another halo post!

Welcome to halo! The planet you will never forget... the 'halo-shaped halo' floating in cosmic space is always full of surprises... today we see about another surprise... After getting the high end PC (read last post) my hands was so eager to catch halo... This first screenshot shows ICE!! look at it... the shine the reflection of sky present up!!! simply awesome..




These pics show about the invisibility in halo... the first picture shows a "square pyramid (with a sphere in the middle)" (:P) which is nothing but the camouflage pack... the next three pictures shows the effects when you are invisible... You change into some kind of jelly like (not literally,ou look like it) and when you see something thru you, they appear distorted (some kinda the magic mirrors in carnivals)... The effect can be visualized better in the following picture...


The above pic shows the sniper effects.. The screen blurs[I have a pixel shader :-)] at the edges... you get the target elevation and target distance and a lot of other details...
The below one is a normal pic..
Now for the blurred one...

This is one of my favourite... look at the sun(i dunno if it's sun for sure.. have to read the book!!)... normally it's like this...when it is between the tress it's like this...

Some other instances....
Finally comes the reflections... i dont have to say how it will be...

See the pile of blue lights... they will glow alternatively and the reflection will follow it....!
I hope you enjoyed it... i will also like to share some other screenshots
with you in the next posts (one in each post whatever maybe it's topic.. start every post with a picture!)... Many screenshots like dying differently, the water falls, sea, the villains, their behaviour etc... post your comments!!!

Now high computing!!

Thursday, 12th of march is a day which i will never forget! I got a new computer and it's really ghhuuuuud!
My new PC has The INTEL DG965RY motherboard with INTEL G965 CHIPSET (In the pic)! The Graphics are excellent and Halo is rocking!! screenshots will be posted soon..
Here goes the config:
-->Intel pentium D2.8GHz
-->Intel DG965RY motherboard (I am the first one in coimbatore to have this!!!)
-->1 GB DDR2 533MHz
-->DVD combo
-->160 GB seagate Hard disk
(I got a 2.1 creative speaker system but thats for the DVD player... will have it for computer when thats not employed there!)
and the cabinet thing,etc... The intel pentium processor is so benevolent that it gave me 800 Mhz FSB and the G965 chipset gave me 384 MB of GPU memory!!!
For you surya: These things added upto 18K and it's the best price in cbe! In bangalore you will get this at lower rates! Lucky you getting ur new computer in bangalore!
My sincere thanks o kausthub for accompanying me In my quest to upgrade my PC... also thanks to shrey for giving some suggestions and last but not least thanks to ajay for helping me in my SURVEY!!!
Me going to unnalae unnalae tomorrow(sunday)!! hope you also have a rocking sunday!
ciya!

well known person, but NOT SO well known facts!!

EDUCATION /Qualification:

1950: Stood first in BA (Hons), Economics, Punjab University, Chandigarh,
1952; Stood first in MA (Economics), Punjab University, Chandigarh,
1954: Wright's Prize for distinguished performance at St John's College,Cambridge,
1955 and 1957; Wrenbury scholar, University of Cambridge,
1957: DPhil (Oxford), DLitt (Honoris Causa); PhD thesis on India's export
competitiveness

OCCUPATION /Teaching Experience:

Professor (Senior lecturer, Economics, 1957-59;
Reader, Economics,
1959-63;
Professor, Economics, Panjab University, Chandigarh, 1963-65; Professor,
International Trade, Delhi School of Economics,Universit y of Delhi,
1969-71; Honorary professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University,New Delhi,
1976 and Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi,1996 and Civil Servant

Working Experience/ POSITIONS:

1971-72: Economic advisor, ministry of foreign trade
1972-76: Chief economic advisor, ministry of finance
1976-80: Director, Reserve Bank of India; Director, Industrial Development Bank of India;
Alternate governor for India, Board of governors, Asian Development Bank;
Alternate governor for India, Board of governors, IBRD
November 1976 - April 1980: Secretary, ministry of finance (Department of economic affairs);
Member, finance, Atomic Energy Commission; Member,finance, Space Commission
April 1980 - September 15, 1982: Member-secretary, Planning Commission
1980-83: Chairman, India Committee of the Indo-Japan joint study committee
September 16, 1982 - January 14, 1985: Governor, Reserve Bank of India.

1982-85: Alternate Governor for India, Board of governors, International Monetary Fund

1983-84: Member, economic advisory council to the Prime Minister

1985: President, Indian Economic Association

January 15, 1985 - July 31, 1987: Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission

August 1, 1987 - November 10, 1990: Secretary-general and commissioner, south commission, Geneva

December 10, 1990 - March 14, 1991: Advisor to the Prime Minister on economic affairs

March 15, 1991 - June 20, 1991: Chairman, UGC

June 21, 1991 - May 15, 1996: Union finance minister

October 1991: Elected to Rajya Sabha from Assam on Congress ticket

June 1995: Re-elected to Rajya Sabha

1996 onwards: Member, Consultative Committee for the ministry of finance

August 1, 1996 - December 4, 1997: Chairman, Parliamentary standing committee on commerce

March 21, 1998 onwards: Leader of the Opposition, Rajya Sabha

June 5, 1998 onwards: Member, committee on finance

August 13, 1998 onwards: Member, committee on
rules

Aug 1998-2001: Member, committee of privileges 2000 onwards: Member, executive committee, Indian parliamentary group

June 2001: Re-elected to Rajya Sabha

Aug 2001 onwards: Member, general purposes committee

BOOKS:

India 's Export Trends and Prospects for Self-Sustained Growth -Clarendon
Press, Oxford University, 1964; also published a large number of
articles in various economic journals.

