[Thats what i found out soon after i came to college, one of the major discoveries in a progressive cosmopolitan campus notwithstanding, it also gave me perspective on why it was hard to find water in the average redneck kitchen.
" "C'mon dude lets grab a couple of beers" is probably one of the most frequently used phrases everyday around the world. The funny thing is its never a couple, its just one of those false promises that you use everyday- " im gonna brush my teeth before i sleep", just something u say to get the moment over with. Nyways the thing is, even after a ridiculously large amount of the stuff has settled comfortably in you, & you are only short by a week's worth of food money( beer's same price as alcohol over here) it doesn't do anything to you. There's got to be a point over drinking right? i mean when you are growing up you see people around you drinking the stuff all the time and naturally you get curious and they are all like " you cant drink beer!! you are too young!!" and then theres the t-shirts....
" fuck fear- drink beer!!" .... " save water- drink beer"
proudly portraying the wonder drink to be something that you had to experience for yourself.
All this just gets your hopes up man... what im getting at here is that i am not a beer lover...i do not find a reason to buy and drink the stuff...but then again i do not find reason in a lot of things ...
like the jay leno show...or britney spears or cheezy poofs...
i swear im not high..
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Die hard still rules!!
Its true....there's absolutely no two ways about it. when ever you sit down to watch die hard again ( trust me you will if you have gone through it once) there will be a few times through the movie that you have to shout out DIE HARD!! and anyone who's present and does not shout with u is frowned upon and preferably banned from ever watching die hard again. This is not one of those star wars geek rules that 9pt'er nerds make up while debating which was the greatest galactic war of all time sitting in their basement as they eat their moms special recipe crunchies.
This is what men do when they are bored and there's leftover pizza and beer. You call your buddies, play a round of mini golf ( do not question why) and watch a good action movie- namely die hard.
Its just one of those things that brings hard working men their moments of clarity looking at intensive violence. peaceful annihilation.
This is what men do when they are bored and there's leftover pizza and beer. You call your buddies, play a round of mini golf ( do not question why) and watch a good action movie- namely die hard.
Its just one of those things that brings hard working men their moments of clarity looking at intensive violence. peaceful annihilation.
Die hard still rules!!
Its true....there's absolutely no two ways about it. when ever you sit down to watch die hard again ( trust me you will if you have gone through it once) there will be a few times through the movie that you have to shout out DIE HARD!! and anyone who's present and does not shout with u is frowned upon and preferably banned from ever watching die hard again. This is not one of those star wars geek rules that 9pt'er nerds make up while debating which was the greatest galactic war of all time sitting in their basement as they eat their moms special recipe crunchies.
This is what men do when they are bored and there's leftover pizza and beer. You call your buddies, play a round of mini golf ( do not question why) and watch a good action movie- namely die hard.
Its just one of those things that brings hard working men their moments of clarity looking at intensive violence. peaceful annihilation.
This is what men do when they are bored and there's leftover pizza and beer. You call your buddies, play a round of mini golf ( do not question why) and watch a good action movie- namely die hard.
Its just one of those things that brings hard working men their moments of clarity looking at intensive violence. peaceful annihilation.
Carpentry is good for you!
Schools have this thing about teaching more than what they promise on their publicity manuals or whatever it is that they call it, like they are trying to do you a favour by giving your ward more than you expected. I mean do you really care if you learn stuff like knitting, bookkeeping, carpentry or some other bullcrap?
Anyway i had the good fortune to sign up for carpentry( not intentionally- my name was drafted in there as i had not signed up for anything by myself) Soon it was clear that it was by far the coolest thing we had ever gotten to do, i mean having all kinds of sharp metal weapons which can cut a limb effortlessly is pretty cool anytime of the year.
i can honestly say that i not a good carpenter, cause one needs to actually build something to be one, however if you need someone to tear apart something made out of wood, then im ur man. After the countless times that we cut apart the teachers chair( while he was still on it) , class desks, windows etc every guy in that class was in a class of his own.
