Just like the title suggests, I’ll be quick. The development of the new template of this site is coming on nicely. I have a basic layout ready and it looks like the one in the image I had shared with you earlier. Currently I’m sorting out the smaller things – the comments template, a uniform color scheme, designing the footer and other smaller knick knacks. Now that the ball has started rolling, it will hit the cyberspace pretty soon.

On the other hand, the great IPU has released a detailed schedule for the counselling for its MCA programme. I’ve been called on 6th of June at 1:00 PM at Kashmere Gate campus. So finally, the ball has started rolling here too.

I know, I know.. I was supposed to start a series on “How not to be an ass and start doing whatever you want to do”. I know that. I’m working on it. Its Talking Talking stuff, and not a Diary one… So once that restarts, you’ll see the post(s) over there. Be patient!

To top it all, India’s Got Talent Season 2 starts in a few minutes..! I’m off towards the idiot box! See ya later…

PS: I was thinking of restarting my twitter habit. But more on this in another post.

So finally it has happened… IPU has released a notice regarding the counselling for MCA! It says that a detailed schedule will be uploaded on 30th of June on their website, and that the counselling process will start on 5th of August.

Knowing their previous endeavors (read: B.Tech counselling), I know that it isn’t going to start off on the 5th… But still, at least they have broken the silence!

My last post here, yearning… was well received. With the apparent success of it, I’m motivated to write more on the topic. My friend Ashish, who commented on the post, asked for a solution for the problem. I don’t (yet) possess one. However, during the series of short posts that I’m planning to write, I will try and give out the reasons behind such happenings. Why is that a person full of ideas eventually fails? Hopefully, during these endeavors, I might come across a solution. Isn’t it? Lets hope so. Keep watching this space.

Nobody is perfect… Nothing can be perfect… And life is certainly not perfect… Then why am I craving for perfection? Why can’t I control my yearning to excel in every possible field? And why can’t I stow away the disappointment I feel when I can’t?

Who am I? Well, I’m a perfect combination of sky high aspirations and drop dead laziness. I hate hypocrites but I’m one myself (isn’t that hypocrisy itself?). I want to do this and I want to do that, but then I end up doing neither, because I can’t find perfect ways to either do this or do that. And I don’t even know if any of this makes sense or not! Most often than not, I’m a scoundrel who does things he doesn’t want to do because he can’t help himself in any possible way – only because he doesn’t have the perfect means.

(First time here? Don’t worry… I talk nonsense when I’m upset.)

I’ve heard someone say, “Nobody dies a virgin, because life fucks everyone.” So very true! So fuckingly insanely maddeningly true! Because here I am, getting fucked!

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Ha… That’s off my chest now! This was my knee jerk reaction to whatever that has been happening to me these days. YouTube has failed to excite me further, Facebook is full of old shit and there’s nothing new, I can’t get myself to work on the new theme for this blog, IPU sucks big time due to its lack of punctuality, 3 Idiots is repetitive after six views, Terminator 1 and 2 were good but the third was an absolute crap, India’s Got Talent Season 2 doesn’t start till 30th of July and thats fucking four days away, I haven’t gone out for a movie for almost half a year, my keyboard is getting erratic and that is giving me pain in the ass, I had to give away lots of books away in the last few days because there’s no place in my house to keep them, my scientific calculator broke down two days ago and I found out that it wasn’t an original after all, bollywood doesn’t come out with music of my taste these days, the wires that connect the various parts of my PC are in an absolute mess – all tangled up and full of mess…

So you see, I’m full of “problems” – in the most sarcastic sense of the word! The small nitty grities of life, when they fail to function properly, are bound to flare up anybody – I’m merely a mortal!

However, the knee jerk reaction that I posted above was just that – a knee jerk reaction, and nothing more or less. Rest assured, I’m all right!

The phrase “Steal my thunder” was first uttered by John Dennis in 1709. He was an English critic and playwright back in his days, and had invented and used a novel method of stimulating the sound of thunder in one of his plays Appius and Virginia. John made thunder by using troughs of wood with stops in them, rather than the bowls of mustard usually employed. Though the thunder was a great success, unfortunately the play was not. The manager at Drury Lane, where the play was being performed, cancelled its run only after a few performances.

