the past few days have been real fun , with some guest lecture or the other in the sense that we were spared the drudgery of college . today some one was to give us a lecture on VLSI , but unfortunately we had lab and so it didnt happen, but no probs tommorow all the teachers are going off to attend a seminar on core competency , so no classes , but...... the rule says that the class representative must handle the class. our class rep is too good a guy to take classes (your's truly!!!). so donno whether i may attend college bcoz the last time they conducted this so-called XPeriment , i was last seen on the last bench lazing with a couple of magazines and my ears plugged to my SONY .

today it was refreshing to see some progress made in our symposium plans as our HOD and the network administrator gave the orange signal , but the green signal is to be given by our chairman regd the event .

oh what a day!!!!
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college was boring as usual , with me putting on my zzzzzzz.....ing shoes . the only bright part of the day was the seminar I gave today in college abt guided media in data communication and networks . I personally volunteered to do this yesterday as I felt I had to sprinkle life into the class with the teachers method making the class fully drab.

the second part being , the fact that since we at least have 1 free period a day , i keep the class engaged by conducting a quiz or a debate and this has been going all over this week. it just happened that 2 such classes ( quizzes) was managed by a new male staff. at the end of the quiz at 3 40 pm he came over and was so impressed with me , he said he likes me very much bcoz of my knowledge . He also said that i should try and participate in quizzes outside college in symposiums and walked out .

i was laughing within myself , coz the poor guy dosent know thats the only thing i do while in college ( going to symposiums twice a month) as the classes are ever boring .

Anyway at the end of the corridor i thanked him , and told him about my quizzical conquests and there was a big gleam across his face and he congratulated me and walked away .

i came home at 6 pm and my friend prassana came home with the CD of the new hindi flick " DEEWANGEE" and that kept me engaged for the night . the movie is one of the best murder mysteries i've seen in bollywood since GUPT and HUMRAAAZ. Akshaye Khanna and Ajay Devgan have played their roles to perfection in this movie and what a shiver it generated down my spine . i would rate DEEWANGEE a 8 / 10 on the richter scale of excitement ( if there was one )

college has started , and we have been given the shocking news that the internal marks of twenty have ben tampered with and that issue was the talk of the week. well in a way that will make me to work even harder to get higher internals and perform better( but cant still help brooding over the fact that i would be getting lower internals , all due to the idiotic academic cell). i guess the number of symposiums will be reduced this semester , as i have to start seriously thinking about my sinking BE aggregate ...........( which is set to hit an all time low due to this sem's internal scam). classes have begun in all seriousness and so have i ! !

well time has just flown by , coz college reopens tommorow . i guess it will take a week for the teachers and students to start comin in full flow . anyway i dont mind a few free periods ............

i am just back from watching AMERICAN DESI at SREE . it'a cool movie abt a guy called krishna gopal reddy( rather ...kris , that's how he calls himself) who cant stand the fact that he is an indian and mocks at the relegious practices . he finally ends up in a engg school where his room mates are supposedly indian's!!!! . soon he gets used to the environment in college with the same old story( boy meets girl and happy ending , along with a dash of a weak and sour villain) . but on the whole the movie is avery good comedy movie giving an insight into the lives of indians pursuing higher studies abroad , with all the distractions...................( that really inspires me to work harder on my GRE ! ! !).

well madipakkam dosent get any better , with the rains , it's back to square 1 with the rain water upto 1/2 my car tyres in the ground floor . now where am i gonna retreat to ?????? i cant stay here coz i feel really bored and restless . i've been COUCHPOTATOing for the past week and my brain is totally drained of what was there inside . i cant go out to buy some snacks nor can i go to any VCD shop to kill time ... well life is sickening to say the least .

my only escapade from these rains in this holidays has been my prescence at my friend achut's sisters wedding . there i met up with some of my classmates and and some of his and we boys had a nice time there ! ! ! . but all that lasted only for a couple of hours as it was getting late and i had to return home .
some of myclassmates have scheduled a meeting( inspired by me of course) tommorow regd our symposium , which i gotta attend , but the state of water here is alarming . the only i can attend that is to go bottom less( like topless ! ! !) coz i have to wad thru all that thigh deep water ( just jokin !).

