Consolidated Blog

General

In the past three years, I’ve played with this blog’s layout and design at least three times. Twice I removed posts that were posted earlier. Now I put in everything together. I can’t belive there are 275 posts (considering that it has been going on for 3 years, it may be less!).

Now I thought it is better to have the blog consolidated with all the posts. Don’t ask me for reasons. I don’t have. Just enjoy reading.

There is so much to hate

Personal

Contrary to the last weekend, this weekend was a relaxing and a stress-free one. I didn’t do programming, I didn’t work, I didn’t do anything that I would distress me; nor anything that would piss-me-off occured. Good weekend!

Now you are wondering about the title. Here it goes…

I was listening to George Michael’s ‘Listen without Prejudice’. The chorus goes like this:

And it’s hard to love
There’s so much to hate
Hanging on to hope
When there is no hope to speak of

I realised that it is honestly true. Though I put on a mask and smile and laugh and make others laugh, I have so much of hate within myself. I cannot express whom I am angry at: is it on God, or on the society, or on myself? I don’t know. One thing for sure, there is so much of anger within me. How much ever I calm myself, it gets out its nasty head time to time.

What makes it worse is that I don’t have someone with whom I can be just myself – a silly-billy boy, cracking silly jokes, drinking and dancing. I did have one; but it is a history now. Being careful with everyone and not being yourself is so bloody annoying.

When I was in Chennai, I used to go to this Casuarina groove near Mahabalipuram where there was absolutely no crowd and I could sit there as long as I wanted without being disturbed; enjoying sunsets and moon coming out the sea. Though it is called Garden City, I find there is no quiter place here in Bangalore.

Anyway the point is, I cannot go long like this. Either I would put a gun to my head or end up in a nut house. I don’t know which one I prefer!

Good progress in FOW development

Programming

I am pretty glad that I made good progress in FOW development. I need to capture sample shots for preview images. I have created an account with SourceForge. But so far, have not been successful in transferring files. Hopefully I will be able to crake it in few days. Then I’ll release FOW opensource 0.1 version.

This is a stripped-down version of fow2.0. I have concentrated to port the code to Python. Once this is done, I will go on adding more features (hopefully).

Some funny quotes

Timepass

Every man wants a wife who is beautiful, intelligent, caring, understanding, economical, and a good cook. But unfortunately the law allows only one wife.

Marriages are made in heaven. But so again, are thunder and lightning.

One woman’s hobby is another woman’s hubby.

It’s what people don’t know about each other that makes them such good friends.

If you can’t get a lawyer who knows the law, get one who knows the judge.

Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.

We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife.

Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.

Marriage is like a cage; those outside are desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll be happy. If you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher… and that is a good thing for any man.

Marriage is a 3-ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring and suffering.

Marriage is not a word, it is a sentence – A Life Sentence!!

Marriage is when a man and woman become as one; the trouble starts when they try to decide which one.

Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.

I don’t worry about terrorism. I was married for two years

I’ve had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn’t

Marriage is the only war where one sleeps with the enemy

Marriage is Love, Love is blind, therefore, marriage is an institution for the Blind

Its a big day tomorrow for me

Nothing official about it

I’ve an uncanny knack for getting things to negative.

But, if all goes well then tomorrow will be a big day! In the department meeting (called Town hall meeting), they would distribute the department award.

And in the afternoon is the presentation to the client and the discussion of the proposal that I wrote earlier. Did I tell you that the client team is here this week.

Let us see how it goes.

It is a different day

Nothing official about it

If one day was great, the next day was an opposite.

To start with, I woke up with a dull feeling. As I dragged myself to get to office, I got a call from office (yes it became that late for me to get ready! ) that the development server is wiped out of data. Not a good event for a project in a tight schedule. Most of the morning went in finding out the root cause while working in parallel to brining up the development server.

Later in the evening, I had a chat with the unit head of the new project to find out if tickets be booked; he informed that the trip may not occur! He continued to say that the proposal has not yet been accepted by the client. Next week the client is here and the fate of the project will be decided during one of the meetings.

I don’t know how to feel. It is just another day…though entirely different.