What am I doing presently

I apologise to all my readers for not uploading this blog lately..Btw,I am the only reader so far so ......lol.

To be truthful,I do wish that there were other people reading my blog following it like crazy,putting up arguments and counter arguments,flooding the site with traffic enough to crash its server..And soon then, I would become a millionaire with all the money google adsense would earn me ,I would start my own dotcom company with the money....now I would be on my way to becoming a billionaire......

But until then,I will have to suffice talking to myself...


So,where were we(we=me and me).Yeah,I was telling you what I was upto.It has been in excess of 6 months since I graduated and I still don't have a proper job(something I blame myself for more than anyone else).
What I do have is a contractual job at a small company by the name of Simplifix located at SIDBI Innovation and Incubation Center,IIT Kanpur.
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For the uninitated ,SIIC is an organisation that provides budding entrepreneurs money and place to set up a startup company.I,so far,have not come across any company not owned and run by an ex/present IITian
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Simplifix is also run by 2 guys both ex-IITians.They had done their integrated MSc in Physics from IITK.I am working on a project of theirs.My job basically involves getting various sub-tasks executed,the fulfilment of all of which,will hopefully lead to the completion of the project and me ...seeing the first real salary of my life.But the funny thing is,I don't execute almost any of these tasks myself.This is how it works

Do
{
They tell me to get a sub-task done.
I go around and find out the right person for the execution of the task
The guy does the task
Guy gets paid by the company for the task
Result:one more task sucessfully executed
} while ( project is not finished or I have not been fired)

Right now,I am on my second subtask.The first subtask involved me getting the dashboard of a car open.For this,I got hold of a mechanic and asked him to open it..while I cooled my heals.

This second subtask,however, has given me some trouble.It basically involves getting a small gear made.This gear was supposed to be a circular ring with 8 square teeth.It is not a mammoth task.However,my lack of knowledge of how such a gear is to be made put me at a major disadvantage.

I ,first of all,had to find out how such a small gear(around 14 mm in diameter) would be made...I was suggested of getting it made through a laser cutting metal tool or something....so after spending around 10 days,running here and there,interlaced with a lot of free time that comes because of my lack of focus and also because of the ample free time that comes with the job,I finally reached the eve of the D-day.The gear was supposed to be cut by a laser the next day.But voila,I was told that it would cost 3 times more of our initial estimate to cut the gear.Reason being that the sheet of metal that the gear would have been made from,was very thick and it would take almost 3 laser machine cutting slots(of 2 hours) each to cut the gear.
My boss refused to go forward with this scheme leaving me to hunt for another scheme.I was told by him to get the job done on a milling machine.

So,there I was the next day near Sangeet talkies along with my kind dad looking for a person who could make the gear using a milling machine.After around an hour's time we did finally find a guy who was ready to make the job.I was apprehensive but still gave him the job.I asked him to make 3 gears instead of one as the additional two gears worked out very cheap.

When I finally did meet him the next day as scheduled,I gave out a cry of joy.He had done the job beautifully.The gears looked perfect.I was ecstatic,took the gears home and couldn't wait till the next day to show them to my boss and get a pat on my back...But,picture abhi baaki hain mere dost(literal translation:The film is not over yet).

I joyfully reached my boss and showed him the job.

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the boss had given me a gear whose dimensions had to be roughly emulated in this new gear that had to be made.I had lost that gear and he had given me a replacement gear.Now,this gear had dimensions different from the original gear that I had lost and I had given this gear only as reference to the gear maker.
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But when he put the newly made gear in a slot the gear wouldn't fit.All my excitement (and to an extent,his) drowned in that very moment.He told me that I should have used the original dimensions and that I should take the module along with me in which the gear was to be fitted to the gear maker.

