Musings of my life!!

Rajni rocks!!

2005-05-02T10:28:00.000-07:00

Look what Rajnikanth has up his sleeve for the next movie!!

The Party Wagon continues...

2005-04-16T21:58:00.000-07:00

Today it was the turn of our juniors to give us a private farewell party. The place was Dhola-ri-Dhani, the ethnic Rajasthani village in the out-skirts of Hyderabad... Initially I thought it was not such a good idea and we would be bored up after 1 hour only... but I was proved wrong after the trip ended... All of us had lots of fun right from the word "GO"...

30 of us including juniors went there and had some memorable moments which I can never ever ever forget in my life... man staying at a hostel for 4 years surely binds the attachment to ur friends very strongly!! Had lots of fun even in the bus and the made the co traffic riders turn their heads in amazement!! :D

The batch which made it possible

We were given a very warrrm welcome by the Dhola-ri-Dhani people by blowing a trumpet on our arrival which seemed grand :p and then applying tilak on all our foreheads...

The grand welcome

Then as soon as we entered, the little kids within us woke up and started to make us do naughty things and small-kid stuff... which are quite evident below!!

Bole and Bachan having their go at the electrically operated car meant for kids

And even the kids had to wait for their turn to play the see-saw

And then the kids in us got excited about the magic and the puppet show which really enthralled us all throughout the show... there were some really good tricks and there were some really good moments when some of us volunteered for the magic tricks...

Cheddi having a go in entertaining people with his magic

The puppet show was a great one... seen one after many years!!

And then some of them decided to take a boat-ride... a romantic one :p :p

Bole and Banti having a romanticccc boat-ride :p :p

Some souls not satisfied with boat-ride had their go at the camel-ride and horse-ride... after all it is not every other day one gets to ride a camel!!

Patti and Pam are partners even on the camel

Nalli posing before the horse-ride!! Poor horsy!! :p :p

Then some of us got our futures foretold (does such a word exist??) by the PARROT... the future in the hands of the parrot... it seemed crazy but the temptation took the better of us and we had to surrender our palms to the astrologer and his future story-telling!!

The parrot - the one which tell how, where, etc.. where one will be 10 years down the lane!!

Luckily or unluckily even I had to surrender to the temptation and the parrot picked the card which contained the photo of Lord Krishna which (it seems) meant that I have many gopikas around me... which was enuf for my friends to push me around that day!! Man.. why did I go to him :(

Then we decided to take some photos around the place in some decent or is it awkward poses :d and this is what resulted!!

What is Nalli even trying to do??

K getting screwed up :)

Cell phone bros??

What is that hand in the middle doing?? :o

Then we let our hair down in the disco and had a wild-dance party goin on at the end of which all of us were literally drenched in tons of sweat... the disco floor was a small one but we enjoyed it a lot and all the 30 of us set the floor on fire!!

Ok guys... we know u rock!!

Wild guys... wild steps... wild fantasies??

Disco made us some hungry animals and hence headed out to the FREE rajasthani dinner and dined away with satisfaction and happiness :) :) This ended our memorable and ever-rememberable trip... thanks to the juniors for giving us this party... I will remember it forever!! :)

Parting Poetry

2005-04-14T12:32:00.000-07:00

Dear GDIT2k1,

When you leave, it does pain,
But you will, in our hearts, remain,

One day, when again we'll meet,
you'll be standing tall on your feet,

Those moments that we did share,
of promise, love and care,

will stay forever in our hearts,
with a smile, now we must part.

Senti by Unni and Bansi...

Taaliyaa Taaliyaa

Now we can become more senti!! :((( but seriously that was a good one... it is the parting poem which guys have come up with... all this is adding up to the already existing heavy doses of nostalgia... but I can surely take some more.. I am sure abt that!! come on throw it at me... come on!!

I think i have gone boinkers!!

The Party Wagon runs wild!!

2005-04-10T21:51:00.000-07:00

The end days are near and well I am here :p... bad one!! ok now down to the serious stuff... Now that the parting days are near (so sad :(((( ), we decided to let the party wagon go wild... so started off with the party hosted by Vardhman, Dixie and Rawat at My Little Hut, a small place near Hi-Tech City in Hyd.

Initially I thought it was just a usual dinner party as others give... but when I reached the place, it turned out to be something different from the usual... it was like a small get together!! Around 40 of us were there and there was a small garden and by the time I was there, the party had started already and peeps were having their go at Dumb Charades... So, I joined a team and did my part in guessing the movie names!!

Here are some snapshots of the same :)

There were some snacks being served in the middle to keep us all energetic and strong to continue the same kick-a** sound and fun we were having and the happening atmosphere we were generating... L8r dumb charades gave way to the Q&A session where each of us were given a small paper and were asked to write a qn abt someone present there... and believe me... it was real fun!! We had some awkward and funny qns and some serious qns which were banned by the "organizers"...

Then this led to ma' favorite part... THE BUFFET ... mmm... the food was very delicious and came to know that they had hired caterers to cook the food which worked out to be cheaper than usual... lucky bithces.. they escaped the hole in their dear pockets!! hehe... but overall it was a gr888 nite and had some real good fun :) will never ever forget this...

THANKS FOR THE MEMORABLE PARTY DUDES!!

PS. Photos will be put tomorrow as I am at my home now and the photos are in my computer at hostel!!

E.X.A.M.

2005-04-08T11:26:00.000-07:00

EXAM... the one word which used to dread me all through the childhood even till my bachelors... they are finally over atleast in academic sense... today was the last exam of my bachelors and possibly the last exam i will ever write for another say 5 years until i join my masters... of which mom doesnt has any hopes on... but i enliven her spirits telling her that i will and i definitely will pursue my MBA... yeah thatz my goal that has been one degree which I have been eyeing from childhood, from the time I knew that my dad had one :) My dad has always been at the prime position in my mind academically... and this was fuelled by the fact that my mom used to talk abt my dad's gold medal whenever i degraded in those dreaded exams!!

On one hand I am happy that my exams are over, but on the other hand I am even more sad and dejected that today is officially the last day of my bachelors and friends are goin back to their hometowns starting tomorrow and this is possibly the last time I would be seeing some or even hearing abt them :(((( I just cant believe that... That makes me feel verrrrrry NOSTALGIC... I mean verrrryyyyy

I can still remember the first time I walked past the gates of IIIT when I came first for the counselling after I made it through the gruelling entrance test of this prestigious insti.... My mom was not at all prepared to join me in this insti as she also worked quite hard for two years when I was goin for Ramaiah for ma' IIT coaching... and she didnt want anything less than IIT brand.. not even this IIIT brand :(... it took a lot of convincing from me and my sweeet grandpa to convince her and finally she gave in and agreed to lemme join this insti.

Thatz how my four year journey in this prestigious, deemed insti started!! And it indeed was a journey with many many new experiences and many interesting incidents which i will carry for the rest of my life!! Indeed it is true that friends are someone who are hard to leave behind especially friends as sweet as these...

I AM GONNA MISS U MY DEAR IIIT... u r my sassy girl for now :x

A Beautiful Love Story!!

2005-04-07T06:14:00.000-07:00

From the very Begining, the girl's family objected strongly on her dating this guy. Saying that it has got to do with family x-udground,& that the girl will have to suffer for the rest of her life if she were to be with him.

Due to family's pressure, the couple quarrel very often. Though the girl love the guy deeply, but she always ask him: "How deep is your love for me?"

As the guy is not good with his words, this often cause the girl to be very upset. With that & the family's pressure, the girl often vent her anger on him. As for him, he only endure it in silence.

After a couple of years, the guy finally graduated & decided to further his studies in overseas. Before leaving, he proposed to the girl: "I'm not very good with words. But all I know is that I love you. If you allow me, I will take care of you for the rest of my life. As for your family, I'll try my best to talk them round. Will you marry me?"

The girl agreed, & with the guy's determination, the family finally gave in & agreed to let them get married. So before he leave, they got engaged.

The girl went out to the working society, whereas the guy was overseas, continuing his studies. They sent their love through emails & phone calls. Though it's hard, but both never thought of giving up.

One day, while the girl was on her way to work, she was knocked down by a car that lost control. When she woke up, she saw her parents beside her bed. She realised that she was badly injured. Seeing her mum crying, she wanted to comfort her. But she realized that all that could come out of her mouth was just a sigh. She has lost her voice......

The doctors says that the impact on her brain has caused her to lose her voice. Listening to her parents' comfort, but with nothing coming out from her, she broke down.

During the stay in hospital, besides silence cry,.....it's still just silence cry that companied her. Upon reaching home, everything seems to be the same. Except for the ringing tone of the phone. Which pierced into her heart everytime it rang. She does not wish to let the guy know. & not wanting to be a burden to him, she wrote a letter to him saying that she does not wish to wait any longer.

With that, she sent the ring back to him. In return, the guy sent millions & millions of reply, and countless of phonecalls,.. all the girl could do, besides crying, is still crying....

The parents decided to move away, hoping that she could eventually forget everything & be happy.

With a new environment, the girl learn sign language & started a new life. Telling herself everyday that she must forget the guy. One day, her friend came & told her that he's back. She asked her friend not to let him know what happened to her. Since then, there wasn't anymore news of him.

A year has passed & her friend came with an envelope, containing an invitation card for the guy's wedding. The girl was shattered. When she open the letter, she saw her name in it instead.

When she was about to ask her friend what's going on, she saw the guy standing in front of her. He used sign language telling her "I've spent a year's time to learn sign language. Just to let you know that I've not forgotten our promise. Let me have the chance to be your voice. I Love You. With that, he slipped the ring back into her finger. The girl finally smiled.

Courtesy: Rocky

Photo Sessions

2005-04-04T14:34:00.000-07:00

Now that the time here is soon coming to an end... we decided to capture these last few memorial moments and this is what resulted!!

Bbye IIIT

2005-04-02T21:28:00.000-08:00

It finally happened.... the dreaded end is near... the end of my glorious engineering days are goin to hit a brake in another 10 days which seems like a second compares to the pace at which the last 4 years went by!! The final class was Compilers and after the class, well, I felt NOSTALGIC... a feeling I normally feel when I think abt my girl sometimes... but for acads... this is the first time... gonna miss the good times I had with my firends... gonna miss my hostel... gonna miss late wakings up and chatting away for hours together... gonna miss my LAN games :(((((( now i have to play single player games!!

Farewell '05 took place on 31st March... reached late as usual... only that this time I had a reason for being late... went home to get my suit :d :d wore my suit and gave a grand entrance along with musketeer dudes... then spent the rest of time there taking precious photos of the glorious or rather nostalgic occassion and recording the talks and speeches alongside. The evening started off with a speech by AC and then a speech by Imran (never saw that coming :p )... and then a couple of speeches by the juniors and then the much-awaited speech by Dr. Govindarajulu, Dean of Acads. This was followed by the candle-lighting, momento-presenting ceremony!!

All this three hours or so... only 1 thought was haunting my mind... the thought of being left alone... the thought of not having anymore free time in the future... the thought of life in the future... beside thoughts of missing my loving insti... the pride I enjoyed when I used to tell other students and people that I was from IIIT :D

The feeling that I am gonna earn in another two months, sometimes, takes away the joy of these 10 days also!! I am, of course, also proud that I will be earning... but even then... students' days are something which will never come back... unless... yaaaa... unless I opt for some MS or something like that!!

Why GOD why us?? :(((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((( Our days here are coming to an end at light speed!! :(( well... letz hope i will have fun at my work too!!

Late Night Outs

2005-03-22T03:16:00.000-08:00

Its been quite a while that i've been away from blogging and it did make me feel guilty to a little extent... but kya karein... life is like that :)

Last two nights have been quite different... a different kinda experience... both the nights I went out along with 5 of my other friends to Hitech City, Phase II namely the Cyber Gateway... at around 3:00 in the morning to munch some food... Actually it started off with us playing some basketball at around 1 and then getting tired and having a refreshing (I really mean REFRESHING) bath by 3 and hit the road in my friend's car

I was driving both the days... It's been a while since I've driven after my episode of FITS two months back. It felt nice... something like DCH to be driving so late in the night with friends at the back all shouting and enjoying goin on those empty roads in the coooool breeze.

Then we reached our destination... the chai bandis in front of the Cyber Gateway... started off by eating Bread-Omlet for which we had actually started off and then slowly started pep-talk about our days in the college which are gonna meet their end in another month and then slowly sipping on those small cups of tea and walkin along the road upto Durgam Cheruvu aka The Secret Lake...

U dont get those kinda talks and nights too often with friends... after all these are the ending days of college life and one doesnt get such an opportunity after joining a company and start off our career. We cracked many jokes on each other and other batch-mates.

Then on our way back to the car... we again sat near the bandi and ordered some hot hot mirchi bajjis and egg bondas... and wow... they were real delicious in the company of good friends and cool air... though it was 4 in the morning the road was quite hulla-gulla with lots of cars goin on the road... i guess they are the night-shift people working in those endless number of call centres...

Then slowly after another hour of BC (Baat Cheet), started off for the campus... this was quite a memorable day and one of my unforgettable days in my life and hence earned the status of a post in my blog :D

Oh yeah and then watched American Desi movie for the third time in two days... that movie rockz dude!! it is totally awesome movie with a cool story-line.

Yeh dosti... hum nahi chodengey... chodengey hum nahi... i donno after that :(... But I guess that song is quite appropriate for this post :)

World without engineers!!

2005-03-06T09:23:00.000-08:00

Got these pics as one of the forward mail from my friend!! After seeing this... I can say my self-respect has increased by a considerable amount :d hehe... Anyways have a look at the pics!!

The world without Aeronautical Engineers

The world without Civil Engineers

The world without Communication Engineers

The world without Computer Engineers

The world without Electronic Engineers

The world without Mechanical Engineers

Any comments??

Yoga Workshop - Day 1

2005-03-06T07:46:00.000-08:00

Joined a yoga workshop which started today in the college campus itself. The workshop is 15 day long from morning 05:30 - 08:30 daily!! I know, I know ... kinda early!! Par zindagi mein kuch paaney keliye kuch kona padtha hain!! :D The workshop is one of its kind and this is the first time mez attending a yoga workshop!!

The rules: 1. No cooked food... 2. Dont overstrain (I have to feel bad if he asked me to strain myself... "no strain" is always welcome :d)... 3. I dont remember others :D

Today being the first day, it was the day to clean the entire body (on the inside) with the help of H2O.. and he made us to drink 5 litres of water in 1 HOUR :( basically to clean up the entire body including intestines, stomach, etc... (From here till the end of paragraph parental advisary is necessary!! :p :p). Then he made us to do some exercises to let out the water in the form of SHIT (i really mean it!!) And believe me i had to do it three times until clean water started coming out... it was as if a tap was fitted to my bowels and water was being let out of it.

Then lunch was served... I had to skip breakfast upon the guruji's advice as I wanted to decrease my weight... The lunch was Kichdi with lotz of ghee... I was astonished when he said that it was desi ghee and it doesn't increase our weight!! It must be something special... he asked us to eat as much as we wanted and he was repeatedly asking us to eat till our stomaches were full!! Was successfully able to eat one and a half small plate of it :)

The dinner was at 19:30... exactly 7 hours gap... never in life, I waited so much for the dinner to be served even though I knew it was idly with saltless chutney :(... and I was their at the hall along with Nalli on time and unimaginably I ate 10 IDLYS which is a record as far as I am concerned... hehe... I wonder how many more "FIRST THINGS" will happen in the next 15 days to come... letz see what this holds for me!!

Hope I reduce some weight and get a good glow in my face ;;) hehe

The day that was!!

2005-03-02T11:03:00.000-08:00

Today was a good day with me finally spending a lot of time with mom 'n dad. Missed my class in the morning and then planned to go to the doc to check out the status of the worm in my brain ( and for those of u who think it is a joke... i am serious... i got a worm up there!!) and got to check out lotta chicks (i felt it was kind of a compensation for the pain i am goind thro' hehe) and then mom planned and unplanned visit to Havmore :d :d Man the place rocked and it was designed and constructed with a lot of artistic work put into it!! And as someone said "Men will be men"!! The first thing i did was to check the never-ending line of hottttttttttt chicks there!! After all it is Banjara Hills!! For those of u who are not able to follow the two proper nouns.. Havmore is an ice-ceam parlour and Banjara Hills is a posh locality in Hyd.

I was kinda happy that i got to spend so much time with my parents after a long time.. now-a-days my mind is full of thoughts or rather fears of how much more time i will be with them!! That fear has really taken out the worst/best of me :( The fear of my parents not accepting my relationship with my *LOVE* and the fear of that leading to being thrown out of the house!! I have no idea why I am writing all this here... but well I guess I have no other place to share my sorrows!!

Pain, pain and pain is all I have now-a-days... Or am I looking them from a wrong perspective!! Before May, 2003 I thought love was only beautiful, after that I realized it is not only beautiful but it comes along with pain, sacrifice and understanding as well and commitment demanded an excalibur of those qualities. I am ready to exhibit all of them in the finest way possible, but then the thought of right/wrong strikes my mind... Am I too young to make decisions at 21 as some people say or am I old enough to take decisions on my own?? Am I thinking in the right way which opposes the thoughts and thinking of my dad?? Is marrying a girl from some other caste still *WRONG*?? Am I doing a right thing of going on my own way??

I am being encompassed in a world of questions and doubts!! When I look at my little baby sister, I always wish I was her... without any tensions, without any pain, without any work... but then I again realize I have felt and experienced, infact experiencing the most beautiful gift god has given to the mankind, the one goal for which man has been made by God... *LOVE*!!

GOD HELP ME AND MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!

Marriage Anniversary

2005-02-26T08:16:00.000-08:00

Nah... it ain't mine... though I wish it was :)... it is my parent's wedding anniversary and indeed a great occassion to rejoice 'coz if it weren't for them... I wouldnt have been here today, rt?? ;) jk... it is really a great occassion to rejoice!! It is their 22nd wedding anniversary and three more to go for the silver jubilee (i hope that is what they call the 25th one!!)... and they wish to get me married by then and to enjoy the occassion with their bahu... yeah, that would be great infact only if it were the girl I loved become their bahu... i really hope it becomes true :d

I sometimes really think what really life has to offer and why we are really born... is it because god has planned that we are to do something or are we really pre-programmed that we will be doing so and so after we are born and it is not the matter of choosing but to really realize that!! This thought has been pondering in my mind for quite some time. I wish i find an answer for this.

If it were destined before hand... by whom has it been pre-destined. By God?? Is there someone or something called God?? Or has it just been created because something bought luck to someone or is it because the early man wanted to share his happiness and sorrow with someone when he/she had none around him!! Is it because something did some good to him/her we believe in God?? If God does exist, how is he?? where is he?? why is he not helping all of us?? So because everything has been decided, even if we are good throughout our life... there is a chance of going to something called hell after-life (if something like that exist again) and those who have been bad for their entire life go to heaven??

Man what has happened to me?? Stttttoppppppppp meeeeeee..... damn... what happened to me?? What am I typing?? Where did the topic deviate to??

:(( - I am in pain!! where are u my love?? I want to be beside and hold u...

Crazy in love!!

2005-02-16T21:16:00.000-08:00

So what if i didnt win the love-letter writing competition... It doesnt mean that my love for her is unreal or any less than others... I love her more than anything in this world... or for that matter this universe!! My love for her is quite true and I dont care who believes it... it is only she who matters to me and I know how much she loves me... I know that...

How can I forget all those moments when I was with her and those moments when I used to talk with her over the phone for hours together and my friends used to call me a "phone dude" and other names like "loverboy"... I dont care all those... let them call me what they want... i am getting what i need... i am getting the satisfaction that she is happy when she talks with me... i know how much she misses me when we dont talk or when we are not together... i dont want her to face this pain and bitterness... i just cant bear to see her sad or feel her being sad...

I remember her eagerness to talk with me daily as she used to come from college and the first thing she used to do was phone me and talk with me (well she does that even now)... and the first thing she does in the morning when she wakes up is to hear my voice (quite romantic, eh??)... i donno how many agree but i am crazy in love...

Is anyone out there who is in love?? I just wanted to know if everyone else is like this or are they any different!! Why do i feel like there are not many like us!! Why do i get a feeling we are very different frm many other... i always try to search for the answers, but there is no light... i end up searching in the dark and regardless to say... i dont find any answers... i hope someone did tell me!!

Monthly expenses

2005-02-10T08:34:00.000-08:00

Continuing on the same humourous note... herez another one :D...

This joke highlights the monthly expenses of an IT Guy and a Gal...

There is lot of gap between the heading and the table... I couldnt figure out the reason :(.. But do read it.. Itz quite *enlighting* :p

Monthly expenses of an IT Guy

Heading	First Week	Second Week	Third Week	Fourth Week
Bank Balance	Rs. 20000	Rs. 2000	Rs. 200	Rs. 20
Conveyance	Auto ("I can afford it")	Share Auto ("I would like to share. I am selfless!")	Bus ("Public figures should travel by public transport")	Walk ("Good for health")
Girl Friends	Eena, Meena & Tina ("I can BUY love")	Meena &Tina ("I have enough girl friends")	Tina ("I am loyal to her")	"Huh! There is no pure love on earth!"
Mobile Maintenance	Frequent outgoing calls ("This is what mobile is invented for")	Restricted outgoing calls ("I should not create unnecessary traffic on mobile lines")	Rare outgoing calls ("Mobile should be used in urgent situations only")	Only incoming calls ("I am not going to call her until she calls me")
Boozing	"Come, let's go to Goa and freak out!	"Man, there is nothing in Goa. Let's go to Mysore."	"The best place to booze on earth is our house itself. What say?"	"Drinking is injurious to health."

Monthly expenses of an IT Gal

Heading	First Week	Second Week	Third Week	Fourth Week
Bank Balance	Rs. 20000	Rs. 20000	Rs. 20000	Rs. 20000
Conveyance	Auto ("after all my boy friend pays for it")	Auto ("after all my boy friend pays for it")	Auto ("after all my boy friend pays for it")	Auto ("after all my boy friend pays for it")
Boy Friends	Rahul, Abhinav, Robin, Saleem, Peter, Harvinder, ...	Sachin, Sumeet, Vinay, ...	Abhijeet, Ram, Christopher, ...	Arun, Saketh, Vimal, ...
Mobile Maintenance	Only Incoming calls (Its for ppl 2 call me)	Only Incoming calls (Its for ppl 2 call me)	Only Incoming calls (Its for ppl 2 call me)	Only Incoming calls (Its for ppl 2 call me)
Boozing	"Come, let's go to Goa and freak out!	"Come, let's go to Kulu and freak out!	"Come, let's go to Simla and freak out!	"Come, let's go to Darjeeling and freak out!

Rest of the world

2005-02-10T02:14:00.000-08:00

My friend sent this really good joke(kinda) in my messenger... well here is how it goes...

A worldwide survey was conducted by the UN. The only question asked was: "Would you please give your honest opinion about solutions to the food shortage in the rest of the world?" The survey was a huge failure, In Africa they didn't know what 'food' meant, In India they didn't know what 'honest' meant, In Europe they didn't know what 'shortage' meant, In China they didn't know what 'opinion' meant, In the Middle East they didn't know what 'solution' meant, In South America they didn't know what 'please' meant, And in the USA they didn't know what 'the rest of the world' meant.

Well.. after reading this one... I thought over how correct it was... I mean this may seem like some humour... but actually this is the truth which u cant hide from and which will take some time to change... What say people??

Hey my love!!

2005-02-09T18:19:00.000-08:00

Dil ney tumko chunliya hain
Tum bhi isko chunona
Khwaab koi dekhtaa hain
Tum bhi sapney buno naa....

Dil yeh meraa tumsey kuch keh raha hain... suno na
Dil yeh meraa tumsey kuch keh raha hain... suno na

Tu hain merey dil main... terey yeh pyaar hain
Tu jo hain sab kuch hain... naa koi kameen hain
Tu hi dil hain... tu hi jaan bhi hain
tu kushi hain... aasra bhi hain!!

Terey chaahat... zindagi hain
Tu mohobbat... tuu aashiqui hain..

Thatz what reminds me when I think of my love!! Thatz the song i sang for her when I first proposed her.... and its been an year now!! Today is the first anniversary of my love-life... And I am really glad that itz goin gr8 guns!!! My love for her has leaped new heights since then and her love for me has been even more (how do i know?? thatz what love is :p).

Looking back at my love-life, I can remember all those beautiful moments I spent with her and also the bitter moments we went through... after all thatz what a perfect relationship is... ups and downs!! There are so many precious moments between us that a single post wouldnt be enough to describe all those... basically I dont wanna reveal them :D)... I want them to be sweet memories between us!! Well, I guess people in love would understand this feeling much better.

Well, I guess the readers out there must be wonderind what her name would be, rt?? Well, her name is hidden somewhere in this post... read the entire post to find out her name... hehe... Feb 10th, 2004, i.e. exactly an year back was the first time I met my angel... I met her near her house... and there began the journey of my love-life and probably or rather hopefully the journey of my meaningful and complete life!! I can boast that she was the one who proposed me :D... well it doesnt matter now... all that matters is that we are together...

We used to talk over phones for hours together daily... she used to come from her college and the first thing she used to do and the first thing she does is phone me and hear my voice... sounds quite romantic, eh?? We used to talk upto late in the nights and early in the mornings and on holidays.. well I can term holidays as "Phone Days" hehe... And then gradually started going out with her frequently and the frequency increased upto all the days in the week during holidays...

One year down and our relationship is strong and as good as it can be... The answer to ur qn... her name is archana... finally found ur answer... well, continuing with what I was writing... and I really wonder how many relationships are this strong... I am not trying to boast or something but I have really observed my friends' relationships crumbling like a pack of cards in six or seven or eight months lasting a max of one year... I have seen no relationships of my friends for more than an year with one exception(as far as I know)!! Love is such a beautiful and such a ... man I cant express... it is sooooooooo good a thing that each and every person born should experience its beauty!!

Well... I guess thatz it for now!! This post is for u my love... mmmmmmmmmuuuuuuuuuuuaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh...... I LOVE U ARCH (CHINNU (thatz how I call her))

What kinda shadow am I??

2005-02-09T00:18:00.000-08:00

You are a human shadow. If a loved one needs you, you are always right at his or her heels! Your deep social connection with human beings produces your qualities of genuine caring and charisma. However, at times you are naive to the true nature of your loved ones. Remember that humans' gift of free will does not always lead them in wise directions. But your essence of love and friendship represent the other precious gifts of humanity. Overall you are a strikingly valuable and innocent being who has a lot to give.

What Kind of Shadow Are You? (with gorgeous pics)
Courtesy: Quizilla

Can anyone prove this wrong huh??

2005-02-08T20:29:00.000-08:00

Now this is kinda self explainatory!!

P.S. This is an animated gif... it might take some time for the animation to appear... so please be patient!!

Is it necessary??

2005-02-08T03:52:00.000-08:00

Kachak... Bang bang.... dhoom.... oh no!! my friend has been shot!! gotta rescue him. As I run towards him to rescue him a bomber flies over and drops bombs and I had to dive into the nearby bunker to save myself... Finally after some moments of hard-ship and agony I reach him and put him on my shoulders and take him to the medical camp nearby. Then as I turn back with a pride in my heart and with confidence in my heart.... I fell down on my head and suddenly I realize that I fell down from my chair and I was in a class of Bioinformatics... It was all a dream!!