So maybe the class was not actually for teaching, maybe it was designed to keep those boys happy who would raise all kinds of hell otherwise. kind of like a venting the anger kind of thing. Though it wasnt a clear success- we did raise hell even then, eventually making the teacher retire& winding up to be the only batch ever to not get a farewell in the school's history. But still the school's efforts and the thought process must be appreciated- they do try so very hard. I mean its the same everywhere isnt it ? Talk about your govt cover ups- these things are right in your face. you dont need to think aliens everytime man, the establishment has other ways to numb you down. Anyway GETTING A LITTLE TOO PARANOID.....
One of the main parameters of your school life has to be the number of teachers you caused to give up their jobs just because they couldn't take the punishment anymore. in my case it was 3, and is still one of the most satisfying memories that i have so- up yours public education!
Anyway i had the good fortune to sign up for carpentry( not intentionally- my name was drafted in there as i had not signed up for anything by myself) Soon it was clear that it was by far the coolest thing we had ever gotten to do, i mean having all kinds of sharp metal weapons which can cut a limb effortlessly is pretty cool anytime of the year.
i can honestly say that i not a good carpenter, cause one needs to actually build something to be one, however if you need someone to tear apart something made out of wood, then im ur man. After the countless times that we cut apart the teachers chair( while he was still on it) , class desks, windows etc every guy in that class was in a class of his own.
So maybe the class was not actually for teaching, maybe it was designed to keep those boys happy who would raise all kinds of hell otherwise. kind of like a venting the anger kind of thing. Though it wasnt a clear success- we did raise hell even then, eventually making the teacher retire& winding up to be the only batch ever to not get a farewell in the school's history. But still the school's efforts and the thought process must be appreciated- they do try so very hard. I mean its the same everywhere isnt it ? Talk about your govt cover ups- these things are right in your face. you dont need to think aliens everytime man, the establishment has other ways to numb you down. Anyway GETTING A LITTLE TOO PARANOID.....
One of the main parameters of your school life has to be the number of teachers you caused to give up their jobs just because they couldn't take the punishment anymore. in my case it was 3, and is still one of the most satisfying memories that i have so- up yours public education!
the new years drink
This one is simple enough...everyone knows the new years kiss is one of the most overrated things ever....you plan, you wait, you screw other people to make it foolproof but at the end of the day when the countdown is over and people all around you are glued to each other you are left with your best buddy Mr jack daniels..... The weird thing is when you know ahead that the kiss isn't gonna happen & give all your time to the bottle in your hand it doesn't feel as good as it does after being left alone suddenly on the most happening night of the year. I guess we are all gluttons for punishment. You can get drunk alone every night so the charm kind of burns out eventually. Especially if you have 3 more guys just like you and you wind up drinking on the streets. Its kind of sad that your new year ends that way....or rather starts...huh...but you get used to it....
The window seat
After actually creating the blog page which i thought of doing 6 months back, im finally putting in the first post. No big deal, just the average time that a normal hard working man needs to take time out from his busy schedule to do stuff like this...so i thought i would start with something really important...& socially relevant
Whats the deal with window seats in buses anyway? i mean its like a part of the transition that goes through you as your growing up when your supposed to suddenly not like video games any more.....when you are a kid your parents will automatically give you the window seat no questions asked...but when you don't pee in your pants anymore they will take back that which was given to you, and that too with out warning. Its like one day its all fine and then suddenly its not there anymore.
So whether its your mom, ur girlfriend, or your wife, the window seat is gone when you would actually enjoy it. i mean as a kid you do not really notice anything do you? its just flashing lights and a hell lotta sounds and wind in your face which makes you cry.
Is this all part of some elaborate plan that women think of naturally or they are taught along with hundreds of similar things remains unclear but the time is not far off when men will strike back to take what is rightfully theirs.
