Yappy new year !

See you next year people..have a nice time...do not drink and drive..and have a good time at the party !

:)

A firm handshake to the guys...and a wet,slurpy, passionate kiss to the girls !!

PS : Sorry,couldnt resisht...had a good time with fao and saami...the after-effects continue..

Fundas #93860394860 - #987598743897...

One day and so many fundas ?? wow ! I just ended up at the rite time in the rite place,i guess...
:)

1. "To any problem-professional or personal, ask the 5 Why's and you will reach the root-cause of the problem.."
( LSG on a placement issue both of us feel very strongly about..and me plagiarising it when surd and me try to understand why somebody shot some paavum Prof at IISc,blore yesterday...)

2. "When you dont know enuf about something,just shut up ! You only display your ignorance by opening your mouth.."
(smart-ass rookie being told off by a senior project manager at work..)

3. "All's never what it seems...ever !"
(Discussing requirements for a new client..and the complexities involved..as told by the client ! :)

4. "Kanna,I agree..There's something very important in life..called gratitude..never forget that !"
( LSG on a placement issue both feel very strongly about..)

5. "In 3-5 years time your performance is all that matters at your workplace..and not the brand/starting salary you come with..."
( LSG on a placement issue both feel very strongly about..)

6. "Some people just dont like seeing other people living in peace..."
( LSG on the shooting of a fellow IITD Ops Prof at IISc,blore yesterday..)

7. "Things change..people change..you just need to move on..
Never be dependent on anybody..cos,when you lose them,you are in unnecessary pain..simple rakho,khush raho.."
(Me to a friend..)

8. "After 2-3 years at work at our age..We have reached middle management level..
at the expense of our personal lives...for the next 5 years atleast we cannot expect much growth to the senior management level..in the meantime,we have lost our emotional side..and are thinking, "talk biz or shut up !! "
perfect time to concentrate on our personal lives....parents...fall in love..get married..wife, kids...settle ho jao life mein..
then come back after 5 years with renewed vigour..
otherwise,it's very tough to balance both angles..atleast with our lifestyles...
(Rana while jogging and discussing the pros and cons of marriage at our age...we are late,we know that..we dont mind it tho..:)

9. "You cannot change your neighbours...You have to learn to live with them...and make do best with what you have.."
(AB Vajpayee...and plagiarised by me..in a discussion on "the foreign hand" angle to the IISc episode...)

10."You donot need to re-invent the wheel and do something different..or do things differently..to be great at what you do...If copying something that somebody else did means quick success(ethical,i mean..).. i see no reason, to not do it !"
(Me and surd discussing some trivial matter..can't seem to remember it..)

11. "Uska birthday hai toh mein kya karoon ??!! i have moved on !
just a friend now da..saala pain dena chahta hai kya mujhe ?? not going to work,buddy !"
:)
(Me to surd when rohit msgd him,saying it's somebody's birthday and that i maybe interested in talking to her..=)) saaala haraami ! :)
"On second thots,if i am actually over her,i shld be calling and talking to her normally..hmm..."
(Me to myself...sometime later..:)

Ok...Yeh the funde aaj tak..intezaar keejiye kal tak...
:)

God !!
(of blogs..)

One amongst the many reasons I started one of my own..
Probably the only reason I believe i need to do a lot more to change it's layout,appearance and usability..

When a guy writes his own commenting system,you know !
When the guy writes his own visitor stats code,you definitely know !
:-)
Still confused about how he's able to mask his url irrspective of the link you click on..
but that again,is one of the many things that fascinate me on his site...
(it's not really a blog in the real sense..)
varied subjects..very interesting subjects..trivia..
comprehensive fundas on excel..which will definitely be useful to get work done,quick !
great interview tips...placement-related info..
loved his "petals around a rose" post..and the logic behind the game..
and his "how i lazily listen to music" post...winamp can be made so much more useful than it already is..
before, it was "necessity is the mother of invention"..after this "sloth is !!!"
:)
but the cake..and the icing on it...atleast for humour and sarcasm value are his chat transcripts...here...
especially love the "guys want to speak to girls" chat...
Kudos Anand...great going..keep it up !

PS: Before you think "i know this guy"....
No,he's also a PIDEK to me (Person-I-dont-even-know :)..
just followed his site for the last few years..the times we live in, i tell you...crazy !!
:)

Dimaag ki mosaru aayidchu...
(dimaag ki dahi ban gayee...)

Yeah.brain working overtime...
and in random sequences(hmm..sequences arent supposed to be random,na..never mind:)...
fried..drained..damaged..beyond repair..but..no regrets..completely worth the experience..
cracked it...cracked after 3 days..slower than some others..faster than most others..
but i dont really care..cracked it is all that matters..

exhaustion...turned to elation..and then euphoria..why ?
bcos of this..cant give it's name again(have made a post about it earlier..this is the followup and the complete story..) cos the evil google bot will index it and keep it for future ref..
and anybody who searches for it will get all the answers without the effort..

