The immortals of Meluha

I never claim "reading books" to be one of my hobbies. Its not that I don't read books. I do read but not every other book I lay my hands on. For me the cover page is very important if I have to pick up a book for myself or if someone suggests and gives me a good feedback then I definitely read that.
As I said I never used to say "reading books" as my hobby, but at one instance I did that and thats when I repented :)


This was during my final year at IIT Madras and our campus placements started then, as usual the largest IT company in India visited our campus to be the first one to go. Those days we never used to work much on our CVs nor on preparation for interview[none of my friends did]. I borrowed a tie from one person a belt from some other and got my CV printed on a piece of paper and went to the interview. That was the first  interview in my life. I never did a mock interview also before that [none of my friends did :P]. I was totally cool [ chatting,laughing out loud with friends] till I entered the interview room, but as I was going inside my heart beat was at triple the normal rate. That's when I could feel the chillness all throughout my body.

There were 3 people on panel. A middle aged man[guess a tamilian], an old man[dont remem how he looked] and a lady[she was for sure a northie]. Then the regular tell about u etc, somehow I mugged up that part and blurted out the same.so managed that part....and as it went on..they asked me techie questions..to which I could answer comfortably [not that was an expert..but yea managed even that]..

then suddenly the lady interrupted and asked me" So Mr. Unknown.. what are your hobbies?"

I went blank for a while...[firstly it was the lady asking, and secondly it was sudden shift from techy to personal questions]
So I said "Ma'm.. my hobbies are...[thinking for a while].. reading books, watching movies [ ok now I remembered my actual hobbies] playing carrom, football, hockey, computer games ...again interrupted by the lady..[now I understood she should be some HR]

HR-"Wow! thats interesting, you read books..so what books have you read?"

Birthdays!!

I never celebrate my birthdays and I don’t feel it is anything to be happy about, because of which many times I even forget my birthdays. Last year, when I 

was in Mumbai, my parents reminded me of my birthday. 

This year the people here really made my birthday a memorable incident and now I believe birthdays are the unhappiest events for anyone. Yes that was not a spelling mistake, "Unhappiest" in quotes. Normally on birthdays you see all your friends coming to your place for the party, wishing you and presenting you the gifts. 

But here more than your friends your enemies are interested on your birthday. Just like in a PC game where in you have many levels, similarily the birthday celebrations here have different levels. The pain level increases as you progress into the next levels. In the first level the specimen is taken to quadrangle or mess top so that it can accommodate a good number of people. The people here are so frustrated with the courses and grades that they look for every reason to vent the frust on someone. And birthday is one such occasion where no one can question anyone. Just like in anyother college the specimen is kicked on the butt(called birthday bumps) till everyone gets atleast one chance, after which follows the actual thing.

In the second level the specimen is slapped with chappals on the butt repeatedly till the person tires out, often they pass the baton to someone else so that the "phat phat" sound continues. Believe me the 10000 wala garland in diwali is not as loud as this one. After this brutal session the specimen would not dare to feel his butt. Along with the specimen the 2 sideys of the specimen also have to undergo the torture for the only the mistake they did in their life is being his neighbours.

Then in the third level the cake and rasagolla arrive. Now dont think the torture has ended here. This indeed is the Icing On The Cake. The birthday cake is smashed on the face of the specimen followed by a rain of rasagollas. Believe me rasagollas may seem to be very soft and sweet but you will realise how hard it can hit when someone throws it on you with real force. As a matter of fact Calcutta is the highest producer of rasagollas. So people here can afford to use them as weapons of mass destruction.

The following was the invite sent to people in the campus, describing the specimen (unknown). It's called fames but none of it is in any aspect fame.

