4th Sem!!(yet another flash back!)

Well i'm back again and back with yet another flashback ,ya the 4th sem.
It actually amazes me as to how i get the inspiration to do out of normal stuff(like updating my blog) during exam time.Well lets not worry about that and get back to business...ya ..4th sem..here we go again..!!

Ah! 4th sem started with me missing the first 2 days of coll, yup we (me,nari,kannan,srivats,siva and sathish) were enjoying the end of our so called semester vacations in beautiful kodai! and wat a time we had!!
So i returned 2 days later to find out that we had Thanasekar taking TOC(theory of computation) and he was also our class advisor! wow!!
Well since the 4th sem was a little more eventful than the other sems I refrain from rambling about the academics part of it..lol!!
Ya the 4th sem was really eventful, and in I never attended most of the classes and lots of events kept popping up and we had loads of fun...
Whenever i think about the 4th sem the one thing tht hits me the most is the ESPN champions of the World quiz !!lol!!
This post will be filled primarily with our experience in tht event!
and the other thing tht strikes is the event Kurukshetra!! the first time CEG conducted a tech fest!!! and it was amazing..me and Srikant went all the way to Hyderabad to publisize the event and all..!!

Well coming back to ESPN...We saw and ad in ESPN calling all college students who love sports and want to quiz....I told nari abt it and we were like game to go ..just to check it out and be a part of the whole event! We mailed ESPN to ask them for details and we got to know that the prelims for the event took place in 4 centres across India....(bangalore,Mumbai,Delhi,Kolkata)..ya no Chennai...:(:(
We decided to take a chance and were game to go to bangalore to participate, thats when kalai and srivats also decided to come......so the 4 CEGians set off to bangalore to create history!!lol lol!!

AT BANGALORE:-(espn prelims)

So me,nari and srivats arrived at bangalore on a sunday morning(kalai reached earlier). The prelims was slated to take place at 12'o clock or somethin at some St joseph's college.We dint know where it was or the address of tht place........After spending a fortune on autos and transport we finally managed to get ourself to that place.Kalai was waiting for us there....The prelims started me and nari in 1 team ..kalai and srivats in another..our hopes of qualifying were a pretty low when we saw amazing teams from the south..people who had done really well in the espn school quiz and all...The prelims actually went pretty well with us scoring 1 point less than kalai and srivats.........
At first the ESPN people said only 3 teams get to the TV rounds so both of us dint have a chance as they finished 4th and us 6th!..but it was a strong performance nevertheless....taking this in our stride we enjoyed the evening at bangalore..(full SIGHTseeing!)and caught a bus out of bangalore to chennai in the night!!!

THE PHONE CALL:-

After the whole bangalore thing was over , we were back to our original routine and 1 fine day...nari calls me and tells me.."machan srivats got a call frm espn da..it seems they r goin 2 delhi da! we missed out" after talkin 4 hours on the ques we shud hv got right we left it. after 2-3 days i get a call frm ESPN saying they have decided 2 take 6 teams frm each zone and thus we were thru to the national rounds!!!!!!it was amazing 2 teams frm the same college qualifying out of bangalore and to top it all up we were the only team from chennai!!

So..we finally qualified to the national rounds of ESPN ..wow!! our joy knew no bounds.......

PS:- all about Delhi in another post!

third sem....over already??

Well here Iam ,back again with another post.

The great thing about being on hols is tht u have lots of time to think about things that really don't matter anymore.This is exactly the case with me.Last night i went to bed and could'nt sleep,i don't know why cause im a really sound sleeper.Well last night devoid of sleep i just rewinded back and decided to analyse the third sem.
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The third sem was really different from other sems as this was the first time we had a majority of department subjects....like algo,oops,ca,dbms....To say the truth i was really geared up for the third sem ..especially after the long boring summer hols I wanted to get back to the hectic college life.Again saying the truth i had a lot of high hopes at the beginning of the sem.One of them was getting good grades...but as u guessed all of my hopes vanished as the sem progressed.This was primarily due to the following reasons....

