Day 3,4 and 5

You might have been wondering why I have been so silent these past few days? Well, it’s because there hasn’t been anything spectacular going on recently. Yesterday L&T popped into our campus for a placement talk. They are offering 4.2 lacs per annum, as a Tier 1 company (CTC <5 lacs). Since we are allowed to get offers from 2 companies, I think I will give this one a shot. What else has been going on recently? Played cricket yesterday. Nothing stands out there. Oh yeah. I have a story for any MMORPG players out there.

So back when I was in school, there used to be a game that I used to spend a LOT of time playing, Runescape. I quit playing around the end of my 10th grade. Well after coming to college I met a guy who was into the game as well. We logged back in to see what changes were made since all those years back. And it turns out there is a way to get a membership without spending a single buck. The game has these things called bonds which give 14-day Membership, and you can get them by spending in-game cash. The catch is it’s kinda hard to make the cash through the Free-to-play version of the game.

So the other day I logged in to the game and I wandered around the central trading hub- The Grand Exchange. It’s like a town square but with a bunch of traders seated together, who carry out trades for you. Yeah, the game is so big it has it’s own trading system with constantly fluctuating values.

I saw a bunch of people huddled together in a circle chatting about some members armour. Since I was bored I approached them and asked:
“What’s the most fun thing to do in F2P?”
A guy in a grey ghost costume replied:”Skilling.” (Training skills like woodcutting, fire making, cooking and a bunch of others)
“Ugh, so f2p is that boring now huh?”
“There is another fun thing to do in the game tbh.”
“Which is?”
“Hold up a sec, I’ll brb.”
The ghost fellow- let’s call him Casper, cause why not- walks over to the trading centre and comes back a minute later. I look down at the chat box and see: Casper wants to trade with you.

Having played the game for ages, I am always wary of random people trying to scam through trades. I accepted it thinking I would pull out of the trade if I noticed anything fishy.

The trade boxes pop up and he puts in a golden rhombus looking thing to trade. I accept it.

When I take a closer look I notice the description says “Bond”.

“There you go, enjoy your 14 days of membership.”

I stand there stunned next to him. These things cost 16 million of in-game currency (That’s not a lot to members, but for a guy who has only 1 mil in f2p, making 15 mil is a looong way to go.)

“Why did you give this to me? Are you insane?”
“Nope, I am just a friendly ghost who likes to help people :). Now don’t think you owe me. Just use the cash you make in mems to buy a bond for someone else. Give it forward. I will see you around members worlds. See you.”

And he logs out.

Now, I have got 14 days worth of membership waiting to be activated in my account. What a decent little fellow that Casper.

Now how the hell do I make cash in members?

The Most Dangerous Writing App – Day 2

Day 2

What did I get up to yesterday? Damn it’s kind of difficult recollecting stuff isn’t it? Let’s see. I am gonna call my morning wake up- freshen up- pray, eat stuff “The Routine” from here on out. So I followed the Routine and then got ready for class. Fourth year has been pretty chilled out so far. And since our department is being relocated, we haven’t had many classes this week since teachers have been a little lazy with the shifting work going on. So I had an hour and half of Cryptography and another hour of HR. Yesterday was Onam, and we were supposed to head out for Sadhya with some other hostelites, but we decided to go play football on a small ground instead. 5 vs 5, but it was intense and we tired ourselves out pretty quickly. We then had some Lassi from a shop in Koramangala and headed to our friend Ameen’s house. When I say “we”, I generally mean my batchmates who stay with me at hostel. So Ameen’s mom had prepared some curry for us. Eid had just passed us a few days back and you could call this a gift from then. We got the food, headed back to hostel and freshened up. I went along with another friend and bought some naan -Indian flatbread- to go along with the curry. We had that for dinner -the curry was amazing, thanks @Ameen’s mom if you ever read this- and then finally got down to a task we had been putting off for a while.

A week back we had organized a drive to collect goods to help people out in Kerala. Well, a lot of people donated clothes, but a decent chunk of those clothes happened to be in poor condition (Kerala government had announced that clothes should be of good condition) So we decided that the ones we ones that were unsatisfactory would be donated to an orphanage nearby. All of these clothes were dumped on my room-mates bed these past few days. We finally got ourselves some bags and got down to packing them all up. It took us around 20 minutes but we got the job done. I watched a bit of Trollhunters and then went to bed.

That one hour of football really tired me out.

The Most Dangerous Writing App- Season Uno

So I ran across this website: (The Most Dangerous Writing App). Here’s the rub. It forces you to write continuously without a break. If you spend more than 5 seconds without writing, whatever you wrote gets erased. You can increase the time limit or set a word limit before the writing gets erased. So I gave it a shot and here’s what I came up with on my first go. This could become a daily post thingy on the page. And nope, I haven’t given up reviewing books, TV Shows etc. I just got caught up in a lot of work. But I am back! (For now :P) Let’s see how long I can keep this up.

The Most Dangerous Writing App:

Good Evening folks. So what did I get up to today? Woke up in the morning and stayed in bed for a bit. Didn’t do anything productive for around two hours. Headed down to the mess for breakfast. I turned on my laptop and tried my hand at coding. After a while I received a call from my junior. Guess what? Time for cricket. Went to the ground and played for 3 hours. It was a close series that we lost 3-2. Went back upstairs, freshened up and left for prayer with my friend Sameer. We made it to the mosque in time and then followed our usual Friday routine: Meet up with friends outside- Chat and joke around- head for lunch- break and leave back to hostel. I got back to hostel and passed out, being tired from around 3 hours of play earlier in the day. Sameer borrowed my laptop and watched 2 movies -wow- as I slept. JLA Unlimited and Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom. I got up and went for snacks with him, met a few more friends while there. Came back up, browsed reddit and youtube for a while. And now I am here at this website, having come across it in a Dan Mace video a few minutes ago. So there you have it. My first day writing at this website. Now do I have enough time to copy paste this thing? Can’t seem to Ctrlc this crap. Oh never mind, there’s a word limit that I crossed it seems, so I can download what I typed out. Until next time!