Happy New Year

Here's wishing everyone a very Happy n Prosperous New Year.

Lets hope this new year doesn't come with a bang ( similar to the Mumbai ones ;) ).Here's also hoping our dream companies don't crash along with our dreams and hopefully the new year brings a lot of cheers (and happiness) to all our lives.

God Bless
Boxer

My first school

Well, the title of the blog may sound confusing to many cause most of them start and end thier schooling in a single school, but people from the defence background might understand...

Well, being in the Air Force my dad used to get posted to a new place every couple of years, and though going to a new place and making new friends was great fun, saying goodbyes to friends and packing everything up was really tough.

Anyways while we were driving back from Goa to Delhi after my last sem in college ( ya, will write about that trip in my next post).Anyways we came via Pune where Dad had done a course earlier ( earlier matlab when I was 3-4 years old). We stayed in the same mess there, saw my old house, the first one that I remembered ( I was born when Dad was posted to Bhuj, and I don't remember anyhting about that.After that Dad got posted to Pune.).So I saw my old school too...it was great, and a lot of incidents came back flooding to me. The pic on top is of the school in Pune

Anyways went to a lot of different places and schools after this-
Air Force Golden Jubilee Institute ( New Delhi)
Central School ( Utarlai, Barmer(Rajasthan)-yo thats the place close to which they found the tunnel to Pakistan)
Central School (Bidar(Karnataka))
Air Force Vidya Bharti School( Gwalior( Madhya Pradesh))
Air Force Golden Jubilee Institute ( New Delhi)

Anyways finished my schooling from the same school where I started it from class I. And made lots of friends, am in contact with most of them too..though I never even imagined that i would meet Gill at college, we had been together earlier in class 6-7th. Govi too was with me in 11th n 12th and so I knew he was coming to Goa too, and quite a lot of people I had seen/met at FITJEE came to Goa too...

Anyways I am going back reminiscing about those days at school..Cheers

Yeh naya blog kaunsa hai??

Well, it has been more than 50 posts now, this one is the 52nd one to be exact, and so I thought I'll change the layout of the blog because the current one was becoming too boring.So here is the blog in its new avtaar.

-The most obvious one is of course the template.I wanted to change the background after I saw Nimit's blog and the new template he had put up.It was Awesome and I too decided to go for new template, the blogger ones seemed too boring, so after trying out many different templates, I zeroed on this one.

-The traffic feed, well no particular reasons for putting this in my blog.

-The clock. Well, I really liked this clock because it seems so carelessly made, the circle being incomplete and well not exactly a circle.

-Label Cloud. I really wanted to have a label cloud on my blog, and when I searching on net for the HTML code, I only found the one that just listed the tags in random order and different size, the largest one being the most used tag.But I wanted the cloud like on Akash Bhai's blog so searched further and finally found the code today :)

Also my profile has also been updated, it no longer gives my location as BITS Pilani Goa Campus :(

Please lemme know how you like the naya blog...

Last Post from AH3-260

The corridors are empty, most of my friends have left( in fact there are just 4-5 people left on my floor of 62 rooms..) , some to come back next sem, others forever..and all of them have taken with them memories of this place..both good and bad...
...the years of friends and friendship, of fights and make ups, of ups and downs, of trust and brotherhood, years of cracking meaningless PJ's and still eliciting laughter from the audience( read like minded pagal log :) )..of exploring Goa, exploring the world of electronics (and electrical too :P) and ending up an IT job...


With regards to Academics in general and EEE in particular, the words that sum it up-

Been there, done that, can't remember most of it...

Learning everything from Biology to Report writing, from Advertisement and Sales to Analog and Digital Very Large Scale Integrated Circuit design (pheew) BITS ne sab kuchh sikhaya...

I will miss cribbing about mess food, complaining about the light and water problems that came up, especially the times when during exams A-wing plunged into darkness and electricity was there in C-wing..ohh those shouts of "Maaro Govil ko" ( our mess rep- kuchh khana nahi sudhar paaya) to "itna mat padhon saalon...mar jaoge padh padh ke"( during exams to "PHODU" ( which became the first name of half my hostel mates thanks to me) and how the hell I forgot HACs which we had coined in our first over dinner one night.I will miss sitting in Angad's room or Vishal's room at night trying to prepare for next day's exam, the tension at 8:50 AM for a 9:00 AM paper and the relief and the feeling "ki bas ho gaya paper.." at 10:00 AM...well life used to stand still during those 3 days of T1 and T2...

I will miss sitting in CSD in mornings with Vishrut, Gill, Vishal, Choos, Pantar and Chillu, will miss the BITSAA PR work, working on everything from BITS Website to Glimpses '06 to Melange '04, those deadlines and the work put into getting the work done..

i will miss spending time sitting at Mongi, juice corner or even the b-dome....hell i will even miss the dinner time discussions, which even made the bad AATISH food bearable. I will miss those movie sessions in Gill's room, the nightouts with Gill and Nimit playing CS in his room, the nighout before the exams and those nightouts at end sem, just being awake to wish everyone a goodbye before they left at all odd times ( arre bhai yeh low cost carriers ko subah 5:30 ka time hi milta hai re..). And to think the time for the final goodbye will come so soon...

And who can forget the treat about everything, those Birthday parties at Bogmalo, the cake, the birthday bumps and the awesome celebrations in the hostels..it used to really make us forget the last 18 birthdays we had celebrated at home, and the fact that we were away from home..

The Zephyr and Waves and Quark, which used to be events to showcase our talents onstage and off-stage, winning the hearts of the crowd and taking panga with other hostels and colleges..I will also neve forget the awesome AH3 dance-I like to move it that made the crowds go wild... :)

I will not forget the elections and the drama associated with it, 7 candidates for a post, the audi debate, the results in the audi, those fates hanging in balance..( bas ek wish poori nahi ho paayi-watching "None of these" win, lets hope yeh feat bhi manage ho jayegi Goa mein...)

This is the last post I'll ever write from my room AH3, 260 BITS Pilani Goa Campus..and no matter how much I cribbed about everything under the sun..the fact is "I am still gonna miss it..."