1.We had a freaky math professor who taught us chemistry,physics,history,...etc and not to mention he even started asking questions from algorithms..no exaggerations.

2.We had EDC....its realy bad by itself(ask srikant)....but to cap it all up Ms.Sujatha handled our class.She was the notorious teacher who gave 28 U's and no S's to the mech AB batch last sem...so v were really pissed....damnit 'lucky' us....

3.computer architecture......another thing which drove me mad.....Talking to some of my seniors i heard that CA was one of the most interesting subjects we'll ever study..most of our seniors are still doin projects based on CA in their final year.
Well so y did this drive me mad??
the answer VANI(the teacher who handled CA)........she sucks.Again unlucky us......Ranjani parthsarathy ma'm(she's supposed to be one of the best prof in our dept) took CA for our seniors and look who v got.......

4.Boring DBMS...seriously we were stuck with some of the worst professors.Take for instance DBMS.This is actually supposed to be one of the more interesting subjects that we will ever study ,BUT along came KULO to change all that....He practically made us sleep in class..we learnt nothing from him....sitting in kulo's class was one of the worst experiences of my life considering that i really love the subject.

5.Ethics........its bad trust me....and when raghuveera takes it ...it becomes worse...................again trust me....

If this was'nt enough we had a big emotional setback when our dear friend and beloved classmate Balasubramanium Pradeepan died in an accident.It was really unfortunate and we miss him and wish he was back with us cracking jokes and talking about movies...it was really fun when u were with us dude.......hope u r resting in peace.....

Now looking at the finer points of the third sem....

1.Algorithms.....we had a great professor....she's the best,and i did pretty well in that class....I even managed really good marks in the assessments ending with a good 46 out of 50 internals.

2.Quizzes and symposiums........ we took part in a lot of quizzes and inter college symposiums and it was really fun.Especially the Velammal EEE symposium..it was here that we(me,nari,srivats) recorded our first major victory.....it was amazing.Me and Nari also went to the finals of a sports quiz at MMC...but v eventually lost.
Another achievement was the prog contest at Easwari in which me and sivaguru came second only to a group of fourth years from SSN.Me and vijay won the technology quiz conducted bt the ECE dept of our coll too...this was really special coz it came on my bday!!!!!!!!Apart from that me,nari and sivaguru came second in the AGNI sports quiz...it was fantastic......

3.eureka and sparks........being part of the csau really made things better.Especially when there was an event.One such event was Erueka in which we host loads of events for the freshers who join our college.We had loads of fun setting questions and conducting the events.Being a memeber of the quiz commitee,I along with siva,nari,srikant and srivats sat hours together browsin thru wikipedia and framing questions for the quiz.It was amazing to see all our hardwork pay as the quiz turned out to be a huge success.
SPARKS is another csau event in which the first years conduct competitions for school students.We were asked to guide them and help them with certain stuff.It turned out to be loads of fun and the first years did a remarkable job too....sparks was amazing.................

4.QUIZMASTER NITIN?? ..............I hosted 3 quizzes this sem.The first one was Eureka where i conducted 3 rounds....(thanks to siva for makin me the quizmaster).Then I conducted an interschool quiz in my odl school as part of ALFEST (alumni festival).The 3rd one was the 1 at MGR Janaki college for women......I along with nari and srivats conducted the quiz..it was amazing conducting an inter college quiz..and that too it was open exclusively for women!!!!!!!!!It went really well without any hassles.......I really enjoyed myself standing on the stage and calling out questions......its really a great feeling calling out the questions and listening to the answers the teams give you.........This was one of the highs of the 3rd sem.............

5.Projects.............We had 2 submit 2 projects this sem...one for oops and one for DBMS..although our projects were'nt out of the world ..I had fun working on it.....and I'm pretty happy with my work...............

Looking back this sem is what you call a 50-50 thing there were highs and there were lows...but one thing is certain it got over really fast.Its still unbeleivable.................

