whats about the philosophy these days ? whats about all the 1 liners on gtalk status messages ? well, am late to discuss it, but june and early july has been the most 'philosophical' month for the freshly graduated engineers (including me).
Why ? no naukri (for the majority) , no chokkri (for some more unlucky ones).
With the recession making our lives miserable, most of the people experienced sorry letters, deferrals and lots more. some unluckier like me, still havent recieved any intimation by the companies. all this stress just after the joy of graduating made it sound more miserable. Plus the reminiscence of belts being hit and parties been given (which burnt a hole in everyone's pockets) in the name of job acceptances making it all the more miserable.
all this was evident on gtalk status messages, with practically everyone turning a philosopher or cursing someone or the other.
With cliche's like 'naukri dava de rabba' to more philosophical like 'pessimism never won any battle', sometimes even emotions fail to do justice to how i feel', 'If you're falling off a cliff, you may as well try to fly...You have nothing to loose' and god knows what to cocky ones like 'aVELAbel' available+vela.. lol,
everyones turned into a philosopher. ok. that june has passed and july's bought news about joining for the most. the transition, too has been something to show off about. those getting the joinings feel sorry for leaving chandigarh (to boast that they've got the joining), while some explicitly type 'got the joining' on the status.
its big news, to get a joining, even if from some bullshit company giving a crap of 17K per month or 25 K per month only. just remember last year, things moved in 6lac per annum and stuff, and now people are just so happy to get even salaries of clerks to just go out of home and feel happy to be on a job while the rest of their peers still are busy with empty minds making new philosophies and sharing 'desperate' status messages.
PS: i dedicate this space to ***** ****(name suppressed), who started it all, the desperate messages since his puberty (that happened like 2nd year college) when he started finding a girl for his life, sadly, we all had to witness some crappy status's of his for 2 years.
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Thursday, May 7, 2009
annual honors ceremony ...
the tamasha has finished, the results out and all the 4 year acts just come down to one word .. color .. college color.. for the less educated, a college color is a piece of highest achievement done during college days. IIT's are supposed to give 10 college colors to people who have not only excelled in their fields but got laurels for the college.
In PEC, last year was different (with 100+ people getting colors making a mockery out of it.) Our DSW sir, at the cleaning up task, was brilliant to suggest that the number would reduce to just 40'ish. 1 guy gets only 1 color despite he being great in 2 or more things .. and so the other rules follow up ..
But the tamasha of getting recognition is as simple as forcing your way to get one. All you have to do is be argumentative, have lots of butter and be forceful in some way (approach of prakash singh badal did it last year, this year having relatives with college authority may do the trick). Well, some people have really worked hard over the span of the college and deserve the peice of recognition. while others are great at the art of pleasing and deserve a color, too. But what makes me sad is the 'external' pressure which causes people to change decisions and get a recognition he DOES NOT definately deserve. I understand quantifying work done by individual is not a piece of cake, but by doing just 1 thing due to 'external' pressure tarnishes the image of the system.
Further, the 'pleasing' guys (i call that GC wale bande) just need to be at the right moment and time and just by forcing authorities can get their job done ...... thats not idealistic, but practically thats what has always happened and will always will .. but is there anything we can do about it ?? can anyone really justify that these acts of forcing yourself to get recognition or anything good ?
i've got a color for NSS (which i had no certificate for 4 years till now and felt really sad cause i had devoted my energy into it, but now feel satisfied with the best recognition possible) and for IETE, (For which frankly i just worked for 2 years, not a thing i've really put my life behind here in college, but its just a compensator because i worked damn hard 4 years on the trot in PECFEST and could just not get a college color for it. but anyways, i deserved it for my personal accomplishments done in the technical field. )
am content, but certain people which i feel bad for are harman, sharma, harshal, gurinder etc. because they deserved a fair chance,too, if certain people who've worked equalto or less than them got it.
In PEC, last year was different (with 100+ people getting colors making a mockery out of it.) Our DSW sir, at the cleaning up task, was brilliant to suggest that the number would reduce to just 40'ish. 1 guy gets only 1 color despite he being great in 2 or more things .. and so the other rules follow up ..
But the tamasha of getting recognition is as simple as forcing your way to get one. All you have to do is be argumentative, have lots of butter and be forceful in some way (approach of prakash singh badal did it last year, this year having relatives with college authority may do the trick). Well, some people have really worked hard over the span of the college and deserve the peice of recognition. while others are great at the art of pleasing and deserve a color, too. But what makes me sad is the 'external' pressure which causes people to change decisions and get a recognition he DOES NOT definately deserve. I understand quantifying work done by individual is not a piece of cake, but by doing just 1 thing due to 'external' pressure tarnishes the image of the system.
Further, the 'pleasing' guys (i call that GC wale bande) just need to be at the right moment and time and just by forcing authorities can get their job done ...... thats not idealistic, but practically thats what has always happened and will always will .. but is there anything we can do about it ?? can anyone really justify that these acts of forcing yourself to get recognition or anything good ?
i've got a color for NSS (which i had no certificate for 4 years till now and felt really sad cause i had devoted my energy into it, but now feel satisfied with the best recognition possible) and for IETE, (For which frankly i just worked for 2 years, not a thing i've really put my life behind here in college, but its just a compensator because i worked damn hard 4 years on the trot in PECFEST and could just not get a college color for it. but anyways, i deserved it for my personal accomplishments done in the technical field. )
am content, but certain people which i feel bad for are harman, sharma, harshal, gurinder etc. because they deserved a fair chance,too, if certain people who've worked equalto or less than them got it.
the final countdown....
The final week of the college (assuming final exams turn out to be a smooth affair) is turning out to be really unexpected, to say the least. have way down, we've had some nice suprises after the disaster of Open House held on saturday .. (thats a personal thing, so no more discussions)
now then, we get to know the busy schedule ahead.... Monday is the usual day having 1 or 2 classes where arun 'maaroes' some senti to make a point.
Trying to make us remember the bond we share with teachers and more blah blah about respect and not to say bad about them (which is definately true, but being truthful has never and will never be wrong). This makes me think about the 'political correctness' and praising everyone and not saying true things despite you feel that (just for the sake of getting more promotions or more people start liking you or all the things) they call that being practical .. yes .. that is .. being true may not make you rise high but remind you that you never bent low for petty rises in life.... thats what a leader is supposed to do cause when the opportunity beckons, the true will jump higher than the sycophant followers....
anyways philosophy later, its more about the final countdown .. well wednesday comes and so does the final departmental farewell, which is a sweet suprize, with a sweet saying written specially for us on the blackboard (reminds of the school rite ). then teachers inviting us for a snack with them and casual discussion over the cup of tea.. ... then comes a classroom discussion with a beautiful message by the teachers about the 'start' of the new phase of life .... a career and really an optimistism injection which everyone would never forget ...
then comes the dinner at director's house, a special treat by the college (imagine a govt. college with all the bureaucracy all the four years to get a single rupee holding out a lavish dinner for the final yearites as a farewell gift.... something totally unexpected and something really sweet)
such acts of exuberance shows the love the authorities want to imbibe in us for the college and rightly so... they deserve it..
apart from the technical glitches, the poor interaction and a wide gap between the students and teachers, the college has helped everyone learn a lesson or two.
those who wanted achievement got it. those which wanted acceptance among peers, too got theirs. people got what they wanted, be it friends, love, job, power, money (ahh yes, people got that too, by hook or crook or by winning some big competitions) and for more philosophical guys like me, learning... yes .. i got my share of learning about the world and how it is designed and how it works and how to live ....
so, there is something everyone got from the college. the final acts just remind of that and wake you up to say, start loving it ... now its the time what you can do for the college .. so dont forget it .......
now then, we get to know the busy schedule ahead.... Monday is the usual day having 1 or 2 classes where arun 'maaroes' some senti to make a point.
