Yaaaaaahoo [-X

AAAARRGGHH!!!.... * thump thump *
* bang bang * rrrrrrrrrrrr {chainsaw} *
This is a fairly accurate description of my feelings towards a product by one of the world's leading companies... A company on the verge of being taken over by a bully... A product that i was using since the past 7 months without too much trouble.
Yes you probably guessed it wrong :P, I'm talking to the famous Yahoo Messenger.
Why Am i expressing violent feelings towards it? Pure and simple...

It conked.

And man, did it conk Big time...

Ok, here's what happened...
Two days ago, bright and sunny, i connected to the net. Checked my scraps, spent some time on Typeracer, answered a few e mails, then feeling a little jobless by then, just clicked on the messenger icon.

The empty box, then gradual filling of it, My ID and Password already waiting there, the next second a happy face saying "signing in as arjun.buffon {invisible}" all that happened without a hitch.
Then,it all started foing wrong...
4 out of my 21 contacts were online, each in their various activities like busy or stepped out or doing nothing...
So i just clicked on the person doing nothing...
Just when the IM box started appearing, a strange clinging sound...
Like a message from God
" You will now pay for your sins son..."

* script error... not enough storage... blah... still want to run scripts?*
Two options.. Yes..No..
Death or Persecution.
What did i choose?.... Being the brave heart i am, clicked "Yes"
Apparently they have a system to remove the flash in the pan bravery.
Same box, this time citing some other mumbo jumbo numbers..
"Yes" ? or "No" ?
I took a deep breath and said
"yes"
Another box!!!
Me: For the love of God!!!.. Just get on with what you have to do will you???
* presses "yes" around ten times *
Phew...
The evil is vanquised.
All hail me...
But wait...
Something's not right...
The audibles smileys photo sharing nothing!.. poof! vanish...
I type "hi there" in the text box, and my finger hovers over the return key... Then i brace myself and hit the button...

God again

* script error.. Yahoo is not valid *

Me: #%^((*%$#(*$#$!!$^&*
{for the benefit of the young readers, I am reproducing the toned down, "clean" version of what i'm saying below}

What? Micosoft bought Yahoo and killed it already??

I for once, keep my head on and do the logical thing.
I tried to copy the error code , but no. Apparently Yahoo dosent like its dirty linen washed in its backyard so no cant do sorry...

I go to the messenger website.. Notice there's a new version of messenger out.
Hey these big corporations rectify their bugs in the old ones while coming out with their new products right? why dont i try it?

Alright then..... * fast forward*.. summary of fast forwarded period: Congrats, I'm the owner of the brand new, slick, cool, Messenger 9.
Right.. on to business..
*signing in*
{I'm actually beginning to enjoy the new interface...}
There.. all signed in.. cool.. new type of buttons and all...
And then...
Horrors of all horrors...
My sins are not purged, and the ghosts not exorcised.
* script error...blah..* In a more stylish, almost "na na na na naah" box..
The silent transfer of my hair to my hand begins...
* Fast forward *
I keep hitting the yes's and finally learn that the other person is getting my messages, but i cant see either what i have typed or what she is saying...
Fun no?
* Fast forward *
I accept my defeat for the time being and seek help from the knowledgable...
Yahoo's help site for messenger 9 has a biiig article starting with " Be assured that yahoo is aware of a script error"... thats having us from our backsides and we are recievng many bombs in our mail because of this error, and we dont take that much pride in ruining other's lives...
They have asked us unfortunate ppl hand chosen by Yahoo to download a few releases of macromedia flash player and some java andsome other stuf..
Busted my already fast depleting bandwidth on every single one of those boon-on-demand softwares...
Honestly, all you people out there, how many of you actually expect it to work after all this?
question your hearts my dear fellow humans.
I can sense the majority of you dear readers sharing my plight and feelings in the emphatic "NO" forming on your lips...
Yes, it was worse than ever.
And Pooja, {refer last post} chose to come online at this time...
So here i Am.. standing behind a one way portal of communication.
I've tried rectifying it, looked in various forums, learnt that many many people around the world are facing the same problem...
But for now, I'm stranded. No IM ing.. :((
I'm not even mentioning the other disgusting stuff. wait, let me just do.
They wanted me to be signed in to get to the help central part of their site,
so one page asking for my password appeared, with some long winded explainatio of why i'm being asked for a password.
What it dint say was they would ask my password over and over again.
It got stuck in some endless loop... the help page would load, immediately followd by the password page. amazing...

So here's the predicamant i am in...
Any way out?

P.S: I tried their Web Messenger thingy.. here's what came.
and later is how Yahoo troubles me...

There are somethings money CAN buy...

