Muchhala’s World

January 1st, 2007 | Tags: Random | Category: Random | Comments (3)

This post is dedicated to Prasad Balan Iyer, my former clasmate and a true friend. And if you are wondering why, then its just because he made the great header for the blog, the earlier one was just a rip off from my friend Gurdit’s Blog, with my louzy editing in MS Paint. Actually he had made it on Sunday itself, but just me, too lazy to put it up.

OH and just how good a person he is, he made this GIF image, which has a freaking 63 frames and is 1 MB in size, and that too made while his exams are on.

(Click On the Image)

OH and that reminds me Best of Luck PBI (or as a matter of fact, to anyone who has his/her exams ON)

December 13th, 2006 | Tags: Random | Category: Random | Comments (6)

For the last few days, I was not getting through to Gmail in Standard mode, so decided to clear my cache and cookies. And walla, the standard view was back. But there was a difference, it had Google Chat in with it, and I had not masked it to identiy Opera as Firefox or Internet Explorer.

I have not been able to find an official confirmation, but I think they were working on it, which resulted in Gmail being unavailabe a little while yesterday

P.S: GChat has been ON/OFF on me and I have had too clear my cache and cookies again and again, to get it back, whereas my friend Aman, or even my hosted account (mail id for the blog) have had no such problem.

November 26th, 2006 | Tags: Google, Internet | Category: Uncategorized | Comments (11)

I got this as a forward yesterday, and thought was good enough to share.

So here’s one reason, why you shouldn’t cross Railway Tracks.

(http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6939402171385175644)
Hope the couple here got their lesson, and you too (if you too cross like that)

P.S.: This is my first blog post with a video in it.

November 23rd, 2006 | Tags: Random, Videos | Category: Random | Comments (6)

Yes folks it’s true. Google Talk now finally supports Offline Messaging (Official Blog Entry). Let’s just hope that the uber cool Google Chat emoticons are also ported into GTalk.

If you send somebody an Offline Message via Google Talk, the message will be received when they sign into Google Talk/Gmail. In Google Talk it appears as a normal message from a friend, whereas in Gmail it appears as a new Message.

OH yes there’s a catch. You only get this feature when you use Google Talk with a Gmail Account and that too with Save Chat History Enabled. Also if you were chatting off the record before your friend went offline, you’ll need to select Stop chatting off the record before sending offline messages.

November 3rd, 2006 | Tags: Google, Internet, Softwares | Category: Uncategorized | Comments (5)

Finally my driving lessons started yesterday, with the timmings being 6 AM to 7 AM (but I am always late) and I have the best and the worst teacher in the world, my Dad. Best because he has tons of driving experience and his control is awesome. Also he’s the worst person to teach because of his temper. Well frankly he will shout at me till I become a perfect driver. Which I want to be, and I will try and reduce my firings every day hopefully, but I know they will increase as he finds even more flaws.

Basically I am a car freak, and pretty much know how a car works, and have for a long time have been taking the car out of the Lane (with Dad standing nearby to guide), so I have a little bit of judgment as to where the car is headed and thankfully don’t stall the car, like I used to stall the scooter when I started learning it.

The first few things I have learnt is that the amount of concentration levels required while driving a car as compared to say a bike/moped are massive. Or maybe, it’s just that I lack confidence when it comes to driving a 4 wheeler. Hopefully in a few days time my stress levels will come down.

There are so many tiny details one never comes to know while in the passengers’ seat, like while taking a U-turn, when the car is almost turned, one needs to start straightening the car, or else you end up in the wrong lane. Also how important it is to stay in your lane, especially while tuning, the inputs needed and using more of those mirrors. Never had to give a damn about such stuff, while on a two-wheeler, maybe it’s just that driving a bicycle in the child hood and then the moped, made me pretty perfect in those departments.

A few of my flaws are mainly moving out of the lane or getting too much inside it and looking and shifting, I tried shifting without looking today, but the car tends to go slightly towards the right. Maybe that’s because I hold the steering wheel too tight, which I also need to loosen a bit. Or why don’t you just ask my dad what my flaws are and I bet the list will be huge. Actually I do find improvements in my driving, in just two days, but they are just slightly less wrong. But sill the flaws list is huge.

Now, my immediate aim is to get a learners license for 4 Wheelers. Which as it is no big deal, those RTO guys are really good, and as to what those RTO agents make them look like. But damn my good old Sunny Zip has given up and is all set to go to the Junk Yard. So the travels going to be a big pain, and unless Dad stays home tomorrow, the auto-rickshaw guy is going to make some good some tomorrow.

P.S: I am just going to update this post, to tell all you people reading this blog as to how I am improving, unless something really big happens that needs a new post all together. So please keep checking.

October 26th, 2006 | Tags: Life Update | Category: Uncategorized | Comments (3)

Wikipedia entry on Eid-ul-Fitr

October 23rd, 2006 | Tags: Celebrations | Category: Uncategorized | Comments (2)