FUN ON THE RUN –SVCET 26th july

My day started at 5 in the morning ,as soon as I got up I felt a little lazy, so to pep up my mood and spirit I switched on shaan’s” tanha dil and bhool jaa”(on my walkman) and that sure did lift up my sagging spirits . I was browsing thru the questions on my computer , but time flew away so fast that I had to instantly get ready and be at guindy station by 6 10 as I had asked my friend arun to wait at saidapet station at 6 15 am . the train as usual took a few minutes to come and soon I was in saidapet and waved my hands at the two guys that I had to meet at saidapet, Arun and ravikumar.
We just exchanged pleasantries and were joyous in more ways than one , in the sense that this trip to SVCET was a welcome respite from the boredom of college and then existence of GENERAL QUIZ on the symposium agenda stimulated me as VIAGRA would do…to a man …. Well we reached central by 6 52 , to be precise and spotted Achut waiting there .i gave my ‘parachute’(BAG) to achut and headed of to the newly built saravana bhavan in central station , gulping down 2 idlis in quick time . soon sudhir joined the gang and the party started to flow (sad sudhir couldn’t come to SVCET, so could’nt LG and PRASS ). We were discussing a few worldy matters , but I resigned my self to browsing my quiz books and of course plugging on my headgear , with shaan and kishore on the playlist . as stations went by , so did the vel-techies population increase in our compartment , but as soon as we touched Avadi , we had to bid goodbye to them . In a wink of time we reached tiruvellore , our destination . we got out to a blazing welcome by the sun god , as all this time we had not noticed the heat as we sat inside the train .
Soon we discovered that we weren’t the only ones from VT to be there , cse’b’ students were there 15 minutes b4 us and leading that troop was none other than (try guessing)
MS arvind. That guy has to be very careful with his mouth as that is his greatest asset and biggest problem!!!!!. The SVCET boys casually clad in jeans escorted us to the bus and in the bus were many familiar faces all seen in symposiums . the college had one proper block!! And some labs , but no auditorium in sight . soon we saw a shamiana in sight and that was meant to be the auditorium !!!!!.

We first went to the registration counter and gave our names for general and technical quiz and were there lingering for some time (ask achut why? (clue-violet)). we , after watching the dumb paper presentation , proceeded to go ahead with the technical quiz in a classroom . we started off on a positive note and soon found that we were the toppers there . soon after that was the gen quiz , where I initially was not allowed to participate as I was told by SVCET to give chance to others as they had limited number of question papers and said that the finals of tech quiz was to start in 10 mins !!!!!! . but I got furious and didn’t let the SVCET guy have his way and requested him for just 2 mins to finish the paper and buzz off to the auditorium . well looks like that plead worked , coz I ended up getting selected for the finals( hard to belive , coz we wrote for only 4 mins). The technical quiz was a cyber nightmare so to say as we remained on 0 till the last round but managed to muster 10 points in the speed round , to finish a dismal 5th . ONCE –BITTEN TWICE SHY – seemed to be the order as I mentally overcame the debacle to sit in the finals of the gen quiz and things started to go for us with the very first round. The quiz was very easy in the sense that they had 4 rounds astronomy,biology,sports and rapid fire and the questions were text book stuff for 8th graders and such a low standard definitely helped me keep my sway and I won the quiz by an outright and comfortable manner and coolly pocketed 2000 rs and a pizza corner dinner coupon


The adzap formula almost succeded as we finished a close 3rd( no prizes!!!)
With 23 compared to SIET ‘s 24 and sairam’s 26 ( one of my classmates found that thru the judge who happened to be his neighbour). We were sad that we could’nt win coz the crowd really appreciated our performance . we were to sell FEMINA razors (FEMINA is the brand name) and we made a real nice ad out of it .