If you have still come via that route..
trust me dude/dudette,it's the experience of a lifetime..
so..dont lose out by looking up all the answers below..
enjoy the journey...the destination is just another stopover..and this maybe just an ego-booster trip, for all you know.. :)

Pic 1..the final countdown..level 30..the end....rest is self-explanatory..HOOOORAAAAY !!! :)























Pic 2..page 1 of my thots on day 1 and 2..
























Was in a day-long training session..
any loobreak, and immediately test out all possible answers that i mite have come up with..
*who needs to goto the loo !?? i need my next puzzle page !!! *
if next level..printout of the next page and start thinking again..
with adequate help from boring trainers..i dont even remember what the session was all about..
some project management and quality gyan..gyan wasnt quality..it was about "quality"...
*ohmigod ! it's a virus !! i am a reformed man !! :)*

includes among other things..
1. the clues of course..
2. the back of the girl who was sitting infront of me..after a point was counting the numbers of knots on her long hair.. :)
3. heart-rate monitor depiction of my heart..unrhythmic fluctuations and then...*beeeppppppp*...hopelessness...
4. "ohmigod !"s and exclamations..realisation dawns and rewrite "ohmigod" :)
5. "rocket science nahi hai.." long story..i drew a cigarette first..to depict my need for a break..and destress...
the guy next to me said"lets say tea-break and have a ciggi.."
i didnt feel like it..i needed the smoke..just didnt want company and an irrelevant conversation on the cute receptionist...
needed to be alone to think..so..
"nahi yaar..puzzle..motivate kar raha tha apne aap ko..its..err...a rocket.." and changed it... :)
6. UPS went off...so..thot "shit,i hope the page is in my internet history..no enthu to start all over again !" remembered a line from a DBA friend everytime there was a mess "beta, gaya data" :)

Pic 3...page 2 of 2..

1. "Diamonds..windows..setting.." that was the clue..i went nuts and read the whole diamond process..the characteristics..4 Cs..setting styles..prongs..africa diamonds (really sad story..) and "engagement" websites of a few players in america..offering to provide and set diamonds..for the 'perfect' proposal !anyone getting married/planning to propose can get advice from me...for a price !! i'll charge lesser than those "amroos" tho... :)
2. amazing level..Wrong track..wrong town..then rite town..connection in the pic...then wrong movie..finally...right movie !! YEAAAAY !!! (surd's the man !! surd's the MAAAN!!!:)
3. Words on the longitudinal and the below left horizontal are related..so had to sit and decrypt it one letter after another.. :) clue again !! :)
4. vital stats and asterix..simple one.. :)
(PS: I know what you are thinking...I am still employed and being paid my full salary..workload is low..this is holiday season and both clients are off ! so...)

Why i did it ? Some history..Project-wise(in chronological order)

a. Fascination with the number 7..Still fascinated to no end.. 714285 is a recurring decimal..when any number is divided by 7..so ??i figured that out by mentally dividing numbers by 7... when challenged (thats the keyword...challenged !) that the value of 'pi' is both 22/7 and 7.14159..(22/7 is an approximation of 'pi'...i heard that..later) found that it's known fact about 71428 and..so..did something more..7*2=14,14*2=28,28*2=56,what remains ?1(57-56)...56*2=112 (114-112=2),
and 57*2 =114,114*2=228..
and so on..fascinating isn't it ?!! nerdo-geekomania.but...fascinating to me !!
and it got posted in a Math Prof's and my name in an obscure journal..so...certified geek..

b. The divisibility rule for number 3 is "sum of digits of the number shld be divisible by 3"....wanted to prove it wrong..still trying..sometimes..
(there's a complete theorem on why thats the case...had a lotta calculus and integration signs when i first saw it..
was too young then..couldnt figure it out..am too old now..still cant figure it out.. :)

c. crush on decimals..all decimals..including...
(3-0.75)=(3* 0.75)...(5*1.25)=(5+1.25)...trying to find more such examples.. :)
(can multiply 2 digit numbers mentally even to this day..try me !!) A little later on in life..

d. Reverse swing and cricket..with tennis balls(haven't played much with leather balls)...speeds...shine...ball-holding angles....the science of it..the art of it..Wasim Akram,Dronacharya..Me,Ekalavya..:)

e. Video games...how..why...what..why not...networked gaming (BHD and GTA rulezzzz...)obscurity in character names...code-hacks..(only in gaming..nothing else,not that smart :)

f. Girls get irritated pretty soon..whats their threshold limit ? Subjects have not been a problem..still looking for the perfect and eager one tho...
Multiple Control experiments(with guys) havent been a problem tho..unfortunately...

