Group Portrait!

From left,
Standing: Anvar, Ashakir, Prasad, Karthik.
Sitting: Myself(Thiyagaraj), Vijayanand, Raghavendra and Nishyanth!

I am starting for the Nilgiris at 3:00AM to attend some relative's marriage. Have to get some quick shut-eye! Gave my goodbyes to Sidharth Sundaram, my school/college mate who started for Jaipur sometime back. Guess there isnt anybody left to send off now!

So keep your goodbyes in your pocket,
You ain't going nowhere at all,
Your memory's staying right here with me,
Coz you're still the sweetest of all.

- Dr. Hook

Bade farewell

To the last three guys who were remaining at the hostel. One, Yeshi is from Bhutan and we helped him board his train for Guwahati two days earlier at 1:00 AM. Surprisingly, many of my classmates turned up and we bade farewell.

Then yesterday, said my byes to Vignesh and Ram Mohan. Chances of meeting Yeshi and Mohan are very remote. Whereas, Vignesh and myself, being placed in the same company might probably stay together in Bangalore where we are most likely to be posted.

Hard times, but time has to go on.. The world is a small place with all the means of communication available! The choice is ours, absolutely ours.

Getting lost online!

I have all of this work that I have to complete, I come online, I find somebody has added me as thier newest contact on Flickr. I pause to check out thier website, And I click on some of thier links.. And off I am.. Into the eternal realms of Cyberspace.. After a while, I remember that I still have work to complete! But I forgot the reason I came online for in the first place! Deja Vu! Happens everytime!

The Last of the examicans!

Today was the last of our Under Graduate program exams. We decided to take a group photograph.. But not everybody turned up! Some 35 of the 52 members in my class turned up. Some of them went to meet some friend's parents who had arrived. Some other locos wouldnt pose for the photo since they have some personal enmity with some others in the class. Our paths may never cross again with each one of us heading for each others' ways.. See the silly reasons.. And they lose a chance of a lifetime, A photo with all their classmates.. I prefer to call these people who chose to boycott the photo session for no reason at all: BRAINLESS people. Seriously.

Opera 9 beta is out!

Though a supporter and user of Firefox, I decided to download Opera 8.5 and give it a try since it is free of cost. The interface was too good! And now, Version 9 beta with more Widgets support are out! The BitTorrent support has also been extended. Looks good!

Read the Opera 9 news on ZDNet.
Download Opera 9.0 beta

Rainy Days!

Today's Ecommerce exam was ok considering I hadnt spent much time
going through what I suppose should have been enough for a easy
write-through! Halfway past the exam, it started to rain heavily with
gusty winds! A spray of water came from a half-open window nearby
which was immediately shut down by a classmate of mine to prevent the
papers from getting wet!

From the third-floor where we sat, we could see the winds lashing at
the tree tops which were incessantly swaying from one extreme to
another! Looked as if most of them would come down, but after a brief
blast, sy about 20 minutes, the rains subsided into an eerie calm. I
finished the exam and walked in the light drizzle outside and bought a
chocolate bar to satisfy my hunger. Then after meeting everybody and a
few byes, I was on my way home.

It was only after seeing the heavy traffic and the reason behind it,
did I get to see the effect of that short cloudburst! Around three
trees along a very short stretch on the busy Avinashi Road had fallen
right on the middle of the road and there were policemen all around
clearing the mess. One truck driver was unfortunate enough to have a
tree fall on his cargo! There was a huge traffic jam and I was lucky
enough to get out of it before things got worse.. Then it started
raining again! Then it too subsided.. Dropped maddy.. picked up my
sister on the way back.. and came home.. and now. My nose feels kinda
funny!

New Template!

Today, selected one of the readymade templates from the Blogger Application and updated my site. This design is a lot cleaner with plenty of white space. I figured that people would find reading dark text on a black background wasn't that captivating, let alone the text! ;-)

Am planning for a complete CSS/XHTML layout for my website and hopefully, will be able to style the blogger template too to blend with the overall look and feel of the website.

For those of you who are interested in the Blogger Specific tags, take a look at this page.

For those who are interested in getting some free Blogger templates, try visiting Blogger Templates. The site is not recently updated, but some of the templates are good and they can be easily integrated into your blog without any major changes or with no changes at all! The K2 theme for blogger based on the original K2 for Wordpress is my favorite pick!

Good Virtues!

We all know our parents and elders take a lot of pains to teach us
what's wrong and what's not. A lot of us show our obedience and good
virtues in a lot of ways, But this is more like it!

Security exam is over, did sorta ok! Looking forward to the rest!

Semester Exams!

My semester exams start tomorrow! Got three exams in total each spaced
two days apart! Got two computer related papers, one on Security in
Computing and the other on E-Commerce. The third paper is on Marketing
Management. Boring to study.. But have to do something.. The last
semester of my Under Graduate programme. Guess this is the end of my UG..

What a response!

