HOW WAS YOUR SUMMER THIS TIME?? 2010 version

My summer this time was really a hopeless waste of time and energy and money... but I got the DSP Lab to myself 24x7. Even spent the night at college for the 1st time and many times after the first time. After getting AC plus 16 Mbps internet connection what else do you need right??? WRONG!!! You need limited time span so that u can enjoy the facility provided. If u got plenty of time, you'll end up like me...downloaded tons of movies and series for 2 and a half months and now sitting in the "AC lab" using the "High speed internet" searching THINGS TO DO WHEN THERE IS NOTHING TO DO at 11:30 pm.



I am writing this blog to share some of the fantastic things to DO when there is NOTHING TO DO, so that you too can try these things when you are in the same situation as I am now..


THINGS YOU CAN DO WITH ABSOLUTELY NOTHING

Blink wildly and then close your eyes really tight for an interesting light show
(Amusement Potential: 1-5 minutes)
See a variety of blobs, stars and flashes. Try to make out shapes and see if your subconscious is trying to send you a message (perhaps that funny shape is saying, 'send all your money to urban75.com'?)

See how long you can hold a note
(Amusement Potential: 4-20 minutes)
Not that much fun, but it sure passes the time. Play with a friend, or try to beat your own personal best. Inhale deeply and then try and make a noise for as long as you can. Earn extra points for making your partner laugh or ending on an amusing note.

Try to not think about penguins
(Amusement Potential: 1-5 minutes)
This is especially hard, because by trying too much, you remember what you were trying to avoid thinking of. If you try too little, you end up thinking about penguins anyway.

Use your secret mind power
(Amusement Potential: 5-10 minutes)
Pick a passing by and try to use your mind power to command them do something, like drop their bag or knock into someone. The law of averages dictates that sooner or later one of your mind commands will come true, so you can convince yourself that you really have super human powers and waste even more time trying them out.

Pretend you're a robot
(Amusement Potential: 1-3 minutes)
Walk down the street with mechanical movements, adding 'zzzzzt' sounds with each motion. Pretending to have a motor broken in, say, your left hand can add at least 30 seconds more entertainment.

Scratch yourself
(Amusement Potential: 1-3 minutes)
Go ahead, scratch yourself now. Even if nothing itches, go ahead. Doesn't that feel pretty good?

Rate passers by
(Amusement Potential: 10-15 minutes)
Secretly award passers by marks out of ten as you go along, offering (unsaid) expert criticism over their clothing, hairstyle and footwear choices.

Repeat the same word over and over until it loses its meaning
(Amusement Potential: 1-3 minutes)
Pick a random word out of a magazine and say it aloud to yourself until it becomes a meaningless set of noises.

Pinch yourself
(Amusement Potential: 1-3 minutes)
What is pain? Why is it unpleasant? There's nothing physical about it - it's all in your mind. Plus, after pinching yourself for awhile, boredom will seem nice next to being in pain.

Try to swallow your tongue
(Amusement Potential: 1-2 minutes)
There's not much to say about this one. It is possible, but really stupid.

Pretend to be a car (to be noted... its not driving a car... its be the car)
(Amusement Potential: 5-10 minutes)
Make appropriate revving noises in your head as you walk along and add a racing commentary as you pass strangers in the street. Use blinking eyes as indicators for extra authenticity.

Make Star Trek door noises
(Amusement Potential: 1-2 minutes)
Stand by an electric door to a bank or something and make that silly "Scccccccchwop" sound heard whenever people popped on to the bridge to hang with Captain Kirk.

Look at something for awhile, shut eyes, study after image
(Amusement Potential: 2-5 minutes)
Another great time waster. It takes about 30 seconds of staring to create an after image, and the image is then viewable for about the same length of time. Fun to combine this one with pushing on your eyes.

Get yourself as nauseated as possible
(Amusement Potential: 5-10 minutes)
Best achieved by looking straight up and spinning around. Try to be so dizzy you can't even stand up. This is also entertaining due to the "makes boredom seem a lot better" effect (see "Hurt Yourself").

Invent a weird twitch
(Amusement Potential: 5-10 minutes)
Adopt a bizarre twitch (e.g. flicking your head irregularly, twitching with eye or busting out sporadic cough noises) and try it out when you go shopping.

