The Last animal i fell in love with was a cat, Ohh they are so expressive.. i just fell in love with them.. and soon after i had the fortunate incident of being bitten by a cat. i call that fortunate cos i really realized animals weren’t worth my time and affection.

Lets just keep dogs away coz i have had a really great acrobatic and athletic sessions with dogs, right from being chased half a mile ( Lets call it a Drag Race) to having to resort to climbing and scaling walls more than my height to avoid meeting the eyes of the loathed creature.

anyways i still love Birds, maybe because i have a thing for flight.

One of the Few Birds i ever wanted to pet is an Owl. The remaining being an Eagle and an ostrich(lets call it the Lionking effect). so it was a great delight to find the bird right in my college.

Coming forth is the One on One encounter with the Squashed Face Bird.

The enviroment in the college outside the DLDA lab when i approached near gave me a feeling that scarlett johansson has been groped yet again(or should i say yet yet yet again)or lets say Bipasha Basu has been kissed once again.

Chaos and turmoil are just words that have no meaning if u saw the scenario.

So here it begins… shy and fraidy girls loom in the shadows of the huge crowd trying to have a glimpse of the bird.. damn didnt ur parents ever take u to the Zoo… as for mine it was a long time ago, maybe when id even misspell tiger… so i was a lot interested.

coming back.. an array of cellphones are visible all trying their level best to capture the Bird in the Best possible angle as if they are gonna frame the damn picture and commemorate it for the years to come.

People Dodging as the poor creature is Fumbling to find an exit and get away from the Damned Situation of a ‘30 seconds to Fame’ episode with the entire crowd cheering at ur performance as if u are some alien who has landed on earth just a second ago and trying to figure out what the Hell is gravity but is able to blast laser beams or Lets say the bird was a Jedi with a Lightsaber to be witnessed by the public.

coming back yet again.. the poor bird, i hope , Now rests in peace near the staircase to the terrace on the 3rd floor near the DLDA lab.

Memorable Incidents…..

1) The Bird Seemed To have developed a soft side for Robin and was obedient enough to give wonderful poses for him to click. Linson was so happy about robins proximity to the bird that he expected robin to next pounce on the little bird and take its orthograhical pictures.
2)Tina Madam was so keen to see the bird that poor Sanchit had to wait for minutes to return the apparatus( but the Smart Ass, tagged along to have another look of the Bird)
3)Some Madam commented “Motha aahes kaa” and then one of the Students Commented “Tumchya Peksha Motha Naahi aahes” WTF… i mean i didnt even know the joke was cracked as i was tooo busy with the bird myself.
4)Abhishek Rangnekar was trying his level best to have a tricked shot of him with the bird on his shoulders .
5)Cheryl wasnt her usual self when she saw the bird and somehow she drifted a few years back and in a perfect grade 2 girl accent was heard telling Brinal ” Hey lets Check out the Owl”
6)And loads of Bhaiyya giri with Aavron and Me screaming ‘Paanch ka ek Photoo paanch kaa ek Photoo”.
7)The Bird Even excited Joan madam, Josie Madam, and Prajakta Madam so much that they opted to Climb 3 Flight of Stairs in a record time to have a look at the Bird…

Now was the Bird Enjoying the Limelight, I aint Dr. Dolittle, so the answer is still a Mystery, if u can speak OWL language, u are wanted in XIE.

It was another unusual morning. I couldn’t see any passengers at Churchgate station who were travelling towards the subarban side. The compartment which I entered was empty which was really cool as its an extremely rare occasion when you have a compartment for yourself at a time like 8am. The weather was cool (literally) thanks to light rains.

The minute I entered college, I was told that an owl was “found” inside the BEE Lab. The context in which ‘found’ was used really made me think that the owl was dead. By the time I got there, it had flown over to the staircase that led to the third floor. Even though I had seen owl’s before this was the first time I could see one from such a close distance. Being a bird lover, I enjoy watching birds doing the things they do without interrupting them. To me it seemed asleep and I thought it’d be a good opportunity for a photograph.

