Its Indian Premier league........

Every one is talking about IPL and Why not !! i think its going to be fun and exciting, modelled around EPL(English Premier League) it promises neva before like fun for Indians. And with the association of stars like SRK nd Preity it adds more than enuf shtyle.
Soooo i ought to have my piece of fun nd when it comes to ne form f cricket-Hisam ought to have something to say and someone to vie for..... Bengalaru........ Ya i'm rootin for Bangalore.....

Not nly cos its close to me (By heart and by geography)...
Not nly cos it has got 3 South African players (wonderin what is wit me nd South African players .... its a big story mate!! will tell you some other day :) ).....
Not nly cos it has got a great chance of winning the league.........

But also because i dont care if my favourite actor ( read SRK ) owns a team........ I'm here to watch cricket and not celebrities..... I'm havin enuf of them on the Big screen....

But one thing i din like is the name "Royal Challengers" that Vijay Mallya chose for the b'lore team....... It suits more for his liquor brand than this team........

And the one team to watch out for (i.e besides b'lore.....) is Hyderabad with players like Gibbs,Afridi,Gilchrist, Symonds in their lineup....... My sympathies goes to the bowlers.......obviously!!

Ness Wadia and Priety Zinta, the co-owners of the Mohali IPL franchise, arrive for the player auction, Mumbai, February.

Fixtures

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My Shtyle blogging.......

It is not that i am an avid typical blogger who posts anything and everything happening in his life. And it is also not that i blog simply for the sake of blogging,i dont need to do so, simply because blogger wont close shop if i stop blogging.
And if i still go deep thinking-- why do i ever blog.......>>
Why do i post those posts describing my internet services, my seminar topic,my orkut obsession,my favourite facebook app., my favourite windows apps., my pics ................. >> why do i have those sidebars describing "ME", my wishlist, links to freind's blogs...........>> WHY ??
I'm somehow forced to come to the conclusion that it is simply because that i'm very much obsessed with the internet and because of that strong obsession it is simply impossible for me to go untouch the blogging world. It is like having a cute small house in your hometown.
And having said that i'm still not convinced that is the right answer. I just feel like blogging when i dont have any other thing to do on the net........ i feel like blogging when i strike upon a good hack that i think others might find interesting........ i feel like blogging when i think something very interesting has happened in my life and others might find it interesting too........ i feel like blogging when my eyes go blue(orkut obviously) overtime........ i feel like blogging when i want others to know that hisam is alive on the net........ Sometimes i feeeeel that i'm trying to impress others through my blog...... Ghosh!!....... I'm crazy!! how can 1 impress someone through a blog?? Or can 1 ?? Totally confused...........issshhhhhhhh.
But one thing i'm certain about is that right now i'm a totally confused crazy bloke eyes half open at 1 in the night trying to find the exact reason for the question "why do i ever blog" when all others in the house are well asleep and i can see strange images through my window and even stranger noises and one loud noise of umma i will have to hear tomorrow morning-------HISAAAAAAAAAM...........COLLLLEEGE........
I think i should feel like sleeping.................. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

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Airtel gprs zindabad..........

Thus ended one of my previous posts titled "Is Airtel GPRS worth the monthly 250 bucks??" if you remember right. And i'm starting of from right there again simply because Airtel has beeeeeeeen soooooooo generous to me when it comes to their gprs service. If you remember i had something of this sort as one of my points there

"+To top it all, the time limit is not ejjactly a month, it actaully extends beyond. i got a week extra this time around. But never stops before a month, neva!!"

I was talkin about the monthly time limit that used to extend by some days!! SO what now?? Ya you guessed right!! It has stopped doing so!! YIPEEEEEEEEEE..... instead it is going on and on this time and by the time i'm posting this using that very same GPRS ( Charity!! Thats what i call it) service it has gone over exactly a month........ with that 250 bucks i paid over 2 months back. I've just fallen in love with this AIRTEL thing, and i've also stopped those random calls to 121(customer service) with my complaints regarding my call tariff and other offers ( ofcourse cos f my crazy thoughts tellin me that this may somehow lead to deactivation of my CHARITY Gprs)

SO untill Airtel GPRS goes on with this love affair with me, i got my one knee bent !! And when they decide to stop(if eva.....)this, i atleast got the consolation that i can start calling that 121 again and start bugging those lovely female voices again !! ;)

ssssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!! Dont tell Airtel.

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The dumbest Goalie in the world.

Cant stop laughing. hehehehehehehehe

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J2EE time in Kochi.

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KOCHI ETHI , KOCHI ETHI !!

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Moments to cherish-II

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One hella trip by one hella Gang.

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Crazy secrets.

