Back to blogging

It’s been a long time since I updated my blog and it is because I had been busy with some other things all these days. Things have accumulated and it is a big story to tell which can cover a couple of upcoming posts. When we see it is just a month but a lot of things have happened in this one month( Nothing affecting me so nothing to worry). First of all to start where I left my zeroth project review was over finally with the report submission process taking more than two weeks for the approval of the management. Then came the Pongal holidays and it was some holiday time and I spent nearly a week in my home. Had some good time with my friends, roamed the streets of Tirunelveli, went for movies and chatted a lot as it was more than six months since I saw my school friends. Returning back to college the monotonous job started. I found it difficult to attend classes for three days a week that too not three full days, just 14 hours split over the three days. I started wondering how I have been attending classes in the previous semesters( obviously only with 75% attendance but then I had five days of college and now only 14 hours a week and still my attendance is not 75% ). No one will believe that I got a prize in my school for attendance in my 12th standard. Remember that my school keeps classes from 7.30 to 7 on all days except Sunday being an exception of classes getting over by 1.00 and I haven’t missed one class for one year. God ! If i think about it I am amazed now. The new rule in my department is that I have to maintain 85% attendance this semester. Now am working hard towards attaining it.

Project review

Most of the seniors in my department have told me that project review in my department is not easier as they start asking some crap in the review and I didn’t believe it till I experienced it myself in the zeroth review. I was a bit nervous about the review as I did nothing for the project other than having a look on it on the penultimate day of the review. Review hall irunthu vantha pasanga ellam pei aranja madiri irutnhanga. This kindled my fears more as I was wondering what stupid questions they were gonna ask me. But there was a little confidence in me as my batchmates were well prepared and I had confidence in them to solve the problem with ease. The project guide was also in support for us so I was hoping this to get on smoothly. To make you know the state of the people inside the review committee here is a small example.

One of my friends was doing a project on designing a robot and he has even took part in the Robotics competition that took place in IIT last year.

Staff: Everything is fine but are u going to sense the motion of the robot

Student: The sensors is used to sense the motion

Staff: How will you program to sense the motion. What language will you use?

Student: The sesnor is a device and it detects the motion of the robot and it cannot be done by programming . The device must be bought.

Staff: Oh, The sensor is a device .. k..k..

This shows how brilliant are the staffs in the comittee and this needed and as I feared they started asking stupid questions to my batch right from the title of my project. They wasted about 10 minutes with the title slide and were not satisfied with the explanation I and one of my batchmates gave them although it is correct one. After around half an hour they left us finally saying that there are a couple of changes to be made in the report and that our project title has been selected. We came to realise the problem only when we approached the staff after changing the report. The staff has understood the concept to be wrong and now wants us to do the project as suggested by him. The new problem statement is about three times complex than the one that we have been working already and as far as I have asked the people who are in the field have told that this cannot be done in a time span of three months( time allocated for the project by the university). I was expecting 2009 to be good but like the previous year it has started out with problems once again.

New Year Celebs

Here are some of the pics of the new year celebrations that took place in my hostel

Welcome 2009

With the dawn of the new year I welcome the new year and wish all the readers a very happy new year. To have a glimpse of the year 2008 it has been filled with both sorrow and joy for me and many things happened first time in my life. The most important and the significant one being the fact that I got placed in the campus interview that took place in the mid of this year. This year started bad for me and has also ended in the same note. Hope this does not continue in the upcoming year. It was in the year 2008 that I happened to have arrear for the first time in the history of my life. Being a topper in school and having to face the arrear for the first time it was some hard time for me. Then it was in this year that I came in good contact with a couple of my old school friends and I am happy to have them back and not to forget the new online friends too. Then again of the many firsts in my life time it was during this year that I hanged out wid friends a lot and not to mention the lots of treats I attended. Some of the firsts cannot be declared publicly( ). This was the first new year that I spent with my friends and we had some nice celebration in the hostel. As I told already the year had ended on a sad note for me as my department cancelled our north india tour which was scheduled to take place in the later half of december. I have been dreaming a lot about this tour and would have been more happier had everything gone by the plan. Some of the other unforgettable moments include watching my favorite team Manchester United win the treble title this year( obviously only in TV). I will be updating this post if anything else important comes into my mind about the year 2008.