Hits n Misses

Rockstar

2011-11-21T00:31:00.004+05:30

My version of the poster :D
The following text is not exactly a movie review. It is not for those who want to watch the movie in the near future as it will contain spoilers. You can refer this for the movie review.
I watched the movie today. Not among the best movies, but I did like cinematography and screenplay a lot. Though still found story a bit weak, as is the case with most of the bollywood movies these days. The movie-makers wants to show a lot of things, but always lack the strength of story which has to carry everything. I did not find the reasons strong enough for the actions.
This movie is about making of a Rockstar. As it is a bollywood movie, the making of rockstar has to involve a girl. Bollywood people should realise, it is not necessary that you always have a love interest for the protagonist in the movie. I would had been rather happy to see the journalist as the lead lady and our guy could have had some other reason and story. Two reasons for this suggestion - it would had been a nice change, and the other reason, which is a bigger reason, that girl Nargis does not know how to act. Yes, she can improve if she tries, but this performance was not acceptable at all. Ranvir Kapoor is surely going to be a big name in future. His performance was brilliant. He has been superb in all the movies in past too.
It was a good attempt, but at least in my view, the team failed to delivery what it (probably) is capable of, particularly the script writer(s).
According to me, the strengths were:
1) Ranvir Kapoor
2) Screen play
3) Cinematography
4) A.R. Rehman's music
And the weakness:
1) Nargis
2) Weak story and script
3) Total runtime
And yes, it reminded me of Delhi :). In almost all the scenes in the first half, I could not restrain myself from telling the person sitting next to me that this is Delhi Universoty, this is CP, this is where I live (Pitampura :)) and this is blah blah blah

PS: Yeah yeah, the main reason behind writing the complete post is the poster :)

Pie

2011-11-04T02:50:00.003+05:30

Poor sun does not get its share of pie.. any guesses why??? (No PrIzE for guessing though)

APOGEE 2008 - Inside

2010-02-28T18:47:00.007+05:30

A few names which come to my mind when I think of APOGEE 2008: (in psuedo-random order)
Gautam, Jyoti, Sumanth, Reeshav, Dhiraj, Ravindra, Divya, Vinay Soni, Pradeep, Ritesh, Raja, Sagnik, Ali, Rajat, Jeffery, Mohit, Gurukaran, Puri, Ankit Mittal, Shubham, Tarun.
Favourite moment: 11th March 2008 1400 hrs:
Lunch at Sky. Thinking about inaug... almost all the projects were working :). In all it should be 20+.
Scariest moment: 11th March 2008 0600 hrs:
I woke up. F*ck! Oh I am in chota wala lab (2138). Oh fish! Why was I sleeping.. Oh fish! what's the time? Oh fish! just 6 hours left for assoc room inaugration. Oh fish! We need to move all the stuff to the assoc rooms. Oh fish! Where are all the people? Gautam... uth saale... kuch kar... just 6 hours... kya kare.. oh fish! Tu kuch kar yaha... main hostel jaake logo ko utha ke lata hun. (Dub: Gautam... wake up... do something.. just 6 hours.. what to do..oh fish!... You do something here.. I'll go to hostel and get people from there.) Ring Ring... Hello Jyoti!.. tu kaha hai.. MB...abhi tak so rahi hai.. just 6 hours left. Jaldi aa... main hostel jaake logo ko utha ke lata hun (Dub: Ring Ring... Hello Jyoti!.. where are you.. Meera Bhawan...sleeping till now.. just 6 hours left. Come soon..I'll go to hostel and get people from there. )
Funniest moment: 13th March 2008 0930 hrs:
Explaining the projcet to the judge; and I was wearing cargo ( it should be called pyjama actually) and T-shirt which read "I am Kind of a Big Deal" :D. Actually I was supposed to change before the judging seesion, was on the way to hostel to do the same at around 0845 hrs. But then got to know that judges have already arrived, so aborted the plan and went back. (I am not too sure of the date for this one :D)
Five things which make me happy as Co-ord, Instrumentation Forum, APOGEE 2008:
- Assocs collaborated to conduct events
- Over two-thirds of the projects on the display in our assoc were working. ( Generally percentage is pretty low)
- Good participation from all three batches in our assoc (don't expect anything from psenti-semites)
- Our assoc had two rooms full of projects and workshops
- Our Group leader called me after Val-D to congratulate us
Five things which don't make me happy as Co-ord, Instrumentation Forum, APOGEE 2008:
- The events were not handled so well by Instru assoc.
- Wireless Quest (new event, required particiapants to design radio receiver) failed even after the (not-so :P) hard work
- Abstract submission was vague. Only projects which were being done seriously should had been submitted. Inspite of my efforts to do so, finally it dint happen properly.
- Guest lectures were not given due attention
- Publicity was not so effective.

APOGEE 2008

2010-02-28T16:37:00.003+05:30

Well, its time for APOGEE 2010, but alas, I am lagging by two years. Lets not wait further, lets do it this time. APOGEE 2008. Truly, one of the most memorable events of my life and I am sure that it will remain so even at the time of APOGEE 2050. APOGEE i.e. A Professions Oriented Gathering over Educational Experience is the national (rather, its international now) level inter-college technical festival hosted by BITS Pilani.

At the time of APOGEE 2008, it was in my third year, and I was the co-ordinator for Instrumentation Forum ( association of students of Electronics and Instrumentation ). So I was responsible for all the activities of Instru assoc for APOGEE 2008. We were some 70+ students. Together we organized guest lectures; technical events (Parishod, Open hardware, Virtuosity, Garovista, Siddhi, Wireless Quest, Breadstroming, Quintronics) in collaboration with some other assocs; workshops; and we prepared some prize winnig projects :).

Events... lets not discuss it. I accept that we could had done better in organization of the events. But projects and workshops.. they were the highlights.. that is what made the APOGEE 2008 memorable, atleast for me.

Workshops - we conducted two workshops - One on MEMS and another one on Industrial Automation. These were not professional workshops. It was like students (primarily first year, guided by third year students) study and present some (not necessarily :P) new technical topic to the junta during APOGEE. So one group prepared on Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems and the other group prepared on Industrial Automation. Both the groups had some 8-10 furst year students guided by 1-2 third year student(s). The MEMS group studied the various concepts/processes involved in MEMS and explained it with one example (I think it was Cantilever). They were planning to use some software tool called Sugar, but I don't remember if they finally did it or not. The other Industrial Automation Group prepared a working model of Tile Industry. They integrated it with LabVIEW also. The model showed the various staged involved in manufacturing a tile. In reality, manufacturing of tiles invlove very high temperatures for baking and stuff. So this was just a model, and it prepared models of tiles :D. It was working in the sense that there was a conveyor belt, controlled by motor, some other moving parts like a 'heavy' weight which can be moved up and down, and is used to flaten the stuff to form tiles and so on. Both of them got reasonably good response.

Projects - This was the thing. Our show in Project competition was lot better than previous times :). We won first prize in Automation for 'Digital Display'; first in Industrial Processes and Automation for 'Automation of Tile Industry'; first in Signal Processing for 'Speech Controlled Wheel Chair'; and second in Signal Processing for 'Automated Linesman'. Apart from project competition, some projects won prizes in events too - first in Siddhi ( in the module which required a robot to imitate some biological organ/organism ) for 'Octapod'; and first in Open Hardware for 'Speech Controlled Wheel Chair'. Apart from the winners, some other projects were - Surface Colour Plotter, Robotic Arm, Free Space Optics (this was inspired from my and gautam's first APOGEE's project), GRID - Automated Path Tracking Robot, Writing robo, Automated Machine Error Detection System, PoleClimber, Table Ice Hockey, Breaks Unleashed, etc. Most of these project plus may other whose name I dont remember (sorry) were working :). I was really happy and satisfied as we had more than 20 projects in working condition.

I'll upload the photos on some online album and update the link in this post soon.

This all was just data. And obviously I remember something more than just data from this memorable event. If I post it here, it will be too long post, so lets split it. I'll 'blog' and not report in my next post on APOGEE 2008.

DSP yes DSP no

2009-09-27T12:44:00.003+05:30

Actually I would had preferred starting with APOGEE 2008 or Speech Controlled Wheel Chair, thoose two are my favoutrite. But they'll need some visual effects, and right now I am in my office and I don't have them.
So lets move on to this one...
DSP yes was till third year, rather till my placements started in the seventh semester. I was really interested in DSP, Communication Systems and related stuff. Actually I still am. But at that point of time, I wanted to make my career in DSP. I feel really bad to admit, but the main reason for DSP yes was that I felt microelectronics is out of my reach. So, at that time, I decided not to step in microelectronics. The second best option was DSP and Communication. Moreover, my profile also suits pretty well for this field. It includes my APOGEE projects - Free Space Optics ,Specch Controlled Wheel Chair; my formal projects - Advanced Experiments in Telecom Networks, Reconfigurable Architecture for Turbo Encoders for Software Defined Radio; and my electives - Mobile Telecommunication Networks, Telecom Switching Systems and Networks, Digital Signal Processing, Digital Communication. With all this, it seems I am deeply interested in DSP and Communications, which is obviously true.
But I still thought of VLSI, particularly Analog. It feels more electrical than DSP/Communication which has signals, statistics, algorithms.
Then came Placements. The best thing they did to me was helped me believe that I can, I can get into VLSI. The first big relief came with nVidia :), no I was not hired, but I was among the six shortlisted for interview. That time I realised that Digital VLSI is definitely not that difficult. The end was even better, Cosmic Circuits Pvt. Ltd. selected me :) It works in Analog VLSI, we'll talk about in detail some other time.
But this was really the turning point, and boy, I am enjoying this DSP no world :)
Rishi Mathur
Design Engineer
Cosmic Circuits Pvt. Ltd.

Flashback... the one I missed

2009-09-27T12:33:00.004+05:30

I really feel sorry for the injustice I did to the HITS and MISSES I had in my third and final year. They are numorous, and that is why I didn't get time to post.
Today, I am slightly free, but could not get anything to write on, so now I have decided... next few posts will be the flashback, things which I missed out.
Sneak Preview: APOGEE 2008, Speech Controlled Wheel Chair, DSP yes DSP no, Welcome to VLSI, Tips and tricks for placements, What is instrumentation?,...
The order is not decided, and some other stuff might be there in between.

Bengaluru

2009-07-26T10:42:00.003+05:30

So, now with the new status, as happens with all the other engineers, I am too in Bengaluru. This is the place even Mr. Obama is a little afraid off :D

Well well, it has been three weeks here. And I am really liking the place. I guess one reason that strengthens this liking is definitely that I dont actually frequently go to the inner parts of the city. People say that traffic there is total disaster. I am living and working outside the outer ring road, so life's good :)

The best thing about Bengaluru.. definitely its weather. That is the prime reason it is the silicon valley and IT hub of India.
And the other things which I like are : better public transport (as compared to delhi). But till now, I havnt encountered such a situation, even in peak rush hours, that you donot find any place in any of the buses. Yeah, a few of them are really crowded, but you'll atleast have an option to pay more and travel in a volve :).

Anyway, it has only been three weeks, I guess it will take me some more time to experience the real bengaluru.

Here is a list of places I have been to in these past three week:
Bengaluru International Airport
AECS Layout ( in Kundalahalli)
Marathahalli
Cosmos Mall at ITPL road
BTM Layout
Murgesh Palya
Hotel Leela Palace
Koramangla
The Forum Mall
Total Mall
LifeStyle
Garuda Mall
ChurchStreet (Java City and a not so impressive Empire restaurent)
Shopper's Stop near Jayadeva
Barbeque Nation, IndiraNagar

This is primarily east, central and south bengaluru... let see when do I see the other parts. Anyway, I guess this is a pretty good start :D

Status Update

2009-07-26T10:40:00.002+05:30

Again, its been a long long time, as always. And yeah, few things did happen in this long long time. I am now an Engineer (provisional :P, not yet received the degree, just the provisionla certificate) Anyway, people do trust that to, so I guess for all the practical purposes, I am a Bachelor of Engineering (honours) in Electronics and Instrumentation.

Super Human - Homo Sapiens 2.0

2009-02-23T12:11:00.002+05:30

The following thoughts come to my mind due to 'Pharyngytes' ( must be misspelled here, from which I am suffering now. A throat infection. And because of that, I had fever and bodyache also. And now a days, as one of my friends is doing MBBS, each time a health issue comes up, I discuss it with my friend and try to understand it better. But yeah, this practice, I have started lately only, so, don't have much knowledge yet. And yes, this is the perfect time, as I don't have perfect knowledge, so I can put in my curiosity in my blog :) I had read this some years back, in Gen B ( read general biology, my course in first semester in bits) that these like fever, swelling etc, are body's reaction to some foreign activities. By this, our body tries to kill the intruders ( or maybe its just an alarm in some cases). And yes, we take them as symptoms of some abnormality and try to cure by killing the intruders, generally by correct medicines. Now, what I am wondering is, biological creatures do evolve.. and there are a few diseases which almost all the human suffer atleast once in their lives (in general), say throat infection, or common cold ( or is it just a symptom :O), viral fever (infection). And our body does react to it (fever, body-ache etc). So our body knows that such bad boys ( viruses, bacteria do exists). I reacts in a general way to them all, say increasing the body temperature, or swelling of throat, or so on. Now, after repeated attacks, our body should be able to identify the intruders and also the perfect way to destroy them ( this may require some iterations ( intelligent or plain hit and trials, as per the adaptation theoery says)). So, then, our DNA must be reprogrammed ( read evolution/adaptation) to handle these viruses more efficiently. And the ultimate state will be when as soon as the body is attacked, quickly (maybe within hours), or body is able to destroy them completely and we are back to normal. So this way, these common ailments should just vanish. And hey, it is definitely possible, we all know ( i hope so), that there was a time that mosquitoes were killed using DDT, but after repeated use, they became resistant to it. So, I guess we human should also become resistant to these repeated attacks of viruses. Fine, maybe the DDT used each time was excatly same, and the viruses causing common cold vary a little in different attacks. So, maybe we take more time to adapt... but how much.. maybe a few hundred generations, that might mean some ten thousand years, or maybe some hundred thousand or a million year... But with my limited knowledge, I do believe that we will evolve to super humans, and the next version, Homo Sapiens 2.0 wil be free of these bugs..err... biological ailments.. :P (yeah I am an engineering guy :P) So, hey people in the development team, just improve the DNA code a little bit more, and we are surely going to be better. PS : Well, it might take some time to settle down some bigger bugs , but I guess they can also be handled.

2009-02-15T21:43:00.004+05:30

And again.. long time.. no see.. Anyway, some random pics from E:\My Pictures\Kinda technical\Instru forum\motors

Some from E:\My Pictures\Kinda technical\Instru forum

These are random pics, and no details willl be provided.

Foggy pilani

2009-01-01T11:33:00.005+05:30

So, here's a real post.. :P
Well yeah, this one's also a shortcut as such.. :D
Anyways... you'll enjoy...:)

CLACK... i mean.. CLOCK TOWER

That's the Art n Dee structure for Oasis 2008

And a not-so-random tree in C-lawns

Krishna Marg. By the way, all these pictures were clicked by yours truely, on 10th of December 2008, between 0720hrs and 0740 hrs.

The road opposite clock tower, between C lawns and D lawns.

And it is gone...

Another shot, same place.

And this is Bhagirath Marg

Brave girl, and a brave lady...

