Just found this on a blog. it makes a good read
In our lifes all of us,in fact each one of us have so many people we call as "friends" these friends we consider very dear to us and close to our heart but then All of us even have some friends whom we call the "best friends".why is it so??why we consider some friends more special than others??I beleive its because these friends are the ones we trust more,like more,like to be with,because we know if anyone goes wrong with either of us two the other will always be the first one to help and be there.hmmso delicate yet so powerful is the bond of friendship.
How to identify best friends??hmm..lets see if we really can....
Friend: calls your parents by Mr. and Mrs.
Best friend: calls your parents dad and mom.
Friend: has never seen you cry
Best friend: has always had the best shoulder to cry on
Friend: never asks for anything to eat or drink
Best friend: opens the fridge and makes himself/herself at home
Friend: asks you to write down your number.
Best friend: they ask you for their number(because the can't remember it themselves)
Friend: borrows your stuff for a few days then gives it back.
Best friend: has a closet full of your stuff
Friend: only knows a few things about you
Best friend: could write a biography on your life story
Friend: will leave you behind if that is what the crowd is doing
Best friend: will always go with you
Friend: Will always thank you or say sorry for the events.
Best Friend: Never uses this words but just feels them in the heart and will do everything possible when need arises.
I Just hope everyone has some best friends in life for such friendship is a treasure to find and possess all your life.
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Monday, April 04, 2005
Super Saturday
Hey there to you all once again. Looks like the great JD has finally arisen from his self-imposed slumber and decided to exercise a few of those rotting brain cells of his. I must say, though, that I am impressed! So many posts in one day! Thats not bad at all.
Had gone to DMCE yesterday for their techfest. I had intended to give TPP and Tech Quiz with R. Ended up participating in Debate and Brainstorming, thanks to AM. The TPP went off smoothly and we were able to complete within the stipulated time of 10 mins. Implosions, after all, is a topic both I and R love and it shows! AM, R and I gave the Debate elims after that in which all I did was to convert the points given by R and AM into bombastic language. Guess this approach was liked by the organisers coz ours was the first name to be announced as finalists.
Quiz elims were a dud as far as we were concerned coz it was not at all a quiz. You could, infact, call it a simplified GATE paper. Even the Civil engg. quizzes are better organised in our college! I guess Motley quality is unreachable for these guys. Anyway, I hope they learn fast.
Brainstorming had direct finals in which AM and I were asked to speak on the topic 'How to tackle Tsunamis'. We had a lot of help from RS and SCH in this regard and I would like to record my sincere thanks to them here.
Then, after a really stupid quiz final, it was time for the Prize Distribution. TPP prizes were swept by SPCE with AM and YD getting first and I and R getting second. We also won Debate and Brainstorming. One guy from TE won the second prize in the AutoCAD competition. So, all in all, it was a good day for SPCE. I am glad we were able to show the quality of our college to the DMCE guys who are always flying high in the air, thanks to the large dollops of marks awarded to them by their generous professors. Contrast that with our profs who can give Scrooge a run for his money when it comes to giving marks!!
Tomorrow, we have the risk of malaria coming down for around three days. Confused? Actually, MMM is unavailable in college for 3 days. I guess we should wholeheartedly embrace this golden opportunity and brace ourselves for the malarial onslaught which will begin on the 15th of April. May God save us from the Buzz!!
More in the next post.
CIAO.
Had gone to DMCE yesterday for their techfest. I had intended to give TPP and Tech Quiz with R. Ended up participating in Debate and Brainstorming, thanks to AM. The TPP went off smoothly and we were able to complete within the stipulated time of 10 mins. Implosions, after all, is a topic both I and R love and it shows! AM, R and I gave the Debate elims after that in which all I did was to convert the points given by R and AM into bombastic language. Guess this approach was liked by the organisers coz ours was the first name to be announced as finalists.
Quiz elims were a dud as far as we were concerned coz it was not at all a quiz. You could, infact, call it a simplified GATE paper. Even the Civil engg. quizzes are better organised in our college! I guess Motley quality is unreachable for these guys. Anyway, I hope they learn fast.
Brainstorming had direct finals in which AM and I were asked to speak on the topic 'How to tackle Tsunamis'. We had a lot of help from RS and SCH in this regard and I would like to record my sincere thanks to them here.
Then, after a really stupid quiz final, it was time for the Prize Distribution. TPP prizes were swept by SPCE with AM and YD getting first and I and R getting second. We also won Debate and Brainstorming. One guy from TE won the second prize in the AutoCAD competition. So, all in all, it was a good day for SPCE. I am glad we were able to show the quality of our college to the DMCE guys who are always flying high in the air, thanks to the large dollops of marks awarded to them by their generous professors. Contrast that with our profs who can give Scrooge a run for his money when it comes to giving marks!!
Tomorrow, we have the risk of malaria coming down for around three days. Confused? Actually, MMM is unavailable in college for 3 days. I guess we should wholeheartedly embrace this golden opportunity and brace ourselves for the malarial onslaught which will begin on the 15th of April. May God save us from the Buzz!!
More in the next post.
CIAO.
Sunday, April 03, 2005
"Cargo Cult Science" - by Richard Feynman
Hi !! These are excerpts from R. Fenyman's Caltech commencement address to new students given in 1974. It is also included in his highly popular book "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Fenyman!"
I think it will be an interesting read for all us engineers.
"if you're doing an experiment, you should report everything that you think might make it invalid--not only what you think is right about it: other causes that could possibly explain your results; and things you thought of that you've eliminated by some other experiment, and how they worked--to make sure the other fellow can tell they have been eliminated."
" In summary, the idea is to give all of the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgement in one particular direction or another.
The easiest way to explain this idea is to contrast it, for example, with advertising. Last night I heard that Wesson oil doesn't soak through food. Well, that's true. It's not dishonest; but the thing I'm talking about is not just a matter of not being dishonest; it's a matter of scientific integrity, which is another level. The fact that should be added to that advertising statement is that no oils soak through food, if operated at a certain temperature. If operated at another temperature, they all will--including Wesson oil. So it's the implication which has been conveyed, not the fact, which is true, and the difference is what we have to deal with. "
" We have learned a lot from experience about how to handle some of the ways we fool ourselves. One example: Millikan measured the charge on an electron by an experiment with falling oil drops, and got an answer which we now know not to be quite right. It's a little bit off because he had the incorrect value for the viscosity of air. It's interesting to look at the history of measurements of the charge of an electron, after Millikan. If you plot them as a function of time, you find that one is a little bit bigger than Millikan's, and the next one's a little bit bigger than that, and the next one's a little bit bigger than that, until finally they settle down to a number which is higher.
Why didn't they discover the new number was higher right away? It's a thing that scientists are ashamed of--this history--because it's apparent that people did things like this: When they got a number that was too high above Millikan's, they thought something must be wrong--and they would look for and find a reason why something might be wrong. When they got a number close to Millikan's value they didn't look so hard. And so they eliminated the numbers that were too far off, and did other things like that. We've learned those tricks nowadays, and now we don't have that kind of a disease. "
" Other kinds of errors are more characteristic of poor science. When I was at Cornell, I often talked to the people in the psychology department. One of the students told me she wanted to do an experiment that went something like this--it had been found by others that under certain circumstances, X, rats did something, A. She was curious as to whether, if she changed the circumstances to Y, they would still do A. So her proposal was to do the experiment under circumstances Y and see if they still did A.
I explained to her that it was necessary first to repeat in her laboratory the experiment of the other person--to do it under condition X to see if she could also get result A, and then change to Y and see if A changed. Then she would know the the real difference was the thing she thought she had under control.
