----Blabber----

livejournal

2005-04-23T13:59:00.000-07:00

ive just been fiddling with livejournal.
check it out...

my livejournal is here

the clock is ticking...

2005-04-08T00:05:00.000-07:00

The funniest date ever?

2005-04-02T22:18:00.000-08:00

Well ... not quite!

Imagine this ... you ask a girl out, and she laughs at your face!!! (Relax, I did'nt ask anyone out)

So anyways...I guess there could be many reasons a girl would say no...and laugh.
Reason 1: bad location
Reason 2: there were other people
Reason 3: in effect you say, "you have a funny name, would you like to go out with me?"
Reason 4: the best reason you find that she should go out with you is that you have known her for 8 months!!

Well its a surprise, she just laughed! .... I would have died rolling on the floor!

yahoo 360

2005-04-02T01:06:00.000-08:00

yahoo launched 360 ... the complete thing! its got everything, mail, friends, blog, photos, groups, lists, music ...

check it out at http://360.yahoo.com.
a sample page is at http://360.yahoo.com/reg/sample.html

pretty damm neat!

i am becoming a big fan of the yahoo gang these days...these guys do come up with some good stuff!

drink, dance and party!

2005-04-02T00:53:00.000-08:00

btw...that party in the title was pronounced as *partthhy*!!

so, the grad-bar is one party that poor Indian grad students get to go to during the whole semester! this thursday night, it was at Trastevere, an Italian restaurant in the hollywood and highlangs complex on the hollywood walk of fame!! right alongside the who's who of hollywood! (well atleast their stars in concrete).

anyways, this was a rocking party with plenty of booze and plenty of booty. i wish i had pics to post here...

so i drink (jut a little), we dance and in general have a great time! return around 2:30 at night...and were dead tired (and frankly i was a little woozy)...slept till 10:30 man!!

good fun!

ps: i have a secret to tell....apparently booze makes me dance better than usual ;)

Of highs and lows

2005-03-29T17:54:00.000-08:00

Today was the day of highs and lows....ups and downs....
Read on...

Prof H said he would be willing to give me a recommendation. ye!!!

Later I asked him for a D.R., and he said he had too many students already, so he cannot take me.

For those who dont know, D.R.=Directed Research, you take credits in school and you work alongside a prof during a semester.

So as you see, I have mixed emotions right now..... :) ye!! ... and :(

oh comeon!!!!

2005-03-25T23:43:00.000-08:00

For those who dont know... CS530 (Computer Security) has a lot of coding, especially when Prof. Cheng teaches it. Its actually infamous among people at USC. No offense to Prof. Cheng..and I love the course!

So my homework was due tonight at 11:45 pm (electronic submission ofcourse). I finished nicely yesterday..tested properly uptil today evening.

Now came the time to submit! Im all happy and everything..
The submitted file should be in a .tar.gz format. So I proceed as follows :

>tar cvf *.c *.h Makefile README

Then I proceed to submit it...really glad about it all. Then I spent some time doing other stuff... came home around 9:45. I realize (because of an email: bless that guy), that I had to make some changes.

So I open my files and realize...one of my files was lost!!! Overwritten by 'tar'!!
If you havent realized it yet, there should have been "h4.tar" after cvf in the command that I typed!!!!!!!

I get back to coding...finally dish out an ok-ok code ..submit it 10 minutes before time!

Right now, I can only think "why God why???????". :((
bahoooohoohoooo

famous trojans!

2005-03-22T00:14:00.000-08:00

First of all ... for those morons who dont know, a member of the USC "family" is called a Trojan!

I just found out that Neil Armstrong is a USC alumni!!!

Also another famous USC alumni ... George Lucas!!

I am over the moon!!!

I'd love to travel more

2005-03-18T12:19:00.000-08:00

As [puttu] says it...

Brought to you by pratibha75, quizling and teemus.

Which states in India have you been to?

unix

2005-03-17T14:04:00.000-08:00

saw a t-shirt today...
it had a caption "chicks dig unix".
interesting..... :)

even dodos blog!!

2005-03-17T00:55:00.000-08:00

Hey guys welcome dodo to the blogging circuit.
Her page is not up yet...but I hope to see some stuff soon!

