Scrolling Lyrics??

There are many sites which provide lyrics of songs. However I was searching for lyrics in Lrc format, with time tags. That way I can have the lyrics scroll as the songs is being played - karoake style. The metrolyrics flash window does that. But certainly there is no way to retrieve the time tags from there.


The search is still on for a lyrics database with time tags.


Its really a waste of time manually adding the time tags, and I usually get bored by half a song.

China.....

Long back, when I was still in college, a friend of mine had told me about a site where you can chat anonymously with strangers all over the world.

I thought well big deal, it'll mostly be filled with guys looking for girls, with no girls at all. Or worse some weirdo's.

Basically I couldn't understand why would anyone want to chat with a stranger. I myself find it hard to manage my time among all the many many friends I already have.

However it was indeed a shock when I used the service.

http://omegle.com/

This is the site my friend had refered me. I was online as usual waiting for some friend to be online but surprisingly no one was. So I just went there thinking, well I've nothing to loose.

The first user was a chinese girl(17) and she was typing in very good english and I was surprised by that She told that she knew good english but many of her friends didn't. Then very soon she left the chat.

The next user was exactly the thing I had expected to happen. The user asked what my gender is. The moment I told I'm a male - Disconnected :)

The third user was the shock of my life. It was a chinese guy just 13 years old. He's trying to improve his english. Then it occured to me that yes this is a good enough reason for someone to use this service. We chatted for quite sometime and then exchanged email addresses and now I've a pen pal from China.

Here's some of the interesting parts of the conversation

You: hi

Stranger: hey

You: asl?

Stranger: from?

You: 21 m india

You: u

Stranger: china

You: wow lots of chinese users

Stranger: haha

Stranger: you r my first india talker

You: :)

You: i just started using this site few mins ago

You: u r my 3rd chatter

You: and 1st was chinese too

Stranger: what do you think about chinese

You: well very little i know about them

Stranger: that's my pleasure

You: i know your govt blocks lots of stuffs

You: feel sad about tat

Stranger: you can know from

Stranger: from me

Stranger: though my eng is not good enough

You: ya tats another this i knew

You: and was surprised ...

You: well yours is pretty good i must say

Stranger: really?

You: ya till now its been perfect infact

Stranger: thanks

You: one question

You: atleast from your govt policies

You: it looks like china is very aggresive militarily

You: whats the genral perception among people

Stranger: that is okay

You: hmmm

You: and what u think of pakistan

Stranger: it's a little difficult for me

Stranger: i am 13 years old you know

You: oh

You: sorry

You: sud have asked first

You: i'm 21

Stranger: how old r u

Stranger: boy?

You: ya

You: u

Stranger: me too

You: k

You: for 13 u have awsome english yaar

You: i was thinking u are 20 or something

Stranger: can u speak chinese?

You: i'm an indian and very few indians know chinese :( so sorry

Stranger: haha,you r joking

Stranger: that's okay

You: so tell somethings u lik about ur country

Stranger: i know little about your country

You: hmmm well i asked about what u like about your country(china)

Stranger: so can you intruduce your country for me?thanks

You: ya i can of course tell about my country

Stranger: chinese food

You: oh ya we all love it

You: :)

Stranger: delicious

Stranger: haha

You: thanks a lot to all chinese people for chinese food :)

Stranger: kong fu

You: oh ya we all fear it

You: :)

Stranger: have u see the beijing olympics?

You: ofcourse it was awsome!!!

Stranger: do u like soccer?

You: we in india are all for cricket only

You: thats sad but thats how it is

You: i'll tell u a bit about india.

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You: you are just 13 right

You: isn't that too young for u to chat with strangers

You: there are many weird people on the internet

Stranger: i know

Stranger: but i want to imrove my english

You: ok for tat u have joined

You: hmmm

Stranger: yeah

Stranger: i knew omegle yesterday

You: better be careful and if you ever feel the person u are chatting with is sounding anything other than normal just disconnect

You: internet has good and bads

You: oh so u r new too

You: i started using just now

You: wanted to see how it is

You: i thought that most users will be the usual bad kind of people

Stranger: my mom told juet now

Stranger: i think you are good

You: he he

You: i think u are good too :)

Stranger: you are right

You: hmmm but how good is your spoken english

Stranger: though the one is bad ,it can't do something bad to me

Stranger: yse?

