Korg OASYS

Korg OASYS(Open Architecture SYnthesis Studio) is here ... well, that was the word an year and a half ago. I never realized the ability of this studio workstation till the past few days. It's a majestic piece and you can the current ultimate at a truly believable price (88 keys version at 8500$ and 76 keys version at 7900$ :P).

It's a really, really great one built on the KARMA 2.1, the latest version from Korg. This surpasses the Kurzweil by a few years and don't even try and compare a Yamaha Motif ES8 with this one.

As is usual with the other workstations, this has an awesome listing of voices, memory and all sorts of extensions slots. The one that caught my eye is the CD drive with an ability to onboard make an audio file. This has suddenly shot upto the first position of my dream workstations surpassing the Kurzweil k2600X .. which itself is a beautiful piece ...

Ahhh ... but yeah, i have neither the money nor the experience to use OASYS for music ... I am yet a rookie :( ... hopefully someday I can play on one atleast ..

Let's look at people generated spam in CMI mailbox ...

Suddenly felt CMI Spam is worthy enough to be put up here.... and be saved on my pendrive in case I forget my Gmail password ... which is not so new to me ....

Subject: CMI-internal spam: a request for stopping it
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From: V (one of the great "starters" )
Date: 27 February 2007 17:17

Hi, The tendency to spam ug, msc, rscholars, and seminarlist with possibly irrelevant email has been prevalent among CMI students for a long - Show quoted text - time. Prominent among such spam are (these categories are not mutually exclusive): * Requesting others not to spam ug, msc, etc. * "Forgot to log out" emails * Advertisements for blogs, personal webpages etc. * Replies to emails pointing out errors of fact, spelling and taking up issues with email sent previously * Smart one-liner suggestions/responses * Emails specifically aimed at poking fun at some distinguished individual (often one within CMI) * Emails discussing general issues that don't concern the average CMI student These emails have been regularly cluttering the inboxes of CMI students. In light of this, I have the following requests: * If you want to request a person not to send emails to ug, msc, rscholars etc. then please send this request (and whatever threats you would like to accompany the request with) *only* to that person. * Please do *not* send "forgot to log out" emails to ug, msc; if you want to taunt a person for not logging out, do so personally * For advertising blogs, webpages etc., use word-of-mouth or try to push your page up on Google search * If an email contains factual/interpretative errors that are not serious enough for everybody else to know, or if the original email was itself irrelevant, please do *not* reply to all but only reply to the person from whom the email originated, and others who have expressed active interest * If you want to send smart one-liner suggestions, use something like sans. The mailing list sans can be reached at: "SANS mailing list" -- the one that is rarely used In particular, do not feel free to send mails that count the number of mails sent in a thread so far, or mails containing single words that make no sense either in isolation or context. * Do not abuse ug, msc IDs for carrying out personal vendettae against your fellow students or others inside or outside CMI. * If a general issue does not concern the average CMI student, please do not send it to all. Find an appropriate forum for it. Other points to keep in mind: * When a person sends an email to a large number of people, and you are tempted to reply to all, check the list of intended recipients and make sure that none of the recipients could create major problems for you (ref: Rohypnol) You can check the following page for a list of email aliases to know who will be the primary readers of your email: "Aliases" Remember though that anybody reading your email can forward/bounce it to anybody else * Avoid sending reply mails on completely (or partially) orthogonal topics. For instance, do not reply to emails on Food with emails on water in the toilets. This is very confusing for people who use threaded views for their emails. * In the rare event that you want to forward to ug, msc, please delete the names of the specific recipients who are already included within ug, msc (so that they don't receive the mail twice). On second thoughts, don't. People who send mails to everybody around them should expect to be punished for it by having to read other people's mails twice :). * If sending emails with many layers of forwarding, please send only the final text that you want others to read and not all the levels of forwarding. SFSTU (By uninterested I mean people who neither send spam nor are bothered about receiving it) Thanking You, Yours truly, V

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From: A B

Date: 27 February 2007 21:07

was'nt this a spam as well? Probably you should have just sent this to yourself......and maybe the roypnol guy too....Also why do you always intend to be so descriptive in your mails.....What do you want to display by this....Your analytical skills or that you just like typing... A B [Quoted text hidden]

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From: Prakash -- The System Admin

Date: 27 February 2007 21:14

Hi, Firstly, thanks to V for the mail. It points out the need for guidelines on email usage in CMI. This will soon be recitified by announcing guidelines for use/abuse of facilities like email. V suggestions will be included in the guidelines. Personally, I don't want to get any more mails on this thread, or any other issue that doesn't concern me (example: chicken for dinner). --Sysadmin P