She was very delighted with this new idea, and went to her professor. And his reply was, no, you cannot do that, because the experiment has already been done and you would be wasting time. This was in about 1947 or so, and it seems to have been the general policy then to not try to repeat psychological experiments, but only to change the conditions and see what happened. "
" But in 1937 a man named Young did a very interesting one. He had a long corridor with doors all along one side where the rats came in, and doors along the other side where the food was. He wanted to see if he could train the rats to go in at the third door down from wherever he started them off. No. The rats went immediately to the door where the food had been the time before.
The question was, how did the rats know, because the corridor was so beautifully built and so uniform, that this was the same door as before? Obviously there was something about the door that was different from the other doors. So he painted the doors very carefully, arranging the textures on the faces of the doors exactly the same. Still the rats could tell. Then he thought maybe the rats were smelling the food, so he used chemicals to change the smell after each run. Still the rats could tell. Then he realized the rats might be able to tell by seeing the lights and the arrangement in the laboratory like any commonsense person. So he covered the corridor, and still the rats could tell.
He finally found that they could tell by the way the floor sounded when they ran over it. And he could only fix that by putting his corridor in sand. So he covered one after another of all possible clues and finally was able to fool the rats so that they had to learn to go in the third door. If he relaxed any of his conditions, the rats could tell.
Now, from a scientific standpoint, that is an A-number-one experiment. That is the experiment that makes rat-running experiments sensible, because it uncovers that clues that the rat is really using-- not what you think it's using. And that is the experiment that tells exactly what conditions you have to use in order to be careful and control everything in an experiment with rat-running.
I looked up the subsequent history of this research. The next experiment, and the one after that, never referred to Mr. Young. They never used any of his criteria of putting the corridor on sand, or being very careful. They just went right on running the rats in the same old way, and paid no attention to the great discoveries of Mr. Young, and his papers are not referred to, because he didn't discover anything about the rats. In fact, he discovered all the things you have to do to discover something about rats. But not paying attention to experiments like that is a characteristic example of cargo cult science. "
" So I have just one wish for you--the good luck to be somewhere where you are free to maintain the kind of integrity I have described, and where you do not feel forced by a need to maintain your position in the organization, or financial support, or so on, to lose your integrity. May you have that freedom."
Source : "Cargo Cult Science" - by Richard Feynman
I think it will be an interesting read for all us engineers.
"if you're doing an experiment, you should report everything that you think might make it invalid--not only what you think is right about it: other causes that could possibly explain your results; and things you thought of that you've eliminated by some other experiment, and how they worked--to make sure the other fellow can tell they have been eliminated."
" In summary, the idea is to give all of the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgement in one particular direction or another.
The easiest way to explain this idea is to contrast it, for example, with advertising. Last night I heard that Wesson oil doesn't soak through food. Well, that's true. It's not dishonest; but the thing I'm talking about is not just a matter of not being dishonest; it's a matter of scientific integrity, which is another level. The fact that should be added to that advertising statement is that no oils soak through food, if operated at a certain temperature. If operated at another temperature, they all will--including Wesson oil. So it's the implication which has been conveyed, not the fact, which is true, and the difference is what we have to deal with. "
" We have learned a lot from experience about how to handle some of the ways we fool ourselves. One example: Millikan measured the charge on an electron by an experiment with falling oil drops, and got an answer which we now know not to be quite right. It's a little bit off because he had the incorrect value for the viscosity of air. It's interesting to look at the history of measurements of the charge of an electron, after Millikan. If you plot them as a function of time, you find that one is a little bit bigger than Millikan's, and the next one's a little bit bigger than that, and the next one's a little bit bigger than that, until finally they settle down to a number which is higher.
Why didn't they discover the new number was higher right away? It's a thing that scientists are ashamed of--this history--because it's apparent that people did things like this: When they got a number that was too high above Millikan's, they thought something must be wrong--and they would look for and find a reason why something might be wrong. When they got a number close to Millikan's value they didn't look so hard. And so they eliminated the numbers that were too far off, and did other things like that. We've learned those tricks nowadays, and now we don't have that kind of a disease. "
" Other kinds of errors are more characteristic of poor science. When I was at Cornell, I often talked to the people in the psychology department. One of the students told me she wanted to do an experiment that went something like this--it had been found by others that under certain circumstances, X, rats did something, A. She was curious as to whether, if she changed the circumstances to Y, they would still do A. So her proposal was to do the experiment under circumstances Y and see if they still did A.
I explained to her that it was necessary first to repeat in her laboratory the experiment of the other person--to do it under condition X to see if she could also get result A, and then change to Y and see if A changed. Then she would know the the real difference was the thing she thought she had under control.
She was very delighted with this new idea, and went to her professor. And his reply was, no, you cannot do that, because the experiment has already been done and you would be wasting time. This was in about 1947 or so, and it seems to have been the general policy then to not try to repeat psychological experiments, but only to change the conditions and see what happened. "
" But in 1937 a man named Young did a very interesting one. He had a long corridor with doors all along one side where the rats came in, and doors along the other side where the food was. He wanted to see if he could train the rats to go in at the third door down from wherever he started them off. No. The rats went immediately to the door where the food had been the time before.
The question was, how did the rats know, because the corridor was so beautifully built and so uniform, that this was the same door as before? Obviously there was something about the door that was different from the other doors. So he painted the doors very carefully, arranging the textures on the faces of the doors exactly the same. Still the rats could tell. Then he thought maybe the rats were smelling the food, so he used chemicals to change the smell after each run. Still the rats could tell. Then he realized the rats might be able to tell by seeing the lights and the arrangement in the laboratory like any commonsense person. So he covered the corridor, and still the rats could tell.
He finally found that they could tell by the way the floor sounded when they ran over it. And he could only fix that by putting his corridor in sand. So he covered one after another of all possible clues and finally was able to fool the rats so that they had to learn to go in the third door. If he relaxed any of his conditions, the rats could tell.
Now, from a scientific standpoint, that is an A-number-one experiment. That is the experiment that makes rat-running experiments sensible, because it uncovers that clues that the rat is really using-- not what you think it's using. And that is the experiment that tells exactly what conditions you have to use in order to be careful and control everything in an experiment with rat-running.
I looked up the subsequent history of this research. The next experiment, and the one after that, never referred to Mr. Young. They never used any of his criteria of putting the corridor on sand, or being very careful. They just went right on running the rats in the same old way, and paid no attention to the great discoveries of Mr. Young, and his papers are not referred to, because he didn't discover anything about the rats. In fact, he discovered all the things you have to do to discover something about rats. But not paying attention to experiments like that is a characteristic example of cargo cult science. "
" So I have just one wish for you--the good luck to be somewhere where you are free to maintain the kind of integrity I have described, and where you do not feel forced by a need to maintain your position in the organization, or financial support, or so on, to lose your integrity. May you have that freedom."
Source : "Cargo Cult Science" - by Richard Feynman
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10 stories that could be pranks - but aren't
1. A Japanese inventor has devised solar-powered clothes which can top up the battery on an iPod or mobile phone.
2. The Home Office is being asked to pardon Anne Boleyn, 500 years after she was executed, because she was "obviously innocent".
3. A study of men who attended lapdancing clubs found one man, named by researchers as "Graham the philanthropist" who went five times a week and believed "he was helping the women to make money quickly so they could become financially independent".
4. A family of four ate 20,000 Kit Kats to win prizes worth £12,000. "We had them for breakfast, dinner and tea," said 53-year-old Pat McGovern of Teesside.
5. Joss Stone has earned £5m, shooting her into the top 20 of a rich list of young entertainers. Will Young is worth £8m.