For some reason i seem to be obsessed with this statement. There is nothing very extraordinary about this sentence. Remember those old preachy statements which told you money cant buy love, money cant buy sleep. money cant buy you god etc.. Lets go one step further and look at some things money CANT really buy us.
1.Money cannot buy us useless junk mail and spam from unheard of companies and f(r)iends.
2.Getting a virus on your computer which erases all data(including those naughty things you downloaded without anyone knowing...)
3.money certainly cant buy us the experience of running out of petrol in the middle of nowhere.
4.Money cannot buy you the amazing experience of getting caught while bunking by the principal.
5.Money can buy you better results. Money cant buy you worse results.That is a job for VTU.
6.Money can get you healthcare in a hospital.It cant get you a date with the hot nurse.
7.Money can buy you condoms.It cannot buy you friends who punch holes in it.
8.MoNEy CanNoT GeT You sCraPs LikE ThIs iN OrkUt
9.Money can get your work done in government offices.What it cant do is get your homework done by you(sad.you cant bribe yourself)
10.Money can take you to switzerland. It cannot create an avalanche and save the world(think tubelight,think)
11.Money can get you a rotten tomato to throw at someone. money cannot get someone to throw tomatoes at you(It comes under social service.100% tax exemption)
12.Money cannot get you a mother or a father. It can get you the shop uncle or aunty to act like them if the principal calls.
13.Money certainly cannot buy me. An inexhaustible diamond mine can.
14.Money cannot torture you into reading this blog. That is a job for jobless man.defender of joblessness and boredom(Guess who?)
15.You are stupid.Just like me.(this is a message in the interval,nothing to do with the topic at hand)
16.Money cannot buy you 'a' girlfriend. It can buy you lots of them.
17. Money is like the system.The more you have,the more you are expected to have.It cannot buy you liberation.
18.Money cannot buy you money.
19.Money cannot buy you great friends.(No more comments.surprise.surprise)
20.Lastly, money cant make you change who you are.The laws of the universe are inscrutable.In short, it means we are doomed.

And hell, if money is the root of all evil and people tell you to avoid it like the plague, why is it that there is a god for money??
Think my dear friends, and if you felt inspired to get rid of your pocket money, contact me on naidu.bharath@gmail.com.

CHEERS!!!

So lonely...

Apparently the other authors aren't being too active so wat the heck...its not like i have anything better to do...anyway...heres the start of the actual post.

I never thought i'd reach this stage in my life... I've always been more on the anti social kind and it always made me happy to just chillax in my room and crank up the tunes and just zone out staring at the ceiling but no. At least not in these few days. Its my holidays right now, everybody says it should be the most awesome time of your teen years especially after all the work i put in for my tenth but thats not even remotely close to how i feel.

I miss my friends so much...Its pure torture to look at the mercides and lamborghinis on my walls and look at ballack and beckham staring lifelessly back at me...My walls are now a gruesome(can't think of a more appropriate adjective)pink, my new bed is so high my nose practically touches the ceiling, the ceiling fan runs at a mercilessly fast pace and theres me. Totally blanked out.

I think I've hit an all time low... My days are comprising of me doing nothing but watch that stupid MTV tickr as it runs on and on...and watching wassup and trying to go what the f....!

And i can't even go out and see anybody... I'm sick at the minute and i'm not allowed to go out :( I donno wat i'm doing... just trying to feel better. 

I think i'm goin crazy

Okay seriously...right from this second..i'm beginning to show all the signs of psychosis... don't even ask where i learnt that word!!! My brain is getting rusted..i can barely hear those wheels turning and my writing's becoming continuosly degraded...trying ever so hard to keep it up but i don understand whats going on inside my thick skull...

feel like i'm trapped underwater...gasping for breath cuz i dont know how to swim too..and i'm dead scared of water...its like my walls are closing in on me and i can barely breathe... hey that rhymes...hmm...how about a poem then...

Trapped beneath

The skin that(now) chains me

Feels like the ground is moving beneath my two feet

and i'm stuck desperately

trying to move with it 

but i can't

seems like I was supposed to have different plans

Feels like I'm trapped underwater

I can barely breathe

I try hard to escape

but my walls are closing in on me

My brain's rusted

My friends are far far far far far far far away

and theres not a damn thing i can do about it

not tomorrow and definitely not today!!

Exams ahoy!