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From: S R (i think it is pretty easy to guess from the content below)

Date: 27 February 2007 21:21

- Show quoted text - Ha ha! Next week, on Channel "V": ----------------------------------------------- The tendency to talk has been prevalent among humans for a long time. Prevalent among such talk are many categories (not mut. ex.): * Requesting others not to talk * Commenting about the weather, politics, etc. * Small talk * Poking fun at others * talk on issues that don't concern the other person(s) * Invitation to dinner, parties, walks, fights... * [add another dozen categories here] This talk regularly bores people. In light of this, I, having given much thought to the matter, and being clearly superior to all of you, have the following observations to make: * If you want to taunt a person publicly, please do so when no one else is around * If you want to brag about something to everyone, please do it person by person * If you want to heckle someone's speech, please do so in person after the speech * if you ever have anything intelligent to say, put it in a book, don't waste others time by saying it [... lots ... ] * never change the topic. This is important. You don't want to start discussing the weather in May and get side-tracked into discussing June weather. [ some actually useful stuff here that no one will get to ] ----------------------------------------------- So much for talking. Stay tuned in coming weeks for exciting updates on eating, breathing... Quoting V who at 2007-02-27 17:17:16+0530 (Tue) wrote [Quoted text hidden] -- S R Greener's Law: Never argue with a man who buys ink by the barrel.

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From: Achal

Date: 27 February 2007 21:23

good try...but u cannot control roly-poly virus with love, roly poly [Quoted text hidden]

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From: Achal

Date: 27 February 2007 21:52

On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 05:17:16PM +0530, Vipul Naik wrote: > > SFSTU (By uninterested I mean people who neither send spam nor are > bothered about receiving it) if they r not bothered abt recieving spam...y r u saying sorry for spamming?? [Quoted text hidden]

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From: Saurabh Trivedi

Date: 27 February 2007 22:19

Is there anybody who read the mail fully?

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From: Arpith

Date: 27 February 2007 23:18

mail is mail fair is fair SKV is SKV SFSTU is SFOS [Quoted text hidden] -- Arpith

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From: Arpith

Date: 27 February 2007 23:23

you mean, channel [V] with love holy rolypoly [Quoted text hidden]

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From: Bhanu

Date: 28 February 2007 00:43

I think I did but it was a very nice mail must read! :) bhanu [Quoted text hidden]

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From: The Common Man (Obel)

Date: 28 February 2007 01:30

Dear Bhanu, the question was only a rhetoric one. You were not supposed to answer it, because it was only a comment on what Saurabh thought of Vipul's mails. Or could he be implying a deeper, much more nebulous answer? In reality, the answer is simple.... Or is it? (Uncyclopedia fans will have to excuse me!) [Quoted text hidden]

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From: John Agyekum Kufuor (i think this is one of some CMIites id)

Date: 28 February 2007 06:49

13 ... yesssssss a beautiful sunshine washing my hairs wid photonic avalanche ... goooooood morning CMI [Quoted text hidden]

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From: shouvik

Date: 28 February 2007 06:51

S F S T U ... [Quoted text hidden]

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From: The Common Man

Date: 28 February 2007 07:41

The mail was so freaking funny that I had to forward it :D Look out for the part about troubled childhood! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 06:24:12 +0530 From: Pramod Subject: Re: CMI-internal spam: a request for stopping it idiot y r u replying to this stupid thread. infact everyone shud have stopped with ognid's mail which was exactly what i wanted to write. so ognid onlyman for me. that vipul i think he has had a troubled childhood and wants to be in the limelight all the time so he is trying all sorts of thngs and trying to impress everyone. he must have finished all math and now wants to waste everyone's time, he is a selfish bum i think v all shud block V. v shud pass this block V thing to individuals and slowly get him out of our inboxes.

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From: Darthpsyokoz

Date: 28 February 2007 09:18

poor V, i wish i could empathise with him but then again i only reply to spam.... pramod how can u spam us so? or was it obel? wait aint i spamming now? cool iam [Quoted text hidden]

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From: S R

Date: 28 February 2007 09:57

STFU Quoting shouvik who at 2007-02-28 06:51:22+0530 (Wed) wrote [Quoted text hidden]

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From: Arpith

Date: 28 February 2007 10:02

http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/Scrawny+Two-Faced+Underling What does STFU stand for? Definition of Scrawny Two-Faced Underling in the list of acronyms and abbreviations provided by the Free Online Dictionary and ... [Quoted text hidden] [Quoted text hidden]

