Looking for Flatmates

Remember this post? Go on, read it and come back.

Now that you are back, I am sure you would have noticed easily how much I have gushed about the apartment and my excitement to move into that house.

Well, my dear friends, I am renting out two rooms in the wonderful apartment described in the post above. If any of the readers are looking out for renting out a room, please email me at pizzadudeblogs at gmail dot com and I will get back to you.

Uh Oh!

So the other day, I was chatting with a Filipino colleague(FC) of mine who had just returned from a long holiday in Philippines.

PD - Hey! How was the trip back home?
FC - It was great! Had lots of fun.
PD - Nice to know. You must cribbing to be back at work after the fabulous holiday.
FC - Yeah! Waiting eagerly for the Chinese New Year holidays.
PD - Oh! Planning one more trip back home?
FC - Yeah!!! But not to Manila. This time I am going to a resort.
PD - Cool!! Which one?
FC - Boracay. Its a beach resort.
PD - Oh! I vaguely remember hearing about it.
FC - Ok.
PD - Is is one those place having white sandy beaches? I love such places.
FC - Yes!
PD - I must plan a trip to Phillippines sometime. Looks like it also has its fair share of white sandy beaches.
FC - You should. It does have some great places.
PD - So what all can you do at Boracay?
FC - The place has got a great nightlife. Bars, clubs, discos.
PD - Oh! I see.
FC - But YOU can also spend your time reading over there.

What the..??!!! Is that what people think of me as? A geek. A GEEK! Oh dear lord!

Cheese and its kind

There is a dog in our street (lets call her Cheese) and she has delivered a litter of puppies in our back yard. There are 7 of them and you should hear them trying to make some sound with their extremely feeble voices. They look so adorable and tiny. Infact, they cant even walk. All of them will be lying like a pile of stones against their mother's body. I tried to take a photo of them, but have not been able to get a good shot. They are all piled up in one corner behind a tree. Cheese is apparently very very comfortable with me and my family and is hardly bothered by our presence. It has become a daily ritual for me to give her bread and milk.

I have always wanted to have pets at home. My parents though are quite against it for two reasons -

1. Its not good to keep any animal bound or tied. They should be let free.
2. They will have do all the taking care part of it. I will be excited for a few days, but then due to other constraints like time and effort, I would soon lose interest.
   

I do agree with them now, but as kids it was a different story. No amount of reasoning could convince me or my brother. Then my mom got a super-duper idea and told us that its either the "Pet" or us. Promptly, my brother and I shut up and have not raised that topic ever since. But, to till this day I wish I could have a pet without feeling guilty that I am curbing its freedom. Infact, an ideal pet would be a baby elephant. Yes, you read it right, A BABY ELEPHANT!. Ever since I saw some on NGC, I want to have one around me and in my house. Oookay, you can stop laughing now :P

Btw, what do you guys think I should name the puppies ? Mozzarella, Riccotta, Feta, Parmesan, Gouda, Cottage, etc.. :))

(Don't) Picture This

Time : Around 6.30 am
Location : Somewhere enroute to Hyderabad
In : Train

I wake up to a beautiful morning with a nice breeze blowing in from the window. I think "Wow! It feels so nice to wake up early in the morning and watch the country side go by. Oh! Just in time for Sunrise. God knows when was the last time I saw the sun rise!! Hmmmm...."

Then, the inevitable happens. (Warning: Read ahead only at your risk) I see a half naked man in the fields doing err.... his business.

Ewwwwwwwwwww!!!! Why god Why ??????

PS: Had been on a trip to Hyderabad over the weekend. Post coming up if I am not feeling lazy to type :)

Blogoversary

Its exactly one year since I started my blog and put up my first post :D Yaay!!! In the past one year, I have put up 45 posts, which comes to 3.75 posts per month. That quite pathetic. Had hoped to put up much more than that, but kya kare... Hopefully you will see my blog updated more frequently.

This reminds me of the FRIENDS episode, where Monica and Chandler are celebrating their first anniversary and monica gets them tickets to Las Vegas. She says that they can start their celebrations on the plane and can so be called as "planeversary". Haa Haa Haa.

Would love to do something similar for my "blogoversary", but due to certain constraints can't go off to Las Vegas, or for that matter even to Goa. So I thought I shall celebrate it "my" way. I will go and have some amazing Chocolate Walnut Brownies at Pizza Port in Koramangala! *drool* They are totally awesome. I had mentioned it here long ago. Anyone wants to join in the celebrations ?

Oh Yeah, the treat is on me!!