Man she is some expert in this... expert in inducing sleep to even the most active student in the class... thanks to her *BORING* lectures and that too in a subject totally different from what I joined here for. To hell with these open-electives. Biology was a nightmare right from when I was in my school and I never even dreamt that this would haunt me till the completion of my bachelors.

Time never ever flies in boring situations like that... I always really wonder why time seem to fly by whenever one is enjoying something and it seems like a year for each minute when we are in something boring!! I think many of the people out there also wonder abt the same thing... I just wish that someone invents some gadget which will help us to fasten or slows up the time whenever we wants... I guess its upto us IT guys :p hehe

Luckily she accepted to gimme marks for the exam which I missed when I was in hospital and even managed to get attendance for the last 15 days from the Dean himself... that was really cool... otherwise I would have ended up getting my degree six months late and all my dreams of joining CSC would just be vanished!!

Rocky created a so-called notes which listed the observations in today's class which was quite interesting... I hope he puts up the same on his blog!!

What OS am I??

2005-02-06T09:04:00.000-08:00

Quite strange I must say... hehe anyways all this is bull**** rt??
Anways this is just for fun!!

Felicity 2005 - Biz Understanding

2005-02-05T04:40:00.000-08:00

This was one event which was not so popular among the techies but yeah it sure was popular among the B-schools from outside. This event saw huge participation from the B-school students from all over the city. The event was divided into two rounds with the first round being conducted yesterday and the finals today.

The first round was a written quiz consisting of 30 questions which were supposed to be solve in 30 minutes. Our team comprised of Sandeep Patnaik, Sagar Rastogi and myself. The written quiz was kind of gibberish and didnt go as well as we expected. We were sure that we would win a prize lest we should go to the second round. By god's grace our team made it into the finals and we had to prepare a business plan for the final round and we had to prove ourselves among 7 teams equally tough.

The seond round kicked off with the presentation of a B-plan by the students from HCU, our neighbour. Their presentation was stupendous and left everyone speechless. As they were students pursuing their MBA degree, it was quite an obvious expectation from them.

Our team presented 6th and everyone including the judges were quite happy with our B-plan, our srategy and our idea. We were kinda confident of getting a prize if not the ultimatum. Finally everyone had done their round of presentation and it was the time for results.

The judges took their own time in deciding the winners and finally they said it was a tie. We were quite tensed but were relieved as soon as we came to know that we won the competition along with another team from my class. We finally won a prize. Yippppeee!!! Yahoooo!! This is my second prize in the four years of Felicity, the main reason being not participating in others. We get our certificates and a cash award of Rs. 3k for the three of us together.

Felicity 2005 - Equity Pulse

2005-02-04T01:12:00.000-08:00

Equity Pulse was a game conducted by our university as a part of our Technical Festival and it was a completely different game which was never organized by any other university (as far as my knowledge goes). One had to deal with the share market and its ups and downs to succeed in the game.

The game started off with each of the participants being given an initial virtual amount of Rs. 1 lac and then we had to trade on the NSE for three days during the NSE timings itself among 45 scripts which were pre-decided. The person who ends up with the highest earnings at the end of the third day would be declared the winner.

It was a fierce battle with around 800 teams from all over the country participating to steal the ultimatum. It was a differenct kind of experience for we got a chance to really prove our trading talents in reality, though the money was virtual.

I got screwed on the first day trying with most of my time going away on figuring out what to do. But luckily as it was an online event, my grandpa, who is an expert in share-market dealing, helped me out and suggested me to buy Gujrat NRE Coke shares and boom that was the turning point for my game. At the end of the first day I was standing at 151st position which was obviously quite bad.

But by the end of a second day, which saw a good trading, I was placed at the 51st position which was quite a good improvement from the previous day, thanks to GujNRECoke.

Third day was even a better day with my ranking springing up directly to 13th place with the opening of the stock market as GujNRECoke increased by Rs. 9 with the opening itself and it resulted in a huge profit for me. From there onwards my rank stuck to that damn 13 like a chipkali and didnt move. So, obviously at the end of the third and final day i was placed at 13th which was not bad considering there were 800 teams participating. My friend Vam was placed at 3rd position and he won a prize of Rs 2k. Congrats to him!!! IIIT yet showed once again why it was the best by acheiving the first place.

Felicity 2005

2005-02-03T23:31:00.000-08:00

Felicity 2005, the fourth annual cultural festival of IIIT, Hyderabad kicked off today morning with great pomp with Rangoli being the first event this year which attracted quite a good crowd to showcase their talents.

The major event tonight is a show by Bombay Vikings who are a very good group with hits like Woh Cheli, etc... to their name and it promised to pull a huge crowd in the evening making the event even more enjoyful.

Anywas, do come over and enjoy the fest.

Threads 2005 - Cache In

2005-01-31T09:33:00.000-08:00

Cache In was the Online Treasure Hunt conducted by our university. It was conducted as a part of our tech-fest, Threads. This was the first time I took part in this and I teamed up along with my friend Sandeep Patnaik and we made a damn good team as we rocked out way to take a position in the top 10 by the end of the day which was Day-1 of the contest. Our score was standing at 164 at the end of a day which was good enough considering the fact we started off an hour late.

This contest was a relief to us as it enabled us to take a break from our hectic academic schedule and have a relaxation period!! We could enjoy breaking and cracking the riddles!!

Fit to Fits

2005-01-26T09:02:00.000-08:00

Yup... u read the title right!! Got an attack of fits all of a sudden on Friday morning. Luckily I came out of the room when I got attacked by it. I never ever dreamt in my life that I would be suffering from an attack of "fits". It all happened on Friday morning when I came out of my room and knocked on Akhil's door. My friend had knocked my door and gave me his phone before that only it seems. And also came to know later that my parents had phoned me in the morning and I was not responding so well to their questions. They didnt get any doubts though.

Archana had phoned to Akhil's phone to talk with me and it seems I didnt give good replies which I dont remember!! So, she phoned up to Srikanth and he gave me his phone which I dont remember at all. So, she was panicked and she phoned up to my home without thinking abt what the consequences might be to tell my parents that something had happened to me.

By that time, I came out of the room ( which I donno why I did ) and knocked Akhil's door and he asked me some question to which I tried to answer and then I literally fell down... I didnt knew what happened to me after that... I then woke up in the hospital after three hours and my parents were there beside me along with Akhil, Bole and Nitin. I then came to know that I had an attack of fits and that the three of them brought me to the hospital. Wow... that was so generous of them... They took good care of me... Thanks man... I really owed them a favor.

Then, as the day progressed I came to know that Archana had informed mom and dad and I was really shocked when mom told me that. Then, relatives came down to the hospital to visit me. I was recovering quite fast and I was discharged on Sunday.

This was really an unexpected episode in my life which I would never forget.

Balu - Movie Review

2005-01-07T08:49:00.000-08:00

Cast:

Pawan Kalyan (hero)

Shriya (heroine)

Neha Oberoi (heroine)

Gulshan Grover (villian)

Jersey Singh (villian)

Brahmanandam

Balu (Pawan Kalyan) starts off his life in Hyderabad by opening a bouquet shop at Mahankali Market. He gets closer to the local don Nayudamma (Jersey Singh) under the guise of his well-wisher. His secret mission: To retrieve a valuable thing from Nayudamma.

Cut to Flash-Back:Ghani (Pawan Kalyan) is an orphan who is picked up by a local goon Khan (Gulshan Grover) who later becomes the biggest don in Delhi. Ghani is trained as a ruthless killer. He falls in love with a medical student girl called Indu (Neha Oberai). He inspires Indu to shed all her hidden fears and face the world bravely. But certain incidents leave bitter memories for Ghani.

The crux of the film is about why Ghani of Delhi turns into Balu of Hyderabad

Artists Performance:

Pawan Kalyan: It is heartening to see Pawan Kalyan back in his elements. His glamour during Kushi period is back. He excels in all departments. His dance in 'Inthe Inthe' song shows the terrific energy he carries when he performs. His histrionics projecting agony when he visits Indu to shoot her are excellent. His comedy in the first half is pretty popular (as good as his comedy in Kushi film). And the interval fight shows how he strives to bring realism in fights. With his performance in Balu, Pawan Kalyan brings back the smiles on the faces of Telugu film lovers who frowned him for his arty look in Johnny and eccentric antics in Gudumba Shankar.

Heroines: Shriya is cool as the girl who gets teased by Pawan Kalyan. She danced well in the 3rd song of the film. She does the role of a typical happy-go-lucky glamorous girl in this film. "Indu" is the most vital character in the film. The characterization of this role is good. But unfortunately, Neha Oberai does not fit in to the role well. But the characterization is so good that you would not notice this shortcoming on the screen.

Others: Gulshan Grover is adequate for the role of main villain. Jersey Singh is good. Sunil entertains by playing second fiddle to Pawan in the first half. Jaya Sudha is compassionate. Milind Gunaji is terrific in the little cameo role. Master Teja and Baby Kavya are pretty. Brahmanandam and Dharmavarapu Subramanyam are good. Saurabh Shukla is adequate as the brief of Gulshan Grover mafia wing. Suman does a small yet vital character. Rajan P Dev and MS Narayana have tiny roles.

Technical Departments:

Story: The story is a typical mafia story of a loyal member of a ruthless don, shifting his loyalties for the sake of a girl and turning into an adversary. First half of the film appears as one story and the second half as another one with a fine link between the two halves. It is essentially a revenge story with good potential.

Music: Music by Mani Sharma is an asset. Background music is a plus. Here is the sequence of songs in the film. Picturization wise Kannukottina, Inthe Inthe and Lokale gelavaga are the best in that order

A few heart touching scenes in the film:

1. The first interaction between Pawan Kalyan and Neha

2. The scene in which Pawan Kalyan visits Neha to assassinate her.

3. The last interaction between Pawan Kalyan and Neha with Taj Mahal backdrop.

Analysis: First half of the film is good with class orientation and fine suspense elements about the past of the hero's character. The second half has mafia backdrop where Pawan Kalyan uses guns rather than muscles. The love track between Pawan Kalyan and Neha is gentle. But the director could not sustain grip over the proceedings in second half. Climax of the film offers variety. The plus points are live-wire performance and the glamour of Pawan Kalyan, music, good first half and excellent production values. On the flip side, is the tempo drop-down in the second half of the film. Different sets of parameters (backdrops, storylines and heroines) for first half and second half makes the two halves appear different that offsets the balance of the movie. On the whole, Balu sums up to be a film you should watch to see Pawan Kalyan in a fresh radiant look.

Courtesy: www.idlebrain.com

Yappy New Year!!!

2005-01-03T02:06:00.000-08:00

Yeah its another new year and this is the 22nd time I have seen such a day!! The only difference being another new year and another set of new old memories being formed. As usual I was as awake as possible which is actually a daily routine for me from the time I joined engineering 3 years back. This year was quite QUIET. I was still in the shocks of Tsunami and a tsunami in my family too hehe.

My cousin Shaggy leaving for US of A for his MS made his family dejected as they wont be seeing him for another 2 or 3 years except in the webcam. And then my another cousin's movie was not a hit at the box-office which thre shadows on their party bandwagon!!

So hung out at ma' house this year... something different from the routine.... normally i go to my cousin's house where we party till dawn and let our hair down... this year was a quiet celebration... bought a cake and cut the cake at 0th hour along with my cousins and parents... ate the cake heartily, watched some TV and slept off the last time for that year :D

Quite silent huh?? :(

CAT Scorecard

2004-12-20T19:51:00.000-08:00

CAT score is out and my score, ahem, is quite on the low compared to what is expected to procure a call... I was able to score 97.4 percentile which is not quite enough to get me even a single call as my acads are not that good.... Anyways adieu to hopes of IIM and adieu to CAT... better luck next time... for now CSC, here I come :D

End of DBZ

2004-12-19T21:24:00.000-08:00

This post is to mark the completion of DBZ. For all of you who are wondering what DBZ is, it stands for Dragon Ball Z the awesome cartoon which created waves throughout the world. It has 276 episodes in all and it took me 7 months to download all of them and watch them. Wow it was some kinda experience... hehe... the DBZ fever literally spread like wildfire within the campus and slowly everyone was soo addicted to it that people used to send tons of mails regarding the availability of the next episodes... That was something really cool...
The story starts off with our hero Goku who belongs to Saiyan race reaching earth when he was a baby in a space shuttle and is found by an old man named Gohan who adopts him and trains him right from young age in Martial Arts and he slowly evolves into a warrior of the highest caliber and soon reaches the elite post of the strongest fighter in the entire world. He first proves his talent at World Martial Arts Tournaments which he goes on to lose the first time in the hands of a fighter called Jackie Chan but returns back the next year more powerful and wise to win the title.
Then slowly villians start to pour in, the first of them being Piccolo who belongs to the Namek race. He terrorizes the earth by his evil and its upto our hero Goku to save the day which he indeed does in style and rescues earth from the evil Piccolo, though he doesnt kill him.
Next it is the turn of Vageta who comes to earth after hearing about the 7 dragonballs around which the entire plot of the series revolves. The dragonballs have the power of granting three powerful wishes to the one who awakes the dragon from them. So, hearing about this Vageta is blinded with the thought of becoming immrotal and so he starts his journey to earth by which Goku dies in a battle against his elder brother who is at that time a lot strong than Goku. But if there was anyone who could save the planet it would be him and Vageta was scheduled to reach the planet in an year and there was noone to fight him. But in that fierce battle in which Goku died, a new talented fighter is discovered who is none other than Goku's son Gohan. So, Piccolo takes him away to his land to train him.
The entire series is divided into various sagas:

