Carthik Sharma

i was reading the reviews of Gunaah and Shakti, both recent releases, and then i came upon this article by Shailesh Kapoor. its about the increasing use of “unbecoming” words in hindi movies, and the perceptions regarding whats passe, which are now changing…this paragraph was a little surprising..

So, the “A” certificate is not enough, you see. There are many million families in India where the husband and the wife don’t share a relationship where they can watch such films together without any discomfort. In any case, within six months of their release, films like Gunaah and Shakti will be on satellite TV, and the certificate logic doesn’t apply there anymore. In fact, today’s teenagers are more informed about the sexual content in the films than their parents.

The second sentence, especially! It is true too, i know, and i remember wondering out loud when i was about 15, as to why people get married, there seemed to be no fun in it.

The times they are a-changin’

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fridays are painful, when you know its friday, and when you know that saturday and sunday follow, when you know you will so much more time to kill, when you will have a tougher time keeping idle thoughts about the loved one out of your mind…

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slept real early yesterday, at around 10.30. Not surprisingly, i woke up at 2.30 am!! i went to the loo, drank some juice(my roommate went to walmart and got all artificially flavoured drinks, and enough to last a month, i cant wait till we finish it so we can get good old orange juice and natural pulp, so i drink the artificial “juice” whenever i can, though i dont like it much), sat around, smoked a fag, and then fooled myself into beleiving it was bedtime, and it was, since i go to bed around 2.30 everyday, and then i woke up at 6.00.
i called home today, but not before calling harish and wishing him a happy birthday(he wasnt there, his answering machine should have relayed the info to him), but then later, sasi told me that the birthday’s on 27th. harish must be pissed off with, some great friend i am!! alright, so grandma was all happy to hear my voice, without the moderating presence of Appa around. She sounded very concerned, and asked me if I get drinking water regularly at home, whether i oil my hair, how much my power bill was last time, and she choked when i told her that the grocery bill for last month was around 400(for the 4 of us)! Appa, as usual, had had a sall tiff with her, and gone out. Grandma suspects he is back to his sharetrading habits. i dont find anything bad about that, true, he’s lost some money, but its his money…

yes, and sometime ago, i resolved to grow myself a ponytail :)(kidding, as always, i am sure i will go get a haircut when all that hair above the ears starts irritating me.)

i have to go an attend a meeting of minority student coordinators from all over florida, for the sake of my software engineering project. thats at 4 pm, and i just remembered it, thank God!

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I dont feel homesick, and thats because its been raining so hard here. A lot of soul searching is on now, and a lot of things are getting clearer, and i like it! I am at peace with the world-at-large today, and thats because of so many things that have happened today, sasi sent me a beautiful poem, a girl in the bookstore counter called me by my name(she saw it when i opened my wallet, on the id card), and such…i hope each day is filled with these little founts of happiness, like this day is.

had a WILD birthday party at home yesterday, was my room mate’s b’day, so everyone was applying cake to his face, and a few guys cracked eggs on his head, i told you it was wild, and my roommate was chasing everyone all over the block, just to embrace them and share the yolk and cream :))

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I got my first paycheck today. I woke up late, and was praying it would come this week, i could’nt get it the last time because the secretary forgot to take a copy of a page in my passport. I bought this phone to call India, and i got only 16 minutes instead of the promised 30! Cant do anything about it, since i called a cell phone. Whatever. My expenses are getting out of hand…I brought 2000 dolls, and am left with 75+ from that, but of course, i paid my share in setting up the new house, and I saw NY, CT and Atlanta…

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Well, to cut a long story short, I got a copy of Windows XP for free.

now for the story…
we had a career fair at UCF with over 100 companies. What was weird was a lot of companies were telling people, ” We are not looking to recruit people, and oh, we dont have any internships on offer either..”, and so i suppose their primary objective was to offload all the coffee mugs and trinkets in their offices. Yeah , i got a load of stress balls (for the unemployed, how considerate!), pens (for filling up all those forms..) and coffee mugs (to keep you company during the all-night job searches). Not that i need a job now, but someone should stop them from making fun of unemployed students looking for jobs. I heard that last time there were quite a few companies handing out T shirts. I guess even the textile(import) industry is facing a rough patch, because there were’nt any Tshirts this time around.