There is this application called "Post Secrets" on Facebook where users are allowed to post their secrets keeping their identity under cover, which obviously results in interesting secrets that one might have neva told otherwise.

This is how "Post Secrets" defines itself-->"Post Secret allows you to reveal your darkest secret to millions of other facebook users. Each secret can be a hope, regret, funny experience, unseen kindness, fantasy, belief, fear, betrayal, erotic desire, confession, or childhood humiliation."

Hmmmmmmm, Ok. Now here are some random secrets which i found intereseting the last time i peeped into "Post Secrets"--------->>>>>>>


"I have just eaten my pet hamster. He just looked so delicious, all plump n juicy.... I skinned him and fried him in the deep fat fryer. He was delicious... But now I miss him... Why did I eat my little buddy? WHYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!"


"I dont understand love. Its so confusing. I know my girlfriend loves me but I have no clue why. Shes so amazing, she can get so much better then me. But its been 7 months since we started going out, and i've never been happier. Ever since the day i met her i knew there was something about her, and i fell in love with her. I love her so much and i want to be with her forever."


"why do people believe in "the secret" the damn universe DOES NOT create our destiny. we do. if you want something to happen bad enough you'll do whatever it takes. the universe doesn't just say hey ya lets do it. no it doesn't work like that. so stop telling me that if i truely believe in the universe i'll be rewarded because it's all bullshit. never once has the "universe" done anything for me, i do it all on my own.....fucking "secret" "


"I HOPE TO BE GETTIGN MARRIED IN 1 AND 1/2. HE IS AMAZING."



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"I'm fat because I eat. I eat because I'm alone. I'm alone because I'm fat."



"i like this guy... but don't know if he likes me... and... i have a boyfriend."


"i am so affriad of being hurt that i lied to protect myself cuz i saw something good in a guy and now i am sorry to say that my lie made my heart breake, but i guess thats what i get for not dating but seeing another guy only 3 weeks after i broke up with my babys dad after 2 years"


"he told me i was special.. obviously not special enough to leave his uglyass girlfriend."



"the longest relationship i've ever had was for about two months this past spring. the only reason it lasted was because i kept forgetting to dump him."


"i am so pissed off at my friend right now, i love her to death, but i wish she would see shit through my eyes and relieze that she isnt the best thing in this fucking world, and that there are people that are hurt by the acts she pulls, i love you to death though"


"One second I'm madly in love with him - the next I just want to get far, far away and never have to deal with him again. But I'm learning to ignore the second part!"



"i have a girlfriend. i'm a girl."



"i wish i had personal nuclear bombs to launch at those who spoil Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows!!!!"



"I am in love with a guy from Minneota and that said thing is that I am married!!!"



"I collects books to look and feel smart...I don't actually read them, I look up the summsries on Wikipedia"


"I was never deployed to Iraq...the closest I came was Kuwait for 3 months. I want people to be interested in me, so I lie when they ask."


"I am totally, completely, and utterly in love with Edward Cullen. I don't even care that he's fictional; I want him for myself!"



"im 5'11, 160lbs and i don't think im fat.. why do people that weigh like 90 or 100 or 140 think they are fat? fuck its so annoying!"



"If I new "broken hearts" hurt this bad, I never would have got involved in the first place.."



"I just realized how much I hurt my best friend. I was so mean and selfish to her. She tried to help me and instead of showing my appreciation, I just blamed her and demanded more. And then even after she ended our friendship, I spread nasty rumors about her. It's no wonder she refuses to talk to me now. I wish I realized what a bitch I was sooner because she was the greatest friend I ever had. If I had the chance I would tell her how sorry I am and that I would do anything to have our friendship back. I know I don't deserve her friendship (I don't deserve any friends at all) but I would really like someone as kind and supportive as her back in my life."

"is it wrong to hav an affair with 2 guys at the same time? guys do it all the time!! so who said women cant??!?!"


"Why are the college kids telling the high school kids to get off Facebook? Why are the highschool kids telling the middle school kids to get off Facebook? Why are middle school kids telling the younger kids to get off Facebook? The only people not telling people to get off Facebook are people like myself that have finished college along time ago. This is a open Network open to everyone, sure it was made by a college student, but its open to everyone. So everyone just needs to shut the fuck up."


----------->>>>>Well, how crazy secrets can get. If u find any of them disgusting, Same pinch!! No back pinch.
I have gone through far more disgusting secrets which i've not posted here for reasons best known by me!! Reputation,u know!!

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HOW TO GET SIX PACK ABS WORKOUT ROUTINE.

Well-well-Well. Every1 s goin crazy over 6 pack abs after SRK did it in OSO.Now,here is a workout routine u can try at home.

