100 facts about me...

Ohkay, I don't know if any one would be interested to know anything at all about me, but still thought I'd share a few stuffs about me. 100 facts about me...seems to be quite a far fetched one to write about, but I shall try. Let's see for how many days it stays in my Drafts section.

Anyways, here it goes...

1. Name: Sayantan Pal
2. Sex: Male
3. Birthday: July 07th, 1985
4. Nationality: Indian
5. Languages I can Speak: English, Hindi, Marathi & Bengali
6. Religion: Hindu
7. Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual
8. Relationship Status: Committed
9. Children: No
10. Smoking: Regularly
11. Drinking: Socially
12. Email ID: shayonpal[at]yahoo.com, shayon.pal[at]gmail.com
13. Mobile No: +919939370506
14. Currently Doing: Electrical Engineering, 7th Semesters (As of July 11, 2007)
15. Institute: National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur
16. Hard facts are almost over. Now I'm gonna give you some of the real dope about me.
17. I hate my branch, Electrical.
18. Still had to take it up 'coz wasn't getting Computer Science in any decent college.
19. Love my college, though.
20. I'm still a virgin.
21. I'm a male and I love being one. Have no fascination for sex change.
22. I love having steaming black coffee in the evening and while reading novels.
23. Mostly read sci-fi and religion oriented novels.
24. But that doesn't mean I don't enjoy erotica ;-).
25. Hate Jackie Collins, though.
26. When I was a kid, I wanted to be a cashier - 'coz my Dad works in a bank & a cashier was the only employee I'd seen each time I visited a bank.
27. Now, I won't work in a government bank for my life.
28. Am open for private banks, though.
29. The green paper's gonna be a huge decider when I participate in my campus selections.
30. Wanna be rich, but 'stinking rich' doesn't appeal to me.
31. For a major part of life, used to dream of heading a company that'd have the potential to replace Microsoft.
32. Now, I dream of owning a company that'd be listed in Fortune 500.
33. If not even that, then wish I can work for Yahoo! Inc. some day, in the Silicon Valley.
34. I guess, by now you've had a good idea that I'm a computer geek.
35. I love computers and everything that has anything to do with gadgets.
36. I'm an avid programmer and not really that bad in it.
37. I can't believe that within 5 minutes of starting the post, I've completed 35 points about me.
38. Have had quite a fair share of girlfriends in my life.
39. However, I'm quite serious about my present one & absolutely have no intention of going out looking for another.
40. I really love my girlfriend a lot.
41. Does that sound too cheesy? Tell you what, I don't give a damn!
42. I'm a hardcore Bengali at heart. Love Bengali Food, Songs, Literature & Gals too ;-).
43. I love wearing Dhoti & Kurta, Bengali style.
44. Always try to sneak out excuses for wearing the same in occassions.
45. However, I'm most comfy in my Jeans & T.
46. Don't have any preference of traditional, conservative or mod clothes. Just should be decent & comfy enough.
47. Same goes for my spouse (to-be, of course!).
48. Heard about the concept of blogging, first time, around 5 years ago.
49. But typing used to bore me, so never gave it a try.
50. But it got the best of my curiosity when I found Rediff to had started the blogging feature. That was when I first thought of giving it a try, about 1 year ago.
51. Had stopped blogging there after a few posts.
52. Then shifted to Yahoo! after they started the Yahoo! 360 feature.
53. Then again shifted my base to Blogger on August 08, 2005.
54. I'm loving it here!
55. I have a fetish for piercings.
56. Find the nose piercing very arousing.
57. That doesn't mean I dig for Sania Mirza!
58. My favorite cuisine is Chinese. Italian comes a close second.
59. I love to eat. Gimme good food and I'll gobble it all up!
60. I'm slightly overweight. Currently 82Kgs while I stand 5'9" tall.
61. Had joined Gym thrice in my life to lose the extra flab & shape up the muscles.
62. Left all the 3 times 'coz had no one to accompany me & I used to get bored all alone :-p
63. Had again joined one, last sem. Haven't visited it yet, after coming back from home.
64. Dream to conjure up a super computer in near future, for myself.
65. I'm a li'l biased upon Anil Ambani than Mukesh Ambani.
66. Ankit Fadia [pdf] has been my idol for some 5 years now.
67. I prefer Yahoo! to Google whenever I search the net.
68. I can be very moody at times.
69. Right now, it seems to me that I'll never reach 100!
70. This post was originally started on the 9th of July, 2005. Hope I can finish it off by today, that is July 11, 2007.
71. Started up on this again 'coz Sakshi happened to go through this post in my drafts, yesterday and said she had a good time reading it.
72. As for all of the above facts, that I'd written 2 years back, have been updated to stand true, as of July 11, 2007.
73. Whenever I'm home, I'm online for about 16hrs a day. Yup, I ain't kidding!
74. I'm writing this post using my mobile, NOKIA 5070.
75. Yes! I'm fascinated and obssessed with my phone!
76. There are times when I do get a bit upset for not caring the way I'd maintained my academic life, in college.
77. But then, for the rest of the time I go, "What the heck!!"
78. I use Google Reader as my personal RSS feed reader.
79. I use Opera Mini as the browser for my phone.
80. I consider Pragnya as my idol in blogging.
81. I love getting wet in the rains.
82. I hate scorching summers the most.
83. I also hate wearing anything to sleep ;-) (HeHe)
84. I'm a photography freak. I love taking pictures and bringing out interesting profiles of my subjects.
85. I'd rather prefer nature and still objects to human figures (unless they are naked at strategic places) for photography.
86. I'm glad that I'm inching towards the 100th fact.
87. Okay, I'm certainly surprised at one thing. You actually took interest and read all the 86 points above?
88. Anyways, coming back to academics, I'm planning to take the GMAT in 2 years from now.
89. Despite chalking out my career, somewhat, I still had to go to a career counselor the other day. However, her reports are pending for July 16th, 2007.
90. I was once counseled by a psychiatrist some time back. (Do I look freaky to you?)
91. I love having ice creams in the middle of December nights.
92. I hate pizza from Domino's.
    