And no matter how everyone tells me that its still gonna be the same...deep down I know...it never will be...


I'll end with the true feelings that sum it up..

The pain of missing friends isn't their absence but...its when you think of the times you have shared and ask '..will those ever happen again...'and your mind silently says "NEVER"

Engineer Kya hai??? Pt 2

Am continuing with a poem I had posted earlier ( again not mine..).

Engineer wo hai
jise lecture mein film ka khyaal aata hai,
theatre mein assignment ka sawaal aata hai,
mess mein ghar ka khaana yaad aata hai,
exam se pehli raat ko syllabus yaad ata hai,
practical mei to kuch nahin aata hai,
par phir bhi pass hone ka andaaz aata hai,
attendance se zyaada proxy lagata hai,
aur
placement ke kahayaal mein 4 saal barbaad karwata hai...

Relatively Happy...

Well I am happy today...OK relatively happier than I was a few days ago...

WHY??


Well there are a some reasons...

-Nimmo aka Nimit got a pre-placement offer at Precision tech, his PS 2 at Gurgaon...

-Adi and Pandey were supposed to leave campus on 8th, and I couldn't get myself to fact the reality that the fairytale three years that we spent together are now coming to an end, and I had to go,sit in his room and watch Pandey pack to let this realization sink in...but they decided at the last moment (read 8th morning i.e. about 8 hours before their train left) to stay back till 12th to enjoy with all of us(YoYO)...and so we are planning to go out and visit beaches for the last time now...

-Went out to Bogmalo yesterday, sat on the beach, dunno just watching the waves crashing onto the beach had a very calming effect ( in fact in the first year, we had planned to just go and sit on the beach after every few days...but thanks to the TOUGH BITS academic commitments, kabhi ho hi nahi paaya...) and yesterday sitting there, I realized that soon all of us would be busy in our own schedule, we may not all be at the same places, have commitments ( read girl friends etc...) and may not even have time to meet each other...and that is how friends drift apart...hoping this never happens to us...

-I am so vella for some days now( why??- next point) and I have no idea about what to do...net, dc, movie...sab se boriyat ho gayi hai yaar...and before you think that this guy hasn't even blogged once and says he is bored.. I wrote a few drafts, but couldn't complete even one of them..

-I finished 2 out of my 3 exams ( on 4th), the last exams of my life..and my next exam is on 13th...that's still a long distance away....
and after that long distance- I will nearly be an engineer...have to go for PS2 next sem , but BITS waale PS de hi nahi hai yaar...

Also this happens to be my 49th post...so a special half century post coming up :)

The motto of IMA

" The safety honour and welfare of your country
come first always and every time.
The honour welfare and comfort of the men
you command come next.
Your own ease comfort and safety
come last always and every time "

I don't have any more words after this...

Battle we must when the enemy is in sight...

I received this mail today and I really felt that you should all read it at least once...

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We all have heard and seen the news and it has saddened us all. It has outraged me as it is no longer a terrorist attack but war. Pakistan has brought the war into our homes and we are still talking about a Hindu-Muslim divide.

I believe we are standing on the brink of devastation with blind politicians and an illiterate populace which will see what is shown....we need to see the writing on the wall. Pakistan is at war with us. And we do not seem to realise the gravity of the situation.

We send out our police to deal with a highly trained and brainwashed enemy...the three top cops just walked into bullets because they thought they were dealing with ordinary terrorists. Our lathi wielding, overweight police is no match . A case of letting the fox among chickens! What can the chickens do other than flutter and die amidst a lot of clucking!

Only our Armed Forces stand between us and disaster. And they are a taken for granted, an ill equipped, demoralised lot. Perhaps they question their importance too. But I know that what saves me and mine is that 24 yr old boy from Haryana who is more afraid of being laughed at than he is of catching a bullet, the tall lad from Punjab who will do what his saab tells him, the diminiutive Gorkha who is bravery personified and their young idealistic officers who lead from the front. Why I say idealistic is that the Army offers nothing other than honour and duty...and the ones who respond to the call are the true patriots. There was a time we held patriots dear and acknowledged our debt to them...now idealism is another name for foolishness.

I remember the Kargil war and the unbelievable acts of bravery and raw courage it threw up....who can forget Capt. Batra's laughing bearded face and that immortal line "YEH DIL MANGE MORE!" And a 19 yr old Yogendra Singh Yadav with 3 bullets in him, climbing up a gruelling 60 feet to reach and neutralize an enemy bunker and engage in combat…our only living PVC, Capt Vijayant Thapar whose farewell letter should be read by us aloud to our kids...."I have no regrets..if I become a human again, I will again join the Army and fight for my nation....if you can, please come and see where the Army fought for your tomorrow....never forget the sacrifice of these men...Papa, you should feel proud....Live Life King Size!" He was all of 22. Capt Anuj Nayyar, whose heroism fuelled a movie and numerous TV serials…this roll call of honour goes on and on. And it still brings forth tears from me…tears of pride and sorrow and personal loss. And a feeling that we cannot take these sacrifices for granted anymore.

The least we can do is learn from them…our enemy has a face…it is not Muslim…it is Pakistan ! Pakistanis do not see you and me as Hindu, Christian, Sikh, doctor, engineer, poet…we are their faceless enemy and to destroy us is the only gameplan. Why can't we see what they have made so plain?

I will go and donate blood and I will be vigilant in public places. I vow to take note of abandoned stuff and report it…and I will sit up all night when I see my country under attack and hold my head in my hands when I see the dead, the dying and the injured…is it enough?

We should take a leaf out of Israel 's book…I am no politician nor am I interested in political correctness..what I see is that the world fried and baked and grilled the Jews…millions of them and NO ONE spoke up…no one saw anything! While smoke was billowing from the crematoriums and the stench of human flesh was all pervading, no one saw or heard or smelt anything…they were the unseen dead. So they decided that they had to take care of themselves and that history would never repeat itself for them again. How many of us will have to be dismembered, to die anonymously in battle without knowing that they were the enemy….how much more will we take…how much is enough…is a 100 dead and 200 injured less…tomorrow when the tally is 500 dead and 1000 injured, is it enough? When do we get up and say that one dead Indian is one too many! How many more of these endless, bloody harvests do we have to witness and endure?

