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In this age, it is thought by most of our peers that it is rather absurd for anyone to not be on Facebook or Twitter. Linkedin hasn’t caught on as much, but sooner or later, it too, I assume, shall become an obsession. After joining college and meeting new people, the first questions posed to me were ‘Are you on Facebook?’, ‘Do you Tweet?’. When I answered ‘No’ to both those questions, I learnt that those who posed these questions thought that I was either a freak, or a right twit. Social Networking in itself is not a new tendency in society, but the way it has taken off in the past seven eight years is what never ceases to surprise. I do not stand to judge whether it is good or bad but I will not lie when I say that it has in one manner of speaking become a substitute to real human friendships.

I joined Facebook recently and found that along with my new college friends a whole barrage of people who had exited my life long ago added me. I did feel quite touched and nostalgic for a moment but the moment I tried to chat with them, I found the only thing I could talk to them about was ‘The good old times’ and nothing beyond that. A friend told me once ‘I’m on Facebook to add people I don’t talk to anymore but am obliged to wish them a Happy Birthday to once a year’. In all honesty this concept of ‘friendship’ does nothing more than bewilder.

I’m not on Twitter so my opinions on it can only go so far as those of a lay observer. It does however work fast to spread the word and thus has acquired the status of a potent marketing tool. It is true that short messages in up to 140 characters have revived the stardom of many a celebrity, spread news, and increased online interaction. However it will not be wrong to suggest that they have ruined goliaths like Lalit Modi and made Shashi Tharoor prove that he suffers from verbal diarrhea just as much.

 

Linkedin is, the most useful and therefore most underrated of these three social networking websites. It provides solace not only to those who have no jobs but also to those who currently have jobs in their search for newer, better jobs. If these three websites were to merge, however, what would result would be something that is a massive waste of time. If someone on this new site did finally find the time to apply for a job, and eventually got rejected, the post on his or her wall would read ‘FACE it you TWIT, You are not IN’……

Code Wars 2010

so.BIG.H

Code Wars couldn’t happen last year due to a number of reasons. But this time it will be bigger and better than any of the past years so come prepared (to survive) that is. I’ll not say much here since you will have only 42 minutes to prepare after you finish reading this. You may like to see this though

A Tip:

Don’t come to win, come to survive. (I know I’m repeating this but there must be reason behind it, right?)

NOTE: Apparently there has been a change. Vivek said that “Psychotherapy available on request” but we thought it over and realized that this years CW is just a notch above the earlier ones and so we got some physiotherapists. The physiotherapists will be available for consultation/treatment (or both) before/after/during the event (or all three). They have been placed at every possible corner of the school just in-case you require them urgently (I have no doubt, it will be urgent).

@TheGamers Bring your sports shoes along. You’ll need them to run as far as you can from the gaming lab plus they will help you reach the physiotherapists more quickly and therefore minimizing the mental trauma and damage that your brain will suffer.

You have the official font of  Code Warriors, Jokerman, don’t you?

And I’m sorry for all that bold but that should be the least of your worries right now. Don’t forget what 6*9 is.

Your post contains too many tags. The maximum number of tags allowed is 6, but you have entered 8.

Have you ever seen this on Facebook? It’ disturbing! But there’s a way around it.

Remember my post Trick To Bypass Facebook’s 420 Characters Status Update Limit ? A reader pointed out that the trick also bypasses Facebook’s status tag restriction.

Click here to see the Trick To Bypass Facebook’s 420 Characters Status Update Limit and tag more than 6 friends on a status.

Have you ever been to an event in which every possible rule and restriction was put in place and then all of them were broken by the organizers themselves? Had you asked this question to me yesterday, I would have said no but today I say yes, I have been to an event like the one aforementioned.

Mount St. Mary’s School‘s annual symposium Matrix Ecomm was held on 20th-21st August 2010. See the invite here, though if you are color blind you may pass it. (if you interested in reading the whole post then you must have a look at the Matrix Ecomm’s invite, it would help you empathize with me and my fellow students who were (un)fortunate enough to attend the symposium.

