To You. With Love.

I love you. 

And someday we will watch all of these movies together..

"I  would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone."

(The Lord of the Rings)

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Half Yearly Lessons

Random fact about me - I am a list person. I will make lists to plan things (almost like a timetable :P), to sort things, to buy things, to throw things out. I will make lists when I am angry, when I am sad, when I am happy. And I make lists when I am bored. Lists. About anything and everything and sometimes nothing significant at all.

About things I learnt in the first half of 2011.

1. The time to do something you know you want to do - is NOW.
2. Everyone thinks they are being paid less.
3. Best friends are always too few and too precious to lose.
4. No one is 'there' in their lives. Everyone has some crap going on that you may not be aware of.
5. It takes serious effort to make a relationship happen.

More Awesome, Yet Under-Rated Things

Following the popularity of my previous post about 50 Totally Awesome, But Sadly Under-Rated Things, here is an all new list, many thanks to my friends who poured in with suggestions, of other such things that should be on such a list --

1. Biking at 120kmph on the western express highway in the dead of the night.
2. The first few drags of a Nirvana sheesha. oh yes. \m/
3. Mom's special dal-khichdi when you are sick
4. The smell of Parle-G biscuits when your train passes by Vile Parle station
5. Chips from Kerala
6. Reaching the railway station late and out of breath, to realize that the train is only just pulling in
7. On the spot plans to go eat at a midnight buffet
8. Sleeping under the stars, at a place that's not in your home city
9. The wind in your ears at a quiet place
10. Having someone play with your hair
11. Making eye contact with a cute stranger :D
12. Appreciation one liner from boss / subordinate / colleague
13. Finding sexy Catwalk boots on sale at half price
14. Laughing at something silly that you did
15. A quiet beachside walk
16. An accidental picture of you that makes you look hot! :D
17. Getting someone a present they had long desired, and watching the look on their face as they open it
18. A conversation about senseless things
19. Wearing a tiara and drawing double takes from onlookers ;)
20. A long distance phone call from someone you haven’t heard from in ages
21. Window shopping! :D
22. Feeling dew on your feet as you walk barefoot on grass on an early wintry morning
23. Playing a sport that you haven’t played in years, and find that you “still got your moves” :D
24. FINALLY making it past whatever it was that was causing all the traffic! 
25. Cracking an egg into two PERFECTLY
26. BUBBLEWRAP. even better - popping those tiny little bubbles :)
27. Nicely wrapped presents – people don’t wrap gifts anymore! :(
28. Waking up and realizing you still have a few hours left till the alarm sounds. YES!
29. Your boyfriend / girlfriend checking you out - proper head to toe sweep - pretending to have just met you
30. The travelling part of the trip you take with friends to a destination out of station
31. Having the high score on a video game at the game parlor
32. Your most comfortable pair of shorts, tee & slippers, that you wear to the local kirana dukaan [grocery shop].
33. Someone holding your hand while driving
34. Barista's take away cappuccino & Dunhill Reds on a windy late night drive 
35. The shutter release of my Nikon :) :) :) :) :)

~Annie.

P.S: Special thanks to Kanishk, Arnab & Shyam! :)

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15 Greatest Guitar Riffs Of All Time

.. in no particular order.

[Disclaimer: You may not agree with me here, and you are most welcome to add to the list, but there is no way you may diss any of these riffs in any way. Doing so will result in me losing all respect for you.]

Smoke on the water - Deep Purple (1973)

One of the most famous riffs in hard rock history, played on a Fender Stratocaster electric guitar by Ritchie Blackmore, immediately joined by hi-hat and drums and electric bass parts before the start of Ian Gillan’s vocal.

Pour some sugar on me - Def Leppard (1987)

Although the band was nearing the end of recording sessions for Hysteria in 1986, producer Mutt Lange felt that the album was still lacking a song that would have an appeal beyond the hard rock fans who had bought Pyromania; that song came to him during a 5 minute coffee break. Now often regarded as the band's signature song.