Happy New Year

2009-01-01T11:21:00.002+05:30

Oh, finally.. my post :) I sue 2008 for emotional distress, mental trauma, and character assassination; and above that all, for freezing my fingers every time I typed something in this text box under New post. Yeah, I am not joking, this really happened. And I was threatened that if I let this secret out, something really really weird will happen to fourth finger of my left foot. But finally the jinx IS OVER. :) And, yes my sweet lord, now I'll be writing many more posts :) My new year gift to me :)

I am still here

2008-12-02T11:57:00.002+05:30

I know its been a loooooooooooooooooooong looooooooooooooon time since I have blogged. Past one and a half year was a bit heavy. Anyways, few more days. Yesterday I sat for first exam of the last examinations before I graduate. A few more days, around 10-12, and I'll be bit more relaxed. Then will continue this blog, definitely.

#define QUESTION (bb)||(!bb)

2007-08-04T22:50:00.000+05:30

Its the first weekend this academic year. First week, fine, had one tut quiz already :(.
Right now, I do have time, but feeling a bit lazy to write something.
So, maybe, This will do...

Top Ten Reasons To Date an Engineer
1. The world does revolve around us... We pick the coordinate system.
2. Find out what those other buttons on your calculator do.
3. We know how to handle stress and strain in our relationships.
4. Parents will approve.
5. Help with your math homework.
6. Can calculate head pressure.
7. Looks good on a resume.
8. Free body diagrams.
9. High starting salary.
10.Extremely good looking

Top Ten Reasons NOT to Date an Engineer
1. T-shirt and jeans are their formal dress. Hot dog and a six-pack is their seven-course meal.
2. The only social life known of is to post and talk on the net.
3. Flames like a monster and speaks like a pussycat.
4. Works from 6:30am to 7:30pm daily. No morning kisses and no evening walks.
5. No matter how hard you cry and how loud you yell, he just sits there calmly discussing your emotion in terms of mathematical logic.
6. Only listens to classic rock. Hates everything from Bach to Prince.
7. Touches his car more often than you.
8. Talks in acronyms.
9. Can't leave that damn pencil off his ear for a minute.
10.Will file a divorce if you call him in the middle of debugging.

FIND OF THE DAY : You can't spell Geek without EE

Courtesy : http://www.gdargaud.net/Humor/Engineer.html

PS: In case you didnt get the title, try to think of a famous english author.. of medieval times.. his famous words...

Such a small world

2007-07-23T12:57:00.001+05:30

Yesterday, I went with my mom and dad to visit some old neighbours of ours, "the Sharma's". It was nice, meeting them after about three years or so. Before that, we were neighbours for some five+ years.
Though I didnot had that much fun, which I thought I could. Almost throughout, it was like mom busy with aunt, dad with uncle, and me, and their two kids, just watching them, and smiling in between.
When we were about to leave, some of their relative dropped in. The troop wasn't a big one, consisted just of uncle's sister, and her daughter-in-law. Then, again a little general discussion started.
The daughter-in-law was newly wed, maybe a few months or so. So, then a little discussion about where did she is from. They moved in Delhi just about two years ago. 'Where in Delhi??', 'Mayur Vihar', came the answer. Apparently, we were also in Mayur Vihar, some two years back. So, next so obvious question from my mom, "Which phase???", "Phase-II" was the reply. "OOOooo.... even we were in phase-II"; "Which pocket??", "Pocket-B"; "Oh oh..even we were in pocket-B, there was this Bal Bhavan School, my son was there only /* referring to me.. :D */, and there was this 'Neelam mata ka mandir' ". "Yeah.." said she. Now, the next question was flat number. She said "161-A". I was relived a bit, I thought she lived in same house as ours.. :P. But hey, this wasn't far from ours', we were in 167-B. /* A for ground floor, B for first floor, and not blocks or something, so it was pretty close */. I was thinkin it was close enough. But I was proven wrong in a little while.
There was a little discussion between her and my mom, about there that person lived and blah blah blah. And in that discussion only, she said "We were in 166-B for a little while". Now, that house was just next to us, and that you say 'close enough'. They moved into that 166-B just a few days before we left our 167-B. And guess what, my mom and she have had some conversation at that time also. And now they remembered every bit of it. And even I did, I saw that young girl once or twice in her balcony, though she looked pretty different than at present. At that time only, she once enquired, through my mom, for she was trying to get a job in Bal Bhavan, my school. I told her, its not a nice place; it actually is not, specially not for teachers. Anyways, we are not discussion my school.
But the thing is, wow, I have never been in such a co-incidence. It was close.
Really, such a small world.

FIND OF THE DAY : I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

My new fan

2007-07-21T21:00:00.000+05:30

Yesterday, got up at around 1000 hrs. Thanks, my PS is over :).

Around 1300 hrs, I was sitting in front of this stupid machine, called computer, as usual; when my mother called me, and asked me to get a little stuff from the mother dairy. /* In case you are not a delhite, by mother dairy I am referring to government run shops which sell milk products and vegetables */. I had to comlpete the job before 1400 hrs, when the shop gets closed, so, after lazing around for a while, I went there, and this is where I met my new fan :).

I was supposed to get some tomatoes and potatoes, /* gen sabji bhaji */. I 'selected' them, put them into a basket, and was waiting for my turn. There was a girl, getting some onions and tomatoes. And there on the other side, was my new fan, the salesperson. While weighing her stuff, he weighed the onions, and then tomatoes. Though such activities are generally not much interesting to observe, but it was interesting to see that one single tomato weighed 300 gms. Both the salesman, and that girl were a bit amazed, but anyways, out of all those tomotoes which she selected for herself, she took only one, weighing 300 gms. I guess she had to get 250 gms of them.
I also had collected a few, intending to take home around 500 gms of those. I also had a packet of potatoes. I weighed my potatoes, on the other machine, it read 1.250 kgs. Anyways, the girl was over with her stuff, and cash transaction followed. She was still managing the change, when I put my potatoes on the machine which the salesman had. It read 1.500 kgs. Now, this was ambiguous. I immediately prompted, and then the salesman realised, he did not set the zero properly. And this solved the mystery of that single tomato weighing 300 gms. After my potatoes, the girl's stuff was weighed again. The salesman was smiling at me, ' sir, aapne bataya na hota to aaj to aise hi jaata'. I smiled back. The girl, she also must had been smiling, but damn, that salesperson was talking to me, and I couldn't look at her :(.
Now, the girl was again packing her stuff, about to leave. I put my tomatoes forward, and instructed the salesman, 'bhaiya, aadha kilo kar dena'. He put all those tomatoes on the machine, and the digital display read "0.500 kgs". And this was more than enough to make him my fan. 'aapke haathon mein to jaddo hai'. I again smiled back to him. And yeah, even I was thinking, 'kamaal hai, eggjactly half kg :P'. The girl, she was at some distance now, else I could had expected a 'girl fan' also... :D

FIND OF THE DAY : People have the right to be stupid. Some people abuse that privilege

2007-07-20T23:09:00.000+05:30

I am dead sure.. no one is gonna read my previous post.. such a long one... that happens when you are too lazy, and stop posting regularly. ANyways, who cares, mayb I'll read that, five years down the line... :P

50% engineer?? Definitely!!!

2007-07-20T20:40:00.001+05:30

Its been pretty long time since I wrote something by myself on the blog. Well, was a lil' busy with PS thing.
Yeah, I am gonna describe it in brief.
PS a.k.a. Practice School.
Its one of its kind programme at BITS, Pilani. I am not too sure, but I guess in India atleast, no other institute offers such a nice way of industrial training to its students. We have PS-I, after second years, during the summer break, for around 55 days. There is PS-II, six month long, in the final year.
So, it was PS-I for me this summer. Somewhere around in march, we were told about the various centres all over the country where PS-I will be conducted. All 800 students from my batch were to fill in the preference order, and were alloted one of those 'practice stations'; as per merit and the preferences.
I got Centre for Railway Information Systems, Delhi /* to be referred as CRIS, here onwards */. It was my first preference. Reason number one, it was in Delhi /* :) */, and I expected there must be some interesting thing to learn there. /* damn, I lie big time, the secondary reason was its location in delhi, south delhi, the posh area... close to DU south campus.. :P */.
Anyways, I had one of my ex-wingie also at this centre... that's cool.
So, this PS-I thing was to start on 24th may'07. Now, as I told you, this unique thing in our insti, they had a few more arrangements for us. Each centre had one instructor /* read : faculty member */ and one student co-instructor /* a third yearite */. By the rule book, these two persons were to look after our training, they had to come regularly to the centre(s) assigned to them. And if they go by the rule book, its sure is not a good news for the students, like me.. :P. And it pretty much wasn't in my case. And apart from that, in this period of 54 odd days, we had two quizes /* written tests */, two group discussions, report submission and seminar, in the midterm, and at the end also. These were the arrangements made by our insti for us. This all sounds a bit wierd, but that's the way it is, for us.
We had to strictly follow the timings, 0930 hrs to 1730 hrs, five days a week. I took just one leave. A bit hard for a BITSian... :P. But, yeah, it helped in see the professional one. Though CRIS was a government organisation, it would had been different scenario had it been a private organization, still, it was all professional. On the second day of our PS, we eight people were alloted various departments, as per our interests. In a nutshell, CRIS takes care of all the IT related work for Indian Railways. So, it had much of software engineers in there. But, yours truely, being a eletronics student, is not much interested in that. So, I went to the telecom department. And it wasn't that a bad place. Though it mainly was about networking only, still, I loved the name 'telecom', which
sounds more of electronics, than computers :P.
It was for the first time that BITS had a training centre in CRIS. So, there were no such special arrangements there. Anyhow, we started our training. For a first few days, just saw the networking facilities there... saw the network devices, routers, switched, and the web servers hosting indian railways websites like irctc, trainenquiry, were also there. There were database servers also in the complex, bhramha and vishnu. It was pretty nice to see them. Now, we were to be alloted some project to work over for next 50 odd days. This department didnt had any special project or something going, where we 50% engineers could had contributed. So, it was almost decided that we'll be doing some study based project only. Later on, they asked us to make a little software to help them generate reports for network maintenance. So, it was like, we were three people in telecom departments, yours truely, Piyush, and Neha /* the latter names from BITS Pilani goa campus */. And we had two projects, one that software thing, and one analytic one, analysis of the next STARS network implemented by CRIS in Andaman and Nicobar. I am not going in any detail of them, not because its a state secret or something, but I dont want to. Yours truely and Piyush were on the analytic one, while Neha was handling the software thing, in which I also contributed unofficially. I would like to share my experience in that software development also, maybe sometime later.
Anyways... we showed our engineering skills pretty well all through the training. The two quizes, light, the two GD's, light. But yeah, that seminar and report thing, it did require some amount of energy to be spent.
The midterm report... it wasn't much trouble some for me, I prepared it one telecommunication basics, the thing I am pretty much interested in. Enjoyed preparing that report. And seminar, it didnt had much to worry about the presentation, but I had to prepare the slides also. But it was bit easy with the report already prepared. I started to work on the presentation at around 2200 hrs the previous night, and completed it by 1330 hrs. It went pretty well, but the audience was not from this field, it could had been better.
And the final presentation, the senior most person from telecom department was going to be there. It was bit scary also... that guy... I mean sir, I am pretty much impressed with his knowledge, and his attitude toward us also. And we were pretty scared for he definitely was going to cross question. We divided the presentation among two of us. The presentation, was not that bad, but boring for other trainees, who were from other departments. Though at that time I thought, not my fault, its never gonna interest them. But later on I realised, I should had made it interesting for those people also. Anyway, our fear, he did cross questioned both of us. A few we were able to answer back, in some, he shared his 'gyaan' with us. But at the end, he said he was pretty much impressed by the way we organised the stuff, and the way we presented, it was really good for students of our level, still wondering if that was just to flatter us. Anyway, the final presentation was over. Just that crappy report left. That day, we went to play pool, eight people, one table, half hour, it was much of fun there.
2-3 days more, now this report didnt interest me much, as I was sure that no one is going to give a shit for it. Completed it, got it printed, got a few things wrong, our prof almost threw the report at my face, not literally, the pages were not binded, and he realised it on time, thank god, else I would had been collecting them from the floor. Anyways, thanks to the co-instructor, a student like us :), she helped correcting it. Soon came the last day, we submitted the report, completed the formalities.. and yeah.. PS was over...and now its history
our second year was over...

50% engg??
I don't judge it by the grades, but by the way we ahdnled things at PS. All the work started at deadline, completed at extended deadline... :)
I sure am showing signs of a good engineer.. :)

FIND OF THE DAY : History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

Some more engineering humour.. :P

2007-07-13T22:55:00.000+05:30

What is said...
What it means

A number of different approaches are being tried...
We don't know where we're going, but we're moving.

An extensive report is being prepared on a fresh approach to the problem...
We just hired three guys.. We'll let them kick it around for a while.

Developed after years of intensive research...
It was discovered by accident.

Modifications are underway to correct certain minor difficulties...
We threw the whole thing out and are starting from scratch.

Preliminary operational tests were inconclusive...
The darn thing blew up when we threw the switch.

Test results were extremely gratifying...
It works, and boy are we surprised !

The design will be finalized in the next reporting period...
We haven't started this job yet, but we've got to say something.

The entire concept is unworkable...
The only guy who understood the thing just quit.

We need close project coordination...
We should have asked someone else.
Alternate: Let's spread the responsibility for this.

Reference
[1] gdargaud

I know, its been quite sometime since I wrote something by myself. But seems good days are over. A few engineering experiences of my own will soon follow. Not good for you, huh!!! But good for me... :D

FIND OF THE DAY : I am really really lazy... seems engineer inside me is coming to full power.. :D

Rinoa Heartilly

2007-07-03T00:50:00.000+05:30

A little more of Rinoa Heartilly...
I dont think I need to write anything else in this post...

FIND OF THE DAY : For an optimist the glass is half full, for a pessimist it's half empty, and for an engineer is twice bigger than necessary.

You Might Be An Engineer If...

2007-07-01T01:24:00.000+05:30

- You have no life - and you can PROVE it mathematically.
- You enjoy pain.
- You know vector calculus but you can't remember how to do long division.
- You chuckle whenever anyone says "centrifugal force".
- You've actually used every single function on your graphing calculator.
- It is sunny and 70 degrees outside, and you are working on a computer.
- You frequently whistle the theme song to "MacGyver".
- You know how to integrate a chicken and can take the derivative of water.
- You think in "math".
- You've calculated that the World Series actually diverges.
- You hesitate to look at something because you don't want to break down its wave function.
- You have a pet named after a scientist.
- You laugh at jokes about mathematicians.
- The Humane society has you arrested because you actually performed the Schrodinger's Cat experiment.
- You can translate English into Binary.
- You can't remember what's behind the door in the engineering -building which says "Exit".
- You have to bring a jacket with you, in the middle of summer, because there's a wind-chill factor in the lab.
- You are completely addicted to caffeine.
- You avoid doing anything because you don't want to contribute to the eventual heat-death of the universe.
- You consider ANY non-engineering course "easy".
- When your professor asks you where your homework is, you claim to have accidentally determined its momentum so precisely, that according to Heisenberg it could be anywhere in the universe.
- The "fun" center of your brain has deteriorated from lack of use.
- You'll assume that a "horse" is a "sphere" in order to make the math easier.
- The blinking 12:00 on someone's VCR draws you in like a tractor beam to fix it.
- You bring a computer manual / technical journal as vacation reading.
- The salesperson at Circuit City can't answer any of your questions.
- You can't help eavesdropping in computer stores... and correcting the salesperson.
- You're in line for the guillotine... it stops working properly... and you offer to fix it.
- You go on the rides at Disneyland and sit backwards to see how they do the special effects.
- You have any "Dilbert" comics displayed in your work area.
- You have a habit of destroying things in order to see how they work.
- You have never backed up your hard drive.
- You haven't bought any new underwear or socks for yourself since you got married.
- You spent more on your calculator than on your wedding ring.
- You think that when people around you yawn, it's because they didn't get enough sleep.
- You would rather get more dots per inch than miles per gallon.
- You've ever calculated how much you make per second.
- Your favorite James Bond character is "Q," the guy who makes the gadgets.
- You understood more than five of these jokes.
- You make a copy of this list, and post it on your door (or your home page !)