Note: If you are susceptible to epileptic seizures please refrain from seeing the invite.

It’s not that their invite was bad, it was just an invite which you don’t feel like opening. So many colors, so many images..oh! God! To open the invite you need to  have a motive and a friend to support you while you are at it. Though no typos except one was found, the one which I found compensated for 50 typos. It was the third word of the invite and it was written in bold and apparently was in a size three times larger than the rest of the written material in the invite.

What follows is a full (and rather long) review of the event plus pointing out a few things in the invite.

Dear sir/maam

See the typo? Besides the fact that they forgot to add an apostrophe/ letter d (it could have been either ma’am or madam) they perhaps thought even a comma was not required after maam.

These are the rules for the Gaming event, Headshot (with no game in which you could get a headshot). Weird but interesting nevertheless.

Headshot

• Participants have an option of bringing their own USB mouse not more than 3500 dpi (auto detect, driver installation will not be allowed)
• Team have to be prepared for all Genres
• Teams have to have a proper logo and clan name.

See people, we know you know what dpi is. You don’t need to show off your knowledge by writing anything. 3500? Seriously? My friend bought a mamba for gaming purposes (d’uh!) and you don’t want him to use it? I wonder why…And why the logo? Aditya spent an hour making it while they didn’t even use the logo. No auto detect? How will a participant use any mouse in that case?!

Anyway, our gamers had a talk with the organizers and they removed this restriction afterwards.

The gaming event was spread over 2 days with round 1 and 2 being day 1 while round 3 (finals) on the second day. I was not there the first day since the quiz or surprise event was on the second day. The gaming people qualified in day 1 and went on to grab second place on day 2. According to the schedule a gaming participant could take part in the surprise event as well since they were not clashing. The schedule however was changed afterwards (after day 1) with no official announcement whatsoever. Had to make changes in the teams since a gamer was supposed to come with me in the surprise event, off the computer. The actual gaming however ended before the commencement of the surprise event thus making me mad. Why did they change it in the first place?!

This is the event in which I went. It can also be considered the surprise event though it hasn’t been named so.

• Matrix Mind Fields™ is the ultimate challenge testing technological prowess. The Mind Field will…….
• Teams will comprise of 4 members. 2 on the computer and 2 for challenges off the computer.

I settled for off the computer since we were expecting quiz/crossword/banana/apple to come as the event. The on the computer guys were told that Video Editing et al could come. Since it was a surprise event we were not sure. The event got preponed though it started at the time it was supposed to be. We sat in front of a PC with Pentium 4, a 13 inch Samsung LCD (the smaller version of the TV LCD’s) and the user log-in screen with a password protected account on Windows. With nothing to do we started entering random passwords. Apparently every time we tried consecutively for the 6th time the PC used to hang and thus forcing us to restart it.

And the ™, really?

The rules were told (or rather changed). It was told (with my commentary in square brackets.)

All four participants have to sit on one computer [Er..Pardon me? What happened to the invite? Haven't you read it?]. There will be no off computer round [Ye lo, doob gayi bhais]. There will also be a treasure hunt. There are clues hidden in the school, you have to find them. It is time based. You have 20 minutes to solve the first clue. The team with the least time will win.

On the treasure hunt thing I went

Me: It is raining outside!

The Guy: I wanted to make it interesting, didn’t know it would rain.

Me: *hump*

After waiting for almost an hour we were given the password to log-in. It was shrek.

Another announcement:

You will be given clues which you have to solve and then proceed to the next clue. Total clues are 3. 2 on the computer and one for the treasure hunt. The clue you get will be based on your luck that is they can either really easy or really stuff. Hints will be given though it will add 10 minutes to your time [Sarcasm starts_Woot! That is awesome! I am so lucky! They don't test knowledge! They are testing luck! Awesome event]

Couldn’t it just be the same clue for everyone else? The competition would be equal like that! Needless to say, we got a clue about which we had no idea at all. (The game was Solitaire).