6. A Belgian police training manual which aims to help recruits understand body language has caused a row by likening George Bush's facial expressions to a chimpanzee's.
7. Thousands of visitors are rushing to Death Valley to see a remarkable range of wild flowers which have bloomed there.
8. A tow-truck driver in South Africa has been arrested on suspicion of tampering with traffic lights to make accidents more likely.
9. Conmen in Slough are getting people to pay £400 for laptops, before handing over bags filled not with computer but with bottles of water.
10. Christopher Eccleston, fresh from getting critical acclaim and near-record ratings as the new Doctor Who, has quit.
Unbelievable aren't they
SOURCE : BBC NEWS | Magazine | 10 stories that could be pranks - but aren't
2. The Home Office is being asked to pardon Anne Boleyn, 500 years after she was executed, because she was "obviously innocent".
3. A study of men who attended lapdancing clubs found one man, named by researchers as "Graham the philanthropist" who went five times a week and believed "he was helping the women to make money quickly so they could become financially independent".
4. A family of four ate 20,000 Kit Kats to win prizes worth £12,000. "We had them for breakfast, dinner and tea," said 53-year-old Pat McGovern of Teesside.
5. Joss Stone has earned £5m, shooting her into the top 20 of a rich list of young entertainers. Will Young is worth £8m.
6. A Belgian police training manual which aims to help recruits understand body language has caused a row by likening George Bush's facial expressions to a chimpanzee's.
7. Thousands of visitors are rushing to Death Valley to see a remarkable range of wild flowers which have bloomed there.
8. A tow-truck driver in South Africa has been arrested on suspicion of tampering with traffic lights to make accidents more likely.
9. Conmen in Slough are getting people to pay £400 for laptops, before handing over bags filled not with computer but with bottles of water.
10. Christopher Eccleston, fresh from getting critical acclaim and near-record ratings as the new Doctor Who, has quit.
Unbelievable aren't they
SOURCE : BBC NEWS | Magazine | 10 stories that could be pranks - but aren't
Saturday, April 02, 2005
Fridays are Fun!!
Hmm.. another Friday dawned today. As expected, the mosquito had arranged for an extra lecture. Today's topic was Staircase Design. Sounds verrry interesting isnt it? Well, it actually was! Surprised? So was I! Except for the part when MMM' s droning went into the ultrasonic range, I was able to follow each and every part of the lecture, which, in itself, is an achievement for both, me and MMM. Way to go, MMM. Buzzing rulz!!! Oh ya and BTW, what's with that leg of MMM's? Looks like he performed some vigorous exercise yesterday just before coming to class, and wanted to show off. Else I cant explain the impromptu performance he gave to the whole class. Well, he sure ended up showing off quite a bit, if you get what I mean!! Seriously, I dont mind profs letting their hair down, but I sure draw the line at them lifting their legs up onto stools more than half their height!! MMM might end up having a bark worse than his bite. Considering his increasing canine traits of scratching and lifting legs in public view, I suppose that day isnt too far.
Earlier, I had promised P and V that I would definitely mention them here, albeit in a not so flattering light. But now that I think about it, it seems that would give them too much of free publicity. So no brickbats for you here, V and P. :-D
After a quick lunch, it was time for a session with PHS. We had quite a bit of progress today before we got stuck at some point, as is the norm. Even PHS could not bail us out and I finally left college leaving the problem unsolved. Guess I will have to put in some extra work this weekend.
R and I are going to DMCE tomorrow to present our favourite Implosions paper. AM, YD, RS and SCH will also be there. So its going to be a pretty good contingent from SPCE. Hope we bring back quite a few laurels. There's also a quiz so I am keeping my fingers crossed. More news about this in the next post.
CIAO.
Earlier, I had promised P and V that I would definitely mention them here, albeit in a not so flattering light. But now that I think about it, it seems that would give them too much of free publicity. So no brickbats for you here, V and P. :-D
After a quick lunch, it was time for a session with PHS. We had quite a bit of progress today before we got stuck at some point, as is the norm. Even PHS could not bail us out and I finally left college leaving the problem unsolved. Guess I will have to put in some extra work this weekend.
R and I are going to DMCE tomorrow to present our favourite Implosions paper. AM, YD, RS and SCH will also be there. So its going to be a pretty good contingent from SPCE. Hope we bring back quite a few laurels. There's also a quiz so I am keeping my fingers crossed. More news about this in the next post.
CIAO.
Wednesday, March 30, 2005
A Day full of Happenings
Well, guys, lots of news today to share. K, M and I were sitting in PHS' cabin doing our project when the following drama occured. Characters are as follows :-
ANG - Tortured Schoolboy
RRR - Local Bully
K, M and Sumo - (themselves)
and presenting
PHS in the lead role of the "Even Bigger Bully!!!"
*************************************************************
Scene:-
Bigger Bully is doing his administrative work. K, M and Sumo are doing their project work. Enter Schoolboy.
Schoolboy:Waah!! Sir, Local Bully does not listen to me, waah!!! She says she will not give the Attendance report to you. You dont come to college.....Blah......Blah.....is this my responsibility?? Waah!!!! She says that you did not tell her to report to you.
Bigger Bully:(smiles evilly) She says that does she? She can hardly do any work properly. She has not even done the library work I gave her one and a half months ago!! This is the height of incompetence!! (evil smile slowly disappears)
Schoolboy: She says that you are never to be found in college....Blah.....Blah!!!
Bigger Bully: She says that? (more evil smile) We shall see!!!(lets threat hang in the air) You dont worry beta, she will not harm you. M, am I not in college from 11 to 7????
M: Ummm......yeeesss sir.
Bigger Bully:(flashes triumphant smile) OK we will see about her tomorrow!!!
Schoolboy: Sniff....Thank You, Sir, you are very kind.
Bigger Bully: Its ok, bachcha now you go back to your table, ok??
(K, M and Sumo snigger quietly)
End of Scene
***************************************************************
I suppose you guys must have got the hang of what happened by now. You know, I admire RRR's guts. But the poor thing is under the impression that she can get away with this. The sleeping tiger has awakened!! Never underestimate the fury of a tiger that you kicked awake!! It will be fun to see the look on RRR's face when she leaves the cabin with the seat of power in SPCE. I know it will be difficult to see the redness on her face, given the limitation her colour poses but I am sure that the deep red tinge on her cheeks will overcome that!!
After this, all the other events in class seem to fade away into oblivion. The mosquito has now become our official class teacher. He seems to take more than 80% of our lectures. If I ever learn mosquito language, I shall have to remember to credit MMM very lavishly for it. Coz its he (??? at least I think its 'he') who taught me how to properly use those buzzes and drones!
PHS dropped a few more bombshells. The project presentations of the entire class will now be held on the 29th of April and the CPM viva's most probable dates are 2nd and 3rd March. Gr8 news isnt it?? Please leave behind your comments here.
More in the next post, hopefully some news of RRR being royally screwed!!!
CIAO.
ANG - Tortured Schoolboy
RRR - Local Bully
K, M and Sumo - (themselves)
and presenting
PHS in the lead role of the "Even Bigger Bully!!!"
*************************************************************
Scene:-
Bigger Bully is doing his administrative work. K, M and Sumo are doing their project work. Enter Schoolboy.
Schoolboy:Waah!! Sir, Local Bully does not listen to me, waah!!! She says she will not give the Attendance report to you. You dont come to college.....Blah......Blah.....is this my responsibility?? Waah!!!! She says that you did not tell her to report to you.
Bigger Bully:(smiles evilly) She says that does she? She can hardly do any work properly. She has not even done the library work I gave her one and a half months ago!! This is the height of incompetence!! (evil smile slowly disappears)
Schoolboy: She says that you are never to be found in college....Blah.....Blah!!!
