Lin- The Savior !

Nothing has ever troubled me more than my laptop! Very recently, when my laptop is out of the warranty period, and I'm away in a new new world where I know not about HP repair centres, my lappy, very artfully choosing the right moment, decides to trouble me! And that too in the most irritating way you can think of.. it shuts down every 20 mins!!!

I was thoroughly alarmed when I saw this happen a couple of times. On further investigation, I realised that it was getting very heated and every time it reached its maximum temperature limit, it started hibernating. But what alarmed me was how could the temperature shoot up so quickly. Hence, finally realising that the CPU fan was to blame for all my worries, I decided to buy a cooling fan for the laptop.

Meanwhile, my laptop created quite a scene at ISET (place im interning). Everyone seemed quite perturbed with my lappy's condition. Finally, Lin suggested the idea of using a table fan to cool it down. Well, i must agree that it did work until today. Today, my lappy went out of control...became so stubborn that it would shut down in 10 mins... Thats it, I already started imagining what was about to happen.. CRASH !!!! End of documents, gmail, skype...end of communication!!!

......not yet done imagining......

After quite a while, I got transported back to reality ! And I saw 2 or 3 people inspecting my lappy. Finally, they came to the conclusion that they'll inspect it with a thermal camera!!!! I was like WHAT??? Then Henrich seeming to be deep lost in analysis explained that he could take thermal pictures and then we would know the temperature of the processor and what to do next. I just nodded. Deep within, I was thinking, 'Maaaaaan, my lappy needs immediate cure, it cant wait for your hifi technological analysis!!!!!'

Finally, Lin stepped into the sitution and said, 'Poor, I think its very simple. For all you know, the CPU fan might have a layer of dust over it.' It did make sense to me but I wasnt ready to believe that the problem could be this SIMPLE. But decided to listen to Lin. Lin took me to the secretary and got the vacuum cleaner from the store room. He cautiously, vacuum cleaned it. And he was right. There was a whole layer of dust over it!

Finally, I turn on my lappy and it survives... without table fan.. without noise... ! And it is 5 hours now, and is still surviving.

Lin says, 'Poor, I give you a year's guarantee on that'.
I smile and reply, 'Lin, the savior!'

... Fullstop

There she goes- Sixpence none the richer
Random blogging, finally stopped at: A walk in the clouds
'Where two dot ellipses are the norm'
daylight still..
surviving a headache
tired of facebook, gtalk.. seek no more
want to put an end to thoughts..
i retire

Stadtfest Kassel !

Kassel, a small city guarded by hills is where i dwell. Its no big city like Frankfurt or Hamburg but still has something about itself. Its calm , submissive, homely aura is what I love the most. But last weekend my very own Kassel stood transformed! The annual cult festival, popularly known as Stadtfest Kassel was celebrated last week and Kassel didnt look like Kassel anymore! It had a magical glamour about itself and I was left awed!

Deciding to be a part of Stadtfest with an Indian look, I got all enthu to wear a kurta and a shawl. And there!!! I go out on the streets and all eyes on me!!! I was awed again !! For a moment I thought i dressed up like a clown seeing the hard stares! With some courage I decided to go ahead till the city centre where I was supposed to meet my 'Kgp Losers' :P LOL (Pradeep and Mayank are my Kgp Losers.. They've been friends ever since I landed in this unknown land and we've been together for the most part and I've had a terrible time with them and they love irritating me and pulling my leg.. hence, Losers! Not literary ofcourse! They are IIT products! Still I dont care :P) Finally, they confirmed that there was nothing wrong with my appearance, only that I looked very Indian! Well, now thats a fact to be proud of so I stopped worrying.

The fest covered a large area and was hosted in 4 different places. There
were mainly German, English, Arabic, Red Indians bands. We had a
great time strolling in the streets, stopping to listen to instrumental pieces or songs, some familiar and some in wholly different languages.

At times tired of walking, we would sit down in front of the huge Rathaus (meeting hall) and observe the changing mood of the city! It was lovely.

Also, along the streets, there were stalls of everything you would want to shop! We looked around.. I wanted to buy earrings for my roommates but then I felt awkward in a guys company. LOL But it sooo turned out that these guys seemed more interested in picking earrings for my roommates! I was awed again! But this time it was a very mischievous awe! lol I had fun pulling their leg for a change! And not to forget.. beer shops and food stalls of all types filled the streets. We tried some of the most unknown stuff there having no clue of how they would taste!

A long evening filled with fun, awe and mischief ended my day. And the next morning, while travelling in the tram on my to ISET, I saw the empty streets and felt the old shyness of Kassel. And I finally realized that I was back from a magical world!