Whats the deal with window seats in buses anyway? i mean its like a part of the transition that goes through you as your growing up when your supposed to suddenly not like video games any more.....when you are a kid your parents will automatically give you the window seat no questions asked...but when you don't pee in your pants anymore they will take back that which was given to you, and that too with out warning. Its like one day its all fine and then suddenly its not there anymore.
So whether its your mom, ur girlfriend, or your wife, the window seat is gone when you would actually enjoy it. i mean as a kid you do not really notice anything do you? its just flashing lights and a hell lotta sounds and wind in your face which makes you cry.
Is this all part of some elaborate plan that women think of naturally or they are taught along with hundreds of similar things remains unclear but the time is not far off when men will strike back to take what is rightfully theirs.
Saturday, September 26, 2009
The games people play
I dint get much of a chance to play the last year...but im gonna make a list of the best 5 anyway..
just cause i feel like it..
NO-5
Game- Infamous
Release Date: 5/26/2009
Platforms: Ps3/pc
Publisher: SCEA
Developer: Sucker Punch
Gamesite: Click here
Genres: Action
ESRB: T
You could be heroes in this third-person adventure. Or you could be a really bad guy. Developer Sucker Punch will give you the opportunity to gain great superhuman abilities such as flight, electrical manipulation, and telekinesis. Once you've become powerful, you can take to heart the words of Uncle Ben Parker ("with great power...") or you can start talking about yourself in the third-person like Dr. Doom while trying to rule the world. You decide.
NO-4
GAME- Prototype
Platform:Xbox 360/PC
Publisher:Activision
Developer:Radical Entertainment
Genre:Action/Adventure
ESRB Rating:Mature (M)
New York takes it on the chin in Prototype. As the mysterious Prototype (Alex Mercer), players can tear through the city, hurl cars, wreak havoc, and blend in with the crowd by eating a hapless victim and then assuming his form and memories. You see, the Prototype isn't just incredibly agile and able to form weapons from his own body tissues, but he's also very, very hungry for human flesh.
man on the run with his memory lost..who can transform into a flying chainsaw?
very very cool
NO-3
GAME-Far cry 2
Platform:Xbox 360
Publisher:Ubisoft Entertainment
Developer:Ubisoft Entertainment
Genre:First Person Shooter
ESRB Rating:Mature (M)
Far Cry 2 is an awesome graphical treat, coming closer to creating a life-size living breathing world than any game before it. The game also does many 'first' in the world of console gaming with the propagation of fire, a player controlled advancement of time in the game world, some grotesque healing animations that warrant the M rating of this game. The game story is a fair romp too in an open world design and players will find the unique method of acquiring weapons, upgrades in manuals,reliability and increased attributes a new approach. The main story takes time to develop but grows increasingly engrossing. Side missions are wash rinse repeat and after the initial fascination become a little tiresome but provide the only way to unlock new hardware. Still the innovative gameplay, design decisions and a wonderful enemy a.i. catapults this game beyond the ordinary.
I welcome the decision to remove the 'beast elements' from this game but there are probably as many people who liked 'predator' as hated it. To me it represented the perception of the console gamer as the stupid child of gaming as the PC version was a bare bone, cut to the chase 'realistic' story world.
NO-2
GAME-Left for dead
Platform:Xbox 360
Publisher:Electronic Arts
Developer:Certain Affinity
Genre:First Person Shooter
ESRB Rating:Mature (M)
Horror movies through history owe a debt of gratitude to the existence of zombies, body-possessed parasites and their undead ilk. “Night of the Living Dead,” “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” and “The Thing” are classics that prove there’s only little worse than being attacked by something that wipes out a majority of the population in your town (or spaceship or planet)…except something that wipes out a majority of the population in your town (or spaceship or planet) and turns them into mindless, relentless killers.
Of course, what’s good as a premise for films is also fine as a plotline for their more recent video-game cousins. Heck, there have even been some that started as video games and crossed over to become movies—maybe even franchises, such as Resident Evil. And that’s at the heart of Valve’s Left 4 Dead, a title that’s mostly a shooter at its core, but one that rides on the rails of the survival/horror train.