Bigger Bully: She says that? (more evil smile) We shall see!!!(lets threat hang in the air) You dont worry beta, she will not harm you. M, am I not in college from 11 to 7????
M: Ummm......yeeesss sir.
Bigger Bully:(flashes triumphant smile) OK we will see about her tomorrow!!!
Schoolboy: Sniff....Thank You, Sir, you are very kind.
Bigger Bully: Its ok, bachcha now you go back to your table, ok??
(K, M and Sumo snigger quietly)
End of Scene
***************************************************************
I suppose you guys must have got the hang of what happened by now. You know, I admire RRR's guts. But the poor thing is under the impression that she can get away with this. The sleeping tiger has awakened!! Never underestimate the fury of a tiger that you kicked awake!! It will be fun to see the look on RRR's face when she leaves the cabin with the seat of power in SPCE. I know it will be difficult to see the redness on her face, given the limitation her colour poses but I am sure that the deep red tinge on her cheeks will overcome that!!
After this, all the other events in class seem to fade away into oblivion. The mosquito has now become our official class teacher. He seems to take more than 80% of our lectures. If I ever learn mosquito language, I shall have to remember to credit MMM very lavishly for it. Coz its he (??? at least I think its 'he') who taught me how to properly use those buzzes and drones!
PHS dropped a few more bombshells. The project presentations of the entire class will now be held on the 29th of April and the CPM viva's most probable dates are 2nd and 3rd March. Gr8 news isnt it?? Please leave behind your comments here.
More in the next post, hopefully some news of RRR being royally screwed!!!
CIAO.
Saturday, March 26, 2005
And Life goes on
When I checked my blog, I found that my last entry was just after Rose Day! Hmm..it sure has been a long time before I have found the time to post something here.
Nothing much has happened since my last post though. I went to RCOE alongwith my project group, sans K and presented our project there. It was actually a rush against time as I had a test in college on the same day in the morning and MMM's lecture in the aftrenoon. We managed to rush to RCOE by rick and were promptly told that we would have to wait until after lunch to present the project. After a lot of pleading on our part about the lack of time, they finally allowed us to carry on immediately, albeit in a smaller amount of time than usual. The unfortunate part was that the presentation on GA which forms a major part of my project was not working and the CD with the backup copy was lying at the house of the "very efficient" guy from TE-Civil (let's just call him 'Madan')!!! ##@@!!%%&&$$@@**!!!!! Anyway, due to the lack of a Powerpoint presentation, R and I managed to present the project in little over 15 minutes. As expected, noone from the audience understood a word about our project, but the judges seemed interested and were asking pretty relevant questions. At the end, they seemed impressed enough to make me feel hopeful of a prize. But, alas, it was not to be. As it turned out, we didnt win. However, the silver lining was that AM had presented his paper on Galvanised Rebars the previous day and he got the first prize. So our class was not empty-handed, at least. Guess, my RCOE jinx stays firm!!!
MMM continued with his droning throughout the week and even wanted to engage an extra lecture yesterday!!! Thankfully, his 'evil' plans were thwarted by the presence of mind of the entire class which provided a very viable excuse of being unable to attend college due to balloon-throwing incidents!!! Well, I suppose he will find another way of getting back at us, I am sure.
PHS also went on with his Mumbo-Jumbo, starting with PERT networks this time. Seriously, if you want to train a guy to eavesdrop on conversations, send him to PHS. In 2 week's time, if he can understand what PHS is saying then I think he can make out any conversation held behind closed doors!!! Think how useful would that be to the CBI or RAW.
Indian cricket is in a bit of soup right now with SRT back in the pavillion. But, with Viru there, one can heave a sigh of relief. VVS is also beginning to find his touch. Poor Dada has had to drop down the order so that VVS can have a crack at the bowling. Anyway, here's hoping that he finds his touch soon. Methinks India will have to do something special from here to gon on and win the match.
Hmmm....more in the next post. Gotta go back and watch the match!!!
CIAO.
Nothing much has happened since my last post though. I went to RCOE alongwith my project group, sans K and presented our project there. It was actually a rush against time as I had a test in college on the same day in the morning and MMM's lecture in the aftrenoon. We managed to rush to RCOE by rick and were promptly told that we would have to wait until after lunch to present the project. After a lot of pleading on our part about the lack of time, they finally allowed us to carry on immediately, albeit in a smaller amount of time than usual. The unfortunate part was that the presentation on GA which forms a major part of my project was not working and the CD with the backup copy was lying at the house of the "very efficient" guy from TE-Civil (let's just call him 'Madan')!!! ##@@!!%%&&$$@@**!!!!! Anyway, due to the lack of a Powerpoint presentation, R and I managed to present the project in little over 15 minutes. As expected, noone from the audience understood a word about our project, but the judges seemed interested and were asking pretty relevant questions. At the end, they seemed impressed enough to make me feel hopeful of a prize. But, alas, it was not to be. As it turned out, we didnt win. However, the silver lining was that AM had presented his paper on Galvanised Rebars the previous day and he got the first prize. So our class was not empty-handed, at least. Guess, my RCOE jinx stays firm!!!
MMM continued with his droning throughout the week and even wanted to engage an extra lecture yesterday!!! Thankfully, his 'evil' plans were thwarted by the presence of mind of the entire class which provided a very viable excuse of being unable to attend college due to balloon-throwing incidents!!! Well, I suppose he will find another way of getting back at us, I am sure.
PHS also went on with his Mumbo-Jumbo, starting with PERT networks this time. Seriously, if you want to train a guy to eavesdrop on conversations, send him to PHS. In 2 week's time, if he can understand what PHS is saying then I think he can make out any conversation held behind closed doors!!! Think how useful would that be to the CBI or RAW.
Indian cricket is in a bit of soup right now with SRT back in the pavillion. But, with Viru there, one can heave a sigh of relief. VVS is also beginning to find his touch. Poor Dada has had to drop down the order so that VVS can have a crack at the bowling. Anyway, here's hoping that he finds his touch soon. Methinks India will have to do something special from here to gon on and win the match.
Hmmm....more in the next post. Gotta go back and watch the match!!!
CIAO.
Monday, March 21, 2005
Rose Day!!
Well, it was Rose Day in college today and there was an air of anticipation in the morning. I went to college thinking it would be fun to see the girls carrying themselves awkwardly in their sarees. V and P were the first girls to arrive in the class. They were looking pretty good in their sarees but seemed ill at ease. Then R and A made an almost simultaneous entry into the class. While A looked good, she looked only a fraction of last year's saree-clad version. As for R, well, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! Guess my laughter sums it up. She again looked pretty OK but seemed to be the most uncomfortable of all the girls in the class. Poor thing, she seemed to be in a tearing hurry to get home.
We held an impromptu photo session in the parking lot and methinks, it was pretty good. All of us got our photos clicked in various poses with me and C mainly playing photographer. In the midst of all this, PHS made an entry in his car and we accosted him as soon as he got out of his car. Poor fellow!! But, it must be said that he immediately agreed to pose with us for the photo.
MMM and PHS didnt bestow free lectures on us and hence, we had to wait until 2:30 before we could go out to eat. By this time, all of us were absolutely ravenous. Vrindy's was full and it was quite a while before we got a place to sit. By this time, I was almost at the end of my tether and was ready to snap at anyone crossing my path. Thank goodness no one did!!! Well, there's more fun scheduled for Rose Day but I and S decided to call it a day and we went home. Its my day to drive today and I feel driving is a much better pastime than sitting in that stuffy quad, waiting for your ears to go deaf!!
