Exams on?

No no... don't get it like.. "i have written this post way before and publishing it now", I really have exam on 21st December and i am working on it pretty well. I am giving a music exam and currently mugging all the ragas . And now i am really convinced how easy engineering is (at least we can pass the subject in one night!!).

Anyways lots of things happened in these days, mainly terror attack, which was the biggest news in the recent times. Terrorists directly entered in the city and firing anywhere they want, holding police, NSG and Marcos for so longer time, That was a terrible thing, a question mark on Indian security. I couldn't even understand what was police doing at the time they(terrorists) were living in Taj and working there(and i dont know what the hell was the staff doing ), i am surprised, if they cant even find out, who is indian and who is pakistani, how they are gonna stop all this nonsense. But one thing is clear Mumbai will not stand against the govt for this cuz they are of very famous resillient nature and they will forget this in a month( or a week may be).

The holidays are really going easy and i am enjoying it thoroughly, mainly the purpose to stay here was to deal with the project but havent yet started anything. looking forward to starting the work in this week.

Mindspark over

I must say MindSpark'08 was really the biggest technical event in Pune, The response was huge, in those 3 days i havent seen any free place, everything was like really crowded.

And the best example was Webdesign workshop - 500+ registration, can you imagine? 500+ registration, i dont know how it happened. So we have to divide them in two workshops -

The first was taken on Dreamweaver by Anshul Abhang from DSK Infotech.

And the second one by Me and Anuprit:

The workshop included Joomla Demo by Anuprit and Ruby on Rails by me, now the best thing is this workshop was a paid workshop - 100 per head. I had never thought that someone will pay 100 Rs for our session. Students enjoyed session very much and i had a very good experience teaching such a good audience.

Something about Spidey:

Spidey may not have got lot of public but whoever 40+ participated, were good, and soome were really good. The problem statement was high standard, i am thinking of designing the site with some improvement in the problem statement.

If anyone have attended Spidey please let me know if you have any interest in working for this web application(you can anytime comment).

Marshall Bruce Mathers III

I have always loved to write about my favorites and written much about Cristiano. Now its time to write about the next, Marshall Bruce Mathers III (dont know?) or we call him Eminem on stage, also known as (the another) real slimshady.

I am a big fan of his Rap (especially Lose yourself), and his movie 8 mile is worth watching. Eminem was 14 when he started rapping under the handle M&M, His first album was Infinte. But his biggest success was The Marshall Mathers LP which was a record selling album in 2000 beating Snoop Dogg and Britney Spears, And the Real Slim Shady was a crack. His song Lose Yourself won the Academy award for the best orginal song of the year. But he was mostly in News due to the album Encore in which he insulted the president of america(you must have seen MOSH).

Well, That was a short story on eminem and his achievements. Enjoy!!

Full on, Rock on!!

Guys i had a blast watching this movie,man. Its just fantastic and i found it more realistic. Gods which actor/producer will think of singing for his movie just for the reason that he is the rockstar in movie(who want to play with money or rather risk). But this guy Farhan has got balls(i am talking abt guts).

A small review-

There are four studs, very dedicated to music , like they want to live the music. They try, they win, but something wrong happens, the only reason is ignorance and personal ego and they just break up, leave their music craze like nothing has happened , and went on to live the life like us(bureaucrats). After nearly ten years (when they were all in 30s well they look too), they somehow meet again and again try and again win. That's all, a small review, but believe me its a powerful story, all guys have done a fantastic job.

Well done!!

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ASCII

Hey guys now dont throw away this post just bcoz it is named ASCII<know naa?>. The last line in my last post was really dumb but it was true, the machine i am using currently has a very serious fault its symbol keys<upper horizontal NUM keys are not working> and guess what now i am understanding the real importance of ASCII values<just bcoz to enter @ symbol i have to press "ALT + 6 + 4"> that's real crazy.

Anyways that's fine atleast i am having some use of my computer engg.

Lots of days went out, i haven't written any post and now today i am writing second, that's great. By the way these days were all very exciting, lots of things happened, some bad,some worse,some even worst but i had a very good time interviewing myself by some crap and ugly companymen, there were days when i was feeling like this is my everyday job to see their haunting faces<atleast more scary than movies like Darna jaroori hai :D>. But then some real good looking angels come to the resque and i got placed in AVAYA<congrats>.

Once again the no 7 rocked

Cristiano Ronaldo was voted as the best player in the Champions League last season (quite rightly) as well as the best Forward.

