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Monday, December 31, 2007
The iphone critics
I found this piece of extract in a website which i thought was very interesting. While everyone are talking about the new cellphone by Apple, selling over 500,000 units over a week, Iphone. Thought I would share this with all of u...
Here I got a list that I received over my email on disadvantages of iPhone or what iPhone are not capable of, check them out:
1. Bluetooth is ONLY good for connecting a headset. That’s it.
2. There is no file browser on the device at all. Data must be organized (if at all) in the appropriate .
3. The camera is a simple application that has ONE button: the shutter. Pictures come out okay on the device, but nothing too fancy on a monitior, especially if it was an attempt at a macro shot.
4. SIM card is damn near impossible to open, if at all. I didn’t look into it extensively.
5. Web browser is slow, even over Wlan. Even the simple OneList web app that was created takes around 20 seconds to load over WLAN. You can not highlight, cut, copy, or paste and text from a website, and you can not save any images you find from a website either. The only nice thing about it is the tabbed browsing, which crashed on me when I went to Engadget and YouTube on two tabs. This is the only application that allows you to use the keyboard in landscape mode.
6. The keyboard sucks. It gets slightly better after the iPhone “learns” you, as the employees said, but even then, it’s not a device you can use with one hand comfortably, much less without looking.
7. You can only send one picture at a time in an email.
8. No custom ringtones (yet, as we were being told) and the alert tones can not be changed whatsoever.
9. The default ringtones are incredibly lame.
10. The only form of customization outside of a lame default ringtone is the wallpaper, which you’ll only see when you need to unlock the device or when you get a phone call.
11. “Picture pinching” or using two fingers to zoom on any content is certainly fun to play with, but not practical whatsoever. This operation depends solely on using the device with two hands.
12. No document editor or native viewer. You can not store documents on the device to be viewed, they can only be viewed as attachments when they’re sent to your in an email.
13. Visual voicemail is laggy and reacts about the same way as pushing the fast forward and rewind buttons on traditional voicemail systems. The only advantage is for those that get that many voicemail messages a day that they need to sort them according to priority.
14. NO games. None.
15. No voice dialing.
16. No speed dialing (which can be made up by the “quick list”, but getting to that quick list isn’t as fast as holding a single key on a real keypad).
17. No video.
18. No MMS.
19. It’s still <4gb>
This device looks like it was aimed at the general consumer who has the money to spend on such a flashy device, but it leaves so many basic features behind that it’s almost impossible to consider it a success as a mainstream device. It encourages the advanced user to move away from MMS and into email to send images, but leaves out any advanced features advanced users would be accustomed to, and still retains a huge price tag on top of it.
It’s certainly pretty and Americans will buy it because of that simple UI, but anyone who’s familiar with other operating systems would be appalled. This phone needs to be unlocked and cracked WIDE open to make much better use of the multi-touch system. That, or it needs an immediate update in iTunes to rework every feature.
Cricket On a Rainy day
After a long time, I really enjoyed playing cricket that too on a rainy day.. It all started when Dilip and sundar called me to play in the evening. I had been to room to study for Practicals but unfortunately Dhadi wasnt in any mood to teach anything. So, after chatting for sometime and having some snacks(Treat by Kudi), all others went for the match between Boobu's team and ours. But, I was in no mood for that match and preferred instead to play with my schoolmates. So, at around 4.30pm, we started playing amidst showers and we coincidentally started our batting with a shower of runs as well. Meself and Oi summed up 45 runs in 5 overs before Oi got out. Then, I hit a beautiful straight six( Actually, I admired it a lot) before falling the very next ball of AV... Then, we won the match, thanks to some good bowling performances all round and only Sunil could get some runs to take the side closer to victory. The next match, we changed pitch because of the heavy downpour and we won the next match too.. But, apart from winning the match what made this day great, was the Cricket that we played and enjoyed in this RAINY evening... Wanna play umpteen times again!!!
P.S. Dont use your mobile in rain.. Else, you just might have to service it, just like what i have to... Cos, my right hand, ie, my mobile needs immediate care or else it may die...
P.S. Dont use your mobile in rain.. Else, you just might have to service it, just like what i have to... Cos, my right hand, ie, my mobile needs immediate care or else it may die...
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Eventful day...
Today was an eventful day. Starting with the Indian batting, where no batsman except Sachin and Sourav could withstand the pace and accuracy of the Australian bowlers, it was an unhappy day for me. I expected Sachin to score a century atleast today because of the quality of batting that he displayed today. Then, I went to ground and played some matches which I hope ended in a drawn series. Then, the South African batting crumbled and it was really disheartening to see Kallis and Gibbs going for duck. I hope Boucher and De villiers start a recovery. Then, I bought Tata sky connection today in order to enjoy the Indo-Aus series. Then, one of the famous political leaders Benazir Bhutto was shot dead in a suicide bomb blast in a political rally. So, it was a day for lot of events making it an eventful day.
Chak de India
Looking surprised at the caption of the post?? He he.. I am not talking about the Indian cricket team but am talking about the film Chak De India. I got a chance to see the film now and really, I was just jumping when Vidhya Sharma stopped the final shot. Was so engrossed in the movie that I even forgot that it was after all a movie. Shahrukh was simply marvelous at Indian coach Kabir Khan and so were the other cast in the film. It pulverises every nerve of a true Indian and has made me a big fan of Women's hockey team. My congrats to the director for his amazing venture and different storyline. Huh!! Hope Indian cricket team watches this film tonite and play better cricket tomorrow.. ;)
Friday, December 28, 2007
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All Works
My dad has started to give me works as the holidays have started. Starting from small works like arranging my table the work ranges up to heavy duty works like taking heavy metal boxes from the loft to check the things present and to make a checklist. Phew...ippave kanna kattudhe. Mudiyale...
Films galore
I'm making good use of the holidays to see the movies which have been latest releases in the diwali. I have finished watching azhagiya tamizh magan and polladhavan. Today the shows in my home are kalloori and vel. So it is proving to be a good time pass in this holiday. My friends are also joining me and this is nice entertainment.
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Men in blue
We in India tend to be cricket crazy, but only a little. We know our limits. At the most we boo at our failed cricketers, hurl rocks, make obscene gestures (which are promptly returned) or attempt suicide. In return our cricketers show a lot of dedication, passion and give their all every game as I realized recently.
Rahul Dravid (captain)
This man is a highly talented fellow who used to have the habit of turning his back to the ball whenever he was batting and used to take an average of twenty balls to get off the mark, much to the annoyance of the non-striker. It is generally agreed he has lost this habit now. However, since becoming captain, maybe he has made a new habit of winning the toss, but without much consequence.
Sachin Tendulkar
The most experienced man in the team, this man has hit an uncountable number of centuries and fifties. These days however, he forever seems to be either in a bad patch or recovering from an injury.
Anil Kumble
If all the members of the Indian team were asked to drop their pants, you would probably find this man to have the most worn out knees, among other things, because he invariably makes "valiant efforts" on the field by sliding after the ball on his knees. While bowling, he rarely turns the ball, but claims he turns the ball half the width of the bat, thereby getting the edge. However, I suspect most batsmen get out because they never get used to having a leg-spinner bowl so fast.
Virendar Sehwag
He can clobber Waqar Younis over third man for six. That's about all he does. Invariably instructed by the team management to play his natural game, he gets out with a strike rate of two hundred...having faced five balls.
Gautham Gambhir
Sportstar recently gave him a rating of 3/10. That pretty much speaks for itself. However, he is retained in the team for his message passing capabilities as a drinks man or "super sub".
Yuvraj Singh
He won the match for India at the Natwest final, some four years ago, and people still talk about that to justify his selection in the team. Other reasons for his selection in the team include his astounding ability to dive into the ground or throw himself all around the ball, without affecting its progress to the boundary at all.
Mohamed Kaif
A gem of a person off the field, he is a GEM of a person on it. (GEM : Ginger Eaten Monkey). His batting stance and ability to hit the stumps long after the running batsman has crossed the crease will prove my point to you.
Irfan Pathan
A left arm "pace" bowler, this man can swing the ball prodidiously, only to find that the batsman has clobbered it for four, or gone wide. Also an upcoming batsman, he regularly scores more than the top order batsmen.
Harbhajan Singh
This man regularly comes in the dreams of the Aussies wearing a Putka, sporting a pointed tail and holding a syth in his hand. Harbhajan is a very emotional type, and can work himself into a frenzy on taking a wicket, even if it involved a number 11 batsman getting holed out at long on.
M S Dhoni (Wicket Keeper)
He was selected in the team for being a hard hitter of the cricket ball and a passable keeper, but cemented his place in the team recently when he made the President of Pakistan insecure with his hair-style. He recently discovered that no one could fool a man twice with the same trick even if he was a Sardarji when he holed out to Monty Panessar at mid-off in the final innings of the third test against England.
Munaf Patel
At last a fast bowler for India who looks like a fast bowler and also bowls fast. He however, seems to be terribly unlucky, what with his team members dropping catches off his bowling without fail. One hopes to God he will not have too many injuries, lest he be pushed into the sidelines and later be completely forgotten. Remember Balaji?
Sreeshanth, RP Singh and Ajith Agarkar
The other fast bowlers for India. The first two have had good matches, but are yet to prove themselves by bowling the last over when the opposition needs six runs, with two wickets in hand. The other has the "uncanny knack" of picking up wickets, of batsmen number nine, ten and eleven when they are going for runs in the end overs, and attributes it to "reverse swing". He is a senior member without too much experience.
Coach Greg Chappell
This Australian beat people like Jimmy Amarnath, who is making a fool of himself on Fourth Umpire making people rather relieved he was not the coach, to become the coach of Team India. He has the distinction of being the second most laptop touting cricket coach in the world, the first being Bob Woolmer. Chappell can not even dream of comng close to Woolmer in the sense that Chappell only plays Minesweeper when a match is in progress, while Woolmer plays Quake. Chappell is so dedicated a coach for the team that he regularly injures himself, especially his middle finger.
India is truly well on its way to winning the world cup next year.
Rahul Dravid (captain)
This man is a highly talented fellow who used to have the habit of turning his back to the ball whenever he was batting and used to take an average of twenty balls to get off the mark, much to the annoyance of the non-striker. It is generally agreed he has lost this habit now. However, since becoming captain, maybe he has made a new habit of winning the toss, but without much consequence.
Sachin Tendulkar
The most experienced man in the team, this man has hit an uncountable number of centuries and fifties. These days however, he forever seems to be either in a bad patch or recovering from an injury.
Anil Kumble
If all the members of the Indian team were asked to drop their pants, you would probably find this man to have the most worn out knees, among other things, because he invariably makes "valiant efforts" on the field by sliding after the ball on his knees. While bowling, he rarely turns the ball, but claims he turns the ball half the width of the bat, thereby getting the edge. However, I suspect most batsmen get out because they never get used to having a leg-spinner bowl so fast.
Virendar Sehwag
He can clobber Waqar Younis over third man for six. That's about all he does. Invariably instructed by the team management to play his natural game, he gets out with a strike rate of two hundred...having faced five balls.
