pTAM's - travelog

My December started with a real head spin; as from the 1st itself, my fifth year examination began!! However, I'm a student and i've faced enough examinations that this time was nothing special though that I can't deny it's sinfully tough!!

After the exam ended, on 10th december, 2008, i started off my journey to cover India in around a month. My bus arrived at 7:45pm that day and the start off flag was waved. To make it short, lemme give the timestamp and what i was doing:

11th Dec, 2008:
4:33 AM - Reached Guwahati ISBT.
7:38 AM - The Kamrup Express arrived. I was boarded at S4/41 & Romen at S4/44.

12th Dec, 2008:
7:49 AM - Arrived at Howrah Station, Kolkata.
9:01 AM - Went to Manipur Bhawan but din't get a room so checked out a Hotel at KYD street near Park Street. (we were on WMT 4967) 12:10 PM - Took our Brunch at the Hong Kong Restuarant. I'd Chinese Chop Suey... Saw a beautiful gal who look like the actor in the movie "When stranger Calls"(I forgot her name..was something like Isabelle!!)
Just after that, we went to the Indian museum there (was kinda borriiiingggg!!!!).
3:05 PM - Visited the Victoria Memorial Hall. Got tired after walking so longand so sitting on a wooden bench inside the hall resting for a while.
4:35 PM - Birla Planetorium: Show's suppose to start at 6:30 PM and tickets are to be available from 6:00PM. So we went to the St. Cathedral's Church instead & I found this stuffs on a chart inside the church-

WORLD 10 COMMANDMENTS

1) I'm the one & only 50 Cent. You shall have no other God before ME.

2) God mae GRASS, Man made 'BOOZE'. Which do you choose??

3) U shall use the F*** as a fullstop.

4) You shall always remember "the Saturday night" as a DISC NITE.

5) You shall "not" honour your Mom and Dad.

....I wonder what this is about!!

8:15 PM - After that we watched the planetorium show then reach back our room after a long tiring day. Having a light dinner at some fast food (Burger and Lassi).

Well this was the log about DAY 1 of my journey. More updates later...

Getting wired up with college exams!!

Hello everyone again!!

As a college student, right now I'm having my college examinations going on...to be precise, my exam's gonna start tomorrow (1st Dec, 08) and ends on the 6th of December. Prob'ly i won't be able to update my blog for sometime. I promise to all my readers that I'll be back as soon as I end up shaping my career for this time!!

I'm all set for my examination and the best thing i want to share is about the India tour I'm having this winter. I'll be leaving my campus on 10th December and the tour will last for around 20 days tour visiting across various states of India. I'll be updating my blog about it... and for that time, i think i'm gonna be a bit busy...

Hope u'll be there for more updates at my blog.. :)

Phir Dekhiye (Rock On) - Guitar Chords

Chords used in this song …
Bmaj (24442x)
C#m7 (4242xx)
G#m (444664)
Eadd9 (001222)


Intro Riff
Bmaj x 4

(C#m7) (B)
Aankhon me jiske… Koi to khwaab hai…
(C#m7) (B)
khush hai wohi jo… thoda betaab hai…
    (G#m)      (Eadd9)
zindagi me koi…
    (G#m)     (Eadd9)
aarzoo ki jiye…
                   (F#)
phir dekhiye…

(C#m7) (B)
hothon pe jiske… Koi to geet hai…
(C#m7) (B)
wo haare bhi to… uski hi jeet hai…
(G#m)    (Eadd9)
dil mein jo geet hai…
(G#m)     (Eadd9)
gunguna lijiye…
(F#)
phir dekhiye…


Interlude with piano
Am - C - D - D x 4

(C#m7) (B)
yaadon me jiske… kisi ka naam hai…
(C#m7) (B)
sapno ke jaisi… uski har shaam hai…
      (G#m)    (Eadd9)
koi to ho jise…
    (G#m)      (Eadd9)
apna dil dijiye…
(F#)
phir dekhiye…


       (G#m)        (Eadd9)
khwaab bun ye zara…
       (G#m)        (Eadd9)
geet sun ye zara…
       (G#m)        (Eadd9)
phool chun ye zaraaa…
(B)
phir dekhiye……

How to reset my Joomla administrator password?