There are mails which proudly declare that India has never invaded any country in her entire history…when will we circulate mails stating that we gouge out the eyes that look at India sideways and tear out limbs that rise against us! And when will our war-cry be "ENOUGH"…

When will we reach out for our golden future which lies just around the corner? I KNOW it does exist…I can FEEL it! I can feel the throb of a mighty Indian awakening. There is so much of hope in me, Iam a believer!

The question is when! When will my brethren see in each other an Indian! When will India become our motherland and not a 'developing' country one must flee from! When will our national anthem bring tears of pride in our eyes! When will a Raj Thackeray never dare verbalise his stinking politics for fear of a public lynching from his very own 'marathi manoos'! When will the politician become a patriot and a leader! When will we find ourselves!

I will end with some of my favourite martial quotes:-

THE PAIN IS TEMPORARY, THE PRIDE IS FOREVER.

WHAT DOES'NT KILL YOU, STRENGTHENS YOU. And its inofficial continuation…WHAT KILLS YOU, STRENGTHENS YOUR MOTHER!

PERSISTENT DEFENCE, EFFECTIVE INTIMIDATION.

BATTLE WE MUST WHEN ENEMY IN SIGHT.

SARVATRA IZZAT O IQBAL (Everywhere, Honour and Glory)

BALIDANAM VEER LAKSHANAM

SHASTRA SE SHAKTI.

MY ISRAELI FAVOURITE..IN THE PLACE WHERE THE (TANK) TREADS STOP, THERE THE BORDER WILL BE DECIDED!

THE HARD WE DO TODAY, THE IMPOSSIBLE WE DO TOMORROW.

A PERSONAL FAVOURITE…AN ARMY BUILDS A NATION.

ONE WOUNDS ME WITH IMPUNITY.

HE WHO KNOWS WHEN HE CAN FIGHT AND WHEN HE CANNOT, WILL BE VICTORIOUS.

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PS: I haven't written this mail, but we can still discuss what it says..

Here we go again

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It has happened again, after Bangalore, Jaipur , Delhi and Assam, terrorists have struck at Mumbai..and that too in grand style...CST, Taj Mahal hotel and Oberoi, both posh hotels, infact 5 star hotels, ...but I am not angry at the terrorists, I am anguished by the media hype.

And before you start thinking that this guy is nuts and is unconcerned about the people inside, well thats definitely not what I am talking about..
The media people, interviewing everybody and anybody in sight in Mumbai...bt when a soldier is killed in Kashmir, its not even news now..because its just a common man dying in some remote part of the country, where death is now not a new phenomenon...the media ppl know that the "live" feeds from Mumbai will get them more TRP than the entire Army ever would be able to...

And aaj bhi when Indian forces went inside the hotel, it was the ATS,NSG and the Army that went in...went in to save the rich people( who are too important to die), people they never knew, people who wouldn't even recognize them if they meet these soldiers again.... and jab pay commission aata hai...to Army waalo ki salary badhane se hamari country suffer karti hai...( the basic pay for an officer joining the Army is Rs 8,500 pm, while according to the recent Pay commission, the pay for a normal MLA is nearly a couple of lakhs per month....and they say that military drains our country's budget...)

Well, I just wrote this post as I have always felt that soldiers and the Army have never been given the respect or money that they deserve....and media and Human rights Commision are the first people to question their motives when by mistake an innocent man is killed during an encounter with terrorists. And again when a soldier is killed, the media people don't even blink an eyelid now...leave alone coming forward to protect the dead soldier's human rights...

All we need to do is to send these media people to the border, let them see death up close there, maybe then they will realize the soldiers life, away from his family, standing guard at the dead of night at temperatures dipping below zero degrees and trying to protect his country against all threats- Domestic or foreign- from floods to riots to terrorists, they have fought off everything, sometimes at the cost of thier lives.

You can go to sleep in your comfortable bed in your centrally air-conditioned home, but do say a silent prayer for the unknown soldier who stands guard at the border the whole night so that nothing harms us..


I think my gtalk status does convey what I wanted to write in this post "Mumbai mein 5 star hotel mein ghuse..tab media waalon ko dikha...Jammu mein Army Camp mein ghuste hai tab media waale kaha mar jate hai???"
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The Final Inspection

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The soldier stood and faced God,
Which must always come to pass.
He hoped his shoes were shining,
Just as brightly as his brass.

'Step forward now, you soldier,
How shall I deal with you ?
Have you always turned the other cheek?
To My Church have you been true?'

The soldier squared his shoulders and said,
'No, Lord, I guess I ain't.
Because those of us who carry guns,
Can't always be a saint.

I've had to work most Sundays,
And at times my talk was tough.
And sometimes I've been violent,
Because the world is awfully rough.

But, I never took a penny,
That wasn't mine to keep...
Though I worked a lot of overtime,
When the bills got just too steep.

And I never passed a cry for help,
Though at times I shook with fear.
And sometimes, God, forgive me,
I've wept unmanly tears.

I know I don't deserve a place,
Among the people here.
They never wanted me around,
Except to calm their fears.

If you've a place for me here, Lord,
It needn't be so grand.
I never expected or had too much,
But if you don't, I'll understand.

There was a silence all around the throne,
Where the saints had often trod.
As the soldier waited quietly,
For the judgment of his God.

'Step forward now, you soldier,
You've borne your burdens well.
Walk peacefully on Heaven's streets,
You've done your time in Hell.'

Author Unknown

Soni de nakre, sone lag de

(PS: the title of the blog will be explained later..)

I have nothing to do now,though I have CAT within a week, but ab padhne ka mann nahi kar raha yaar... so was just going thru some blogs, and came across this exercise here, and have decided to give it a try...

Exercise
"Put your MP3 player/Media player on shuffle.
For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
You must write the name of the song no matter what."