It took some time for our minds to register the fact that is was in fact a cheat (though it was apparent). The clue was simple. If you know it, do it if you don’t then die pressing combination of random keys hoping that the next permutation works. We did that. But failed at it and miserable at that too. We asked for a clue knowing that it would mean 20 minutes + 10 minutes penalty =30 minutes, virtually impossible for us to bounce back. The hint that we got was sarcasm starts _nothing short of amazing. It shed so much light that we realized that the answer had been in front of us all the time_sarcasm ends. The clue they gave us was:

It is a keyboard shortcut.

Need I say more?

Unable to complete the task we waited it to be given the next clue (the cheat is Alt+Shift+2). The next clue was

I remember G@ateway. Even it was on computer but it was workable and fun! Even though I didn’t win it I would remember it always! The clue (if you can call it clue) was not workable! Either you know it or you don’t. There is only one way of doing it. Though we were able to hide the data inside the image (by using “comment” after right clicking) since notepad editing rendered the image “not previewable” . It worked though it was not upto the standard of the organizers. Reason: We did not do it the way they wanted it to be done.

The guy who showed us how to do it used this trick (link given for the trick) and used WinRAR (a 3rd party software). Also it was mentioned that 3rd party software is not allowed. On this point the guy said

The guy: WinRAR is not 3rd party.

Me: Ermm.What?! WinRAR is 3rd party.

The guy: It comes with Windows.

Me: *Hump* Dude seriously?

The guy: Yes.

Me: No!

The guy: Fine, I’ll show you the trick with WinZip.

Me: *Waiting*

The guy: Since the original file is in .RAR format it is not opening with WinZip. But had I used WinZip earlier, it would have worked.

Me: We did hide the data though!

The guy: Not the way we wanted.

The trick in fact is pretty long. Requires CMD and is very long. In short not doable in surprise event. On the other hand the trick does not work without 3rd part software (WinRAR, 7Zip et al have to be used). See the trick here.

With that done, they gave us this:

C-A-L-Y-I-Q-E-S A-F-N

Tried to decipher it  but couldn’t. Asked for the key but it didn’t help because my mind was doing everything besides working. The answer was physics lab. Ran to the lab and were given this:

Come to us and we will give you knowledge. We are:

Teachers was a very sensible answer which Vaibhav gave but it was wrong. There we portraits of Scientists, Sir Isaac Newton and all. That was also turned down by one organizer. Sidharth finally found some magazines and there was this chit which had this written:

Back to square one

Must be reception. Ran like Usian Bolt (only a lot slower). No one was there so we started shouting for anyone who would give us the next clue. We got and rush back (bruised my knee when I slipped on the stairs, second floor). Ran back to the Computer lab. Only to be given given another clue

Open a file named “dafile” without using My Computer. Use CMD.

I said “Can we use explorer?” “No” came the answer. These guys are obssesed with CMD! Command Prompt everywhere!

The extension was not told to us and later it was revealed that the file is in the D drive. FAIL!

I just can’t write anymore now (you must me thanking me for stopping ). The event just pissed me off. Even the quiz sucked. Worst ever. Questions out of nowhere and on top of it they even refused to acknowledge correct answers. The gaming though was organized very nicely by the Matrix Clan and even let us watch the event.

PS: The reason for such an abrupt ending is not tiredness (due to running around the school) but is the eagerness of pressing Publish button which took over me and forced me to publish it. Anyway, if you have survived the full post then congrats, you are one of the very few to do so.

This is is the second and last post of the series. You can read Say Hi To The New Vice-President, Code Warriors! Part #1 here. it is highly recommend that you read that before starting with this. Not that it would help, it would be considered nice on your side.

Dolty is getting eager and wants to type.

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Electric Shocks Without Electricity Part #2:
Confident than before, less shaky than the rest and with a smile on his face (which was to conceal the fact that he was not confident was having an urge to run away after saying G2G to one of the teachers) Pulkit entered the room which had changed since the last time he was here. You very well know about the last time though.

