Knock Knock Can U hear me??

It was 7 30 am ,when i said to myself i cant procrastinate it any further ;if i want to make it to the morning show of "Quantum of Solace"!!!Finally bidding adieu to all my lethargic instincts i woke up from the bed!!!Well i had woken up to realise that i was half deaf thanks to my left ear.

Well a castle of cerumen got constructed around my left ear drum[To simplify it ,left ear had accrued ear wax over a great deal of time].It was so hard to manage to hear what ppl used to speak,I had to master the technique of interpolating key words[Used to barely hear few words and raked my brains to make some sense of it].This way i used to avoid the embarassment,used to work most of the cases but in case it failed i tried my body language skills.It wasnt that difficult though for i could hear clearly from my right ear but yeah i cant just point my right ear to the speaker all the time[I tried it at times ;)]Anyways that was my state for the past one week[I should celebrate for having managed all my work smoothly for one week without much trouble :D]

I finished all my morning ablutions and dashed for the bus stop.I had to meet 2 of my colleagues on the way and then head for the theater.The first thing that comes to my mind at the thought of fame lido is awe inspiring gals....Heheh well i m not perverted what else can one expect if one is single??Anyways met this insane pals of mine ..Ohh yeah a word or 2 of them

Rwan(Name Changed for good) better known as "The chair destroyer..."Has a compuslive desire to break theater chairs ,and lucky fellow ends up sitting between gals in a packed cinema Hall

Pan (Name again changed for good) best known as PJ master..If there is anything which comes to him naturally are his PJ's and yeah a patient with pseudo memory loss(for he doesnt remember the PJ's he cracked and what day it is)

Pls dont ask me what happened on our way to theater for i hardly heard anything but still left no clue(invincible ,thats me ;))

So we reached this theater,a moment or 2 of depression for we were still single(spar Rwan)!!Well we kept on commenting abt the gals and their so uncool BF's (cant help it) .Its been so much banal for this happens everytime we go for movie!!And yeah guess what i saw Pooja Gandhi at PVR a day before!!!Gosh couldnt believe she is so short,well i couldnt believe it was her till ppl started taking pictures of her!!!Hmm anyways she is still single [;)]Back to the topic,In this modern era ppl still throng the cinema gates early in the morning to get tickets (yet another evidence to say ppl with gals arent smart)...well we go there enough to soothe our eyes(Heheh)After this eye soothing session of ours and hogging on masala dosa's at the Darshini we were all set for the Bond Movie(Bond James Bond,they should shredd of the name too,its cliched)!!!Anyways rwan was the most excited of the lot,could make out ....I dont want to critically review the Movie but all i can say are, 3 things what i look for in the bond movie are

• Bond Gal
  
• Gadgets
  
• Shaken Martini (U know what i m hinting at)

Well if u ppl think in similar lines torrents is the best way out!!! Good (Sad for rwan though)for the chair was lucky enough not to get broken(I guess they fortified it with some kind of metal ;)).So we were out of the movie cribbing for not having lived up to the expectation.....Again back to our chaffeur driven mamoth vehicle!!This time a slew of thoughts flooded my mind but none worth mentioning.It was like someone was working on the castle in my ear and the tremors was felt by my ear canal!Out there rwan was pouring out his sentiments and pan as usual was cracking some useless PJ's.Well i must appreciate this thin lean character's guts for mocking the gargantuan person...Anyways jokes apart ,i could feel some work being carried out in the castle (Cerumen castle ppl remember...Ear wax; common ,u need to concentrate)It was some kind of pain , i said guys listen i need to go to ENT specialist!!These ppl were lost in their own world,they didnt have a clue of why was i hell bent upon visiting a doc all of a sudden!!I said rwan ll get to ur house and google for ENT specialist nearby!!Hmm well the first thing we did as we hit his house was Orkut as usual[Well pain can wait for a while]Anyways after the usual chores ,sergey brin and larry page's product came to some use for us(Google search engine).