Trying to make us remember the bond we share with teachers and more blah blah about respect and not to say bad about them (which is definately true, but being truthful has never and will never be wrong). This makes me think about the 'political correctness' and praising everyone and not saying true things despite you feel that (just for the sake of getting more promotions or more people start liking you or all the things) they call that being practical .. yes .. that is .. being true may not make you rise high but remind you that you never bent low for petty rises in life.... thats what a leader is supposed to do cause when the opportunity beckons, the true will jump higher than the sycophant followers....
anyways philosophy later, its more about the final countdown .. well wednesday comes and so does the final departmental farewell, which is a sweet suprize, with a sweet saying written specially for us on the blackboard (reminds of the school rite ). then teachers inviting us for a snack with them and casual discussion over the cup of tea.. ... then comes a classroom discussion with a beautiful message by the teachers about the 'start' of the new phase of life .... a career and really an optimistism injection which everyone would never forget ...
then comes the dinner at director's house, a special treat by the college (imagine a govt. college with all the bureaucracy all the four years to get a single rupee holding out a lavish dinner for the final yearites as a farewell gift.... something totally unexpected and something really sweet)
such acts of exuberance shows the love the authorities want to imbibe in us for the college and rightly so... they deserve it..
apart from the technical glitches, the poor interaction and a wide gap between the students and teachers, the college has helped everyone learn a lesson or two.
those who wanted achievement got it. those which wanted acceptance among peers, too got theirs. people got what they wanted, be it friends, love, job, power, money (ahh yes, people got that too, by hook or crook or by winning some big competitions) and for more philosophical guys like me, learning... yes .. i got my share of learning about the world and how it is designed and how it works and how to live ....
so, there is something everyone got from the college. the final acts just remind of that and wake you up to say, start loving it ... now its the time what you can do for the college .. so dont forget it .......
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
academic learning in electronics engineering
its time i wrote anything (had my exams and am badly addicted to the stupid travian game(my latest rank was 547)). after giving my last sessional exams in engineering, i have been contemplating the 'academic excellence' achieved in our 4 years of engineering. Being of electronics and electrical communication engineering, electronics is an integral part of the course so i'll just elaborate how much exposure to electronics a guy may get if he's planning to utilise his 4 years in PEC, or for that matter, any engineering college in a chronological manner.
1st year
the only electronics learnt in the initial year is in the subject 'mechatronics', where i got to learn electronics is about diodes and transistors. it was wonderful to learn that curves of these devices are called characteristics. (for the people who have studied 11th and 12th NCERT books thoroughly, i guess its redundant, but hold on.. read more..)
2nd year
diodes and transistors rule the roost again. analog electronics was a subject of intense understanding, but it turns out to be a wasted chance because rather than learning, it was more important to crib about the teaching standards- the lack of it, for that matter. physics subject too helps us understand how the semiconductor physics make them work, while we wonder that had it not been invented, 2 years of our lives would have been saved .
3rd year
nothing really electronics was learnt, apart from diodes and transistors again (now the topic is how they are used in power electronics). people have just begun wondering is there anything except diodes and transistors in electronics worth worrying about??
4th year
the 1st semester teaches diodes and transistors (again) in the context of VLSI circuits now. and the 2nd semester teaches it in context of microwaves.
Now, the best (thats meant in a satirical fashion, ok ?) part has been learning the thing over and over again. while the 'characteristics' i.e. plots of working of these stupid devices have remained same (thankfully) over these years, everytime before the sessionals people provide different explanation to explain the graph over and over again, while everyone is now accustomed to make the stupid plot even in his/her dreams. What else, these bloddy devices keep on coming with different names just to mess up our lives.
so thats about it. 4 years of academic learning about 2 bloddy devices which even dont need any explanation at all.
1st year
the only electronics learnt in the initial year is in the subject 'mechatronics', where i got to learn electronics is about diodes and transistors. it was wonderful to learn that curves of these devices are called characteristics. (for the people who have studied 11th and 12th NCERT books thoroughly, i guess its redundant, but hold on.. read more..)
2nd year
diodes and transistors rule the roost again. analog electronics was a subject of intense understanding, but it turns out to be a wasted chance because rather than learning, it was more important to crib about the teaching standards- the lack of it, for that matter. physics subject too helps us understand how the semiconductor physics make them work, while we wonder that had it not been invented, 2 years of our lives would have been saved .
3rd year
nothing really electronics was learnt, apart from diodes and transistors again (now the topic is how they are used in power electronics). people have just begun wondering is there anything except diodes and transistors in electronics worth worrying about??
4th year
the 1st semester teaches diodes and transistors (again) in the context of VLSI circuits now. and the 2nd semester teaches it in context of microwaves.
Now, the best (thats meant in a satirical fashion, ok ?) part has been learning the thing over and over again. while the 'characteristics' i.e. plots of working of these stupid devices have remained same (thankfully) over these years, everytime before the sessionals people provide different explanation to explain the graph over and over again, while everyone is now accustomed to make the stupid plot even in his/her dreams. What else, these bloddy devices keep on coming with different names just to mess up our lives.
so thats about it. 4 years of academic learning about 2 bloddy devices which even dont need any explanation at all.
Saturday, March 28, 2009
the week that wasnt
Last sunday it seemed the week was going to be the most uneventful one of the semester. 2 teachers out of station, friday being declared another holiday and nothing much to do before 2nd sessionals, it seemed the week would be a similar one where slumber rules the roost, when there are days u just laze around at home rather than going to college because there's nothing much to do there, too.
To my misfortune, these werent those days. I just got the shock of my life called as 31st march.
why ? its closing time, so all accounts need to be maintained. why me? by mistake i was involved in pecfest finance work and accountability of 5 peti worth money was to be submitted. the whole week was consumed with this stupid work while the chandigarh weather kept arousing the desires to be out exploring nature. with cloud cover, cool winds and drizzles, it seemed a perfect place for dating at lake. wasnt to be.... or was it?
and yes, drizzles bring in wet roads and wet roads bring accidents. so that too was on the cards since long... and the friday thingy ?? no holidays there. in fact, more labour for us because it was techfest time and we had to organise 2 events, so thursday, friday and saturday got fully drowned in bullshit techfest stuff.
However, this techfest was my first experience of our college's techfest (never participated in 1st, 2nd or 3rd year, as i loved using the holiday). am pretty happy about the whole thing. though at a pretty small scale, the techfest was funn. ya .. compared with pecfest where so many things lead to doing nothing, techfest offers lesser (both in quality and quantity) but all the while, more fun. its more participative, where u know everyone. people are happy rather than sad or busy. they take interest in small details. All the while, u flaunt your knowledge and ridicule the organisers because of lack of planning. its really comic, rather than big teams coming up in pecfest and crowd craving for professional performances. its more cool to see people know less and the simplest design is still the best. particularly, my happiness was more by seeing the submarine design competition where decent gathering still came (which i dint expect).
however, the 31st thing has completely gripped my life. now techfest bills need to be submitted before 31st. thankfully, i am not the finance head this time.
To my misfortune, these werent those days. I just got the shock of my life called as 31st march.
why ? its closing time, so all accounts need to be maintained. why me? by mistake i was involved in pecfest finance work and accountability of 5 peti worth money was to be submitted. the whole week was consumed with this stupid work while the chandigarh weather kept arousing the desires to be out exploring nature. with cloud cover, cool winds and drizzles, it seemed a perfect place for dating at lake. wasnt to be.... or was it?
and yes, drizzles bring in wet roads and wet roads bring accidents. so that too was on the cards since long... and the friday thingy ?? no holidays there. in fact, more labour for us because it was techfest time and we had to organise 2 events, so thursday, friday and saturday got fully drowned in bullshit techfest stuff.
However, this techfest was my first experience of our college's techfest (never participated in 1st, 2nd or 3rd year, as i loved using the holiday). am pretty happy about the whole thing. though at a pretty small scale, the techfest was funn. ya .. compared with pecfest where so many things lead to doing nothing, techfest offers lesser (both in quality and quantity) but all the while, more fun. its more participative, where u know everyone. people are happy rather than sad or busy. they take interest in small details. All the while, u flaunt your knowledge and ridicule the organisers because of lack of planning. its really comic, rather than big teams coming up in pecfest and crowd craving for professional performances. its more cool to see people know less and the simplest design is still the best. particularly, my happiness was more by seeing the submarine design competition where decent gathering still came (which i dint expect).
however, the 31st thing has completely gripped my life. now techfest bills need to be submitted before 31st. thankfully, i am not the finance head this time.
Friday, March 13, 2009
friday, the 13th , a lucky day after alll !
well, my bed had enticed me today not to leave it at 8 o clock. With all the possible options of missing the finance class, i struggled against the desires of slumber and finally got ready (in an instant), Off to college. well, suprizingly 3 classes were held today, compared with the lack of teacher's interests to take up the classes since 2 weeks. rihani was at his murderous best, moving swiftly from one podium to the next.
