Magnificent Quiz, Road towards appointment open

The quiz was fabulous. Perfect. This was my first "public appearance" on stage, and I made no mistakes. No stammering, no blanking out, no goof-ups. A splendid show, and tons of compliments followed. I also got the comparison-to-Derek'o'Brian thingy. Cool.

I was myself, however, disappointed with the response. The participants groaned and complained, telling me what a stone-hearted bastard I am. They said I made the quiz way too difficult. Level was too high, they said. "Sad for you. Didn't use Wikipedia?" was my response. OK, Ok, I am a bit too harsh, and I am cruel too, I deliberately wanted them to squeal. The questions were difficult, but not so difficult, that they couldn't even get a single point in two complete rounds.

Now for the candy. The appointment as the President (Or Vice President) of the Computer Club. I'm loving it! My computer teacher told me she'd talk to the principal, as she had promised earlier. And now that the quiz was a success, I'm darn sure that the principal will agree. Maybe you think that being appointed to a responsibility like the 'President' means way too much hard work. Maybe it does, in other areas. But not in my school. It means unlimited access to the internet, all day, a personal machine for yourself, a badge (IMPORTANT), respect, from all teachers, anytime official bunking permissions and access to hot chics from different schools (on excuse of inter-school competitions). Where's the work? Yes, there is some of it, but negligible as compared to the perks and excitement. I do hope the principal likes me :P .

I'm off Orkut at last!

It's over. The 'Orkut' ruckus is dead. After being addicted to it for a long long time, I finally realised that it was disturbing me, rather than adding to my exhilaration. I've deleted my profile from Orkut, and I've realised that now I have a lot more free time to spend! Now I'm studying for the SAT Reasoning test. I have to get a cool score on that test to get a gnarly scholarship. Here's a post that encouraged me to abandon Orkut forever -


"How many times have you seen the message “StupidBrazilianWhore wants to add you to her friends list”? How many times have you been bombarded with messages like “heya!!!!1!! wot ru u doin thse dayssss mannn?!1!”? How many times have you been requested to help find an unknown person from Italy who lost himself during a trip to Afrika (yes, “Afrika”) and needs your hepl (yes, your “hepl”, if you happen to have any) but has probably already died of starvation, or because of the fact that nobody bothered to look for him anywhere except on Orkut?

If you haven’t, then you’re probably working as a slave for a Mexican prostitution company, because Mexican slaves are not allowed to use Orkut (it’s a racial prejudice, but we must learn to live with it). But if you have seen these products of a demented fifth dimensional universe called Orkut, then you’re already sympathizing with me.

Orkut was created so that people could find long lost friends, classmates, family members (yes, why not?) and make new friends. But instead of becoming the virtual “town square” it was intended to be, it has turned into a place for semi adolescent sluts to talk about how cool they are. Instead of using the testimonial service in a constructive way, people use it to show off the ASCII art they have so expertly ripped off from somebody else’s testimonial. Instead of sharing information, everybody wants to increase their scrap count to 12.67e67.

What’s the solution then, you ask? I say nuke the Orkut servers, but some people (the police, for example) might not approve of this behaviour. So we’re stuck with another completely useless product that we can’t do thing about. Sick."

Prelims Gone, Mains left.

The prelims for the quiz slid away, quietly, peacefully, perfect. No problems at all. Phew.

I have the Main Quiz tomorrow. I've practiced it 1000s of times, but still, I can't stop stammering. I have to admit that I'm stage shy. I have a really bad vocab, a sick sense of humour, and the worst is, I'm terrified that I'll go blank on the stage tomorrow. Somebody help me. I don't want to go on the stage. I was made to stay behind it.

Bah. It seems no one is listening.
Anyway, right now I have to focus on my speech. I know I can do it. Just a liitle more practise.

I hate Computer Quizzes, really.

I have to make this computer quiz for the book week, and it's already getting on my nerves. I've been working on it, now, for like 2 weeks, and I've been able to finish only 3 rounds outta 5. Cool, eh?

There's this round, I don't know what to name it, but the concept is, it'll be based on a particular theme, for eg. Open Source. The answer of the first team's question will be the starting point for the second team's question, and thus, it'll be a chain sorta round. What I can't figure out is the theme. I can't use Open Source as the quiz is for classes IX-Xth. Bah.

There are other rounds too, for which I have to think of names.

1) Warm-Up (Questions from all fields of IT)
2) Category Based Round (There are 9 different fields of IT displayed on screen. Each team has to pick up a chit from a bowl to get their category. They will then be questioned on that category)
3) The round I mentioned above.
4) Audio Visual
5) Rapid Fire


My teacher says she doesn't want conventional names like 'Rapid Fire' and 'Audio Visual'. She wants me to be creative. Yeah, I sure am :P .

First Post

OK, I have been wanting to do this since a long long time now. I always wanted a space to write out my feelings, but never gathered the courage to write a diary. I don't know if many people will visit this blog, but this is not what I wanted it for, I just wanted to have something like a 'diary' for my own self. So here goes, this is my first post!


P.S. Do leave comments to encourage me!