Rwan:"Arre yaaar koyi lady doctor dhuundna"

Called up a doctor to realise that he isnt available and asked to head for reputed medical institution on air port road!!Well the first thing that i blurted out was dude what if i get ripped of!!Rwan quickly prompted matters of health u should never be bothered abt money!!I said so true but saala Rwan lethargic to the core refused to accompany..!Hmm anyways had to bid bye to rwan and head for this hospital...

I am a little Nosocomephobic for i cant stand hospitals!!I didnt have an option either so had to be brave enough to endear it ...Hardly had any idea of what is in store for me!!As soon i had finished the procedures i headed towards the ENT dept and sat in the inspection/observation room!!Well i avoided the chair meant for patients ,it looked like the one meant for electrocution!!Moments later the nurse comes and says ,that is not meant for u, sit on the electrocution one(she didnt say that...but yeah had to sit)!!All i did was gave a good look at the suction pump and the slew of surgical stuff!Hmm just then this doc gives an entry!!

Dr Tanvi(Name changed for good)...

I was awestruck for a moment or 2...I was still wondering is she the doc or some assistant!!!!

Hmm a smile was a natural instinct!!She fumbled with her papers and asked me to sit..Well i stood up without my knowledge!!!

This lady doc going by my observations was single ,some where in her 30's studied in 2 of the most reputed uni's in London[I checked the transcript]!!!I was actually thanking god,i couldnt have been luckier!!

Well i couldnt take my eyes off her ...I guess she might have been used to it(After all its appreciation what one looks for ..;))

The thought of pain never came to my mind for my mind was busy adoring her!!

I guess she was some 5feet 3inches(some where arnd that) ..dressed in a white top and blue quadra pant!!

The conversation was ....(sometimes everything cant be put in words)

Doc:How can i help u?

Me:[Still lost]Yeah i think the wax has solidified ,the physician had asked me to put some soliwax abt a week back!I have been putting it for the past one week and today the pain has intensified

Doc:Hmm let me see(Takes out the cone shaped torch ,puts it in my Right Ear)

Doc:This looks okay ,let me see the other one Hmm its blocked here

Me : [Good that she noticed it]

Doc:Do u want the wax to be removed

Me:Yes [How considerate of her....i should have thought wat the heck]

Doc:Nurse Nurse

Me:[Why does she need a nurse now,put something in my ear and get the damn thing out]

Doc struggled a little with the chair to put it in proper position ,arranges her magnifying lens and the lamp...

Doc:This is like a vacuum suction pump

Me:Ohh is it [I have been thorugh this once ,but that turned out to be futile]

As soon as she put it ,i felt as if some cyclone had hit the city!!

Grrrrr[well thats hw i felt..i m afraid of dogs btw] well i was hoping to hear some clear sound but still everything was numb!!

This time she poked a little instrument(i couldnt get the glimpse of it ..i was just trying to be a nice patient u know),i moved my head

Doc:Either u keep ur head steady or i will move away

Me:Sorry will keep it steady[Attitude and audacity....This wont be a easy task]

Doc tried some maneuever with the suction pump ,when nothing worked out she took out this 'L' shaped weapon and poked and tried to yank it out!!

It was like some one was putting a stick in vessel full of rocks and stirring it.

It was painful ofcourse,i cant elucidate the pain ,it just can be felt!!!

Hmm all of this stuff and not much progress,i could barely hear!!It was as if the ear is air tight!!I was a little afraid this time for i cant manage with one ear

Me: Is the chunk too solidified ??Will it come out?

Doc:Let me try[Every word was like a pearl..She seldom spoke]

Castle was too strong u know ...Anyways this time she changed her weapon,it was smaller i guess!!Revived her strategy and did something....It was an amazing feeling!!

It was like suddenly an inlet was opened in a vaccuum vessel......

Doc:Relief is because the chunk has been lifted off the eardrum,its still in there.Be steady now ,else it would be more painful

Me:Yeah ll be steady[Smile]

The next few mins i clinched my shirt ,the stupid cerumen didnt come out so easily

Me: Has the chunk come out?

Doc:Not yet

Finally she took it out ,was like a small black pebble!!

Left ear was crystal clear,could hear after a month long endearment!!

Cant thank her enough!!

When i had a look at the cotton swab ,i felt so embarassed...Gosh

so much stuff in this little ear of mine!!!

