Moving on !
When I am starting to plan my weekends at bangalore ,I know I have moved on from my college life !
Well, This may be fast, but I suppose it is good that it happened fast. There are still a few things though, that I wish I had done in college, rather got the courage to do in college. But I guess it will pass by as time progresses.
Right now terribly bored of staying home. Somebody pointed out rightly that may be home-sickness is sick of being at home for a long time.
12 more days to go !
Mental Hueristics ??
Out of boredom surfing ( yes, I have discovering new words for my peculiar actions ), I came across a page called Mental Hueristics algorithms. Let me just gist it.
- If you want Something done, do it yourself
- Never procrastinate anything you can do right now
- When you feel there are several things you could be doing and you don't know which one to do, Just do any one thing randomly.
- Always assume that you will succeed
- If you can't find a solution, then change the rules.
- If you can't do anything about something, no point in worrying about it !
- Do not rely on conscious decisions for speed, Just Do it.
- Don't try to explain your actions for yourselves.
- Listen to your intuition but don't believe it unconditionally.
Strange ! Looks like I always knew it but then didn't have the courage or wisdom to do it.
PS: I `stumble` a lot 
Streaming from Amritapuri
Our team, LRSL ( named so after Last Row of Sun Lab , sort of a cult back in college) consisting of Abilash , Natraj and myself qualified for ACM ICPC Amritapuri regionals round. Its on 6th and here we are at Amrita Kerala Campus. The place is so wonderful and the hospitality of this place is so stunning. The food, hostel and everything else are too good. The Organisers have also planned for trip around to the local beach house and so on. So three days filled with coding, superb food, fun at the beach and superb people around, What better way could I have started the Holidays with 
PS: Probably Life is a roller coaster ride, One day you are at the bottom and the other day you are at the top 
Memorable weekend @ Banglore
Before starting, to my anna and anni , wish you a happy married life
Went to Banglore for my cousin Brother's marriage which went really well. Had a wonderful time with relatives after a long time. I always thought I had lots of kid cousin brothers and sisters. Now they are growing up really fast and a sad corollary is that I am growing too, which means I have to be more responsible and blah blah blah.
Also had the best of times with PK man, Donatello , Venkat , Thalaiva , Hari, Rajagopal and Alagu. Roamed around Brigade road and Garuda for some time and sweared many a times how costly the living is in banglore. By the way Donatello and Venkat are rocking big time in IISc, so much so that there are rumours in the college that there is a D.V.Raman(venkat's full name abbrevated other wise 
) in the making.
Meanwhile our team LRSL for ACM-ICPC ( myself , abhilash and nutty ) qualified for the amrita regionals onsite round after some scene coding by nutty. This happened on same day of the marriage and it was actually kind of hectic being at two places at the same time. Looking forward for the Kerala trip in december where we will be particpating against some biggest programming minds of the country.
There were lots more to the weekend which is personal and might even be trivial. But the thing is all of them added up to a really awesome weekend
PS : updated to Intrepid Ibex and obviously it rocks Had some hiccoughs with the installation because of my hard disk getting older, but then went for a full format and its working like a charm now
A Cow in a room
All incidents and people in the story are real.
4.00 am:
Karthi wakes up for a midnight leak. Comes out of his room and turns right once , left on... Wait!!! did he see something in his right. Turns back and looks again. Some one with a strange dress is standing outside a few rooms away from his room holding the door tight.Karthi is a bit scared. Karthi moves reluctantly near the person and finally he finds out who the person is !
karthi : Dei neeeyaa ??? innum thoongala ? ( hey its you ?? havent slept yet ? )
person :saniyane, thoongitu thaaan da irunthen ( I was sleeping only)
karthi: (bemused , irritated) approm ippa enna pannitu irruka ? ( what the f*** are you doing now then ? )
person: room kulla oru maadu irruku da! i got scared and came outside.
karthi:( shocked to hear such a reply ,) dei monna naaye, nee thookatula olarathukku naan thaan kedachena ? poi olunga thoongu da ( WTF ??? a$$ hole , u are sleep walking, go sleep).
person: Dei please help da, i slept at 3 only, help me get the cow outside. i want to sleep
karthi: (strikes head five time saying ayyo ayyo and goes to finish what he woke up for)
The poor person waits outside the room for some time , reality still finding a tough time to sink in and finally after 5 min and once he got convinced he had been dreaming/sleep walking , he still carefully opens the door, checks if there is a cow in the room and then goes to sleep like a baby
10:30 am
karthi: dei , un roomla maadu eppdi da irruku ? (how is the cow in ur room ? )
person: what non sense ? I am in first floor and how the heck can a cow climb up here ? have u been dreaming ???
karthi: dei @#!$$^%$^&%*&*(&^&***^&%
( the surrounding crowd mockingly beats up the person )
End of another of the crazy days for the person
PS : person = suren = myself 
a blog post !
there is a popular joke in tamil , which goes like this !
