Ob-Wan Kenobe where are you?

Have you seen the Val's DVD??? Not bad....but hallelujah! I thought Dath Vader and Luke Skywalker were going to drop from the sky and duel with their light sabers! What in the world was The Star Wars soundtrack doing in the background? I reached the stars alright!

May the force be with you,
varun

P.S - Have you watched 'The Revenge of the Sith'?

Survey No. 3

Hey people! If the world was to end tomorrow, what would you do today?

Post your replies as comments to this post.

Survey No. 2 - Results

What do you use the Internet for?

Answers	Votes	Percent
1. Checking and sending e-mails	8	15%
7. Searching for and/or meeting online friends	8	15%
2. Downloading music files	7	13%
3. Downloading softwares	6	12%
4. Learning casually (for e.g. new technologies, news)	6	12%
9. Updating Antivirus and other softwares installed on your computer	6	12%
5. Learning for Academic purpose (e.g. science research, homework)	5	10%
10. Other stuffs not mentioned	4	8%
6. Searching for and applying for jobs online	1	2%
8. Shopping online for small articles	1	2%

Total Votes: 52

Keane

Hey!
Have any of you listened to Keane? I listened to two of their songs on Virgin radio - very nice! Simply piano, drums and voice. A must listen!
If you like pop/alternative you will like them.

The songs I listened to : 'Bed-Shaped' and 'Everybody's Changing'

Listen away!

varun

Hullo!

Hey all!

I'm having problems visiting the blog. Its giving me IP and DNS errors. Vishnu too has been having these problems from the start. Its only this blog I'm having problems with. I can log in to the dashboard without any problem. I think the problem lies with those hyphens sticking in the name. Could you think of an alternate name for this blog? Minus the hyphens? 'thegreenroom' and 'greenroom' already exists. How about 'thebackdoor'...but I don't know if that is available. Get those gears grinding in your head!

And, congrats everyone! One more stone gone, what's new to carve on? All the best for every single decision and step you take.

Good night!
varun
P.S - I won't be able to enter comments, but I will be able to read them since the comments are mailed to me.

CONGRATULATIONS!

Toppers
Overall / Science Stream
1: Venkat M Sundar
2: Uday Deepak Devulapalli
3: Ranjana Pillai
4: Siddharth Maskara
5: Jimmy Antony

Commerce Stream
1: Shashank Arora
2: Bavani
3: Abhishek Menon
4: Fancy Ropuichong
5: Prachi Harlalka

Subject-Wise Toppers
English - Overall / Science Stream
1: Uday Deepak Devulapalli
2: Ipsita Roy & Venkat M Sundar
3: Jimmy Antony & Ranjana Pillai

English - Commerce Stream
1: Bavani
2: Shashank Arora
3: Abhishek Menon, Fancy Ropuichong & Tanmay Choudhury

Economics
1: Shashank Arora
2: Abhishek Menon
3: Saratho Katiry

Commerce
1: Shashank Arora
2: Fancy Ropuichong
3: Bavani

Accounts
1: Bavani
2: Abhishek Menon
3: Fancy Ropuichong & Shashank Arora

Arts
1: Prachi Harlalka

Business Studies
1: Abhishek Menon
2: Bavani
3: Fancy Ropuichong

Mathematics
1: Ranjana Pillai & Venkat M Sundar
2: Siddharth Maskara
3: Krishna Nambiar & Uday Deepak Devulapalli

Physics
1: Krishna Nambiar
2: Uday Deepak Devulapalli
3: Abinash Pant & Venkat M Sundar

Chemistry
1: Venkat M Sundar
2: Siddharth Maskara & Uday Deepak Devulapalli
3: Abinash Pant & Krishna Nambiar

Biology
1: Jimmy Antony
2: Ranjana Pillai
3: Uday Deepak Devulapalli

Environmental Studies
1: Jimmy Antony
2: Varun Nair
3: Shruti Devayya K

Computer Science
1: Arun Das T C
2: Siddharth Maskara
3: Venkat M Sundar

RESULTS!!

Hey all..
Good news or bad news? I dont know.

I just saw this on the ISC website :
Results of the ICSE and ISC Examinations to be announced on 18 May 2005 at 4:00 P.M.

They have put up a new site : www.cisce.in

All the best!
Hope the Gods have been fair..

varun

Inky-pinky-ponky

Given a choice between music, reading, watching a movie or going out; what would you chose?

