Agrrrrh ....

I just hate last days of the semester. And today was the last day .. the final day of teaching .. and I had to submit 15 assignments of 1 subject , 5 of some other subject , and 3 of a third subject. Besde this .. there were 2 practical files to be submitted .. And you know what do we do in all these assignments and files ? COPY ... copy from books , copy from freinds , copy from old files .. copy copy copy .. for marks .. just for them marks .
For three days now I have been sleeping at 3 in the night and getting up at 7 in the morning . For a lazy person like me .. this is hell. I mean I need my quota of 8 hrs of sleep everyday ..
And on top of all this .. a last minute scare ... I am short of attendance. Some new rule takes it out of teachers' hands to give attendance .. and if 75% of attendance is compulsory .. then about half of my class gets to miss the exams .. now, not giving the exams is not that bad .. but having to give it the next year is bad ... Anyways .. so the last minute scare .. that I'll be falling short of attendance ...so what do I do ? I run to get a fake medical certificate .. when I come back .. there is news that the list of detainees would be put shortly. Finally .. someone comes with the news that dean has shifted the limit to 50% attendance. Phew .. what a sigh of relief ...
Imagine .. 10 of my classmates had a medical certificate from the same doctor .. an orthopaedics doctor .. so everybody was supposed to be having some bone injury !

So .. I had thought I won't be posting before my exams .. but I don't think that'll be quite possible .. :)

And one thing more ... have you heard Indian Ocean ? (the band) .. well if you haven't .. then I'd say you are seriously missing something .... their music is pure ecstacy. It is difficult to classify them into a genre .. but they could be called Fusion in some sense . They have classical lyrics (not always) playing with electric guitars which that Sushmit guy plays really well. Their latest album is the soundtracks for the movie 'Black Friday' .. and it is awsome .. must buy ... If you intend to download their music .. then I'd suggest the following tracks : Bhor, Kaun, Ma Rewa, Torrent, Bandeh, Karam bhap ke, Badshah in jail.

Nothing new

I got nothing new to post. Papers are coming and I want to do well this time (like always ..).



And I found some other stuff I had begun to write .. like this :
Things I really hate :
1. People who can't stop shaking while sitting down .. they always have to be in the vibration mode .
2. Stupid yaari-dosti sms forwards.
3. Forwards asking you to forward it to more people.
4. Explaining a joke.
5. People I have to explain a joke to.
6. SRK type high drama movies.
7. Indian cricket team putting up a miserable show.
8. Buying clothes for myself or rather shopping in general.
9.Religious rallies that block the traffic.
10.Music that becomes popular only becoz it is from a stupid popular movie .
11.People who think rock (Or English music as some choose to call it) should be listened to because it is fashionable to do so.
12.Doing all the college work just because I want some marks.

And I found a few good quotes :

"If you came here to see spandex, eye makeup, and the words 'Oh baby' in every fuckin' song, this ain't the fuckin' band."
---- James from Metallica , on one of their early shows.

Life is a highway, i wanna ride it, all night long.
N if ur comin ma way, i wanna drive it all night long
---- Tom Cochrane

So all this makes up another post .. :) ..
Won't be posting for some time now .. papers are coming ..

Raghu Romeo

Just saw Raghu Romeo. Heard of this movie ? Seen it anyone ?
*ing : Vijay Raaz, Sadia Siddiqui, Maria Goretti, Saurabh Shukla
Raghu Romeo was a small budget film made in 2003. It had a quiet release , showed in a few halls and then was forgotten. I wanted to see it then .. but it was not showing at any hall near me .. so I didn't see it. Some days back ... a freind got me this movie on an original Video CD .. saying that this was a shitty movie. I took it from him .. and saw it after a few days. Turned out that the movie kicked major butt. I mean from the acting to the plot .. everything was really good. Very original story (Atleast I have not seen anything on the same lines before).. and good acting by Vijay Raaz and Sadia Siddiqui. Anyone who loves watching different and closer to reality movies (as in ... little of masala .. pretty much like Ram Gopal Verma films) .. this is definitely a movie to watch.

Visit the official Raghu Romeo Web site.
Here is something from this web site :

Why should one go and see Raghu Romeo?

Good question....
and a tough one to answer.

