An early morning post

A lovely morning, i'm fresh after almost 11 hrs of sleep last night... i thought of taking a pic and here it is ... the date says otherwise, but its coz of the low battery... it changes date randomly... and i forgot to take care of it.

The past week has been pretty good actually - starting with the BTP Viva, and ending with me getting news tht my new cellphone wid be a Motorola Motorazr ... :)

Our panel was the ulti-cool panel : Bipin Sir, Dipti Mishra Ma'am, and Pudi Sir. Anyway, i'm doing my project under Bipin Sir with Arun Balakrishnan, who btw is also my TOC tutor .. :D .. (thnx da - i will do a slightly more part of the project). The project is abt Modeling Animal Herding Behaviour. We plan to do a simulation of Follow, Evade, Attack, Confine, Evolve etc using a set of agents against another set of agents. Now, we enter into the room after Sriram has left the room, saying he screwed it up. But, we overheard the panel discussing and apparently Sriram has got an A- . We sat down, and Bipin had asked us to explain the project. Once we were done wid tht, Bipin was all smiles, Mishra was smiling and Pudi (as usual) smiling .. :D
A cpl of doubts frm Pudi and we were done. It took us just abt 4 mins for the whole viva.

Actually the day before the viva, we ( me , Gayam, Erra Balu, Narasimhan, Prashant, 3 more first yrs) went to play football. Then, it started raining when Narasimhan and Prashant decided to go back. We continued playing in the rain. It was awesome... reminding me of the first year when abt 20 ppl in our batch used to go and play esp. in the rain. We played till arnd 6.30 when it was still pouring. I came back to my room, took a nice bath... and then realized tht my cell is no more ... it got fked to the core... the display doesnt work.
I removed my battery and checked it wid another one, but still it wasnt working. So, I decide to call my dad, and the result - after 2 days(Thursday), I'm using Manish's cell and when I call home, I get a response saying tht my dad is gonna buy a Motorola Motorazr for me ...

The pic beside is the V3 version ... I hope i get this .. its got some awesome features - MotoRazr V3

Now, I'm waiting for it ...

I dont know what to say, but I feel IIIT is simply wasting money on some useless work - painting of the footpath ... and the path in the garden in front of OBH etc. Now they are upto something similar - they put Tubelights in bathrooms removing the older bulbs. I dont fking get it why. The bulbs were pretty good, jus tht they need to replace them. But, no .. these ppl come to our (almost every, i suppose) wing and put tubelights in bathrooms and go. This - they will do. But, despite innumerable complaints regarding the geyser in the bathroom, they never repair it. Its been almost 8 months since i've shifted to this wing the 290's .. frm the 250's. And I think the geyser has worked abt 3 times only(Correct me if i'm wrong). These dumbasses shud start thinking of more productive work than this.

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ps - Ivy's post on football is nice ...

ps1 - Ivy .. u basically dont know how to hold an object still for a pic.

ps2 - Arun, if u are reading this, do the BTP.

:)

R & D Showcase '06 and other blah blah blah ...

R & D - It was okay, except for the fact that I was the only 3rd yr guy showing our(me and monga) robotics project - A Jumping Robot.(see the pic) . Anyway, before any questions are asked, our definition of the project, as per the robotics course is -

1. It is supposed to jump up in the air.
2. It is not our problem, as to what happens next - whether it falls down and breaks or whtvr.
3. Its gonna jump once and only once.

But, at the R&D, I basically told so much crap abt wht it will do when its done, that everybody (including myself) was very much appreciative of the idea and etc (other blah blah blah).

So, most of the thursday was basically building this robot, with the mag team meeting in the afternoon with Mrs. Meera Marathe - made a plan to bring out the IIIT Magazine - Interface - in the first week of April. After that, Su wid handover the reigns of the mag to us... I then went to the FSIS meeting wid the director to discuss abt the security issues, where we vehemently opposed the rule of banning cars in the campus. Hope that the rule wid not be implemented, coz i'm plannin' to bring a car soon ...

On 3rd, I put up the robot in 129, and roamed about looking at different projects, while spending most of my time at the DE Section ... It was fun there wid tipo and bushi. The whole day went like that, wid me enjoying by going to Bio lab abt 6 times (u know why). Finally, played football in the evening for about 1.5 hrs ... and then got back to the room, chatted for sometime and finally slept wid the hope tht I get up the next day morning for my CAT Class...
Btw, It rained after a longgggggggg time ...

4th Morning :
Was supposed to get up early for the CAT Class ... About 11 alarm rings between 5 - 5.30 am and I woke up to NONE of them. And irony was that it was the first time that none of us - me, Karthik and KrishnaAditya woke up by 6.30. I was woken up by Krishnaaditya's call at 6.30 to ask me abt the class ... We decided to screw going to class that day. Around breakfast time, I got to know that the class was cancelled ... WOW! What luck! Then, I decided that if I ever put an alarm , it means that I wake up.

I went to the R&D at arnd 11.30 am in the morning. And it was almost the same, wid the exception that the people who came to see almost tripled. So, it was kinda repetitive - I think of something else, but still the same old crap comes out of my mouth. In the meanwhile Ramji(see pic) was going all guns blazing while explaining his project. Vardhman Jain's project was kinda cool - removing an object from a movie file ... lot of ppl got some really weird ideas - he said he wid try to implement those. Finally, the day ended wid me playing football again and sleeping while watching the film - Good Night, and Good Luck I wid recommend watching this movie ... Its a pretty good one. Plot revolves around 1950's ... A black and white movie.

Sunday(Today) Morning :

Another weird start to the day, I got up to the alarm immediately, got ready by 8.15 am and went to the NBH Mess (for a change). Kartik and Vasan went home. So, it was me and Aditya to go to Ameerpet for the CL(Career Launcher) Class... I eat till 8.30 and feel surprised tht Adi isnt thr yet. So, I call him to find out tht he woke up just then. Hehe ... Its ALWAYS the other way round. I am always late ... by atleast 5 mins ... and he curses me, and we finally go to the class while frustrating Adi, along wid Vasan's help. There the CL guys ask for a reason, I'm always ready wid some excuse or the other, and we go into the class... Today, it was nice to be on the other side of the table. We went 17 minutes late to be precise... but, nothing happened, we went into the class with minimum fuss ... We came back in the Baleno again, ... seriously, driving baleno rocks !! I got Gulab Jamoon frm home, now its almost finished .. I shud think of some way which I can hide it ... any suggestions are welcome :)

Now, I check mail to find tht DC assignment 2 has arrived ... some one pls do it, and mail me ... :)