Sweet Child O' Mine - Guns N' Roses (1987)
This song is credited as being written by Guns N’ Roses as a band - more specifically it contains Slash’s riff, Izzy’s chords, Axl’s lyrics, and McKagan’s bass line. The subject of the song is generally thought to be lead singer Axl Rose’s then-girlfriend and eventual wife, Erin Everly. Supposedly Slash played the riff in a jam session as a joke. Drummer Steven Adler and Slash were warming up and Slash began to play a “circus” melody while making faces at Steven. Adler asked him to play the riff again, and Izzy Stradlin came in with the chords. Axl became intrigued and started singing the poem he had written.

50 Totally Awesome, But Sadly Under-Rated Things.

1. The way the top of a baby's head smells.
2. A hand written letter.
3. A totally senseless joke that noone but the right people understand
4. The one place you always hung out in college.
5. Holding hands without thinking.
6. A sincere apology & an unexpected Thank You note.
7. Old jeans that fit.
8. Dairy Milk on a gloomy day.
9. That feeling when your code works.
10. Kiss on the forehead from someone who matters.

A-Z ....

Dhapped the Tag from MistyRhythm's page... (ok im back to doing Tags. :P yeah i like them so much!)

A – Available/Single? – Single: YES Available : NO
B – Best friend? – I have too many! Can’t pick one. :)
C – Cake or Pie? – Cake. Cheesecake :) As weird as it might sound, I've never had pie.
D – Do I want something right now?– Yes! But its highly unlikely I will actually get it.
E – Essential item you use every day? – Kohl. Everyone knows that by now eh? :P Oh and Davidoff Cool Water. I NEVER leave home without a dab.
F – Freedom to me is? – Being Happy. Being unhappy means something is restricting you somewhere...
G – Giggle / Laughter – Laughter. I have been blessed to have met people who brought a lot of that into my life...
H – Heart / Brain – I’m one messed up system. In matters of the heart, I let my brain do the talking and when I should let my brain decide, my heart takes over. *sigh!*
I – Indulgence/ Addiction? – Indulgence. There are simply too many things cluttered around in my life for it being feasible to get addicted to.
J – June or July? – June. It rains a lot here in that month. Plus I always associate school with that month, since it was when it reopened.
K – Kids & their names? – I had once planned on naming my little son Rehaan. I don’t know if I still want to. It’s hard to get over the mental image I had of the little things he would do, at the same time, even the fictious lil boy reminds me of things I would rather forget.
L - Life is – too bizarre and complicated to be explained in a one liner.
M – Mistakes – do not sound so dumb when we make them right? :P Ok ok seriously, I think if people wouldn’t make any mistakes, they wouldn’t get any wiser. :)
N – Number of siblings? – None.
O – One thing I hate to accept? – That I have absolutely NO ego. I forgive much too soon and much too easy. K It shouldn’t work that way.
P – Pictures / Reality – Reality. It leaves a lasting impression. One that limited dimensionality of pictures cannot capture.
Q – Quote for today? – “I wish you could hear all the words I’m too afraid to say…”
R – Reason behind my brain working these days? – Coffee. Coffee. And some more coffee. :P
S – Season? – Monsoon. I have always had a love affair with the rains… From the beginning of tiny drizzles to the lashing of a heavy downpour. It’s a season for romance, what else will be the fitting favorite for an eternal romantic like me?
T – Tag 3 People? – Noone since I know people dislike doing tags. I think I’ve spammed people enough already :P
U – Unknown fact about me? – Ahh!! Lemme see… I’ve really tiny hands. :P
V – Vegetable you don't like? – I’m not too picky about food. It just has to taste good. :P
W – Worst habit? – Falling in love too easily...
X – X-rays you've had? – Err.. Hands, Legs, Ears ( :O ). Yeah, that’s about it.
Y – Yes?? Yuck??? – Makes no sense whatsoever, so moving on to the last question…
Z – Zodiac sign? – Feisty Fiery Sagittarian :P

Finally the Tag!!!!

