This is great! Today, my father got me a new mouse, and that too a wireless from Microsoft. I was skeptical at first, especially because the price was quite high. But, when the person is the store showed me the range of the mouse, I was really impressed, and so was my father. It needs a battery...that's all! Today, another thing happened. I was worried all day at school, and especially after my friends said that my tutorial class' teacher was going to take a surprise test. I was really worried, because I hadn't prepared at all(yesterday only, I had my class). Anyway, I found out that throughout the week, I didn't really have any option to go there. And, on any day, I would be unprepared, because this week I have my physics test. And, of course, we are going to Shantiniketan...;) But, anyway, I went there, and to my greatest surprise, sir did not take a test at all. He just asked me to take down some notes from an organic chemistry book...but that was really lengthy, because it was an IIT level chemistry book....:D And lastly, but not the least(at all), I played Call of Duty 2 on my notebook today...and is it good? It's great, just too good. This will be disagreed by people who have played the higher versions, but to me, a boy who has just played COD 1, it's really great!!! The graphics is quite good, and the sounds are great too! This is because I played the game with my headphones. The 3-D surround effect is really awesome. That's it for now...bye!
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Sunday, July 15, 2012
New Notebook
My new notebook has arrived! Now I am blogging from the notebook itself! We went to the airport to bring my aunt and my brother today. We didn't even have to wait for long...perhaps 10 minuted or so. I spent that time reading the Kite Runner. Anyway, just when the flight had arrived we went up to the conveyor belt, and we found them waiting to collect their bags! We waived our hands frantically just to make them see us. That is the moment that I enjoy the most whenever they arrive here. After they came home, Kundan(my brother) went to my room and quickly popped out the new Dell Notebook Inspiron! I was really amazed at the sight! I read the configuration of the notebook, and that was amazing too! Here's the configuration:
500 GB hard disk
4 GB RAM
Intel integrated graphics(1696 MB)
Windows 7 Genuine Home Version (64 bit)
Intel Core i3
When I booted the notebook for the first time, it asked me to enter some basic details. However, after I started it up, the machine was a bit slow. Even copying files took some time. But now, it is filled with pure awesomeness! I can actually use widgets, and other desktop tools too! I can use Microsoft products, and the Inspiron even has the Microsoft Word 2010 Starter Kit loaded in it!!! I had feared earlier that I would face some problem in typing. But now as I am typing out my excitement, I am finding no difficulty at all! On the contrary, it is really comfortable, as I can rest my hand on the wide space and then type. My Java is working fine, But I have to install some more things before I can actually be friendly with this computer, like the KMPlayer.
Oh! I almost forgot! My aunt also brought with her the original cover for my Sony Reader PRS T1!!! It's great too! The cover also has an integrated lighting system, and Sony claims that the light will last upto 19 hours. But, the cover does not have anything to strap it down. But, I am extremely happy, that the Reader is now absolutely secure, and tight inside the case, with no jerking at all. The only problem is that I can't keep my stylus inside it. But, still, it's great! My next excitement is that we will be going to Santiniketan again!!! For two days. Till then, I still have to spend a whole week at school...:D And, the boring fact is that, I have to prepare for my computer exam tomorrow. And, I also have to study Chemistry for my tutorial class tomorrow. Well, I guess I have to accept that. Now, I just hope that I get respectable marks in my computer examination tomorrow.
:( Well that's it for now. But to tell you people the truth my face is actually like this: :)
hehe... good bye until the next post!!!
Friday, July 06, 2012
My first stage experience!
It was the 8th of April. As I woke up, only one thing was in my mind...my musical tribute.
I had created a presentation for my father(lasting for 15 minutes). It showed the different stages of my father's life...I named it 'From Innocence to Experience', or it would be better to say-my mother named it. It contained various pictures of my father's life from his very birth to his age of 50 years. I and my mother had secretly made it in my room in 1 month. Even the main theme of the 'anushthan' (event) was unknown to everyone, including my father. About 80 people had bee invited to come to this 'Musical Evening'. Earlier we used to have such musical evenings very frequently(every month, perhaps). But this was taking place after 3-4 years. So it was something that most of our invited guests were looking forward to. All of them were my father's friends, and all of them were connected to Arts(either by music, or by poetry, or by drama, etc.).
