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The Tuz logo

2009-04-22T03:33:00.005+05:30

When I read this post, I was looking forward to compile this kernel and look at the new Tuz logo. Finally as part of my System Security course project, today I compiled the vanilla kernel (v2.6.29) and booted the machine to look at this little Tasmanian devil.

Good that the kernel community is taking part in these kind of activities!

.. and he did it

2009-02-23T12:47:00.004+05:30

Edit: Added the picture!

A.R.Rahman bags two academy awards (Oscars) in style, one of the Original Score and another for the Original Song, both for the movie Slumdog Millionaire.

As he said, 'Before coming here, I was excited and terrified ... '. This should have been the feeling for each and every Rahman fan who have grown up hearing his music and have seen him gradually rise with only his talent and dedication.

You have the made the impossible possible!

Hail AR Rahman

2009-01-12T08:50:00.003+05:30

AR Rahman gets the Best Original Music Score award at 2009 Golden Globe awards. A day to be etched in the Indian film/music history. AR Rahman has truly taken India to the Hollywood!

Let him also bag the Oscars, for his inherent music talent.

Oops.. Brilliant

2008-11-14T13:21:00.004+05:30

I'm looking forward to see this movie. Seems like a lot of hard work has been put into create this movie. Best wishes to the whole Vaaranam Aayiram team!

Setting up (Thinkpad T400) wireless network in Ubuntu Hardy Heron

2008-09-07T11:54:00.002+05:30

I got a new laptop (Thinkpad T400) recently. Lenovo forces all the T400 buyers to choose Vista by default. As far as I know, there used to be an option to choose GNU/Linux operating system with T61 models. I don't know why Lenovo has revoked those options with the T400 model. As I plan to use my T400 was development purpose as well, I want to install a GNU/Linux operating system and my option is Ubuntu, for its behavior in seamlessly detecting all devices.

To my surprise, when I booted the Ubuntu Hardy Heron I noticed that my wireless card wasn't detected out of box. When I googled for it, I found out that to be a know problem with all the Atheros wireless cards. The wireless card that I have in my laptop is:

(output from the command lspci -v)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)
Subsystem: Atheros Communications Inc. Unknown device 0035
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 22
Memory at f4300000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities:

To get that working follow the steps given in the reply #6 (by the user reasoner) in the thread http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=902860. It worked perfectly fine in my case.

Before I landed on the above menitoned link, I tried with the latest madwifi source from its subversion trunk and that didnt workout for me. *May be* the code under the subversion branch '../branches/madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6/' made the difference.

Heading towards another manoeuvre in my life

2008-07-18T19:30:00.004+05:30

Its been an year wait for this, actually more than an year now. An year ago I felt like I should be taking up my masters program. There has been multiple reasons that urged me to take this decision. I felt it was a very hard decision, but for some reason I wanted to do that.

I remember the day I started to the read the book, Word Power Made Easy (WPME) by Norman Lewis. It was interesting and a great learning experience for me. Consciously I have never tried to improve by word power, being a guy who inhibits the habit of reading, you know the situation. But after few days of reading the book WPME, it was some kind of satisfaction that drove me to complete the book. Following that I started to read Barrons making my mind that I should give GRE in few months. That too happened, but completing Barrons was a real strenuous effort. I never thought I could do that! Following that was TOEFL, which didnt require much effort from my side.

The next big and demanding task was the application process. From the copious number of available universities, I had to narrow down to the ones I really would love to go. It required a lot of back and forth conversation with my friends and relatives. Another long and demanding period of time was the application phase, where I had to prepare documents required by these universities, couriering them, following it up, waiting for the results, etc. It didn't even stop after the results were out. To my luck, I (and all my univ mates) had to wait a long time to get hold of my I20. Once the I20 was in, it was a very quick week for me, I got my Visa stamped before I could realize that it happened.

Another surprise to me was that, by the last Monday (14th July) I had completed 3 years of my stint at Trilogy (and thus in the industry). I know this is a little late, I should have gone for my masters an year ago, but it is good that I atleast decided to take that up now, rather than never.

And FYI, I'm heading to the State University of New York at Stony Brook for my MS in Computer Science starting this Fall (September 2008) semester!

IPL at Chinnaswami Stadium

2008-05-04T08:36:00.010+05:30

IPL is the buzz these days. It may be because of the money that has been poured in, or the 100% guaranteed entertainment. At least I enjoy watching these games for the guaranteed fun.

I'm in Bangalore for the past 2.5 years and I haven't used this opportunity to watch a live match in the stadium. But I didn't want to miss this anymore. Since IPL T20 being a sure entertainer we set out to watch one. Being a native a Tamil Nadu, the obvious choice would be to watch the match between Chennai (Super Kings) and Bangalore (Royal Challengers).

- Chennai Super Kings
- Bangalore Royal Challengers

Watching a match in the stadium is much more different than watching it on a Television. The lively, energetic and sometimes boisterous crowd is one of the cogent reasons to witness a match in the stadium. Sometimes you ignore the actual match to get involved in some activities that happens in the stadium stands like the Mexican wave, etc.,That too in our case, the clash was between Chennai and Bangalore (the so called deadly-rivals in the water dispute) and with equal number of supporters for both the squads added the fun factor. During the final overs of the Bangalore innings, when they were loosing wickets in haste, the tamil crowd acclaimed Super Kings with slogans, which remained me of my college days.

Though Bangalore gave a big fight, they were unfortunate to lose the game. We witnessed great batting skills from MS Dhoni, Ross Taylor and Wasim Jaffer and an awesome bowling spell from Dale Steyn, though he stumbled in his last over with Dhoni. We were able to see players Kallis, Murali, Ntini and Hussey and drummer Sivamani in a very close proximity. To recapitulate, it is a great fun to watch a match in the stadium.

General advice, though not mine

2007-12-25T15:59:00.000+05:30

Flipped this in one of the SUNYSB prof's (Tzi-cker Chiueh) home page.

- Read widely
- Learn to communicate well
- Be a team player
- The name of the game for being a graduate student is efficient time management
- Always make plans ahead
- Talk to knowledgeable people regularly
- Practice solving problems and building systems whenever you have a chance

May be these are very simple facts, but when you think again these would work out really well in improving yourself.

A Beautiful Mind

2007-12-01T12:01:00.000+05:30

The four Oscar winning movie in which the life of the renowned mathematician Dr. John Forbes Nash is delineated splendidly. I have heard about this movie and was looking forward to see this for a long time. I didn't know anything about either the story or Dr. Nash before I saw the movie. But spent some time reading about Nash in the Wikipedia after I saw movie.

Yesterday I got a good print of this movie from my one of my colleagues. I started to watch the movie in the office and it was quite gripping that I watched the initial 10 to 15 minutes there but I had to stop and get back to my work. Yesterday late night after some of my personal works are done, I started again.

Russel Crowe has done a beautiful job in his body language. I have seen Russel's performance in the movie Gladitor where he acts as a warrior. The character in this movie is just opposite to that. He plays the role of a recluse mathematician playing with numbers, greek alphabets and trying to come up with some weird algorithms. The supporting role (Nash's wife) is played by Jennifer Connelly. She looked gorgeous and at the later she plays a very responsible role. The restaurant scene where she tries to give Dr. Nash a verifiable proof for her love and long time commitment was pretty. And in the later part of the movie, she beautifully plays a supportive role to her paranoid husband. Apart from these two characters, I liked the role of Josh Lucas. I don't know why, but he was charismatic in his speech and expressions during the early Princeton days in the movie.

The movie as a whole was neat and the screenplay, for sure, will spellbound you to the plot.

IMDb link - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0268978/

Convoluted mess!

2007-09-30T23:54:00.000+05:30

Sometimes I do become one of the reasons for my barber's poor business :P

Sick (by)(of) surfeit!

2007-08-07T15:04:00.000+05:30

My current GTalk status flashes (and would be the same for some more days too) "Sick of Surfeit!". Initially I had "Sick by surfiet!" and later changed that too "Sick of surfeit!". That was due to my senior Cne. He gave a pure pedantic explanation on why it should be "Sick of surfeit!" which urged me to change the status message.

Read the conversation we had to understand the difference between 'by' and 'of'!!

5:54 PM Cne: HMM....is that sick "by" surfeit? or sick "of" surfeit?

5:55 PM me: Theriyala-yae

5:56 PM I'm heavy loaded with stuffs, adhan dhan solla vandhen

5:57 PM If you can explain me the diff, that would be good :)

6:00 PM Cne: its just the difference between of and by..

simple!!

me: ha ha not that simple, ennaku context-la difference sollunga

Cne: see, just imagine ur in google..

i mean u work in google..

6:01 PM me: okie

Cne: when u've just joined...

6:02 PM u'll be amazed at all the free eatables lying around and u start a free for all!!

u eat so much that u gget a bellyache!!

thats sick "by" surfeit!!

6:03 PM and if u've been there for 2-3 years, u get tired of all the free things and get bored with them...the word "free" also loses its charm...since ur making enough to not worry abt money..

then, thats sick "of" surfeit!!

and of course, the analogy of Google can be replaced by ur company!!

6:04 PM which is true i guess!!

me: Okie got it

to an extent it is

Cne: what say?

tthe "by" is a simple matter....can be solved easily..

6:05 PM but sick "of": has phiolosophical undertones..

which require lots of work to solve!!

6:06 PM me: Ok

I think I fall into the latter category. Will change the status!

See how negligent I have been in my English grammar courses during my school days ;)

Turned a dilettante photographer!

2007-08-01T20:16:00.000+05:30

I have been planning to buy a camera for a long time. And at last decided to buy Canon PowerShot S3 IS.

I have already started dabbling with my camera :)

I'm currently inspired by these photographers (Prasanna, Sankar and Senthil). The former two are my own cousins, so I expect some hereditary pattern of good photography skills in my blood too :P

Checkout their web albums,
Prasanna: http://www.flickr.com/photos/without_flash/
Sankar: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sankars/
Senthil: http://www.flickr.com/photos/senti/

Innovative teaching methodology

2007-07-25T15:23:00.000+05:30

Salutation

2007-07-22T19:33:00.000+05:30

The good times is gonna end in few days! Our current first citizen of India, Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam is going to get down from his office on 25th July. And I'm very sad that India is losing a great visionary leader and it is pretty clear from the current presidential elections that it will take some years to see such a dynamic, charismatic and phlegmatic personality.

