Sky Is The Limit

My teacher used to say, think big, sky is the limit. There are many more saying which i probably don't remember. And that's what i thought is being followed by everyone. Anyways few days ago i participated in a B-Plan competition to start a business funded by college. I, with a couple of my friend submitted a good B-Plan  which was something about uploading videos (of-course, not like YouTube) and ya, i forgot to mention before the competition, we had a seminar conducted by big entrepreneurs about how to proceed with your plans. Coming back, we were one of the 160 B-Plans submitted in that competition. We were extremely exited as we found out we were selected among top 30 teams!! Next round required detailed business plan, and fortunately, we made a good one and reached third round where we were required to present our business plan in front of a panes of judges (same ppl who took the seminar).

Initially, they were unable to understand our plan (obviously, every loser blames the judge and so, i have my reasons!) and when they finally did, they ended up telling us things like: "why do you want to create a website for this? you could easily make a facebook/youtube application for this and in the meantime you can earn a lot more and both you and facebook/youtube will be happy!!!"

After this line, i was like WHAT THE HELL!! are they the same people who told us that day to think big??? lol  I just don't get it. Why do they want us to become a subset of facebook? Why is it that believing in a brand new and unique project is feared by most of the experienced investors? First they tell us to think big and then when we do they abruptly stop us. Rightly said by Mr. Bill Gates that successful people start getting an illusion that they can't be defeated. And this is why they deteriorate.

Taste of Potassium Cyanide

I was wondering today. What would Potassium Cyanide taste like ? Not that I am going to try to find out anytime but I am just driven by the basic human weakness of inquisitiveness. Afterall even a miniscule dose kills in less than 15 seconds. Is it even possible to determine its taste ? I know it smells like Almonds but how would one determine the taste ?

People have said that some guys have tasted diluted form of KCN and experienced a bitter taste but I can easily refute this theory. This theory just does not hold water. Why would one drink a diluted solution of KCN in order to determine its taste ? I mean, if 300 mg is needed to kill a person, why would one need to dilute it with water in order to find the taste. Why not just take, lets say 50 mg of undiluted KCN and be done with it ? Diluting KCN in water will only serve one purpose - Making it harder still to determine the taste with certainity. Most of these stories must have been the brainchild of some idle nincompoop grappling with the properties of solutions in physical chemistry trying to apply his half baked ideas to practical applications like this.

So here is my advice to all those who are willing to stake their lives for a better informed society : Try KCN in a smaller dose. I would say 1/5 of the fatal dose. If you are lucky enough, you would be able to tell the taste. There is just no point trying to dilute it with water and then wondering why the hell does the solution tastes like distilled water. The result also depends upon your sensitivity of taste. Mind you, if you cannot taste it, you were just not cut out for it. Don't go 'Well lets have one more spoon and see what happens'. It doesn't have to be an ego point. If your friend performs better, well, tough luck. Don't swell your chest and go 'My mom said if someone can do it, I can too'.

Anyways, I digressed a bit. I was thinking of making a movie plot which would revolve around this special property of KCN. The movie would be 3.5 hours long. It would start with a happy family. Everyone would be leading a perfect life until one fine day the husband discovers that his wife is cheating on him and tension starts to simmer beneath the surface. The wife suspects that he knows. They constantly indulge in quarrels which by the way screw up the children completely. Depression coupled with midlife crisis forces the husband to evaluate his life. He starts looking for ways to make sense of his life which he thinks is going waste. What could he do to make a mark in the world ? How would the world remember his name ? How can he bring a meaningful change to society ? Such are the questions pestering him when he comes upon this unsolved problem of the taste of KCN. Perfect ! He doesn't wanna live anymore. How better to die than dying for the betterment of the society. He figures:

"If not in life, I would be worth atleast in death' (Melodramatic music. Glycerine. Flashbacks of his wife and children).

Ecstatic at this ingenious plan, he moves ahead to bring it to fruition. Last 10 minutes of the movie. He has to tell whether KCN tastes sugary or salty. He has the bottle in his hands. He has a pen in the other hand. A pink coloured, scented paper is lying just below the pen. Orchestral music is slowly reaching a crescendo. There are beads of perspiration on his head. He weighs his judgement again. His children float in front of his eyes. Then his wife. His home. His dreams, happy times. Then the sullen faces of all those millions who lead an unfulfilled life unaware of the taste of KCN and die with only one wish- What the hell does it taste like ? In that moment of intense judgement he decides to die for the social good. He takes a spoonful and transfers it to his mouth. Sudden convulsion grips him instantly. He starts shivering, choking, writhing in pain. He takes the pen and in that last moment of intense concentration writes something down... Police arrive the next day and see the paper. Whats it gonna be. Sugary or Salty? Sugary or Salty? Sugary or Salty? The paper reads:

S

Hu ha ha ha. Hu ha ha ha. My revenge against all those suckers who leave the most important details of a movie 'to the discretion of the viewer'. My foot. How about this ending. Not only is it a kickass story, it also makes sure that millions of manhours are wasted all across the world. Next time when a bunch of friends come out of a David Lynch atrocity, they could atleast console themselves by saying:

"Atleast Lynch didn't pull off a Singh !!"

tineye vs google images? (reverse image search)

Well... finally its there... BAMM!! reverse image search in our favorite site: http://www.images.google.com/ and thats what lots of us wanted... isn't it?? well its rite here folks and its really cool. The first thing I tried into it was a random wallpaper in my desktop (a lamborghini) and after google uploaded the pick, within a flash, it was displayed: "the best guess for the picture is a lamborghini gallrado !! omg!! cool. what can be more better. well.. this another web-site, called tineye.com also did the same thing but was not much appealing and i didn't get desired results many times, and i thing those times are gone 'cuz its google now !! so common guys, go and try it out... its awesum, cool, and whatever :P

hmmm...