Wishing u atleast a 4 pack if not 6.

Warning:I'm not to blame for ne consequences(-ve that is ;) ), Even i'm goin for 1.

Advice:Girls keep away.

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My dream......... Googleplex............

Destination Googleplex--Every programmer's dream.

So is mine!!

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Moments to cherish.

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As i begin the countdown to the Lbs days, these are some of the memories that will stay with me forever.

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Five killer Apps. i cant do without.......

#1 Firefox

#2 iTunes

#3 Picasa

#4 Audacity

#5 Media player classic

While most f u must be familiar with other apps. Audacity is a free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. I rip apart d favourite part of ne Mp3 to use it as my ringtone. Also got conversion functions. Rockzzzzzzzzzz.

To reach the download page for each f d above apps. click on d respective app. pic.
Chillll.....

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Every 1 luvs Beckham........

England footballer David Beckham gets mobbed by a group of Chinese children during a promotional event in Beijing.

How cute.............

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The most spoken human name.

Ever wondered which is that single human name that has ever been uttered the most number f times?? I'm wondering, thats why i'm posting here.

Here are some possible candidates.........

*Mahatma Gandhi- Nah, v utter his name nly during our history classes, on our independence day nd these days after seeing Lage raho Munnabhai.
+Abraham lincoln-Same case wit him. The bloody Americans(not all) utter his name nly on occassions.
*David beckham-Yup, Thats a better suggestion. The crowd chants his name during plays, his fans utter his name, girls utter in their sleeps nd ofcourse when they r awake.
+Tom cruise- Hmmmmmmm, ya he is a superstar. But mostly people utter his name nly when he is in the news, for instance when another f his Mission impossible flicks make news or about to make some.

These r some f d names that come to my mind when i think of the title.

But the one name that comes out the winner for me is "Orkut",that addictive social networking site. Ya its actually the name of the guy who developed it, "Orkut buyukkokten" being his full name. He is a google employee, nd developed this site called orkut for his employer in his office free hours. Great!! hmmmm ya great. But does he deserve this much....... His name being uttered the most number of times ever(according to me , that is).
This social networking site has almost a crore users nd most f them talk about it with their freinds when they r offline as well, they do it everyday in the process uttering the name "Orkut". Its the most visible "Human name" on the internet with crores of webpages starting like this "orkut -..........................". Not to mention the crores f notification mails they send to their users wit the subject lukin like "orkut-............".
Ya there are other social networking sites like Facebook, Myspace,Friendster who has got way more users than what "Orkut" has got. But clearly they are not the name of any human. So that doesnt make ne difference here......

Now the ? is does the name "Orkut" deserve all this ?? Does a bit f Programming brilliance 4m Orkut deserve this much??.......... Mayb he shud change the name of his site......... nd pick a leaf out f sites like facebook. Or if he is so adamant on havin a human name, y not try sum f our above candidates....... mahathmagandhi.com or tomcruise.com would do great ;-)

Nd how abt hisam.com ;

*- Nd if u r wondering wht d above pic got 2 do wit this post, i'm lettin u know tht i have developed this buggy habit of searching the title of the post ("The most spoken human name." in this case) on google images and pick d most catchy image on d first result page and post it along wit the post topic. Ghosh!!

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Happy birthday.

Wishing me a great life ahead....... ;-)

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How to filter ur girlfriend mails??

If you hate seeing those mails( when i say mails these days, it obviously means gmails) 4m ur gf rite inside ur inbox wit her name and d subject line attracting one's attention, well here is a way out to filter those mails into a label. Now start learning how to...

Let’s say that your email address is ‘bolan@gmail.com’, basically everything sent to any of the following email addresses will be forwarded to your primary email.
* bolan@gmail.com * b.olan@gmail.com
* bo.lan@gmail.com * bol.an@gmail.com
* bolan@googlemail.com * b.olan@googlemail.com
* bo.lan@googlemail.com
…
…
* bola.n@googlemail.com

And that’s not all, you can place as many dots as you want, it can be even something like ‘b.o.l.a.n@gmail.com’ and you’ll still get it on ‘bolan@gmail.com’

Additionally, I just also found out that you can embed random text to your email ID using ‘+’ sign. That is to say ‘bolan+logabolan@gmail.com’ can be used as your email address, as well.

Ok I got it. Now what ?