The Raditzu Saga
Now five years have passed since the battle of Tenkaichi-Budokai, and the world has finally obtained some peace. Goku ends up marrying a woman that he fought in a tournment that proposed to him as a child- ( the ox-king's daughter, as a child she had a sharp blade on her helmet) Chi-Chi, and they have a kid Son Gohan (which is named after Goku's caretaker "Gohan" and means dinner in Japanese).Peace eventually goes to pieces when a great trouble that reveals all of Gokou's past arrives, which we all find out is Goku's brother "Raditz". The stories point of view switches into an epic, where the growing up of Gohan carries on the legacy of his father.
It ends up that Gokou is a Saiyan from the planet Vegeta, where Goku was originially from, Goku's real name is really "kakaratto" or just Kakkarot meaning carrot in Japanese, and he reveals all about Gokou's past and his mission and reason he was sent down to planet Earth. You see, Saiyans have incredible superhuman strength- -and most of them use it for evil or conquering , since Gokou's father was a soldier from the Planet Vegita, his offspring were supposed to be sent down to different planets to conquer. Goku's planet was obviouly Earth, and when he was sent down as an infant his rage was uncontrollable. Luckily, Grandpa Gohan found him and had accidentally dropped him down a cliff where he hit his head, losing all memory of his evil objectives. He became a good child from then on, until his saiyan blood transforms him into a huge monkey when he looked at the moon, (temporarily) and he destroyed Grandpa Gohan's home and killed Granpa Gohan unknowingly. With all this info now, I will just hop along the series past all the battles with short and informative tidbits of data to expl ain the plot. So....thus begins the first installment of the DragonBallZ Story....The RADITZ STORY! -Goku's father was named Bardock, and was killed later on by a deadly interglactic mercenary that threatens Goku later on. Raditz has a tail, just like Goku had when he was little, *(but Kame cut it off when he was little) and a special communication device worn on one eye that tells BP and power of any individual--known as "Scouters". He wears the traditional Saiyan armor (very symbolic in the series) and has longer hair than Goku. His strength is many times greater than Goku, but with a little help Goku prevails.
The Strongest Characters in the Story So Far
BP stands for Battle Power (Power Level in America), overall strength a character contains so far...Goku: 416 BP- after 5 years, Gokou is reasonably strong compared to an average man, but lacks training and strength. He has been relaxing a little too much, and when the arrival of the saiyans strikes, Gokou is completely unprepared for the battles ahead.
Kuilin:234 BP-still trained under Kame-senin, Kuilin has some strength and contributes to Gokou's side as one of the better fighters. Still short, Kuilin volunteers to help Gokou battle Raditz.
Piccolo: 408 BP- The strongest character so far, even after the battle at Tenkaichi Budokai. He is still thought as an "enemy" and "rebel" kind of character. Not too trustworthy, and wanders the land to just train and train. He masters some new techniques that are useful aga inst Raditz, and is completely against all the Saiyans. Therefore, he makes it his objective to train everyone he can for the next arrival
Gohan: 1-700, changes with emotion -Gokou's son obviously looks like weak and defenseless due to his young age, but looks are decieving. Gohan contains a special energy within him that overpowers even Picoolo and Raditz's Power when he gets angry. So, Raditz's little nephew puts up quite a fight against him.Raditz: 1200 BP-The strongest threat Gokou and companions must face for now that is. Incredibly powerful compared to Gokou. Is a match for Piccolo and Gokou together. The fight ends wih Piccolo's special attack, a sort of finger-shot that goes through Raditz as well as Gokou when he tries to hold him.
Raditz dies as well as Gokou, and Raditz warns Piccolo about the arrival of the other Saiyans, and the fact that the eye-piece was used as a communicator to send help to the much stronger beings from Space. Gokou ends up on the endles Dragon Road after being set on a mission from heaven by King Yama, lord of the heavens, and ends with a specail training with a special Kaoishin, King Kai....it ends with a vision of 2 unknown Saiyans recieving the transmission of Raditz death from the Scouters, as they end up deciding to go to Earth just to conquer it and gain control of all the prescious dragonballs to wish for immortaility. We know them as...Vegeta and Nappa.
The Vegita Saga
Training begins for all the living fighters on Planet Earth. Piccolo sees the potential in Gohan, therefore he trains Gohan to control his awesome emotion-powers so he may be ready for the arrival of the stronger saiyans. Tenshin-Han, a 3-eyed fighter that joined in DragonBall, trains with Kame, as well as Yamcha,(from DragonBall) Chauzzu, and of course, Kuilin. Gokou trains with the Kaioshin King Kai, on Planet Kaoshin with some challenges that test his skills.
He needs to catch a quick monkey, which requires Speed and.. He needs to hit a really fast grasshopper with a mallet which requires even more speed and some strategy, he continues to train until it is his time to come down to earth.
Gohan trains with Piccolo. Piccolo leaves him in the wilderness all by himself so he can build up survival skills and courage/strength. There he faces a scary dinosaur which he musters enough strenght to defeat, and then eats him for meat. Piccolo becomes his idol, and he even begins to dress like him with a cape and dark blue clothes.
They continue to train until the Saiyans arrive. Finally, the day arrives when the dreaded Saiyans touch down on planet earth. After about a year of training, everyone's BP is increased greatly, and they are all around 1000 or so. The battle vs. Vegeta and Nappa finally begins
The Strongest Characters in the Story So Far
Goku:7950 BP-After training under King Kai, Goku returns to Earth after Piccolo, Yamcha, Choutzuu, and Tenshin-Han are all killed by Nappa. His BP is greatly increased, and he now has the ability to perform at an increased strength level--"Kaokintei"-where flames engulf his body and he attacks with greater speed strength and ki.(he learns this from the Kaoishin King Kai) Level 1 Kaokintei brings him up to 10,500 BP!- Level 2 skyrockets him to 21,050!- and Level 3 brings him up to 31,000 the final Powerup, Kaoiken Level 4, brings him all the way up to 45,000 with a KameHameHa (fireball) He beats Vegeta badly with these powerups, because Vegeta is no match for all the BP.
Vegeta:18,000BP- Vegeta comes to Earth from planet Freeza to wish for immortality with the Dragonballs. It ends up that he's a Saiyan just like Goku, and he arrives with Nappa. After Vegeta powers up once, with a purple force surrounding him, his BP Rises to 21,000...eventually Goku and Vegeta fight, and Vegeta turns into a Giant-Saiyan Ozzuru Monkey-that holds 30, 000 BP. A samurai character (Ubujji) cuts off his tail, causing Vegeta to shrink, and they resume the fight. Goku wins at the end but is badly hurt, he is rushed to the hospital and Vegeta escapes through the pod back to a home base.
Piccolo: 3400BP- Piccolo trains with Gohan for a year, and his BP is at this level after powering up.
Gohan: 2000BP- After a year of training in the wilderness with Piccolo, Gohans emotional strenght is more controlled.
Luckily, Goku finally arrived to save Gohan and Kuririn by using Kaioken. Vegeta became angry of Nappa's attempts to kill Goku and shouted "SHI NE," destroying him. The battle between Goku and Vegeta began. Vegeta gained an advantage by creating an artificial moon and transformed into Oozaru form but lost his ability when Yajirobe cowardly cut off his tail with a sword. (Note: The tail allows a Saiya-jin to transform into a giant monkey called Oozaru when a full moon appears. The transformation will be reversed if either the moon disappears or the tail is cut.) Goku was seriously injured while fighting Vegeta and handed his Genki Dama to Kuririn, who then weakened Vegeta with it. Finally, Gohan turned into Oozaru and started beating up Vegeta. With his last amount of strength, Vegeta escaped back in his spacepod. Bulma and the others arrived to pick up Goku, Kuririn, Gohan, and the bodies of their dead companions. Because of Piccolo's death, Kami also died unfortunately. Without Kami, the dragon balls was not able to exist. Kuririn stated that he heard Vegeta saying that Piccolo came from the planet Namek. By using Kami's spaceship, Bulma, Kuririn, and Gohan traveled to Namek, hoping that there would be more powerful dragon balls to revive their friends.
The Freeza Saga
The Freeza series has boosted the popularity of Dragon Ball Z greatly. It is a crucial turning point in the Dragon Ball Saga, because it involves Goku's very first transformation into the legendary "Super Saiyan"(which comes every 1000 years) with the ability to power up to a golden-haired strenghtened stage. It also introduces the character Trunks at the end, as well as explain more story and plot that occured prior to the start of DragonBall.
Epilouge: events that happened before the Freeza SeriesYears ago, Freeza killed Vegeta, the Saiyan king, and destroyed the Saiyan Planet Vegeta. Then he used prince Vegeta(King Vegeta's son and the Vegeta we know and love), Nappa, and Radtizu as mercenary-slaves to conquer other planets. After the Vegeta Series only two pure breed Saiyan were left. One was the Saiyan Prince, Vegeta. The other was Bardock's son, our main hero, Gokou. After the death of Raditz, Vegeta learns from the message from Raditz's scouter that Dragonballs existed. Later, he figured out that in Namek Dragonballs also existed. After getting beaten by Gokou, Vegeta retreats to Freeza's planet to recover. Now, he carries on the new goal of gathering the dragonballs for himself to be granted the wish of immortality. He also plans to kill Freeza. Freeza is also in search of the Namek Dragonballs to become immortal and begins to terrorize Namek for the dragonballs. Meanwhile, Bulma learns about the Namek Dragonballs via PoPo, Kami's assistant. With the hope to gather the dragon balls to wish their friends killed in the Vegeta Series back to, Gohan, Klilyn, and Bulma venture off to Namek on the spaceship that Kami rode on to travel to Earth years ago. Great battles on Piccolo's home planet are to take place.
Right after the Vegeta series takes place, Freeza-an interplanetary conquerer or planets, makes his apperance on the Planet Namek and begins to collect Dragon Balls. Gohan, Kuilin, and Bulma all go on a spacecraft to investigate, while Goku remains in th e Hospitol, recovering from the wounds from the fight with Vegeta. The storyline before Freeza Arrives is a long and complex one, so it may be explained later on.
Anyway, once on Planet Namek.( Planet Namek's residents all look like Piccolo.)-Vegeta discovers Freeza's(Vegeta and the rest of the Saiyans are Freeza's sworn enemy) whereabouts so he goes over to Namek to try to gather the Namek Dragon Balls as well to wish for immortality. (The Namek Dragon Balls give an individual 3 wishes as opposed to 1 wish on earth.). Freeza begins to conquer Namek, sending out his henchmen, Zarbon and Daoduiba, to gather the DragonBalls and terrorize and destroy the Namek Villages. Meanwhile, our heroes Gohan and Kuilin are having trouble themselves, but finally meet up with the Namek village elders and team up with the Nameks to help. They meet Dende, a very helpful young Namek that serves as a guide around Namek.
Goku recovers from the hospitol thanks to one of Ubujji's magical beans, and springs into action with help from Dr.Brief (Bulma's Father) and his invention. He boards a training capsule heading to Namek, where he plans to train on his way there under certain Gravity Forces several times that of earth. Along the way, he encounters some tough terrain and eventually ends up in a Gravity Storm which throws him into G-level 100. He fights it and eventually becomes strong enough to train in it.
While in Namek Vegeta, Gohan, Kuilin and Bulma all face the problem of gathering the DragonBalls. Vegeta has the upper hand, after he raided Freeza's base and stole 5 of them. The plot gradually continues...with the summoning of the Ginew Force, an elite warrior team composed of Freeza's best henchmen, and they are taken care of by the combined forces of Vegeta and Goku-(there leader can switch bodies, and a frog is thrown in the path of his mind laser, where he gets stomped afterwards)...until Goku finally reaches Namek, all trained and ready.
Then, the battle of Freeza finally begins!!! When they first battle, Freeza reamains in Normal Form. Then, as the battle progresses both fighters energy levels increase, and Freeza changes into 4 different forms during the battle. He begins with 530,000 while Goku has 550,000 BP. After fighting, Frez a i ncreases to 700,000 in Form2, then 870, 000 in Form 3. Goku's max powered-up rises him up to 800,000--being barely able to confront Freeza Form 3. Freeza ultimetely transforms into Perfect-Form, with a smooth metallic look and incredible strength. ( 1,200 ,000 BP!!). Goku's rage rises, because his good friend Kuilin has been killed in battle-and he finally recieves enough power and anger to unleash the Super-Saiya-jin!!! as he blasts up to a whopping 1,500,000 BP with flowing gold hair and a bursting energ y field around him. But it still seems Freeza has another transformation well sort of. Freeza powers up to 100% he was currently fighting at only 70%. It seems Freeza has the upper hand but not for long, the longer Freeza fights at 100% the faster he loses his power. Freeza attacks Gokou with a Slicing disc but instead he cuts himself. Freeza is now incredibly weakened, and Goku finishes him off with a fireball.
Now he has to race against time to escapes just before the planet explodes because Freeza had use his Death Ball Attack on planet Namek before he died.Goku's whereabouts are unknown, and everyone believes that Goku has died. In the last mili-second Gokou finds finds the Ginyu's Pods and escapes. Our hero has traveled to the planet Yardrat to learn the art of teleporting! The DragonBalls are gathered, everyone who died is revived and they all return to living a peaceful life.
The Android Saga
The Androids arrive, and the plot goes all the way back to DragonBall. You see, a small organization known as the Red Ribbon fought against Goku as a child, and they planned to obtain the DragonBalls as well. This high-industrial military company made all sort of androids as well, mainly evil ones that planned on destroying things. Dr.Gero, a demented Red Ribbon doctor genius...sworn revenge on Gokou ever since the beginning of the whole series, mainly because Goku was the kid who destroyed the whole organization. Therefore, he created Android #19, a powerful sorta chubby white faced cyborg to kill Goku. Later, he asks Android #19 to make him into a powerful Android as well, so he becomes Android#20, a cyborg with a white beard. Both bear the red ribbon logo on their uniforms, and they meet up with the Z warriors to fight. Vegeta faces Android#19, and Android#19 is destroyed, the plot fails, and Android#20 falls , but Dr.Gero has programmed himself to auto-repair and survives the battle.
Android #20, Dr.Gero, then goes back to the Drawing Board to try to come up with a stronger android model. He releases his most recent creations, Android #17 and Android#18. 17 has black hair while his sister, 18 has blonde hair. Both are incredibly strong and they are unleashed.Both Androids eventually get quite annoyed at Dr.Gero, so they kill him. Being a brilliant mad scientist, he had suspected this, therefore he had created Android#21 prior to his death.
Although Android#21 was still placed in a regeneration tube, he was assigned a command--to feast on the energy of over-rebellious androids that didn't obey.Android #17 and Android#18 break out of the lab, and they bring along the strong Android#16, (who turns out to be a peaceful robot, later on). Our Z Warriors are aware of these new nemesises, and begin to confront them-but they are no match for them and continue to fight and fight reaching no particular victory. The problem is, endurance is what is lacking for our heroes, because of the Android's long endurance and long-lasting energy, and they can fight with much more stamina than the unprepared combatants. Suprisingly, Goku suffers a Heart Attack, and retreats-shocked. Trunks from the future was luckily sent back by his mother, Bulma, to give the heart-medicine to heal Goku's heart. Goku is saved, but the Z warriors avoid confronting the overwhelming power of the Androids-therefore they go up to the Heavens and Train in a special gravity room to prepare. Piccolo tries to ready himself for the fight as well, by fusing with Kami-his half-father and guardian of the DragonBalls-while Dende, the young Namek assumes the position of DragonBall guardian. Androids #16, #17, and #18 go out to find Goku to kill him. Piccolo spots the Androids and they begin to duel. All this time, Android #21 has been regenerating, and it finally breaks out of its imprisonment--the being is known only as the powerful "Cell" and he sets out to accomplish his creator's commands.
The Cell Game Saga
The Cell Game, remains as one of the greatest milestones in the series' history-mainly because in this plot--our main character Goku faces his ate...and destiny. Shortly After the escape of this Biological-Android Cell, He sets out to find the crazed Androids to take their energy. On his path of destruction, Cell terroizes towns, cities, and everywhere else to suck the life out of helpless, inncocent individuals, just to supply enough strength for the battle.This is covered on every news in the world, and it is viewed as a world-crisis. His specially engineered tail contains an ability to suck life out of someone, and with each victim, he becomes stronger with that power. Finally, the Androids and Cell meet up-but strangely, everyone else is amazed because they do not know of each other. 17 threaten to kill Cell, so he begins to engage in Battle. But, suprised at the increasingly strong energy of Cell, 17 is quickly and easily killed, left on the ground for later power-absorption. 16 now faces the monster, and everyone watches in amazement at how 16's strength can actually stand up against cell. But, he is also destroyed. Cell then devours 17's strength with his tail--and uses that power to transform into a different stage of power, Cell-form2. He spots his next and final target, Android 18-and sets out to devour her strength as well. Eventually, 18 tries to escape but is devoured as well. With the incredible energy within him, Cell now powers-up to his maximum-level-"Perfect Cell"-where he develops into an organic form, evolving from an android stage!
Cell departs and leaves, and the Z Warriors try to escape his awesome force. Meanwhile, Bulma collects the parts of Android#16 and repairs him. She also reprograms him to fight on the Z-Warrior's side. Now, the Z-warriors set out to fight this menace. With world-wide coverage, a military team is dispatched full with tanks, guns, and etc to try to take care of Cell, but efforts fail, and Cell demolished the whole army. A new character is introduced, Mr.Satan, supposedly a world-renowened fighter who is really quite weak, and he issues a challenge to Cell. A ring is introduced into a desert-and the Cell Game begins- the Z Warriors look on as Mr.Satan and his crew of fighters try to engage in battle with the powerful being. The 3 fighters all fail, and Mr.Satan finally goes up to battle. He realizes how much stronget Cell is, so he runs away and hides behind a rock for most of the fight. All the Z Warriors have been training, and Gohan is now a teenager with the ability to do a Super-Saiyan (!)-Vegeta also aquires the technique, and Trunks becomes stronger as well with this training. the Z Warriors take turns in fighting, due to Saiyan honor and the rules of the game. Goku and Vegeta fight Cell 1 at a time, until Cell reproduces and forms many Cell Jr.s-1 younger, blue-colored, replicates of Cell. They all are pretty strong, and Gohan steps into the fray and unleasehes his SSJ Lvl.2 powers! all 7 are destroyed, and Gohan takes care of the battle with cell. (his mother is watching him on tv and is quite worried)-Cell is then kicked so hard that he is forced to spit Android#18 back out. He then returns to Cell-Form2, where he is confronted by Goku and beaten badly.
Cell transforms into self-destruct mode, where he swells up into a large form. The explosion from his burst is enough to destroy the earth, and he is willing to risk his life. To save the world, Goku tries to devise a plan, therefore he teleports the swollen-about-to-burst cell to King Kai's planet, where he explodes and suprisingly kills Goku, Kaoishin, and his monkey, Bubbles-(remmeber they trained in the Raditz Series). Everyone is shocked at the bold move Goku took to take away his life, and everyone mourns the death of Goku. They are finally thankful for the ending of the cell threat.
But, suddenly a sharp piercing ray pernetrates through Trunks, killing him-and Cell appears--in Perfect Form 3!!!!He explains that when he exploded, a surviving brain cell multiplyed and formed perfect form. Cell laughs suprisingly that he could still regenerate all the way to level 3. Cell now announces his plans to destroy Earth, and Gohan steps into the fight. Armed with his SSJ Powers and nothing but Rage. Engaging in Battle, one of Cell's fireballs injures one of Gohan's arms, when he attempts to protect a weakened Vegeta from getting hit. Realizing this, Vegeta knows that he owes Gohan one. Gohan charges up for a KameHameHa fireball, and fires it with the strenght left in one hand. Cell counter-attacks with a kamehameha of his very own. A giant explosion is the result of the collision, and the 2 fireballs struggle to see whose is stronger. Constant energy is used by both combatants, and they try their hardest to overpower the other's Ki. Now with the help of Vegeta, Vegetafires a small fireball to hit the side of cell as a distraction. Now Gohan sees his chance.......with his Dead father's help, he begins to gain some energy-Goku communicates and aids him with the final burst of energy capacle of blowing Cell away....He releases the power and Cell is completely Destroyed, blasted away by the Awesome Energy of the FireBall. Cell is disentegrated to mere dust, and Gohan lies down, exhausted.
After the battle, Satan comes out from the rock and reports to the world of his "victory" over Cell. He tells the reporters that it was him who destroyed the creature, and everyone congragulates the "hero". Satan's swiping of credit from the Z Warriors meant nothing to the true Heroes, because all of them know what they ahd accompolished, all of them know..that the terrible event of Cell is to be forgotten no matter what.----The Cell series ends with a collection of DragonBalls, and everyone who has died is wished back again. Goku explains to everyone that he is alright when he is dead, and he has a halo above his head to represent his citizennship in the Heavens. Although Goku is not allowed to come back down to Earth beause he was already brought back to life, he goes along living his life. Krilyin has developed a crush on Android #18, Gohan lies in a Hospitol, the Z Warriors return, and the remembrance of Goku is felt through everyone.
The Buu Saga
The Buu Saga Approximately 7 years have passed since the battle of Cell.The focus of main-character through out most of the series goes to Gohan, but changes back to Goku at the end. Gohan is now all grown up-goes to Orange-Star High School,and has a girlfriend named Videl. (Satan's daughter) and he also has a brother, Goten-who looks exactly like Goku when he was a kid. Kuilin and Android18 have married each other and had a daughter, Marron. Goku continues to fight in tournaments in the heavens, and lives a peaceful life, making a new friend and opponent, Paiku-han. Trunks is grown up from a baby, and he is best friends with Goten. Everyone is shocked and suprised at the ability Goten and Trunks posse to transform into SSJ at such a young age. This series is also very important to the plot mainly because it involves all the heroe's chances to learn the art of fusion for the very first time!
Another Tenkaichi Budokai Tournament occurs on Earth, and everyone attends. Goten and Trunks are banned due to their young age, but they steal the masked fighters comstume to fight Android18. Goku is granted a single day to visit earth, so he visits his family and watches on as the competitors battle. When it finally reaches Gohan's turn, Gohan steps up and battle as his new identity, the "Great SuperSaiyan-man" where he dons a bandana and shades as well as a superhero costume. (that Bulma creates). He takes on this identity to fight crime, while everyone else is though to believe Gohan is your average nerd. ( ala Clark Kent--Superman) Gohan reveals his identity to everyone, and battles. Suddenly, 2 combatants, Spopobitch and Yamu appear in the battle ring, bearing a large "M" insigna on their forehead. They drain Gohan's energy using a weird shaped lamp, and then they take off. Everyone stares in confusion, at the strange event that just had occured.
A Kaiou-shin, a god of the heavens and a planet above, and his partner, approach the grounds of the Tenkaichi-Budokai and try to help Gohan. They revive Gohan, and explain their tale. The beings are truly beyond Kaiou, (the planet where King-Kai lives) and their mission is to stop the diabolical plot of Babi-di and his companion, Daruba. Babi-di is a little, shriveled, ugly wizard/majician who plans to destroy all life on the planet just for fun. Daruba is supposedly the prince of Darkness, and he has the ability to turn people into stone. Together they are trying to revive the ultimate creature of destruction, "Boo". To bring back this terror, tons of ki-energy must be consumed and used. It turns out that Spopobitch and Yamu are majin-zombies of Boo. The "M" stands for the mark of the Majician or "Majin".That is the reason why these guys tried to absorb the great amount of energy from Gohan. The Z Warriors agree to aid the Kaoshin's in their battle-and they follow the two zombies to Babi-di's lair. Babi-di's many creatures and minions confront the Warriors, but they are all beaten by the forces of Gohan and Vegeta. Kuilin and Piccolo try to battle Daruba, but they are turned into Stone easily. the only way to "un-stone" is for the death of Daruba to occcur. Vegeta learns that becoming a Majin-slave increases energy greatly, by powering the insanity within an individual, therefore he intentionally volunteers to become one of Babi-di's slaves. Vegeta becomes evil once more, also appearing with an "M" on his forehead. His crazy emotions go beserk and he sets out to KILL Goku once and for all. He is known know as Majin-Vegeta, and a threat to the Z Warriors once more. With every slave, babi-di recieves their power. Therefore, with the great donation from Vegeta, the majician has finally enough power to summon the legendary terror.The revival of the legendary threat Boo finally occurs--and he appears as an overgrown fat baby-like creature with INCREDIBLE strength. Boo also has an attenae that has the ability to turn people into various sweets and trats, so he can feed on them and get power with it as well. Boo pisses every -body off, even Daruba-so Daruba and him engage in a battle. Boo beats him easily, and turns him into a giant cookie to devour. After Daruba is defeated, Kuilin and Piccolo return to their normal form. Babi-di rides on Boo and they fly around, terroizing the cities as Boo changes the innocent civilians into tiny cocoa-balls to eat. He gains more energy from this as his strength grows. Meanwhile, when all this terror is taking place--Majin-Vegeta is busy battling Goku. His overpowering strength knocks out Goku temporararily, so he starts for Boo. Boo is alot stronger, but Vegeta counterattakcs with some techniques of his own. Finally, when his energy is almost depleted-he desperately tries his special 'Big Bang Attack". Vegeta fires the giant fireball, and it is so powerful that it disentegrates him as he falls to the ground and crumbles into dust.
Goku now tries to take on Boo, but as he tries to power up to SSJ-level2 , his power still remamins weak compared to the incredible strength of Boo. His anger burns, and with enough power...Goku reaches..Super Saiyan Level 3!!!!-his golden hair is increased in length, and his power exceeds normal as well. They battle it out, but Goku doesn't prevail. Meanwhile, Bulma is gathering all the DragonBalls to restore all the lives that were lost due to the Majin-zombies. The Fat Boo grows tired of Babi-di's control and begins to rebel. He kills Babi-di, and then unleashes a fission blast--which sends him into 2 beings, one being pure good, the other whom is all evil. The good one is the fat boo, while the evil one resembles a small, skinny child. These two duel, and the evil one ends up transforming the Good Boo into a cookie snack. The evil Boo eats the cookie, and transforms into a much stronger form. The skinny child is now much more muscular and lean, with more defined-human like features.
All this time, Gohan is trying to recover from the wounds that Boo dealt him during one of the fights. The Kaoishin's heal him, and they bring him to their planet for training. He dons the Kaoishin's uniform, and begins practicing with the legendary Z-"Zet" Sword. Their training involves this suprisingly heavy blade, as he fights under the watchful eye of the Elder Kao-shin-Dao-Kaoshin. Gohan begins to realize his hidden potential without his Super-Saiyan Powers, and how he can use his normal strength as an alternate to becoming angry.The Kaoshin tells him a bit about his past, and how his people were terroized by Boo many years ago on his home planet. The Kaoishins placed a curse on Boo to make him have a fat appearence, and Boo was enraged so all but 2 Kaoshins were killed. Our heroes in the meantime are training in the Sky-Palace, while Boo approaches it, attracted their from a high power source. It turns out that he needs more power to transform into his maximum power stage, therefore he must absorb strong people's energy to attain that level. The lure this time is Goten and Trunks, and their ability to "fuse" as Goku had taught them. The boys are training inside a special weight room, so Piccolo outwits Boo into waiting for them to come out. Time passes by much more slower in this gravity room, therefore the boys recieve much more time to train for the upcoming battle. Chi-chi scolds Boo for killing so much people, so Boo, turns her into an egg and squashes her. Boo grows impatient, so he threatens he will kill everyone in the Sky Palace if he dosent get to be taken into the same room Goten and Trunks are in. Picollo decides to lead Boo into the room, hoping that the boysm have acquired enough strenght to beat him. They begin to battle, and Goten and Trunks fuse together into the powerful Gotenks and fight Boo. Neither side can win, but Boo seems to be getting the winning hand while Gotenks tries all his techniques. Finally, as a drastic measure, Piccolo destroys the doorway leading out of the room, and attempts to trap Boo as well as everyone inside forever to prevent him from killing any more people. Boo, however, constructs a giant fireball and blasts through the air to form a portal. He exits the room and returns to the sky palace. Gotenks and Piccolo are hopelessly trapped in the room, while Boo is roaming around possibly killing everyone. SSJ Gotenks is too weak to create big enough of a fireball, so he tries to reach SSJ lvl.3--finally, he obtains that goal--and lets out a giant scream that rips through the air and produces a big enough portal for both of them to go through, as Gotenks meets up with Boo once again, this time in SSJlvl.3. Gotenks kicks Boo around, and uses a final attack to blast Boo back down to Earth. But, in the process the Sky Palace is reduced to ruins. With Gotenks becoming cocky and dancing a victory dance, Boo is found still alive-and the fusion wears off. The boys are found in a mishap now, as their power has no effect on the incredible strength of Boo. Finally, Gohan completes his training with the Kaoshins, and is teleported back to Earth, wearing his father's uniform.
Gohan appears just in time to save Goten, Trunks, and Piccolo. Gohan just overwhelms Boo and beats him with ease. The crew flies away, thinking the battle is won--but Boo follows closely behind, sneaking up with an attack and absorbing Gotenks. He becomes much stronger and begins to fight Gohan. Tenshin-Han joins in and tries to contribute to the battle. Meanwhile........Vegeta is granted life back by King Yamma to help fight Boo. Goku is told about the special Potablo fusion earings. So, the elder Kaoishin sacrifices his life to bring back Goku. Goku returns to earth with a mission to fuse permanently with Gohan to battle Boo. He Thanks everybody and leaves..Goku teleports to the battle scene and suprises Boo by slicing him with a destructuion disk. This cuts off his attenae, which lies on the ground and engulfs Piccolo to become absorbed. Boo changes and grows stronger once again. The other part of the attenae knocks Tenshin-Han out cold, and approaches Gohan. Goku threw him the ring, but Gohan had dropped it. looking desperately for the it, the rest of Boo's attenae engulfs Gohan and draws him into Boo's body to be absorbed. All hope is gone for a stronger fighter to fuse with, as Goku lies in awe and anger.as his son becomes part of the monster. Suddenly, Vegeta's prescence is sensed, and he teleports out of Boo's range to find to his suprise..Vegeta alive and well!..he tells him to take the earring but Vegeta refuses. He claims it is resticted by Saiyan Honor, and Goku and him always had a grudge going. But Goku explains to him that everyone has been devoured by this creature, and no hope is left...Vegeta finally joins when he realizes his own family has been hurt. Then the two take the earrings and fuse to become....Vegetto!!!
Vegetto is no match for Boo, with the incredible strength he contains with his Super-Saiyan Powers. But, Vegetto purposelly gets absorbed by Boo to save evreyone else that is inside him. The fusion cancels out once inside, and they find Goten, Gohan, Trunks, and Piccolo within in small pods. They carry them out after Vegeta rips out the cord attached to the Fat Boo, his main source of Power, and then they escape through one of Boo's pores. After the absorption of Vegetto, Boo returns to his "true" self, his strongest form, before he was cursed by the Kaoshins. He resembles a child, but contains great energy. Then he attempts to shoot a fireball to destroy the earth, but Vegeta blows the fireball off path. Boo prepares another fireball to be fired at our heroes, but with quick thinking Goku quickly grabs Mr.Satan, his dog, and Dende, and summons the Kaoshin to teleport all of them back to his planet. They teleport, leaving Gohan Trunks, Goten, and Piccolo behind, as Earth explodes with the release of Boo's fireball.
They get back safely, and all believe that they have won, because Boo has been destroyed along with the Earth, and Earth can be easily returned with help from the Namek DragonBalls. But, Unfortunately..the Kaoshin spots Boo reforming from the explosion in his crystal ball, as Boo suddenly transports right to their Planet to find Goku+Vegeta! The Kaoishins and Dende teleport to a much safer part of the planet, as they watch the Final Battle begin...!!!
The Final Battle against the Boo Threat has begin, and Goku and Vegeta stupidly decide to take on him one at a time, mainly because they try to live up to their Saiyan code of Honor. Goku powers up to SSJ lvl.3, and the fight between them reaches no clear victory. Vegeta takes his turn up, and gets easily disposed of by Boo, even when he fights in SSJ lvl.2. Mr.Satan decides to distract Boo, because he sees Vegeta getting beaten, So Boo rushes at the unsuspecting victim. Suddenly, a pain in Boo's stomach occurs, and the Fat Boo is spat out. Shortly After, the Fat Boo arises-we know now that he is good-and defends Satan by saving his life from one of Boo's fireballs. The Fat Boo and Boo duel it out, with the evil one getting the upper-hand. This gives Vegeta and Goku a chance to rest..as Goku plans to create a giant Genki-Dama, the ultimate Soul Bomb, to take care of Boo once and for all. Meanwhile..on Planet Namek, all the DragonBalls are gathered and the Namek Dragon is summoned. Dende starts the 3 wishes, as he begins by wishing the Earth back. The 2nd wish is for all the people killed by Majin Boo to be revived, therefore everyone in the Sky-Palace, the cities, and the Kaoshin's are revived. Vegeta is revived as well, because he died in the battle against Fat Boo. Finally, Goku flies up in the air...and begins his process of summoning energy for his GIANT GENKI-DAMA. Vegeta tries to help out by telepathicly communicating to all the people in the world, but only few-such as Goten, Gohan, Trunks, and Piccolo donate energy. Goku recieves some..but it is still not enough........
Vegeta tries harder, to try to get more energy...but none of the people trust him.... The Androids donate energy, 17 donates ki, 8 as well, and characters from the beginning of DragonBall such as Bora each give something....It grows a little..... Vegeta then fights Evil Boo, trying to distract him from interupting Goku's Genki-Dama. Suddenly, Satan steps up and shouts his voice to everyone on Earth...and as a well-known figure..everyone listens....They all hold their hands up in the air, and large amounts of energy transport into Goku's power...
The SOUL-BOMB grows....LARGER than it has ever grown before, and Goku finally tosses it at Boo. The 2 sides, good and evil struggle, as Boo tries to combat the Genki-Dama with energy of his own. Goku seems to struggle...it seems he cannot fight any longer.....until Dende wishes his last wish, for Goku to regain his strenth. Goku is suprised, and takes advantage of his newfound power that awakens within, and finally....powers up to Super Saiyan and blasts it with his remaining force.... Boo crumbles away as the ki overwhelms him, and Goku exhaustedly falls to the floor. He sees Vegeta and gives him a thumbs-up. Vegeta smiles (for the first time) and gives him the thumbs-back.
Our heroes find the Fat Boo, and decide to spare him, because Mr.Satan pleads because Boo has saved his life. They return to the Sky Palace....and the Earth is saved...by the DragonBalls.
10 years have passed after the battle....Bulma grows older, Vegeta and Goku remain the same, but Goku sports a new, more relaxed blue uniform, Boo becomes one of Satan's good friends, and Satan himself starts to bald. Trunks and Goten grow up to teenagers as best friends, and Trunks has a younger sister named Bra. Krilyin has white hair, Yamcha has a new look, Kame-Senin gets new shades, and Piccolo still resembles his own self after he fuses with Nail. And Finally, Gohan and Videl have a daughter, Pan, who shows great fighting skill at the age of four.
After this time, another Tenkaichi-Budokai Tournament takes place and all the characters including Pan, Goku's grandaughter, participate. A new character, Ubu, is introduced, a little boy, who is paired up with Goku in a match. Goku has a feeling that Ubu is actually the True Evil Boo reincarnated, because Goku made a personal wish to himself that the evil monster would return 10 years later as someone "good". He recognizes Ubu's strength and immediately knows that his wish has came true...so he flies away with Ubu and tells his family that he will train with him. He leaves the arena with Boo, and flies away into the sky. An end narration is spoken, and the sky fades out.....' So Long, Goku....till the Day We Meet Again!"...

Bio-rhythms

2004-12-19T00:17:00.000-08:00

Take a look at the following link and check out your biorythms. Although I have put them here, but somehow I feel it is your own judgement, which is more important and not some Java applet to tell you your mood. But still it is fun.

1. http://www.tay-tec.de/biorhythm/biorhythm-applet.en.html [The number one biorythm applet]
2. http://www.dailybiorhythm.com/ [The next best i guess]
3. http://www.bio-chart.com/ [This is also good]
4. http://www.biolovematch.com/ [This is for the biolevel match between you and your loved one]

Anjali I Love U - Movie Review

2004-12-15T01:23:00.000-08:00

Cast

Vikram Prodduturi (Hero)

Meera Vasudevan (Heroine)

Anil

Bhagawan

Santosh Pavan

Well, to start off, the starcast has my cousin Vikram which makes the movie more special. My aunt and uncle are the producers and the banner of their production was on the name of their daughter and Vikram's (Vic) sister, Veena. The movie had four heroes apart from Vic who plays the main lead and a heroine whose name I keep on forgetting!! Kinda bad memory hehe.. But I do rememeber that she was the one in Rules... Pyar Ka Superhit Formula!! Yeah I remember her name... it is Meera Vasudevan.

The movie didnt have any big name and I was expecting that it ould not run for many days before it meets its end... The movie was released on December 9th. As expected it was released only in 5 theatres and that too no biggies!! This was too bad as people wont be coming to some far off theatres. But hey letz see... who know what happens.

The movie starts off with the introduction of the heroine and immediately followed by a song which was shot quite well I must say though the direction in some parts of the movie later seem immatured. Then the four heroes are introduced.. one an artist who is a tenant in her granny's house, the second one a robber, the third a rich-guy and the fourth a bank employee who works in the same bank as she does. Each of them meets her in a different situation (which is a negative one) and she tells all of them some lessons of goodwill and then they turn good because of her.. Man what a strategy!! I wish someone would do that to me... So, the first half of the movie shows all this and at the end of the first half, each of the four guys propose to her in their own differennt styles which I felt was good.. I mean the way the propose was gud :)

The interval... some popcorn and then the second half... This is where the heroine starts explaining about her past and her lover and that she is already in love with him and she is awaiting for his return from USA... And u guessed it right... this is where Vic is introduced... At first I felt awkward seeing him in a moustache as it is a fake one and I've never seen him in one... he looks good without that I must say... and then the second shock was his voice which was dubbed... hehe... So, the second half starts off with the hero and the heroine showing the kids of some ashram how they met each other and how Vic proposes her girl. Then, it continues with the as usual heroine feeling insecure-marriage propsoal-denial of dad-dad planning to separate them saga but with a different touch. The director was not able to give off one good show.

Vic's acting was also not upto the mark as he is a newbie and he didnt have any prior training though I must agree that his acting improved a bit at the end of the movie. The songs were ok ok... but the first song was good and there was this item number, the trend now-a-days in the movies, which was quite raunchy!!

Overall, it is quite a good movie, a neat one except for the item number and a character played by the woman who is M.S Narayana's wife but lacks good direction and big names. So, this might be the reason and the cause for the unsuccessful run of the movie... I am sorry dude but this is the truth!!

Sye - Movie Review

2004-12-11T02:44:00.000-08:00

Cast

Nitin (hero)

Genelia (heroine)

Pradeep Rawat (villian)

Nassar
Shashank

Rajiv Kanakala

Tanikella Bharani

Indu

Venu Madhav

Pruthvi (Nitin) & Sashank (Sashank) are the leaders of two warring students groups in a Hyderabad college. They are fond of Rugby game and they sort the things out between them by playing Rugby to prove superiority. One fine day, a local mafia leader Bhikshu Yadav (Pradeep Rawat) gets a court notice that he has purchased the land of college from its legal heirs. The groups of Pruthvi and Sashank unite together by forgetting differences to fight an united cause of winning back the land for college. After getting affected by assaults of students, Bhikshu Yadav throws a challenge to defeat his team in Rugby play to win back the land for their college. The rest of the story is all about how Pruthvi leads his team to the victory.

Artists Performance

Nitin looks pretty hip with sophisticated looks and different hair-do. He did well in the role of protagonist. But he needs to work harder on his dubbing. Genelia is cool as teen college going girl. She is a treat to watch, but unfortunately has no role to play in story. Sashank is competent as the gang leader. Pradeep Rawat is impressive (credit also should be given for the characterization). Rajiv Kanakala is good in an inspiring role of Rugby coach. Venu Madhav's comedy is hilarious. Tanikella Bharani and Nassar are adequate. Director Rajamouli did a guest appearance.

Technical Departments

Story: First half of the story deals with gang wars (a la The Westside Story). If Aamir Khan and his team wins cricket match to abolish tax in Lagaan, Nitin and his team win Rugby game to get back the land for their college in Sye. Vijayendra Prasad provided story for Sye.

