The Tribune and The Hindu

To me, these newspapers are their siblings in north and south India respectively. They possess loads of similarities. Simple layout, way different from exaggerated 'times', near-perfect editing, objective reporting and limited news of Tinsel Town - all make them stand a class apart. While The Hindu has lately succumbed to over-advertising, with its front pages no longer having news and instead, giving in to those ads by housing apartments for eg. 'Aparna Township' bla bla bla.... , The Tribune, on other hand, still gives importance to content. However, their Lifestyle supplement tries to go the wrong way by copying the 'Times' counterpart. Whatsoever, these 'Simple Fellas' definitely have a long and a revered history in their respective regions and they're definitely worth reading.

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Last exam : Optimization Methods 
Instructor :   C.V. Jawahar
Preparation : Fucked Up, Never gave 100% to any exam here in the entire 4-year span.
Today, finally endsems ended, a golden era of 4 years has ended along with it. IIITH, that will be cherished forever, the place where I met wonderful people, broke the shackles of homesickness after a dramatic struggle, found misplaced love in virtual world (no more), found friends in music and the game, Football. The part of the day, you eagerly look forward to. You imagine it, when away from it. It is related to "passion" that I have come across in loads of people here. 


Time and again, I have been left dissatisfied with the effort I devoted to what was important. I hope I will keep the promises made to myself. Time and again, I've tried something new, but not always; thirst for knowledge still lacks, thirst for truth exists but has not been attended to. I have brought smiles on people's faces but only through witty remarks and not through my efforts. Some wonderful sojourns have studded this life. Vizag, Coorg, Goa (and coming up Sikkim) have seemed to happening places because of their uniqueness and our benign presence as well. Elite professors have taught us, in particular, our Bond batch, but I haven't cared much to learn that much. I hope that this time serves as a lesson for me to live life that awaits me further. 


As of this particular moment, the latest news is that, Bayern Munich defeated Real Madrid (penalties) to set up summit clash in Champions League Finals with Chelsea at Munich. 3 days more left in hostel, the lovely place and weather we have been eye-witness to.

Experts

I read this while reading a course book ('The Art of Multiprogramming'), pretending to prepare for the last examinations. Here it goes,

A tourist takes a taxi in a foreign town. The taxi driver speeds through a red light. The tourist, frightened, asks “What are you are doing?” The driver answers: “Do not worry, I am an expert.” He speeds through more red lights, and the tourist, on the verge of hysteria, complains again, more urgently. The driver replies, “Relax, relax, you are in the hands of an expert.” Suddenly, the light turns green, the driver slams on the brakes, and the taxi skids to a halt. The tourist picks himself off the floor of the taxi and asks “For crying out loud, why stop now that the light is finally green?” The driver answers “Too dangerous, could be another expert crossing."

22G now :)

ਅਸੀਂ ਵੀ ਹੁਣ "ਬਾਈ ਜੀ" ਬਣ ਗਏ ਹਾਂ !! Thronged on fb were numerous wishes from my well wishers. Thanks a lot to them (for bearing me in some form or the other). Was woken up early by Mom's call, somehow listened to her half-asleep, those instructions to get up early and have a bath (at least once a year, betaa :P ). Then again, slept merrily. Until the mundane classes started. Chemistry professor as usual, brought in his innovative ways to bore us. And then, after lunch, watched a movie 'Siddhartha' as part of our course EduAndSelf. Haha, an interesting movie (for those 5 minutes you know). Then a quiz, as CVJ comes back with his old ways to haunt us. But the good part of the day was the visit to Chawadi Orphanage, those shining faces, readily conversing in English, asking, inquiring fluently. Distributed some bananas, biscuits and toffees there. Shandi, Maee, Jas and Family accompanied. Came back from there. After having dinner, went to cafe at around midnight, from thereon moved to witness the dance practices - as lazy as never. Gearing up for the fest the day after and right now writing ending this post :)

Happy New Year

The tough phase of placements is over, it was full of anxiety and loads of tensions. Shirts were torn, Gubbu's and Yadav's pants too. Few days at home were both cool and cold, now gearing for the visit to home once again. Lohri it is, finally, after a gap of 3 long years, I will celebrate it at home. Kites !! These days, we all are grappling with freaking course allocation. 'Lottery portal' came in today, its' results and blunders are expected by tomorrow. Football adorns the evenings, plans to join gym are still being 'plan'ned. My entire music collection was wiped off due to a diseased hard disk. In British accent, 'Blowdy Hell'. College gone, job on - two important stages of life will happen this year, 2012. A very happy new year to all !! Despite the bad omens forecasting doomsday in 2012, I hope that I am able to write a post next year too, welcoming 2013. :)

Placements 2011

With only 8 left from our group, today was really a good day for our batch. Around 15 people got placed in Yahoo, Citrix and Ivy Comptech. A 10-day-long ordeal of going early in the morning in formals to listen to the boring PPT (except the slide demonstrating the compensation part), qualifying in the written tests and then getting rejected in the interviews for one bad reason or the other, was really taxing. Our distraught faces were really beginning to have those helpless looks, but today it was today when I got placed in Ivy Comptech after Patil. Bahl called to Papa immediately congratulating him, then I called Mom and also got a call from Chacha and Kalu. Though she never went to school officially, but grandmother immediately converted the monthly salary into the annual package by multiplying it by 12 !!

The biggest surprise, however, was Nani's placement just an hour ago from now, in Yahoo. He was selected along with Bade Uncle and GS. He has really made our group proud. It was in the middle of this 10-day-marathon, he became a little distraught, but a call from home just lightened his mood. He would go all the way to NBH, giving senti dialogues of life, that how failure is a phase that everybody should see and then overcome. All this patient wait, has left him with so good. I'm too happy for buchi. We tore his shirt, vest and shanks even ripped apart his pants with a scissor, all this fiasco and hustle happened on the stretch between the canteen and the newly implanted tree in front of OBH.

A very exciting phase in our college life, that which one waits from the day one has almost come to an end. Thanks to SPC members, especially chondu who was extremely happy, the moment news of my selection was broken. It was like .. someone really cares, so honest, so kind, he was the happiest person around, Mai even went on to call papa directly. Thanks to Mai, Sinha and Sai for all their pro-activeness at all the times.

The remaining guys will be placed in next 1 or 2 days. 8: TBTGNYDMASSATRa.OneL are left. Gonna enjoy with them soon!! All the best guys.

College : The Final Year

Just yesterday, we were among the ones being oriented in the Guest House lawns and today we are in the final year, on verge of being pushed further into our lives. These 3 years have passed so fast, but what a pleasant and joyous this journey has been. A wonderful friend circle that has given us numerous lighter moments as well as minor conflicts. In the similar way, life will pass, just when we were lamenting it is too painful.

All will remain is memories, those moments, that fun, that bc, those groupings in the middle of the night, get-togethers at Pintoo's Juice corner and at Cafe (regulars such as Dhingra), teasing each other for their gfs (like dhingra) until they cried (like pranav).

Baharhaal, let's see what the final year has got in it for us. Hope it becomes all the more exciting. Time to go to college tomorrow for the commencement of the 7th semester. :)