Certain incidents like the infamous brawl of kansal and dhawan today deserve a special mention. it was a very intimate, romantic and hardcore action going on at the last bench where they were squeazing their muscles out trying to cause harm. anyways, dhawan stood the clear winner. (we even bet on that, alok put his 2 rs on kansal and had he won, he would have got 10 bucks back .. sadly, nothin of that sort happened). lol
Nag's class provided the much needed 'subway' break. aloo patty seemed okay, considering the descent of paneer tikkas down my tummy everyday... but just before that, the orange peel fight had began from the other portion of the class.both sides decked with armour, the players had their share of fun hitting out at sleeping or uninterested girls and people right on the faces.
next comes the arun class, (this blog is getting conventional with diff. para's for diff. teachers) its time for mexican waves in the class (now that what people aspire to do in class)..... until the teacher found out.. the torcherous period, where the motive was to make a person write to death.
anyways, college ended here for me here ... then comes the random trip to dharampur side, with school friends ... an unconventional one though, with the main character being a very sweet,but a little straightforwardly dumb friend(thats a bad word not intended in the bad sense, more rationally, it should be 'blonde'). It so happens sometime that the place you are touring becomes invisible but only the people you are with are important. Helps you enjoy a moment with yourself, without anything on the mind, no decision making, no nothing. Just you, yourself and your senses.
Now, then discussing from topics like recession to show off to people's sex life, it was a really stupid laughter riot, with lots and lots of bakwaas. Thankfully, i wasnt the target(as told, the sweet, little dumb friend got the honours). But anyways, what amazed me is that people were pretty hush-hush and curiously confused about my virginity.. now thats a separate issue, but anyways, how can there be any confusions regarding that ?? reminds me of the last year's ides of march.. oh . lets forget that,shall we?
yea, then its the time for alvida and coming back home. But eh, the day doesnt end here . does it ????? ya ya .. i have more to brag about the eventful day .... its night and at 11 i get a chance to watch 'gulaal', a take on the society, by maverick director, anurag kashyap. he was having a hard time sell his script since 2003, but i'd say its one hell of an engrossing, thoughtfully directed and heavy. not for the casual cinema-goers, but a breathtaking piece of work. Have not many words about it, but am equally sure people wont appreciate or like the movie .. so lets be diplomatic and say it's an okay movie, but personally, it was brilliant.
hey .. we missed something .. whats so lucky about it ?? well nothing really (apart from the fact its not unlucky, being friday and 13th together) but just seconds of comfort, peace, serenity and happiness. and yea .....today, a stupid and small yet fulfilling incident happened. it was a really sweet, respectful and caring voice ringing into my ears saying ... khholnaaa (well the word took an eternity to reach because of the respect in that tone ... ) .. ..
anyways, it went like ....
khholnaaa {long pause} apni khidki ... lots more 'blonde moments' and frolic followed, the coffee just seems sweet today ....
Certain incidents like the infamous brawl of kansal and dhawan today deserve a special mention. it was a very intimate, romantic and hardcore action going on at the last bench where they were squeazing their muscles out trying to cause harm. anyways, dhawan stood the clear winner. (we even bet on that, alok put his 2 rs on kansal and had he won, he would have got 10 bucks back .. sadly, nothin of that sort happened). lol
Nag's class provided the much needed 'subway' break. aloo patty seemed okay, considering the descent of paneer tikkas down my tummy everyday... but just before that, the orange peel fight had began from the other portion of the class.both sides decked with armour, the players had their share of fun hitting out at sleeping or uninterested girls and people right on the faces.
next comes the arun class, (this blog is getting conventional with diff. para's for diff. teachers) its time for mexican waves in the class (now that what people aspire to do in class)..... until the teacher found out.. the torcherous period, where the motive was to make a person write to death.
anyways, college ended here for me here ... then comes the random trip to dharampur side, with school friends ... an unconventional one though, with the main character being a very sweet,but a little straightforwardly dumb friend(thats a bad word not intended in the bad sense, more rationally, it should be 'blonde'). It so happens sometime that the place you are touring becomes invisible but only the people you are with are important. Helps you enjoy a moment with yourself, without anything on the mind, no decision making, no nothing. Just you, yourself and your senses.
Now, then discussing from topics like recession to show off to people's sex life, it was a really stupid laughter riot, with lots and lots of bakwaas. Thankfully, i wasnt the target(as told, the sweet, little dumb friend got the honours). But anyways, what amazed me is that people were pretty hush-hush and curiously confused about my virginity.. now thats a separate issue, but anyways, how can there be any confusions regarding that ?? reminds me of the last year's ides of march.. oh . lets forget that,shall we?
yea, then its the time for alvida and coming back home. But eh, the day doesnt end here . does it ????? ya ya .. i have more to brag about the eventful day .... its night and at 11 i get a chance to watch 'gulaal', a take on the society, by maverick director, anurag kashyap. he was having a hard time sell his script since 2003, but i'd say its one hell of an engrossing, thoughtfully directed and heavy. not for the casual cinema-goers, but a breathtaking piece of work. Have not many words about it, but am equally sure people wont appreciate or like the movie .. so lets be diplomatic and say it's an okay movie, but personally, it was brilliant.
hey .. we missed something .. whats so lucky about it ?? well nothing really (apart from the fact its not unlucky, being friday and 13th together) but just seconds of comfort, peace, serenity and happiness. and yea .....today, a stupid and small yet fulfilling incident happened. it was a really sweet, respectful and caring voice ringing into my ears saying ... khholnaaa (well the word took an eternity to reach because of the respect in that tone ... ) .. ..
anyways, it went like ....
khholnaaa {long pause} apni khidki ... lots more 'blonde moments' and frolic followed, the coffee just seems sweet today ....
Friday, March 6, 2009
dekho dekho bandar ka tamasha .......
i just understood why in my childhood people liked watching the bandar ka tamasha .. when i'll turn old, i'll be bragging my grandchildren that the golden days were those when hawkers roamed the streets and damru ke saath bolta tha banda .... "dekho dekho bandar ka tamasha .... "
i now appreciate why people liked it. society likes drama, in any sense.. a small brawl results in lots of people lining up to satisfy their curiosities and having some drama in their 'lifeless' life.....
oh what am i writing about ?? this post is intended to brief about the bandar ka tamasha going on at PEC these days .. some freaking committee (NBA), called by request of PEC people only are meant to be giving PEC some marks and accreditation for 3 or 5 years ... thats great news for the college, since it has never got such accreditation.
but the bandar ka tamasha is that how the college changes in such a short span of time. with jamadars waking up in the wee hours (that should be read as 9 o clock) to clean the hell out of PEC, painters painting the newly made roads of the college, tent wala's putting up flags just about by 11 o clock, PEC seemed to hustle and bustle today, not because of students but because of people cleaning it all up..
anyways, things get even by 11 o clock. topped by the instruction of teachers for students to stay in class (though there is nothing to do in it),PEC looks chic, cool and peppy ...
Starting with seeing the college's facilities, hostels etc, everything is done to impress these bunch of no-good people to give some marks for our college .... anyways, everything .. AND I MEAN EVERYTHING (now dont think too much) must have been tried to impress the guys .. from making new chairs for Computer centre, making the lab's look really cool (as if someone works in them) i even think the dressing sense of girls was changed in our college, just for today (lol). the tamasha carries on and teachers are busy inserting goody goody things into NBA's ears till 5 o clock .. while the poor children (including me) are sitting, wasting their all important time sitting in the class, doing nothing....
now comes the time for the CLIMAX. at 5, people are being inserted into the auditorium to make it fill up to capacity. even some worker was seen spraying room freshener near the place they were supposed to sit to make the committee happy. come 6 o clock and the NAB comes into the auditorium. around 100 students were deliberately installed to sit and show their presence. while at the back of my mind, i was confident that random people should not have been called. Instead only the 'flagbearers' or the important guys of PEC should be intimated. However, they decided to pack the auditorium.
these NAB people turn out to be intelligent after all, trying to coax the public by telling that they will try telling the departments and administration about the shortcoming .and yes, they take care to not let any college teacher or faculty be nearby and also prevent any photograph/video been made .. a simple, easy trap.. which 100 people sitting in the audi fall into, simply. all they ask is to tell wrongthings of PEC. and sadly, we tell them ..