Joomla's admin username can be easily changed with a simple MySQL query. The most convenient way to manage the database is through the phpMyAdmin tool. Go to your cPanel and click on phpMyAdmin in the Databases box. (If you are not using cPanel or do not have phpMyAdmin, you can run the query directly for Joomla's database.)

Once in the phpMyAdmin select the Joomla's database from the drop-down menu at left. The page will refresh and the database's tables will be displayed on it. Open the SQL tab (look at the top navigation bar).

In the text field write the following SQL query:

UPDATE `jos_users` SET `password` = MD5( 'new_password' ) WHERE `jos_users`.`username` = "admin" ;

"new_password" - replace this with the new password you wish to use.

"admin" - replace this if your admin username is different.

Once you are ready, click on the GO button to submit the query. If everything goes fine without errors, you should be able to login to Joomla with the new password.

Note: These instructions are valid both for Joomla 1.5 and Joomla 1.0.*.

How to remove protectfile.vbs virus

Yesterday one of my junior was trying to print a few stuffs he bought in his pen drive using my PC. He said he did scanned for viruses (am using AVG) but the scan showed no detection; however i got this protectfile.vbs virus on every drive of my PC. The most annoying thing it did was that, your CD or DVD drive will be ejected by itself. Whenever you try to open any of your drive by double clicking on it, a new window will be opened instead of the same window. This is quite an annoying thing (if you are using linux with default settings, you perhaps know about this!!).

The protectfile.vbs virus makes hidden, read-only multiple copies of itself in all the drives which are difficult to be detected. It can’t be deleted or renamed without disabling its “read-only” property. And lastly when we try to delete any one of the multiple copies, it uses an autorun.inf (executed automatically by windows) file to recreate itself from its copies in other drives.

So i tried googling for its remedy. I did found out a lot of ways to remove the virus but none was quite effective. I looked for the methods at thinkingpal, yahoo answers and the potpourri4u blog. By "effective", i meant,  u don't want to download stuffs to remove that file but you do want to remove it... better it be that u be able to remove it with minimum efforts!! So, here's the best method i can provide you to remove the virus. All the steps are similar to wat's available, but the important thing is that, many bloggers failed to mention step 5 (coz they perhaps never tried, but just COPY-PASTED these steps) which is a MUST:

1) Press Ctrl+Alt+Del (Task Manager)

2) In the Processes tab , Kill the processes : explorer and wscript.exe (if available)

3) Go to File> new task

4) Go to command Prompt (Enter cmd in Run) 

Go to the drive c:\

Type del /f/q/a protectfile.vbs

and del /f/q/a autorun.inf

Go to c:\windows\system32

and enter del /f/q/a secureguard.vbs

5) Now delete protectfile.vbs and autorun.inf by going manually to the root of each drive (use windows explorer tree form, do not double click on the drive icons)

If you don't see the file, go to folder options, select the view tab, uncheck the hide protected operating system files button then check the show hidden file button. Click apply and then OK.

6) Goto regedit (enter regedit in Run) and search for protectfile.vbs and delete all entries with this name.

7) Now search for the secureguard.vbs and modify it as in the path del only "c:\windows\system32\secureguard.vbs" and let the other part of the path be as it is.

8) Restart your system

A more simpler option maybe found at dirtycraft blog.

I hope that does it... and i'm sure, no pop ups will be shown at each restart of your PC!!

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Please be aware that if you do not complete the application fully your record will be marked as incomplete and your application will not be considered. 

Please carefully review the information you enter on each page before clicking the "Continue" button. 

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Portfolio

Welcome to pTAMz.

Current work I'm taking up is developing KanglaPark.com.

Kanglapark.com is the Manipuri social networking site. An approach to connect the people of Manipur. With the emergence and the unpopularity of sites like manipurfriendfinder.com, there still are works to be done. I hope KanglaPark will get some attention though.

KanglaPark.com is powered by Joomla with Joomunity. Joomunity component is just released as

Beta 2 and there still are some really unwanted bugs and I'm working on correcting the php codes and some errors. As soon as the bugs are free, I'll be releasing KanglaPark.com as the beta version. Let's see how far KanglaPark can go.