regd my amazon adventure in my previous blog , my area MADIPAKKAM and Velachery are totally submerged and full of floods all due to the reversal of a small lake's flow towards our direction . the water level from 2 feet has now gone down to a few inches ( thankfully) . since i couldnt stay put in this wretched place without current , i had to make a small shift in the dead of the night( 4 30 am) from my place to my cousin's . i had to wade thru dirty water for abt 2 kms as all the bus and auto services inside madipkkam were suspended . got an auto some time later and went to central along with dad , only to see that my mother had arrived an hour before and was waiting for us since 5 ( we reached at 6) . after that i went over to the suburban section and took a train to perambur .


phew !! just cut a long story short!! .

today is DIWALI and the mood was pretty high in the morning in tide with the explosions generated by the crackers . well now i know what it is to feel like staying in in a place like Iran or Kashmir as the blasts that u can hear from every corner of the city are a daily realistic phenomenen in such places . ok enough of rambling , gotto go and have a 2nd session with the crackers ! !

well i am just thru from an AMAZON ADVENTURE wading thru the waters ( upto two and a half feet ) and the various insects,frogs and snakes . i had gone to central to pick my mom at 6 am and i left home at 4 45 am . more on the adventure later . any of u guys who wanna contact me , pls do so at my cell number as i am not staying at my place due to the waterlogging. i will be today at my cousin's house at perambur and tommorow......... ( MUSAFIR HOON YAARON NA GHAR HAIN NA TTHIKANA...)

my plans for today is to come in the evening to Satyam or BCL and spend some time there . so if any of u guys happen to be there , i'll see u there

well EXAMOPHOBIA is at it's worst for me . i have this very bad habit of keeping things for the last moment and that really shows in my exam paper !!!! the other exams from no- 3 to 6 have just been ok with no-3 and no-6 giving me nightmares ............ all that matters when it comes to writing the madras university BE exams , is that u have to present it neatly underlining all important points ( no matter what crap is inside- JUST FILL IN THE PAGES) . Well all i can say is that when this is the case most of my college guys make sure they know the subheadings and topics to spin their story in bits and bytes. this is where i lose out, and the difference is a whole 9-10% !!!!

all i can say of exams is that it's 2 weeks of tyranny writing it, 2 months of tyranny waiting for the damn results 2 months of tyranny preparing for it and this cycle repeats twice in a year !!!!!!!!!!!!

1 more enemy to conquer ......... err........ lets say 1 more enemy to visit and make compromises, and then thankfully we break for abt 17 days.
so i guess i shall be back on 31st of oct. till then CIAO
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lazyness + overconfidence = bad day at the office
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well today we had DBMS exam and since i had read around 6-7 chapters deeply in the study hols , i thought i had an edge over my classmates in terms of knowledge ,so spent the 1/2 day holiday in watching Amisha Patel in Humraaz and the next half dozing but alas all that went in vain today .
i came in the morning with a couple of units to finish off in a relaxed mood , saw most of the guys having a "made easy series" book in their hands and they told me that they had read all the 5 units .I envied them at that stage coz i had put in roughly 30 hours to read DBMS really in depth(even then i finished only 3 units) and here these guys in a matter of hours finished it, thanks to those stupid local 30 pages book.

well that made me tense bcoz , 2 units meant 24 marks and i didnt want to miss out on it , but i still had to do a little revision of what i had previously studied , so here i was -1 hour to go and i had to make a tradeoff between -to be read - and -revise already read- . the next one hour i tried loading my brain with all kinds of stuff and i was literally blank because of my stupid tradeoff , when i went into the hall. it took a lot of time to remember things that i had studied and in the end the exam turned out to be a case of sour grapes for me . i was just not able to think and concentrate and just wrote mechanically what came to mind . out of 80 i guess i will only be able to manage only somewhere between 40-50 ....

a real bad day it was .............. and i am now determined to put this debacle behind my mind and focus strongly on my forthcoming exams .

maths is over and i am gleaming with joy as the subject DISCRETE MATHS looked a little tough before preparation , but yesterday's paper was a absolute sitter , but even then i have made some unpardonable mistakes. but all said and done , considering the tension minutes before entering into the hall , i am happy with the outcome of the paper. yesterday was a mixed day in terms of fortunes as the law of averages caught up with me in the afternoon. in the ecstacy of finishing the exam well i forgot my hall ticket inthe class bench and in realised that when i had travelled around 25 km from my college( somewhere near ambttur -anna nagar). I immideately called up my friend aanand who stays in ambattur , as he took me in his vehicle from ambattur to college and my hall ticket and gel pen were lying safe in the 'dustbin'-(courtesy AAYA).