93. I plan to get an IMate with my very first salary.
94. I find Blackberrys pretty useless!
95. Although I've been using Airtel for a long time now, after using Hutch for half a month, I've become an ardent fan of the service.
96. Yet, I still use Airtel 'coz it has much better connectivity in the country!
97. You know, after racking my brains so much, I have a very good idea of tagging a few people.
98. What do you think, is it gonna be you? ;-)
99. I think it's a huge possibility!
100. Well, I'd like to tag Sakshi, Arushi, Karma, Rathz, Mann, Paresh, Dion and Sam.
     

And the Taj says "Thank you"

The date that was the most luckiest came and went. And sure enough, it was a lucky day too for our very own Taj.

The Final list is out, and Taj has made it to the Seven Wonders of the world. I am sure if it were allowed a thank you speech, the monument of love would have said - That finally, people showed their love to me. Thank you India....!!!

As an after thought, thanks a ton ppl, atleast thenks to those to whom I nagged alot to vote for Taj...!!!

What a Day!!

History, they say, repeats itself. I'm sure the deluge of 26th of July, 2006 still runs fresh in the minds of the Mumbaikars. I was in Jamshedpur when the water had flooded the economic capital of the nation. I always used to regret to miss the huge affair. It seemed more romantic to me than a tragedy. I guess someone out there didn't like my attitude and was hell bent to make me preview a trailer of that day. And I must say, I have learnt my lesson. Here I am, sitting at my home, with no lights for the past 10 hours, lucky that the landline's still working and that I have a phone that allows me to connect to the net and blog, there's a constant chatter of rain drops, outside. Now this is gonna be the life for Mumbaikars, for the next 2 months. I was on the road in the morning and had a ball getting wet. I couldn't believe when I saw the amount of water-logging in various parts of the city. The road to my home from Andheri, they said, has been submerged under 6 feet deep water. After treading till my chest level, i decided to take the U-turn. Here I post a few shots of the kinda scenes I've witnessed, today. Of course, sme of the best moments are missing here, 'cozI just wasn't too fast with the pathetic VGA camera I have on my phone. Yet, I'm happy that I can at least click pictures now, as and when I wish, given the kinda shutter bug I am :-P.

Adding this as an afterthought. If you think that Mumbai is a horrible place to stay in, 'coz of the above pictures, lemme warn you, you are grossly mistaken!! ;-)

First Ever MoBlog!

Writing my first ever mobile weblog! This's so exciting!! Here I am, sitting in an air conditioned bus (for the uninitiated, there are air conditioned government buses that ply in Mumbai. It's not for nothing that I'm in love with this beautiful city), listening to radio and blogging on the way...oh boy...I feel so spoilt :-P. It just makes me realise how far technology has moved on! There used to be times when we'd be waiting it a nearby ration shop 'coz ma granny was expected to call...there were times when we used to go out to make STD calls at the dead of the nights 'coz the rates were half then. N now, cut to the times when I can reach any part of the world, at any time of the day or night, for as cheap as 10paise. Can't help but marvel at man's evolution!