g. "A mapping of the female mind with expected responses to external irritation stimuli-A study".This is an extension of (d).
Subjects have been many..Mom,sis,cousins,nieces,friend'i's,friend's friend'i's...still looking for the one that doesnt snap and chooses to ignore me ! :) Example of one such experiment...
A good friendi and I walking opposite the girls hostel towards the Megamess...(It really was a mega-mess !! both hostel and Mess !)
Me: Tell me what you are thinking !? rite now...
She: Ok...2 guys coming our way..one just made a comment..
Was about me..and maybe even you..or us...the other laughed..must have been lewd..my sixth sense tells me..
a couple sitting on the chair opp. the snack joint..i know the girl..
the guy misbehaved with her a few days back..i had sat and counselled her..now the idiot is with the same guy.. and saying "Hi" to me !!! I have half a mind to murder her ! right now !!!
You are wearing those stupid shorts and bathroom slippers..as usual...they are bothering me..i dont know why...but they are..
I am expecting a phone call..someone really important..but i havent got it yet..it's bugging me...he's supposed to have called a half hour back !
you just grabbed my hand and helped avoid me putting my leg into a big pile of cowshit..
i realised that you are not a threat by the way you touched me..just a friend helping another..and you have no intentions..atleast with me !
Somebody else and the alarm bells would have been ringing by now ! Telling you,We know !! just like that, we know ! How you look,where you look..what you do..we know !!
And whether I shld tell you the truth about what I am thinking..i weighed the options and decided to tell you...the truth...
yeah..thats about it..What about you ??
Me: !!!!! ME ??? About what the dinner menu would be...tonite..period !!!!
but hell lady !! I asked you what you were thinking about now !! "right now" !! not the whole day !!!!!
She: Like you say.."We are like this wonly..."... :) But seriously you werent thinking of anything else ?
Me : yeah..about the food..and whether I really care about the menu..it's just a ritual...dinner..7:30 PM..and grub..there's a scheduled menu..
so I actually know whats for dinner..but still wondering what it could be...so..thinking..do i really care..
She: Self-centered bastard macha nee !! :)
Me : Thank you..i'll take that as a compliment... :) as always.. =))
She: And a kid at that !!!
Me : Golden words...repetition...you know what i am saying,rite...

So... forget the conversation..the gist is this...
There's a little kid in every one of us...it's enthused by the thrill of a challenge..so..basic funda...thrill quotient..."interesting" quotient...thats why i try to do most things in life...if it's something I have already done,i see no point in doing it again..
(unless i am getting paid for it ! :-)

So..What enthuses you to go nuts and so much more insane than you already are ???

PS:
I would recommend the puzzle to my best friends (for the experience of a lifetime..we are similar in something..which is why we are friends..and you will enjoy cracking it as much as i did) and my worst enemies(i donot know why you are one of them..must be something i did..i dont really care or have any regrets..but the feeling is reciprocated if you feel this way about me..so...plz do try it..for the experience of a lifetime..=))...
If you aren't either one of them..plz dont click on the link...i dont want you to join either one of the above categories...

PPS:
Oops...forgot the credits..sorry..
the team of course..amit et al..super-dooper job...can imagine the hard work that went into the questions if the answers were any indication..

The Kelkars..Kelya who sent the link..and the spoiler link..incase yo'll are still having issues,google for iris klueless and you shld get the blog link...Q&A session..more like "plead and be blessed" kinda session..:)
(people were pleading like "plz plz plz gimme the answer to level 27..i will be able to die in peace then ! have to study for my exams tomorrow..plz..":)

And Archie..who tolerated him coming home late the whole of last week..
bcos kini was pestering him on mail with "hey gringo!! Mein terese funde poocha kya ?! Crack kiya toh answer de !nahi toh discuss karte hain ! halkat saala !":)
(Kelkar signs off his mail with an "Adios,I"...for no reason (saala mexican client ke liye project kiya hoga toh amigo ban gaya ! hmmph :)..so we call him gringo..for no reason..again..:)

Surd bhaiyya.."Kini,maybe you shld think of something else too"...
the words you utter will be directed back at you..true,so true...
=))
"ladki,gaana aur puzzle-ek baar dimaag mein ghoomna shuroo ho jaaye,toh haalat tight ho jaati hai.."
=))

And me..of course.. :)
read on for an effective dose of narcissism/egomania..else,browser upper-right corner "X" mark..:)
Quote from Rush hour- "This is the United States of ritesh kini. I'm the president, I'm the emperor, I'm the king. I'm Michael Jackson, you Tito. Your ass belongs to me."=))