KanglaPark: Get Social Icon

The most recent work I've done is developing a website for our college at www.nerist.ac.in. Since I'm not much an expert in the new CSS plateform, the site has some 'looks' problem on Firefox and Chrome; although everything is perfect with IE 5 and above. The site has been launched under Phase 1 as still there are a lot of changes to be made. You'll fing many links still under construction as they are in the process of development. The main server, who originally was hosted my ernet at New Delhi, India was shifted to NERIST E.T. Cell and so, updation can be done in a flash. With usual college stuffs and exams approaching, the next phase is likely to fall next year.

Before this, I've developed the NERIST training ang Placement Website at www.tnpnerist.com. Searching for cheap domain registrar and hosting service was a challenge. However, I made it at the end and I enjoyed developing the site. Currently, around 140 users registered to the site and it is functioning properly.

Here are a few stuffs I've prepared myself: logos, posters and general stuffs I've created over time. I'm sharing those which i've rendered at Coreldraw, Photoshop, Illustrator, and simple MS Paint!!.

Re Designed NERIST Annual Festival Logo (Orginal Design from Deviantart.com)
Sample Poster Design
NERIST Web 2.0 Logo
Plain Ball Point Pen
Custom Banner
Wall Painting (Using Fabric)	CorelDraw
JNVthoks Logo

Joomunity Installation guide

The newly arising Joomla Community Component, Joomunity is the talk of the Joomla world. If you have a Joomla site, i suggest you check out Joomunity. You'll find it more intriguing than the existing structure of the famous Community Builder.

Here, I've provided a step by step instruction to a proper Joomunity installation. I've decided to write this post as i've checked their site, their forum and the installation guide at http://www.joomunity.org, and there seem that a lot of people got confused about the installtion steps, maybe mainly because at the download area, 3 different files are provided while at the installation section, only one file is used. A proper detailed descrition is not provided for the different files; although a very small description, stating the file name, size, author etc. are given. The site's installation guide didn't do much help as many users almost get losts which file is what!! The main reason could be that, the beta versions released till date are almost unstable and there are bugs and incomplete functions and other things to work out and no one can say for sure what should work and the developers are all busy with the works. However, you should check out Joomunity as it's a perfect piece of a Joomla site.

The first thing you should do before installation is to make sure you've the right version of php, MySQL etc. Check the screengrab to see the right version.

Here, with my skills and knowledge, I've learnt how to install the beta 2 properly...elimination one major error making your Joomunity installation working. Just follow the steps:

1) Download the V4 com installer from www.joomunity.org (Click com_joomunity-installer.zip to download) and then install it from the Joomla back end as a standard Joomla component.

2) Now go to the Components and use one of the mirror sites given to install Joomunity or to install manually, download joomunity.zip from joomunity.zip and then, as seen in the picture, chose the path to the file in your PC. Voila you're done installing. (Read till the end, there's one more thing to be done...)

You may be confused about the other 2 files, joomunity_11217.zip (2.96 MB) and joomunity_11218.zip (2.96 MB). Many people find it confusing. The file joomunity_11217.zip is the old beta 1 [ensemble] version, while joomunity_11218.zip is the new version also mainly used for installation using the old version of com_joomunity-installer. If you are making a fresh install, which is the best thing to be done, you should download V4 com installer and install joomunity following the steps above.

One important things is that, most probably, while going to your "Edit profile" link, you may encounter an error as below:

Fatal error: Call to a member function model_contact_view() on a non-object in www/components/com_joomunity/applications/Profile/profile.php on line 90

Edit your component/com_joomunity/applications/Profile/profile.php file commenting line 89 to 92. Below is the code section

$cmodel = $this->joomunity->get_instance("contacts", "model");

$c = $cmodel->model_contact_view($id);

unset($this->joomunity->contacts);

$tabHTML->add_tab(JText::_("JOOMCONTACTTABTITLE"), null, $c);

Or one other method is, just replace the above profile.php file with the old profile.php file from the old beta 1 version of Joomunity.

I guess your Joomunity installation must be working by now. Enjoy being social!!

Why do we need CSS Hacks - for beginners

Most people, or rather web developers must have found out the limitations to the existing structure of the CSS". Separating content from the looks", that was the major aim of the existence of the CSS. However, the Cascading Style Sheet, has its own limitations.

Due to the various technologies and the front-end display structure of the various browsers, that some browsers supports some CSS functions while others doesn't; or just interprets some functions differently.

