Journey 2 Chennai…

Yet another exam gets over.nee examinations Exam on a saturday and one hour b4 boarding the train meant tat i kept looking at my watch more often than my question paper. As if it made a difference. N some guyz left even b4 i had planned 2 leave. As time kept moving, i cud see tat my presence in the xamination hall was totally pointless. I wrote some crap, returnd the answer sheet , wished my frnz n ran 2 the hostel. Then the rain Gods intervened. Its been troubling me ever since divali. Heavy rains in chennai meant tat i had 2 stay at calicut for divali n i felt totally lost when some1 told me tat a bus had toppled n more than 100 r dead or missing. Yet another trip cancelled?? I was firm on leavin the place asap. N with some help from frnz i got into the bus to the railway station. Its a journey i luv 2 hate. The col is on a hilltop n so v hav 2 come all te way down in order 2 board te train. The roads r smooth but F1 like driving by the bus driver(on S, U curves) meant tat more often than not, i felt my head ache n nausea overcoming me.Usually i keep talking 2 my frnz durin the journey and tis keeps away the headache. But tis time i was all alone. It seemed some1 ls was also feeling the same n the guy tried his best to strike up a conversation with me. “Bad rain” “strange rain” “sunshine in te noon n rain in te eve huh?” n i knew it was becomin pointless 2 talk 2 him. However his stop came n he left wit a rlvd look on his face. There was a kid sittin in front of me. I was sittin on te last seat n tis kid kept turnin behind n starin at me. Initially i thought tat he was lookin out thro the glass behind me. But he kept on starin at me. Then i thought tat probably he worked in some shop near my col n had recognised. I stopped thinkin abt him when when my head again started aching n i cud feel te butterflies in my stomach. With jus a cpl of stops 2 go, i kept prayin 2 God tat i shdn throw up on the way. Then all of a sudden, somethin happened. The kid looked at me as if i was his only hope.His face reflected the anxities in his heart and then he asked me” Anna, puthu bus stand entha stopunnu solla mudiyuma??”(Cud u temme which stop is te New bus stand?). I was taken aback not only by te look on his face but also te fact tat he spoke tamil. I ten recovered n replied “Intha stop thaanda..erangikko”(Tis is the stop, get down). He then bent down n drew out a huge fish holding basket beneath my seat n got down hurriedly. The bus moved on. I wondered wat made him ask te question in tamil n y did he wait so long. I then got down n at te bus stand i got te answer when i looked at myself in te mirror in te newspaper stand. The vibuthi on my forehead! Did it so blatantly indicate tat I am a tamilian tat the kid spoke 2 me in tamil? A point worth pondering.
The journey in the train was uneventful except for this punjabi junior who was woken up in the sleep by the TT for the tickets. He started explaining some method in Fluid Mechanics and n asked his friend 2 clear the TT’s doubts! The best was when he drew a graph on a paper n wrote an equation 2 explain it in an easier way. His friend then took the ticket from his shirt pocket n showed it to the TT n apologised for his friend’s behaviour and put his friend to sleep. Do all sardarjis behave the same way at 12 in the nite?

Royal resurrection

So dada has made a comebak now…not a comebak actually since he was never dropped from te test team..ok a comebak 2 te international cricket..n surely bak with a bang!Hes taken 5 wickets n scored a century(plz don faint!!)…n te Prince of Calcutta is on rampage(duh!)…n all he has 2 do now is 2 score cpla fifties n if possible a century or two..(ie if possible) n ten wat??no Dada, its not te old days anymore..even if u score one fifty in 5 matches, u cud find urself out of te team. Poor Dada..if only he had nvr recommended chappell in te first place! i cant wait 2 see how well te two wud patch up after tat 3000+ words e-mail. btw seems te prince has scored more than 10k one day runs..wow!!
Long long ago, there was tis cricket team called te West Indies..they had a motley crew which went on trampling all te cricket teams in te world . Their names evoked fear(literally!). Then one by one left the team and the team petered out n now it is in ruins with jus one player left from tat golden generation:His Highness Brian Charles Lara. So the king knows tat they are not gonna win against the Aussies. And a double century(not a century..sachin note tis 😉 ) was overdue..Aussies wrap up the series n its a dead rubber..B4 the aussies cud perform the last rites the king decides tat its time for one last Calypso dance…n just as Shane Warne had predicted, Lara scores a double century, is 11 short of becoming the highest run scorer in test history…We bow to you, the Last Emperor!
One person who constantly reminds every1 tat India is a democracy and even kings (or princes) hav 2 perform or perish: Sachin Tendulkar…hmm..93,67,2,11,19, 38, 2, 2,2 ..chappell ru listening? Try droppin sachin: thou shall kno wat crucifixion is.

