Being Tagged

I have been tagged by Padmashree & Venki to tell 5 things the world doesnt know about me.
Basically, i am a very open guy and not much is "closed" about me. Anyways, I will try to tell things which is not known to many people.

1. I made a resolution on 1.1.2006 and i have managed to hold onto that resolution till date. :)
2. I dint know how to drive a bicycle until i stepped into 9th grade.
3. My childhood inspiration was always to become a doctor like my dad. But then it all went down the drain when i developed the fear of blood in 8th grade.
4. During my childhood, i was notorious for my ability to tell lies. And i am very good at generating innovative lies on the spot. If you are (un)lucky enough, one day you will experience how good i am telling lies.
5. I am die hard fan of Cadbury's Temptation. I ate a lot of those during my 12th grade prep. To remember all those efforts, I have around 30 Temptation boxes stacked one upon the other in my bed room.
6. Now this is the best one. Though i look thin & week, I posses good arm power. I was very good at arm wrestling in school defeating very strong guys. Believe it or not, I was the shot put champion in my school. :)

Hope you guys enjoyed the blog. Have fun !!!

Until next time,
Rmn

Bye 2006, Hello 2007

Happy New year Folks !!!

It has been an eventful year. A year with few interesting events.
I dont think i can really do a review of the year. Its just so tuf to recollect all of them.
I wud just like to highlight some of the events this year.

My B'day.
Probably the best ever bday i have ever heard. Unlike previous years, there was a lot of meaning to this bday. No flashy parties. A very peaceful bday. But i also happened to write 2 internal exams on that day. Ironically scored 17/50 in both. :)
Rating : 9

Visit to Hyderabad.
A great trip it was. Met some relatives of mine, whom i have never seen in the last 10 yrs. Was great to spend some time with them and roam arnd the beautiful city of hyderabad. It is one of the very few metros which is not yet spoiled by pollution and congestion. A very memorable trip though the purpose for which i went there was not fulfilled.
Rating: 7

Teletec Web Portal.
A truly memorable experience. Got introduced into the world of server side scripting for the first time. Was very interesting. The web rolled out on time with all functionalities implemented. It sure added a lot of color to Teletec 06. A very satisfying venture. Ironically, the entire team that developed the web portal ended up with duals in the same companies. :)
Rating: 8

Visits to Coimbatore.
There were just so many times this yr that i visited Coimbatore. That is another city i love so much. I was there to attend the symposiums at PSG & CIT. Well, made hell lotta money in those colleges. Met a guy from TI in one of those visits. Interesting events spawned from that meet. None materialized though. Met the CEO from Globals Inc. The most satisfying part of these visits happened to be the fact i got some time to spend with my friend there. V really had lotsa fun. Not to forget the TCS medical check up to coimbatore. Was damn damn funny.
Rating: 8

The Last Day @ College.
Well, what can i say ???? U just have to feel it. Words cant describe the emotions.
Rating: 9.5

The BackBenchBoys Celebration.
It was finally time for us, the BackBenchBoys to celebrate. Over a long period of 3 yrs, we were together as a team. We were a team right from day 1. We went thru ebbs and tides of life together. To celebrate all our efforts, TG & Rajiv threw a party. A truly unforgettable party.
Rating: 9

May !!!
That was one hell of a month. V had exams till may 22nd. The last set of exams in my entire life. [ I am pretty sure of not doing any more higher studies ]. Watched 270 episodes of my fav Dragonball Z cartoon. Got my TCS call for training, which i never attended. Underwent my Honeywell interviews. My final sem results were out too. Managed to walk out of college with 8.04. :)
Cant forget that month.
Ratings: 8

6.6.6
The worst possible day of the millennium. And thats when i got the official confirmation from Honeywell. What more can i say ? A ecstatic moment.
Rating: 8.5

One last time to Coimbatore.
This visit was a truly cherishable one. Wud go down in years as the one of the "best days" in my life. Fresh with offers in hand, me & my friend just decided to enjoy to the core. Eating, playin, roaming.. Chatting..
Rating: 9

G5
Finally, i got a vehicle of my own. My new Yamaha Libero G5. And, it was actually given as a surprise by my dad to me. So, it was sweeter.
Rating: 9


To be contd. [ later ]

Festive Season Begins.

Probably one of the worst things i ever did in my life.
I went shopping 4 days from diwali. And my god, the entire population of the city seems to have gathered in the same place. Thats how crowded it was !!!
These guys who run the garments shop just enjoy this season. So, do ppl who own sweets shop. Now, i have gotta mention this. I am sure u wud have recieved loads of sweets from ur relatives and neighbors in yesteryears. The pack contains roughly half kilo of milk sweets in various colors. But i always wonder why they taste the same. And when u have 2 or 3 sweets, u kinda get bored with the taste.
Some people beg to differ and send u pack of haldiram sweets. Ya, they taste gud. And the saddest part is they get over so quickly.. I hope someone gives me a pack of Lays chips or Cadbury's celebration this time around.
One thing, that i have noticed, is the decreasing amount of crackers every year. Not long back, the cracker season sets in as early as month b4 diwali.. Over the years, it has steadily reduced, and this year the cracker season has not set in yet [ Atleast in my area ]. And it is only days away from diwali.
And unfortunately, for many ppl, diwali has fallen on a saturday this yr. Ppl wud want diwali to always fall on monday or friday.

