10 May № ···

✻ Ooty and Nelliampathy

Once again, when life seemed to get monotonous, we as usual decided to pack our bags for possibly (hopefully not) our last trip together. The destinations we chose this time

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12 Apr № ···

✻ The Last Day of College

Here ends four years of my college life. From today no more classes to attend. And pretty soon I will cease to be called 'the college guy'. Four

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27 Mar № ···

✻ The Bad Movie Magnets

Why I do not know. But me and my friends never miss a bad movie to hit town. Hindi, Malayalam, English … we have seen the worst of it all. And

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23 Mar № ···

✻ Akshay and the Arabian Sea

A photo I took yesterday, at Kovalam. The effect of the sea looked awesome.  _(http://www.flickr.com/photos/rustyshack/116598236/)

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18 Mar № ···

✻ Rang De!

Some snaps of Holi celebrations @ college. Holi is not really celebrated here in the south, but which idiot will waste a chance to paint your friends red, yellow, violet and

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06 Mar № ···

✻ one night @ the call center

  This is about a novel, in which God calls on a cell phone, a Maruthi 800 (with AC) beats a

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02 Mar № ···

✻ Oh Trivandrum! My Trivandrum!

A few days ago while I was driving through the city, I gave a foreigner a lift. The first thing he said was “You are a lucky guy. What a

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24 Feb № ···

✻ World's Smallest Political Quiz

Ever wondered where you stand in your political opinions? Here’s is an easy but quite accurate way to find out. Have a look at http://www.theadvocates.org/quiz.

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16 Feb № ···

✻ Summer of 69 Desi Version

I stumbled upon this ‘desi’ version of Summer of 69 by Anthragni. Heard it on a promo video for Manipal University. Very touching song… maybe because its my last month

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08 Feb № ···

✻ India at the Winter Olympics

  *India* and *winter* are not two words that really go together. Add Olympics to that, it becomes

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04 Feb № ···

✻ Those Broken Resolutions

So its February, the time of the year when you look back at those delightful ambitious resolutions you make in January… and as usual find them all broken. To refresh

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17 Jan № ···

✻ Munnar and Marayoor

One of the most beautiful places I have seen is a paradise called Munnar. So, when some of my friends suggested that we go for a trip to the place,

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03 Jan № ···

✻ Rusty's Zietgeist 2005

Zeitgeist is something Google does every year. It is a German word that means roughly “spirit of the season”. Google digs deep into its search history, to provide us with

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01 Jan № ···

✻ Welcome 2006

Happy New Year to you all! Hmm. That brings me to the time when I should make a few resolutions. Last year I had made a simple resolution to   Be

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31 Dec № ···

✻ Klueless

This is a really awesome game. One of the best I have seen online. http://www.iimi-iris.com/iris/irising/klueLESS/ I managed to reach   level 12  level 24. I

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31 Dec № ···

✻ Goodbye 2005

Looking back, 2005 wasn’t that bad a year for me. It started off pretty well with Dishaa and I had a lot of fun before and during the event.

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15 Dec № ···

✻ The Road Not Taken - Intro

I am someone who always loved to travel. Despite this, till not so long ago, I never had many chances to fulfill this desire. But once in college I was

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15 Dec № ···

✻ Aazhimala Beach - The First Trip

Read the   Intro  first :) It was sometime in July last year. So this one day we had a shortened college day for some reason. Someone suggested we go somewhere. Subhash

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08 Dec № ···

✻ Euphoria - The Language

Let me introduce to you, a little known (probably even unheard of) language called Euphoria. It is a flexible and powerful language that is surprisingly easy to learn and claimed

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05 Dec № ···

✻ How to evaluate an Engineer?

My semester exams are going on now and I have been (supposedly) spending most of my time studying for it. Not really studying, its more like mugging up. That makes

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27 Nov № ···

✻ Digital or Film

Hmm. If you are atleast minutely interested in photography, you might have heard this question echoing around nowadays. I bought a digital camera recently and was looking around for opinion

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29 Oct № ···

✻ Digital Fortress

One of my dear friends, Manju, loaned me a copy of Dan Brown’s   Digital Fortress  and since I did not have a lot of other things to do, I

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08 Aug № ···

✻ A nice day for Cricket!

Two very exciting matches today, the Ashes test between Australia v England and the ODI India v West Indies. Both thrilling… and both a relief to every loyal cricket fan…

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18 Jul № ···

✻ The New Laws of Cricket

ICC decided to bring in two new laws to limited-overs cricket that will supposedly make it more interesting. Now that the first experiment was tried out during the recent England

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28 Jun № ···

✻ Infosys!

I got recruited! The company is Infosys, one of India’s biggest IT firms. I’m feeling so relieved and secure now. :) 84 of us from my college, and 15

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