These are not my own, I read them here. And you'll love to read the whole thing if you actually are an engineer. Else, I guess any ways, I'll post the rest soon here. :)

FIND OF THE DAY : Engineer : A person who always has more than one solution to a problem, chooses the one most complicated, and gets screwed. PS : The find of the day is my own, actually my recent experience.

You're Beautiful

2007-06-23T02:00:00.000+05:30

My life is brilliant.

My life is brilliant
My love is pure.
I saw an angel.
Of that I'm sure.
She smiled at me on the subway.
She was with another man.
But I won't lose no sleep on that,
'Cause I've got a plan.

You're beautiful. You're beautiful.
You're beautiful, it's true.
I saw your face in a crowded place,
And I don't know what to do,
'Cause I'll never be with you.

Yes, she caught my eye,
As we walked on by.
She could see from my face that I was,
Fucking high,
And I don't think that I'll see her again,
But we shared a moment that will last 'till the end.

You're beautiful. You're beautiful.
You're beautiful, it's true.
I saw your face in a crowded place,
And I don't know what to do,
'Cause I'll never be with you.

La la la la la la la la la

You're beautiful. You're beautiful.
You're beautiful, it's true.
There must be an angel with a smile on her face,
When she thought up that I should be with you.
But it's time to face the truth,
I will never be with you.

by James Blunt

Had nothing else to post. Was listening to this song, its beautiful.

FIND OF THE DAY : I cna ytpe 300 wrods pre mniuet!

Hurray!!! Finally turned it off

2007-06-17T02:33:00.000+05:30

Its been so long, main culprit.. my laziness.. and google's smartness. This transliteration feature was really bothering me for a while now. Whenever I wished to post something... it converted all those words in devanagari script. Well, ya, I know hindi and its not that I hate it, but it feels a bit uncomfortable now-a-days. Gosh, hindi meri matrabhasha hai, aur hindi mein post likhne mein main takleef kehsoos kar raha hun, yeh to bahut hi buri baat hui. Actually, I guess it is that I want some readers, not just my close friends. /* Having unrealistic expectations.. huh */So, I guess I should go for the international language, and that's what I am doing. Well, lotsa time has passed, I have started going to practice school /* read - summer training */. I guess I'll describe that stuff some time else, today just wanted to post something, with transliteration turned off... and I succeeded :) Any ways.. I still would like to post a few pics.. my latest crush.. Ronia... This one is my current favourite Yeah... forget Yuna.. Rinoa is great... I just love her...I guess I'll post more of her pics soon. I know, its been years since Final Fantasy VIII was released, but as is said ' der aaye durust aaye' :)

FIND OF THE DAY : Animated character can be damn sexy

स्वर्ण जयंती पोस्ट :)

2007-05-21T12:58:00.000+05:30

Its been long time. Not that long though, but seems to be so, to me. I could have blogged.. about my compres, about my trip back home. Well actualy yes.. I need to blog about the last day on campus previous sem, and the trip back home.
The last day, 14th may '07.
In the morning, we had our last compre, it was CAS /* read : circuits and signals */. When I came out of examination hall, thought, the worst is over. Never thought of any competition to those three hours by any other situation that time. After returning back, chillaxed a bit, then the mammoth task of packing, packing the trunk to be kept in cloak room. Took me a few hours. And then taking it to the other hostel, that also needs a mention. Those rikshaw walas, what money they make in those few hours, the way they charge, and the students who are in a hurry to leave the campus asap are usually not bothered much. Whatever.
I, with few of my wingies, got the truck to the other hostel, and then I said 'humfff... DONE, now lets have dinner and then I'll start packing bags for home.'
But then this stupid thing rang. The person on the other side, Mr. Karan Bathla " Cab aa gayi ". I said, "Good". But the next few words changed my thoughts. Karan, " Carrier nahi hai". Me, "WTF, carrier nahi hai??? ".
K, to help you understand the situation better... we were seven people, and the luggage included, four computers, and atleast two-three bags per person. We booked a Qualis, with a carrier of course, from delhi. We were not sure whether it was enough. Then came the news... 'carrier nahi hai'. We cant send the cab back 200 kms. WTF.
I had to drop my plans of dinner at that moment, it was around 2200 hrs that moment. We were planning to leave within 4-5 hours. But HOW???
I went to hostel, wondering ' tough competition to CAS '. Reached SK. The scene... five people, Mr. Karan Bathla, Mr. Abhisek Rathi, Mr. Bhuvn Dubey, Mr. L V Sumanth, and MR. MOHIT VERMA, the guy who booked the cab. To my surprise, they all were trying to find a solution to cab problem, instead of targetting the problem source, Mr. Mohit; which is quite unusual. Actually, we dint had much time to do that. The only solution, get another cab along, preferably, with some people already in it /* money matters */.
So, next two hours, we tried all our conTs. Got a few unsatisfactory proposals. Then finally, got one, a cab leaving @ 0130 hrs. But from us, who'll be it, who leave early with those strangers kinda people, not excatly strangers though, those were also our batchmates only. Whatever. Had a long debate, I escaped, for my packing was not finished yet :). I'll be going in our own carrier less cab only. After the debate, finally it was Abhiskek and Bhuvan, going with the other fellows. Me, Su, Molly, Bathla and Mickey /* I know I havnt introduced all the nicknames, but as if you are interested */. I went back to my room... started packing. And in the mean while, I did take my dinner. Now I thought, worst is over.
I was proved partialy wrong, this one was not that bad as such, but really frustruating. I had 0.46 INR balance in my airtel prepaid. I also had a top-up card for Rs. 100+ somewhere in my room. Searched for it, and tried to recharge my balance.
Called 123, pressed 2, entered my PIN, then she asked me to press 1 to confirm the PIN, I did, but then she dint reply. I looked at the watch, it read 0001 hrs. Damn it airtel, they dont recharge, with these cards atleast, after midnight. That I actually had experienced, but never this way. I was a few seconds late, damn it.
And you know what, within a few hours, I'll be in roaming, and form there, you cant call 123. So, I had low balance. I had top up card, but cant do anything more than... "damn it, is worst not over yet??" This actually might not seem to be so frustruating, but it actually was. I had to use my number, I had to send a few msgs, that very hour, and from my own number only. That could had improved a few things.. guss that anyways, I am not gonna get into it.

Anyway, I completed my packing by 0200 hrs. Loading the stuff in the cab really took time, plus some other points, we left the campus around 0330 hrs.
Good bye pilani, see you next academic year.

FIND OF THE DAY : Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Compre time

2007-05-02T17:41:00.000+05:30

Man, I just love this course. This has the only course which I have studied till now, having all the evaluated component as open book. The course is ES C263 - Microprocessor Programming and Interfacing. In BITS, each and every course need to have some of its component as open book. Courses like biology, considered to be much of a cramming thing, also do have some of its evaluated component as open book. This is one of the things I just love about this institute.
Had compre /* read - semester examination */ of muP /* read - Microprocessor Programming and Interfacomg */ today. Fine, we are not going to discuss how it was, but I just enjoyed this open book stuff.

Yes, compres are going on.... but I am still blogging, the next one, day after tomorrow, is electrical sciences - II, all the tranformer and AC, DC machines. Now, this course I can say... sucks. And yeah, this course is a record holder. I got 5/60 in test 2 in ES-2. Previous record was 6/60, in mechsol /* read mechanics of solids */, last sem. Yeah, this is not a thing to boast around... but I am in no mood to study this course at the moment. And I prefer blogging and music at full volume with headphones /*current track - Lonely World by Limp Bizkit */. I just pray my mind changes after dinner atleast. Currently I am 56/180 in the course, with 120 marks compre left. Well hey, the average is 66, so I am not thaaaat far behind. But yeah.. need to do something... this CG thing... need to do something for it.

After that one, its a five day break, then other three will follow. So, fine, next post on that break.
Over and out...

FIND OF THE DAY : Frogs have it easy. They can eat what bugs them.

My current favourite screenshot...

2007-04-25T00:56:00.000+05:30

Assembly language code in notepad2 in foreground /* my assignment for my favourite course this semeser, read Micoprocessor Programming and Interfacing*/; and cute YUNA from final fantasy in background.... /* Animated characters are also really sexy, and this one's really a lot for us BITSian :P */ I love them both.

Baithe baithe kya kare???

2007-04-16T02:13:00.000+05:30

'Principles of management'.... have test in another six and a half hour. Damn it, these test series...
Had MATLAB test yesterdy 1600 hrs, then this POM test today 0900 hrs. Loads of other components also waiting in for this week.. guss By the way.. its 0223 hrs at the moment.

Was really getting pissed off with the course... thought of writing a post.. dint get any nice idea...
Then just gen multicasted to all the hostel inmates (around 260 online at the moment) on the ip msgngr....

Do you know what's the effect of varying magnetic field due to jupiter's satellite, Titan, on EM waves carrying voice signals in copper wires at depth 30.67856 m below sea level in south american nations??

And hey... I even got a few replies... which included 'lolz' by my school and now BITSian friend Shubhayan...being the shortest conversation...
But a few conversations on the topic did last a bit long..
one of them..

Me : Do you know what's the effect of varying magnetic field due to jupiter's satellite, Titan, on EM waves carrying voice signals in copper wires at depth 30.67856 m below sea level in south american nations??
Please help... its urgent.
Unknown1: they turn into worms and sharks eat them Me : hey, they are not underwater, usage of sea level is just to specify the depth precisely

Another one

Me : Do you know what's the effect of varying magnetic field due to jupiter's satellite, Titan, on EM waves carrying voice signals in copper wires at depth 30.67856 m below sea level in south american nations??
Please help... its urgent.
Unknown2 : Please use wiki or google
Me: thanx... i got the result.. thanks anyways
Unknown2 : what is it???
Me : No effect... that varying field is perfectly shielded by the 30.67856m soil cover over it, in addition to the plastic cover over them
Unkown2 : k
These above two conversations are purely based on my memory, except for the query raised in the very first message... and my memory dint help me much in remmebering the names of the guys

the longest one being...

Me : Do you know what's the effect of varying magnetic field due to jupiter's satellite, Titan, on EM waves carrying voice signals in copper wires at depth 30.67856 m below sea level in south american nations??
Please help... its urgent.
Sastry : It has effect on some people who go crazy and start asking such idiotic questions.......
Me : Can we find such people outside south america???
Sastry : yeah......u know who it is!!!!!!!!!
Me : O ya.. those who have no other work than to ask such ques....
and also... those who bother to answer them
Sastry : U are wrong.....those are the people who keep on sending multicasts.....
Me : really???
I guess u r right... this damn wiki is no longer reliable... i got the prev result from der only
Sastry : i guess u have only posted that!!!!
Me : i searched... i got the result... :)
Sastry : i was speaking of what could have happened before u searched.
Me : oh.. is it...lemme try some other link in that case...
coz i know..
seniors are always right...
juniors are always wrong...
:P
Sastry : I think u made a deliberate mistake in the use of smiley........
Me : :D
Sastry : Guess....u don't have a proper understanding of the three golden laws of BITS
Me : U are right.. :P
Sastry : well....do u mind coming to my room once so tha i can know what exactly is right.
Me : each and every statemnt given by you is totalling right :D
Sastry : in that case....good night!!!!
Me : sorry for bothering u so much... was really getting bored with POM :)
good night
Sastry : k

This text has not been editing, just formatted a bit. Thanks to google desktop scratch pad.
Yeah... there are lotsa other people like me... :D
By the way, this sastry guy seems to be a fourth yearite /* from his room number*/
Anyways... I guess now I should concentrate on managing my grades a lil' with 'Principles of management'

FIND OF THE DAY : Never wrestle a pig. You both get dirty and the pig enjoys it.

Hey, what pig are you talking about???

MICROMOUSE

2007-04-07T03:37:00.000+05:30

So, now lets just concentrate on the cynosure for us this techfest and this APOGEE.
MICRMOUSE : Micromouse is an event where small robot mice solve a 16x16 maze. It began in late 1970s, although there is some indication of events in 1950. Events are held worldwide, and are most popular in the UK, US, Japan, Singapore and South Korea. In India, the contest is being held in IIT-Bombay during its technical festival for past few years. Our MICROMOUSE

And this chart was prepared by me, though I like drawing and painting and stuff... but again, advertising is not my cup of tea.

We worked for whole of Feb and March to make our mouse move. The problem with the one which we took to Mumbai was that it was too heavy to lit itself, so, we decided to send it to VLCC for the weight los program. As a result, we got a new chasis, fabricated wih aluminium /* instead of cheed wood, which we used earlier */, at my room. Wings were fabricated with bakelite /* blank PCB board :P */. Also, we reduced the number of sensors to three on each side wing, from four. One of the biggest trouble, which stil doesnot have a satisfactory solution was the castor wheel. We couldnot find a light weight castor wheel. And finally what we put is a small trailing wheel, steered by a DC motor. Though we are not using proper steernig, we are just having on the spot turn. So, the steering wheel is either parallel or perpendicular to the two control wheels.

If I have to describe it, it is like, on the input side, we have eight IR sensors, two on the front wing, three on each side wing. The advantage of such positioning of sensor is that as the sensor are downward facing, they donot hae trouble with ambient light, as can be the case with many IR sensors. Apart from that, this design is easiest to work on :P. The two front sensor are to detect the front walls and to avoid head-on collision with a wall in case of some mishappening. The three sensors on each wing, the centre one helps to detect if there is a wall in a particular grid or not while the other two on each wing helps in maintaining a straight path while moving. That is the input part.
Now, for processing, we used Philips P89C51RD2 microcontroller, with 64K coding area and 2K RAM. Thoguh generally, people dont prefer Philips microcontroller, Atmel and PIC are the big names in the field, but we had to go for this one as we found programmer for this one only. A programmer is a hardware device which helps in gettng the code from the computer to the microcontroller.
On the output side, we had two stepper motor /* this pair we got from Lamington, Mumbai */ which are diretly attached to the two wheels. Stpper motors give better accuracy, though they take up more current as compared to geared DC motor, but stepper motors are fairly simple to use, and hey, this was our first hand in robotics, so we played safe by going with this one. Aprat from that, we had a DC motor aso to steer, which I had mentioned earlier.

The electronis included obviusosly the controller P89C51RD2. On the input side, we directly took the output of IR sensors to muC. These sensors ON2509, are proximity sensors, with a really short range of approx. 1 cm. They give high if they detect something. On the output side, we gave output to two L297, stepper motor controller, thourgh a buffer, and the to ULN2803, current amplifier, and then to the two stepper motors. Though we could had avoided L297, but t just made coding a little bit simpler. Also, we had DC motor connected through L298, which acts as a H-bridge, as we required bi-directional DC motor control, and a current amplifier as well. But he biggest rouble which is still there is, we are not able to run it on batreries, its getting too heavy with them, mayb we need better and lighter batteries, and that's the bigest drawback, being in pilani, lack of resources. Well, for electronics, me and gautam were there, supporterd by mr. L V Sumanth /* to be referred as Su here onwards */ for soldering.
Now for the algorithm we applied, we used Depth first search for exploring the maze and Breadth first search for finding the shortest path. I worked on the code just for interfacing, i mean I/O control. Rest, the algorithm part was taken care by karan bathla, the fourth member of the league.
And the mechnical design was completely handled by mr. Su. The mechnical part included chasis design and fabrication, which was done in my room only with aluminium :). And also, DC motor and small steering wheel was also his idea, when we gave up on castor. Though this mr. su is a comp sci student, his knowledge and understanding specially for automobiles is too good. A few pics of fabrication.