well there is a limit of forgeting things and i exceeded that , bcoz knowing my college's attitude they would make me run pillar to post to get a duplicate hall ticket . gotta go to study after i decided to invest my time last night watching the ravishing amisha patel in HUMRAAZ on ZEE.

well i am in the process of taking short periods of studies in between long hours of breaks ! !!!! . well gotto step on the gas in terms of studying ,.. i guess that will be all for the day ..........

started some thing serious with maths and VLSI , with a bit of OS as a topping !!!! . the next few days are going to be in solitude studying for my exams after which i have a small plan to freak out somewhere in a hilll station , time permitting . anybody from our college wanting to join me can do so by contacting me kartik_kannan@rediffmail.com.

nuthin much to say , i've gotta get back to my table .

well my labs are over and i am euphoric over my performance in OS lab. so gotta get ready for the main exams that start on 17th .
i got a wonderfulexternal examiner yesterday who was very student friendly so unlike the female we had for DBMS . that female i heard was from Sairam Engg college ( that is a another cracked college ! ! ! !). well all is well that ends well . last evening after college i went to Udayam Theatre along with my friend prassna for the movie RUN. well the movie was pretty good with Vivek's comedy being rip roaring... i've some day gotta have a compilation of his comedies . they seem very logical and all the jokes are intelligent jokes!!

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phew..................... i had a really bad external examiner today , must be a real psycho the way she asked questions not waiting for me to finish it. here i am , my voice fully in a triumphant tone ,called the examiner to check my program and verify the output and she comes and puts in garbage values ( like putting characterers inn space of numbers box) and says my program has one error even though it works to perfection. that really had me pissed of , as i was expecting her to sign and put a 40/40 for my expt , but all i could do is just gape in disbelief at her audacity to point out that stupid unwanted error!!

well tommoro0w is a holiday and i've gotto prepare 4 OS lab .so bye to blogging .
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oh........... i am feeling so sad that rain decided to show it's power and might in the ICC trophy finals last night and prevented India from winning it . never mind i guess India has a another shot at it today at the lankans .MODERN RAMAYANA-if i could put it that way , with lankan's up against ram's(saurav ganguly) vanara(sehwag looks like one! !) . army. and it was due to holy intervention that INDIA gave lanka the ultimatum 'live to fight another day' coz the rain god's can only rain there , they cant dare think of comin to chennai . i challenge the rain gods there in lanka to show their might against the city of chennai( and i woyld wish them best of luck in that coz chennai is tooooooooooo hot and warm).

that means 8 hours of my server(cranium) will be idle in executing the process of watching the ICC trophy final rather than glancing at the CODES for tommorow's lab exam. what do do ? cricket is like a NASHA OR OPIUM for me .

my model exams are just over . my university exams kicks off in a couple of days . so i guess i shall discuss the state of my blogdom only once in a week. i gotto work more and make hay while " the power is there" as chennai is facing power cuts by the hour . today i was a bit tired after roaming alll over the college to spot the HOD to get my record signed and boarded an MTC bus to come home as my college bus is only at 4 pm. after i came home i just started dozing away when i was woken up by a wet sensation all over me( THE POWER CUTS ! ! !). now with the power having come cable tv is not available . damn irritating as one of my favourite movies" CARRY ON ..............) was to be shown today at 9 on zee mgm.

Any ways , no regrets , gotta get back to doing studies.
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my model exams are just over . my university exams kicks off in a couple of days . so i guess i shall discuss the state of my blogdom only once in a week. i gotto work more and make hay while " the power is there" as chennai is facing power cuts by the hour . today i was a bit tired after roaming alll over the college to spot the HOD to get my record signed and boarded an MTC bus to come home as my college bus is only at 4 pm. after i came home i just started dozing away when i was woken up by a wet sensation all over me( THE POWER CUTS ! ! !). now with the power having come cable tv is not available . damn irritating as one of my favourite movies" CARRY ON ..............) was to be shown today at 9 on zee mgm.

Any ways , no regrets , gotta get back to doing studies.