OTHER ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

Adam Smith Prize, University of Cambridge, 1956

Padma Vibhushan, 1987

Euro money Award, Finance Minister of the Year, 1993;

Asia money Award, Finance Minister of the Year for Asia, 1993 and
1994

INTERNATIONAL ASSIGNMENTS:

1966: Economic Affairs Officer

1966-69: Chief, financing for trade section,
UNCTAD

1972-74: Deputy for India in IMF Committee of Twenty on International Monetary Reform

1977-79: Indian delegation to Aid-India Consortium Meetings

1980-82: Indo-Soviet joint planning group meeting

1982: Indo-Soviet monitoring group meeting

1993: Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting Cyprus 1993: Human Rights World Conference, Vienna

RECREATION:

Gymkhana Club, New Delhi; Life Member, India International Centre, New Delhi

Name: Dr Manmohan Singh

DOB: September 26, 1932

Place of Birth: Gah (West Punjab)

Father: S. Gurmukh Singh

Mother: Mrs Amrit Kaur

Married on: September 14, 1958

Wife: Mrs Gursharan Kaur

Children: Three daughters


I am proud to have Dr.Manmohan singh as our prime minister!!! Salutations sir!

Finally.... some fun in our college!

We had culturals in our college!! Yeah in GCT! Thanks to the "SCIENCE CLUB" (lolz)... If you want more about the fun we had in the culturals read this. My fellow GCTIAN'S BACK ROW ADVENTURES!
I will tell about what he missed out! The mimicry by our class 'REP' was good! Really... It was intelligent,flawless,rib-tickling,spontaneous,stupendous, totally FANTABULOUS... It was worth these many adjectives...Our dance (our dept's) was also good and ARUN was the hero in that too!!His moves for dhoom machale, Tne worm was gr8!! hats off my friend.. you did a gr8 job!!
Now comes the funniest part of all! The girl who emceed the function!! She knows only one word "WONDERFUL"! For all the performances the comment was this "thank u boys/girls. your performance was wonderful"...Thank god she got some other adjectives like simply superb,excellent,different,etc when the program was half way through. (I think Nithya passed by :P)... At some point of time there was an announcement "all the representatives, please GO OUTSIDE".. WTH!! It repeated.. The upper case letters clearly pronounced this time! We thought there was a problem or something! But it was just an instruction to the representatives!! OMG! Her English was arrrgggghhhh...
Anyways the culturals was good and these things added to the fun we had!

NOSTALGIA!

This is our playground! (For those who are wondering,this is varun's house).The ground (small though :P) which allayed our thirst for cricket!12th holidays..... Nobody can bring them back!!
It's 6.00 in the morning... The sun rays coming into my room harbingers the good day of cricket to follow. I got up and moved to our playground at 7.00.. Me and bharat were there and it's time to arouse varun from his slumber! Then we called others and the first match started by 7.30.. It went on till 9 and the team dispersed after a gr8 session of cricket! The regular highlights of the game would be ET's SWEEP's...
The cricket session was followed by music and we reached home by noon... then 3 hours pass edby in the anticipation of the next session. I reached there again at 2.30,called others and it started again... It ended by 7.00 (If there's veda class then it will end at 5.00) .Then usually a game of MAFIA or SCOTLAND YARD follows...
ahhhhhhhhh!End of yet another beautiful summer day...These days continued for the whole vacation!
In the pic you could see my moto-scooter and shiva's discover... I have a marked it for you... Next to that stands our magnificent, elegant, gallant STUMP (It's a stool :P). The blue line is indicating 2 G (2 Granted)...
1. This is BHARAT's FAVOURITE POLE... Whenever he hits the ball it will hit this pole (1 in 10 times,considering the size of pole it's a high probable event yaar) leaving a ringing sound... The 'Energy' given by him for the ball to reach the fence for four will be completely tranformed into 'SOUND ENERGY'...
2.Here comes the famous fielder... 'poongothai'... yeah it's her name...Whenever you're team is more pathetic than Indian team (that's not gonna happen) you just cry "JAI POONGOTHAI" and she will help you!!!
3. This is my favourite spot for fielding!!! I like to it the stumps from here... It's very difficult because YOU DONT SEE THA STUMPS!!!! Inspite of that i have a good percentage in hitting the stumps(nearly 90%)....
Wherever i go, whatever i do, i will never forget these!!! The essence of LIFE!