Oh ya I forgot to mention ....2nd sem results came after a month of college........well got a 7.9...wasnt happy at all....but anyways I'm still an 8 pointer if u look at my CGPA!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I took this rate my life quiz.....these are my results

This Is My Life, Rated
Life:	7.3
Mind:	7.9
Body:	8
Spirit:	5.4
Friends/Family:	5.3
Love:	2.9
Finance:	6.5
Take the Rate My Life Quiz

ya i kno i kno my love life sucks!!!!!!!!!!!!but you kno wat i dont care...........

movies that affected me!!!!!

After ignoring my blog all these days i have finally decided to update it.With the holidays goin on...(ya exams got over..don ask me hw i did it) I decided to write something about the movies that have really affected me.There are a lot of movies that i have enjoyed but the below 5 are the one's that have really made me sit down and give the theme a second thought.

1.Lion King

This was a movie I saw when I was a little kid.I think almost everyone one in the civilized world would have heard abt this movie.Apart from the great animations(its estimated that 1 million drawings were used to make the film)the movie had a wonderful theme.I still remember certain scenes like the 1 where mufasa dies,the circle of life song(sung by ronan keating),the sayings of rafiki.....and many more...if you have missed this movie go to a dvd shop and see it..its not a movie to be missed
PS:-for the record i have seen this film more than 100 times........seriously...

2.Gentleman

Well a masterpiece.I don think I have to say anythin else.....well AR rahman's music rocked tooo....

3.Titanic

If i see this movie ill be thinkin abt it for atleast 2 days.The effect the movie leaves on me is actually magical.Of all the scenes I jus luv the scene when Jack is invited to dine with all the big shots and the rose-jack dance.

4.Troy

One of the best movies i have ever seen and yet i don't understand why it dint' gross much.The performance of Brad Pitt is remarkable and he looks great in the movie too.The battles were wonderfully shot,everything about the movie,according to me was perfect.The scene i enjoyed the most is the one in which hectar kills achilles'(brad pitt) cousin thinking that it is achilles himself.If you don't understand what i'm talking about see the movie its not worth missing.

5.Gladiator

Simply awesome.No other words to describe this movie.I enjoyed every moment of the movie and actually dint sleep one full night as my mind replaying all the scenes.The last scene where Maximus kills the king of Rome and dies himself and all the people jus ignore the dead king and carry Maximus is still in front of my eyes.............

well these are the 5 movies which have really affected me..if you haven't seen any one of these movies,trust me and see them you'll understand why i like them so much........

iam back!!!!!!!

Well pepople after a long time im back and now down to bussiness.
Recently i have been having some strange thoughts,somethings that i would prefer not to think about ,but as always i can never keep it out of my mind.Ya ok enough of the suspense,i have been having thoughts about LIFE and DEATH.I cant help thinkin about why a human race exists and wat v r doin here in the first place.Thinkin about all this jus made me marvel at the creation and power of the almighty.Maybe all this is simply a game,a game between 2 super powerful people,a game like age of empires where each one handles an empire,in which we are jus warriors listening to the voices above us.Well i thought about this and could'nt reach a conclusion.Maybe iam goin mad...??then i started to ask myself questions.Why was i born in this world??what purpose am i goin to serve??why do i have to die??and if we are jus players in a BIG game,then when will the game end??what will the winner get??and what happens to the loser??thinkin about all this sent a chill down my spine.Then i started to cool my head down,managed to control my foolish thinkin,maybe i was jus takin it too far,maybe there is only 1 omnipotent and this was our last test before liberation,or somethin like that.But this also dint make me comfortable.Now my mind was full of questions,questions that had no answer,and to which i knew i would never find any.I thought about death.What happens 2 a person after he dies??where does your soul go?what happens after death??are you reborn or somethin??Of all the qestions the 1 to which i would love to have an answer is this 1,what do you feel at the instant when life is sucked out of your body??does your soul jus come out and take a look at all the people at your death bed??Do you jus float above everyone and smile at the way people are brooding over your death??What happens??what do you feel??I was just trapped with my thoughts.I sat there thinkin about all this and finally convinced myself that the only way to find out is to die.........but the problem is once you know the meaning of life and your purpose of living and all the answers about death you cant come back and preach it to others.......I took a deep breath and tried to clear all these thoughts frm my head.I went straight to the pooja room in my house and thought about the greatness of the God...after all he has written a perfect program which cannot be hacked.Well as a computer science student i couldnt but appreciate this guy's coding skills.According to me he has kept all the people in the world as CLASSES and all our traits,strengths,weaknesses....etc as our attributes.He has kept our actions,profession...etc as our Methods and he has restricted details about life,death,rebirth etc by declaring them as private members....what a genius!!!
Assuring myself that this was the only logical explanation i drifted off to sleep.......

