Class Field Trip ★
The last “official” day of our school was today. It was a day to remember. For the first time this year, Class 12 behaved like Class 12 should have. In every 5 minutes of the annual boring Christmas assembly at school, an “atom” bomb was going off. The coordinators were furious, but what could they do anyway. The people responsible were standing like just another bunch of innocent people. That showed the amount of practice that went into the process(timing the bombs to go off at regular time intervals).
So after the assembly we assembled near the bus-stand to get ready for our two-hour trip to Dam Dama lake. It’s in Rajasthan(as airtel told me after adding 50 bucks to my bill as roaming charges) and we had many rounds of Truth or Dare on the way to keep our brilliant minds occupied. We even played this amazingly simple game called Bluff with a regular pack of 52 playing cards(Sometimes the IQ of science students can be compared to that of truck drivers in India).
When we reached the “Dream Island” Dam Dama between a lake void of water, we only then started realising that Rs.150(+ Rs.200 from our pockets) is an exorbitant amount that the school had spent only to see something much smaller than the usual Nehru Park we goto without spending anything. We couldn’t do anything much but still we did our best to get our money’s worth by losing as many footballs and volleyballs as we could.
We didn’t get pizzas for lunch but the food was definitely better than what we got last year at last year’s class field trip. After lunch we had this long photography session, and girls from TAFS being part of our photographs became a big issue and also a reason why their(TAFS) teachers started shouting(more like elephants screaming) at us. Now we angels of MSM were completely unaware of how they became part of our photographs and told them that we had deleted the photographs which had already been backed up via bluetooth on a dozen phones. Hmm…interesting day, I should say.
In another session of Truth or Dare while returning to school in the semi-deluxe bus(a revamped DTC-like bus with a couple of fans which didn’t work), we had people doing strange things in front of our new chemistry(and class) teacher because of some strange mental illness that we had acquired after eating lunch. The toppers of the class were having a more complicated session of Truth or Dare, doing things they would do at the colleges(that they have already assumed they have got admission into).
Coming back home was also a roller coaster ride, with 10 boys other than me in my car and the trunk open throughout the ride. I was just hoping that this small WagonR of mine wont break down on it’s way back home. And since it didn’t I’m able to blog this long post about what we did on the last day of our schooling lives.
Right now I’m deciding on whether to get a MacBook Pro or Dell XPS ML 1710.
a mac book pro would be better than that XPS anyday..
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On what basis do you say that? Do you know that OS X 10.4.8 is more responsive on the XPS 1710
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See the features in a MacBook Pro..
Compare it to the XPS 1710.. the Mac Book Pro is better for u as u r not a hardcore gamer or a 3d Autocad designer….
The XPS 1710 is a really expensive product abt 1.7 times as much as a Mac Book Pro..
and then being an Apple Product.. the MacBook Pro looks way prettier.. and it has really powerful graphics may not be as good as the XPS but for medium gaming or even Blender designing.. it is more than enough..!!
But then apple products are very expensive in India.. so u cant rely on the internet prices.. but the Dell ones will be more or less the same as the internet price..
but still.. if i were u.. i would go for the MacBook Pro..
Well on a config basis the Dell may beat the MBP, but owning a Mac is a whole different experience. Karan on his blog said that too and convinced me. I couldn’t agree more. I used some AutoCad too on this, runs perfectly fine. Never found my Laptop lacking in anything yet.
Trust me on this. I was the only guy with a mac here in my hostel of 40 guys, when I bought it everyone thought that its not a good buy. Well some of the ones who cried most about it, bought one for themselves. Its only when you see one for a long time you realise its worth. I have converted four guys to Mac owners here. Which if you see from their relative miniscule computer knowledge seems quite an accomplishment.
The thing with the Dell XPS is that it has a better graphics engine. I’ve noticed that the only reason a computer becomes outdated is because of the increasing requirement of graphics memory.
I may not be a game designer, but I have done quite a few 3D interface designs. And on my PowerBook and P4, its painstakingly slow, not because of the RAM but because of the graphics memory.
So, the Dell looks good for me. And the reason I bought the ML1710 is that I got it at a price which was irresistable. $1500. I’m waiting for it to arrive.
Hey.. just where did you get the ML1710 for 1500$.. thats a seriously low price… even lower than the mac Book pro…
So.. when are you buying it..??
At costco. But I returned it to order an iMac 24 inch.