I would be playing 8 musical pieces in my electronic keyboard (in the piano mode), as the presentation continued to play. This music would be an accompaniment for the presentation. Get the idea?
After waking up, and having my breakfast and all that, I again sat in front of my synthesizer and started practicing the songs, as the presentation played on the computer screen. At 10:00 am, sharp, I went off to the hall where the 'anushthan' would be taking place. I found out that the stage was quite long in width. It was some kind of momentary assurance...:) Anyway, I went back home again. My mother and father stayed back to make other arrangements. On my way back home, I went to the photographers(who would be covering our entire show using video and still images), and asked them to play my presentation on their laptop. It ran quite well, except for some technical difficulties, but then it was solved too. Back home, I had my lunch really early, say at 11 am, and sat to practice. I practiced for 5-6 times, so it took me one and a half hour to do it. Then, I went off to the hall once again with a laptop(borrowed from the photographer guys). The photographers helped me to set up the entire arrangement-the screen, the laptop and the projector. I took my electronic keyboard (Yamaha PSR E-413) and set it up on the stage. I set up the special light arrangements, for playing in the dark(as the hall would be when the slideshow would be on). The, I again played the 8 songs, to get mixed with the hall environment. But, surprisingly though, I found out that I did not feel extremely shaky. After that, the guests slowly started to come in. The sound system team was not yet there. I greeted them myself, because my father, mother and my sister were not in the hall yet.
By 6:00 PM, everyone was in the hall. My mother started the evening by greeting everyone. Following that was the vocal performances by my sister and a friend of my mother.
Then, my mother released the real reason for which all the people were called that day-the celebration of my father's 50th birthday anniversary! Following that, all of us celebrated the event of cutting a cake(made of chocolate flavoured 'mishti'), and after that, after everyone had had thei piece of cake, I started my performance. When it started, I was feeling a bit heavy, but as I had decided, I became completely engrossed in what I was playing-the 'Moonlight Sonata', by Beethoven. This was the real trick that helped me to cool down. The heavenly music(which I had learnt the best so far, ie, I could play without paying much attention to the playing of the piano and feel the song) soothed me to a great level! Then, as the song ended, I looked up to the page in front of my(on a stand) to see which song I was to play next, and that was the moment when I realized that I was actually playing in my home(the feeling was so). The only difference was the big screen on which the slide show was being projected.
After that, I played the 8 tracks with the same ease as I had had while I had practiced at home! Thus, the experience was wonderful...especially when I first got my first applause!!! The last track that I had played was the song 'Speak Softly' from the Godfather movie. So, the ending was also nice. Overall, to tell the truth, the whole experience had been wonderful-something that I will truly remember for the rest of my life!
But along with that, I'll also remember another special thing-my father's warm hug on returning home. That was something even more special to me. It really was memorable!
I had created a presentation for my father(lasting for 15 minutes). It showed the different stages of my father's life...I named it 'From Innocence to Experience', or it would be better to say-my mother named it. It contained various pictures of my father's life from his very birth to his age of 50 years. I and my mother had secretly made it in my room in 1 month. Even the main theme of the 'anushthan' (event) was unknown to everyone, including my father. About 80 people had bee invited to come to this 'Musical Evening'. Earlier we used to have such musical evenings very frequently(every month, perhaps). But this was taking place after 3-4 years. So it was something that most of our invited guests were looking forward to. All of them were my father's friends, and all of them were connected to Arts(either by music, or by poetry, or by drama, etc.).
I would be playing 8 musical pieces in my electronic keyboard (in the piano mode), as the presentation continued to play. This music would be an accompaniment for the presentation. Get the idea?
