typings of a random clicker

again, just soo heavenly, i can stare at it whole day.

A seasonal flowering (donno tree name!) with enchanting yellow

It rained yesterday in delhi, its occasional dust storms, cloudy weather with thunderstorms and rain these days.

After some long hesitation finally did a dist upgrade from sarge to etch on my laptop, some small screwups in the process, wrt xf86 -> xorg migration & some minor hardware issues. now for a kernel recompile!.
I am not going for debconf, due to last minute visa issues!! lesson learnt, trips abroad are not to be planned in same fashion as local ones!

meanwhile following it up at #DebConf on IRC. There is definetly lot of fun going there!

This is one thing i hate the most, not knowing whether one would be travelling or not untill the last minute. While I got mexican visa, have been refused a ‘direct airside transit visa’ for UK! (i am taking british airways flights through london), & they wont even say on what basis it is refused!, now will have make rounds of BHC!

So by afternoon/evening should come to know if i am going or not, if not going then it has been a waste of month of time & lot of money!.

कहीं ओर्कुट पर !

गर्लफ्रेण्ड नसण्याचे फायदे

१. तुम्ही कोणाही मुलीला बिंधास्त निरखू शकता.

२. तुमचा तिच्यावर खर्च होणारा पैसा वाचतो.

३. अभ्यासावर लक्ष केंदित होऊ लागल्याने परीक्षेत तुम्हाला बरे मार्क मिळू लागतात.

४. इमोशनल ब्लॅकमेलिंग केले जाण्याचा धोका संपतो.

५. गर्लफ्रेंडच नसल्याने तिने ‘डिच’ करण्याचा प्रश्ान् उरत नाही.

६. फोनच्या रिंगपेक्षा महत्त्वाचे असे आयुष्यात बरेच काही असते, याचा साक्षात्कार होईल.

७. तुमच्यासाठी चांगले-वाईट काय हे दुसऱ्या कुणीतरी ठरवण्यातून तुमची मुक्तता होईल.

८. तुम्ही आयुष्यातल्या अन्य व्यक्तींसाठीही (उदाहरणार्थ आई, बाबा, बहीण, भाऊ) भेटवस्तू घेऊ शकाल.

९. प्रेमपत्र-सत्र थांबल्याने कागद वाचेल, त्यामुळे काही झाडे वाचतील.

१०. रड्या प्रेमकथांऐवजी अॅक्शन फिल्म पाहण्याचं स्वातंत्र्य मिळेल.

११. थापांच्या पापातून सुटका होईल.

१२. स्वप्नांचा ‘व्यत्यय’ संपल्याने झोप छान लागेल.

As slowly I am realizing my travel genes, I am developing a taste for odd locations, so some places where I would like to go in my lifetime.

Central America/Gautemala ( mayan civilization )

Peru ( the andes & Inca sites )

Egypt (what else – the pyramids, mummies, nile!)

Iran (again, persiapolis, a trek on damavand, caspian sea).

Iraq (once cradle of civilization, hope it stabilizes & things remain to see!)

Parts of Africa (Saharan, wild life ones).

Mongolia (the wast deserts & crystal clear skys!)

Cambodia (buddhist,hindu architecture)

Brunei (what on earth is there to have once richest man).

Greenland (igloos?)

Antartica (penguins, south pole!)

& anytime favourite nepal & bhutan.

Lastly Mars, our red planetary neighbour (as of now its a one way ticket only!)

Ok, now its almost final, that I would be going to Mexico, for Debconf6 , this will be my first trip to the other side of the world, 12000km below my feet! My only mexican connection till now was once ordering choley-bhature in a mexican resturant in mumbai, they did take care that i will remember it well! .

Confirmation of the trip came quite late, or else would have planned a trip to Gautemala nearby to visit ancient Mayan sites.

Debconf6 is the annual gettogether of DD/DU/DMs, happening in Oaxtepec (still to learn how to pronounce it!) from 14th to 22nd May, with Debcamp happening from 6th to 12th! 13th being Debian Day. So lot of geek fun to come by

Recently had taken a ride on shimla-kalka toy train (though an evening one), but still trip was enchanting with moonlight & occasional drizzle and lightening halfway downhill. my first trip was on neral-matheran. now hoping to jump upon the kangra toy train (pathankot – jogindernagar) at the earliest opportunity. hoping this year to complete travelling by all hill trains in india ( kangra, ooty, darjeeling remaining ). This will be one small step in the lifetime plan of travelling over every km of Indian Railway track!