Later that day when I was heading up for my DLDA practicals, there was a huge crowd outside the lab. The reason was evident. But the crowd’s excitement was frightening the owl. What’s more, some guys wanted a close-up of the owl and they went for it. Trust me when I say they scared the shit out of the owl. It wasn’t exactly ‘playing’ with everyone even though that’s what some retards thought.

I felt like yelling:” Leave the damn owl alone you f(*&*%^ b%^$*�&s” but I felt adding a pun in this situation would be the right thing to do. Out came the words: “Abey Oolo ke Patthe, Leave it alone!!!”

The owl didn’t really bother me you know until the Teachers started getting excited too. At the end of the DLDA practicals, as I was heading towards the ma’am near the cabinets to return the components, she got off her seat and went outside to catch a glimpse of the owl.

I yelled,:” Ma’am, Can you please take these (components) first?” She asked me to wait a minute till she got back.
Now WHAT THE F!#$ was that? How the hell can a stupid owl get more priority over me?

Dazed at her reaction, I followed her outside just to notice that the guys surrounding the owl were harassing the owl. The owl tried to fly outside, but couldn’t find a way out.
I won’t explain what happened next but I’ll do something better. Since Pictures speak a thousand words, I’ll just let these images do the talking.
If PETA gets a look at this, they’ll surely take legal action against these guys, that I’m certain.

1) 9 AM : Owl is undisturbed and at peace.

2) “Whatcha looking at, B#$%^ ?”

3) “Stay away from me, I’m warning you.”

4) “Damn, if only I knew how to get out of this chaos.”

5) “Take whatever you want but please don’t hurt me.”

One Guy ( name undisclosed to prevent PETA taking legal action ), (the same guy responsible for pictures 3,4 and 5) took a video of the owl while he tried to get close to it. This clip isn’t of good quality, has too much background noise but if you still want to see the owl trying to escape, be sure to check it out. You’ll need to have the right Codecs to view the File. Any 3GP Viewer would do. Users of KLite Mega Codec Packs and Ace Codec Packs need not worry. Your Default player will play them just right. Click here to download the video.

After the owl, it was the rains that caught our attention. It was raining pretty heavily. So much that we decided to take advantage of it. As far as I know, no lectures were conducted after 1.30pm in the COMP, IT and EXTC classes.

Looking at the college ground and the surrounding area in general it almost seemed as if 26/7 had returned as 27/7.
But things aren’t as bad as what we seemed. At least for now.

P.S : Relax PETA, The owl is still alive.

We all knew that this was going to happen, we just didn’t know when.
Most of the computers in the lab would refuse to open websites such Orkut and YouTube and everytime we tried to access these websites, the browser would close and a really annonying messagebox would pop up with an equally annoying message:
ORKUT IS BANNED : Orkut is banned you fool, The administrators didnt write this program guess who did?? MUHAHAHA!!

I feel this is the work of the Third Year Guys since every time a Second Year Student would say:” Oh #$%*, They Banned orkut!!!”, these guys would sport an evil grin.

I was getting bored in college anyway and I thought I’d take up the challenge of removing this protection. The first thing I noticed was that the stupid message popped up only when certain conditions were met. It didn’t take much time to figure out what these conditions were. By simply fiddling around with the PC, I was able to draw the following conclusions. The Conditions are:

• When Orkut is Typed by the Keyboard in any Text Box monitored by the Shell. (Windows Explorer, Run, Internet Explorer)
• When YouTube is typed by the keyboard. (same conditions as above)
• When orkut or YouTube is typed in the addressbar of Internet Explorer.
• When Mozilla Firefox is started.

The style of the Message Box seemed like that of a system process. This meant that unless the programmer knew which arguments to pass to the MessageBox() API Function, it could not be done. This could also mean that the ‘mastermind’ behind this protection has used a third-party tool that does all the dirty work for him.

