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So finally my Exam

Yeah, I went in on time. But I didn't have a watch and no track of time. The paper looked lengthy. So I got psyched and started scribbling, took additionals 3 times and then when I realized I finished the paper I had nothing left to do so I left. I was the first one to leave and I was out within 2 hrs when it was a 3hr paper!!! I hope I didn't go overboard and really screw it up :P

Flared Fairy

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for the record

Breakfast Before My Last Exam

The saga continues. Basically because I m bored and cannot get myself inspired enough to mug continuously. What happens when you have dinner as fast as you can so that you can crash in on your bed and slip into slumber and actually do that and wake up in the morning hungry? The problem was that I woke up at 5 and realized I was hungry. And as usual I have nothing eatable in my room accept for a bottle of mayonnaise. So I waited till 7 in the morn before my mess opens for lunch. But if I eat at 7 with my appetite I'll get hungry again at 10 or 11 and that's in the mid of my exam that is from 9 to 12. So I had to stuff myself in. After a very heavy breakfast and the sunny side up on the sky with picturesque lawns between mess and hostel, it was automatic to pick up Economic Times sit and the entrance and read. (Unlike everyone else, I didn't take notes with me to mess and I stopped getting ET for a loooong while now). Feels good. Now I need to go through two more assignments

My Last Exam

Today is my last exam. Only in IIT Madras though! My next is already scheduled to be on June 30th (probably). Something called qualifying mathematics. Yeah, IIM Calcutta asked me to come prepared for it and sent me a syllabus sheet as well! Coming back tot he point. Yes, today is my last exam here. And I never knew that I can sleep before 10 and wake up by 5 and study for an exam. But that's exactly what I am doing for my last exam! It sounds surprising to me. (But of course I shall skip the part that the reason I was able to sleep by 10 into dreamless sound sleep [why do we say sound sleep? Aren't we like soundless when we sleep??] was that preceding that I had been awake for 34hours) So yeay! Anyway wish me luck.. I'll need all I can get Aaand I don't really feel so nostalgic about the whole thing :|

THE CANON

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I love this pic.. the camera is so beautifully captured. Imagine this , a camera having a bad picture of itself... publicity huh? :P I got the camera a long time ago. I dunno what any of the below means and I obviously flicked it off some site but hear goes anyway: Basic Features 7.1 megapixel sensor 4x optical zoom lens ranging from 35-140mm (35mm equivalent) 4x digital zoom Macro focusing as close as 2.0 inches (with lens set to wide angle) Maximum aperture f2.6 (W) to f5.5 (T), minimum f8.0 15 to 1/2000 second shutter speed Evaluative, center-weighted, spot metering White balance settings of Auto, Preset (Daylight, Cloudy, Tungsten, Fluorescent, Fluorescent H, Underwater), and Custom Flash settings of Auto, Auto with Red-eye Reduction, Flash On, Flash On with Red-eye Reduction, and Off Scene modes include Portrait, Landscape, Special Scene (Night Scene, Foliage, Snow, Beach, Fireworks, Aquarium, Underwater), Indoor, Kids & Pets, Night Snapshot, Stitch Assist, and Movie Full Manu

Reaching New Heights

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Sindhu

Break Free

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Paths Taken

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Some paths taken lead to beautiful memories Sharav : to my room Heat Transfer and Thermal Power Lab : From my BTP lab The road less traveled : The Gymkhana road: To SAC From Sharav : To SAC From NCC: To guru

The Morning!

What can be more irritating than to run to the bog and realise there is no water at 6.30 in the morn !!! Pain aside... I had an interestingly fun conversation at 5 in the morning when I caught up with an old friend for chai. We discussed weird theories on the sun rising and setting and the earth and all that. We discussed stories and music and interviews and poetry. We discussed people and places and people skills. We discussed hostel nights and videos and the insti. We discussed our plans to write and compose and record songs. And we discussed. Feels good to catch up with old friends and share memories before you grow out of it.

Captured memories

The Official Adieu 2009 video (IIT MAdras)

Indian Summer Fad

The million leads taken up by a million Indians actually paid off to assist people to vote and not only vote but also make it fashionable enough and proud enough for people to respond and say they voted. At least that's what I got out of the Editorial from yesterday's. The Indian fashions have no limits. :)

American Dream

I was reading (and have been for quite a long time say two months) Carl Sagan's Contact . The president of USA is a woman ! I then remembered reading a long long time ago, Jeffrey Archer's Shall We Tell the President? and there too the president of USA is a woman ! What is it with these Americans... They dream in their fiction !

Awash the World

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Sprinklers outside my mess... The first time I captured on camera...

Little Girls Love Their Daddies

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Even after they've grown up... Today is my dad's birthday... Only 9 out of 190 and what are the chances....

Following News !!!