Lets see what happens…

1. If someone says “Is This Okay?” you say?
Jhoom Jhoom Badalwa Barse
Jhoom Jhoom Badalwa Barse…(Fuzon)

LOL…maana Goa mein kafi baarish hoti hai…but aisa bhi kya ;)

2. What would best describe your personality?
Mujh pe to jadoo, tera jadoo chal gaya (Race)

-wtf

3. What do u like in a guy/girl?
Something about the way u smile, I may never know the reason why – Sa ni dha pa ma ma ga re sa (Colonial Cousins)

Perfect match :) :)

4. How do u feel today?
Teri aankhen mujhe yaad aayen , tera chehra mujhe tarpaye, teri bheegi aankhen, mujhe jab yaad aaye, teri beegi aankhon ko..bhualana chahu na bhula paaon..dil yeh bhula nahi paye…( Fuzon)

5. Whats your life’s purpose?
Bulla ki jaana mein kaun…bulla ki jaana mein kaun….(Rabbi Shergill)

Good match again ;)

6. What is your motto?
Zehreeley zehreeley (Rock On)

Wow….yeh to mujhe bhi nahi pata tha :P

7. What do your friends think of you?
Kahi to hogi who..duniya jaha tu mere saath hai… ( Jaane Tu…ya jaane naa)

Woops!!

8. What do u think of your parents?
Cash to your left baby, Cash to your right ..cash on my mind, making money all the time (Cash)

Omg, no comments…

9. What do u think about very often?
Naa hai yeh paana, naa khona hi hai….
tera naa hone jaaneeee, kyon hona hi hai….
tum se hi din hota hai, sur maye shaam aati hai…tum se hi, tum se hi…( Jab We Met)

Hehe…now thats starting to get funny...

10. What is 2+2??

Khuda jaane yeh kyon hua hai, ke ban gaye ho tum mere khuda.. (Bacchna aae haseenon)

Maana tough question hai…

11. What do u think of your best friend?
Dhoop tashan mein, raat tashan hai,
apni to har baat tashan mein….kaise bhi haalat tashan hai…

…apna jeena to…..jeena tashan mein..tashan mein (Tashan)

That’s true…jo karte hai…tashan mein ;)

12. What do you think of the person U like?
Heere moti main naa chahu, main to chahu sangam tera….
main to teri saiyaan…tu hai mera…
tu jo chu le pyaar se, aaram se, mar jaaon…saiyaaaaaaan..( Kailash Kher)

Can’t deny this…

13. What is your life story?

Koi fariyaad tere dil mein dabi ho jaise.. tune aankhon se koi baaat kahi ho jaise..
jaagte jaagte ek umr kati ho jaisi… (Tum Bin)

Abe yeh meri life story hai ya main kisi ki 3^rd person story bata raha hoon :P

14. What do u want to be when you grow up?
In dino, dil mera ,mujhse yeh keh raha, tu khwaab saja, tu ji le zara..(Life in a…Metro)

True…live for the moment…

15. What do think when you see the person u like?
Dhadkane khamosh hai..kuchh kehti nahi….yeh akhiri alvida naa ho…
chahate aankhon se behti rahi…yeh akhiri alvida naa ho..
iss dard ko dil mein, dil mein rehne do..
jo khwaab hai aankhon se aankhon se kehne do..
dukh ki nadi chup chap behne do..
jo kehne hai tum dheere se keh do…
Yeh akhiri alvida naa hoooooooooo….(OST Shootout at Lokhandwala, Strings)

Alvida kyon????? Who bhi akhiri… :(

16. What do ur parents think of you?
Aankhon mein jiske, koi to khwaab hai..
khush hai wahi jo thoda betaab hai..
zindagi mein koi aarzoo kijiye, phir dekhiye..
honton pe jiske koi to geet hai…who haare bhi to,
uski hi jeet hai..
dil mein jo geet hai, gunguna lijiye, phir dekhiye…( Rock On)

Waah..inspired..

17. What will you dance to at your wedding?
Kabhi shaam dhale tu mere dil mein aa jaana,
Kabhi chand khile tu mere dil mein aa jaana…
Magar aana iss tarah tum keh yaha se phir naa jaana…. ( Sur)

Nice…

18. What will they play at ur funeral?
What Ive felt
What Ive known
Turn the pages
Turn the stone
Behind the door
Should I open it for you?

Oh, what Ive felt
Oh, what Ive known
I take this key
And I bury it in you

Because youre unforgiven too
Never free
Never me
cause youre unforgiven too ( Unforgiven, Metallica)

Nice, one of my favorites…

19. What is your hobby/Interest?
Bachna ae haseeno, lo main aa gaya…
Husn ka aashiq, husn ka dushman,
apni ada hai auron se juda…( Bachna ae haseeno)

Omg…aisa bhi kya desperation ;)

20. What is your biggest secret?
Patiyala peg laga ke, teri galli wich aake, sab sud bud hosh gawa ke,
deewani main pagal main talli ho gayi,
main tulli , main tulli ,main tulli ho gaya( Ugly aur Pagli)

That’s a gud one too…

21. What do u think of your friends?
Dooba dooba rehta hoon aankhon mein teri,
Deewana ban gaya hoon main chahat mein teri…(Silk Route)

No no..thats definitely not right…

22. What do u post this as?
Soni de nakre, sone lag de mainu, soni de nakre, sone lag de..(Partner)

Waah, the subject of the post is nt even related …
maine to pehle hi kaha hai…bandiya…saara credit inhe hi milta hai :x

The final T2..

T2 or the second internals got over a few days back...Well for all those of you who are not very aware of BITS System, 4-1 sem for single degree ppl is a light sem, we have to do only electives( 6 electives over the 4 years of engineering). So most people complete most of thier electives as theory and practical courses by the end of 3rd year, and come into this year with only one or two electives left...