Times before Dr. Kalam took office, from what I perceive, the President of India is the one who lives in Rashtrapati Bhavan, signs of some documents and more importantly the one who gives a talk on Doordhasan television during the Independence/Republic day. Dr. Kalam has given a new perspective to this esteemed position. I have never seen a President of India stepping out from Rashtrapati Bhavan and meeting people and discussing their problems, meeting students and giving them encouraging talks and even meeting industrialists. His simple mantra "dream!" has made Indians to think big. He even has a big vision/dream to make India a full-fledged developed nation by 2020.

It always feels good when you are led by such an energetic person. Even though it is sad that Dr. Kalam is going to step down from the post of President, it feels so good that he going to return to Anna University back as a professor/researcher. Currently it is a big question on how far Ms. Prathiba Patil is going to execute her prerogatives.

.. and finally to the motive of this post, a great salutation to Dr. Kalam for his great deeds towards the development of India.

Aesthetic!

2007-06-05T14:31:00.000+05:30

For sure, you will be infatuated with this music, dance and ofcourse the performer. Absolutely gorgeous.

http://www.youtopia.in/viewfile/4b57dd4bc29c669a8ff62bcd1a623413

She is a Pakistani based pop singer, Annie Ali Khan. This song (Mahiya) is from her album Princess.

Long break from blogging!

2006-09-26T15:07:00.000+05:30

Hmm., that was a real long break. Its always the same reason from my side, laziness! Just yesterday, I got hold of a laptop in my workplace. So, thought of blogging it.

Its been a good time with this Indian market

2006-05-23T23:52:00.000+05:30

Hmm., really it is not a good time with Indian market currently. Lot of corrections going on. In the past two weeks, there is a steep fall in the sensex for about 2000 points. For a starter like me, who doesnt have much investments in this volatile market, its been fun watching the numbers. More than FUN, it is a good learning experience.

For the past few months, I think there has not been a great correction in the market. So it was like, whoever invests in the market, even blindly, happened to book profits. It was just raising, raising and raising. But all of a sudden, the great fall that happened the last week and particularly the one on this monday, made everyone panic. No one can give a good reason of why the hell this market is falling down. In almost all of my colleague's portfolios, I could see them all filled with red figures. We used to make fun of this situation like, "Enna da, un portfolio-la rathama valzhiudha??". But for long term investors, this is the right time to accumulate good stocks. Rather than being panic, start investing in the right stocks now. I learned that for sure.

Another important thing that I learned is, if you keep wathing the market, you have a good probability that you loose that day with no work done ;-) Finally I would say, its been THRILL watching these numbers and FUN if you gain and LESSON if you loose (provided, you dont play with market blindly).

Awesome collection of TR videos

2006-04-29T13:21:00.000+05:30

- The famous 'Vaada Yen Machi Vazhaka Bhaji' fight sequence. Song, Lyrics, Fight, Dance and Music everything is T.R's.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=VUisOulNCBA

- T.R gives definition for each variety of Tea to his enemy during a fight sequence

http://youtube.com/watch?v=P40-Rxnl1Ac

- T.R's sad sentimental dialogues. Will bring tears from your eyes due to over laughter. He relates wet torn clothes to life of men and women

http://youtube.com/watch?v=bur8CZ_t1gY

- T.R's special Karate style to fight with his enemies

http://youtube.com/watch?v=QJTBlxH5zNs

- T.R combines his dialogues during his fight. No doubt why the bad man hits his head against the trees

http://youtube.com/watch?v=axkYmvvO8g4

This or that??

2006-03-19T14:50:00.000+05:30

Bajaj Pulsar 150 Vs TVS Apache

I have planned to buy a bike. Being in Bangalore, its hard to move around places without a bike. You cant take the auto rickshaws every time, its getting costlier nowdays. The autorickshaw prices have been raised from 5 to 6 rupees per Km from the mid of this month. So I dont think Autorikshaws is the best choice in Bangalore, unless and untill you dont know to drive a bike ;)

I almost corned on to Bajaj Pulsar 150 and decided to buy that. But yesterday my brother told me that the TVS Apache has come into the market. I didnt consider Apache previously, coz., I thought it would take some more time to get into the dealer lots. But it seems they have reached the lots and the dealers have started to take booking for Apache. I also came to know that Apache has bagged so many awards like 'Best Bike of the Year', 'Best Design of the Year' and few more. Overdrive has also given great reviews on Apache. So now I have started to think why not consider Apache too?

I thought of asking you friends on what you say abt Pulsar 150 and Apache?? If you have some suggestions, comment that out!!

Sandisk 1GB Audio Player (SDMX1-1024)

2006-02-10T19:55:00.000+05:30

I was looking out for an USB flash drive in the market for the past few days. But after searching the internet and looking at the different products, I decided to buy an MP3 player (that can also be used as a data storage and carry device). I was also very curious to catch a cheap deal that comes during the thanksgiving period at USA. I had many options, when I have to choose one. iPod was one of my option when I was searching. But iPod was a bit costly option, when compared to its counterparts. After discussing with my brother, finally I decided to hold on with Sandisk's products. I chose 1GB Audio Player that comes in Silver color. The cheapest deal I could catch is for 95$. I saw few cheaper deals, but could not catch that on time ;(. Finally I order Sandisk 1GB for 95$. My brother's friend got that here when he returned back from USA.

It been a nice experience with this player. The moment I got this player, I felt it very light and small. Even after you load the battery (one AAA battery) it does seem to weigh much. The player included Audio player, FM Radio and Voice Recording. It plays MP3 and WMA files. You have a plenty number of controls and options to play with. FM Radio too rocks. You can store 20 preset stations. Nowadays I'm roaming around the city with this player's headphones on!!

It is a better choice!!

Wayanad - place where I tried hard core trekking

2006-02-05T02:15:00.000+05:30

Wayanad, situated in the northern part of Kerala was our target during the Republic day holidays (26th to 28th Jan). We planned to take off at around 11 PM on 25th night. Unfortunately I had some critical work on 25th evening and it was a hectic schedule to complete my work and join the people at 11. Somehow I joined them in hurry burry at the last moment. I cant forget the way I completed the work, packed my stuffs and got into the van.

It was all set and we headed towards the Mysore road to reach Wayanad by early morning. By 07:00 AM we reached Kalpetta and booked rooms at MGT hotel. Everyone was so tired that it took sometime for everyone to refresh and finish our breakfast. Since we were late, we couldn't take the Kerala's famous dishes 'Appam' and 'Puttu'. We took the usual stuffs likes Dosa and Chappathi there.

Day 1 :
Our plan for the day one was to climb the Chembra peak and stay there that night (if we could get some tents and stuffs). Since we didnt plan well in before, we could not get the tents ;(

Chembra Peak :

To reach Chembra peak, we need to first reach a place called Meppadi, that was around 17 kms from Kalpetta. From Meppadi you can see the Chembra estate direction board. When we reached the Chembra Estate gates, the watchman asked us for the pass to enter the estate. So two of our guys took the van back to the Forest office at Meppadi to get the pass. It seems, that is an easy job to get the pass. From the information we got from the watchman, to reach the peak's bottom we need to walk 7kms and from the bottom, the peak is around 3kms. So we decided to take the van inside the estate and cross atleast some distance with the van. But after seeing the tea estate sperad on both the sides of the road, we decided to walk all the way. We started to walk carrying the heavy bags, catching the estate's beauty with our cameras. It took around two hours to reach the peak's bottom. We refilled our water bottles there. Then started the real trekking, it was an absolute hilly terrain surface. It was a sunny day with the Chembra peak having no trees, it was harder to trek ;( We stopped at a place where we found a shade benith a rock. It almost took an hour or half more than an hour to reach a lake at the top. That was simply awesome!! A small lake at the top of the mountain. To reach the top of the peak we still need to trek a kilometer. Everyone were so tired that we planned no more to trek and rested ourself there. Two guys (Rajasekar and Santhosh) from our gang were so enthusiastic that they climbed till the peak and returned back while we took some rest for an hour. Since we didnt have enough drinking water (and tents too), we planned to return back to the hotel that night itself. At exactly 05:00 PM we started to get down the mountain. It was very slippery while getting down. But we took very less time when compared to climbing up the hill. At around 08:00 PM we reached Meppadi. We took a local bus from there to reach Kalpetta. Had a pakka dinner at Kalpetta. Everyone is so tired that we had no time to think of the moments we spent there. Had a very deep sleep that night.

Day one ended that way.

Day 2 :
For the second day, we had plans to visit four places (Nellamalla valley view, Meenmutty falls, Edakkal Caves and Karapuzha Dam). But we could make it only to three places leaving the Edakkal Caves. We should have started little earlier that day ;( We thought that these places won't need any trekking, but I would say reaching the Meenmutty falls was really adventurous and cool stuff for a trekker. It was too steep and slippery when compared to Chembra peak. The most coolest part was that we had the trees all the way, making the trek interesting.

Nellamalla Valley View :

We need to again cross the place Meppadi to reach this place. The path was intially not good, it was a red sand road with dust rising all the way. But after some distance, it was good. Since this too was like trekking, few people stopped in the midway. But we continued till the edge of the Valley view. When we reached the edge of that mountain, it was great. We could see a big green valley from there. The MeenMutty falls can also seen prominentely from there. MeenMutty falls was our next destination. It was real thrill to see the next destination, from a mountain that in just opposite to that falls, leaving a big valley in between.

MeenMutty Water Falls :

MeenMutty falls is the biggest Water falls at Wayanad. It is near the NeelaMalla Valley view. We have to trek for around 2-3Kms to reach the MeenMutty water falls. This trekking there was something opposite, we need to climb down the mountain to reach the falls. I think this was the most slippery and steep trekking we had at Wayanad. It took nearly one and a half hours to reach the falls. On the way we saw a butter milk shop. We were so badly dehydrated that we drank butter milk for Rs. 180 (Rs. 4 per glass). I'm saying the total amount that includes the butter milk we drank while climbing up and down the hill that day. MeenMutty falls is pretty wide and high. We took bath at the falls and asusual took some snaps too. MeenMutty falls will be an unmemorable place at Wayanad.