This wasnt the final circuitery, we resoldered it all.

And yeah.. the name.. we are stil lookig for a name for our mouse. When we went to mumbai, we called it 'Ram Bharose', and this new improved verison is called 'Mann Mauji', though not ofically. Still looking for some name.... suggestions are most welcome. And mayb if the name suggested by you is selected, you'll win a free lunch(box) from me :P.* So, our micromouse expert comittee :P /* in alphabetic order*/
Gautam Chaudhari
Karan bathla
L V Sumanth
Rishi Mathur

* Conditions apply. You need to apply for the contest through the prescribed form, which will be made available form a later date, which wil be intimated soon. I won't courier/parcel the gift. You'll have to collect that from me, and you'll have to notify me six working days in advance if you wish to claim your prize, after the contest results are declared FIND OF THE DAY : Why be difficult when you can be impossible

APOGEE2K7

2007-04-07T03:02:00.000+05:30

After the unforgettable experience @ techfest'07, there was this APOGEE2K7, our technical festival, which kept me busy.

APOGEE2K7, scheduled from 20-24th March'07, adn I guess am a bit too late to advertise for it :P.
So, my second APOGEE, this time I was supposed to bring up much more. I gave it my all, and thank you my lord for helping me live upto the expectations, we bagged second position in Projects in Automation category, and also, second in the event called Embedded Brains.

This one was a pretty nice experience, as I not only participated but had a say in organizational part as well :). Though got a setback, as one of the event which I initiated dint get good response, but never mind, I had a really nice experience in preparing for it, though in the end, I accept it was a miss. But hey, just have a look, this poster isn't that bad at all.

This is not the final one. I designed it, my idea, and the idea of hte event was like, thi swas upposed to be an instrument design event, wherein participants had to design and implement an instrument to achieve a given task, from a given set of components. And yeah, this had multiple solutions, some difficult, but advantageuos, some easy, but not too flexible. I did a lot of homework for this one from technical point, but I guess it lacked publicity, I need to improve in these non-technical skills, and that's the thing which I dun like. But I guess I'll have to manage that also. Yeah, this was a real big miss.

,br> And hey hey hey... I dint mention about what made me keep up to the expectations, I dint mention what helped me and the three others to get to the stage and get the certs...
It was MICROMOUSE, yeah the one which we prepared for IIT-B techfest. Though it was not functioncal when we took it to Mumbai, but after returning from there, we spent two more months, and made it move. More of it in the next post.

Techfest '07 ++

2007-04-07T02:37:00.000+05:30

Seems I am bit lazy these days... for blogging atleast.

Well, it actually is, most of the time I have so much to write but so little time, that I postpone the task. But fine, lets give a try, to cover up as much as I can in this one.

The last post had a mention of my visit to Techfest'07. Basically, once I had strated preparing for that, and got into robotics, I have really kept me busy in that.
In techfest'07, I participated in codemastroes, a complete event for a computer buff /* like me :P*/, which had it all, programming, algorithms, debugging, gaming and all. We dint fare well, stood 7th among the 20 finalists chosen before the fest throgh online elims. Though actually, we were pretty happy just to qualify, dint had much hopes before that. So, for that seventh position, got some goodies from google and Nvidia.

Another event, which was more important for me than this one, though I wasn't registered in it, but I spent over two months for that ( Nov'06 - Jan'07), it was Micormouse. Our very first experience in robotics, and that too with AI and all. From the very first day when we started working on it way back in Nov, we were not sure about even if we'll be able to qualify or not, but still, we tried our best. The result was not so good, we lacked a bit in mechnical part, the electroncs was fine, the code was fine, but we made a few wrong selections in motor and chasis and as a result our mosue was not ablt to move, though if you lift it in air, then one can see that motors were moving perfectly.

Never mind, this was our first experience in robotics, are we were glad to do this much on our own.

There were other civil people also with us on the trip. We dint got much prizes from campus, but had a really nice experience there, which we do value.

But hey, the trip is not yer over. After three days on campus, we went to Gautam's home. There were eigth of us. The next day was Essel World. Had loads and loads of fun there. But unfortunately forgot our digicam, so cant share those moments in visual with you. Bu that day was absolutely fabulous. And after Essel World, we went to Gorai beach, not a famous one in Mumbai, but thatwas adjacent to Essel world. And that was my first encounter with sea. Its so nice to see the sea.. its all over.. seems like this is the edge the world. Spent arounf an hour therem collected some broken sea shells and then returned back. While returning, we thought of going to Marine Drive, but a few of us were too tired, so ended our trip after beach only.
The next day, I went to Lamington road, paradise for electronics buffs, with gautam. Alas, we dint had much time that day, we planned to get lots of stuff from that place, but when the market was in full flow, we had to return back, train was scheduled for 1850 hrs and we had to reach home by 1500 hrs. We just managed to get a pair of stepper motors, really small one, and which do hold an important position these days. And a little of other stuff, for our seniors.

This marked the end of our week long trip to MUMBAI.. it rocks

Certainely a HIT

FIND OF THE DAY : The road to success is filled with free parking spots.

Techfest '07

2007-02-17T03:28:00.000+05:30

Its been so so long time. I was really busy during all these days.
Got a little time right now. Yeah, many exciting things have happened... both hits and misses. And I am sure I won't be able to describe most of them today.
But fine, lets give it a start. We attended techfest 07 at IIT-Bombay last month. It was really rocking. And yeah, basically this was all which kept me busy. It was a nice break, apart from being a rocking experience, both in the IIT campus and in Mumbai as well. We spent three days in the campus, during the fest. Next two days, we spent at Gautam's place, visited Essel World and Lamington road. Well, in case you know a bit about Mumbai, you might find Lamington road bit odd, but hey.. that place is hevaven for robotics buffs.. like me.. :D But unfortunately, We din't had much time for the heaven. Still, I liked the place. I don't have much time at the moment. I will write about the trip.

A few of random pics

Resistance and Capacitance codes

2006-12-25T01:25:00.000+05:30

This is basically for my own reference actually. But still I am posting this publicly, as maybe this can help me doing a bitta social service. People who are searching for such information may find this pretty useful, like me.
These are the codes used for resistor values..
First the colour codes...
B - Black 0
B - Brown 1
R - Red 2
O - Orange 3
Y - Yellow 4
G - Green 5
B - Blue 6
V - Violet 7
G - Grey 8
W - White 9

And its like, We read the first three colours, the fourth colour is for tolerance. The way to determine which side to start is, first colour cant be golden or silver or no colour. So, once you go to know the first three colours, get the numbers. If its like, ABC. Then the value of resistance is AB X 10^C. For example, if the code is Brown, Black and Orange, it would be, 1, 0, and 3. Hence the value of resistance will be 10 X 10^3, i.e. 10K.
For tolerance I dont remember excatly at the moment, I'll update as soon as I confirm. What I remember, its like, golden for 5%, silver for 10% and no colour for 20%. Most probably its true, but I'll confirm.

This was for reading the values from resistors. But thee are also ways to write values in shortcut. Like, XRY, where X and Y are some digits. For XRY, the value of resistance is X.Y ohm. For example, for 51R, value is 51 ohm. For 5R4, value is 5.4 ohm. For R43, value is 0.43 ohm. Similarly, there is XKY, where we get value in kilo ohms and XMY, where we get value is mega ohm. SO, 4K7 means 4.7K ohm and 1M0 means 1 mega ohm.

Now lets move on to capacitors.
First lemme discuss values witten on the capacitor. I dunno much about which code for what kind of capacitor. By kind of capacitor I mean ceramic or tantal or blah blah blah. I'll update as soon as I find that. Fine, first of all, for those little capacitors, they have three digits written on them. If it is ABC, then the value is AB X 10^C pF. Like for 104, its 10 X 10^4 pF, i.e. 0.1uF or 100nF. These are for those small circular kinda capacitors.
The are also capacitor known as volume capacitors /* most probably*/. They also have three digits written on the top. For them its like, for ABC, its ABC pF. Like for 331, its 331pF. These capacitors, unlike the previous one, are kinda cylindrical. The one which I talked about earlier were kinda circular.
Next there are some codes like 2A102K. I dont excatly know what does 2A stand for, and actually not even for K. like, for this one, the value is 10 X 10^2 pF, i.e. 1 nF. For 2A472K, its 47 X 10^2, i.e. 4.7nF.
There are some other codes like, ABCJ, where ABC are some digits. AB X 10^C pF. Like for 223J, its 22 X 10^3 pF, i.e. 22nF or 0.022uF.
Bigger capacitors have the value written on them.

Apart from the value, these components have current and voltage rating, respectively. I mean, resistor have current rating, which signifies how much maximum current it can allow. It is usualy not written on the resistor, you will have to ask the shopkeeper, though I am not sure whether even he knows this or not. But I am sure about, the bulkier resistors support more current as compared to smaller ones.
Likewise, the capacitors have voltage rating, means how much maximum voltage across it can be tolerated. Bulkier capacitors have rating written on them. And if we consider a particular type of capacitor, then the size of capacitor increases with capacitance value, and also with voltage rating.

That's it for the moment. I'll keep updating this post with my new findings. And I hope I write some more interesting posts soon. At present, busy with the circuits, that's why writing such post at the moment.

Any ways, we can't forget our FIND OF THE DAY : An engineer always has more than one way to solve any problem. He always selcts the one more complicated, and end up messing everything.:P
This one's my original.

Mechanistic determinism [1]

2006-12-10T18:10:00.000+05:30

Its was 6th Dec. Mathematics-III compre the next day. I started in the evening. Mathematics-III, all about differential equations, laplace transformations, fourier series and stuff. I started the new chapter, System of first order equations. They gave an example of how a system of differential equations can help us predict how a system will behave. It was like... a large number of point masses in the space, interacting with each other with gravitational forces only. The differential equations, along with the initial conditions help us to find of the equation of motion of the particles.
After the discussion, there was this line..

"This conclusion underlies the once popular philosophy of mechanistic determinism, according to which the universe is nothing more than a gigantic machine whose future is inexorably fixed by its state at any given moment."

I have a lot to discuss about this deterministic and stuff...
I already have two posts somewhat related to the above mentioned subject : My unified theory of so-called living and non-living and Future prediction possible : what do you "think"??
I don't think I would like to type everything in one go, neither you are gonna appreciate that. So, lemme take it in small modules /* what??? am I taking lectures in some course or what??? */ Whatever... today, I am going to write about randomness.

I guess the only thing which can differentiate living beings from non-living beings is randomness, if it is at all there. I have written a bit about it in the latter post of the two mentioned above. Fine, if we consider only non-living things, the things which are popularly called non-living. I don't think there is any thing random in there. The way they react are pretty well defined by the laws. Maybe a few more laws need to be discovered. Maybe these are suffice. Things seem to be random, but they actually are not. If we are not able to predict the behaviour of a system, its behaviour is random for us. Such systems behave in arbitrary way from our point of view. But they actually follow some laws and behave in some particular way only. Hence, if we get to know how things behave, we can predict and bingo...they are no more random.
Like there is some function in C programming language, it is called random().It is used to get some random number. But obviously, it is based on some algorithm. It does not has a free will to give an absolutely random number. It mainly do some calculations on number of clock ticks and bits stored somewhere in RAM /*not sure about this though*/. So, the number it returns depends on the RAM status, CPU clock ticks completed and stuff. So, even if we know the algorithm, which is not much difficult, its not so simple to keep track of number of CPU clock ticks, memory and all. Hence it is virtually impossible to get to know about the number the function is going to return. But it is possible, I guess you must also agree.
This was just an illustration, I guess poorly explained, but I hope you got the idea what I actually want to say. Non-living things are not random. Their behaviour is deterministic. If the universe is made up of non-living stuff only, it is deterministic.
Now we do find behaviour of living beings random. I guess if a system behaves in two different ways given exactly same conditions, then it is random. I would really be happy to find such a system. Even if we consider some living being, in a thought experiment, if we take a being and put it exactly same conditions twice, it will behave essentially in the same way. I am not able to support the view that the two results will be different. I don't think they will be different. But this makes me non-living, I am not happy... :(. I don't think its of any use to be living if you don't have randomness.. or we can refer to it as freewill. If you don't have a freewill, what's the fun in being living???
Fine, at this moment, I am pretty sure about... behaviour of non-living things is not random. They don't have any freewill. Though I am not yet sure whether we have free will or not, but I am sure that, we are nothing better than a non-living thing if we don't have a freewill.
I have a few more thought experiment lined up, more discussion regarding the topic I will continue, this much is enough for today. And for such discussion posts, I'll have conclusion of the day's discussion as find of the day.

Find of the day : Non-living things are not random. The only thing which living beings can possess which can give them some edge over non-living is... randomness....or freewill.

3rd phase.... almost over

2006-12-09T20:37:00.000+05:30

Its been quite somtime since I blogged. I must had been, I was having my compre /* read : semester examinations */. Not yet over, its technical report writing, and I am having three days break. So, it can be said that, just the formalities left to certify that.. its over:) I'll 3/8th engineer.. or shud I say... so-called engineer.
I was planning to write a big post, but not in mood right now. Though I am really really vella, typing is not a problem, I do have ideas. Still...I guess, I'll just postpone it.
C ya soon.

FInd of the Day : Being punctual everytime . . . people will think you have nothing better to do.

The first steps...

2006-11-26T14:23:00.000+05:30

Please note, this post do contain a few jargons. Dun worry, if you dint get them, it doesnt matter much.