THE COUNTESS STRIKES AGAIN.........AND HOW!!!!

Hey guys....if you remeber the magazine that we released in the 11th......INK SPOTS.....you might recollect a certain "crazed" astrologer and crystal-ball grazer called Countess Kristallina Von Sinistra.....
Well, turns out she really has some sort of "powers".The reason is that recently a lot of predictions she's been making have been comin true!!!!......Scary but true!!!!......
See now you guys can say that you led to the discovery of perhaps the next Nostradamus.....ok,maybe I got a little carried away with that comment!!!............
Anyway,will be watching all your stars!!!................
I'll leave you with a prediction about the results,which i forsee will be out before the end of this week..........

The Countess.

Year of Music

Hey-o!

Been some time since I posted anything.

Yep, there's a lot happenin in the music scene this summer. So many new albums to look forward to. There's 'Dont Believe In the Truth' by Oasis, 'X&Y' by Coldplay, 'Stand Up' by Dave Matthews Band, 'Blinking Lights and Other Revelations' by Eels, 'With Teeth' by Nine Inch Nails and the unamed album by Mew. I can't wait to listen to them all. I think even Travis is releasing their new album this summer. Oh yeah one more - 'Nothing is Sound' by Switchfoot.
Tough competition for the brit music awards...
Hey wait I left out my favourite band - The Crosswires! 3 new singles out this summer*.

The year of music...

Cheers,
varun

*hopefully..

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THE LATEST NEWS!!!!!

Hey fellow bloggers............
Guess what???....The Backstreet Boys are back!!!!.................For those who do not know who they are,they were one of the most popular bands about 10 years back and still remembered for some of their songs which were mega hits!!!...Ok, maybe everyone will not really share my enthusiasm!!!......
Oh, I'm sure all of you know about my "fascination" for Enrique....well that is over,I have absolutely no respect for the guy anymore!!!...Very disappointed!!
By the way...Kingfisher Airlines is in the air!!!!!....So excited!!

Keep blogging,
R.J.

The Bridge Across

Imagine the world as a huge meadow. There is the fresh green grass and the blue cloudless sky. Imagine every single person as a flower. Fill the meadow with these people. What do you get? The same purple flowers with a few differences. One flower is wilting, while the other stands straight.

We try to draw comfort in travelling through a path through which almost everyone has travelled before. We know that it is safe. It's been tried and tested for many years. So if a problem exists, its going to affect everyone and not us alone. But at the end of the path what do you see? The nice green meadow, but the same flowers. A few scarred, a few less scarred. Some fell harder, while others had a softer fall. But they have been through it all. We are still the same purple flower.

What if we try to be different? Ha! People laugh! You can't be different! You won't survive! Follow the path which already exists, its safe. But lets challenge ourselves, lets take a different path. It will be tough, but we got one chance - might as well use it.

We begin. But there is no path. It doesn't exist. Fine, lets create it. We begin to create it. We start on our journey. We come back to the beginning. That path lead us no where. Try again. This time we went further and found that the path ended at a crevice. Never mind, start again. Now we reach a river but we can't swim. We look around again. But all other possible paths are worse.

We are drowned in frustration. We are stuck for many days. There is no food. Hunger sweeps through us. Finally out of desperation we try again. We reach the river. Why not build a bridge? But we have never built a bridge before. We try and the bridge collapses. Finally after learning much, our bridge is built. We cross it.

Things start getting tougher. Every challenge seems to crack us down. But every solution seems to build us up again. Each time better and stronger.

Finally after years of travelling, we reach the meadow. We have taken twice as long to reach it. Frustration and desperation almost killed us. But we also learnt. We built a bridge across.

We enter the meadow. Its filled with the same purple flowers. But what about our flower? It's a bright yellow flower that stands out in the sea of purple. Which is the first flower that's going to be noticed? The yellow of course, standing out, waiting to be plucked.

Why do we dream? To chase those dreams and make our own path. We may fail many times, but we will succeed eventually.

Break away from routine and dare to challenge yourself. You may not find your pot of gold under the rainbow. You may find it under a thorny bush. But hey, you found it. Go build that bridge across and be a flower that stands out in the meadow. Dare to dream. Dare to be different. Dare to make your own path.

Survey

If there is one thing that you would rather die than live without, what is it?