I went back,got the new gear made and voila...I was happy again...Again,I was filled with joy at the prospect of receiving a pat on my back by my boss..
But,....picture abhi baaki hain dost

My taste in movies

Well,..I am addicted to watching tv.Why?..... because I lack the motivation as of now,to do something fruitful.I do realise how destructive it can be.It often does get followed by a period of guilt and remorse but I feel that this bad habit will only subside when I have more useful stuff at my hand.

But while I may watch a lot of nonsense,irrelevant television at times,for the lack of anything better to watch,I do maintain a certain taste in the kind of movies I would really like to watch.

These movies can pretty much be classified into specific genres namely inspirational,biographies and thrillers.I have noticed,however,that my taste in movies is not consistent and keeps changing with various phases in my life.

I remember the 4 months' phase when I used to work as an intern at IITK.The only kind of movies that would interest me once I would get back home pretty tired,were those with a lot of action....lots and lots of action,think movies like "True lies" and other Schwarzneggar's movies and you pretty much have a fair idea.And yes,I also,obviously used to enjoy war movies a lot,something I relish even today...but then war movies are inspirational....and based on real life ,more often than not, and therefore,my taste for them presently should not come as an aberration.

There was this other phase where I really liked "feel good" movies.This was the stage when I used to suffer from depression and had confined myself in the realms of my house as I was too afraid to go out.I do retain some aspects of that phase even today..I prefer to stay at my house and still am not comfortable going out.However,I have,to a large extent lost my likeness for "feel good" movies.Why...one may ask,well,probably because they are all the same after the first 40 minutes...something goes wrong....there is tension...but in the end everything gets fine.They are so damn predictable...that it makes little sense to continue watching them,you already know what is going to happen.This is pretty much true,for romantic comedies,comedies,dramas and what not.

And this is where,murder mysteries come into picture.I admittedly do like them....Zodiac(which is based on a true story) and Identity are the ones that spring to mind from my list of mysteries I liked.I will attribute my taste in murder mysteries to 2 factors..the fact that they are unpredictible...you don't know who the killer is till the end and the fact that they pretty much keep you engaged through out the movie.

My taste in inspirational movies especially biographies of real people pretty much stem from the fact,that they often leave me awestruck.They make me realise that there are people out there,blesssed with even less resources than I am,who have emerged victorious against all odds and achieved much more than us lamenting pigs.

Identity- the movie review

Identity is a murder mystery thriller starring John Cusack,Amanda Peet among others.It is basically about a group of seemingly random group of strangers who find themselves taking an overnight shelter in a motel when suddenly and slowly they start getting murdered one by one.

I saw the movie on HBO 3-4 years back.I personally find it the best murder mystery I have ever seen so far.

Why........well to put it in a nutshell...because I was simply dumbfound when I saw the stupendous ending and learnt who the killer was...I can simply bet that 99.9% of the people(999 in a thousand..lol) will not be able to tell who the killer is...till they see the ending.And .....the funny thing is....the ending makes complete sense...It pretty much stitches the entire movie into one coherent unit.The ending makes you realise that the people weren't random,the events weren't random..It is like you just have demystified a seemingly small mystery.

And it is just not the ending,the entire movie is really well made.It really does keep you at the edge of your seat.If I remember correctly,I did end up not answering my loo call for the entire length of the movie so as to not miss a scene(..kidding...lol).

So,I'd highly recommend the movie.Go watch it.

The First Post

Yaoblique!!!Welcome to my blog.

Why am I blogging?
Well for one everyone is,and I don't want to be left behind in this rat race.So here I am.

Why the name 'Yaoblique'?
I did try a myriad of others,but none of them were available.Suddenly I got hit by a word my younger brother used to say ...well when he was even younger....Ya-oblique.

What is this blog about?
It is about anything and everything(interpretation.....no clue yet).

Oh..by the way...who am I ?
How can I tell you when I don't know this myself for sure.But superficially,I am a recent Computer Engineering graduate with a lot going in his mind and nothing in life...a pause of 32 seconds....well that's all I am going to tell you in the first post.Keep reading..............