When there are so many things asking for your attention- besides work and spouse and children and commuting - just in entertainment terms, there are enough options at home. There is television for practically no money, or you could hire a dvd from a neighbourhood library or browse the internet for 10 bucks an hour - then why pay 100 bucks a ticket and go and watch Raghu Romeo - especially when there are other blockbusters running - guaranteed value for money kind of blockbusters with stars and all that...

Well- I told you it was a tough question for me to crack!
I don't know really-
but you must not watch Raghu Romeo because you have heard somewhere that the director raised the money on the internet and that sounds like an innovative way of collecting funds.

You must not watch Raghu Romeo because it has been to 15 film festivals all over the world.
You must not watch Raghu Romeo because you liked Rajat Kapoor in Dil Chahta Hai!
You must not watch Raghu Romeo because the critics tell you it is a very good film.
You must not watch Raghu Romeo because you want to support independent cinema!

No! Dont watch it for any of these wrong reasons.

Watch it because it is fun.
Watch it because it might move you, it might touch you, it most definitely will make you laugh.
Watch it because it is a film about the crazy times we live in, because it is a film about us - real people.
Watch it because it is about love.
Watch it because of the sterling performances of the actors, for the camerawork, for the art direction.
Watch it for its raw energy, for its way of looking.
Watch it because it has an original voice.
Watch it because you might find that a film can have a soul.
And most definitely watch it because your neighbour tells you that she saw it and she loved it!

Rajat Kapoor

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And I totally echo his sentiments .. it is more like I could have said all this myself ... and the same for any movie .... he becomes my fav director after Ram Gopal Verma.
And for anyone who has seen this movie and liked it .. I think there could not have been a better ending to the movie.
For anyone who has seen the movie and didn't like it .. tell me why .
I loved the movie.

Blogger #%$^*$$^

Blogger fucked my blog .. well .. almost. I signed for a new blog .. I changed it's template ... and voila .. the template of this blog gets altered too .. and I lose all my precious customization of that template ..
For a second .. I thought I also lost my haloscan comments .. but then I got them back ...
But the favorites section is gone .. so is the playlist @ last post section ... and I don't remember what else ... God ... sometimes you can hate all this technology ....

Siddharth

Read about Vijay Mallya's son anyone ? Do you know he gets an airline on his 18th birthday ? Wow ! I'd like to swap places with that guy ... I mean ... my dad never got me even a picture book with airplanes and that guy gets a whole fucking airline. And on top of that , he is the son of a man who owns the second largest breweries in the world .. talk about all the booze you can have at your work place ... wow .. I'd love to be a manager at a brewery one day .. or probably own one (one of those good ones ..) ... but the best is if I get to swap places with this guy .. Siddharth . *wide eyed*.
Ok .. back to studying .. papers are coming ..

Losing my Religion

I am completely hooked on to this song these days (see the playlist on the right .. it is right out of my Winamp). It is called 'Losing my Religion' by R.E.M. . Losing my religion is a Southern expression meaning "At my wit's end," as if things were going so bad you could lose your faith in God. Here are the lyrics of the song :

Oh, life is bigger
It's bigger than you
And you are not me
The lengths that I will go to
The distance in your eyes
Oh no, I've said too much
I set it up

That's me in the corner
That's me in the spotlight, I'm
Losing my religion
Trying to keep up with you
And I don't know if I can do it
Oh no, I've said too much
I haven't said enough
I thought that I heard you laughing
I thought that I heard you sing
I think I thought I saw you try

Every whisper
Of every waking hour I'm
Choosing my confessions
Trying to keep an eye on you
Like a hurt lost and blinded fool, fool
Oh no, I've said too much
I set it up
Consider this
Consider this
The hint of the century
Consider this
The slip that brought me
To my knees failed
What if all these fantasies
Come flailing around
Now I've said too much
I thought that I heard you laughing
I thought that I heard you sing
I think I thought I saw you try

But that was just a dream
That was just a dream

But that was just a dream
Try, cry, why try?
That was just a dream
Just a dream, just a dream
Dream

Heard this anyone ? Have you seen this video ? It was directed by Tarsem Singh and it is good. If you got high speed net connection .. I'd suggest a download.
Now there are different interpretations of the song. I don't know which is the correct one .. what do you think ?