Thats it for now, Happy Diwali !!!
Have fun.

Back Again !!!

Its been one of those days i've been waiting for a very long time. Ya, Its Vacation time. The last few months have been hectic to say the least. Its not long before these days of laziness comes to an end and the busy days start again.

Leave alone technical things that i have acquired in the last two months, there are many other things that i have become familiar with.

First, the different type of ppl here make life interesting. There are ppl from Kerala, Andhra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu (only a few ). And ppl from orissa, Delhi and West Bengal as well. As always, when u have a group of 100 ppl with u, u get all kinds of ppl in it. The highly intelligent, the absolutely lazy ( Of course datz me ), the highly disciplined, the innovative ones. A Kind of every breed.

The next thing that i have found very very interesting is the concept of Communication. [Not the technical one]. How important is it ??? They no longer call it Communication. They call it Careful Communication. Every word u speak/write is measured to a very deep extent. Info abt u are understood with every sentence u speak. Aggressive, Assertive & Acceptance. I just feel, inspite of severest of efforts, the educational system of India fails to provide a student with good communicational skills. I never get bored of telling it over and over again. We probably have the poorest form of educational system ever invented. The concept of making a student write a 3hr exam is out of sense. Somewhere down the line, this has to change.

As far as tech stuff is concerned, i just got uploaded with more and more of content. Be it Control systems or Normalization or PL/SQL or Avionics or Virtual Destructors, my tech knowledge has just grown by leaps and bounds. And i owe a lot to my trainers for that fact.

Ha. Before i forget. How much is Microsoft Office suite used in your office. My god, I never expected to use so much of Word, Excel, ppts. I seem to use a lot of Microsoft products. Microsoft Office 2003, Microsoft Visual Studios, Microsoft Outlook Express, Microsoft Communicator. Not to forget Windows Xp. Oooooh. Microsoft might just continue its dominance in this area forever, for i see very few ppl challenging in this area. But i DONT use Internet Explorer. That wil do abt my corporate life.

Now to the lighter side of life, Its festive time in India. Diwali comes again. Diwali, to me is, sweets, sweets & sweets. Laziness is always included..

Even as i write, the men in blue are finding answers for a seemingly very difficult question to answer. Why dont they play cricket properly ? Getting a team bowled out for 125.. Going into break with 55 runs on the board in 8 overs with 9 wickets in hand. How do u expect a team to end up scoring 126 losing 6 wickets. The pitch can be blamed to certain extent. But the performance was certainly below par.

The Corporate Beginning..

Ha, i'm finally into the corporate world.. and it is down right professional..

A couple of weeks ago during holidays, i wud wake up at 12 in the morning, have lunch [ break fast ??? ] at 1.. play racing games on the system for the rest of the day.. And then turn on the modem, get connected to the net, open gmail and orkut in two different tabs in mozilla and start browsing til late night.. Parallely, i wud also start a download of the video of "harry potter and the goblet of fire", courtesy bearshare.. Then sleep at around 2 or 3 in the night.. Then wake up again at twelve the next day and the cycle wud just go on again and again.. Not anymore..

Now, i have to be at office around 9 and rush to the training room to catch the front rows.. [ sounds strange isn't it ??? ].. ya thats wats happening.. Undergo training til 7 in the evening.. Travel back home fully tired.. Eat dinner, spend half an hour wit family and go back to sleep by 10 !!!.. thats how life changes within a week..

The transition has been rather abrupt.. And there are guys from different states around in my batch.. English is the only way to communicate.. Gettin acquainted with their culture..

As they say, "its always a part of the learning curve.."

For the love of friends.

I wud like to dedicate this poem to all my sweet friends in college..
Adios..

The things we did, the things we said
Keep coming back to me and make me smile again
You showed me how to face the truth
Everything that's good in me I owe to you

Though the distance that's between us
Now may seem to be too far
It will never separate us
Deep inside I know you are

Never gone, never far
In my heart is where you are
Always close, everyday
Every step along the way
Even though for now we've got to say goodbye
I know you will be forever in my life
Never gone

I walk alone these empty streets
There is not a second you're not here with me
The love you gave, the grace you've shown
Will always give me strength and be my cornerstone

Somehow you found a way
To see the best I have in me
As long as time goes on
I swear to you that you will be

Never gone from me
If there's one thing I believe
I will see you somewhere down the road again

Never gone, never far
In my heart is where you are
Always close, everyday
Every step along the way

Never gone, never far
In my heart is where you are

In case u ppl thot that i had written that poem.. LOL.. This one is one of my favourite backstreetboy's song.. from the album "Never gone"..