Well, I had also hoped to do so, but if you have EEE, you end up doing so many labs as part of the course that you don't feel like doing an extra theory course...and well with nearly 200 students of three years baying the 20-30 odd faculty in EEEnI department, well you can guess how easy it is to get a project and well I didn't want to do projects like "Working on XYZ software package" or something, so I ended up with 4 of my 6 electives still unfinished....

And all for the first time at BPGC, we were getting an M.E level course, and it seemed pretty important too, so I took that too, so I ended up with 3 theory and 1 project in my 4th year, and like some of my friends did'nt choose an easy subject from Humanities ( and just for info, next sem we have electives like "Shreemad Bhagwad Gita" and "Conflict Religion" and a couple on entrepreneurship @campus )...

well I ended up with Embedded System Design, Digital Signal Processing and Data Communication and Networks, electives that are tough to do one at a time..and here I am doing them at the same time…and bhai “WATT lageli hai…”

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Just pray I manage some decent GPA…_/\_ ( thats the symbol for praying on DC these days :P)

Top ten most irritating phrases

8 Nov 2008, 0059 hrs IST, ANI (Times of India)

There are some phrases and words that drive us literally mad. Now, researchers at Oxford University have compiled a list of top ten most irritating expressions.

The researchers monitor the use of phrases in a massive database called the Oxford University Corpus, made up of books, papers, magazines, broadcast, the net and other sources. This alerts them to new words and phrases to be included in the Oxford English Dictionary and can tell them which language fads are fizzling out.

"We grow tired of anything that is repeated too often - an anecdote, a joke, a mannerism - and the same seems to happen with some language,"- Jeremy Butterfield( author of the book Damp Squid).

The top ten most irritating phrases:

1 - At the end of the day

2 - Fairly unique

3 - I personally

4 - At this moment in time

5 - With all due respect

6 - Absolutely

7 - It's a nightmare

8 - Shouldn't of

9 - 24/7

10 - It's not rocket science
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Well, somebody tell this to one of the most loved teacher @BPGC ;)

Anyways check out the original article at http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/3685307.cms

This article is courtesy Times of India...

Yeh naya ID kaunsa hai??

Being a part of team BITSAA, on campus at Goa, most of the earlier replies had this question "What is P3 and which branch in Pilani does it corrispond to to..."
and my replies used to be a detailed explaination of how the A group at Pilani was equivalent to P group here and so on...and after these I used to always think ki "yeh ID same rakh lete to BITS waalo ka kya jaata".

Well it seems someone has heard it, and now after 3.5 years in college we now have a new ID, corrisponding to the ones given in Pilani except that at the end it has a "P" for Pilani, "G" for Goa and "H" for Hyderabad...

My new id is 2005A3PS118G ....
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But if you are thinking that BITS changed its ID system just to maintain a single structure, well thats just partially correct and our guess is that they were running out of alphabets with 5-6 of them used at Pilani, 4-5 at Goa and nearly an equal number at Hyderabad and Dubai...and at the rate at which BITS is opening new campuses, we would soon be out of alphabets :P

Anyways, might probably be going home for CAT, so wishing all of you the bestest of luck for CAT and IIFT exams..phodd dena...

Time line of a DSP assignment

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4th September 08, 12 PM- An assignment of 8 questions + 4 MATLAB questions

DATE OF SUBMISSION- 16th September, 6 PM


11th September 08, 11:30 PM- Conversation between me and Sagar

Shashank: Oye suna hai DSP mein kuchh assignment mila hai???
Arre uss din Redpine aayi thi, I hadn't gone to class. Kahi se questions arrange kar.
ST: Haan yaar, arre I had gone for the class re. I have the questions written down.
Shashank: Arre badiya, chal tu kar liyo, I'll take the completed assignment from you.
ST: Chill yaar ho jayega, CH4 mein ladkiya kar lengi.


13th September 08, 8:00 PM - Dinner time convo between Angad and me

Angad: Oye DSP mein assignment mil gaya...
Shashank: haan yaar
Angad: yaar i had not gone for the class, questions hai tere paas naa..assignment kar liyo, i'll take it from you.
Shashank:Arre ST has the questions, woh kar raha hai..
Angad: oh! phir theek hai, jab to assignment kar le to de diyo...


14th September 08, 11:30 PM - Conversation between Angad, Shashank, ST and Uday

Uday : Arre assignment karo
ST, Shashank, Angad: abe 9 pointer tu hai..assignment kaun karega tu ya hum???
Uday : Arre I don't go for DSP re...
ST: Arre aasan hai..ho jayega..CHILL...
ST: kal Baithe hai..pakka shaam mein...sab abhi padh lo...


15th September 08, 5:30 PM- 7:00 PM - Angad's room- Angad, ST and Shashank ( trying to do the assignment..)

Shashank: abe yeh kya ho raha hai???
ST: arre aasan hai...
Angad: Abe kaise hua???
Angad: Accha yaar tum log karo, tab tak main Microelecronics padh leta hoon.


15th September 08, 7:30 PM- 8:30 PM - ST's room- ST and Shashank ( trying to do the assignment..)

Shashank: Accha yaar, main Gadgill se pooch ke aata hoon..


15th September 08, 9:30 PM- 9: 45 PM - Neeraj Gadgil's room- ST and Shashank and Gadgill

ST,Shashank: abe we have done these questions...
Neeraj: Arre yaar..mere se bhi abhi yahi hue hai...
KP( coming after playing badminton): Oye ho gaya assignment, abe jaldi karo, mujhe copy bhi karna hai...


15th September 08, 10:00 PM-12:30 AM - ST's room- ST and Shashank ( STILL trying to do the assignment..)

Shashank: Arre Gill se pooch lete hai...
ST: Haan chalo


15th September 08, 12:30 AM-2:00 AM - Angad, ST and Shashank ( finally calling it a day..)

ST: Arre subah I'll get a copy from CH4..ho jayega..Chill...


16th September 08, 8:30 AM - ST's room- Shashank( outside ST's room) and ST sleeping inside

Shashank: Oye uth, tujhe copy laani hai..
ST: Haan yaar..uth gaya..jaata hoon CH4


16th September 08, 9:00 AM - ST's room- Shashank( STILL outside ST's room) and ST still sleeping inside

Shashank: abe uth yaar..tu marvaye gaa...
ST: arre yaar, utha hi nahi..phir so gaya tha...