I went to the Microsoft table, and the lady was like “we cant give you any jobs or internships, but you could win a Tshirt or some software if you participate in the raffle.”, so i put my name on a slip and put it in a box, and bingo, at the end of the day, i had my own copy of Windows XP. Honestly this is the first time I am laying my hands on some shrink wrapped software (India beleives in free(no matter what you have to do to make it “free”, even piracy’s fine) software). Actually the lady (i never knew Microsoft hires folks for their looks) asked me to choose between a tshirt and the software(the software/softwear tradeoff!(was’nt that a real bad joke? like Y U C K?)). I was in a fix, until she told me the tshirt was L sized. Now if any of you want to buy the software off my hands, please let me know, ’cause i already have a unshrinkwrapped version with me, which i can always use.

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I got the link for this from the infojunkies group.

It was on this day, 20 years ago, that the smiley first smiled, thanks to one Mr. Fahlmann, an IBM researcher..

read all about the origin of the smileys in this article at CNN

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I guess i shouldnt stop posting just because there is nothing interesting happening. yeah i got an anonymous mail from an undergrad student who’s taking the lab that i’m handling, sayin i’ve got a cute smile, that “she”(the alias is a feminine name) likes the class, and that i have to “find” her. didnt reply, dont know what to do. not too sure about how the sexual harassment rules are applied in florida, i mean, i dont know if replying to a mail like this, asking the person to desist may lead to any problems…i just chose to ignore the mail. i guess its just some smartass guy pulling my leg.

alright, so that was something interesting, and then, what else, i miss the mosquitoes we had back home, strange , but true, i dont miss the mosq-bites, but i do miss the mosquitoes, i remember how killing them used to be a good way to waste time on the day before the exam , back at the college hostel, and all the time i could think that i am doing useful work, by helping control malaria and all those mosq-borne diseases. i remember killing about 75 mosquitoes in a night, with a rolled up “india today” which i finally had to throw away…those were the days…
then there was Joseph Sir, my math tuition teacher, who used to request us not to swat mosquitoes during his early morning(6 am) classes. he insisted they were all inmates of his “ashram” and were like his pets…

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This day, i discovered the pleasures of listening to “online music”. Now i can work at the computer while listening to music!! I know this sounds childish, but dont you wish you knew the day you first listened to online music. i will remember.

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yuck,
i mean my livejournal has gone from bad to pathetic. so has my life. sunday evening and i have to write three papers, and have no idea abouthow to get started since i have never seen a student assignment paper before. i will cook something up.
the problem is i am wasting my time, doing this and that, reading other people’s journals(my Appa would frown if he ever knew i was reading other folks’ journals ) well, well, i have been in the lab for a little over 5 hours now, and nothings been done. i plan to take a break, go out smell the flowers (yeah, the long slender ones that come in pack of 20 ) and come back, and try to be less creative and more studious..
but….i have to read that monster of a textbook first, well, well….

moral of the story : when you get to be the director of a graduate school, never give an admit to someone who does not deserve to be there, or has a livejournal, or has more than 3 email accounts.

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Thank God Harry Potter is male….else that would have been an “A” movie, not that i mind, but think of those poor little kids…(hee hee)

this is an article from the NY times,i’m just too lazy to write html code and give a link to that page…you know, i will have to press the shift button and all that…

this is by far the gross-est post in my journal, i’m sorry if i offend you, but i had a good laugh over this, and i beleive a good laugh is getting hard to come by.

ze article:

The “Harry Potter” toy broomstick from Mattel has a vibrating feature that has proven to be too popular with teenage girls.

The “Nimbus 2000″ is a plastic battery-powered replica of the broom used in Quidditch matches by J.K. Rowling’s boy wizard in “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.” The $19.99 toy features a “grooved stick and handle for easy riding,” according to Toysrus.com, and, “enhancing the excitement are the vibrating effects.”

The Web site’s review section is full of comments from parents who are amazed at the toy’s popularity with their young daughters. One mom who bought the broom for her son writes that his sister frequently “fights him over it” and complains that “the batteries drain too fast.”

Another notes, “When my 12-year-old daughter asked for this for her birthday, I kind of wondered if she was too old for it, but she seems to love it.”