KaraPuzha Dam :
Our next destiny for that day was KaraPuzha Dam. We actually had plans to visit Edakkal caves, but since we took little more time at the MeenMutty Water falls, that plan was dropped. I couldn't say anything special about KaraPuzha Dam. That is because it was around 07:00 PM and it was already dark when we reached there. So the KaraPuzha Dam was just one of the place we visited ;)

Day 2 ended with a pretty good and heavy dinner at Hotel Kalpana, Kalpetta. Few of us had plans to see the sunrise the next morning. The problem is we have to wake up the next morning around 05:00 AM, if we need to see the sunrise.

Day 3 :
As planned, few of us got up early that day and started for the Sunrise. It was bitter cold outside when we boarded the van to the Sunrise Valley at around 05:30 AM.

KanthanPara Water Falls/Sunrise Valley :

We had no idea of where the sunrise valley is. But we started ;) On the way to Meppadi we enquired with all the persons we could see. But no one seems to have heard about that valley. Finally we found a person who adviced us to go to the Kanthanpara falls and climb up little higher that mountain to see the early morning sunrise. He was not sure that is the Sunrise valley, but he is sure that we could get a good view on the sunrise from there. We reached the KanthanPara falls and climbed up that hill for around a kilometer. Till 07:00 AM we could not see the sun, and suddenly the sun came out of clouds to show as how awesome it will be to see the sunrise for a hill top. That was an awesome feel there. We took a pretty good number of snaps. This was one of the important places we visited during the trip.

We returned back to the room by 08:30 AM and started to pack our bags, coz., we need to vacate the rooms that morning. Our next target was Banasura Dam. Since we reached Kerala, we havent taken the dish 'Aapam' (the Kerala's special), so we decided to take some Appams for that breakfast ;)

Banasura Dam :

Banasura Dam, the biggest earth dam (naturally formed dam) in Asia. Believe me, it was that much big. It was an amazing view to see the mountains and huge waters in-between stagnant over there. I couldn't cover the whole beauty available over there with my cam. Guys who have been put there for security purposes doesn't allow people to take snaps. It was a nice experience there. Since we people were damn tierd from the last two day's trekking, we were so slow walking along the dam.

Kuruva Dheep (Island) :
Kuruva Dheep, an island surronded by the back waters of Kelara. It spreads for around 950 acres. We had planned to spend the whole afternoon over there. It is pretty far from Kalpetta when compared to the other places. We need to cross the place called Mananthavady before reaching this island. We bought some lunch parcels at Mananthavady. Kuruva Dheep is a place where you can rest yourself for hours. We people being totally tired, it was a soothing place for all of us. We crossed the surronding water using the boats available there. Seeing the fresh waters we couldn't stop getting into the water. So we did that too ;) We spent around an hour in the water. The day being not very sunny, it was FUN in the water. We rested ourselfs for half-an-hour under the bamboo shades and started back to Bangalore.

On the way back to Bangalore, we hummed the 'all time best' tamil songs. Muthu and Prem led the show with some splendid songs. Finally we reached our homes by 04:00 AM in the morning. We didnt plan that trip as a trekking trip, but it finally ended at a hardcore trekkers trip ;)

Good to experience the thrill at Wayanad!!

More snaps at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/saponniah/sets/72057594057309135/

Trip to Nandi hills

2005-12-28T22:45:00.000+05:30

Yeah, the last weekend was FUN. Mottai was here during the entire weekend and we went along with Keyan to many places in Bangalore. The one main trip I had planned was to Nandi Hills. As decided we (Myself, Keyan, Mottai and Sriki) took two bikes and to set on to Nandhi Hills on Saturday. Nandi hills is about 70-75 Kms from Bangalore. The drive was interesting and superb. Definitely those who love riding bike on highways will love this trip, as I did. I think it took around one-and-a-half hours to reach the top of Nandi hills. We stopped at many places on way to take some noshes whenever we can find some on the road side. I took my brother's digital camera and Keyan's had his DigiCam. So whenever possible we also flashed the lights.

At the top of Nandi hills is a Shiva temple, a small park and a hotel. We spent at around an hour or so there and started to return back. While we were getting the down the hill we caugth up a shooting crew recording stuff for a Kannda serial. I think there were shooting some song, I have never seen a song in tamil serial. That looked strange to us. As we proceeded we have to stop at few places to give some work for the cameras. The sunset, the lake along side the road were all looking beautifull. We had some good shots there. As we started to ride in the highway, it was real FUN with the chill air dashing your face. We reached 100 Km/hrs at times and the ride was awesome.

Nandhi hills snaps :
http://www.flickr.com/photos/saponniah/sets/1662126/

The next day too we were roaming around the city. A good weekend passed away ;) Looking out for the New Year eve now. Till now no plans, let me see what happens!!

CRY (Child Relief and You) donation!!

2005-12-09T19:36:00.000+05:30

Today from my pocket :), I dotnated some amount to CRY organization. Yesterday we had two volunteers from CRY, Bangalore in our office to get donations for the welfare of CRY children. This is the first time I have spent some money from my pocket to help poor people. A bit of joy here :)

Sakleshpur Trek

2005-11-26T17:53:00.000+05:30

The first trek of mine. Sakleshpur, around 6hrs travel by road on the way to Mangalore. Along with my brother and his friends I packed my stuffs for the trek. We have booked the tickets for everyone to Donigal (near Sakleshpur). The bus was on 11:30 pm.

At around 05:15 am, the bus reached Donigal. We got down near a tea stall. It was pretty dark around the tea stall, since it was the only one in that mountainous area. The speakers of that tea stall voiced a tamil song from the film Kadalukku Mariyadhi. It was a pleasent welcome to all we tamilians in the state of Karnataka. Someone told that the climate was around 10 C at that time. We were all shivering, getting all the possible stuffs out of our bags to keep us warm. We then had a hot tea in that tea stall. That made us feel little comfortable. We bought some diesel from that shop (with the plan of a camp fire that night). We then have to walk around 1.5 kms to reach the Donigal railway station (from where the real trek starts). We started to walk on the way that leads to the railway station.

We reached the railway station and got on the track for the trek. It was still dark when we started to trek. We kept moving on the track, we followed the directions of the track. Our destination that day was to reach Edakku Mary by the evening. Edakku Mary will be around 15+ from Donigal. Around 07:00 am we came across a bridge. The steel brigde for the trains to cross. There will be no support on both the sides of these bridges. Luckily the bridge had some plates on the railway track. We cautiously crossed the bridge. Then came the second bridge, this bridge had no plates on the track, that made us feel scary and uncomoforatble while crossing. We all took bath in the stream that ran below that bridge. We too had our break-fast there. We had chappathis, bread with jam and snacks with us.

After the break-fast the journey continued. Then came the first tunnel. I remember that was not too long. But getting into the first tunnel, we screamed to hear the echos and had fun. Bridges and tunnels came across the way. We too stopped at few places to take rest and to have some snacks. As time went the climate got sunny. We people carrying all the baggages felt uncomfortable under the sun. At around 01:00 pm came the longest bridge. It is 120+ meters long. Real good one to cross, the height was too big. Scary but adventurous. The water stream that ran below that bridge temped us to take bath there. We took an another bath there. Getting down to that stream and climbing back to the track was a real trekking, I would say. The path is not a proper one and is really steep. Just after that long bridge was the longest tunnel. It was 572 meters long. It will take 10+ minutes to cross that tunnel. It was completely dark inside the tunnels. We all had torches with us to help us out inside these tunnels. Just to have more fun, we lit up a fire ball when we crossed that tunnel. Everyone was hungry by that time. We then found a place just after that tunnel to have our lunch. It was 03:00 pm when we had the lunch.

To reach Edakku Mary we have to walk 3/4 kms from that place. But two of the guys felt to return back. With the help of a local guy there we took a jeep (the one used to take goods and people from that track to the nearest village) and reached a nearest village. From there we took the local bus to reach Sakleshpur. From Sakleshpur we reacehed Hassan through another bus. After we had our dinner at Hassan we took a bus to Bangalore and reached Bangalore at 02:00 am.

As a whole I would say the trip was FUN, SCARY and ADVENTUROUS.

Snaps : http://www.flickr.com/photos/saponniah/

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2005-10-17T18:22:00.000+05:30

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BikeWala.com, the new kickass site for researching Indian Bikes!!

2005-10-06T12:42:00.000+05:30

BikeWala (http://www.bikewala.com/). This is my current project in TU. Check for a new experience in the site and send me the feedbacks or suggestions, if any you have. You can also write reviews on different bikes with our site. Hope this site helps you out in researching the Indian Bikes. Since it is still in the Beta version, many more thing are yet to come :)

Just to keep in touch with my blog!!

2005-10-06T12:41:00.000+05:30

:-) Need to post regularly!!

Last week @ TU

2005-08-22T14:43:00.000+05:30

Project braintroming is on here at TU. TUers have to come up with new ideas now. By the by, Joe and Steeve are here for this. They are the one who has to approve these ideas. Only those ideas that are being approved are continued.

Last thursday we went the PUB Spinn. I wasn't really in mood to party that day. But atlast I changed my mind to dance and it went fine. Yesterday we went to a place called Club Cabana. That was around 23 kms from our office. I took some snaps there, check out this link http://www.flickr.com/photos/saponniah/. I played five/six volleyball matches there. After lunch I was at the pool for two to three hours. In the evening I was into the Bowling ally for a match. I came second with 103 points. The day ended when everyone were dead tired. I can't even walk properly coz of the pains in my leg :)

Me at Trilogy

2005-08-14T01:21:00.000+05:30

Since I reached Bangalore I haven't blogged. That was bad on me, I know, but I cann't help it. It is not like, I felt lazy.. for the first time in my life I can't find time to do these. You know I joined Trilogy on 15th of July and the professional life started then. I'm now under the training process called TU, (Trilogy University). It for three months and so it goes till october 15th.