Goo Google..

Every1 in my college n also frnz bak home r always excited wen they talk abt one thing :Google And the umpteen mail forwards tat hve been sent from one Y! groups to another only added fuel to the fire. Suddenly everyone wanted more information about Google. And to top it all, the heated debate as to who wil win the cyber cold war :Google or Microsoft.
So wats so special abt this post then?
Check out the following links:
1 A flash movie abt wat Google wud b doin in 2015
2. Wat cud b the potential causes for a Google wipe out
3. Obstacles Google cud face in the future

These speculations r scary but r good n interesting read. e-NJOY!

WOW!!!!

Our college’s s/w lab has tis reputation:worst lab in te col! in fact some say tat its te worst lab in te whole city. Wats te problem? There are totally around 40 comps (right from P4 to eniac). And none of them in perfect condition. Some vr not even properly earthed. So v used to work on them with gr8 caution. In fact,by the end of the 5th sem, almost every student in my class had a comp in his room so te visits to the lab vr very minimal. Then in the final year v got internet in our hostel rooms(xcpt for a few unlucky souls in D & E hostels 😉 ). Even then, v frequently used to lament upon the fact that THE dept in the col din even have a proper lab. And vr at the rcvin end of many taunts and snide remarks of our fellow year mates. Then someone in the dept came out with the idea of renovating our lab.Tenders vr floated and ten Faiz from our class was put in charge of all te intricacies involved in buying the computers. And the result?

At 2 in te noon (siesta time 😦 ) Faiz gave me a ring and asked me to help him out. Seems the computers had come and there was no one to check its state. And since i was jobless ten, I decided to help him out. I walked into my lab and presto! I thought i had walked into some scene from the latest sci-fi movie…ever seen the computers used by Ben Affleck in Face -Off..well 40 similar things were there in our lab! I stood there for a while shell shockd at the change that i just witnessed. Faiz came up to me and v ten together set up the comps and checkd whthr they vr in proper condition and met te requirements. There vr 40 new comps and 5 servers with the latest stuff inside tem. Then v called in another frnd and he too was standing at the entrance entranced by the comps. Me and my frnz tho vr slightly disappointed. The reason: no labs next sem 😦 n the lazy bums tat vr, doubt whthr any of us wud turn up in te lab to work there. And there r talks of moving to a new building rite behind our present location which looks gr8!
Then, thanks 2 divya n dino for wishin me luck n all te best 2 u guyz too…algo on thu, ind eco on fri and distributed on sat….ten home sweet home here i come!!!

Te "time" factor

I am supposed to b busy studying. But a weeks leave b/w two xams means tat i am not able 2 read a word…“time he na…phir kya problem..” n add to it the fact tat i am readin “One hundred years of solitude”. Wat a book! will b finishin it tonite n shall post a review then..Comin bak 2 te topic..any1 suggest any cure for tis “time hai” problem?

Econocomicz..

It has began..Its exam time now..n all tat i am supposed 2 talk is complexity,synchronization et al. The worst is wen v guyz go to the mini canteen 2 hve a cuppa coffee in te nite n c the tronix guyz drawing fourier waves on their plate of noodles n tellin each other how 2 solve te 81st problem in the 4th exercise in te 3rd lesson of some signal shit book..n some try 2 contact te author of te book n tell him abt some errata in te book!!however these guyz have mellowed down this semester n have started relaxing. I cud see JPM(da ECE topppperrr!!) asking some1 for xerox copies! I still remember my first year. One of my frnz was his room mate n usd 2 curse him since tere was always some nerd or te other asking him doubts. No wonder hes able 2 maintain 9.5+!These guyz have had an insatiable desire for studies over the past four years(some of them all their life). But even they were clueless as to how to study economics. Sample tis:” Wat is te importance of land?” V dint find it tough since v already had software engg in our fifth sem. Tat was one subject man!28 chapters…400 pages..no numbers…only theory..every engineering students nitemare come true..economics was a cakewalk compared 2 tat..n our system nvr permitted 2 relax in between xams..usually v have 5 xams straight n tats it..but this time due 2 te CAT xam, v got hols in between…but does it help???atleast i can write my blog!

ps:
For the economic stability of te constipation of te consitution of te financial sovereignty of te nation!phew!!!