EK CHOTI SI LOVE STORY

Well , now I know what it is to fall in Love ……………………
I met ‘her ‘ on the 27th of august 2001 when she
came to my house to stay here . when I saw her I was
absolutely stunned by her looks . I pinched my self
twice to see whether this was reality or not . yes
indeed , it was and more so because we shared the same
bed ! soon as time went by ‘she ‘ became very close
to me . I always enjoyed ‘ her ‘ prescence in my
college bus .

Well I think I have given enough clues to generate a
heart attack . ‘she’ is none other than my SONY
walkman . ( really !!!!). My walkman has given my
company where ever I go and it though being a
lifeless mute companion has injected life in to me
many times ( with it’s home theatre like sound
effects) .’she’ has inspired my so many times , as I
regularly keep feeding her with her quality foods(
DURACELL PLUS) .


It just happened that I was so attached to ‘her’ and
loved ‘her’ company around . one fine day I decide to
go for a conference titled CONNECT 2002 from college
. I hand over my bag (containing the walkman) and my
coat to a 1st year guy called Vishwanathan and ask him
to wait outside the gate as I had to rush into
college to say something to my friend . well by the
time I came back the first bus had gone and so had
vishwanath . I hopped in to the second bus and
boarded it to reach the place in a few minutes. As I
got down I spotted Vishwanath and asked him for my
bag and coat . He gave me back a reply “ I HAVE LEFT
IT BEHIND IN THE BUS, BECAUSE I THOUHT U WOULDN’T NEED
IT”. I was shell shocked because I had earlier thought
that during lunch time , since the place was a quiet
place I could listen to my walkman ( with the new
earphone) and enjoy the sound effects as it could not
be felt clearly in a train or in a bus because of the
noise outside and inside . I got very angry could
hardly fathom the reason that “ I wouldn’t need it”.
Well for the first hour or so I was all alone and
fuming within myself . but soon I regained my normal
self and was listening to the conference , but again
the thought of some one eloping with my SONY was
hard to digest .

Soon I went to the PCO booth and after repeated tries
to my college for about 1 hr , I got the pleasing
confirmation that my bag and coat had been spotted and
kept in the transport office. H.mmmmmmmmmmm I was
feeling easy , but still …………….
I came to college (after the seminar was over ) on
the 21st sep morning at 8 30 and asked the guy in the
transport department my bag . I first felt for my
walkman in my bag as an precautionary measure and to
my shock it was not there in the pouch . I reported
this to the officer and he in a very nonchalant tone
told me that he is not responsible. Having been
robbed of my walkman , he further rubbed salt in my
wounds by talking in a rude tone and was indicating
that I might be bluffing.







I was flabbergasted and in a few seconds from now I
had to give my VLSI model exam . so I without any
choice went to the hall. I was so disappointed that I
never even looked at the question paper and spent (
belive it or not) 75 minutes on thinking who could
have probably took my walkman . I was wondering why
most of the romantic fairytales don’t last the
distance . then I thought of people who had lost
their near and dear ones in any mishap and for once I
steeped in their shoes to feel the disappointment and
couldn’t accept the loss. I was thinking , why should
fate spill it’s fatal drink on my SONY . now I
really felt alone and lonely and wondered whether the
fire of my soul had been extinguished and I kind of
wanted to go to a suicide point and jump of from there
.
My mind was like DEVDAS at that time singing within
myself “ SONY oh SONY meri tammana , merah pyaar ,
dewaane se ho gayi galti , jaane doh yaar , I love u “
( as from the movie YAADON KI BAARAT).

The examiner had a glance at me and was wondering what
I was doing as I was totally in a different world with
a forlorn look. Only then did I realize half the time
is gone and quickly looked at the question paper .
some how I managed to answer 7 2-marks questions
and 4 12 mark questions and I guess that last ditch
effort would have somehow taken me past the corridor
of uncertainty ( 40 marks/ 80 ) ! ! ! ! .

I left the hall and didn’t want to sit near any of my
classmates as I felt no one would realize the extent
of my sadness . so I moved in to a secluded spot and
spotted on of the zips in my bag torn . generally I
knew that zip had a problem , so I never meddled with
it. So as I went to straighten it some thing shone
inside . YIPEE !!! it was my walkman , which some
rascal after taking out of my pouch( in the bag) not
knowing where toplace it had kept in this zip. My joy
knew no bounds after seeing it and I let out a war cry
(after waging a battle with Satan in my mind during
the exam). A few people after hearing it were looking
at me strangely , but I didn’t care .
This was like triumph of spirit for me resembling the
SATYAVAN SAVITRI story !

