The Last class in first year

Atlast, we are done with the last class in first year. I liked this class and I am very much impressed with the way the class was dealt. The class about "spirituality and leadership". The examples were damn good. He gave an example on how Abdul kalam was treated when he attended the common wealth games. It was amazing to know that he was greeted by each and every one in the crowd and same was not the case of politicians who are in power. There was also an example of how APJ and Sarabhai influenced a priest to relocate the church and how the priest dealt with their own community people to influence them. I havent read much about APJ's personal life but it seems there is so much that we can adopt from his life. I dont think its possible for me to read at this point with just two days left for exams to start. :(

Today our class has come up with an initiative of ethnic day wherein everyone is suppose to come in ethnic wear. Almost 90% of the class has come up in ethnic dress and exclude me in that 90%. I am not carrying any traditional dresses with me and so there is no point in being a part of that 90%. Today is the only day in term 3, as far as I remember, where Anurag, Priyanka, Prathap and I were sitting according to our seating plan. Another interesting aspect is that our class had a photo with our QAM prof and its amazing because QAM prof is a a kind of person who looks for discipline in the class and when we approached him for a photo, he accepted with a smile.

Our exams are about to start from monday onwards and this time it would be a tough ask as I am not totally aware of the name of the topics in few subjects :(.

By the way, today is shilpa's(classmate) birthday and "many many happy returns of the day, shilpa"

Here is the pic of our class

Dont search for me... I am not there :)

Oh no ... Not again :((

The marketing project never seems to be working out as far as our group is concerned. Today we had a class at 6 pm and we were suppose to be there before 6 pm and upload our presentation before prof starts the class. Our group entered the class at 6.10 pm and by that time prof had already started the lecture. We dint say anything to prof about the upload of presentation and occupied our seats.

Prof started verifying each group's work and asked about our part. We told him that we had it in our pen drive and would like to upload at that point of time. Prof with any angry tone said "I will not review your presentation". At first, I felt relaxed as we dint prepare the ppt properly. But he then told us " Let all the groups present and then I will check yours". I felt very bad hearing that dialogue because on the other hand there was a big match going on - India vs Aus . I was not in a mood to hear anything nor sit back in the class. But, I had no other go rather than to sit and listen what prof says. Prof did not allow us to open our laptop also. But I couldnt control myself and used to open laptop on certain occasions with out giving any hint to prof. I know its a tough ask :).

After all the groups review was over, It was our turn to get screwed up. Prof was very angry with the way the other groups had presented and our group's ppt is no better than the others.

After seeing the format of the first slide, prof told " I am not going to review your presentation as it doesnt adhere to the standards I had mentioned earlier". This time I could not resist the smile that was coming out and some how, with all the difficulty on this earth, I maintained a serious note on my face.

Somehow, prof started reviewing our project and obviously started shouting at us for our incomplete and bad work. The worst part is that it happened before some other section students. Prof gave us a hint to resubmit the work again by saying this dialogue "If you do not meet me on sunday, you will relax and I will also relax" :((.

Does it mean do we need to sit and work again ?? :(((

Whatever it is, I am so happy that India reached semis. :))

The term is about to end in three days and then the battle for the marks will begin in a while.

I am regularly practicing TT and it makes me feel relaxed. The game which I started for some reason is turning out to be a "drug" with out which I cant live :))

Thats it for today

Happy Birthday Isaac

Many more happy returns of the day Isaac .. Ofcourse Belated.. :)).

Isaac dint tell every one about his birthday and it was a kind of secret celebration. Anurag, Nikhil,vimal, Isaac and I were part of the celebration.

Its fun and I tried to play a song with guitar :)) and the song was "I dont know" :)). You can assume what ever song that comes into your mind.

I dont know Isaac's bday till the last minute and so no surprises. Lets see what happens next year. But, next year by this time, nobody would be available in the campus :(( and so the surprise .... :((

Pics are available at this link.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/51104379@N06/sets/72157626217305559/

Enjoy

Sandesh to join Elite Club !!!!

It was Arina's and Srilu's, now its sandesh's turn. Finally some one from our gang to get into the elite club. Ofcourse, its just engagement but to be frank its unexpected. I was surprised to see the mail from him. I saw that mail at a very peak time when each minute was too precious to miss. So, I couldnt call him immediately and when I got time to call him, he dint pick the call :(.

I need to recall an incident when we both went to attend one of my colleague's marriage in April 2010. He doesnt know her but yet I forced him to attend the marriage with me. At times, I smile involuntarily when ever I remember that incident. I always make him think that with out him its impossible for me to attend a marriage and he gets convinced. This time also, I convinced him to join me for srilu's marriage. But this time its his luck as I was not able to attend her marriage else it could have been a double bonanza for him to attend two marriages where he doesnt know even a single person. Its so hard to sit in a marriage hall where we dont know even a single person, right ? But he does it with out any problem and so I ..................................

Thats it for now..

This summer @ Mumbai !!!!

Finally the place is decided. This summer, I will be in mumbai. I am talking about my summer intern. Priyanka is going to blore. I thought of doing my intern at blore and she thought of mumbai. But everything is reversed. Anyways we need to accept with what we have.