“Ma’am may I come in?” said Pulkit in his hoarse voice which was followed by a teachers which to Pulkit sounded something like “Yes, beta”. The Vice-Principal was there. She is one ***** lady (*****=sweet, I don’t want Pulkit to get into trouble you know.)

Pulkit asked “Ma’am may I sit?” “Have a seat Pulkit” replied the Vice-Principal in her manly tone. First question and Pulkit was blown apart. “Why is Code Wars called so?” Pulkit felt like saying “Ma’am? Pardon? Come again? What kind of a question is that please? Have you got any sense?” He didn’t say it though. Instead he tried explaining it with the help of Computer terminology which I don’t think anybody got. “Ma’am” said Pulkit, which was then followed by a rather uncertain, non-confident answer; in short, a dent in Pulkit’s impression. “Coding as we know it is the very basic of Computer Science. From the simplest yet the most complex language Binary to high level languages like Python the basic is coding. We here at Code Wars, deal with computers. You name it, we do it. We fight for positions. Fight with our minds to get a podium finish so that we can get the overall trophy to our school. It is also a custom which was started by the founder of the club, Arun Darlie Koshy.”

The answer may seem good but it wasn’t because it had too many aaaa… and umm… in between. “Bas?! Yahi bologay? said the Vice-Principle with some disappointment in her voice. “Ma’am yahi ata hai” replied Pulkit with tongue in the cheek. “Acha answer nahin hai” said a teacher.

The answer may seem good but it wasn’t because it had too many aaa.. and umm.. in between. “Bas?! Yahi bologay? said the Vice-Principle with some disappointment in her voice. “Ma’am yahi ata hai” replied Pulkit with tongue in the cheek. “Acha answer nahin hai” said a teacher and laughed. She was of course joking.

“Ma’am I stammer” said Pulkit out of nowhere. “We understand” said a teacher. “And ma’am, I am proud of it.”

“Do you have any fond memoirs of your junior school?” asked the Headmistress. “Um…No, ma’am. I don’t remember any though I remember you. You gave me a certificate” “In which year did you pass the junior school?” asked the Headmistress. “Junior school as in 6th?” “Yes.” came a quick reply. “2004/2006 I think” answered Pulkit which uncertainty which could match no others. “2004 or 2006?” “Erm…Umm.2005″ replied Pulkit after some prices calculation (he actually made it up). “Ahh well I was there in 2005″ she said. Pulkit took a breather which was short-lived because he heard “You may go”. Reluctantly he stood up and went to the door after thanking all teachers. “”Are vapas ayo baat karte hain” said one of the teachers. Unexpected but true. Pulkit went back. “Tell me something about Code Wars” “Ma’am I’ll tell you about my history with Code Wars. Ma’am I have been a member of two years now. I gave my first Intra in 2007 i which I topped with 15 on a score of 30. I gave my second Intra in 2008 in which I scored 26 upon 30 and again topped but also aced it that time. I was taken in as member some months after that.” “Were you there when Code Wars was organized last year?” “Ma’am Code Wars did not happen last year. I t happened in 2008 in which I participated though had no hand in organizing since I was not a member back then”

Some more irrelevant questions were asked which Pulkit ruined to some extent.

When he came out the first word that he spoke were For The Win!

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Though Dolty didn’t point it out but both my interviews were laugh riots. I was laughing at every moment. Saying LMAO would be wrong but you get the jist.

I had a line in my mind. Many of my good friends would know that I stammer and lose my cool when teased about that. I figured out a way by which I could use it as an advantage. I planned that I would say “Ma’am I stammer and I am proud of it.” A valid question which arises here is WHY? But as you may have already figured it out, no one asked why I am proud of it.

The answer to that the question WHY which could have been asked would be simple and ingenious. The answer was “Ma’am Shahrukh Khan is what he is because of his stammer. He stammered one word Ki-Ki-Ki-Kiran and he’s there at top, I have the ability to stammer whole sentences.”

Can’t believe it’s happening. My 100th post! This Blog’s 100th post! Let me cut the cake first.

