Interesting Facts

Wordcount is my third game and I would rate it as the best of the three.





Screenshots of Wordcount game

There are two levels in this game.

1. Frame the word.
2. Find the word.

Frame the word

1. You begin the game by choosing either a vowel or a consonant.
2. After choosing 9 letters, your count down starts!!!
3. Within one minute,you have to form a word using the letters (not necassarily all the letters) in the letter pool.
4. Use each letter in the pool only once!
5. You score based on the length of your word and maximum length possible.
6. 5 times this level is played!

Find the word

1. This is simple jumble solving.
2. It is a seven letter jumble (with no letter repeating).
3. Within 30 seconds you have to solve the jumble.
4. If it is correct you score 200 points.

Your final score is out of 700 points.

This is an acid test to your vocabulary skills!

This game is loosely based on the COUNT DOWN game which runs on channel 4 in UK.

Download link: http://kctcse.googlepages.com/WORDCOUNT.ZIP

Well, in recent past I had been working only with VB, I had not done anything else and my second game after toggler has turned out to be more advanced, I have concentrated on theGUI of the game and I think I have succeeded to a great extent in that, the game is ROCK PAPER SCISSORS!









Screenshots of the game

The game is pretty simple.

Player has the full range of throws to play, as follows :

1. He/she can select one of the three, rock or paper or scissors.
2. Rock wins against scissors, loses to paper and stalemates against itself.
3. Paper wins against Rock, loses to scissors and stalemates against itself.
4. Scissors wins against paper, loses to rock and stalemates against itself.
5. You get one point for every win and your opponent gets one point for his/her win!!!
6. Final winner is the one who scores the maximum points (set at the start of the game) first!!!

It's between you and the computer!

Download link: http://kctcse.googlepages.com/ROCKPAPERSCISSORS.zip

Try the game give your comments on the game.

I am waiting for your comments.

1. Torrent timer
2. SD's Alarm Clock
3. SDPAD
4. Key Catcher
5. Toggler

Torrent Timer:

This software was the birth of my need to download torrents. My net plan
allows me unlimited download from 2 AM to 8 AM. So I had to wake up early in
the morning to switch on the net, to stop that, I came with the idea of
torrent timer. If you mention the hours and minutes after which the download
should start, this software will start the download automatically. It can
also be used to any other file/software also. I have added an audio player
with this software and the interface has been developed keeping the end
user’s comfort in mind.

Note:
When a playlist of format “.wpl” is opened a special playlist navigator opens
making the audio player user friendly.

Download link: http://kctcse.googlepages.com/TORRENTTIMER.zip

SD's Alarm Clock:


Screen shot of SD's Alarm Clock

It is a simple alarm clock with the feature of adding a music file as the alarm tone.
While enetering the date and time the correct format has to be maintained, otherwise the clock may not work as you desire.

Download link: http://kctcse.googlepages.com/SDSALARMCLOCK.ZIP

SDPAD:


Screenshot of SDPAD

SDPAD is the replica of notepad! The additional feature is that you can change the color and fonts with better effect than in notepad!!!

Download link: http://kctcse.googlepages.com/SDPAD.zip

Key Catcher:





Screen Shots of key catcher

Off all the softwares I developed, this is the best one.
You can rename the key catcher as SYSTEM because in task manager, this would sound better!!! This software will store the keys pressed in your system when it is running! It will also store the active windows running in the system once every minute. You can hide the key catcher so that it runs invisibly!

Download link: http://kctcse.googlepages.com/KEYCATCHER.zip

TOGGLER:


Screen shot of toggler

This is the first game I had ever developed using VB(any language for that matter).
It is a simple game.
The goal of the game is to turn all the buttons from [X] to [.]. This is done by clicking. When a button is clicked, its state is toggeled, but so is the state of four buttons around it, so plan carefully!

Download link: http://kctcse.googlepages.com/TOGGLER.zip

You download these softwares, work with them and comment on the softwares.

A small touching story mainly for professionals...

A man came home from work late, tired and irritated, to find his 5-year old son waiting for him at the door.

SON: "Daddy, may I ask you a question?"
DAD: "Yeah sure, what is it?" replied the man.

SON: "Daddy, how much do you make an hour?"
DAD: "That's none of your business. Why do you ask such a thing?"
the man said angrily.
SON: "I just want to know. Please tell me, how much do you make an
hour?"
DAD: "If you must know, I make Rs.100 an hour."
SON: "Oh," the little boy replied, with his head down.

SON: "Daddy, may I please borrow Rs.50?"