It was around 1500hrs on 24th, saturday. Me, gautam, karan and aakash in the instrumentation technology lab. /* Great minds at work :P */ We were mainly trying to realise a stepper card and test our steper motor. /* If you dunno what it is, dun worry, lemme explain, briefly. Stepper motor is a kind of motor, which rotates in steps. The number of steps can be controlled, hence you can get a controlled rotatory motion. They are considered to be among the best options available for controlled motion. Now the stepper card, you can consider it as a sweet and simple electronic circuit with a few ICs, which helps you to control and drive the stepper motor. */
So, the great minds were busy in fabricating there own stepper card using the ICs in the lab. Well we did make a few alterantions, used a signal generator instead of a timer ciruit /* if u dun get it, fine, no probs, its not much important*/. Basically we wished to see the stepper motor rotating. It was our first experience with stepper motor. A few days back, we learnt the basic fund of the stepper card from a senior, but never saw it bieng implemented. Fine, I do possess some experience in electronic circuitery /* courtesy APOGGE 2006*/ and gautam had his junior college experience added to his APOGEE experience. We were pretty confident to get the first steps from our stepper motor. We prepared the requiered circuitery on the breadboard. Made a few checks for our shift register using LEDs. Corrected our circuit a bit. After that, connected our whole circuit with the stepper motor.
It must work.
Switched the signal generator on.
Adjusted its frequency and output voltage.
Switched on the power supply to our circuit.
It must work.
But obviously, it dint.
If you are a good programmmer, your program will never work as expected in the first run. If you are a good electonic enginner /* I guess, that's a better word than electricain :P */, your circuit will never work in the first run.
The behaviour of our circuit confirmed my statement.
We made a few checks, dint alterned anything in the circuit though. Switched it on, dint worked, repeated the cycle once or twice more. This time we were just analysing the circuit again, without switching it off.
I brought my face closer to the motor, heard some movement. Took the motor in hands, and hey, it was moving, though randomly. The random movement can be explained for we dint knew the sequence of the wires in the motor. So, those random movements meant our circuitery was working.
Bingo!!!
Our aim was also to find out the proper sequence of the wires of the motor, it was hit and trial /* alas, we dint get the datasheet for our motor on the net*/. Altered the wire sequence once, result, random motion. No problem, lets give another try. This time, we did succeed. The motion was unidirectional. Yeah!!!
But hey, we still dint get the result we expected. The motor was rotating in one direction, the speed was controlled by frequency we provided from the function generator. But there was this one thing...
As soon as someone comes close to it, it starts rotating and stops as soon as the person moves away. And within a minute, the motor showed its loyalty towards me. It was like... if I come close to the motor, if rotates, I move away, it stops. With the other three, its behaviour was rather random, but with me, it always did it like, rotates as I come close, stops as I move away. We did make sure that our movement donot affect the circuitery anyhow, but to our surprise, the stepper motor was workin as a sensory motor, being perfectly sensitive to me :P. We tried with other motor, it worked kinda o.k. initially, but after a minute or so, it followed the same trend. Our reaction... first of all, we were really really happy, we were actually able to rotate the motor in our first trial. And that behavoiur, well, I'll prefer saying, that loyal behaviour :P was astonishing us, more than it was worrying us.
Though, till the end of the day, we were not able to figure out the reason for its loyalty towards me, we were really happy.
Celebrated the evening in Sky /* for non-BITSian, its a really nice place to hang out, with Pappuji's Skylab close in, which is the only place were we do get some good burger and pizzas in pilani. */. One burger was not enough, but we soon realised that it was veg-grub in our mess that night /* for non-BITSian, veg-grub = some tasty food in mess*/. So the celebration lasted till night. But we had to sleep early, we had to leave for delhi the next morning.

FIND OF THE DAY : There is not much difference in Computer Science and Electronics. Neither a good program nor a good circuit works in the first run. :P

Hummfff... Presentation finally over.

2006-11-20T14:38:00.000+05:30

So... finally I got a lil' time to blog. You beleive it or not.. I am really busy these days. But still, the presentation we had on saturday, I can't miss to post that incident. Yeah.. it was the first of its kind experience, for me atleast.
We had to give a presentation on our report titled 'Recent Trends in Mobile Communication'. We had already submitted the report. I did start the work for presentation quite early. But then without a deadline nearing... it was really difficult, gave up in the middle. What's the fun in completing work when you dont even know when is the deadline. I guess I started off was more than enough.
This saturday, we thought it would be better if we ask our instructor regarding the deadline. So, we did go to class that day. Entered the classroom, it was 1200 hrs. Somehow were able to get through it. But one good thing did happen, we got our test 2 papers, my score was not bad, I can improve. Before leaving the room, we asked our sir...
Me and gautam : Sir, when are the presentations scheduled???
Sir : Today, and tomorrow, and next weekend.
Me and gautam : ( bit surprised and bit frightened ) Sir, can we give it tomorrow???
SIr : Check out your ID no., in the notice, you'll have to present accordingly.
Me and gautam : ( where the hell was the notice put up, we checked in the morning only) Fine sir. What time???
Sir : Today 2-4... tomorrow 3-5.
Me and gautam : (Baaghoooo.....)
We ran like anything. Just an hour... lunch.. what lunch??? we had presentation in an hour. I went to mess, those parathas were really tempting, thought once to take them in paper or something to the room, but they were too hot, had to satisfy with a few packets of biscuit and namkeen.
1304 hrs. Me sitting in front of gautam's lapT. Where's the ppt file??? yeah, the incomplete one. It took us over 200 seconds to find out /* we dint even remember the name of the file, google desktop search was of not much help*/. And mind it, in such situations, two hundred seconds does matter. Finally, opened that incomplete presentation. Copy paste from the report was the only option. Somehow completed the work in 70 minutes. But hey, it was not a submission, but a delivery. We had to present something. And yeah, it needs some preparation. But we dint had the time. Just took the presentation in gautam's mp3 player. I wish we had a hardcopy of the report /* on which the whole presentation was based */. But alas our wish was not fullfiled. All we did was to note down the topics and subtopics. On the way, we distributed the topics among ourselves. But we had the least idea about what matter was there under those topics. I guess we were really brave to go in with such preparation.
Entered the room 20 minutes late, that dint affect anyone though. One guy was presenting his thing. We discussed whether we should go next or later. I suggested later. But obviously, the day was not good, we were called next.
So, we began our presentation. Gautam started off. The other instructor threw a question straight away, but thank god, we were not that dumb. Gautam answered. That can be considered as a confidence booster :P. But after that, it wasn't so simple. The biggest trouble we both faced... before opening a slide, we had the least idea about what excatly was going to be there. And that copy paste scheme, without breaking the ideas in points, it really troubled us. After opening any slide, it was like, we were searching for some keyword on the slide to start off. That was bad. Sometimes we missed a point or two. Once, I skipped a point, sir promted, hey, you missed that last point. Thanks heaven, I knew the explaination for that thing. Else I was trying to skip a few things which I dint knew well :P. Another instance, sir asked for one thing, I dint excatly knew the answer, tried to blab a bit. But I was wrong. He explained me the thing there only. Fine, I changed the slide. And crap, the answer to his question was right there, had he not told me, I couldn't had realised that. He prompted, "hey, you do know the answer, its there on you slide." I was speechless :-|. This was among a few blunders we made.
While concluding, we made another. But it wasn't excatly our fault. Sir said to the audience i.e. the other students in the course, "why dont you ask any question?? Seems you people have signed some pact, none will ask any question, for everyone;s welfare" :P. At that, gautam promted, "Sir, we are second year students, we dont even know most of the people here". I dont excalty know what was in his mind while he said this, but I am pretty sure that he dint meant the way our instructors interpreted it. They said " It doesnt matter which year you are in. To succeed, you need to put hard work and dedication" . But hey hey hey, we were not giving an excus or something. Why was it interpreted that way????
Finally, he called the next group, we said 'phew' and took out seats. After attending that session, we returned and said "PHEW". So, it was over. I am not sure whether it was a good thing or a bad thing that it went this way, and was finally over... but one thing I am sure about is...

FIND OF THE DAY : You have the right to remain silent.
Anything you do or say will be exaggerated or mis-quoted and used against you.

PS : I know this one is repeated, but I really found this thing again :P

Finally some trees outta campus

2006-11-11T22:40:00.000+05:30

Finally, found a place greener than our campus, in pilani.

Me and gautam were returning from library /* strange na... these two creatures close to that place */, but its true... we two were there indeed. It was saturday, library timing are till 1800 hrs only. It was around 1750 hrs. We were out of the library main building. But before the brain's command to proceed towards hostel could reach our feet, some other thing caught our attention. We saw a huge sturcture... distant... behind the trees. I had wondered many-a-times about what it was, and till date... I thought that it was a part of CEERI, Pilani.
Today, as we had nothing else to do, I suggested, " hey gautam, lets have a walk down there." The back entrance of CEERI was there only, quite close to library, but I had never been there.
We proceeded. That place was quite good. And as I had already mentioned, it was greener than our campus. Prime reason, no big hostels and stuff. The campus was quite big, we dint had that much time. And as it was the backgate, we landed up in the residential area. The main campus was a lil' far. Just strolled there for a lil' while. There was a lil' market kinda thing close to us. We saw a 'gen' store. Went there... asked the shopkeeper for all the varieties of candies he had. I guess, we wished to have a souvenir from the visit :P. Finally I settled for a pack of cofitos /* hey, i spelt it correctly in the first attempt*/ and gautam with a few chloromint and hajmola candies. And for your kind information, out of those ten cofitos, till now six have found a comfortable place in my stomach. Other two are gonna be there within next 15 minutes or so. The other two, they had to adjust in my friends' stomaches. Fine, let me declare officially... I love cofitos, I love coffee and though this one's going a bit far, but I must admit, I hate tea.
And by the way, the pack which I got today, seems its quite old, the taste it not like what I was lookin for, still.. as I said... I love cofitos.

FIND OF THE DAY : COFITOS still rocks!!!

PS : C.E.E.R.I. -> Central Electrical and Electronics Research Institute

Presentation work started

2006-11-07T01:34:00.000+05:30

Its been a little while since I posted something. Have been thinking to post a few things, but never really got time at a stretch to do that. Actually, not even today. Currently working on presentation on the Recent Trends in Mobile Communication, which me and gautam have to give for our elective, Mobile Telecom Networks.
Dun beleive me?? I have proof

Its me, working on Gautam's lapT.

Read the one just below this one first

2006-11-02T00:22:00.000+05:30

The stuff in this post do belong to that report submission day only, but wished to had a feel good end for that post. Fine, the thing is... as I said the 'phew' when we were submitted the report to the prof in his chamber, he said, "Fine, I'll see this. And you people be prepared with a presentation on the report within a fortnight, and I guess by now you must be over with the second assignment."
The deadline for second assignment is around ten days from today, enough time :P.
This is known as continous evaluation.

PS : This is just an extension of the previous post.. so no find of the day here.

Report submission : Task accomplished

2006-11-01T23:14:00.000+05:30

I was anxiously waiting to write this post, but just dint get the time. Well, actually its not that big thing, but still, after all, that was my first report submission in BITS. Though it was not really for the first time that I prepared a report myself, I did that in senior secondary level also, but this was a bit more professional, it was 'Recent Trends in Mobile Communication'. Gathered a lot of data over the net past few weeks, consulted book, newspapers /* yeah, this part a bit exaggerated :P */. I guess we should have started some concrete work that time only. We had over two and a half months to prepare that report, but we worked just for last two and a half days.
Those two and a half days... we started the real thing saturday night. Had to submit the report by tuesday, 1200hrs. And I tell you, two and a half days are not enough to prepare a report of about 20-25 pages. But obviously, we realised it a bit late :P. But those two and a half days, we worked day and night, literally. This sweet lil' lapT of gautam, it was hit the worse. All those hours, continuosly, the work was on on the lapT, either me or gautam, all the time atleast one of us was on duty. It was only when we went for some meal, this AMD Turion 64 got lil' rest. Our sleeping shifts did get alter, we slept in small shifts of 3-4 hours. Thanks to our time table, dint attended a single class on monday /* though attended the movie show in the evening... fast and the furious 3 : tokyo drift.. it was really guuud.. nice music, sexy babes and ofcourse... super sexy machines */. Initially planned to get the report printed by monday evenings. Obviously we dint meet the deadline. Worked over the report monday night also. I declared the reported completed at 0940 hrs on tuesday /* that came after workin continously from 0430 hrs during that stretch, and yeah.. before that, gautam was on duty */. There was a slight possibility that we get it printed in the moring on tuesday, before 1200hrs, but got a bit lazy. Postponed it to evening. The stuff was ready, we just had to get it printed. But thanks heaven... we did get it printed in the evening and submited it. And as far as dealine is considered, we atleast submitted it on the same day. It was around 1640 hrs.. when I said...phew.
Time for a lil celebration... for the first time went to vyas redi... /* just in front of our bhawan, vyas bhawan, that's how it got its name */. Had my favourite sam chat... it tasted really good that time.

FIND OF THE DAY : I'm not totally useless! I can be used as a bad example.

PS : If you think that this useless stuff was a bit too much detailed leading to boredome... i'll say, i agree... but who cares :P

BITS against reservation

2006-10-27T12:59:00.000+05:30

0835hrs, woke up, brushed my teeth and was preparing to go to mess. My super sidey, Himanshu, came to my room, asked me for today's daily. The headlines read like "Deemed varsities say yes to quota". I read further...
New Delhi : In a major setback to the anti-quota campaign, private unaided institutes like BITS Pilani, Manipal and Symbiosis on Thursday unanimously agreed to implement the 27% reservations for OBCs....
It was kinda shocking to read that stuff. We all were wondering how all these private institutes so easily agreed. But it was stated in a leading daily and we had no other option but to accept the fact. I had to study for my chemistry viva that time, but obviously this matter replaced my thoughts. I was just thinking that if our institute has already agreed to it, what can we do. I was really disappointed.
1217hrs, came back from practicals. Though according to prior plans I must had been in bank that time but thanks to state wide bank strike, I was in hostel that time. Checked my bitsmail /* we have been given mail accounts by the insti */. Subject of one of the recent mails read like "BITS Pilani & Reservation Issue". Immediately clicked on it. We were three people that time in the room. All of us anxiously waited for the mail to open /* wait lasted for around 1 second or so, but yeah, it was a small but anxious wait, atleast for me */. A smile replaced the anxiety as we read on. It was like...
Deemed universities back Arjun on quota; BITS opposes
A group of deemed universities including some prestigious ones today backed HRD Minister Arjun Singh's move for reservation in unaided institutes but BITS, Pilani, strongly opposed it. BITS, Pilani was invited but could not attend the meeting... This mail really comforted us all. For more details.. http://www.newkerala.com/news4.php?action=fullnews&id=41203
You might be thinking what is this newkerala... even I dunno, but I know one thing, that BITS is still against reservation. I am happy :) Though not sure whether BITS will be able to resist in future or not, but I am happy, it is atleast resisting. Don't have much time right now, will write more later. And I guess I must take care to write within my limits, am a bit worried, heard a lot about a few blogs being blocked.

FIND OF THE DAY : You have the right to remain silent. Anything you do or say will be exaggerated or mis-quoted and used against you.

My room

2006-10-26T16:47:00.000+05:30

Some newspaper articles.. related to recent trends in mobile communication...need to submit a report on it within five days, God only knows when will we /* me and gautam */ will start My old school buddy, and now in BITS... Ankush sitting there...
these photos are from his mobile set camera only.. so blame him for the quality

The hostel is quite old... but its good.

FIND OF THE DAY : The trouble with real life is that there is no danger music.

Oasis 2006 : Day three and four

2006-10-21T17:34:00.000+05:30

Was really busy past days, hence no posts. Still, we do have two more days left. And I guess description of the second day was also a bit too short. Actaully it wasnt, I guess I just missed to mention that we cleared the dumbC elims, were first among the 24 participating teams. And yeah, one more thing, in the evening we tried our hand on Treasure hunt, but it was a bit too much for us, we all being the first timers for it in BITS. The clues were damn tough, still managed to get to 6th level /* thanks to our spies ... :P*/. That was on day two. And that flop show of JAL and rocktaves followedd.
But third day, it really rocked. I guess it was the best day among the four. Got up a bit early that day /* yeah, 0800 hrs is an early hour*/ to attend rocktaves finals. But as I told you before, they were cancelled. That was disappointing. But then RAZZMATAZ came to our rescue. It was preponed, and I guess I was lucky enough to know that well in time. I did message many of my friends but most of them were late to the show. I enjoyed the whole show. That was awesome. These DU girls, they dance so well. Ok, the male participants, they were also really great. It really set the pace for the day. It was up by afternoon, leaving us for a long anxious wait for the prof show, which were scheduled for 1800 hrs. We were all ready dot 1800 hrs, but as expected, they were postponed till 2000 hrs. We did had the option of DJ floor, but I was really tired. But coz of peer pressure, i was dragged to the dance floor. And yeah, the music was also too tempting to give up. Result : strained my body a bit more.
After that, we all geared up for the big thing.. the prof show. Actually, the first band in the list was MRIGYA, the replacement band, dint have much expectations from the band, which came all the way from New Delhi. But to amaze us all, they put up some really cool stuff. Their instrumentals were too sexy. The crowd never expected such a performance from a kal ka band, but man, they really set up the show. For the first time I am forced to use the word soulful with music. They played some sensible soulful stuff for the crowd. I guess I should move on, there's a bit too much redundancy of words /* thanks to my great vocabulary */.
The next band, INDIAN OCEAN, crowd had a lot of expectations from them. The environment setup by the previous band, it helped us to enjoy these fellows even more. They stood upto the expectations, and even better, as far as my expectations are considered. The next in line, MOKSHA, rock band. I am feeling sorry for them. They also played quite well. But lack of rocklovers in BITS , and the timings, they began at around 0330 hrs, it was too much physical taxation for budding rock lovers to attend this band at this hour. I successfully attended the whole show /*ended around 0500 hrs*/, I cant actuallly say that I enjoyed MOKSHA, but it wasnt their fault at all, I cant blame them. Yeah, you can put me in the category of budding rock lovers .That's it for day three. Went to sleep 0600 hrs in the morning.
Day four, the shortest day. Got up around 1000 hrs, not my fault, I could have slept longer had the power cut not been there. But the cut had such a bad timimgs, neither helped me in my sleep, nor waked me up for breakfast. Then indulged myself in cleaning my room /* read diwali ki safai */. Got ready, took lunch and geared up for the big event.... DumbC finals .. :P But alas, we dint perform upto our expectations. That one round, ruined all the show. Anyways, who cares /* actually I do a bit, it was this grand finale which dint allow us to leave for our home earlier, wasted atleast twelve hour on campus for that crap.*/
As soon as it was over, Oasis was over for us, gussed FashP and ValD /* validatory function*/ and returned back home.
Yeah, am home right now, till 25th.
Just one statement for home... its really nice to be home.