Stranger: yes?

You: hmmmm wel ya its true they cannot do bad to you but still u r young. and if they say something bad it can affect young peoples mind badly. that is why i told.

Stranger: before you i talk with you,i chatted with an American boy

You: i c

You: how was he

Stranger: he asked if i was a boy or a girl

Stranger: i told him

Stranger: then,guess what he did

You: he must have disconnected

Stranger: yeah

You: he he tat is actually what i had expected to happen

Stranger: how can you know it

You: it happens in all chat rooms

You: that is why i was surprised that good people come to chat here

Stranger: but you r different

You: ya just a matter of luck :)

Stranger: nice to talk with you

You: ya sure

You: hey

You: in case u wanna contact later

You: here's my blog

You: sogy4you.blogspot.com

You: u need not give ur contact info

You: :)

You: in fact i wud say u never give ur contact to anyone online

You: ok

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Stranger: your blog

Stranger: it is writen by english

You: hmmm ya

Stranger: difficult for me

You: hmmm

You: well i can't help it

You: sadly

You: i don't know chinese

Stranger: oh

Stranger: i see

You: but see if u want to contact me

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Stranger: ok

Stranger: i trust you

Stranger: oh my god

You: wat happened

Stranger: i can't go into your blog

You: wow

You: y can't u

You: what problem is it giving

Stranger: domain name

Stranger: is a trouble

You: hmmm tats weird

You: u could get it before

You: right

Stranger: no i can't

Stranger: what should i do

You: hmmm

You: tat is bad

You: tat is one sure shot way of contacting me...

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        You: here's my email address

You: contact when u wanna

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Stranger: do you receive?

You: i didn't get it yet

Stranger: right!!

You: hey got it

You: u sent can u hear me

Stranger: you try to send to me

You: ya ya

Stranger: yeah

You: replying

Stranger: haha

Stranger: happiness

You: hmm i'm not able to send

You: its giving an error

You: i'll check wats d prob

You: hmmm i guess it was sent but still gave error

You: did u get it

Stranger: Well i guess I can indeed hear you

Stranger: yes?

You: :)

You: cool

Stranger: you say it

Stranger: haha

You: i said it

Stranger: ok

Stranger: great

You: wow u know wat we are now

You: :)

You: we are pen-pals

Stranger: good words

You: he he i'll tell all my frens about u :)

You: they'll all be surprised

Stranger: me too

You: :)

Stranger: what is your name,please?

You: ya sure my name is Sougata Khan

You: don't worry about how to pronounce it :)

You: u'll find it tough

You: just call me sogy

Stranger: how do you do ,sogy?

Stranger: hehe

You: he he

Stranger: well

You: how do you do , Stranger?

Stranger: don't you want to know my name?

You: ya sure but tell in mail

You: you need to be extra careful as u r very young

Stranger: i will

You: wow this site rocks

Stranger: excited

You: ya sure

You: i always wanted a pen pal

You: never thought it'll be from china though :)

Stranger: me too

Stranger: but never thought it'll be from india though

You: :)

You: cool

Stranger: what's the time there?

You: 10.30

You: pm

Stranger: oh

Stranger: i want to sleep now

You: oh sure

Stranger: you know,it's 1:07

You: oh my god

You: is it

You: ok

You: hey just tell the nearest big city

Stranger: i just did my homework

Stranger: it's not far from beijing

You: ya it says its 1.09

You: there

Stranger: i live in changchun,also a big city

You: :)

You: you better sleep now

You: u got school 2moro

Stranger: oh ,i have to say bye to you

You: ya ofcourse

Stranger: hehe

You: Bye Good night Sweet dreams

You: Take care

You: C you

You: :)

Stranger: see you

You: i'll disconnect now

You: bye

Stranger: me,too

Your conversational partner has disconnected.

