BDAY in a Hostel!!

Hello people ,

Well this post is about hostel life . In fact , if you have never stayed in a hostel or if you never plan to , this would be the time to shut down this tab and pretend this post never existed for you. But if you have lived in a college before , you will relate to this post.  But before you read on,a small warning ...

*** Caution :  This blog post contains disturbing images  . See at your own risk . And don't tell me later that I did not warn you . If you still have complaints , well I cant really help you.***

It's time for the one day that you "used" to look forward to the most in a year. You would go to school feeling special and all your friends would treat you the same . You had a party at home and it felt nice when everyone wished you . You would be the Center of Attraction. Well , all this changes once you come to college.

Once you are in hostel , well a lot of things change , this being one of them. You don't look forward to the day . You start dreading the stroke of midnight because that brings with it, the horror word B****S . And then you are taken to the cleaners for ...... well  I have no idea why this is done in every hostel , but it's a age old tradition and its followed with full participation .

It would have been okay , if it ends there . Well, for your information it does not . After that comes the Cake Smearing Ceremony . Yes , you read it right .. its the Cake Smearing Ceremony rather than Cake Cutting Ceremony. Don't believe me , I will give you proof :

I am not sorry for the pic .. I had already warned you ;).

Well, now people would have to be really mad to say ( for all the TBBT fans ) "O Krishna !! I have to get some of that " .Trust me when I tell you this, you will enjoy it .Also there are a lot more people in the wing .. so you get to do the same to all of them and ITS FUN !! ( a evil grin on my face as I say this .. someone's BDAY is just around the corner ;) .Plus , how many of the birthdays do you remember that you celebrated. I can promise you that all the birthdays spent in the hostel will be the most remembered ones EVER. And the reason, your friends.

Well , I can go on and on about my friends . And it would become an extremely long and not to forget boring post , if I named them all. But it was thanks to them that I had an amazing time. Thanks to everyone for the Cake Smearing and the B****S . My time will also come soon :P . But for now , I really need to be getting some pain killer and going to sleep . So ADIOS till next time people .

PS :

@Readers ( if any ) : If you associate with the above in any sort of way , I would love to know about it .

Yahoo HACK U IITM 2011

                        This post is dedicated to the experience at Hack-U , an event held by Yahoo every year in IIT MADRAS . One crazy day of coding , brain storming , food hogging ( no one will accept it but people do come here for the GRUB .. corporate bribe ;) ) . Its an awesome fun where people gather in a lab for a day and just code . Any interesting ideas that you might have and you want to implement it , this is your destination .

Just back from a 15 hr period of coding and believe me when I say it , the ATMOSPHERE is amazing . You don't need coffee to stay awake when you see all the people out there , coding away to glory ( A quote "picked up" from Vikram ) . And with all the fun that we have along the way , this is something more than just a coding event. Its a real entertainment.

Now to the idea : Well with all my team mates being the nerds ( never talk about yourself is the policy here ;) ) , even the hack has to be of same type . Well , the basic idea was to have some sort of a engine which given a field and the university , gives the most popular list of professors related to that field. Not a very difficult thing to do but something that we have enjoyed making ( again , It's not finished it but who does not like bragging a little bit ).It was real fun coding with all the people in the room ... Anuja , Madhavi , Devesh , Nitin and Viki mama. It was one hell of a day and it was LEGEND .. wait for it .. . DARY :).

Well, I have to get back to the lab around 10 again so I better be heading off.

PS :

• At the time of starting , we had no idea of the GRUB . Lets say , now the less I speak the better. People who came looking for grub never found anything worthwhile !! :p.
• The only reason that I am writing this blog post at 3:40 in the morning is that it was always my wish that I have a blog post that is written early in the morning . It makes you sound more crazy than you really are :p.

A Tribute to the WALL

The Indian Wall, Rahul Dravid is one of the most "respected" Indian batsman of all times. You can always find people who would criticize Ganguly , Gavaskar , Sidhu , Kapil Dev . ( sorry cant include Sachin Tendulkar in that .. then it becomes personal !! ) And the reason for that , he has earned it over his long illustrious carrier.

A person who was asked by his coach to concentrate on his keeping because he did not have the technique, turned out to be named the batsman with the best technique for a period of 10 years in the Indian Batting lineup . That itself speaks volumes of his character and his talent. There have been many instances where people have had to fight over their place in the Indian team due to weird ideas of the Selectors . But none more than Rahul Dravid. I mean people , seriously , HE CAN PLAY ANY FORM OF CRICKET.

He was the person who India turned to when they wanted an extra batsman in the side. He was the one that agreed to play in South Africa inspite of being dropped for no reason from the ODI side . This was a man who has always faught the odds to be where he is now. And the best part about him , he is retiring while he is on the top . HATS OFF to Rahul Dravid .

A true performer in every right , he has time and again proved his critics wrong.People said he was no good for ODI cricket , he is retiring after scoring more than 10,000 runs . What more could you ask for ? People said he did not score at a proper rate . For all those people can look at his records , for the period of 1999 - 2005 , he has averaged at almost 80% strike rate . For a number 3 batsman in those days , it's highly commendable . And consider the effect his batting had on his partners . Once you know that you have a batsman at the other end who can play on , it gives you a sense of confidence . So,should Dravid not be given credit for the higher strike rate of Yuvraj , Kaif and other Indian batsman with whom he has shared countless partnerships.

Courtesy Cricinfo : Dravid is a misfit who thrived . This is a perfect statement for Rahul Dravid . He has records that ( I really cant say it .. ) , that even Tendulkar does not have ( and I doubt he can ever have .. I did not just say that !! )

• Involved in 2 300 run partnerships - the only person ever to have done so
• 2 MOM's more than Micheal Beavan , the man considered to be the ODI specialist .
• He has the second fastest fifty in Indian history ( IMAGINE THAT !! )

Lastly , it was a treat to watch Rahul Dravid bat . The sheer elegance of his drives , the total controlled defence and the always "attempted" Douglas Murriler scoups are things that we will miss. From now on , there is only going to be a Dravid's defence .

My tribute to the WALL.

A frustrated rant

Ok , this is it . This is the moment when I start blogging . You want to know the timing :

I have a quiz tomorrow that I am meant to be studying for . There is a whole lot of stuff that is still to be done for Hackfest ( a long story .. for some other time ) . But here I am blogging away with the little precious time I have left before the OS paper envelops me in its grasp and drags me into deep sorrow for wasting what looks like a very difficult time ahead .

There could not have been a better time . My first quiz of the semester that people have been warning me off since I joined here . Somehow , when you keep things in prospective , this semester has not been so bad .

Agreed I have had dengue , been spending more time doing assignments than playing , spending more time reading feeds rather than on FB but still there is the silver lining that I can now think of . I have finally managed to start my blog . And irrespective of how much I score tomorrow , I will have something to cheer about :) .

Adios people .. Will post soon ( next quiz on Monday ;) )