I’m now, officially, the Vice President of the DPS, Vasant Kunj Quiz Club. Hurray! Yesssssssss! Now that definitely calls for some celebrations. The interview witht he Principal was held on my birthday, and to my surprise, he approved me within 30 seconds without asking much.

So, lots of work to do now, with two major coming up next week. Also, I plan to hold an online quiz contest for all DPSVK students for inducting new members to the quiz club. Training, and discovering new talent is a very important part of quizzing, I believe.

As Vice President, I would like to take the DPSVK Quiz Club to new heights, and then maybe go in for the President’s post next year; I got Vice President because I’m in class 11th right now.

P.S. - I’d also applied for Code Warriors, but I guess they’re giving only one post to one guy.

Too much work, too little time. Despite the fact that my new school doesn’t give any homework. So I’m still really busy, what with prefectorial board interviews, and the upcoming quizzing season. Not much time to think up my marathon posts, here’s something short n’ sweet forwarded to me. I generally publish very little of this genre here, but since this one’s got a small distribution till now, and is funny (requires grey cell workout, if you’re not as mind-blowingly intelligent as me).

1. A bicycle can’t stand alone; it is two tired.
2. A will is a dead giveaway.
3. Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.
4. A backward poet writes inverse.
5. In a democracy it’s your vote that counts; in feudalism, it’s your Count that votes.
6. A chicken crossing the road: poultry in motion.
7. If you don’t pay your exorcist you can get repossessed.
8. With her marriage she got a new name and a dress.
9. Show me a piano falling down a mine shaft and I’ll show you A-flat miner.
10. When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds.
11. The guy who fell onto an upholstery machine was fully recovered.
12. A grenade fell onto a kitchen floor in France resulted in Linoleum Blownapart.
13. You are stuck with your debt if you can’t budge it.
14. Local Area Network in Australia: The LAN down under.
15. He broke into song because he couldn’t find the key.
16. A calendar’s days are numbered.
17. A lot of money is tainted: ‘Taint yours, and ‘taint mine.
18. A boiled egg is hard to beat.
19. He had a photographic memory which was never developed.
20. A plateau is a high form of flattery.
21. The short fortuneteller who escaped from prison: a small medium at large.
22. Those who get too big for their britches will be exposed in the end.
23. When you’ve seen one shopping center you’ve seen a mall.
24. If you jump off a Paris bridge, you are in Seine.
25. When she saw her first strands of gray hair, she thought she’d dye.
26. Bakers trade bread recipes on a knead to know basis.
27. Santa’s helpers are subordinate clauses.
28. Acupuncture: a jab well done.
29. Marathon runners with bad shoes suffer the agony of de feet.

Note: No trees were killed during the posting of this article, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.

Ok, now folks, there’s no need to panic, just stay calm. But sigh, only a few more decades to live on this miserable planet.

Enough fooling around. Today’s my BIRTHDAY, first blogged birthday of mine too. and that title is just to attract readers and prove that I’m crazy. Really, I am. On the agenda is to avoid going out, although as I type my parents are trying to drag me out. Also, to feel smug about all the events that have happened on July 20 in history, like Neil Armstrong landing on the moon, an assassination attempt on Hitler, birth of a genius like me………

I’m just a few steps away from being the President of the DPS VK Quiz Club, and a member of Code Warriors. Let’s hope that happens! I’ll update you as soon as I know.

This year, I’ve taken a pledge to be extra mean, and have created a a checklist of all people I know. So you think you can forget my birthday, huh? By sending no ecard, calling me, SMSing me, IMing me, scrapping me etc (for full marks, do all)? Just wait and see, I’ll have it on record. This is because last year, hardly anyone remembered it.

I’m waiting…….

I’ve heard that many users in India can’t access BlogSpot pages these days, the sites don’t open. They can access Blogger, use the Dashboard, even publish posts, but they can’t view blogs, not even their own.

The reason behind this is astounding - apparently, on contacting their ISPs, many users were told that the ISPs have been ordered by the Ministry of Communications, India to block all BlogSpot addresses, from what I’ve heard, to curb online anti-reservation protests. This is RIDICULOUS. Most ISPs in India, like MTNL, BSNL, Spectranet, Reliance etc. have blocked all BlogSpot domains. The only ISPs that haven’t implemented the order are Airtel and Sify (that’s my ISP). Kudos to them and hurray for standing up, at least for some time, to this idiocy.

A quick search told me that the same has happened in Pakistan too. Also, other blogging services like Wordpress and Typepad have been partially blocked too.

We MUST fight against this. India isn’t a dictatorship like Pakistan, or a like China, We are the world’s largest democracy and it MUST stay that way. Can’t access your blog? Use a proxy server, like pkblogs.com, or hidemyass.com (this one also has a list of servers to configure your proxy manually). Or just search for the term ‘free anonymous web browsing’ or ‘free web proxy’ on any search engine. For a more permanent solution, you can also download this software from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (based on ‘onion servers’ concept; but I don’t think you’re interested in that now).

And foremost, SPEAK OUT against this! Use proxies and keep on using BlogSpot. Don’t let India become China.