Gautham Gambhir
Sportstar recently gave him a rating of 3/10. That pretty much speaks for itself. However, he is retained in the team for his message passing capabilities as a drinks man or "super sub".
Yuvraj Singh
He won the match for India at the Natwest final, some four years ago, and people still talk about that to justify his selection in the team. Other reasons for his selection in the team include his astounding ability to dive into the ground or throw himself all around the ball, without affecting its progress to the boundary at all.
Mohamed Kaif
A gem of a person off the field, he is a GEM of a person on it. (GEM : Ginger Eaten Monkey). His batting stance and ability to hit the stumps long after the running batsman has crossed the crease will prove my point to you.
Irfan Pathan
A left arm "pace" bowler, this man can swing the ball prodidiously, only to find that the batsman has clobbered it for four, or gone wide. Also an upcoming batsman, he regularly scores more than the top order batsmen.
Harbhajan Singh
This man regularly comes in the dreams of the Aussies wearing a Putka, sporting a pointed tail and holding a syth in his hand. Harbhajan is a very emotional type, and can work himself into a frenzy on taking a wicket, even if it involved a number 11 batsman getting holed out at long on.
M S Dhoni (Wicket Keeper)
He was selected in the team for being a hard hitter of the cricket ball and a passable keeper, but cemented his place in the team recently when he made the President of Pakistan insecure with his hair-style. He recently discovered that no one could fool a man twice with the same trick even if he was a Sardarji when he holed out to Monty Panessar at mid-off in the final innings of the third test against England.
Munaf Patel
At last a fast bowler for India who looks like a fast bowler and also bowls fast. He however, seems to be terribly unlucky, what with his team members dropping catches off his bowling without fail. One hopes to God he will not have too many injuries, lest he be pushed into the sidelines and later be completely forgotten. Remember Balaji?
Sreeshanth, RP Singh and Ajith Agarkar
The other fast bowlers for India. The first two have had good matches, but are yet to prove themselves by bowling the last over when the opposition needs six runs, with two wickets in hand. The other has the "uncanny knack" of picking up wickets, of batsmen number nine, ten and eleven when they are going for runs in the end overs, and attributes it to "reverse swing". He is a senior member without too much experience.
Coach Greg Chappell
This Australian beat people like Jimmy Amarnath, who is making a fool of himself on Fourth Umpire making people rather relieved he was not the coach, to become the coach of Team India. He has the distinction of being the second most laptop touting cricket coach in the world, the first being Bob Woolmer. Chappell can not even dream of comng close to Woolmer in the sense that Chappell only plays Minesweeper when a match is in progress, while Woolmer plays Quake. Chappell is so dedicated a coach for the team that he regularly injures himself, especially his middle finger.
India is truly well on its way to winning the world cup next year.
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Jeans Syndrome
The Anna University, under the new regime of the complete idiot Vishwanathan, wrapped up all the exams for the even semester within a short span of two weeks. As an indirect consequence, a lot of people lost many hours of sleep as they had to stay awake till late into the night watching the men in blue snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. The fact that cricket matches are played is in itself a direct consequence of looming exams. Every exam was held every alternate day, which was a blessing in disguise, as the possibility of a candidate (read Sundar) forgetting the date and over-sleeping is greatly reduced. Usually exams are held once every three days. The study holidays before the exams, three days of holidays between each exam and the next, and the stretch of holidays after the exams usually have the combined effect of making one feel he’s writing exams in-between a long stretch of holidays. This time round, however, things were different and the exams were all over before one could say Jack Robbins, or whatever one wished to say, because anyway people weren’t paying attention to what one said because they were too busy studying. I am not making much sense am I?
The first exam was something called Computer Architecture. This is a very interesting subject, as I discovered seven hours before the start of the exam. People said it was tough, but I thought it was challenging. Maybe I will have to swallow my words if I flunk it. A day later, we had to write something called Operating Systems, which dealt with how an operating system would go about its task of producing the blue screen of death. This too turned out to be very interesting, but the paper was a terrible bore as there was no work for the brain, whereas my hand worked itself to death. One more day later we had to write a paper called Probability and Queuing Theory where a student’s aptitude is judged based on his ability to memorize totally useless and abstract theorems and the variety of symbols he uses. I mean, who has ever heard of a barber who calculates the number of customers in his shop assuming a Poisson distribution of arrivals where the service rate is assumed to be exponentially distributed? He would be better off doing a head count. With that, the first phase of the exams got over.
The next phase began with Visual Programming. This happens to be the most counter-intuitive programming language ever invented, and no prizes for guessing who invented it – Microsoft. Even though the exam was more than three days away, I started studying as soon as I came home –But that was not to be. There I was trying to make sense out of what Charles Petzold means when he makes tongue-in-cheek remarks like “Creating a window is as easy as calling the createwindow() function –Well, not really”, when some of my friends called me to the nearby ground to play, and that’s what I ended up doing. I read the preface thoroughly in both the books (the only comprehensible parts), and had a few doubts as to whether Kruglinski really died in a paragliding ‘accident’. What I mean is that one of his students could easily have done him in -A knot tied the wrong way would have done the trick. And he would not be without motive. At the end of the exam, I swore that if ever I could get my hands on that Petzold guy I would hack his right arm right off. If time permitted, I would make sure I cut his arm above the windows tattoo that he supposedly wears on his right bicep. Next came a paper called Analog and Digital Communications. Incidentally, we had the most un-communicative lecturer for this subject. Forty-five hours of slogging through phase locked loop circuits, Crosby direct transmitters, digitally encoded binary shift keying theorems and three hours of staring at blank sheets of paper later, we came out feeling absolutely rotten. The next exam was the Electrical Engineering and Control Systems paper. This subject, contrary to popular perception, happens to be a core subject for computer engineers. Once again people spent a day and a half trying to figure out the working of the three phase induction motor that could start itself due to the presence of a rotating magnetic flux (whatever that means) and the Nyquist criterion to find the stability of an independent second order system (you just said it was an independent system –why bother with it? Leave it alone!). The paper setters here pulled off a stunt that has no precedent in the lamentable history of Anna University. Normally they ask problems based on the theories students study. This time however, they, under the impression that they were going to set a challenging paper, set questions that asked students to write long-winded essays on how to solve the problem, rather than asking them to solve the problem itself. So, that was that, and with a month of holidays ahead, there’s nothing to stop me from achieving my wildest ambition ever (sleeping thirteen hours a day).
Why did I name this post the Jean Sequence? Wait and find out.
The first exam was something called Computer Architecture. This is a very interesting subject, as I discovered seven hours before the start of the exam. People said it was tough, but I thought it was challenging. Maybe I will have to swallow my words if I flunk it. A day later, we had to write something called Operating Systems, which dealt with how an operating system would go about its task of producing the blue screen of death. This too turned out to be very interesting, but the paper was a terrible bore as there was no work for the brain, whereas my hand worked itself to death. One more day later we had to write a paper called Probability and Queuing Theory where a student’s aptitude is judged based on his ability to memorize totally useless and abstract theorems and the variety of symbols he uses. I mean, who has ever heard of a barber who calculates the number of customers in his shop assuming a Poisson distribution of arrivals where the service rate is assumed to be exponentially distributed? He would be better off doing a head count. With that, the first phase of the exams got over.
The next phase began with Visual Programming. This happens to be the most counter-intuitive programming language ever invented, and no prizes for guessing who invented it – Microsoft. Even though the exam was more than three days away, I started studying as soon as I came home –But that was not to be. There I was trying to make sense out of what Charles Petzold means when he makes tongue-in-cheek remarks like “Creating a window is as easy as calling the createwindow() function –Well, not really”, when some of my friends called me to the nearby ground to play, and that’s what I ended up doing. I read the preface thoroughly in both the books (the only comprehensible parts), and had a few doubts as to whether Kruglinski really died in a paragliding ‘accident’. What I mean is that one of his students could easily have done him in -A knot tied the wrong way would have done the trick. And he would not be without motive. At the end of the exam, I swore that if ever I could get my hands on that Petzold guy I would hack his right arm right off. If time permitted, I would make sure I cut his arm above the windows tattoo that he supposedly wears on his right bicep. Next came a paper called Analog and Digital Communications. Incidentally, we had the most un-communicative lecturer for this subject. Forty-five hours of slogging through phase locked loop circuits, Crosby direct transmitters, digitally encoded binary shift keying theorems and three hours of staring at blank sheets of paper later, we came out feeling absolutely rotten. The next exam was the Electrical Engineering and Control Systems paper. This subject, contrary to popular perception, happens to be a core subject for computer engineers. Once again people spent a day and a half trying to figure out the working of the three phase induction motor that could start itself due to the presence of a rotating magnetic flux (whatever that means) and the Nyquist criterion to find the stability of an independent second order system (you just said it was an independent system –why bother with it? Leave it alone!). The paper setters here pulled off a stunt that has no precedent in the lamentable history of Anna University. Normally they ask problems based on the theories students study. This time however, they, under the impression that they were going to set a challenging paper, set questions that asked students to write long-winded essays on how to solve the problem, rather than asking them to solve the problem itself. So, that was that, and with a month of holidays ahead, there’s nothing to stop me from achieving my wildest ambition ever (sleeping thirteen hours a day).
Why did I name this post the Jean Sequence? Wait and find out.
Title Is Yours.........
Half the summer vacations are over and I am bored to death. Some of the things I’ve managed to do so far include
1. Making a fool of myself by signing up for driving class and drive the instructor nuts,
2. Making a fool of myself on various online communities like Orkut and my friends weblogs,
3. Making a fool of myself by consenting to play cricket in the evenings,
4. Making a fool of myself by listing out all the possible ways I have made a fool of myself on my weblog.
Oh, I have also made a fool of myself by forgetting why I named my previous post The Jean Sequence. There is also the minor inconvenience of the football world-cup going on as well, what with everyone one meets wanting to know who would win the next match, and whether or not some harassed looking player with a crazy hairstyle ought to have been given the red card or not. I did make an effort to understand the dynamics behind football but I think I started at the wrong place – I tried to figure out the off-side rule. I however decided to watch all the games being broadcasted on ESPN which by itself is a special thing because the cable operators decided to broadcast the channel making all those who signed up for the CAS look like jackasses.
The heat is also taking its toll on people. Some have gone out to hilly regions to escape from the heat of Chennai. Why, my own good friend Raja Deepak himself is returning home coming Monday leaving a trail of devastation behind in Kodaikanal. The heat has also affected me in the sense that it has impaired my thinking and has made me embark on long soliloquies on topics that are better left alone. Recently for example I wondered what circumstances drive people to suicidal thoughts. One guy I know contemplated doing himself in when he was in a bit of a mess with his classmates. Another wanted to do so because he was in a spot of trouble with his family. Though these were serious problems, which look silly because I do not want to elaborate too much for fear of giving too much away, they hardly qualify to invoke such thoughts. Well I myself have been through worse and have pulled through without incident. I have contemplated suicide twice in my life and the reasons are pretty serious. The first one was when Arun made a record seventeen geek jokes on the morning of the Operating Systems exam. The second was when Navneeth declared "We have spiritual power" to the class in general when a heated discussion was going on about who had more power in his biceps, that would help in arm wrestling. That is the sort of thing heat can do to you.