After waking up, and having my breakfast and all that, I again sat in front of my synthesizer and started practicing the songs, as the presentation played on the computer screen. At 10:00 am, sharp, I went off to the hall where the 'anushthan' would be taking place. I found out that the stage was quite long in width. It was some kind of momentary assurance...:) Anyway, I went back home again. My mother and father stayed back to make other arrangements. On my way back home, I went to the photographers(who would be covering our entire show using video and still images), and asked them to play my presentation on their laptop. It ran quite well, except for some technical difficulties, but then it was solved too. Back home, I had my lunch really early, say at 11 am, and sat to practice. I practiced for 5-6 times, so it took me one and a half hour to do it. Then, I went off to the hall once again with a laptop(borrowed from the photographer guys). The photographers helped me to set up the entire arrangement-the screen, the laptop and the projector. I took my electronic keyboard (Yamaha PSR E-413) and set it up on the stage. I set up the special light arrangements, for playing in the dark(as the hall would be when the slideshow would be on). The, I again played the 8 songs, to get mixed with the hall environment. But, surprisingly though, I found out that I did not feel extremely shaky. After that, the guests slowly started to come in. The sound system team was not yet there. I greeted them myself, because my father, mother and my sister were not in the hall yet.
By 6:00 PM, everyone was in the hall. My mother started the evening by greeting everyone. Following that was the vocal performances by my sister and a friend of my mother.
Then, my mother released the real reason for which all the people were called that day-the celebration of my father's 50th birthday anniversary! Following that, all of us celebrated the event of cutting a cake(made of chocolate flavoured 'mishti'), and after that, after everyone had had thei piece of cake, I started my performance. When it started, I was feeling a bit heavy, but as I had decided, I became completely engrossed in what I was playing-the 'Moonlight Sonata', by Beethoven. This was the real trick that helped me to cool down. The heavenly music(which I had learnt the best so far, ie, I could play without paying much attention to the playing of the piano and feel the song) soothed me to a great level! Then, as the song ended, I looked up to the page in front of my(on a stand) to see which song I was to play next, and that was the moment when I realized that I was actually playing in my home(the feeling was so). The only difference was the big screen on which the slide show was being projected.
After that, I played the 8 tracks with the same ease as I had had while I had practiced at home! Thus, the experience was wonderful...especially when I first got my first applause!!! The last track that I had played was the song 'Speak Softly' from the Godfather movie. So, the ending was also nice. Overall, to tell the truth, the whole experience had been wonderful-something that I will truly remember for the rest of my life!
But along with that, I'll also remember another special thing-my father's warm hug on returning home. That was something even more special to me. It really was memorable!
Thursday, July 05, 2012
One more to go...
Now that my literature exam is down, I only have to give the maths exam tomorrow. But that is the most frightening test. I have tried real hard to complete most of the tough sums that my tutorial teacher gave me to do(but, along with this I should be thanking a special person-my uncle, who actually completed all of the sums for me, and guided me in the proper way. Now, only time will tell if all that effort was worth. Tomorrow's test will mostly consist of questions from that exercise sheet that our tutorial teacher provided us with, but the problem is that most of the problems(on trigonometry) require intelligence(non are stereo type). After this test is over, I will be having to look forward to my chemistry test next week on Saturday. After all these pressures are over(perhaps tomorrow only, after I give my maths test, nicely enough(hoping for that, and I pray to God for that)), I will have not much of a news to blog about. So, instead of wasting my time sitting on the computer blankly, thinking what to blog about, I'll just post my experience of my first playing-in-front-of-the-big-audience, that occurred on my father's fiftieth birthday anniversary. I hope it will be exciting for you to read it.
Ok, that's it for now. Bye and wish me the best of luck for tomorrow..:( :)
Ok, that's it for now. Bye and wish me the best of luck for tomorrow..:( :)
Wednesday, July 04, 2012
Exams exams everywhere!