5 really stinky ads on TV

Here is a list of 5 ads that I think should be put off the air immediately if these companies want to sell their products :

1. Harpic : The makers of this ad thought that it would be fun for everybody to have look down dirty shit pots while having their dinner. To top that .. an equally stupid Aman Verma .... he helps you have a better look .. and then cleans it up for you as well .. really great ad ..

2. Super Splendor Plus : This is the ad wherein a guy , clad in black , is jumping up and down , while other guys around him are chanting some kinda mantras . Now , I am at a complete loss to understand what the makers of this ads wanted to show. The connection between Splendor and the divine ? Then ? And like why is that guy jumping around so much and then finally passes through the fire to get hold of the new engine. Why must he hold the engine ? Will that make him feel that the bike is good ? How many of us can recognize good engines from normal ones by looking at them ? And like ... don't people know that splendor sucks ... (The last Splendor ad was really good .. remember the Mohan Kapoor ad .. blind act ?)

3. Rasna : The new Rasna ad with Hritik Roshan. Now this ad is right at the top among the really sucking ads (along with the harpic ad). This ad wants to capitalize on the success of Koi mil gaya. First I don't know how that sick movie ever became a hit .. I mean .. the movie was so god-damn bad ... that I place it with the likes of "Jaani Dushman" , "Mastee" and Mithun-da films. And whoever said that this was a copy of Forest Gump .. eat shit .. this movie is nowhere close to that classic. And now this ad .. with Hritik Roshan doing his kid act again. You know what .. Hritik Roshan really sucks .. and Hritik Roshan doing this kid act sucks even more. And on top of that .. you have masala dialogues like .. "Yeh sachcha hai .. isliye isse peena chahiye (over coke and all)" ... Really ? Sachcha ? What is the difference between coke and Rasna except for the carbon dioxide dissolved (and the water ofcourse) ? Both of them have preservatives .... only Rasna is a Soft Drink Concentrate ... sachcha ?

4. Surf Excel : "2 bucket paani ab rozaana hai bachana.." Yeah ? And what if I use only one bucket of water evryday ? And how did Shabana Azmi ever land into this ? She is an actress who was careful with her film selection .. then why this ad all of a sudden ?

5. Pepsi , bubbly grind : This is the ad wherein Amitabh Bachchan suddenly crops out of the stadium floor and starts to swing the bat. First of all ... whatever Amitabh Bachchan is saying does not match his lip movement .. it is taken out of the video , wherein he is singing. Next .. whatever he says is pretty unintelligible as well .. Something like .."Match ka bada sth lagaayein .. to do the bubbly grind" .. and then notice the players .. some of them look so ill at ease while dancing that you get the feeling that drinking Pepsi must make you constipated. And above everything .. India lose the series.

Some other ads that didn't make it to the top 5 :
6. TATA Indicom : With Ganguly trying to sing a copy of Breathless.
7. LG CDMA phones : Every hand wants one .. really ? That shitty phone?
8. Extra Premium Petrol with extra additives : First .. get this straight. Even if you use this petrol .. you'll end up spending the same amt. of money on petrol. And the ad . I am talking about this Yuvraj Singh ad wherein he is asking directions from Vijay Raaz on the petrol pump ("right hand side , red building ..").
9. DD Direct plus : Showing the elite crew of 4th empire ... this ad sucks big time ..
10.Dabur sona chandi Chawanprash : With Ganguly clad in dhoti , jumping up and down with a sword ..


Here's a list of some really good ones :
1. All the Hutch ads.
2. Raymonds Suitings : The school principal series .. they are really wonderful.
3. Rin , Ultra White : The "Maine poochha kya ?". The little boy goes "Mujha poetry aati hai .. 'yellow yellow , dirty fellow' " :).
4. Fevicol : all the ads.
5. Ambuja Cement : The Boman Irani ad .. with a wall between the two brothers that is difficult to break.
6. Reliance Ad : Again , Boman Irani is too good. ("kuti ko phone lagaao ad ..STD pe ..")

Lots of others I can't remember as of now ..

Yaahoooo ..

India is 94/6 ..
doesn't it make you want to party ?
Yahooo ..
India will lose again ...
India will lose again ...
Do the bubbly grind everyone ..
Have some Pepsi/Servo /TATA Indicom/Mayur Suitings/MRF Tyres/Victor GLX or any of the million products our players endorse ..
Finger to them

What a fucking day ..