My tryst..

The ever favorite of mine:Linkin park…my tryst with rock music took place in the first year of my college education. My exposure to western was restricted to all the pop stuff in MTV during my schooling in cbe and tat too had 2 stop when i got to my 12th. It was only raja and rahman during my 12th. I had a cultural shock when i came here(atleast w.r.t music). My col mate was a rock freak and i was itching to hear some. He gave me a Judas Priest cassette to hear. I had tis new walkman with me. So i lied down on my bed and switched on my walkman. No sooner than 10 minutes, I had the first headache in the college. It was awful(then!). My head was splitting and I even felt feverish for sometime. I had my first rock lesson: Dont start off ur day with a Judas Priest. That was the last time i listened to Judas Priest. From nowhere, I got a linkin park. The best thing about the songs was that it was ust cpla minutes long or in some cases 3 minutes. It was love at first sight. I had the cassette with me for a long time. N i cudnt stop myself from singing the same songs when i went back home. All I got back was empty stares from my mom n sis. They thouht I had gone crazy! Then came debutante. Its our first year fest and we have this event called rock mime where we had to mime a rock song. We did a linkin park song and i still maintain that ours was the best performance. Except for the fact tat a stanze went missing from the song while my frnz vr on stage. That spoiled the whole show and we din win a prize. The thing about rock mime is that it sets the ball in motion for rock amateurs. I have seen people with no interest in rock getting addicted to rock after rock mime. This carried on even when i goto my second year. I had expanded my range to evanascence, paparoach and many more. Then there was a brief lull when I got back to tamil songs. Then in the third year, I got my computer and my love with linkin park was reignited. Their latest album had released sometime back. I was addicted to it like anything! It was eternally on my playlist and was a must especially during my exams! And why am I mentioning this now??I got my exams now….and nothing 2 help me study than linkin park! I am hearing it after a long time and all the memories came rushing back. Move over John mayer. Ur time is up! Welcome back the devil….Long live LP!

Lonely

I’m tired of being alone
So hurry up and get here
So tired of being alone
So hurry up and get here

Searching all my days just to find you
I’m not sure who I’m looking for
I’ll know it
When I see you
Until then, I’ll hide in my bedroom
Staying up all night just to write A love song for no one
– A love song for no one,John Mayer.

Not the best song that I have heard but very aptly describes my situation.

Chennai’s own Fourth Estate war

My previous post seems 2 have woke up te journos in Rediff ;-)…heres their take on te Chennai’s own fourth estate war!

Romantic ode to love

Have been listening 2 tis song 4 quite some time: John Mayer’s “Your body is a wonderland”. Really sweet song with some simple n delicate lyrics. It won te Grammy for te best male Pop vocal performance in 2002.

We got the afternoon
You got this room for two
One thing I’ve left to do
Discover me
Discovering you

One mile to every inch of
Your skin like porcelain
One pair of candy lips and
Your bubblegum tongue

And if you want love
We’ll make it
Swimming a deep sea
Of blankets
Take all your big plans
And break ’em
This is bound to be a while

Your body Is a wonderland
Your body is a wonder
(I’ll use my hands)
Your body Is a wonderland

Something ’bout the way your hair
falls in your face
I love the shape you take when crawling
towards the pillowcase
You tell me where to go and
Though I might leave to find it
I’ll never let your head hit the bed
Without my hand behind it

You want love?
We’ll make it
Swimming a deep sea
Of blankets
Take all your big plans
And break ’em
This is bound to be a while
Your body Is a wonderland
Your body is a wonder
(I’ll use my hands)
Your body Is a wonderland

Damn baby
You frustrate me
I know you’re mine all mine all mine
But you look so good it hurts sometimes

Your body Is a wonderland
Your body is a wonder
(I’ll use my hands)
Your body is a wonderland
Your body Is a wonderland
Read a review of tis song here. The best thing abt te song is tat its not only touchy n feely but also no extra frills..jus a chorus here n tere n a beautiful guitar tat jus elevates te mood!