FIND OF THE DAY : Where there is a will....there are 500 relatives.

OASIS 2006 : Day two

2006-10-18T17:17:00.000+05:30

I dont have much time at the moment, need to go for Prof show within 20 mins. And a real real bad news, JAL dint come. They had some visa problem or something, as the authorities said. That was really disappointing...:(
But alas, our disappointment dint end there. We decided to guss Rocktaves /*rock competition*/ elims, to conserve our energy for the finals, but crap, finals were cancelled, I dont know the actual reason officially, so I guess I should not share, for it can be just a rumour.
But thanks heaven, Razzmataz/* hope its spelt correctly*/ came to our resque. These DU girls... they dance really sexy.
Actaully right now, dont have much time, cant elaborate it much.
In short, yesterday was disappoionted, coz of that Jal crap. Today also, after a not so good start, it picked up really well.
Lets see what Mirgya /* the substitute band*/, Indian Ocean and Moksha have in their kitty for us.
Hoping for the best, lemme sign off now.

FIND OF THE DAY : A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.

Blogspot unblocked...

2006-10-17T04:06:00.000+05:30

Did I mentioned that we have found a few good proxies to access orkut??? and yeah... blogspot is now unblocked again....

OASIS 2006 : Day one

2006-10-17T03:31:00.000+05:30

As such the inaug was also a part of this day one, still, was a bit excited that moment, so we have a separate post for inaug. K, lets move on, inaug over, we all dispersed to our rooms, took lunch and some rest... to gear up for the evening.
The evening plans, Fusion and Tarang, the two really worth it music events. Though the scheduled time for Fusion was 1700hrs, but keeping up with the oasis traditions, it started sometime after 1800hrs. But that was a plus point for us, we would not have got the sit had it started on time, coz we also were keeping up with the BITSian tradition.. :P
Fusion... I really liked it, though dint watch the whole show, cause of some prior engagements /* read : evening milk in the mess*/. After that, we chose dance floor over the last few entries in Fusion.
The dance floor.. these four days, this is the only time we BITSians do get to do such stuff... dancing madly all over the place. Actually we kickstarted our steps on 'Red Bull' dance floor. Ours was the first group to rock their floor past evening.. reward... one can of Red Bull to each one of us. Though my previous encounter with the Red Bull was not that good, last Oasis also, two of our wingies got two cans by doing some crazy stuff there, and our whole wing helped those guys to empty those cans. But to my amazement, I drank the whole can of the energy drink, which supposidely tasted more like some cough syrup. May be I was really thirsty that moment... mayb now I do like a can full of cough syrup all at one time. Whatever the case maybe, I really enjoyed so called-drinking and dancing. After the kickstart, devoted next few hours to the DJ... it was great fun letting our footloose there.
But I was also worried for the other event, Tarang. Finally convinced the gang arounnd 2300 hrs to proceed towards the audi. And damn, we missed a great performance by KMC /* Kirori Mal College, Delhi*/. Attended the next few, then I was about to leave for my room, but other people also joined in, had a lil' of PET PUJA. Then for about next two hours, dint had much to do, none of us felt sleepy... just roamed around near the food stalls. Then as the RED BULL DJ packed up, we ten people sat in the middle of those lawns /*popularly known as M-lawns*/ and started playing Antakshri. Hey hey, in case you dint get what it means, sorry, but I dont know the english word for this game. For over 90 mins, sang numerous songs in our sweet and sexy voice. Once thought to compete with the outstees, but posponed the idea, and as expected, it never got implemented.
Am back right from that scene only. Few of my friends are supposidely enjoying OASIS QUIZ, god only knows at this moment if the are able to do so or if its the other way round.
Tomorrow, have a few engagements, that DumbC elims, Professional kavi sammelan, and in the night.. its Prof show... tomorrow... JAL is gonna rock BITS... that's the BIG thing tomorrow.. actually i must say its today... now plese leme sign off... its 0355 hrs, and I need to get up before 0900hrs, cant help it, really have this bad habit of having my glass of milk daily twice a day.

FIND OF THE DAY : Never ever dare to go on the dance floor wihtout your shoes. Today did this blunder, was in a hurry, dint prepare myself for the dance floor, left with those sleaky sandals guarding my feet.. n crap... ouuucchhh....ouuucchhh....ouuucchhh....ouuucchhh....ouuucchhh....

OASIS 2006 : Inaug

2006-10-16T16:09:00.000+05:30

It was quite hyped, last time also I missed it, but this time pretty determined to watch it. We did set our target as 0830 hrs, to get someplace to sit in the audi, were 30 mins late, consequences, remain standing in the balcony for over 90 mins, somehow manage to sit on the steps for next 90 mins. We were expecting some 'scintillationing' performances by our Mime club and dance club. But it was inaug, had some other stuff also in there. It took quite a much time there. The chief guest... Mr. Mani Shankar... an ex-BITSian Chemicalite, now better known as film maker and advertiser though. His speech was both entertaining and inspiring, really liked that one. But the other proceedings, considered to be boring by most of the junta, but I really dint mind it, it ought to be there, its the formal inaug.
Finally after around 90-100 mins of so called 'boring' stuff, the real thing begin, which we all were waiting for. It was a really nice performance by Mime club, in between we had our dance club... even better, I must say. But junta was not happy for we have noticable delays in between the performances... it dint bothered me much.. I was just thinkin stuff like.. they need to adjust the lights and all... but still... many of us questioned if it was worth it.... with so much physical labour... to see one mime and three dance performances in three hours.... I would say YES... mayb I am being too optimistic... or mayb the other way... they are too lazy...:P

Next stop... Fusion and Tarang.. music events... missed both of them last time.. hopin for the best this time.

FIND OF THE DAY : Remember half the people you know are below average.

PS: Expecting a comment or two from one on those regular readers of my blogs :P

OASIS 2006 - Scintillations

2006-10-16T15:45:00.000+05:30

I guess I am a bit late for this pre-Oasis post... its already started. N ya, the ban on daily diary stuff on blog imposed by myself has been lifted, its Oasis time buddy.... I cant think of writing any thing else during the period, really cant help it.
For the beginnners, OASIS 2006, Scintillations... cultural fest of BITS Pilani, Pilani campus. Its really cool.. or I can say, its really hot.. cant decide at the moment... :P. 0000 hrs 16th oct '06 to 2359 hrs 19th oct '06, 96 hrs of non stop fun and masti. The whole campus.. it doesnt seem as if we are in pilani, and the biggest credit of this goes to outstees.. primely DU ki kudiyaan... :P Other major attractions... the prof shows.. this time, the big three are making all the way to pilani.. its JAL, INDIAN OCEAN and MOKSHA....music events... Tarang and Fusion, dance events.... Razzmataz and Choreo... stage plays... and one small event, but its really important for me, mayank and mohit, 'Isharon Hi Isharon Mein', its dumbcharades. There are three teams representing BITS, and he he.. we are one of them..... what are you thinkin??? big deal???? I know its not.. but cut the crap... we are participating.. got thru the elims held around a month back....so its somewhat a big deal... its gonna be my first participation in OASIS. Last year also I was a mere spectator in all the events.
I guess that's enuf for a pre-oasis post.. i have more to share... lets get on to next post for that.

FIND OF THE DAY : Women who seek to be equal to men lack ambition.

Nap time...zzzzzz

2006-10-12T23:06:00.000+05:30

How to sleep???

Sleeping is a very important activity, which almost all kinds of lifeform perform daily. Though the words 'activity' and 'perform' dont go with the word 'sleep', but that's my grammar, cant help it.

So, lets see a few lifeforms, 'performing' this 'activity', in there own fashion.

This is Mr. Gautam, my sidee, this year, last year and I guess for coming two years also. If you are a regular visitor of my blog /* probability of which -> 0 */, you must have heard name of this guy quite often.

Mr. Kshitij Garg, my wingee last year

Mr. Mayank Agarwal, our dance master..., and ob, my ex-wingee

This is Mr. Shanky, as he is better known, very well known for his sleep and his apetite, my ex-wingee

So, this one... Mr.Karan Bathla, a species of its own... I'll need more time and preparation to write anything about him.. so, lets just postpone that task... my ex-psuedo-wingee... psuedo means, he actually was in the lower wing, but used his own room just for sleeping, rest of the time, he was our wingee...

And one more pic, this one is not really related to sleep but.... sheep... do you think there is any relation, actually even I dont think so, but I just prepared this image while I was thinkin about what to post, so, that one I guess I should post. You got the sheep na....

FIND OF THE DAY : A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.

PS : These all snaps /* except for the last one, ob*/ are a part of our Sariska album, my maiden excursion trip last sem. /*Refer - Yo Sariska */. My sincere apologies in case I have hurt someone emotions... specially that sheep.... :P

Blogger beta is cool

2006-10-09T11:03:00.000+05:30

Yeah... it is really cool... the best think I feel about it.. the archives shown on the blog... makes it quite simple to access all the previous posts quite simply.

Home v/s Hostel

2006-10-09T09:37:00.000+05:30

On campus, I miss my family and friends, that's so ob, still I must admit it.
Off campus, I miss my hostel friends, thats's so ob, still I must admit it.

On campus, I miss Maa ke haath ka khana, again... dats so ob.
Off campus, I miss redi ki sam chaat /*read...samosa chaat*/ and ANC /*read... All Night Canteen*/.

On campus, I miss Dilli ki kudiyaan... do I need to explain anything??? Seriously man, just a half an hour walk to the local market is suffice for a day... I get enough eye tonic :P.
Off campus, I miss... can't really say... Pilani ki ladkiyaan....eeeaaaakkkkk.

On campus, I miss Delhi's maddening traffic.
Off campus, I miss my bike... not a motorbike, but my sweet lil' bicycle, motorbikes are not allowed here for UG students. And guess what, with cylces also, der's pretty good traffic kinda thing here, just see it when a lecture gets our, it improves our skills to drive in trafiic so much, seriously, m not kiddin.

On campus, I miss roaming around in air conditioned malls.
Off campus, I miss roaming around in the campus... at wierd timings. Roaming around in Shiv Ganga at night or early morning /*did that just twice in the mornin though*/.

On campus, I miss radio, television and at times.. movies @ cinema hall.
Off campus, I miss audi events... they are so much fun... be it a movie, a cultural event, or our fav. music night.... its so much fun to enjoy it with all our own junta.

On campus, I miss Delhi metro... its really cool.
Off campus, I miss Haryana roadways... he he he... was that sarcastic???

On campus, I miss chatting with old friends over phone.
Off campus, I miss chatting with old frinends on Gtalk.

So.... pretty balanced...huh!!!

But I have a bit different view...

Dilli ki asli kadar yahaan mehsus hui hai...ek sher on Pilani v/s Dilli...

Jis cheez ke liye Pilani mein aakhen tarasti hai...
Jis cheez ke liye Pilani mein aakhen tarasti hai...
Wohi cheez Dilli mein dar-dar barasti hai.............
wah wah... wah wah...

FIND OF THE DAY : I used to be indecisive. Now I'm not sure.

PS : Credit of that sher goes to one of my few delhi seniors... Mr. Varun Anand

Last of its kind.. for a while

2006-10-03T20:33:00.000+05:30

I actually planned to write something more in this post... something which make this blog look a bit different from my public diary. But the events this weekend... they wont allow me to go beyond this public diary.. atleast in this post. This weekend, it was devoted to my cousin's marriage. Really enjoyed it... enjoyed every moment there... but it was damn tiring. Return yesterday night only... and had my electrical sciences test today.. 0800 hrs... somehow managed to write it. It wasnt that bad, but it was a bit too much physical for me. And it was for the first time in my life that I had such a bad headache .which forced me to take a disprin... it was when I came out after the test. I am actually quite happy, for I finally had such a bad headache. :D And good news.... good news.... good news.... we are selected to represent BITS in dumbcharades competition during OASIS, our cultural fest. /* Refererence : Looooong Weekend; line number 13 onwards/ we were second but actually they selected three teams from two competitions.. I am happy ... :D Lastly... net speed is rockin here, after putting the download limit on the maximum file size in the bhawans... but they blocked orkut and even blogs /* not blogger, but the blogs*/. That's bad. That's it... I hope my next post will be a bit different from this current diary system. FIND OF THE DAY : Don't drink and drive. You might hit a bump and spill your drink

Cellular

2006-09-29T09:18:00.000+05:30

Yeah.. yesterday I had a cellular day... the first half of the day.. had first test of Mobile Telecom Network, my elective. It was ... guss... forget it. The other cellular component on the day.... Cellular the movie. A really nice hollywood flick. I dont know the cast. But found the plot quite interesting. Nice action. Though in the end... somewhere felt it was more of an advertisementof Nokia 6600. K.. brief description of the story.. a girl was kidnapped and kept in a room, which had a telephone... shattered to pieces by the kidnappers. But still. the girl manages to somehow dial a number, gets connected to a guy... pleads him for help. Story moves on and the guy helps her and her family to get out of hands of the kidnappers. Remember.. most of the time they remain connected... scenes involves the guy robbing a shop just for a charger.. and cross connection and call transferring onto some other number... though they manage to remain connected. But alas.. the girl was married, had a kid, so we missed the kissing scene in the end. This was a pretty good flick and came as a relief for we dint get to see a decent one in the audi in recent past. The previous one, 'Aap ki Khatir', which I missed for obvious reasons. And yes.. yesterday's flick was also preceded by a 'jan hit mein jaari' /*issued in public interest*/ documentary. But alas... today none of us was able to understand what was the 'hit' /*interest*/ of the junta /*public*/. I just remember it had a few clips of Mahatma gandhi... dandi march and all. Nothing much interesting today apart from the cellular thing.. so .. c ya later PS : FIND OF THE DAY : A legal kiss is never worth a stolen one.

Looooong Weekend

2006-09-27T02:53:00.000+05:30

I really cant believe that I am blogging from hostel room.

I really wished to post on sunday... just wished to share the experience of my first morning walk in BITS. That was my first morning walk in around past 1280 days.. that's 3.5 yrs. But this one was quite different... defying the usual belief that one need to get up early for a morning walk.. we... four people.. me, gautam, karan and sumit... went for the morning walk after a night out. And the night... I have lotsa stuff there also to share.

