The man with the broken neck (well... not really)....

Huh... It has been a funny period of 3-4 days since my last post....

One of the happiest incidents was that I found my football. It was lurking in an old box full of coconuts. The day before I found the ball, we (around 16 people) were playing football. My team was ahead 5-1 and then, suddenly, before anyone got hold, we were trailing 5-6.... Can you believe it? Read more, 4 goals out of our 5 were scored by single person, and an own goal. (It was not me, I am a midfielder). And I didn't even give a single assist.....

It was bad. Though we won 8-6 at the end (courtesy, 7 goals from the man who had scored 4 of the first 5 and a chip in from one more from the second attacker... I wondered when he was gonna score...).

Then I found the ball and practiced. And fell in my front-yard (well the front-yard of my house not my front-yard), on a hard surface. And hurt my neck.... It's pretty bad. Still hurting after some 30 hours.... But that day (Friday) during the game, I just rocked (again not really).

I was playing a defensive role that day, and I was taking all the goal kicks, since I was the only one with studs and I am the only one who practices free kicks (sometimes). So, I took 'em and, surprisingly, 3 of my goal kicks were the assists for the first 3 goals we scored. (It's a small ground, about 125 feet from pole to pole). And I even hit a goal kick that went directly in the net, but that was not counted. (obviously). I was happy (even though my neck was bad).

Then I rushed to my synthesizer class. Score was 3-1, and then I found out that we drew 6-6, cause my attacker friend had to play defense as I was gone. And the worst part was that my tuition was canceled. So, I missed the better part of the game for nothing.

I am still not able to turn my head completely from one side to other. It still hurts a lot :-(.... And, I am going out of the city for a week from tomorrow. Hoping to catch some good books and CDs... Seeya later (I am not sure if anyone ever reads what I write, but if you do, then seeya later....)

Aditya Shevade

My first LONGGGG drive....

It was very good.... I just sat in the car, and began to drive... It was great, I pushed it right up to 90Km/hr.... I feel good.....

About 40 Km... nice hard, and the road was almost empty throughout, so it was great....

A light... of hope... but.....

A light of hope indeed.... As I have mentioned in my last post that I am learning to play a keyboard. Today I had one more lecture. And at the end of the lecture, my sir said that I should get a new big keyboard now.

He said that he thinks that I have improved and am improving. But the only thing that is holding me back is the small keyboard that I have. It does not have a bender, a touch sensitivity, ability to change the tones (synthesis)....

So I came home and spoke with my parents. And they said no.. :-(.. According to them, I must continue learning for about 6 months and then they will buy it... Cause they think that I never stick to one thing... Well I am going to prove them wrong and going to show them that I do care about this and I WANT to learn this... So, forget 6 months, I am going to get expertise with this one that I have and then they will have to buy it.

And sir said that I 'should' get a big one, not I 'must'... So, right now, it's alright, but soon, I am going to have that big one on my doorstep.....

Aditya Shevade

Summary of the whole week...

I cannot say anything... It has been one of the best and worst weeks in my life..... First good news (good for me) is that I have finally started to learn to drive a 4 wheeled vehicle.... And I am doing pretty good.. It's been a week (as I already have written in the heading) and I have not scratched the car (that does not mean that I have crashed it, it just means that everything has been going pretty well....).

But the joys and thrills of this driving thing are not enough for me to keep enjoying what has been going on... So there were more things. I have been learning to play an electronic keyboard for a little over a month now. And there was a get together of my tuitions, and I performed in it in front of some 400 people (mostly parents of the students in the class). I played an old Hindi song, "Jeena Yahan", on a huge synthesizer... It was a big moment for me, the first time I was ever going to perform on the stage with a keyboard and that too on a synthesizer? I mean what I have got at my home is a very very small one. (half the size of what I had to play to be precise). But as I said, I did perform and it went well.... (Except for the starting music, where I was so tense that I pressed one button too lightly that no sound came out...).