Regarding driving classes, I have to admit it. I am driving impaired. I can hardly differentiate between the left and the right in the best of times and certainly not when behind the wheel of a car that seems to have a mind of its own. One time I even managed to depress the brake instead of the clutch causing chaos in the traffic that was following our car.
For want of topics to speak about and not make a fool of myself, I’ll wind this post up.
When I am not making a fool of myself, I am bored to death and will only be too happy when college re-opens.
1. Making a fool of myself by signing up for driving class and drive the instructor nuts,
2. Making a fool of myself on various online communities like Orkut and my friends weblogs,
3. Making a fool of myself by consenting to play cricket in the evenings,
4. Making a fool of myself by listing out all the possible ways I have made a fool of myself on my weblog.
Oh, I have also made a fool of myself by forgetting why I named my previous post The Jean Sequence. There is also the minor inconvenience of the football world-cup going on as well, what with everyone one meets wanting to know who would win the next match, and whether or not some harassed looking player with a crazy hairstyle ought to have been given the red card or not. I did make an effort to understand the dynamics behind football but I think I started at the wrong place – I tried to figure out the off-side rule. I however decided to watch all the games being broadcasted on ESPN which by itself is a special thing because the cable operators decided to broadcast the channel making all those who signed up for the CAS look like jackasses.
The heat is also taking its toll on people. Some have gone out to hilly regions to escape from the heat of Chennai. Why, my own good friend Raja Deepak himself is returning home coming Monday leaving a trail of devastation behind in Kodaikanal. The heat has also affected me in the sense that it has impaired my thinking and has made me embark on long soliloquies on topics that are better left alone. Recently for example I wondered what circumstances drive people to suicidal thoughts. One guy I know contemplated doing himself in when he was in a bit of a mess with his classmates. Another wanted to do so because he was in a spot of trouble with his family. Though these were serious problems, which look silly because I do not want to elaborate too much for fear of giving too much away, they hardly qualify to invoke such thoughts. Well I myself have been through worse and have pulled through without incident. I have contemplated suicide twice in my life and the reasons are pretty serious. The first one was when Arun made a record seventeen geek jokes on the morning of the Operating Systems exam. The second was when Navneeth declared "We have spiritual power" to the class in general when a heated discussion was going on about who had more power in his biceps, that would help in arm wrestling. That is the sort of thing heat can do to you.
Regarding driving classes, I have to admit it. I am driving impaired. I can hardly differentiate between the left and the right in the best of times and certainly not when behind the wheel of a car that seems to have a mind of its own. One time I even managed to depress the brake instead of the clutch causing chaos in the traffic that was following our car.
For want of topics to speak about and not make a fool of myself, I’ll wind this post up.
When I am not making a fool of myself, I am bored to death and will only be too happy when college re-opens.
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My New Ear worm
Here is my latest earworm. It absolutely sucks. Its downright weird, and completely annoying.
She is crazy like a fool
What about it Daddy cool
She is crazy like a fool. What about it Daddy cool?
I'm crazy like a fool. What about it Daddy Cool?
Daddy Daddy Cool
Daddy Daddy Cool
Daddy Daddy Cool
Daddy Daddy Cool.
She is crazy like a fool. What about it Daddy cool?
Daddy Daddy Cool
Daddy Daddy Cool
. . .
She is crazy about her Daddy
Oh
she believes in him
She loves her Daddy
She is crazy like a fool. What about it Daddy cool?
Daddy Daddy Cool
Daddy Daddy Cool
. . .
I only listened to this old Boney M song a couple of times! Not fair.
She is crazy like a fool
What about it Daddy cool
She is crazy like a fool. What about it Daddy cool?
I'm crazy like a fool. What about it Daddy Cool?
Daddy Daddy Cool
Daddy Daddy Cool
Daddy Daddy Cool
Daddy Daddy Cool.
She is crazy like a fool. What about it Daddy cool?
Daddy Daddy Cool
Daddy Daddy Cool
. . .
She is crazy about her Daddy
Oh
she believes in him
She loves her Daddy
She is crazy like a fool. What about it Daddy cool?
Daddy Daddy Cool
Daddy Daddy Cool
. . .
I only listened to this old Boney M song a couple of times! Not fair.
Theme Park
I created a world record by visiting two amusement parks within two weeks, one before the practical exams and one after the practicals. This time my family and I went to the VGP so called "Universal Kingdom", in the new Mercedes S-Class err... Make that Maruti Zen my dad had bought recently.
The main reason was to watch the Indiana Jones play that was being put up. We reached there and found that the entry fee was relatively cheap -Rs. 120/-. Later we found that we could do virtually nothing by paying only the entry fee for the default rides all tended to be silly little merry-go-rounds. All the somewhat better rides costed money. It is amazing how these people come up with rides that do not go upside-down even once, and yet manage to christen it a roller coaster, which was the first ride. Well, if you'd coaxed Mr. Bean to take the ride, he would have been so bored he probably would have gone into coma stage. I myself felt sleepy to some extent! We came out and also payed to get our photo as testimony to the fact that we'd had gone on the most boring ride on earth and come out alive.
The second ride we went to actually went upside down. It was dramatically called "The Mixer". On first sight people remark that the name is quite apt as it had the potential to mix the contents of your stomach beyond imagination. However the thing that really churns peoples stomachs is the price of the ride. My brother and I strapped ourselves to it, and the safety lock came down on my thigh with vengeance, cutting off the blood supply to my feet. The thing started rotating, pretty slowly, and after sometime went upside down. I quite enjoyed it, but part of the sensation was nullified by my numb feet. The ride did not rely on centrifugal force to keep you up during the overhead rotation, but rather on the state of the art locking facilities, putting peoples' weights on their thighs. When the ride got over, I regretted having not come in with the next set of people.
Now it was time for the Indiana Jones show. When we reached the spot, we found that the show had long since started and was working its way to the end. We were just in time to see Indy save the damsel in distress and break whatever suspense was there in the show. We decided the whole amusement park was a waste of time and decided to wait at the open-air-theatre itself till the next show, an hour and half later. The show starts with the heroine's helper betraying her and deciding to kill her for the coveted medallion she wore that would let him walk about the temple of Callipha without awakening the temple's resident monster. The hero, our Indy, swings down to rescue her (he swung too far away and landed beyond the ropes just in front of the spectators). Just when the onstage chemistry between the hero and the heroine is getting established, the omnipresent Nazis arrive with the intention of using the temple's secret powers with the view of establishing military superiority. How the temple was supposed to be secret escaped me, what with a regular procession of people chancing upon it every day. The heroine's helper turned out to be an accomplice of the Nazis. The temple's monster gets aroused -A mammoth of a man enacts this monster. It abducts the heroine. The Nazis and the hero have a great gun fight, and one Nazi dies when he goes up in flames when a grenade explodes near him. This was really well done, and he dances about for sometime with his back on fire and then falls into a concealed tank of water behind the set. The hero and the monster fight on top of the temple, the hero slays the monster, which immediately falls three stories to the ground (onto a mattress). The temple starts to self destruct and the hero and heroine are able to get away at the nick of the moment, having to abandon a noble sword. The story is quite predictable, but the stunts were astounding. The timing was still better. Early on, Indy saves the heroine from certain death by calling out to her. She stops and turns just in time to avoid being cut in half by a sword that rises from the floor. The sound was very well co-coordinated with the on-stage events. We shook hands with the performers, who seemed sincerely happy to hear people's compliments.
The other rides were all awesomely boring. I even managed to yawn on the tora tora. A couple of girls were screaming when they reached the top of...guess -The giant wheel. They however were silenced when a man waved at them from the top of a nearby cell-phone tower.
I have vowed to never again visit a theme park. Hope it lasts two months.
The main reason was to watch the Indiana Jones play that was being put up. We reached there and found that the entry fee was relatively cheap -Rs. 120/-. Later we found that we could do virtually nothing by paying only the entry fee for the default rides all tended to be silly little merry-go-rounds. All the somewhat better rides costed money. It is amazing how these people come up with rides that do not go upside-down even once, and yet manage to christen it a roller coaster, which was the first ride. Well, if you'd coaxed Mr. Bean to take the ride, he would have been so bored he probably would have gone into coma stage. I myself felt sleepy to some extent! We came out and also payed to get our photo as testimony to the fact that we'd had gone on the most boring ride on earth and come out alive.
The second ride we went to actually went upside down. It was dramatically called "The Mixer". On first sight people remark that the name is quite apt as it had the potential to mix the contents of your stomach beyond imagination. However the thing that really churns peoples stomachs is the price of the ride. My brother and I strapped ourselves to it, and the safety lock came down on my thigh with vengeance, cutting off the blood supply to my feet. The thing started rotating, pretty slowly, and after sometime went upside down. I quite enjoyed it, but part of the sensation was nullified by my numb feet. The ride did not rely on centrifugal force to keep you up during the overhead rotation, but rather on the state of the art locking facilities, putting peoples' weights on their thighs. When the ride got over, I regretted having not come in with the next set of people.
Now it was time for the Indiana Jones show. When we reached the spot, we found that the show had long since started and was working its way to the end. We were just in time to see Indy save the damsel in distress and break whatever suspense was there in the show. We decided the whole amusement park was a waste of time and decided to wait at the open-air-theatre itself till the next show, an hour and half later. The show starts with the heroine's helper betraying her and deciding to kill her for the coveted medallion she wore that would let him walk about the temple of Callipha without awakening the temple's resident monster. The hero, our Indy, swings down to rescue her (he swung too far away and landed beyond the ropes just in front of the spectators). Just when the onstage chemistry between the hero and the heroine is getting established, the omnipresent Nazis arrive with the intention of using the temple's secret powers with the view of establishing military superiority. How the temple was supposed to be secret escaped me, what with a regular procession of people chancing upon it every day. The heroine's helper turned out to be an accomplice of the Nazis. The temple's monster gets aroused -A mammoth of a man enacts this monster. It abducts the heroine. The Nazis and the hero have a great gun fight, and one Nazi dies when he goes up in flames when a grenade explodes near him. This was really well done, and he dances about for sometime with his back on fire and then falls into a concealed tank of water behind the set. The hero and the monster fight on top of the temple, the hero slays the monster, which immediately falls three stories to the ground (onto a mattress). The temple starts to self destruct and the hero and heroine are able to get away at the nick of the moment, having to abandon a noble sword. The story is quite predictable, but the stunts were astounding. The timing was still better. Early on, Indy saves the heroine from certain death by calling out to her. She stops and turns just in time to avoid being cut in half by a sword that rises from the floor. The sound was very well co-coordinated with the on-stage events. We shook hands with the performers, who seemed sincerely happy to hear people's compliments.
The other rides were all awesomely boring. I even managed to yawn on the tora tora. A couple of girls were screaming when they reached the top of...guess -The giant wheel. They however were silenced when a man waved at them from the top of a nearby cell-phone tower.
I have vowed to never again visit a theme park. Hope it lasts two months.
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A person who I thought was my friend once asked me to read a certain book called The Silmarillion. He said it was a Tolkien book, which I read with passion. I however could not read beyond the first paragraph. It was akin to listening to Vogon poetry. Here's a small excerpt. Read this and judge for yourself how an average fellow would feel if given such a book.