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This is kind of a testimonial but purely intended to be blasphemous

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~ "? ?" fame

~ LAFOOT fame

~ 'thu nee yabba' fame

~ work from home 'I-Banker' fame

~ got placed in an I-bank in Summers 'Laterals' fame

~ "I HATE Sanjeet Singh" fame

~ works for Al-Quaeda under the fake name 'Ibrahim Al Musaied' from Dubai fame

~ 'Sheikh No-balls-uddin' of *** Saudi fame

~ has a fetish for Jameela... his pet camel in Saudi fame

~ only gets his hair styled by his personal barber from hyderabad fame

~ hasnt got a haircut for three months now fame

~ eternal trader on NSE fame

~ earns money for trips to hyderabad by trading in options fame

~ official ER Secy of Section C fame

~ floated Section C videos on youtube fame

~ used to sit sandwitched between two girls in school fame

~ got caught while giving a 'voice proxy' for a girl in IITM fame

~ second g** partner of Sayan g** Roy fame

~ Claims to know arabic, japanese and bengali fame

~ cant speak more than two words in any of these languages fame

~ too shy to dance with a belly dancer while working in Saudi fame

~ 'Gym Carry' of IITM fame

~ passes out after every drinking session fame

~ Shola's super best friend fame

~ "Shola jo bhadke dil mera tadpe" fame

~ heart-breaker of 10 beautiful orissa girls in Carpe fame

~ Sticking to the wall like Spiderman while drunk fame

~ Macro eco midterm topper fame

~ one week night out for quali maths fame

~ badly in need for internship at Chennai fame

~ unfortunately placed in Bangalore fame

~ 8 weekends ka advanced booking to go to chennai from bangalore fame

~ 'preraaaaaaak' fame

~ extra player in IIMC football team fame

~ athlectics champion from IITM fame

~ potential presi of Adventure club fame

~ max freerider of adventure club fame

~ asked out on a date by a famous PGP1 fame

~ rejected the offer because he wanted to play hockey fame

~ wanted to be a forward in Hockey at Samhaar but when made a defender - RG'ed with the team by giving away a goal fame

~ discovered interesting uses of his 'hockey' stick fame

~ Mess rep of IITM fame

~ 4 years alum of WH messy rep fame

~ WH Mess Rep to HAS after seeing ***RG: 'Yaar, tune abhi thak kuthe nahi pakadvaye?'

~ sleeping in the theatre while watching 'Dark Knight' fame

~ psuedo wingie of 'ANX 110s' fame

~ rarely found in 'Graveyard' fame

~ great escape from the fire in Ankit Anand's room fame

~ please dont write about katrina in my fames fame

~ 'IIT M mai ****RG se poocha gaya ki kaha hoti hai RG ki class, to usmai bhi RG kar ke bola ki RG ki koi class nahi hoti' fame

~ Class mai drawing fame, best cartoonist in class fame

~ invented new game of tetris in class fame

Be there at WH Mess top/NC at 11:59:59 to vent out all your RG frustrations on ****'RG's ass

Sideys on offer: Rishabh 'Chotu' Guptha, Ankit 'Gainda' Anand

Contri's by: Vinod, Sayan 'Gay' Roy, Yusufi 'Hagga' Kapadia, Tharun 'Rambo' 'Shola'Tarzan, Venky the webmaster, Sai'fraudy placerep'Ram, Swade$

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Note : I enjoy celebrating birthdays of others :-), specially hitting with rasagollas ;)

 

Now I say birthdays are no more merrier.

Anil........................Some girl in danger

The title of the post is a copied idea frm the movie Baaz-a bird in danger....
Anil...a hot,casanova,smart,bon vivant...blah blah...
We always felt that we had somekind of telepathy between us..and at times he understood things without me saying anything..may be because we both share the same sunsign, moonsign and even nakshatra(star..:)
That's all one side of his character...the below is the darker side of anil...
Disclaimer:- The following views are all my own and any resemblance is purely coincidental..:))

Anil...the laziest person i ever saw...all the girls he broke up with till now is all becos of his laziness..;)
...On first notice he seems to be a saint...and can crap on any topic....of course on detailed dicsussion you'll realise the fact...
Anil... the fastest Ani'ma'l ...in our group..He has this habit of roaming along the corridor on undies.. there was one senior , i dont remem his name,who got mad becaus of our man's(divya mangala swaroopam) weird habit....
During exams our man was more efficient than a xerox machine...master copy was anurag and at times even me......
He is one big hand god.....once he was going by anurag's bike...and the bike had some problem...so anurag was struggling to fix it...our man took a lift leaving anurag in the middle of the road......
Anil's Gaffes:-