Its been nearly a month and this is my first weekend I'm feeling free off the company thoughts. Four weeks have gone and we had different schedules for the different weeks. Let me try to recall what we had in the last four weeks.

The first day was a completely different experience. I met people from different parts of India and 18 guys from China, those were the ones with whom I'm gonna spend my days in Trilogy. We went to the hotel Le Meridien for dinner that day. I guess that is my first five start hotel visit. During the first week we had presentation on the company's goals, strategies and like that stuff. I guess we went to the PUB Zero G (Zero Gravity) on that week's wednesday night. That was also my first time experience in a PUB. I don't wanna write down all my experiences there. It was fine and had a nice dance party there. During the weekend we had an event called Scavenger Hunt. Its like the normal treasure hunt game but covering the whole Bangalore city. We had an opportunity to get to know places at Bangalore. That was a FUN event.

The second week at TU is where the real technical part starts. The whole week we had sessions on different technical topics and after every session we had small assignments on those technologies. During that week's wednesday we went BayLeaf at Koromangala for dinner. These dinners are meant for getting close with each other and to relax your mind from the hard work during the day. For the weekend we had plans to go to a place called Wonder Valley. It is located around 12 kms to the south of Bangalore on the way to Bannerghatta. I had spent the whole saturday with my TU mates and Section leads there. We had some event for FUN and some as inter-section competitions at Wonder Valley. Its a nice place to visit as a group. The place will make you laugh and relax your mind, whoever you may be.

The hard time started with the third week. We had three assignments (Track Projects) for this and the next week. It was that time we worked for days that are endless. So many night outs, slept at the office... During that week's wednesday we went to Amoeba at Leela Palace. We had a snow blowing competetion and dinner there. Leela Palace Rocks!! No words for that. Its big.. no its mammoth!!

Veera enna.. the track assignments have come to an end. From the next week we have project brainstroming followed the project work that goes till the end of TU. Joe Leemandt, our CEO is gonna be here for the next two weeks. Its going to be an interesting time ahead.

'Auto 7005' has gone out of my hand

2005-07-02T22:58:00.000+05:30

If you have seen me in TCE (my college) then you must be knowing of my vehicle M80 Major. I suppose I was the only one of my time to come to the college everyday by M80. That was unique and unusual. My M80 was fondly called 'Auto' coz., of the sound it produces while on the road. My friends say the sound it produces is exactly of an Auto-rikshaw. It has been with us for the past six years. My brother too used to go the college by that M80. It was actually bought for him to go to the college. After his four years of college, I continued driving that M80 to my college. I was so close to that M80 that I have even met with an accident while driving on that. Though the accident was small, I had a big injury and went through an Arthoscopic knee surgery. I was put on the bed for a period of a month and was advised not to drive for the next one year. But after that I period I continued driving my M80 :)

These days I have been disposing all the good ones along with I have lived. The bicycle was another one. I think we bought that when I was in seventh standard. I loved it and its now with someone. When I called up my brother and told that I have sold the M80, I could feel that he too moved sadden. It has gone out of our hands, but I could feel happy when I think back the moments which I had with that in my college and home.

You know why that 7005, its registartion number is 'TN 58 C 7005'.

Are we on the right path??

2005-06-08T13:04:00.000+05:30

Two days back the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, Ms. Jayalalitha, has declared to cancel the TNPCEE (Tamil Nadu Professional Course Entrance Examination). In the sense only the HSC (Higher School Leaving) marks will be considered for the Engineering/Medical admissions from this year.

To my knowledge I thought that the TNPCEE is the only best examination at the high school level. It is because TNPCEE tests the anlytical skills rather the byhearting skills, on which the HSC exams entirely relies. The main reason they say for the cancellation is that the rural students donn't have fair chances when compared to the urban students. Yeah., I accept. The reason they say is right, but the solution is in the negative way. They tend to move in the wrong direction, I suppose. The solution should be like improving the teaching or education system in the rural areas rather than cancelling the exam itself.

The another issue is that when the TNPCEE is cancelled, there will be no common exam on which the selection can be grounded on. The students of State Board, CBSE, ICSE et al have to compete with the scores from their respective exams. Among these the State Board is considered the easiest one, so another dispute lies here.

I'm fond on Ms. Jayalalitha's decisions. She is educated, she does things well, she executes critical situations with proper knowledge and so many. But sometimes she too falls down like this. An another situation when I was against her decision was when she told to demolish the Queen Mary's college at Chennai. How could this be accepted? It has so many fames, a more than 100 year old college, has so many alumnis all over the world. Its a monument rather than a college by itself.

Someone needs to do something regarding this TNPCEE cancellation order. I'm totally against this. I don't know what the public feels and the how the reaction would be.

Sometime dreams come true

2005-06-01T01:32:00.000+05:30

Yeh.. it happened to me when I got my offer at Trilogy (www.trilogy.com).

I had a tough time during the end of my last semester in my college. I had few failures though the reason was on my part. I was totally discouraged by myself. I thought I was not up to the mark and really want to prove myself to the world that I can do something that is unique. Yes, I was searching for some opportunity to work on that. It was during that time, my friend Vellai Pandi (nick-named "white") came with a visiting card of Mr. Deepak Babu, an employee of Trilogy, India. White told me that Deepak addressed few people at TCE and the talk was about his company and the openings that are available at Trilogy for the freshers. I have already heard of Trilogy from my friends and my brother. I thought this would be a good challenge to work with. I contacted Deepak and enquired regarding this. His reply was positive. I had then set my mind. I started to move towards the path leading to Trilogy. I lended a book on Algorithms and Data Structures from my department library. Since that was during my exam time, I have to postpone my preparations after the exams. But my mind was always towards it, even during my exams. Exams were over and I started to read the book. I always love reading books on Data Structures. But, at TCE the exposure to Algorithm concepts were less compared to the other top seeds in Tamil Nadu. I have to accept this. But I need to know these concepts if I need to attend the Trilogy interviews. I slowly got myself into that core of Algorithms and developed the habbit of calculating the complexities of each and every solution I make. I got help from Arunachalam (an Anna University student), Ekanth (my brother) and a huge from the Internet.

After a week or two, I thought that I'm prepared. I informed Deepak that I'm ready and forwarded my resume to him. He was always positive in his replies and I was asked to wait untill the interviews are scheduled. One fine day I got my interview date (18th was scheduled date). I stayed with my cousin Sankar for the days I spent at Bangalore. He has always been a motivating mind to me. His roommate Venkat was too friendly and encouraging. A cool and interesting personality. I had two tech rounds in the interview process at Trilogy. The interviews were all focussed on Data Structures, Algorithms, general problem solving skills and a programming language of my choice. I'm not going to say anything on the course of my interviews. Simply to say it went fine. Trilogy's interviews were of new kind to me. They don't care for your areas of interests or any specific things from your resume. They need people who can work on problems, give innovative solutions and so on. I'm happy that I have cleared the two rounds of interviews and got through my challenge. My college-mate Parasuraman has also been selected. We are first to enter Trilogy from TCE.

You know, I felt contented that day when I received my result positively. The *JOY* you get when something happens that has been your dream for the last couple days is different from the normal ones. Seldom it happens!! I have no words to describe them. Two days back I came to Madurai with my offer letter for Trilogy. I think I have made my parents feel good. Everyone around feels happy, that pleased me to my heart. Sometimes or other, things like this should happen to all, making them feel good.

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2005-05-14T00:57:00.000+05:30

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Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures

2005-05-06T02:49:00.000+05:30

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Yet another BE product has come out

2005-04-28T11:30:00.000+05:30

On 25th of April, I have completed all the works to become a BE graduate. My theory exams were all over the last week and on 25th my project viva-voce were too over. There was no problem with viva-voce. I'm too an Engineer!!

People have started to move from Madurai. Few of my friends have received their call letters from their company and are getting into the corporate world. I cann't think of the transition from a student to a professional. Probably at the start it may/will be interesting bacause of the new corporate ambience, the money you get and so on. But we are going to be made responsible and the care-free life has come to an end. I have heard this from lot my seniors and ppl in the industry. Life goes this way and you need to have this change.

In the previous blog I was promising to write things on the last few days of the my college life. I'm trying to get that out from my memory now. I will start with the 'Geeks' day and continue with the 'Last' day of my college.

(Geeks Day)
Geeks, we the CSE guys like call ourself. We had a plan of printing a shirt and worn that some day to make FUN. Finally we decided with a caption that is to be printed in the shirt. It goes lik this

v are int
v may float
v never char
v love struct
v r a union

Hope you could get the meaning of what I'm trying to say. We being the compsci ppl we have dealt everything with the data types. We call this 'Geeks' shirt. We ordered the shirts for a count of 84 people. It came on one fine morning, that day had the CSE Association valedictory function in the morning and the official college culturals in the noon. The CSE Association function is a very formal one. We ppl being the final years has to in the formals (atleast semi-formals). But everyone were with the 'Geeks' shirt. No one can question us, coz the count is big and no Geek is ready to listen to anybody. The function was over. The next plan we had was to run from the college canteen till the B.Arch. department. We the Geeks stood in a row and started to run. Remeber it is a working day, the time was around 10:45 am in the morning and we ppl are running with a hell of noise and scream. We stopped near our department and took photographs. I think during that time, our HOD called one of the Geek and read that quote in the shirt. To our surprise, he didn't say anything. Then we continued towards the B.Arch. department. Few videos were too taken. The morning seesion went as such with lot of photographs in all the places of TCE. It was lunch time then. We (10 of us) went to the Aarthy drive-inn restaurant. Had a nice time there. The college culturals was the one which made everyone to stand wild. We enjoyed a lot there in the KM Auditorium. As we were late to the culturals the seats were all occupied. We had to stand at the last and watch. As usual we ppl started to scream, sang some strange songs and everyone were attracted to our noise. The staff incharges came and warned us not to make noise. Then came a security, then our HOD. Still Geeks is uncontrollable. The HOD was very concerned because the shirt was printed with 'CSE 05' in the front and the CSE department's name will going down. We then moved to the KM Audi's balcony. There Geeks were in the excited mood and started to dance to the tunes. Imagine how could that be. In the last four years of my college life I have never seen a college day like this. People used to scream that all, I have never seen ppl dancing, but it happened this year. The 'Geeks' day was over with few other good things. I trying hard to type all those.