OneThoughtOn had tagged me like AGES ago... But with work, n (tryin to) stay away from the blog, reading other blogs, etc etc... I didnt get the time to put it up. My apologies. But alls well now, just handed in a big project, nothing to do for the weekend, except shop shop and more shop. :P So here it is, My "four" Tag :)



4 places I have lived:
1. Mumbai (Goregaon West)
2. Mumbai (somewhere midway between Goregaon and Malad)
3. Mumbai (Malad West)
4. Mumbai (somewhere different in Malad West)

:P
(I have stayed here all my life and DO NOT plan on shifting anywhere out. EVER.)


4 TV shows I love to watch:
1. F.R.I.E.N.D.S (who doesnt? :P)
2. HIMYM (Totally in love with Barney :D)
3. CSI (NY & Miami both) :P
4. Big Bang (Sheldon is awesome! :P)



4 places I have been on vacation:
I havent travelled much, though I would really love to. I have been on mini vacations - shorts visits to relatives scattered all over India, so ill pick my top four :
1. Hyd whn I had just started college. :)
2. Goa - 2nd year trip with VJ Wizards
3. Shimla-Manali - 3rd year trip with again the wizards
4. North Again - Final year trip with Wizards, yet again! :)


4 of my favorite food:
1. Prawns :P (BIG sea foodie :P)
2. Pav Bhaji - Im a mumbaikar, what do u expect? :P
3. College ki canteen ka ragda samosa :)
4. Anythng from KFC :)

*basically anything that ISNT south indian. I totally hate south indian food :P No offence!! Some of my best friends are southies (refer: dimpled angel) :)*


4 websites I visit daily:
1. PlanetSourceCode
2. CodeProject
3. Facebook/Orkut :P
4. Blogger :)



4 places I’d rather be:
1. Inorbit Mall :P :D Damn!!! D mall closed on time today but my shopping wasnt yet over :P :D
2. Atlanta :( :( *Miss u sweetypie*
3. A friend in another city needs a hug. Wish I was there giving it myself, instead of over the phone.
4. The bed? I m sooo sleepyy!!! :P


4 novels I love: (changed original question, cz it didnt make sense to me :P)
1. A Thousand Spendid Suns
2. Kite Runner
3. If Tomorrow comes
4. Bartimaeus Triology :)




4 movies I can watch over and over again:
1. A walk to remember
2. RDB
3. Step Up 1,2
4. Lion King 1, 1 1/2, 3 :)


4 things I hope to do before I die:
1. Bungee Jumping , Scuba Diving
2. Buy my dream home, just like I had always imagined all my life :)
3. Visit all places on d 100 places to see before u die list
4. Feel impossibly, crazily, amazingly loved by a silly man I can always call my own.


4 people I want to tag:
Not tagging anyone. anyone who finds it interesting can do it, n leave a link in d comments. :)

- Annie.
P.S: Life is strange *grumbles*

Why I’m an enginner…

(A lot of this stuff won’t make any sense to the majority here. Plz pass over instead of reading this crap then. :P VJTI’ans plz continue and laugh extra loud)

