Where Am I?

Just added a nifty tool to my sidebar, titled "Right Now I Am...", that'll allow me to publish my whereabouts for all my blog trotters. What's more intriguing is the fact that I can even update the status while I'm on the go, via my mobile. It just so happens that it's churning out wrong timings. I mean, even if I post something right now, it says "12 hours ago". So, unless I confirm that I've sorted out the bug, whatever timing you see, shown out there, kindly subtract 12 hours to know when that certain status was originally posted. Sorry for the inconvenience!

Update (Aug 20, 2007): I've removed this certain feature 'coz it was getting too irregular from my side to update it. And if I don't update the status frequently enough, it made no sense.

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.
     

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!