It's been long since I read ET. Essentially because I took a break from trying to cram eveyrhting I read in ET into my head and also because my IIM interview was done with but mostly because my paperwala stopped giving me paper and I got too pained to pain him and get more pained. So I could still have read it on the internet. I just never really got around. Yesterday I read the Saturday edition. Felt good. Today I read on the net. And there is so much in it. Like Indra Nooyi, Indian American CEO of Pepsico is listed fourth among "15 women (who)show what it takes to lead" some of the America's biggest companies according to Fortune 500 women CEO listing. and Renuka Ramnath, MD and CEO of ICICI Venture, met her colleagues and informed them of her decision to quit the company. and Axis Bank board appointed Shikha Sharma (MD of ICICI Prudential Life Insurance) as the private bank’s new managing director (MD) and CEO - a decision that drove the present chairman and CEO P

Credit Cards

I never understood the concept of credit cards. Never understood how somebody can give one stuff on credit and take money that you don't have. Never understood how people bought and used things they don't still own and can never return. Today ET made sense to me : The slowdown has brought home values most of us learnt at our mother’s knee, of living within one’s means, of keeping aside something for a rainy day, etc., — all alien to US consumers, perhaps, but part of our DNA before we began to ape the west. With sense restored, more people will now begin to see credit cards for what they are — a huge convenience, not an escape from reality.

Addiction!

According to wiki : The word addiction is also sometimes used colloquially to refer to something for which a person has a passion, such as books, chocolate, work, the web, running, postage stamp collecting, or eating. Does it mean that if someone does not have an addiction one has no passion ?? Not true... But I still feel bad sometimes that I cannot get addicted to anything. I thought I was addicted to coffee ; seems to me like I can't remember the last time I had coffee. I thought I was addicted to Samantha Who? ; is that sitcom even aired anymore I have no clue! It's always this way with me. I have an obsession for origami cranes and I still make them. But I mnot addicted!!! May be I am addicted to being not addicted. may be I don't like being addicted so much that no matter what I do I shall destroy what I love so that there is no force in this world that can control me. Yeay !

So we were bid Adieu

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Adieu is the farewell thrown by the IIT Madras Alumni Association every year. Basically some events like panel discussion, a workshop, a dinner with culturals and the highlight, the Adieu video. The adieu video is a video that helps us keep memories intact. This years video was awesome and made me wanna cry. Just awesome. Plain simplicity. So we were bid Adieu...

Insti Day

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Yesterday night was the 50th Institute Day! The incoming secys are welcomed and the outgoing secys are honored. The outgoing students are treated to a dinner, fondly called the Dean's Dinner. Slightly formal so the girls usually come in sarees and so we did. So.... My insti officially bid me farewell last night !

Thesis Time

Projects are coming to completion and everyone is busy writing thesis and simply can't help but praise the PhD comics . Perfect ! Here are the latest PhD comics (all about Cecilia's thesis) : The one where she begins to write thesis The one where it takes just one key The one where she copy pastes The one where it's complex

Not so Nostalgic!

It was 6.30 and my stomach was growling but the sleep was overlapping on to me like blanket and I tugged my blanket closer and cosier fell back asleep. I have a class to attend at 8 in the morning and yet as always the sleep overlaps. I cannot remember how many Friday 8 o'clock classes I've missed this sem. Surely none in the last one month because I'm terribly short of attendance. Still I got out of bed today, partly because I can't afford to lose attendance, partly because my growling stomach was on the verge of a throw-up-empty-if-I-don't-get-food mood but mostly because today is the last class of this course and incidentally the last class in IIT Madras for me. I barely recollect running to the mess, barely recollect going to the class neither do I recollect actually sitting in the class. It all just happened. Funnily, there was nothing nostalgic about it either since I don't recollect. :)

Blogger's Nostalgia

I started blogging on 3rd April, 2006. That is soon after I bought a computer in my first year. I started it to capture all my poetry and preserve it on the vast world of the wide web. I started this one , slishacrazy.blogspot.com on 25th June 2006. It was the summer after my first year when a couple of my articles got published in the local edition of The Hindu and I thought I could probably keep a collect of them on the net. I never thought about blogging. I just happened to have a trippy story that I repeated to everyone I knew and thought I could write about it. There were times when I wrote a lot and times when I forgot I even had a blog. But the life a blog lies in the continual blogging. More or less about when my blog was turning 1 that I really got into blogging and probably never stopped :) Most of my blog is about the blah ideas that I have and of course the IITian life . And it was a nostalgic feeling when today I opened my dashboard to see the lastest post was about my

A Night @ Chinatown

10th April 2009, Chinatown I didn't sleep all night and about 8 in the morning my father called to tell me that I got an admit into IIM Calcutta! I was excited, jumped up and down, called up my sister and let her and mom know. And then in a while I felt heavily sleepy and slept off. It was peaceful and comfortable to just lay sleeping. I slept like a rock, like I haven't slept in ages. But I had to wake up. It was our hostel night . We had infinite editing to do for our hostel night wing video. So we did. We did it till almost 7.30. Then we all dressed up sarees. How much shopping we did for this night! It was all worth it finally! Moved on to the OAT for dinner which I barely recollect, because I just wanted to head back to the hostel. The hostel was dressed in read, the Chinatown theme. We read RGs, went upstairs and changed into the white tee and with a marker int he pocket we went downstairs. Danced to the DJ's tunes like we were all gone mad and kept filling each oth

Hostel nights !!

