have a blade sticking out of his abdomen for atleast 30 seconds, but if logic had its way, Indian cinema would have missed out on jewels like this - 

Overall, Agneepath is is pretty nice movie, there is energy in every scene and the movie keeps you hooked. Wouldn't be surprised if Hrithik Roshan walks away with the various awards up for grabs and if toy companies started making Kancha bobble heads.

The poem, Agneepath is a classic and it makes sense if you can understand the gibberish (Hindi)...

वृक्ष हों भले खड़े

हों घने, हों बड़े

एक पत्र छाँह भी

मांग मत! मांग मत! मांग मत!

अग्निपथ! अग्निपथ! अग्निपथ!

तू न थकेगा कभी

तू न थमेगा कभी

तू न मुड़ेगा कभी

कर शपथ! कर शपथ! कर शपथ!

अग्निपथ! अग्निपथ! अग्निपथ!

यह महान दृश्य है

चल रहा मनुष्य है

अश्रु-स्वेद-रक्त से

लथ-पथ! लथ-पथ! लथ-पथ!

अग्निपथ! अग्निपथ! अग्निपथ!

This is what my horoscope had to say - "Lost in despair and wallowing in self-pity, you may not have noticed that you’ve been creating immense interest in all the right places." Just saying, not drawing any conclusions because who reads the horoscope anyway. I do now. But yea, just saying.....

And -

I would like to call this, my life in words. The girl is there for viewing pleasure.

If you think otherwise, 

 

Drilling open the Vita.

As some of you may know, I attended the PS-Vita press launch in Dubai. Yeah, I'm rolling with the big guns now. I was going to update you with the awesomeness that I came across but I was stopped from doing that by my extremely stupid practical exams. We had to dissect flowers in Biology. Do I get an 'Oooooooooh, that's so awesome'? No, I get 'LOL, get a life science dude.' Yes, it's pretty hard to feel good when you've got shit like that going on. Nonetheless, I'm posting a new post (yes, sounds grammatically incorrect, but actually isn't.)

Now, let's explore the Vita shall we?
First off, the technical specs which are more than enough to induce orgasms in the tech loving such as myself.

CPU-ARM^® Cortex™- A9 core (4 core)

GPU-SGX543MP4+

External Dimensions

Approx. 182.0 x 18.6 x 83.5mm (width x height x depth)
(tentative, excludes largest projection)

Screen (Touch Screen)

5 inches (16:9), 960 x 544, Approx. 16 million colors, OLED
Multi touch screen (capacitive type)

Rear Touch Pad

Multi touch pad (capacitive type)

Cameras

Front camera, Rear camera

Sound

Built-in stereo speakers
Built-in microphone

Sensors

Six-axis motion sensing system (three-axis gyroscope,
three-axis accelerometer), Three-axis electronic compass

Location

Built-in GPS
Wi-Fi location service support

Keys / Switches

PS button
Power button
Directional buttons (Up/Down/Right/Left)
Action buttons (Triangle, Circle, Cross, Square)
Shoulder buttons (Right/Left)
Right stick, Left stick
START button, SELECT button
Volume buttons (+/-)

Wireless Communications

Mobile network connectivity (3G)
IEEE 802.11b/g/n (n = 1x1)(Wi-Fi)(Infrastructure mode/Ad-hoc mode)
Bluetooth^® 2.1+EDR (A2DP/AVRCP/HSP)

Yup, you're absolutely right. I copied it from Wikipedia, well who doesn't?

Now, the human part of the specifications.

PS Vita comes in a glossy black guise and it feels just perfect in your hands. As you switch it on, you notice that the familiar XMB is gone. Wait what?
Yup, they've replaced it with a bunch of blobs that at first don't look quite appealing, but then as you delve into it, you notice that it's perfect for your tiny 600 cc brain.




The games, social media and everything else are neatly arranged in the whole place and yes, it includes multi-tasking due to the fact that it has 512 MB of RAM which was a missing feature in it's predecessor the PSP.



The games are crispy with occasional frame-rate drops which will be fixed when the developers come to grips  with the SDK of the Vita. The SDK refers to Software Development Kit for the un-initiated over here.

We can play Full HD videos on the Vita without a hitch, thanks to it's quad core processor. What does that mean for you? Well, for one, no FUCKING video converters needed.

Yes, now moving on, the Social Network aspect. Yes, everyone wants to update on the go, yes? Well, Sony's got you covered. It's got both Twitter and Facebook right there in-built. The Twitter app shares striking similarity to the iPad client of Twitter. I expect apps from 3rd-Party developers to come into existence soon.

There's a rear camera and a front camera. We all know that the front camera is for video calling, but what else? Well, it tracks your ugly/handsome face while playing games which require interaction like that.


Plus, an awesome tidbit for those who game online, the PSN versions of games will be cheaper. Yup.

I'll be more detailed next time, really busy. :)

 Next post will a video of me, detailing the features. :)

When Dreams Come True.

Let me tell you of the time when I played God. Not the entire story, don't want my effigy burning on the streets.
I had a dream. It wasn't an ordinary dream like the one in Biology class. This one was an upgraded version, good graphics, not-so-imaginary sound quality. A dream that came true. (I can hear people saying "what a ba****d". And now, hopefully they have a sly grin on their face, if not, this may be my last post, I'm getting killed.)
Since my vision, as I would like to call it, has come true, I feel powerful. It's a feeling like the one I might get, nay will get when Sachin Tendulkar reaches his 100th ton (which is when a dark skinned Homo sapien will show off his literary skills here), it's like the feeling that I know I'll feel when I get my Hogwarts acceptance letter, it's like being drunk without consuming alcohol.
Unfortunately I wasn't at the right place to witness my vision take place, but I'm sure it would have been like   déjà vu.
Another dream came true for me. This one took almost 3 years. I finally managed to score above 75/100 in English. I know you're all thinking- heh, what an arsehole. WHATEVER LOSER! It has not been easy, I had to overcome the shock of a B1 in my Gr 10 boards while some people around me who probably can neither comprehend this post nor can can compose a complex sentence had a shiny A2 or A1 in their report cards. Oh, the humanity. I finally overcame the 75/100 curse, and I felt the same way as described above.

I should dream more often. I should probably expand the list of topics I dream on.

The Indian Cricket Team should win more. Or they would have to face memes like this one -

Courtesy of a boy who found a meme generating site.

And songs like this one -

This should be the team's anthem for now.

I graduate on Valentine's Day. Oh the humanity? Oh awesome, I can save my ForeverAlone T-shirt for the prom? NOOOOOOOO? Vote on the poll.

Adieu Chuck

Today marks the final episode of Chuck.

I cannot believe that the ride is over. From the lovable Chuck to the comical genius Morgan, it has been amazing to finally find a show that fit my nerdy, geeky and gaming appetite. It has been in a way, a reflection of what we do every single day.

It's the season finale of Season 5 today and it will bring tears. It's like losing a loved one.
And yes, this blog post was short.
It had to be.

To cheer/tear you up, here's an amazing song.

I took my love down to Violet Hill,

There we sat in the snow,

All that time she was silent still,

Said if you love me, won't you let me know?

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