(Last day)
The last day of my college was too a memorable one. DUring the morning we could not feel anything. It just went of. During the afternoon slowly people started to think a bit heavier. Guys never down, we were all njoying. The two persons with whom I saw tears was Meena and Archana, my classmates. People slowly started to get signatures in their shirts. I had no plans for that and came to the college with a good formal shirt. But how could my friends leave me. You could ask abt the fame of my 'Bue Jean', which I used to wear daily. Maddy and Keyan caught me and they were the first to sign in the jean. Then I made up my mind to get signatures in my lovely jean. It was different because everyone were getting signatures in their shirt/t-shirts, but myself in the jean. But somehow at the end of the day, my jean was filled with signatures. Apparum, around 05:00 pm our class guys sat near the dept and started to share the good old memories. Everyone was led to speak and share his happiest/sad moments. Everyone were open with thier mind and that talk contniued till 10:00 pm. By 06:30 pm we were told to leave the college, so moved to the Vinayagar temple and continued our discussion there. During the discussion was going on a small misunderstanding too raised. But that was solved. Hope my classmates understands this. To finish the day, after the discussion was over, we went for the dinner in Triparankundram. By 11:30 pm we bid adieu and went back to home.

We had many good times like this. The student life @ TCE is over. Even now when I go to my department, my juniors call me an aluminus :-(

TCE is great, long live TCE!!

Chandramuki - lakka..lakka..

2005-04-21T09:44:00.000+05:30

The Kollywood's superstar is again in his track. After his unfortunate movie "BaBa", he is now back in "Chandramuki" with a bang. He looks good as he was in his previous blockbusters. The movie as a whole is superb with a neat story and screenplay. But at the start it moves slower and picks up its pace as the story moves. Rajini has not done any gimmick or says any punch dialogues in this movie. This may be a disappointment for his fans (me too). The movie actually is a thriller and says about split personality. Jothika is the one who suffers from this split personality. Jothika need a special mention. She has performed really to the mark. I stood amuck with her performance at the movie's end. Sometimes scared too. And the one more that is impressing to us all was the dialogue "lakka..lakka..lakka.." which Jothika says at the end of this movie. Go and see why this needs a special mention.

Dare to face Chandramuki!!

Back to my Blog

2005-04-11T22:29:00.000+05:30

Its been long time blogging. I was busy with my last few days in my college, enjoying the life to the extent possible and now in mid of my semester exams. Third have gone well and yet three more to go. I have to log lot of good experience in the past few days, after my exams were over I hope to do that.

Local touring with friends

2005-02-14T22:30:00.000+05:30

GATE was over yesterday. I thought of going somewhere yesterday itself, but since we had no plans I could not catch up my friends. I slept in my home in the afternoon and in the evening I went to John's house. There we planned to make to local trip to Alagar Kovil and Hawa Veli the next day. Everything was planned pakka yesterday night and everyone agreed to meet infront of the British Bakery at around 08:15 am (that was too early for me and John), today. We have planned to tour by bike, coz., we thought that going by bus will be tiresome and won't have lot of FUN.

I was the second to reach the British Bakery after Aravind Baalaaji. Then slowly everyone came, it was Keyan the last. We then marched to Natarajan's house. We then started from there with five vehicles with two per each bike. Oh..!! lemme list the names of the people who went there, it was, Myself, Bara, Bala, Keyan, John, Jagu, Chellapan, TVR, Purushothaman and Nattu. First I don't know why everyone rode slowly, then we started to pick up the speed. Driving in the outskirts of a city will always be a FUN, those who has an experience will say more on that. We had few snaps, posing while on the move. We reached the Alagar Kovil in few minutes. Near the Kovil entrance we took few snaps. While we were there, Fredrick called up Jagu and told he too will join us. He was in Mellur and it is 15km from there to Alagar Kovil. We told him to come directly to the Palamuthir Soalai. We then started to move up the hill. There were some hairpin bends, monkeys, lovers (today is Valentine's day, remember!!) and all. While at a bend we stopped for a snap. Took few and it was there we had a nice experience with monkeys (Chellapan will say a lot, coz of his bitter experience there). Nattu has got some chips with him. We unpacked that and it was made half empty. We continued and reached the Palamuthir Soalai soon. Went inside the temple and worshipped the Lord Muruga. This is one of the Aarupadai vedugal of Lord Murugan. It was a small temple indeed. We parked the vehicles there and started to walk towards the Amman Kovil that was few yards from there. There was an water vuthu (I think we call that as 'cove' in English) in that Amman Kovil. They say it is holy to drink/take bath in that water. We drank that, let your blessings be on us too, my Lord!! After worshipping the Amman, we ppl started to move upwards the hill. After that Kovil, there were no tar roads laid. We had to move in a path, that was like doing trekking. It was only we eleven (Fredrick has joined us there) who were moving up the hill, there were no public movement. We managed to move a good distance and stopped near a water vuthu. We climed up some rocks, went a steep down for snaps. We drank that holy water from that vuthu too. After sometime, making good FUN over there, we started to return back. When we reached the Amman kovil back, we saw the Tamil Nadu famous Sivakasi Jayalakshmi. It was tiring when we came nearer to our bikes. Started to move down. It was around 12:30 noon when we reached the down hill. The Alagar Kovil doors have already been closed and we missed the chance of worshipping Lord Kallalagar. Hawa Veli was the next stopping for us. Hawa Veli, a place that need to visited during the evenings. It was hottest noon when we reached there. Hawa Veli had a big lawn (superb one of quality), dashing car race area, a restaurant and ofcourse few couples. While coming back to Madurai, we stopped at Nattu's Manga thoppu. It was now the flowering season and so no Mangos!!

When we reached Nattu's house it was around 02:00 noon. Had some cool drinks there. Bidding goodbye everyone started to their home. Touring with guys that too in bikes, you can think of so many. We did all those you can think of. In the evening we have planned for the Ideal Home Exhibition @ Tamukkam. Life is going good like this.

Revolutionary movie @ CSE Aalamaram

2005-02-11T23:00:00.000+05:30

Movie "The Code - Linux", which we people were planning to see one day. Joe has this movie in his Laptop and we were finding difficult to fix a date so that we could screen this movie with the LCD projector and everyone could see that.

Today asusual we closed the Lab and we were moving out. When we neared the CSE Aalamaram, someone took this topic (abt screening the movie) and I casually asked Joe can we see the movie now. Joe too responded that he is ready. Hey! we thought that Joe was kidding, but Joe was serious. Then we ppl too agreed. I think it was around 07:00 pm, it was almost dark. Joe switched on his Lap and everyone found a comfortable place under the Aalamaram and started to see the movie. Those ppl who are from TCE-CSE must know the fame of this Aalamaram. The movie is a documentary on how Linux was developed and related stuffs. We enjoyed the movie but the mosquitoes there toutured us like anything. That was something like hearing Buddha's philosophies under Aalamaram. I have not had such an experience before, hope no one. Coz, just think of seeing a movie in a Laptop, under an Aalamaram that too during the late dark evening. Good experience. Need to make a copy of that movie, you know this movie too has been released under some license under which you can make copies of that. Cool illaya!

TCE Marathon 2005

2005-02-09T09:36:00.000+05:30

Oh my GOD, today in the *early* morning my phone rang up. I woke up and asked my dad what is the time? He told it is 05:30 am. I was drowsy but suddenly a thought struck my mind. We have our college Marathon today. It was announced yesterday that the college bus which picks up the students to the starting point will reach Alagapan Nagar by 05:15 am. It was already late and so I called Aravind Baalaaji to ask where they are now. He told that he has already reached the spot, but he told there is an another trip via Alagapan Nagar. Then I hurried myself to catch that bus.

Do you think I'm a real marathon runner. Never!! Do you know why we guys are gonna participate in this event? The Physical Education Department has announced that every participants will be given a t-shirt (College name printed on it). This is reason!! Ok, somehow I reached the spot before time. We got the t-shirts, worn it. Summa how can we stand there, so we started to do warm-up exercises (vetti joo than). Around 06:30 am, our college Principal came there. There were some snaps by the media persons. Principal then waved the flag, the students of TCE started their ride for 8 km. I too was one among them, he! he! As we crossed around 200 feets, my good friend Keyan started his ride towards his house. He told he will return back with his bike. We ppl (Myself, Aravind Baalaaji, John) continued to run with FUN. I ran till the Duraiswamy Nagar and then started to walk. But those two guys continued. I found a companion (Sankara Narayanan of Mech) with me will in walk. We walked for a little distance and then stared to run for a while. Near the Nataraj Theater, they were giving away the cool lemon juices. But to our fate it was already over when I reached there. We continued our run. When we were near Palanganatham Keyan came in his bike. "Oh my friend, I was expecting you". I told bye to Sankara and started with Keyan in his bike. We rode really slow so that we could encourage all the participants. Its really stunning to see so many people doing good job there. We reached the college by 07:10 am, I suppose. When we reached the college the first and second place holders have already the finished the race. They are great. The first place was bagged by a junior, the second by a final year and the third was by an PG student. I think the first to reach in my class was Rajesh Raja. Hats off the winners.

Suba Siva has got his digital camera there, we took snaps, had fun. Real show there. People who missed this has really missed something. Hey, this is a part of final year life. Still more to come ;-)

Life is Beautiful

2005-01-31T23:50:00.000+05:30

Today I saw the movie "Life is Beautiful". My brother has been asking me for a long time to see this movie. Once in last year I had a chance to see this movie, but I was not able to see the complete movie that time. It is only today I saw the complete movie. Its good, the director/actor Roberto Benigni has done a really good work. The way he explains things to his little son, his way of expressing love towards his son and wife are great. Also I saw the movie Anbae Sivam, yesterday, I think the third time. Kamal's and Madhavan's natural expressions and dialogues have struck my heart. Hey I think both the movies are equally good on all the aspects, on my view. I don't why Anbae Sivam was not given big awards? Really Life becomes Beautiful on seing these movies, it gives you good thoughts.