AINULINDALË
The Music of the Ainur
There was Eru, the One, who in Arda is called Ilúvatar; and he made first
the Ainur, the Holy Ones, that were the offspring of his thought, and they
were with him before aught else was made. And he spoke to them, propounding
to them themes of music; and they sang before him, and he was glad. But for
a long while they sang only each alone, or but few together, while the rest
hearkened; for each comprehended only that part of me mind of Ilúvatar from
which he came, and in the understanding of their brethren they grew but
slowly. Yet ever as they listened they came to deeper understanding, and
increased in unison and harmony.
The uninitiated, on listening to this generally collapse right there, hanging their tongue out, drooling, with a look of incomprehension in their eyes. The initiated, however tend to collapse right there, hanging their tongue out, drooling, with a look of total comprehension in their eyes. Of course, I am a great fan of Douglas Adams.
Well, that's not the only instance of Tolkien befuddling people. Even in The return of the king, I thought I was following the geography pretty well, but I suddenly came across this paragraph, and it it was with great will power that I restrained myself from collapsing right there, tongue hanging out, drooling, with a look of total incomprehension in my eyes.
At last the king's company came to a sharp brink, and the climbing road passed into a cutting between walls of rock, and so went up a short slope and out on to a wide upland. The Firenfeld men called it, a green mountain-field of grass and heath, high above the deep delved courses of the Snowbourn, laid upon the lap of the great mountains behind: the Starkhorn southwards, and northwards the saw-toothed mass of Irensaga, between which there faced the riders, the grim black wall of the Dwimorberg, the Haunted Mountain rising out of steep slopes of sombre pines. Dividing the upland into two there marched a double line of unshaped standing stones that dwindled into dusk and vanished in the trees. Those who had dared to follow that road came soon to the black Dimholt under Dwimorberg, and the menace of the pillar of stone, and the yawning shadow of the forbidden door.
If you have read the Silma- thingy, please give me its review since I have not read it beyond the first paragraph.
AINULINDALË
The Music of the Ainur
There was Eru, the One, who in Arda is called Ilúvatar; and he made first
the Ainur, the Holy Ones, that were the offspring of his thought, and they
were with him before aught else was made. And he spoke to them, propounding
to them themes of music; and they sang before him, and he was glad. But for
a long while they sang only each alone, or but few together, while the rest
hearkened; for each comprehended only that part of me mind of Ilúvatar from
which he came, and in the understanding of their brethren they grew but
slowly. Yet ever as they listened they came to deeper understanding, and
increased in unison and harmony.
The uninitiated, on listening to this generally collapse right there, hanging their tongue out, drooling, with a look of incomprehension in their eyes. The initiated, however tend to collapse right there, hanging their tongue out, drooling, with a look of total comprehension in their eyes. Of course, I am a great fan of Douglas Adams.
Well, that's not the only instance of Tolkien befuddling people. Even in The return of the king, I thought I was following the geography pretty well, but I suddenly came across this paragraph, and it it was with great will power that I restrained myself from collapsing right there, tongue hanging out, drooling, with a look of total incomprehension in my eyes.
At last the king's company came to a sharp brink, and the climbing road passed into a cutting between walls of rock, and so went up a short slope and out on to a wide upland. The Firenfeld men called it, a green mountain-field of grass and heath, high above the deep delved courses of the Snowbourn, laid upon the lap of the great mountains behind: the Starkhorn southwards, and northwards the saw-toothed mass of Irensaga, between which there faced the riders, the grim black wall of the Dwimorberg, the Haunted Mountain rising out of steep slopes of sombre pines. Dividing the upland into two there marched a double line of unshaped standing stones that dwindled into dusk and vanished in the trees. Those who had dared to follow that road came soon to the black Dimholt under Dwimorberg, and the menace of the pillar of stone, and the yawning shadow of the forbidden door.
If you have read the Silma- thingy, please give me its review since I have not read it beyond the first paragraph.
Kishkintha
God knows why theme parks were created. At-least why theme parks were created in India. This is because a day at an Indian theme park is about as interesting as a day spent staring at Krishnamachari Srikkanth talking about "innovations" cricket should introduce (such as drawing a strip on the pitch to facilitate accurate LBW decisions).
This morning I woke up to a loudly ringing phone. Expecting to be informed of a brutual murder, involving a man lying on the floor, arms and legs twisted at an angle that would have resembled a combination of the petruvian man and T Rajender, I was jolted back into reality when I realized it was Mahesh cooing his hellos into the phone. Making a mental note to cut down on Dan Brown books, I realized he was going on about some trip to an "amusement" park. I readily agreed as it provided me with a much needed break from an heavy work-schedule involving getting up at ten, breaking fast at eleven, and browsing the internet till two; not the same day, but the next morning. My only other concern was finance, and amazingly I found a couple of hundred bucks which I had not drunk my way through in the form of fruit-mixes in paan-stained glasses. I dressed with painstaking carelessness, and found that I had matched a blue shirt with a blue pair of jeans. This tends to happen as I tend to not wear anything other than the colour blue. Another motivation for me to go was the fact that Mahesh was arranging for the transport in the form of an Ambassador driven by Schumacher's second cousin.
The motivation for Mahesh to organize the trip was that he wasn't under any form of motivation, which he would have promptly ignored. He however was under compulsion from all of his family to take his cousin, who could not understand a word of Tamil, from Varanasi to a popular theme park in Chennai. In this way, it turned out that we were a motley collection of reluctant souls forced on a joy-trip when we'd have rather been at Dr. Rajkumar's funeral.
We reached the place, which was on the way to the place of Mahesh's intellectual study of Computer Science Engineering. Since he was well versed with the route, he pre-warned us of the precise spots at which to cover our noses, as there were an assortment of garbage dumps on both sides along the way. We entered, payed through our nose for the minimal thrills and frills package and promptly got tagged -you know, the way they tag cattle in ranches, the way Saddam used to tag the dead after each small stint at ethnic cleansing. The first ride was called "Shuttle". Well in essence it was a powered swing which was designed to look like a space shuttle. The operators were reluctant to let the swing really soar because there were an assortment of senior citizens amongst the riders. Usually(I have made a total of eight trips to Kishkinta) they swing the contraption high enough to facilitate the viewing of the wheels beneath, but this time they did not do that. After half a dozen swings, we disembarked. The next ride was the Tora-Tora. It is not known why this ride was called so...but maybe because it tends to churn things in your stomach, causing people to throw up...torrrooouuuaaaggghhh...torrrooouuuaaaggghhh -which is precisely what happened to the man sitting in front of me. Luckily centrifugal force carried everything away from me, and I haven't yet opened my account on any theme-park doshams.
The next thing we did was to ride something called the trooper, but I will not go into word origins here. Mahesh sat out on this one because it went too high up for his liking. So, I ended up taking a car with the non-Tamil speaking guy, and by the time my challenge of throwing one's hands up for at least one revolution got across, we were getting out of it. The flume ride turned out to be a damp squib, quite literally. A boat goes up, comes down, crashes, drenches its occupants for no useful reason with salt-water. The heat must have gotten to us, for we did this twice. At this time, we had a plate of samosas each at rates so high that Warren Buffet would rather have eaten his left sock. We also had the cheapest lemonade we could find, whose ingredients consisted of methyl iso-cyanide, ethyl mercaptan and benzene hexachloride all mixed with di-hydrogen monoxide.
Having filled our tummies with non-biodegradable toxic waste, we proceeded to a place called Manthira Arai (Mystical room) which possessed the mystical quality of being able to rotate with the help of a single phase induction motor, or any other contraption for that matter. The room was closed off and we were asked to view the room on an ajacent screen... The room had a fixed camera that rotated along with it. A guy in a poorly designed spider-man costume performed a few antics in the room by walking all along the ceiling, walls and floor. At the end of the show, a question was asked at the audience (still seated members) and one man put up his hand and managed to get the point across that the thing rotated. He got a T-shirt with the Kishkinta logo, and an opportunity to walk into the room and generally make a fool of himself. He made a fool of himself and got away. His friends promptly made a fool of themselves by tearing the shirt apart into pieces. We trudged on into the next show, a sort of virtual reality show, where the chairs move in sync with the on-screen video. We were to watch some sort of ride into a coal mine. It was pretty good, but it can only be realistic enough only if they'd have been able to simulate free-fall sensation, which is virtually impossible. Thankfully, the room was air-conditioned.
We went on to ride an inflatable raft down a slope, which was pretty exciting. We pushed some more unpalatable stuff into our stomach, and started off for home (me thankful because I needed to start writing my records as it was only a week away from the exams). Other things we did, which I did not mention include riding the Arabian Nights (Cups and Saucers) twice (this is nothing but a fancy contraption where a smaller wheel rotates inside a larger one and you are made to sit in one of the cups on the smaller one), the bumper cars twice, where you are allowed to smash you car into any others', which under normal circumstances would have cost you a lot of money in the form of compensation and bribe, and ride the Tora-Tora a second, pukeless time. We fancied a ride on the shuttle a second time, but we got out after sitting on it for ten minutes because the hydraulic walkways would not fold up. I was thankful that the hydraulic walkways had not malfunctioned at the end of the ride. Imagine a truckload of people sitting in a swing twenty feet above the ground unable to get off because the walkways refused to lower themselves! We'd all still have been sitting there!
We decided enough was enough and started back home. I just realized I had been to a place where there is no giant wheel and I have not been upside-down even once and people call that an amusement park! On coming home, I showered and went online (to hell with records). Mahesh had his work cut out for him. He had to drop his cousin back in T Nagar. He reached home at nine in the evening, a hundred times more tired than I. Who wouldn't get tired having listened to an hours worth of heavily accented Hindi?
Hell of a journey.
This morning I woke up to a loudly ringing phone. Expecting to be informed of a brutual murder, involving a man lying on the floor, arms and legs twisted at an angle that would have resembled a combination of the petruvian man and T Rajender, I was jolted back into reality when I realized it was Mahesh cooing his hellos into the phone. Making a mental note to cut down on Dan Brown books, I realized he was going on about some trip to an "amusement" park. I readily agreed as it provided me with a much needed break from an heavy work-schedule involving getting up at ten, breaking fast at eleven, and browsing the internet till two; not the same day, but the next morning. My only other concern was finance, and amazingly I found a couple of hundred bucks which I had not drunk my way through in the form of fruit-mixes in paan-stained glasses. I dressed with painstaking carelessness, and found that I had matched a blue shirt with a blue pair of jeans. This tends to happen as I tend to not wear anything other than the colour blue. Another motivation for me to go was the fact that Mahesh was arranging for the transport in the form of an Ambassador driven by Schumacher's second cousin.
The motivation for Mahesh to organize the trip was that he wasn't under any form of motivation, which he would have promptly ignored. He however was under compulsion from all of his family to take his cousin, who could not understand a word of Tamil, from Varanasi to a popular theme park in Chennai. In this way, it turned out that we were a motley collection of reluctant souls forced on a joy-trip when we'd have rather been at Dr. Rajkumar's funeral.