Every year, each hostel has a hostel day/night. It is the time of the year again. When hostels dress in theme to welcome all the guests and the passing out students are given a fitting farewell. The farewell has a few traditions attached with it 1. RG : It's the short of 'royal gang-rape'. Basically, all your friends, your gang rapes you royally in words and print it out on an A3 sheet and past it up for everyone to read and lol . It also has a 'mugshot' taken to fit the theme and is put up in what's called the Rogue's Gallery or RG again. 2. Videos : Wing wise friends together make a video that shows the trippy parts of one's IITian life and put up for all viewing. 3. Tees : A recently started tradition. Passing out people are given a white tee shirt and a marker. Their buddies can scribble on the tees their heart out. 4. Sarees : This is an unwritten tradition which was not quite followed this year that the final year girls wears sarees on t

My IIMC GD/PI experience

Panel: A lady (L), A man (M) [who I think are profs] and a much younger man (A) [who I think is an alumnus] GD topic: Only the poor are responsible for their poverty We were given two minutes to think. The discussion went on for 10-12 minutes. It turned out to be a fish market. Since it was a very open topic there was enough to speak for everyone. In a way it was good; we did not have a distinct leader and everyone almost everyone had a chance to speak. After that each of us was given a minute to speak either to summarize or add any new points we could not discuss, but the order was randomly chosen. I was the first one to be asked to speak. I very briefly gave a summary of the discussion and added one new point. Personal Interview Mine went on I guess for 25mins. M: you academics are not very good Me: I smiled and nodded M: so you agree? Me: they are ok, they are not bad, they are good. but not very good L: what is your jee rank Me: 768 L: don't you think compared to 768, 7.7 is l

Not so Posh Pups

But pups nevertheless. Any baby animal looks cute. I think it's because it is curious yet cautious. It's analyzing everything around it and it's so full of life and enthusiasm. I was sitting with tea staring into space with so many thoughts in my head when a bitch caught my eye. It looked different, kinda heavy. I thought it must be pregnant. But it wasn't fat and then I realized it's lactating. Just as the thought sunk in a cute pup ran towards it. It was so full of life that it's tail just doesn't stop wagging. It runs around the mother and tries to tug for milk but before it settles down it sees something and curiosity gets to it. The mother was also going here and there trying to get some food. So the pup is generally running all over. At one point the mother climbed some stairs. Now the each stair is as high as the pup itself, that too when biped. It tried with all its might but the poor thing couldn't do it. So the mom came down. Once it tried to c

The Wall

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The following are pics of The Wall, Della Princess (339, Sharav). On entering, right wall: Posters of Shaastra 2006 , Shaastra 2007, genesis, Kurt Cobain from JAM, 7th sem timetable, come quant formulae. A lamp shade stolen from hostel night 2008 (which is actually stolen from Saarang 2008 ), Kurt Cobain(Nirvana) poster from Dollars and Pounds The entire wall. Added are the Lamborghini poster from JAM (I'm not into cars, I just like red), a white chart with post-its with divisions (you can faintly see some color shades blue, green n red) Left wall next to the comp and my wooden book shelf: I can but I wont stayed on from my previous tenant. I thought babies looked cute. Batman (a vinyl cutout stuck on a cardboard and mounted on a wooden piece with some jute thread) stolen from Fete 2008 Sharav stall which had Gotham City as the theme.

Deconstructing Humor

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Incredibility humorous take on the life of a sad pathetic self loathing Jew is the main story if Deconstructing Harry . The movie floats between reality and fantasy. It's about a writer who characterizes his characters in the book basing them on his real life acquaintances. Each character throws light more on the bad than the good for the author is a pessimist. Now all these real people hate him for what he did. Hence he is a loner. The movie plot is about this guy trying to attend his honoring ceremony the next day in a college which threw him out years ago. Now the thing is, he has nobody to take along with him, he being such a loner. And he keeps trying to invite everyone he can, including the hooker he has over the night before the ceremony. The movie has these small open ended stories of his cropping up in between, each based on someone he knew and it blends on the line of fantasy. All I have to say is it's interestingly hilarious as he makes fun of his own misery. ---- H

The colours

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I recently watched a movie recently: Gulaal It comes off as an extremely strong film. The music just captivates you and gives you goose pimples all over. In fact I felt the song " Aarambh " more violent than its portrayal. When the movie ended, i was just dumbstruck for a couple of minutes. The idea of hero or good winning over evil or who fights wins and all that is just chucked off. krishna ki pukaar hai ye bhagwat ka saar hai ki yudh hi to veer ka pramaan hai kaurvon ki bheed ho ya paandavon ka need ho jo lad saka hai wohi to mahaan hai They stick to it. It's pure politics. It's pure Mahabharat. And you don't understand who is the good guy or who is the bad. Because everyone is just selfish. And the best brain wins. The character Piyush Mishra plays is intolerably good. And his painted friend is spooky.