Friends Lets Connect on my Blog

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Bittu Da dhaba

On April 2nd 2009 my project partner Vijay and Me finished our historical Final Year Project Presentation. It f the single most difficult thing we have done in the entire Final Year!!

With extremely tired mind and body we felt lets go some place near to celebrate our unofficial finishing of Final Year as very little was left in terms of academic work once the Final Year Project is done.

So we went to Bittu Da Dhaba. Well its near our college and I don't think I need to say anything about Dhaba food for anyone who likes spicy food.

Continuing with my trend of making videos out of photos, I thought lets make another one. So here's the video and once again I would suggest watching it in HD. Enjoy.

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Kendriya Vidyalaya Mangalore No.1 Get Together

We had a reunion kind of a thing in Bharath mall with a significant number of people attending it. Namely Manoj, Tejaswi, Manu, Kushal, Deepak, Darshan, Balaji, Shiva, Chetan and me.

This was a get-together organized by Kushal and Tejaswi.And it was on Jan 25th 2009. Ya I know it was long back but then lazy bones like me get things delayed apparently for no reason!

Staying in Mangalore itself after my schooling days has made it difficult, for me atleast, to miss school days. When you know your classmates are all in the city, its kindof tough to feel they have parted away!!

But now that my college days are over, I'm finally feeling, well ,college friends are gone and soon I'll be gone for work, may be somewhere in Africa!!

We met in Bharath mall, Mangalore. It was a great time we had. Reliving the amazing school days. Some pictures were taken and I thought well its kinda boring to go thru pics one by one, for my friends, and even more for strangers, so lets just jazz it up a bit. So here's a video presentation made out of those pics.I would recommend watching it in HD. Enjoy. And do comment.

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The World's First Programmer

Being a student of IT for 4 years has meant reading a lot of books ......err, ok some books.
I've had several lecturers teaching us several subjects which are hopelessly outdated. And I've read some blogs of professionals working in the latest technology. 

There have been moments when I felt well there's a lot to be proud of my field. But something that has been always hushed up or has been understated, is the role of women in IT or Computer Science. Rarely have I come across any algorithm by a lady or even a book by a lady...well some international authors have such weird names its difficult to decipher their gender.

Then after fooling around all the IT stuffs for 4 years, it never occured to me who was the first programmer in the whole world. We all knew Charles Babbage was the father of computers and stuffs like that, but being in IT means we are basically programmers.

So guess who was the world's first programmer.... Well I'm sure you would've guessed by now its some lady, if not; then well, it in fact is a lady - Lady Ada Lovelace. She's the one after whom the programming language Ada is named.

Its surprising that we were never told about something like this. Considering the abysmal number of girls in our class...well our juniors have improved in the sex ratio. 

wiki entry for Lady Ada Lovelace
A small biography of Lady Ada Lovelace

The above links give a hell lot of information about the interesting person she was.


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Moral Policing

Mangalore has always been my favorite city. I've spent the most wonderful days of my life here. Mangalore has always been a very tolerant and peaceful city. In fact it was very weird in the first few days when we moved here.

However the recent events of Pub Attacks and Abduction of the daughter of a mla the image of the city has taken a beating.

The thing I had in mind from that day was, I needed to do something, anything to mark my protest. What I believe is that these hooligans get the guts to do these kind of acts only because WE don't protest. We are too preoccupied with our easy going life. We feel "I've not been harmed by them, Why should I be worried".

The one thing I am reminded of is the famous quote

First they came for the Jews, but I did nothing because I'm not a Jew. Then they came for the socialists, but I did nothing because I'm not a socialist. Then they came for the Catholics, but I did nothing because I'm not a Catholic. Finally, they came for me, but by then there was no one left to help me. – Pastor Father Niemoller (1946)

I strongly oppose the manner in which the moral police works. Who are they to tell anyone what to do.