Today is the last day for term 3 with respect to all subjects, except one. We have 3 more classes left and thats it, the first will end. Ofcourse, we are still left with end term exams.

Almost all the seniors left. The campus is awaiting juniors. I should clean my room atleast by that time :).

There is so much to update and will do that in a while before the end term exams begin.

Guess how are all these related ???

I couldnt update my blog for the past few days and the reason is "I am busy".

Whats going on in hel'L'.. have a look at these snapshots and keep guessing..

I will explain all these in my next post..

By the way.. there is an another important update and it deserves a "title" rather than just as a content in one of the post.. Will update soon

TT mania !!!

I am getting addicted to TT. Its 3 am in the morning and I feel like playing TT again. I played tt from 1.30 to 2.30 am.:). Its such a great game. I like it very much. When ever I find time, I just call Isaac and ask him to play with me. I dont call Raghu because he is a champ and champs never like to play with kids :(. Thanks to vijay garu, ex colleague, who planted the seed of interest on tt.

Coming back to acads, there is nothing much I can update. I bunked all the classes yesterday and attended all the classes today. With great power comes responsibility and with responsibility comes hard work and with hard work comes sleepless nights and with sleepless night comes bunking of classes.

For the first, I sat in first bench in this term. Its such a worst feeling to sit in the first bench especially in the QAM class. Its even worse if you had bunked the previous class. Because prof asks questions to those who bunked in the previous class. Luckily, he dint ask any :) and more over he was in a good mood. Yesterday, during class discussion, one of the prof enquired about me as I was absent. I am happy that atleast one prof remembers my name. :))

Today we had a workshop on social responsibility. I dint listen because my way of defining social responsibility is different :) and more over sachin and sehwag were playing brilliantly in the match against SA.

By the way, this week we are going to submit a project in marketing and the project is about opening a south indian restaurant in IIML. Some one can give me inputs :).

Happy Married Life Srilu...

So finally srilu also joined the elite club.

Congrats srilu... and Happy married life...

I heard, from sources, that the marriage went on fine and it was damn good. I missed it. I am extremely sorry srilu. But I promise one thing.. a surprise !!!!

As of now I am uploading only one pic and I cannot upload a proper picture till I get permission from srilu. I cannot mess with srilu :).

I am feeling guilty for one reason... I told her that I would attend her marriage only if she brings sweets during Idiot's marriage. She fulfilled my wish and in turn I dint even wish her on the marriage day :(. Anyways, Srilu can forgive me :).

Once again, Happy married life srilu... Enjoyyy

The Thunder !!!!

Yup, a thunder hit the earth(ofcourse, its common) and it was very near to our college (ofcourse, this is not common). It was 2.30 am and I was in deep sleep by that time. All of sudden there was a very big sound. I got up and couldn't understand what was going on. I went to balcony and dint find anything except that the sky color was red. I recalled all the thriller movies !!! For a second the terrorist attacks, bomb blasts etc etc flashed in my mind. I stood in the balcony for 10 mins and realized that it was just an another "noise". I came back to room and again started sleeping. Guess what ??. I again started recalling the thriller movies/action movies with my college as backdrop. Guess what ?? I appeared in couple of scenes rescuing others !!! hahahahaha. Thats really funny because I should be the one who needs to be rescued not the one who rescues in Real life !!!

Jokes apart, Its not only me but also there are so many people who heard that sound. I also came to know that people came out of the hostels thinking something really bad was gonna happen. But, its good that nothing has happened.

Classes are going real fast and we had two quizzes in the past two days. There are extra classes lined up for tom and day after. Keeping all these constraints, I think i cannot attend srilu's marriage at any cost. I just cancelled all the tickets and I am gonna miss rajadhani journey :(. So, one item in my wishlist is not gonna get fulfilled. I have just formulated a linear programming model for srilu's marriage. I have framed the problem in such a way that, if the answer is 1, I will attend the marriage else I will not. I tried to solve the problem and I got "0" as the solution. So, as per the solution, I should not attend srilu's marriage :(. Thats too bad right ?? Only thing I can say is "Sorry, srilu !!!".

Wondering what the hell is all this ?. Yesterday we had a quiz on linear programming :). Now, I think it makes sense.

Yesterday we had a workshop on ethics. The class was damn interesting. I really liked the ethics class for first time. It was a group task. We were given an egg, real one. Also, we were given a list of items to purchase. We need to use those items and create a protective layer around the egg such that if we drop the egg from certain height, it should not break. We have constructed the layer around the egg using stress, strain etc etc.Our team used all the civil engineering principles and finally created some thing as displayed in the pic. You can notice how we used straws and cello tape, and created a layer around the egg.

