Mugged without motive?

I was standing at the bus stop opposite honda showroom, just a little walk away from the madhapur police station.

It was around 19:30 and I was gazing at the all new honda city ( everyone who knows me knows my passion for cars ), when the bus (no.127) was closing in. Oh, this was the new A/C buses that are launched in the city. I could see people foot boarding on it. Now that speaks of the need for more buses.

Anyway, there was one guy at the foot board saying something looking and pointing towards me. How’d I know it was only me? Well, no one else in the bus stop, except an elderly man at the other far end of it.
So, do I know this guy? I don’t. Paying no attention to what he was saying, I tried to board the bus (yes, 127 isnt exactly my route but, atleast could travel half the route). As I approached the door, and to my very shock, I was kicked; not one but multiple times.

The bus stopped and guess who, that same guy got down and started punching me. Along came two of his friends, one probably attacked me from the side, and the other was standing as if he was looking out to avoid anyone intervening.

I was in a state of shock. Never expected someone would just get down and start hitting! As I was recovering and also gaining conscience to self-defense, some guy intervened and said “Jaane do”. I was staring at that guy, wondering if this was the same one who attacked me from left ( I couldn’t see him earlier ), and also staring in surprise. What did he mean by “Jaane do”! Hello!!! It was me who got beaten up!!!.
By the time I was done with these thoughts, the other guy came up and delivered his last punch, yet again on my face. Then these three flee into the bus as the bus was in motion.

I immediately requested for a lift, and one guy helped me reach the next stop before the bus. We waited there for the bus to arrive and wanted to catch those guys, but alas! they already left the bus somewhere near the traffic signals.

Looks to me like a mugging just for fun. They didn’t try to steal my belongings, or take money. And this happening so close to the madhapur police station (believed to be safe place), at 19:30 (safe time?), and with public staring at this. Whoa! think what if this was some deserted place? Would they have killed me for fun?

I, now have a chilling bone pain in left arm and chest. The most painful is the nose which is a bit swelled, probably because it was already broken once during a cricket game (around 10 yrs ago) due to direct impact of high velocity cork ball. Umgh, too technical.

We need to be careful and on the watch even at public places. I wish no one else faces this.

MMMicrosoft Hardware

So well, already cursing myself for using microsoft keyboard which is hmm so soft keyed… and cursing the logitech headset which doesn’t pick up my voice, but just the noise.

Finally everyone who speaks to me decided that I should get a better headset and here it is; at my desk the Microsoft Lifechat LX-3000. Umgh, another microsoft product!

Lifechat LX-3000

Though I’ve not been a fan of microsoft’s software, I must say they have some good hardware. LX-3000 pics real low voice and makes my life easy.

IM spam after many many years…

I used to get loads of these when I was using yahoo messenger about 5 years ago.
Later I gave up ymessenger.

Anyway, today on skype….

Skype spam bots?

Hate these a**h*les.

Bike gets dented on tank…..for being good.

Alright, so after maintaining my bike in scratch less condition for over 2 and half years, after respecting every road rule and being nice at parking places where I practiced the equi-spacing of vehicles to avoid inconvenience to others, today is the day that my bike suffered a blow on its tank and leaving it dented badly.

How did it happen?
I drove to fresh@ stores and parked my bike. I then noticed that my bike could probably cause trouble to the people getting vehicles out of basement. So, like a good citizen I moved my bike from there, parked it on the other side of the row, checked twice for distance from adjacent bike to give him space to walk in and easily move out his bike.
Never in my dreams would I have thought that this would be the day when someone will damage my bike for nothing.

I return from the store to find my bike cross parked. Checked and found a big bad dent on my tank with scratch mark of probably another bike handle. My helmet lock was broken too.

SHIT HAPPENS!

I’m gonna watch the next Roadies.

Roadies 6.0 was probably one show that I watched the most. Never tried to watch episodes of earlier Roadies.

So, well I got a little time to see the final episode today, and there came a deciding point where I thought I may not watch the next Roadies. This was when Kiri said he wants to drop Noumann from the final contenders list. Well, thankfully Raghu changed that.

Can’t bear to see Pluck or Palak paneer or whatever, in the finals. She’s been too yucky and lucky throughout the show. If Kiri was the most deserving Roadie then Pluck was the most undeserving one. I’d have really been happy to see Kiri, Noumann and Sufi in the final three. Poor Sufi.

Anyway, congrats Noumann and congrats Kiri (my fav roadie).

Btw, do I get to see anyone I know in Roadies 7.0?

So do you like the Sun?

Somebody ask me that next time. My answer is NO.

I accepted a very exciting job at an OpenSource company ( putting a pause to 1.5 yr consultancy ). Traveled under the hot Sun to the office that is 29kms away from home. Came back home in the cold night.
Who would have thought this would have any effect on my life!

It started as a very mild fever on 18th mar, gradually growing to cold, cough, body pains and wham by 25th, I was completely taken.
I was taken to hospital and they suspected snake bite!!! seeing my blue nails. ( No nail polish/ink, I dont know how they got blue). They tested me for malaria, CBP, typhoid. All negative. Took X-ray to check for cough accumulation in chest – neg.
They couldn’t figure out the reason that kept my body temperature at 102 C. No antibiotics, no tablets worked. I got weaker and weaker by every minute. To add to my mysery was this breathing problem and sleeplessness. Like sandman had boycotted that hospital.

I could only take half idli a day but was getting regular dose of glucose and antibiotic into my blood. That was a total of 5 glucose and 3 antibiotic bottles.
My temperature gradually came down to 100 on the 3rd day of hospitalisation.
I couldn’t bear staying awake all night and begged to be released. So, I am home now and manage to get 3-4 hours of sleep.

Not that I’ve become healthy again. My temp still dangles between 99-100. Sounds and light irritate me. I asked everyone to speak minimum and only if required. I can’t stand up for long and still keep coughing.

Writing this post from the darkened computer room, laying on my beanbag, with laptop’s brightness set to 10% !
Would you believe that I’ve become so slow that this post took me about 2 hours to write?

Anyway, my mom took lot of care for me throughout my stay in hospital and continues still. Seen her spend sleepless nights and reject food because I wasn’t eating. Love ma.

Cyborg name

Just for fun… got link from Zelgadis at #synfig

Get Your Cyborg Name

So what are you?

Early morning Sabayon test.

After probably 2 years, I woke up at 4 am.  I found the LFY magazine lying in front of me and picked up the Sabayon DVD to test on VirtualBox.

The last time I tried sabayon, I felt it was slow compared to other distros on my PC configuration. Things haven’t changed much yet.

Here are some screenshots…

Sabayon 4 - Bootable DVD options

KDE 3.5.10 on Sabayon 4

It features special options for eeePC!

There are many famous games (Battle for Wesnoth, Sauerbraten, Nexuiz, SecondLife) shipped, that may take long time to download.
It is not only a gamers delight but also a multimedia rich distro. Check out the multimedia apps if you get hold of Sabayon.

As for me, I am still happy with openSUSE 11.0 on my PC and Mandriva 2008.1 on my lappie.

Google Summer of Code ‘09 is here…

Oh yeah, summer’s approaching and so is GSOC ‘09.

Here is the SOC ‘09 FAQ
http://code.google.com/opensource/gsoc/2009/faqs.html
You’d probably notice that there is a cap limit of 1000 students this year and the timeline has changed too!

Nevertheless, I may not be able to participate in SOC this year for various reasons.

Google Summer of Code Artwork - using Gimp

Do you like my design for GSOC?

mini toon moi

So how would a miniature version of my cartoon look?

Like this?

toon moi - using Gimp