well, i started telling the shortcomings about PEC, in a diplomatic way, explaining that PEC has small size (in respect of land) and budget to get best facilities. things move on and the discussion becomes more candid. and more .... From lack of wifi speed, hostel problems, lack of infrastructure, to being scared of teachers everything .... imagine the end ... no ??
someone stands up and tells the guys (who would be rating the college) that why does so much changed only when you have come ?? why not everytime ?? (it ends with "please NAB should come every month". clapping and applause) haha .. everyone gets the point .. bandar ka tamasha hai .. aaj vo judge hai. jab unke college mai hoga, vo hi is tamashe ka integral hissa hoge ...
i now appreciate why people liked it. society likes drama, in any sense.. a small brawl results in lots of people lining up to satisfy their curiosities and having some drama in their 'lifeless' life.....
oh what am i writing about ?? this post is intended to brief about the bandar ka tamasha going on at PEC these days .. some freaking committee (NBA), called by request of PEC people only are meant to be giving PEC some marks and accreditation for 3 or 5 years ... thats great news for the college, since it has never got such accreditation.
but the bandar ka tamasha is that how the college changes in such a short span of time. with jamadars waking up in the wee hours (that should be read as 9 o clock) to clean the hell out of PEC, painters painting the newly made roads of the college, tent wala's putting up flags just about by 11 o clock, PEC seemed to hustle and bustle today, not because of students but because of people cleaning it all up..
anyways, things get even by 11 o clock. topped by the instruction of teachers for students to stay in class (though there is nothing to do in it),PEC looks chic, cool and peppy ...
Starting with seeing the college's facilities, hostels etc, everything is done to impress these bunch of no-good people to give some marks for our college .... anyways, everything .. AND I MEAN EVERYTHING (now dont think too much) must have been tried to impress the guys .. from making new chairs for Computer centre, making the lab's look really cool (as if someone works in them) i even think the dressing sense of girls was changed in our college, just for today (lol). the tamasha carries on and teachers are busy inserting goody goody things into NBA's ears till 5 o clock .. while the poor children (including me) are sitting, wasting their all important time sitting in the class, doing nothing....
now comes the time for the CLIMAX. at 5, people are being inserted into the auditorium to make it fill up to capacity. even some worker was seen spraying room freshener near the place they were supposed to sit to make the committee happy. come 6 o clock and the NAB comes into the auditorium. around 100 students were deliberately installed to sit and show their presence. while at the back of my mind, i was confident that random people should not have been called. Instead only the 'flagbearers' or the important guys of PEC should be intimated. However, they decided to pack the auditorium.
these NAB people turn out to be intelligent after all, trying to coax the public by telling that they will try telling the departments and administration about the shortcoming .and yes, they take care to not let any college teacher or faculty be nearby and also prevent any photograph/video been made .. a simple, easy trap.. which 100 people sitting in the audi fall into, simply. all they ask is to tell wrongthings of PEC. and sadly, we tell them ..
well, i started telling the shortcomings about PEC, in a diplomatic way, explaining that PEC has small size (in respect of land) and budget to get best facilities. things move on and the discussion becomes more candid. and more .... From lack of wifi speed, hostel problems, lack of infrastructure, to being scared of teachers everything .... imagine the end ... no ??
someone stands up and tells the guys (who would be rating the college) that why does so much changed only when you have come ?? why not everytime ?? (it ends with "please NAB should come every month". clapping and applause) haha .. everyone gets the point .. bandar ka tamasha hai .. aaj vo judge hai. jab unke college mai hoga, vo hi is tamashe ka integral hissa hoge ...
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
the first sessionals of the final sem
well, there is a tradition that the first sessionals always suck. well, this time was not different but in all ways, more stylish...
to be remembered as the 'baddesst' and the 'meannest' sems after 3rd sem, I wasnt in a mood to be studying for the exams, i just went over to every paper without much preparation..
the 1st one-wireless by nag carried just 2 questions (out of which i knew none!). the hour passed away quietly with people scribbling away random things onto their sheets (and i was no exception, for the obvious reasons). for people to get double digits would be impossible, so it should be just a matter of the topper having 8 while the people who dont know anything manage 2-3 marks .. does that matter, anyways ??
the next comes my most anticipated paper, the ultimate laughter inducing, rehani's (misspelled cause of google) question paper .. though it seemed simpler than his other design papers, i was satisfied as i knew the stuff this time ... but lack of time gets you, anyways.. dont expect any marks above 5/20
the suprise bag, microwave was the most 'rapeofying' of them all. the hype around the paper was that its a formula based paper, having simple questions. seriously speaking, my study for the exam was so poor because of me being busy making up document for NSS, searching about further study and other things amid my exams, i didnt feel like it .. topped with the declaration on the day before this paper that i was probable for imperial and duke's admit mail, i bet no one in my shoes would think of studying after getting admit's from big shots like those..
anyways, that really paid off .. my NOT studying, that is... the paper was a complete rape ..... out of 5 questions, i could'nt understand the english written in two of them .. another one question was a derivation (which our teacher had told would not be coming, so everyone left derivations and crammed up formulas instead).
the remaining questions were'nt piece of cake either....
1 required we bought alongwith us a smith chart(which is a convoluted puzzle having circles and stuff) and use it to find some answer. the best part was that i was seeing the chart first time in my life and kept on admiring it for about 30 minutes throughout the exam... i drew random lines onto it(after seeing nearby ppl making lines on it) and kept it in my sheet.. and one thing i missed is that no one knew how to use the chart, so no one got it for the exam. (my luck that bimal gave one to me just a minute before the exam). so comes our marks .. 3/15 (assuming i got the 1 question i attempted out of 5 right)
the final verdict:::
wireless 5 Comp. arch 5 and micro 3 ..... i hope people now understands why 1st sessionals suck and stop studying for it ......................................
to be remembered as the 'baddesst' and the 'meannest' sems after 3rd sem, I wasnt in a mood to be studying for the exams, i just went over to every paper without much preparation..
the 1st one-wireless by nag carried just 2 questions (out of which i knew none!). the hour passed away quietly with people scribbling away random things onto their sheets (and i was no exception, for the obvious reasons). for people to get double digits would be impossible, so it should be just a matter of the topper having 8 while the people who dont know anything manage 2-3 marks .. does that matter, anyways ??
the next comes my most anticipated paper, the ultimate laughter inducing, rehani's (misspelled cause of google) question paper .. though it seemed simpler than his other design papers, i was satisfied as i knew the stuff this time ... but lack of time gets you, anyways.. dont expect any marks above 5/20
the suprise bag, microwave was the most 'rapeofying' of them all. the hype around the paper was that its a formula based paper, having simple questions. seriously speaking, my study for the exam was so poor because of me being busy making up document for NSS, searching about further study and other things amid my exams, i didnt feel like it .. topped with the declaration on the day before this paper that i was probable for imperial and duke's admit mail, i bet no one in my shoes would think of studying after getting admit's from big shots like those..
anyways, that really paid off .. my NOT studying, that is... the paper was a complete rape ..... out of 5 questions, i could'nt understand the english written in two of them .. another one question was a derivation (which our teacher had told would not be coming, so everyone left derivations and crammed up formulas instead).
the remaining questions were'nt piece of cake either....
1 required we bought alongwith us a smith chart(which is a convoluted puzzle having circles and stuff) and use it to find some answer. the best part was that i was seeing the chart first time in my life and kept on admiring it for about 30 minutes throughout the exam... i drew random lines onto it(after seeing nearby ppl making lines on it) and kept it in my sheet.. and one thing i missed is that no one knew how to use the chart, so no one got it for the exam. (my luck that bimal gave one to me just a minute before the exam). so comes our marks .. 3/15 (assuming i got the 1 question i attempted out of 5 right)
the final verdict:::
wireless 5 Comp. arch 5 and micro 3 ..... i hope people now understands why 1st sessionals suck and stop studying for it ......................................