1. I worship the guys who made Pentium. Seriously!! WOW they are cool!
2. I understand exactly what they mean by Intel Core2Duo T5550 @ 1.83Ghz.
3. I m a girl and STILL don’t bother to look into d mirror before I leave for college.
4. In 4 years my vocabulary has degraded to the level of the average frustrated guy who cusses all the time.
5. I have tried all settings, everywhere, on every single thing there is to change on my PC.
6. I have tried to repair all household appliances ranging from the TV remote to the ceiling fan.
7. I know how to use the soldering iron. And the jack plane. Lolz. Courtesy : BEE & Workshop. :D
8. I explain to my kindergardenrs whom I teach, things like wavelength of light and scattering when asked why the sky is blue. I even drew wht wavelength looks like. N got looks like :O.
9. Most of the times my lunch consists of a quick samosa/vada pav and chaas. (buttermilk) while simultaneously orkutting from d net lab.
10. I hav invented desperate ways such as stealing used files during submission time. (hi5 CC's… damn!!! I m so proud of myself for saving all dat money!!!)
11. I am online most of the night because of the concept that is commonly referred to as “Night Maarna”. My night time coffee is my savior.
12. I actually understand what has happened when someone says "Server is down" and “Netbeans killed my PC” (may the soul of the poor PC rest in peace)
13. I don’t dress up ever, I don’t know what half the things in d makeup box do and the concept of a date is unknown to me. :
14. The probability of finding a hot guy in my college is 0.0001.
15. I can type faster than u can blink.
16. Ok that gave me next point... I m excellent at exaggerating - courtesy 8 submissions. :)
17. I sing random lame stuff like "Tu hi toh mera HOST hai" :and write even lamer stuff like “Wails from the Wumpus world”
18. I consider myself as a well dressed grl if d color of my submission file matches my top. And also if I get a compliment that refers to me as female.
19. I love to talk about processors and I love to diss trical/tronix guys (Boo to u Karan!!) abt their fixation with 8085 when d whole world lives in d age of Pentium.
20. I once proxied for "Sachin Tendulkar" in 1st sem and got thrown out of class. Ahhh… fond memories!!!
21. I think my life would have been a LOT easier if Kirchoff, Newton, Lebnidz, Taylor, Tanenbaum, Laurents, Shannon, Spohn hadn’t existed. And also for dat reason I worship TECHMAX. :P
22.My conversation starts with "Wassa" and end with "TTYL" along wid P.S tht is "if u coming 2mrw mera proxy maar. roll no 26." (oh I shud probably add this too – everyone in class knows hw to sign my name. :P)
23.I discovered my exceptional talent at being a story teller during viva's.
24.I hav copied in exams approximately 3.618 times the amount u hav actually given exams. lolz.
25. My speciality is getting mirror marks in mid sems. Lolz. i.e. 03/30, 02/20, 01/10. :P
26. I know all shortcuts and function keys on the keyboard. Ctrl-D comes in handy when u watching something u shudn’t.. (smirks) and Alt- F4 comes in handy whn ur BUSTED!!! :P
27. For me the best reasons for celebration are : Reduced Syllabus, Mass Walkout, Exam postponement and Independence Day (last day of exam)
28. My favorite word is "F***" and my favorite phrase is "SHOT diya" :P
29. Whenever I got out wid frnds I’m the one who calculates to the nearest paisa the breakdown of how much who should pay.
30. Everyone in my family and neighborhood expects me to solve all their computer failure problems. I take immense pleasure in assuming a sober tone and saying "I will hav to format ur PC. I m afraid all ur data will be gone" n then act lik a hero whn I save it all. :P
31. Laminton Road is my Mecca. (All those who don’t know bt wud lik to get d best deals on electronic gadgets anyway, get off Grant Road and ask anyone where it is. Beware of ppl who will try to sell u weird stuff. Lolz. If ur a girl, don’t go alone.)
32. I spend more time at the xerox / printout wala than at home. :)
33. I think explaining the concept of mass bunk to nerds is more difficult than explaining the colors to a blind person.
34. Almost everything tht I do always comes down to "MATH".. I think in terms like Probability of this is.., Practically speaking this should be..., Assuming that.., Given that.. :P
35. I hav contacts wid the computer wala and he updates me everytime theres smthng new in d market. :)
36. The villain’s in my life are the IMPOSSIBLE amount of viruses I hav put my laptop thru. Someppl from class actually hav a CD of all viruses seen so far.
37. I love doing the victory dance which is a cross between Joey dance and Mundu dance.. this event takes place on the last day of term which is after all submissions are done.
38. My attendance in class is proportional to how early I sleep.
39. I crack technical PJ’s. I also understand/laugh at the lamest PJ’s possible.
40. I consider 40 to be the magic number :)
41. I know what are the full forms of the different file extensions. Bet u didn’t knw “jpeg” stands for Joint Photograph Experts Group
42. I copy stuff that can’t be copied on d net (baah!! Cant copied??? Yeah ryt!!) using print screen. Simple. Duh! Courtesy : the innumerable screenshots I have taken in my 4 years at college.
43. I am 21 years old and the most memorable thing I have ever done is throw paper balls at people when they are not looking. :P
44. After hours de-stressing means playing basketball in d quad. And catching the sun do down on dat majestic dome. :)
45. I think libraries have multiple uses. They double up as sleeping rooms, gossip rooms, Timepassing rooms, Listening to music rooms, Playing schooltime games such as X’s and O’s, BINGO, Name place animal thing (LOLZ).. and sometimes something even better. (wink wink)
46. If I got a nickel for every word of crap I ever wrote (exams or otherwise) I would retire ryt now as an incredibly rich woman.
47. If I sat to calculate the amount of money I wasted on assignment sheets, xerox’s, files, printouts, d stationery & even the inners and outers and the index sheets… I would suffer from a minor heartattack. :P
48. I hav hit a rheostat in frustration (whn I discovered it had 3 arms instead of d 2 I assumed) and miraculously got the right readings!! Lolz.
49. Once I wrote a whole program that does nothing and while the professor wasn’t looking added a simple statement at the end of the program tht said “cout<<”5”;” (display 5 on screen) and made him believe my program was working!! Smart eh?
50. KK- Pal, Summer of 69’, and College Days are the songs that made me cry on Farewell. I’ll miss everything on this list. Damn!! I m choked. :(