Results
Ranjana: her parents and... [I think you shouldn't rack your brain on this! See below]
Varun: his guitar
Avinash: his computer [and A. R. Rahman?]
Naveen: his girlfriend! [need an explanation for this?]
Chirag: food [isn't it obvious :) ]
Arun: God

PS1: Survey No. 2 coming soon....
PS2: If Naveen and Chirag needs this to be changed, drop a comment.

An experience.....I think!!!

I've had never been so unprepared for anything in my whole life.....what I"m referring to is the CET 2005.The best part was seeing loads of people at my centre studying and cramming things into their head till the last minute,while i just stood there laughing and joking,all the while attracting stares and dirty looks.
The amount of pressure the parents put on their kids is unbelievable,constantly quizzing them and teaching them stuff.I felt totally detached and surprisingly calm and at ease...actually come to think of it thats not too surprising considering my lack of preparation.
But nevertheless it was an experience,one I'm glad I went through.I'd recommend it to everyone..(just kidding!!!!)
As for my results.....who knows what will happen!!!.....I am not really worried because I don't believe I'm cut out for medicine...........imagine Dr.Ranjana Pillai.......MBBS,MD......YIKES!!!!!!!!
So you guys feel free to share your experiences writing these entrance exams!!!

cheers,
RJ

P:S-anyone wanna accompany me while I have a bonfire for all my books and papers???

Infectious?

What happens if a person with nothing to do and another person with nothing to do but bit by the oasis bug gets together?
Answer : A blog.

This blogging is so darn infectious that Vishnu and Arun have 'collaborated' and created one. Check here : Doin it Bloggy Style
You can simply guess who named that one!

varun

In-blog

How many of you can write? Actually most of you can....want to give it a shot?
the s(l)ickroom is having an in-blog competition. This is what you have to do : write on a particular topic. Now cummon, anyone can do that! Right? Please visit the s(l)ickroom for more details and see where those words of yours can take you!

varun

Those inkspots were washed away...

How many of you remember that magazine we made in 11th standard? Too bad there was only one issue.
Anyway, just want to remind you again that...

Love is acceptance without qualification.
Love is comradeship without expectation.
Love is forgiveness without compensation.
Love is the most beautiful and enchanting expression.

Back...

Hello!
'The Crosswires' have hit the studio again. This time we are recording much more - a whole bunch of covers (all our favourites) and two of our new songs (if we can come up with more, we'll add them too). These songs will be released online when our official website will be put up (its going to have our songs and our past performances on streaming video) - that would be two weeks from now.

Due to technical limitations (which include not having a studio, electric guitars and mics) all the songs will be released as acoutic versions - simply voice and an acoustic guitar. Though we are technically limited, we are armed with much more knowledge and creativity - all learned the hard way!

We would like to thank you all for supporting us and downloading 'Nothing to keep' (downloads have crossed more than a 120).
So look out for 'The Crosswires'.

Your friendly neighbourhood musician,
varun

Change

Hey,
If you have noticed, I have made a small change - the comments no longer open in a new page, but they open as a drop down menu. I think its much much more flexible.

varun

Already??

Hey!
The blog is already one week old! Applause!! Hopefully I'll be saying something similar a year later!

Some cool songs worth listening to (and that have been running in my head for some time) :

Dave Matthews Band - American Baby (this one's their new one, really lovely)
The Stone Roses - Going Down (a perfect roses classic)
Placebo - This Picture (simply great..wakes you up, who needs coffee if you got placebo!)
U2 - Sometimes you can't make it on your own (The Edge stole my tune!!)
Edson - The Luck I never Had (down in the dumps? listen to this..)

varun

Remember me????

Hema ma'm here!
It was a great idea to start a blog for the batch of 2005.Congrats Varun & Ranjana!This could actually act as an info on each one of your whereabouts.Once you join various courses you might find it difficult to keep in touch with your class mates individually.Just post your address on the blog & that will help you reach out to everybody.It will keep people like me immensely happy to hear about your achievements ,successes ,in short, the major milestones in your life.Breathe life into this endeavour!Respond to this request with right earnest.Good Luck!

Ring-a-ding-ding-ding

Oh wow!! I like the way this blog is heading!! :D :D
We may not have the look, but we got the life!!

Really great!

Please give your posts titles, it will help us sort out archives in the future. And Naveen, we know thats you...but a person coming to the blog the first time wouldn't know. So next time, through all the excitement of successfully blogging please leave your name.

varun