Adobe Flash.

While I wait for Adobe Flash CS 5.5 to install on my laptop,  I thought why not make a post on my blog about what's been up with me recently.

Before I start, you might have noticed that I haven't been posting a lot on this blog. That doesn't mean I haven't been writing. I have written so many unpublished blog posts over the past 3 months. It's just that, once I finish writing it, either I'm too lazy to post it on my blog or, I forget about it and by the time I remember it, what I've written is way too old.

As a kid, I used to love animation. That's an understatement. Animation defined me back then. I've appeared so many times in newspapers, once or twice on the T.V. All because of one thing. Animation. Not many people know about that. A few of my friends probably know but that's it. I try not to talk a lot about that phase of my life because that is what I thought it to be, a phase.

Of late, I've been trying a lot of different things. Cliche'd things. Programming, drawing, writing, math/science stuff. Trying to find out what I'm really passionate about. To find the one thing that I'd love doing. None of those really fit the profile to be honest. Yesterday, while browsing my facebook newsfeed, I came upon something that looked like an animated parody of counter strike. Here's the video that I saw.

I thought it was awesome. So, I looked through the channels and viewed some more videos. This coupled with the Duolingo intro video (which was also made in flash) piqued my interest in the software.

It's too early to say anything but maybe, animation is what interests me. I didn't really 'despise' animating as a kid. If anything, I loved spending time on the computer trying to animate stuff. I never really got off to a rocket start though.

Maybe, maybe now, after so many years, I'll regrow(is that even a word?) a liking to animation.

As I said, it's too early to say and I'd rather not go out making false promises. I've got some tutorials that I'm planning to do over the next few days and then, I'll update you all on whether I think this is it, or not.

Oh. Look the installation has finished. It tells me to close all open applications.

Until next time.

Adarsh.

Best of 'About Everything and Nothing'

Here's an all-time list of my favorite blog posts from this blog -

#1 101 things to do before I die : No surprises there eh?

#2 Caught red handed, left unscathed : This was one memorable post

#3 Story of the trapped Chilean Miners : This was where it all started. I actually went through 3-4 articles from different newspapers in order to compile that blog post. Do give it a read!

#4 Kevin O' Brien shares my blog : What could be more awesomer than this?

#5 Memories of my childhood: I'm still amazed at how succinctly I managed to write about my childhood.

Those that almost made it :

Reading - The one thing I love : This is worth a read.

Would I care if the world ended(Part 2)? : Me getting a bit philosophical.

Diverging Ways - A poem  :  I'm not really into poems but I wrote this one and it was wonderful experience.


Getting punished :  A post which is a great example of me making a horrendously small thingy into a huge significant one.

List of Teenage blogs : If you're looking for other 'interesting' blogs to read, you should give this a read.


31-29. Boy. What a match : I describe a memorable volleyball match that I'd played with my classmates.


Landmark quiz '11:  My experience at the Landmark Hyderabad Quiz of 2011


A ghost story that I'd written: The title says it all.

My try at making a comic:   I obviously have no career in trying to displace xkcd, but here's my try anyway.

Just Rambling (not sure if that word describes what it is properly)

You know how they say “Ignorance is bliss.”

After spending the last 2 hours trying to export this blog onto a wordpress site using a pseudoname and at the same time making this blog invisible to the public and to all search engines, I’ve realized how true that statement is.

You might probably be wondering as to why anyone might do what I just did. I have just one word. Privacy.

When I first started this blog, I didn’t give a crap about it. I lol’d if you even mentioned the name. But, I’m starting to feel really hesitant about posting any new content here because this blog is open to everybody. Anybody and everybody can see it. Who knows if someone starts stalking me?  (Nobody would but hey! Who knows?) 

….You know what, I’ve just gone through all my posts since the inception of this blog and have come to a conclusion. I was getting all worked up about nothing. There’s ‘nothing’ in this blog that might hurt or even dent my privacy.

So, I’m all good with it I guess. 

*Makes it visible to search engines now*

I can use all the traffic I get :P

In my last post here..

            In my last post here, I wrote about how I was feeling all stressed up because of the hectic studying for the past few months.

Come to think of it, I think ‘frustrated’ is the better word to explain what I was feeling then.. I was frustrated, not stressed.

I just wanted to clear that up.

“What you do today is important because you are exchanging an entire day of your life for it.”

^ That quote from marcandangel.com really shook me up. I contemplated for a second over it and realized that I am whiling all my time away. The frustration in my head disappeared that very moment.

I think it’s time I got my act together and actually make something out of these holidays that I’ve been bestowed with. (lol. Okay, I don’t really know why but I had to use that word.)

Remember what I wrote about leaving Dota on the 5^th of May, well, I ended up playing it until yesterday night. After I had to leave a game midway due to my internet getting disconnected, I had some time to contemplate on what was happening. Just then, I realized that the time that I was spending playing Dota wasn’t in proportion to the enjoyment that I was getting out of it. It felt like a economic principle that I’m sure exists. When something out grows its use, you have to let go. For example, after the intial years of mining in the cave, your profit will keep reducing due to higher production costs and lessened quality of the mineral that you are mining. That’s the time when you should leave that mine and hop onto something else.

That pretty much what happened in my case. When I first started out playing Dota on 28^th of the previous month, I was totally engrossed in it. I hadn’t played a single video game in the past one year (other than 2 days at GameOn and once in a quarter-year miniclip games). But as time passed, the mining (playing) became monotonous and due to frequent breaking down of the machines (i.e my internet connection), I got frustrated as it was affecting the profits (measured in enjoyment) that I was getting. As some more time passed, the mining itself was giving me lessened quality of coal and that caused the total profits to dip precariously. Yesterday, after another machine break down, I came to a conclusion that mining enjoyment by dota wasn’t an option anymore. It just wasn’t profitable enough.

 So I decided that it was time that shut down the mine the next day and move on. That’s exactly what I did.

I uninstalled the game today but I kept the setup file (just in case any of my friends want it and I didn’t want to go through the hell that I went for downloading it once again).

Enough of dota for now, I have spent enough time on it to last me for another year.

Until next time,

Adarsh.