We reached the place, which was on the way to the place of Mahesh's intellectual study of Computer Science Engineering. Since he was well versed with the route, he pre-warned us of the precise spots at which to cover our noses, as there were an assortment of garbage dumps on both sides along the way. We entered, payed through our nose for the minimal thrills and frills package and promptly got tagged -you know, the way they tag cattle in ranches, the way Saddam used to tag the dead after each small stint at ethnic cleansing. The first ride was called "Shuttle". Well in essence it was a powered swing which was designed to look like a space shuttle. The operators were reluctant to let the swing really soar because there were an assortment of senior citizens amongst the riders. Usually(I have made a total of eight trips to Kishkinta) they swing the contraption high enough to facilitate the viewing of the wheels beneath, but this time they did not do that. After half a dozen swings, we disembarked. The next ride was the Tora-Tora. It is not known why this ride was called so...but maybe because it tends to churn things in your stomach, causing people to throw up...torrrooouuuaaaggghhh...torrrooouuuaaaggghhh -which is precisely what happened to the man sitting in front of me. Luckily centrifugal force carried everything away from me, and I haven't yet opened my account on any theme-park doshams.
The next thing we did was to ride something called the trooper, but I will not go into word origins here. Mahesh sat out on this one because it went too high up for his liking. So, I ended up taking a car with the non-Tamil speaking guy, and by the time my challenge of throwing one's hands up for at least one revolution got across, we were getting out of it. The flume ride turned out to be a damp squib, quite literally. A boat goes up, comes down, crashes, drenches its occupants for no useful reason with salt-water. The heat must have gotten to us, for we did this twice. At this time, we had a plate of samosas each at rates so high that Warren Buffet would rather have eaten his left sock. We also had the cheapest lemonade we could find, whose ingredients consisted of methyl iso-cyanide, ethyl mercaptan and benzene hexachloride all mixed with di-hydrogen monoxide.
Having filled our tummies with non-biodegradable toxic waste, we proceeded to a place called Manthira Arai (Mystical room) which possessed the mystical quality of being able to rotate with the help of a single phase induction motor, or any other contraption for that matter. The room was closed off and we were asked to view the room on an ajacent screen... The room had a fixed camera that rotated along with it. A guy in a poorly designed spider-man costume performed a few antics in the room by walking all along the ceiling, walls and floor. At the end of the show, a question was asked at the audience (still seated members) and one man put up his hand and managed to get the point across that the thing rotated. He got a T-shirt with the Kishkinta logo, and an opportunity to walk into the room and generally make a fool of himself. He made a fool of himself and got away. His friends promptly made a fool of themselves by tearing the shirt apart into pieces. We trudged on into the next show, a sort of virtual reality show, where the chairs move in sync with the on-screen video. We were to watch some sort of ride into a coal mine. It was pretty good, but it can only be realistic enough only if they'd have been able to simulate free-fall sensation, which is virtually impossible. Thankfully, the room was air-conditioned.
We went on to ride an inflatable raft down a slope, which was pretty exciting. We pushed some more unpalatable stuff into our stomach, and started off for home (me thankful because I needed to start writing my records as it was only a week away from the exams). Other things we did, which I did not mention include riding the Arabian Nights (Cups and Saucers) twice (this is nothing but a fancy contraption where a smaller wheel rotates inside a larger one and you are made to sit in one of the cups on the smaller one), the bumper cars twice, where you are allowed to smash you car into any others', which under normal circumstances would have cost you a lot of money in the form of compensation and bribe, and ride the Tora-Tora a second, pukeless time. We fancied a ride on the shuttle a second time, but we got out after sitting on it for ten minutes because the hydraulic walkways would not fold up. I was thankful that the hydraulic walkways had not malfunctioned at the end of the ride. Imagine a truckload of people sitting in a swing twenty feet above the ground unable to get off because the walkways refused to lower themselves! We'd all still have been sitting there!
We decided enough was enough and started back home. I just realized I had been to a place where there is no giant wheel and I have not been upside-down even once and people call that an amusement park! On coming home, I showered and went online (to hell with records). Mahesh had his work cut out for him. He had to drop his cousin back in T Nagar. He reached home at nine in the evening, a hundred times more tired than I. Who wouldn't get tired having listened to an hours worth of heavily accented Hindi?
Hell of a journey.
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Practically impractical
Whoever has attended a practical session in engineering college would know how useless it is. Whoever has attended a practical examination in an engineering college would also know the needless tension it inflicts on the candidates in question. I finished my semester practicals last week for this semester, and found it was a total disaster.
On Monday, we came to college to get our record notebooks signed from the HOD. There, we found that two of our practicals had been scheduled for Thursday and Friday. Our eyes lost focus, and our knees collapsed together. I tried very hard to get my notebooks signed by that day itself, but it was not to be. A few of us were destined to come to college on Tuesday it seemed. On Tuesday, we learned that the third practical exam had been scheduled for Wednesday, upon hearing which our eyes lost focus, and our knees gave out beneath us. We got our record note-books signed in a covert snap operation and dashed off for home as soon as we could get away - by four o'clock.
The first exam was grandly titled "Electrical Engineering and Control Systems", which is a core subject for us computer engineers. I prepared pretty well, and in the examination hall, I picked up a paper at random, and found that I had been graciously requested to please find the load characteristics of a single phase transformer. We were first asked to draw the circuit diagram and get it verified. I did so much without much incident, and was guided to the machine in question. I was relieved to see that the connections were all already there. Then I realized only half of the connections were there. On further inspection, I found that whatever connections had already been there were all completely wrong. Sighing, I started connecting - "The Positive connects to the ammeter and the voltmeter. The negative of the voltmeter connects to the negative input...blah blah blah". The internal guy came in, verified the circuit, and asked me to switch on the machine. I flipped it on - well, not exactly "flip" it on, but hung on the switch and pulled it down with full force. The machine thankfully started up and I took all the necessary readings. I then switched it off and started calculating the efficiency, where I hit my first snag. I suddenly realized that my machine had been operating at 150% efficiency! For a moment, I thought I had debunked the law of conservation of energy. I was wondering whether to go public with my findings, when the thought occurred that I ought to re-check my calculations. That's when I realized that one should not use a wattmeter to measure power in the primary circuit. The wattmeter was not used at all! I calculated power manually on both sides and and it worked like a charm -Well, I would have loved to say that, but the points on the graph jumped around like hell, and I was forced to ignore every other alternate reading. Having drawn a semblance of the efficiency output and another plot known as the regulation, I wrote out the result, and lined up for the viva. The external, some woman from Easwari Engg. college, asked me to define a transformer. I replied that the transformer was used to step up or step down voltage, current, power etc. - Big Mistake. She asked me who the hell had taught me that kind of a definition and I was very much tempted to point out my own lecturer sitting nearby, but I controlled myself and kept quiet. She asked a few more questions some of which which I answered pretty well, others for which I wasn't so convincing.
The second exam was Visual Programming, which was my dreaded exam. It is the most counter-intuitive programming language ever invented and no prizes for guessing who invented it- Microsoft. The incidents of this exam are reserved for a later post- after the results... But the one thing that happened was that every law ever dreamed up by Lord Murphy came to the fore and enacted itself upon the candidates with devastating results.
The third and final practical examination was the Operating Systems exam, and for the first time I felt truely confident. I was asked to find the factorial of a number using shell programming in UNIX and to implement the system call fork(), which once again was a C program, but which would only run in a UNIX environment. Simple programs, both of them really, while I had expected something challenging. The external examiner was under the impression of doing things differently. She asked the viva questions in groups of three, so that people could make collective blunders, and magnify their incompetence. She asked a first question which I answered. Then, she asked me to ask a question to any one of the other people -two girls. I asked them a question to which I did not know the answer, but was essential to the running of my program, hoping to get an answer -but as things turned out I could have spoken to a wall with better results. The examiner became angry and remarked all of us could come and write the exam the next semester. She asked a couple more questions to which only I was able to answer, head held high, and the examiner seemed satisfied a little. Then, I called for the guy who didn't know a thing to get my output verified as soon as the guy who knew a thing or two walked out in response to his kausalya supraja... ringtone on his mobile. This man verified the output of my factorial program and marked my fork program verified for just compiling it without executing it!!!
I submitted the paper with the examiner who said "You got the sign from that guy?", and grinned at me in the way you grin at people who you know have done a sly thing. The other guy, who knew a thing or two, rushed in and grabbed the paper from the guy who had signed for me and was just about to verify the output for another guy, much to the poor student's chagrin.
All in all, things went so and so.
On Monday, we came to college to get our record notebooks signed from the HOD. There, we found that two of our practicals had been scheduled for Thursday and Friday. Our eyes lost focus, and our knees collapsed together. I tried very hard to get my notebooks signed by that day itself, but it was not to be. A few of us were destined to come to college on Tuesday it seemed. On Tuesday, we learned that the third practical exam had been scheduled for Wednesday, upon hearing which our eyes lost focus, and our knees gave out beneath us. We got our record note-books signed in a covert snap operation and dashed off for home as soon as we could get away - by four o'clock.
The first exam was grandly titled "Electrical Engineering and Control Systems", which is a core subject for us computer engineers. I prepared pretty well, and in the examination hall, I picked up a paper at random, and found that I had been graciously requested to please find the load characteristics of a single phase transformer. We were first asked to draw the circuit diagram and get it verified. I did so much without much incident, and was guided to the machine in question. I was relieved to see that the connections were all already there. Then I realized only half of the connections were there. On further inspection, I found that whatever connections had already been there were all completely wrong. Sighing, I started connecting - "The Positive connects to the ammeter and the voltmeter. The negative of the voltmeter connects to the negative input...blah blah blah". The internal guy came in, verified the circuit, and asked me to switch on the machine. I flipped it on - well, not exactly "flip" it on, but hung on the switch and pulled it down with full force. The machine thankfully started up and I took all the necessary readings. I then switched it off and started calculating the efficiency, where I hit my first snag. I suddenly realized that my machine had been operating at 150% efficiency! For a moment, I thought I had debunked the law of conservation of energy. I was wondering whether to go public with my findings, when the thought occurred that I ought to re-check my calculations. That's when I realized that one should not use a wattmeter to measure power in the primary circuit. The wattmeter was not used at all! I calculated power manually on both sides and and it worked like a charm -Well, I would have loved to say that, but the points on the graph jumped around like hell, and I was forced to ignore every other alternate reading. Having drawn a semblance of the efficiency output and another plot known as the regulation, I wrote out the result, and lined up for the viva. The external, some woman from Easwari Engg. college, asked me to define a transformer. I replied that the transformer was used to step up or step down voltage, current, power etc. - Big Mistake. She asked me who the hell had taught me that kind of a definition and I was very much tempted to point out my own lecturer sitting nearby, but I controlled myself and kept quiet. She asked a few more questions some of which which I answered pretty well, others for which I wasn't so convincing.
The second exam was Visual Programming, which was my dreaded exam. It is the most counter-intuitive programming language ever invented and no prizes for guessing who invented it- Microsoft. The incidents of this exam are reserved for a later post- after the results... But the one thing that happened was that every law ever dreamed up by Lord Murphy came to the fore and enacted itself upon the candidates with devastating results.