Music: Music by MM Keeravani is good, as usual. He liberally used various English tunes (including that of 'We Will Rock You - Queen' and 'Miss Lova - Shaggy') in background music. All the songs in this film offer wide variety of tunes that range from extreme class (Ganga A/C) to extreme mass (Gutlo Vundi Bellam Mukka). From extreme melodious (Nalla Nallani) to extreme racy (Chantaina Bujjaina)! Picturization of the songs is also good. However, there are no strong situations to place the songs.

Hip Stuff: This film definitely broke some barriers (with the help of censor board, ofcourse) by having certain gestures that are unheard/unseen in past telugu films

The 'Chantaina' song ends with chorus - Wham bham: thank you maam.

There are quite a few scenes that have hero and his buddies showing middle fingers.
Use the f word directly (Rajiv Kanakala saying ****ing difficult).

The Terminal Movie Review - Go Nowhere

2004-12-06T00:20:00.000-08:00

[Pic: terminal movie]

Steven Spielberg, other than creating visual magnificence’s in his movies, has also a soft side. The last few films, spoke of it, way too much. Despite the soft side was even well known from Schindler's List and Amistad, the last four/five films have brought out an interesting side of Spielberg. Having been inspired hugely by Spielberg films, I've created myself, a personality of Spielberg to be a technical showman. And Schindler's List was nothing but a different film for this showman. But Artificial Intelligence and Catch Me If you Can broke those assumptions on him. They showed how Spielberg has grown-over the techie image. I believe, Spielberg has evolved into a style of filmmaking that allows him to take a simple story and weave it into an amazing masterpiece.

The Terminal is one such film. More than the premise of the story, the humane side stands out, clearly displaying the different arena of film making, where Spielberg now treads. The film talks about a man who gets stranded in the JFK Airport, New York because of a legal logical hole in the law. No one could do anything about it, just like Victor Navorski. He couldn't get anywhere. He abides the law, stays in the airport terminal for months and finally gets a chance to step in the American soil. What would he do ?

With such an interesting storyline, the screenplay could practically non-exist. The story itself builds up an interesting screenplay and it's way too simple for you to relate to it. The story being inspired for the real life of Merhan Nasseri, an Iranian refugee who was stranded in the Paris airport due to a different issue and still lives there to tell the world his story. Spielberg’s Catch Me If You Can [CMIYC] also had a similar inspiration of Frank W. Abagnale Jr. But CMIYC was a little dry for the kind of story it promised. But The Terminal, refuses to be like its predecessor. Instead it's quite hilarious and very comical at times, making you constantly wait for whats-gonna-happen.

Tom Hanks [Victor Navorski], the all-proven Hollywood actor, takes off from the very scene where he stumbles upon an unforeseen situation with the airport authority in JFK terminal. With his accent perfectly matching his looks of a foreigner, he says "Niw yarc citee". Tom Hanks scores full points in the sequences that are funny but yet have their sad humane side. The way he climbs the chairs to have a close look at the television, which hangs upon his head. The way he ignorantly says "Homm Contree, I'm not afraid of homm contree". Leaves a huge mark of his signature acting like what he did in Forrest Gump, Cast Away and The Road To Perdition.
I hope Victor Navorski walks away with the year's academy award for best actor.

Catherine Zeta Jones is also there. She is just there. But this guy Stanley Tucci as Frank Dixon does match up the performance of Tom Hanks. He is too good to be a bad guy.

Other interesting references are the janitor/juggler Gupta Rajan's[Kumar Pallana] reference to Madras and how he came to the America. Finally this cute Indian’s sacrifice makes one feel so nice. This is the second nicest encounter of Indians after the programmer in Matrix Revolutions. The other reference is Amelia's [Catherine Zeta Jones] reference to Napoleon's last days at St. Helena and how his Ego saved him. Too new and exciting references in a Spielberg film.

With that the kind of ending, you would definitely laugh louder and turn back to your sides to see what other think of it. The forthcoming films of Spielberg like the War of the Worlds and Indiana Jones 4 might be huge blockbusters but they may not be of this genre. So it's time we enjoy and appreciate this kind of Spielberg's film making, inspiring him to continue with movies of the same genre.

Haloscan

2004-12-02T02:58:00.000-08:00

Haloscan comments and trackback facility has been added to the blog.

Anand - Movie Review

2004-11-27T03:01:00.000-08:00

Cast

Raja (hero)

Kamaline Mukherjee (heroine)

Anish Kuruvilla

Satya

Meenakshi

Roopa (Kamalinee Mukherjee) loses her parents and other family members in a gruesome car accident. She starts living on her own as an independent woman without taking any help from her relatives. She has a boy friend named Rahul (Anuj) and is about to get married to that Marvadi guy, but backs out due to the behavior of her future mother-in-law and due to lack of confidence shown by her boyfriend.

Anand (Raja) joins her neighborhood. And he starts making Roopa feel comfortable and secure. The rest of the story is about why Anand - MD of the richest corporate house of AP - has chosen to reside as neighbor of Roopa and what follows next.

Artists Performance

Kamalinee Mukherjee: Kamalinee Mukharjee is a lucky girl to get such a beautiful role of Roopa. It's been years since Telugu film industry saw a film that portrays heroine as an independent girl who does not follow hero's footsteps to get a glimpse of him and sing songs with him. Kamalinee is extremely talented in histrionics department and oozes sensuality in her looks department. She has a beautiful smile and very expressive eyes. A special mention should be made for Sunitha who dubbed the voice of Kamalinee in this film. Sunitha's voice blended exactly with the expressions of Kamalinee (especially emotional scenes) and the mood of the scene. This is probably the best work by Sunitha so far.

Raja: Raja is the man made for this role. He has done his performance effortlessly with tremendous ease and timing. He never tried to dominate the character and played within the boundaries and limitations this character offered him. More importantly he got a role that begs to be different from the run of the mill heroic characters.

Others: Satya (Dollar Dreams fame) - who played the role of Anita - walks away with honors in the entertainment segment. Her one-liners and nonchalant attitude towards male characters were received well. Anish Kuruvilla (Dollar Dreams fame and also the executive producer of this film) did well as cousin of hero. Anuj as the boy friend is adequate. Baby Bakita and Master Abhijit did well in their roles.

Technical Departments:

Story: The story of this film is about how a man goes to the girl whose family is destroyed because of the unexpected folly done by his father. This movie is all about giving back. Bala Krishna's Samara Simha Reddy film also had similar point. Sravanthi Ravi Kishore's Ela Cheppanu film's basic storyline also has striking similarities.

Music: Music by KM Radha Krishnan is a big asset to the film. All the songs but for one assume classical and Carnatic music in it. The background score is also efficiently scored. All the songs are very well picturized with lot of situational backup. 'Nuvvena' song is the best among the songs.

Analysis: This film has the lots of freshness and is a class apart. Sometimes, you feel like watching old classics done by the legends like K Balachandar, K Viswanath and Bapu. The first half is excellent. The second half is good. The director Sekhar Kammula should have concentrated more on the last 30 minutes, as it appeared little dragged. It is a director's film and Sekhar Kammula should be commended for making film without imitating/formulizing and for leaving his own signature on 'Anand'. This film definitely lives up to its caption of 'manchi coffee lanti cinema'. Films like Anand should be watched and appreciated by all. I would recommend 'Anand' to everybody.

CAT

2004-11-21T10:17:00.000-08:00

The day it was... It was CAT.... the day was 21st November 2004... The day for which when many young Indians who were working hard for the past few months has finally arrived and it was time for all of us to show our talent.

My centre was at Vanita college at Nampally... My parents came to the centre to drop me and to wish me luck till the moment I enter the hall... They had to come over as I met with an accident a week before CAT and so they were kinda worried. We reached the centre by 09:30 and the exam was scheduled to be at 11:00 and all of us were expected to be seated by 10:15.

Initially I couldnt find anyone I knew at the centre but Nalli was telling that there were some of them from my college at the same centre... So, I was kinda looking for them... Then they slowly and casually arrived at 10:00 and there were 5 of them and I presumed none of them were serious which was proved wrong later in the day.. hehe.

I met them before making an entry into the hall where each of us 5 were assigned different rooms... I was sitting in my allocated bench and someone else was allocated place beside me in the same bench... Later on I came to know that it was a SHE and she had made it just on time to the class... one more minute late and I guess she would have been denied the chance of writing the exam.

Time slowly passed by and it was 10:30 when the OMR were given and we had to fill tons of info about us and the wors part of it was that we were to circle the bubbles which pisses me off... All these competitive exams have now switched on to OMR where not only u had to circle the damn bubbles for the answers but also all out bio-data right from my name to where I studied last and the marks I got... Some exams go a step further and even enquires us about the future... man!! when are they gonna learn that the system is so pissing....

Anyways it took me quite some considerable amount to fill the OMR with all the junk we were supposed to fill and by the time I was done it was 10:55 when we were given the qn papers and it came in a beautiful packing... the qn paper was stuck with some kinda sticker and it was covered laterally by a polythene cover... what a waste of time and money...

It was 11 and the exam started... It took me some 2 minutes to tear the polythene cover as I am kinda poor in tearing those (environment-friendly u see!! :d ). I got a wild thought of demanding those 2 minutes back from them... but well wild thoughts are just thoughts... very rarely do they turn into reality!!

There I open all the seals and covers in which the paper was secured...Phew!!!... Am I tired already!! And then there was the bomb... the pattern has completely changed at it was highly unexpected. This was the first time they gave questions with diffrent weightages... some 2 marks, some 1 mark and others 0.5 mark totalling to 123 questions... good number rt ;)... so as usual started answering starting from Verbal... and damn... it was half time and something worse started happening to me... NATURE CALL!!! It was knocking on hard down there and I couldnt stop it anymore and I had to go... So, tht took away around 15 minutes of my precious time!! It was clear by then that I had blooped the test and I am not gonna make it...

After that I tried to do the qns asap... but in vain... DI, the section which was my strongest point was proving to be tough!! damn it... i never thought DI would be so tough... from many days people were saying that IIM-C was setting the qn paper and it was Quant which was expected to be tough... but then DI was so tough that I couldnt score as expected in it which brought down my overall score down by a large extent and my hopes of making it to the IIMs were slowly starting to vanish... i never expected it was gonna be this way... maybe it was my over-confidence which was the villian...

After I came back home... I was before the computer all day waiting for the key of the paper to be released by the various coaching institutes... the first set of key was released by CL and IMS was the next to follow... As I was checking my solution against the announced key some kinda tension was building up inside me!! I didnt knew what it was... but i sure knew that it was bad... very bad!! Finally my score evaluated to a mere 47 or 48 which was nowhere near the expected cutoff... man i flunked the exam... well... thtz what happens if one doesnt prepare well... I had stopped preparing from August itself when I got a job... I donno if what I did was a mistake or the right thing... letz leave tht to the future...

SIM CAT

2004-11-14T04:55:00.000-08:00

SIM CAT... for those of u who donno what this stands for... these are the Mock CAT exams conducted by IMS, the institute which I joined for my CAT (meoooowww...) coaching. Today's SIM CAT, the 8th one, was the last one among the entire series which meant that the CAT was on the coming sunday and the countdown has touched the magical number 7. So, a week lies between me and my future... this one week will decide whether I will land up in an IIM or if I will settle down in my job and then a MBA abroad.

Though I was not able to give the last 2 SIM CATs, I still didnt lose my zeal and jist. Today's exam went gr8, infact the greates among all the SIM CATs. Expecting 99 percentile in the exam before the main CAT really feels gr8 and boosts ones' confidence. My performance has been improving from the first CAT in which I managed to get only 85 percentile upto the 5th SIM CAT where my percentile shot to 97+ percentile. Thought this number seem to be quite gud, it is not gud enough for CAT. This meant that there was a little something which needs improvement. The best thing is that I can identify the area.. the bad thing is I am not doing anything about it... I pity my mind... ones it decides on doing something, it doesnt allow me to do anything else against it... damn!! what a psychology.

Planning to dedicate this entire week for CAT and give CAT the best shot... thought I have drained hopes on it... Well, I beleive in Better late then never... So, letz see what happens...

End of exams!!

2004-11-09T00:51:00.000-08:00

Yippeeee!!!! End of my exams... another set of exams complete... another semester marks its end... another set of holidays start... the only way it is different from the previous exams was that it went BETTER than ever... This sem might see my SGPA touch an all new high... maybe 9+... wow that would be like a dream come true to me!!

All the exams went really well... no regrets about any of them... i never felt like this confident after I joined IIIT... this is the first time... and it feels so gr8!!

Awaiting eagerly for the results!! God... this time I worked hard... atleast this time get me a good GPA na!! hehe thank u God.. I know u will help me!!

End of sem VII

2004-10-30T13:36:00.000-07:00

Wow!! Itz already the end of another tiring semester. This sem really rocketed off unlike the other sems though I worked the hardest in this semester. This sem saw many new things in me as well as my acads.

Firstly, I guess this is the sem in which I stayed the most in the campus in any semester. hehe. This semester kicked off with campus placements, which is still goin on, not in full swing though. It was a great experience experiencing the highs and lows of it. The joy of success of getting a job and on the other hand the pain of losing on a position in any company making it till the last round of interview. Well, after all this excitement I managed to get jobs in CSC and TCS. Who knows?? They might be my future if its not for MBA this time.

Well, I got commented upon quite bitterly by my relatives and some of my friends for dropping out the plan of MBA after my bachelors. I mean I have hyped all of them that itz definitely gonna be MBA after this... so, a sudden change in the decision amazed all. Well, after I managed to get two gud jobs, my plans started to hit a change of pursuing MBA after 4 - 5 years of work exp. Besides all this, I am still giving my SIM CATs and I am able to score upto 97 percemtile without any preparation. But, I gotta do a lot better than this if I gotta make it to the prestigious IIMs. Will I or Will I not?? Thatz the biggest qn troubing me now.

Coming back to my normal acads... this sem saw me make the most out of all the subjects as I worked really hard towards each of them, doing the assignments on my own, studying well for exams... Apart from the attendance part of it, everything about acads went fine... in fact gr8!!

End of another sem... another sem which shaped futures... another sem which leaves only one sem between enjoyement and responsibility... another sem which saw many changes in me and my acads... ADIEU!!

Placement Season - XIX

2004-10-21T04:18:00.000-07:00

Day 18 - 14/10/2004

Schedule:

10:00 - Connexant PPT
Afternoon - Connexant Written Test
Evening - Connexant Interviews

Today was the day when another VLSI giant, Connexant, made its way to the campus for interviews. Today again all those students left out without a job were jubiliated as the company was good and that they were also getting another chance to have their shot towards recruitment.

The pay packet was quite good (4 lacs pa) and thus it attracted some other candidates other than the ones who were yet to be placed. The trend of sitting for a company with a higher pay packet with an already existing job in the hand is becoming common. Though people are not aware of the exact working of the company, though they are not interested at all in the way the company works, they do join it... the sole reason HIGH SALARY. I personally think that this is a very bad thing...

The written test was scheduled after lunch and it led to many more attempting the test. This narrowed the chance of those who were yet to be placed to secure a job. The written test took place and anxious candidates were looking forward for the results hoping to see their names in the shortlisted candidates' list.

The results were out and only two of the students who were jobless were able to make it to the next round. What a pity!! There were four more candidates selected but they were already having a job in their hand.

The interviews took place in the evening and went on uptil night. At the end of the day it was a pity that noone got selected from the B.Tech.

VIVA

2004-10-14T09:05:00.000-07:00

Wish this were the energy booster... but it was the energy dissipater... yeah thatz what it was... VIVA as in VIVA VOCE... damn... from the very first day of my final year, I could feel the burden of my acads... fourth year, I thought, was meant to be enjoyed, sleep, and for all the pleasures in life as after this we are gonna step out into the corporate world where we would face the bitter truths of our life... man!! wish I was back to school again.. those were the days.. I still cherish those days, though back then when I left my school I was not so sad... maybe I am getting to feel all of it now!!

My FYP was a major factor which contributed to my bitter times in my fourth year... I was doing it all alone (well, in the beginning I thought I could... ). I was feeling the bitter pain of it as time flew by... time was flying.. wish it would crawl!! There are some times in life when one wishes that wime would just rocket away at the speed of light and there are some more times in life when one wish that time would go backward... what an irony of life!! Well, getting back to FYP... I was in the illusion that the project was something else... but then only to discover that it was much different than what I thought it was... thanks to my budhu brain!!

VIVA was supposed to be in the morning... but rules are meant only for students... they were never ever meant for the faculty (except in few cases)... I wasted my whole damn day waiting for my turn for my VIVA... and when the time finally came in the evening after a tired, long wait... what do I get?? "We are really tired... Please complete ur presentation in 10 minutes." What the hell is this?? I wait for so long outside like a watchman and I was not even given enough time to explain my project and not even present the presentation for an ample amount of time... I spent 5 days for this day and all I get is 10 minutes?? In a way it was ok... but not today... it was not ok at all... damn!! how i wish i could do something!!

Well.. the bright point abt the VIVA was it went gr8 though it was brief... at least that was a positive point to a day full of negativities.

What do IT companies really stand for?? Errr.. Think again

2004-10-11T07:19:00.000-07:00

1. NIIT : Not Interested in IT
2. WIPRO : Weak Input, Poor & Rubbish Output
3. HCL : Hidden Costs & Losses
4. TCS : Totally Confusing Solutions
5. INFOSYS : INFerior Offline SYStems
6. SAPIENT : Silly And Puzzled Idiots Exploring Network Technology
7. HUGHES : Highly Useless Graduates Hired for Eating and Sleeping
8. BAAN : Beggers Assosciation and Nerds
9. IBM : Implicitly Boring Machines
10. SATYAM : Sad And Tired Yelling Away Madly
11. PARAM : Puzzled And Ridiculous Array of Microprocessors
12. C-DOT : Coffee During Office Timings
13. AT&T : All Troubles & Terrible
14. CMC : Coffee, Meals and Comfort

Cracking open CAT (meooooowwwwww....)

2004-10-10T09:01:00.000-07:00

CAT, the one word which used to linger in my mind all throught the last three years of my Engg.. my dream, my aim, my everything.... but now it is just another exam to me!! The reason... change of plans!!

IIM, the dream institute of all the MBA aspirants of India, was THE institute where I wanted to pursue my MBA and it was there in my cards from many years... I will say it is still there, but it will take time.. Initially I was keen on continuing my studies with MBA from IIM, but then now I find myself on path of change... a change in plans.

It all happened when I got placed during the recently held campus placement program in the campus and luckily or unluckily I managed to get a good job for my CGPA (6.7)... a job in a company called Computer Science Corporation (CSC), a MNC based in USA. I never even dreamt of getting such a good job... but well, there I go smiling into the arms of a company which many dream of getting into. I felt myself rather lucky..

So, this triggered the change in plan... a plan which would postpone my MBA program by another 4-5 years... Now, I plan to do an MBA from a reputed foreign institute after working for 4 or 5 years... and moreover the sabbatical plan which the company is offering is quite lucrative and is seducing me towards the path of change!! So, at present I stand on the road of change and am in no plans to change my direction of thought..

But even then.. as people say old habits die hard... I still continue to give the SimCAT exams being conducted by IMS every Sunday... Today was my fourth in a row and I cracked it!! Myu performance has been improving considerably test after test... In the last test itself, I topped my college... and this time my score has improved even higher promising me the prime position again...

Well, mom is happy and so is everyone who pray for me!! But noooo... I will not be lured to pursue MBA immediately after my graduation... noone can do that!!! I have now set my mind firmly and I am gonna stick to it. After all, CSC is a very good company to work for..

Old friends!!

2004-10-09T04:53:00.000-07:00

Yeah I know itz been long!! But here I am... back with a bang!!

The last week was quite interesting.. I got to get along with some of my friends from school.. I was really jubiliated when I got to talk with them after a gap of 6 years.. It all started when I managed to get Yahoo! ID of Sri Karan, also my school friend, from Sarva... who gave me the ID of A.L. Kanth who in turn gave me the ID of Sandeep V who had a collection of the IDs of many school friends. Gr8!! Finally, I got to get in touch with many of them... I was actually looking forwards for this from many days!

Today morning I got to talk with Samuel, another of my school friend. I came to know that he was pursuing his engg. in CSE at Vasavi College. It was gr8 talking to him.. He said that around 20 guys met last summer at Vinod ( my school friend again ) shop. It was really gr8!!

I was actually planning for a reunion of the 1999 batch of school. I hope to get in contact with as many friends as possible from all the sections atleast by next summer before many of us would further go away from each other so that we could atleast have our contact details and be in touch whereever in the world we are. Letz see what happens!!

Placement Season - XVIII

2004-10-05T04:11:00.000-07:00

Day 17 - 05/10/2004

Schedule:

10:00 - 13:00 - Adaptec Written Test

Today was the day of Adaptec to recruit its share of students from IIIT. Adaptec, a VLSI based company, was a high payer (4 lacs pa) but was open only to those who were yet to be placed which included 6 from B. Tech and some 7 or 8 from M. Tech. This was not a campus interview but it was also one. It was not a campus interview in the sense that they didnt come to the campus. It was a campus interview in the sense that the interview was gonna be held only for IIIT students.

The written test was conducted at their office at Somajiguda. I talked with a couple of them who gave the test who told me that the test was easy and hoped to make thro' it.

The results are yet to be out and are expected to be out sometime in another 10 days or so.... Best of luck guys!!

Love Story

2004-09-20T09:02:00.000-07:00

A beautiful " l o v e " story
A long time ago, before the world was created and humans set foot on
it, God
had put all the human "qualities" in a separate room.
Since all the qualities were bored they decided to play hide & seek.
"Madness" was one of the qualities and he shouted:
"I want to count, I want to count!"
And since nobody was crazy enough to want to seek "Madness", all the
other
qualities agreed. So "Madness" leaned against a tree and started to
count:
"One, two, three..." As "Madness" counted, the qualities went hiding.
"Treason" hid in a pile of garbage.. "Lie " said that it would hide
under a
stone, but hid at the
bottom of the lake. And Madness continued to count "... seventy nine,
eighty, eighty one..."
By this time, all the qualities were already hidden-except "Love ".
For
stupid as "Love " is, he could not decide where to hide. And this
should not
surprise us, because we all know how difficult it is to hide "Love".
"Madness": "...ninety five, ninety six, ninety seven..." Just when
"Madness"
got to one hundred........."Love" jumped into a rose bush where he
hide.
And Madness turned around and shouted: "I'm coming, I'm coming!" As
Madness
turned around, "Laziness" was the first to be found, because "Laziness"
was
too lazy to hide. "Madness" searched madly and found "Lie" at the
bottom of
the lake. One by one, Madness found them all - except Love. Madness was
getting desperate, unable to find Love.
Envious of Love, "Envy" whispered to "Madness ": "You only need to find
Love, and Love is hiding in the rose bush."
"Madness" Jumped on the rose bush and he heard loud cry. The thorns in
the
bush had pierced "Loves" eyes.
Hearing the commotion God came into the room and saw what had happened.
He
got very angry and cursed "Madness" and said since "Love" has become
blind
because of u... ..u shall always be with him"
And so it came about that from that day on, Love is blind and is always
accompanied by Madness.

Smoker's Pride Neighbors' Deride

2004-09-16T01:36:00.000-07:00

For those who smoke.. but personally i feel "smoking is injurious to health"

Cigarette in my hand...I feel like a man...
It gives me the confidence...that "I can"...

You don't agree...?? wait till I show you...
Its importance - then you won't argue...

I need it as the morning rays fall on the pane...
So that the nature's call is not a pain...

I need it with my breakfast toast...
To supply me the vitamins I need the most...

I need it when I enter my work-place...
To give me the energy to match the pace...

I need it after my lunch...
To increase the digestion after the munch...

I need it in my coffee break...
And that's just for keeping me awake...

I need it with my evening snacks...
To lift my verve when it sags...

I need it when I leave for the day...
to relax after the tortuous play...

I need it when I move around with friends...
to get the "kick" and feel the trends...

I need it after my dinner...
To adieu my day as a winner.

On my way to glory...

I overlook the statutory warning written on the
pack...
For my valour - I should be given a pat on my back.

I feed gallons of smoke to my neighbour...
Can anyone else boast of such a favour ??

An apple a day keeps the doctors away...
The doctors then,won't have any say.
I keep the doctors busy n working...
The apple would have left them sulking.

I contribute heavily in the government's revenues...
which help them venture the different avenues...

And you want me to quit smoking ??
I am sure you must be joking.

I am happy the way I am.
I'm no saint up above the hills.
And if at all I decide to quit...
What'll happen to the company called WILLS ??

Warning: smoking is injurious to health..

CSC Annual Day

2004-09-12T10:08:00.000-07:00

Today was the Annual Day of CSC, the company I am gonna work for (mostly)!! I was notified of this yesterday afternoon by my placement officer, Mrs. Padmaja Kanda. I was on my way to our computer lab to re-check the System Thinking presentation when she called me and told me about some party and that Ankit and I were invited and gave me a phone number whom we had to contact before going to the party.

The party was at Viceroy. It was a three-star hotel and it was superb. I've been there before but I've never been to that particular hall. I was there by 19:30. The program was supposed to start at 19:00 but as usual late!! The arrangements were great. I had to go all alone as Ankit had some other plans. I hoped to meet some of the people who were working there and know about their opinion about the company.

The party started off with a host of cultural programs and in the mean time the bar opened when people started to focus their attention on the bar rather than the programs. After all, not every other day do people get to drink free liquor. I was offered some by Mr. Rajiv, the head of operations in Hyderabad, but I turned down his request as I dont drink.

The programs were great and in course of time I came to know that there were 4 more freshers like me who had come to the party from Osmania University (OU) which was a famous college in AP. I got to meet with them, three guys and a gal and came to know that they just got placed yesterday. All the four of us talked for a while about the placement scenario in each of our campuses and some other general things.

The dinner started at around 21:00. I was already hungry and so we all went on to have our dinner which I was expecting to be good and tasty. After all this was a star hotel and such hotels are normally known to serve good food. he he. Yummy!! The food was really tasty and it was a feast indeed with numerous items on the menu and finished off the dinner with some tasty dessert.

Then the dance floor rocked while I was having my dinner itself and my legs were already shaking to the tunes, though I have to admit that the DJ was not so good. I had my dinner and shaked my booty for a while and it was already late and I had to go back home. If I were to go to hostel, I would have danced for more time, but I was going home and dad and mom were already waiting for me. I didnt wanted to make them wait and spoil their sleep. So, I took leave from Mr. Rajeev and the four students from OU and sped back home.

It was a great evening. All my friends were envy of me when they heard about the party yesterday. They were all jealous that I was getting to attend such parties even before I started working. he he. I enjoyed seeing them become envy on me.

Good night!! What a day!!

Placement Season - XVII (contd...)

2004-09-11T11:25:00.000-07:00

There are three major things tht today had beholden for me.

I. System Thinking Presentation

I, along with my group members, had to present a presentation on Terrorism as a System Thinking approach. We had prepared the presentation quite well with good content and vocabulary along with appealing graphics :d. But there was lack in preparation. Jenny and I had prepared quite well as v were involved in the desigining the entire presentation and thus v were quite conversant of the entire PPT. But the problem was that all the four of us had to talk a bit during the presntation to have a gud impression on the group as a whole. So, the problem was with the other 2 members who had not turned up until an hour before the presentation and hence had to give them some part in the presentation for them to present.