Last night .. last minute decision of the class .. no mass bunk .. 2 hrs of frikkin lab today ... being streched to 2.5 hrs by a "tharki" teacher. Ass hole .. keeps staring at the girls with open mouth and thinks that no one notices. True .. a lot of people do not notice .. but then , I do .. and I just can't help feeling an urge to show him the finger .. "Beti paas aa jaao .. idhar baitho .." bahen ka **** ... can't help gaping at chicks .. and then showers marks on them . A girls' simple formula .. give him a smile .. talk to him for a minute .. and you get at least 2 extra marks in your internal paper . SOB. And talk about showers .. talk to him for a minute .. and you'd be showered with 2 litres of saliva .. fucking son of a bitch .. almost gave me a bath today with his oral pissings ...
Then I come home .. and India has a meagre total ...still , the hopeful Indian fan .. I patiently wait for Pakistan's innings .. 2nd over .. Balaji on the balling .. Afridi on the strike .. 23 runs from 1 over .. 3rd over maiden instills some hope .. 4th over .. welcome Kumble with 23 more runs from a single over .. I shut the TV after that ...
Tried to sleep .. the Bhajan-kirtan aunty gang start shouting their bhajans at the top of their voices .. then the temple .. and then someone gets irritated and turns on his Music system .. full volume .. song ? Some punjabi number .. wow .. just what I had wanted.
Got up .. called up the guy whom I had given a speaker to repair .. tells me that it's still not done. Asshole..
Next .. I go to the magazine vendor to get a copy of some magazine I had ordered .. another sob ... tells me .. "Arrey woh sales man naahin na aaya hai .."
Back to home .. think of playing some computer game .. first , 007 Nightfire or sth like that ... some freind got it for me .. said it was really nice .. took me an hour to find a way to get the stupid doors to open .. finally when they do open .. it takes another hour to reach a place where you perform some kinda stunt using some gadget .. guess what ... Mr. Bond gets killed performing the stunt. Again I reach that place .. again death. Bull crap .. I'd rather not play this game .. I was better off playing Arcanoid and Icy Towers.
Some freind drops in and brings Mortal Kombat 4. Gets me hooked for some time .. but again .. while he was playing .. the thing seemed really fine .. but when I play the game .. well .. it turns out that I'll have to remember a sequence of buttons to make some special move .. and there are different buttons for different players .. after sometime I get really frustrated using only one player and using only one sequence of buttons .. I press [ctrl]+F4.
Next I go online .. download some tabs .. try playing them on my accoustic .. curse the sky that I don't have an electric. I head towards my father's room to talk about buying an electric. Find him watching some movie .. Khalnayak .. Sanjay Dutt ... I sit down .. watch some scenes .. and boy he acted well even then... I start watching the movie. But as soon as I start enjoying the movie .. a stupid song crops up from nowhere ... I get up and leave. I remember half way to my room - 'the electric' .. but talking about anything with my father while he is watching TV is hopeless , so I decide against going to him and leave to get some ice cream. For the first time I get Cassatta for myself ... and the ice cream turns out to be really shitty ..
Finally I settle down on my computer and have another go at Mortal Kombat .. still .. the result the same .. I decide that I'd never lay my hands on any complex game again.
And so I decide to write a post as an end to a totally wasted day ..

