The week begins again! Weekend was tiring - we shifted into a new apartment..... we had rented a truck... really tiring work. Think twice before you change apartments. We had the "haalu ukkiso" (milk) ceremony and photo session at our new apartment!
I had a meeting with my prof on Saturday, it went well, then I did some work in my lab. Yesteraday afternoon, we had almost finished the settling down process. So, we saw "Maine Pyar Kyun Kiya..." ! The movie is an average comedy.... sometimes you get irritated by the crappy jokes. But Susmita is good in the movie, Katrina is cute.
Today, I ordered lunch at office - they "cater" to the Indian needs - good Indian food for $5, brought to your office at lunch time, around 12 noon. They serve you three chapatis, two curries and a rice item - palav/lemon rice/something in rice! It is good. After having lunch, I am fully awake - was really sad as it was a new week beginning - a MONDAY! Now I feel a lot better.
Monday, July 25, 2005
Friday, July 22, 2005
It is the weekend.
Oh! At last, the weekend has arrived... technically, in 14 hours, but it starts in about 6-7 hours for me. It is such a refreshing break from the monotonous work in the week. Get up early in the morning (7:40 is really early morning for me!), have a bath and get ready (in about 20 minutes), catch a bus, a train and a bus again and reach office by 9. Check mails, do some work, have lunch and finally head back home in the same bus-train-bus route. At home, have something to eat, go to the lab and do some work there, if you have some energy left, come back home, have dinner and go to sleep - by 11 (can you believe it? - sleeping so early!)
The same routine for 5 days and you will be waiting for the weekend - so you can get back to your own lazy life style which you enjoy the most! Weekends - get up late in the morning, cook something good or go out for lunch (great if someone gives a treat!), work in the lab if you feel like... watch some movies, go out and enjoy when you feel like.....! Weekends are real fun. But Sunday evening is so ominous - it brings in the threat of another week of monotonous work!
That too I missed the "Friday coffee - India" today! Friday coffee is a weekly event at the International Student Services in my school, where coffee and food from different countries are made available to students. I really missed the "samosas" and "sweets"...mmmmmmm..... I really had enjoyed the last time we had "Friday coffee - India". You know what, I never used to get up even by 10.30 in the morning to go to the "Friday coffee" events in my earlier semesters at school - it was too early for me! (I went to one of the "Friday coffee - India" events as I had a meeting with my professor that morning!). But now I get up early and am out of the house by 8.10! Look how times change... make the most of the time you have - enjoy to the fullest! You may be waiting for the weekend like me, sooooooooon..... - so enjoy when you can!
The same routine for 5 days and you will be waiting for the weekend - so you can get back to your own lazy life style which you enjoy the most! Weekends - get up late in the morning, cook something good or go out for lunch (great if someone gives a treat!), work in the lab if you feel like... watch some movies, go out and enjoy when you feel like.....! Weekends are real fun. But Sunday evening is so ominous - it brings in the threat of another week of monotonous work!
That too I missed the "Friday coffee - India" today! Friday coffee is a weekly event at the International Student Services in my school, where coffee and food from different countries are made available to students. I really missed the "samosas" and "sweets"...mmmmmmm..... I really had enjoyed the last time we had "Friday coffee - India". You know what, I never used to get up even by 10.30 in the morning to go to the "Friday coffee" events in my earlier semesters at school - it was too early for me! (I went to one of the "Friday coffee - India" events as I had a meeting with my professor that morning!). But now I get up early and am out of the house by 8.10! Look how times change... make the most of the time you have - enjoy to the fullest! You may be waiting for the weekend like me, sooooooooon..... - so enjoy when you can!
Wednesday, July 20, 2005
How to write unmaintainable code!
I was reading an article on "How to write unmaintainable code!". The article was really well-written and extensive, touching on almost all aspects of making the code as confusing and ambiguous as possible, making use of the simplest as well as the most complex nuances available in the language and programming constructs supported there.