Due to the poor preparation of their parts, the other two members of the group were not able to present so elegantly and hence had effected the entire group during the evaluation of the PPT later in the afternoon. Moreover, to add ot our problems, the animation ceased to work during the PPT which was working quite gr8 in the room's comp. Later, v realized that the PC in the class was running on Windows ME and Office 2000 which did not support the same type of animations as was given by Office XP. All these factors including some other fators influenced the PPT and I have to say that it blew.

II. Amdocs results

The Amdocs results were out by the time I had come back after presenting the PPT and I was very happy to note that Thunder had been selected for the job and at the same time I was sad that Venki and Naresh were not able to make it due to poor performances in the interview. The interviews had took place today morning for some and yesterday morning for the others. Amdocs had selected 5 students - 3 from B. Tech abd 2 from PG. The list of the selected candidates include:

AMDOCS

1. Asheesh Pandey
2. Kumar Gaurav aka KG
3. Vinod Javvadi aka Thunder

Congrats people!! I am very much happy especially for Thunder as he was waiting very eagerly for a job and finally he had got one and he got a big one directly!!

III. 9/11

Thatz right... today is 9/11/2004. The very numbers remind of the deadly attacks which took place in America three years back. The hijacking of four planes and running them into WTC, Pentagon shook the entire world. I still remember that I was in my first year of Engineering at that time and it was around that time I started to stay in hostel as the ragging period had ended. I was studying for my mid-sem the next day along with Nalli in his room and some of my friends came and told us that WTC had collapsed due to some terrorist attacks. I thought he was just kidding and didnt take it so seriously that day until I realized that what he said was true the next day. It was really a drastic and deadly incident. It is sheer coincidence that we had given a PPT today and that too on Terrorism.

May the world be in peace atleast from now on!!

AAG::Hockey

2004-09-08T21:15:00.000-07:00

Today I was going through the old stuff in my pc as I was cleaning it and I found this excerpt which I had written during Afro-Asian Games (AAG) last year. I was a media volunteer over there representing the company called Zezan which was in-charge of maintaining the official website of AAG and I was working for them as a volunteer. It was indeed an honour to work on such a project. So, I happen to write a story about a Hockey game which took place then. And the greatest thing is that it got published the next day!! It was too cool.... The story follows:

Game of Chances!!!

Whistle...Whistle... the whistles blew and off went the players of the
African nations as they clashed in a futile play for the last two positions
in Pool B. The Africans were all set to take on each other as they seemed
very enthusiastic from the very beginning of the match. Being the first
match of the day, all the spectators were quite active and alive and were
cheering each and every move by both the teams.

Game of chances!!!! That's what the game can be called with record number of
penalty corners. This showed how desperate the teams were awaiting for a
victory with both the teams failing to record a victory in their earlier
matches.

With a quest for victory, both the teams raced off towards the opponent's
goal-post in an attempt to make the ball meet the net. Kenya was quick
enough in executing what they were sent for when Kimeu Lilian scored a goal
in the 4th minute of the game with the help of some brilliant passes from
the team-mates.

The Nigerians keen to break the lead were successful in scoring a goal in
21st minute when Okoh successfully directed the ball towards the net making
the match more interesting.

Both teams struggling to take lead in second-half showed some brilliant
display in their journey towards victory. Finally, the Kenyans got a
break-through when Lilian struck her second goal in 54th minute under the
hot sun making their team spring with joy as the ray of victory was in sight
for them.

Finally, the Kenyans were successful in maintaining their lead till the end
by barracading the Nigerians from reaching their goal-post.

Placement Season - XVII (contd...)

2004-09-08T01:25:00.000-07:00

The results of Amdocs written test came out and 3 of the unselected 7 along with some other students of the class had made it to the interviews. The 3 are Thunder, Venki and Naresh. The interviews were scheduled for 2 days i.e. 10th and 11th of September along with the PPT. This was quite strange as all the companies had given their PPTs before hand and then went on with their examinations unlike this company.

Best of luck guys!!

Teacher's Day

2004-09-05T04:58:00.000-07:00

It is Teacher's day today. Gosh!! I remember those school days when we use to decorate the classroom with ribbons, baloons, etc... and used to draw some good ol' figures on the board greeting the teachers a very warm Teacher's Day. I still remember those days. As, I used to be the leader of the class all the time, I was incharge of all these things and I used to enjoy doing them.

After leaving school, never did I enjoy Sep. 5 as much. Even in IIIT, we just used to wish our profs but never did much. But this time, in our final year, the batch of UG4 had decided to give greetings to our loving and respected Dean, Mr. R. Govindarajulu. He is a wonderful man and has been a great teacher and our batch holds a special position in his heart.

The images of the greetings can be seen here.

I felt very happy this year that we did atleast this much after a looong gap.

HAPPY TEACHER'S DAY

Placement Season - XVII

2004-09-03T11:15:00.000-07:00

Day 16 - 03/09/2004

Schedule:
14:00 - 19:00 - Amdocs Written Test

IIIT threw the red carpet for Amdocs today as it made its way to the campus to take its share of the pie from here. Basically, this is a Pune based company and quite famous. In fact each of them have their opinion. This company was called over keeping in view those who were yet to be placed i.e. the 7 of them who were yet to get a job. It was their day today. But as it was giving a salary of 3.2 lacs, Nalli, Bole and Assy also wanted to try their luck at it.

The trio got ready and started off to the examination hall, holding in their hands a bundle of papers which were listed mandatory by the company. They were send back to their dismay as ma'm didn't allow them to sit for the company as they had already been placed though she did allow some of those who had already been placed to write as dummies. Dummies is what she thinks, but they were writing seriously. After all it is paying quite a huge amount, who wouldn't want to try??

The test went on for a gruelling 5 hours and it had 8 sections. All of them had finished the test and were satisfied with their performance though the 7 of them qere quite tensed if they would get through. The results were supposed to be declared by the end of the day, but they have postponed to a later unnamed date. This is un-necessary tension for those 7. Anyways I wish them good luck from the deepest part of my heart.

Placement Season - XVI (contd...)

2004-09-02T06:41:00.000-07:00

This was the day when Trilogy results were expected and they did come but only to the dismay of all the students. After a scintillating 6 hour interview on Aug 29 for Amal Raj and a paltry 1 hour interview for Patti, everyone were expecting Amal to make it through to the company but the result featured that none had made it.

Indeed it is a sad day for Amal and even a sadder day to IIIT. This meant that IIIT has failed to prove itself that it is better than the best. :((

Eggy's B'day

2004-08-30T11:06:00.000-07:00

First of all, if u r wondering who or what Eggy is... Eggy is my bro'... my younger bro'... and Eggy happens to be his pet name. Exactly 19 years back on the same day and same time... my sweet bro ame into this world... U can have a look at the pics right here. We had a small gathering at home and we all had arranged a small party for my bro who had come over from Vellore, where he studies, for the b'day.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRO!!

Placement Season - XVI (contd...)

2004-08-29T02:20:00.000-07:00

The Trilogy results are out and its official. They selected only 2 people for the interviews. This sent a shock wave in the campus. All of them were expecting them to shortlist atleast 10 of them for the interviews. The list reads as:

1. Amal Raj aka Amal
2. Chaitanya Reddy aka Patti

Now Amal was quite expected but Patti was kinda unexpected, though he was a potential candidate. The interview is at Taj Banjara. The very name of the interview venue is so grand, exciting,.... my vocabulary is not suffice to explain the excitement.

Hope both of them will make it through. Best of luck to both of u!!

Placement Season - XVI

2004-08-28T09:11:00.000-07:00

Day 15 - 28/08/2004

Schedule:
10:30 - 11:30 - Trilogy PPT
11:45 - 12:45 - Trilogy Written Test

Today was the day when the big bad daddy of the placements was on its way to IIIT. TRILOGY, the very name of the company sends thoughts of whooping salary figures to the minds of students. This is the biggest recruiter in all the campuses throughout the country. They have the recognition of being the highest salary payers among all the companies on any campus. Well, they have found their way to IIIT also and this is the first time. Their compensation is a rocketing 7.6 lacs for the position of Technical Analyst. The company has its base in Austin, USA and Bangalore being the only branch outside US. The company has a paltry work force of 100 in India.

I was not on the campus today but there was not much action on the campus. Trilogy people are known for their time disciplene and so everyone were there for the PPT by 10:30 and moreover as they had already filtered the people who were eligible for the placement process, it was quite definite who will be writing the test.

The test was for an hour and the test had only four subjective questions in which they had asked them to write 4 programs - two on trees, a code to debug and some other program which I didnt understand!!

The results are due tomorrow. Everyone knew that they would not recruite more than 2. But all the toppers had their hopes on this. Many are expection Anubhav Agarwal and Amal Raj to make it thro. Letz see what happens!!

Placement Season - XV

2004-08-26T11:13:00.000-07:00

Day 14 - 26/08/2004

Schedule:
13:30 - 14:30 - Deloitte PPT
16:00 - 17:00 - Deloitte Written Test
18:15 - 22:00 - Deloitte Interviews

Deloitte, the big consultancy firm, was making its way to the campus today. The company which is a consultancy firm has its ERP wing at Hyderabad. It was quite famous globally, but not locally. Guys have to learn SAP and create ERPs for different clients in the same. So, it is a gud company but not as gud as expected. The company falls under the B category and its pay was 2.7 lacs. So, all the students recruited for the companies in the lower category were getting ready to try out their chance for this priced position.

Nalli and Bole were also among the list who was trying for a position in this company. On the other hand, I was also getting ready, not for attending the test but wanted to volunteer atleast once in the entire placement process. The PPT was a boring part, so I went write on time for the exam so that I can volunteer. I was joined by Darbari, Rocky and Kunal.

The test started. Deloitte has a recognition of giving this color booklets for their test. Today the green booklet was given for the test. First I thought of sitting as a dummy and help out anyone who needed my help. But then, due to the strict invigilation and far seating placements, I dropped my idea. Assy was also trying for the coveted position.

The test completed in an hour and in that men time, the three of us (the volunteers) were talking about the placement process, our futures in the companies and stuff like that. People came out from the examination hall. They had mixed feelings about the test. Some said it was easy, but it was tough for some. But many had a common opinion on the Quant part which was tough. The results were to be declared in half an hour's time. So, we, the volunteers, had to wait outside the hall and collect the results.

Voila!! The results are finally out and 23 of them made it thro' the first phase. Sadly, none of Bole, Nalli or Assy made it. But happily, Spark and Venki made it. They were among the 7 who were yet to get a job. Mail was sent and one by one poured in to collect the forms which they had to fill before goin on to the interview which was scheduled to start in an hour. I was the one of the volunteers. So, had to distribute those forms to each one of them.

After the distribution of forms was done, I went on to the NISG building which was the venue for the interview for all the companies. The interviews started and there were three panels. One of the panel contained one of the alumni of this college who was in the first batch. I called one by one in for the interviews. Few had second round of interviews. This made quite clear that those who were not called in for the second round of interview meant that they were out of the interview process. This was only evident to them after a while.

The interviews went on till night 10. Towards the end of the interviews session, I handed over the responsibility to Assy as I was hungry and wanted to catch some fud.
I came right on time when the interview process was completed. Everyone was waiting for the result. And there they are. 7 of them made through which included 3 from B.Tech and 4 from M.Tech + MSIT. Sadly, none of the two who are without a job made it. This meant that they had to wait some more time for other companies to come over and take them.

After the interview Paddy spilt a poison saying that there were no other companies coming to the campus for recruitments for B.Tech and they had to try off-campus which meant the death of those 7 expectations. She was already tired of the placement process as it was getting onto her nerves and moreover she had all the VLSI and the Bio-Informatics students to take care of.

The list of those who got into Deloitte includes:

Deloitte.

1. Aaradhya aka Aara
2. Gaurav Kumar aka Pappu
3. Pankaj Kumar Madhukar aka Madhukar

Congrats guys!!

I came to know later that the alumnus of IIIT who was in the interview panel told Aaradhya that he would be send to the Mumbai branch due to his extraneous talents. Poor dude!!

Placement Season - XIV (contd...)

2004-08-25T12:48:00.000-07:00

The results of Adobe are out!!! This time 3 of them made it through and it is all B.Tech again. The people who got selected are:

Adobe:

1. Abhinav Darbari aka Darbari
2. Jagannathan aka Jaggu
3. Sourabh Raheja aka Rajjo

Congrats people!! I must really congratulate them as they pulled it off amidst so much heavy competition. They are proud earners of 5.5 lac per annum. But god help their spouses!! :p just kidding.

Placement Season - XIV

2004-08-25T09:55:00.000-07:00

Day 13 - 15/08/2004

Schedule:
10:00 - 23:00 - Adobe Interviews

I woke up quite early... this time early stuck to its meaning... 4 in the morning to be precise. I had to prepare for today's exam as I had crashed quite early yesterday night. Then, I was kinda sleeping and getting up, sleeping an getting up with intervals of 30 minutes :d. Then, I woke up and didn't sleep again at around 6:30.. thanks to Archu darling.

It was 09:00 and the much awaited Adobe results were out. 11 of them got thro' to the interview and the list had some unexpected names and missed some expected names. Anyways the list read as:

1. Manjeet Bothra aka Bothra
2. Ajay Bedi aka Bedi
3. Arvind Upadhyay aka Upadhyay
4. Sourabh Raheja aka Rajjo
5. Jagannathan aka Jaggu
6. Kartika aka KT
7. Sireesh aka Poo
8. Abhinav Darbari aka Darbari

Congrats guys!! This was the list and 6 of these students were specializing in Vision stream. Wow!! The list sure looked quite good and I wondered how tough the selection process would be to filter the best among the toppers. The interviews started at 10:00 and it kicked off with Manjeet.

I heard after a while when I went for Bio exam that Bothra's interview didn't last as long as expected as he was in DBMS stream. They were quite strict from the beginning that they would consider only Vision students. Then, it was the chance of Bedi and I later heard that his interview lasted 2 looong hours!! Phew!! He must have run out of energy after those 2 gruelling hours of hardcore Tech. interview. Man, this was expected. After all, no company gives such a high compensation package just like that, do they?? he he. It was fun seeing guys competing for such a so-called prestigious job. I mean, why is it prestigious?? Just because it gives 5.6 lacs?? But what about the other things in life?? Will they be able to enjoy the money they had earned?? There are many things in this world other than money.. Money is not the only thing in the world. I beleive in the saying:

"Many people know how to earn, but quite a few know how to spend".

The interviews for each selected candidate were goin on for hours together. I've heard that Abhinav's interview is the last of all and it started at 22:00. Man, how tough is the interview?? How much are they testing each of them?? I think they are trying to suck every single drop out of their brains. Every single thing they have stored in the small but dense gray matter of theirs.

Letz see what happens!! The results might be declared tonight or maybe tomorrow.

Other than the placements, my exam went quite well. Not as gud as expected. Archu also gave her exam well. After all she is the college topper. I am proud that my girl is a college topper. She has acheived something which I was not able to over the past three years. It's not that easy to be the college topper especially when the competition around is so huge!!

Vam and I have started the SQL project today seriously. We have decided to do in CGI and Perl as we were losing touch in such a lovely language. We have decided to suffix our file names to ".xxx" by associating the extension to the CGI-Handler in httpd.conf. Does it show stars to u?? Then, u must not be having such a gud knowledge in Linux!! Anyways if u can't understand the last paragraph, don't pull ur hair... it's geeky stuff... he he.

Placement Season - XIII

2004-08-24T10:39:00.000-07:00

Day 12 - 24/08/2004

Schedule:
11:00 - 12:30 - Adobe PPT
14:00 - 18:00 - Adobe Written Exam

Today was the day when Adobe, the first of the dream companies is on the campus. Today is the day that many of the toppers and the vision students were waiting for. This is a dream company of any student who has done his/her honours in Computer Vision. The day was quite tensed up and it promised a lot of melodrama as all the vision students are the toppers of the class and the competition was definitely gonna be top class!!

The PPT kicked off at 11:00 in the morning. I was not appearing for the company as it was beyond my reach and moreover they had been clear before only that they were interested only in vision students. Moreover I had a class at that time which I could not afford to miss due to this 85% attendance poicy started by the insti. I've heard that the compensation package was 5.6 lacs + stock options for B.Tech and 6.0 lacs + stock options for the M.Tech. Last year when it had come over to the campus, they were not interested in M.Tech, but it was not the same this year. The turnout for the PPT was quite large than expected.

The test was scheduled at 14:00. Nalli and I had come back to the room after that class. Nalli was kinda interested in appearing for the exam, but then he was not strong at Tech. which all knew. But then, Bole and I had excited him so much that he actually went and gave the exam. ha ha. Nalli was in his own form again. He got ready quickly and rushed to the exam hall.

It was 18:00 already and Nalli hadn't come still. V thought that maybe he got selected for the interview... there he comes.... I was shocked when I came to know that the test went on for 4 hours!! Damn!! If the test process is only so long, how would the work be?? The written test had 4 parts - apti, simple tech, simple C and 4 programs. Wow, this was some kinda test. Nalli was quite confident that he wrote the exam well and was hoping to get selected for the interview... U know Nalli, he is kinda over-confident!!

Anyways the results won't come out until tomorrow... So, Nalli was kinda tensed up even though he had a very narrow chance of making it to the interview. I was preparing for my exam though. I have a Bio-statistics exam tomorrow. It was the first mid-sem. The subject was kinda easy but even then I am tensed that I might screw up the exam tomorrow.

Yawwwwwnnnnnn....... With hell with the exam... good night!!

Virtusa Results

2004-08-24T07:18:00.000-07:00

The results of Virtusa's written test are out and 3 B.Tech and 4 M.Tech made it to the next round. The next round was at Virtusa office on 25th August morning at 10 AM.

Virtusa:

1. Devi Menon aka Devi
2. Nitin Gupta aka Tintin
3. Priyanka Sinha

Congrats guys and best of luck!!

Cell phone conversations I wish I were a part of!!

2004-08-24T06:36:00.000-07:00

This is for those who can understand telugu and the beautiful words it has.... hehe

"Hello... Hello... HELLO Nee M**da, emi vinpeeyatle, gattiga matladu!!!
.............Oh..**rather sheepishly** "cheppu Daddy"!
on dude did this while getting a few missed calls "Badakov... gudda
balsinda?? Police Control Room ki missed calls istava? Nee sangati nenu
cheptanule. Arre Chinna, number track cheyiraa."

"Saar, nenu Warangal ninchi matlathunanu. Stock ready undi. Emi
cheyamantaru?"
"Oh.. o pancheyi. Ventane Hyderabad ki bailderu"
"Ah... ? Akkadiki vochi....?" "Nuvvu vochina taravatha apudu matlandukundam le. Mundu tondarga ra"

"Hello, I am Smitha calling from ______. Do you have any questions or queries regarding your network subscription?"
"Yes, are you married?" !!!

One really bored student wants to know the course fees regarding a particular college.
"Hello. What are the fees?.. aha .. ok.. how many students do you have?
aha.. .ok... How many per class?... aha... Yes, one more question saar.
How many girls per class?" !!!!

The guy who asked that "Are you married?" question improvises the next
time the Customer Service Care ppl called.
"Hello, I am Shailaja calling from ______. Do you have any questions or
queries regarding your network subscription?"
"Yes, are you married?"
"Sorry.. i did not get you"
"Yes, are you married?"
"EH?"
"Arre L**j*m****a!!! English lo adikite ardhamkale? Se*l*m viriginda??"

One dude is trying his best to evade a certain guy S___'s call. First time
S___ calls our boy responds
"This phone is temporarily out of order. Please call after a few min.
**sings the Reliance Jingle** Karlo duniya muthi me...". Second time S___
tries again and our fellow responds similarly. "This phone is temporarily
out of order. Please call after a few min. **sings the Reliance Jingle**
Karlo duniya muthi me..."
Third time S___ calls again and ...
"Arre Ch****e! Eni saarlu chepalra??? This phone is temporarily out of
order. Please call after a few min. **Karlo duniya muthi me...**!!!!

Not a phone call but another tongue of slip from a friend's friend....

His mother was trying to wake this fellow for college. "Naina le ra.
College ki time ayipoyindi." No response. "Le babu". No response. "P_____
LEMANTUNTE!!!!!"
"ABBA! po Mummy... asale m***a chiraak d**guthondi!!!"

On that note, this witty guy needed a good excuse to leave mid-class. And
what does he come up with?
"Sir, please Sir... Picha aakali d**guthondi saar!"

Ain't they gud??

Mess strike!!

2004-08-23T05:32:00.000-07:00

Yeah u read it right!! V r on a strike. V in the sense the entire students of IIIT. This is the first time in the last three odd years that v r doing something like this and it is real huge. The issue for the strike is the quality of mess. This has been an issue among the students for many months now and nothing had been done to sort it out. Instead, the quality is still deteriorating. So, itz time we ring the bell... V have prepared a letter which will be submitted to the faculty and the administration tomorrow and the strike starts on the morning of 25th which is only two days away. It is more of a non-cooperation movement. Without wasting much time, here is how the letter reads:

Dear friends

Almost all of us have been facing problems with the current mess policy,
and the gross indifference of the concerned authorities. Please spare some
time to carefully read the complete document below. If you share the same
feeling please be a part of this to strengthen the cause of the students.

To: all the students of IIIT, of NBH as well as OBH mess

Issue: faulty mess policy leading to deplorable mess conditions

Problem statement: complete failure of the administration to ensure basic
hygienic as well as quality/quantity of food despite repeated requests.

Detailed problem statement:
We try to present below some of the problems that are most noticeable

1)Arbitrary change in mess menu �^�^� The earlier menu had the following
template �^�^� Dal, Dry veg, Wet Veg, and Sambar/Rasam. Which was abruptly
reduced to 1 Vegetable , 1 Dal/Sambar, without taking any students body in
confidence and without explaining any reasons to the students.

2)High handedness by the estate officer �^�^� The mess timings were changed
abruptly and the mess was locked sharp at 9:30 AM without any prior
intimation to students, although the time decided by the mess committee
was up to 10:00 AM, and was being followed till the day before.

3)Gross indifference by the concerned authorities �^�^� Despite repeated
requests and complaints made by a large number of students, the
authorities have paid almost no heed and the deplorable condition
continues. Instead of penalizing the caterer for his repeated
discrepancies, the authorities held the students responsible for creating
problems out of nothing.

4)Quality �^�^� The milk/tea served tastes are more like colored, hot water.
Rotis which form a part of the staple diet are not cooked properly. They
are served either under cooked or over cooked. Quality of rice used is
also far below the previous one. The food is unpalatable.

5)Unhygienic process �^�^� Utensils are not washed properly. All utensils are
washed in a single tub, rather than in running water as they should be. No
detergent is used and after a few washes the water in the tub is dirtier
than the utensils to be washed. Flies, cockroaches are regularly found in
the food as well as on the utensils. The kitchen which is supposed to be
the cleanest part is dirtier than a toilet, with rotten fruits and
vegetables strewn on the floor. The vegetables etc are cut on the floor
without even washing them. The glasses are just rinsed subtly saying that
they don�^�^�t have enough number of glasses.

6)Religious sentiments �^�^� Students come from varied backgrounds and faiths.
Some of us are very particular about the food they eat. Currently the mess
boys serve vegetarian as well as non-vegetation (egg) without even washing
their hands. As the tables are not cleaned regularly during meal times,
egg shells keep lying on the table. This causes severe discomfort to such
students.

7)Attitude �^�^� As the caterer is not answerable to students and as well as
mess volunteers, the caterer does not feel responsible towards the
students and does not feel any sort of guilt even while serving rotten
fruits, spoilt curd/milk, unchewable rotis. No matter what the
administration does, this responsibility can not be built into the
caterer, unless there be some punishment for non-performance. There is no
response from their side when we complain about anything owing to their
indifferent attitude.

8)Crowding �^�^� Long queues have become the trademark of the current mess.
People have been forced to eat standing as they have classes to attend. In
spite of going within the stipulated time, several times the caterer says
the food is over. Having employed just one person to serve water, it is
close to impossible to get a drink of water during meals.

9)Lack of competition �^�^� Since we are bound to a caterer for an entire
month, and the cancellation have to be informed in advance, we are
compelled to the food even if then food is terrible. Due to this reason
the caterer take for granted, and prepares just for the sake of preparing
without caring for the quality and quantity of the food he is preparing.

Reasons:
All we have got up till now has been just empty promises, but no results
are visible to the eye. But the quality of the food is still as poor as
before, the caterer as arrogant as earlier. Also the administration does
not take the complaints made by the students seriously, and instead
preferring to assume that the students are the guilty part.

Solutions and Demands:
1)Complete autonomy of students over the mess- Complete autonomy of
students with regard to the mess operations. Administration may provide
guidelines with regard to the nutrition content of the food, giving out
the actual decision to the students. The students�^�^� body must have the
right to fine the caterer monetarily, in case of a lapse in service
quality or hygiene. This decision must be purely a student decision, with
no interference of the administration.

2)Mandatory mess - The root cause of all these problems is that students
are forced to purchase the mess card for one month from a single caterer
without any chance of shifting. Even when it does not suit our health
and/or food habits.

Plan of action:
We are going for a non cooperation movement. We are opposing the policy,
not the people. There is no leader or representative of the movement, and
students�^�^� community will be acting as a whole. There will be no meeting
with the concerned people and we will conclude our movement only after all
our demands is met.

All the students who agree with the cause and spirit of the movement will
be required to sign on a letter of commitment and confidence, stating
voluntary participation and collective responsibility for all our actions.

One day prior to the start, a letter containing our problems, reasons and
demands will be sent to the Director, the Dean, all faculty and staff and
all students. This will also include our movement agenda.

The non cooperation movement will consist of the following �^�^
1)Boycott of mess by not eating in the mess during the movement period.
2)Boycott of all voluntary activities of students like sports and cultural
events.
3)Not collecting the mess cards for the next month.

We might include more during the course of action in consistence with our
policy.

Justification for the movement:
We have been informing the concerned authorities of our problems since we
took admission here. We were either neglected or promised of a better
system, but the final results were nothing better. Moreover certain
policies have further deteriorated the conditions. Not only this, even the
students say in the policies related to the student life has been
decreasing. This is the time that the students community should
collectively voice their concerns and get the results.
We don�^�^�t settle for any temporary reassurance. We�^�^�ll need concrete abiding
to our basic demands.

Expectations from participants:
This will be purely voluntary effort, and all those and only those who
share and agree with the cause should be a part of it. Those who decide so
will be required to sign on a letter of confidence and will be required to
support our cause until results irrespective of whatever disciplinary
actions a few individual students might face during the course.

We will be stern and adamant but not aggressive. We will respect all the
legal and moral norms thereby ensuring that we are not found guilty
anywhere in the process. By doing this we would stay focused on the main
issue, rather than being deviated by undesirable incidents.

