Trip – Eranakulam ‘08

We went to veega land during the onam holidays. Me, Sabir, and Petti, that is. At veega land, we jumped around like idiots in the wave pool for hours on end, and Sabir almost sicked up after being spun around for too long in a blender-like apparatus. The same one left me feeling very sleepy for some reason.

Oh, and they have a NEW roller-coaster over there! Looks quite tame and you don’t hear anyone scream while they’re on it, but when you get on, you realize that that’s because they’re too busy hanging on for dear life… well, girls anyway. Guys also have to make sure that some rather fragile components don’t get damaged in transit… to speak in geek-lingo. The ride is fun though.

We also walked around the Marine Drive (Bay Pride Mall, Pentamenaka, etc.) for a bit, before getting on the train back to TVM, and most of the photos I’ve put up at my picasaweb gallery are taken there. I bought the little one a rather cute arm-band thingy that read (appropriately) “the little one”. A little too many letters to fit her wrist properly, but as Sabir pointed out almost immediately, it should fit some other body parts quite well.

She won’t like that. <wicked grin>

I’m leaving for my class trip (Wayanad – 2-day) tomorrow noon / evening. So I’d thought I’d update this place before I left! See ya!

Update:

5 minutes after posting this, I get a call from Unni saying that the trip’s been cancelled. Apparantly, some girls are concerned that their parents won’t let them come when they see that the total number of girls is low. We only had about 25 people coming anyway, and the budget was tight as it was.

Useless bunch of (spineless) gits. And it’s not just those girls, it’s for all those who backed out after commiting to the trip.

Sigh.

Delayed

Listening to music on earphones when there’s people all around is an odd experience. You can see everyone talking, their lips moving to silent words, and I’m outside it all. It’s like hiding in plain sight, when everything you can see makes no difference one way or another. See, anyway. The phone ringing, someone trying to speak to me, or even just someone throwing stones at me – that’s about all it takes to break the moment.

Read this:

“ALL THE REPRESENTATIVES WHO ARE NOT APPEARING FOR RECRUITMENT PROCESS SHOULD COME ASSIST THE CGPU ON 26TH AND 27TH. IF THE STUDENTS SELECTED TO INFOSYS ARE NOT APPEARING FOR THE RECRUITMENT PROCESS,THEIR OFFER LETTERS WILL NOT BE ISSUED. ALL ARE HEREBY INFORMED TO TAKE THIS WARNING SERIOUSLY. AND ATTEND

TOMMORROW. ATTENDANCE OF REPS WILL BE TAKEN SEPERATELY.”

Rude people anger me; especially when their rudeness is uncalled for. The fellow with the threatening tone (and seemingly, a fetish for capitals) above didn’t bother asking nicely first before going out all gung-ho about it.

The Onam Celebration thingy was fun! Our atthappookkalam was the usual clubbing of designs picked up from here and there (this time Jaimy came up with ‘em all) and even though I didn’t stick around till the end, I’m pretty sure we didn’t win anything. I took a whole bunch of photos, and have put up the best at my picasaweb account.

My beloved JBL has said bye-bye… for the time being anyway. Some kinda loose connection inside the sub means it just makes odd buzzing noises most of the time. I tried opening it up and peering at the innumerable PCB-s with their forests of capacitors, but couldn’t find anything obviously out of place. So much for my being able to repair anything and everything. Therefore I’m in the market for a discrete powered subwoofer! If any of my innumerable (ahem) readers can point out someplace to shop for them, or have advice pertaining to the same, please contact me!