It has been some time that I have been blogging and have also disappeared twice  from this Blog due to reasons here and here. This post could have been published way back had the events in the aforementioned links not taken place. By rising against all odds, here I am writing my 100th post or rather to say, typing the end of the First Chapter of  this shitty Epic Blog.

I have been wanting to write this post since so long. Even wrote a small draft of it on my iPod. I don’t remember what I wrote but one thing is for sure; It is not worth mentioning Here is a walk-through of  all this Blog which will stick only to the posts published till date (I hope).

It started with the post named My first blog post will not be about my first blog post. Rather rebelling but a little different definitely. The post which should have been the first…. was then published which turned out to one of the posts that I actually regret writing. From Mafia Whores (Mafia Wars tips and tricks,bugs exposed,and lot more) to how to Make an iTunes/App store account without using your credit card. From post CBSE board experience to Free Demonoid invite(s). From a poem from Savya Mittal to Why there isn’t a perfect gadget………..

In fact click here to see a list of All My Posts

Mind Seeing the Stats?

With almost 17000 views till date and 565 comments, this Blog has been nothing short of amazing stats wise.

I get most of my traffic from search Engine (or so I presume). The top three searched string have been:

Search	Views
demonoid invite	190
teacher nearly kills a boy	122
counter strike 1.6	117
teacher nearly kills boy	96

Comments wise, no post can outrun Free Demonoid invite(s) post. It has registered about 180 comments so far and gets at least 2 comments everyday on average. The second post in the line is my First Post with 38 comments.

If average views per day are taken into account then there has been no lows and only highs all through. From 10 views on average per day in January average views per day in this month has risen to 250. WordPress.com doesn’t tell about Unique Visitors otherwise these stats would have been more interesting.

If you take top posts/pages into Picture the results are  quite surprising:

Title	Views
Home page	3,675
Need For Speed: Shift Cheats (NFS) for i	1,765
Download softwares that together make iT	1,324
Free Demonoid invite(s)	798

The homepage views are quite understandable but the Need For Speed Post has gotten so many views and 0 comments. Geez. Bite me.

The Pages on the Blog

Besides writing posts I also put in some work in making Pages. There are, as of now, 8 pages on this Blog.

• The Home Page
• 6×9=?
• Get your Apple AppStore apps reviewed
• Be My Guest: Write A Guest Post
• Dolting
• All My Posts
• Contact me
• Who is this Dolt person anyway?

The pages don’t get as much traffic as some of my posts but I think they make the Blog a little more complete.

But traffic isn’t the only thing that makes me Blog. It is my new found love for writing that drives me. Traffic, though, is a motivator.

The next Goal that I have set for myself is to cross 100K views and write the 200th Post. Till then, you can subscribe to get free email updates from this blog directly to your inbox!

I had thought that my 100th post would an epic post. A post that everyone would remember. But looks like it ain’t going to be anything of that sort.

I’m off partying (which may/may not involve studying Chemistry).

I had told myself that I would call myself a newbie on the Blogoshpere until I write at least a hundred posts.

Signing off,

An experienced Blogger,

Pulkit Kaushik aka TheDolt

Netscape Navigator, Internet Explorer, Safari, Firefox (*beloved*) and now Epic. Developed by Hidden Reflex, an Indian company, Epic is a browser which is heavily inspired by Mozilla Firefox. It wouldn’t be wrong to say that it has not been actually inspired from Mozilla but is a rip off of Firefox. FF users who will switch to Epic  for testing purposes (me for instance) will feel at home… Besides a default Peacock colored theme and a rather flashy and unusable sidebar, this browser has nothing new if you don’t count some 1500 free applications which you will never use.

The sidebar of the browser may seem awesome at first but after a few days with the browser when you almost involuntary and by instinct open Firefox you realize how many centimeters of precious space that sidebar which you never used was occupying. In case you want to use the sidebar and access websites through it then be prepared to browse through mobile versions of websites. Totally opposite from what one would expect. And besides the fact that the sidebar cannot be removed or collapsed to decrease its size at least, you will be greeted by a very ugly looking dialog box telling what the sidebar is about and then go on about enumerating its various non-existent features. The sidebar in short _____ __ ___ ____ ____ (I think you can fill in the blanks).

