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>Well this time over i don’t want 2 say sorry for being late with the post, cause its gone over the board!!! So long!!!! I had exams going on. Well that is the easiest reason out, but does not really qualify being one. Don’t we listen to Led Zepplin during exams?? Don’t we meet friends during exams?? then why not a post???

To talk of other things. Just stumbled upon this article on BBC.. It predicts that there would be more than 100 million blogs next year, and a 200 million people have already stopped writing blogs. Read the entire post –

Blogging ‘set to peak next year’

The blogging phenomenon is set to peak in 2007, according to technology predictions by analysts Gartner.

The analysts said that during the middle of next year the number of blogs will level out at about 100 million.

The firm has said that 200 million people have already stopped writing their blogs.

Gartner has made 10 predictions, including stating that Vista will be the last major release of Windows and PCs will halve in cost by 2010.

Gartner analyst Daryl Plummer said the reason for the leveling off in blogging was due to the fact that most people who would ever start a web blog had already done so.

He said those who loved blogging were committed to keeping it up, while others had become bored and moved on.

A lot of people have been in and out of this thing
Daryl Plummer, Gartner

Quick guide: Blogging

“A lot of people have been in and out of this thing,” Mr Plummer said.

“Everyone thinks they have something to say, until they’re put on stage and asked to say it.”

Last month blog tracking firm Technorati reported that 100,000 new blogs were being created every day, and 1.3 million blog posts were written.

Technorati is tracking more than 57 million blogs, of which it believes around 55% are “active” and updated at least every three months.

well this speaks it all.. Now the question arising is ” WHERE DOES A NORMAL BLOGGER( Like yours truly) STAND??”

That , well, only time can decide…

Some more predictions in the same post are..

# By 2010, the average total cost of ownership of new PCs will fall by 50%

# By 2010, 60% of the worldwide cellular population will be “trackable” via an emerging “follow-me internet”

# By the end of 2007, 75% of enterprises will be infected with undetected, financially motivated, targeted malware that evaded their traditional perimeter and host defences

well, the future of the world, as Thomas Friedman rightly predicted seems to be flat!!!

one more thing before i sign off.. the date of this post is nov 30, coz, of some technical reasons… 🙂

>Well, a long time that i have actually posted( The last one was just a tag!!). Was caught up with exams, AIESEC, Friends and many other people who feel it their birth right to eat up my time. Jus kiddin!! I actually had a rocking time, met some real good people, and had a blast of time with them. It were probably the most engaging days in my college life, and wait!! ” NO, I still don’t have a girlfriend!!”. Whatever.

This brief period of time also presented me with loads of oppurtunities to interact with different new people in the course of organising events – The AIESEC LTS( i am the Oc – VP – Logistics), the teachers day bash in my college( Dude, we are the seniormost students!!) and the freshers party being the major ones. The least i can say – ” It was a lovely learning experience”.

Well, the contents of this post too are, unfortunately, too general. Me reading quite a few blogs these days, and these are some ideas directly lifted from them. Dude!! I have got exams from the 24th, and reserving my limited thinking capabilities till then to make up some real creative write ups( In Engineering?? Yes.)

Bharat Jhurani at the HOGWARTS

People who know me would swear i am not a muggle and that i was actually supposed to graduate from HOGWARTS!! J.K. Rowling really helps get out of all the lows in life.
And Harry Potter?? – Why am i in GITAM??
Now, if i was actually in Hogwarts, which house would i be in?? This site came to my rescue. It has the legendary Magic Sorting hat. All it requires is answers to some questions, and the legendary magic hat would do the sorting job. And, i belong to

be sorted @ nimbo.net

Yes, the coveted GRYFFINDOR!!! Yipppeeee!!!

DECODED

No, don’t get me wrong. I am not dwelling into my borin engg subjects, they are for the 24th. I was just curious to decode my name and this is what i have found –

CYBORG

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alt=”Biomechanical Handcrafted Android Responsible for Accurate Troubleshooting”
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Sexy

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alt=”Beguiling Handsome Adonis Readily Administering Touches”
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Monster

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alt=”Bloodthirsty, Hitchhiker-Abducting, Redhead-Attacking Terror”
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Well, do these acronyms really make me up?? I have no clue!!!