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
academics in PEC-deemed university
"what is the goddamn benefit of this bloody grade point system? ", asked the lawyer i met today. he is fighting a case of my friend's termination from college. the question startled me a little. not because of the aggressive tone in which it came from an uninterested chap, but because i was caught up in the whirlpool of thoughts ....
the question of positives and negatives of a particular system were streaming from various neurons and the electro-chemical signals had staggered into a war. blankness numbed my brain and all i could mutter was there are positives as well as negatives. what you want to hear??
anyways, the case is simple. being a good friend, i have seen him closely since my 2nd year. he's not an ordinary person. i've seen him toiling for 22 hours at a stretch during exams studying and still getting a poor grade. its simple. he's a real hardworker. but some people cannot just grasp confusing concepts of physics or UME. whats his fault?? darsheel zafary of taare zameen par ?? not really, but, no harm in striking a resemblance.
anyways, now the college grading. a D grade fetches 4 credits then how is the academic rule at SGPA>4.5 or 5 justified? considering the law A+B=C+D, someone has to get a D, now in this case, there is an equal possibility that the not-so-popular and the not-so-sycophant people lose their grades in this subjective grade getting battle. its a common thing that better grades have been given to bootlickers and other stuff, but the average man is again at a loss.
the laws clearly suggest that even if the person passes all the subjects with D's he may get terminated from the college. this happens with my friend... is this justified on moral grounds ?
the other technicality that 6 years be given to the person to finish his degree is also not complied in his case. talk about the arbitrary nature of senate's decision to terminate him, i am amazed what teachers and educators may achieve my debarring a person from college. see his effort. see the amount of work he may put to get things done. see the hard work. no.. they'd prefer being rigid and trying to set an example (and everyone should understand this that no matter how much people try to set examples, things dont change by making disciplined actions for isolated cases)
i could just tell the judge that 'bloody' he passed in all the subjects with 21 credits, how can they terminate when clearly its written termination is only if the credits are 15 or less..... now why doesnt senate comply to it's rules ????
PS::: if any PECOBIAN reads this and supports his cause, please convince your friends so that the students can do something to change .. students have the power to do anything .. if and only if they want to ...
the question of positives and negatives of a particular system were streaming from various neurons and the electro-chemical signals had staggered into a war. blankness numbed my brain and all i could mutter was there are positives as well as negatives. what you want to hear??
anyways, the case is simple. being a good friend, i have seen him closely since my 2nd year. he's not an ordinary person. i've seen him toiling for 22 hours at a stretch during exams studying and still getting a poor grade. its simple. he's a real hardworker. but some people cannot just grasp confusing concepts of physics or UME. whats his fault?? darsheel zafary of taare zameen par ?? not really, but, no harm in striking a resemblance.
anyways, now the college grading. a D grade fetches 4 credits then how is the academic rule at SGPA>4.5 or 5 justified? considering the law A+B=C+D, someone has to get a D, now in this case, there is an equal possibility that the not-so-popular and the not-so-sycophant people lose their grades in this subjective grade getting battle. its a common thing that better grades have been given to bootlickers and other stuff, but the average man is again at a loss.
the laws clearly suggest that even if the person passes all the subjects with D's he may get terminated from the college. this happens with my friend... is this justified on moral grounds ?
the other technicality that 6 years be given to the person to finish his degree is also not complied in his case. talk about the arbitrary nature of senate's decision to terminate him, i am amazed what teachers and educators may achieve my debarring a person from college. see his effort. see the amount of work he may put to get things done. see the hard work. no.. they'd prefer being rigid and trying to set an example (and everyone should understand this that no matter how much people try to set examples, things dont change by making disciplined actions for isolated cases)
i could just tell the judge that 'bloody' he passed in all the subjects with 21 credits, how can they terminate when clearly its written termination is only if the credits are 15 or less..... now why doesnt senate comply to it's rules ????
PS::: if any PECOBIAN reads this and supports his cause, please convince your friends so that the students can do something to change .. students have the power to do anything .. if and only if they want to ...
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
start of major
well, finally today was the day we kickstarting working on the major project. the college seems continuing with the torcher we have to bear in the class.. new one liners of nag are unleashed, everyday.. "I will kill you", "mai naag hoon", his praise of bihari people and desire to help one guy commit suicide in our batch are strong ...
while arun caught me today (bcoz of incessant mass-cuts) the more i experience the college, the more it seems to suck (its been 4 years, so now every teacher's personality is coming clearer). bagai was at his suckiest best today when he refused to sign on a document, forwarded by a professor of his dept only. (he said unke he HOD samajhkar sign karva lo) while the 3rd year juniors got it signed from Director of the college, our HOD is great.. ek sign se uski gaddi cheeni jaa sakti hai ...
My stories apart, big news around was the season of apology letters .. vats n nain, both guud frnds got apologies from atrenta (jisme i too had a good chance to get, and now, by god's grace, meri naukri ni lagi) anyways, am hoping vats does great in
iim interviews.. regarding nain, he will find something .. hopefully ....
coming to starting the project, it was a good day for science, but a bad one for emotions.. i just realised today that i am more of an idealist, introvert and innocent compared to even the most innocent guys around. well, innocent is not the correct word, but carrying yourself is the word. underestimating myself is sometimes what i do best.. but anyways, am not sorry about it..
while arun caught me today (bcoz of incessant mass-cuts) the more i experience the college, the more it seems to suck (its been 4 years, so now every teacher's personality is coming clearer). bagai was at his suckiest best today when he refused to sign on a document, forwarded by a professor of his dept only. (he said unke he HOD samajhkar sign karva lo) while the 3rd year juniors got it signed from Director of the college, our HOD is great.. ek sign se uski gaddi cheeni jaa sakti hai ...
My stories apart, big news around was the season of apology letters .. vats n nain, both guud frnds got apologies from atrenta (jisme i too had a good chance to get, and now, by god's grace, meri naukri ni lagi) anyways, am hoping vats does great in
iim interviews.. regarding nain, he will find something .. hopefully ....
coming to starting the project, it was a good day for science, but a bad one for emotions.. i just realised today that i am more of an idealist, introvert and innocent compared to even the most innocent guys around. well, innocent is not the correct word, but carrying yourself is the word. underestimating myself is sometimes what i do best.. but anyways, am not sorry about it..
Saturday, February 7, 2009
Rape in the final sem
being a hot topic to write, final sem has been a literal pain in the neck. it just seems harder than all semesters. 'nag' (now i'll use this as code name, cause someone told me whenever you type my honorable teacher's name, my blog comes up which i should avoid) is consistently giving us assignments to make in every class (for tues class its on RFID).
but the real rape which happened with us was in microwave. our thursday was just the usual assignment day. no one does the assignment on their own .... we just make the assignment in one of the earlier classes and submit it to the prof.. never does one know what are the questions or what are the answers .. its just rewriting whats written in the original (just like victorian days before photostats gave way to clerks).
EC is known for the failed attempts at mass-cuts. in every class, people stand up and go out of the class, trying to instill a notion of unity and confidence to perform a mass cut. same happened this time too ... never does the mass cut get executed.. just a normal thursday.. but the god's had contrived a different plan.
i collected the whole class's assignment and it seemed a neat bundle for the teacher to admire. the failed attempt to mass cut had happenned, too. now then sir comes in, takes the attendance. then we feel so happy to have completed the assignment that someone tells "sir, assignments..". the attention shifts to the bundle of ass. lying on the front seat and everyone is so happy to have submitted it.
sir starts asking who all has submitted the assignment and takes the attendance again. everyone is "yes sir, submitted". gurinder chips in, i have it in my room, i'll submit it at 12. the only one saying "no" is my fair lady, the college beauty, miss simran (hats off to her, going different from the crowd ). now then, he asks after the 2nd attendance, anyone who doesnt have assignment in the bundle ? no one makes any noise... (there's something in the air which is making me suspicious now..)
then comes the RAPE..... the next instant, we are told to sit less than 5 people on one bench. (acting fast, i scamper as fast as i can to sit behind dhawan, who had read microwave). he wrote 3 questions to do (2 from the assignment, and the best part was that we didnt even know the which 2 questions were in the assignment)anyways, he cleared that out. in our 4 years, never has such brutal treatment been seen.
as for me, (trying to be oversmart), i knew 1 answer and had copied a fair amount of the 2nd question when people sitting near me started snatching my pages and it ended him noticing me and telling the class that i'll average the marks you and your partners get.. from that moment, he never stopped staring at me (and i was cribbing in my mind while everyone must be copying).