Talking of air conditioned buses in Mumbai, just felt like snapping a few pics around. I donno if I can upload them from my mobile, but I'll surely try. Man! I just love my new phone :-P Despite it not being insanely feature packed, it's certainly a very useful gadget. All I'll say is, "I'm loving it!" ;-)

Update : Unfortunately, with all the shaking in the bus and on top of that the quality of my phone's camera, the pics are hardly worth putting up, out here. Shall put up some other time. Sorry folks!

A Li'l Bit of Mumbai Darshan...

Okay, before you start checking out the pictures, let me warn you. The camera (in my phone) that I've used to snap the following pics is just another simple VGA camera and I realised it only now that although it gives me decent pics in the daylight, the pics are horrible when clicked at night. I guess I should've switched the night mode on, but I didn't realise that it'd be necessary. Hope i get similar quality of pics in the night time too, in future.

Well, I've been catching up with friends for the past 3 days and had been going to a few places too. It just so happened that I'd been to Vashi Railway station, yesterday, and it's supposed to be one of the best looking local railway station in Mumbai. And then I'd been to the legendary Marine Drive, today, and got wet in he rains. You won't realise how much fun it was, unless you experience it yourself! While being a part of all that, I did felt like clicking a few pics on occassions when I found the seeting pretty beautiful. Hope you like the journey.

That's Marine Drive for you, when it was raining cats & dogs!

And that's Marine Drive again, to my Left.

The old Taj, of Mumbai (Yeah, Mumbai has 2 Taj :-p)

Taj again, just in a different angle.

Gateway of India, from the place where we were standing.

A closer view of the same.

My companions of the day, Vijay & Pallavi, great buddies!

It's called Flora Fountain, a very famous landmark in Fort.

The rest of the pics are all of Vashi Railway Station. After actually checking out the pics on the comp, I was so upset. I wish Inew this was how the pics are gonna come. I'm sure I'd have gotten the night mode switched on, then. Could't do absolutely no justice to this beautiful station. Anyways, still put up a few, hoping you could find the essence of the station.

CGL Laboratory

Refering to one of my older posts, I'd already mentioned that I've been interning in Crompton Greaves for the past 1 and a half months. Courtesy my new mobile, clicked a few snaps of the laboratory today. I thought I'd share them with you.

Here is the lab. The instruments are pretty much okay in size. They say, the whole lab of instruments are worth 15 crores, in all!

This is the other side of the lab.

That's my personal space. That's the lappy I work on. The instrument beside it is used to test hardnedd of copper strips used in the manufacture of Transformers.

The oven that you can see here, is used to find out the amount of gaseous components dissolved in Copper.

This one is used to measure the viscosity of Transformer Oil using a test called Vicker's Test. Sorry, forgot the name of the instrument :-P.

NOKIA, Photobucket & The Wall Mag!

So, can u see the picture of a pretty NOKIA handset at the top? Well, I happen to be a proud owner of one of them :-P. The reason ain't all that romantic, though. My previous phone, the NOKIA 1108, had been flicked by some unfortunate bloke off my pocket, while I was travelling in a inhumanely congested train, from Kanjur Marg (that's where my office is) to Dadar. At the first, I was definitely very very pissed off. But then, u hardly have anything you can do, in these situations, have you? Hehe, "unfortunate bloke", 'coz my sim was blocked with pin code and the phone was locked with security code. He can't even insert a new sim in it 'coz in that case he shall have to insert the security code! :-P Anyways, wot had gotten me pissed off the most was the fact that I lost all my fucking contacts and messages. Over 250 of my contacts got washed off in a jiffy. Hope people do respond to my mails fast and send me their contact numbers.

Oh, did you hear that Yahoo! Photos is shutting down? The moment I heard that (about a month ago), I've been wondering how to save the hundreds of pics I have storred in there, in the past 3 years. Although Yahoo! has given options to export your pictures to a lot of other photo hosting websites, it was getting tough for me to choose between Flickr, Photobucket and Shutterfly. After some research, I realised Photobucket was the one for me. I just started the export of my pictures from Yahoo! Photos onto Photobucket, right before I started writing this post. They say it's gonna take them about 72 hrs, that's 3 days. Hope it's a satisfying service!

While I was in college, staying in Hostel 'E', the topfloor boarders of the same had formed a community called "TopFloorers" which consisted most of the top floorers and a few regulars from other floors and hostels too. My dear friend Rathin suddenly, out of the blue, thought up of creating a "Wall Magazine" where bits and pieces could be shared by us all, and hence "The Wall Mag"was born. It gives me immense pride to inform that I happen to be a co-admin of that blog page. It's a novel idea that Rathz has started, hope the tradition of the TopFloorers continues.

Amen!