Link : More about this task...

http://www.google.co.in/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=9&ved=0CE0QFjAI&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.engr.ncsu.edu%2Fk12outreach%2Fdocuments%2FfinalCostEffectiveEggDrop1.doc&rct=j&q=group%20task%20not%20to%20break%20egg&ei=GBh5TfONJILWrQeR2ZnMBQ&usg=AFQjCNGb7h7ZPpmfz0LYTRW_obieWGDgQg&sig2=sIGpl-xlt716KCXDL2Zhmg

When Gopal, one of our team member, dropped the egg, it was broken !!!. A big disappointment in his face. Sometimes it happens !!!. But I really enjoyed this class. The basic essence of the class was on how to reach the goal of the company leaving aside the individual profits.

The funnies part in this class was the way the egg was broken when nishtha's group dropped it. Actually all the groups used a transparent polythene cover as the first protective layer so that even if the egg breaks, the liquid inside the egg will not come out. But when nistha's group dropped it, not only the egg was broken but also the white liquid(albumen) came out of the cover. I could not control my laugh seeing that incident. We were not suppose to break the egg, but instead they dint even cover the egg properly with the polythene cover. Sometimes it happens !!!! hahahaha

Still the trend is continuing !!!!

Today I bunked all the classes. The reason is simple - I dint sleep yesterday night. I was working till morning 9 am and then I slept. Now what is that I am working and for whom ? The answer is simple - I am working for college :). Well, its all about the elective application process. Yesterday for the first time, we had a dry run in which team synapse and council participated. The dry run is successful for them but not for me. I still see some bugs and tried to resolve them by working thorough out the night. The whole batch will be participating in the process and a small mistake cannot be accepted :(.

Apart from this, I attended a workshop class conducted by an ex-IAS officer. He had 38 years of experience. He started with a good introduction. He greeted us "namasthe" and said why he did so. Normally good afternoon, good morning and good night state the position of the day and there by makes us change our mood/energy levels. But namasthe doesnt indicate so and there by keeps our energy levels high !!!!.

Yesterday was a funny day. After a break of 9 days I went to college and dint even feel like sitting in the class for 10 mins. Luckily, my prayers were heard. Prof, after taking attendance, asked the students who do not have name tags to leave the class. In a flash, half the class came out. I came out because I really dont have my name tag at that moment. Isaac came out with a smiling face and was saying "I came out though I have name tag. I have hidden it in the desk". Guess what we did after coming out of class ? Not even 10 percent of the students had attempted to get back the name tag and apart from that every one went to mess to have a good peaceful breakfast. You can count me in that list. :) After breakfast, I dint made any attempt to get back to the class and instead I went to room to sleep. After an hour, I attended the next class and the day went on.

One of our profs asks us to submit the analysis of cases before attending the next class. Our class people are damn intelligents. Every one presents the same solution but the way it is presented will be different. Since the solution is suppose to be submitted in an excel sheet, the columns and rows will be interchanged. Sometimes, people come up with flashy colours on background with same content. People put in so much effort, to make their excel sheet look different, that when prof looks at it he thinks he has 20 different solutions but when he starts reading the solutions, to his surprise he may find a single solution in 20 different forms. :). But, I do things differently. I copy solution from two excels and present it to the prof :).

Thats it for today

By the way, today is women's day !!!

Will I attend Srilu's marriage ???

Now the million dollar question is... Will I attend srilu's marriage ??

After all the hype I created, now I dont know what to answer for this question.

Initially I was told that the electives bidding takes place this weekend and so I decided not to go. Then I heard that it is scheduled next week. I relaxed only for "some" time because again I heard that there will be three quizzes lined up in this week :( . Thats interesting !!!!

Even if those quizzes are conducted before friday, I doubt there must be something waiting in the queue to stop me attending srilu's marriage.

Now the question is not "Will I attend Srilu's marriage ?" It should be

whats next ??

Apart from this... I uploaded a pic of arina and her hubby in my flickr account.

Here is the link to that pic...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/51104379@N06/5503452577/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/51104379@N06/5503452443/

They are looking great !!!

When day turns into night and night into day !!!!

Its been 9 days since I had a proper diet. Last week was the placement week for seniors and so it was free time for juniors except few. Though I fall in the to exception list but it was for some other reasons. The exception list includes those who carry out the placement process. I am carrying out the electives process - what I mean is I am developing an application for the elective process. Its such a pain to understand java script. The programs are too lengthy and too complex :(.

By the way here is the link about our college's placements :

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/lucknow/Biggest-placement-process-concludes-at-IIM-L/articleshow/7637064.cms

For the last 9 days, I used to sleep in the day time and wake up in the nights. I dint have normal diet. I used to eat maggi. But thanks to Isaac, for the first time I ate dosa in the campus that tasted like what I used to have at home. It was like when ever I feel hungry, I go to the cafe shop and have some tea/maggi, and the day goes on.

I have seen few telugu movies too. The list includes LBW and gaganam. LBW was an average movie and its a painful story. But the way the story ends up is ???. No comments. Gaganam is a better movie (though many do not agree). But I enjoyed the movie. I liked it for some reasons - a change in the way the directors are thinking , moving away from commercial elements (movie doesnt have heroine and song) etc etc.

From tom onwards, again we are back to hell. We have so much to read for tom's class and I havent read any. Its very difficult to change our mind which is still in a holiday mood :).

Thats it now