The next best thing was the dance and the fashion show which will be sent later as part 2 of the day as this mail is already getting big ( more on alaipayuthe portion later!!!!) had a ball of a time

Alaipayuthe revisited- well as I was just clearing the files in my system I found the file alaipay.dat which was the movie alaipayuthe . I see so much of similarity between myself and madhavan’s characters in alaipayuthe and minnale namely “kartik” and ‘rajesh’ respectively .the similarity goes like this- I love traveling in trains , am a music lover and have my own way of doing things, I show shades of brilliance every now and then , but get back to being my normal lazy self, enjoy bunking classes ,enjoy making potshots at the teachers, sightseeing(pun intended) roaming at hangouts and of course ……….( wondering what’s the gap for? Try searching ‘salim ali ‘ at google and if u are a bit mature enough u should know what I mean ! ! !).
Well tomorrow I am slated to go to sri vekateshwara college of engineering and technology in tiruvellore (40 km from central). So I’ve gotto get up pretty early to board the train at guindy at 6:15 am and of course hope that ‘some thing’ nice crops up (a-la- ALAIPAYUTHE) in the train journey , which is estimated to be a 2hr journey.

The event’s I am going for tomorrow are general quiz , technical quiz(IT related) ,collage, adzap and …… . so hope to strike gold there and hope that paves way for my justification to go to AMRITA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, coimbatore .more abt what happened at SVCET tomorrow on the my daily blog

i guess it’s quite a long time since I put up a quiz
so here goes

In 1995 Java was launched by Sun Microsystems and
which other Company?

Ans : Netscape
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2nd April 2001 was a milestone day in the life of
Bill Gates. What happened?

Ans : After many years he lost his place as the
richest person of the world to Sam Walton of Walmart.

What is the meaning of the word MOTOROLA?

ANS: Motion of sound

I guess life has never been so sad as it is now ,especially in college. The way the college has started to project itself post-ISO-9001 CERTIFICATION has been ridiculous. These fellows in the exam cell and the so-called dumb-hod’s probably are out of their minds calling the following sick bloody schedule as a brainstorming analysis that they made
Here goes- every Monday as before we continue to have a weekly test , but now added to it are the assignment tests –unit tests from ‘only’ Tuesday to Friday with a gleeful consolation that on Saturday no test is there and soon to follow in a week after 15th of august will be our mid semester exam , which runs consecutively for 7 days(barring the Sunday!!!!) . after that gets over we gave a 6 day week with 5 of them allocated to tests .
With such a * * * * * * bloody schedule , nor can I go to the library (BCL/ACL) neither can I go to any computer classes in the evening and to rub salt on the wounds I have to attend college everyday thereby causing me to miss many technical symposiums ,,which nowadays has kind of become my sole respite from the mundane and drab atmosphere in college.
So to say I am tied down , more like a soldier –who is away from home for years and yearns for a female company to unleash his creativity in the bed !!!!!!!!!!!!!
My story is similar in the sense that coming to college is a necessary evil( in VT) and these days whenever I see the term technical /general quiz , my heart tends to beat faster ( a-la a soldier spotting PREY!!!!)
I am not gonna get tied down by their whimsical attitudes( copying the slave rule as in satyabama) and I am going to go my way , as I feel these symposiums and competitions can so much more teach one the practical competitiveness in the market and how to get used to corporate culture and entertainment in many forms…………….

Well this news has just been announced in college , so I am to meet my principal tomorrow to ask her permission to attend the tests on 8th and 9th sometime later as we guys(5 0f us-ganesh,prassana,sudhir,achut and myself ) were planning a getaway to ooty( DIL CHAHTA HAIN STYLE!!!!) , after attending a technical symposium at AMRITA institute of technology ,Coimbatore on the 8th,9th and 10th of august .
So I just hope that things workout well in my favour . I’l be back to blogging if the reply from my principal is in the affirmative

