“The Work Outing”

Jen is asked out for a date at the theatre, and Moss and Roy manage to invite themselves along. The play turns out to be a production of “Gay! - A Gay Musical”, and Moss and Roy are mistaken for a couple by the compere. Unable to use the gents’ toilets because of a staring attendant, Roy and Moss use the disabled and staff facilities (respectively) instead, and are forced to adopt appropriate identities when caught. This episode features cameos from Nicholas Burns (as Jerome, the Director of “Gay! - A Gay Musical”) and series producer Ash Atalla (as the character “Rampant Gay Man”). - Wikipedia

Companies offer variations on the concept of using the Web as an application container or development platform. The idea of treating the Web like an operating system is picking up steam. Goowy, Laszlo Systems, Xcerion and YouOS are among the companies building on the concept.

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From music and chat to ring tones and games, these free mobile applications rise above the rest.

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I know there is a good following for Rajini’s films in Japan. Even a Japanese artist acted in one of his films. Though it’s not astonishing to hear that a foreign artist acted in an Indian movie, you must appreciate the fact that the actor was a Japanese (who speaks a language which has minor or no similarity with Tamil). Now have a look at this video where a group of Japanese kids are dancing for a tamil song.

Isn’t it good when someone is actually “listening” to what you say? Being a teaching assistant for an introductory course in Algorithms, one should expect emails from the students. On an average, I get around 5 to 10 emails a week requesting to clarify some doubts. From the emails, I have noticed one subtle detail. There is some sort of relation between the sender’s (of the email) attitude and the salutation in the email.

The various salutations I have seen from the students are:

• Hi,
• Hello,
• Hey hi,
• Dear Siva
• Dear T.A,
• Hi tutor
• and a few more..

Generally, when the students address me with a ‘hi’, ‘hey hi’ or ‘hello’, the email tend to become like a telephone conversation and we can say that student is sort of aloof. When you see something like Dear T.A or tutor or Dear sivasubr (this guy just copied and pasted my unix account id), we can easily say that the student is lazy to even find out what my name is. One salutation requires a special mention here. I received this email this morning and just have a look at it:

Dear Sir.. ha ha.. this guy seems to take stuff seriously. Though there is nothing wrong with this, it tends to become too formal. I guess some of the professors do like to receive formal emails with proper salutations and stuff like that. Anyways, I feel the best way is to address the name with the salutation: Dear Dr./Mr./Ms. Name

This technology looks awesome, but I’m not sure how true it is.

My notebook has become an integral part of my everyday life. This is basically because, I spend around 12 to 13 hours a day working on the notebook.

The moment the display of my notebook went blank, I was happy because I thought I might be getting a new display for free (since my notebook is still under warranty). Well, things don’t go as per planned most of the time. Yes, there is nothing wrong with the display. It’s the lever that resets the display has broken it seems. And you know what? That bloody 3 mm plastic costs S$90. It’s ridiculous… Whatever, I will have to replace it, no other choice.

So, yeah, I don’t have my notebook with me for the past few days. This is actually helping me to getting back to “normal”. With the notebook around, by the time I go to bed, it would be around 2 or 3 am. The moment one gets hooked to the web, time flies. So many things to catch up with: news, blogs and ofcourse tutorials and assignments, etc.. But for the past few days, I am back in my room by 11 pm (since the last internal shuttle bus @ NUS is at 11 pm) and on the bed in another 20 to 30 mins time. At first, it was boring without internet or for that matter, the notebook; but being a bad book-reader, I fall asleep the moment I open some book. So, I am having ample amount of sleep, which I haven’t been having for quite some time.

Most probably, I will be getting my notebook back next week. Let’s see how things go.

On my 21st bday, I decided to go for the Reverse Bungy Jumping @ Clarke Quay. Well, I must say, it was quite good though it was only for few seconds. The best part of it was while falling down. People say speed thrills, and it is true. 0 to 200 km\h upwards in 2 secs was just awesome. At first, I was bit tensed since I haven’t had such a ride for ages. But once I was up there, it was just fun. After all, 5G is still manageable.

I came across this video @ digg. I never thought one could play such shots until I saw this video.