And, now for the jackpot –

WHO AM I??

Once again, don’t get me wrong. M not talking about jackie chan or someone. Heard about a site called Googlism( I am sure Google has nothin to do with it). It lists out all the attributes associated with a persons name. Alas!! It had no searcehs found for BHARAT JHURANI, so had to settle down on BHARAT. After weeding through all the relatedness with Our beloved country( Yeah!! i share my name!!!), these are somethings about me…

bharat is the man with accurate info on dsq
( What is dsq???)

bharat is special
( That i am..)

bharat is to be king and you are to be banished for fourteen years
( Still want to read my blog?? he he.. i am sure this one realted to the Ramayana. Eeks, i share my name with a way lot of people)

bharat is an international student at missouri tech from nepal
( Next, it’ll come up with – ” Bharat is a maoist!!!)

bharat is in love with a dancing doll renu
( My favourite. I guess two people need to meet, or atleast know each other to love!! So, when am i meeting RENU and dancing with her??)

Well, that was all. With the promise of coming back soon, am off to a meeting with Mr. Gulati – he happens to be the author of the text on Television engineering

>Ven one gets into the blogdom.. there r somethings tht one can’t avoid. One of them being the lure 2 tag, and b tagged. Here i m tagged by Sweety and it was fun. Gave me a chance for self-introspection.

Bold the ones you did.