The concept here is pretty simple: There are four “survivors,” a few different weapons and a seemingly endless stream of zombies to use as target practice. There are four campaigns, each of which is broken down into five chapters. In turn, each chapter involves getting your survivor party from a starting point to a safe house, with the conclusion of each final chapter requiring you to signal for a rescue crew to come and get your party. Easy enough, right?
Well, at first it seems simple, because they’re mindless zombies after all, all of whom lope along as if in a stupor and most can be taken down by a single loosely aimed shot. However, it gets more interesting when something enrages them, such as you looking at one of them without firing or if you happen to trigger a car alarm. Each chapter has one spot where you need to activate some mechanism that’ll help your party get toward the safe house—but that activation also sparks an thundering zombie stampede almost as bad as a mall opening on Black Friday. (As if that weren’t bad enough, calling for a rescue brings that kind of attention for ten minutes…from zombies, not bargain shoppers, just so you’re clear.)
No, Left 4 Dead isn’t a particularly deep game, doesn’t offer a ton of variety and could use some more polish in many areas…but it’s so immersive and satisfying the majority of the time that you will ignore some of its shortcomings. Not totally forgive them, mind you, but it feels like the good outweighs much of the bad.
NO-1
GAME- killzone 2
Published by: Sony Computer Entertainment
Developed by: Guerrilla Games
Release Date: February 27, 2009
Genre: First-Person Shooter
Two years after the Helghast assault on Vekta, the ISA is bringing the fight to the enemy’s home world of Helghan. Taking the role of Sev, the battle-hardened veteran of the special forces unit known as the Legion, players will embark upon a mission to the planet Helghan to capture the Helghast leader, Emperor Visari, and bring the enemy’s war machine to a halt. For Sev and his squad, the invasion of Helghan is just the beginning. Tasked with securing Pyrrhus, the Capital City, the team quickly discovers that the Helghast are a formidable enemy on their home planet. Not only have they adjusted to the planet’s hostile conditions, they have also harnessed a source of power from the environment that can be used against the ISA. Sev and his team soon discover the fight is greater than simply addressing the enemy forces; the Legion must also learn how to handle the effects of the fierce enemy planet.
The developers for Killzone are aware of the framerate drops that plagued the first Killzone, and have sworn to eliminate them. This means that when players drop down to the Helghast homeworld, Helghan, the game will run at a smooth 30 frames per second, and look remarkably good while doing so. Players can expect a host of cool weather effects and multiplayer options that have, sadly, yet to be disclosed...but we know Home and Killzone.com will play a big part.
just cause i feel like it..
NO-5
Game- Infamous
Release Date: 5/26/2009
Platforms: Ps3/pc
Publisher: SCEA
Developer: Sucker Punch
Gamesite: Click here
Genres: Action
ESRB: T
You could be heroes in this third-person adventure. Or you could be a really bad guy. Developer Sucker Punch will give you the opportunity to gain great superhuman abilities such as flight, electrical manipulation, and telekinesis. Once you've become powerful, you can take to heart the words of Uncle Ben Parker ("with great power...") or you can start talking about yourself in the third-person like Dr. Doom while trying to rule the world. You decide.
NO-4
GAME- Prototype
Platform:Xbox 360/PC
Publisher:Activision
Developer:Radical Entertainment
Genre:Action/Adventure
ESRB Rating:Mature (M)
New York takes it on the chin in Prototype. As the mysterious Prototype (Alex Mercer), players can tear through the city, hurl cars, wreak havoc, and blend in with the crowd by eating a hapless victim and then assuming his form and memories. You see, the Prototype isn't just incredibly agile and able to form weapons from his own body tissues, but he's also very, very hungry for human flesh.
man on the run with his memory lost..who can transform into a flying chainsaw?