Well its that time of the year again.. :) when the heights of joblessness are reached and the desperate hunt for better things to do overwhelms you, to sometimes very entertaining results...
My semester end exams start on the 16th of May and i have no clue when it will end. neither do i know what i will write in the exam. I've hardly studied this sem and for most part of it we've been outside city for various reasons.. Its been waaay too long since i last posted anything here.. i had started this thing about my trip to mangalore, but coz the piece went too long, it made into parts, but the second part, unfortunately has..well.. you know timed out ;)
* sighs of relief from the readers is heard *
I had the opportunity to personally meet two of my friends who are my friends in the first place because of the blog. Pooja, who sometimes leaves some kick-ass comments here, and who is currently off the grid for two whole months * wails * :P. I was in her college competing in a National level tourism fest "Exodus". It was a lot of fun hanging out with her and she was kind enough to show me around the place and gave me company during the quiz event. Thanks a lot Dissy. i owe you one! >:D<
Prateek came down to Mysore with his charming friend. Now dont ask Prateek who, he's the writer of the post below if dont know him. He spent a day here, but unfortunately had a bad back so...
I wont go into too much details about that, coz i heard prateek himself is going to write about the time he spent here ;) isn't that right Prateek? :P
Other than this, I've been busy with various competitions and we had been on a week long study tour.. That was a lot of fun...
The system board on my laptop conked and it took the battery with it. Fortunately it still has warranty and saved me about 18 thousand bucks. Scary no?
The first admirer of this blog has gone international and is lost.
Its not like i update everyday, but i have to say i wont be updating the blog till my exams are done. After that you can look forward to all the stories of the study tours and fests and the people i met there...
Oh and i vey nearly forgot my cousin's wedding that took place last week!
anyway, see you next month with more stuff...
signing off,
Arjun M

P.S: Do keep snucking back to this blog... Its going to see unprecedented activity in the next two weeks... Watch out!

Truth of life.. Engineer's way...!

i've learned...


1) Distance is not always inversely proportional to love...
they kinda share a freakish nature..
it depends on the data given and the environmental conditions..

2) No matter how hard u try to do good stuff for others
some unaccounted failures always occure..
the breakdown maintenance department cant help
and Preventive maintenance isn't possible...its highly risky to live..

3) No matter how u express urself..
the diction n speech somewhere somehow goes wrong
or they'r not enough..body language has an imp role to play..

4) Ur care n concern is volatile
its not there if u dont do enough to show..
constant discharge is necessory..
else the carin efficiency is supposed to be low..

5) Even if u dont know a person much
u feel tat she/he has been there since forever..
time looses its importance
its just a frame of reference..

6) There are ppl whom u love a lot..
but they fail to understand ur love..
Expectations are really high..
its like solvin a zillion veriabled equation..and all you know is tat x is an unknown variable.

7) When ppl tell u what u should do..
they forget how they r supposed to tell it..
its like tryin to store 700MB in a floppy Drive
Generally ends with a GIGO(Garbage In Garbage Out) situation..

8) Sometimes ppl ask for too much..
u r in no position to satisfy there needs..
u find tat resources are low and demand is too high..
results in inflation and black marketing..

9) Sometimes u do stuff for urself..
and nobody understands..
u r then insensible, immature n kiddish..
its like a Data Sufficiancy question..and u have no way to establish ur logics..

The Boyz..

this poetry is dedicated to my school times n my group...





The world is not enough
when it comes to freakin out
& if its us, people shout it out loud
hide.. save urself... The Boyz r out...


We change the time
We set the trendz
We are the height of everything
We are your scariest friends

We are the life you live
We are the words you here
We are the heart of everything
We are your greatest fear..

Doing everything the way we want
Taking everything to the limit
Livin wiil be fun..
Believe me.. you'll love it

We give love
we are the trust
We can do anything
"Smile"... our only lust...

We live a life
Its so kingsize
Whatever we do..
Takes you out of demise....

But its our own style
Temptations .. no limitations..
We do everything
With a tinch of love... & lotsa irritations...

Sister...

looking up at night
stars & the moon
reminds me of you
the special tune

we've grown up together
learned as made mistakes
the time spent together
sea shores & the cakes

its a special bond we share
pictures & the memories
you know how much i care
truth & the stories

you are special
and i am the lucky one
the spirits are high & wild
& the dreams are done.

My apologies

Well i don't expect y'all to remember me... I haven't posted in quite a while... But i'm free now so here i am... Before i start i just wanted to say that our newest author-bharath's work is simply amazing.. I read technology tantrums and i was blown away by it.. Keep up the good work man.

Over the past one month i seem to be doing nothing right.. don't get scared cuz my exams went well but i'm talking about all my friends... Nothing i do seems to get me the results i actually want. Instead i seem to be hurting everybody i love... All my friends know that to me,sorry isn't just a word...and i can never say it unless i actually mean it and i really mean it. So heres me screaming I'M SORRY I WAS SUCH A JERK.
I don't expect anybody to even forgive me... All my friends.. I've sevred the bonds of all the people close to me...-Madhav..Arjun..Krithicka..Neelofar..Priyanka..Neha... I've been doing it either directly or indirectly and to be honest, i don't know wat the hell i was thinking. I have no excuse for my behaviour. But i really am sorry. I'd like a second chance. I know thats too much to ask for but i see no harm in asking.

We are like this only......

extremely creative and er.... civil way of discouraging litterbugs!
yep, the ultimate in hair stiles! besides the 'pase' masaz of course(wonder which part of my body is the 'pase'?)
I wonder what else to do in the park???
nouty faram cocks? right!!!! now we know why they complain about India's population!!!