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From: Arpith

Date: 28 February 2007 10:04

Southern Tenant Farmers' Union (STFU): Large labor union, formed in Arkansas in 1934, which lobbied the federal government for better New Deal reforms. Dissolved in 1960. Commonly causes mirth among US History students who are aware of the acronym's double meaning. Teacher: Joey will you please tell the class about the STFU? Class: Hahahahahahahahaha

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From: Arpith

Date: 28 February 2007 10:06

more : St. Fu, Patron Saint of Ninjas Before the Battle of Hu Lao Gate, Many Ninjas prayed to STFU for victory [Quoted text hidden] [Quoted text hidden]

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From: N

Date: 28 February 2007 10:11

prob it is spam for the uninterested N (amatuer spammer) [Quoted text hidden]

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From: Obel

Date: 28 February 2007 10:21

STFU Spam The F****** Uninterested! [Quoted text hidden]

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From: Sourasis

Date: 28 February 2007 10:37

hi, I do not understand this prakash. Isnt this more of a godfather like attitude of yours?? This is a free country and theres freedom of thought. Do you mean that CMI is suddenly ruled by a set of superior beings who will decide how will people think and how will people interact. This is very painful to read about such "guidelines" of thoughts and expressing oneself from you. I am not upset with Vipul's mail sent in such an arrogant manner to people as old as rscholars dictating them about what to do and what not , simply because he is young and is yet to understand the world properly. But you should not show such fascist attitude since its no more appreciated in the civilized world. I hope CMI will not turn out to be a totally isolated state in our country with a set of masters and a set of slaves. I will request everybody to go ahead with your spams and wotever , and if somebody doesnt like a spam he can either reply personally to the sender or publicly. No harm in any of two. regards, FTB [Quoted text hidden]

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From: Achal

Date: 28 February 2007 10:44

STFU Sorry to forward u [Quoted text hidden]

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From: Darthpsykoz

Date: 28 February 2007 10:44

On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 10:21:27AM +0530, Obel wrote: > > STFU > Spam The F****** Uninterested! > i say no to censorship. [Quoted text hidden]

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From: Anup

Date: 28 February 2007 10:49

this is just 25th of this chain [Quoted text hidden]

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From:

Date: 28 February 2007 11:19

c********* is bad [Quoted text hidden] -- Arpith Siromoney [Quoted text hidden]

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From: Anup

Date: 28 February 2007 11:23

SFSTU Sick Fucking Son of The Uninterested [Quoted text hidden]

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From: Obel

Date: 28 February 2007 11:34

Are you sure that you don't mean c********** ? [Quoted text hidden]

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From: Achal

Date: 28 February 2007 12:12

[Insert a smart one liner here] [Quoted text hidden]

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From: Achal

Date: 28 February 2007 12:17

spamming is the birth right, of every CMI-ite, those who dont want it, can go and fly a kite, people who say no, have lost their sight, spam is a sweet pie...and i want a bite, if you dare, oppose our might, we will see who is right, me or you, hold on tight, if we fight, u'll fall from a hieght, like a big pile of shite!!! ochod fucker and darthpsykoz [Quoted text hidden]

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From: Arpith

Date: 28 February 2007 13:37

who is c******** this mail about why c********* is bad???? [Quoted text hidden] -- Arpith [Quoted text hidden]

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From: Achal

Date: 28 February 2007 14:05

censorship is * ****** ******** ****** good ***** ** *** **** ** and **** *** necessary******* ? source uncyclyopedia [Quoted text hidden]

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From: Shouvik

Date: 28 February 2007 14:08

giyo roly poly ... [Quoted text hidden]

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From: Shouvik

Date: 28 February 2007 14:11

hail promod the ,male bitch ... :D u said it bro ... [Quoted text hidden]

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From: Arpith

Date: 28 February 2007 20:01

phoebe (to monica and rachel): "if we were in prison, you guys would be my bitches" with lowe holy roly poly [Quoted text hidden] -- Arpith

well ... jus like that

It's pretty easy to write this when I know no one is going to read this.

Well ... thought that i've been in cmi for long enough ... so why not jus try and write few experiences .....

To start with, I can say that this was the first time I was staying and interacting with so many people .... it felt different ... for my usual monotonic kind of life where I am not that particularily interested in interested in interacting with anyone (maybe except a really small number).

Next, to find such a variety as in CMI ... i never found so much in other places I have been so much difference ... but maybe ... i was not able to comprehend then. Life gets really boring many a time .... which is not much varied as from home when I have to stay alone ....

Bu maybe ... my patience level ahs gone down a bit too much i guess ... i don't feel like wrting any further .... probably when i feel like ... i will try and elaborate more ... there's so that i feel like writing down ...

