I am the "lucky winner"

What a start to the day. The first mail I read brought good news. Here's the mail.

Attn: Lucky Recipient,

Congratulations, it is with great pleasure to inform you, of your E-mail emerging as one of our winners in this year Shell Lottery International Lottery Promotion.

This program is conducted annually and you have emerged as one of our winner for this year 2008. And Note that, All winnings MUST be claimed before 28 days after notification; otherwise all funds will be confisticated.

You hereby have been approved a lump sum pay of US$500,000.00 (FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS) in cash credit file.You are required to contact your regional claims agent.

Nickolas Kidman
Shell International Lottery Inc
Email...nickkidman.shell@gmail.com

Best Regards,
Walter Abramov (Mr)
Lottery Coordinator
Shell International Lottery Inc

LOL. Bollocks! wtf ? Of course, I did not fall for it. Later, I googled for "Shell International Lottery Inc." Here's an interesting link I found which has the list of many Lottery scams.

Altec Lansing

Bought woofer yesterday. I hesitated a lot in choosing Altec Lansing ( VS2421 model ) . It had to be either Creative A300 or Altec Lansing. I did not have much of a choice. I took out a coin and tossed it. Called heads to buy Altec Lansing. And heads it was. GBR asked for a re-toss. LOL. So, it was best of 3. The other two tosses resulted in tails. Never mind, screw the toss. Manohar insisted that it's worth paying 2.1 k for the 2.1 sub woofer. Indeed, it is. Amazing experience in my room. I am enjoying myself a lot. I hope this is not a moneymoon period.

" What is the first song that's going to be played ? " was the argument among three of us. I suggested Fever Fever. GBR preferred some Jalsa track. We finally decided to stick with some very well established song. Then it struck to GBR - Athadu title song. Great! everyone agreed.

The best thing yesterday was , someone was passing by my room. I started a song. He came back and appreciated the quality.

The vibrations on the sub woofer are remarkable. I captured a video of it when Fever Fever was being played. It looks really good.

Blogger is amazing. It lets me edit the post while the video is being upload. The upload speed is very good too. 21M uploaded in about 8 minutes.

We are starting to the trip tomorrow morning. This is the last day at IIIT with the whole batch. I did not start packing my stuff. But, my wingers and I are going to McD. One last time together ...

Best of the bunch

Sunset
Originally uploaded by harith.s

This one's the best sunset photograph that I have shot. I wish I could have shot the clouds alone. Damn you! Flood lights.

The thinking theorists

The thinking theorists
Originally uploaded by harith.s

This was shot yesterday in the evening on the obh terrace. Used picasa to make it black and white. Cropped the image to get the spacing on left and right sides correct. This was shot using timer ( 10 sec ) in the camera. Used little bits of brick and very small stones to get the angle correct. We were looking at the sunset. Brightness was automatically adjusted when we blocked the sunlight. Sony W55 is again total class :)

Sonnenuntergang

Sonnenuntergang
Originally uploaded by harith.s

Sonnenuntergang - German for Sunset. Sony DSC - W55 is total class. This shot was taken in the evening after PECN exam was over. I need to experiment more on this camera. It might have many other features which would be handy in the batch trip.

On the new google ID and Sony W55

As I posted previously, I did switch my google account. It is now about half finished. I am using GTalk with "harith.s". I now have most of the contacts of my classmates - thanks to the yearbook. You might have not noticed this but I came up with this interesting idea to invite harith.s to contribute to this blog which is owned by lukas.harithski - LOL. Now I can write here without logging into another account. Most importantly using Flock. I am still using two browsers most of the time. I need to organize my feeds, export and import them into harith.s. Once that is done, only Orkut and GMail will be left. I don't use Orkut much, so that's not a problem. I decided to leave all the mails in lukas.harithski except for some personal ones :D I'll filter the orkut invitations and scraps and forward them to harith.s. I'll be done.

I borrowed a camera ( Sony W55 ) from one of my relatives for the batch trip. This time, I have made sure most of the trip will be cherished for a long time unlike last time when we didn't have a camera and there weren't many pictures of me or my close friends at IIIT. I have started experimenting with the camera at home and there is a lot to learn. Photography is fascinating. Here is a nice one by GBR who is obsessed with macro photography. We shot some photos evening on the terrace. Yes! you heard it right. The terrace. It's open. I uploaded them on flickr.

coming up next ... Posts on the shots.