1)This happened in our 3rd yr..he was running 200m for our hostel...the start was good...and we were all cheering ...all of a sudden he slowed down with hands holding his chest....we were worried thinking some cramp in chest or some heart problem..so we all ran to the spot where he crashed...on asking what happened...he told his shin pained...we were baffled...and then he justified himself saying ...he was running so fast that to stop himself he was pushing his chest with his hands....

2)This happened when we were in 1st yr...our man put the immersion rod in the bucket full of water.
After one hour he returned and was shocked to see the water was not hot. He then shouted at me sayin i gave him a spoilt immersion rod. He left it without switching on.
Then on further investigating he said he felt the shock when he dipped his hand in water..so he thought the current was flowing therefore no need to switch on...;)....hehehe...readers our man is a civil engineer and very poor in elec stuff...he flunked the basic elec course in our first yr..;)

3) This happened again in our first year...it's a tradition in IITM ,after playin holi we go to Beasant nagar beach..play there and come back...thanks to the water problem in institute..

That day our man was wearing a two piece bikini...;)..bare foot...no sooner had we entered into water when the police arrived ..because swimming was banned at the beach(dangerous beach)...there was one reporter with video camera...our man saw that and ran to that place to get himshelf shoot by the camera...
..hehe hardly he reached there, a policeman chased him with a latthi and our man ran back with the same pace...

OK the following is to ANIL

Anil....gurthuku vasthunnayi.....
I still remem the day when u rammed into me with my cycle later told the brakes failed
I still remem the day i was kicked out of the class by ur fav Rammorthy all becos of u
I still remem when u copied from me and put an 'A' and i put a 'C'...
I still remem the kiss on dance floor...infamously termed as kiss of death
I still remem the time when i was kicked out of mooon lab by the security all becos of u..
I still remem the night when u stripped me in corridor...
I still remem when u tripped me down in front of the goal..when i was shooting a goal...
I still remem when u made me ride cycle from hostel to besant nagar beach ..
Huh!...i'll put an end to this blasphemy...

If you’re going to go broke, go broke big...now i did....

Am in IIT chennai now....feels like am in heaven...Huh! this place has changed a lot...it's full of gardens....it's no more a forest...it turned into a concrete jungle full of buildings...i dont see any deer or monkeys....
I met one interesting person in chennai...i think this is one memorable moment ..;)... then met Kisku...the future Nagesh Kukunooor...his movie.."Silicon Jungle" is going to hit hyderabad theatres this April...very desperate to check out this one...Then ...The whole campus is wired now ...and the net speed is really good...The professors are more worried about students playing comp games than watching porn... That is the reason they cut the internet&Lan connection between 1 and 4 so that ppl sleep during that time and come to classes the next day....wah...And the best part is girls and boys share the porn....;)...
It's because of this internet....many of them stopped playing ...those days when I was there sports(cric,footer,volley) were the only time pass for us......now ppl dont even come out of their rooms...all they do is orkutting..chatting...@$%%ing....

The whole evening i've been treating ppl....Anurag this is our combined treat ...;)...Then got sloshed...of course it was my treat to(Adi..BJ..Manas)...and again went out at 2:30am..came back at 4:30am....Huh now its arnd 5am....
Thats it for today...only thing i felt bad for is i couldnt play soccer today...but did better things....:D
Now am goin to crash..Its 5:30 am......zzzzzzzzzzzz

Reminiscence....

Hmm as i've said now am going to write abt two memorable incidents which i can never forget...(actually there are many.. will post them only on demand :)) )

Incident 1)

Characters:- Anurag ,Arvind,Myself,three others..all three of them were studious.....unlike the first three...There was one guy(research scholar "RA" ) he used to think as if he was the CEO of the lab....his job was to guide ppl in the lab.

Location:- Civil Engineering laboratory...u see cement everywhere.and huge machines..which make hell lot of noise...

