APOGEE 2K6

So, finally, our technical fest APOGEE is over. A week long fest, it was really a great learning experience. For the first time in my BITSian life, I felt that I had done something. I'll always remember all the hard work which I had put in for APOGEE. For past 2 months, we daily used to go to the lab after dinner and used to come back after 12 or 1. That even went as late as 2 and 3 sometimes. And as the D-day came closer, night outs were also not uncommon. I remember the last night out, I completed 1 chart by 1am and then started other by 4 and tried to finish it by 6, but ofcourse,was not successful, and slept by 7.30 /* in the moring */. And thanks to the little artist in me, who took care of all the chart work and other creativity involved, and allowed me to enjoy that not so intersting job . And past whole week, it was really fun. Well, it may seem to be a bit boring and tiresome to others, indeed its not that intersting to stand for 6-7 hours a day in front of your project-cum-workshop for 5 days and explain everyone the damn same thing over and over again /* though most of the time, it was Gautam who did the job*/, but the whole thing was actually real fun. It was a great way to learn new thing, meet new people and enjoying it all in a bit different fashion, i really liked it. This was photographed on the last day. Its me on the left /* feeling sleepy????*/and Gautam on the right, ofcourse, my favourite fso=>free space optics is there. Well, APOGEE ended with a positive note, our assoc. winning 3 outta 4 prizes. Great work seniors! And now, I am waiting for a grand treat from our coordinator.

Holi+Homecomin+Fest=$$&*#@$%

Was a bit busy for past few days, so was not able to blog. Today i wanted to write something, but I dun have anything in my mind except for the workshop which I and Gautam are going conduct during the college technical fest - APOGEE /* 21-25 Mar*/, dats just 5 days. Neither charts nor the presentation is completed. N the working model....... dear lord..... please........ Well, right now I am at home, came here for holi, inspite of all the work left. Holi was ok, nothing special, visited cousins, planned to meet school frnds which flopped. Yeah, sometimes, even my plans also flop. After that, i was made culprit for that flopshow. FIND OF THE DAY :

Never try to get the results out of nowhere. B'coz how so ever hard u may try, other people or circumstances may not support. And in the end that maynot be disappointing for you, but mayb for the result. N that disappointed result will sue you for the flop show /* **on grounds emotional distress, mental trauma and character assassination*/. N dat will b really frustruating.

Yeah, i m indeed frustruated. This is rare. Well, I think i missed the holi at hostel. Bt i cant help, parents called me home on this festival n i had to follow. N yeah, find of the trip : Gautam can also work. Whenever i m around him, he never wrks, bt in my absence he had to, n he did. I'll put gautam's blog link soon, but now, lemme post his photo. I'm in red circle n gautam in white circle. My sincere apologies for improper lights. ** Courtesy : Raun Mathur /* Arshad Warsi*/, Salaam Namaste

Just read on.................

16th June 2005, dreams of many of my batchmates came true, but my dint. JEE results were declared. God kept me waiting for one more month, till 16th July. Second list of BITS was out n yeah, i made it. Yes, IIT is IIT, I know, but everyone said, next comes BITS. Even I knew that, but....... ok. Now I m in BITS, n sometimes I do think that in many aspects, this place is better for me. Yeah, IIT has brand value, great profs, infrastructure.... But things which I have got here, may be small ( well some are big enough ) still, i feel that life here is a lot better here than any of the IITs. Yeah, the location is not great, and this thing has really bothered me, but there are lot more things.

• Ok, lemme start, first and the most imporatnt things, there is no restriction on attendance. And that is a damn big advantage. Though some of my friends disagree, they feel that they could perform better if they are forced to attend classes, but i dun think so. There's noting to force us to go to the lecture threatre. I do for the subject which i like (well, at times i m forced to go for a gud lukin grade sheet, but dats rare), but rarely go against my will. And we do get the lecture slides on intranet, so absence is never that a big problem.
• And here we do get to make our own timetable,in the beginnin of semester.
• Apart from that, I am sure that our mess food is far better than any other respectable engineering college's mess. And campus life here rocks. Hostels rooms, may not be better, but are not bad at all. So what if we cant go to PVR, we have screening of movies in our audi regularly. Today's Rang de Basanti, yeah a bit late, but its really fun with all junta of your own.
• There's no ragging here. Yeah, some may thing of missing all the masti of ragging, but teh kinda raging you get in engineering colleges hostels, it wud really better to be away from it.
• In acads n infrastucture, BITS has VLSI design lab, only two labs of such kind are there in our country, the other in IISc, banglore. Also, traning system is better. Well, i dun vat to get in those technical details

Well, for those who have still no figured it out, my blood group is B+.

randomize(past_month);

• 28-02-2006, Tuesday: Unexpected holiday, cause : local municipal elections. Effect : Need not be explained. My status : no plans for the day. Got up at 8 in the morning, wingies still asleep, roomie out of station. Plan : ( the most unexpected one) Clean and Organize the room. It was really difficult to follow such a plan, especially if u r used to live with all the chaos in and around the room for past 8 months. Result : ( most unexpected++) I succeded. But i took pity on those spiders and decided to live in symbiosis with them. ( i hope this is grammatically correct.)
• 27-02-2006, Monday : Got probabilityand statistics test paper, above av. N finally got a cover for my below av. phy marks. Told phy marks to mom, after waitin for prob n stats for more than 10 days.
• 17-02-2006, Friday : Yeah, i knew we can do it. Finally, our model started working. It just needs a lil' improvement, but its working.
• 28-02-2006, Tuesday, 0000 hrs : My sidey, gautam's b'day. I orderd the cake in the evening (yeah, on 27th). Everthing was ready. I was prepared for sidey bumps, bt i was spared, even in absence of my roomie and the other sidey.
• 14-02-2006, Tuesday : Happy Valentines day. Nothin special on the day for BITSians. Elsewhere u could have enjoyed the day, even if you dont have a gf, but this Pilani, no hopes with just 10% girls in the campus and i cant describe the world outside the campus, its been long since i stepped out of the campus.
• 03-02-2006, Monday : Test series - I starts. Still v are confused whether earlier system vid one midsem was better or this one vid two test series.

My first Blog

So, finally, persistence of my sidey, Gautam, paid off, and i m writing my first blog. I was interested in writing blogs, though i donot posses even average writing skills ( my english teacher knows this quite well), but i was not able to start it coz i never got the time. Even today, i had to work on presentation, but thanks to our server which is down for the third day in a row, and i m not able to access my ftp. Saturday afternoon, nothing else to do. Hmmm..... well i think i do have 3 books to read which i got issued from library yesterday. No, not novels, i hate them. But ..... I think I can postpone that for atleast 3 hours.And yes, yesterday, for the first time I got a book issued from our renowned library. I do have a lotta things in my minds, i have loads of stuff to write, so lemme decide..... somethin which can keep you hooked on this blog for atleast 2 more mins...... well, mayb i'll not b successful, but i will have to go on............. It doesnot seems to be a eye pleasure for most time of the year, facin extremes of both heat n chill, bt at this time of year its really a beauty, a beauty for eyes with all the lawns full of flowers, its really a rare sight for most of the BITSians. The campus is really cool, i can say that atleast for this time of the year. I was never such a fan of nature, bt after 8 months of extremes and then such a pleasurable sight at this moment has really forced me to write atleast something for it. I know I'll not b able to hook you anymore on this topic but i am extremely sorry, i do have a lotta vella time and net speed is quite good.... so i think i'll continue, yeah, not on this topic.