Page-loading times are just fine. Slower than Chrome but not better than its daddy, Firefox. Sometimes the page-loading abruptly stops in between for no reason. Sometimes all you will get to see a bit of HTML in the pages at random places.

Browser crashing is not a problem. Epic doesn’t crash or at least didn’t while I was using it. It is heavy on memory though (just like Firefox). Takes about 10% more than what Firefox takes. But then crashes are rare too. Sometimes it gives me the option of “save and quit” sometimes it doesn’t. Half the time it gives me the option to save, it doesn’t restore and when it does it takes a lot of time to load everything to page file and hangs.

Epic also has a built in Antivirus whose definitions apparently need to be downloaded in order to use it (25 MB). Epic is also the first browser to incorporate an antivirus. I haven’t used the antivirus so it would be unfair on my part to comment on it. The Private Browsing option works flawless. Takes a second to start and a second to come back to normal. A big button has been provided on the status bar for easy and quick access.

The best thing about this browser is its ability to type in various Indian languages. Read on to know how it turns into PITA. You just press a small, almost invisible and definitely not there icon to open a small window screen in which you get to choose your language and then type in English script which is then converted to the language of your choice by Epic. It isn’t flawless but is still interesting. But this nifty feature of this browser makes it unusable and forces me to uninstall the browser.

There is a small drop down box which comes when you start typing anywhere. This box lets you choose your language in which you want the material to be typed in while you will still using an English lettered keyboard, typing in English only. The thing is that the code which is used to program this button gets copied everywhere. And this code is not of a line or two but nearly of 1400 words. I have uploaded a text file here for you to see the code. My readers who have subscribed by FeedBurner or WordPress mail subscriptions might have seen this code a couple of time in their in-boxes. Sometimes it also creeps on older post when I update them. It is long, ugly and has been written in JavaScript.

The browser also fails when it comes to remembering ID’s. I have been using Epic for 2 weeks now and have logged into Gmail countless number of times but still, I don’t know why, it still likes to remember my mum’s ID and not mine.

There are only three things good about Epic. a.) The download size of the setup is very small 10.4 MB. It may still be bigger than Firefox (though smaller than all else) but 10MB is still feasible. b.) Writing in your various Indian Languages c.) An in built Virus Scanner.

Epic seems to be a nice package if you want a browser to work on for a few days though switching to it from any other browser (except Internet Explorer) is not recommended. In short, you may pass this over-hyped Browser unless you want to type in Hindi without learning it.

PS: Download the Epic-Epic Bug file from here (.txt 30KB)

You may/may not want to  download the Browser. In case you want to, click here.

The days of sending files through Email are now history and a rather ancient one at that. Even Rapidshare is no longer in the news nowadays. The best file sharer (FTP) you can find is going to go bust after you see this one. Ladies and Gentlemen and Transsexuals I am proud to present File Dropper, the future of file sharing (or at least the present).

This website lets you upload files up to 5 GB in size. Let me go again, 5 GB! Throw away that MediaFire account of yours and give up on Rapidshare!

What exactly are you waiting for? Go to File Dropper now!

After stumbling upon Demonoid at the right time and getting an account I stumbled on to RapidShare a few minutes back and got a free Premium account! (Actually I made 7 accounts).

Just go to RapidShare’s Homepage and register! It is currently free of cost, no credit card, nothing. It took me 20 seconds to make one!

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UPDATE: Incase you are wondering why is RapidShare giving out free Premium accounts, it is because today is Friday the 13th.

Firstly I apologize for not coming up with something interesting for the heading; those who are unaware: This was also my Facebook status (sorry, can’t link, all my status are protected for privacy purposes). Now coming to the point, I am now the Vice-President of Code Wars. I don’t think you have any idea how excited I am. Let me try giving you some.

FTW!

