Monday, November 9, 2009

Frusssst Engineer....

On serious warnings from some people i temporarily stop the techie topics.I was searching for some topic to blog about......srsly was short of topics to blog about/.......So finally i peeped into a mind of normal frustrated iitian's brain. So i blog this topic as a frusssst iitian  , not as Surya.:D

1.2..3......shoot..!!

Eversince i've joined IIT , things were not like the way in which i visualized when I was a 17 year +2 studying boy.Things were like second side of a coin.

My first year was sacrificed to the psychic professors who expected us to perform extraordinarily well in their utterly unimportant subjects.{ED standing first in this :D }

Leaving Acads apart,I was always interested in making friends,(especially ones from opposite sex owing to my adrenaline ).Introvert by nature, I could manage to grab a corner seat which had the best view of all the girls in my section .As usually rated them on my -hottie-of-the-class list. (Dont ask me the ranks now :D ). I found out grp of boys in the same section with the same desperation and obviously dey turned out to be friends for life.

Well ,putting beside this despo of mine, I am obsessed with some of these strange thoughts recently and these are worth thinking even. :)

Imagine after 10 years u get into a MNC or own entrepreneurship or probably get into some irrelevant job which you'd never dreamt of.
U are waiting for a flight say mumbai, and u get to know that u'r flight has been delayed for say 3 hours. Frustated with  the very thought of waiting for 3 hours U collapse into a chair cursing u'r boss for choosing u for this appointment which is completely irrelevant to u .U run into some aircanteen asking for a Diet coke( Beileve me u'll turn health concious then owing to u'r long peep-into-compu wrking hours ).U give the entire terminal a glimse and giigle at the sentimental mother-son scenes,or Wife-husband emotions etc.etc. The sight of the laptops where the newly wed couple were amusingly looking into reminds you of the draft in your inbox tht needs to be forwarded.U curse yourself gor your posponing attitude and open your lappy and login to the acnt. U give a relief sigh after sending it and just open your flooded inbox.

Suddently u hear a 2 year baby crying beside u.U give a look at the parents thinking to give them a mini lecture on nursing the child.But waht u see there is a bald headed husbad and a I-know-u-very-well kind of a similar face Wife. U quit u'r lecture idea and turn back to u'r inbox.Still thinking of the blue saree lady whom u just saw ..and try googling her image in your mind.was she my school frnd..?no way all my schl frnds were see-in-the-morning and forget-in-the-evening types....My intermediate?....My engineering....ya..but is it her....U look back once again..yes it's her.....Alekhya..(any resemblance is purely coincidence :D )

You : Is it you .....Alekhya..ryt?(Her husband gives a who-the-fcuk-is talking-with-my-wife  look)

Alekhya: Ya .....u r..??? (with a confused look...)

You : It's me .Bla-Bla .

Alekhya: Excuse me??(continuing the same look....god ..stop that)

You : IIT ECE rol no. XXXXXXX ..(thinking atleast this shud make her remember)

Alekhya :Oh! yeah Hi! This is my husband,Mr.________________ (Some Tom,Dick and Harry..You just reel back to your days in college and compare yourself with this man..
Yea,you are way many times better than him;you and ally would make an ideal match..Yea, you were a little lean back then but It's always better than being bald like allyy's_____________)

Husband: Hi..I am ___________and i work at ____________company(completely unnecessary for me)

You: Oh i see. i work at __________company as a ___________  (u add a curse to the list for u'r boss )

And then this discussion continues. U'll be eager to talk with Ally but u end up talking with her husband about some nonsense coffee,politician flights climate etc. Hmm....U couldn't talk with her in a span of 4 years..and now u get a chance of winding up it in last 4 mins. Wat wud u do ...ntng. Just caress her baby for 2-3 mins. and speak of some common frnds and then u have your announcement of last call of the flight.U just say good-bye and leave., So all u had is a Hi and a Bye  in the proper types.


Uhhh...that was a lenghty senti drama...(took 15 mins to type it ). Srsly,u were together for 4 golden youthful years of your life and after 10 years it was the same Hi-Bye drama. If the old frnd happened to be a boy, you both could afford to miss the flights and sit by for a beer. No i dont insist girls to drink..but...

I srsly cant imagine a friend of mine to be a girl like Alekhya,who studied with me for 4 long years running into same face daily and after ten years letting her Husband on me...NO...I wanted to talk with my long forgotten frnd but was finally making a new friend of her husband forgetting my long-time-no-see friend.

Through my deepest observations for 2 and a half years i arrived at following conclusions for girls act-ingnorant attitude towards boys.