The third and final practical examination was the Operating Systems exam, and for the first time I felt truely confident. I was asked to find the factorial of a number using shell programming in UNIX and to implement the system call fork(), which once again was a C program, but which would only run in a UNIX environment. Simple programs, both of them really, while I had expected something challenging. The external examiner was under the impression of doing things differently. She asked the viva questions in groups of three, so that people could make collective blunders, and magnify their incompetence. She asked a first question which I answered. Then, she asked me to ask a question to any one of the other people -two girls. I asked them a question to which I did not know the answer, but was essential to the running of my program, hoping to get an answer -but as things turned out I could have spoken to a wall with better results. The examiner became angry and remarked all of us could come and write the exam the next semester. She asked a couple more questions to which only I was able to answer, head held high, and the examiner seemed satisfied a little. Then, I called for the guy who didn't know a thing to get my output verified as soon as the guy who knew a thing or two walked out in response to his kausalya supraja... ringtone on his mobile. This man verified the output of my factorial program and marked my fork program verified for just compiling it without executing it!!!
I submitted the paper with the examiner who said "You got the sign from that guy?", and grinned at me in the way you grin at people who you know have done a sly thing. The other guy, who knew a thing or two, rushed in and grabbed the paper from the guy who had signed for me and was just about to verify the output for another guy, much to the poor student's chagrin.
All in all, things went so and so.
Kodai Chronicles
The semester had begun and things had settled down and things were starting to get boring when rumours started flying around that we would be going for tour. With time, rumour became reality and we found that we would be going on an "educational" tour to two places Kodaikanal and Munnar. Organized with exemplary "precision" by Venkat, Ram, and Siva, in the end it was deemed a "grand success". The fees for the whole affair was never really fixed, what with people making last minute changes to the schedule, the principal butting his head in to find fault and exert his non-existent authority, and students bringing wrong amounts and begging for some with their friends.
On the first day, we went by the Vaigai express, a pretty uneventful journey, and reached Dindigul by evening. It was here that news reached us that Anna University had released the results for the previous semester. Raja Deepak managed to get a good friend of his to call him long-distance all the way from home and recited everyone's number to him over the phone, while the good (or bad, depending on what news he said) samaritan raked up a huge phone bill. Barath however was insistent that he be not told the results. News spread like wildfire, and soon Raja was surrounded by a gang of giggling second year girls wanting to know how they'd fared (Much to certain people's consternation). He finally managed to extricate himself and we made for the waiting van. The van stopped at a small restaurant just about to close and we had a hasty couple of Dosas, before the long ascent into the mountains. The van had a cassette player, but played it at 1.5x speed, resulting in terrible music becoming terribler.
We reached Kodaikanal in the wee hours of the morning and stood shivering while the rooms were being allocated. We found ourselves crammed into rooms that had absolutely nothing worthwhile. Everyone decided it was time to party, and got out the bottles. Soon everyone was pretty intoxicated, Raja and me being exceptions, having only sipped a little each. This went on to give us all a few comic incidents, which I do not know would be alright to mention. We went out for a walk and came back to sleep in the morning, while everyone else was waking up. We were supposed to have started off by eight, but we only woke up at ten and well it was very funny.
First we went to a totally useless place called the Coaker's walk. It was a kilometre long stretch and was suppossed to give you a breathtaking view of Kodaikanal (with shops selling odds and ends at breathtaking prices), but the fog was so thick we were not able to see beyond our nose and had to make do with looking at all the shops. At one place a guy was making a fast buck writing people's girlfriends' names on a grain of rice and putting it in a small container of water. Raja got his inscribed with you know who's (or you dont know who) name and gave it to me for safe keeping. We spent an obscenely long time there, while the other van consisting of the other class guys had long gone.
We got into the van and made our way towards the Guna caves, after a completely boring stop at some place called the pine forest. We went through the broken barriers that were supposed to prevent people from getting across and killing themselves. We jumped across two-hundred feet deep ravines and went to a really high over-hanging cliff. I went to the edge and peered down and saw the sky. I was able to see nothing but clouds, but they were all below us. It was a dizzy experience, which can happen to you if you lose track of the position of the horizon.
Well I have described to you approx twenty-four hours worth of the tour till now. I will do the rest in the next post. I would have done it all in one post, but you most probably wouldnt have cared to read so long a post and would have gotten away with a "Nice post man" comment or something like that.
On the first day, we went by the Vaigai express, a pretty uneventful journey, and reached Dindigul by evening. It was here that news reached us that Anna University had released the results for the previous semester. Raja Deepak managed to get a good friend of his to call him long-distance all the way from home and recited everyone's number to him over the phone, while the good (or bad, depending on what news he said) samaritan raked up a huge phone bill. Barath however was insistent that he be not told the results. News spread like wildfire, and soon Raja was surrounded by a gang of giggling second year girls wanting to know how they'd fared (Much to certain people's consternation). He finally managed to extricate himself and we made for the waiting van. The van stopped at a small restaurant just about to close and we had a hasty couple of Dosas, before the long ascent into the mountains. The van had a cassette player, but played it at 1.5x speed, resulting in terrible music becoming terribler.
We reached Kodaikanal in the wee hours of the morning and stood shivering while the rooms were being allocated. We found ourselves crammed into rooms that had absolutely nothing worthwhile. Everyone decided it was time to party, and got out the bottles. Soon everyone was pretty intoxicated, Raja and me being exceptions, having only sipped a little each. This went on to give us all a few comic incidents, which I do not know would be alright to mention. We went out for a walk and came back to sleep in the morning, while everyone else was waking up. We were supposed to have started off by eight, but we only woke up at ten and well it was very funny.
First we went to a totally useless place called the Coaker's walk. It was a kilometre long stretch and was suppossed to give you a breathtaking view of Kodaikanal (with shops selling odds and ends at breathtaking prices), but the fog was so thick we were not able to see beyond our nose and had to make do with looking at all the shops. At one place a guy was making a fast buck writing people's girlfriends' names on a grain of rice and putting it in a small container of water. Raja got his inscribed with you know who's (or you dont know who) name and gave it to me for safe keeping. We spent an obscenely long time there, while the other van consisting of the other class guys had long gone.
We got into the van and made our way towards the Guna caves, after a completely boring stop at some place called the pine forest. We went through the broken barriers that were supposed to prevent people from getting across and killing themselves. We jumped across two-hundred feet deep ravines and went to a really high over-hanging cliff. I went to the edge and peered down and saw the sky. I was able to see nothing but clouds, but they were all below us. It was a dizzy experience, which can happen to you if you lose track of the position of the horizon.
Well I have described to you approx twenty-four hours worth of the tour till now. I will do the rest in the next post. I would have done it all in one post, but you most probably wouldnt have cared to read so long a post and would have gotten away with a "Nice post man" comment or something like that.
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What's Wrong with the college?
Having completed three and a half years of study at my college, I have come to my own conclusions about where we go wrong. It's always been a great place to study in, and it will always be a great place to study in, but there are a few essential points where my college went wrong when they began, and a few points where the affiliating university itself went wrong.
I read somewhere (I think it was in the Hindu Education Plus) that our model of affiliation is based on the affiliation system that was adopted by universities in the UK in the 1880s, and abandoned three years later. However, why we insist on following that model even now, remains to be seen.
My college has a no capitation fee policy. They are very strict about this, they absolutely do NOT charge anyone any extra fees regardless of whether they came in through the single window system or by separate application, they have huge boards proclaiming this policy on the campus, have it running on marquees on websites and stuff. Now such a policy is great if you are a parent wanting to admit your child to a "reputed" engineering college and do not want to end up paying through your nose. Therefore, this policy would have been a great attraction to people whose kids did not have too good marks, but needed to get into an engineering college, when the college was started, some thirteen years ago. However, what they did not realize is the consequent cash loss they'd have to incur.
Since they do not charge capitation fees, they cannot boast of the funds that some other engineering colleges can boast of. This lack of funds results in lower salaries to members of the staff compared to other colleges, and especially in departments like computer science, where the man power fight is against software companies, and colleges, frankly are no match against their lures. Now, to bring about the quality education that engineering colleges boast about in their advertising material, there must be an incentive for people who are knowledgeable in required fields to come and teach. Money is the bet incentive, and in not getting capitation fees and making extra money, my college loses out on gaining that edge. And so, "for greater good" colleges should make accepting capitation fees part of their admission criteria. Of course, it shouldn't be exorbitant, and this is where the government could step in set up a regulatory mechanism.
I would now like to dwell on the affiliation system of our beloved university. All though I am no economics/current affairs/whatever expert, I can tell you for sure that it was globalisation of the Indian economy that has led to the current situation of more than 250 engineering colleges in a single state in the country. When India opened her economy to the world in the 1990s, more and more foreign players realized India's worth as a nation with huge human resources, and many foreign corporations decided to let this huge mass of humanity do their dirty work, leading to the phenomenon we all have come to call outsourcing. Now Indian labour was cheap, skillful, and Indians as a rule spoke better English than did their neighbours the Chinese, which too was a huge manpower reservoir. This lead to a huge demand for technically trained staff to actually sit and do the work. Faced with the problem of losing out on foreign investment to other countries, we hit upon a simple solution. Open a large number of institutions that offer technical training.
Now that you've allowed a quadrillion different engineering colleges to spring up like mushrooms, how do you keep control of all of them, and how do you preserve some semblance of sanity? You bring all those colleges under the control of one university. Now where universities all over the world were autonomous, and worked independently towards achieving their aims, here we had 250 replicas of the same system, each churning out a prescribed amount of graduates every year. Once you have managed to bring about a system where 250 different colleges are pitted against each other, each starts to vie with the other for the cream of the student community, and each college tries to achieve better results, and gain better ranks over and above their counterparts. Once results become primary in importance, out goes other factors such as student life. Students are once again forced to mug up and write exams, with no emphasis whatsoever on the actual learning process. The education system now becomes a knowledge based system, where it is desperately imperative that it be inquiry based. Students are not encouraged to indulge in co-curricular or extra-curricular activities because such activities are perceived by college managements to be a diversion from studies. That education comprises co-curricular and extra-curricular activities too seems to be lost on them. To make students study even better, college managements narrow-mindedly choose to impose a variety of other rules that allegedly free the student mind from distractions. These include unreasonable rules like restricting attire to formals, banning the use of mobile phones, disallowing motor-bikes on campus, not allowing students to go out during class hours, and a whole lot of other quixotic rules.
They have done all that with the sole aim of improving student results, but has it really improved? Are the engineers that are turned out really competent? Are they employable? Sadly that leaves much to be desired. Creative human beings cannot be fostered by stamping out their individuality.
This is the state of affairs that has come about from the primary trigger of globalisation. Globalisation of course has its positive effects, but here I have restricted my scope of discussion to the state of engineering colleges in India. It however is my personal opinion that this is only the first wave, and that things will be a lot better in subsequent waves, which maybe in the 2010s and the 2020s. In the second wave people will collectively come to realize the follies of the preceding wave, and things will turn out to be much better than it is now. (Pardon me if I have started sounding a bit like Hari Seldon)
I have addressed (ranted about on) as many issues as I could think of for now. If I do come up with a lot of concurrent ideas/opinions on any of the issues discussed above, which I will, I shall follow them up on another post. To summarize, this is what in my opinion needs to be done.