Captivity

Fetters unbound
Into an meandering wound.
Slowly as I crept
From the relapse, wept
At the new found Freedom
Unable to bear world of wisdom
where I, a age old Captive
sans Motive.

I found the long awaited
Petulant Freedom.
Awaiting the long gone bound
An immunization to wisdom.

The moment has come.
Realization too late.
Called upon the world of unseen captivity.
Embraced the sweet fetters of mortal immortality.

An evening

On the dull sands as I walked
To the waters that faded
from Murky brown to emerald green
To sapphire blue; merging with the sinking sky
A three mast ship at the horizon
sailed as it bounced lazily.

A wave slid unnoticed;
Baring the boring sand
to the drooping Sun
Sinking into the city wren.

Next wave bore a threat,
to the bared Sands....
As a spray of salt water hit
the remorseless horse.

From turquoise to Sapphire to Gray,
calling the Ship to hide behind the Bay.
In the next world unseen
in the Expanded horizon.......

"Life's like that "

That's that.

Finally, I have decided to comment on my own statement that I put up as my message in gtalk which seems to have perplexed many people as to the status of my mind and heart.......

Yes. It's exactly what you think....it's about a broken mind (heart?..no, do not mistake my language...i mean what i tell). One needs to hold himself responsible for what he says (well...this was said later....but written before...yet i hold myself responsible). Broken mind has a characteristic property of rambling at all time to it's owner ..... believe me ... it's pretty boring at most times.

This statement came as an outcome of one of it's rantings to me. Actually made by me .... seconded by it. It actually did not understand it....jus wanted to go on with it's own thoughts....so seconded to calm me down. But de facto, it did come back to this when AM asked me about this....and started pestering me with what I meant by this ..... so I had to answer this.....and hence, this post...so this is approximately the conversation that followed as I lay awake on my bed......

Rem(remnants...as I call it): So, what exactly did you mean by that?
Me: I did in fact think that you know.... anyway it's like this.....shud i really tell you?
Rem: Yes.... I do tell you everything I feel, don't I ?
Me: hmph...ok. It's like this.......it's the answer to all your talk (pep talk too) that you usually come up with...that rarely helps me....it's always the same ... whatever you tell me...it happens as it has to happen and as I want it to (except when it comes to grades in here). I was talking about the life that pertains to me....so LIFE'S LIKE THAT....that's what it feels like.....do you know that...happens whenever I have any feeling....a strong one....which is pretty rare. A feeling that has some significance to me.....something that is rare, ain't it? But, it always collapses to one thing....that is.....life's like that....either good or bad.....but this does not mean that I am that person who accepts life as it is....I strive to change ...... life's like that


P.S: This is as it came out of me...no additions ..... no deletions .... not a figment of imagination.....life's like that....something of this order usually seems to be an imaginative piece.....

Life At Siruseri-2

Recharge Chargin
The recharge show's up. This is about the first recharge for my mobile at Siruseri. Well, this journey also begins on a hot and sultry afternoon after having a sumptuous lunch. It's been 3 days since the balance on my mobile fell to 0.11 rupees. Finally, I had to recharge due to the orders from my house. This time I did not want to go on a bicycle as I thought I found some shop just outside SIPCOT. So, I walked out and went to the street and found all the shops closed. I finally found a shop which was jus about to close and walked to the shopkeeper to ask about the information about the availability of a place to recharge my mobile. So, he suggested Navalur. Hence I walked along (i have a knowledge about the distance ... after my first experience).
My disastrous fate did not leave me yet ..... the two shops which offer recharge were shut down on the occasion of Kaanum Pongal ( i rarely realize the dates of festivals unless it's a holiday).

Hence I was suggested to go to Shozhinganallur (the same place where I found the bank). This time, I relapsed my stupid ideas and took an MTC bus and reached the place. I searched 3 shops and finally got it recharged. Success...at last. I went to the bus stop to take a bus to the SIPCOT gate. Only after I got into the bus did I realize that I had no change and had money with least denomination at 50 rupees. The conductor shot at me look of utmost contempt and gave me 9 coins of 5 rupees each. That's almost as heavy 200+ gms. So, you should have seen the look on my face at that moment...even I smiled at myself imagining of that situation after coming back to the hostel.
But there's another thing that happened on the bus. A highly amusing moment. The bus conductor gave the person sitting beside me change for 100Rs. in 10 Rs. notes which he could as well have done with me rather than giving me the coins. (that what is the adverse effect of not having proper change for the ticket on bus).