After that, My pen was moving in the air, sheet empty and i was looking down the whole 35 minutes in despair.... neeraj, trying to outsmart, like me, ended up copying the answer 1 twice and then realizing he'd done a big error. till then, arun( the honorable teacher) had told to collect his and jaskirat(who had showed him the answer) separately .. to evaluate whether there was anything similar.
lol .. neeraj and me were caught in the microwave propagated RADAR of arun.... but in general it was a 1 hour cruel, forced, unexpected and brutal assault on our student life. RAPE.
but the real rape which happened with us was in microwave. our thursday was just the usual assignment day. no one does the assignment on their own .... we just make the assignment in one of the earlier classes and submit it to the prof.. never does one know what are the questions or what are the answers .. its just rewriting whats written in the original (just like victorian days before photostats gave way to clerks).
EC is known for the failed attempts at mass-cuts. in every class, people stand up and go out of the class, trying to instill a notion of unity and confidence to perform a mass cut. same happened this time too ... never does the mass cut get executed.. just a normal thursday.. but the god's had contrived a different plan.
i collected the whole class's assignment and it seemed a neat bundle for the teacher to admire. the failed attempt to mass cut had happenned, too. now then sir comes in, takes the attendance. then we feel so happy to have completed the assignment that someone tells "sir, assignments..". the attention shifts to the bundle of ass. lying on the front seat and everyone is so happy to have submitted it.
sir starts asking who all has submitted the assignment and takes the attendance again. everyone is "yes sir, submitted". gurinder chips in, i have it in my room, i'll submit it at 12. the only one saying "no" is my fair lady, the college beauty, miss simran (hats off to her, going different from the crowd ). now then, he asks after the 2nd attendance, anyone who doesnt have assignment in the bundle ? no one makes any noise... (there's something in the air which is making me suspicious now..)
then comes the RAPE..... the next instant, we are told to sit less than 5 people on one bench. (acting fast, i scamper as fast as i can to sit behind dhawan, who had read microwave). he wrote 3 questions to do (2 from the assignment, and the best part was that we didnt even know the which 2 questions were in the assignment)anyways, he cleared that out. in our 4 years, never has such brutal treatment been seen.
as for me, (trying to be oversmart), i knew 1 answer and had copied a fair amount of the 2nd question when people sitting near me started snatching my pages and it ended him noticing me and telling the class that i'll average the marks you and your partners get.. from that moment, he never stopped staring at me (and i was cribbing in my mind while everyone must be copying).
After that, My pen was moving in the air, sheet empty and i was looking down the whole 35 minutes in despair.... neeraj, trying to outsmart, like me, ended up copying the answer 1 twice and then realizing he'd done a big error. till then, arun( the honorable teacher) had told to collect his and jaskirat(who had showed him the answer) separately .. to evaluate whether there was anything similar.
lol .. neeraj and me were caught in the microwave propagated RADAR of arun.... but in general it was a 1 hour cruel, forced, unexpected and brutal assault on our student life. RAPE.
Thursday, February 5, 2009
legs, belts, wooden-sticks and baseball bats ...
Q:anything they have in common ???
A: all are used extensively to hit at the bums of 'newly' placed final year students in pec.
call it hooliganism or sadism, i never understand the meaning of making a really happy person feel pain by bashing him with leather belts, legs and baseball bats...
its final year and the placements happened a month ago, so this memory was not fresh.. however, this 4th, things went back in time when people got placed in bhel. as the outside auditorium, Gupta sir had caught people bashing with belts.. he even managed to gather some belts from those 'pranksters'.
the action had to shift from outside audi to front of hostel parking ... now, the ece guys are not far behind.. come towards C block and witness a mob of 20-25 people standing in the balcony waiting for their prey ...
i scramble upstairs to find alok (the prey) and here comes the leader of the mob to escort him.. i slipped sweetly and spent 15-20 mins.. i had work with alok, so he called up after 30 min.. only to realise that he's turning me over to the mob (who beated me like hell, for me gettin into a univ.. ) after getting a nice thrashing, i am the part of the mob.... come any guy, he's gonna get bashed up .. where are the principles of non-violence, now (tit-for-tat has preceded over them).
anyways, it happens only in pec.... hope the practices change ... if not, happy slogging ..
A: all are used extensively to hit at the bums of 'newly' placed final year students in pec.
call it hooliganism or sadism, i never understand the meaning of making a really happy person feel pain by bashing him with leather belts, legs and baseball bats...
its final year and the placements happened a month ago, so this memory was not fresh.. however, this 4th, things went back in time when people got placed in bhel. as the outside auditorium, Gupta sir had caught people bashing with belts.. he even managed to gather some belts from those 'pranksters'.
the action had to shift from outside audi to front of hostel parking ... now, the ece guys are not far behind.. come towards C block and witness a mob of 20-25 people standing in the balcony waiting for their prey ...
i scramble upstairs to find alok (the prey) and here comes the leader of the mob to escort him.. i slipped sweetly and spent 15-20 mins.. i had work with alok, so he called up after 30 min.. only to realise that he's turning me over to the mob (who beated me like hell, for me gettin into a univ.. ) after getting a nice thrashing, i am the part of the mob.... come any guy, he's gonna get bashed up .. where are the principles of non-violence, now (tit-for-tat has preceded over them).
anyways, it happens only in pec.... hope the practices change ... if not, happy slogging ..
Monday, February 2, 2009
the assignment orgy ....
ORGY:
2 DISAPPROVING an orgy of sth a period when there is too much of something, usually a bad or harmful activity:
well, this week has been a mixed bag of sorts .. with loads of assignments, projects (and other work of mine), its been a real pain in the neck.
now then, it's monday (where we submitted an assignment of implementing a radio simulator on MATLAB.. worked whole sunday for that .. and i guess the work was research-kind thingy )
monday has bought 4 more assignments to my notice. come tuesday, rihani and saha need pieces of paper (termed by them as assignments, but by a friend as ASS-in-MINT)to be kept in their rooms and let them rot all year (before they finally decide to earn some money by selling it @6-9 rupees per kg.).
wednesday is off (but u never know if a teacher decides giving assignment for that day, too)
thursday is arun day when we submit derivations of all the equations he wrote today in class. any utility of such clerk-work ?? i dont think so..
friday brings another saha ass-in-mint to the fore ... wow na ??
now, then the week's packed up .. one ORGY we have in pec ....
2 DISAPPROVING an orgy of sth a period when there is too much of something, usually a bad or harmful activity:
well, this week has been a mixed bag of sorts .. with loads of assignments, projects (and other work of mine), its been a real pain in the neck.
now then, it's monday (where we submitted an assignment of implementing a radio simulator on MATLAB.. worked whole sunday for that .. and i guess the work was research-kind thingy )
monday has bought 4 more assignments to my notice. come tuesday, rihani and saha need pieces of paper (termed by them as assignments, but by a friend as ASS-in-MINT)to be kept in their rooms and let them rot all year (before they finally decide to earn some money by selling it @6-9 rupees per kg.).
wednesday is off (but u never know if a teacher decides giving assignment for that day, too)
thursday is arun day when we submit derivations of all the equations he wrote today in class. any utility of such clerk-work ?? i dont think so..
friday brings another saha ass-in-mint to the fore ... wow na ??
now, then the week's packed up .. one ORGY we have in pec ....
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
college ka raaz-the mystery continues
A bizzare day, to say the least. a cherishing one, though, like-another-busy-day-of-life. Waking up after hearing noises at 7 in the morning, i found out my cousin relatives had turned up while it was a foggy winter's twilight time. I had a bath (now thats 1 important thing bizzare about the day) and got ready like a nice sweet boy going to school at 8. i really feel one should bathe everyday before going out of home (thats what malaika arora said too, but who listens?). the chilly winters continued their romance and my bike fueled my passion for it. before reaching the college, the morning had more suprizes as i had a glimpse of my dear classmate-simran sidhu, looking beautiful,strangely, after losing wieght.
now then, the regular classes and going for gedi to citco, barista and subway's. (remember today's a tuesday !). i met the director and gupta sir today, for the point of my long standing funding problems for presenting a paper. i've fought mental wars regarding this and chewed alot on the matter and the financial's involved. it turns out that its a real mess sometimes, too much thinking. as my father says, "i'd never think that much". but anyways, the raaz has continued with college authorities playing a hide and seek game with me.
the director's meet was logical and interesting. my mindset was to get all the information from his mind (rather than selling my trip), in which i didnt do badly, i believe. a certain questions still remain while i found the director a little pessimistic (or too theoretical, shall we call it?). anyways, am just wishing things turn out well cause my mind is grooving up to go on a trip to thailand.