50 reasons to crib

2005-03-12T01:01:00.000-08:00

ehh....who has the time. chuck it!
thats exactly the state of mind that i am in right now.
lazy, tired , dont feel like doing anything at all.

midterms over...again the same old stuff. after they are over, i always think, "cud have done better".
ok...whatever man

wierd stuff

2005-03-07T22:40:00.000-08:00

A couple of wierd things have been happening with the world around me lately...

Wierd thing #1: [gatturaja] is 'free'.... I dont remember him free at all. Afterall, he has been 'not-free' for a long time. I even wonder, if he is 'free' at all?
Im sorry, this must be making no sense to a lot of you, but I cant say more.
Anyways, I think he is doing the right thing. Keep going buddy.

Wierd thing #2: I'm 'thinking' ...
The people who know me know that this does not really happen often. Atleast I dont keep thinking about the past and stuff like that. I dont know why, but Im just thinking a little bit about how things were....and how they've become.
Im not sad or anything, infact I dont know how I'm feeling.

I was just going through some quotes... here is one that I particularly liked.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

long time no c

2005-03-01T22:57:00.000-08:00

Not entirely true, Im working on C these days...
(I know its a sad joke...)I just couldnt help inflict some torture on you guys.

I proctored the cs571 (web technologies) exam today with my prof and a TA.
It was fun....although a couple of wierd incidents happened.

Assuming that being an Indian, Ill turn a blind eye, some guys kept cheating. And when I tried to come in the way of that, they looked at me as if I've betrayed them.

Ok..but heres the funny thing...a guy actually asked me for an answer!! :)
I was like......what????

Yesterday

2005-02-23T01:44:00.000-08:00

Ive got no words to describe this one...by the Beatles
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Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away
Now it looks as though they’re here to stay
Oh, I believe in yesterday.

Suddenly, I’m not half the man I used to be,
There’s a shadow hanging over me.
Oh, yesterday came suddenly.

Why she had to go I don’t know she woldn’t say.
I said something wrong, now I long for yesterday.

Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play.
Now I need a place to hide away.
Oh, I believe in yesterday.
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Oh the movies..

2005-02-23T01:14:00.000-08:00

So we are having the most lousy day ever. The evening is so boring that we resort to eating 5 times in 2 hours. In the end I got tired, went out in the rain and rented 'Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle'... some title 'eh?
Now I should tell you, its not a movie you'd like to see (a) with parents, and (b) while eating. :)
But its real good fun! Laughter all the way...

So anyways, all the fun and everything over, we decide to cook (again) ;). So comes Lubaina in the picture. She is invited over for dinner, for my famous rajma. Oh well... too much work. Lets just eat aalu-pyaaz and enjoy.
But heres the twist...we decide to watch a movie on a streaming website. Now Ms. Lubaina picks Aitraz....a freaking "Priyanka Chopra and Akshay Kumar" movie.

After the movie I'm left wondering ... what just happened dude?? There go two and a half hours of my life that I'll never see.
The worst story ever written... the producer was stupid enough to put his money into it. On the top of all this, people like Priyanka Chopra (given that she has no aversions to flaunting her assets) and Kareena Kapoor are trying to "act".
It got me thinking, how are these people surviving in the industry? Has the audience degraded to such a level? How are people accepting such movies? Is it not our moral responsibility to save the 'janta' from such torture?

Anyways, the best part of the movie lasted for a minute approximately...they showed an Audi convertible ... :D

life sux

2005-02-20T14:05:00.000-08:00

yes it does!

blabber it is...

2005-02-19T23:54:00.000-08:00

I have no idea what im saying right now...
Its just one of those really confusing times, when I dont know where life is going, or where it is taking me. Am I doing the right thing...am I giving it my best (Im sure the answer to that one is NO). Having fun and everything is different, but seriously speaking, I think I can do better.

Im here in LA to do something with my life, but I dont think Im doing anything. Some might call that being pessimistic, but I dont know...maybe Im depressed or something.

Im just not being able to give life my best. Something is holding me back. I dont know if its me itself or something else.

Dont know what to do...

Hello Mr. Kernel

2005-02-17T17:20:00.000-08:00

How would a conversation between a process and a kernel go?
Hmm...something like this...