  1. The long back image of dont-poke-me nature of girls
  2. The typical girlish egos that come into play especially in engineering.
  3. The pre-commitment of the girl with a boy outside the class
  4. Their confinement to make friendship with a-good-natured-boy ....and dey dont even care searching for one.
  5. Happy-Days muvi..... :) ...one thing that dey showed in the muvi is that two opposite sexes can have nothing except for senseless infatuationsbetween them. Dont blame them ....I am a fan of tht muvi even.
  6. Vitamin M(Money).....This is just at a very-very few instances.


So conclusion.......ntng...just.... I am bored....


Hope I bored u a lot with this post ..but u know what..it's on a purpose... :)


Friday, October 30, 2009

Google Gossips 3

Hmm...I know..i need to have a non-google post immediately after google gossips 2, but cant help it..I am getting he best thngs of google tht i need to share..

Google began in jan 1996. say 13 years back 4m now. It was initially nick named BackRub.. and later got to the name google. The image of first home page for google is here below

And wanna be a googler 13 years back....here it is...

This page had more text than today and ya search wasn't very effecient as it is now.And dont forget to chek out google logos link on that page.(Stickers Though :P) .
And also thanks to all those who clikced the Jobs link in 1996 ,joined google and helped out in present google page . :)

And am being short today  bcos had to go......more about google later.......this time I promise a non-google post in between. :)

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Google Gossips 2

Google Doodles are the modified versions of Google logo used specially for holidays, birthdays of famous people and major events. The Burning Man Festival of 1998 witnessed the birth of the first Google doodle, since then, we would have a little extra surprise besides chocolates and roses on Valentines Day, or a big turkey meal on Thanks Giving day when visited Google.
The designer of these little something has always been Dennis Hwang. Designing a Google doodle is not an easy task. It has to be creative, easy to understand and at the same time maintain its Google style. They are not just logos, they are pieces of art. Check out the doodles for those holidays and see what has changed along the years and how Hwang’s playing with the details.

Chinese New Year


Earth Day : 22nd April


Father’s Day : The Third Sunday of June


Google Birthday : 27th September


Halloween : 31st October


Independence Day : 4th July


Martin Luther Kin Jr. Day : 15th January


Mother’s Day : The Second Sunday in May


New Year : 1st January


Persian New Year : 21st March


St. Patrick’s Day : 17th March


Thanksgiving : The Fourth Thursday in November


Valentine’s Day : 14th February


Dennis Hwang must have headaches from time to time, for he not only has to design doodles for holidays like what we have shown above, but also has to deal with days like Picasso’s holiday or Nobel Prize Award Ceremony. Or can I assume that he really enjoy the process? But we have to admit that he is good at it, because he really captured the spirit of that day or what’s notable about that artist.
You can also check out some of the best Google Doodles we have picked below. See if you can understand what Hwang’s trying to present and other than that, enjoy it!

2001


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2003


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(Got this from arbit blogging,and thought worth sharing)

Monday, October 19, 2009

"Obama ??....WTF"....WTF.!!

On the day of announcement of Nobel Peace Prize to Mr.Barack Obama , the majority of the list on my gtalk sm'ed only one thng "WTF". I really don't understand this exclamation ..is it out of surprise or the dislike or someother thing. Well, I dont see the any wtf aspects here.

I do accept the surprise of the news ,but never felt the news to be shocking . Frankly speaking I am not very much into American politics(infact any :) ).So donno much about this person.but once i learn t that this person has been given THE noble peace prize which bestowed itself on Mother Theresa , my interest started around Obama. What made a man in daily news ,the recipient of noble peace prize comparing him on par with nelson Mandela and Mother theresa. And now I know enough about this man,atleast as enough as to answer my friends what made Obama upto the Peace prize.

Many like me knew him only from the American presidential politics view. The first point i knew earlier about him was that a guy named Obama defeated Hillary Clinton in the quest for presidential contestant . But not every shoe polisher is made to sit on the president throne. There's a lot of cali in this guy that made him upto the seat.Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was the president of the Harvard Law Review.He worked as a civil rights attorney in Chicago and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004.

Now coming the "peace" aspect , as such not every recipient of the award has been a adopter of a slum or the head of a popular non-violence revolution.According to Alfred Noble will ..noble peace prize is supposed to be awarded to " who shall have done the most and best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses" .But this description ends here and there was no any specific rules given out in the will.

 In my aspect this peace prize is something that testimonies the act of a person which finally led to a harmless change in society.For instance Wangari Muta Maathai , the recipient of noble peace prize 2004, is an environmentalist and she was the first environmentalist to receive the award.She received the award on the note of her famous GreenBelt movement that bought about a huge change in environmental conservation. So this infact proves my personal view of awarding THE noble peace prize.