Make a low buzzing noise
(Amusement Potential: 15-30 minutes)
Hours of fun in libraries! Keeping a totally straight face and looking nonchalant, make a low pitch humming/buzzing noise and see who reacts.




THINGS YOU CAN DO WITH VERY LITTLE

See what's in your neighbour's rubbish/trash
(Amusement Potential: 20-30 minutes)
You can learn a lot about people by what they throw out. You might uncover some dark secret about them. Plus, they might be throwing out something with value that still works, like a VCR or some porn mags.

Watch TV, repeat everything said in Italian accent
(Amusement Potential: 5-10 minutes)
Sort of entertaining. Include flamboyant shoulder shrugs for added impact, or go for a Marlon Brando set of grunts.

Send spooky emails
(Amusement Potential: 15-60 minutes)
Look up someone's CV on the web, do some research on them via Google and then send them an email full of personal references claiming to be an ex-work colleague who fell in love with their shoes. Or something.

Play our useless games
(Amusement Potential: how long have you got?)
Waste away the hours with our collection of useless games

Make prank phone calls
(Amusement Potential: 20-60 minutes)
Very entertaining, but requires discipline. Remember - vulgarities don't make a call funny, but getting the other person to believe a ridiculous story will. Try seeing if you can get them to make noises to 'test' the line. One to get you started off: Call McDonalds with weird complaints about their food.

Pretend all humans will die except for people in room with you
Amusement Potential: 10-20 minutes)
What would you do if this really happened? Would the group stay together, or would there be factions? Who would join what group? Remember, there would only be power for a few days before the plants ran out of fuel or broke. To travel, you would always have to be near cars to siphon gas out of. Best to do with people you know.

Step off a curb with eyes shut, imagine it's a cliff
(Amusement Potential: 2-5 minutes)
To get any benefit out of this one, you have to have a good imagination. Don't step off immediately, build up to the jump. Study the ravine below. Feel the winds at that altitude. Step off and...AHHHHHH!!!!!

Try and sound Welsh
(Amusement Potential: 1-3 minutes)
The key to sounding Welsh is to make sure that your voice goes up at the end of the sentence, so that everything sounds like a question. Throw in a superfluous 'isn't it?' at the end of everything you say and you're halfway there. Isn't it?

Burn things with a magnifying glass
(Amusement Potential: 5-30 minutes)
Ants are always fun to use for this, but burning the face of someone you don't like, under some circumstances, can be just as entertaining.




THINGS YOU CAN DO WITH ANOTHER PERSON

Have a water gargling contest
(Amusement Potential: 5-10 minutes)
Put a glassful of water in your mouth and see how long you can keep gargling for. Award yourself extra points for loud and amusing gargling noises, and minus points if you laugh.

Stare at the back of someone's head until they turn around
(Amusement Potential: 2-5 minutes)
This works on the "I have the feeling I'm being watched" principle. Conduct an experiment-does this really work?

Have a "Who is less competitive" competition
(Amusement Potential: 1-3 minutes)
Trying to win at this will make you lose. Trying to lose makes you win which makes you lose. Not trying at all makes you lose which makes you win which makes you lose.

Pick up a dog so it can see things from your point of view
(Amusement Potential: 3-5 minutes)
Think about it: your dog has only seen the house from a viewpoint from 6" to 2' high (15 to 60 cm for all you metric fans). It's never seen the tops of counters, what you keep on your desk, the tops of shelves, etc. Try looking at things from its point of view, too.

Pull out a hair, stick in someone's ear
(Amusement Potential: 1-5 minutes)
Best done to sleeping people. Added challenge in having no one else around, because then you can't blame it on anyone else. Try to beat your record number of times before the person catches on.

Pour water in hand, make sneeze noise, throw water on back of person's neck
(Amusement Potential: 5-15 minutes)
Always a good gag. For an even bigger reaction out of the person, act like you're not sorry at all for what they think you did. Comment instead on how big that sneeze was or about how there was a lot of mucus in that one.

ADDON

The philosophy match was awesome. It was really nice working under a guy who is totally practical. Got a nice basic knowledge on Computer Vision in a very short period. Wat more to say… everything ended in a perfect complete way. Nothing was half done. Will miss all u guys with whom I spent real quality time… hope to meet u all in near future.

