I Also Have A Dream

I am sitting on the top of a hill, under the shade of a magnificent tree. There is a majestic waterfall in front of me, where the water is constantly churning to form froth. A bright sunlight is shining on this water to make it sparkle like a diamond, and a very faint breeze is blowing the crispy autumn leaves in the air. I’m writing my next book, after my first novel made me the youngest person to win the Man Booker Prize.. at just the age of 22! Just as I was thinking about my novel, suddenly a butterfly comes and sits on my lap. I keep my notebook aside.. and I begin to play with the butterfly. Dreams surely have wings!


Signing Off,
Chuck Norris

New Blog

I have a habit of making new blogs and websites, probably wanting as much space on the web as I can find! Anyways here's it-

http://manasjha.blog.co.in/

Visit it, and comment on posts. Its nice.

Eternal Boredom

The title speaks itself- I'm terribly bored. Taken a week off from school, and absolutely nothing to do at home, except sitting on the computer and playing Spiderman Demo. Very Boring.

Well, there was this Janmashtmi yesterday, which is basically a festival to commemorate the birth of Lord Krishna. We (that is, my colony) celebrate this festival by organizing a Jhanki making competition, which basically means that various groups make jhanki's, or large scale representations of the life of Lord Krishna. Here are the final standings-

• 1st Position- A Block 4th Floor ( My Block )
• 2nd Position- C Block 3rd Floor
• 3rd Position- A Block 3rd Floor and C Block 4th Floor.

Actually, this is quite useless, even though my team won. Though obviously I did'nt work. I've got better things to do, you see. Like sleeping, eating, making quiz papers etc. So you see, I'm a busy guy.

Signing off,

मानस झा

It is out!

Well, I'm talking about the Request for Proposal for the Asian Regional Space Settlement and Design Competition. It's quite complicated stuff, I know. Basically, the RFP's are out, and the team of my school (which unfortunately includes me) is quite excited about it. Though I don't find it exciting. Who wants more work burden on their shoulders? Anyways, it just means more work- for them. As I will obviously not work! I have got other work to do, you see. Like sleeping, studying for exams, making quiz papers. So you see, I'm quite a busy guy.

Signing off,
Busy Guy.

A Complete Waste of Time.

I am trying to find a site on the web which will make a website for me. I don't know why. Maybe because its quite cool to have your own web space, where you write and others read. Anyways, I have Dengue. Quite a long story- I went to Ahlcon Public School for a competition, and we had pizzas there. Next day, I had viral, and after 2 days I got food poisoning. When I went to the hospital to get the tests done, it came out to be Dengue. So I'm sitting at home and wasting away my time.

              Which reminds me, my half yearly exams are going to start very soon. And I really need to start studying. But I don't want to. I am not that hopeless, you see.

You must have observed by now, that I am writing crap. Or rather,bullshit. Just like that fake IPL blogger was writing bullshit. So I guess, reading all this was a complete waste of time, for you. Just like writing all this was a complete waste of time, for me.

Wordpress

Today I saw a few wordpress blogs. They have more features and all, and the blogs are much better. Just thinking to change over to wordpress. But what's the point? My blog would anyways be always full of cobwebs (if you got the metaphor).

Columban Open Quiz 2010- Veni, Vidi, Whisky

Columban Open Quiz, the biggest interschool quizzing event in north India, rolled on this time on 30- 31 July. My team comprised of Raghav Minocha, Vaibhav Darbari, Utkarsh Agarwal, and ofcourse, yours truly. My School, DPS RK Puram, was sending on 5 teams this time from the school, compared to the 40 teams that went last year. And those 5 teams did not include my team. Sad. But we were determined to go for Columban. You see, we have been participating in COQ since the last 2 years. In 2008, we got 2 out of 40 in the prelims, and in 2009 we got 8 out of 40. So, we really had chances of qualifying in the prelims this time. So, we called up the president of the quizzing society of SCS, and after some talking, we finally got ourselves registered on an indivisual basis. Here's what happened in the quiz.

Day 1- We are supposed to report at 9:45 AM. And so we did. Apart from us, there was one more team who was going on an individual basis- The Things. So we assembled in front of the Edmund Rice Hall at 9:30. We then registered at aroung 10. My team no. was B-61, while The Things were B- 63. We went in the Edmund Rice Hall at around 11. The prelims started after 5 minutes, and we attempted around 15 of the 40 questions. I answered 4, Vaibhav 3, Utkarsh 3 and Raghav 1. While the others were guesses. The depression period started when we were'nt even able to answer a single audio- visual. But still, we qualified! We were on tied 8th position along with some other team. Then came the Quarter Finals. 4 teams from group B had qualified for the Quarters out of the total 10. So that was nice. In the quarters, the team of the Quizzing club president and all got 70 points, and topped. We answered 2, of which I answered both. :-). But still, we missed the semis by just 1 question, as if we had got one more question right, we would have got 30, and thus we could have qualified. There was a question whose answer was Mozilla Firefox, and we answered Mozilla. And got it wrong. Hence, could'nt qualify for the semis by just 1 question. :-(. But still, COQ this time was awesome, and we hope to do even better next time....