Now Obama has been awarded this Noble Peace Prize on the note of "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples." Yes.Obama rightly deserves this noble peace prize for his daring resolutions in American politics(infact world politics).Well after Bush one can rarely expect a man who said "Let me say this as plainly as I can: By August 31, 2010, our combat mission in Iraq will end." .And that man did put up to his words.He within a span of 8 months could bring up America out of the Violent image created by Bush. Its not that Obama won this award just for not being a Bush,he has come into the presidential power with clear objectives and he's dare enough to stand for them.Its ample obvious that he's first ever president to achieve such heights in his first year of tenure.

One can ask me what makes Obama more eligible than gandhi for this noble peace prize.And yes he has a point.But one cannot blame the present owing to the mishap of the past.And one can also ask whether we can include Obama on the list with "Mother Teresa, Nelson Mandela,Dalai Lama, KofiAnnan" the answer is "Yes We Can!!!"

Sunday, October 18, 2009

Google Gossips 1

Here i start the topic of my fantasy. Google's a fantasy for me all the time. I wonder how on earth did a guy get an idea of a universal search engine right back in 1997. I had been watching the google spreading right from my class 7. (my first day @ internet cafe taught me amateur googleing).

And so I would like to present my various observations on google.com . This is not a pure techie thread like in google's official blog.Its just observations and aspects that caught my interest.

So now here are my observations on a standard google search page,particularly the changes in past 5 years.
left one's the search page five years bak...and right one is present days' .
The modifications that google had bought about in its search page are,,
  1. The ad box on top changed its background color from blue to yellow. Also, the clickable area in the link got restricted to just the link, and not the full box.
  2. The logo got smaller. The search box and search button on the other hand got bigger.
  3. The blue bar changed its color and is brighter now. Google didn’t change it at once, but took an intermediate blue step, perhaps to make the change less noticeable.
  4. The result width is restricted to a maximum. Previously, on very large screens the page filled the whole width, and ads were positioned on the far right.
  5. The phrase “Similar pages” has been shortened to just “Similar”.
  6. The category label, reading “Web”, is using a smaller font.
  7. Google does not show the file size anymore for every page.
  8. There’s a “Show options...” link on top. There’s plenty of smaller changes for specific results, too, like the different oneboxes Google added in the meantime, or features like sitelinks, immediate spelling-corrected results and more.
  9. The text “Sponsored links” at the top of the right hand ad section is left-aligned, not centered.
  10. The link to the preferences to the right of the search button is gone; you can now access the search settings via the top link.
  11. The link to the definitions of your search words, shown in the blue bar to the right, is pointing to answers.com instead of dictionary.com.

(Many of the changes not pointed out here are more structural in nature, like indexing speed – which increased a lot –, indexing depth, as well as ranking approaches, which are nevertheless very important factors in how well a search result answers the user query in comparison to other competing engines.)

Speaking frankly, Google tried to be as loyal as possible to its users with only these minor changes. It tried to make its search page as simpler and effective as possible.

Well,wonder how the google search page looks like in 2014.?...

Moment of GOLD.

Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur holds many traditions which it had hailed from long tym and one among those being ILLUMINATION.
Illumination is a special event on the Diwali night making the night much more special. Infact the essence of this event stood primarily to make the students aware of the diya tradition on the eve of Diwali.Ya is essence is still alive but "which hall is more aware of diya tradition " took the primary priority . :D

Hmm being an RK'ite i shud be boasting about our splendid performance and a marvellous output . This GOLD is a dream that RK had been dreaming to gain back from 5 years. Last illu which i seen (Kurukshetra theme) met with an accident and lost the chance.But this year no second chance was taken. And no second thought for judges even.
@ 12:40 there was a huge mob waiting outside gymkhana awaiting the results. Needless to say the cheer on every RK'ite face even b4 the result.And ya its the tym now.
"We first announce the results for illumination.
3'rd place goes to Sarojini Naidu Hall Of residence.
2'nd prize goes to lala lajpatroy hall of residence
1'st prize goes to ..".......mob shouts.."RK RK RK RK RK RK"
"1'st prize goes to Radhakrishnan Hall of residence" ( I couldnt hear this line though :) )

YO RK......theres "YO RK " evrywhere. The students waiting to burstout of happiness finally did it.And no one cared for rangoli results.The feel of "Gold in Illumination" swapped the entusias in the other happenings. A procession along with the rasgulla pot and Gold cup kicked off with the massive Tempo shout at gymkhana. Then started the 2.2 in the direction of PAN. And ha der was little confusion and exciting thriller scenes at pan loop but everything was just out of excitement(RK) and frustation(PAN..they havent bagged a single position out the six illu+rangoli). Hmm..and the procession ended peacefully.And there were countless number of temposhouts at gymkahana, HJB, panloop,veggies, RLB:D ....