Anyways when i tried taking a pic of the swab,the doc quips up saying u can keep it!!!I said no thanks ,i have had enough of it!!!

Next time any ENT trouble i know whom to approach[hehehe]

Anyways was out of the hospital and had to treat pan for having accompanied ,well all the time he was bothered abt the match!!

And when i was waiting for the chaffeur driven vehicle

Me:Yaar mere mann mein abhi bhi wahi guunj raha hai

pan:Yahi kei tere mein kitna mail bhara hai!!

Thats the kind of pals i have!!!

Ppl never use buds and do approach the doc u may never know what is in store for u ;)

Yet Another Talk on Recession

I guess most of us are being bugged by the topic of Recession. It looks like media doesnt have anything else to talk about,Why not panic sells like hot cake[I guess i made some statement ;)]How on earth will a person's day go if one wakes up to the news of Sensex reaching a new low and the global market melting down like an Ice in a microwave. Its always better to wake up to something which soothes ur eyes[Something really S!@#   ]

The millionaires and billionaires have their assets halved and why is that???

I have a few silly questions here.....

Have these people committed some grave mistake?

Were they involved in embezzlement of funds?

Was it because of intense competition posed by the open market?

Well to answer it, as all of us know is "None for sure"!!Quite an irony isnt it.Well 

ppl dont mistake me ,i m not here to give a lecture on managing a CEO portfolio...I wish to drive home a simple point which would be evident by the end of this post.

Okay for some reasons beyond explainations ,i was reminded of Water Life Cycle.To quote "The water in your glass may have fallen from the sky as rain just last week, but the water itself has been around pretty much as long as the earth has! "So what am I talking about ??The point is simple I m drawing an analogy between our economy and the water cycle.So let me take an example ,if one is planning to buy some furniture and puts it off owing to so called Recession,well the furniture industry is hit ,which triggers a chain of events ,and ultimately it ends up on the person who put it off!!!I m not suggesting one to be extravagant,be smart with your expenditure and at the same time dont be stupid.Dont take any decision just for the heck of it.

Contemplate on this simple argument ,why is our economy growing so fast??

Is it because we have opened our market to foreign investments , not completely its because of the temparament of the people which has changed over the years.People these days dont believe in staying indoors all the time ,saving money so that they can die rich.People wish to have a quality life laid with luxury and comfort.Thanks to it Venture capitalists,entrepreneurs and others have tapped new bussiness avenues, provided employment and livelihood to so many .Science has progressed so far,have u ever thought what might have been the driving force for our intellectual capital to come up with new inventions every other second??Its quite interesting to give it a thought ...Complex it sounds but a simple answer lies deep within....

People back to our topic..I m kinda used to digressing from the topic,straight roads doesnt seem to fascinate me [;)]So whats the point after all the bizzare arguments put above??Its simple ,there is something called as the mood and the economy is what we people have made and like most of the humanly characteristics ,it is mostly influenced with the people who are part of it.To add to it dont spread panic ,if u wanna spread anything spread hope something on a positive which our RBI Governor D Subbarao is doing in every other interviews with media honchos.So the next time you are confronted with anyone spread the cheer, dont let down yourself...Live Life to the fullest!!

To sum it up  “Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.”The point is in believing and accepting the simple and elegant solution!!

An encounter with the Canine Beast

One might be astonished with such a obscure title,I couldnt think of anything better.Before i proceed with the lucid narration of my recent experience;Well this aint a fiction ,every character resembles a real world entity(Dont confuse with an Object 'OOPS concept').


Okay, it went something like this;It was arnd 9.30 in the eve as yet another human being i too sometime suffer from emotional swings (not because of hormonal changes);I felt like taking a stroll but was lethargic to go for one.Suddenly i realized there that i am hungry!!!!Well u know work takes the toll and u get hardly any time to think about one's food;So i thought may be i can take a walk to the bakery shop and listen to some really nice soft music on the way in my ROCKR(MOTOROLA inc),which i was crazy about in fact crazy is an understatement.This eatery place is not a sophisticated darshini or any other condiments shop,its just another Bakery ;serves awesome tea and yeah the usual supplements with it!!!The best part of it is it faces the main road and u can feel the fast paced life of Bengaluru.