Nothing more to say, so...........
CIAO.
We held an impromptu photo session in the parking lot and methinks, it was pretty good. All of us got our photos clicked in various poses with me and C mainly playing photographer. In the midst of all this, PHS made an entry in his car and we accosted him as soon as he got out of his car. Poor fellow!! But, it must be said that he immediately agreed to pose with us for the photo.
MMM and PHS didnt bestow free lectures on us and hence, we had to wait until 2:30 before we could go out to eat. By this time, all of us were absolutely ravenous. Vrindy's was full and it was quite a while before we got a place to sit. By this time, I was almost at the end of my tether and was ready to snap at anyone crossing my path. Thank goodness no one did!!! Well, there's more fun scheduled for Rose Day but I and S decided to call it a day and we went home. Its my day to drive today and I feel driving is a much better pastime than sitting in that stuffy quad, waiting for your ears to go deaf!!
Nothing more to say, so...........
CIAO.
Sunday, March 20, 2005
India Wins!!!
Well, its been a mixed weekend of sorts for me, at least. On one hand, I have spent a lot of my time completing the DDCS floor system so that I can submit it in time on Wednesday. On the other hand, its been fun watching the Indo-Pak match which has been very exciting to say the least. Fortunes have swung wildly from one side to the other. Thankfully, the match ended on the right note for India, with Jumbo scalping 7. Dravid also played very nicely, achieving the enviable feat of scoring a century in each innings of a test. He deservedly won the Man of the Match award for this.
Plus, there was F1 today!!! I watched almost the entire race and was definitely not disappointed. The Tiffosi were disappointed as their team again lagged behind the rest of the main teams. Renault continued their good showing as they notched up yet another win, this time by Alonso. Sadly, Fisi spun out and lost out on valuable points. Schumi came in 7th which was pretty disappointing by his standards. Guess, Ferrari will no longer have any doubts as to when they should debut the F2005. It HAS to be running at Sakhir!! Toyota kept up their strong showing with Trulli coming second and a surprising 3rd for Heidfeld in the FW26. The field order looks completely topsy-turvy this season. Looks like we are in for a very exciting 2005 season. Red Bull continue to impress with every race with DC showing the way. Karthikeyan seems to have introduced a semblance of reliability into the Jordan team. He looks steady while driving and at the same time, manages to finish his races instead of retiring like most of his predecessors. Keep it up, NK!!!
Tomorrow is Rose Day! My final one. Lets hope we get a few good rose cards in alongwith the fishpond, which I mentioned here earlier. Most of the guys will be in formals with ties. I say most coz K and S are likely to play spoilsport here. The girls will all be at least an hour late as they will have to spend that extra time learning how to wear sarees and not trip over them!!! LOL!! Sorry girls, just a small joke at your expense. R says that she is a useless girl. Guess we shall all see a useless woman tomorrow. But, she will be useless all the same, methinks!! HAHAHAHAHA!!!!
CIAO.
Plus, there was F1 today!!! I watched almost the entire race and was definitely not disappointed. The Tiffosi were disappointed as their team again lagged behind the rest of the main teams. Renault continued their good showing as they notched up yet another win, this time by Alonso. Sadly, Fisi spun out and lost out on valuable points. Schumi came in 7th which was pretty disappointing by his standards. Guess, Ferrari will no longer have any doubts as to when they should debut the F2005. It HAS to be running at Sakhir!! Toyota kept up their strong showing with Trulli coming second and a surprising 3rd for Heidfeld in the FW26. The field order looks completely topsy-turvy this season. Looks like we are in for a very exciting 2005 season. Red Bull continue to impress with every race with DC showing the way. Karthikeyan seems to have introduced a semblance of reliability into the Jordan team. He looks steady while driving and at the same time, manages to finish his races instead of retiring like most of his predecessors. Keep it up, NK!!!
Tomorrow is Rose Day! My final one. Lets hope we get a few good rose cards in alongwith the fishpond, which I mentioned here earlier. Most of the guys will be in formals with ties. I say most coz K and S are likely to play spoilsport here. The girls will all be at least an hour late as they will have to spend that extra time learning how to wear sarees and not trip over them!!! LOL!! Sorry girls, just a small joke at your expense. R says that she is a useless girl. Guess we shall all see a useless woman tomorrow. But, she will be useless all the same, methinks!! HAHAHAHAHA!!!!
CIAO.
Friday, March 18, 2005
Friday Fever
Well, its Friday again and we all have started to look forward to the weekend ahead of us. Well, it sure feels nice that your profs will not be able to torture you for two whole days!!!
Today, the mosquito had another extra lecture. I went to college with a heavy heart (and, incidentally, a heavy body too!!!LOL!!!) thinking it was going to be another sleeping session. But, it was not as bad as I expected it to be. MMM buzzed quite well and the sums were also pretty easy. The only problem was that M took it upon himself to be the first in performing all calculations. This provides quick answers to MMM, no doubt, but it also makes him think that the entire class has understood the particular step and he moves on. Oh come on, M, this is not a race!! We admit that you are the fastest calculator in the entire class by a large margin, but not everyone can pick up the steps as fast as you can. Please try and bear that in mind, its a sincere request from me.
The day after that was pretty enjoyable, on the whole. I showed MMM the program I had written for EE and he suggested a few changes which I may 'condescend' to incorporate if I feel like it!! LOL!!! While the program was compiling, he asked me about my future plans. It was actually a mini career interview for me in his cabin today!!
Before this, JD and I enjoyed a cheese grilled sandwich (Yummy!!!). R, G and I also went out and had ice candy. It was heavenly, especially in this sultry weather. Well, I also ended up feeling that my shirt was being neglected while I was enjoying this cool treat and so, also fed my shirt a bit of candy!! LOL!! MMM was staring at my orange stained mouth when I went to him after this. Guess he must be thinking that I have a lot of vices, one of them being eating paan!!!
At the end of the day, we all pooled pur meagre brains together and tried to think of a few witty lines to write for the fishpond to be held in our class on Monday. But, we could come up with only a few, which was very disappointing. Hmm, guess I should cut out the 'advertising' from my list of interests in my CV!!! Anyway, I hope to have a few brainwaves this weekend so that I can at least cover the entire class in some way or the other.
Me having a blogger's block now, so more in the next post.
CIAO.
Today, the mosquito had another extra lecture. I went to college with a heavy heart (and, incidentally, a heavy body too!!!LOL!!!) thinking it was going to be another sleeping session. But, it was not as bad as I expected it to be. MMM buzzed quite well and the sums were also pretty easy. The only problem was that M took it upon himself to be the first in performing all calculations. This provides quick answers to MMM, no doubt, but it also makes him think that the entire class has understood the particular step and he moves on. Oh come on, M, this is not a race!! We admit that you are the fastest calculator in the entire class by a large margin, but not everyone can pick up the steps as fast as you can. Please try and bear that in mind, its a sincere request from me.
The day after that was pretty enjoyable, on the whole. I showed MMM the program I had written for EE and he suggested a few changes which I may 'condescend' to incorporate if I feel like it!! LOL!!! While the program was compiling, he asked me about my future plans. It was actually a mini career interview for me in his cabin today!!
Before this, JD and I enjoyed a cheese grilled sandwich (Yummy!!!). R, G and I also went out and had ice candy. It was heavenly, especially in this sultry weather. Well, I also ended up feeling that my shirt was being neglected while I was enjoying this cool treat and so, also fed my shirt a bit of candy!! LOL!! MMM was staring at my orange stained mouth when I went to him after this. Guess he must be thinking that I have a lot of vices, one of them being eating paan!!!