Followed by watching a bizzare movie, clockwork orange for 30 min (after that couldnt tolerate much), went to discuss about major project discussions with my mentor. this was the time i was selling my idea.
then came another raaz-the movie.. went for a 5 o clock show, i found the movie interesting and nicely packaged, though with it's constraints. making a horror movie is not an easy job and the director has tried well. the story line is faulty in it's essence, but its what the different way it is presented is what appealed me. some creative efforts like the ATM scene, the bus killing kangna etc(which could have been a plunderous joke if wrongly attempted) deserve some credit. brilliance of kangna too deserve an appraise(she was hot,sexy and scary all at once in the scene she's using abusive language). the flaws are too much to write but i'd not waste time on those aspects ...
now then, the regular classes and going for gedi to citco, barista and subway's. (remember today's a tuesday !). i met the director and gupta sir today, for the point of my long standing funding problems for presenting a paper. i've fought mental wars regarding this and chewed alot on the matter and the financial's involved. it turns out that its a real mess sometimes, too much thinking. as my father says, "i'd never think that much". but anyways, the raaz has continued with college authorities playing a hide and seek game with me.
the director's meet was logical and interesting. my mindset was to get all the information from his mind (rather than selling my trip), in which i didnt do badly, i believe. a certain questions still remain while i found the director a little pessimistic (or too theoretical, shall we call it?). anyways, am just wishing things turn out well cause my mind is grooving up to go on a trip to thailand.
Followed by watching a bizzare movie, clockwork orange for 30 min (after that couldnt tolerate much), went to discuss about major project discussions with my mentor. this was the time i was selling my idea.
then came another raaz-the movie.. went for a 5 o clock show, i found the movie interesting and nicely packaged, though with it's constraints. making a horror movie is not an easy job and the director has tried well. the story line is faulty in it's essence, but its what the different way it is presented is what appealed me. some creative efforts like the ATM scene, the bus killing kangna etc(which could have been a plunderous joke if wrongly attempted) deserve some credit. brilliance of kangna too deserve an appraise(she was hot,sexy and scary all at once in the scene she's using abusive language). the flaws are too much to write but i'd not waste time on those aspects ...
Saturday, January 24, 2009
frusst... a triple dose of discipline in 4th year ..
another torcherous week ended with the college teachers. its really a triple dose of discipline for notorious people of our batch.
SUICIDE 1::
the day starts with V. rihani sucking up all the positive vibes of the morning and craving us for fresh oxygen. ok, more practically, he beats to death by drawing rectangular diagrams and writing on the board.... he has a knack of making us understand the most simple things in the most complicated manner that people are always in awe of him, rather than understanding the basic fact that he has a wildly wrong perception of not understanding simple things in simple manner.
SUICIDE 2::
the torcher shifts from blackboard to the stage. here comes nagendra saha, (since vats had murmured in the class that he doesnt speak english well, he's constantly delivering lectures in english.) a bollywood song aptly describes him.... emotional atyachaar... man .. its one hell of 3rd degree torcher.. he keeps on speaking the whole class and expects full attention and idealism from every student. death by hearing ... shifting topics remarkably well, he may start with wireless communication, go on discussing human virtues and end up on giving tips on which car to buy, why more trees should be planted and how diabetes is linked with mobile phones (now thats the link back to wireless communication)
2 hours gone, without a break these hair pulling sessions dont end here.. here comes SUICIDE 3::
arun kumar and his page of notes.. the stage shifts towards the podium where he keeps on standing and reciting microwave-hymns from the notes he's written. no line makes any sense, so he quickly adds," i can understand this is just a little boring". the class is busy scribbling and brain-wracking "kis pichle janam ke paap ka badla le rahe hai humse". surely, everyone in the class cant be hitler, mussolini or marie-antoinette. then why everyone has to bear the torcher?
the best part in this is that there is no possibility of moving left or right for 3 straight hours, talk about wispering some witty comment (the ece guys are famous for commenting on anything- be it a poor joke)
the notoriety of our class was emminent by throwing spit-balls on faces of people(once or twice on teachers), shouting wierd names of teachers on their face(any colleague remembers 'mau' being shouted at chem teacher?), throwing pens, orange peels, tiffin box,paper-things and even pieces of wood once towards teachers. other things do deserve attention like mobile songs, playing with college projector and electricity of room and lots more.. just to disturb the teacher. and dont forget amidst all this, every guy is in some jocular discussion with people sitting nearby.
then why notorious teachers trying their techniques of disciplining such jungle-bred chaps which are going to be ece engineers in just 4 months ... ??
SUICIDE 1::
the day starts with V. rihani sucking up all the positive vibes of the morning and craving us for fresh oxygen. ok, more practically, he beats to death by drawing rectangular diagrams and writing on the board.... he has a knack of making us understand the most simple things in the most complicated manner that people are always in awe of him, rather than understanding the basic fact that he has a wildly wrong perception of not understanding simple things in simple manner.
SUICIDE 2::
the torcher shifts from blackboard to the stage. here comes nagendra saha, (since vats had murmured in the class that he doesnt speak english well, he's constantly delivering lectures in english.) a bollywood song aptly describes him.... emotional atyachaar... man .. its one hell of 3rd degree torcher.. he keeps on speaking the whole class and expects full attention and idealism from every student. death by hearing ... shifting topics remarkably well, he may start with wireless communication, go on discussing human virtues and end up on giving tips on which car to buy, why more trees should be planted and how diabetes is linked with mobile phones (now thats the link back to wireless communication)
2 hours gone, without a break these hair pulling sessions dont end here.. here comes SUICIDE 3::
arun kumar and his page of notes.. the stage shifts towards the podium where he keeps on standing and reciting microwave-hymns from the notes he's written. no line makes any sense, so he quickly adds," i can understand this is just a little boring". the class is busy scribbling and brain-wracking "kis pichle janam ke paap ka badla le rahe hai humse". surely, everyone in the class cant be hitler, mussolini or marie-antoinette. then why everyone has to bear the torcher?
the best part in this is that there is no possibility of moving left or right for 3 straight hours, talk about wispering some witty comment (the ece guys are famous for commenting on anything- be it a poor joke)
the notoriety of our class was emminent by throwing spit-balls on faces of people(once or twice on teachers), shouting wierd names of teachers on their face(any colleague remembers 'mau' being shouted at chem teacher?), throwing pens, orange peels, tiffin box,paper-things and even pieces of wood once towards teachers. other things do deserve attention like mobile songs, playing with college projector and electricity of room and lots more.. just to disturb the teacher. and dont forget amidst all this, every guy is in some jocular discussion with people sitting nearby.
then why notorious teachers trying their techniques of disciplining such jungle-bred chaps which are going to be ece engineers in just 4 months ... ??
Friday, January 16, 2009
chandni chowk 2 .. oh no ..
well, i cant remember if i've ever watched premiere shows of any movies, but today wasnt exactly the good day to watch one. though the day was great where the biggest accomplishment being that i may be offered some compensation if i go to present a paper by the college (upto 20,000). lots of news and happenings learnt today.... somethings which deserve mention are
american porn industry asking for bailout...
25% of our 1st year getting into probation due to a+b=c+d (wasnt that obvious 25% have to get D grades by this law)
rihani proving out to be a good guy (he spoke up for my paper presentation case in senate meeting)
imperial college's hidden fact that it needs no application money.. this was perfect end to a good day.
and of course, getting to watch a free premiere show of chandni chowk to china...
now then, why this was not a great experience??
cause the movie sucks .. big time .. imagine the excitement.. free show + premiere + nice crowd (mba guys were felicitated today, so was expected to meet old guys)...
anyways, it seemed a copy of B grade brainless comedy-action movie where umbrellas make u go up in the air (antigravity), hats are the most deadliest weapons and god exists in potatoes ... senseless rite ?? thats the movie for you....
where a girl remembers details when she was 1 month old but has no ideas what she did when she was 4, where poison only affects villains and hero does x-men stunts just because the director wants him to.
its the most stupid shit i've seen in recent times, more stupid than our female vampire or gunda or loha movies .... but should be the best seller B grade movie (starring mithun, too .. i forgot.. he speaks bihari and wears punjabi jooti .. n am like ... wtf ?? )
american porn industry asking for bailout...