Well, but you know what, I have seen really badly written code, written by someone who has not tried to write "unmaintainable code"; in fact, the person was trying to write good, maintainable code! Some people do have a natural flair for writing unmaintainable code. We could add on several additional points to the article, by going through their code. Though it is worse than a nightmare for the person trying to maintain the code, or for someone trying to debug the code..., writing such code is real fun, especially when we make use of the subtle specialties provided by that specific language.
If some people do this for fun or for showing off their "flair" in programming, some people do this for sheer pleasure of letting out their frustration at having to spend their precious time documenting stuff - there are several ways for such people to have their share of fun - "Document only the details of what a program does, not what it is attempting to accomplish. That way, if there is a bug, the fixer will have no clue what the code should be doing" - this being one of the many ways to help release the frustration of a coder who feels he is wasting his time in documentation.
I believe that writing unmaintainable code is a skill (some have it inborn... ;)) and people should have their share of fun doing this! God save the maintainers, though (hope I do not belong to this category of people) !
Well, but you know what, I have seen really badly written code, written by someone who has not tried to write "unmaintainable code"; in fact, the person was trying to write good, maintainable code! Some people do have a natural flair for writing unmaintainable code. We could add on several additional points to the article, by going through their code. Though it is worse than a nightmare for the person trying to maintain the code, or for someone trying to debug the code..., writing such code is real fun, especially when we make use of the subtle specialties provided by that specific language.
If some people do this for fun or for showing off their "flair" in programming, some people do this for sheer pleasure of letting out their frustration at having to spend their precious time documenting stuff - there are several ways for such people to have their share of fun - "Document only the details of what a program does, not what it is attempting to accomplish. That way, if there is a bug, the fixer will have no clue what the code should be doing" - this being one of the many ways to help release the frustration of a coder who feels he is wasting his time in documentation.
I believe that writing unmaintainable code is a skill (some have it inborn... ;)) and people should have their share of fun doing this! God save the maintainers, though (hope I do not belong to this category of people) !
Tuesday, July 19, 2005
In a dilemma.....!
Well, you know what... when you have two very good options... and do not know what to choose... you would feel it would have been better to have a single option! Now I am doing my internship at Cisco Sytems which will continue till Fall, and my professor has offered a TAship for Fall-Spring (he says it is tough to get TAship for Spring alone!) . I do not know which one to choose...! Now that I have just worked for 2 months... I feel I will continue at Cisco... but really, I would have been happier to be working at school. Well, I am in a dilemma - "A situation that requires a choice between options that are or seem equally unfavorable and mutually exclusive"! As always, I go with the one I feel is right... hoping God will set things right for me...!
Monday, July 18, 2005
The Half Blood Prince.
Hi,
Well, if you feel that Harry Potter is for kids... think again! Check out the new book - you may change your opinion!
I bought the new novel in the Harry Potter series - The half blood prince...! Well, in fact I had read the first 2 chapters on some website... someone had posted it 6 hours before the novel was released. I was intrigued by the first two chapters.
Well, as expected a very important character gets killed. And lots of stuff inside the novel - love blossoms between the people expected (against some beliefs, by other people posted on various Orkut communitites!) Overall, the book was okay - maybe I will like it better when I read it again, of course after some time...
The book ends in a way... where you would feel you are expecting the next book to come outr sometime next week. I don't know how long it will take for JKR to rtelease the next one. That one would be fun, of course, if Harry doesn't get killed - you never know!
Well, if you feel that Harry Potter is for kids... think again! Check out the new book - you may change your opinion!
I bought the new novel in the Harry Potter series - The half blood prince...! Well, in fact I had read the first 2 chapters on some website... someone had posted it 6 hours before the novel was released. I was intrigued by the first two chapters.
Well, as expected a very important character gets killed. And lots of stuff inside the novel - love blossoms between the people expected (against some beliefs, by other people posted on various Orkut communitites!) Overall, the book was okay - maybe I will like it better when I read it again, of course after some time...
The book ends in a way... where you would feel you are expecting the next book to come outr sometime next week. I don't know how long it will take for JKR to rtelease the next one. That one would be fun, of course, if Harry doesn't get killed - you never know!
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