In between, I went to a friend of mine and bought home a book from him, 'The Amulet of Summerkand' written by 'Jonathan Straud' (hope the spellings of the names are correct, I don't have the book with me right now). And I have been able to read only the first 60 pages of it... Had been very stressful week....

Apart from that, my laptop was behaving strange (again), so I took it to the service station, and they said that we (HP) provide support only if the laptop behaves strange on Windows XP, and not on OpenSuSE 10.2 (which I was and still am using)... So I had to install XP, and guess what, everything was OK. So I came home.

But having had enough experiences with XP, I reinstalled SuSE, but, in the midway, my father spoke with me and I dunno why, but I reinstalled XP, and was going to install Ubuntu on a pen-drive and use it with XP.... I did that in a single day.... 3 OSs installed in a day.... It was bad....

And after proudly (???) using XP for a week, I have switched back to SuSE (:-)) yesterday... And I am lovin' it...

What else?... Yeah, I also have been trying to expand my skills (Whatever I have) in C and learn C++. (We have a subject C++ in this semester for exams). And am thinking of joining the 2 games that I have so far created Tic Tac Toe and Bulls & Cows and present it as the project for the subject....

So, even if these are holidays, I have been nothing but busy... I mean I sleep around 1am or 2am and wake up at 7am... Then sometimes I sleep during the afternoon, but my friends drag me out of the home to play with them.... It's so tiring.... I just want a break... A big break from this stressed life....

Aditya Shevade

4 down.... 2 to go.....

Finally it's going to be over in less than 4 days..... 4 papers over..... Today was chemistry. I was not sure, what was going to be the difficulty level of the paper, but when I saw it, I was mad at myself. I spent hours and hours studying all the crap which was not even mentioned anywhere in the paper....

But, thanks to some good study material and whatever I had studied, the paper was fine. I have tried my best. You know, when you get in a kind of uncertainty, then just go on writing the same sentences again and again and just change the sequence of the words, and you are done.

From what I have heard, they (paper checkers) just measure the length of the answer paper and give the marks accordingly, and the height of it all was when I heard that one boy had written names of movies in his answers and he still managed to get 40/50.... Can you believe it?

Only 4 days to go......

Aditya Shevade

From the bottom of my heart......

From the bottom of my heart.... Don't get excited.. this is not my love story..... What I am saying is that I hate exams from the bottom of my heart.....

Still 3 papers left... first 3 were good.... The problem is that there are 3 more.... 5 more days..... x-( .... I am just waiting for 25th, when it all will be over and there will be a LONG vacation of about 2 months.......

Till then... enjoy my website at Aditya Shevade.

Aditya Shevade

My life is getting worse and worse.......

I have never been more frustrated in my entire life. First I have got the exams coming up from the 14th and then I have not studied as much as I would have wanted to....

Let me start from the beginning.... On the 1st of May, my cousin was getting married at a place about 400KM from where I live. After a lot of discussion and thinking, I decided to go with my parents on the 28th of April.... As it was marriage time, there were about 16-18 people constantly in the house and sometime even up to 30.... How the hell was I supposed to study? I absolutely wasted 5 days.... But it was worth it... I had a lot of fun.

Then I came home... I was kinda hoping that I might start with full speed, but I dunno how it happened but all of a sudden I am thinking of creating a website... A full fledged one, with all my photos, projects some tutorials and even a blog. And so, I have been spending about 3 hours a day in searching all that I need.... Now, if I fail to get a distinction, I think the computer is going out till I get a VERY good score.... (OK... it's not that bad.... I can still get a distinction..... but I know I can do more....)

And because of all this, the exams, my experiments with linuxes and multibooting and all has kept me from writing the posts here.... It's really frustrating as I said..... And I need a break, and I think I will get one after 25th.... Till then, I think this irregularity of the posts will continue. But I am thinking of writing everyday or at least every alternate day in my vacation....

Aditya Shevade.