We are required to strictly follow the guidelines of the non cooperation
moment. This can even lead to some amount of hardship. As you know we will
not be eating in mess, we will need to somehow manage with our meals. We
have some affordable options like canteen, fast food centers outside IIIT,
Indira Nagar and 2 Dhabas at Indira Nagar, JNIDB mess, Hi-Tech Biryani
Center, etc where we can have our regular meals. They will be informed in
advance to expect high attendance from IIIT students.

As everyone in the movement is here for his/her own reasons, they should
stick to our demands, irrespective of what a few individual students might
face during the course. No one should blame anyone else for forcing them
to join the movement.

How safe we are:
This is a community effort for a genuine cause. Further this is just a non
cooperation movement where we will respect all the legal and moral norms.
We would boycott only the voluntary student life activities, with no
interference to the academic routine. Also we will be requesting full
support from the faculty, as they are also genuinely concerned with our
problems and would prefer a solution to our problems for building a
healthy environment in the campus in conformity to the vision of the
institute.

Hope this one goes as we hoped for. Hope it brings out the required results. Hope the mess becomes more hygenic. Hope we get better food. So many hopes on the movement.....

Placement Season - XII

2004-08-21T09:14:00.000-07:00

Day 11 - 21/08/2004

Schedule:
10:00 - 10:30 - Virtusa PPT
11:30 - 13:30 - Virtusa Written Test

Today was the turn of Virtusa. But it was an off-campus interview. They were conducting the interview at Muffahkamjah College in Banjara Hills. Quite a good number of students went for the interview. There were around 10 students without a single job from B.Tech and quite a good number from M.Tech.

The test was quite easy as said by many of them and the results were supposed to come on 25th August. Suspense and tension for those who gave the test until then!!

An Imaginer-- giving a meaning to your life.................

2004-08-19T22:25:00.000-07:00

Address by Subroto Bagchi (a man who was vice- president for Lucent Technologies and Wipro with just a Political science degree from Utkal University ), Chief Operating Officer, Mind Tree consulting to the Class of 2006 at the IIM, Bangalore on defining success.

I was the last child of a small-time government servant, in a family of five brothers. My earliest memory of my father is as that of a District Employment Officer in Koraput, Orissa. It was, and remains as back of beyond as you can imagine. There was no electricity; no primary school nearby and water did not flow out of a tap. As a result, I did not go to school until the age of eight; I was home-schooled. My father used to get transferred every year. The family belongings fit into the back of a jeep - so the family moved from place to place and without any trouble, my Mother would set up an establishment and get us going. Raised by a widow who had come as a refugee from the then East Bengal, she was a matriculate when she married my Father.

My parents set the foundation of my life and the value system, which makes me what I am today and largely, defines what success means to me today.

As District Employment Officer, my father was given a jeep by the government. There was no garage in the Office, so the jeep was parked in our house. My father refused to use it to commute to the office. He told us that the jeep is an expensive resource given by the government - he reiterated to us that it was not ''his jeep'' but the government's jeep. Insisting that he would use it only to tour the interiors, he would walk to his office on normal days. He also made sure that we never sat in the government jeep - we could sit in it only when it was stationary.

That was our early childhood lesson in governance - a lesson that corporate managers learn the hard way, some never does.

The driver of the jeep was treated with respect due to any other member of my Father's office. As small children, we were taught not to call him by his name. We had to use the suffix 'dada' whenever we were to refer to him in public or private.

When I grew up to own a car and a driver by the name of Raju was appointed - I repeated the lesson to my two small daughters. They have, as a result, grown up to call Raju, 'Raju Uncle' ^� very different from many of their friends who refer to their family driver, as 'my driver'. When I hear that term from a school- or college-going person, I cringe.

To me, the lesson was significant - you treat small people with more respect than how you treat big people. It is more important to respect your subordinates than your superiors.

Our day used to start with the family huddling around my Mother's chulha - an earthen fire place she would build at each place of posting where she would cook for the family. There was neither gas, nor electrical stoves.The morning routine started with tea. As the brew was served, Father would ask us to read aloud the editorial page of The Statesman's 'muffosil' edition - delivered one day late. We did not understand much of what we were reading. But the ritual was meant for us to know that the world was larger than Koraput district and the English I speak today, despite having studied in an Oriya medium school, has to do with that routine. After reading the newspaper aloud, we were told to fold it neatly. Father taught us a simple lesson.

He used to say, "You should leave your newspaper and your toilet, the way you expect to find it". That lesson was about showing consideration to others. Business begins and ends with that simple precept.

Being small children, we were always enamored with advertisements in the newspaper for transistor radios - we did not have one. We saw other people having radios in their homes and each time there was an advertisement of Philips, Murphy or Bush radios, we would ask Father when we could get one. Each time, my Father would reply that we did not need one because he already had five radios - alluding to his five sons. We also did not have a house of our own and would occasionally ask Father as to when, like others, we would live in our own house. He would give a similar reply, We do not need a house of our own. I already own five houses". His replies did not gladden our hearts in that instant.

Nonetheless, we learnt that it is important not to measure personal success and sense of well being through material possessions.

Government houses seldom came with fences. Mother and I collected twigs and built a small fence. After lunch, my Mother would never sleep. She would take her kitchen utensils and with those she and I would dig the rocky, white ant infested surrounding. We planted flowering bushes. The white ants destroyed them. My mother brought ash from her chulha and mixed it in the earth and we planted the seedlings all over again. This time, they bloomed. At that time, my father's transfer order came. A few neighbors told my mother why she was taking so much pain to beautify a government house, why she was planting seeds that would only benefit the next occupant. My mother replied that it did not matter to her that she would not see the flowers in full bloom. She said, "I have to create a bloom in a desert and whenever I am given a new place, I must leave it more beautiful than what I had inherited".

That was my first lesson in success. It is not about what you create for yourself, it is what you leave behind that defines success.

My mother began developing a cataract in her eyes when I was very small. At that time, the eldest among my brothers got a teaching job at the University in Bhubaneswar and had to prepare for the civil services examination. So, it was decided that my Mother would move to cook for him and, as her appendage, I had to move too. For the first time in my life I saw electricity in homes and water coming out of a tap. It was around 1965 and the country was going to war with Pakistan. My mother was having problems reading and in any case, being Bengali, she did not know the Oriya script. So, in addition to my daily chores, my job was to read her the local newspaper - end to end. That created in me a sense of connectedness with a larger world. I began taking interest in many different things. While reading out news about the war, I felt that I was fighting the war myself. She and I discussed the daily news and built a bond with the larger universe. In it, we became part of a larger reality. Till date, I measure my success in terms of that sense of larger connectedness. Meanwhile, the war raged and India was fighting on both fronts. Lal Bahadur Shastri, the then Prime Minster, coined the term "Jai Jawan, Jai Kishan" and galvanized the nation in to patriotic fervor. Other than reading out the newspaper to my mother, I had no clue about how I could be part of the action. So, after reading her the newspaper, every day I would land up near the University's water tank, which served the community. I would spend hours under it, imagining that there could be spies who would come to poison the water and I had to watch for them. I would daydream about catching one and how the next day, I would be featured in the newspaper. Unfortunately for me, the spies at war ignored the sleepy town of Bhubaneswar and I never got a chance to catch one in action. Yet, that act unlocked my imagination.

Imagination is everything. If we can imagine a future, we can create it, if we can create that future, others will live in it. That is the essence of success.

Over the next few years, my mother's eyesight dimmed but in me she created a larger vision, a vision with which I continue to see the world and, I sense, through my eyes, she was seeing too. As the next few years unfolded, her vision deteriorated and she was operated for cataract. I remember, when she returned after her operation and she saw my face clearly for the first time, she was astonished. She said, "Oh my God, I did not know you were so fair". I remain mighty pleased with that adulation even till date.Within weeks of getting her sight back, she developed a corneal ulcer and, overnight, became blind in both eyes. That was 1969. She died in 2002. In all those 32 years of living with blindness, she never complained about her fate even once. Curious to know what she saw with blind eyes, I asked her once if she sees darkness.She replied, "No, I do not see darkness. I only see light even with my eyes closed". Until she was eighty years of age, she did her morning yoga everyday, swept her own room and washed her own clothes.

To me, success is about the sense of independence; it is about not seeing the world but seeing the light.

Over the many intervening years, I grew up, studied, joined the industry and began to carve my life's own journey. I began my life as a clerk in a government office, went on to become a Management Trainee with the DCM group and eventually found my life's calling with the IT industry when fourth generation computers came to India in 1981. Life took me places - I worked with outstanding people, challenging assignments and traveled all over the world.

In 1992, while I was posted in the US, I learnt that my father, living a retired life with my eldest brother, had suffered a third degree burn injury and was admitted in the Safderjung Hospital in Delhi. I flew back to attend to him - he remained for a few days in critical stage, bandaged from neck to toe. The Safderjung Hospital is a cockroach infested, dirty, inhuman place. The overworked, under-resourced sisters in the burn ward are both victims and perpetrators of dehumanized life at its worst. One morning, while attending to my Father, I realized that the blood bottle was empty and fearing that air would go into his vein, I asked the attending nurse to change it. She bluntly told me to do it myself. In that horrible theater of death, I was in pain and frustration and anger. Finally when she relented and came, my Father opened his eyes and murmured to her, "Why have you not gone home yet?" Here was a man on his deathbed but more concerned about the overworked nurse than his own state. I was stunned at his stoic self.

There I learnt that there is no limit to how concerned you can be for another human being and what the limit of inclusion is you can create.

My father died the next day. He was a man whose success was defined by his principles, his frugality, his universalism and his sense of inclusion.

Above all, he taught me that success is your ability to rise above your discomfort, whatever may be your current state. You can, if you want, raise your consciousness above your immediate surroundings. Success is not about building material comforts - the transistor that he never could buy or the house that he never owned. His success was about the legacy he left, the memetic continuity of his ideals that grew beyond the smallness of a ill-paid, unrecognized government servant's world.

My father was a fervent believer in the British Raj. He sincerely doubted the capability of the post-independence Indian political parties to govern the country. To him, the lowering of the Union Jack was a sad event. My Mother was the exact opposite. When Subhash Bose quit the Indian National Congress and came to Dacca, my mother, then a schoolgirl, garlanded him. She learnt to spin khadi and joined an underground movement that trained her in using daggers and swords. Consequently, our household saw diversity in the political outlook of the two. On major issues concerning the world, the Old Man and the Old Lady had differing opinions.

In them, we learnt the power of disagreements, of dialogue and the essence of living with diversity in thinking.

Success is not about the ability to create a definitive dogmatic end state; it is about the unfolding of thought processes of dialogue and continuum.

Two years back, at the age of eighty-two, Mother had a paralytic stroke and was lying in a government hospital in Bhubaneswar. I flew down from the US where I was serving my second stint, to see her. I spent two weeks with her in the hospital as she remained in a paralytic state. She was neither getting better nor moving on. Eventually I had to return to work. While leaving her behind, I kissed her face. In that paralytic state and a garbled voice, she said,

"Why are you kissing me, go kiss the world." Her river was nearing its journey, at the confluence of life and death, this woman who came to India as a refugee, raised by a widowed Mother, no more educated than high school, married to an anonymous government servant whose last salary was Rupees Three Hundred, robbed of her eyesight by fate and crowned by adversity was telling me to go and kiss the world!

Success to me is about Vision. It is the ability to rise above the immediacy of pain. It is about imagination. It is about sensitivity to small people. It is about building inclusion. It is about connectedness to a larger world existence. It is about personal tenacity. It is about giving back more to life than you take out of it. It is about creating extra-ordinary success with ordinary lives.

Thank you very much; I wish you good luck and God's speed. Go! , kiss the world.

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2004-08-14T10:15:00.000-07:00

Man yesterday was an awesome day which I won't forget in my life. Actually I was not in a mood to write the exam on 13th night and then slept off with that very thought in my mind. So, I didn't care to adjust the alarm also. The exam was at 10 in the morn.

09:45 - I was sound asleep as I slept late in the night after watching a movie. I wouldn't have woke up if it wasn't for Nalli. He banged on my door as he wanted something. Luckily I got up then and I saw everyone writing the exam and moreover I came to know it was open and even I wanted to give a shot then. The PPT was at 10 and the exam was at 11. So, I got ready quickly and went to the seminar hall where to PPT was being conducted, I was late though. He took us thro' the same old PPT again, emphasizing on "This is the company" all the while throughout the PPT. As I was listening to what he was saying, there was this thought inside my brain that I will make thro' today. I donno how that strength came up... but it sure was there.

11:00 - Time for the written exam. We had to attempt 2 papers, one apti and one tech. The apti exam was first. It was for 40 minutes and we had 45 qns to answer. Those who qualified in the apti were eligible for the tech. evaluation. The tech. exam followed the apti and it went on for the same time as the apti but only this time we had 75 qns to attempt of which more than 60% of them were Greek and Latin to me. I was just writing the exam for the sake of writing it.

13:00 - The results are out. I was in the mess then, enjoying the food. The food was very good which was quite rare in the mess and I was arguing about something with my friends on the table and Nalli comes running telling us that all the 4 of us (Nalli, Bole, Assy, Me) got thro' to the GD round. Wow!! How the hell did this happen!! I immediately stopped eating, went to the room, changed back to my formal wear and raced off to the seminar hall where the GD was being conducted. 12 of us got selected for the GD round and we were divided into 2 groups.

13:30 - I reached the seminar hall. I was in the second panel, but as the participants in the first panel didn't turn out, I was asked to participate in the first panel itself. I was quite tensed as this is my first GD and I didn't had that much confidence in me and moreover I had people like Ankit, Vishal in my panel who are quite good at speaking. Anyways letz try our best, I thought. The topic was given which was "Cricket is becoming more spectator-frenzy now-a-days in India. Do u think we have to change out national sport from hockey to cricket?" Quite generic a topic. Thank god!! The GD went damn well. All of us spoke our points and it went great I must say and all of us were quite satisfied.

14:30 - The results of the GD were out and 8 of the 12 got selected for the interviews. Luckily again all the 4 of us made it to the interview. Wow!! This day was quite unexpected right from the morning. I was now afraid of the tech interview. I was goin thro' the slides of SE. Then I had to fill a form before goin to the interview and I had to paste a photograph which unluckily I didn't have. I went here and there searching for my photo and finally Poppy told me that there was a Polaroid photograph shop a\in IndraNagar. Akhil, Nalli and I raced off to the photo studio and got our pictures taken. We came back and by that time itself the interviews had started. Ankit was the first one to go in.

16:30 - It was my turn for the interview. There were two phases in the interview. One tech round and a HR round. I was quite confident about the HR thing but was very much afraid about Tech. The Tech round was first followed by HR. I took a deep breath and went in to face the panel. The panel consisted of 3 people. They asked me questions in Networks, OS, DBMS, C and DS. It went quite well, but not that well I must say. There was a paper in one of the interviewer's hand on which were written all the five streams and there was either a P or a X beside each of them at the end of the interview which I presumed them to be Pass for P and Fail for X. I peeked into the paper and saw 3 Ps and 2 Xs. Was that gud enough?? I donno. The tech interview went on for 30 minutes. It was quite a long one. Then, it was time for HR round immediately. The HR round went real gr88888888. I can boast of myself on this one. I really managed it very well. It went on for almost 35-40 minutes, the longest of all. At the end of the interview, they were very satisfied by my performance and I was almost sure about the job but again I had this fear in one corner of the heart.

18:30 - The interviews were completed and the results were out. I was in the Agri lab waiting for the mail of results. Then Pankaj Kumar Madhukar came over to the lab and called me and asked me to come to the NISG building as they had asked all those who qualified for the interview to assemble there for a small speech. My heart was punding heavily. Am I in or am I out?? By the time, I went there he was already addressing the gathering. He was saying all about how we all were good and stuff, an inspirational speech I must say. Then came the moment all of us were waiting for. He took a paper in his hand and then announced that only 2 of us got selected. That blasted a bomb in my heart. I thought I was out as I did my Tech interview pretty badly. Then he called out my name first among who got selected. Wow!!! My heart was running crazy with happiness. Thank god!! I got thro'. Finally the company which I was looking forward for. Ankit Bhargava was the second one. The entire interview panel congratulated us both. Then, he told both of us that we could come over to the office at anytime and can meet them. Man I am so happy. My happiness knew no bounds.

Then the day ended with the fresher's party. It was very gud. Had lotz of food. The dinner was verrrrrry tasty.

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1. Ravi Chandra aka R@gZ.
2. Ankit Bhargava.

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2004-08-14T09:40:00.000-07:00

Yipee!!!! I got into CSC. Man my dream of 25k per month salary hs finally come true. Yahoo!!! Now I earn 3.2 lacs per annum. Details will follow in the next post.

Hey world, here I come!!

2004-08-11T10:44:00.000-07:00

I guess some of u must have guessed by the title itself what this post will emphasize on!! U guessed it right.... itz my birthday today :d. Happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me, happy birthday dear ravi, happy birthday to me. hehe.

I was in the hostel only even on 10th... the thing which I normally don't do before my birthday with the fear of my friends giving me bumps. But then I had to stay back to complete my assignment.

It was 00:00 and the first one to phone and wish me was Eggy, my dear bro. I thought it would be my girl Archana.. but then she fell asleep. I never expected that he would call over and wish me. The second one to call was my love Archu. She sang the entire "Happy Birthday" song to me. It was cho chweet. Then people started to pour in the wishes in the form of sms and phone calls. It felt gr8!!

Woke up early in the morning... early in the sense at 7. Started for home and met P.K. Reddy sir on the way who wished me as well. It felt special as it was the first time in last 4 years tht a prof wished me on my birthday. Went home when it was the turn of my relatives who phoned up and wished me. Then I had my bath quickly and got ready to go to Archu's place. I wanted to spend this day with herand then come back. I still didnt buy my clothes. So, Archu and I thought of goin to shopping and thought of buying clothes @ 1 pair each and moreover v both thought of buying the same colors... cool na.

I went over to her house by 10:30 and then she was not well :(. So, this washed out our plans to go out. So, all v did was to hang at her house, but we did go to the restaurant to buy her her favorite dish... "Set Dosa"... she is a big deewani of it.. I mean she simply loves it. She doesn't eat anything else except that whenever I take her to the restaurant. Now thatz some consistency, rt? hehe. We then roamed around for a while (not long) as she loves to ride on the bike (as a pillion rider).

Then it was all over... the time had come for us to part as it was already evening and it was time for her parents to come over. This is what we normally do. I meet her at her house everytime as soon as her parents go to their office i.e. somewhere around 10 and then come back at the time when they return i.e. at 17:30. I do this because I really like being with her and therez no other method other than this to meet her as her parents are quite strict with her of letting her go out.

Then came back home and bought my new clothes on the way back and also got the cake which mom had ordered. It was a 1 kg Butterscotch cake ordered @ Bakers Inn. These people deliver some of the best and delicious cakes in the whole of the city. It was then time for the birthday bash. Not a bash actually, but more of a family get-together. Not many guests... only those from the family. I got ready and then blew the candles "21"... which signified I am 21 years old. Now that scared me a lot. 21 already?? I am becoming old very fast. :( The dinner followed the cake cutting and then all the formalities made their way. The party had come to an end and then I stayed back at granny's place where the party was held as I wanted to talk with Archu all night which I will not be able to do at my house as my other granny had come over and she would be sleeping in the same room which would rule out the possibility of me talking with Archu in the night.

As the dawn settled, one of the memorable days of my life dissolved into the dark. It was my first birthday which I celebrated along with my love Archu. Possibly if everything goes well... I will be spendin the rest of my birtdays with her as well. I guess u peeps understood what I meant.

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2004-08-08T05:24:00.000-07:00

Today morning I woke up at home and had to wake up early (i am stressing on this 'coz I wake up late when I am at home). Anyways I woke up at around 07:00 as I had a mock CAT exam today. It was being conducted by TIME. It was also free. hehe. So, decided to write the test even thought the preperation level was hitting the drains. I mean it just would be a practise or infact a kinda realization to me as how poor I am at CAT so that atleast then I would realize and then study some what... some kinda enlightment.

I went there to the centre which was at Urdu Hall, Himayatnagar... just a few metres from my school, St. Paul's High School... the place where I spent 12 years of my life. I reached to the centre quite early, which I know is quite awkward expecting from a person like me whoz always at the niche of time. I was getting bored and then thought of visiting my school which I hadn't done from many days. I remember that the last time I was at my school when I was in Inter-II year for the Annual Day of that year when there was a small reunion.

The first step into the high-school building of my x-school amazed me due to the massive amount of changes it had gone throught over the last 4 years. We had a volleyball court and a sand-court in the front which was entirely turned into a concrete ground. Our front ground was quite big. Then there was this big monument in front... I think it was that of St. Montfort. Then I went to the background where I could hear some people playing. I hoped to meet my P.T sir Sanjeeva Reddy who remembers me quite well. But then there were some grown-ups playing a game of cricket to relax themselves. The backyard had also gone throught many changes... The area below the ground was turned into a parking-area. It was closed for all the time I was in the school... Finally it is open for something useful. Then, I went into the school building, slowly approaching my favourite place in the school, the TT room. I still remember those days when I used to run to the room even when I had a fractional amount of free time. Unfortunately there were some people playing in the room but the door was locked. I couldn't even get a peep of the room.

It was time for the exam and I again went back to the exam center and by then lot of students had come. My friend Praneet was also writing this exam and we were supposed to meet today at the exam center after almost 8 months. I was actually looking forward for this meeting as I wanted to see how he had become. hehe. Well, he was right on time at 10 which left me no time to talk with him. He had come along with his friend. We just met and chatted for a few minutes and dispersed into our respective rooms. It was a very brief conversation. Then when I was sitting in my room, he smsed me to wait outside after the exam. Aah.. he wanted to meet me :d

The exam was a biiiiig bloop. It was a great disaster and a tragedy. It was the worst Mock CAT exam I ever gave. It all went so casual. I flunked it real bad. I guess I can add a looot more such adjectives but I can't find any. hehe. I met Praneet after the exam and we talked for a while but couldn't talk more as his friend was also there and she was waiting for him. After that the usual... go back home... sleep and eat.

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2004-08-06T08:15:00.000-07:00

Interesting day today!! Woke up in the morning only to note that Bole was suffering of high fever and PPandey was goin to police station to complain about his lost mobile phone. Poor fella!! Saw DVD wake up at the same time as v did and he was quite dejected as he missed the first lecture today which started at 08:30 in the morning and in which he was really interested.

Today Nalli woke up early to go to PT... he woke up at 06:00 people... isn't it a wonder.. that nalli wakes up so early... isn't it a wonder.... that nalli makes me cry!! hehe.

Well, Nalli and I thought of goin to the seminar today. I was quite ready to go until Nalli started a movie. He was like letz go.. wait a minute stuff... that one minute went on until v completed the entire movie. BTW the movie which kept us away from the seminar was "The Whole Ten Yards"... yes u guessed it right... itz the sequel of "The Whole Nine Yards". It was a funny movie.

Then I just whiled away some time until lunch and then had some food and sat down to learn LaTeX. I successfully learnt how to start and end the document and how one can use some built-in functions in LaTeX. Itz a good language. I always wanted to learn it from many days and I guess finally today is the day I am gonna start it!!

Today there was another tension running in my head. Assy had taken my Kinetic a couple of days ago and he didn't get it back to the campus that day as it was raining. He didn't get it till today and was quite lazy to move his ass to get the bike. Today finally I had to be rough with him as my bro was asking me for the Kinetic like a zillion times and I kept on saying "Assy is gonna get it". But he never delivered it home until today afternoon when someone from my dad's office went to akhil's dad office and got it. Thank god that the saga ended. It was a big tension for me apart from the existing tensions.

Then finally it was time for me to go to Archana. I promised her that I will meet her today exactly at 17:30 near her bus-stop. I was supposed to give her her new sim card today and at the same time spend some time with her. By virtue of bad-luck, the sim was in the Kinetic and I had to go home to get it. So, I went home from campus at around 13:30 and thought of goin to Archana from there itself. So, I reached home... had some delicious food... speaking abt food.. my mom makes the best food in the world... itz so tasty... i guess thatz the reason i am so fluffy hehe... so coming back to the scene... i had some food... met my bro... talked with him for a while and then finally started for Padma Rao Nagar where I was supposed to meet her at around 17:15. It was quite late by the time I reached there. She was already waiting for me from the last half an hour and she was kinda mad at me when I met her... but she cooled down when we went into Garunda restaurant and v finally ordered her favorite... SET DOSA.... she is a big deewani of it.

Whenever I go to a restaurant with her... I feel really gr8!! I mean I really like to spend time with her... When I am with her, I forget all my tensions... I feel as if I know nothing and noone except her. Itz such a gr8 feeling.. Itz really true.. U have to fall in love to experience it.... Itz the beeeest thing and the sweetest thing in the world. U might get criticized by ur friends that u cannot see any other gal and stuff like that but beleive me... itz the best thing in the world. After we ate our food and drank some juice we hung around for a while and then she had to go back to her home at around 19:00 as it was already late. I dropped her till her home almost. She asked me not to come till her home as she was afraid that someone might see both of us.

Came back to IIIT and then on the way came to know the happy news that Internet in her house is working and that shez gonna chat with me on MSN all tonight. Yipee!!! She even created her own id (kinda secret).

Quite a loooooooooooong day!!!

Salary time!!

2004-08-04T22:32:00.000-07:00

Today v r getting our salaries for the final month of our work for AgrIDS. It feels sad that I am leaving the team as I was in the team which developed the system from scratch. Itz my pet-project. But then I feel proud that the system has become so famous. And that itz showing ways to my juniors who can develop the system and make it function more efficiently.

Anyways I am not a part of the team anymore but am officially allowed to modify, edit, or advise the improvement of the system teill March 2005.

040804

2004-08-03T22:17:00.000-07:00

Man what the hell does Nita think of herself?? What the hell are these assignments all about?? Two assignments in a week!! Thatz like so many of them. Does she think v dont have any other subjects to study?? Two assignments submitted just two days back and another two of them for this week and look at the calculations... man v gotta talk to her. And each assignment carries a paltry 1 mark. This is the final year and I thought v ought to enjoy this year.. but itz already turning out to be a nightmare.

I always wonder.. Y does the gud things stop only with our seniors?? Like attendance exemption, a better grading system, lenient grades, and many more. What have v not done and they have done to deserve this?? This entire system suckzz. Itz high time the administration of IIIT is separated from faculty. I guess no other college in the world has the same staff for administration and faculty. I mean y the hell do the faculty want to administer as well. Y dont they do the job they ought to do. Y dont they just teach and get the hell outta here. They donno how to manage the college and each of them wants to be the head of hostels, mess, slc, name it...

Itz been three years and noone had ever dared to question the administration of its functioning. Whenever I say this to my friends, all they have to say is "First u stay in the campus".. Arey budhus!! As u only have said U r the ones who are staying in the campus not me!! It should matter more to u people than me... Can't u voice for urself??

Hope atleast the batches coming in will have a better administration and hope atleast after some years the faculty will realize that itz high time they change their policies!! God help IIIT!!

