Orkut has become a regular almost daily thing for me now. Its nearly replaced Yahoo messenger, but not quite yet. Its a nice world to be part of actually, but I don't suppose it will ever really really replace Yahoo and sms :D. A few days as I was madly scrapping my friends on orkut at about 1.30 a.m. it struck me the extent to which technology can actually be created for one purpose and used for something totally different. Like for instance now, Orkut was probably meant to exchange short messages, but I'm using as a proxy for messenger. There are so many instances in the past where the whole purpose of an invention is reinvented by some ingenious user...did you get that..err..never mind.
The reservation strike continues...today the students have been on hunger strike for eight days running. A false sms was doing the rounds about a student dying from the strike..maybe somebody hoped it would somehow reach the PM and force him to do a rethink. Guess not. In fact, celebrating the second anniversary of the government, a Cabinet Minister Ms Meira Kumar announced that the government was very graciously allowing private companies two years to introduce reservations..bah!! Talk about arm twisting! Why can't these people just make reservations on the basis of economic status...they talk about India being secular and then divide the country on the basis of caste. I saw on T.V. a nice poster made by one of the protestors at AIIMS that summed up the situation very aptly :
Divide and Rule - 1902 - British
Divide and Rule - 2006 - ??????
On a personal front, I will soon be starting on my summer project at HPCL, Chennai. Most of my class has already started, it feels rather left out to be among the few who have not yet started. But I'm not the only one, there are six of us placed with HPCL, all of will be starting only on June 1. That means it will be a close run to get back in time for the start of term. Ah well, you win some, you lose some.
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