At the end of the day, we all pooled pur meagre brains together and tried to think of a few witty lines to write for the fishpond to be held in our class on Monday. But, we could come up with only a few, which was very disappointing. Hmm, guess I should cut out the 'advertising' from my list of interests in my CV!!! Anyway, I hope to have a few brainwaves this weekend so that I can at least cover the entire class in some way or the other.
Me having a blogger's block now, so more in the next post.
CIAO.
Wednesday, March 16, 2005
Beware of Malaria !!!
Well, it was a HORRIBLE day today. Downright torture. The day started with MMM floating into the class 15 min late. We began to breathe a sigh of relief that the lecture would now be only 45 min long instead of the customary 1 hr. Our hopes were soon to be dashed! The CR (damn that fellow!!!) told MMM that the next lecture was free as ANG had gone with the SE guys for their Survey Project. Now that he had an open invitation, MMM began to continue with his droning but RRR came and cut him short, saying that she had booked this lecture beforehand. Now for the sigh of relief??? No Siree!! MMM gave us a mournful version of Arnie's 'I'll be baaaack' look and left. Ominous signs!!! Sure enough, he was baaaack at 1100hrs to continue with his droning! One would think that enduring 2 hrs of this extremely irritating species of mosquito would be enough torture for the day, but MMM had other ideas, at least for the Structures batch. There was the elective lecture to be sat through. With a strong sense of foreboding, we all trooped to the spl. tutorial class reserved for this spl. form of Modern Torture! It was not as bad as we feared and we simply ended up getting a good dose of tectonic geology, all read from the ever interesting IS code!! I guess you could call it a 'Lori- Telling Session' (Thanks for the joke, RS!!)!! But wait, it was not over!! There was still a 3 hr tutorial class to attend! But, thankfully, MMM came just once and droned about for around 10 min or so and left. So that was it!!!! Phew!!! We had finally gone through the longest of contacts with MMM and emerged unscathed at the end of it!!! What a victory!!! It kinda makes me feel invincible.
The Foundation batch had it easy, as usual!! They were not required to do the DDCS tutorial problem yesterday during their tutorial and they have not even started on their floor plan for the sheet!! Lazy Guys!! LOL!! No offence to you foundation guys, but please dont mind if I let out my frustrations a bit.
Anyway, I have nothing more to say today, so I will sign off.
CIAO.
The Foundation batch had it easy, as usual!! They were not required to do the DDCS tutorial problem yesterday during their tutorial and they have not even started on their floor plan for the sheet!! Lazy Guys!! LOL!! No offence to you foundation guys, but please dont mind if I let out my frustrations a bit.
Anyway, I have nothing more to say today, so I will sign off.
CIAO.
Monday, March 14, 2005
Ho!Hum! And we are back in College!!
Well, N*****I is over and so is all the euphoria surrounding it. Now, the festival season has also ended and we have to all start studying in right earnest. This sounds so boring doesnt it?? But, its true and I am also in a very foul mood hence, you will find little humour in my post today.
Nothing of great importance happened today. Lectures took place as usual and PHS once again flexed his authoritative muscles by engaging an afternoon lecture, instead of his scheduled morning one. Sometimes, I wonder how our department can be so foolish as to allot a lecture to him before 1100hrs on any given day. And they keep on repeating this mistake year after year.
I got my camera roll developed today. The photos have come out well, especially the one my project group took with the great PHS. C is a very nice photographer and I must remember to congratulate him tomorrow.
I have nothing more to say so I will end this post here. More in the next post.
CIAO.
Nothing of great importance happened today. Lectures took place as usual and PHS once again flexed his authoritative muscles by engaging an afternoon lecture, instead of his scheduled morning one. Sometimes, I wonder how our department can be so foolish as to allot a lecture to him before 1100hrs on any given day. And they keep on repeating this mistake year after year.
I got my camera roll developed today. The photos have come out well, especially the one my project group took with the great PHS. C is a very nice photographer and I must remember to congratulate him tomorrow.
I have nothing more to say so I will end this post here. More in the next post.
CIAO.
Sunday, March 13, 2005
And Finally, the News of the Prize!!!
Well, as I had said in my earlier post, I was hoping to get a prize for the presentation given by me and R at MHSS. I am happy to say that my hunch was right and we actually won the first prize there!!! Yaay!! R and I turned up at MHSS to collect the prize just as our names were being announced. Call it a photo-finish if you like, the only problem being that I had forgotten to take my camera along!! As a result, we ended up with no photos of the time when we actually won for a Paper Presentation. So much for happy memories!! The prize was in the form of a big gift-wrapped box and R and I opened it as soon as we left the auditorium clutching our prizes. To our dismay, we found that it was a vase!! A vase???!!!! For a paper presentation??!!! Oh forget it, the less said about it the better. When I went home after dropping off R at Bonbay Central station, even she was surprised. But like all moms, she got over the surprise and started feeling rather pleased that she had got another article for decorating the house.
The next day was N*****I. R and I were giving a presentation there too. The pp went off quite well, but T (one of the judges) s*****d us royally. That made us lose all hopes of claiming a prize for that event. I also participated in STAAD and Case Study Analysis events on that day, the only saving grace being S and I being hopeful of a prize in CSA.
The next day dawned and it was time for the Technical Quiz, my favourite event! We started off pretty well in the quiz and were leading by the end of the first round. But, in the picture round, one team, unfortunately from our own college, started blitzing the answers, sometimes even before the pic had been displayed!!! We complained to the organisers about foul play and they, thankfully, managed to get everything settled by scrapping the round. Anyway, all's well that ends well. S and I won the quiz and I looked forward to the next event of Structural Modelling. But, G and I couldnt make a good enough model like last year and hence, we lost out on the prize. The next awaited event - The Prize Distribution.
R was upset at not getting a prize for paper presentation and so, she went home. I might have considered a similar course of action had I not been sure of a prize for the quiz. Finally, it so happened that S and I won for the quiz as well as CSA and we each bagged a cool Rs. 750/- in cash!! To add to it, I also won the second prize for the STAAD competition and took away an extra Rs. 500/-!! Expectedly, all my friends started pestering me for a party but I had already decided to save away the money, so I had to disappoint them. The other good thing was that a lot of people from my class won a prize, including a first for RS and SCH, and hence, there was a general mood of bonhomie all round. Hip Hip Hurray!!!!!
Well, its back to studies now as the sceptre of the QSE test on Thursday now looms large on the horizon. More in the next post.
CIAO.
The next day was N*****I. R and I were giving a presentation there too. The pp went off quite well, but T (one of the judges) s*****d us royally. That made us lose all hopes of claiming a prize for that event. I also participated in STAAD and Case Study Analysis events on that day, the only saving grace being S and I being hopeful of a prize in CSA.
The next day dawned and it was time for the Technical Quiz, my favourite event! We started off pretty well in the quiz and were leading by the end of the first round. But, in the picture round, one team, unfortunately from our own college, started blitzing the answers, sometimes even before the pic had been displayed!!! We complained to the organisers about foul play and they, thankfully, managed to get everything settled by scrapping the round. Anyway, all's well that ends well. S and I won the quiz and I looked forward to the next event of Structural Modelling. But, G and I couldnt make a good enough model like last year and hence, we lost out on the prize. The next awaited event - The Prize Distribution.
R was upset at not getting a prize for paper presentation and so, she went home. I might have considered a similar course of action had I not been sure of a prize for the quiz. Finally, it so happened that S and I won for the quiz as well as CSA and we each bagged a cool Rs. 750/- in cash!! To add to it, I also won the second prize for the STAAD competition and took away an extra Rs. 500/-!! Expectedly, all my friends started pestering me for a party but I had already decided to save away the money, so I had to disappoint them. The other good thing was that a lot of people from my class won a prize, including a first for RS and SCH, and hence, there was a general mood of bonhomie all round. Hip Hip Hurray!!!!!