As such, look at the screenshots carefully. The displayed page is the same webpage viewed with

 different browsers, ie. Internet Explorer 7, Firefox and Google Chrome. The page is a simple static page generated with plain HTML using tables and cells, Javascript a

nd CSS. The page looks extremely perfect in Internet Explorer while in Firefox and Chrome, the alignment is different and as you can see, the cell-padding and cell-spacing seems weird. The image on the page seems to float above the navigation menu on the right.

This is the main reason why we need CSS hacks. With the use of well streamed CSS functions, you can let your page displayed in different manner according to the type of browser the user is browsing with. Changing a few things on the linked Style Sheet saves you from the repeated 

work of changing every file manually.. which can quite be a mess for a large website. There will be more posts following on CSS and how to hack it, making it a more powerful design tool for a webmaster. Keep checking back.

Adding "Read More" expandable link at Blogger

It's almost every bloggers' wish to have a "Read More" link displaying only a certaing part of his posts on the main page making the homepage more spacious and maintained. Here's a quick hack on blogger account to add a "Read More" link and display the rest of the story:

1. Log in to your blogger account select Layout of the blog which you want to modify
2. Navigate through Template --> Edit HTML
3. Take backup of your template by clicking Download Full Template. This backup will help you if you want to revert to old template
4. Search for in your template HTML and paste the following piece of code in between and

<!-- Style to implement "Read more on this Article" link in all the posts (Start) -->
<style>
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
span.fullpost {display:inline;}
<b:else/>
span.fullpost {display:none;}
</b:if>
</style>
<!-- Style to implement "Read more on this Article" link in all the posts (End) -->

5. After pasting the code, your template should look like as shown in the following image

6. Save your template and click on select Expand Widget Templates
7. Search for in the template HTML and paste the following piece of code after

<!-- Code to show "Read more on this article..." Link (Begin) -->
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType != "item"'>
<span>
<a expr:href='data:post.url' style='color:#0000FF; text-align:right; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:none' >Read more on this article...</a>
</span>
</b:if>
<!-- Code to show "Read more on this article..." Link (End) -->

8. After pasting the code, your template should look like as shown in the following image

9. That's all. Your template is modified to show expandable posts.
10. Now in every post, the content which you want to show only in post's page should be included between This will be shown only in post's page.
11. Post a test article using the following HTML to see your blog working as expected

KanglaPark: The RoadMap to its birth

I've decided to start a category "Roadmap" on my KanglaPark blog. KanglaPark.com, is still early in its development phase and the blogs under this category will tell you about the phases of its development, the works i've done, the difficulties - whether in scripting, integrating or designing templates, logos or anything KanglaPark.

For the first thing, i've some hard tasks finding out 

bugs from the joomunity component for Joomla. I like the looks and feel of joomunity to a much farther extend as compared to Community Builder, which have limited customizing ability. 

The very first thing i struggled was a good host. I've considered hosting it at novahost.org and since the cPanel doesnt have a Fantastico installer, everythng was manual - from setting up the MySQL databases, setting folder permissions and blah blah. The configuration.php file was unwriteable and it created quite a mess showing a lot of script errors. However, i got a little help from WHS and now everythings fine.

Joomunity social networking package was my main option. Since the package is also in its early development phase, it still has got a lot of bugs, limited plugins, extensions and features. I spent a whole lot of time rectifying and editing the php codes to the needs of KanglaPark front end.

As for the present, i've one more upgradation to do and after that, the site will be launched officially. Hope u'll hang by me for now. :)

For the poeple of Manipur, Kanglapark.com - soon to be open!!

Free domain hosting account

It's been some time that i've been searching for a free webhost to host some of my sites. This time i need a larger web space and a greater bandwith capacity since i'm planning for a community social networking site (i'll let you know when i launch the site) and i need the sendmail function to be active there.

I've googled a lot of web hosting service providers and  i found out that there's nothing as a free thing. Well i've hosted some of my blogs at www.000webhost.com, www.freehostia.com and blah blahs. (000webhost doesnt accept the last 2 or 3 requests i've made to open a hosting account. I dunno what's the problem but in there forum, i read that they don't allow hosting service to some countries..maybe thatswy. However, a year ago they were accepting signup from India and i'm, right now, hosting one of my blog at 000webhost and and I like there service , but recently they didn't give any response to my account opening request.

