Archive → April, 2006
Credits for nothing!
Today, the whole day, I was whiling away my time watching television and working on my laptop. I was designing something about online shopping for a staff of mine, Who wanted it done by ’10AM tomorrow morning’ when she called yesterday night! I finished it only sometime back.. Its 11:30PM and there is still no word from the staff.. Wonder where she went!
They make schedules about doing something in thier name! And they finally get somebody else to do it for them in a hurry! And then they dont show up! This particular staff is a very good critic! A critic of nothing in particular! She just tells something because we gave her a little importance and asked her for her opinion! Some people.. Wierd! Why would somebody assure that they would do something and then get somebody else to do it for them with little or no explanation towards what and why that is being done in the first place!
Who cares less after all this! Just another one of my meaningless rants!
Google Calendar Launched!
Google has launched a calendar app… Finally! The interface is ok with some more of the Ajax thingies. The functionality is great with the option of creating multiple calendars and also the option to import public calendars.
I tried a search for the term “India” in public calendars and immediately got a public calendar for the list of Holidays in India! Pretty cool huh?
English movies? Coimbatore? Forget it!!
There are no good theatres in Coimbatore that offer a show of English movies! There used to be the famous “Central Theatre” which is closed of late due to some legal issues.
Other than that, the two theatres that display English movies prominently are at the Carnatic theatre and at Maruthi.
Carnatic theatre has been fully refurbished with new seats, etc. But they show a whole range of languages from Tamil, Malayalam, English, English(Tamil dubbed) etc.
The other one, Maruthi shows English movies, but the interiors leave a lot to be desired. The seats are all “Rock-solid” and very old. The air-conditioning doesnt work! Some of the ceiling fans dont and it gets awfully hot at times! I’ll be surprised to find more than twenty patrons on weekdays! And they only play the ‘masala’ type of movies that has everything in it! What I personally feel is that the crowd would swell if the whole theatre was refurbished! Many family members would come instead of watching the movie back home on thier DVD players. Maruthi theatre can develop its infrastructure in its own fancy to increase patronage among the movie-goers.
The bottom line: There is NO theatre in Coimbatore as of now where you can enjoy a decent English movie without sweating it out or peering over others shoulders to get a glance of the whole screen FULL STOP
CSS Blues!
Tried my hand at CSS today! Made some sample layouts, was sort of buggy with all the hacks that are available to make the website look the same across all browsers. Got some designs running! Hope to upload my website www.thiya.net finally. Planning to do it in a standard’s compliant way. But all have to look the same in all browsers. That is the only problem I am facing for the time being. Hope to come out of the blues!
Table-less designs rocks! Visit the CSS Zen Garden to see the sample designs and decide for yourselves! CSS is in, Tables for layouts are out! Make the change now!
College working days over!!
College working days are over! 
So soon.. Only three exams remain.. And after that.. Its all over..
Got selected by a reputed company in a Campus Placement at GRD. Hoping to join that company. Yet to get the offer letter. I went on a trip to Ooty with my class pals. Took a lot of pictures, some of which can be viewed in my photo blog at Flickr!
The whole trip was nice, barring an incident in which my classmate, Subash was thrown off the bike due to the pitiable condition of the roads here at Coimbatore.
THE ROADS SUCK BIGTIME. #$%@#$%!@#^$^$#$%&@$!@
The poor chap was hurled to the ground, he was the pillion rider to another guy. He had scrapes all over his body and had some cuts on the insides of his cheek. The incident occured because of a surprise hole in the road! The rider Rajan braked, but the pitch of the bike resulted in Subash thrown off the bike and landed shoulder first on the ground. Luckily no broken bones.
The roads really need some work to be done on them. More recently, an woman was run over in a similar incident when a vehicle ran over her feet. Thank god nothing of that sort happened to us.
Freaking roads. Damn.