* Allow colleges to collect capitation fees. They do need the money for development.
* Get rid of the affiliation system. It has too many responsibilities and has become an unwieldy empire.
* Grade students not on their performance in exams, but on their performance in class rooms. Let the course instructor decide.
* Ensure you have quality course instructors in the first place.
* Realize that you cannot bring about a change for the positive by implementing authoritarian rules.
All this has already been said in a lot literature. I just felt the need to post them and thats what I've done. There are a few opinions that are my personal ones. I am also not sure of most of the facts that I've mentioned. Errors are of course not regretted, because I don't give a damn.
I read somewhere (I think it was in the Hindu Education Plus) that our model of affiliation is based on the affiliation system that was adopted by universities in the UK in the 1880s, and abandoned three years later. However, why we insist on following that model even now, remains to be seen.
My college has a no capitation fee policy. They are very strict about this, they absolutely do NOT charge anyone any extra fees regardless of whether they came in through the single window system or by separate application, they have huge boards proclaiming this policy on the campus, have it running on marquees on websites and stuff. Now such a policy is great if you are a parent wanting to admit your child to a "reputed" engineering college and do not want to end up paying through your nose. Therefore, this policy would have been a great attraction to people whose kids did not have too good marks, but needed to get into an engineering college, when the college was started, some thirteen years ago. However, what they did not realize is the consequent cash loss they'd have to incur.
Since they do not charge capitation fees, they cannot boast of the funds that some other engineering colleges can boast of. This lack of funds results in lower salaries to members of the staff compared to other colleges, and especially in departments like computer science, where the man power fight is against software companies, and colleges, frankly are no match against their lures. Now, to bring about the quality education that engineering colleges boast about in their advertising material, there must be an incentive for people who are knowledgeable in required fields to come and teach. Money is the bet incentive, and in not getting capitation fees and making extra money, my college loses out on gaining that edge. And so, "for greater good" colleges should make accepting capitation fees part of their admission criteria. Of course, it shouldn't be exorbitant, and this is where the government could step in set up a regulatory mechanism.
I would now like to dwell on the affiliation system of our beloved university. All though I am no economics/current affairs/whatever expert, I can tell you for sure that it was globalisation of the Indian economy that has led to the current situation of more than 250 engineering colleges in a single state in the country. When India opened her economy to the world in the 1990s, more and more foreign players realized India's worth as a nation with huge human resources, and many foreign corporations decided to let this huge mass of humanity do their dirty work, leading to the phenomenon we all have come to call outsourcing. Now Indian labour was cheap, skillful, and Indians as a rule spoke better English than did their neighbours the Chinese, which too was a huge manpower reservoir. This lead to a huge demand for technically trained staff to actually sit and do the work. Faced with the problem of losing out on foreign investment to other countries, we hit upon a simple solution. Open a large number of institutions that offer technical training.
Now that you've allowed a quadrillion different engineering colleges to spring up like mushrooms, how do you keep control of all of them, and how do you preserve some semblance of sanity? You bring all those colleges under the control of one university. Now where universities all over the world were autonomous, and worked independently towards achieving their aims, here we had 250 replicas of the same system, each churning out a prescribed amount of graduates every year. Once you have managed to bring about a system where 250 different colleges are pitted against each other, each starts to vie with the other for the cream of the student community, and each college tries to achieve better results, and gain better ranks over and above their counterparts. Once results become primary in importance, out goes other factors such as student life. Students are once again forced to mug up and write exams, with no emphasis whatsoever on the actual learning process. The education system now becomes a knowledge based system, where it is desperately imperative that it be inquiry based. Students are not encouraged to indulge in co-curricular or extra-curricular activities because such activities are perceived by college managements to be a diversion from studies. That education comprises co-curricular and extra-curricular activities too seems to be lost on them. To make students study even better, college managements narrow-mindedly choose to impose a variety of other rules that allegedly free the student mind from distractions. These include unreasonable rules like restricting attire to formals, banning the use of mobile phones, disallowing motor-bikes on campus, not allowing students to go out during class hours, and a whole lot of other quixotic rules.
They have done all that with the sole aim of improving student results, but has it really improved? Are the engineers that are turned out really competent? Are they employable? Sadly that leaves much to be desired. Creative human beings cannot be fostered by stamping out their individuality.
This is the state of affairs that has come about from the primary trigger of globalisation. Globalisation of course has its positive effects, but here I have restricted my scope of discussion to the state of engineering colleges in India. It however is my personal opinion that this is only the first wave, and that things will be a lot better in subsequent waves, which maybe in the 2010s and the 2020s. In the second wave people will collectively come to realize the follies of the preceding wave, and things will turn out to be much better than it is now. (Pardon me if I have started sounding a bit like Hari Seldon)
I have addressed (ranted about on) as many issues as I could think of for now. If I do come up with a lot of concurrent ideas/opinions on any of the issues discussed above, which I will, I shall follow them up on another post. To summarize, this is what in my opinion needs to be done.
* Allow colleges to collect capitation fees. They do need the money for development.
* Get rid of the affiliation system. It has too many responsibilities and has become an unwieldy empire.
* Grade students not on their performance in exams, but on their performance in class rooms. Let the course instructor decide.
* Ensure you have quality course instructors in the first place.
* Realize that you cannot bring about a change for the positive by implementing authoritarian rules.
All this has already been said in a lot literature. I just felt the need to post them and thats what I've done. There are a few opinions that are my personal ones. I am also not sure of most of the facts that I've mentioned. Errors are of course not regretted, because I don't give a damn.
I drove the car
At last I managed to pester my dad to allow me to drive the car on the highway on the way back from Vellore today. It was a few kilometers past Rathnagiri and I took hold of the wheel, and depressed the accelerator and roared down the road, and was nearly doing eighty in the third gear. Dad screamed at me to stop and drive more slowly, and I accelerated slower. Then he gained confidence in me and let me progress up to a 100 kmph. He kept up with a running commentary which was a little irritating, but then one can't have the best of everything. It was just short of Sriperumbudur when he took over from me again.
Please always wear seat-belts while travelling in a car if it is available. People just don't know how useful it is.
Please always wear seat-belts while travelling in a car if it is available. People just don't know how useful it is.
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Power hitting
Today, for the first time in three years , i got a opportunity to play a match with bowling..usually i play cricket with the bowlers chucking...There was a match organized between ICE and CS depts of "SRI SAI RAM ENGG COLG", hari of ICE dpt called me yesterday night 10pm and told me to come and play for his team... as there wasn't sufficient players for their team..The match was played wid full extras, i mean the wides and byes cost runs..The game stared by 8.30am with ICE winning the toss, and choosing to bat...the openers batted well. and i batted 2down the order.. the score was around 35 in 5 overs..the CS guys were so brilliant in bowling, but i got some runs with the bat as well, and i remained till the end by making my team scoring 98 in allotted 12 overs, the extras were the highest run getter...Any how we won the first match with some good bowling from Vinod.A and Dilip(RAILWAY GROUND FAME)bowling some overs too with Hari(not the madambakkm Hari), mahesh(ICE dpt), Bhinesh and we lost the second match, i felt really tired as i can't bat as i did it in the first match...any how a nice experience...today
No play Today..
Today, due to rain there wasn't any part of cricket seen in the railway ground...usually we would assemble in the railway ground by 3.30PM each and every day, but due to the hard breeze and non stop rain, the play was abandoned today, as Vijay Krishnan( "SAI RAM ENGG COLLAGE FAME", cs dpt) declared by a text msg that there wont be any play today...so the day was damn bore , as cricket was the only pozhappu during the evening hours of time for me.. i hope all would have a great time between 3.30 to 6.30PM...so we better hail any other part of cricket , i mean the indoor cricket... what you ppl say??
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Will they be a century atleast
As the Indian team touring Australia..It's all eyes on the fab 5....Sachin, kumble, sourav, dravid and laxman..The Australian pitches are really too fast when compared to all other pitches, with Aussies going with 4 pacers and a leg spinner For their down under with India..Sachin struggling to get a century for the past ten matches, has been facing a tough time around him by getting out in 90's in a similar fashion.. i think he have to make it up in Australia...Draw against the Aussies in their home pitch is a hard thing...so India have to play some really good cricket lot more than the Aussies...chuck de India...
The boxing day
It's boxing day that comes after christmas...and India touring australia....After three year's i hope(not sure exactly)...Australia has not lost even a single match at the boxing day test...Here are some stats for the boxing day test...Vs india
2003-04---->Aus won by nine wickets
1999-00---->Aus won by 180 runs..
1991-92---->Aus won by 8 wickets..
1985-86---->match drawn..
so...the stats says...there is less chance to win a match against The Aussies in the boxing day test...India have to play really a good and hard cricket here in MCG, here they take Aussies in their first test...It will be a history if they beat Aussies in their home ground and Beating Aussies during boxing day test is really a dream for every team...Here in today's match India goes with two spinners..And Dada playing his 100th test will be a great feat....
it's the MCG...
2003-04---->Aus won by nine wickets
1999-00---->Aus won by 180 runs..
1991-92---->Aus won by 8 wickets..
1985-86---->match drawn..
so...the stats says...there is less chance to win a match against The Aussies in the boxing day test...India have to play really a good and hard cricket here in MCG, here they take Aussies in their first test...It will be a history if they beat Aussies in their home ground and Beating Aussies during boxing day test is really a dream for every team...Here in today's match India goes with two spinners..And Dada playing his 100th test will be a great feat....
it's the MCG...
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Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Remix songs!
Remix songs are proving to be the new tradition. The remix songs include songs with the same lyrics with just a increased tempo. Or else the songs are added with a rap in the middle. Or in other cases, ten songs are put together with the same beat going on in the back. Such songs are there at least one song per film nowadays.
Masai is back!!
It was seshadri a.k.a masai who was missing out in our team for a very long time due to the injury which he gained by falling from his honda shine. He has successfully made a come back from this week and he is slowly recovering from the pain. Our coach pambu has said seshadri will be all fit to play in the semester holidays cup!
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Tambaram Gas Tragedy
The Graha gas agency, Tambaram is caught in a case in controversy with indian oil. So the people in and around tambaram are severely suffering for the supply of gas to their house. They have diverted all the consumers to pattammal gas agency, west tambaram. This has made the customers dissatisfied and also suffer to get the new cylinder.
Its Raining again
The slow and steady rain tried to stop the days activities today. There was sun rising out in the morning but by noon time it started to rain and it didn't stop flowing till evening 7. But inspite of the rain we had good session in the railway ground, tambaram. All other students who had remaining exams also have successfully completed it.
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New Season Awaits
There are very few days left for the college to reopen and within this time the dedicated members of our team have started working on the dates of culturals and symposium at other colleges. This is what is called as true spirit. By the calculations, it seems that the last semester will witness the least ever attendance percentage in our college. The record is now held by our class student only. We wont let it to be broken!