I embarked on my mission to quench my hunger and soothe my mind with the cool breeze and some soft music of 70's!!!!I was at my usual pace,i chose to take a shortcut which was the point i faltered in.The short cut looks like an abandoned plot ,lots of shrubs of about my height on one side and on the other side there is a Fallow land.I was like swinging to the tunes of the song not missing even a single chord of it.Suddenly some dog gets a little wacky and starts barking at me.I was oblivious to its barking for a while;suddenly it was joined by a cabal of dogs !!!It looked as if they were barking mutinously!!!I still pretended to neglect them and continued walking!!!Hoping that everything would be fine,all i was wishing for was GOD just help me reach the end of the fallow land and ll not take short cuts for the rest of my life;but God as usual had some different plan for me.

Its always said that nothing happens until one takes an initiative ,same was the case with the pack of dogs that were barking!!!I was wishing that the saying 'Barking dogs never bite' be true;but by all means it turned out to be False.The Black Dog took the initiative and started running towards me!!!I aint a olympic sprint champion to give a dog good run!!!I was like perplexed for a moment;i was counting the pros and cons of my responses!!!!
Suddenly one verse of Shantaram just struck my mind;I turned around took a quick dash towards the shrubs,i could feel the Black dog chasing me!!!I ran ,i ran for my life .........
For the first time in my life i wasn't afraid of the shrubs,nothing seemed to fear me off apart from the #$%^*! dog!!I prayed for my life..and took shelter in thick shrubs,suddenly i realize my ROCKR is missing .....I thought it wasn't a priority,the dog was still sniffing to find my trace !!!The worst part is this dogs upright action seemed to have influenced the rest of flock and they were after me too...I really don't know what for!!!!Yeah in those shrubs i had to stand motionless ,i was counting each breath of mine making sure it doesn't leave any trace ......Hush those few moments still send a cold wave down my spine!!!I waited out there,suddenly i find the flock of dogs vanishing behind the dark and i was waiting for someone to pass through that so that i could sneak out .....

After a few minute's few villagers happen to pass by ,i called for them and asked if the dogs had gone off...I couldn't think of anything better ...I was literally shook to the core!!!All i could think of was my ROCKR..I had thought that i might get it,but yeah it wasn't meant for me all my search went in vain !!!I couldn't find even a single trace which could have slightest inkling about the whereabouts of my lost mobile :(

Well that was my piece of encounter encapsulated in a hilarious fashion,believe me it wasn't a moment to be cherished....


Before i rap it up few things which can make encounter with dogs an easy affair;these struck my mind after i mused over the experience
If u have a tree near by,run and climb it(Dogs wont be able to make it for sure)
If u don't have a tree ,or have shrubs to save yourself run towards a water body
If u don't have anything of the above,just turn around and start scolding the dogs on top of your voice(I haven't tried this,i was told abt it ;) )!!!!


Well to end it 'Agar Kuch Kaam Nahi Aaata hai to Dua Kaam Aaat Hai'
So just pray that u don't end up with such a situation....There are no short cuts in life!!!Don't be overtly optimistic,you may never know what is in store for you!!!
Something in the world have no escapes for everything else there is my advice!!!!!
(Please Master Card ppl don't charge me for plagiarism)

True Love and Infatuation

Before I start of with my articulate observations....The article doesnt have any kind of resemblance with any character in reality...these are merely ficititous or rather manifestations of my mind beyond my control!!!

Human beings are parasites,they are always in search of a companion!!!That works out the same for animals too but lets not get into them....All our life we fight against loneliness...Please dont confuse loneliness with being alone.Loneliness is the state of being detached from the surroundings;somethimes amidst your family members u may feel lonely or amidst a group of people.You may feel like a outsider ....thats the strange thing of being lonely!!!So we set ourselves on the task of finding out the lost love ,a true companion....A considerate and compassionate one!!Here the excitement begins.....