HOW WAS YOUR SUMMER??? 2009 version

I am writing this piece of shit because I have nothing to do at all, even though am 'doing' my summer intern.

When I was mailing my prof, I had assumed that if he accepts me, my summer would be quite exciting, a little hectic but I'll learn a lot. But when I joined I came to know that everything was a delusion. All you have to do was come at around 10:30 in the morning, sit around(till your prof come and give you ideas about a circuit), play with the circuit elements, have lunch in the canteen(which takes about an hour to serve), come back in the afternoon and 'THINK' of 'SCHEMES' how to make the circuit with the components he introduced you to. After 3-4 days of THINKing SCHEMEs he comes back again to give a circuit metaphorically saying your circuit might work but take my circuit full of damn transistors.

This went on for one month or so after which we were to go to *XYZ* institute as we did not have much practical kits available in the lab where we used to THINK. This sounded like a field trip or something which actually was exciting for the first couple of days. I myself thought it was a boon as we now do not have to bicker for 15-20 minutes to get new components as a replacement for the burned ones. But then as expected something was supposed to go wrong. A workshop came into the scenario and we were left jaded listening and doing stuffs which we had already done.

Luckily met a guy who's philosophy matched mine and started working under him. now lets see how far our principles match. Hoping for best!!!

P.S. Addons will be given after my intern completes.
Anything written here should not be taken to heart.

THE CUTE LITTLE GIRL

Woke up startled and rubbed my eyes when the bus stopped at Panbajar bus stoppage. It was arround 3:30pm on the 6th June 2009. The bus was empty. Only me and 4-5 people were left to get down. While I was walking down the aisle I saw the most beautiful girl I ever seen. For the first time in my life I was stunned by beauty of a girl. I waited as she came out of the seat and got down before me. The weather was very cool and it was raining when I boarded the bus near KAMENG hostel. After I got down I was searching for a coffee shop and Cheetos masala balls which would keep me busy till I reach home. But just then I saw the same girl getting on a bus to Basistha. Forgetting about the coffee and chips, I ran across the road luckily escaping an accident, so as to board the same bus as my home was in the same route. I got up and looked for her. There she was, scanning the completely occupied ladies seats. I got the fourth row gents seat and she was standing right by my side. I stood up and pleaded her the seat. She gave me a sweet smile and sat down. GOD so cherubic. She was wearing a deep ocean blue saree with white roses printed on it and a black blouse. It totally matched her white complexion. Her eyes were like brown diamonds with black earthworks. I was watching her so constantly that she looked up and once again gave me another cute smile. I was knockout by her smile. Her moist red lips were so kissable. At Paltanbajar the seat in front of her got vacant. The conductor requested me to take the seat but I was busy observing the most gorgeous fabrication of the supernatural being. Now the sun was shining. I didn't even observe that as I was so into the scrutiny of the 25-30 year girl. I realised it when her tresses shined brown with the reflection of the sunlight. Her hairdo was awesome. It made a complete circle before the whole bun was held by a shiny brown stick. Just then when we reached Bhaghagarh the man who was sitting on the seat behind her got down and I sat, mesmerised by her exquisiteness. I could now just see her curls and her left hand and her left leg. She was wearing a golden watch and a white beautifully carved bangle. Her transparent glass stiletto heels fitted exactly her slim feet. She was turning back every 5 mins or so. donno why. Her way of slowly turning back was also stargazy. But I started to feel guilty as I was doing some sort of stalking and the moment she turns back, I look down remorsefully pondering what she must be thinking. When the bus went over the Ganeshguri overbridge her frequency of looking back increased. Man she was so attractive that I couldn't help but look at her directly. Then I noticed she wasn't looking at me. I was confused. when the bus slowed approaching the ganeshguri stoppage, a cute little girl who was sitting next to me on the ladies row got up and pulled 'my' girl's pallu saying "Maa, this is where we have get down right??" I was numbed, was comatosed for a minute or so. just while I was giving her my last glances as she got up from her seat noticed something weird. It was all my mistake. I didn't notice her sandoor during my first scan. I felt awkward. As the bus stopped the cute little daughter and her mother got down and I felt lonely and bored in the bus, thinking...should have bought the Cheetos masala balls for timepass.