Written on Thursday, June 11, 2009 by Avin
I had my Microprocessor lab external exams on Monday, and it seems that my luck continues, got the toughest experiment outta 30 to choose from! This has been a sought of tradition i think which started in the first sem when i was blessed with tough experiment for my first lab externals and even surprising is that fact that i come out victorious time and again. But gawd! Microprocessor lab is different, its probably the toughest lab that a computer science engineer has to face. There is special program, we like to call the "11 B" which is about 160 lines of assembly language code and its used to simulate calculator using a keyboard interface. Let me give you an illustration of tough this program is... Till date who ever has got this program been able to excute tha damn thing in their lab externals. Some students don't even bother preparing for it. Fortunately, Genius that i am ! lol... got the output!! yipee.. The word seems to have spread through out the college as well, Its quite funny really! Now they talk about me as if i am a World war 2 veteran survivor! Lol, indeed this is similar to what i felt when i walked outta of the lab unscathed :)
I haven't got a new phone yet! My hearts leaning towards the new Iphobe 3s, which hopeful my dad will get me when he is off to London again in July... I am in desperate search for a touch - smart phone which comes at the right price! Apple has dropped the prices of iphone to 99 dolars for their new version called iphone 3g S.... Fingers crossed by the end of July atleast i will be carrying a new phone. I currently have a vintage motorollo v500 which was created during the ice age probably! Doesn't even have save message feature! Its very good looking phone though!
Well, got my OOPS lab externals on 15th.. and my theory exams will start on June 24th. Got to get back to my boring books.. And oh ya! Parents have gone to Hyderabad to attend my cousin sisters marraige.. Very unfortunate that i couldn't join them! The marriage is on 15th so there was no way i could go jeopardising my OOPS lab! Anyways maybe this peace and quite will help me get some reading done!!! Alrighty.. My next post will be on 15th after my OOPS lab externals.. :) Lets hope i have no complaints!
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Written on Saturday, May 23, 2009 by Avin
Man, tough week continues. Wrote two records sitting from 11 in the morning till 8 pm yesterday, its still incomplete... Went out to resort to cool myself today! The whole month has been incredibly packed! So, today is my day off.. Watching the second IPL semi's, Bangalore vs Chennai. Chennai have got off to a good start, fingers crossed Bangalore can crush them! Little bro has got his first cell phone - Samsung beat series F270. Not something which i like but he kinda fell in love with stupid dual slide. The keypad in extremely thin and not very finger finger i must say!
Have lab internals on May 28 so got really prepare for that! I am little worried about the the microprocessor lab.. Would soo relieved to get it over with. Anyways going for dinner now.. ciao.
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Written on Thursday, May 21, 2009 by Avin
Just completed my 3rd and last internals for 4th semester. Was involved in a ton of work! Got lab records to complete and everything. Had to work on my site, keep them up to date.. as lot of people count on me to provide valuable information :). As of now my web ventures are going a pretty good job and hanging in there! There are fortunately not too big, so things still under control.
Started a new blog on blogspot for IPL Ads. Here is the link : http://www.iplads.blogspot.com. It took me round about 3 hours to make this site, and its totally for the killing some time. Its just a fun experiment that i am doing. Was sitting watching the IPL match when i grew frustrated that i am unable to cash in on the IPL craze when i got this idea. Actually this idea was extrapolated from someone else idea. Read an article few days ago in economic times about a person who has cataloged all the crazy Axe ads in a blogspot site and i thought why not do the same for IPL! and luckily nobody had thought of doing the same! So, i was the first to get there and hence got the URL!
Was working on a college tech magazine the whole of last week actually! Very tiring stuff! It was no doubt fun.. We didn't even have a weekend. Definitely goes in to the top 10 hard working days category, last week does.. seriously!
Oh forgot to mention, we built a line follower robot - named it ThunderBird. Thats the thing in the pic! Its our first robot! I will probably be getting into the thick of it during these semester holidays.. Very interested in entering FIRA a competition for automated football playing robots which will be held in India in the year 2010. :) Its a far goal but lets keep our fingers crossed and hope that dream can be achieved.
Have decided to put in a lot of effort into Algorithm Design and Microprocessor Programming this week. I haven't got off to a very good start as you can tell by this long post that i typing and whiling away precious time... lol. Will have to start at least after lunch. :) Procrastination has become my second nature these days.. very sad to say that but its true.. Got to get back into the old Avinash.. and kick some butt again. Phew.. alright i think i have poured enough soul into this post. ciao later.. netizens.
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Written on Thursday, April 23, 2009 by Avin
Praveen's ( my little bro ) has joined Jain College the same college that i went into for 11th and 12th. He got selected in AIEEE entrace coaching test. He is getting a new cell as well!! Probably a samsung S3500.
Dad will be going to UK again soon so maybe this time i get my Android phone. If not an Iphone. I really need a smart phone. I think it will really help with the kinda work that i am involved in. I need a phone thats pro internet experience. As far i know Android and iphone are the front runners in this arena.
My internals just got over. It went alright i guess. The clip questions( Teachers gives us a set of 10 questions from which the paper is set ) helped a lot! Unfortunately the last paper Computer organisation didn't go as planned. Lets hope the correction isn't as stupid as the last time..
Feeling quite tired and bored these days. Haven't been able to be myself for a while. I think i am probably lossing the " Anything is possible feeling ". I guess it comes with age but heck i am just 19!
The only reason i am still on blogspot is probably because of the oath i had taken to catalog my entire engineering life. So, even though the updates might be less frequent, i will be a blogger for the coming 2 years.
I think i am getting a small tummy! Haven't gone to the gym for 2 months and i eat like a pig! I better restart the gym sessions from the start of next month.