hi
i am back after a long time coz the paper presentations , seminars and zzzzzzzzzzzz kept me occupied till date . i've totally forgotten to mention a gret experience i had a evening in isaphani centre. the occaison - was a bloggers meet in chennai
if i remeber right it was the lord's league game against england where india won chasing 272 . i got there at 6 45 pm and first spotted mr kirubashankar ( though the spotting had already begun -a-la SALIM ALI !!!! ( try guessing what i mean). then it was navneet potti and lakshmi and satish ( the order i guess is slightly jumbled) . we were all meeting each other for tyhe first time in the real world after seeing each one's handiwork on himself/herself etched on HTML in the virtual world . we initially moved into CAFE DAY but as we did'nt get seats in a multiple of 6 we moved on to another restaraunt called VJ' DINNER in the basement . we began our discussions with simple introductions . navneet and kiruba were from SIFY , satish was from IBM , lakshmi was from COVANSYS now movin over to EDS and we were finally joined by vijay venkatesh -so to say an indian shawn fanning in the making as he resembled the ideal techno geek with bits and bytes literally gushing out of his hair( i think he had long hair). we soon got down to washing our stomach witha touch of mango in the form of milkshakes and started to discuss about the state of indian blogdom and lots of other technical funda( the one i remember was when the discussion was on a 802.something , set of ethernet protocols which had me in a tizzy as i understood head nor tail of that part. but other topics seemed familiar and my mouth started doing it's talking as soon as it sensed normalcy !!!!!. then we had some chips and i rushed home at 8 along with lakshmi . it was a ideal gettogether evening and what suprised me was the way in which each one spoke to another resembled as if they were buddies for years .( at least on the anonymous world of the Internet). as all good things had to come to an end so the party too wasnt an exeption , but something still was there to keep the mood going , guess what ?? sehwag and saurav ( later rahul and yuvi) .

INDIA CALLING THE SHOTS

It was 4 years back in school( vidya mandir ) where I was ask to pen my signature on a huge sheet of paper along with my fellow mates. The reason„³ India at that point of time owed a huge loan to the world bank and the signature campaign by students was to literally plead with world bank to let India wash it¡¦s hands off on the loan as India could not pay it back . what occurred to me was that even if world bank did let India off the hook would it teach India a lesson to manage it¡¦s finances better and cure it of it¡¦s obduracy towards managing money. What we immediately needed at that stage was a surgical operation ( in our government) to inject a new lease of life to rejuvenate india¡¦s finances ! ! .
4 years have passed and tables have turned . recently the XEROX revelations have once again opened a can of worms on corruption in business and government.
It has come out as a clean photocopy , only the contents are smudged ! ! ! ENRON,WORLDCOM(owes VSNL 500 million , and that¡¦s my excuse for choosing dishnetdsl over vsnl ! ! ) and XEROX are falling of as the proverbial nine pins stung by allegations of rampant accounting malpractices and accounts .
The latest stinging revolutions by XEROX corporations that the company had made ¡§improper payments¡¨to the tune of 3.5 crores to bag government contracts clearly indicates that there are more worms in the can than one thought of ! ! ! . a more detailed analysis of the scams in a couple of days after I get more info on the subject.

Well India sure have made the the transition from defaulters to lenders , but would this set the cash ringers ringing and make our coffers full , only time will say.

Any comments( bouquets or brickbats ! ! !) on the article is welcome at katchu21@hotmail.com

INDIA CALLING THE SHOTS

It was 4 years back in school( vidya mandir ) where I was ask to pen my signature on a huge sheet of paper along with my fellow mates. The reason„³ India at that point of time owed a huge loan to the world bank and the signature campaign by students was to literally plead with world bank to let India wash it¡¦s hands off on the loan as India could not pay it back . what occurred to me was that even if world bank did let India off the hook would it teach India a lesson to manage it¡¦s finances better and cure it of it¡¦s obduracy towards managing money. What we immediately needed at that stage was a surgical operation ( in our government) to inject a new lease of life to rejuvenate india¡¦s finances ! ! .
4 years have passed and tables have turned . recently the XEROX revelations have once again opened a can of worms on corruption in business and government.
It has come out as a clean photocopy , only the contents are smudged ! ! ! ENRON,WORLDCOM(owes VSNL 500 million , and that¡¦s my excuse for choosing dishnetdsl over vsnl ! ! ) and XEROX are falling of as the proverbial nine pins stung by allegations of rampant accounting malpractices and accounts .
The latest stinging revolutions by XEROX corporations that the company had made ¡§improper payments¡¨to the tune of 3.5 crores to bag government contracts clearly indicates that there are more worms in the can than one thought of ! ! ! . a more detailed analysis of the scams in a couple of days after I get more info on the subject.

Well India sure have made the the transition from defaulters to lenders , but would this set the cash ringers ringing and make our coffers full , only time will say.

Any comments( bouquets or brickbats ! ! !) on the article is welcome at katchu21@hotmail.com