I am in pumphouse da..

"hi da.. i am in pump house.. dint study for the exam.. heard that u have studied 5th unit.. can u come half an hour prior to the exam and teach me that particular unit.."

for all those guys from my college and for those who had mobile phones, this msg wudn't be a surprise..

Probably the most frequent msg sent wud have been..

"Dai.. i am caught in this railway gate da.. has the class started ???"

Of course the time this msg normally sent is between 9 - 9.15 am.. after the first hour has started..

You know, i wudn't call my college "the best college in tamil nadu".. Neverthless, it proved to be a gud place in more than one way.. I am pretty sure there wud be bloggers who feel the other way around.. Ya, the coin has two sides and so does our college.. But this is my blog and i write the things i feel..

More than the college leaving an gud impression, its the students studying here make the college a wonderful place to be.. You get all sort of guys here.. The techies.. The "to be MBAs".. the annoying characters.. and of course, the road side romeos.. the "gud for nothing" banda parties.. name it and u'll find a sample in my college..

The entire college life had a brand new color with the invasion of mobile phones.. Communication had never been easier.. Of course, the majority of the msgs flew between the two hostels.. :)

I really dont understand why administrations ban mobile phones inside college campuses.. I mean, using mobile during the class hours cud be banned.. but why ban the "carrying of mobile phones" inside the campus.. for god sakes, i studied communication engineerin for 4 damn yrs and ppl who teach actually ban the usage of mobile phones !!!!! no wonder there have been numerous pre placement trainings with GDs titled "Should mobile phones banned inside college".. Its time ppl put an end to this and start looking at the broader spectrum..

Coming back to the golden memories of the college days, the first thing that wud come to one's mind are the Industrial visits.. Ha ha ha.. Industrial visit.. It shud be called a tour or something.. where the hell do v visit industries.. It is all abt screaming in the bus, singing in the bus, and to some extent dancing in the bus... taking a digital camera along wit u and taking 'n' number of snaps wit ur friends.. Of course, there wud b that great discussion of which place to visit.. If two classes were going together, all hell breaks loose on deciding the city.. the girls point to a city.. the boys point to a city.. and finally come to a conclusion and decide on the city, the college intervenes and says "try some other city".. the representatives of the class wud have the worst part of his lifetime tryin to convince the students and the college.. Finally when the city has been decided, then comes the problem of taking a staff along with us.. All these and more, make an industrial visit an adventorous and memorable one..

The canteen and the pump house are the spots to hang out.. the place where u can kill time in case u have bunked a lab.. the official place for u to write records, observations and to copy assignments.. Speakin of records and assignments, its time ppl put an end to the whole "observation, record and assignment" stuff.. Ppl copy observation from senior's record and eventually copy it in their record.. Any person on earth can do it.. whats the great fun in doing it.. Long has been forgotten the fact that, "education shud refine people".. Education in college just requires you to aimlessly take notes of whatever is taught in the class.. Take xerox of the prescribed book 3 days before the internals.. Do some group studies the day before the internal.. write records and observations week after week.. Copy down assignments week after week.. Download some paper from the net and present under ur name in intra college and inter college events.. Where has the whole concept of "originality" gone ???? I entered into college with the whole desire to prone my skills.. But where wud i find time for proning my skills, if records and assignments eat all my time.. This is why we Indians are "Jack of all trades and king of none".. V push in the working of an optical directional coupler when v hardly understand 9th grade optics... Sometimes one never understands why v ever learn such things..

Then there is ofcourse the concept of throwing treats.. the truth is, no one actually throws a treat.. But there is always everybody to ask for a treat.. Ppl ask a treat for winning a prize in an inter departmental comp in which only 10 ppl participated.. Ppl ask for a treat when u buy something new.. Ppl ask for a treat on ur birthday.. the worst part comes when girls ask a treat for wearing the same color.. "same same sweet, give me treat"..

You know, u get a beautiful mixture when u put bubblin youth, mobile phones, IVs, birthday parties and stern education system together.. Thats the color of college life..

Further color has been added with the inclusion of websites such as orkut.. Guys and gals take it again as a opportunity to "interface" wit each other.. Funny.. and of course, the management wud always be there to ban it.. And our "young and brilliant" students wud prove themselves by finding websites such as Kproxy and continue wit their orkutting.. It is always fun being a part of it.. But looking from the outside, one gets the feeling "something somewhere is going wrong"..

there r ofcourse many more things that make college life greater.. Thanks to my poor memory am not able to recollect them.. Pls feel free to comment..


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