010804

2004-08-01T10:38:00.000-07:00

Woke up today with the thought of completing my first set of Biostatistics assignments which we had to submit today at 12 in the noon. I was clueless on what the assignment was all about. I had to go to college and then get someone else's assignment and as usual start copying it!! Copying is not that bad either. Not as bad as people think!! I guess it has its own pros and cons which I don't like to discuss now.

Successfully submitted the first assignment but had to do the second one on graphs... which obviously none of us had. Then Nalli came up with this brilliant idea.... we browsed the net and found a graph sheet and then took out the printouts of that... voila!! graph sheets are ready!! hehe. great minds at work!! Then did the second assignment in full rage and submitted that too. Then came the trouble of submitting the programs. Initially I thought of copying them too... then I donno y my mind changed and I actually sat down to do them and completed them in an hour or so!! Boy that felt good :d

Was in the Agri lab for entire day after doing the programs talking with Archu over the phone. The thing is we have a free phone down at Agri lab and once our prof goes home... u know what!! So, I normally call her from that phone and talk to her. not only her... but to my friends also.. like someone said "Once u have it, it is foolish not to use it!!" I do follow that. After all, all these sayings are meant to be followed!!

310704

2004-07-31T10:21:00.000-07:00

Saturday... jolly day!! I am full recovered from the dread of the accident and am ready to be on the move again. So just tried to go out and stretch my muscles to see if I was really ready to go out!! It worked out to be fine. Luckily v have a placement break. Otherwise god knows how many companies I would have missed out!! I am actually waiting for CSC to come over. Hope I get into that.

Today holds key to 2 special events. One, itz our senior's convocation. Two, CM of AP is gonna visit me (wanna know y??... read on!!)

Today is the day when out seniors graduate and v officially become the senior most batch in the college (i mean among the undergrads). I had many gud friends in that batch and I am happy that all of them got what they wanted. Those who wanted jobs got jobs and those who wanted to go for higher studies got admissions into some of the best institutes and universities around the world (not all of them, though!!). CM of AP, Y.S. Rajshekhar Reddy, was the chief-guest along with Central Minister for IT, Dayanidi Maran (a Tamilian). Whenever I think of him... I envy that Chennai will be in the lead of the IT rat-race.

The second special event was that Mr. YSR had agreed to visit AgrIDS lab to see our project and was to spend atleast 20 minutes. That was really awesome actually. A CM coming to visit my project. WOW!! Never even dreamt of tht. He came in the afternoon and was accompanied by few bodyguards who filled the room with their sten-guns and there were also some sniffer dogs before he had come to check the building. Man, these people get so much security!! Z+ category I guess!! He was patient with us and he listened to the explaination of our project given by our prof for around 10-15 minutes and he saw the web-portal which was designed by us. We were honoured.

Today was a dream come true. Meeting a CM personally. I hardly ever thought of it. Worked very hard for the meeting (not me though!! :p). Hope to see our pet-project grow to heights and touch new boundaries.

Accident Day - II

2004-07-29T06:44:00.000-07:00

Today was the second day after the accident and luckily I was recovering quite fast than I expected. Today was a veryyyy dull day as I was home all day switching around channels in the TV not having a clue what to watch!!

There was a phone call from Venkat (the Kinetic owner) that he had given the Kinetic at Nandu workshop and was asking me to shell out money for the repairs... the main problem was the huge bill which was amounting to 3500 bucks. Man where will I get this much from!! Luckily I had 1600 bucks which I had earned and was safe with Archu. I knew that I would spend it if I would have it with me and so I kept it with Archu. So, that would manage 1600 bucks but what about the rest!!!

Then Venkat phoned me back again after an hour saying that the bill was only 3000 bucks which gave me a relief and he also added that he would be helping me by giving 500 bucks from his side. Thank god!! Thatz 1000 bucks less in all. So, now I had to search for only 900 bucks which was also quite a big amount!! I can't ask dad as I told him that I was not the one who was driving the vehicle at the time of accident. Then, I remembered Patke aka Pat and luckily he agreed to help me by giving 600 bucks.

So, today was a loss making day :( I just lost 2500 bucks out of my hand for one silly move. Maybe this is called LIFE.

Placement Season - XI

2004-07-28T06:22:00.000-07:00

Day 10 - 28/07/2004

Schedule:
10:00 - 11:00 - Kanbay test
14:00 - 19:00 - Kanbay Interviews

Today also was a dull day and I moreover I am at my house now after that accident which occured yesterday!! Man those bad memories still haunt me!! I cant beleive that I was involved in an accident. Theek.. what to do.. no use to think of it now... i can't rewind back the accident scene naa.

So, todayz info is the one i got thro e-mails. I donno what exactly happened at the insti.. so i would just give the list of the shortlisted candidates.

Kanbay

1. Ankit Kumar aka Kaka
2. Asheesh Pandey
3. Sheik Imran Ahmed aka Patley
4. Kumar Gaurav
5. Paritosh Pandey aka PP

Finally PP has made it man!! He was so frustu abt the placements from the time he didn't make it into TCS. Thank god finally he made it.

Pay Packet - 2.16 lacs per annum

Placement Season - X

2004-07-27T06:20:00.000-07:00

Day 9 - 27/07/2004

Schedule: HOLIDAY!!!!

Today is a holiday... holiday to the gruelling placement scenario... a well-deserved holiday to all those who worked real hard throughout the placement process... a welcome holiday for Padmaja Ma'm and Jaya...

So... today my blog remains closed!!

Holiday is for the placements.. but not for me!! Today is a black Tuesday in my life. Today is the day which I wouldn't even have dreamt of. Today is the day when I was involved in an accident. Not a major one... but even then accident is an accident.. i am ashamed of myself... how could i ever have done this... and moreover this is not my bike... it was my friend Venkat's!!

It was raining all day today... all day mean 24 hours people not even a small gap. Bole wanted to buy a new sim card for his phone as he wanted to make use of the new Hutch offer which was in town which allowed to make any five hutch numbers for free with a daily rental of only 85 paise per number and also unlimited sms to cell phones for a daily rental pf Rs. 1. So, even I wanted to get my hands on that offer even though I had one.. I wanted to get one for Archu.

It was somewhere around 15:00 in the afternoon and the rain has somewhat slowed down. So, we took Venkat's bike and were on our way to the Banjar Hills Hutch outlet. We were near L.B. Prasad Eye institute when the accident happened. I was as usual going at around 40 (low speed because I am afraid of fast driving in rain) and all of a sudden the maruti car in front of me braked suddenly and to avoid dashing him I turned the bike towards left and to my utter bad luck there was a wagonR in front of the maruti and he was making a U-turn... and what else... BANG!! I hit him and the next thing I knew I was lying on the road and my right foot was under the left front wheel of the car and I was shouting him to take his car back which he did immediately luckily!! The first thought which came to my mind was... did I get any fractures or did I make it safe!! Then the passersby and Bole helped me to get up and made me sit on the footpath. Thank god!! I was able to walk well... that means no fracture.

But I had a severe pain at my right thigh... Luckily there was no sign of fracture but there was a severe muscle pull. The passersby had stopped the car which I had hit saying that it was his mistake and they made me sit in the car and demanded the car-owner to take me to the nearest hospital which they did promptly. So, the car-owner took me to the hospital in Panjagutta's Sai Baba temple and after that bought me the medicines which the doc had prescribed and then dropped me home. He was a very nice guy. If any other person would have been there in his place... he would have gone against me only and also would have asked me to shell out money for the damage of his car.

So, I came home and luckily as I was able to walk quite well... parents didn't get scared. Man this was a black day for sure.

Placement Season - IX

2004-07-26T10:04:00.000-07:00

Day 8 - 26/07/2004

Schedule:
10:00 - 11:00 - Wipro Exam
13:00 - 18:00 - Wipro Interviews

A very lazy day for me infact a dull day too!! I thought today CSC would be making its way to the campus.. but to my utter dismay it was Wipro for which I didnt have a chance to write as I was already selected to TCS which falls in the same category as Wipro. And moreover today was the last day I could get an attendance exemption... So gotta enjoy today a looot. How?? Sleep till u want to and then get up and waste time.. so simple and cheap right?? hehe. i know... i am a GENIUS!!

10:00 - Wipro conducted itz exam directly 'coz if one can remember it gave its PPT on 18th July itself. Clever eh?? So, the exam kicked off at 10:00 and quite a few would be writing as the eligibility for todayz test was only for persons with no job uptil now. So, I guess there were only some 15 or so left from B.Tech who fell in that category and quite a good number in M.Tech. Gotta see how many of them would be placed today..

12:00 - The results came in. There was not so much hulla-gulla today as many of them were happily sleeping after crazy sunday night and those who were up were busy brushing their teeth and stuff coz it was only 12 my dear.

13:00 - The interview kicked off and all of them who got selected made their way to the same NISG building again. This was when I woke up. hehe. But all those who got selected were fully dressed up in their formals and were going and I managed to wish some of them good luck!!

19:00 - The interviews got ended around an hour ago and though the results didn't come out officially... there was some hush going on in the corridor on who got selected and stuff. I donno how these people manage to get that info before others do... man they are gud at it.

20:00 - The results are out finally. And the wiproites are....

Wipro

1. Arvind Kumar Tiwary aka Tiwary
2. K.S. Karthik aka Kasak
3. Manas Kumar Baruah
4. Manoj Kumar V aka Majji
5. Manjeet Bothra aka Bothra
6. Pankaj Kumar Madhukar aka Madhukar
7. Piyush Bhargava aka Peeyosh
8. Sourabh Raheja aka Rajju

All phodus rt?? What can they do?? Itz their badluck that they didnt get selected before only but they do deserved to get selected before only.

Pay packet - 2.16 lacs

Placement Season - VIII

2004-07-25T10:42:00.000-07:00

Day 7 - 25/07/2004

Schedule:
09:00 - 10:30 - IBM PPT
11:00 - 12:30 - IBM GIS and Development sector exam
02:30 - 21:30 - IBM Interviews

08:30 - Knock Knock!! Damn!! I was in middle of a wonderful dreaaam. Whoz that disturbed me?? Damn it!!! It was Eric. He woke me up and asked me to attend the IBM PPT though I was not looking to partitipate in IBM placements. It seemed that there was very less number of people and I was asked to come along for atleast the PPT if not a dummy for the test. Ok... letz go, I thought. Dressed up and went away to the seminar hall where the PPTs are usually held (I brushed my teeth of course).

09:00 - The PPT could not start on time due to some problem in the over-head projector in the seminar hall. So, had to check out for an alternate place and room no. 104 it was. Finally, everyone were asked to go to 104.

09:30 - Aah!! Projector working... sound working... everything was fine. The PPT started and man beleive me it was the boring I ever saw. Those guys seem to be pure techies and they were not even able to speak well. First of all they were not loud and next of all he was talking so fast as if he had a fire on his bum. ha ha. It went on for another hour. In the meantime Eric who had requested me to come to the PPT had vanished himself. He went home!!! Oh no!! That idiot!! He woke me up and he vanished off. That double-crosser!! Wait till I get my hands on him.

11:00 - The test was about to start. As soon as the PPT was finished at 10:30 Padmaja ma'm was after me to write the test and I was quite reluctant on doing do as I wanted to try my luck at CSC. And she started yelling at me and my attitude. Man, what the hell does she think. She can't a student mentality man. She just can't. She thinks she should always be correct even though shez not. She suckzzzzzzzzzz. Anyways the test started and I didn't want to write this one, not even for practice. There were two tests goin on. One for GIS and the other for Development. They were looking for some 3 or 4 students for dev. Assy was giving the test hoping to get placed in Dev. Letz see what happens. Best of luck people!!

12:30 - The test got finished finally and everyone came out and the paper was not tough. So, everyone had high expectations on themselves. hehe. Everyone should have that, rt?? Everyone were back to their rooms... had their lunch and voila!! the results are out at 13:30. Some disappointed and some happy... this is the usual scene one gets to see during the placements, rt? So, all who made it thro' to the interviews had a big grin on their faces and left for the NISG building.

14:30 - The interviews kicked off. I was not there at the venue.. so I don't exactly know what was happening there,

22:00 - The results were out and the results were quite evident though some unexpected names and stuff.. anyways the people who got thro' were:

IBM Software Labs

1. Abhinav Darbari aka Abhinav
2. Sanyam Sharma aka Sam
3. Swati Agarwal

IBM Global Services

1. Aditya Maheshwari aka Maheshwari
2. Akhil Kodali aka Assy
3. Bhavani Sankar aka Bavs
4. Parivesh aka Gendey
5. Shekhar Dwivedi aka Sunny
6. Sireesh B aka Poo
7. Suman Yelati aka Suman
8. Sushant Pandey

Assy made it again but at the wrong place. He wanted to go for ISL but got stuck in IGS (poor fella!!).

Congrats people!!!

Pay packet - 2.5 lacs for IBM Global Services
2.75 lacs for IBM Software Labs

Placement Season - VII

2004-07-24T10:46:00.000-07:00

Day 6 - 24/07/2004

Schedule:
09:00 - 18:00 - TCS Interviews
14:00 - 19:00 - Verizon Interviews

08:00 - Yaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwnnnnnnnn!!!! Woke up kinda late today even though I had an two interviews to attend. hehe. Quite confident na!!! Well, my first interview, that of TCS, was at 14:00 and the second one, that of Verizon, was at 16:00. I was kinda confident that I would get through both of them and I was happy that I had to attend no more PPTs 'coz if I would get selected for both of them... I am out of placements. Yaaar!! After all I would b having two jobs naa!! Let others also try.

10:00 - My friend Vishnu aka Eric who also had two interviews came to my room after a short vigilation of the TCS interviews which had started at 09:00. He said that the interviews were goin on well and the questions were verrrrrry easy. That jubiliated me a lot!! Thanks man!!

11:45 - I get a call from AC saying that those who all have both the interviews are asked to come now to give the TCS interview. I was kinda tensed. Though I was confident that I would make it through this sudden rush of adrenalin after hearing that the interview as in another 15 minutes kinda made me tensed up. But it's ok!! Anyhow I have to attend it sometime. Got dressed up QUICKLY and reached the NISG building where the interviews were taking place in 5 minutes.

12:00 - AC is not to be seen anywhere. Chandana was the incharge of the TCS interviews. He said that my interview would be on schedule. Damn!!! That AC fella' made me run to the building. I didn't even comb my hair properly. Anyways my interview was in another 2 hours. So, I waited there and I was asking all the people who had already attended the interview about the pattern of qns they were asking. And then it struck to me that I had to make an essay for the Verizon interview. The other day I was going thro' a previous paper of Verizon and the topic given to them was "What value(s) of yours will help Verizon". So, I thought that v would also b asked the same topic and wanted to prepare for that. So, I made some points which I later gave it to Bole as he had his Verizon interview at 13:00 itself.

14:00 - Time for my TCS interview!! I get up and walk up to Chandana aka Chandu if I could go in. He says... Wait on man!! Urs is at 16:00. What??? Damn it. First u say it's at 12:00 then 14:00 and now 16:00... What on earth is happening?? How much more time I had to wait there and moreover I had my Verizon interview at that time. Then he said that my Verizon interview would be postponed appropriately. OK!!! Bole comes out and with this black bag in his hand on which is written in bold letters "VERIZON" with a red Z. He was kinda dejected 'coz he didn't do that well in the interview. Though he helped me out by leaking the topic of the essay which was "If u had to convince ur placement officer to get ur company onto the campus on the first slot. How would u do that? And how would u also convince ur company to visit ur insti?" Kinda easy qn. I though to myself. Then I was also releived after hearing that the interview was mostly HR. Thank God!!

16:00 - Tatangggg..!!!! Time for my TCS interview. I was assigned to the second panel (three in all) which by far was said to be the coolest panel. Lucky me!!! Went in to the room. There were two gentlemen who were the techies and a HR lady. Started off with the usual "Tell me about urself". Man this interview went sooooooo well. I mean I had full control over my interview. WOW!!! The interview ended in 30 minutes. They asked about me, my projects, my area of interest (I told them Web designing and they were pleased), AgrIDS project, SE among others. It went damn well!! The last part of the interview was the interesting part.

HR: Well, Ravi have u got ur passport ready??
Me: No, ma'm.
HR: Before joining the company get it ready.
Me: (Wow will I be sent to US or what??) Ok ma'm.
HR: Do u have any location preference Mr. Ravi?
Me: No ma'm anywhere in India would be fine for me. Even abroad.
She laughed when I said that.
HR: Even in Andoman & Nicobar Islands or Lakswadeep?
Me: Do u have a branch there too ma'm?
She again laughed at this.
HR: If we do start a branch there in the future, would u?
Me: Of course ma'm. I would have a great time over there. It will be a new experience. I will have so many beaches all around me and I would have a good time.
HR: Wow!! Good!!
Techie #1: What about Antarctica?
Me: Sir!! That would be the best thing that could happen to anyone. I mean how many of them would get a chance to go to a place like that. I would be all alone, all the island left at my mercy, no traffic, no sound, nothing!! It would be really cool sir.
All the three laugh at this and one of the techie pats me.
HR: Ok Ravi, nice talking to u!! U may go now.
Techie #2: Wait, wait!! Don't let him go. We will make him sign the bond now itself. Or else he will slip off our hands.
All of them smiled.
Me: Don't worry sir. I would come back to u only. Where will I go leaving such a huuge company.

They were very satisfied with me and I knew then only that I would get selected. Thank God!! It went well.

18:00 - Time for my Verizon interview!! Very nervous. I was led into a chamber where I had to write my essay. The topic was the same one as mentioned above. I was given the qn. paper and a white sheet by the HR lady of Verizon. I was given half an hour time to complete the essay. I wrote a whole page and I though it won't be good if I took another page and write on it. So, I submitted my essay in about 15 minutes and then I was led into another chamber where all my friends who had given their essay and were waiting for their interview. I was kinda nervous even though I knew that the interview would be mostly HR and I can make it throught easily. All the time, one single thing was running thro' my mind. What if I get selected into Verizon?? Would I have to go to Chennai?? The place I never ever wanted to go in my life!! Well, letz see what happens.

18:45 - I was called by the HR lady and I was guided into one of the interview panel chamber. The panel had only a single person. He seemed lot cool to me. I though I could make it off. The interview started off well and he asked me some very critical questions. He asked me to debate on the topic "Give me strong reason why Ravi Chandra should not get a job on Verizon". What?? What can I say about myself I mean what negative I can say about myself. Should I reveal my negative points. What the hell I should do??? Oh God!! I could hardly tell some two points. Then it went on well for another half an hour. I was answering all the questions he was asking me. Then I screwed up majorly at the end.

Interviewer: Do u read newspapers??
Me: Yes sir, I do.
Interviewer: Regularly??
Me: Yes sir.
Interviewer: Can u tell me what was today's headline?
Me: Sir, I was kinda busy today with ur interview. I mean I was getting prepared for it. So, I couldn't read the new today.
Interviewer: Well then, how about yesterday's headlines?
Me: (Oh boy!! I am caught!!) Sorry sir I can't remember. I do remember the sports news. Sri Lanks won over Bangladesh.
Interviewer: Ravi, do u think u r true to urself?
Me: (What should I answer?? Yes or No??) ........................................................... No, sir, not always.

Damn it was quite evident then itself that I have screwed it. Why the hell did I say YES. Y didn't i say NO!!! I repented a lot. It was that last few minutes that screwed my entire interview which was goin very well uptil then. Well, whatz happened is happend. Atleast I am happy that I don't have to go to Chennai anymore. I was given a bag as a complimentary gift for making it thro' till the interview round.

20:30 - The results are out officially!! I am selected in TCS. Flunked in Verizon which was quite certain. anyways I am into TCS now. happy at last. moreover I get to stay at Hyd and all my friends. Nalli, Bole, Bavs all are into TCS. Atleast I have them with me. Nalli was very happy and so was Bole. Finally all of us are at one place again. Yippppeee!!!! The payp package is 2.16 lac and a two year bond. We even have sabbaticals which most of the companies don't offer.

21:30 - Party time people!! We are no more job-hunters!! Nalli and Bole went out to RB to feast. I didn't go 'coz I was already tired and thought of appearing for IBM tomorrow. So, wanted to study. Then after they left I had realized that I had the chance to sit for only one more company. So, then I decided not to sit for IBM. Went to canteen along with Jenny and Ranjith. On the way I met Nalli's parents. They had come here to meet him and to congratulate hin on his success. Bad luck!! He had gone out. talked with them for 20 minutes or so. They bought 3 shirts for Nalli on the way here. They gave it to me to give it to him and then left. They were very happy. I had phoned up even to my parents and my gal and alllll of them were very happy!!!

The list of selected candidates today is:
(Alphabetical Order)

TCS

1. Abhishek Anand aka Anand.
2. Bhavani Sankar aka Bavs.
3. Gaurav Kumar aka Pappu.
4. Janardhan aka Jenny.
5. Kartika aka KT.
6. Manjusha.
7. Pradeep Kumar Beerla aka Bole.
8. Ravi Chandra (thats me!!!) aka R@gz.
9. Ravi Shankar aka Nalli.
10. Satya Lahari aka Lahari.
11. Shadab.
12. Sireesh aka Poo.
13. Vinod Reddy aka Pondy.
14. Vishnu aka Eric.

Verizon

1. Ajay Bedi aka Bedi.
2. Akhil Goel aka Goel.
3. Arvind Upadhyay aka Upadhyay.
4. Jayaram aka Jaya.
5. Manjusha.
6. Nipun.
7. Ramneek Singh aka Ramneek.
8. Satya Lahari aka Lahari.
9. Sreejith aka Boo.
10. Utkarsh.
11. Vishnu Praveen aka Eric.

Thatz it for today folks!! Veerrrry tired.

Placement Season - VI

2004-07-23T06:04:00.000-07:00

Day 5 - 23/07/2004

Schedule:
12:00 - 13:00 - Verizon PPT
13:30 - 15:00 - Verizon Written Test

02:00 - Yes people!!! The day started as early as 02:00 in the morning. Woke up early as I wanted to prepare for Verizon whole-heartedly. Today Verizon was coming over and I was looking forward for it with all my eyes!! So, got up and studied all the way till 07:00. hehe. Beleive me!!!

08:00 - Slept again as I was really sleepy. Woke up again at 09:00 for Verizon PPT which was scheduled at 10:00. Filled the TCS form for some time. It was so biiig that it would gonna take me a considerable amount of time to fill it. hehe.

10:00 - Got ready and went to the seminar hall (old library) where the PPT was supposed to take place. Damn!! Whatz this!! All still outside. I thought I was only late. As usual the company people are late again. Thank god!! Sometimes I really wonder... when they are only not following time rules, then can v break the time rules if v get into that company. Hope the answer is yes!! Well, tell me people I can't hear anyone of ya!!

12:00 - Ah!! Finally they are here and the PPT is about to start. got my fresh copy of resume with some editing done to the previous version. Anyhow their cutoff was as low as 60% and mine was 71% originally itself. So y the hell change it and fall in trouble?? So, left it back to the old original one.

13:00 - The PPT finally ended and the test was about to commence in another 30 minutes at the new seminar hall in the same building where our AgrIDS lab was situated. Raced off to the exam hall and took my seat as usual at the last (so that I can copy...pssttt... don't tell anyone). Nalli was beside me. I observed this very strange trend that has been goin on with me. It all started with the Oracle test on the first day of our placements. Pam and Kunal were sitting on either side of me that day. And they both selected for the interview and ultimately they got placed. It again happened in the same way for CA. Patke and Jags were sitting on either side of me and guess what... yes people even they got their jobs after a damn tough competition. Y o Y god!! Y r u leaving me in the middle. Mujhe bhi ek job dilaadey!! So, today thought of sitting in the corner so that I would have only one neighbour and the other neighbout luck might favor me!!! hehe. just an idiotic superstition. Anyways silent everyone!! The test is about to start...

13:30 - The test finally starts. Wow what is this!! 4 sections and only 10 tech questions.. cool.. this company is really cool and these people are also really cool... The first section tested our verbal ability. There were 20 questions and we were given 20 minutes time to complete this section. Next section tested our mathematical skills and there were 20 questions which we were supposed to complete in 30 minutes. This section was also quite easy!! All basic mathematics. The third section consisted of reasoning ability which is a very important testing factor for a good person. It had 20 questions and we had to answer them in 20 minutes. The fourth section was tech and we had to answer 10 questions in 15 minutes. Damn!! I guess I cracked the paper. Oh god!! Please lemme get selected for the interview. Plzzzz and more importantly please gimme a job alsoooo. Plzzzzzzzzzzz.

15:00 - The test has finally come to an end. I guess I did the test quite ok-ok. Lemme see if I will get qualified or not!! I swear I will work damn hard for the interview if I get thro' the written test. I am gonna get this job however!!! I am gonna get it. Just see people I am gonna do it.

17:30 - The results are out. I was busy talking on the phone with my gal. I totally forgot about the results. I was so involved in talking with her. hehe. she makes me forget time ra. Anyways someone knocked the door as usual and vola!! Kasak tells me that I got selected for the interview. Yahooooooo!!! I got selected. They selected 28 out of 110 and I am one among them. 24 among them are from B.Tech and the rest are from M.Tech. BTW Bole also got selected. Congrats man!!! Congrats to me too!! hehe. Wow I am definitely good at this. Now I gotta put my ass to study and somehow get thro' to Verizon. Verizon... here I come.

Gotta study now... Bye!!

Placement Season - V

2004-07-22T09:08:00.000-07:00

Day 4 - 22/07/2004

Schedule:
10:00 - 12:00 - Novell PPT
12:30 - 13:30 - Novell Written Test
14:30 - 21:00 - Novell Interviews

Novell, the dream company of all linux geeks made its way to campus today to share its pie of students from IIIT. All the toppers were aiming at it and one guy whom I would like to mention specially is Anubhav Agarwal coz hez one guy who was set at his goal company, Novell. He didnt try for even one ocmpany from day 1 and he was focussed only on Novell and he was like Novell or no othe company. Hats off man!!!

06:30 - Morning call from my gal. Woke me up to say she was goin to college. Talked with her for half an hour. All the usual stuff and of course end the conversation with a sweeet kiss. hehe. She actually phoned me up to check out the JNTU site for some online internal pattern confirmation.

07:00 - Woke up Nalli and I slept off :d

09:00 - Nalli woke me up and he was all in a hurry to attend Novell PPT. I had no hopes on this company. I mean I was not that interested to attend this company. Nah!! Its not ma' type. So, I sat coolly munching on my biscuits.

10:00 - Novell PPT started for which of course I was not there. As usual Bole and Nalli were late and Bole was kicked out. hehe.

12:30 - Test commences and Novell was prepared only for 70 students and Padmaja, our placement officer, had to send away some people and Bole was targeted again. Poor dude!!! Don't worry ra thatz not the company for dudes like us!!!

13:30 - Nalli and Assy walk down the corridor to my room and bang my door and there they were standing as if they had conquered the whole world. They had come after giving the test which of course was damn easy (as told by both of them). Biiiiiig smiles on their faces. But they were kinda decided already in their mind that they were not gonna make it. So, no problemo!!!

14:00 - The results of written test were out and a total of 15 students were shortlisted out of 70 for the interview.

14:30 - Interview commence!!! I decide to take my FYP along with Vam. We were discussing seriously about that. So, I was advicing on what courses to take and which ones to drop as tomorrow is a add-drop-course day.