I was so excited I starting thinking of all the things this mastermind had done in his program to accomplish his task. I placed my bet on Keyboard Hooks. After writing my own program that intercepts all keyboard messages (Callback Functions to the rescue…) I figured that Keyboard Hooks couldn’t be used to do everything that this protection could do.

I overestimated this mastermind. For a moment I thought this would be a simple amateur coders program. And indeed it was. Let’s just cut to the chase and see how we can break this protection.

• Start Internet Explorer and type www.orkut.com
• After the Message Pops up, press Ctrl+Delete
• Choose “Tasks List” in the new Dialog Box.
• Choose the “Applications” Tab in the Windows Task Manager Window.
• Click the List Item which displays the MessageBox Window.
• Right-Click it and choose “Go To Process”
• You should be directed to svchost.exe. Right-click it and choose End Process.
• And It’s Done. The Doors to Orkut, YouTube and Firefox have opened again.

Now here’s some more information about the protection that even the mastermind didn’t know about. Wannabe coders, this stuff might just turn you on.

The Mastermind used a Program called AutoHotKey. This program was named as svchost.exe. Since there are multiple instances of svchost.exe on a machine at any given time, it is difficult to spot the program when you simply scroll through the Processes List. AutoHotKey uses a custom-interpreter and has it’s own Script which allowed the mastermind to write commands to close Browser Windows.
This program Auto-starts with Windows but removes its entry in the Autostart list as soon as it starts to avoid suspicion. This program runs a timer that refreshes itself after every 2 seconds. All these Conditions are stored in the script1.txt file. The entire Protection Program is stored in the C:\heap41a Folder on every computer. To prevent Disassembling, AutoHotKey Authors have packed AutoHotKey with the UPX Packer not realising that UPX Packing can be unpacked in no time.
Oh yes, and one more thing. The ‘Serious’ MessageBox takes a trip to ComedyLand as soon as you start your speakers.

There’s something the College Lab ADMINS and Technicians ought to know. These Third-Year Guys unknowingly used a tool that installs a Trojan Horse in the C:\heap41a\offspring folder.

Since the administrators didn’t implement the Ban, I am technically not messing with the Lab ADMINs but rather just the third-year mastermind. If the ADMIN Team really wants to implement such Bans there are much better implementation techniques and I am willing to demonstrate this techniques if they approach me.

So Mr.Mastermind, Who’s Laughing Now? MUHAHAHA!!

A few messages poured out on some of our cell phones on the 25th asking us to wear ‘white’ coloured clothes on the 26th.

A stupid idea I thought, oh but what the hell, there’s nothing much that happens in our college anyway (besides academics) so I thought I’d be a part of this plan.

As it turns out, not many even turned up in college let along wear the whites and Ive been wondering what the reason could be.

Everyday when I leave home for college I spend most of my time dodging human excreta, people spitting and the entire subarban population as they invade South Mumbai in the morning. But today was different. Not a Single Soul in Sight. Infact exactly 2 people got inside the compartment at Dadar Station. Is it true that people are so scared that history might repeat itself? (That’s really what one guy said to me when I was discussing this with a friend) That’s when I realised that 2 whole years ain’t just the past, its now a part of history.

National Geographic now plans to create a programme which will explain why Mumbai was flooded on 26-July-2005.

It seems like preparations for the “Founder’s Day” has already begun. It’s tentatively scheduled for the 30th of this month.

If you look at the picture below, you’ll see a lot of cancellations. How the hell did they come up with the names of the speakers? Random?

Even the speakers chosen (for now) have no idea how they were selected (or so they claim).

Some of us were enraged, the rest nonplussed. So much for fair chances. It seems even more shady since not many people were told about the preparations. Something’s not right. At least it doesn’t look like it is.

This gave me a totally new understanding of the term ‘transparency’. If you can’t see something (or aren’t shown something), that’s transparency.

Just because we don’t know what happens behind the scenes doesn’t mean we don’t know that something happens behind the scene.

This could still be legitimate. I guess it is.

I just find it weird how everything seems so normal when a heist is being executed while everything looks questionable when things are licit.