very very cool
NO-3
GAME-Far cry 2
Platform:Xbox 360
Publisher:Ubisoft Entertainment
Developer:Ubisoft Entertainment
Genre:First Person Shooter
ESRB Rating:Mature (M)
Far Cry 2 is an awesome graphical treat, coming closer to creating a life-size living breathing world than any game before it. The game also does many 'first' in the world of console gaming with the propagation of fire, a player controlled advancement of time in the game world, some grotesque healing animations that warrant the M rating of this game. The game story is a fair romp too in an open world design and players will find the unique method of acquiring weapons, upgrades in manuals,reliability and increased attributes a new approach. The main story takes time to develop but grows increasingly engrossing. Side missions are wash rinse repeat and after the initial fascination become a little tiresome but provide the only way to unlock new hardware. Still the innovative gameplay, design decisions and a wonderful enemy a.i. catapults this game beyond the ordinary.
I welcome the decision to remove the 'beast elements' from this game but there are probably as many people who liked 'predator' as hated it. To me it represented the perception of the console gamer as the stupid child of gaming as the PC version was a bare bone, cut to the chase 'realistic' story world.
NO-2
GAME-Left for dead
Platform:Xbox 360
Publisher:Electronic Arts
Developer:Certain Affinity
Genre:First Person Shooter
ESRB Rating:Mature (M)
Horror movies through history owe a debt of gratitude to the existence of zombies, body-possessed parasites and their undead ilk. “Night of the Living Dead,” “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” and “The Thing” are classics that prove there’s only little worse than being attacked by something that wipes out a majority of the population in your town (or spaceship or planet)…except something that wipes out a majority of the population in your town (or spaceship or planet) and turns them into mindless, relentless killers.
Of course, what’s good as a premise for films is also fine as a plotline for their more recent video-game cousins. Heck, there have even been some that started as video games and crossed over to become movies—maybe even franchises, such as Resident Evil. And that’s at the heart of Valve’s Left 4 Dead, a title that’s mostly a shooter at its core, but one that rides on the rails of the survival/horror train.
The concept here is pretty simple: There are four “survivors,” a few different weapons and a seemingly endless stream of zombies to use as target practice. There are four campaigns, each of which is broken down into five chapters. In turn, each chapter involves getting your survivor party from a starting point to a safe house, with the conclusion of each final chapter requiring you to signal for a rescue crew to come and get your party. Easy enough, right?
Well, at first it seems simple, because they’re mindless zombies after all, all of whom lope along as if in a stupor and most can be taken down by a single loosely aimed shot. However, it gets more interesting when something enrages them, such as you looking at one of them without firing or if you happen to trigger a car alarm. Each chapter has one spot where you need to activate some mechanism that’ll help your party get toward the safe house—but that activation also sparks an thundering zombie stampede almost as bad as a mall opening on Black Friday. (As if that weren’t bad enough, calling for a rescue brings that kind of attention for ten minutes…from zombies, not bargain shoppers, just so you’re clear.)
No, Left 4 Dead isn’t a particularly deep game, doesn’t offer a ton of variety and could use some more polish in many areas…but it’s so immersive and satisfying the majority of the time that you will ignore some of its shortcomings. Not totally forgive them, mind you, but it feels like the good outweighs much of the bad.
NO-1
GAME- killzone 2
Published by: Sony Computer Entertainment
Developed by: Guerrilla Games
Release Date: February 27, 2009
Genre: First-Person Shooter
Two years after the Helghast assault on Vekta, the ISA is bringing the fight to the enemy’s home world of Helghan. Taking the role of Sev, the battle-hardened veteran of the special forces unit known as the Legion, players will embark upon a mission to the planet Helghan to capture the Helghast leader, Emperor Visari, and bring the enemy’s war machine to a halt. For Sev and his squad, the invasion of Helghan is just the beginning. Tasked with securing Pyrrhus, the Capital City, the team quickly discovers that the Helghast are a formidable enemy on their home planet. Not only have they adjusted to the planet’s hostile conditions, they have also harnessed a source of power from the environment that can be used against the ISA. Sev and his team soon discover the fight is greater than simply addressing the enemy forces; the Legion must also learn how to handle the effects of the fierce enemy planet.