Now lets talk about the so called complex manifestation of human mind called as "feeling".Its a kind of state you get into when you meet a person of your expectations or simply get impressed by the character,attitude and the behaviour and the worst part you think of a name for that,and the obvious choice is ........

True Love is quite an immaculate topic to talk over and quite sensitive too...I dont intend to make inferences here too...Lots (infact lots is an understatement )have made an effort to bring out the true essence of love in their own distinct observation but for us its as naive as .....

Consider yourself in this situation that u had a kind of "feeling" for a person and had thought that she/he is the one u would like to spend the rest of your life.....Would u call this a True Love....
Hmm what if suddenly there is another one and your mind and soul goes awry thinking about the same....So what would u sum it up as?? A mere infatuation!!!Well this would make a nice masala Bollywwod movie rite??
Anyways I dont intend to confuse u with this anymore...Probably the character KARLA or Abdel Khader Khan in shantaram would have a better answer for this!!As i said i wont make inferences on the same as u would say i m prejudiced....

Okay lets get to the point...no can define what "TRUE LOVE"...its just a state of mind;and as many other things in LIFE this is not under our control by any means...So just try to live with it,better read SHANTARAM....It ll certainly make a difference in what u think about life....The bottom line is we hail from a nation with such a rich cultural background and people have done all kind of sacrifices for the sole reason of being true with themselves and have sticked to their eithics!!So whatever decision is taken the intention should be no harm...Let peace be with us!!!

last day @NIT Surat

Well I was wondering what should be my next article on this blog…its been a really long time since I published anything on it…..There have been plenty of things which have occurred in these days. Sometimes being flooded with ideas is not an easy thing to handle.The most heartening of all was my last day at college…I had to leave a bit early as compared to the rest of the lot…and certainly wasn’t the easy thing….I remember my first day where I was feeling of all the college what made me choose this…it took me abt a semester to get acquainted(acclimatization in NIT,Surat is a daunting task)…ever since then things have never been the same. A kind of affection I had developed with the college…always longed to get back to it as the vacations drew nearer…and yeah the lecturers one person needs a special mention out here Prof B.B.Mistry used to tell us “I find tears in first yearites whom have come down here and the final yearites who are about to leave it”,I used to wonder then that why would a person be unhappy of completion of graduation and starting the journey of life .Now I think i am realizing what it takes to start a professional carrier. Well that’s a lot abt my past ,I do get a bit nostalgic at the very mention of it.

Last day of my college May 8th 2007.I had little knowledge of how things could go on this day. To be frank enough I was more bothered about my luggage. Well don’t laugh that was bothering me a lot. The most awaited tronix shirt made an appearance on that day and yeah we managed to get a treat from our lecturer. As per the traditions we had a get together of tronics ppl scheduled on that day ….high tea to be more precise. Yeah that was the least we could do for baring us all the time(many ppl wont agree to it).I had to run in between to catch hold of my parcel service.Things got better in the eve….I had missed my dinner..but I least had the knowledge that my class mates had planned of night out…I thought it might be interesting to give a go…The entire night was spent roaming around the bridges of Surat and yeah pav bhaji at a place near the station was the only delicacy we had that nite…The fresh breeze of air at the sardar bridge was really freshening (well some of us were engrossed in self conferencing..thought that this would be the best time to spend with themselves)….what better way to wail away time than play an antakshari…We were literarily torn apart as dawn got nearer…but yeah we were driven by great zeal ….Lots of sentiments u c …last day …u may never know u might have a chance to stay with ur mates this long in the future….and yeah finally at 6 ,me along with few others had to move there was yet another thing to be done …..hmmm keep guessing …I had to travel that day afternoon with terrible hangover….