Currently I am in a position with exams all around me. If this week and the next week passes peacefully, I can perhaps enjoy a bit when my brother and my aunt come here . They usually come after three years. So let's hope for the best. I just finished watching 'Ip Man' and now I am gonna sit to study for me literature test. The only problem with this year's literature test is that I don't even know what the poem(that has been included in our syllabus) means [I sit and look out], because I too was practically sitting and looking out of my classroom when my school teacher was teaching(as was being done by most of my friends).
Now, returning to my original topic-exams. This Sunday I gave a physics test. It was quite good. Now, tomorrow, as I said, I have my English literature examination, and we will probably be given a summary to write.
Day after tomorrow, I have my maths test on General Trigonometry in my tutorial class. My teacher sets the hardest question paper in the world...it's almost IITJEE standard or WBJEE standard. So, you can guess how hard it is.
Next week I have my school's chemistry test and after that the Computer Science test(that's good...:D).
Now, due to these problems, I can't do two things...in fact three things:
1. I can't practice my piano (I will be doing my first recording in life, real soon)
2. I can't complete the application that I had started working on-a Java notepad, and unless I can finish that I can't start of with my next project-the equation solver.
3. I can't read stories on my Sony Reader PRS-T1(because, when I lie down on my bed, and open up a story, I practically fall asleep within 5-6 minutes(and within that time, I can't read more thatn 10-12 pages)
That's it for now...that's a description of the mini torture I am going through these days...:P Next time I'll probably describe the last trip(it was really spectacular in many ways...:) I'll try to post pictures too).
Bye!
Now, returning to my original topic-exams. This Sunday I gave a physics test. It was quite good. Now, tomorrow, as I said, I have my English literature examination, and we will probably be given a summary to write.
Day after tomorrow, I have my maths test on General Trigonometry in my tutorial class. My teacher sets the hardest question paper in the world...it's almost IITJEE standard or WBJEE standard. So, you can guess how hard it is.
Next week I have my school's chemistry test and after that the Computer Science test(that's good...:D).
Now, due to these problems, I can't do two things...in fact three things:
1. I can't practice my piano (I will be doing my first recording in life, real soon)
2. I can't complete the application that I had started working on-a Java notepad, and unless I can finish that I can't start of with my next project-the equation solver.
3. I can't read stories on my Sony Reader PRS-T1(because, when I lie down on my bed, and open up a story, I practically fall asleep within 5-6 minutes(and within that time, I can't read more thatn 10-12 pages)
That's it for now...that's a description of the mini torture I am going through these days...:P Next time I'll probably describe the last trip(it was really spectacular in many ways...:) I'll try to post pictures too).
Bye!
Tuesday, July 03, 2012
Introduction
This is a type of the common 'HelloWorld' program we do in almost all languages (in computer), when we are first introduced to them. This is my first exposure to the world. Although I maintained a blog in Blog.com, I didn't really keep posting to it for long...for 3 or 4 days at maximum. I plan to keep my life stories continuously in this blog.
Right, let's start away...first let me introduce you to me. I am a student...studying in 11th standard. I live in Salt Lake, West Bengal, India. I am pursuing my studies in science(pure+computer and English). This is my introduction to what I study. Now about my hobbies, passions, and my 'likings'.
First of all, what you must know that I am a computer freak. I like gaming, programming(especially), and surfing the net for various things(social networking, etc.).
Next, you must know that I am not a pure computer freak...:P What I mean is that, I am not at all a geek or a nerd. I like music very much(contemporary classical, to be exact). I used to sing, but now I play the piano. I love to listen to various musical compositions by Yanni on my e-book reader. I don't play with a group or something. I don't even do stage performances, although I have played once(I'll go to that later). That's it (about music).
I also like to make handicrafts. I used to paint earlier(I continued it till class 8 and plan to resume it after I pass my high school). But now I still do my handicrafts. :D
That's more or less all about myself. Lastly, what I want to tell you is that I love to go to seasides and mountain regions, and I love adventures and trekking trips! Right now, I'll go to have my dinner, later on I'll see what I can tell you people! Bye!