Weekend began with quite unexpected things... hey.. first lemme define my weekend, its from saturday afternoon to monday evening. So, it started with me sleeping for over four hours, roughly 1500hrs to 1900 hrs, n mind it... I prefer night sleep only. Then as I got up... still half asleep, one fellow calls up

Mohit : Rishi, you coming for dumbcharades na...

Me : Coming for dumbcharades??? What do you mean?? Rishi aur dumbcharades competition??? What a combination!!!

Mohit : Hey, you promised to Mayank that you are coming

Me : When did I??? I just told him that HAS is organising dumbC competition this weekend

Mohit : You are comin.. we three are team.... get your dinner fast and come to my room... no further arguements

Hang up

Well I am still not able to figure out whether I 'promised' or not, but I found that competition bit more interesting that sitting on net with the ultra fast speed we get here in our rooms. I am not such a bad dumbC player... and my point strenghtened further as after 3 rounds our team was leading. But thanks to the organisers.... we missed it by 3 points coz of there carelessness. Obviously they were not going to rectify.After a great start but not so great ending in the competition... I left disheartened... went straight to IPC ( read computer labs... where we can access net). But crap... that day net speed there was even 'faster' that what we get in our rooms. Was just hopping from one system to another... hopin to get some system with a lil' slower speed.... Phone rang again

Karan : Where are you??

Me : IPC

Karan : Mafia tonight???

Me : Done, I am coming to your wing.

Hangs up

Again hopes rose for a better evening after a phone call. Btw, dont get confused.. lemme clarify. time was around 2300hrs. Then as usual.. it took some sincere efforts for the interested people to bring the uninterested ones in our category. After a short visit to ANC(all nigt canteen), we were in front of SAC (Student Activity Centre)... making our debut of the venue with mafia. Had a really nice session...

Decided to go back around 0330 hrs... but took its over 30 mins to achieve this task. FIND OF THE WEEKEND : I am still afraid of street dogs. Well, actually, I had a few more friends in my gang. Four of us... changed our route many a times to avoid those street dogs who were just trying to be friendly with us. Hey, this time... no literary device used... those creatures were nice to us... but we dint accept them followin us... we dint approve there effort to make physical contact with us. Still we dint shooo them away.. reason... heard the other gang of dogs barkin far off.. dint wish to loose our gang members... Some how managed to get away.. though this somehow does include four of us runnig like anything after heard a few of those creatures barking on each other.

Reached the room... relaxed ourselves with some laucha ( laughing and chatting). Then I deciced to sleep only after takin breakfast in the mess. By 0530 hrs.. only four of us left... decided to go on our maiden morning walk in BITS. I really enjoyed those 75 mins of walk. That does included sitting in ShivGanga for over 30-35 mins. Took breakfast at 0730 hrs. Then dint feel like sleeping.. that time I really wished I could post something... basically this all only.But I was kept waiting for over 66 hrs... its 0227 hrs, 27th sep, wednesday.. right now.

Nothing much eventful in the later part of the weelend.. sunday night was reserved for mobile telecommunication network.. my elective... got its test-1 tomorroow.. that's 28th... and physics practical today only.. just 8 and a half hours to go.In short... its been a long post... I better go to sleep now.

FIND OF THE DAY : Multitasking means screwing up many things at once.

Surprise.... another post... quite early na.

2006-09-16T22:05:00.000+05:30

Thank you God.. for the page... you opened for me. Its been half an hour since I am waiting this page to get opened. Hot thing in BITS.. BOSM -> BITS Open Sports Meet. Today is the second last day for this five day long event...lots of outstees.. lots of sports.. even I watched a baski match, well that was BITS girls v/s MNIT, Jaipur Girls; for obviuos reasons. But that was not able to attract my attention was more than 15 minutes. Then saw a badi match. This all was day before yesterday. Since then, never wished to be a spectator to those great skilled players. Watched 'The Break-up' the other day. Only thing I liked watching was Jenifer Aniston... And yesterday, for the first time in BITS audi I saw a 'jan hit mein jaari' advertisement on malaria. And after watching that clip for about 10 mins, it was a bit disappointing to see the movie in smaller print, dunno the reason. But I think today I covered up, watched 'Lage raho munna bhai' on gautam's lapT. I dunno whether this was good or bad, the movie got over within 2 hrs, that's coz the print was shot in a cinema.. the video and audio quality were fine though, but a few scenes were missing. I guess now I am blogging quite frequently, so this much must be enough for today. FIND OF THE DAY : Good judgment comes from bad experience and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

Centi-Li mein MAFIA

2006-09-14T16:17:00.000+05:30

Surprisingly... my second post within span of 48 hours. Just one of the is BITSian slang used in the title... so lemme first expand it for you. Cent-Li -> Central Library. In case you dunno hindi, 'mein' -> in. And MAFIA... that's the main thing. I dun think you read my earlier posts, so I guess I must not use references from my previous posts. Mafia... a really great mind game, though most of the time we avoid using it. It was the game which kept us awake till 0500 hrs a day before Vibes /* and as expected we got up late on the D-Day *reference - CAPITOL and VIBES rocked */. And also after the show, after dinner with the assoc people, we were really tired... havnt slept well for past one week, still we went to Centi-Li lawns with our wingies, this time had session till 0430 hrs. Went again yesterday night, but this time the choki... that's watchman... he was really pissed off with us. Howling and shouting while accusing each other in the course of the game... he gave up and asked us to move out. That was really disappointing. Before Centi-Li lawns, we were once been forced out of T-lawns... that's Temple lawns by the choki there. And actually its a bit risky in T-Lawns, Temple is quite close to our bhawan... once had a narrow escape from our warden. Lets see where we continue Mafia... But lemme once again state the fact... MAFIA rocks. And yeah.. finally got the APOGEE certs yesterday evening. I felt really great as it had 'Free Space Optics' as project written on it. Now I guess I would prefer orkutting over writting anything further... hope to get the next post soon... FIND OF THE DAY : The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

CAPITOL and VIBES rocked

2006-09-12T16:20:00.000+05:30

I just hope that I dun face any problem posting this time. Last friday I also wrote a post, but when I tried to click on publish post, then only I realised that the page opened with errors. The button 'Publish Post' was not there. It is really frustruating, these google sites, just cant get what's the problem with them. Gautam surrendered to it, he started a blog on wordpress. Its impossible to access blogger or orkut or gmail from the hostel rooms. But today, finally I am able to spare some time to come to IPC lab and add something more to my not so lively blog. Well, yes, I do have something to write this time. This sunday, we had 'Vibes', a cultural night by Capitol. I know I need to explain the terminology used. Here in BITS, we have regional associations. I am member of Capitol, an association of Delhites in BITS. So, this sunday we had a cultural night, presented by Capitolites to all the BITSian junta. It had all, songs, dances, mime, fash-p. I participated in dance. Well, I am not that a good dancer, but not even that bad. We prepared for the event for about a fortnight. Surprising, but we did worked pretty hard for it. And the results were better than expectations. Such shows can quite easily be ruined by the audience, but the audience did respect us for we did gave them more than their expectations. It was really a big hit. I guess, for past few posts I forgot to mention whether the post was a hit or miss, mostly coz, the content dint allowed me to classify. But for this one, HIT certificate has been issued. Well, did I said certificates... two days back, I recieved a mail... "Hi all U all might be waiting for certificaes of last apogee. Tommorow i.e.12th September u will be given certificates by our Instrumnetation prof.sGurunarayan sir, Surekha mam. So, make sure that u all present for this certificate distribution. Date - 12/09/06 Time - 5:00 pm Venue - 2206 Hari Bharath Molabanti, Coordinator,Instrumentation Forum." I was quite happy, after wait of ovet six month, I would be getting my first cert from BITS. But a few hours back.. "Hi all, i am sorry to inform you that the distribution session of certificateshas been cancelled.and i will inform you the date later. co-ordinator, instrumentation forum HARIBHARATH MOLABANTI. " Lets see for how long from now I will have to wait. Pretty long post na... well now I dun have much to say... so lemme end this with... FIND OF THE DAY : Dates in calender are closer than they appear

2-1 begins...

2006-08-15T01:04:00.000+05:30

2-1 ante second year, first sem. Ok ok, ante means means. Its a telegu word, one year in BITS, I have learnt a few telegu words, and one tamil song... suttum vizhi... we all are huge fan followers of that one. I really like this thing here, people from all over the country here together.

So, the new academic year begins, last sem result, satisfactory is really not the word, its was really quite better than my expectations.

Other unexpected things queued up... the elective which I and gautam registered for, least expected, we went on for 'Mobile Telecommunication and Networks', name is quite alluring na, thats was excatly the case with us, the result... we are the only two second year students registered for the course, rest are all third and fourth yearites, or maybe even M.E. students. So, we spent the first few days, just getting worried for the course, still didnt ever thought for substitution or stepping down. Lets see what we do excatly get out of it.

And I was supposed to blog frequently now, with gautam's lapT next door, but thats unexpected thing number three. The net speed, we always knew how poor it is in hostels, but I am not able to understand what problem is our connection having with google, its really impossible to access gmail, orkut or blogger from rooms. Other domains work quite well as compared to them.

The next thing I am gonna tell you about, its was actaully kinda expected, though never welcomed, I am having all four sons. Havnt yet met my room sons yet, not much interested actually.

Unexpected but always welcome thing, met one of my oldest pal today, he's currently in Indain Military Academy, I felt really great when I got to know that he got in there, that time actually I came in contact with him after an year or so, hence that was kinda big suprise or me, I was expecting him to join in some engineering college and suddenly go to know that he's there in the academy for past six months, amazement and happiness, I experienced a real good combination of the two.

No more expeccted and unexpected things for the day now, its time for... FIND OF THE DAY : I don't suffer from insanity. I enjoy every minute of it.

Main baap banne wala hun

2006-07-28T11:33:00.000+05:30

Yeah, its true...you dont believe na... after spending nine months in BITS campus, finally, I am going to see this day. I am really happy. Its all together a different feeling. A feeling which I can't explain in words. Oh Almighty, please give me two sons and two daughters. Those who are still not able to get it, read my post... BITSIAN Lingo. It will help. Its 30th today, I going to leave tomorow. Less than 24 hours before I hit the campus again. Major changes this time... I will be senior. Lets see how we inexperienced fellows take up our juniors. Yeah, we really lack experience in ragging... you might be surprised but BITS and ragging... these two words dont go together. Last year, i programmed myself to handle any exceptional error. But to my suprise... that all was not reqd. Lets see how our juniors are programmed and what kinda error they do encouter. Other change... new hostel.. Vyas Bhawan... new wingies, though same sidey, Gautam, this time Gautam with a LapT, yes you can hope for frequent posts. And this new hostel... closest to Meera Bhawan /* the girl's hostel*/ and temple and C'not and Akshay and MedC, and yeah, farthest from the insti. I think this time we are gonna use our bikes... without that gettin to tuts is not gonna be possible. New hostel, new mess... heard its not that bad. And yeah, in the previous post, i did mentioned that I'll be discussing my plans for this year, but I think its gonna be boring, even for me. Actually, as expected, not yet planned anything. Will be getting my grade card the day after tomorrow. This time no expectations, but I hope juniors do pray for me, else they might be on the sufferer's side. And I think I should stop now, packing not yet completed and gotta get up ealy tomorrow. Today onwards, I am gonna introduce FIND OF THE DAY in my posts. So, here goes the first one... Smile, it's the second best thing you can do with your lips.

Dil Chahta Hai

2006-07-16T19:21:00.000+05:30

Yeah, the title has cetainly to do something with that bollywood flick, and its my blog, hence with me also. Though I suggested earlier that the next post will be regarding my coming year, but the plan postponed. Reason : Firstly, that day at Nitin's place, it really reminded me of the flick and I felt like writing somthing about it on my blog. Secodly, that post I planned to post during the end of my holz, but I am really getting bored right now. 14th July. Woke up quite early, I mean, around 0900 hrs, yeah, thats early. Dad was going to Noida. I just thought it would be better if I get lift from him. Called up Nitin. Got ready and was outta my home around 1100 hrs. I really love these unplanned meetings. Two days before also I planned to go to Nitin's place, but rain spoiled it all. But on 14th, I was out. Reached there around 1220 hrs. Another task in front of me, find his home, though I have been there once before also, but those streets and market, its not that simple. Still I succeeded with just one outgoing call. Called up others also, but most of them were busy. Still we convinced Aman to be there /* ofcourse with usage of some words that most of the people refer as 'slangs' */, though it took him pretty much time. But after that, it was all real fun. The trio lying on the bed /* hey, dont take it otherwise */. Chatting, then for no good reason beating the hell out of each other. This scene is the prime reference to the movie. After having a long session in his room, we moved to McD's. Three second year students on two two-wheelers, race is an obvious guess. I guess it would had been better and safer had I been with Aman on his new Discover, but I was sitting behind Nitin on his so-called 'khatara' scooter. Still the khatara did it for us, thanks to the traffic signal, which we did avoided by parking the scooter before hand and using the subway going crossroads. Alas, no treat for that victory. But who cares when you are having an all-day long treat. While at home, disturbed the others gang-members on training. Thanks to there mobiles. Another successful day in my holz. I hope I get more of them in the coming days. Just two weeks... lets hope or the best.

Its gonna end soon... Not the fun.. just d holz

2006-07-09T00:02:00.000+05:30

At times I dont realise that its been over 50 days since I am home. It means they are soon gonna end. Soon the same campus, though new hostel, just in front of the temple /* And yeah, that's quite close to the gurlz hostel also, hi hi*/. Lets see how fast we can adapt ourselves to this Vyas Bhawan and to SV mess. But yeah, now C'not, Akshay and MedC will be quite close as well. And I hope that this year atleast I'll be using my bike, I mean my bicycle. Rushing for tuts wont be possible w/o dat. I think I should preserve more of that for the future posts. Lemme just concentrate on my holz now. One and only achivement during my holz, I got my learner's licence. Hope that I do get a premanent one before I leave for my other home. Apart from that, spent all the time lazing around the comp mostly. Met school friends, that I must say, was the best part of the holz, N yeah, its not yet over. Approximately 20 days, I'll definitely try to get the most outta them. And the other partners in the holz, NFS:MW and Doom 3. Need for Speed : Most Wanted, Completed the career 100%, yeah I did completed all the races and all the pursuits, from blacklist 15 to blacklist 1, everything. I really did enjoyed supercool graphics of the game. And Doom3, hey man, it can really scare the hell outta you, believe me. Do play it alone in you room with headphones, you'll get me a lot better. Not yet finished it though, but I do prefer godmode there now. And its real fun with the MTNL broadband. Great service, sexy downloading speed, the night unlimited connection really rocks. That did helped me a lot to keep in touch with my old friends and the fellow BITSians as well thourghout the holz. K, its getting late, gotta sleep, lets reserve the remaining for the next post., where I am gonna discuss how my next year is going to be like, I mean how I expect it to be.

Future prediction possible : What do you "think"???

