I just thought about this and this seems to fit in perfectly.

Way back in school we were told how writing a diary daily would help our language skills. We don’t need to improve our skills anymore but think about this, an effortless strictly-personal diary would be awesome. But to keep a hard paper diary is too cumbersome and the online apps are too crappy. Why not use facebook, yes, facebook!

All you have to do is make a new account on facebook, tell facebook not to show you in search and change privacy settings for all your content to be private to you. It’d be so awesome. Videos, photographs, status messages, notes, links (even the :p links). Everything in one place, in an interface you know by the heart.

I am getting on this once I am done with the exams, you guys give it a try.

What world are we exactly living in ? Most of us are pretty much inconsequential. To matter, you either have to be super rich, super powerful (read: or a backward caste. Right, backward caste. I thought I’ll blog about this and maybe someone high and mighty may catch this somewhere.

Problem: Mayawati, proclaimed as Dalit’s ‘Czarina’ has been supporting Railway Blockades in her state by Jats wanting inclusion in reservation quotas. This has lead to thousands of people if not more not reaching home in time for Holi. What’s more, Mayawati’s government has repeatedly refused to evict these protesters on requests from the Railways.

My view: The Jats can not be blamed, they are led by some of their opportunistic leaders into this, maybe even paid by the day to be a part of the protest. But the actions, or the lack of them on behalf of the Uttar Pradesh Government can not be forgiven. This is a blatant display of misuse of the power of state machinery to nurture a particular vote bank. Mayawati and people of her breed (I refuse to call her a human) should be fired from her job, banned from public life and sent to guantanamo bay.

Problem: Corruption in central government. CWG, Adarsh, 2G, blah blah blah. We all know the bullshit. Surprisingly after the wikileaks on government buying MPs for the Indo-US Nuclear deal’s trust vote, our honourable (yeah this is sarcasm, no one in our government is honourable) has refused to discuss this in the Lok Sabha saying the problems of UPA-1 can not be discussed in UPA-2.

My View: To all of you ministers, babus and the likes, enjoy your power and cash while it lasts, the day something like Libya/Egypt happens in India, *censored*.

–More to come–

So the last month of college is here (which is not a very happy thing). Time’s is flying away. But I am leaving with a lot of happy memories and a happy realization that I went to one of the best institutions in India. Read this interesting post about Symbiosis and stardom on Dr. Vidya’s Blog.

Got HR Presentation at 9 today. NM’s GD-PI went *censored*.

I’ve finally decided to come back to my blog after a very busy 1 year when I was caught with studies, MBA admission exams, Unify amongst other things.

2011 so far has been a bag of mixed fortunes. After being a ‘victim’ of a weird ‘normalisation’ process of IIMs in CAT where my strongest section (suspiciously) came down to a (suspicious) 32.5 percentile, scored a whopping 92 percentile in XAT, missed a sectional for XLRI and was advised against applying to other good colleges that I might have got into.

Cleared the NMAT at the cut off score with lots of luck, right on the last day of Unify 2011. Gearing up for the GD – PI now, which people say is tough to clear at the cut off score (70% weightage is given to the NMAT score in this stage). Sir said clarity, honesty and commitment is the key for the PI, expects me to manage the GD well.

Coming to Unify, even Unify had sort of a comeback this time. After a really bad low last year, we did manage to get back the participation. It was nice to hear the crowd cheer “Unify, Unify” on the last day… an awesome experience I can’t put down here, though I will put videos and photographs when I am provided with. We couldn’t manage the rock show without a sponsor though, but this Unify experience was one of the best things I’ll take with me after college ends in another two months.

College is ending, woof! So soon. Tonight seems like the evening of the day in whose morning we started college. Frankly, first semester and last semester have a lot in common. In the first semester people didn’t have grudges and now they don’t care anymore, so it has all boiled down to the same thing. All of us are starting to get (a lot) emotional about college ending, which none of us really wants to think about at this point.

While I write this the warm up India vs. Australia game in the Cricket World Cup 2011 is on and India is kind of being slaughtered. I sort of wanted this to happen, they will be in shape when the real games start, then we’ll tell Australia who’s who.

Looking back, I think I’ve caught a fancy for Trance. Unrelated, but I wanted to say this.

Update: India won the warmup game.