Time Domain Aliasing Cancellation and Perfect Reconstruction

Hey Wait ! Don't run away !!! This post is not going to delve into any sort of technical details. I can understand your shock at seeing such a techie title on this blog. I too had the exact same reaction to the title the first time I read it. I was like, What the #@$% is this ????

I came across this title when I was studying some DSP concepts recently. I realised how much I had forgotten whatever I had studied during engineering. So, reading through those topics got me thinking about the final year of my engineering, where we had taken up a course in Digital Signal Processing (DSP). It was one of those "hyped" courses, where the pass percentage was not very high. Most were paranoid about such courses and many joined tutions for the same. Thankfully, I was not one of them. I still dont understand the logic of joining tutions during engineering. If the lecturer is bad and the textbook does not make any sense, then its kind of understandable. But the lecturer who handled this course was an amazing chap and there is definitely no dearth of good textbooks on DSP. But still, the students joined. Mainly because in the previous batch of students who had taken up this course, many had flunked. I dont understand why students get so influenced by this trend. Can't they think logically ? I have also observed this trend in subjects like "Fields and Waves", "Control Systems" and "Engineering Graphics". Literally, the entire class used to go for tutions for these subjects.

Coming back to what I had originally planned to put up in this post, the lecturer who taught us this course was an amazing chap. He has handled subjects for us in almost all the semesters and that too on different unrelated topics. From "C Programming" to "Operations Reaserch" to "Microprocessors" to "Digital Signal Processing" to "Fields and Waves". And he did justice to all of them. His notes were very much in demand. I still have his notes in most of the courses he taught. And he never used to read out the notes from a previous year's student's notebook. He used to dictate them by himself. Man, I am a huge fan of this lecturer. I happened to meet him about 4-5 months ago and he is still very much the same. Absolutely no change at all.

Apart from our lecturer, I am also so much reminded of my engineering friends. The masti we used to do in college: bunking classes, not listening in class, last minute preparations for exams, internals, results... etc. DSP was one subject we hated to study. We liked the classes and were in awe of the subject, but hated to study it for the exam. So much of fourier transforms in that course. It can be quite intimidating, with all those sigma and integration signs. We all heaved a huge sigh of relief after we finished the exam, which turned to be quite easy :D

Now that I am studying so many of those concepts again, they all seem so easy. I realised that it takes time for the concepts to sink in and I think three years have been more than sufficeint for the same. I am totally enjoying studying this subject now.

StatCounter

There is this cool site called StatCounter.com. It provides an invisible/visible counter and allows you to analyse and monitor visitors to your webpage/blog in real time. Each time someone access your blog, information like: from which city/IP address your page was accessed, the ISP, referring URL, keywords used to reach your page, etc., will be recorded. Totally amazing... Many of you might already be aware of it.. I came to know recently and I am so amazed and excited about it, like a kid who has been given a new toy :D

The best part is that its Free !!! Check out the site and see for yourself the features they offer.

My new Digital Camera

Atlast I got to purchase a digital camera !!! I have been wanting to have one from a real long time.... I am so excited about it !!! Infact, gonna go on a photo clicking spree. Check out the pictures below.

I was reading the manual yesterday and its so overwhelming. There are so many features and infact I am such a rookie in photography, that I have no idea what many of them are used for. Guess it will take me a while to figure it out. Right now, content with staring and admiring the camera :D

The best part about the camera, is that it has got a 3-inch LCD display screen and its so compact.. Its like watching a miniature TV.

Cant wait to use it like a pro !!!

*blush*

There is this sweet frined of mine, Ms. D, who happened to get married to another friend of mine, Mr. S recently (A love marriage obviously). What I find really sweet about her is the fact that even after all these years, she still blushes when we tease her with him. It so amusing :D. U should have seen face during her marriage... Totally pink... she was blushing big time....Very Very Cute.. :)

Keep it up Yaar!!! I hope the blush still remains in your face when u guys celebrate ur 50th wedding anniversary.

OMG !!!!!

During our regular after-lunch walk today afternoon, one of our colleagues was telling us about the "conditions" the schools impose before they admit students. I was shocked on hearing some these "rules" and also on the amount charged for admission.

Sample this rule : "Both the parents are supposed to speak fluent english and they are supposed to have a minimum of one car". These rules just dont make any sense. I can relate to rules which say that the parents should have atleast completed their matriculation or should have minimum education. But these rules, its pure nonsense. Schools are supposed to teach students to stop discrimination. Instead, they themselves discriminate among prospective students on the basis of financial and social status. They are being such hypocrites.

Where is all this heading to ?