My xtraordinary engineering life!!

I am writing this blog post on the last unofficial working day of 5th sem. The last 10 days have been absolutely fun packed, with soo many events. First there was the Freshers party which was a big success! will be uploading more pics related that soon, hopeful! :)
Secondly been involved in designing the College website and implementing enterprise email services to the college. The work has started and we(Preetesh, Dude from the other sec) have started the work but have a very long way to go from here.

Today was one of those very rare day in this semester. Didn't do much in college! Had a breather, you can put that way i suppose.. :)

hhmm.. lets see.. what else is worthy of cataloging in this xtraordinary blog! hhmm.. ahah! CAT.

I have joined TIME for CAT coaching! I actually had no intention to take up MBA here, but wanted to take up GMAT unfortunately a lot of people advised me against it since i have no work experience and it seems it very difficult for freshers to be selected in foreign university. Nonetheless my top priority remains to get a seat in the best possible university abroad if not then, i will have to settle for the top 20 to 30 colleges in India! IIMS and the other institutes in top 10 list are outta my list for sure! The competition is insane and will be probably filled with savants of india! So really i do not see any reason why i should be hopeful of landing a seat in one of them. The CAT classes have just started and i haven't yet got the real taste of the TIME training yet and i promise to keep you posted on that. I am in the weekend batch (CDX12).

Well, have my third internals coming up this wednesday! So catchya you guys later bye! :)

Been away from blogger for way too long. What really keeps me off is the urge to catalog the days which i have not yet written about... Then a feeling of lethargy takes over and i am no longer inclined to typing and venting out passion blog posts. Today i have a motivation! Just completed my second internals of fifth semester and i feel very elated. Its been a long time since i have had this calm feeling, when my heart is not pounding with such determination to find some solution to problems either at home, college or with the venture that i own.

Okay so to pen down(Key down rather) my thoughts and let you into what happened during my temporary absence from the blogger world!

1. Nandhi Hills. :

We had been to nandhi Hills on 18th sept 2009.Starting off early in the morning at 3 AM.! The photos are put up on picasa and i think they are more than self explanatory of what happened there! :)

Nandi Hills - Sept 2009

2. TechSpark

We have started a new Student Tech forum in our college. One of the first of its kind in Dayananda Sagar. More info available on the official forum website - ( Another exhbit of my work - ).

3. PETS :

Oh, this is really interesting story! We had a paper presentations competition in our classroom where a team of 5 should present their .. well paper! lol.. Kunal, Neeraj, Navodit, Bharath were the other 4 members of our team, which we codenamed PETS for a reason which will be apparent in a moment. So, there we were.. 5 guys who had no clue what to do.. none of us are experts at anything related to technology! I guess thats what made us gel well together as a team.. We had a one hour session for idea pooling and we came up with this crazy idea to generate electricity through keystrokes. We started our research and within no time hit apon something called the Peizo electric material. We made a small presentation and also an experimental model by buying couple of peizo electric material and LEDS. Check out the video.. All i am doing is typing and the LEDS are glowing!




Got to go, will be back with more in info on my trip to IIT Madras tomorrow. Going over to Bharaths place for a sleepover party!

Catchya later!

Its been almost 20 days since my college reopened. The 5th sem has been quite different from before. Friends have become a little closer, Subjects more connected to computers and oh by the way we still have our same old horrible class room. The migration is finally completed, Things didn't work out too well with justhost.com. So had to shift to VPS hosting at VPSLAND. Things have been okay so far, but little skeptical about the reviews i am reading about VPSland. Lets just hope i get lucky and don't have problems.

I had early promised i would put up pics of my class but i never seem to get around to it! Always been preoccupied with some shit or the other! Anyways, a friend of mine from class, Bhuvan who is also our class rep has made a cool sideshow of our 2nd year trips and parties in Dayananda Sagar.

2nd Year at DSCE Slideshow! Click here

Things are back to normal again, the results week at vtualerts was extremely hectic and demanding.

The swine flu scare has come down a little, just like all the other major incidents that take place in India such as the mumbai terror attack, story which only lasted for 15 days. I guess Swine flu has much more following because of its tendency to spread to anyone! and everybody can relate to it.When i first heard about the 2 students in IS dept being infected with H1N1 i decided not to go to college for a couple days unfortunately we were punished for being over precocious and bunking classes... Typical of our department!

Man.. all these sweets are giving me a lot of gas!!! Oh forgot to wish everyone Happy Ganesh Chaturthi! :) Well gtg! Before i blow in front of the screen itself! lolzzzz.... Bye..

Things are getting a little sticky again. I fear this week i might be over worked! According to the latest news(its more like gossip) our 4th sem results will be out during this week. vtualerts.com is crashing again due to high volume traffic and since my host provider has a limitation of 10 concurrent mysql users and 50k mysql queries an hour! One of reasons why i have shifted my host account to justhost.com. My college will be opening on 6th... So its gonna get very tight! Hoping for a clean migration, the new servers ought to decrease the downtime to vtualerts.com and hopefully it will be properly transferred to justhost.com account by the day after tomorrow.

Its my bro's birthday tomorrow. Have still have to decide on a gift to present him. Any suggestions on what might be a good gift for a 16 year old? Well got to run. Will post more later!

Been some time since i have posted almost a month i think. The 4th sem exams went alright, better than expected. Lets hope the results are not a mismatch to my expectations. A couple of days ago, www.vtualerts.com got a makeover and it now has a much faster and structured interface. I feel i have not suceeded in making it look less cramped than before. Something i will have to work on for the next version. There have been a few unsubcriptions, which i feel is more related to the fact the students have graduated out of VTU rather than anything else. The overall subcription rate is steady though and increasing at a good pace.

Work has started on www.iwebble.com. Couple of my pals are helping me out with enriching the content. I do have short term plans for the site, but i fear the sucess rate seem to be bleak in the field in which iwebble.com is immersed itself it. It will take radical new techniques to get page views on to the site. I have a few plans already and will post them in due time.

www.webcampuz.com is currently undergoing redesign as well. The version 4.0 is much more structure, looks very clean and is probably the most beatiful out of the 3 sites that i own. Though the devlopment has been slow, i hope to make it really good before i release it. I expect it to be ready before the casual vancany round of KCET. Currently working on the final stages - pagination and having a static front page with dynamic RSS.

I am also engrossed myself in lot of movies! I have watched about 15 movies in 3 days. Thats got be some kinda record i think. I am currently listening to Audio book of "THE PATNER" written by John Grisham. I love his style of naration. Really ups the anti a little bit!

Just found out that, iwebble.com has come IE browser issues! Donno when IE will start being website friendly.

Well, got get back to work i suppose.

Oh forgot to mention! I am currently taking car driving classes. I am done with 3 classes so far, and i feel i have got the hang of it. I have lots more classes to go though.. i still have to learn to reverse and park. :P

I have restarted my Gym sessions.. which are becoming more of a gossip sessions as Anush has joined me. :)

Hope to post more news.. soon.

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!

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.