Some arbit chap : sir, my life is so bad these days , tell me when I will be freed from these problems
Astrologer : (checks his palm..) I am sorry to say ,but its gonna be a dog's life for u for another year ! <naai padaatha paadu , if that helps with the meaning ! >
SAC: oh ! but will it get over after an year ??
A: Oh no ! But you will get so used to that it will no longer bother you (:P)
Some times I wonder How true it can be ! The human mind is really a useless uncontrollable monkey , for it goes and sits in exactly the places I dont want it to go and sit, but as the case of that arbit chap , I guess I am used to that now and in fact doing well these days !
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So what do I need for a really happy life ?
* my really awesome friends and more !
* a bike , just for me and me only
* a laptop which I already have
* some decent job to maintain these all
this will do for now , but it seems "u cant always get what u want" and that is where this whole crap of pursuit of happiness comes in
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I am back in college , having a heck of time ! I just wish me and all of my friends get placed as soon as possible and all of us have a rocking time from there on ! All the best to you guys and to myself.
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My brother has a 95% chance of coming to NITT itself , If he comes me happiness to the power of infinite. Only recently I have been realizing How fond he is to me !
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So whats to this arbit blog post ? I dont have an idea , probably twitter is too much down these days and I dont like friendfeed
Back home !
After a month long project academic project at IIT Madras , I am back home ! Yaaaay ! Nice food and some rest for a day or two ! In fact a rest from seeing NIT Junta - More than half of them are in IIT-M doing a project
So Now that I am back home , What are my plans ?
* Prepare For placements and get a satisfactory job .
* Topcoder
* Anjuta - Python plugin
* Have fun with my brother, who is coming mostly to NITT itself
* Have a shutdown day and if possible shutdown week. ( My shutting down is not from net , but not signing to Gmail , Orkut , Twitter or this blog)
* Manage a trip to Hyderabad !
And yeah , MGL 2008 is coming up and wish those guys a better luck for a successful MGL !
And there are lots of stuff which I would like to do but wont do out of laziness ! So its not worth mentioning here
She’s in the kitchen !
http://shesinthekitchen.blogspot.com/
Mummy ! Just seeing the pics I am left memerised ! One person can do all that ???? And whats more , she has some twenty more links like that
Writing in Third person !
Hey, you know of a guy called suren ?
He is funny, idiotic , non-sensical (most of the times), computer friendly, chaat ,extreemly lazy, not very much of an interesting guy. He isn't all that good guy but not a bad guy either. He loves spending time with his friends but doesn't have enough time. Gets caught up with some work or the other and doesnt have time for himself( Things like pragyan,Nittfest, clubs, pengufest blah blah). He is not sure of what he wants or what he likes. He is utterly confused of what to do in the forthcoming days because his school days had been more of a tea-spoon feeding and he does not have enough wits to figure it out himself( If he had been , then he would have not been writing this blog). Him and his friends were confused about his actual place of residence - either the strange room in Lapis hostel or the sun lab. In spite of all the show offs he does, he is not all that what actually being understood of him. You know he had been my mate for such a long time. Half the time I would think I knew him , but other half he would surprise me with his actions. .... ( enough of this third person chaat )
PS : Tomorrow is my exams and well that explains it ! Right now watching How I met your Mom and Justice league. The Flash guy rocks
Losing and getting my cell phone back !
How much we get attached to things ? How much pain we have to endure when we lose those things ? These questions I never really cared until I lost my cell phone this friday. I had gone for dinner with friends outside and was in a bit of depressive mood that I actually didnt know half the time what I was doing.
And suddenly when I check my pocket for cell phone , its not there. Something heavy dropped down in my stomach. I liked my cell very much. I dunno what really took me - my like for the phone, or the thing that I had lost it or what my parents might say! Then along with my friends Started searching for it. It took a minute to grasp the situation and then i called my number using my friend's mob. One full ring - no one takes, connection canceled. Another full ring , no answer still. I ran back to the place where I ate , all the while calling my number. I was searching like a mad fellow at the eating place. Then some one took the call. Thank god it was some guy I knew and I got back my phone.
But after I got my phone back , I started wondering. How much we get attached to our stuff. And how bad it is in situations like this. I once had a discussion with hari about losing a cell phone and breaking one's own phone.He said losing one's phone is very bad than actually one damaging it oneselves' knowingly . I guess I get his point now.
PS : I knew the guy like this : He had attended MGL classes and my phone had a Micro SD card named suren and few of my photos in it.