Well, its back to studies now as the sceptre of the QSE test on Thursday now looms large on the horizon. More in the next post.
CIAO.
Wednesday, March 09, 2005
We Imploded MHSS!!!
Well, I finally have time to write my blog again. Nothing much has happened since my last post. 2 paper presentations had been selected for the MHSS festival. R and I had decided to present our famous (or should I say, infamous) paper on Implosions. The pp went off really well and we ended up impressing the judges as well. Hope we manage to win a prize. Anyway, it will be an excruciating wait till tomorrow afternoon, when the results will be announced. RK and RP also presented a paper on Project Management. It was also a good performance but I feel they lacked a certain amount of confidence. Anyway, I hope they have made a good enough impression on the judges. Well, only time will tell.
After the presentations, we went to my house. We managed to gorge on a few savouries as we had hardly had any lunch, especially RK and RP who, I dont think, had managed to have even a morsel at lunchtime!!! We were joined later by G, GA, BS and AB. The assorted party now came to life with the arrival of these characters. Then the real hero, the shrikhand, made its entry and everyone was then engrossed in savouring its flavour. I was nervous as to whether they would like it or not, but they seemed to love it. I LOVE YOU MOM!!! RK, as usual, wanted to remain glued to the computer, playing NFS 6 but I managed to wrench him away from the comp so that I could play a few songs of my choice.
VE declared the pay for all those placed with them and this was the main topic of discussion. Pretty boring, one would think. I would agree, and by the looks of today evening, so would R, though I must say that she looked bored througout the visit to my house. The only humourous event was when R brought the tray into the kitchen, just to help out my mom. The guys sitting outside could not keep from taking a dig at her and accused her of practising housework for G. LOL!!! Well, I must add that this dig, though perfectly justified otherwise, was rather ill-timed today, as it made R feel embarassed in front of my parents. Looks like some guys in our class need a course in Social Finesse.
BS had a field day lying to everyone she spoke on phone today. She was supposedly at VE at even 1930hrs!!! To add to that, the people she spoke on to phone were dumb enough to actually believe her!!!
Nothing else of note happened today. Only that MMM decided to drop a bombshell on us by saying that he would be engaging his lecture tomorrow until the local festival actually started!!! Buzzzz!!! Get lost, MMM!!!! Oh, sorry guys that was just a mosquito I mistook for MMM. My apologies.
More in the next post, hopefully the news of a prize.
CIAO.
After the presentations, we went to my house. We managed to gorge on a few savouries as we had hardly had any lunch, especially RK and RP who, I dont think, had managed to have even a morsel at lunchtime!!! We were joined later by G, GA, BS and AB. The assorted party now came to life with the arrival of these characters. Then the real hero, the shrikhand, made its entry and everyone was then engrossed in savouring its flavour. I was nervous as to whether they would like it or not, but they seemed to love it. I LOVE YOU MOM!!! RK, as usual, wanted to remain glued to the computer, playing NFS 6 but I managed to wrench him away from the comp so that I could play a few songs of my choice.
VE declared the pay for all those placed with them and this was the main topic of discussion. Pretty boring, one would think. I would agree, and by the looks of today evening, so would R, though I must say that she looked bored througout the visit to my house. The only humourous event was when R brought the tray into the kitchen, just to help out my mom. The guys sitting outside could not keep from taking a dig at her and accused her of practising housework for G. LOL!!! Well, I must add that this dig, though perfectly justified otherwise, was rather ill-timed today, as it made R feel embarassed in front of my parents. Looks like some guys in our class need a course in Social Finesse.
BS had a field day lying to everyone she spoke on phone today. She was supposedly at VE at even 1930hrs!!! To add to that, the people she spoke on to phone were dumb enough to actually believe her!!!
Nothing else of note happened today. Only that MMM decided to drop a bombshell on us by saying that he would be engaging his lecture tomorrow until the local festival actually started!!! Buzzzz!!! Get lost, MMM!!!! Oh, sorry guys that was just a mosquito I mistook for MMM. My apologies.
More in the next post, hopefully the news of a prize.
CIAO.
Sunday, March 06, 2005
Good to be Blogging again
Well, its been a long time since I had a chance to update my blog due to the workload. But, since today is a Sunday, I decided to sit down and write something.
Much water has passed under the bridge since I last wrote. College went on as usual and we were once again submitted to the worst kind of mental torture that must only have been bettered by Hitler and his Gestapo!! Sometimes, I think the Bombay Police should make criminals sit for our lectures. They will start chirping out information like parrots in no time!!
N*****I is coming up this week and R and I are struggling to get our paper ready for the event. This time, I am participating in 5 out 6 events so its going to be a pretty hectic festival for me. To add to that, the reigning OC has decreed that the participation fee shall be Rs. 50 per event, as compared to a flat fee of Rs. 50 last year. These guys have really started fleecing us. The only silver lining is that the prize money is quite a lot this time. Lets hope that I win back some of the money I will be spending just to be given a chance to participate. R and I will also be presenting our Implosions paper in MHSS on Wednesday. I must say that I have hopes of getting a prize there. Lets hope that the day finally dawns when Implosions bags us a real prize, and not just a consolation one. I am keeping my fingers crossed.
Indian Idol results were declared yesterday. As I expected, Abhijeet Sawant was the winner. That guy doesnt just sing, he croons. I love that playback quality of his voice. Plus, there is his million dollar smile. All in all, I think he is a worthy package for being the Indian Idol. As regards Amit Sana, it must have been disappointing for him to lose out after getting so far. But, I must say that he was the deserving runner-up. There seems to be nothing wrong with his voice, but he doesnt have the personality to be Indian Idol, methinks. Anyway, before you Sana fans start complaining, let me clarify that these are just my views and they are certainly not binding on anyone. There!!! I have just cleared myself. Phew!!!
Well, I cant recall anything more of importance to put down here so I will sign off. More in the next post (God knows when that will be!!!) LOL!
CIAO.
Much water has passed under the bridge since I last wrote. College went on as usual and we were once again submitted to the worst kind of mental torture that must only have been bettered by Hitler and his Gestapo!! Sometimes, I think the Bombay Police should make criminals sit for our lectures. They will start chirping out information like parrots in no time!!
N*****I is coming up this week and R and I are struggling to get our paper ready for the event. This time, I am participating in 5 out 6 events so its going to be a pretty hectic festival for me. To add to that, the reigning OC has decreed that the participation fee shall be Rs. 50 per event, as compared to a flat fee of Rs. 50 last year. These guys have really started fleecing us. The only silver lining is that the prize money is quite a lot this time. Lets hope that I win back some of the money I will be spending just to be given a chance to participate. R and I will also be presenting our Implosions paper in MHSS on Wednesday. I must say that I have hopes of getting a prize there. Lets hope that the day finally dawns when Implosions bags us a real prize, and not just a consolation one. I am keeping my fingers crossed.
Indian Idol results were declared yesterday. As I expected, Abhijeet Sawant was the winner. That guy doesnt just sing, he croons. I love that playback quality of his voice. Plus, there is his million dollar smile. All in all, I think he is a worthy package for being the Indian Idol. As regards Amit Sana, it must have been disappointing for him to lose out after getting so far. But, I must say that he was the deserving runner-up. There seems to be nothing wrong with his voice, but he doesnt have the personality to be Indian Idol, methinks. Anyway, before you Sana fans start complaining, let me clarify that these are just my views and they are certainly not binding on anyone. There!!! I have just cleared myself. Phew!!!
