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Its been ages since I blogged! This is just to tell my blog, that I am still there! That has nothing to do with studies though.. Its plain and simple… Ive become too lazy! Anyways. I hope to spare some time from my laziness in future and blog more frequently!

I have written too many posts in the past about how to prepare for GATE to get into IITs and related stuff.. Now I am almost at the end of my first semester and the experience has been awesome for the most part! I will try to post more on that later..

I have just given my first end sem paper.. There are 3 more to go. We did not have time to breathe during Mid Sem exams (Once I had to write 3 papers in 24 hrs!). But now I have holidays for almost all papers and so here I am spending time lavishly.. (i.e BLOGGING!)

I will surely put up more on the exams at IITs (thats one scary thing) and the side-effects of that!

Till then.. Laters!

When Rooney turned into Dhoney!

WARNING - This post is written in the post England bowout disappointment..  I could relate the anguish of English fans with that of the Indian supporters. The content may be harmful to the loyal English football / Indian Cricket supporters!

England was thrashed into misery by a young German side in QF of WC10. It comes hardly as a surprise. When you think of it, the England Football World Cup story is very similar to the Indian Cricket World Cup saga, that takes place once every 4 years.

English superstars, the so-called golden generation, play in the most coveted league – the EPL! They are the Princes and Kings of their respective clubs..

1. Terry and Lampard virtually run Chelsea.

2. Gerrard is the soul of Liverpool.

3. Rooney is Mr. Manchester United.

Lampard and Rooney scored for fun for their clubs in the EPL season. Same is true for Dhoni and Co, when they play in the IPL. Then what happens to these stars when they pplay for their country in World Cup Finals, or T20?

Both sets of supporters have a common story to tell. They hype up the expectations before the big tournament and believe that the current set of squad is the best ever seen. The players have unimaginable burden of expectations, and when they have worked their hearts out to help their respective clubs secure the club trophies, they ultimately crumbled under the world stage! Reasons can be many..  But they are mostly common..  The most frustrating thing is, other countries like Brazil, Germany in football, or Australia in Cricket always seem to find players that rise to the occasion!

Then the Heroes turned into Zeroes are bashed, battered and targeted by the media and same supporters. In India, we burn effigies of the culprits, while in England, the punishment is little less harsh!

Then the story repeats itself..   The memories are washed out and the cycle continues in 4 years time..

We await the next Rooney, and the next Dhoni..   Who will make the country proud..   And hope the new Rooney does not turn into the old Dhoni and Vice versa..

PS: Image Credits – 1. Dhoni

2.Rooney

Hello World – Typical Start

Its so easy to name your first post hello world..  and its so typical of it too and it is sooo shitty..   but screw it..  I will name it Hello World and I will be that un-innovative if you want to call it that way!

Anyways.  I used to be a Sun Campus Ambassador, and ‘owned’ a  Sun Blog – http://blogs.sun.com/jaysblog which i used to brag about all my technical findings and demos and stuff…

I have lost it now ever since my contract expired and I have been looking for something else, until I zeroed in on Floating Points!

Why I named it floating points?

I dont know.. I was looking for a nice name..  and after my first blog – http://novicenetneans.blogspot.com/ which was a disastrous name in itself,  and then http://noviceopensolaris.blogspot.com/ – Disaster No. 2 i thought I could do with a non technical name!

So, Floating Points! Though it is not completely non technical and I hate the Floating Point Format to store real numbers in computers!!

I will be writing some shitty stuff in coming posts..   And if you happen to read them, hard luck!

Bye for now