An equally enthusiastic parent marvels that “even my daughter’s friends enjoy playing with this fun toy. I was surprised at how long they can just sit in her room and play with this magic broomstick!”

One astute New Jersey mom says of her daughter: “It wasn’t until after she opened her gift and started playing with it that I realized the toy may offer a more than sensational experience. The broomstick has cute sound effects and vibrates . . . what were the creators of this toy thinking? She’ll keep playing with the Nimbus 2000, but with the batteries removed.”

“As always, the well-being of children is our top priority,” Mattel rep Sara Rosales told PAGE SIX’s Jared Paul Stern. “And we in no way consider this toy to be inappropriate.”

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A total of 3,025 people - including 23 Canadians - died in the September 11 attacks. The official count does not include the hijackers.

they are pests, you know, like kidae. Either that, or they’ve just been made immortal by the US govt.

Chretien, the Canadian PM , has gone on record in a CBC show saying that the general perception of the west as insensitive to the needs of the poorer nations is resposible for the attacks. that was a nice piece, the interview, i cant find the link, i mean i forgot to save it for you.

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thought this might be interesting to friends back home

i took this house quite close to school, in the apartment complex thats perhaps closest to school. i bot a second hand bicycle, so i cycle to school..taxis are NOT affordable to us, its strange, the pricing of things around here, a text book cost 70-150 dollars, and a tshirt just 5 dollars…a lunch costs as much as a tshirt, i even saw a cd advertisement saying its “cheaper than food”. its true too!! these people are crazy, if you buy a small bottle of water, you will be paying 4 times more than what you would have to to get petrol. a taxi for a 10 minute ride will be about 7 dollars. taxis arent very common, you have to phone them and they come and pick you up. we do have a bus service, but the services are half to one hour apart…

foreigners, well, see we dont have a class, as such, everyone is free to choose the subjects he wants to study, so there’s not a single person i know who has my three subject combo…in the masters and phd program in electrical and computer engineering, 82 new students have been admitted, out of which 44 are indians, americans must be about 3 or 4, then we have turks, and chinks. chinks are cheaters, they cheat a lot, and are very isolationist, so are indians, i mean they cheat too. i dont, going by OUR past experiences
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Can’t help stealing this from psasidhar!

NOBODY

Nobody loves me
Nobody cares
Nobody picks me peaches and pears
Nobody offers me candies and jokes
Nobody listens and laughs at my jokes
Nobody helps when I get in a fight
Nobody does my homework all night
Nobody misses me
Nobody cries
Nobody thinks I’m a wonderful guy
So if you ask who’s my best friend, in a whiz
I’ll stand up and tell you Nobody is
But yesterday night I got quite a scare
I woke up, and Nobody just wasn’t there
I called out and reached for Nobody’s hand
In the darkness where Nobody usually stands
I poked through the house, each cranny and nook
But I found Somebody each place that I looked
I searched till I’m tired, and now with the dawn
There’s no doubt about it
Nobody’s gone

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thanks to Polash for this pearl and many others….

i saw a totally unbangladeshi bangladeshi female at a party yesterday. the party was for international students, only 15 turned up, when i heard she was bangladeshi i wanted to talked to her, but after observing her for sometime i didnt want to . everyone was dancing to terrible, ugly music and i was sitting by the side, waiting for my roommates, who suggested going to the party….lousy night …. the female was kind of ashamed to say she was from bangladesh, when she was introduced, and i was thinking”she has so much to be proud of about bangladesh, and she chooses to be ashamed” and then i knew i wouldnt talk to her.

i talked to a jordanian instead, he wasnt dancing and i wasnt either, but i sure was feeling uncomfortable there, he wasnt, he was just watching the crowd, and after we introduced ourselves to each other, he says,”dont you find this amusing, all these men dancing, look at that guy in the white shirt, he’s dancing like this is his last dance..”
so i asked him why he wasnt dancing , and whats amusing about people dancing(alright the hip-hop and R&B music was such that you had to make an effort to dance to it, but still…) and then he says…
“where i come from , men dont dance, its the women who do, so you see i cannot dance, i wont think of myself as a male if i do!!” and you should have been there to know that he meant business!! I guess its his last party….

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