Last day (officially) at PESIT

I had my final semester project presentation on 28 may 2012 at 1:30PM. My project partners – Jayadeep and Rohit myself thought of coming to college early to discuss about the presentation and also run the MATLAB codes once.

The classrooms were locked! So we had no choice but to go to CoRI. I fell down while entering the CoRI! Then more than 2 unauspicious events happened. I thought I am gonna really screw up this ppt today.

We entered the hall on time. As usual, we were asked to write about our project in not more than 2 pages. As the tradition goes, we went to present first! Internal guide was Dr.VK, who is one of the very few in my Dept who could understand our project.

In all our presentations the order has been – JD, Bhatta and Me. Jayadeep starts off with the same old introduction! and completes one technique. Rohit Bhat will cover another technique. Then I come in the end to present one more method and compare all

The presentation started at 2:20PM. As expected Dr.VK asked some valid questions. We were able to answer most of them (We got stuck at few). The external from RVCE seemed clueless. May be Artificial intelligence is not her domain. This backfired as she objected for mistakes like font size, equation number etc in the report.

I agree we should have taken care of that but still compared to others (I am in a freaking relative grading system!!) our report was good. The external went on to say  that we haven’t done anything in our report. I got pissed off because the reasons seemed lame. If the problem was with the content and the work we have done, I would have agreed. It was too demotivating

Also, I don’t understand why examiners won’t ask us to show the code and explain! 70% of the project time will be used on that.

Hope these mistakes are corrected by next year

Sony Ericsson Xperia mini – Small is the new big

After the 3 difficult years with nokia 5130 Xpress Music I wanted to buy a smart phone, preferably one with an android OS as most of my friends have android.

Samsung mobiles were the first ones to come to my mind. I searched a lot about the prices and specifications online(Used flipkart for this but dint buy there ).  Other options were Motorola, HTC, Nokia(again!!). I dont know why, Sony Ericsson never came to my mind. After all the research, I went to buy HTC Explorer which would meet my price range and specifications considerably. I was forced to look at other mobiles in those shops by those fellows. One factor which striked me was – Update to Andriod 4.0. Any mobile with <1Ghz processor can’t get an official update to 4.0. So my new specification became android 4.0 instead of 2.3. For this specification, probably the cheapest mobile was Sony Xperia Mini. I really like the display and effects. The display is small but that is what i want. I don’t want a phone like a tablet!

When I came home after purchasing I started looking at the reviews. Many criticized Battery capacity. I haven’t faced that much of battery problem. It is the same case with all Android phones.

The only problem I have faced was with the keyboard software. The OPTIONS menu used to pop up every second(without any contact) making me impossible to type a text, make a call! I was totally disgusted. Later I upgraded the software. The problem is fixed for now but the OPTIONS menu pops up even now but very rarely. The writing language was changed to Croatian! I am sure I wouldn’t have done it in my wildest dreams also

Other than that, The phone is really good. I am loving it !

My sister gave it to me as a Birthday present

Jayadeep and Rahul helped me in choosing the right phone giving lot of insights.

Addicted

You know what?

(Goes 1 week back)

I have reached a state where I can say that I am addicted to tea. Whenever I think of leaving that habit, I do it more often.

Today before the test I was really determined not to drink. But drank 5times in 5hours! :O

Tea lies! It just gives you an instant relief from pressure but makes you a slave to it! It makes you act like what it commands.

For the outside world, Tea is a normal harmless drink. But those who have the real experience would know its effects properly. Only then you realize what Tea is. How good or bad it is!

(Present)

I have reduced a lot

Now i hardly think of tea once in a day or so, mainly when someone talks about it. So its good that I won’t feel like having tea on my own. Even Tea tempts me when someone is having it. I have controlled my best to ignore it!

Now I can say  “I can live without tea”. I definitely can. The life seems to be more simple and happier.

(If you think I am mad, you are one!)

Regulating Online Content

I started writing comment to this post on the TechTikka website but ended up writing this post on my blog!

I hope everyone saw the “devils advocate with kapil sibal”. The minister clarified very clearly that its not pre-upload regulation of online content(I really dont know how this can be implemented ) and its not really a regulation. He has asked the internet giants to follow their own rules.
Read the google’s rules and then search those banned content, u will get it! Thats what Sibal is against. Let them follow their own rules properly.
Facebook has many groups which create hatred among religion, region, language etc… It should take care of that.
Some people wrongly put false data on the internet which create criticism of the government by a large number who wouldnt have verified the facts. Like this for example :

This was shared by many people on facebook creating a bad impression on all political leaders except those in NDA. Which seems to be a obvious work of an NDA supporter. Later Wikileaks clarified that they haven’t published anything on indian swiss bank accounts and the photo being circulated is not correct! I dont think even 1% of people who saw that on facebook cared to see the wikileaks clarification . End result was bad impression on UPA. The one who created this fake list should know that this could have resulted in an uproar against the governement like in Egypt etc.. Such is the power of information online and citizens should be careful in posting any sensitive information.
I would have accepted the author if he had written a post against all UPA leaders that they are corrupt and he THINKS they have a large money in swiss bank accounts.
Finally,
I am against banning content online because people will find it one way or the other.
Changes i expect to see online!
1. false news shouldn’t be spread
2. contents should be decent in the websites which children access (Just a word in google by mistake can take a kid to any kind of website . Please dont tell me about strict,moderate, no filtering bullshit)
3. blogs should be monitored to see that the content wont ignite fight among people over various issues
and few more…