PS:-please leave your comments.......and if u think i have gone mad please tell me and those of u who have answers to some of my questions are free to post them as a comment too....thanks for your patience.

my first try!!!!!

well here goes my first try at writing a blog...............

my semester exams got over on may the 4th and things were not the same.well anyways the exams were over so,no tension,no work,nothin 2 worry abt...but still things don seem 2 b right.of late ive been havin this weird feelin of lonelines...a loneliness that has been pullin me to the good old times...ya thats it ...those days at school.i jus sat in a corner in my room and started thinkin abt those times...the times in middle school(7th&8th) where i had nothin 2 worry abt other than winning certain street cricket matches..and gettin recognised in school...that wonderful moment in 9th wen i got into the school volleyball team...those periods in which i got punishments for not completin assignments...and those sad moments durin the distribution of answer sheets......all these memories kept circulating in my mind...it was such a wonderful feeling to have!!!!
i kinda loved this feeling....i never wanted it to end....and i closed my eyes and replayed all those moments in my brain.....now i entered my times in 10th....o wat a gr8 time i had that year.it was the year of the dreaded board exams but 1 of the most memorable year of my life...i jus loved reliving those days wen i got up at 5 in the morning (not 2 study!!)but go to volleyball practice....those cricket matches played during the exams...the memorable time spent with frnds...and the tension and excitement b4 the boards....and not 2 forget the betting that went on between me and my frnds on who would win the world cup......that was also a time when my parents kept on tellin me to not to lose focus and do well in the boards..and those anxious moments durin the announcement of results....i was now lost in my thoughts...and wat a feeling it was......
then my mind was filled with all those events in 11th grade.......the times of non stop enjoyment!!!the times i won inter school quizzes...times wen v won volleyball tounaments...and the time of agony wen v lost in the semi finals of a volleyball tournament conducted in our school.....the things v all did 2 catch attention(of girls!!)... the times spent at the principals office....that memorable trip to bangalore .......and the birth of some new relationships, i cherish till this day.......all these moments were swarming in my head...i was filled with a never dying ecstasy...
and then came the memories of 12th grade.....which is the most memorable year up till now...
i was reminded of the pressure to do well in the exams....the popularity acheived due to our brilliant performance in all volleyball tournaments(ya i played even in 12th!!)...the trip to a state tournament where we placed 4th in the state..... those times sitting in class and makin fun of teachers..the day wen i was elected the co-editor of my school magazine....the classes in the evening....the revision exams.....and the preparations b4 the boards.....the joy after finishing an exam...and the releif wen it ended.....those tnpcee classes which go on for 4 hours(4-8 pm).....the football matches played with frnds in the morning... the sadness after the tnpcee....the anxious moments b4 the results....and the joy after joining ceg!!!!
I jus sat in my room reliving all those moments..o wat a feeling!!!!
the loneliness inside me began to grow...a desire to return to the past filled my heart...and i couldnt prevent a tear rolling down my eyes.............

PS: please leave a comment...since its my first post plz bare wid my mistakes