diwali on S Anand

No more updates for a while

Fri, 01 Nov 2002 12:00:00 +0000

I’m going to try and not update until Monday (11th Nov, not 4th). Don’t even bother visiting. Happy Diwali!

Diwali

Fri, 27 Oct 2000 12:00:00 +0000

It was a rather busy week. Nothing much happened. I realized that I’d been roaming around too much, and that it was time to get to some assignments. Not that much work was done. Understandable, since most of my time was spent reading movie scripts – notably The World is Not Enough.

Diwali was not at all bad, considering that most of it was spent away from home. After spending 10 hours in front of the computer, I walked home from the Ilford station, when I was greeted with a BANG! It was with pure delight that I turned around, just in time to see a rocket exploding. It took me 45 minutes to walk home that night, watching as I was all the sights in the sky. Never, even in India, have I seen such lovely firework displays. The noise was probably a BIT subdued, but I wouldn’t even be sure of that. The place even smelt like home! I did hear the comment that “Indians have to bring noise pollution even here, do they?” Sure. We make ourselves at home. We lit a lamp, and that was about it for Diwali.

There this site called Fotango that develops films for free and posts them online. I sent 4 rolls to them. The deal is that, you put all these rolls in an envelope, and mail it to them (postage is prepaid). After 3-4 days, the develop your film, mail the negatives to you, and put up the snaps online on their site. So how do they make money? Well, if you print out any snaps, they charge you. But they’re also in the process of building online communities and all that. Well, sounds good, but my bet is still on Yahoo!

A tiring day

Wed, 11 Oct 2000 12:00:00 +0000

A rather tiring day.

09:00 am: Wake up, and still feel sleepy.
10:00 am: Leave for LBS
11:00 am: Reach LBS. Check mails. These days, it takes a couple of hours.
12:30 pm: Attend India Club meeting for Diwali celebrations. Very well organized.
01:15 pm: Presentation by Booz-Allen & Hamilton. Pretty good. Manage to stay awake.
02:15 pm: Eat lunch. Stupidly eat prawns without seeing the labels. Almost vomit.
03:00 pm: Group meeting. Discuss Dell.
04:15 pm: Fall asleep in AT Kearney’s presentation.
05:15 pm: Stay away from anything that looks non-veg during tea.
06:00 pm: World economy class. Excellent professor. Terribly funny. Everything makes sense.
07:00 pm: Guest lecturer. Fall asleep.
08:00 pm: Back to Prof. Scott. Wake up and listen.
09:00 pm: Answer more mails.
10:00 pm: Chucked out of computer center. Go home.
11:15 pm: Have dinner.
midnight: Crash.