And finaly GOLD cup entered its home.And the internal celebration started in RK. Its really a wonderful scene seeing all the seniors kissing the trophy. It showed their senti for illu.

If there's a list mentioning the people behing this gold.....the list start with...2'nd years,1'st years, captains, Mallik Da, Manish Da, Omie,Surekha,RKJ, all superfinal years, 3'rd years (:)),4'th years,Rao Ji, Mess workers,Gopal Da, all the Watchmen whom not...every one played some or the other role in this GOLD winning illu.



And ..thanks to the rangoli guys..u did a splendis job.Particularly Devanand potarit was awesome.U guys are pro's .!!!

So Finally..... YO RK..!!!

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

The Lost Symbol

I eagerly awaited for the release of this book.."The Lost Symbol" written by DanBrown who mastered the novel writing that attracted huge people by the vast and in depth discussions in his books.

Every One knew....he had few of the greatest masterpieces under his credentials like Davinci Code ,Angels & Demons. It's not very uncommon for the hype created around this new book.

With the working title 'Slomon's key" this book did raise lot of hopes in Brown's fans.So did in me.So waited for my chance to grab the book from narendra.And ya atlast started with the book.finally...........

Prologue was as usual a headless chapter with one main unknown message tried to be conveyed . and ya there are no deaths in this prologue :P :D

coming for the original story.....wait do u really want to listen to the entire story??.....haa waise bhi sun lo..itna khaas ki bhaat bhi nahi.....
Its again the "genious""prodigious""the saviour" Robert Langdon here with all his lectures and speeches here.And yaa here langdon had even been made to listen to more lectures.;) the funda sessions for a funda god did achieve in geting concentration .

And here the heroine is Katherene Solomon , a 50 year old thick head dealing with some sort of Noetic Sciences.Her lectures about noetic sciences were boring..but ya the demontrations were quite good..where she prooved the weight of a soul , weight of thoughts etc etc.And ya one more thing danbrown is supposed to take a note of permission from a lady from Institute of Noetic Sciences Ccalifornia it seems (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113676181&ps=cprs ). And Mr.Brown hattsoff to your merging of science and religion.You proved your pro once again.

And as per the plot the entire story runs around a pyramid with a golden cap which have some inscribed words on it.Well the "degree" thread is really awesome.....Guess the meaning of degree...a bachelor degree? angle degree?? extent??temperature?? :),........the inscribed words on that pyramid are supposed to be a map to hidden treasure..(wealth or wisdom same question u find it in the book)..And yes u do have villian trying to acquire this map.and yet there's a change in villian strategy in this book,guess and den strt reading.

And some other odds of the book......for 2 chapters somewhere in the last quarter Robert Langdon character remains dead.Yes literally dead.Infact he's in the coffin for those 3-4 chapter length.And donn ask me his re-birth. I am totally struck with his rebirth.the re-birth of Rajni Kanth in "The Shivaji" seemd more logical to me.;)
And ya the quest goes on this the end sparing some 5-6 chapters.after the quest ends its the hero's turn to sit in peace rethink the day(or night.....but noth both in case of danbrowns sories) and sort out the puzzled played throughout the book.And those last chapter enlighten you the main research thesis of author.and ending with robert langdon in solice with the heroine.

And thereafter they lived happily................................naah for rober langdon only untill the nexxt book....


Haa i didnt menton the treasure right...the map is true....and the treasure is true even..........and guess what....its the treasure which everyone knew...whic everyone pocessed or atleast approved of. If u want me to be a spoil sport.....ya the treasure is "The Word" as it was called earlier......
u dont agree..???

well.ake it...its a book.....which was supposed to bear the actual meanings of the imitaions that exits currently..hope u got it.......Ya u r right........google it....washington monument secret......u'll get the answer for the first result.

And ya forgot to mention...it was D.C's turn in this book to be explored to its core.And once again an other hattsoff to Mr.Brown for emphasing the role of America in the history.


Welcome Aboard

Well as usual....in the beginning of every blog i started i post this welcome message.And there are also a couple of unipost blogs with my warm welcome message :D. Hope this atleast thsi blod shud successfully proceed without any hurdles.