Whilst the Champions League draw for this year’s tournament took place, the Player Awards were given out, with Ronaldo topping the Attacker role, and competing with Chelsea’s Petr Cech (Goalie of the Year), John Terry (Defender of the Year somehow) and Frank Lampard (Midfielder of the Year) for the top prize.

“I feel very proud to have won these awards,” he said. “Manchester (United) had a great season and I scored many goals.

“As a winger, to be named the best forward is fantastic. It is very good for me and gives me more ambition to become better. Thanks to my team-mates and those who voted for me.”

Anyways, i dont suppose him to be that sensitive, but he is.

enjoy | | | <my exclamation mark key is not working>

O meu jogador favorito

It means "My favorite player" - Cristiano Ronaldo.

Of Course he will be the player to watch in this series and Portugal has a definite chance of winning if he succeed. So whether it is Champions League or MirrorXI (Fantasy game), He has always topped the rankings.

I have never been so desperate to watch any game that i am now,its all due to him. The first time i saw his clip i really felt that i should watch his game and watching him live was more outstanding he is a real talent as like most of my favorites. I have always been a fan of his penalty hits( especially his faking style), but last season, he has missed some crucial penalties and it can his affect his confidence. The last game (Champ' league final) was the major game and he missed his penalty, but i am sure he will soon come out of the dark patch and will again top the league.

Anyways Ronaldo has a great season this year with 42 goals and i hope he will continue his ride in EURO2008 also. So lets hope for the best!!

A tea stall in between

It was nearly 6am and i was sleeping in the bus on the way from Akot to Pune and i just took my head out and stunned!! I haven't seen such a beautiful creature of god, means on the very dull dawn she was like making me feel fresh. She may not be the most beautiful lady i have seen but she has something that can attract anybody and i think that was her hairs, while everybody on that tea stall is looking crap with their hairs messed up she was looking comely with her golden hairs. My god i was feeling proud that i like tea. Actually in the last week, i got to see some very good girls and i have observed a fact that the village girls have better looks than the so called city girls.

Any ways i had a fantastic last week at home, felt better after a long time.

Star Party

Great great great....

Guys i have attended the star party organized by Astronomy club and i must tell you it was really very cool. They have shown and explained some constellations and some short stories behind them, overall it was a good experience.

gSoC is not easy

I have just filled an application form for Google Summer of code. And i found that the competition is really very tough because all the mentoring organizations are very reputed open source organizations. And it will surely not be easy to get selected in such tough conditions, i have to try really hard.

Currently i have posted one application for Ruby central. I will not discuss the project here, but believe me its gonna be a tough contender. The project idea is really good but i need to write that effectively as well. I dont know what is going to happen but i just hope i will be selected, If not still will be working on the project because the project will help many new developers to come and contribute to the open source society.

The One's Quiz

Sometimes you feel really bad on what you have done, but this is not the case with me these days.I have changed a lot. Gone were the days when people used to say "I will ask you the answer at last,cuz i know i will surely get it." and now they say "you do not give importance to academics!", what's up guys gimme a break. I should think about it very seriously on such a crucial stage of my life, because placements are on the way, Sem is going to end soon and i have to cover as many marks as i can in this Sem only.
Today's issue was really going to be memorable, I got the sign on OS lab file at 3:30pm and then i was so tired that i slept and when woke up, its all over, i nearly lost my quiz. The quiz was started at 5:30pm and i reached there at 5:59pm and ma'm said "One min remaining". I was pretty sure that ma'm will not allow any of my reasons, so i just surrendered and asked for five minutes for the quiz, i was so lucky to get that, Mrunal was really backing me up.Thank god i atleast got the chance to give the test. Though i dont know how many marks i will secure, but i will never forget this moment of my life.

The best day..

Yesterday was one of the best days of my life. From last few days i had been worried about my project, COEP website, Think tank and everything, I was so tensed that even i started waking up early morning. But yesterday each of these problems were like... gone. I was so happy that my project Diskless Booting is now complete, My COEP website is now launched and ThinkTank got a way into Institute of Engineers.

to be continued

The 80th REGATTA

The K2 collapsed.......

Organisers tensed........

I thought its over, but they stood up again and fought for pride... That's COEPian,I salute them as well.Well for those who dont know what Regatta is? Its the "SHAAN" of COEP, The annual function organised by COEP Boat Club. COEP Boat club is the only boat club of its kind in India, and we organise the annual Regatta function with lots of hardwork and efforts.