Enjoyable week !!

2005-01-24T15:45:00.000+05:30

For me the last whole week was good. To start on monday, I took a seminar on UNIX kernel internals. Coz., it was realted to my favorite area, Operating Systems, I enjoyed a lot taking that to my classmates. The following day we had a hottest fight ever with a staff member. His name is Mr. Balaji, he used to tell that TCE is poor and we the students are not doing anything great. He always has three things to say, TCE is bad, TCE students are not stuffed and then CSE is the worst branch. That day we started shouting at him. Nearly five of us guys (Venkatesh, Nethaji, Myself, Keyan and Nagaraj) stood up and just straight to his face denied what he was telling these days. After few minutes everyone started shouting at him. A joyful day, I think he won't talk on this here after. The problem with him is the way he says. It makes every student to get angry eith him. And during the friday and saturday, I was busy with learning Bochs with my project mates. It was on friday we made a base design for our project. On the same saturday we conducted a mock GD and interview for our juniors. I really enjoyed that and had a satisfaction of helping my juniors. On sunday night we had a new audio system (Sony MHC RV22, Mini HiFi system) in our home. It plays audio, video and mp3 cds and the cassettes obviously. It really ROCKS. Today morning I felt do I really need that much big sound system, coz., it shocks your heart on every beat. A nice weekend and hope there are good days to come in future for all!!

Discussion on goatee design

2005-01-21T22:48:00.000+05:30

Today in Joe's house the goatee team (we) had a discussion on the base design. I think after a long time we have had a good discussion. When we started to discuss we were not able think the way we need to. Joe started to talk first. He told something on what the first task must do. Then we were put in the stream and we started to discuss on the design. Slowly the different functionalities of the different servers were listed. The dependencies between these tasks were also listed. The priorities of this were also finalised. Today somehow I need boot up the ProX kernel in Bochs. The minutes of the discussion is on http://sigos.blogspot.com/

Getting placement is a cakewalk for me

2005-01-19T20:30:00.000+05:30

This article is published in the January 2005 issue of IT Inside, a CSE Association monthly of Thiagarajar College of Engineering.

Have you ever heard of this statement from someone, before? I think most of the people who have got their placement in some company say this. Do you think that it is that much easier to face interviews? Yah, it is an easier one, provided you are prepared for that in advance. The simple secret of making anything come on your way is *hard work*. It is a matter of planning and executing those plans with dedication and hard work.

Basically you must equip yourself with few skills before the campus recruitment starts. Look back! I have used the word ‘starts’, because once the campus process begins, the companies will be pouring down daily like anything and you won’t have time to prepare rather you will be missing them out one by one. The skills you need to have are

(0) Mathematics skills (general aptitude)
(1) Technical Skills
(2) Soft skills (communication)

Let me discuss these one by one. I will start with the Technical skills first, then Soft skills and finally to Math.

Technical Skills:

Technical skills never mean that you have to be a genius in all your domain related areas. The interviewer expects the fresher to be strong in all the basic concepts. He knows how a fresher would be and what he could expect from a fresher. For *comfortably* clearing the technical interview, you need to have an area of interest first and then have done few projects.

(Area of Interest) I know, most of the third year students still won’t have any area of interest for them. Well, when I ask the question, "What is your area of interest" to the third year students, the most probable two answers are, "I’m interested in all the subjects and don’t know which one to choose" or "I’m not interested in any of the subjects and don’t have any idea of which one to choose". If you are in any one of these categories, I promise that, you will never choose your area of interest. The best option for you is to choose any one of the papers which is easier and may be a little interesting for you. Anyway, you have to force yourself to choose something at least for the purpose of interviews. I have a point for those who have a peculiar area of interest (like Neural Networks, Genetic Algorithms or some specific technology) which might not be known to all. It is better that you have another area (common ones) also. It is because if the interviewer does not have any knowledge in that peculiar area, he might be put in a situation to ask questions from the area in which he has more expertise and you may be put to trouble in that case. After you have picked up your area of interest, you need to spend at least a month, reading any two standard books in that area. You must be able to answer any question from your area of interest.

(Mandatory Areas) Apart from the area of interest, there are few mandatory papers which you must read. Any two Programming Languages (C, C++ or Java), Data Structures and basics of Computer Architecture will do. Better be strong in C. You are expected to know the concepts like pointers, file handling, storage classes, structures and unions in C. In the case of C++ or Java, all the OOP concepts and the specific special features of them are important. Learn the differences among these three, the most favorable question in the interviews. At least, be strong in any one of them. Regarding Data Structures, you need to have a thorough knowledge on arrays, stacks and queues, all kinds of linked lists, trees, graphs etc., Learn all the operations possible in these structures and always be ready with a code example to explain these operations (adding, deleting, inserting a node, etc). Different types of Sorting and Searching are also important. You are sure to get a question in anyone of the sorting techniques. As I mentioned read about the basics of Computer Architecture.

(Projects) Projects play an important role in technical interviews (even in HR interviews) as it is considered a must. There are many people who have excelled only because of their projects. It is preferable that you have at least two projects in your resume. Make this as a mandatory one. If you don’t have any one now, start doing one. Many times, interviewers get impressed by the projects and they keep on talking about those and forget to ask questions from the technical subjects! So try to project your projects first to the interviewer.

Most of the technical questions will be of the type "what is what" and definitions. So when you read any topic, have the habit of jotting down the important points and definitions you read, preferably in flip charts. I recommend flip charts because you could any time have a skim at it. When you are done with all the above, I think you are ready for the technical interview.

Soft Skills:

Software professionals are expected to have a good communication skill in English. Some companies take people only for good communication skill. You can even trick the interviewers with your communication skills and get through. But this won’t workout always. Multi National Companies (MNC) prefer pakka techies who is also a good communicator. A strong communicator does not mean a person who uses hi-fi English. Communication really is the ability of making the other person to understand what you are trying to say. Even if you are from a Tamil medium school, don’t be afraid. You need to come out, that’s all. Try to speak out in English even with mistakes. Those who feel inferior, I have a best quote for you,

"Don’t worry what people think about you,
they are too busy wondering what you think about them"

Get that, it is a real truth. The expert way of breaking your inferiority complex is by speaking out and get experienced with that. There are so many places where you could improve your English speaking skills. You could conduct class club events, you could attend Rotaract club meetings or form a group of your own and keep improving your skills. Things might sound odd, it even sounded odd for me too. But you need to practice these if you want to improve your communication skills. I have heard from my seniors that the best way to improve communication skills is by *practice*. Few might think that they could directly go to the interview desk and speak out. It will never work out and have not worked out till, mind it. Start now and keep practicing till you get the confidence that you are able to communicate in English of what you think. Someone from every class must take the initiative, so that everything is done within your classroom and with your classmates and finally everyone gradually improves before they face the recruitment board. Keep conducting Group Discussions (GD) on varied topics within your class. GD is the best filtering method most companies prefer. Improving the soft skills is much easier when you do these things. Do it for your sake!!

Math skills:

I see many people (of third years) going around with the aptitude books now. I think that they are too early to start with the aptitude now. I know everyone possess the basic intrinsic aptitude skills. I suggest you to start working on these books a month or two before your campus recruitment begins. The materials preferred for aptitude are

(0) Quantitative Aptitude by R. S. Agarwal.
(1) Shakuntala Devi’s Puzzle books.
(2) Puzzles and Teasers by George Summers (a bit tougher one).
(3) Previous year question papers of different companies.

You try to get the previous year question papers of almost all the companies. Few of the questions are repeated often. For your information, one particular company is using the same question paper for the past five/six years. So it is advisable to solve the previous year question papers. Maintain good contacts with the other college students, so that you could get the red-hot question papers from them. Don’t spend much time on these now. It is better to spend your time getting on with good projects and improving your technical knowledge now, so that you could have an easy cross over in technical interviews.

How do you feel? Campus placements are a cakewalk? Yah, it will be a cakewalk *only* after you do all these things. Plan your days effectively and execute them. It is a matter of four/five months of hard work. Do some good work, do something great that satisfies you. It is easier to get placement in the campus than in the off-campus. If you feel that nothing above appears to be good for you and you are looking for the way of improvement, talk to some seniors, staff members, relatives or anyone who could really help you out. Share your views/problems with them and people are always there to help you. Do well and excel. Remember, after you get your placement it is going to be your time. So can’t you make the campus placement a cakewalk for you? Make it!!

GLUG/GLUGOT Session #11

2005-01-09T00:06:00.000+05:30

Today on the GLUGOT meeting we had a session on "Basics on programming with gtk+ libraries". The session is by Nithya. She started from the very basics of what is gtk and so forth. There was a good explanation on widgets, signals and events. She explained with examples of creating windows and different widgets, packing them within the containers, setting signals to them, handling functions for these signals and compiling these gtk programs. There was exactly ten people to the meet. We discussed on few doubts, had some clarifications and I think everyone was clear at the last. As a whole it was an informative session for GNU GUI programmers.

Jeevana School reunion

2005-01-02T18:45:00.000+05:30

We Jeevanities had a gettogether today in Cafe CoffeeDay in Anna Nagar. First I thought whether should I attend the meet, coz I know very few people there (hum.., I studied only one year there). I had a invitation for that gettogether and I called upon Krishna Priyan whose number was specified in that invitation. I talked to him after around seven years I think. His voice was gigantic, but I could get a tint of the voice of him which I have heared during my school days. We talked about us, abt the meet, the arrangements for that and a few. He asked me to compulsarly come to that meet and he promised me that there will be a lot of people and we could have a nice time.