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(program app) Hello Mr. Kernel, I was wondering if I could have some memory to run and play in?
(kernel) Hmm... Ok, but if you try to run outside the memory space allocate for you then I am going to stop you!
(program app) Ok then, it's a deal. . . . .
(kernel) Hey! I never gave you permission to write data in that memory segment, you will pay!
(program app) Oh no??.... I didn't mean it.. I.. I.. AHHHH.... ***Dead*** ( core dump ).
(kernel) Ask me next time you want to do something like that!
(kernel) When will those programs ever listen?!

-- Dean C. Parsons
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Make love with a Trojan

2005-02-17T09:44:00.000-08:00

There is a t-shirt which is very popular here on the USC campus, and I love it!!
The front goes, "Practice safe sex".
.............................................
And the back reads, "Make love with a Trojan".

zzzzzzz.....

2005-02-15T12:00:00.000-08:00

its noon....
i have 2 classes to go in the day...
one is 90 minutes long, and the other is 3 hours long...
and the worst part is...i cant keep my eyes open even before ive actually entered the class room.

let the bloodbath begin!

valentine's!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2005-02-15T01:35:00.000-08:00

its nice that somebody had a good valentine's day. :)
im thrilled ....
mine was basically uneventful...

nutch gori, zara nutch ke dikha!!

2005-02-09T20:35:00.000-08:00

I RULE!!!!
Installed Nutch on my website.

For those who dont know, it is an open-source search engine, written in Java.
It took some tweaking, but nothing big. And it is pretty cool.
You can check it out at http://chirayusapre.net:8080.

Oh yes, right now I have just indexed http://cs.usc.edu, so base your search on that.

Now on an entirely different note...
A few months earlier, I came across http://humfm.com, a hindi radio-station based in Dubai.
It was neat...and I was hooked!
Recently it has been down... :( so no live music :(

But my pain is nothing concerned to our own [pd29june], who must be missing Lokesh(the RJ)'s voice pretty badly ...

birthdays and all...

2005-02-08T09:59:00.000-08:00

Ashwin's birthday was successfully celebrated. The celebrations included an awesome lunch at 'La Barca', a Mexican restaurant (which rocks!!) with PD, Purva, and Kavita as other people who mostly looked at the food.
Alas..Lubaina was not there...otherwise we would have seen some more food consumption.
Pics available at http://chirayusapre.net/coppermine

The usual surprise element was there ... as Lubaina, Purva and I woke him up from sleep at 00:10 (slightly late ;) )...had the cake ...blah blah ...

Reminds me of all the birthdays we have celebrated. Nights, days, afternoons and evenings of celebrations, faces with cakes, dancing, driving.....and ah, the best of them all, a train journey!

Ok, now back to coding the hell out of OpenSSL!

this sudden new barrage...$@%@%^#^%%$##

2005-02-05T01:01:00.000-08:00

01:06 AM
Im just sitting here, doing my homework (sounds really kiddish) ... but yeah OpenSSL is not kiddish!!!
I am trying to figure out how to use MD5, SHA1, DES ...........and the endless list of terms related to CS530 Security Systems goes on!
Just wondering.... this sudden new barrage of blogs!!! why dude why???
I guess, its because of [gattu] & [PH9]. But its fun...being back in the game.

Today was a fun day!! atleast evening turned out to be real good fun!
[puttu] had come down from Auburn to surprise [ash], which he actually was!
I pulled one on him man!!!
They r so good together.... it was really nice to be a part of it. Had pizza, coke...the general eating down on the floor....laughing till it aches..good old hardcore fun.
Keep it going buggers!!

people's lives

2005-02-04T17:40:00.000-08:00

5:42 pm
Unlike 'gattu' I'm the day guy!
I'm just sitting here, grading assignments ... still half an hour to go before I go play TT.
Although, I was just wondering... I have the power to screw people's grades up. (haw!!)
A line comes to mind, "I'm not comfortable having such power over someone's life".......

bandwagon

2005-02-03T18:23:00.000-08:00

welcome to the bandwagon guys!!

ok, what am i talking about??.....
heres to the new kids on the blo"g"ck, manu and praful.
1. http://ph9.blogspot.com
2. http://gatturaja.blogspot.com

and yes...theres vinayak, whos not quite the new kid.. :)
http://www.cs.rit.edu/~vns0418/blogs/blogIndex.html

keep blogging guys!