Well, I cant recall anything more of importance to put down here so I will sign off. More in the next post (God knows when that will be!!!) LOL!
CIAO.
Tuesday, March 01, 2005
Back to Serious Work
Well, the Annual Day was held yesterday with great fanfare. The speeches were held as usual and they expectedly managed to bore everyone present except the speaker himself ! The only interesting speech I heard was that of Dr. G. He indeed seemed to be a very intelligent man. However, the poor chap had to stand and give away prizes to award winners, half of whom were not present ! Guys, if you win an award, at least bother to come and receive it ! After the boring official ceremony was over, the Marathi play 'Eka Lagnachi Goshta' was staged. It was a very hilarious play and the actors had everyone in splits. The jokes managed to evoke laughter from me even though I was seeing the play for the second time. Prashant Damle - You ROCK !!!
Today was work as usual. The day started with MMM droning to the Structures Batch about the importance of attending College Annual Days. God, when will that guy improve?? The rest of the day passed off without much drama. PHS decided to convert the day into a personal holiday, so that was that. A seminar was held in the afternoon on the Opportunities Available to a Civil Engineer. The speaker was pretty good and he managed to hold the audience's attention. This was a rare occurance and hence, I admire the speaker for his public speaking skills.
JD gave a party later in the evening on the occasion of his placement. We enjoyed a lot, albeit at the expense of the weight in JD's wallet ! LOL ! Anyway, more in the next post.
CIAO
Today was work as usual. The day started with MMM droning to the Structures Batch about the importance of attending College Annual Days. God, when will that guy improve?? The rest of the day passed off without much drama. PHS decided to convert the day into a personal holiday, so that was that. A seminar was held in the afternoon on the Opportunities Available to a Civil Engineer. The speaker was pretty good and he managed to hold the audience's attention. This was a rare occurance and hence, I admire the speaker for his public speaking skills.
JD gave a party later in the evening on the occasion of his placement. We enjoyed a lot, albeit at the expense of the weight in JD's wallet ! LOL ! Anyway, more in the next post.
CIAO
Sunday, February 27, 2005
Way to go SC!!!
Attended a wedding reception yesterday on the invitation of SC. His cousin sister was getting married and I had been invited to the reception at a plush club alongwith JD, V, P, R, M, RK, K, VD, SCH, RS and Y. A meeting was set up at Bandra station at 1930hrs but our plans were foiled by JD's reliable tardiness. Why cant that guy ever reach a place on time? Consequently, we were delayed by around 20-25 min and could not reach the venue before 2015hrs. However, we found that only Y had reached before us. As we were to understand later, R's driver had arrived late and hence, the girls took a long time to arrive. Surprisingly, RS decided to take the advantage of a free lift - a decision which he was to regret later. LOL. The last to arrive was RK who brought along a bag with him. Dude, surely you can leave behind college for one day at least!!
After presenting the bouquet and the card to the happy couple, we sat around for some time, generally making RS the 'Bhat' of all jokes. It was nice to see the tables turned after a long time - an event which had RS squirming uncomfortably in his seat. Then, it was time for dinner. Yummy!!! Something told me that this was going to be the best part of the evening.
We all trooped up to the terrace where food was served, and we were certainly not disappointed. Laid out before us was the finest collection of Chaat, Soup, Punjabi Dinner and Dessert. Restraining myself with great difficulty, I plodded my way through the first three courses, which were delicious in their own right, in anticipation of the last course, which happened to be Kulfi Falooda. Oooooh, even the mention of that name makes my mouth water!! I had a couple of those and then I discovered to my chagrin that I could not have anymore. Now, before anyone forms an opinion about the limited availability of the dessert, let me clarify that it was nothing of the sort. It was my stupid stomach which was unable to hold any more of that oh so delicious dessert. Anyway, I suppose it was a good thing that this was the case else all the weight that I have lost in the recent past would have amounted to nought!!
After a hearty meal, we all trooped out, moving with great difficulty. SC had been a really good host and his excellent hostelry was beginning to show. I went along to see R's car but could not see much in the dark. 10 more minutes saw us on a bus to the station. All of us had had a wonderful time and we were all disappointed that it was all over. Anyway, all good things have to come to an end.
Managed to catch the remainder of the Filmfare Awards Function after reaching home. Rani looked wonderful and SRK rocked. Sleep was a very peaceful affair after that.
CIAO
After presenting the bouquet and the card to the happy couple, we sat around for some time, generally making RS the 'Bhat' of all jokes. It was nice to see the tables turned after a long time - an event which had RS squirming uncomfortably in his seat. Then, it was time for dinner. Yummy!!! Something told me that this was going to be the best part of the evening.
We all trooped up to the terrace where food was served, and we were certainly not disappointed. Laid out before us was the finest collection of Chaat, Soup, Punjabi Dinner and Dessert. Restraining myself with great difficulty, I plodded my way through the first three courses, which were delicious in their own right, in anticipation of the last course, which happened to be Kulfi Falooda. Oooooh, even the mention of that name makes my mouth water!! I had a couple of those and then I discovered to my chagrin that I could not have anymore. Now, before anyone forms an opinion about the limited availability of the dessert, let me clarify that it was nothing of the sort. It was my stupid stomach which was unable to hold any more of that oh so delicious dessert. Anyway, I suppose it was a good thing that this was the case else all the weight that I have lost in the recent past would have amounted to nought!!
After a hearty meal, we all trooped out, moving with great difficulty. SC had been a really good host and his excellent hostelry was beginning to show. I went along to see R's car but could not see much in the dark. 10 more minutes saw us on a bus to the station. All of us had had a wonderful time and we were all disappointed that it was all over. Anyway, all good things have to come to an end.
Managed to catch the remainder of the Filmfare Awards Function after reaching home. Rani looked wonderful and SRK rocked. Sleep was a very peaceful affair after that.
CIAO
Friday, February 25, 2005
Project Work?? You must be Joking!!!
Today, the day started off on a rather boring note with MMM engaging an extra lecture. However, it was not as boring as expected and we never came to know when the lecture got over. Had to wait for a long time after that for project work as PHS seemed to be very busy.
SC came today as he, JD, V, P, RK, RS, M, SCH and SC had made plans to go and watch BLACK. Their program almost got cancelled as PHS played truant and did not allow M, RK and SCH to leave early. Anyway, all's well that ends well. They all got to go finally and hence, their day was made.
As regards my project, PHS was very busy with some sort of election today and hence, could not devote any time to our project. I, R, T and ST waited for him for a long time but, to no avail. Well, as it is, we have hardly ever got much work done on a project day. Much of the actual work gets done on working days. After all, PHS has to be different.
Things were not very good on the home front either with me getting a vehement NO from Dad to bring along the car to college on the BE farewell day. Well, I guess I will have to bide my time until I can call the shots. My time will surely come!!!
CIAO.
SC came today as he, JD, V, P, RK, RS, M, SCH and SC had made plans to go and watch BLACK. Their program almost got cancelled as PHS played truant and did not allow M, RK and SCH to leave early. Anyway, all's well that ends well. They all got to go finally and hence, their day was made.
As regards my project, PHS was very busy with some sort of election today and hence, could not devote any time to our project. I, R, T and ST waited for him for a long time but, to no avail. Well, as it is, we have hardly ever got much work done on a project day. Much of the actual work gets done on working days. After all, PHS has to be different.
Things were not very good on the home front either with me getting a vehement NO from Dad to bring along the car to college on the BE farewell day. Well, I guess I will have to bide my time until I can call the shots. My time will surely come!!!
CIAO.
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