I have been busy lately, with exams, and later this week I am to going to Goa, but we’ll see some good posts soon

The blog’s problem has been fixed, I was not able to blog because of the festivals… will make a *comeback* soon, very soon

The blog’s under maintainence, because the college firewall is blocking me, and I have issues to sort with my webhost, so don’t be surprised if you encounter missing posts or site outages in the coming days.

1. Good movie, could have been better.

2. There was not too much of 3-D, and the glasses that we got were shitty.

3. The storyline doesn’t arouse too much interest (and it is very similar to Final Destination 3 from what I’ve been told).

4. The effects apart from the 3-D ones were awesome.

Overall I’d rate it 2.5/5, but still a mustwatch

Times of India reported:

NEW DELHI: After the Union Cabinet cleared 50% reservation for women in panchayats, the government is considering a proposal that will make every second member of India’s municipalities female as well.

The urban development ministry is fast tracking the proposal to increase reservation for women to 50% in urban local bodies. Even though the Centre is finding it tough to move on 33% quota for women in Parliament and state legislatures, quotas in urban bodies look much more doable.

The move would help Congress to argue that even though managing the political opposition to women’s reservation in Parliament was not an easy task, its record on quotas at the grassroots level indicates that its commitment went beyond lip service. It has shown this by increasing reservation for women from one-third to 50% at the panchayat level.

The urban development ministry has started consultations with state governments, aiming to place the constitutional amendment bill to reserve 50% seats for women in urban local bodies in the winter session of Parliament. UD secretary M Ramachandran confirmed the move when he told TOI, “The ministry is speaking to the states for increasing reservation limits for women in urban bodies.”

The 74th amendment to the Constitution in 1992 during P V Narasimha Rao’s tenure as PM served as a major breakthrough towards ensuring women’s equal access and increased participation in local government. The move was mooted by Rajiv Gandhi who first spoke of specific measures to empower women at the grassroots.

Article 243 (T) of this amendment provides for one-third reservation in elected seats for women in urban local bodies. There is also one-third reservation for women in posts of chairpersons of these local bodies.

The move is of great significance since further increase in grassroot level participation will broaden the base of women’s participation in politics at city level.

Three states — Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh — already have 50% reservation for women as states have the power to bring in amendments in their laws to increase women’s representation up to 50%. Kerala recently announced 50% reservation for women in urban local bodies along with panchayats.

Phew! Seriously, reservations for women ? The government has really gone bonkers. Weren’t quotas for backwards too much already ? Weren’t we supposed to phase out reservations 10 years after Nehru introduced them (and he would have regretted his decision to bring in quotas if he was alive today).

So, you reserve 50% for women, 30% for backwards (by caste/tribe whatever) and another 15% for local people (I am blogging from Maharashtra so you guys might get what quotas for locals mean). That leaves 5% shit for average commoners like us. Mr Singh, why don’t you just reserve 5% for us ‘normal people’ and give the rest to the ‘inferior’ and the ‘backward’ and the ‘less privileged’.

And yeah, no self respecting girl/woman would ever want a quota, but to those who actually think they deserve quotas “YOU ARE INFERIOR!!!”.

You’re in. You’re a student. Now it’s about learning more, preparing for your career, and having a little fun too. Apple can help with all of that.

Many colleges and universities are now tech savvy. Campus information and study materials are being posted online. Many professors are podcasting lectures. Projects demand more polish and sophistication. It’s an exciting time to be a student. Because what happens in the classroom no longer stays in the classroom — you can use your computer, your iPod or your iPhone to work where you want, when you want.

Apple is at the core of this emerging direction for teaching and learning. The Mac is now the number one computer for education. iTunes U has quickly become the largest source of free mobile educational content. Mac Family iLife, iWork and Apple professional applications such as Final Cut and Aperture are the standards for media-intensive projects. The Mac, iPod and iPhone all combine power, integration, durability and ease of use that make them integral to learning today. With Apple and the Mac, you get the tools you need to succeed in your studies. And you develop the skills that will be required to succeed in your career.

Apple is offering discounts to staff and students of universities, and teachers/administrators of secondary schools. So, the Macbook is available at Rs. 49,790/- as against the regular price of Rs 56,580/- ; The Macbook Pro and Macbook Air are available at Rs. 59,937/- and Rs. 75,152/- as against regular price of Rs. 68,110/- and Rs. 85,400/-

So rush in, get your Mac, the offer is valid only till September End.

For details go to this page.