The developers for Killzone are aware of the framerate drops that plagued the first Killzone, and have sworn to eliminate them. This means that when players drop down to the Helghast homeworld, Helghan, the game will run at a smooth 30 frames per second, and look remarkably good while doing so. Players can expect a host of cool weather effects and multiplayer options that have, sadly, yet to be disclosed...but we know Home and Killzone.com will play a big part.
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Can you manage management?
Its been a long time since my last post and ive gone through a lot of changes...hair transplant..breast reduction surgery...butt slim from the friendly neighborhood crack doctor...is how beyonces new blog reads.. i however am going to start a little differently
lets talk about management education...
MBA schools are known for their amazing environment right?
anybody ever wonder why the premier institutes in India are located in such far off places? All of the iims are in places which require you to have your own means of transportation...its like i am going to build a campus in the middle of nowhwere...then im going to put the best minds of the country in it and see if they survive there without complaining...management lesson1...
what this does is in true Indian chaprasi style it encourages other institutes to set up their campuses in even more remote places! This poor idiot is currently in the pincode region of pune
( emphasis on pincode region and not "city of pune") where i had to go 120 kms to get a mobile sim card connection that would not give up on me within 2 days..
Weather is nice here...if you are a giant alligator from the florida everglades that is..i've got enough mud on my clothes to give up on thoughts about washing them...the image of a loin cloth clad Tarzan is pretty appealing right now...i kid you not. I mean that is a form of going back to nature right? Tarzan did bump into and subsequently knock over a few trees in his time, which is kind of against the tree huggers standard rulebook but nobody cared.. So am i allowed to take my SUV inside campus and run over a few people? ( eyes glinting with happiness right now) probably not..
lots more to look forward to...the loving people who show up with the big sticks in the middle of the night cause sound of your studying disturbs them...the friendly farm animals all around going about their daily life in blissfull oblivion ....Orsons farm revisited..
This could go on for a long time ...a fact i realised after sitting down for 2 hrs with this bogus post...while intermittently surfing " how to make organic tea" websites...this obviously was a result of an even greater bout of self loathing than ever before but ultimately cost me 2 precious hours...gotta go...have a class! on sunday!!
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
lets talk about management education...
MBA schools are known for their amazing environment right?
anybody ever wonder why the premier institutes in India are located in such far off places? All of the iims are in places which require you to have your own means of transportation...its like i am going to build a campus in the middle of nowhwere...then im going to put the best minds of the country in it and see if they survive there without complaining...management lesson1...
what this does is in true Indian chaprasi style it encourages other institutes to set up their campuses in even more remote places! This poor idiot is currently in the pincode region of pune
( emphasis on pincode region and not "city of pune") where i had to go 120 kms to get a mobile sim card connection that would not give up on me within 2 days..
Weather is nice here...if you are a giant alligator from the florida everglades that is..i've got enough mud on my clothes to give up on thoughts about washing them...the image of a loin cloth clad Tarzan is pretty appealing right now...i kid you not. I mean that is a form of going back to nature right? Tarzan did bump into and subsequently knock over a few trees in his time, which is kind of against the tree huggers standard rulebook but nobody cared.. So am i allowed to take my SUV inside campus and run over a few people? ( eyes glinting with happiness right now) probably not..
lots more to look forward to...the loving people who show up with the big sticks in the middle of the night cause sound of your studying disturbs them...the friendly farm animals all around going about their daily life in blissfull oblivion ....Orsons farm revisited..
This could go on for a long time ...a fact i realised after sitting down for 2 hrs with this bogus post...while intermittently surfing " how to make organic tea" websites...this obviously was a result of an even greater bout of self loathing than ever before but ultimately cost me 2 precious hours...gotta go...have a class! on sunday!!
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
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