Annie..
soon-to-be-Bachelor of Computer Technology :P

Why Breaking Up can be good...

I’ll not beat around d bush here, about why I m writing this post. I had a breakup. Very recently. Lets not get into the why’s and when.. because it’s a rather long and messy story. So anyway, I decided to write this, because.. Damn!! Breakups can be good. I had a LOT of fun coming up with some of these reasons along with my rocking friends.. (\m/) So here goes :

1. You find out who your guardian angels are. Seriously! I didn’t know I had so many. Across all sorts of distances and even borders (Mwah! You know who you are!) You also find out who your real friends are. The ones who don’t say anything except “What d hell are you doing alone on a Sat night..??? Lets Parttyyyy!!!”

2. You get to hang out with friends so much more that it WILL make you wonder what the heck were u doing all this while.. lost in your own world, when you should have been enjoying life with these friends!

3. You get so much time for yourself, that suddenly, unlike other times, you have a million things to do and so little time. Hehe. (I have been wondering what to catch up with first, the guitar lessons or the unwatched seasons.. lolz!)

4. You get to spend a lot of time with the family. Meaning you are out of your room, and off your phone, and actually listening to how did mom’s day go. And that's a good feeling!

5. You get to stare at cute guys asses. (Hi5!!) Hehe. (Ok, I'll be honest, earlier it was just the faces. Now you can blatantly check them out!) (Courtesy : ILMB, CC’s)

6. You get to burn stuff. Haha. TRUST ME! It's an awesome feeling (rem when in FRIENDS, they try to burn and cute firemen show up!) (Courtesy : Pam)

7. You can FINALLY go to the mall with the sole purpose of buying lingerie. Lolz. I realized its actually true!! Guys always hurry you through the most important section a woman’s gotta have.. n with the guy gone you have plenty of time for laces and satins. (wink wink) (Misty Rhythm gave me d idea through this post)

8. You can leave.. umm.. certain places unshaven. (courtesy: Tinku)

(I got a LOT of raised eyebrows for this one.. so for everyone's benefit i clarify.. i DIDN'T come up with this, n I DIDN'T mean what you pervs think!!! i meant the goddamn hands duh!!!)

9. Your friends wont mind sharing you with other friends.. hehehe!! Meaning you can juggle between multiple ‘friends’ :D (Courtesy : Rahul *Rahul’s Quote : “shee yaar!! I feel like having an extra affairal affair with all these faltu ka restrictions she’s put on me”*)

10. You get to see for yourself what an impossibly wonderful, strong and beautiful person u really are!!! Trust me on this, nothing could do you more good than breaking up with someone who wasn’t meant to be. Good, messy, bad, spiteful.. whatever way it ends, You'll learn a lot about yourself than any other experience you have ever had!! :) :) :)