An Inscrutable Girl

That wonderful feeling called love..

Posted by: Krutika on: July 4, 2008

Once on a fine morning (technically approx 2 in the night), i penned this poem. I have used blank verse which is my favourite style of writing.Maybe it is because there are no hassles of rhyming..(grin)

It was written in December 2006 out of a whim and i got it published in the Valentine’s Day issue of EVE TIMES, in 2007..Eve Times is a special feature newsletter of the TIMES OF INDIA.

I was overjoyed to see my poem in print in the local edition of the top newspaper of India(who will not be?) and it gave me renewed inspiration to keep writing..:-)

Feedback is welcome;-)

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Keep holding on…

Posted by: Krutika on: June 2, 2009

Never before in my life..had i wanted something as much as this. Or even worked so hard for it and put in efforts. Of course i might have. But my memory fails me. I am notorious for amnesia. Ahem! What did amnesia mean anyway?

But it was this heady feeling that i got throughout the process mixed with lots of optimism that kept me going. And i learned lots of things. Made me wiser by 1%.

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But yes the most important thing i learnt is: there is light at the end of the tunnel, but how desperately we need the sunshine? Thats what matters and thats what counts.

Now that is a different thing that in my case,  i wanted it like hell but there an eclipse occured.  Somebody switched off  the light bulb.

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The song that fits in perfectly :

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Locating Device…Not found!

Posted by: Krutika on: February 10, 2009

Hey whats happening?
I have lost my pen drive. Dunno where i put it! Totally misplaced.
Along with two movies which temporarily resided in the pendrive. Is there some secret place where misplaced or lost things go?
I had read a book called The Burrow, (i guess) where they had a theory that there exist some creatures like elves which are the reason for your lost things. Interesting i must say!

The only thing left for consideration is what the hell do they want to do with my pendrive yaar!??!

krutsig

Aloha..

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

I am 12 days late for the ushering-the-new-year-post…

Well! Well!

It feels great to write a ‘SOLUTION POST’ as the first post of 2009 smiley_laughing1

I have been facing a lot(read:4) of problems with gmail lately. Here’s the list. But these problems should mostly be the problem of the browser used ,not some problem or bug inherent in gmail. So atleast i have solved one of them :)

PROBLEM: Cannot scroll chat window while chatting in Gmail in Internet Explorer 7 and 8 Beta.

SOLUTION:

Go to Tools Menu -> Internet Options.

Click Advanced tab.

Clear the check box for ‘Use smooth scrolling’ to disable the setting.

Restart IE and voila..you are done!

 

YAY! Wish i could find the solution for the other three too..

Aloha!

krutsig

An email to Gmail

Posted by: Krutika on: December 25, 2008

Hello Gmail,

Everyone is using you these days! You are ubiquitous. Up until recent times i was a snob who dint want to use the much Gung Ho Gmail. ( i had been among the early birds to know about you,but  still….)

But i did need another email id and i thought i shall give you a chance. Glad to say you have been a great thing to lay my hands on.You are still in beta (as those self pleased guys at Google would like to call you modestly) but you are doing a great job of all that coding behind you.

Just to state two four problems i have been facing with you:

1. You dont allow me to paste tables from Excel whilst using Opera and Firefox. Whist with IE you work fine. Should i smell something here? OR is it that it is the problem with the browser end that they are not able to render your coding? ( all that supported browser thingummy!)

2. You dont allow me to become invisible in chat while using Firefox. You simply hide the option! Thats not fair! Whilst this time you work fine with Opera and IE. So whats the fine print eh? Edit: And now i can , so what was the problem?

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3. The latest version of IE i.e.  7 as well as Internet Explorer 8 Beta dont allow me to scroll while  chatting in gmail..:(  Now thats an IE problem definitely..i m not blaming you!)

4. Opera (9.63) doesnt allow me to type anything in the search box and so cant search anything. Now what do i do!?

Using myriad browsers,
Your user since 2008(!),
krutsig
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
WISHING THE MERRIEST CHRISTMAS TO EVERYONE!

The Olive Syndrome

Posted by: Krutika on: December 13, 2008

There is so much i want to do and want to have that if stretched like a chewed bubblegum, it would encompass the four endpoints(imaginary) in each direction of India.Can you imagine that? I cant because i have seen it in my mind. You dont imagine what is there,you see it.

Take a sneak peek into some of what i want to learn, what i want to be, what i want to do.
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Is it too much? Its relative(Einstein-thanks for that). Depends on the timeframe obviously. If i say that this is want i want to learn, want to be, want to do in next 10 years. Its too less to ask of. But if say i shorten the timespan then obviously its fine or even maybe too much if i overconfidently tell you that i expect to do all this in a quarter of a year!

Can anyone tell me if there is a syndrome or something for this,where you want to learn variegated thingummies?  Sure it exists. Like eternal-student-syndrome exists!

Or should i invent one after me?! What should we call it? Ah..Yes..The Olive Syndrome….:-)

Why Olive? Why not Krutika Syndrome? Well thats the subject of another post altogether. We shall talk about you soon, Olive!