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Uttarayan ...better known as the festival of kites

Well flying kites always used to be great fun during childhood....I used to think that my tryst with kites had got over until this uttarayan..What better than to spend an entire day flying kites.The sky strewn with kites is such u a great delight for the eyes.Had to struggle a lot to get my first kite flying.Atleast i am happy that i flew one..but ppl over here have a great knack they get it to flight in no time..hmm seriously practice makes man perfect for sure..One thing is to be appreciated that is the ppl attitude out here ..they will speend the entire day flying kites wont even bother abt the scorching heat ..reminding themselves that uttarayan comes only once a year, so make most of it..atleast the surati fun loving ppl ...who believe in a great weekend after the doldrums of week believe in enjoying the most come what may..Well had a great oppoertunity to learn the new terminologies ....

chagana....to get the kite in flight
phirki....the thing which holds the thread
Pech...the situation where in u cross over other kite and u have a kind of fight between the two kites
lapet...had a great fun shouting this word..when u happen to cut the opponents kite u shout it loud asking ur opponent to wind up his thread

I was thinking that ppl would slow down by the end of the day but i was taken up by a surprise as soon as it was dark around but ppl started using their white kites and we had a different plan altogether we flew the biggest of our kites ....then came the wonderful thing the lamps which definitely was a great delight to the eyes(tukkal)....Its basically a lamp made of paper and with a candle inside...Its really awesome when we find ten lamps like that suspended on the kite thtead..The kite was nowhere in scene all we could do is look at the arch made by the lamps hanging from the thread...

I am nearing the end of my days in the college and definitely the great time i had being part of Uttarayn is definitely nothing less than a treasure....

its year 2007!!!

yeah finally we witness the dawn of another year ...2007....Well time has come for the final sem of engg life and yeah few months down the line i ll be bidding bye to my college (NIT,Surat)...Time really flies by....Just cant imagine the way these 4 years have gone by....DOnt have much time now ll get back soon..............

Spice of Engg contd............

The great phase of engg life........... practicals and submissions again..............Now what kind of engineers are we?Our viva voce goes in this way......proff asks few questions 1 or 2 max then ends up asking why do u ppl dont have the inquisitiveness to know simple stuffs?....what do u do all through the semester? sometimes i feel like talking all the great deeds we did in our semester there is a lot to talk about most of them are productive but yeah it wont make any difference to him at least ;he wont understand generation gap i think so..........Now in the entire viva we will be swinging our heads like pendulum ultimately we blurt out saying sir no time to study simultaneoulsy 3-4 things its difficult to manage things.......hahaha done with ..as soon as we come outside ppl with prying eyes kaisa hua???I hate to answer this the most i know i havent answered in a decent still they ask whats the answer for that .I always hoped that this being my penultimate submissions and pracs i just hoped things ll be cool nothing to worry ...........but reality is something different.Anyways i am enjoying this ...one night stand seems to have taught me a lot....especially to keep my cool in any kind of situation....well thats the optimistic view...........Anyways things have been going i just wanna move in my own way..........expecting a lot from life and being optimistic every other moment

The ORKUT mania............

31,795,208 now guess what is the significance of this number...................This was the total no of Orkut users as of November 7, 2006 this mania hasnt left our campus too.....

Google has always been a host to innovative concepts........run by three some awesome Sergey brin larry page...ERIC schmidt....... has been always on a lead.....Well getting back to Orkut..It seems that Orkut has hit our SVNIT campus with great success...The usual hello mesasages ...Hi wazzup various permutations on that..Guys checking their scrapbook more often than anything just to find any new scrap...especially one from a gal ..the new friend request...a new community..seems to fascinate the svnit public a lot..Thanks to our inter hostel lan and the net connectivity that orkut has gained such great popularity..out here....Whatever it might be ppl always don't forget to log on to orkut..the first thing ppl do as the chord strikes 7pm is to open Mozilla logon to orkut......Seems to be a great stress buster...Yeah it does help to get to meet ur good old school mates..In my case yes thanks to orkut i got to meet them..I can have the satisfaction of being in touch with them..these communities are like icing on a cake...u get to have the feel of a forum...
Well lots to write on this Orkut..Well just think abt the person who must have come up with this idea..a truely genious fellow indeed.....orkut has been named after its creator, Google employee Orkut Büyükkökten. Similar to Friendster and MySpace, orkut goes a step further by permitting the creation of easy-to-setup simple forums (called "communities") of users. Until recently, orkut was invitation only, but it now permits users to create accounts without an invitation.HEy thats all abt that i ll continue with it soon

The daffodils

Well as my diwali vacations are about to get over i thought of adding another post to my blog!!This time its abt my favourite poem !!Daffodils by William Wordsworth !!I still remember the way our dear teacher Mr Mark D souza happen to recite the poem,focussing on all the intricate details of the poem!!He made us feel the poem as one beautiful song which left a lasting impression in our mind!!He was more than a teacher to all of us!!The reminiscence of the good old school days makes me nostalgic!!

