ThePanda

Me am sorry for not posting nething but me was at the rather unimaginatively named Canadian Education Center (now if me had to name it, me wud have called it called something like Department of Maple Studies or something, certainly not the CEC) getting visa counseling, which in not so salable and business oriented terms is getting to know the difference between what zey publicly state u need on ur application and what u actually need…... The Canadian embassies visa section lists one set of documents that ur supposed to include, and then ze CEC gives u a wayyyyyyyyyyyyy bigger list of documents that u shud include…..... My damn bundle of document has grown to elephantine proportions, but as long as me knows zat me am gonna end up with a visa, and finally be assured zat me am gonna be leaving zis yr, me not much care abt elephantine documents….. Oh and me am gonna be standing in ze line to first submit me visa app, and later to collect me Visitor’s Permit today (ze student permit is awarded wayyyyyyyyyy after ze application, abt two weeks later which is 2 long for a panda) so there probably wont be a blog entry today afternoooon either, sorry
Ze panda’s award for ze bestest invention ever goes 2 ze nice plastic coated paperclip (plastic coated important, since otherwise ze ones I get r 2 susceptible to rusting).... Working on huge quantities of paper today has convinced me that almost nothing else, including staplers can beat the sheeeeeer usability and adaptability of these little beasts of burden….. Hell try stapling 50 sheets of paper with nething less than an industrial size stapler, and well pinning these many sheets is neither elegant nor easy, but take one of these nice little buggers, twist a little and fit on top of ze huge bundles of paper and voila u have them nicely bundled and bunched….. Zese buggers truly use the tensile strength, the malleability and ze ductility of ze metal, and well zey saved me from a lot of trouble today, so ze panda happily gives them his bestest invitation award, and as a part of their prize zey get 2 be used by me forever and ever (unless someone comes up with an invention which can match zese, and I doubt zats gonna happen netime soooooooooooooooooooooooooooon)...................

Among other things today me also sorted out photos (old ones) to send off to 3 univs in ze US, and well me suddenly realized zat me have not gone to one of ze propppppppppper jungles, ze one where u have a huge river with crocodiles, and u have tigers, and lots of deers and lots of grass and usually lots and lots of elephants (ze panda lovvvvvvvvvvvves elephants, who unlike chimps have always been good 2 him, r loyal, and lovvvvvvvvvve eating, and dont much care abt how fat zey r), and me have a feeling ze chimps who destroyed most of last yr for me had a lot 2 do with zis problem of mine…......... Now if only me cud go to one of zese nice little jungles me wud be able to recharge batteries and maybe meet a few elephants, and see ze cubs of those nice tigers me saw mating last time, and c a few more deer jumping over roads, and c ze fishing eagle sweep down and catch huge fishes in her talon, and watch as ze serpent eagle feasts on a jungle phesant, watch as ze civet cat steals away ze eagles eggs and ze eagle starts fighting with ze civet, and smell ze lovely smells of ze jungle which no one can ever reproduce in a garden ‘coz its not extraordinarily sweet just extraordinarily exciting and constantly changing and feed jaggery to Phulkari ze nice pachyderm who often takes me into ze jungle, and then have fun with her, c her trampling over places she thinks ze tiger is hiding, and watch as she takes a bath, and go swimming in ze river with utter disregard for ze notice abt crocs because Phulkari’s there to protect me is something does come out of ze water and attack, and feed phulkari some grass and more jaggery, and go and sit on ze machan all day photographing, and watching as ze elephant is followed by ze tiger, and by zeir fights and zeir games, watching as huge elephants first dip themselves in pools of water and then take a dust bath, watch zem brushing their teeth using trees instead of a toothbrush as they shud, have food which tastes extraordinarily good not becoz it has nething special in it, but becoz it was made on a wood stove, and zen in ze nite talk and zen slowly sleep infront of ze crackling fireplace….................... Sadly me can’t go until me have finally decided on which college I’m going off 2 and by ze time me finally decides zat it’d be 2 late to experience all of zis ‘coz winter wud be over, and ze eagles wud not come out in ze day nemore, and ze elephants wud be starting zere lazy march up ze hills and ze civet wud prefer hiding all day, and ze tigers wud much rather sleep in ze day zan hunt, and me will misssssssssss seeeeeeeeeeing all of zem, and me reallllllllllllllllllly wanna c zem, me do me do me do….............. BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Day b4 yesterday (sorry for not mentioning earlier) was a bad day for windows machines, bad karma or something probably some sort of side effect caused by ze chimp conspiracy ray, ‘coz only six of my friends have managed to crash their versions window on the day in question, and though one of them had a minor problem relating to IE on his system, ze others have pretty serious problems with critical VXDs going amiss, one of them managing to corrupt ze Win 2K kernel so completely as to get nothing but gibberish from ze moment ze BIOS passes control to ze OS, and oh ya zeres zis one guy who managed to ruin his display driver (some sort of a GeForce 4) and didn’t have drivers for his card ‘coz he’d given his CD back to his assembler, and zis other one who cudnt access his ‘encrypted’ NTFS partition, ‘coz Windows said it was unable to decrypt…..... Its on days like zis zat me thank god for having shifted to a Mac, and not being stuck with zat dumb ass sorry excuse for an operating system which one huggggggge corporation makes, and adds bugs to make it easily susceptible to chimp conspiracy rays…..... Now one of my friend says zat his system had Word crashing multiple times on two versions of zis silly operating system, which cud mean zat ze Chimp conspiracy ray is now being aimed at ppl close 2 me, and zat is scary (though it cud be zat Word doesn’t like windows maybe his copy of word doesn’t like windows, and wud preffer something more cozier, after all who on their right minds wud prefer sitting on windows and ledges instead of on nice blue colored apple shaped couches huh????????????

Neways ze friend who was undecided abt giving ze certification exam from ze big corporation is probably not gonna give it nemore, ‘coz he feels he can never really be completely prepared for giving it…........ SAD IMHO, ‘coz I doubt neone can ever be completely prepared for nething, besides me feels zis guy is good, though me have tried me best to convince him, and since he isn’t convinced me am gonna leave it well alone….......

Ze Panda
still dreammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmming abt ze jungles…..................................

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