I then talked with Parasuraman (IT guy) and Senthil Murugan (ENC guy).They told we could go there. But the next day when I called them, they both told that they will not be able to attend for some reason. I was then put in a dilemma, with lot of questions, should I go ? will that be interesting? .. Ok then I decided to go. I started to CoffeeDay and to my surprise I was the first one to be there. I have never been like that before, even a single day in my college life. Then people slowly started to turn-up. First few girls came (many were my college mates) and then Arun Thangarajar came. We had a small intro with those I was not been before. Few minutes later the crowd begun to rise up. I could recognise only few faces there and many were new to me. But hear me, it is a nice experience to meet people whom you have not met for a long time. I had a talk with all those guys and gals, few retrospects, blah.. blah.. We then ordered for a drink.

The drink was over. We thought there was no much interaction between people and we decided to have some games, so that people will be forced to mingle within their team atleast. Krishna then separated us into three teams in a random order. He then called upon two members from each team. I was one amoung the two to represent our team. The game was to lit up a many number of candles I can with using a single matchstick. Hey the team A (Arun Thangaraj and Brindha) lit around 15 odd candles. I was in team B, we (Myself and Mathangi) could lit up a much of *zero* candles. Then the team C (Aravind and Bansuri) lit up around 7 candles. Since our team had the extraordinary talent of litting up zero candles, we were given another chance. This time another two people (Mohammed and SriRanjani) went and they could lit up 9 candles. So we wentup to the second place. We had few snaps and few fun over there.

It was around 02:00 pm, and everyone started to say they need to return back to home. So to finish up, we ordered veg. sandwich for all. Meanwhile few people (Radha Krishnan, Vinoth, Vaibhaw) started to move out. Then everyone was asked to talk a few words on this gettogether and the plans for meeting in the future. Mostly I could hear, "It was nice being here", from everyone. We also have decided to create an e-group for our set, so that we could maintain contacts with all and there be no communication gap amoung us. The final talk was over and it was time to pack off. Everyone payed their part in the bill and started to bid adieu. I came back with the thoughts of what had happened there, in my Major. Back to home and back to normal life.

I had a good joy there and came to know lot of new people. May this happen in future too. A day to remember :-)

New Year 2005

2005-01-01T01:01:00.000+05:30

A new year has dawned a minute ago.. Happy New Year to all bloggers.

Cleared the next step to enter TCS

2004-12-31T16:39:00.000+05:30

Two days back (on 29th) I went for TCS pre-employment medical checkup at Coimbatore. I have cleared the test successfully. It was a general master medical checkup.

Tsunami hits Asia

2004-12-26T22:00:00.000+05:30

Today morning Tsunami waves have hit the coastal areas of India, Srilanka, Indonesia, Thailand and few asian countries. It is a great diaster here and many people have died in this hit. It seems the waves were originated from the Sumatra islands where there was an earthquake measuring 8.5 on ritcher scale. It is really sad here. More details on the Tsunami hit updates is on..

http://tsunamihelp.blogspot.com/

A day to forget. God, let this don't happen again, atleast with no people dying.

It was movie time for me now

2004-12-21T09:46:00.000+05:30

In the past two days I saw two movies, "Desam" and "Kadhal". Desam was pretty good and it was on the track like that of Lagaan. The director and Sharuk has done a good job. The music needs no comments, as it was of AR Rahman. The songs that I humm nowadays are from this movie (the hindi version). The movie Kadhal, it was a good time in the theater with by classmates (20 odd ppl). The first half of the movie was really time passing and the director has tried really hard to pull the second half to an end (really slow). After the movie we went to the dinner. The veg and non-veg people were separated to their favorite hotels. We veg people went to Mohan Bojnalaya Bombay Meals center. That was good with unlimited rotis and rice. When you are hunger you can go over there and have a good amount of food. The final year attam seems to have started :-)

Programming always rocks

2004-12-13T02:05:00.000+05:30

This weekend I was reading a pdf titled 'Programming from the Ground Up' by Jonathan Bartlett. It was on Intel assembly programming, GNU Assembler (as) and GNU Linker (ld). I have been to assembly programming already during my fourth semester as part of my curriculum. But working on assembly in a GNU/Linux box is cool and interesting. The 'as' supports only AT&T format of assembly. This is new for me coz., we used MASM that had the normal intel syntax. Whatever it may be, programming always ROCKS.

PThreads session on GLUG meeting

2004-12-11T14:00:00.000+05:30

Today me and Bala Murugan gave a talk on POSIX threads in the GLUG Madurai meeting. Asusual there were around ten members or odd. The session was fine and we could discuss lot of good and informative stuffs.

pthreads Programming

2004-12-07T10:40:00.000+05:30

http://www.llnl.gov/computing/tutorials/pthreads/

Kulal Puttu @ Thiruparankundram

2004-12-06T23:07:00.000+05:30

Few days back once Balamurugan told that there will be Kulal puttu available near Thiruparankundram. We thought of eating that one day and last saturday we went there. But since it was too early we returned back cheerless. But today we planned it right and five of we people (myself, Joe, BalaMurugan, keyan and Senthil) went there. It was fun being there having rice kulal puttu with my guys after a long time. Joe could not stop him, he ate around two to two-and-a-half plates. You cannot get this cuisine anywhere in the big holtels/restaurants in Madurai. It costs Rs.5 per plate. Yaar.. its cheap and good.

GCC inline asm (for x86)

2004-12-06T16:48:00.000+05:30

http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/9804.2/0953.html

Seriously looking out for a start

2004-12-04T13:11:00.000+05:30

For the past two days, I'm little bored with my compiler book (for GATE). I thought of starting to study for GOATEE (http://sigos.blogspot.com/). Yesterday I read few pages on Brey, it is interesting with the Intel architecture. Just now myself and Balamurugan were discussing with Joe on his proceeding and came out with a clear picture of what is going on and what need to do. It seems (is) to be challenging and interesting. Think I've started seriously and need to gear up my mates for GOATEE.

My cute system is now with Debian Sarge

2004-12-04T13:00:00.000+05:30

Few days back I cleaned my system, formatted the harddisk, created new partitions and now it is loaded with Windows 98 (with minimal softwares like Office, Winamp and few) and Debian Sarge (2.6 kernel). I thought of doing this for a long time. Now my system is really fast (even with my 64 MB memory), comparing to the past days. Debian Sarge looks great, every night I'm exploring Sarge for the new softwares, trying with few configuration files. It is cool when I do something new ;-).

Real meaning of Hacking

2004-11-24T16:41:00.000+05:30

http://www.stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html

Queer grading system

2004-11-22T23:15:00.000+05:30

My results are out, I've got 8.43 (667 out of 800). No one is able to predict TCE exam results, a puzzling one for decades. The results this time is good for everyone, I suppose.

The grading system in TCE is strange. Lemme try to explain. The one whose total score is higher than someone else gets (most of the times) a lesser grade than the other one. This time it happened to me and has hit me down. The grading system goes like this,

Marks	Grade	Points
90 - 100	S	10
80 - 89	A	09
70 - 79	B	08
60 - 69	C	07
.. goes on ..

That is, for example, if one gets his mark in the range (60 to 69) the grade will be C and so on for others. The serious point to note here is that, there is no difference shown between the students whose socre lies in the range 60 and 69. Both of them gets the same grade. Consider a situation, where the student A get his marks as 79 and 79 in two papers and student B gets 70 and 80 in the same respective papers. The total of student A will be 158 and that of student B will be 150. But when compared under the grade system students B (17 points) gets a higher grade than student A (16 points). This should not be the case and it seems to undergrade some students. This has happened to me this time and has happened to many of my friends (myself too) in the last few semesters. I donno whether the grading system is taken from Anna University. Who should be blamed for this ?? Has the officials not noticed abt this and no actions were taken ??

Two day trip to Trichy

2004-11-19T05:00:00.000+05:30

Me and my friend Aravind Baalaaji went to Trichy, the last sunday. It was actaully like a pilgrimage, coz., we went to three temples : Srirangam temple, Malai Kottai Pillayar temple and the Iyappan temple. We had a comfortable stay in Mahesh's house. It was nice being there with him (and his family) and having taken the food cooked by him. He is cooking great!! The only mistake we did there was watching the film 'Attagasam'. We stood thrilled on how could Charan go this much bad. Ajit is again down.

While in Trichy we met Muthu Kumar, Suba Siva and Prasanth. Went to Prasanth's house (which is in Srirangam agragaram), he accompanied with us to Malai Kottai temple. The tuesday afternoon we returned back to Madurai. The three temples were really superb. Notably the Iyappan temple is maintained great (a place to peace your mind). Srirangam and Malai Kottai need no mention of its fame. Nice trip after my sucking exams.

Few links (GATE)

2004-11-17T15:30:00.000+05:30

http://sudarshan.ai-edu.com/gate/list.html
http://www.gateforum.com
http://www.gateguru.org
http://cs-www.cs.yale.edu/homes/avi/os-book/osc/slide-dir/

Decided not to use pirated VCDs

2004-11-14T00:35:00.000+05:30

Few days back, I saw during an interview director Dharani saying abt this. He was saying abt the difficulties they have in the film industry. I felt bad for using the pirated VCDs. Its a work from a large crew of people and I want to respect their work.

Seventh Semester Exams - a review

2004-11-14T00:30:00.000+05:30

I'm back after my exams. A review on my exam papers and a little retrospect of how I prepared for them.

The papers I had:

(0) Client Server Technologies
(1) Operations Research
(2) Simulation and Modelling
(3) Artificial Intelligence
(4) Neural Networks (E)
(5) Wireless Networks (E)
(6) Internet Programming Lab
(7) Computer Graphics Lab

A small review...

(0) The syllabus was from a reference guide. One can never really study all the units. Every chapter had lot of Class names, methods and operations contained in it, and the parameters passed to them. If you are a person who can mug things easilly, you too will feel hard to study this paper. Then what for me ?? I somehow tried to keep in my mind all the names. I really know nothing abt the Class, but I will write on that in the exams. This is what everyone has did in the exam. The syllabus must be changed, its of no use reading books on the current syllabus. The real fun is that, still we don't know the real details/meanings of ORB, CORBA and all.

(1) OR is the one which I liked the most in this semester. A superb paper indeed that involves simplification, logic, calculations and real math. I prepared well for this exam, but didn't do to my satisfaction in the exam. The paper was little tough and I too did some silly careless mistakes.