16th September 08, 9:30 AM-11:30 AM - ST's room- Shashank and ST still trying, Angad attending his classes

Shashank: Abe kal shaam se same questions par atke hai...
ST:Chalo Gadgill ne kar liye honge...


16th September 08, 11:30 AM - Neeraj Gadgil's room- Neeraj, Aniket (sitting on chairs), KP, Pranav, Harish, Mandar, Shashank ( sitting on the bed), ST and one more guy (Standing)

Somebody:abe 12 bajne waale hai..kaise hoga??
Somebody else: arre class mein thodi naa dena hai...5 baje submit karna hai..
Another guy: arre class mein maang liya to..complete to hona chahiye...


16th September 08, 12:10 PM- All seven of us enter the class late


16th September 08, 12:15 PM- 2-3 people enter the class..

Prof: Guys, lots of attendence today, thanks to the assignment..


16th September 08, 3:30 PM - Embedded systems lab, lab underway

SMS from Angad to Shashank
"Oye ST says we have to submit a write up along with lab assignments, about how we did the
questions etc, when will you do it??"

Reply from Shashank to Angad
"5 PM, just keep it ready by then."


16th September 08, 5:15 PM- Angad's room- Angad and ST waiting for Shashank

ST: oye jaldi copy kar..
Shashank: ho gaya yaar, he has said, he'll be in his chamber till 6:00 PM.


16th September 08, 5:30 PM - Angad's room- 3 of us ready to leave

Uday and Avinash : abe jaldi assignment do, lab wala...


16th September 08, 5:40 PM - Angad's room- 3 of us ready to leave, Uday and Avinash still copying

Angad: Oh S***, I had to go for my LOP presentation at 5 PM.
ST, Shashank: LOL, you are so dead.


6th September 08, 5:50 PM - Outside Faculty chamber's

ST: Chalo ho gaya...
Shashank: yoyo woh bhi 10 min before deadline :)




That's how assignments are completed on time, every time ;)

Mom....

Read these lines in a newspaper, and realized it was so true....

You moved to another city
She understood
You were too busy to call everyday
She didn't mind
When she cried,she cried alone
When you cried, she cried with you
When you said 'Ma, this is important',
she prayed for you.

Thanks mom, Love you.

The Soldier...

Here is a very touching poem about a soldier and his thoughts...of how the country and the countrymen have forgotten his contribution to the country...(btw I haven't written this poem...)

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How you play with us, did you ever see?
At Seven, I had decided what I wanted to be;
I would serve you to the end,
All these boundaries I would defend.
Now you make me look like a fool,
When at Seventeen and just out of school;
Went to the place where they made "men out of boys"
Lived a tough life …sacrificed a few joys…
In those days, I would see my 'civilian' friends,
Living a life with the fashion trends;
Enjoying their so called "College Days"
While I sweated and bled in the sun and haze…
But I never thought twice about what where or why
All I knew was when the time came,
I'd be ready to do or die.
At 21 and with my commission in hand,
Under the glory of the parade and the band,
I took the oath to protect you over land, air or sea,
And make the supreme sacrifice when the need came to be.
I stood there with a sense of recognition,
But on that day I never had the premonition, that when the time came to give me my due,
You'd just say," What is so great that you do?

"Long back you promised a well to do life;
And when I'm away, take care of my wife.
You came and saw the hardships I live through,
And I saw you make a note or two,
And I hoped you would realise the worth of me;
but now I know you'll never be able to see,
Because you only see the glorified life of mine,
Did you see the place where death looms all the time?
Did you meet the man standing guard in the snow?
The name of his newborn he does not know...
Did you meet the man whose father breathed his last?
While the sailor patrolled our seas so vast?

You still know I'll not be the one to raise my voice
I will stand tall and protect you in Punjab Himachal and Thois.
But that's just me you have in the sun and rain,
For now at Twenty Four, you make me think again;
About the decision I made,
Seven years back;
Should I have chosen another life, some other track?
Will I tell my son to follow my lead?
Will I tell my son, you'll get all that you need?
This is the country you will serve
This country will give you all that you deserve?

I heard you tell the world "India is shining"
I told my men, that's a reason for us to be smiling
This is the India you and I will defend!
But tell me how long will you be able to pretend?
You go on promise all that you may,
But it's the souls of your own men you betray.

Did you read how some of our eminent citizens
Write about me and ridicule my very existence?
I ask you to please come and see what I do,
Come and have a look at what I go through
Live my life just for a day
Maybe you'll have something else to say?
I will still risk my life without a sigh
To keep your flag flying high
but today I ask myself a question or two…

Oh India …. Why do I still serve you?
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-Anonymous

Whose Road is it Anyway??

Recently I read in the papers how people are not willing to help others involved in serious road accidents...n it bought back an old memory....

This happened when i was in 2nd or 3rd standard...n we lived in Arjun Vihar near Dhaula Kuan in Delhi....We used to go for walks on the main road just outside the place…It was a busy road and our favorite past time used to be counting the numbers of cars n bikes passing through each light....At one point there was a huge crater in the middle of the (extremely well paved..) road and people on two wheelers used to realize at the very last moment and swerved out of the way....One of them on a scooter (and luckily wearing a helmet...which wasn't compulsory on Delhi roads at that time..) wasn't that lucky on that particular night when we were walking...n took the crater at high speed and bumped and fell down a short distance away. With a head injury...the guy was badly hit... Dad somehow managed to bring him and his scooter to the footpath in the middle of traffic n then tried to flag down a car to take him to a hospital which wasn't very far away...but none of the drivers stopped…afraid of being caught up in some police case...because if you bring a guy to the hospital the first question people ask is "Why did you bring him here?? Must have been your car that hit him?? Etc..."