2006-06-21T21:34:00.000+05:30

This is in continuation to my earlier theory /* refer to "My unified theory of so-called living and non-living", two posts below this one*/ So, if we consider this to be true, i mean, if we consider that we donot think as such, then i think that in such case prediction of future is also possible. If we can predict the output of a program by dry run, we can also predict output of the machines called homo sapiens. But this is only possible if our thought process is guided by some kind of algorithm, though highly complicated. At times I do feel that my decisions, they are governed not by me, but by others and my genes, just like a program, where input is given, in our cases things happening around us, and the algo followed, here our genes. Welll, here I havent used our brain yet, but brain is also, what I think, ultimately governed by tiny cells, which react according to their own brain, called nucleus, where we have chromosomes. At this point of time, lemme make one think clear, I am, in this post, not explaining you what I have concluded, but what I am pondering upon. So, dont worry that only you are getting confused, I am even more. So, lets continue, where were we.. Ok, first thing is do we really think or is it just some kinda programme thats going on all around. If its just a programme, then I think that future prediction is possible, though it may involve really complicated calculations which may make it practically impossible even for 100 super computers, but it will be possible. But it will be a totally different case if we also do think and make decisions on our own. I do think that it could make a difference between humans and computers. We can call it randomness or sometimes spontaineity. If we do posses that, then I think we can really consider ourselves a class apart from all those dumb machines. This thing I am not able to figure out, do we really make our own decisions or is it just our genes and surroundings that are controlling us??? While I was just pondering upon this question, I thought of analysing my thought process and decision making processes. Though I havn't completed that yet, still I would like to share what all I have till now. While making any decision, what all I do is to collect all the inputs, and then I see what output will I have with any particular decision and select the one with what I consider to be the best output. To asses the outputs, I do something what could be called calculating weighted mean. I do things of that sorts most of the time with inputs also. Like which factor should influence my decision more. Then calculating positives and negatives and then I do go a decision with more positives. Actually, this is not much complicated as I have narrated, this is really simple when you have to make a binary decision, and I think most of the times we need to make binary decisions only, like to be or not to be. Then its really simple, calculate weighed mean, at times its better to calculate total than mean, choose the decision with greater positive value. Doesnt the last paragraph seems to be a bit too mechanical. I do think so. It makes me feel more like a machine than a human /* though humans can also be machines*/. I really feel like not to be mechanical. I want more randomness in my life, more spontaneity in my life. For that, I have made a few changes in my lifestyle. One of them being not planning for things less important. I think enough of crap in this post, rest in next, dunno when.

BITSian Lingo

2006-05-18T00:45:00.000+05:30

Most common words used by a BITSian

A-ANC, Assoc, Audi, Ave, Acads
B-Bogs, Bumps, Backie, Bhawan, Bong
C-Chom, Centli, C'not, Calci, Chowki, CT
D-Dutch, Da, DC
E-Enthu, EC, Extra
F-Fundoo
G-Gen, Gen enthu, Grub, Gult, Groupee, Guss, Ghot, Gate call, Gen Sec
H-Hush, H-Rep
I-Intro, Illad, IC, IPC, Insti, Inaug
J-Jealous, Junta, Ju(junior)
L-Lite, Lacha
M-Mallu, MedC
N-NC
O-Ob, Ornithology, Outsti
P-Psenti, Pondy, Prez
Q-QT
R-Rod, Roomie, Redi, Ref-li
S-Sac, Sidee, Se(senior), ShivG, Shikanji, Supri, SUB, SAC
T-Thadi, Treat, Test Series, TT
V-Vetti
W-Wingies
Y-Yo!!
Z-Zukk

BITS family system

ID [great grand / grand ] pop
ID [great grand / grand ] mom
ID [great grand / grand ] son
ID [great grand / grand ] daughter
Book pop
Book mom
Book son
Book daughter
Room pop
Room mom
Room son
Room daughter
BITSian brother
BITSian sister
BITSian crush

WINGS // in boys' bhawans

Front Wing
Back Wing
T-Wing
H-Wing
New Wing/Side Wing

My unified theory of so-called living and non-living

2006-05-14T20:39:00.000+05:30

This might be a bit interesting for you. N yeah, this is not at all for you in case you beleive in souls. So, in case you dun beleive in souls, can you tell me whats the difference in a living and a non-living thing? I studied biology till 10th, and also in my first semester here in BITS, /* yeah, we engineering students do hav to study bio, one sem*/. So, dere i studied a few so-called requirements for a thing to be called as living. So, lemme try to remember them, dey ver, adaptation ( irritability/individual/population); growth and reproduction; metabolism; proper structure. yeah, i m missing mayb a couple of them rite now, but i had thot over all of dem. So, fine, i m creating a big big robot, wid huge arms, dat are continuosly digging the earth, at one place to extract petroleum, vich it vil purify and use as its fuel, or u can say food /* metabolism*/ ; another to dig out iron and other material, vich it vil use to create more machine of such kinds and to repair itself as well /* growth and reproduction*/ . N yeah, it has all kinda sensors, so dat it can sense all its surroundings /* adaptation*/ . Now i just want to find one of the criteria vich my mega bot is not fullfilling. N yeah, as far as thot process is concerned, i mean u say dat v living beings can think, i can explian u dat thing also. But dat later on, for the time being, lemme just compare my bot vid sum simple living form, say plants. N i think, dat my bot is a lot better dan plants. K, it is a lot bigger, but still better equiped vid sensors, driven by a better program dan dat stored in the plant's dna. I mean, now vats the difference in the two. How can one say that plant is living n bot is non-living.??? N in case u say dat my bot doesnt grow, so, i programmed it to make up his own parts, n also to repair dem. vel, one thing vich i was thinkin was how vel adaptation is done in d bot. As per d definition of adaptation, it is changing, permanently o emporarily, to fit to the surroundings. This my bot vil also do, for eg, control the speed fan on the processor according to the outside temp. Ok, now d thinkin part. Vat i 'think' bout dis is dat, first of all, i think dat v dont think. V just do actions accordin to sum pre-pogrammed algo or sumtin. Vel, i dun say dat it happens so, but it cud. Just like our involuntary muscles, vich work vidout our intervention, i sumtimes think dat all our actions r also involuntary, dey r just affected by the events happenin in the surroundins. N yeah, in case v consider dis to b true, dis wud certainly mean dat v can calculate our fture actions. it vil need a lotta computations, but it can b done. So, many a times i think dat ders no need to call a thing living or non-living. d difference i think is d level of complexity. Vel, for a long time, i dint found ne contradiction to this theory, but still, i think dat i m livin n dis comp on vich i m workin is not. Vel, actually, it wud b wrong to say dat i think, instead i feel, i feel dat i m livin n dis comp is not. I m livin, mayb i m not controlin my actions, i mean, mayb my actions r being controlled by all d events happenin around n pocessd by algo in my dna, but dere is sumthin dat makes me feel livin. yeah, not dat simple to explain. n i dunno y i m tryin to do so. But havnt u ever thot dat way??? mayb not excatly like dis, but in sum different way, sumthin must hav sumtim been in ur mind too. Vel, i m not able to convince myself bout dis theory, for vich i m not able to find ne contradiction, primarily coz i 'feel' dat i m living. Now, i m sorry, but i wont b able to describe my feeling vid d help of dis non-livin keyboard. In case neone frm bio field read dis, please lemme know d difference between living n non-living. vat i feel is dat so-called non-livin r d buildin block of livin things. n so-called livin hav a poper algo to work. but dat way i m nt able to find ne diffeence in a machine controlled by ne kinda controller n a plant ( just for simplicity sake, else i can compare my bot even vid u). u must b thinkin dat i m totally confused, vel, i m not much confused, its simple, i think dat i m non-livin, but i feel dat i m livin.

Home sweet home - the journey

2006-05-14T17:17:00.000+05:30

So... finally... i am home... after battling the comprees out dere in the scroching pilabni heat... i am home. Came yesterday. But the journey was not so simple. Yeah, a non-preplanned journey is not always so good, but the twists in such journey are always welcome. After all the twists n turns, i was home tomorrow, n ... now for next two and a half months, al my posts, i'll type on my very own keyboard.

25% engineer???

2006-04-25T21:39:00.000+05:30

So, my first year in BITS is goin to end soon. This sememster, i must say, went away really fast. Less visits to home, APOGEE, sariska trip, two test series, all of them contributed. But i must say that this sem was ob much interesting than the previous one, and pretty hectic as well. Well, compres will start from next tue, not even one week is left. But even at this stage, we do have other things to worry about, that overshadow all the tension of compres. I indeed found our bhawan allotment really interesting. Well, lemme explain first, in case you are not a BITSian. Here we do change our hostels /* called bhawans */ every year. Apart from first year, in all 3 of them, we get our hostel according to our discipline. This time, my discipline i.e. EIE, EEE n B.Pharm are going to be together. I must say, this thing, i mean bhawan allotment is pretty interesting. The list of disciplines n bhawans was out this sat, n dat day onwards, all over d campus, people r trying to get a gud group. Well, still left in the bag is wing allotment for various groups. Forming groups is not dat simple. We hav to make groups of 11-12 people. We formed one sat nite arnd 2am. Nxt mornin 3 of them left, den we got some other 3. Den other 2 left. Well, its been a total mess for last 3 days, n i m really enjoying this. Sumtimes i feel its more like a marriage. U r gettin a proposal from groups n simultaneously u r sending ur proposal as vel to diff. gropus. Later on u get to know dey rejected n sum group accepted, but u now dun want to join dat group. Well, even i wanted to kick out 1-2 from my group, but den i feel like, i must not break my promise. But what if v get dat person, vil dat b gud for us for nxt whole year, shud v compromise or vat... Maynot b for u, but this is really interestin for me. Mayb i'll neither get wing nor wingies of my choice, but i m facin such situation for d first time, n really enjoyin d stuff. And another landmark of semester end, farewells, discipline farewells, regional assocs.'s farewells, clubs n dept. farewell. Well, only disp. n reg. assco. farewell r official n hav dinners in messes. Our mess, d best in our campus, daily v hav one or the other farewell grub. Well, i m not in ne dept. or club, n our reg. assoc. of delhi has no psenti semite /*hope its spelt correctly*/, so i had just my discipline's farewell. Yeah, I enjoyed d food. I was dere, takin sum 'responsibilty', yeah, i can handle dem, especially if dey r really chilled n sweet, i was dere at sweetdish stall, enjoyed vanilla flavour n my favourite gulab jamun a lot. V r indeed a bit worried bout compres, but dat has only changed d way v pass our time. Instead of sum other talk, v talk more bout d av., outta 300, how much vud b A, n all sort of dat stuff. It vud b a lot better if v conc. on our studies, rather dan wonderig how much more v need to get d grades, but alas, no one can help it, v r progrommed to pass our time by talkin on n on in groups, vat compres has done is just changed d subject n nothin more. Well.. my next post, i suppose must b ven i m back home, after compres as I'll try, if not to study, den atleast to b away from stupid ways of time pass. Mayb i'll succeed...

Yo Sariska!!

2006-04-14T11:49:00.000+05:30

So, finally, I also can tell people stories about my excursion trip. Yeah, this was indeed my first, and it was really rocking. We started at around 1345 hrs on saturday, after the mathematics test, after the lunch, after taking permission from our warden sir /* yeah, it was all legal this time*/. The journey was about 4 hours, which itself was a real fun. The surrounding hills were really eye pleasure, as we got closer to alwar, which is 36k from sariska. Few kms ahead, we halted at a place /* you can have a look of it in the photo*/ I dunno what exactly it was, but we loved the landscape and there was a little water /* you cant call it river*/ around where we enjoyed watching turtles and our ancestor monkey-the-great.

Then we proceeded and the surrounding got even better as we approached sariska. After a lotta roaming around, thanks heaven, we did found a motel sort of thing to stay, which had in total 3 rooms, and we booked them all. Later on we realised that there was no need at all. Coz for the whole night, we were playing "Mafia", it's really a nice game. We enjoyed it the whole night. We planned to start our 'safari' at around 0800 hrs on sunday, so, took a little rest for 2 hrs and then checked out. We reached our destination at 0800 sharp. So, this was the thing we were waiting for. It was a tiger reserve, but there were no tigers there at present. So, all we could had prayed was for leopard and cheeteah. K lets first, enter the jungle Now let the pics speak a few things. That's sambhar

Run Lola Run

Now that's maa ka pyar No, we dint got to see any leopard or cheetah either. We just saw footprints of hyna /* as per the driver*/. And apart from the above animals, we got to see neelgai, jackal and wildboars. I cant tell u how many birds we saw. Well, but i must say more than the animals, we enjoyed the landscape. This was first of its kind, atleast for me. It was really amazing when we climed the hill, in gypsey, on so called 'kuchcha raasta'. Somewhere there was so much slope that we had to get down and push the vehicle up. And as we got to the top, there we had a place called "Pandupol" /* I hope its spelt correctly*/. For that we had to walk about 2 kms further upwards. But it was really worth it. Its actually a waterfall, but there's no water at present coz of the hot weather. There we enjoyed a little bit of rock climbing. From there we returned back to the base quickly coz of time constraints. The driver took us from the "pukka raasta" this time, so we dint had much chances to get to see laopard or something, u can see them only while you are driving on "kuchcha raasta". Back to the base at 1130 hrs. We all were hungry, we had just a cup of coffee since morning. So, next destination, some kinda dhaba. But this one was really difficult. We also planned to see forts in Alwar as well. This was a good news for some of us and a bad news, atleast for me, the fort remain closed for public on sundays. Yeah, after 5 hr journey, then a night out playing mafia, and then the safari, without a break, it was all really taxing. Ok, lets move on to our next stop. There were no dhabas around, before we got to a Rajasthan Tourism resort. It was around 1300 hrs, between Sariska and Alwar, built near a lake. We got our tummies filled /* well, not exactly*/ and then we went for boating in the lake. We initially planned to visit this lake a day before, but we missed it on the way that time. So, here we go three pedal boats. We planned boating,but it seemed we did rafting when we got out. And even here, not to forget the beautifull landscape. Yeah, this is Rajasthan, our beautiful Rajasthan. Well, after the boating-cum-rafting we were really tired and on sunday we have no other option, everything is closed in alwar, the forts and the museum. So, only option, our hostel sweet hostel, Pilani. We got back at around 2000 hrs. What an amazing trip it was. Hey, the thrill and adventure was far more than the description. U cant expect artistic description from me atleast. Some of my friends enjoyed "Mafia" the most, But I really enjoyed the park, yeah, landscape more than those herbivores and the jackal. Or in simple words it was : TARGET ACCOMPLISHED SUCCESSFULLY. This, no doubt, was a big HIT. My sincere thanks Rwitajit, for the brilliant snaps. // I have 512MB of the stuff

Nothing much, just a blog update

2006-04-06T22:43:00.000+05:30

Well, I am writing this post primely to update my blog. Nothing much intersting has happened here for quite some time, and i am not a poet, never expect any kinda literary creation here on my blog. So, finally we got the treat from our co-ord for our success in APOGEE, that was last saturday. Actually, last weekend was a rockin as far as our taste buds are concerned. Two much awaited treats, one for my wingies' b'day, on friday, and the other one, ofcourse, our assoc treat. And on sunday, we have special lunch in our mess. And yes, our mess is famous in the whole campus /* no sarcastic intentions, really, its the best*/. Yup, life is going pretty boring, with test series always running in parallel processing. To cut that, our wing has planned a trip to sariska national park. And this time even I got permission from home, a bit unexpected. So, we are looking forward to it. And i hope that you'll get to know bit more bout that park, when you read my next post. Got a test on saturday, that's day after tommorow. And yes, I know the syllabus. I mean just the topics /*hi hi hi*/. So tommorow, the whole day devoted to mathematics.

APOGEE 2K6

2006-03-26T22:20:00.000+05:30

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=$$&*#@$%

2006-03-16T16:21:00.000+05:30

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.................

2006-03-08T16:24:00.000+05:30

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);

2006-03-04T15:15:00.000+05:30

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

2006-03-04T14:43:00.000+05:30

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.