Now what u can do is use the above naming covention 2 ur advantage ( mayb ur gf's as well)....
What u can do for instance is ask ur gf to mail u to the id- "bolan+bolathi@gmail.com" which will be forwarded to bolan@gmail.com (assuming u've understood the above naming convention for gmail).
Step 2 is "create a filter" (this link is availabe on the right side of search mail box inside ur gmail inbox), upon clicking u will have From:,To:,Subject:,Has the words:,Doesn't have:. now in our case we will hv to enter the email id "bolan+bolathi@gmail.com"(which is the email id u askd ur gf 2 mail to, Bola!!) in the to field. Click next step and check the first option "skip the inbox", then......... check the "apply label" nd choose a label if 1 already exist or else create a new 1(bolanteboli is my name for ur label ;)).

Now what this does is all those mails sent to d id "bolan+bolathi@gmail.com" skips the inbox and is forwarded to d label "bolanteboli".

Now u may ask y such hassles when u can directly filter mails coming 4m a particular id say bolathi@gmail.com.
Good question bola!!

Here is a better answer, what if u hv more than 1 girlfriend( which is not at all alien these days)?? u will have to create more than 1 filter, i.e 1 each filter for each gf's mail id (like 1 for bolathi@gmail.com,bolathi2@gmail.com,bolathi3@gmail.com....... bolathi19@gmail.com). well that depends on how many gfs u ultimately have.

So thats y i say the "bolan+bolathi@gmail.com" is the better hack( esecially if u hv multiple gfs). You can give the id "bolan+bolathi@gmail.com" to all ur gfs nd all those "junk" mails will b accumulated in d label bolanteboli.
Hope theres no confusion ;).........

This hack can be used to 1's advantage not only in d case of gfs but also in many other extra usefull cases. like if u r registering at a site nd u dont want their confirmation mails to appear inside ur inbox u can provide the site with a "+" id, say "bolan+site@gmail.com" nd create a filter for that.


Bottomline: Now please dont assume that i personally use this hack .......... ;)

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Five things i luv abt firefox.

Though i cant limit it to only 5, but if you ask for the best 5, this is how they will go........




+ Extensions- i jus luv em, its like adding more hands to your body, it may luk ugly but comes super useful. click here
for a list f my favourite extensions.

+The restore function- this feature is very handy, many a times i was forced to lose a ff session, no more a problem with the restore function. You get back all those tabs just as a u left it.

+ Bookmarks - Really easy to handle your bookmarks, the import nd export r handy. Things like the quick search r revolutionary.

+ Mutliple profiles- Though u can open only 1 profile @ a time. This feature is useful if u have different preferences or want a firefox profile f ur own if u hv more users on ur system.

+ Quick find- press "/" nd u can move to ne link on d page, This one may seem ordinary, but i juv luv it.


Yup thts d 5, but certainly not the only 5, these r d ones come 2 my mind @ dis moment.............


Hey make it 6 please, i left 1 feature that i probaly luv the most- "Undo closed tab". Uff how did i leave it out in the first place. nehow the greatest thing to have inside ur browser.......

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Monkey Trick

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letting go

letting go
Originally uploaded by _rebekka

I just fell 4 this 1........

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Is Airtel GPRS worth the monthly 250 bucks??

I used to wonder if Airtel Gprs was worth the monthly 250 Rupees. That was before i actually started using it, and for those of you who wants to know what i think of it now.............
here is a report card of sorts...........

+ I connect it to my system, browse as many hours as i like(3-4 hrs a day is d current trend) ..
+ I browse on d move 4m my 6233 (AKA opera mini(moreover orkut is now mobile friendly)).......
+I got a cool Gmail app. installed on my 6233, email was neva such fun nd easy.....( i dont even have to login everytime)
+Listen to internet radio stations (AkA Radio bee) on my 6233 ,though only recently into this stuff.
+Gtalk,yahoo messenger all on d move.....
+Ya d download speed is arnd 5-7kbps(considered very low these days), but i dont have any regrets as long as i can plugin my 6233 to my machine nd go dozing all night only to find out in d morning that it  has dwned enuf and still dwning d queue 1 by 1 on my favourite downthemall extension in firefox.
+To top it all, the time limit is not ejjactly a month, it actaully extends beyond. i got a week extra this time around. But never stops before a month, neva!!

So after every month(@ d least) of gprs and a bandwidth of atleast 2 gb and a budget of 250 bucks. What do i actually think of this???
COME ON..............

THIS IS CHARITY IN THE NAME OF GPRS(at least in my case).............
Airtel Gprs Zindabad...............

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Lukin fwd

Gmail is certainly d best email provider out der, no doubts regarding
there. I'm really lovin it there. I have a small world out there in my
inbox wit all those labels nd funky filters. Emailing was neva such
fun.
I'm so much involved wit it that i hav com up wit a blog that is
completely being published by a gmail accnt. Chk out
www.lukinfwd.blogspot.com

--
Hisam

www.hisamonomics.blogspot.com

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