About God and prayers

Navratrein are here. I don't know what is the concept behind the festivities , but the 9 day long pooja can really drive you nuts. Consider this .. I have a temple behind my house and there is a kirtan everyday in front of my house. The temple has the pujaari or someone reciting prayers on a mic attached to a speaker put up on the top of the temple .. and his voice isn't exactly like Anup Jalota (a famous aarti singer) .. but still he goes on with the bhajans , esp in the evening. Then there is this group of Aunties that gathers in the evenings to do Bhajan-kirtan .. reciting bhajans on the mic , with a dholak-chammach providing the beats. And that is absolute cacophony. Aunties with their shrill voice , performing pooja ... and since their are actually praying .. no one can go and tell them to shut up or to lower the volume at least. And I go absolutely crazy .. listening to 2 sources of noise at the same time .. interfering destructively in my ears. The place where I lived earlier , there people used to put up small tents which housed a cassete player and a large speaker (remember Hyderabad Blues ? Just like that ..) .. and that thing played aartis all night long. I hate these bhajan singing festivals. And I don't understand that why must these things be done on the microphone. You want to pray .. good .. you should .. pray at your place quietly .. or sing Bhajans in your house ... but not on the mic please. And I can't think of any other reason but a show-off. All this comes across as a show off to me. Why ring bells in the temple ? Do u think God is a little deaf ? Or you u need to draw his attention ... like a little child draws the attention of his mother by wailing ? Why sing bhajans on the microphone .. because God up there is not able to hear your calls from down here ? The only reason which I can think off is show-off. People want other people to see how devout they are. Is there some other reason for that ? Only a show off can drive people to do Jaagrans. And that is another thing I've never been able to understand. Does god listen to you more in the night. Why can't you pray in the day ? Is overnight singing equal to flooding the God's mailbox with request letters so that he realises you are really needy ? Why ?
Actually the whole concept of going to temples and praying seems wierd sometimes.I mean people spend valuable time and money trying to appease a stone idol in which they think resides their omnipresent god. Nothing wrong with that. People need to visualize their god .. but what is strange is the fact that .... God is omnipresent , but is 'more' omnipresent in the stone idols and around the temple , which is why everybody removes their shoes there , never speak one bad word when in 10 m radius of the temple , always put on a benevolent expression while in the temple and will try to bribe the stone god by offering money while the same people will actually do really awful things while they are not near the temple , because God's spy cameras and microphones are only fitted in and around the temple. And then , why try to appease the the god ? Has he got a really large ego that needs to be regularily fed by millions of mortals because they think that the thread of their lives is in his hands ? Then what good is such a god ? Praying to God is not bad ... it helps to strengthen your hope. Money donated for the upkeep of the temple isn't bad either .. but donating millions of rupees , like in a temple in South India (Which collects truck loads of booty every year) .. well that is kinda strange.Why not spend the same time and money trying to help a human being in distress ?
When I was a kid , my mother used to make me sit at all the poojas that took place in our house and I sat along and prayed to God almighty so that he may help me to get all that I wanted , or if I needed nothing then I would simply pray because my mother was praying .But my family was never very religious , except dadiji (My grandmother) , my father is a firm non-believer and my mother seldom goes to temples and we have never had a big pooja or a hawan or anything like that ... we only had a pooja on festivals like Diwali ,in which my mother used to sing the aarti and I used to stand closing my eyes , hands folded in prayer , waiting for the parsaad. Nobody forced their beliefs on me which allowed me to develop my own thought process in this matter ....
When I became 14 , like all teenagers , I guess I tried to be different from the crowd and started believing that God does not exist ... that it is only a hope that foolish people need , because it is one hope that is never going to fail them. I had so many heated arguments on this subject and well , it always ended in something like 'you go your way , I'll go mine' . But I never realized that though I never believed in God , I always sub-consciously believed in practical magic .... miracles that will happen that will save me from the current crisis , will help me pass the next exam and will help me in getting the girl I had a crush on. I didn't realise then that while I was running away from one God , I was submitting to the other , only difference was that I never prayed to the God I had invented but then I always thought about him. And it is only when I came to college that I started thinking on these lines and found that I had actually invented a source of eternal hope for myself.
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And one last thing .. Umm.. this post was only my views .... I may have hurt someone with what I have said. Well I am sorry if that is the case. It is just that sometimes all this becomes really unbearable.