* the ones you want to do

01. Bought everyone in the bar a drink*
02. Swam with wild dolphins
03. Climbed a mountain*
04. Taken a Ferrari for a test drive****
05. Been inside the Great Pyramid**
06. Held a tarantula
07. Taken a candlelit bath with someone**
08. Said ‘I love you’ and meant it
09. Hugged a tree
10. Bungee jumped*
11. Visited Paris
12. Watched a lightning storm at sea
13. Stayed up all night long and saw the sun rise.
14. Seen the Northern Lights
15. Gone to a huge sports game
16. Walked the stairs to the top of the leaning Tower of Pisa
17. Grown and eaten your own vegetables.
18. Touched an iceberg*
19. Slept under the stars.
20. Changed a baby’s diaper.
21. Taken a trip in a hot air balloon
22. Watched a meteor shower
23. Gotten drunk on champagne**
24. Given more than you can afford to charity
25. Looked up at the night sky through a telescope
26. Had an uncontrollable giggling fit at the worst possible moment.
27. Had a food fight.( It was fun!!)
28. Bet on a winning horse.
29. Asked out a stranger
30. Had a snowball fight
31. Screamed as loudly as you possibly can…(Its a routine!!!)
32. Held a lamb
33. Seen a total eclipse
34. Ridden a roller coaster !!!
35. Hit a home run
36. Danced like a fool and not cared who was looking
37. Adopted an accent for an entire day
38. Actually felt happy about your life, even for just a moment.
39. Had two hard drives for your computer !!!
40. Visited all 10 provinces.
41. Taken care of someone who was drunk.
42. Had amazing friends…(lotsa online pals :D)
43. Danced with a stranger in a foreign country
44. Watched wild whales
45. Stolen a sign
46. Backpacked in Europe
47. Taken a road-trip
48. Gone rock climbing
49. Midnight walk on the beach
50. Gone sky diving*
51. Visited Ireland
52. Been heartbroken longer then you were actually in love
53. In a restaurant, sat at a stranger’s table and had a meal with them
54. Visited Japan***
55. Milked a cow
56. Alphabetized your cds
57. Pretended to be a superhero
58. Sung karaoke
59. Lounged around in bed all day
60. Posed nude in front of strangers…!!!
61. Gone scuba diving*
62. Kissed in the rain**
63. Played in the mud
64. Played in the rain.
65. Gone to a drive-in theater
66. Visited the Great Wall of China *
67. Started a business
68. Fallen in love and not had your heart broken
69. Toured ancient sites
70. Taken a martial arts class( SO, be careful!!)
71. Played D&D for more than 6 hours straight…!!
72. Gotten married.
73. Been in a movie
74. Crashed a party
75. Gotten divorced
76. Gone without food for 5 days
77. Made cookies from scratch
78. Won first prize in a costume contest
79. Ridden a gondola in Venice **
80. Gotten a tattoo *
81. Rafted the Snake River
82. Been on television news programs as an “expert”
83. Got flowers for no reason
84. Performed on stage
85. Been to Las Vegas
86. Recorded music
87. Eaten shark
88. Had a one-night stand
89. Gone to Thailand**
90. Bought a house ***
91. Been in a combat zone*
92. Buried one of your parents
93. Been on a cruise ship **
94. Spoken more than one language fluently
95. Performed in Rocky Horror.
96. Raised children.
97. Followed your favorite band/singer on tour*
98. Created and named your own constellation of stars .
99. Taken an exotic bicycle tour in a foreign country
100. Picked up and moved to another city to just start over
101. Walked the Golden Gate Bridge*
102. Sang loudly in the car, and didn’t stop when you knew someone was looking.
103. Had plastic surgery
104. Survived an illness that you shouldn’t have survived
105. Wrote article for a large publication
106. Lost over 100 pounds.
107. Held someone while they were having a flashback*
108. Piloted an airplane*
109. Petted a stingray
110. Broken someone’s heart.
111. Helped an animal give birth
112. Won money on a T.V. game show *
113. Broken a bone
114. Gone on an African photo safari
115. Had a body part of yours below the neck pierced
116. Fired a rifle, shotgun, or pistol
117. Eaten mushrooms that were gathered in the wild
118. Ridden a horse
119. Had major surgery
120. Had a snake as a pet
121. Hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon
122. Slept for more than 30 hours over the course of 48 hours.
123. Visited more foreign countries than U.S. states
124. Visited all 7 continents****
125. Taken a canoe trip that lasted more than 2 days
126. Eaten kangaroo meat
127. Eaten sushi
128. Had your picture in the newspaper
129. Changed someone’s mind about something you care deeply about
130. Gone back to school ..lol!!!!***
131. Parasailed
132. Petted a cockroach (emmmmm:(:(:(
133. Eaten fried green tomatoes
134. Read The Iliad – and the Odyssey**
135. Selected one “important” author who you missed in school, and read ,,,lemme think for a while …:D**
136. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
137. Skipped all your school reunions.
138. Communicated with someone without sharing a common spoken language*
139. Been elected to public office
140. Written your own computer language*
141. Thought to yourself that you’re living your dream
142. Had to put someone you love into hospice care
143. Built your own PC from parts
144. Sold your own artwork to someone who didn’t know you*** ( nah nah ……. :)) )
145. Had a booth at a street fair
146. Dyed your hair
147. Been a DJ**
148. Shaved your head( Tirupati…)
149. Caused a car accident
150. Saved someone’s life**

Thts it.. I’m done wid the extensive list..
Hav fun comprehending it…!!!

>well.. not much 2 speak.. except the known fact tht the blogosphere is goin places..

From movies, to public opinions to polls to verdicts.. Everywhere one can feel the verberates of the blogdom..

Here’s the blogcamp a “un-conference” held in Chennai very recently..
Hit the site for a further insight..

Nd all the best to all the endeavours of my fellow bloggers..

Always at your support..

BJ

>ok.. no bullshitting around. I have an agenda : gotta speak about 29th june 2006. Wait. Before that.. Am i on time for this post??? I don’t think so. This lazy ass of mine doesen’t budge from its place and my fingers are trying to compete with them in lethargy. Me – the Sufferrer. Does it not sound a lot like Natwar Singh. ” The hand has no hand in the affairs”?? Oh!! What am i scribbling?? All crap. just arbit stuph, ven i am suppossed to do some important thing.