OMG!!
feels so good if you have actually prepared for your exam... seriously, nothing can be more happier than this! and the best part is... you feel more happy when you see your results!! well, at the same time, we become more and more nervous :( obviously, we studied so much which makes it obvious (oops, again !) for anyone to become nervous. buy hey, thats ok! itna toh chalta hai :D

The Twitter Follow Button

Today when I logged into my twitter account, the first tweet was surprisingly of twitter itself as it was explaining everyone about the new 'follow' button they just introduced... well.. the first thing that came into my mind after reading this was the 'like' button which was introduced by facebook, and surprisingly, now it is used by almost all the websites round the globe. well, its almost certain that this 'follow' button won't make that big impact but we can also not underestimate it... i mean there ARE chances that it will also boom in the same way... you can find the like button at many websites now on in which as soon as you click on follow, and if you are logged into twitter at that point, you will automatically start following that person or firm, or whatever it is... great !! now i am just waiting when will I be able to put this thing in by blog :P (well.. for now, you can just follow me by typing this in your address bar... http://twitter.com/prasannjeet ) :D so anyways... the moral of the story is that twitter has introduced this 'follow' button thing and we people are just waiting to see its public responce. thats all for now !! (whyyy... what... ??? did you expect more?? ) :P :D

find out more about this thing (if you are reallllllllly interested !!) rite here !!
http://blog.twitter.com/2011/05/introducing-follow-button.html

just a thought !

Ever wondered which one's better?
Having one hundred good friend... or having one best friend ??

The Facebook Email Is Finally There :)

Well this was what almost all the people were waiting for! Facebook finally launches the Facebook-Email. Now since we have almost 600 million active users on facebook, they won't be having any problem dealing with it. In fact, its kinda awesome. Now all you chat messages will be saved in the form of messages, and guess what you can also attach a file now! just like any other email client!! and the biggest advantage: there will be absolutely NO spam. Well, I am actually looking forward for this email as my primary email address.

Join the page if you love the Facebook Mail:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/I-am-lovin-the-new-face-book-email-its-awesome/195977907087255

The 4-year holiday called engineering

20 Things common to all engineering colleges:

1). The lecturers dont teach.The students dont study.The only guy who benefits is the one who owns the 'dhaba' next to the college.


2).Rules are made to be broken.


3).Promises are made to be broken.

4).Deadlines are made to be extended...ALWAYS!


5).Guys always think the chics in the college next lane are more beautiful.
 
5).The geeks are the most pampered lot during the internal exams.
 
6).The lab assistants are the most respected people(during the lab exams i.e)


7).The watchmen are the people most bribed.
 
8).The HOD is the person most respected(heights of sycophancy here).


9).The principal is the person most abused and insulted(behind the back i.e)

10).Dropping subjects is 'cool'.(arre yaar..drop the idea of dropping subjects plzz).
 
11).There is always a lecturer in the college who cant speak proper 'english'.
 
12).Night-out is the second most important tool to ace the exams.
 
13).The most important tool..the bhramastra..is the 'chit' in which the words can be understood only by the person who wrote them(in most of the cases i.e)
 
14).The freshers are the most sought after..be it in the canteen,the 'free' periods or for completing the records,assignments.


15).The second-years are the ones with the 'I am the don-of-the-college' feeling.

16).The third years are the ones with the 'so-many-backlogs' feeling and the poor souls get down to studying after bossing around in the college for so long.but the fun still continues.
 
17).The fourth years have no connection with the college whatsoever...with no interest in ragging,pulling each other`s legs,the bday parties,the bday bums et al which they enjoyed so much till now.All they want is a good placement and a '1st-class' tag attached to their memo.


19).The first three years are spent in cursing the college,the people there,the system et al.
 
20).But towards the end of the fourth year,people tend to feel nostalgic abt the pure unadulterated fun they have had for 4 years.Now the very system they disliked,the very canteen they cursed,the time that they spent there,the bday bums they suffered..all these seem like heaven to them.

being nyc VS being a jerk !! which one's better ??

well.. its not obvious, cuz first time in my life i am totally sick of being nice to people who don't even care about me !! being the 'nice-guy' is not good always. half of the people think u r silly nd half think u r a coward.. lol. if this is what people get by being 'nice' then why the hell should one be the same? it all started with my ex-roommate who almost kept screaming on me for no apparent reason and i... on the other hand was quite... as always (i am still unable to believe how cud i control myself those days!!) well.. ultimately he was thrown out of our hostel cuz of his deeds and there i was... congratulating myself that i did the right thing.. i still continue doing the same.. but now even those friends whom i thought were the best ones started taking me for granted, just like "say him anything and he doesn't feel bad" or "humiliate him or slap him or anything and just say a simple sorry... thats it!!"... WOW kinda astonishing reaction... specially when this comes out from your friend. so all the good guys out there... take care of yourselves cuz unless and until you are a jerk, you are nothing but a piece of crap !!