I was shocked by a lady friend of mine who said she supports Ram sene. I knew that she was very forward thinking and most importantly a woman!
On further inquiry it turns out that she knows all the good work done by Ram sene before these ugly incidents and so feels that they are not that bad. But she too was not supporting their act of moral policing.

This is what happens always, Most organizations start of as good one's, with a good motive and usually by a good person with great vision. But as the well known Chinese proverb goes - A fish starts rotting from its head.

Once the top level of that organization gets slightly off track, the organization goes from being the best to something that we all can see.
The question therefore is should we not oppose them just because they did good work earlier.
Just like saving someone's life doesn't give me the right to take it , doing good work doesn't give the right to any organization to do wrong things.

I would like to add here that the "morals" they were "protecting" are not entirely wrong. My major opposition is the way it was carried out.
I'm myself against drinking - which means I don't drink. And would advice my loved ones not to do so either. And certainly doesn't mean that I go beating around People who do it. And to top it all the hypocrisy surrounding the moral policing is the extreme suppression of women in the name of morals.

Coming back to the point that I was dieing to do something to mark my protest. The times carried this article about a blog which was having a unique campaign against the Ram sene.

I checked the blog and was surprised how a simple, funny and seemingly stupid idea can generate such a huge response.



These are some of the awsome comments I found in the blog.

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"Do they have to be used or new?"

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I have yellow chaddis. I believe that's a good colour for guys who beat up women.

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Lol! This is going to be such fun! Frankly, can't believe someone is getting serious and taking the initiative. We have gotten so used to taking things lightly and forgetting about such incidents till they actually affect us.
Good work, people!

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LOL.. Nice tongue in cheek idea.. Love it!
I guess Muthalik will attempt banning pink chaddi's because that is against indian culture..

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In response to some comments that opposed the movement

It's ridiculous to criticize this as being too glib or 'not serious enough'. It's a form of protest that has evolved spontaneously enough to deserve respect in a democracy. It's at least infinitely better than to sit behind little boxes criticizing work being DONE and demanding "real protest" that follows some tired protocol. And perhaps even better than grabbing them and beating the living daylights out of them, no matter how tempting that may seem.

I'd like to see even one of you get off your lazy asses and start something if you think you have the intellect and the drive to do it.

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Pubbing, noodle straps, tight jeans, Val's day etc could be right or could be wrong..but it's we who have to decide how we wanna live at the end of the day! We can't have these goondas dictate our lives! I'm not necessarily protesting for val's day..I AM PROTESTING FOR OUR FREEDOM TO CHOOSE! WE ARE SUPPOSED TO BE A FREE NATION! MR. MUTALIK, IF YOU WANT TO PLAY 'DAD', PLEASE PAY MY BILLS TOO!

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...A woman has as much as right as you to indulge her needs whatever they may be without names being hurled at her..you remind me of that old line, you know, if a man is promiscuous he's a stud, but if a woman is promiscuous she's a whore! In any case, your comments only reveal your ugly prejudices and double standards.

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....Indians are big hypocrites...we will ask freedom to what we want., but when want a bride for our son..we will be very careful not to choose a "loose character" girl. Is that not double standards???

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There were some People mostly anonymous who said it was a bad idea and hurled abuses in the comments, only one of them made sense

why r u girls trying to reveal ur undergarments to the public and do these kinda protest,,did ramsena tell u not to wear red underwear on valentine day,no,they are protesting for protecting our culture where in,in the name of valentine day there are so many unwanted activities happening,,if u girls still want to go ahead with this,your choice.REMEMBER THE WORLD IS WATCHING AND WE WILL BE A LAUGHING STOCK. WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE WESTERN CULTURE AND US. THERE THEY PROTEST NAKED FOR SOME CAUSE,HERE U ARE PROTESTING WITH YOUR PANTIES FOR SOME USELESS CAUSE.THERE ARE SO MANY MORE USEFUL THINGS TO THINK ABOUT AND LEAD LIFE..

And this is how one needs to register protest. One simple line "if u girls still want to go ahead with this,your choice" makes the whole post wonderful. If moral police were like this anonymous person, There would be no problem at all.

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