I think that's really bad of them coz if they don't provide their service to any group of people, at least they could inform them...coz watever it be, they have still time to send me refferal mails..huh!! And freehostia,  their service is great but i need a larger webspace, not just 250mb and sendmail to be active)

The webhost, when searching, have some or the other disadvantages... like if it's offering large space, sendmail is off, or it has forced banners or textlinks... or if everything is what i want, it is hosted through LayeredPanel, while cPanel is what I want as it gives more control over your account..or a subdomain given by the service provider is attached forever. What i want is to host my own domain and if a sub-domain is attached to it, it's not good for SEO and besides it degrades the quality of the site.

The next option i tried is - a host for post service; this means you've to post a certain number of posts in the service providers' main forum to pay for your hosting expenses. These option seems to be a really good option as they provide the right thing i want, like large web space (it depends on the number of posts you can make per month); cPanel hosting, sendmail function activation and large bandwidth and so on.

So i'm right now checking out the host for post service at www.novahost.org and www.blazincash.net. And if you know any great free webhost provider, kindly let me know. 

Dark Angel's Phunky Virus Writing Guide

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DISCLAIMER: The author hereby disclaims himself. Virus coding guide, Courtesy: Phalcon

       This guide is purely for educational purpose ony.

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Virii are  wondrous creations written for the sole purpose of spreading and destroying the  systems of unsuspecting fools. This eliminates the systems of simpletons  who can't  tell that there is a problem when a 100 byte file suddenly blossoms  into a  1,000 byte  file. Duh... These low-lifes do not deserve to  exist, so  it is  the coders' sacred duty to wipe their hard drives off the face of the Earth. It is a simple matter of speeding along survival of the fittest!!

Virus writing  is not  as hard  as you  might first imagine. To write an effective virus, however, you *must* know assembly language. Short, compact code are hallmarks of assembly language and these are desirable characteristics of  virii. However, it is *not* necessary to write in pure assembly. C may also be used, as  it allows almost total control of the system while generating relatively compact code (if you stay away from the library functions). However, you still must access  the interrupts, so assembly knowledge  is still  required. However, it is still best to stick with pure assembly,  since most operations  are more  easily coded in assembly. If you do not know assembly, I would recommend picking up a copy of The Microsoft Macro Assembler Bible (Nabajyoti Barkakati, ISBN #: 0-672-22659-6).   It is an easy-to-follow book covering assembly in great detail. Also get yourself a copy of Undocumented DOS (Schulman, et al, ISBN #0-201-57064-5), as it is very helpful.

The question of which compiler to use arises often. I suggest using Borland Turbo  Assembler and/or Borland C++. I do not have a copy of Zortech C (it was too large to download), but I would suspect that it is also a good choice. Stay away from Microsoft compilers, as they are not as flexible nor as efficient as those of other vendors.

A few more items round out the list of tools helpful in constructing virii. The latest version of Norton Utilities is one of the most powerful programs available, and is immeasurably helpful.   MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A COPY! You can find  it on  any decent board. It can be used during every step of the process, from the writing  to the testing. A good debugger helps. Memory management utilities such as MAPMEM, PMAP, and MARK/RELEASE, are invaluable, especially when coding TSR virii. Sourcer,  the  commenting disassembler, is  useful when  you wish to examine the code of other virii (this is a good place to get ideas/techniques for your virus).

Now that  you have  your tools,  you are  ready to  create a  work  of  art designed to smash the systems of cretins.  There are three types of virii:

1) Tiny virii (under 500 bytes) which are designed to be  undetectable due to their small size.   TINY  is  one  such  virus.    They  are generally very simple because their code length is so limited.

2) Large  virii  (over 1,500 bytes)   which   are   designed   to   be undetectable because they cover their tracks very  well  (all  that code DOES have a use!).  The best example  of  this  is  the  Whale virus, which is perhaps the best 'Stealth' virus in existence.

3) Other virii which are not designed to be hidden at all (the writers don't give  a  shit). The  common  virus  is  like  this.    All overwriting virii are in this category.