After some time dad managed to finally flag down an army vehicle...but even those guys weren't very keen to help...After Dad told them that he too was from the Air Force, they finally took Dad n the guy to the hospital...Dad somehow got his phone no. from his wallet and called up his family. Soon they got to the hospital n then Dad came back home....His relatives came to our place a couple of days later and took his scooter which Dad had kept at our place after he took the guy to the hospital....
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We didn't have courage to call up his family & ask later about his condition, as the doctors had told us that he was in a pretty bad shape, with a critical head injury.
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After about 6 months or so a man came to our house and Dad opened the door...his first words were "Do you recognize me sir?? I am the same guy whose life you had saved last month..." He told us that he had got 97 stitches on his head…We were elated to know that he was fit & fine now.



I still feel people are not willing to help others because they are too busy...n that stopping to help someone would disrupt their tight schedules of getting to office or home or whatever...and also the fact that the Police and people at hospitals look at you suspiciously and think that you have ulterior motives if you help someone...Though this is changing with the coming in of Ambulance services...sometimes they cannot reach on time...n u might be the only chance the person has...of surviving…so don't just drive on…when you see a serious accident....try to help so that a good deed is passed on...

"Because sometimes you need to be the change you want to see in the world"


Anyway on a more happy note...its Father's Day....Happy Father's day to you Dad....love you...

Reservation...

A lot has been said about reservations and both its pro and cons have been given in huge details...n well as a student( who incidentally are at the receiving end in the whole "How much reservation?" fiasco) I am definitely NOT in favor of having reservation for backward classes.

Most of the institutes take up students on basis of an admission test, n if a student is qualified enough, he gets through, n most of the institutes including BITS Pilani for that matter give scholarship to quite a large number of people who are not financially well off, so it doesn't make sense to first have reservation and then give scholarships to students. The place where politicians should try to enforce reservations is in schools so that the huge numbers of students who cannot afford to go to schools can get the opportunities to excel.Also increasing the percentage of people who cannot pay the fees indirectly screws the rest of the students who have pay higher fee to keep the institute running...whats the sense in that???

But, unfortunately, a politician refuses to see logic, he is more interested in votes..( n seriously how many educated people ever go to vote in elections...).

On a lighter side, I had a few days ago posted abt the creative poets in our campus, here's another thought provoking poem by Dr BR Natarajan(Dean Nattu) about reservations:

Future Shock for India

Wisdomless Politicians
Meritless Admissions

Meaningless Curriculums
Substance less Examinations

Faculty less Departments
Student less Colleges

VC less Universities
Knowledgeless Society

Developmentless Nation
Into that hell of gloomdom

My Father,
Let my country go to Sleep
Let my country go to Sleep...

Is this where we are heading???

btw Compre starts frm Thursday..gt to start studying now..
bbye till the end of compre...

Jogging...

yoyo..finally woke up early in the morning and went for a jog....

It was so calm and quiet...and there was an awesome breeze flowing...so all in all it was awesome..planning to do this everyday...

n I hope we get a relief frm the heat at Goa....its all cloudy today with dark clouds..lets hope it rains...and to quote this line frm somebody's Gtalk status msg-"Barsoo re Meghaa..."

Chalo...I am now off to wake up everbody so early on a sunday morning for the Awesome Chole bhature breakfast in Atish mess...

cyao

Nearly there...

Well, its nearly the end...PS 2 forms for the first sem 2008-2009 are now out.. :(


n its a good week for me..After the gud marks, the lab exam for Analog has been postponed to next week and so has the Communication System lab exam..though we still have a quiz on Thursday....


Am planning to go jogging tomorrow morning and am trying to become regular but I never feel like leaving m bed in the morning :(

So am going to sleep early so that I can try to wake up early....


Good nite...

Kahani abhi baaki hai...

Well, today was the end of our last serious t2( Test2 or the 2nd internals)...as the last year at BITS is for electives and a six months training, so we'll I am gonna miss u T2 :P

However the misery of the toughest sem for the toughest branches( EEE n Eni if you guys couldn't realize that out yet ) is not over yet...With us getting a checked copy of Analog Electronics papers tomm morning( wtf we just gave the exam on saturday..)...the dates for the final lab exam are out...n I am in the first batch :(

And after that is the Communication lab exam..

n then just a couple of weeks for all the nostalgic we can be...some of us are gonna be attending our last few classes together, eating in the mess together for the last few times... cause some of will be moving out for PS2..n will come back in the 8th sem when we'll be out...so its adieu time... :(

So guys its down to 35 days or 840 hours or 50,400 seconds (or simply its too less a time) to have fun n enjoy n talk and spend with all the people who have been a cushion for all the bumps and kicks life has given you these 3 yrs...
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This post is for Nimit, Abhay, Meet, Bapu,Alekh bhai, Sagar, Goyal,chillu, Shokee, Choos and all the guys( n gals ;) ) who are going for PS in the first sem and all to all those who have to bear with me for on more sem [ :) ]... the people who have made the times at campus memorable...because everything we do together becomes a memory... ;)


Here is a toast to our friendship....and to the great times we've shared together...

Thanks a lot for just being there...

Engineer kya hai????

Another Saturday afternoon n as i sat writing (yet another) Communication report..n wondering wat my life has become...this poem came in as a PM on DC...n its sort of relevant to what I was thinking..

This poem ain't mine, cause I am no poet..this one has been composed by DC nick StiFFler...guys pls pay attention to the lyrics...

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ENGINEER KYA HAI???? ek sawaal jisne meri zindagi badal di



Engineer woh hain

jo aksar fasta hai
interviews ke sawaal me
badi companiyon ke jal me
boss aur client ke bawaal me

engineer woh hai

jo pak gaya hai
meetings ki jhelai me
submissions ki gehraai me
teamwork ki chataai me

engineer woh hai

jo laga rahta hai
sechdule ko fislane me
targets ko khiskane me
roz naye naye bahane banaane me

engineer woh hai

jo lunch time me breakfast leta hai
dinner time me lunch karta hai
aur
commutation ke waqt soya karta hai

engineer woh hai

jo paagal hai
chai aur samose ke pyaar mey
birdwatching ke wichaar mey

engineer woh hai

jo khoya hai
reminders ke jawab me
na milne wale hisab me
behtar bhavisya ke khwab me

engineer woh hai

jise intezaar hai
weekend night par dhoom machane ka
boss ke chhuti par jane ka
increment ki khabar aane ka

engineer woh hai

jo sochta hai
kaash padhai par dhyaan diya hota
kaash teacher se panga na liya hota
kaash ishq na kiya hota

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Awesome poem man...keep it up...