Tuesday, December 25, 2007
Billa------------>I'm Back
Banner : Ananda Pictures
Cast : Ajithkumar, Nayanthara, Namitha, Prabhu, Rahman, Santhanam matrum palar...
Direction : Vishnuvardhan
Production : L Suresh
Music : Yuvan Shankar Raja
Film Certification : U/A
Cast : Ajithkumar, Nayanthara, Namitha, Prabhu, Rahman, Santhanam matrum palar...
Direction : Vishnuvardhan
Production : L Suresh
Music : Yuvan Shankar Raja
Film Certification : U/A
The film starts of with Ajith dressed with black suite, standing in front of a black Mercedes. He throws a "RED
I couldn't remember where i had seen that sequence, any way, it's good to watch those. According to me Namitha's role in Billa is not quite satisfying, Vishnuvardhan should of thought of using any other rather than namitha.. The intro seen of Nayanthara was really cool...A good role played by her in billa, and she dominates namitha, no doubt in that....
The movie has created a new revelation among the public and is still running houseful in many theatres around Chennai and also in Tamil nadu.Billa will be a huge break for Ajith in his career as the same for Rajinikanth for his Billa.The stunt sequences are great especially the climax sequences seems to be original. The car chases in the movie seems to be very real. But I can’t see the helicopter sequence where ajith handles the helicopter which is a pre-movie talk.
The hero of original 'Billa' watched the new version and enjoyed it. Superstar Rajinikanth watched 'Billa 2007' starring Ajith, Nayantara, and Namitha yesterday (December 20) in Four Frames Preview Theatre in Chennai.
He was accompanied with director Vishnuvardhan, Ajith, and Shalini. The superstar was visibly happy after seeing the film.
But I can’t imagine Nayanthara in place of Lara Croft in Tomb Raider. Such is the pose below……
Positives:
- Ultimate star Ajith proves to be the biggest plus in this film.. Almost prefectly matches the role.. No other hero could have done any more justice to this role..
- Stunt scenes have been shot particularly well.. Imagine a film where even a heroine like Nayanthara has done her stunt scenes superbly well and also without dupe(I hope)
- Cinematography is amazing and the song My name is Billa stands testimony to the wonderful cinematography
- The remixes My name is Billa and Vethalaya Pottendi rock like anything and is an absolute treat to Ajith fans
- Prabhu does his role with finesse and also shows both wit and humor in his acting.
Negatives:
- The story could have been slightly modified so as to send the audience to the edge of their seats
- The music could have been a little better although the BGM rock!!!
The film is absolutely sexy as a whole and is also thoroughly professional and resembles a
Bottom-line:
Billa tops the charts!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Monday, December 24, 2007
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News
he Fortnightly news is back once again! In up-keeping our age old tradition of putting out an issue once every six months, we present you with the latest news and happenings of the past fortnight in a concise digest.
November 16
Macrohard wins award
Multinational company Macrohard receives an award for the best shop floor practices in following the Japanese philosophy of the 5S, namely Stupidity, Soporificity, Serendipity, Somnambulism, and Psoriasis. (The last one doesn't start with S, but that's OK. How many of the three Rs of Education actually start with R anyway?)
November 20
Stock Markets Crash
Stock Markets around the world crashed because all of them ran Cascading Style Sheets with the parameter background-repeat: "no-repeat", reminiscent of the Y2K fiasco. Of course this had nothing to with the stock markets actually crashing, but this served as an appropriate scape goat. The crash was extensively covered on all news channels, which actually helped the stock markets recover as everyone lapped up the now cheap stock prices. The real reason for the crash was suspected to be the Tamil Nadu Agricultural board's light green text on a dark green background, but such evidence is only circumstantial, and was dismissed by news channels in favour of yet another wardrobe malfunction of some skinny anorexic super-model.
November 23
Riots in Engineering Colleges.
Riots broke out in Engineering colleges with students demanding that French be introduced as a compulsory subject after reading one Mr. Ali Bahrami expound on how one should speak English for business, German for Engineering, Persian for poetry, and French for seduction. Of course, why they didn't ask for German is anyone's guess. A small faction also demanded that Seduction be included in the 5S philosophy, but no one listened to a demand as outrageous as that. The rioters indulged in the usual disobedient activities of turning up in Jeans pants and fasting between break-fast and lunch.
November 27
Eminent academicians arrested
Eminent academicians Butterworth, Chebychev, and a few others were arrested on charges of conducting an orgy on the streets of the Vatican. Butterworth had this to say to our reporters as he was bundled into the police-car, "The input to the Radix-2 Decimation In Time Fast-Fourier Transform is an 8-Point sequence in Bit-Reversed Order". This was when the charges were amended to "Drunken Orgy".
November 30
Mozart Remembered
Yesteryear's musician of note, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was honoured by displaying one of his most famous sayings in hoardings and billboards worldwide at the stroke of midnight: Hear ye, hear ye, ze fundamental key to masthery over ze grand piano zis thu remember zat ze keys C# and Db are ze zame. Rumours abound that he might have had a hand in the drunken orgy of two days before.
December 4
History reveals itself at last
A surprising new insight into the life of the great Roman Emperor Julius Caesar was gained when archaeologists unearthed his personal diary. An extract:
It is raining outside. Having nothing to do, I invented an ingenious new technique of hiding important secret romantic messages to Cleopatra from the prying eyes of my courtiers. It involves writing down the letters horizontally first. Then all you have to do is to write them back vertically, thereby making it impossible to decipher!
This is an extract from Brutus' diary:
Its raining outside. That eternal fool Caesar thinks he can fool me by writing his letters to Cleopatra vertically rather than horizontally.
A few days later:
Its raining outside. Today, when I went and showed Caesar that I'd managed to decipher all of his messages to that female, all he could manage was a pseudo-grandiloquent "Et tu Brute" before clutching his heart and dying.
A few days later:
Its raining outside. Damn it. That Cleopatra bitch turned out to be a lame-fuck after all!
Thank you for turning into this edition of the fortnightly news. Stay tuned till the next edition. Bye, and take care.
November 16
Macrohard wins award
Multinational company Macrohard receives an award for the best shop floor practices in following the Japanese philosophy of the 5S, namely Stupidity, Soporificity, Serendipity, Somnambulism, and Psoriasis. (The last one doesn't start with S, but that's OK. How many of the three Rs of Education actually start with R anyway?)
November 20
Stock Markets Crash
Stock Markets around the world crashed because all of them ran Cascading Style Sheets with the parameter background-repeat: "no-repeat", reminiscent of the Y2K fiasco. Of course this had nothing to with the stock markets actually crashing, but this served as an appropriate scape goat. The crash was extensively covered on all news channels, which actually helped the stock markets recover as everyone lapped up the now cheap stock prices. The real reason for the crash was suspected to be the Tamil Nadu Agricultural board's light green text on a dark green background, but such evidence is only circumstantial, and was dismissed by news channels in favour of yet another wardrobe malfunction of some skinny anorexic super-model.
November 23
Riots in Engineering Colleges.
Riots broke out in Engineering colleges with students demanding that French be introduced as a compulsory subject after reading one Mr. Ali Bahrami expound on how one should speak English for business, German for Engineering, Persian for poetry, and French for seduction. Of course, why they didn't ask for German is anyone's guess. A small faction also demanded that Seduction be included in the 5S philosophy, but no one listened to a demand as outrageous as that. The rioters indulged in the usual disobedient activities of turning up in Jeans pants and fasting between break-fast and lunch.
November 27
Eminent academicians arrested
Eminent academicians Butterworth, Chebychev, and a few others were arrested on charges of conducting an orgy on the streets of the Vatican. Butterworth had this to say to our reporters as he was bundled into the police-car, "The input to the Radix-2 Decimation In Time Fast-Fourier Transform is an 8-Point sequence in Bit-Reversed Order". This was when the charges were amended to "Drunken Orgy".
November 30
Mozart Remembered
Yesteryear's musician of note, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was honoured by displaying one of his most famous sayings in hoardings and billboards worldwide at the stroke of midnight: Hear ye, hear ye, ze fundamental key to masthery over ze grand piano zis thu remember zat ze keys C# and Db are ze zame. Rumours abound that he might have had a hand in the drunken orgy of two days before.
December 4
History reveals itself at last
A surprising new insight into the life of the great Roman Emperor Julius Caesar was gained when archaeologists unearthed his personal diary. An extract:
It is raining outside. Having nothing to do, I invented an ingenious new technique of hiding important secret romantic messages to Cleopatra from the prying eyes of my courtiers. It involves writing down the letters horizontally first. Then all you have to do is to write them back vertically, thereby making it impossible to decipher!
This is an extract from Brutus' diary:
Its raining outside. That eternal fool Caesar thinks he can fool me by writing his letters to Cleopatra vertically rather than horizontally.
A few days later:
Its raining outside. Today, when I went and showed Caesar that I'd managed to decipher all of his messages to that female, all he could manage was a pseudo-grandiloquent "Et tu Brute" before clutching his heart and dying.
A few days later:
Its raining outside. Damn it. That Cleopatra bitch turned out to be a lame-fuck after all!
Thank you for turning into this edition of the fortnightly news. Stay tuned till the next edition. Bye, and take care.
Sunday, December 23, 2007
Margazhi Concerts
The divine month of karthigai has ended and it is now the month of margazhi which is well known for its carnatic concerts in all the sabhas in and around chennai. It is in this month the aandal paasurams will be sung and you can get hot pongal in the temples everyday. A cool month to rejoice the happenings of this year and to welcome the new one.
Friday, December 21, 2007
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Billa on Saturday
I'm going to watch billa in satyam cinemas this saturday at four o clock show. Though i got several complaints from my friend that the audio in satyam sucks and it is only the elite 120 people who could hear the audio. But anyway it will be a delight to watch to it out with my friends.
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
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He has the new technology equipments to deal with the most unique and most incurable problems. Its one of most popular hospital in US.He is settled down in California.
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He has the new technology equipments to deal with the most unique and most incurable problems. Its one of most popular hospital in US.He is settled down in California.
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Since this holidays have been so boring so far all my friends are asking for any new activity to keep themselves engaged. I have suggested blogging. So there are new members into the blog world and there are going to many members too! Nearly all of us in our class are having a blog or a forum to keep ourselves involved.
Saturday, December 15, 2007
Hotel Reservations
If you are planning for a good vacation.Then Hotel Reservations provides you with a wide range holiday packages with good quality hotels with various range of prices.The prices mentioned in this website is reasonable.You can also book through phone.The phone number is displayed on the website.It also has the facility of booking online accepting range of credit cards makes you think about how you could be enjoying the vacations rather thinking about the reservations.Enough hospitality will also make your stay memorable.
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Friday, December 14, 2007
Quizzing Club Of Tambaram
It was great seeing my friend Vinod posting quizzes online in his blog.This Quizzing club of tambaram is a evolving new club which would definitely get popular among the bloggers.As it is being spread to all of my College mates to visit and answer the questions posted.It will be great if its a regular activity at least once in a week.Even I have given it a thought of posting quizzes in the name of QCT.Hope I will be posting it soon.Kudos to Vinod for starting such an activity......continue your good job man.....click here to go and visit his blog.
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