This year there were two extra shows to be added and they have done a great job. There are lots of shows like Kayak Ballet, Punt Formation,Mashal Dance, Telematches,arrow formation, Diamond formation, etc. And the two new entries were Lighted Diamond formation and Lighted KB. All the shows were awesome this year and all of them require lots of guts to perform and i think guys really deserve a big round of applause (which they have got).

During Mashal Dance, everything was going perfectly alright and suddenly something happened and the fire came in, I dont know how but it looked quite a bit shocking but again the MD members shown great positive temperament and continued the show, great work again. I think its team work that make such changes in the behaviour of the person. I should also mention Punt Formation here, in which i have participated in my First Year(Its only for freshers). Great passion and dedication is required to do this event also, and i think they done the job marvelously. Superb work teams.

The History and Fate of the Universe

Hello all,

This year COEP has witnessed another great day in its history when Nobel Laureate Dr. George F. Smoot has arrived to COEP for his special lecture on "The History and Fate of the Universe". It was a great experience to meet person like him and his lecture has aspired many of us to change their thoughts about universe and "Physics" also. All the event has been sponsored and managed by Honeywell (Well they have given us a college bag as well.) , But the COEP students from Astronomy Club have also worked hard to manage all the event.

Talking bout Dr. George Smoot, He was co-awarded the 2006 Nobel prize in Physics for discovery of the blackbody form and aniostropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation. Currently Dr. Smoot conducts research in astrophysics and observational cosmology and is most famous for his research on the cosmic background radiation.This radiation is thought to be the relic of the intense heat of the early Big Bang.



About the topic, The History and Fate of the Universe says--

"Using our most advanced techniques and instruments we sift through relic clues and evidence to understand the events surrounding the birth and subsequent development of the universe. There remain even more mysteries to be solved, in spite of which we can tell the tale of the creation a history of the universe and show key supporting evidence, some of it from very early times including using the cosmic background light to provide a direct image of the embryo universe."

At last we had an outstanding experience there, Thanks to Astronomy club and Honeywell.

Girls look great in "Sarees"

Hey guys, Today we had an ebullient "Traditional Day". All the boys and girls have come to BC for participating in the enlightened and delightful night, wearing there traditional clothings(Girls in Sarees). But the hell, I was again striving for a "kurta" this year, Because it feels awkward to go in different getup when all were in traditional uniform,But thanks to so many people like me that think "we should eschew the uniformness, be different and don't get hurt at all".

Blah blah blah... All these things were trifling in contention with what i have enjoyed there, sometimes i feel, evening teasers are not bad guys cuz in short we do the same(Joking!!). But the night was made sumptuous by some guys acting like DJs. Great day and great "sarees". In short i enjoyed one of the magnificent day of my life.

Thanks

Linux getting wobbled

Hey now this is called attitude uh.. Have you seen those Desktop effects in Ubuntu and Fedora. Feels good that at least some one is taking care to improve the look and feel of linux i was striving for those effects.



If you have seen these effects you might not want to pay Microsoft for vista. Because these effects are far more real than just the glass effect so i think microsoft should think about it.

ParallelFX

Microsoft has released an early preview of ParallelFX (Parallel Extensions to the .Net Framework), a set of programming tools designed to help developers approach issues related to coding for parallel environments. ParallelFX contains new APIs to make programming on the .Net Framework simpler and to support documentation and samples. Microsoft's S. "Soma" Somasegar wrote in a blog post that ParallelFX runs on the .Net Framework 3.5 and relies on features available in C# 3.0 and Visual Basic 9.0. ParallelFX also includes imperative data and task parallelism APIs, including parallel "for" and "foreach" loops, to make the transition from sequential to parallel programs simpler, as well as declarative data parallelism in the form of data parallel implementation of LINQ-to-Objects, which allows users to run LINQ queries on multiple processors. A new MSDN center dedicated to concurrent programming was also launched with the ParallelFX release and features a collection of whitepapers, including one that describes the broader vision for parallel computing at Microsoft. "The shift to multi- and many-core processors that is currently underway presents an exciting opportunity for everyone in the software industry," Somasegar writes in his blog. "With an expected increase of 10 to 100 times today's compute power, the opportunities to deliver powerful and immersive new user experiences and business value are just awesome."

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