Only in someone’s absence does one realize the
affection one has for him/her and this mini trailer
in my life couldn’t be a better elucidating point .
well if this trailer had so much to offer I guess what
the “ whole movie “ will offer in time to come ! ! !
!

Any comments – bouquets or brickbats on this article
can be sent to katchu21
@hotmail.com or kartik_kannan@rediffmail.com


KARTIK KANNAN

i am currently at chennai trade centre , in nandambakkam browsing from one of the sify outlets here.
well this place is really cool , and there are lots of big IT companies that one can contact for sponsors whenever i need them in case of a symposium! ! ! .
more about it later tonight as i have to rush to the convention hall as teh seminar begind at 12 and it is 11 56 now

i am doing this from college . today we had our model exams and we had only half a day , but i could,nt go home coz my route bus to madipakkam wasnt there at 1 pm . it is slated at 4 pm , so i decided i will BLOG it out in my icomputer lab . at last the damn bloody ac is working as all these days ( a month ) alternate labs did not have ac's and that made life miserable here sitting next to these noisy dot matrix companions taking print outs.

my model lab is slated on 27 andd 28 with pracs on 3 and 4th , so i better say bye to blogging and i will be back to blogging after a brief sabbatical into the virtual world.

bye 4 now


my model lab is sla

THE STORY OF THE HUNTER GETTING HUNTED
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well as my previous blog talks about me being a quizmaster , all those grandiose plans had been shattered as the MECH guys wanted a fully mechanical related quiz and with my knowledge in mechanical being next to nothing , i rejected the offer.

but that proved to be a blessing in disguise as today as i just enquired abt the event a first yr guy came up to me and said that people from our college can participate , so i was there at the ED hall in a jiffy , bunking the last workin day( officially though). what followed afterwards was quiz prelims paper with 15 questions covering some stupid questionns - but some how I along with my friend prassana(E& I)managed to top the prelims and had an easy way to the final and the final was like batting on a bouncy jamaica wicket with questions in mechanical and thermal , fluid mechanics fired at us . but some how due to the grace of god i got some easy direct's and a couple of passes to win the quiz and i won 1000 rs cash.
well that makes the prize money won by me this semester to rs 5000. looks like the guys are all waiting behind my back to give them a treat and i guess this saturday a treat will be on the cards ! ! !

quizzing-- well this term seems as if it has no ending this semester for me coz the Mechanical department of our college has personally invited to be the quiz host !!! . well since we may have a shortage of participants from other colleges due to the late time of conducting this symposium ,all of vel tech can participate in the quiz. so hope to have a nice time quizzing my fellow vel-technicians and hoping to spot any quizzical genius among the first years so that i can proudly leave behind a heir to " my throne of quizzing".
some of the guys among my gang who are coming are ganesh, sudhir , >, achut , vinu , lakshmi narayanan and other fellas of the gang . No comments:

well i am on cloud nine after being rewarded for my quizzical efforts in the past 2 days. thursday 5th sept i had been to JERUSELAM college of engg and won 1000 rs in web designing along with a guy called vishwanathan and finished 3rd in the quiz finals after doing so well in the prelims. more on their symposium later ..... and the biggest story on the 6th of sept where till 11 30 i was in JERUSALEM coll , i just happened to see a poster of RAJARAJESHWARI college of engg EEE dept and CSE dept having general quizzes , and i was elated seeing that , so what i did was that i scooted imideatly in my kinetic honda along with a guy called kishore of my class ( 45 odd kilometres) to this college just in time for CSE dept quiz where i just was unlucky not to qualify , but that was made up by my victory in EEE department so 1000 bucks to boot again .

life's really cool at this moment , with me becoming richer !!!!!!! more on how the whole issue folded at these 2 symps

MOMENT OF FAME :-) well my picture has been put up in all the department notice boards in appreciation of my quizzical conquests in SVCET -tiruvellore along with my partner achut(www.achut.blogspot.com). so that makes way 4 some nice feelings today. my voice is down today after a bout of MINTOSIS -- that is what i call a overdose of mint . i kept on hogging them until i suddenly noticed that my throat had become hoarse amd sore. well it has gone from bad to worse amd what's more is that i have to give a seminar in mathematics tommorow on recursive theory and grammar-(DISCRETE MATHEMATICS).hmmmmm............ seems a tall order .