The father was furious, "If the only reason you asked that is so you
can borrow some money to buy a silly toy or some other nonsense, then you march yourself straight to your room and go to bed. Think about
why you are being so selfish. I work hard everyday for such this childish behavior."

The little boy quietly went to his room and shut the door.
The man sat down and started to get even angrier about the little
boy's questions. How dare he ask such questions only to get some money?
After about an hour or so, the man had calmed down, and started to
think: Maybe there was something he really needed to buy with that Rs.50 and he really didn't ask for money very often. The man went to
the door of the little boy's room and opened the door.
"Are you asleep, son?" He asked.

"No daddy, I'm awake," replied the boy.
"I've been thinking, maybe I was too hard on you earlier" said the
man.
"It's been a long day and I took out my aggravation on you.. Here's the
Rs.50 you asked for."
The little boy sat straight up, smiling. "Oh, thank you daddy!" He
yelled.
Then, reaching under his pillow he pulled out some crumpled up bills. The man saw that the boy already had money, started to get angry
again. The little boy slowly counted out his money, and then looked up at his father.

"Why do you want more money if you already have some?" the father grumbled.

"Because I didn't have enough, but now I do," the little boy replied.
"Daddy, I have Rs.100 now. Can I buy an hour of your time?

Please come home early tomorrow. I would like to have dinner with you."

The father was crushed. He put his arms around his little son, and he begged for his forgiveness.
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It's just a short reminder to all of you working so hard in life. We should not let time slip through our fingers without having spent some time with those who really matter to us, those close to our hearts.

Do remember to share that Rs.100 worth of your time with someone you love.

If we die tomorrow, the company that we are working for could easily replace us in a matter of days.

But the family & friends we leave behind will feel the loss for the rest of their lives. And come to think of it, we pour ourselves more into work than to our family.

On the test match,the Indians,right from the word go, they were up against a stiff Australian side but when they took the field, they had other opponents to face as well. On Day 1, Australia were 50 odd for 2 when Ponting was given not out by umpire Mark Benson. The Indians overcame that and had the Australians reeling at 134 for 6. Some time later, Symonds was adjudged not out by umpire Steve Bucknor, again a clear edge which only Bucknor was unaware of. Some more time later, the third umpire joined the party, a stumping appeal was turned down against Symonds with his foot on the line. He went onto score his career best score and with another decision going in favour of him, a stumping appeal not even referred to the third umpire by Bucknor. Then comes the Indian innings, Jaffer was bowled off a no ball but it went unnoticed. Then came the Aussie second innings, Hussey was caught behind but given not out. He was out lbw some time later but given not out. Then came the final innings. Rahul Dravid was given out caught behind when the ball was nowhere close to the bat, Ganguly was given out despite Clarke having grassed the catch twice and Dhoni and RP Singh were at the wrong end of marginal decisions. It might seem like a case of sour grapes but had so many decisons not gone against them then perhaps India would have ended up with a 200 run first innings lead. Decisions go wrong as to err is human but the consistency, obviousness and timing of the decisions was so much against India, that they cannot stop themselves from feeling unlucky. Australia retain the Border-Gavaskar Trophy as they cannot lose this series anymore and they had won the last edition. All India can do is take this match as an inspiration for them to come back hard at Australia in the forthcoming games.

It's been long since I had made a post in my blog.But this gap is necessary since I can not be posting as frequently as I had been posting in the past.I am into other meaningful works(that doesn't make my blog meaningless!!!)I will be posting 3 posts per week.That's the maximum I can and I am not counting the payed posts in this.And it's new year time.So I am extra busy!!!I will meet you guys after new year!

My photo session....

Me in my room...

Me with my parents



Once again I thank you for supporting me.

"Hmmm…. Hmmm…" I heard a voice so familiar to me.

"Hello......."I started.

But I was rudely interrupted by the lady who made that sound. I had seen her somewhere. But I was unable to recall.

"Listen I don't have time. Nor, you have. All you have to do now is read this letter. It would be useful for you in your future, if you have a future."

This statement confused me.

"What do you mean by this?",I asked.

"You are caught in a time wrap Deepak, Just like my brother. You read this!", she insisted.

"I should leave this place soon or else I would enter into trouble. Read it", she again insisted and left in a flash.

I took a firm breath of air, opened the letter and started reading the letter.

Hi Deepak! My name is Deepak too. I knew that you are caught in a time wrap. The same incidents are repeating in your life again and again. I know this because I am suffering from the same problem too.

I stopped reading.

It's more than a coincidence. First, the person's name is same as mine. Now he has same problem as me. I had no other go except reading that letter. So, I continued reading.