Now something abt the great literary exponent William Wordsworth. Wordsworth's famous poem about daffodils was composed in 1804, two years after he saw the flowers walking by Ullswater on a stormy day with Dorothy.His inspiration for the poem came from an account written by Dorothy. In her journal entry for 15th April 1802 she describes how the daffodils:tossed and reeled and danced, and seemed as if they verily laughed with the wind, that blew upon them over the lake;Wordsworth published his poem, 'I wandered lonely as a Cloud' , in 1807. He later altered it, and his second version, published in 1815, is the one widely known today.

I wandered lonely as a Cloud
That floats on high o'er Vales and Hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced, but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:-
A poet could not but be gay
In such a jocund company:
I gazed-and gazed-but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude,
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the Daffodils.

Why only MBA???

Post Engineering, all Engineering students come at crossroads, where they have to make a choice – a choice that defines their career for the rest of their lives: to choose one amongst the options of a job, management or M.Tech, MS. The four most widely used options are management, M.Tech, M.S, MBA or a job. Given the current situation in India, most of the engineering colleges are not able to give a 100% placement, which results candidate making a choice between management, M.S and M. Tech. This article is about choosing the option of post graduation in a technical field. In this article I will try to put some thoughts of mine and some inferences I have made in this regard.

Why does one choose CAT over post graduation in technical field (M.Tech or M.S) or vice versa? To quote the Bible, “A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things”. Most of the students choose management because they perceive that a management person makes more money than a research person. This might have been true in the past. But now that companies like Motorola and Honda are beginning to outsource their R&D to India, the demand for Research oriented people is on the rise. "Virtually every single global IT major is rapidly expanding its footprint into India," says Sunil Mehta, vice president, Nasscom. As of now, 100 Fortune 500 companies - including Delphi, Eli Lilly, General Electric, Hewlett Packard, DaimlerChrysler and others - have put up R&D facilities in India over the past five years. Considering the scenario, post graduation in technical field be it M.Tech or M.S is no longer the underdog. And the number of students giving GATE or GRE has been increasing every year.

One other thing which is observed is the wild rush. If you happen to ask an Engineering student why he or she is preparing for M.B.A the answer is generally friends around me are going for it, Technical stuffs are not meant for me! If this is the situation the day is not far when all the engineering colleges around will be reduced to mere graduating schools where all the students graduating from school invariably end up as M.B.A! It is disheartening to find students graduating from premier technical institutes aiming for management, it is fine if one is seriously influenced by management and thinks that he is better of with management considering his aptitude and work skills but I definitely don’t understand the wild rush. How can a person take such an important decision in his career not even giving a thought over his or her performance in the past, his achievements, things which have fascinated him the most! This is for sure the mindset of the students is greatly influenced by college environment and the present situation is quite well known.

This can only be changed by the students which form the intellectual capital of an institute.

Before summing up I would like to pose some questions

How many nobel laureates are of Indian origin? Do you know how many patents have been filed from Indian origin people? Why our country still lags behind as far as technological exposure is concerned as compared to countries like U.S ,Japan?Why our country still lags in defense research sector? Why is our nation taking so much of time in coming up with an advanced Light combat Aircraft? Why is it taking so much to bring another green revolution? Well the answer for all the above questions is one and the same the lack of people with strong technical expertise.

Being a part of such a premier institute if you wish to do something about this then please do take interest in technical activities keep yourself updated ,naturally one will be fascinated about technical field .Then definitely we will be able to do something good to the nation some day and make our nation proud about it!!