You must  decide which  kind of  virus you wish to write. I will mostly be discussing  the  second type  (Stealth  virii). However,  many  of  the techniques discribed  may be easily applied to the first type (tiny virii). However, tiny virii generally do not have many of the "features" of larger virii, such  as  directory  traversal. The  third  type  is  more  of  a replicating trojan-type, and will warrant a brief (very, very  brief!) discussion later.

A virus may be divided into three parts: the replicator, the concealer, and the bomb. The replicator part controls the spread of the virus to other files, the concealer keeps the virus from being detected, and the bomb only executes when  the activation  conditions of the virus (more on that later) are satisfied.

well well well.... enough talks today... check out for details on the replicator, the concealer and the bomb on the following posts.

e-pao the online platform to Manipur

http://www.e-pao.net is a great website on the small state of Manipur situated in the  north-eastern part of India. The website acts as a portal for all thoses Manipuris staying outside the country as well as quite a large number of internet users from the state who are spreaded across the country.

The website features the current news, happenings and updates in the small state apart from national and international news. If you want to know more about Manipur, e-pao.net is a good start. Through the e-frenz section, you can make friends with lots of users from the state and the chat room is, despite of the usual numbers of persons from the state who are active users of the internet, active throughtout the whole day and  you'll meet someone to talk too... and one more thing to mention, unlike yahoo messenger or others, u won't meet any bots that imitates human and chat with you!!

Screenshot of the e-pao chat room

Shillong tour update

Here are a few shots from our first day at Shillong. We enjoyed the entire stay there except that we missed some good spots because of the foggy weather. I'll be uploading more pics in my later posts.

Wards Lake: IS, pTAM, Romen, Rahul & his fren

The Golf Link: Rishi, Romen, Rahul's fren, IS & Rahul

@ Golf Link: We saw this girl... guess how she looks!!(I took this pic)

The Cathedral: It's at Laitumkrah, a walking distance from the hotel we were in. It has it's own history... heard that there was an old church here but something happened and it was destroyed and this new church was rebuilt on the same spot.

i'm initiative from Microsoft

Students' Union of NERIST dot org

As the Information and Publicity Secy for the Students' Union of NERIST (SUN), I was assigned to launch a website for the union.

I tried registering the website at the yahoo small business section, the main reason being "cheap". Later, since I don't have a credit card and the payment was made through my paypal account, the order was cancelled and I'd to look for some other options. I tried for domainsarefree.com and they accept payments through credit cards only, and so i'd to opt out that option again. Finally, as usual, where all my other domains are registered, I went for Namecheap and use the october coupon code "INDIANSUMMER" and get a discount of 88 cents. Well before that i tried Godaddy.com but they ask for some $14+ and I obviously had to go for other cheaper ones.

SUN is now online as studentsunionofnerist.org. The website will be officially launched in a few days as I'm working on it right now.

For my Shillong trip, i'll post a few pics in my next post. Lots of stuffs to do.. aint it??

I'm still alive

Dis post is to remind u dat m on my journey @Shillong..m updating my blog using my cellfon coz i dint've tym to get online. I'l b back in 2 days n i promise i'v g lot of interesting things dat i'd lyk to share wth u.

Enjoyin here a lot.

Disclaimer - VIRII ALERT 1

Disclaimer:

What's here is for informational purposes only, and should never be used to cause damage or any harm to any system. The owner of this page is not responsible for any actions performed with the information received from these pages. This series of posts is made solely on intellectual purpose and this site is not responsible for any filthy acts anyone does using information provided here.

Within the next few posts, I'm launching a series of "VIRII ALERT" posts which deals with creating computer virii. I hope users find it interesting and informative. Going through the internet, I couldn't find much sites which teaches virii coding in simple manner. With "VIRII ALERT" i'll try to keep it simple.

One more condition is that.. i love comments, but i won't entertain Q's here. If you really want to learn virii coding, then use the information here, and work the rest out for yourselves.... good luck. 

Ipod touch

Well i've been thinking of getting myself a music player... talking of which, i was checking apple.co.in for some of the ipod models. Ipod nano and Ipod classic, in my opinion, has had its day on this planet. Ipod shuffle, on the other hand, is cool but the latest Ipod touch is the current talk of the town and I'd like to have one myself. From apple.co.in, i found out that an 8 gb Ipod touch cost around INR 12,800 plus taxes, such as the VAT. The price is huge so i've to think wisely before ever buying one. If you own one, lemme know if the pirce is right and btw, personally speaking, keeping aside the price factor, you should really have one too!!