June 29th 2006 : Another day of placements. Already two top companies of the country have declared me to be too qualified for them( that is what i would like 2 believe!!). Well, for the uninitiated, TCS and WIPRO have just rejected me. well, anyways, one more day and i am all charged up. I am now more stronger and maybe won’t feel so bad even if i am rejected this time over. the company people were suppossed to be here in the college by 9, but they missed their flight or something and could come only at 3. Yes!! 6 hrs behind schedule. and now the constant rumours that it is not exactly interested in us ( GITAMITES).. and its here only as a formality!!!

Well, anyways, we attend the apti test, and the results declared at 6 confirm that i m in for the second round. The technical test. Well, the last two companies audaciously declared that i am not technically sound, and i was ready for an hat-trick. And, with all DBMS, C++, JAVA crap in the paper my apprehensions just got stronger. It was a 75 questions paper, with 40 mins in hand. surprisingly, the results confirmed my entry into the next round – the GD. this at 10pm!! I was all this time in my casuals, and had to switch over to the formal attire. Couldn’t take any chances. the difficult part was done, now its all Gibberish, a cakewalk – GD and a HR interview. The light blue shirt, i just bought yesterday from big bazaar, along with my brother’s trousers( My brother Jatin gifted it 2 me), with a light blue tie, and matching shoes, i was adorning a proffessional look!!

There were 15 candidates in my GD, that took place at an unearthly hour – 11:30pm. people were sleepy and lethargic, and very unenthu’. the topic given to us was ” Should politicians have an upper age limit”. Quite a boring topic to be discussed at such an hour. We were expecting something on the more instinct feelings of human!! Whatever. Banged the gd, and was the best, as i said it was a cakewalk. The results were out at abbout 12:30, and here i am called for the interview. Reached home along with Prasada Rao, at 1:30, and am supposed to reach the college tommorrow morning by 8 AM!!

30th june 2006 : Woke up at about 6. Actually go up from the bed at 6. couldn’t sleep the entire night. I did not want to miss this oppurtunity after coming all this way. I had to shave, as i was quite lethargic, and very unsure of me being called for an interview yesterday. I thought the tech paper would itself whow me the door to a bar, celebrating my hat-trick. Now i hope the interview shows me the way to the bar to celebrate. Anyways, got ready in a jiffy, and was present in the college sharp at 8. The interview happened at 10:30, and it was a bang on. It was quite a vague HR interview, with the normal questions like “Tell me abt urself?”, “What do you do in ur free time?”( the blog came to my rescue there), “What kind of music do you listen to?”.. and after some further chat( yes, i wuld like to call it that), the HR lady interviewing me( who had her face burried in her laptop all this time) gave me a smile and declared – “You are selected boss!!”, handing me over the form. I was on top of the seventh cloud kind of feeling, nothing could define my excitement. i called up Dad and Mom, and they were the happiest people on this planet. It is not everyday that such things happen.!!! Pappu ko naukri mil gayee!!!

We were called for the result declaration session and were given company t-shirts as gifts, and the HR lady tapped my back commenting “He’s a sweet guy”. Now, I dunno what i had done to appear sweet?? Anyways,all this jazz happened till about 12, and here i was a job holder, flirting away the rest of the day. It was one hell of a job-hunt, but as they say – “Alls well that ends well”.

Thus, that finishes the marathon post on me being placed in CSC. Yippeeee!!!!!!!!!!

Well, the title of the post was actually on my ORKUT id all these days, and have been getting all kinds of scraps like “What??” to “Bike hue insaan!!! “.. So, no belittling statements on that. that is an order. 🙂

On other fronts, my life’s been going good for the last couple of days, and i have been having a rockin time at colllege. its fun. And i am seriously going to miss it, for sure, next year after i get out… 🙁

Now before i complete, a small announcement :

Students who are interested to become an AIESECER, v are currently in our annual recruitment drive and I am in the organising committee. So, those interested are requested to please get in touch with me( Only college going Vizagites..)
And for those ignorant people who have not heard of AIESEC, It is the world’s largest Student run organisation. For further details – AIESEC