Hello Stranger!

after a long time i watched a good movie. Closer..

Some quotes I liked the most:

Dan: I want Anna back.
Larry: She's made her choice.
Dan: I owe you an apology. I fell in love with her. My intention was not to make you suffer.
Larry: So where's the apology? Ya cunt.
Dan: I apologize. If you love her you'll let her go so she can be happy.
Larry: She doesn't want to be happy.
Dan: Everybody wants to be happy.
Larry: Depressives don't. They want to be unhappy to confirm they're depressed. If they were happy they couldn't be depressed anymore. They'd have to go out into the world and live. Which can be depressing.
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Dan: I fell in love with her, Alice.
Alice: Oh, as if you had no choice? There's a moment, there's always a moment, "I can do this, I can give into this, or I can resist it", and I don't know when your moment was, but I bet you there was one.

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Anna: I'm sorry you're...
Larry: Don't say it! Don't you fucking say you're too good for me. I am, but don't say it.
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Larry: Alice, tell me something true.
Alice: Lying's the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off - but it's better if you do.
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Alice: Why isn't love enough?
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Anna: Love bores you.
Dan: No, it disappoints me.

drving test glitches

Today i gave the drving test, written test though. I need to prepare just for 2 hours or so, going over the ONLY document and you are verse with the answers and questions. Though not all the actual test questions are from the document, the out-of-the-syllabus questions were pretty commonsensical questions.
Otherwise, the answers of some of teh questions are really funny. Like, one
when would your driving license be suspended the answer to which is when you drive with an invalid (fake) drivers license. Paradigmn is that how would ones fake drivers license be suspended.
Next, though not funny, yet its surprising how rules are bulit around the school buses and pedestrains - the right of the way is always theirs. (A pedestrain is doing something unlawful only if he stands in the middle ofthe road to hitch a ride).

We rented out a car today and road around the city to get a practice of the driving. since its a long time from the last time i drove, i enjoied it.

Christmas gift is not as sweet as expected

Well,, the long between now and my previous post can be attributed to my part timejob. That does not mean that i have been busy with the work..Nope - the work is as leisurely as one can dream of. I am pissed off by the fact that the quality of the work that iam currently doing is nothing more than Bull shit. Seriously, I expected to work on FInance projcts, Gain a knowledge of funademental analysis of companies, get some insights on trading, hedge funds n all.. But I ended up doing some sick documentation, taht too formattign some documents, formatting on Coreldraw.. It being a pro bono offer made me pissed off even more. I had to cancel my trip to Boise coz of this. moreover, almost some 8 hours of my day is just wasted.. I was taken fo a ride, and ended up in a deep deep shit.. Though, i am not bound to work for the job, yet, I could not jus quit it. One reason being, what ever crap I do, i can use Dilbertism to add a line in my resume. other being, my boss has a good rapport with our Carrer Management center guys.. I dont want to spoil my reputation with them, as I was the one who was behind CMC to get me a job for during winter Vacation.. Anyways, its an experience..

hmm.. The other day i CODED, yes.. software programming again. I wrote the same 'If' stmts, same 'for' loop.. and went through a kind of weird feeling.. I guess, the same feeling the veterans get when they play the sport long after they are retired..wel, thats an exagerration though.. But, I did feel as if that (programming) is what i am good at, rather than management. I studied VBA, Macros in no time and finished the assigned task as quick. It was fun though, a sense of accomplishment..

And, next ,, i could not mingle well with my roomie, as I figured out taht he poked around my laptop in my absence.. It made me feel very insecure. The more I try not to think of it, the more i end up cussing him. I jus hope he reads this. I want him to read this, coz, even if i ask him whether he did it or not, his answer would be brazen NO. and I dont think he knows that one can know the recently accessed documents.

I am planning to give a drivers test tomorrow. The good thing is that i jus need to prepare froma documnt with 80 questions.. I got that doc from a friend of mine.. I wonder how the hell can one come up with an almost offcial list of questions, when th actual test is not paper based. Amazing indians Indeed...
For the book lovers out there (well, i am not one, am jus a novice in readin fiction), I saw a book in borders - 501 must reads. The title says it all.. Its nice in the sence taht, it is divided into sections - science fiction, literature, modern fiction, children short stories .. kind of. The good thing isthat its not hat costly.. just 10 dolls.. (Oooh!! i didnt notice from when did i start saying 500 Indian rupees as 'Just 500 rupees')

Hope that makes up my missed entries and covers most of what i want to post...
Goodnight folks..

a perfect Christmas present

I got a ProBono job oppurtunity, to work during christmas and thereafter.. what else can a be a better note to end the exams and teh semester..