Check out these cool pics ...

What's inside the box

The iphone look

apple ipod touch

To Shillong

As the autumn break approaches, me and a few of my frens are planning to make a visit to Shillong, this time solely on the purpose of a tourist. Last time i went there, I was with a fren and I visited only some of the major centers in the central City area...i like the place... slight chilly climate, cool scenic beauties.. the place looks gr8.

We leave our college tomorrow evening, reach Guwahati by early morning tomorrow and get ourself a Sumo from there. We should be reaching shillong by around 11:00am at the latest (as per the best of my knowledge). Our plan is for staying upto 3 or 4 days  there (which means, i prob'ly won't be updating my blog for these days... or maybe i'll update it during my stay there).

I've a fren there but since i couldn't get his contact number, we've to look out for the hotels ourselves. 4 of us are going and we are planning of reaching Cherrapunji, India's rainiest place... (i dunno if the term "rainiest" ever exist..lolzzz). I'll post some of the photos later and will be updating my blog with my experiences there. Whatever, of the two times i've been there before, i enjoyed being there, only speaking of a specific experience, i was invited to the get-together party for a group of presbyterians by my fren's Ex-Gf. I din't know there language and a lot of ppl were giving long, really boring speeches and i kinda get sleepy.. and i did. I felt asleep and my fren nudged me and woke me up (well he wanted to impress his gf!!!!). That was the only boring part, but after the speeches were over, we'd a nice buffet... and i ate everything on the menu.

The hanging bridge

Early morning today, we'd planned for a trip to the hanging bridge at the locality. The bridge is situated east of our college campus and we'd to walk across the unfinised iron bridge and the Post Graduate students' block (Block H).

We planned to start our journey at around 5:00am but as usual, as an engineering student, we were late and started at 6:00am (IS dragged me out of my bed!!). We'd never been there before, only that we'd seen the bridge from a distant.

In the foto: pTAM, Djen, IS, n Romen (Rishi took this foto)

The hanging bridge must've been built many years ago as the side steel fibres have already begun to snapped off. A lot of wood planks from the floor below were missing and we'd to take hold of the side steel threads to keep our balance. At first we saw only a few gaps but after reaching the middle part, we found a lot of planks missing. We took a few video shots while making the crossing and i guess you must laugh your heart out if you see us doin' that. The bridge was swaying a lot, the water below was flowing and it was enough to make you dizzy, to make you lose your balance. But as we were crossing one of the big gaps, a local school boy came and just walked up ahead of us as if there were no gaps at all. We just stood there amazed!!

I took this one with my cell phone and it's not that clear as the photo above.. and by the way, i'm thinking of uploading the videos at youtube. I'll post the links later.. do have a look.

Tum Ho To Guitar Chords

Well i googled for guitar chords for the ROCK ON song  "Tum ho to"  but i din't find any good ones. After looking at some of the available ones, I  came out with my own combinations and here it is. Just take a try, i think the given combination works fine. 

(If you are not sure when to change this [Am] in the first line and succesive period, just keep strumming at the C chord.. it'll do)

               [C]                  [Am] [C]  

Tum Ho Toh Gaata Hai Dil ,

               [Dm]                  [G]

Tum Nahi Toh Geet Kaha

               [C]                       [Am]    [C]

Tum Ho Toh Hai Sab Haasil,

              [Dm]                         [G]

Tum Nahi Toh Kya Hai Yaha

[F]

Tum Ho Toh Hai

      [Dm]                     [G]
Sapano Ke Jaisa Hasin

   [Am]   [C]
Ik Sama 
     

     [G]                              [Dm]
Jo Tum Ho Toh, Yeh Lagata Hai,

     [F]             [Dm]
Ke Mil Gayi Har Khushi
      

      [G]                            [Dm]
Jo Tum Na Ho, Yeh Lagata Hai,

      [F]                         [Dm]
Ke Har Khushi Me Hai Kami

[G]

Tum Ko Hai Maangati...

                    [C]      [Am]       [Dm]      [C]
Yeh Jindagiiii.....iiiii........iiii...... 