Freshers at NIT-Surat (the odd sem)

hi there i m back!!!this time i wud like to go back to my first year at NIT-Surat.The best part of our college is our magnificient gate.Believe me i was actually amazed to pass by,thought that if college entrance is so good the college basic infra must be amazing but was shocked to pass by those dilapitated structure!!It took me abt a month or so to realize that college is not all abt buildings or so ,it is actually the students the ppl out there which make a college good or bad!!Right now i dont have any complaints against it!!!THanks to my seniors who made me realise what exactly u must look at the college!!I will talk abt the experience which made me think like that!!
Sailing through the august of 2003 we were accomodated in staff quarters of our college(NIT-Surat) ,it seemed to us as if the building was locked off for years and we were supposed to live over there for a year or so,the hostel office had told us that we will be shifted to the newly built hostel soon after the completion of it..We knew that was just to console our anxious parents!!! ANyways the first few days were horrible used to juggle for bathroom irregular water timings........Finally the best part of all that was the peacocks and peahens which always used to roam around our block,and the girls hostel tooooo...So started our college with all the doldrums internals were fast approaching ever1 of us started slogging like anything,,always used to aim at getting centpercent over the years this has died out for sure..thats the fact.Anyways college progressed our ragging was carried out so the transition began from nerds(childish behaviour) to mature ppl.. getting intro's of gals ,facing an embarrsing situation taught us a lot!!!i still remember our batchmates in staff qaurters used to sit in a room and discuss abt the ragging what kind of deed we ppl did ,talking abt the gals and fundoo seniors and their achievements..so went on our semester!!!
Talking abt the ragging the topmost priority was to know things abt our ppl ,we were supposed to keep every info of our asso mates at our finger tips that was a mamoth task indeed!!! NDTV what does it stand for?who is the present CMD of BSNL?how many runs did sachin score in the last match ?who is the highest scorer from indian side?what does epl stand for?what abt the literary personalities from karnataka?what is the best thing from ur city?...the list is long these were the things nikhil harsha sriram raghu putti HITESH bharath...all of the KSA seniors in that case always used to ask..it was then i had realised how imp these things are !!!never ever in the past i had bothered abt these!!If i m anything today thanks to these ppl!! there are so many other seniors too pls dont mind if i havent mentioned ur name here u will always be remembered by me!!there are loads of things i can talk at length abt it!!as of now i will try to cut it short!!
Now on the teachers part one person who has left evrlasting impression on my mind is Prof B.B.Mistry the engineering mechanics proff always used to bring a new book to our class and used to tell us something good abt it!!He had an innovative and amazing method of teaching,used to wait for his class like anything!!He always used to address as student members !!i still remember the first internal exam papers were being distributed and he was individual feedback and i had manged to get 10/10 that is one of the most cherished moment of my life at NIT-Surat.Well then we had a usual mix of some great and some not so good lecturers,the prob being with their teaching style!!anyways that was till the freshers party kashish 03!!we bunked abt 2 weeks and got the whole month !!!we got thrashed so badly for that by our seniors for making such a silly decisionand manged to bunk the kashish too and got a whole month vacations!!

My experiments with blogging!!!

This is the first time i have started writing in a blog!!Myself Shripad ,well ppl call me by diff names sripeee, pandu....there are other one's too but arent worth mentioning.Well this being the last year of mine in this college(NIT-Surat) thought of writing something abt myself in this blog.Inspired by so many great bloggers (many of my seniors and few of my jrs from NIT-Surat).I thought it would be a great a thing to give it a try.I hope so it would be a unique experience.
Well this being the first post of mine i would like to give a small intro of myself.The very mention of the word intro makes me nostalgic,and the experience of ragging comes into picture wheren we were supposed to give an introduction to senior ,i think i might have given my intro atleast abt 300 times!!!!Well myself presenty in the 7th sem of Electronics Engineering of the first batch of B.TECH from NIT-Surat.The batch which will be graduating with gpa's....ok thats abt myself.Presently placed in DELPHI TCI,Bangalore!!Earlier was placed in TCS!!!
Abt my experience out here in the college i have thought of writing abt it in phase.There are lot of things which i exepect to be beneficial to ppl around which my great seniors had told me abt before leaving this college,i would luv to pass on carrying on the same tradition!!Well ppl thats my first blog i wud be updating my blog soon ..so ppl thats shripad signing out frm here!!!