Thats Me In The Corner

As usual, I was trying to kill time on the Internet and I came across this blogpost of Kalyan Verma. As he was coming from mysore, he saw a bus with big firefox logo pasted all around it. He immediately stopped his car and the bus to take the pictures. As it is evdient from his blog entry that driver or riders had no idea where the logo came from. Seems like there is no scarcity of Firefox fanboys in rural India as well.

Though I won’t classify myself as a web-browser fanboy, Firefox is my default browser and the blogpost pretty much amused me. It is obvious that painting vehicles comes in the category of menial jobs done by the members belonging to less fortunate sections of Indian society who are said to have little or no education/tech knowledge, let alone the browser fanboyism. Amongst them it is enthralling to such a love for Firefox. Looks like passion for Opera and other browsers has a long way to go . I just hope this is not photoshopped. Here are the pictures :-

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Procrastination is a complex psychological behavior that affects everyone to some degree or another. With some it can be a minor problem; with others it is a source of considerable stress and anxiety. Procrastination is only remotely related to time management, (procrastinators often know exactly what they should be doing, even if they cannot do it), which is why very detailed schedules usually are no help.

If you know me you’d be very well aware of how big a procrastinator am I. I keep delaying my work for no reason, may it be my studies, personal problems, etc. Infact without going into details I’d like to mention that I lost a very good friend due to the very reason. As I mentioned that minor or major this problem is present in every human being and as I was digging my way throught the Internet I came accross this article which actually helped me a lot. I’d like everyone to read this article and try to follow it :-

Characteristics
The procrastinator is often remarkably optimistic about his ability to complete a task on a tight deadline; this is usually accompanied by expressions of reassurance that everything is under control. (Therefore, there is no need to start.) For example, he may estimate that a paper will take only five days to write; he has fifteen days; there is plenty of time; no need to start. Lulled by a false sense of security, time passes. At some point, he crosses over an imaginary starting time and suddenly realizes, “Oh no! – I am not in control! There isn’t enough time!”

At this point, considerable effort is directed towards completing the task, and work progresses. This sudden spurt of energy is the source of the erroneous feeling that “I only work well under pressure.” Actually, at this point you are making progress only because you haven’t any choice. Your back is against the wall and there are no alternatives. Progress is being made, but you have lost your freedom.

Barely completed in time, the paper may actually earn a fairly good grade; whereupon the student experiences mixed feelings: pride of accomplishment (sort-of), scorn for the professor who cannot recognize substandard work, and guilt for getting an undeserved grade. But the net result is reinforcement: the procrastinator is rewarded positively for his poor behavior. (“Look what a decent grade I got after all!”) As a result, the counterproductive behavior is repeated over and over again.

Positive reinforcement for delay (a good grade) is a principal contributor to continued procrastination. Read the rest of this entry »

After all these days of drunkedness, pornness, lazyness and procrastinationess I get back (or atleast plan) to work again from tomorrow. I finally decided that I am preparing seriously for competitive exams like JEE, CEE, AIEEE, CET, etc. I joined Brilliant Tutorial’s crash course and it seems they are pretty positive about fucking with our lives.

We’ll be having 6 hours classes, 5 days a week with 15 minutes break after first 2 hours and 45 minutes after another 2. And a guy like me who couldn’t attend 2 thirty minutes class in school without bunking all his life is actually gonna attend it. It seems that this just not might be my piece of cake but I still am giving it a shot. I don’t really know if I’ll be able to show my face the second day so I haven’t paid them yet. Heh.

Before these crash course I had joined Brilliant’s two year classroom course in which I literally made one of the teachers quit BT and I quit after a few days. But that time was different. I had time in my hands then. But now its high time and if I don’t get serious I might actually end up fucking my life. Since commerce is just not made for me engineering seems to be the only way. Secondly, I’d rather quit my education than screwing around in a third grade college so wish me luck for tomorrow and I hope I will be return alive.

P.S. – Long hours in vicinity of teachers and classrooms has a toxic effect on me.

I have a habit of overusing that word and everyone is pissed about it. But now I just wanna use it over and over again. I just might spend half an hour in the bathroom repeating the word again and again and that would be better than celebrating the end of examinations with chilled beer, popcorn and a Quentin Tarantino movie in combination.

Yay! My 12th grade Board exams are finally over and in some sort of peculiar school of thought which I possess thinks that they were fairly good in spite of the fact that I fucked up the Maths paper so badly that I might actually get the marks which are not worth mentioning even here. Now, its been 72 hours, 34 minutes and 6 seconds ( FYI, I possess Godly Powers as well. Ok, its called PC) for the end of my exams and I am so frustated about not feeling that celestial felicity which Jesus promised me I would feel after the examination period.

Ok, on a more serious note, I had made up my mind so much that making a blog post about the end of examinations is so cliched and I won’t do it. But, I just couldn’t resist in the end. Read the rest of this entry »

A plenty of people offline and online often ask me why have I kept the name of my blog ‘Thats Me In The Corner’ and the subtitle as ‘Losing My religion’. The primary reason being that when I was thinking about the name, this song was playing on my computer. Secondly, the lyrics of this song fits exactly in accordance with my principles and thinking in life.

“Losing My Religion” is a song recorded by the rock band R.E.M. from their 1991 album Out of Time. I have faint memories of listening to this song just for its musical pleasure when I was nine. The times when I couldn’t even understand the lyrics of an english song. Then, I think for many years, however, I’ve misunderstood the meaning of this song. Like many people, I took the title at face value and assumed the song was about someone who is coming to terms with losing his faith in his religion. This, obviously, is not the case. The phrase is actually old Southern slang for losing one’s temper or being at the end of one’s rope. The meaning of the song is best put by an anonymous internet user: As it (the old Southern slang) pertains to the song, it’s about an individual obsessed with another and whose feelings about how to approach that other person and how to deal with the whole awkward and rather uncomfortable situation leave the obsessed party to feel as though he is at the end of his rope.

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