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No Title

Posted by: Krutika on: December 7, 2008

I woke up yesterday after almost 15.5 hours of sleep. Told ya i am a voracious sleeper. At such times, i really feel a great rush of love towards my mom who never minds when i gradually pay off my accumulated sleep debts.

Its best when you wake up by yourself- without the alarm. You feel so fresh. There is not a single thought flying to and fro through your synapses. Thats what i felt yesterday. Then it occured to me that i have no thought in my mind-like a child perhaps.  But then this qualifies as a thought. Then how can i be thoughtless?

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Okay you might say that the time when there was no thought was ‘t’ and the time when it occured to me that there was no thought in my mind was ‘t+δt’…

But δt→0. What of that?

So it is a paradox, you see. And , i love paradoxes.

Another example is the title of this post.

Yet another : I never write anything in italics coz i hate it.

Yet another: My email signature : “Expect the unexpected”. Tito(my boss at MAXIM) says its a nice brand name for myself. So it must be….

krutsig

At his funniest best

Posted by: Krutika on: November 23, 2008

This is Jug Suraiya’s article for today’s Times in his column “Jugular Vein.”

FLIGHT CONTROL

It is so downright funny..I thought you might want to check it out and have a laugh.

krutsig

A Sony moment

Posted by: Krutika on: November 13, 2008

A view of rush hour lights in motion at Subhash Bridge, Ahmedabad.

I was passing by Subhash Bridge and luckily i had a camera in my bag and so my mind went ‘ting’ at this Sony moment which i thought i could capture. This shot is the best among the shots of that night. My personal favourite. I am always befuddled by the four lettered word which contains ‘f’ in it. And i mean the word ‘LIFE’.

After such shots, like a tiger which has tasted blood and becomes a man-eater, you want to exercise your amateur skills at some more motion photography.
But i dint know how to convey motion in the background and i searched and i found this very good tutorial called A Beginners Guide to Capturing Motion in Your Photography.

And after i hone my skills and learn the technique, i will post my experiments. Till then Aloha!

krutsig

My concerns about my memory are well-placed

Posted by: Krutika on: November 12, 2008

I appeared for an interview recently- actually not one but two. One with the boss of the company and one with four senior employees of the same.

The scene at the second one:

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{Co-Life is a word coined by me. Meaning: unit of people. Here i am using the word to represent the interviewer}

Co-Life: How many percentage did you obtain at your M.Sc. examination?

Me: …..{cant believe i took almost ten seconds to answer this} 71.19

Co-Life: Aggregate?

Me: Yes. Aggregate of all four semesters.

Co-Life: What about your last semester?

Me:….{ten seconds again this time..} Uh i dont remember..{i could have said approx this n that bcoz i remembered the approx marks but i dont know why i said i dont remember..the sad fact is that it was partially true- i dint remember my exact marks:-( }

Co-Life: {initial shock expression then covers it up} It happens with us too sometimes.

Co-Life2: When did you get your results?

Me: August

Co-Life: ….{shifts in her seat- i think it conveys its not okay to forget your own hard-earned marks}

[rest of the interview]

….Of course its not okay.. {horror} is there any serious candidate out there who doesnt remember his/her marks. I am. I totally goofed it up. I know.

And i dont even want to delve into the gory details of the rest of the interview. Because i dont want to commit a personal hara-kiri…

EDIT: The little respite i can offer myself is that i had confirmed it would be only a written test but after the test they also took out-of-the-blue interview(s) ….

krutsig

For Steve Allen…

Posted by: Krutika on: November 11, 2008

I save you the hard work by telling you that this post contains videos..Laugh out loud videos..and how i dint know about Steve Allen but i know who he is, now..

1. Steve Allen does not recognize his new bride when she appeared as a mystery guest on the game show “What’s my line?”

2. Steve Allen’s famous line “Is it bigger than a breadbox?”

3. And the best of all..Steve Allen’s infectious laughter. I bet you will be laughing too by the time the video ends.

My coincidental discovery of Steve Allen’s existence:

Once upon a time..okay okay..

I had been in the big university library that might look like an inspiration to a book lover to take up the challenge of reading the whole lot. But be assured there is more probability of aliens coming to earth to check us out than the probability of someone finishing reading the whole collection. It is that vast. Like any university library should be. There are scores of old books. Books that have not been touched since decades. One day when i decided to pick up some light reading instead of the usual electronics reference books, i came across the humour section, and the first book that caught my eyes was the one with a humor suggesting font with size 72 pt(perhaps) and written in colourful letters:” Bigger than a breadbox“.It had not been issued since 1990! Immediately, I reached for the back cover description and it said this. I read the book not once but twice. That began my fondness for Steve Allen. I am surprised till that time, i had not even heard of him! I liked the coincidence of stumbling upon the humour section because i was reaching for the fiction shelf. The book is great, just like him. Its such an old book, i doubt it is to be found anywhere other than university libraries.(Atleast here in India)

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