My website!!

2005-01-31T23:17:00.000-08:00

Guys and girls, blah blah blah...
check out my new website: http://chirayusapre.net

Trailer

2004-11-07T14:58:00.000-08:00

Sad moments

2004-10-24T23:27:00.000-07:00

I guess I'm one of those who come here to vent their frustration on the poor keyboard. And then watch it being transformed into some sorta record called a BLOG!

Talking of keyboards, now that I have a rocking Dell Inspiron 600M at my disposal, I guess I would be more and more brutal on the keyboard kind.

Life has been challenging, especially with P being very sad. Its difficult when u have heard the one person you love cry in front of u, incessantly for 7 hours. I see her and I cant stop wondering where the happiness has gone? Used to be one whose smile would light up the city, and now hasent stopped crying for 2 months.

The face that used to light up at the sight of an orange candy, or a gola, or paani puri...doesnt even look like it has seen any care for long.

The eyes that I can bet were one of the prettiest, are all red and swollen. The most determined of individuals...and now, a lost soul...

I dont know what I will do, how I will do it, or anything else. Just wanna cry my eyes out.

why?

2004-10-02T20:57:00.000-07:00

When you need some one...to talk to, to hold hands, to hug, to just walk with, pamper u, to comfort u, to just look at, to just be there for u...that is the exact time when ure alone.
And then, alone goes very soon to lonely. Why afterall why? Why does life change so much in so little? Why do all these things happen that make you shake in pain? Why does it hurt so bad?
So many questions......answers are far away though.

//when i hurt someone

2004-09-24T23:59:00.000-07:00

life goes so empty when someone you care about is hurt. u want to do something, but often theres nothing u can do. thats when u end up searching for a place to dig a grave for yourself.
thats when u need friends. but what if a friend is hurt..and its u who caused the hurt? when u havent been there when u were needed.

thats how i feel right now, having hurt someone i care about. i was told, "it feels really bad when you get mad at me". but i paid no heed to that.
in truth, it feels realy bad getting mad at u 2 (if ur reading..if u ever read my blog).
wish the lunch cud have turned out better...really do. :(
missing u....but my ego stops me from saying so to u.
sorry i wasent there

From programming to cooking!

2004-09-20T15:32:00.000-07:00

Turn around in fortunes? Not quite.
Just came back from the first day at Popovich Cafe...and life rocks!
I am the official ceasar salad maker...:) and turkey bagel sandwich maker too.

Looks like Im gonna be the head chef in no time!! :) just kidding people, dont u "chugli" on me.

Oh yeah, I missed something...the meal coupon! I ate orange chicken, chicken kungpow(or something), fried rice and chowmein.... FOR FREE. :)
Looks like Im gonna have a truck-sized tyre in no time!!!!

break;

2004-09-18T23:33:00.000-07:00

i sit and think..... why do i get mad at people?
is it that i expect a lot out of them, and they just dont deliver?
or is it just plain and simple...they dont care.

so shud i stop caring about them too?
lot of questions...but no answers.

i guess this is the first post that actually validates the title of the blog.
anyways.....cheers

continue;

2004-09-18T13:56:00.000-07:00

The blabber continues...

The prof says homework, I say no work!

I hear the cries of help all around me...
Help with XML ...help with XML please....ssss...sssss......

It funny, some one whom you hate so much can be of help sometimes.
Back in school there was one who was identified as -
"Its a dog"...NO
"Its a bitch"...NO
"Its....SUPERBITCH!!!!"

Well, thats who taught me XML! :) .....
And believe me, Im thankful.
Wierd, aint it?

Init()

2004-09-14T14:00:00.000-07:00

Initializing process ...
Process created.
Handshake initiation sequence begins...

Connected to server

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This is just the beginning. Great things are about to happen. But there might be some difficult times, that Im aware of.

"With great power comes great responsibility"

So what if I dont have powers like Spiderman does? I can still measure upto responsibilities. You must be thinking...what the hell is he talking about. Hello!!! Did you read the blog title???
What else did you expect?

There will be blogs in the future here that would make you think, wow!! he writes good. And other times....WHAT THE F!#@.... well thats just how it is.

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