I have been part of the club for 2 years now. Though it is less than what I wanted that to be, I’m still satisfied. I am in love with Code Wars and all Code Warriors

From what I have been hearing people want to know about my interviews and my journey to becoming the Vice-President (a little exaggerated, I know). I am sorry but all you will get to know today is about the interview.

Two interviews took place with the first being of those who had submitted the form for school posts while the second were of the people who were selected after the first interview. After 119 kids in the first interview some 75 were selected for the second and final interview which was for 50 posts. 25 of us were destined to go back home, empty chested (no badge) handed.

My first interview besides being postponed for 4 days consecutively and every time making me mad with nervousness was quite um…short. It was the longest one if compared with all people but IMHO it was very short or rather shorter than I expected. Let me use my non-existent writing skills to portray what happened when I was inside the torture chamber interview room, twice:

The narrator is a literate honey bee who accompanied Pulkit in both the interviews and used to vanish the moment he came out of the rooms. You may wish to call the bee Dolty though it is definitely not her name. Four *’s signify the starting of Dolty’s narration while another four *’s signify the end.

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Electric Shocks Without Electricity Part #1:

Pulkit enters a room. The sign put up on a brown colored plastic name plate outside reads Conference Room though no conference ever takes place. The conferences much to the dismal of the students, usually take place in the library. This story though is not about the people or the conference but is the chronicle of what happened in the room in the un-Godly hour when Pulkit went inside never to come back again.

“Good Morning” said Pulkit with confidence in voice that couldn’t match with that of any other. Though a little shaky and nervous he tried not to hide that fact. He knew he had to say “may I sit” and not “Can I sit” but fortunately that was not required since one of the 6 man eaters teachers offered Pulkit a seat.

“Applied for Code Warriors Vice President and Vice-Head Boy, right?” said one of the teachers. Pulkit doesn’t remember who it was; he was busy stopping his body from shaking and thus compromised on catching the names or face of the teachers for that matter. “Yes, ma’am” Pulkit replied with certain poise which he had always dreamt of using in an interview. He knew it would not be the end of the world if his doltness ruined the interview which he was about to blow apart (in a positive way).

“What is your credibility for the Vice-Head boy post?” came a question from somewhere towards Pulkit’s right. He was quick in replying “Ma’am I might not have achieved something substantial when it comes to academics but I think I can guide my juniors, my fellow classmates and even my seniors to some extent as to what they shouldn’t do. I took some wrong decisions in my earlier classes and don’t want my friends to do the same mistake. If I become the Vice-Head boy, I will be the epitome of what not to be. An epitome which will refrain students from doing what they morally and ethically shouldn’t do.”

The teacher looked pretty impressed though not certain as to what to say. Another teacher came to her rescue and asked Pulkit for many years had he been a member of Code Wars. Pulkit was prepared for this and replied one and a half years. “Thank you beta, you may go” came a sweet voice from Pulkit’s left side. A bewildered Pulkit said Thank you and left the room to be occupied by someone whose interview lasted only for 30 seconds.

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Thank you Dolty! You summed it up pretty well! . It wasn’t an interview which you call highly impressive since they didn’t ask anything with which I could err. Bring Code Wars into the frame without breaking the frame or manhandling it at least. I wasn’t that inclined towards the Vice-Head boy post for many reasons. I can tell two of them here: a.) There is no respect. You will be treated as a nerd and teachers pet (and a rather filthy one at that). Always. b.) I love Code Wars a little too much to ignore the post.

The wait for the list of selected candidates started which was closely followed by the wait for the second interview. Needless to say, my name was in the second list. The second interview was postponed more number of times than the first one.

Also, I was paranoid whether I should wear a tie or not. I didn’t wear it for two reasons. First, a tie is not part of the summer uniform. Second, I don’t know how to tie a knot.

Dolty is getting anxious and wants to type.

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Electric Shocks Without Electricity Part #2:
Confident than before, less shaky than the rest and with a………….

To be continued

PS: If combined, the two posts add up to 1760 words which in my opinion is not quite feasible. Wait for it the next post! Its coming!