Money Made The Mare To Go

"Will you lend me your mare to ride a mile?"

"No, she is lame leaping over a stile."

"Alack! and I must go to the fair!"

 "I'll give you good money for lending your mare."

"Oh, oh! say you so?"

"Money will make the mare to go."
 
 
Almost every aspect of life is today influenced by money. No wonder, the safest way to double your money is to fold it and keep it in your pockets...

Where is Chuck Norris?

Apple IPhone 3G S

So guys, as you know, the Apple iPhone 3G S is out in the market....officially! Well, the IPhone 3G was overall a pretty good phone, but quite slow, if you ask me. But know, the 3G S promises to be one of the fastest in the business. Well, they may not me wrong, as the 'S' in the 3G S stands for Speed! Here are the technical details--->

Speed

• The iPhone 3GS has a new processor built-in. Apple claims that it is up to two times faster than the previous generation: Launching messages is 2.1 faster, load the NY Times in Safari: 2.9 times faster. It also consumes less, which has an impact on the improved battery life.

Camera

This is one of the strong points of the iPhone 3GS, according to Apple. They increased the resolution to 3 megapixels, which—judging from the shots they showed-seems much better quality under all conditions.

• 3 Megapixels sensor.

• New camera, with auto focus, auto exposure, and auto white balance.

• You can also tap to focus, changing white balance in the process. That is really neat, if you ask me.

• Special macro and low light modes.

• The camera also supports photo and video geotagging.

• Any application can access all the camera functions now.

• It supports video, 30 frames per second VGA with auto focus, auto white balance, and auto exposure.

• You can trim the video shot just using your finger, then share it via MMS, email, MobileMe and YouTube.

Connectivity

The other part of the "S" is the support for the faster 7.2 Mbps 3G standard, which in theory will deliver data faster to your iPhone.

• Three band UMTS/HSDPA.

• Four band GSM/EDGE.

• Wi-Fi 802.11b/g.

• Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR

Graphics

• The new iPhone 3GS includes new 3D graphics support in hardware. This means faster and more complicated 3D games.

• Same 3.5-inch widescreen multitouch display, but this time it has a fingerprint-resistant oleophobic coating. No oily marks then..I suppose. Will it sustain my french fries-cum-gaming torment?

Design

• Same design as before, including the glossy finish of the back.

• Same size as the old iPhone 3G: 4.5 x 2.4 x 0.48 inches.

• The weight increases a bit: One ounce to 4.8 ounces (135 grams vs 133 grams).

• Greener materials: Arsenic-free glass, BDF-free, Mercury-free LCD.

New Special Features

• It has a magnetometer, which works with a Compass application, third parties, and it is integrated into the new Google maps app, showing your orientation with a small semitransparent cone.

• Voice control. You can now talk with your iPhone, Enterprise-style. You can instruct it to play similar songs to the one you are playing, or call people.

• Nike + support built in.

• Supports accessibility features, like zooming on text, inverting video, and voice over when you touch whatever text is on screen.

Battery Life

• One of the more important new features is the increased battery life.

• According to Apple, you will get up to 12 hours of talk time on 2G and 5 on 3G, with a up to 300 hour standby time.

• On 3G, it will deliver 5 hours of internet use.

• On Wi-Fi, Internet goes up to 9 hours.• Video playback is 10 hours vs 30 hours for audio.

Price

If you are "a valued AT&T customer," AT&T offers an "early iPhone upgrade with a new 2-yr commitment and an $18 upgrade fee." The price? $399.00 for the 16GB iPhone 3G S and $499.00 for the 32GB iPhone 3G S. It gets worse: For non-qualified customers, including existing AT&T customers who want to upgrade from another phone or replace an iPhone 3G, the price with a new two-year agreement is $499 (8GB), $599 (16GB), or $699 (32GB).

Standard price-

• $199 for 16GB version.

• $299 for 32GB version.

Bye bye, AT&T.

So, overall, a pretty neat phone. Nice new features, good camera, fast, pretty fast.

My rating- ☻☻☻☻☺- 4/5.