25% of our 1st year getting into probation due to a+b=c+d (wasnt that obvious 25% have to get D grades by this law)
rihani proving out to be a good guy (he spoke up for my paper presentation case in senate meeting)
imperial college's hidden fact that it needs no application money.. this was perfect end to a good day.
and of course, getting to watch a free premiere show of chandni chowk to china...
now then, why this was not a great experience??
cause the movie sucks .. big time .. imagine the excitement.. free show + premiere + nice crowd (mba guys were felicitated today, so was expected to meet old guys)...
anyways, it seemed a copy of B grade brainless comedy-action movie where umbrellas make u go up in the air (antigravity), hats are the most deadliest weapons and god exists in potatoes ... senseless rite ?? thats the movie for you....
where a girl remembers details when she was 1 month old but has no ideas what she did when she was 4, where poison only affects villains and hero does x-men stunts just because the director wants him to.
its the most stupid shit i've seen in recent times, more stupid than our female vampire or gunda or loha movies .... but should be the best seller B grade movie (starring mithun, too .. i forgot.. he speaks bihari and wears punjabi jooti .. n am like ... wtf ?? )
Thursday, January 15, 2009
2 lectures and so much to write about
in rihani's 1st class, a guy was thrown out of the class because he was talking and writing something on his copy. rihani read aloud his writings for the class
" CAT goes online.. ......
now the mouse will chase the cat.. "
copyrights to rohit bhatt(or the guy he copied this from), who had to go out of the class to show the world his sincerest feelings about mba and cat.
rihani's pronounciation amazes me. while fingers became fengs and pebbles became pabs, alok was pronounced and aloknath and the best. ruhani murria was pronounced by rihani as rehani moria ... was he referring to himself is wat people asked. why moria?
nagendra saha told the class 3 times that he does not write anything on the board while teaching and the 4th time he was about to do so, jaskeerat aptly said, sir vo board vali baat bata do.. bechara bola nai .. now its become usual to hear 2 classes going on .. one from the teacher from the front and the other voice coming from either vats or jaskeerat (with random sneers of dhawan topping it up) from behind. telling each comment would make it drab, so its suffice we stop this topic here.
nagendra saha (was seeming like a bengali chap, though his accent is bihari..)discussed something unique, though. the concept of shifting of jobs rather than creation of more jobs. while 10 years ago, banks used to have more employees, now they need not have. while the peons, clerks and other staff remained in a good quantity for about 10 engineers and 1 manager to assist, creation of more engineering jobs and managerial positions has resulted in downgrading of the post of an engineer and similarly the support staff is not needed.
so there has been job creation and job deprivation side by side. job shifting is what is being seen. the socialist guys can chew this and continue their ongoing debate about social inequality. guess nagendra sir mus be bengali den..
" CAT goes online.. ......
now the mouse will chase the cat.. "
copyrights to rohit bhatt(or the guy he copied this from), who had to go out of the class to show the world his sincerest feelings about mba and cat.
rihani's pronounciation amazes me. while fingers became fengs and pebbles became pabs, alok was pronounced and aloknath and the best. ruhani murria was pronounced by rihani as rehani moria ... was he referring to himself is wat people asked. why moria?
nagendra saha told the class 3 times that he does not write anything on the board while teaching and the 4th time he was about to do so, jaskeerat aptly said, sir vo board vali baat bata do.. bechara bola nai .. now its become usual to hear 2 classes going on .. one from the teacher from the front and the other voice coming from either vats or jaskeerat (with random sneers of dhawan topping it up) from behind. telling each comment would make it drab, so its suffice we stop this topic here.
nagendra saha (was seeming like a bengali chap, though his accent is bihari..)discussed something unique, though. the concept of shifting of jobs rather than creation of more jobs. while 10 years ago, banks used to have more employees, now they need not have. while the peons, clerks and other staff remained in a good quantity for about 10 engineers and 1 manager to assist, creation of more engineering jobs and managerial positions has resulted in downgrading of the post of an engineer and similarly the support staff is not needed.
so there has been job creation and job deprivation side by side. job shifting is what is being seen. the socialist guys can chew this and continue their ongoing debate about social inequality. guess nagendra sir mus be bengali den..
the first day of 8th sem @ pec
after registering myself yest .. the first day in coll. .. aah ..
am gonna be taught by the most frightening teachers of the elec dept this time and alongwith the A+B=C+D rule, i dont expect myself to be having an easy sem this time.
we have Rihani, Nagendra saha and arun kumar all teaching us core subjects of electronics . am imagining the tough times about to come. alongwith major project, too .... the 4th subject is humanities-managerial finance(which give me some hope to get a nice grade this time).
anyways, teachers are a pain ... while i had a hard time today tryin to get lor from bagai for my final application (which he hasnt given),it seems harder talking with other's too.
jyoti kedia wanted some info bout technical activities of college, which i provided her. then comes arrogance, ignorance and god knows what. am helping her for no reason, but people are like, u didnt do this, write it in this manner and blah blah .. i did it and slipped it in her room.
next comes our neena ma'am. she's a real nice person sometimes but i just regret why i couldnt get an A grade after scoring highest marks in the final examination (95 out of 100, can you imagine still getting a B), in those ways neelu jain was awesome, giving me an A in DSP.
coming back to rihani. our registrar of college says (and knows nothing am sure) of possibility of funding me to presenting paper at hongkong conference in which my paper is selected. i listened to his advice and went to gupta sir to get my application (suggested by him) signed, when he suggested its research so gurnam singh would be the man. i go to the director and he tells the correct information.
"well... There is no policy regarding this matter in our college made till now, but u've given this, so we'll make a committee and develop some policy soon. but i dont think you'll be getting anything before march." last date for conference registration is jan 20. so in all probability i cannot go there which implies i wont be presenting the paper or getting any benefit for getting it accepted on an international platform.
anyways, since our first year, we've been on this pill. there is no policy for this. anything... while the hindi newspapers boast of 1 lac funding by our for just participating in competitions (with a bleak possibility of winning), sure shot things like these dont get funding cause there is no policy (as you can see). anyways, am not perturbed by these cause i dont intend to go for the conference only, but i feel sad at the state of affairs cause random people get benefit of doing nonsense things while wonderful things lie in the corner craving for their time of praise.
am gonna be taught by the most frightening teachers of the elec dept this time and alongwith the A+B=C+D rule, i dont expect myself to be having an easy sem this time.
we have Rihani, Nagendra saha and arun kumar all teaching us core subjects of electronics . am imagining the tough times about to come. alongwith major project, too .... the 4th subject is humanities-managerial finance(which give me some hope to get a nice grade this time).
anyways, teachers are a pain ... while i had a hard time today tryin to get lor from bagai for my final application (which he hasnt given),it seems harder talking with other's too.
jyoti kedia wanted some info bout technical activities of college, which i provided her. then comes arrogance, ignorance and god knows what. am helping her for no reason, but people are like, u didnt do this, write it in this manner and blah blah .. i did it and slipped it in her room.
next comes our neena ma'am. she's a real nice person sometimes but i just regret why i couldnt get an A grade after scoring highest marks in the final examination (95 out of 100, can you imagine still getting a B), in those ways neelu jain was awesome, giving me an A in DSP.
coming back to rihani. our registrar of college says (and knows nothing am sure) of possibility of funding me to presenting paper at hongkong conference in which my paper is selected. i listened to his advice and went to gupta sir to get my application (suggested by him) signed, when he suggested its research so gurnam singh would be the man. i go to the director and he tells the correct information.
"well... There is no policy regarding this matter in our college made till now, but u've given this, so we'll make a committee and develop some policy soon. but i dont think you'll be getting anything before march." last date for conference registration is jan 20. so in all probability i cannot go there which implies i wont be presenting the paper or getting any benefit for getting it accepted on an international platform.
anyways, since our first year, we've been on this pill. there is no policy for this. anything... while the hindi newspapers boast of 1 lac funding by our for just participating in competitions (with a bleak possibility of winning), sure shot things like these dont get funding cause there is no policy (as you can see). anyways, am not perturbed by these cause i dont intend to go for the conference only, but i feel sad at the state of affairs cause random people get benefit of doing nonsense things while wonderful things lie in the corner craving for their time of praise.
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