Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Deja vu

data communication(DC) teacher came to class today; and i think, wasn't last hour DC too? i checked my watch. it was the first hour after lunch, so obviously last hour wasn't DC. i was having my lunch then.

so why did i get the feeling? coz she had taken one hour in the morning. this week i reach college everyday at 8.45 due to one sadist of a bus driver. And leaves at 4. i have pretty much no idea what is happening in between. i cant distinguish even lunch hour from class hour.

all i know is there had been lots of classes this week at least half of which was DC. Was she taking classes during lunch hour, I wonder. luckily i have the same teacher for my microprocessors lab which was 50% longer than usual lab hours.

after all the hours taken i have just understood one thing: she is teaching about something(i know not What) with 6 or 7 layers(i know not how much) and this info, i got from sharath.

time to go....dinner awaits.....

P.S. i run spell check and found this error- i have typed preetty for pretty....lol

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Advanced Reflections


It was the advanced microprocessors( elective) class today. it was at the mini-seminar hall.none was prudent enough to switch on the AC. Hence, it was stuffed.

teacher taught. everyone but me sat listening. nothing entered my ears as usual. i am starting to think it is some kind of disease, inevitable when [bach intersection CET]

i started casually observing the room, actually writing an article about the room. i started with the door, moved on to the switches and then to the white-board. on the board there was some instructions for Intel processors. but then, on the board was reflection of the windows at the rear. also there was this silhouette of the students in the class. as teacher moved away from the board it became perfect. silhouette of some 5 to 6 students. the right number. when you see this image the instructions written on the board fades away, just leaving a shade.

the image got stuck in my head. and sorry, you cant get a copy of the image as the printer-port in my head is currently dysfunctional.

i wonder, if i hadn't started writing the stupid article i wouldn't have seen it. something right in front of my eyes. Oh! this sentence looks pathetic. so i take it back.

there must have someone in the class who would have cursed the glare on the board which made it difficult to read the instructions.

Catch 22

i get pretty confused when i recommend a book or a movie to someone. if i say it is bad, obviously they don't go after it. if i say it is good people forget. if i say awesome then they read/see it, then come and say, "it was okay/good. but not as good as you said it is." reading/watching something after someone recommends it takes out half the fun.

it's a catch-22 situation. you cant make someone enjoy something as much as you did whatever you say. i have had the problem with catch-22. so, for me, catch-22 is a catch-22. i accept it is a bit boring to read. i myself abandoned the book once, and only uber-boredom turned me back again to the book. i finished the book, it gets better as you read. as you progress you will understand that the start was just the right thing. it is now one of the 2 books i really fell in love with, the other being LotR.

i have tried the following ways of recommending catch-22
1. it is a nice book. the start is little boring
2. it is a gr8 book. the beginning is a little difficult
3. it is the f**king greatest book ever.
4. plzzzzzzz read it
5. start reading the book or i will curse you and all of your family

sadly, none worked. there must be some curse on the 20th page, coz everyone who dared to read, stopped there. if someone finds some way you have tried successfully please let me know....

Ten things to describe this semester


The past 2-3 months had been a little different. but then, when you figure something out it changes the next moment. so at the beginning of this semester i had guessed everything that would happen in the next year. it hasn't so far come close. there is so much to write. so points, points, points....

  1. Confusion- what am i going to do with myself after college? there was a large number of options each lucrative in its on way. there were those signs that pointed one way or the other. not two pointed in the same direction. the solution - float until i wash up on some shore, why bother swimming when you can float with your eyes to the starlit night sky.
  2. jon had some years before came up with this 'switch' philosophy. it is making your mind impermeable under offensive condition. for me those switches haven't been working for some time now. it is still under repair.
  3. there is one thing i learned in the seventh semester of my engineering. its about love. i have have come to fear love, respect love and love love.
  4. i produced 4 stories in the past few months compared to the 3 i produced in 20 years. i fell in love with this paalam (പാലം ) outside our class. i sit by the window and gaze outside from 9 to 4 everyday. that is pretty much the only thing i do in college these days.
  5. i drew a cartoon inspired by xkcd and explosm. it is in my note and it need to be preserved. there is lot of things in my note that need to be preserved.
  6. i have had two days exposed to the highest kind of madness - explosm and roald dahl. both are awesomely crazy. roald dahl, second craziest author i have read, after Oscar Wilde.
  7. suffered laziness at its extreme - none of the muscles feel like moving. brain stops working..... and you r sure the next stage would be the freezing of heart muscles. the laziness earned me another name, to be added to the list of my names - sloth (did you know: sloths can move only one voluntary muscle at a time. that is why they are ssllllllllooooooowwwwww!!!!!!)
  8. had an array of mental states - inhuman to worse than a silly girl.
  9. had this thought: it doesn't take many days or even hours to make an impact on people. and you will wonder at the number of people that you had made an impact upon.
  10. need to be working on the main project. but look, here i am, blogging. i lack the initiative(or the push, whatever you call it) that i had during the first three years of college.
Bonus points
  1. i already feel nostalgic about college
  2. everthing appears dim, blurred and colourless, almost meaningless