Time :- 2:00pm....struggling to keep ourselves awake...we three of us were the laziest pppl..and rarely used to work in the lab...

I dont remember what experiment it was...but whatever every experiment we were supposed to do some graph...actually my job was just to trace others graphs so..dont ask me how to do...

Then... we all showed our graphs to that RA....

RA(total furious) :-" What ? you call this one a graph... I'll buy a rope from Gurunath stores..and hang myself at Gajendra circle....( those two places are landmarks at IIT madras).. You people dont know the difference between a linear graph and a semi-log graph..(ok that was the first time i ever heard of the term)..
"How did you all pass IIT JEE?? "(joint entrance exam)...(as if it's taught in KG )..
Then he even asked our grades and laughed at us... "You ppl dont deserve to be called IITians..shame on you...." the whole lab was pin drop silent.....
OK now you go to gurunath....
Anurag:- "y? to get a rope??"


Incident 2)
This happened when i was in 4th yr 2nd sem.
Characters:- 10 of us were there...all 10 of us are frenz...
Prologue:- We had this minor Financial Management..really fundoo course..but we all wasted it... The Ma'm used to teach us properly but the reason for wasting was , that was the only class where there was no attendance..so we used to bunk the class by default...This minor is for 4 semesters...i.e the last four semesters...as we had bunked 3 semesters..the 4th also i.e. the 4thyr 2nd sem...we bunked all classes...frankly speaking..not even 20 ppl attend per class...but some how at the end when the attendance compilation was done except we 10 rest all had full attendance..the class full strength was around 80..Ma'm used to pass a sheet and ask everyone to sign..and all those came gave proxies to their frenz...but we never got any...and then 2 days after the attendance compilation our names were hotlisted..rather blacklisted..and we all were warned that we'll not be allowed to write the final exam....we came to know abt this two days after that...then all 10 of us went to the class....

Ma'm (sarcastic smile):- "Hmm so finally you all came.."

she then started taking attendance to only those in the list...

She blasted the first guy..class was total silent....
...then again one more...the same result...

this time my turn....
Ma'm :- "What do you ppl think of urself??"
Ma'm :- "So how many classes do you think you have attended??".

:) (mumbling) :- "Ma'm...# $..%..."(what to say frankly speaking i attended just 2 days.)

Ma'm (loud voice) :- "You have attended 11 classes"..( :O I was totally shocked..and thanking that guy who put proxy to me...i was actually happy..but cant show off that i was happy...)

Then she gave us an assignment and warned us to attend the remaining otherwise can register the course the next year...

Thats it....I think this much is enough for now...

Last 2 Weeks update

Hmm..2 exams got over...no tensions.. no hopes ..cos anyway the results are obvious... ok now just XAT is left...with the current form only a miracle can save....
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last sunday saw this movie "Venella"... funny movie watchable only with friends...It's about 4 guys who go to US for doing their MBA......their life style etc.. over all it's a "OK" type movie..
you can find some pics from the movie at this site Idle Brain
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Thanx to the road widening ... my workplace got shifted in the building, now am in a secured place and can see everyone approaching my place..earlier it was open to everyone....
and this place i get chance to lech a chic in our office..so cooool..

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Ok...am not getting anything to write about...next time will put up something interesting...
I am planning to write abt few incidents which happened during my IIT life...sweeeet memories...:))

Abstract!!!!

I downloaded this word blogger coool one.. can directly post from MS word..so thought of experimenting this one..am posting my B.tech project abstract...my one semester's hardwork in just few lines...hahaha..:)))))