Holi hai....

Well had Holika Dehen today...n Vishal n Uday were running the whole day trying to arrange wood n kerosene n sweets etc...

Time of burning the fire- 7 PM

6:30 PM : It starts raining all of a sudden..n suddenly it looks as if the hard work has been spoilt...

7:05 PM : Suddenly the power goes off ( nt too unusual in our campus...)

7:10 PM : Me n Abhay take the colours( from the 5 kg bags( taking the colour out without lights n any knife or blade required another Engineering skill-we used a pen to tear a hole in the bag ;) ) )and finally managed to extract enough colour to be used as tikka ( bt believe me, we used it for everything except the tikka) and matches to light the fire...
btw its still raining...

7:24 PM : We decide to light the fire, some 12 of us in the open...all ready to make the fire burn against all odds...

7:28 PM : We try to light the fire...n IT starts burning on the first try ( sweet success... :) )

7: 35 PM : The crowd starts arriving, most of them not quite ready to come out in the rain( it was still drizzling...) bt we had enough crowd to start with tikka n Holi....sang songs too...

9: 00 PM : After enjoying Holi, the rain and the warm fire....its time to take a bath....

waise the starting has been good..Lets hope the colour fight tomm rocks too... ;)

anyways Here's wishing u a Happy and Safe colorful Holi....

November Rain...

One of the best songs I have heard..this one is frm Guns n Roses...check out the lyrics..

When I look into your eyes
I can see a love restrained
But darlin' when I hold you
Don't you know I feel the same

'Cause nothin' lasts forever
And we both know hearts can change
And it's hard to hold a candle
In the cold November rain

We've been through this such a long long time
Just tryin' to kill the pain

But lovers always come and lovers always go
An no one's really sure who's lettin' go today
Walking away

If we could take the time
to lay it on the line
I could rest my head
Just knowin' that you were mine
All mine
So if you want to love me
then darlin' don't refrain
Or I'll just end up walkin'
In the cold November rain

Do you need some time...on your own
Do you need some time...all alone
Everybody needs some time...
on their own
Don't you know you need some time...all alone

I know it's hard to keep an open heart
When even friends seem out to harm you
But if you could heal a broken heart
Wouldn't time be out to charm you

Sometimes I need some time... on my own
Sometimes I need some time... all alone
Everybody needs some time... on their own
Don't you know you need some time...all alone

And when your fears subside
And shadows still remain
I know that you can love me
When there's no one left to blame
So never mind the darkness
We still can find a way
'Cause nothin' lasts forever
Even cold November rain

Don't ya think that you need somebody
Don't ya think that you need someone
Everybody needs somebody
You're not the only one
You're not the only one


simply Awesome...

Ab bas bhi karo...

Well, this is wat every EEE n Instru 3yrite must be thinking...

This is how our past week has been like

Thursday 13th March : Open Book Operations Research test

Friday 14th March: Electromagnetic Fields and Waves Assignment( which btw was given on Wednesday March 12th)

Saturday 15th March: Communication Systems lab report ( which again was of 15 pages..n we have been told to submit our net report by Tuesday 18th March)

Sunday 16th March: Analog n Digital VLSI Design lab exam on Microwind( which I managed to learn at the last moment)

Monday 17th March: Analog Lab, another lab another report n PSPICE Simulation codes...

Tueday 18th March: Have to submit the Communication System report...

Friday 21st March: Have a Communication lab on a HOLIDAY( good firday) cause Saturday is HOLI(day)

No time to breathe..n to imagine that this is my last sem with some of my frnds...Nimit, Abhay, ST, Meet, Sagar, n Bapu( who incidently is the only 9 ptr to be going to PS in the first sem) who will all be going for PS 2 next sem...as people have put in their Gtalk status msg..."Nostalgic hone ka time bhi nahi de rahe.. :( "

20 Things I'll never forget about my college...

On the night before my 20th Birthday( 30th Jan)...I was waiting for the Birthday Bumps( point no. 9) and thought of what all my college has given me...and so here i noted down some of the most memorable things...

1. The College itself-BITS Pilani Goa Campus

2. Friends I have got for life- Vishal, Vishrut, Nimit, Angad, Govi...whom I can trust with my life...

3. The Wingies- Adi, Meet, Abhishek, Abhay, Pandey and Govil( though he is never at his room)...available for help, masti or just for being there..anytime and everytime...

4. Cooking Maggi at 1 AM...

5. The Mess(definitely not because of the food)...but because of the time we spend here just talking and pulling each others legs

6. The nighouts..

7. The DJ nites for every occasion and the RDC( Rejected Dancers Club) meet that ensues.

8. The treats at Monginis or Nescafe...

9. The Bumps(read kicks) we give out on Birthdays...

10. The beaches

11. Watching a match in the Common room with 180 people screaming at every hit and miss...

12. The class at 8 in the morning...

13. The lab reports...be it Analog Electronics, EMEC, DECO or CommSys-all of them with more than 10 pages of writing theory...and EEE'ites have two of them each sem..

14. Assignments about things not even heard of...

15. Mess Food( It wasn't bad...it was simply AATISH..)

16. Slow Net

17. LOLest Courses...

18. The closing of the hostel gates at 1130 PM

19. The fact that it made an engineer out of me and more importantly a Man..

20. ...(Waiting for this one..will let you know soon ;) )

Anyways I'd like to thank Vishal, Abhay,Abhishek, Meet, Pandey, Adi, Pophali, Bhasin, VNV, Govil, Gill, Bapu and others for the wonderful Birthday bumps and kicks...n everybody else for the wishes and the kicks...
God bless..