(2) Simulation is pretty easy one for all. The first three units were the last two units of Numerical Methods of the last semester. Since I have already read this, it was an easy one for me. I don't know where from the fourth unit came. There was no introduction and don't know how people inserted this to the syllabus. The unit had full of eqns and you can understand nothing from them. The fifth one was interesting and it was on GPSS. I really enjoyed reading that unit.

(3) AI too was good and interesting. Lot of algorithms to read, but the third unit was little big. I left some few topics in that unit. Good paper to read and that new way solving problems is amazing.

(4) When I saw Neural the first time, I felt like dying. But when I started to read, it was not like that. Topics were are dependent on the previous ones and interesting too. There were totally 10 main topics (algorithms) which were arranged in five units. I felt hard to remember the equations it had. But somehow I managed to study 4 to 4-1/2 units. Wrote the exam pretty well too.

(5) Wireless is hard always. A big bulk of contents were in the material. I had three days leave before the exam, but asusual I started to read seriously one day before the exam. Had a bad time.

(6) IP lab, a piece of cake for me. I have been working in this technology for the past three years. Sure of getting 'S' grade.

(7) Oh my God!!, the lab exam I felt scared for the first time was this one. I didn't actually like this lab, coz I'm nowhere going to use this graphics (in Turbo C) in industry. But atlast I tried some few programs (line clipping, 2D transformation, ellipse generation) and came out with a confidence that I could do well. I got 2D transformation in the exam and will get 'S' surely. The real satisfacion I have is that, I'm gonna get 'S' grade in all the lab exams in my college life.

The hard days have passed away...

Decided for appearing GATE

2004-10-21T04:22:00.000+05:30

Finally decided to write GATE 2005. Bought the application form today. Need to put my efforts in, really.

Woke till 06:00 am, achieved!!

2004-10-19T19:00:00.000+05:30

Since my study holidays has started I was trying to woke till the morning (06:00 am). But somehow daily I get dried down at around 03:00 to 04:00 am. But today I am awake till now. The secret behind, may be, is that I started listening to music from 03:00 am and for an hour. I feel like achieving something. For the whole night i was also thinking whether I need to write GATE this year. I have to talk to my mates about this. The thing I have decided is that if I decide to take up GATE, I will have to work hard (really not like the last year).

Met Ananth after a long time

2004-10-17T12:15:00.000+05:30

Today I met my senior Ananth Srinivas who is back home after his TCS training at Trivandrum. He says he enjoyed his life over there with a varied people from different parts of India. Had a nice time chatting with him. The fun there was, for the first time I heard, he said "I didn't perform well there"...!! stunning man..!!! He is gonna join in Digital Zone center, Chennai on tuesday.

Hard at study holidays ;-(

2004-10-14T06:00:00.000+05:30

Trying hard with my study holidays. Its been months that I have been with my books for a long time. I'm really confused on which one to study first. OR and Neural (except the eqns) are pretty good. Need to start AI. God save me.

Grr..Grr..Study Holidays started

2004-10-09T05:30:00.000+05:30

Today, the study hols have started. Need to study?? An unanswered question that is in my mind for a long time. I have to mould my mind to say "yes" to this.

Grr..Grr.. Started!!

Cyber '04 Dedication work @ Rural schools

2004-10-06T07:00:00.000+05:30

As part of Cyber, every year we do some dedication work. This actually started the last year. Last year too we went some rural schools and taught the students there some basic knowledge on Computers. This year I went Coporation High school, Sundarapuram (near TVS Nagar), Madurai. It was a real joy being with those student there. We went to the ninth and tenth standard classes. We taught them some basis on computers, some applications and more. They asked some doubts and we tried to clarify them too. The students there were really happy on having us. The kids of fifth standard came to see us during their break. They asked us type their names and they were so excited by seeing their names in the monitor. At the end, a small girl told me like "Anna, oru ponnu ungalla yaemaathe, aathu paeraa nallu vaati type pannituchu". I have some sort of joy and satisfaction today.

Cyber '04 has all set out

2004-10-04T14:10:00.000+05:30

I typed this when I was about to sleep, so bare with all the mistakes. I have just put down everything that I thought of.

Cyber '04, a day to remember forever. I have witnessed five Cybers (from my brother's) so far. The most enjoyable one was the last one, that happened two days back.

I was an Organising and Technical committee member. I enjoyed working with my juniors during this Cyber. I came to know lot of juniors during this little span. That too the "Thirteens" team was a wonderful team to work with. Every people involve themselves in some kind of work and I could see some enthu in them. I will plainly say that this is the technical commitee. Sriranjani the Joint Secratary, Senthil the Technical lead, Saravanan with his smartness (in work), peter and enthu finds him everywhere. Vasanth puts his hardwork in bringing up the Quiz interface. Rebecca and RajaPriya, the coordinators for Cyber Showcase. PadmaPriya for Web Search online event and SriVidhya, one of the Quiz master. My god!! I forgot Sriram, the man who is incharge of Software contest and also the incharge for documenting records for ISO. Vishwanathan and SriVidhya took the Multimedia committee. And finally Shyam, who always seems to busy but really not. He said he worked for Souvenir, and everyone too says this. Mr. Elango, the person from A section, a representative for his class. He took the responsiblity for Quiz and C Bugging. A good worker indeed. Balamurugan told that Maze was a grand success this time. The full credit goes to Kavitha , Kanmani and all those who worked for that. For C Bugging, Elango was accompanied by some girls (Abirami, ...). The decoration committee (really a big team) led by Kattari did a superb job. I don't remember that guy's name who drew most of the charts. His work was really an appeciable one. To mention some from their work, the charts that hung between trees showed their innovation in work. The decoration in the Octagon was also superb. Atlast I shouldn't forget to mention abt the Catering committee. They were fine people yaar. I have missed some important people, Balamurugan (General Secratary), Fred and Harish (Multimedia Committee).. hey!! I'm tired typing these names. The team was really big, sorry I cann't mention all of them (tiring man).

The real enjoyment came during the culturals. For the first time I went up to the stage for dancing, that too on the spot I thought of dancing, no practice and it just came out. But when we were abt to make a dance piece for the song "Cheena Thaana", our dance was interrupted for some reason and it was stopped. We then decided to quit the Auditorium and went out. The moment we got out, everyone screamed like anything. A real joy man. After that we had the "Bham Beam" to end that day. We people then slowly moved to Aarthy for a heavy dinner, ate well, bid goodbye to all, went back to home and started to snooze.

Trying with Hello (Picasa)

2004-09-30T06:10:00.000+05:30

I was trying to edit my post "Received my TCS order", to add a TCS logo with it. First I got some N/W error. This is because, currently Hello doesn't support proxy. I was looking for a system with a direct connection. Finally I had to use 'cray' for this. But it seems that, I need to read the Hello help for editing a blog post and adding a picture to it.

Found some old friends with orkut.com

2004-09-29T05:15:00.000+05:30

I found Sundar Rajan and Venkata Krishnan (TVS guys) through orkut.com. Searching for more people...

Attam Pattam than!!

2004-09-28T07:50:00.000+05:30

Myself, Jagu, Mahesh, Fred, Bala and Bara had a nice time in the Unix lab. We were all dancing in the lab, with juniors being the spectators. The songs were from "Cheena thaana.." to "Lakshavadheyae". Really a good time. See we are having night lab for the next three days. The jolly times ahead...

CSE Department is gonna cry ;-(

INTERNAL marks to my home

2004-09-27T12:13:00.000+05:30

As part of getting ISO, TCE is mailing student's INTERNAL mark-sheets to their parents.

Yesterday, when I returned from the college I saw my internal mark-sheet in my home. My mom enquired about the marks (which were really as of a final year student) and she gave me some advices to read well so that it would be easy for the final exam. But the great fear I had was what would be my dad's response on this. I was little tensed on that day expecting my dad's arrival. But he was pretty cool and told me to prepare well for the final exams. Yet to start my full-fledged preparations for the final exam.

Signed with orkut.com

2004-09-25T09:00:00.000+05:30

ORKUT is an online community that connects people through a network of trusted friends. For details visit http://www.orkut.com. There are so many known faces here.

Exploring...orkut.com

TCE in song at the Zonal meet

2004-09-24T18:57:00.000+05:30

In TCE we had Tennis and Hockey zonal matches. Myself and my buddies were all enjoying the matches the whole day. Today I was around the ground, and surely away from my Lab. Especially those tennis matches in the morning were really enjoyable. We were all commentating the tennis matches like "sixer..", "wat a shot!", "once more..", "straight drive.." and more.

The TCE Tennis team represented by Nagaraj (final CSE), Vivek (final IT) and Ashwin (third Arch) really played well. For the first time I saw Nagaraj's play. It was really good and his services were superb.

The Hockey team won the PSNA, Dindigul for 4-0. The whole college was in the ground at the end of the match. People were about to create an '7-1/2', but somehow the team members cooled down.

A nice day yaar. Those who missed are really missed. Njoying my final year life.

'Nothing' is really FUN

2004-09-23T23:28:00.000+05:30

I thought of writing this one coz you people will read this. But I know you will read this even if I don’t say you to read this. The simple reason being it has been published only for you people to read and not for that I have written this. Just by writing and publishing something no is going to read anything. Also you can’t just like that leave this, since it may or mayn’t contain nothing. No matter if this does or doesn’t contain anything.

Err… I forgot to say you something :-)

Cyber online event results

2004-09-23T19:07:00.000+05:30

The results for the online contests that are part of Cyber 2004 are on. View them at
http://www.cyber-tce.org/
Things have gone pretty fine. Juniors have done a good work. Pats to them all.

Received my TCS order

2004-09-23T13:30:00.000+05:30

I received my TCS order today. We people thought it would reach us by April or May 2005. People are happy here, each congratulating each other.

Signed-up with blogger.com

2004-09-22T23:43:00.000+05:30

My brother called me just now and as we were talking on, he told me abt his blogger. I read his blog. Its fine. I too gonna start blogging my daily activities. Lemme try with this on..