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Water shortage is one of the major problems faced by many parts of the country especially in urban areas. This problem is prevalent in Indian Institute of Technology Madras especially during summer seasons .The institute depends totally on potable water for all purposes. The water is being used for bathing, washing clothes, gardening, kitchen and toilet flushing. The water which comes out from the bathrooms and kitchens is mainly considered as waste water for this project because it is easy to collect and recycle. Of all the applications the gardening and toilet flushing need not require water of drinking standards. The purpose of the project is to determine an appropriate waste water recycling system that could be applied to recycle the grey water and use it for toilet flushing and gardening thereby reducing the demand. The institute area is divided into two zones one is the residential zone and other is the hostel zone. The present project deals with the hostel zone. The objectives of the project are (i) estimate the volume of waste water (ii) chemical analysis of the waste water (iii) fabricate a working model of recycling plant (iv) design a large scale recycling system for iit campus .The volume of waste water is estimated by collecting responses to a questionnaire. The complete spectrum of physical and chemical analysis is done by the experiments as per ASTM. The turbidity, COD and chloride concentration are found in excess in the waste water and thus methods to reduce these have been applied experimentally analyzed. A new method of treatment consisting of (i) alum treatment followed by (ii) sand filtration and (iii) activated carbon filtration ,was formed to be most effective, especially in reduction of COD and the turbidity.

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Finally i put a 'B' grade. after all those hardwork..and regular blasting from the Prof.. felt i deserved better....
this weekend Mock CAT got fkkked in DI..just 35 more days to go...ppl just pray god that... i crack the final exam... not even one mock cat went satisfactorily. :(((((

This weekend update!!

Hmmm again one more Mock Cat.....ok its the same old story !...
today Megsi,Bhar and myself went to Prasads IMAX...My god..you cant believe that Hyd has so many Babes!!...fullly crowded..its so crowded that if u swing ur both arms defenitely will touch one female..:->...one reason is Sunday and the other reason is Friendship day....I seriously dont know ....what is the significance of this Friendship day..i dont believe in this friendship day,valentine's day...uncle'day..why are there special days for every one...Why do u need someday to show ur love towards some one....Its preposterous..:))...ok end to this boring topic.....
we played our fav.. foosball..and airhockey...total time pass....
Megsi is leaving to US this week...one more into the NRI's list....total senti after a long time......All these days we used to freak out together...
.............So what else..i got the CAT application so it reminds me that i need to work hard from now on atleast...
this time am applying to all A grade schools..IIMs,SP,XL,FMS and IIFT...thats all if i dont make it ...then will take CAt again next year(what perseverance!!!)...or will GMAT this time for a change...:)

Mea Culpa!!!

Huh!..last four days continous rains...its irritating dont feel like coming out of house...yesterday our CRM team went out for team outing...i was too lazy to get up from my bed ...i slept till afternoon....and started mugging from then.... till night 12..of course took breaks in between..but after a long time studied like this...I never studied like this anytime in my four years in IIT...
Arrey these days am doing a bit of share trading during work hours..i bought the IDFC IPO...God knows how many i'll get....(*Bhari l**** hand iyyaku bey*)
Hmm...what else....applications for CAT and others are out....so now on should start serious preparation.....The only way to get out of this impasse is to get into some B school...i think i jumped into this working environment too early..i always regret for cancelling my GRE....otherwise...by now would have been freaking out in US like some of my frenz..(Anurag:))...
first of all working so early is a mistake and over that working in TCS.is the biggest mistake....

My struggle for education

Thanx ra bhari for the fundaes about blog...from now on i'll do only blogging...its better than mail...first reason its not blocked in office unlike yahoo and next thing we can chat here....so....
last two days its rainning very badly in hyd!...irritating..dont feel like coming to office...today had cat class...so came to office.....hmmm tomorrow is the day...second MOCK CAT!....deciding day...if tomorrow's exam goes well then will have some hopes otherwise....the same old story!...

last mock cat got mothered!!!....so lets see how it will go....

arrey juntha plees fundaes on how to get the chat box!!!!....am new to this blogging!!!..

ok bye....
:)

My first Blog

Hellow World !! a cliched way to start :))
This is my first blog!!!!...
till now I've never tried blogging...just want to check out what this is !!and how it works....

arrey Saikri fundaes on this one....

Ok this is all about me...
Read my About Me...currently working in hyderabad..passed out from IIT Madras in 2004....
I love soccer both playing and watching....

What else..mebbe next time when i get full knowledge about blogging will update this one...thats all!..
Keep reading :)