Chocolat

Just finished reading Chocolat. Great book. I amlost feel sad that it ended. Sometimes the ecstacy of beauty is so much that you never want it to end. It has been a long time since I felt like that after reading a book. The last book I read , The Fountainhead , I didn't feel like this after reading it. That time I felt different. Filled with new energy. Other books I see lying here .. Grishams , Ludlums , Paulo Cohelo , Richard Bach , The Celestine Prophecy , Maugham.. none left with me wishing so much that it ever ended. But next I happen to see To kill a Mocking Bird .. well , that book was different. I remember this book called toto chan I read once. Then ... The catcher in the Rye , but I don't think after reading those the feeling was so strong. Or it could be that I feel so good after reading this book, that the memory of the last one has faded. Yet I remember I felt the same reading Ruskin Bond books when I was young. "The room on the roof". I don't know how many nights I dreamed about having a room like that , living in a place like that , having a life like that. This book , Chocolat, I can't imagine myself in it , but it was so much pleasure reading it , that I want to read more of it. About the little girl Anouk , her mother , about the beautiful Chocolate Parlour , about everything ... I want to live that book again.
I think I dream a lot. I think I repeat the words "I wish .." very often. I don't want to. I know it is dangerous , but I can't help it. I wish I was in a place like that. I wish I would one day ...
Some friend brought this book from the library. I'll have to return it to her tomorrow. But I don't want to. It is like parting with a ... I don't know what ... but I feel very bad returning this book. That is the reason I always buy my books. So that I'll never have to return them. So that I can re-live them anytime I want. It is like having photographs of the moments you enjoyed , so that you can remember them whenever you want. Wish I could sample all the times I felt really good ...
A quote from the book :
"Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive"
And suddenly I felt like writing a post.

I think I need a small break from blogging

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Lot of things

About 2 months back .. I didn't know what Euthanasia was .. and while talking to some freind I actually asked her that if it was the joint currency of Europe and Asia .. well I thought so that time (And u would too if u didn't know what this word meant). But well .. after this terri case .. I guess everyone knows what Euthanasia is supposed to mean. I think it should be legalised .. what about u ?
Anybody read a book called chocolat ? How is it ?
I want to read Atlas Shrugged.
I want to own an IPod also ( i.e. if we are talking about wanting someting ) ... and for that matter .. I want to own a Gibson/Fender (hohner/any good comapny would do too . ok .. I'l settle for good old Indian Givson .. buy me one) electric guitar .. and I want an effects panel for that guitar ... and I want a 7.1 speaker set for my computer (2.1 would do) .. I want a Bose Music System (Sony would do fine too .. the 7000 watts one that is .. ok 3000 watts would do .)... I want a really fast (and cheap) internet connection at my home .... I want to buy lots of books , which I never saw in the second hand books market (one of them being Eragon , heard about it ?) .. and I want a lot of other things .. where is santa ? (Santa Clause that is .. lest you think the Punjabi name santa ..)
I'll have to hang a really long stocking for the list to fit into ... Or maybe I can roll the list and slip into a normal one .. that ways I'll cross out the really long stocking on my wish list ...

Ordinary World

I am not original anymore . First I posted that pic that I didn't click , and now the lyrics of this song. But I really liked these lyrics ...

Ordinary World

Came in from a rainy Thursday
On the avenue
Thought I heard you talking softly

I turned on the lights, the TV
And the radio
Still I can't escape the ghost of you

What has happened to it all?
Crazy, some are saying
Where is the life that I recognize?
Gone away

But I won't cry for yesterday
There's an ordinary world
Somehow I have to find
And as I try to make my way
To the ordinary world
I will learn to survive

Passion or coincidence
Once prompted you to say
"Pride will tear us both apart"
Well now pride's gone out the window
Cross the rooftops
Run away
Left me in the vacuum of my heart

What is happening to me?
Crazy, some'd say
Where is my friend when I need you most?
Gone away

But I won't cry for yesterday
There's an ordinary world
Somehow I have to find
And as I try to make my way
To the ordinary world
I will learn to survive

Papers in the roadside
Tell of suffering and greed
Here today, forgot tomorrow
Ooh, here besides the news
Of holy war and holy need
Ours is just a little sorrow
It's all gone away

And I don't cry for yesterday
There's an ordinary world
Somehow I have to find
And as I try to make my way
To the ordinary world
I will learn to survive

Every one
Is my world, I will learn to survive
Any one
Is my world, I will learn to survive
Any one
Is my world
Every one
Is my world

-------------Duran Duran

Astronomical Discovery

They finally found water on mars ....

Wasted efforts

Why must I write the frikkin Lab Manual/file if the only thing we do in it is copy from the book ? Won't it be easier if I just write the relevent page numbers (from the book) along with the observations ? Or rather submit a xerox of the book ?
Never got the point why we make this stupid thing , in the school ... and I'll never get it in the college ...
Why must I make this f***ing thing ?
Oh yes .. the marks ... !@#$%^&*&^%$#@! !@#$ !@#$%^