You don't have much time. Why do you stop reading?

I was taken by surprise. Is he reading my mind? I continued reading.

I am not mind reading, friend. You will understand it once you completely read what I have written in this letter.

As I was saying, I am suffering from the same problem with which you are suffering. It all started when I met that girl. I had seen her when she was a kid (I was a kid too).Her name is Anandhi. She had come back to her grand parents' home (she used to live there when she was a kid).I desperately wanted to meet her. She knew me already (we used to play monopoly when we were kids). We were close friends. But there was some problem between my parents and her parents. And she had left to Australia along with her parents before ten years. I was waiting for a chance to speak with her.

One day, I received a message in my cell.

The message read:

I am Anandhi. I would be waiting in the ice-cream parlor in the next street at 6:00PM.PS: I would be waiting for you. Don’t reply to this message.

I was taken by surprise.

But I replied: Who is this?

There was no reply at all.

I wanted to give it a try. So I went to the Ice-cream parlor at 5:30 PM itself.

She was already present there.

I went inside the parlor and ordered for a chocolate milkshake with ice-cream and sat in the table exactly opposite to her.

She stared at me. And my cell vibrated.

I never saw her message me. But it was from the same number in which she had sent a message to me. It read:

Why did you come early?

After reading the message, I went to her table.

"I wanted to welcome you", I said. She said, "You are still the same naughty boy Deepak".

"And you are still the same silly little girl Anandhi", I said.

And we were chatting about my past, present, future. Then her past, present and future. We continued to chat till it was 9:00 PM. The parlor would be closed by 9:00 PM. So we had to leave.

This made me very happy. Chatting with her after 10 long years made me very happy.

Then, we started to meet regularly meet in the ice-cream parlor.
It was our favorite place to meet. An ideal place, I would call.

Anandhi has a brother. I had never seen him. He used to live with his parents, while Anandhi was living with her grand parents.

Anandhi said that he would come to her grand parents' home the next day. And she would be glad to introduce him to me.

I was waiting to meet him. I even had a haircut, to look smarter. But strangely, to my surprise he never turned up.

When I asked Anandhi, she said that he was a research mathematician working on 8-dimensional maths and he had some problems in his reasearch. She further added that her brother had sent a very big letter addressed to me.

"Why me?",I asked.

"I will bring the letter today evening. Wait in the parlor Deepu. I think only you can help my brother."

I was waiting in the ice-cream parlor, our usual meeting spot.

But I was caught in a time wrap, as I was waiting.

"Hmmm…. Hmmm…" I heard a voice so familiar to me.

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Read the story again to get the complete meaning.

Do you agree with the title "THE INFINITE LOOP"?

The End

My little rose

My little rose ,
you look so happy....

You have been stolen,
From my garden.
My little rose
Yet,you look so happy!

Your thorns failed,
In saving you.
My little rose,
Yet,you look so happy!

You miss your friends,
You miss your mother,
My little rose,
Yet,you look so happy!

You are lying on my grave.
My little rose,
Is that why
you look so happy?

This is my first poem.
This did not turn out as bad as I expected.

He is the real hero.

But thanks to the currency notes the indians still remember him.....
But Mahathma wont be happy.If he sees the current Indian political/social scenario.

But rather than discussing on that....I would like to post on his memoirs.....

As a British-educated lawyer, Gandhi first employed his ideas through peaceful civil fight in the Indian community's struggle for civil rights in South Africa. Upon his return to India, he organized poor farmers and labourers to protest against oppressive taxation and widespread discrimination. Accepting leadership of the Indian National Congress, Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for the alleviation of poverty, for the liberation of women, for brotherhood amongst differing religions and ethnicities, for an end to untouchability and caste discrimination, and for the economic self-sufficiency of the nation, but above all for Swaraj—the independence of India from foreign domination. Gandhi famously led Indians in the Sathyagrah against the salt tax on the 400 kilometre (248 miles) Dandi Salt March in 1930, and in an open call for the British to Quit India in 1942. He was imprisoned for many years on numerous occasions in both South Africa and India.
Gandhi practised and advocated non-violence and truth, even in the most extreme situations. A student of Hindu philosophy, he lived simply, organizing an ashram that was self-sufficient in its needs. Making his own clothes—the traditional Indian dhoti and shawl woven with a charkha—he lived on a simple vegetarian diet. He used rigorous fasts, for long periods, for both self-purification and protest.He was shot dead by Godse on January 30, 1948 (aged 78).

Some rare photos....

In his memoirs....

At 10 downing street,1931

Handwriting of the Mahathma