Why This Kolaveri Di

“Why this kolaveri, kolvarei di” is undoubtedly the biggest hit of recent times. Facebook posts, Twitter tweets, Youtube hits etc are just the proof of its popularity. There are a lot of spoofs coming on the song too! Anyways this is not a surprise

The song is a slow tapang(I believe so! No arguments on this please ) in which the number of Tamil words is almost negligible . That may be one of the reasons for the success of the song all over India. It is sung by the son in law of South Indian Superstar Rajnikanth, Dhanush in the film directed by his own wife Aishwarya Rajnikanth Dhanush.

Kolaveri literally translates to “Kill+rage”. “Why This kolaveri” almost translates to “why you are killing me”. The song goes on with Tamilized English which makes you laugh like anything! Few lines are …

“Cow-u cow-u holi cow-u
i want u hear now-u”

“Eyes-u eyes-u meet-u meet-u
My future dark”

“White skin-u girl-u girl-u
Girl-u heart-u black-u”

As of fan of tapang songs, I liked this song a lot. But I was stunned by the audience group which this song attracted. People who always hated these kinds of songs are unable to get de-addicted from it! Such is the power of this song and makes the song unique.

(Almost all my blogs end up with some Kannada related stuff n here is one more)

I have seen a lot of Kannadigas (and also other people) in Bangalore commenting about recent Kannada songs (I agree that the quality of lyrics in these songs are not good. Same is the case with kolaveri too) like “They are waste” “Is it a song?” etc. I felt it’s a case of double standards w.r.t kolaveri. But nevertheless, it is a good sign that they’ve started liking it now! Hope they appreciate good music.

Have an open mind!!

No double standards please

Regionalism

Happy Deepavali to one and all. I have left burning crackers from the last 4 years. I used to burst them when I was in school even though I knew I am allergic to the dust. May be I am a little matured now!

Coming to the topic, yesterday evening I was going from my house to ISRO layout bus stop area to buy medicine from a medical shop. I was surprised to see so many people bursting crackers in a supposed to be a highly educated area! Most of the road side shops were closed. Then I noticed a gol goppa stall without customers. The thing which struck my mind is not the empty stall which is normally crowded, but the fact that the shop was opened even in the evening of a DIWALI when everybody was celebrating! I was surprised by that guy’s dedication n the urge for him to earn money by doing his work without being connected with his family members on a festival. That feeling made me feel that I am a fool for having an anti-migration ideology. They are here to earn because they have a market here and they can’t earn in their place. Fair enough! Since they are doing their job in a sincere way let them do. Any kind of work is better than robbery and begging.

Yeah, for few hours I thought I am a fool. But I started justifying my old mindset and now I feel I am not a fool to think like that.

When outsiders come to any place in the world, first thing is they have to respect the land and its culture. I don’t expect them to learn the language all of a sudden but not at all trying to learn the language, adamant about it and not respecting the language is something which is highly unacceptable. I have encountered such situations many times. There are vendors who neither learn the local language nor do they care to even after leading a decent business here.

All these are happening because of the local people attitude too. We don’t care whether outsiders learn our language or not. If our business is done, we are happy. That’s it. No more feelings.

But too much of this anti-migration ideology is also wrong; we don’t progress without being introduced to other cultures.

The solution!

I believe that the solution to all these can be immigrants learning Kannada and respecting local culture and people in all fields. I don’t care whether he is a Bengali or a Bihari as far as he respects my culture (Applies for localities too ).

Placements-1

Placements have started in PESIT ( may be i am a little later in telling this). I didn’t have qualification for few companies because of my CGPA.

The first placement test which i wrote was for Zynga on 6 sep 2011. It mainly had 13 CS questions, 5 aptitude questions and  a program to write. I dint have any expectations because i knew that I dint do well as i had not prepared for CS questions. So dint feel bad at all when i was not selected for the next round.

Then came Deloitte. I was excited about Deloitte but their Job description dint interest me. I was not sure of attending the test even 12hrs before.

I attended their online test (AMCAT) on 9 sep 2011. It was like a simplified CAT paper. The test had Quant, Logic, Verbal. Most importantly there was NO NEGATIVE MARKING. I always thought that Quant and Logic are my fields. I had improved my verbal skills a little bit. So overall I thought i had done good enough to qualify to the next round.

Then they had asked everyone to attend their PPT which was on 12 sep 2011. After one and half of hours of PPT, they announced the results. My name was not there in the 133 names which were shortlisted. For a moment i was stunned.

I am not questioning the credibility of deloitte selection procedure. But is it that everyone did well? or they had advantage because of “NO NEGATIVE MARKING”? or is it that i did very badly?

If you are not interested in what you are doing, you will not get a good result. Happened with GATE2011. Now happened with Deloitte placements. I was not really convinced with the JOB PROFILE of Deloitte. So i couldn’t give my best.

Anyways at the end of the day, I am happy that i dint join something which i was not fully interested in.

Time to Work Hard!!!