                 [C]                      [Am]   [C]

Tum Hi Toh Raahein Bhi Hai ,

            [Dm]                  [G]

Tum Nahi Toh Raste Kaha

               [C]                            [Am] [C]
Tum Ho Toh Yahaan Sab Hi Hai ,

              [Dm]                   [G]
Tum Nahi Toh Kaun Yaha

[F]

Tum Ho Toh Hai

       [Dm]
Har Ek Pal Meherbaan

      [Am]  [C]
Yeh Jaha 

          [G]               [Dm]

Jo Tum Ho Toh Hawa Mein Bhi

      [F]                  [Dm]

Mohabbato Ka Rang Hai

     [G]                         [Dm]

Jo Tum Na Ho Toh Phir Koyi Na
[F]              [Dm]

Josh Na Umang Hai

[G]

Tum Mile Toh Mili

                   [C]      [Am]     [Dm]          [C]

Yeh Jindagiiii.......iiiii......iiii...... 

Tears of the Dragon

WOOOOAAAHHHH... such a gr8 song.. try it out!!

Tears of the Dragon

Bruce Dickinson

For too long now, There were secrets in my mind

For too long now, There were things I should have said

In the darkness, I was stumbling for the door

To find a reason, To find the time,the place,the hour

Waiting for the winter sun, And the cold light of day

The misty ghosts of childhood fears

The pressure is building, And I can't stay away

I throw myself into the sea, Release the wave

Let it wash over me, To face the fear

I once believed, The tears of the dragon

For you and for me

Where I was, I had wings that couldn't fly

Where I was, I had tears I couldn't cry

My emotions, Frozen in an icy lake

I couldn't feel them, Until the ice began to break

I have no power over this, You know I'm afraid

The walls I built are crumbling

The water is moving, I'm slipping away

I throw myself into the sea, Release the wave

Let it wash over me, To face the fear

I once believed, The tears of the dragon

For you and for me

Slowly I awake, Slowly I rise

The walls I built are crumbling

The water is moving, I'm slipping away

I throw myself into the sea, Release the wave

Let it wash over me, To face the fear

I once believed, The tears of the dragon

For you and for me

Chrome Secrets

Type these on your chrome browser address bar and see what each of these do:

about:memory

about:network

about:histograms

about:cache

about:plugins

about:stats

about:version

about:internets (this one's really interesting!!)

about:dns

about:crash

Google really makes things interesting.

Girls and bubbles

What do you know about the similarity between GIRLS and BUBBLES??

When i speak of a girl, i mean the girl in general and I guess, i've been thinking about it watching this picture on my right which i happened to render it myself a couple of weeks ago, that there are certain things that keeps the two connected.

The first thing is 'fragility'. Girls are fragile, so is a bubble.. Whether you agree me or not, thats not the question right now. It's me bloggin here and it's my thoughts that's being written here... (care to leave a comment..!!)

And the second thing is that - You can never keep hold of a girl... nor can you a bubble. The moment you try to keep hold and grabs a girl, she tends to get vanished; a bubble on the other hand bursts!! What you need, is a constant support to the bubble, blow some air from your mouth (even if you are out of air, you've to) keeping is afloat, not letting it touch anything, or it bursts up. Similarly, a girl needs constant support, physically as well as emotionally, and if you are not the one supporting, she needs it from some one else.

Third; look at your own reflection on the curve surface of the Bubble. You see You, but not yourself. When you are with a girl, you are different; you are not what you were, and you tend to change, if not always. On the bubble, your face is distorted becoz of the curvature and whether it makes you more handsome or less, that depends on your looks. It's the same the other way too.

Are women too powerful for a man.. that man opted for changes that he thinks he should make or he can make but in the long run, he finds it wrong?? I guess so.

Man cry too!!

It's been my experience and I've seen enough men crying for a lot of different reason - the loss of a love one, heart broke, feeling loved or feeling happy and blah blahs... The only thing i keep wondering is why do men tend to hide it... well in a way different to women??

Well everybody does, both females i mean, try to hide but with men, it's different. Men do cry, and hardly men get to know that crying makes one feel better!! Perhaps men think that crying doesn't really sound macho, but what we are to know is, there is nothing such as a macho... it's just an ideal theory.

Next time, if you happen to be a man reading this post, try crying... over anything. See how gud you feel after that..lolzzz