Our VTU exam time table is out. This time i think i will go full throtle. Need to prove to myself that i can get 80 plus if i want to. I better start little early. I haven't yet bought books for 2 subjects. So first i need to buy books! lol.. :)
I watched the new X men movie today - the X men origins. pretty lame but a time pass anyways. The story is about wolverine.. hhmm they probably cant think of anything more interesting to build on.
gtg. IPL mathc about to start. Delhi vs Chennai match was pretty interesting one. Probably the only interesting match of the season so far the rest of the match have been confortable wins or washed away due to rain.
Catchya later... netizens...
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Written on Wednesday, April 08, 2009 by Avin
I recently started twittering and its even more addictive than blogger! Google really needs to bu yif it wants to retain bloggers! I am still in a dilemma to stop blogging and becoming a full time twitter.. my twitter id - http://www.twitter.com/avin89
I took an interesting test the other day, a personality test! Here is what it said - http://www.mypersonality.info/avin
Its seems that i am " The Chief! " Pretty awesome! I think people should give it a try. It only works if one is really frank about himself...
We had CIL class again today! We were supposed to learn about - Working as a team , and Interpersonel skills! Well, i am not really sure the activities which were held were effective way of highlighting the points but unthe less its a very good excuse to get a break from the boring classes!
GTG and a finish this book i am reading " Its time to live Smart " - A youngsters guide. It is not the kinda thing that i usually read but its seems very interesting and its highlighted the typical mindset of youngster which i find quite intriguing!!! Well.. catchya later! tara! :)
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Written on Sunday, April 05, 2009 by Avin
Past few weeks have been quite intense. We had paper presentation to work on which went quite well, and then MP lab internals which went bad! Well lots of things to talk about actually!
1stly : Let me tell you about the paper presentation :
The team consisted of 3 members. Anush and Aditya comprising the other two. We picked a topic called semantic web and the idea was to explain to people where the web was headed and to give them a general perceptive of the web 3.0 . Ours was most definately a winner in terms of content and pesntation wise, unfortunately we gave our pesentation first and this was before the judging panel arrived! So it kinda messed up our chances of being recoginised as one of the contenders for the price. Actually when we started the judging panel consisited of 2 senior judges and then later on, few other teachers came in a took over. I am not complaining, as we got rave reviews from my mates and audience and i was able to convince them about web 3.0 which is such a passionate topic for me. I have already made plans for the next presentation and lets hope for the best! :) Being optimistic will pay off some time or later.
2ndly : The MP lab
This was held the consecutive day after the presentation, i really didn't have time to prepare and i must admit it was an half hearted attempt. I was hoping that since our college fest was being held on the same day, the test will be postponed. Unfortunately nothing of that sort happened and i paid the price dearly. Well theres the 2nd lab internals! I am being optimistic again! :)
3rdly : iwebble.com
iwebble.com which recently started off a tech magazine is doing pretty good. Its off to a very good start and most importantly i like working on it! Its a fantastic feeling! There have been many changes to iwebble.com. If you have followed this blog for way too long! you probably be aware of this and may also be a little spectical of the progress but i really do enjoy reading and wirting this tech articles so i don't think i will stop!! i guess thats all thats required for a web blog! Not stopping feeding content into it! More the content more the possibility of page views! I have also gather couple of students who specialize in a particular branches of engineering. Dheeraj, who is one my best friends has kindly agreed to contribute for Mechanical news. Aareeth a friend from jain has agreed to write news articles regarding nano technology. Both of them are itellectually very capable! They spend a lot of time browsing and share the same interests in spreading awareness to peers. Lets hope the all goes well..
4thly : I finally managed to write the vtu result extraction algorithm! and it looks pretty good. There are a few more modifications to be made otherwise i am happy with what i have done.. Will be launching that pretty soon. :) I am just pondering over the page layout and whether to have advertising space for the results page as well. Will keep you posted on how that goes!
5thly : I seem be having some health problems. I have lost apetite and am losing interesting in things that used to interest me, my energy levels have dipped and am probably loosing weight as well.!! I need to find a solution quickly as i understand this is all nothing without health! So, i might not be typing out posts very frequently from now on! I have started twittering though to substitute the decrese in content, will give you the link in the follow up post.
Well.. thats its from me now! Take care!! :)
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Written on Monday, March 16, 2009 by Avin
Google let me down for the first time today! Actually for the past two days. I don't entirely blame google for it, but i haven't found what i was looking for. This has happened tons of time before but google has always showed me something else as a consolation which turned out to be useful too! But this time, neither result nor any perks. I was looking to a small javascript sample code which can extract table values from html code... but in vain. I have been looking for the past 2 days, and nothing as come close to it. I do see a lot of httprequest syntaxs.. but thats no help. Anyways, look like i will lhave to refine my searches a little bit and try to write most of the code by myself. :P
Oh, i we had our internals over the weekend which went surprising well. we still haven't got our marks but i believe i managed to ace them. :)
Dad say i have to start my prep for GMAT or GRE soon... as i am already in the middle of 2nd year. I might as well heed to his advise as the current situation probably will leave me with little option. I might have to do higher studies not my choice but as an obligation if i don't get any campus placements....
Talked to Rahul and Jeelani yesterday night ( Old school time buddies ) and requested them to organise a reunion party this saturday... They have agreed to get on it.. So, thats something to look forward to i guess...
I pal in my class bought an second hand iphone for 13k today! Pretty cool, I got to play around wit it for a while. I now realize what the fuss is all about.. The screen clarity and the touch technology is quite amazing... PAR above HTC touch which my dad uses.
ohhh, i hope HTC magic which comes with Android is a little better! I really want an Android phone.. Maybe then i can start working on the Android Apps and stuff! It will be really cool! :) and also help me get some real time project work done. :)
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