I'm just trying to find

I'm just trying to find
A decent melody
A song that I can sing
In my own company
....
You've got to get yourself together
You've got stuck in a moment
And now you can't get out of it
......

A song by U2, consisely puts together my current mood..

and the blues carry forward!!

Still could not recover from the accounting disapointment.. I guess i would get an A, yet I am not satisfied.
as a reult, iam not able to concentrate on my next exam.. Corporatefinance... I had just enough with my first exam, acouting.. I am dead tired, drained out of my energy, and worse, my lungs are so full of smoke that i could not even enjoi a smoke break.. I hate exams!!!!!! I hate exams even more when i dont perform well..
Tomw i would be FREE again..

Accounting for the accountin exam prep

I know not whether should i be happy that i am done with accounting exam, or to feel sad that i didntdo it well even after all teh time i spent in deciphering the nuances in accounting..
Personally, i never liked Accounting. The first time i confronted the balance sheet debits, credits was during my engineering. Indeed was overwhelmed by the crappy work that accountants have to take up for their bread and butter. It being an elective, ( i guess so.. ) made me not to actually understand it, but read just enough to get a decent number in the finals. I faintly remember that i had to tweak my solution , just like what the Enron guys must have done with their balance sheets. :) ..
In here, the whole accounting was a different story. IN the first module, i had Accounting-I.. I was amused by the way the events in an organization are ledgered, jornal'd and finally accounted for in the final financial statements. Though i got good grade in my first mod,, I never was confortable with debits and credits,, I had a tough time understanding why the gain is credited (substracted) from the cash.. and losses added.. Yet... alls well that ends welll... My accounitng professor is worth a pinch of praise here.. She is an amazing prof, and is very enthusiastic about the subject. (just to give an example of her passion: Theusername and passwd for the course site is 'accounting', 'isfun')
I had a mandatory accounting class in teh second mod.. ( the current module)..If the first accounting class is a spoon feeding session, this was a crash course .. I guess, i had a mention about my professor in my previous post..Every one in our class is intimidated by this prof (in contrary i find him amusing, intelligent, a perfect professor with a perfect way of teaching the subject) But what we havent anticipated is the last minute surprise for the BIG exam. He, cleverly I guess, posted the sample final exam just days before the final. (clever coz, i wonder whetehr anyone had given any positive feedback had they known the toughness of the sample paper any earlier).. The review session of the sample paper was a BIG surprise for every one.. Though it is not out of the scope of what he taught in the class, it scared the shit out of every one just coz he never did cover the kind of problem he gave in sample final..
I gues every one must have hit their books soon after the review session.. For me, i studied from 10:00 in thenight till 2:00 in the night.. Got up at 8:00 the next day.. Studied till 8:00 in the evening with a 2 hour break.. (yeah. i did it. even i could not believe it..Goes without saying that it costed me a haf pack of Marlboros... ) I was so sick and tired of going through the accounting that, I boozed that night.. The studying continued the nextday ..THe whole study session was strenous, yet i got a GOOD grasp of the concepts. So good that, I started loving/liking accounting.. The more i understtod it, the more i started to appreciate and admire our professor. I decided to go on and take twomore courses in accouting had i done the exam good..
exam day, I thought i will nail that bitch.. but well, i could not.. I small twist in his cash flow problem ( a typical Hanna way of paper) scrwed me.. My poor time mamagement added to the woes.. On the whole, iguess i did it good.. better than others, but yet not up to the expectations I had on my performance - ( after all that pain and all that understanding of basics)..Well,, the take away is a satisfaction taht i understood accoutning.. and a satisfaction that i was close to nail the exam..
I thank my professor for his way of teaching.. Had it not been the way it was, or had it been spoon feeding, i dont think i would have enjoied accouting that much.. Needless to say, My liking for my Accouting-I professor is totally overwritten by that of my Accounting II prof..
My advice - take accounting.. take it from a prof who is passionate about it.. Then you would understand what I now feel like..
Nickel Back never sounded so very good before!!!! :)