Yesterday night, I mailed the animated version of "How online shopping works" to the staff I was speaking of in my previous entry, She called me sometime in the afternoon, Said thanks.. Said the work was good.. and blah blah blah.. But she didnt sound too satisfied, She gave a hint of asking me to do it for her again, But I have some other commitments of my own, so I refused.. But I was wondering why she wasn't very pleased considering that I had done what she wanted in a very short time frame with all the other work that I had to do.. Well, I was a little flabbergasted, But as I said below.. She's a negative critic and I didn't think much about that afterwards.

And surprises of surprises! She called me again in the evening, she told me that she had only seen a part of the file before it was completely downloaded and thought that I had only done a half-baked work! She had only seen the beginning, say 10% of the animation and thought that the animation was over! God! She was all praises for me, But she wanted the source to "add some colour" . I had added a not very visible footer that pointed to www.thiya.net. So I figured out that might be she wanted to remove that. But on the contrary, she said that she had told every staff she met about the work I had done and that she was pleased! What a turnaround! She also accepted that it was her fault of viewing the file before it was completely downloaded.. Hmmm...

It rained heavily in the evening, just after I gave my bike for service after a long time.. Hmmm.. The weather might get awfully warm tonight! :-(

Credits for nothing!

Today, the whole day, I was whiling away my time watching television and working on my laptop. I was designing something about online shopping for a staff of mine, Who wanted it done by '10AM tomorrow morning' when she called yesterday night! I finished it only sometime back.. Its 11:30PM and there is still no word from the staff.. Wonder where she went!

They make schedules about doing something in thier name! And they finally get somebody else to do it for them in a hurry! And then they dont show up! This particular staff is a very good critic! A critic of nothing in particular! She just tells something because we gave her a little importance and asked her for her opinion! Some people.. Wierd! Why would somebody assure that they would do something and then get somebody else to do it for them with little or no explanation towards what and why that is being done in the first place!

Who cares less after all this! Just another one of my meaningless rants!

Google Calendar Launched!

Google has launched a calendar app... Finally! The interface is ok with some more of the Ajax thingies. The functionality is great with the option of creating multiple calendars and also the option to import public calendars.

I tried a search for the term "India" in public calendars and immediately got a public calendar for the list of Holidays in India! Pretty cool huh?

English movies? Coimbatore? Forget it!!

There are no good theatres in Coimbatore that offer a show of English movies! There used to be the famous "Central Theatre" which is closed of late due to some legal issues.

Other than that, the two theatres that display English movies prominently are at the Carnatic theatre and at Maruthi.

Carnatic theatre has been fully refurbished with new seats, etc. But they show a whole range of languages from Tamil, Malayalam, English, English(Tamil dubbed) etc.

The other one, Maruthi shows English movies, but the interiors leave a lot to be desired. The seats are all "Rock-solid" and very old. The air-conditioning doesnt work! Some of the ceiling fans dont and it gets awfully hot at times! I'll be surprised to find more than twenty patrons on weekdays! And they only play the 'masala' type of movies that has everything in it! What I personally feel is that the crowd would swell if the whole theatre was refurbished! Many family members would come instead of watching the movie back home on thier DVD players. Maruthi theatre can develop its infrastructure in its own fancy to increase patronage among the movie-goers.

The bottom line: There is NO theatre in Coimbatore as of now where you can enjoy a decent English movie without sweating it out or peering over others shoulders to get a glance of the whole screen FULL STOP

CSS Blues!

Tried my hand at CSS today! Made some sample layouts, was sort of buggy with all the hacks that are available to make the website look the same across all browsers. Got some designs running! Hope to upload my website www.thiya.net finally. Planning to do it in a standard's compliant way. But all have to look the same in all browsers. That is the only problem I am facing for the time being. Hope to come out of the blues!

Table-less designs rocks! Visit the CSS Zen Garden to see the sample designs and decide for yourselves! CSS is in, Tables for layouts are out! Make the change now!

College working days over!!

College working days are over! :-( So soon.. Only three exams remain.. And after that.. Its all over..

Got selected by a reputed company in a Campus Placement at GRD. Hoping to join that company. Yet to get the offer letter. I went on a trip to Ooty with my class pals. Took a lot of pictures, some of which can be viewed in my photo blog at Flickr!

The whole trip was nice, barring an incident in which my classmate, Subash was thrown off the bike due to the pitiable condition of the roads here at Coimbatore.
THE ROADS SUCK BIGTIME. #$%@#$%!@#^$^$#$%&@$!@

The poor chap was hurled to the ground, he was the pillion rider to another guy. He had scrapes all over his body and had some cuts on the insides of his cheek. The incident occured because of a surprise hole in the road! The rider Rajan braked, but the pitch of the bike resulted in Subash thrown off the bike and landed shoulder first on the ground. Luckily no broken bones.

The roads really need some work to be done on them. More recently, an woman was run over in a similar incident when a vehicle ran over her feet. Thank god nothing of that sort happened to us.

Freaking roads. Damn.