16:30 - Finally, out of my room today heading toward AgrIDS lab to pursue something, to study something for tomorrow's test. I have to get somehow into that tomorrow. I have to!! I gotta!! GOOOOOOOOODDDDDDDDDD plzzzzzzz help me!!!!!!! Also in the mid-way stopped at the insti building and wanted to get my 10th and 12th marks certificates attested by dean but appaji said that it would take an entire day and so thought of getting them attested by Padmaja itself. By the way they were for TCS interview.

21:30 - The day just flew. The main purpose for me to go to AgrIDS lab was to study there as my comp was not working in my room. But from the moment I reached there I was assigned some work or the other. Damn it!!! Finally I was frustu and went out for dinner along with Veera. Thoka mavaa was waiting outside along with Bole. Thoka was leaving for Delhi. So bid him goodbye and went out and had some noodles along with Veera. Buy the time I came back the results of Novell were out and 4 of them made through. The list includes:

1. Piyush Janwadkar
2. Jagannathan L
3. Anubhav Agarwal

All phodus right?? Congrats!!!! Thank god!!! Jaggu is finally selected. Now lemme study for tomorrow. Atleast lemme get a job tomorrow.

Placement Season - IV (contd...)

2004-07-21T10:15:00.000-07:00

22:30 - Hey the results are out finally. Yipppeeee!!!!! I got selected. Even Nalli and Bole got selected. Infact almost all got selected. hehe. Thatz gr8!!! Thanks TCS for selecting so many for the interview. Hope u continue this saga until the interviews. Hope v will see ourselves places in TCS. Everyone's happy. Thank GOD!!

The stats are like this - total 54 selected of which 24 are B.Tech, 13 from MSIT and the rest from M.Tech. Cooooooooool, rt?

There are three panels for the interview and all of us have been divided equally among the panels. Bole and I have been assigned to the second panel and Nalli to the third but all of us have our interviews at the same time i.e. at 14:00 on 24/07/2004. I hope I remember that day throughout my life.

So, finally results out - everyone happy - good night!!!

Placement Season - IV

2004-07-21T05:41:00.000-07:00

Day 3 - 21/07/2004

Schedule:
10:30 - 12:00 - TCS PPT
14:30 - 16:30 - TCS Test for Batch I
16:30 - 18:30 - TCS Test for Batch II

Yeah people, fourht day it is. After three days of high-tension drama, fourth day makes way for TCS. Welcome TCS!! Hope atleast you take some considerable number of students. TCS is the first billion dollar company in India. Itz training is regarded to be the best in the country among all the IT companies and it is said that u can survive anywhere if u r able to survive at TCS. Man, itz some company!!!

08:00 - Yawwwwwwn!!!!! Indeed itz a good morning. Looking forward for TCS but no preparation at all. Socha!! Theeka hain letz go directly for atleast one exam. Lingered around in the corridor for some time. Listened to some songs on Bole's PC. Was not feeling like to go to TCS PPT. But then Bole came over and said there might not be many number of students and there might be some attendance. So, had to go.

09:00 - I was there on time at the Old Library where the PPT was supposed to take place. But what do I hear?? They are not yet here and PPT is gonna start at 10:30. Damn those TCS guys!!! No time sense at all. Then I thought.. Man good company no time ethics so even we can skip work on time hehe... this is just a thought though, this doesnt happen practically.

10:30 - Thank god!! Finally it started after a loooooong wait. PPT went on well. Was sleeping for most of the time except in the end when the slide about pay packet came. hehe. They were offering us a package of 2.16 lacs per annum (gross). This was good enough.. atleast better than Infy. At the end a clipping of life at TCS was shown where they showed employees during their training period at Trivandrum, Kerala. It was cool.. the video enlightened some of the spirits. For the first time the thought of joining TCS had become strong in my mind.

12:00 - End of PPT. Jayaram read out the names of those in the first batch and those in the second batch. The test for first batch was supposed to start at 12:30 but as usual keeping up the Indian standards, the test started at 14:30. And as usual I had to wait. In the meantime, I came to know about the test pattern of TCS. They were gonna conduct two tests. The first test consists of three sections. The first section consisted of verbal testing, second one tested us at Quant and the third one on Logic. Each section had a separate time limit. If we cleared this... we were eligible to the psychometric test. Yes people!! U heard it right!! PSYCHOMETRIC test. This is for testing ur mentality and to test whether one is fit to get into the company. Then a thought struck my mind on how we would know immediately abt our performance in the first test. Then I came to know that the test would be online. Man they are surely into tech!!

14:30 - Test started. Nalli and I sat beside each other. We thought of helping each other. But wait!! Each of us has a different set. Intelligent infact!! Anyhow this ruled the possibility of helping each other as we didnt have enough time to coplete our paper only!! In the middle I was peeping into Nalli's paper and wanted to ask him for a formula... the invigilator saw me and warned me not to do that again... hehe. After that completed the test. Qualified in the first one and then went on to give the psychometric test immediately. V had to answer 120 questions in 30 minutes. Thought it would be damn tough!! But at the end I was left with 15 minutes. I think I know a lot about myself!! hehe.

16:30 - Test finished finally. Headed back to room along with Nalli. And then after that as usual "sollu" for some time and then thought of how to prepare for tomorrow's Novell test. Well, the results are gonna be out in a while. gonna blog then again.

Placement Season - III

2004-07-20T08:58:00.000-07:00

Day 2 - 20/07/2004

Schedule:
11:45 - 01:15 - CA Test
02:30 - 21:30 - CA Interview

Third day already and tension building up in the campus about placements as expected number of students did not get placed in the two companies that have come. People were more afraid as Infy, the mass recruiter in any campus, took only 12 students compared to a whooping 50 last year. This created a wave of tension among the hostels. So, the present statistics state that only 19 out of 130 students sitting for placements have got jobs.

Today is the day when CA, Computer Associates make their way to the campus. Everyone has high hopes on it as it is paying a lucrative pay-packet of 3.5 lacs. So, everyone obviously is eyeing at that. All the 120 students sat for the test (120 because all those who got thro Infy also sat for the test).

11:40: The test kicked off and everyone were seriously going thro the question papers on how to crack it. There were three papers. The first paper tested the students in concepts of OS/Networks/DBMS. The second paper tested the concepts of Unix/Windows. 40 questions in both of them and we were given an hour time to complete them.

12:45: The third test kicked off. V had a choice of C/C++/Java and I opted for C. There were 30 questions and v were given 30 minutes to complete it. Man the paper was so lengthy that I hardly was able to cover all the questions. It was quite easy though.

The test ended. Everyone back to their rooms. I had some hope of making it thro' the test and so I was brushing up my knowledge in Networks. And I prepared sometime for HR.

14:40: Voila!! The results are out and guess what!!! I made it. I really did make it. I couldnt beleive my eyes at all. Oh thank god!! And whatz this?? My interview at 14:30!! Oh no!! It was already 14:40 and I was in my shorts relaxing. Quickly I changed my clothes and rushed to the NISG building. I was quite shabby.... didn't shave, didn't wear a tie, rushed to the buiding with my file full of certificates.

15:00: Reached the NISG building and had to give an explaination on y I was late. Later, I was made to sit for a while and during that time was reharsing on what I would say when they asked me "Tell me about urself".

15:15: I was called in to the room by a person. I was all tensed when he called me and I was sweating so heavily that I could have filled up a bucket. Went in to the room. The interviewer seemed to be quite cool in the beginning. As I expected he asked me to tell him about myself which I did quite confidently for around 15 minutes. Then he asked me about my AgrIDS project. Then he asked me a couple of puzzles and a couple of questions in Perl and a question in C which I flunked. I was asked to reverse a string without using a temporary variable which I could not do. Then he asked me to code a B-Tree in C++. What the fuck?? Code a B-Tree?? Does he think I am a machine or what!!! It took me two weeks to understand a downloaded version of the B-Tree code and he is asking me to code it right in front of him. I tried for a while and told him that I couldn't and he asked me if I had any questions. I asked a question about his company. And he poiltely asked me to leave.

Thatz it!! Itz gone!! Bomabrded!! I was out of the interview. Damn!! I had some hopes of getting a job in CA and all my wishes just flew away.

I waited a while outside the buiding hoping they would call me in for the second round of interview but in vain. Then I came back to the room and I was kinda sad that I couldn't make it thro' the interview but on other hand was quite happy that I made atleast this far. I mean come on man I was among the 30 people who got selected in the written test. I think I just don't have that edge. I guess like always "Better Luck Next Time".

This time M.Tech had an upper hand over B.Tech students. 6 from B.Tech and 8 from M.Tech were selected after a zillion rounds of interview. The B.Tech students who were selected include:

1. Amit Chaturvedi aka AC
2. Sandeep Chandana aka Chandu
3. Patnaik aka Patke
4. Jagadeesh aka Jags
5. Durga Prasad J aka DP
6. Chaitanya Reddy aka Patti

Congrats guys!! U made it into one of the best companies. Hope u have a gud future. As of me!! I am again trying for TCS tomorrow. Letz see how lady luck will favor me!!

Placement Season - II

2004-07-20T05:44:00.000-07:00

Day 1 - 19/07/2004

Schedule:
08:30 - 10:00 - Infosys PPT
10:30 - 11:30 - Infosys Written Test
02:15 - 03:30 - Infosys Interview

Yep!! This is the second day of placements and it was a day of depression in our wing (i.e. our row of rooms in the hostel) and well as a day of happiness. y?? how?? I will tell that as we go on.

It was morning and Nalli went to the insti building by 07:30 as it was Rahu Kalam after that ( he is quite superstitious). All the three, i.e. Bole, Nalli and Assy attended the PPT. I was too lazy to get up and have my bath.. so missed the PPT.

Venki asked me to get his resume for him while going to the PPT and as a friend I had to get my ass up from the chair and went to Agri-lab all the way 1km away from the hostel and to my horror it was closed!!! Again I had to walk back to the insti building, collect the keys and go to the lab for getting his resume.

Got his resume printed... Assy phones up at 10:15 and drops a bomb saying that all the three are writing the Infy exam and asked me also to come over and write it and asked me also to write the exam as a dummy!! By the time I went to hostel, dressed up and got to the insti building... it was too late!!! The test had already begun.

11:30 and all come out of the exam hall, some happy and some dull. All the four of us came back to the room and Nalli was jumping around in anxiety and tension whether he would make it thro' the first round or not and didnt even have his lunch (I am mentioning Nalli here people, thatz y i am emphasizing so much).

14:00 and the results were out and voila!! All the three made it to the interview... celebrations ahoy!! All of them rushed to the NSIG building where the interviews were being conducted. I was happily sitting in Nalli's room listening to ma' rap songs.

17:00 Bole comes to the room depressed and sad saying that he flunked the interview. It was so sad to see him sad!! Nalli was kinda confident that he would make it through.

17:30 The results were out. Assy made it!! Hurray!! But sadly Nalli and Bole couldn't make it. He was very depressed as he had high hopes on Infy. Damn those Infy people... y didnt they select Nalli and Bole. I mean whatz wrong with him!!! Anyways whatz happened is happened.

CONGRATS Assy!!! and Better luck next time Nalli and Bole!! i am sorry man.

This was today's drama.

finally, the list of selected candidates include:

1. Akhil Kodali aka Assy
2. Chaitanya CH aka CH
3. Aaradhya aka Aara
4. Sreejith aka Boo
5. Vishal Malik
6. Ankit Bhargava
7. Aditya Maheshwari
8. Vinod Gupta
9. Nipun Malhotra

These are our classmates. 3 others were from M.Tech.

NB: Oracle interview is going on and Pam is in it. God knows what he is doing!! Best of luck Pam.

Placement Season - II (contd..)

2004-07-19T08:23:00.000-07:00

As I mentioned in the earlier post about the ongoing interviews of the shortlisted candidates for Oracle, I am posting the results here. The candidates underwent a gruelling 4 rounds of interview and finally 7 of them made through that nightmare.

Thoe selected include:

1. Nirupam aka Pam
2. Rakesh aka Rocky
3. Kunal Dhabalaia
4. Abhishek Dixit aka Dixie
5. NPR
6. Ranu
7. Deepika
8. Vindhya

Thatz the list guys!!! Congrats to all of them. Yeah I am a little depressed. What can I do now?? Anyways c ya.

Placement Season - I

2004-07-18T09:12:00.000-07:00

Day 0 - 18/07/2004.

Schedule:
10:00 - 11:00 - Orace India First Test
11:00 - 12:00 - Oracle India PPT
12:15 - Results of the first test are out
14:00 - 15:00 - Oracle India Second Test
16:00 - Results of the second test are out.
18:00 - Wipro PPT

July 18th and the placements season kicked off. Though it started a couple of days ago, the first test was conducted today and that previlige goes to Oracle India. Oracle was the first company to conduct its test to select some 20 students to work for them.

It all started today morning at 10 when the first test consisting of apti and tech was conducted for an hour. This was followed by a PPT (Pre Placement Talk) by them. The whole idea of them conducting a test first followed by the PPT was to not waste time (Oh gawd!!!).

The results of the first test were out at around 12:15 and guess what!!! I didnt get selected... Yeah!! It was not the company I was looking for but even then got a little dejected (natural human tendency, right??). Anyways some 40 students were short-listed for the second test which was a programming test and one of my good friend Pam got selected for it. Way to go man!!

The second test was conducted at around 12:30 and went on for an hour and those short-listed were asked to write C codes for three programs. I guess I would have flunked in this one anyway even though if I had made the first round. The results for this were out at 16:00 and Pam got selected again for the interview which is scheduled for tomorrow afternoon.

And in the late evening I came to know that the cutoff for the first test was a whooping 26/30 for apti and 16/30 for tech. Then I knew the reason why I didnt qualify. hehe. That gave me some releif though!!

So, today was a day of mixed feelings... sad for not making it through the first round only and happy that my friend Pam made through to the interview.

New Semester

2004-07-16T04:55:00.000-07:00

Start of yet another semester. 7th semester this time people!!! Can't beleive itz 7 already. It feels like only yesterday I came into this insti gates along with my parents for my admission and here I am almost at the end of my B.Tech.

luckily easy subjects this sem... hope to do well atleast this sem so that i get a respectable CGPA by the end of 4th year.... god are u listening???

missed all the classes as usual :) hehe. well placements are goin on yaar... gotta give some bahanaa naa.

courses this sem - Molecular Architecture (Open), Biostatistics (Open), Fine Arts (HSSM), Intro to Philosphy (HSSM), a project and a FYP under P.K. Reddy. Well, seems easy?? Donno maybe easier than the previous sems. Gotta see what I am gonna do or how I am gonna screw up this sem too.

Well, placements goin on and I am really tensed... Placement head says that she won't stop unless all are placed... but what about me?? Will I ever get thro' a tech interview?? Hey bhagwan, please help me!!! I will break 10 coconuts for u!!!

Drop in ur wishes people... I do need lots of them.

Name Acronym Generator

2004-07-14T00:49:00.000-07:00

R	Responsible
A	Appealing
V	Visionary
I	Influential

Wat u guys think??...does it really mean ME??...haha...
This is a really cool one. You can get urs generated too.

Adios!!

Chinese Tortures

2004-07-11T23:43:00.000-07:00

This is crazy!!! Itz a must read.

A young man was lost wandering in a forest, when he came upon a small house. He knocked on the door and was greeted by an ancient Chinese man with a long, grey beard. "I'm lost," said the
man. "Can you put me up for the night?" "Certainly," the Chinese man said, "but on one condition. If you so much as lay a finger on my daughter, I will inflict upon you the three worst Chinese tortures known to man."

"Ok," said the man, thinking that the daughter must be pretty old as well, and entered the house.

Before dinner, the daughter came down the stairs. She was young,beautiful, and had a fantastic figure. She was obviously attracted to the young man since she couldn't keep her eyes off him during the meal. Remembering the old man's warning, he ignored her and went up to bed
alone. But during he night, he could bear it no longer, and sneaked into her room for a night of
passion. He was careful to keep everything quiet so the old man wouldn't hear. Near dawn he crept back to his room, exhausted, but happy.

He woke to feel a pressure on his chest. Opening his eyes he saw a large rock on his chest with a
note on it that read, "Chinese Torture 1: Large rock on chest." "Well, that's pretty crappy," he
thought. "If that's the best the old man can do then I don't have much to worry about." He
picked the boulder up, walked over to the window and threw the boulder out. As he did so he
noticed another note on it that read: "Chinese Torture 2: Rock tied to left testicle." In a panic he glanced down and saw the rope that was already getting close to the end. Figuring that
a few broken bones was better than castration, he jumped out of the window after the boulder.
As he plummeted downward he saw a large sign on the ground that read, "Chinese Torture 3: Right testicle tied to bedpost."

--Courtesy: Vam

Five Point Something

2004-07-10T21:18:00.000-07:00

Yesterday i finished reading another book called "five point something". Man, itz a must read especially for guys like us. This book depicts the life of three students at iit, delhi... for those of u who donno iit... itz like the temple of education in india. students work day and night (why don't they say night and day??!!) to get into that.

Well, coming back to the book... it was awsome man. It depicts the times which Hari (the author), Ryan (the herez-an-idea dude) and Alok (the no-play-always-study guy). The common thing about all of them is that their CGPA (Cumulative Grade Point Average) is "five point something". Yeah!! U heard it right 5+... thatz y they resemble me :D.

He goes on to describe how they three become good friends upto the day when they are graduated when they miss the convocation... man these people rock. Sometimes while reading the book u feel like "I wish I could live their life apart from their CGPA" but then again end up thinkin "Thank god!! I am not them". hehe.

The book starts off with the ragging season at iit-d wherein these three are being ragged by their seniors. Alok and Hari the fatsos are asked to remove their clothes and bend down. Ryan the handome, stronger and smarter of the three is asked to depict poses of a body-builder. Then ot ends up with Ryan restraining the seniors and saving Alok's and Hari's asses.

Then the story goes off to describe their first semester and how they end up scoring five point something GPA... and how alok quits the gang to study on his own... and again the reunion of the three... their C2D theory... Neha (Hari's GF, HOD's daughter and imp. of all... a beauty)... their exams again... their trying-to-steal-major-paper... DISCO... suicide-attempt of Alok... Sasi's... Ice-cream parlour(meeting place of Hari and Neha)... lube project of Ryan... finally convocation (which of course thy miss)... among other interesting situations.

Itz definitely worth a read. However what i wanna say is this book rockzzzz and I wish I could write a book like this... god gimme the power to write one. hehe just kiddin.

What is a geek?

2004-07-10T06:46:00.000-07:00

Dictionary.com

geek:
n. Slang

1. A person regarded as foolish, inept, or clumsy.
2. A person who is single-minded or accomplished in scientific or technical pursuits but is felt to be socially inept.
3. A carnival performer whose show consists of bizarre acts, such as biting the head off a live chicken.

Jargon File

geek:

A person who has chosen concentration rather than conformity; one who pursues skill (especially technical skill) and imagination, not mainstream social acceptance. Geeks usually have a strong case of neophilia. Most geeks are adept with computers and treat hacker as a term of respect, but not all are hackers themselves — and some who are in fact hackers normally call themselves geeks anyway, because they (quite properly) regard ‘hacker’ as a label that should be bestowed by others rather than self-assumed.

One description accurately if a little breathlessly enumerates “gamers, ravers, science fiction fans, punks, perverts, programmers, nerds, subgenii, and trekkies. These are people who did not go to their high school proms, and many would be offended by the suggestion that they should have even wanted to.”

Originally, a geek was a carnival performer who bit the heads off chickens. (In early 20th-century Scotland a ‘geek’ was an immature coley, a type of fish.) Before about 1990 usage of this term was rather negative. Earlier versions of this lexicon defined a computer geek as one who eats (computer) bugs for a living — an asocial, malodorous, pasty-faced monomaniac with all the personality of a cheese grater. This is often still the way geeks are regarded by non-geeks, but as the mainstream culture becomes more dependent on technology and technical skill mainstream attitudes have tended to shift towards grudging respect. Correspondingly, there are now ‘geek pride’ festivals (the implied reference to ‘gay pride’ is not accidental).

Rather Geeky Explaination

A geek is someone who spends time being "social" on a computer. This could mean chatting on irc or icb, playing multi-user games, posting to alt.sex.bondage.particle.physics, or even writing shareware. Someone who just uses their computer for work, but doesn't spend their free time "on line" is not a geek. Most geeks are technically adept and have a great love of computers, but not all geeks are programming wizards. Some just know enough unix to read mail and telnet out to their favorite MUD.

Geeks are generally social outcasts from mainstream america. The ranks of geekdom are swelled with gamers, ravers, science fictions fans, punks, perverts, programmers, nerds, subgenii, and trekkies. These are people who did not go to their high school proms, and many would be offended by the suggestion that they should have even wanted to. Geeks prefer to socialize with other geeks, the self proclaimed weird. Therefore they go online to organize parties, food runs, drink runs, and movie nights, and be assured that their companions would rather talk about superheros as modern mythology than the latest football scores.

Geeks are their own society: a literate, hyperinformed underground. The community accepts people from all walks of life, assuming they have access to the net and the skill to use it. Geeks are rather openminded with regards to nonstandard lifestyles. Many geeks are queer, more practice non-monogamy, and the most common religion is neo-paganism. You can't tell if someone is a geek just by looking at them, there is no dress code. Some dress casual, some prefer silk - but few pay attention to current fashion. You are more likey to see a geek in a renaissance bodice than a dress from glamour magazine; or a tiedye instead of suit and tie.

The unwritten geek credo states that originality and strangeness are good, and that blind conformity and stupidity are unforgivable.

Take care not to confuse the terms geek and nerd. A nerd is a person with no social skills, usually obsessed with science or technology (geek is more computer specific). Nerds are known for their pocket protectors, taped glasses, and plaid shirts. Many nerds are also geeks, using the net as a safe screen to hide behind while practicing their social skills. However they rarely come out to be seen in person at live geek events, so there is little reason to be concerned.

The term hacker tends to refer to the more programming intense set of the geek crowd. However the term is overused in the popular media, and therefore is no longer much used among "real geeks". Hacker also has negative connotations related to cracking, or illegally obtaining access to computers and accounts.

Geek can also be used as a verb. "To geek" is to sit online and read mail, news, chat, and otherwise waste time in front of a keyboard. This "geeking" often consumes many hours, even if the intention was to "just log in and check my mail." Some would say this time would be better spent being social in person or even just being curled up in a sunbeam.

To be universally recognized as a geek, you need to let people know how much of a geek you really are. Geek Code is how you do it. For my fellow geeks, heres my geek code:

-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
Version: 3.1
GCS/E/IT/MU d+(-) s:+ a21 c+++ UL++ P+++ L++ E--- W++ N+ o-- K- w+ O-- M- V- PS+ PE+ Y+ PGP++ t 5 X++ R* tv++ b++ DI+ D+ G++ e++ h r++ z?
------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------

You can ungeek it here.

The deadlines are ridiculous and restrictive

2004-07-07T09:47:00.000-07:00

This post is about the city's nightlife

All hotels and shops close by 21:30?? What the f***?? Hotels now.. hospitals tomorrow or what?? What is the govt. upto?? Man, are they screwing up the little nightlife that Hyderabad is having!!! I really pity us. We can't even go out and eat after 21:30.. the time when most of us prefer to eat out. We are made to go on a diet here. or maybe worse a hunger-strike.

Though the nightlife of Hyderabad has improved over years, there are not still enough options. The deadlines are quite restrictive as it gives u just one or two hours to socialize. If Hyderabad wants to offer itself as a city on the global market and attract tourism ad business, it has to keep up with modern times.

I would definitely want the government to push forward the deadline. I've been in Hyderabad for ma' entire lifetime. Itz nice not to worry abt whether 'do I have ebough time to go out?' Peeps work really hard and they need to be able to relax after a hard day's work. And when the partying scene shifts to homes, the economy doesn't benefit. Also, a lot of foreigners could question whether they can stay here long term and even investments might be affected (Are u listening MR. YSR??).

I would say 2 AM would be a reasonable deadline. There must be a balance between the context of society and the culture we live in. We would atleast have somewhere to go if the deadlines are extended. I can't imagine myself waking up in the night and imagining my stomach making noises and not able to find anything to make it silent.

And what are they saying?? Moral Policing. My s***. All induviduals have to be responsible. Moral values have to be instilled in us. And democracy is about freedom of choice. And later deadlines don't mean deterioration in behavior.

Our nightlife is already very less compared to that in cities like Bangalore, Delhi, Mumbai, etc... They offer variety and late deadlines. Infact most socialising is done in pubs and nightclubs back there. Here, only a part of the population goes out.

Back with a BANG!!

2004-07-04T21:29:00.000-07:00

Hey people... me back with a bang after a long hibernation... Many new things happening... many old things changing... lotz of changes to the blogger itself... gotta see a lot...

Anyways I will be back soon to start blogging... letz keep blogger on fire...

PEAZ!!

2004-05-17T21:26:00.000-07:00

Forgotten dreams
At the bottom of shallow streams

Whispers of days long past
Memories of happiness that could never last

Recalling the bliss of innocence lost
Fearless and free, not knowing the cost

Laughter floating through the air
Unseen children dancing there

Candy covered lips and a pouting face
Frilly little dresses, made with lace

Looking up at the sky, stars shining bright
Eyes sparkling in early morning light

Saying your prayers every night in bed
Then upon your pillow, you lay your head

Poetic Me....

2004-05-08T07:30:00.000-07:00

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May;
And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wand'rest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

-By Shakespeare

I guess I can't say it better!!!

Goodbye FRIENDS!!! :(

2004-05-06T18:24:00.000-07:00

Warner Bros' FRIENDS is over.The show that has found a place in the hall of fame as one of the most watched Sitcoms in world television comes to an end after a successful run of 235 episodes. The series had found a place amongst the critics as a show with perfect editing giving equal footage over a dozen characters in every episode.

The six characters Chandler, Monica, Rachel, Ross, Phoebe and Joey portrayed by Mathew Perry, Courtney Cox,Jenniffer Aniston, David Shwimmer, Lisa Kudrow and Matt Le Blanc had made America feel that youth is a precious time to be wasted. Youth all across the world were able to relate to those characters and situations they get in and out of.

The last episode would be the most watched one in its history. Aptly titled ? The Last one? the final episode to be aired on May 6th would be in its regular Thursday night slot in NBC, watched jointly by the cast and technicians of the series. The cast would then appear in the hugely popular late night talk show ? The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.

The series would start a spin-off called ?Joey? starring Matt Le Blanc after he moves to Hollywood to pursue a more serious career. The spin-off would have cameo appearances of the rest of the ?Friends? cast.

"It became comfort television for people.Impossible to ignore the emotional impact as the ending approached. I'd had this huge headache. It was this moment before you're supposed to start weeping, and I just stayed there for the whole night. It was very, very difficult to shoot the last scene, because it was the end of something significant." Says Mathew Perry who played the funny Chandler Bing.

For America Thursday might TV will never be the same and for Indians when the end leaks and becomes known, watching it will never be the same either. As for now, the well crafted series is over for good.

For Indians there is still time