When John Dennis returned at Drury Lane to watch Shakespeare’s Macbeth, he was horrified to see that his method of producing thunder was being used. Jumping to his feet, Dennis screamed at the audience, “That’s my thunder, by God! Those villains will not play my play but they steal my thunder!”

Q. Can I say that I’m finally a Graduate?

A. Err.. Yeah! Because I got my result yesterday, and I passed with a total aggregate of 63%. !!

Many would argue, that it isn’t a very good percentage to get. I kinda agree with them. However, given the circumstances that I had to undergo, getting a total of 63% is very healthy to begin with! Keeping in mind the blunders that I had committed in my second year of B.Sc, getting a 63% means that I have finally redeemed myself.

I know a lot of people offline. And I had confided in some of those (and a few others, who got to know that anyway), that I had flunked two papers in the second year. For somebody like me, who boasts of being intelligent, this was a big blow – a hard kick in the ass, as some of you might say. And to make matters worse, I had received just the marks needed to pass in two other papers. One more mistake, and I would have flunked them too!

This year however, I’m pleased to announce, that I’ve cleared the papers that I’d flunked, and have scored about 70% in the third year. These two drivers have pushed forward my aggregate percentage to a great deal.

Okay, no more bakwaas. I must get back to work. I have a promise to keep (that of redesigning this space, remember?). See you guys later.

So it is official. Change is coming to Rajat’s Diary! The image above presents the future look of this space. As you can see, the design phase of the project is complete. The coding phase is currently underway, ans should be over in about 5 days. It will be followed by a testing phase wherein you will be asked to test the template and report any bugs to me. Once that is over… Well, you kinda know what will happen, isn’t it?

You can click on the image above to view a full size version of the template, which will fill the screen if your monitor runs on a resolution of 1024×768. There is a typo in the post-text, which has got copied and pasted multiple times. Please don’t mind that. I noticed it after I’d finalized the image.

As far as the inspiration behind the design goes, I’ve tried to give it a minimalist look with a dash of color here and there. There is plenty of white space, no sidebar (and hence, no distractions while reading!), and only two fonts.

Also, this template will mark the change in the name of Rajat’s Diary to My Diary, will differentiate between different types of posts (text, video, image etc), and will surely feature some cool jQuery effects!

Rest assured, watch this space keenly over the next few days, lest you miss out on the opening ceremony.

Sometimes, even the most innocuous of things can give you some of the brightest inspirations. Like the one that happened just now.

As you might have noticed (or not), I’m very interested in Photoshop. I make all my web designs in it before coding them out in HTML and CSS. One of such endeavors required the use of the perspective tool to create an illusion of depth. While playing around with it and trying out various permutations of settings, I created a rather interesting looking image (that you see above). In effect, the perspective tool allowed me to view a single object from nine different perspectives (=3², instead of the usual four =2²).

It was then that the thought occurred to me. Life is a similar world, isn’t it? If in a 3-dimensional physical world, we can look at a thing in 3-squared perspectives, then going by a similar logic, in an infinite-dimensional living world, we can look at a thing in infinity-squared perspectives! Although we cannot estimate how much (infinity)² is, but we can at least tell that it is a very big number. So much so, that it doesn’t even fit in the real number space!

What do we learn from this? We learn that there are infinite ways of looking at something that happens to you.  Even a one-bit binary number can represent two states. However, most of us narrow minded beings look at things from a single perspective! We don’t live in a one dimensional world my friend. The ecosystem of human mind is so complex that we can never even dream of understanding it. The least we can do is to explore it, with all our might – lest we find some hidden treasures there!

What I’m trying to say here, is that if you open up your mind and find different ways of looking at a situation that is befuddling you, you can find out the reason why that happened, and find out what good would it do to you. The key to life is embracing the good, isn’t it? Its about having a positive attitude, no matter what.

So sit back, relax, and think. Comments are welcome.