MemoryMelange

Chennai to Tampa

2009-08-22T19:41:00.000-07:00

I started on 10th august early mornin to Tampa. Arambamae super!! i mistook the baggage-weight thing and packed up things awesomely wrong. My first step at chennai airport was getting a boarding pass whr they wud weigh ur baggages. Lolz. I was asked to remove almost 10kgs totally from two of my bags. :( What else cud i do!!?? I had to open my suitcases and everyone around started to look at me like a mini-grocery shop owner full of masala food stuffz and kitchen utensils carefully placed inbetween my clothes. Somehow i managed to reshuffle things and got clearance from there.Then everything went normal.Around 12:45am i boarded the plane. During this time i started talkin to a few MS-gonna-do guys, who too were boarding the same plane and helped me during my repacking at the airport. We exchanged our seats with other passengers and saw to that we 4 were sittin together.

The flight travel was quite a new experience. Somehow i got window seat.[Happa jannal seat :p.] I dint feel anythin much cos, as soon as the flight took off i started seeing the films :) The bad thing is tht i dont understand hindi much, and the good thing was all the hindi films has sub titles :). So saw dostana, luck by chance, race and dragon ball evolution [horrible, really this movie sucks !!! ]. The food provided was good, but failed to full my tummy :p. Then next, i had to wait for some 3 hours at brussels airport, which was really a huge place.

Then again boarded the same flight and reached New York the next day[I am seriously fucked up with the time change at places, cos it varies from place to place]. The jfk airport is one the biggest airports available. We managed to somehow see all the places of a single temrinal [thr were abt 12 to 13 terminals] with the two hours inbetween after the immigration and customs clearance.It so happens that, whateva we see in the shops are awesomely costly and ur mind naturally converts the dollars into rupees imme. :( So, i dropped even a idea of gettin a water bottle which is 2$ ['Wtf!! shell out 100 rupees for a litre of water!!?? Its ok. next flight la, we can get it free'- this is the mentality of almost all new ppl cmg here and iam no exception to it :)]. Then i waved a bye to the guys who accompanied me and boarded the next flight to my final destination, Tampa.

Soon i reached Tampa. To my pleasant suprze, thr was friend of mine[This saudi was actually my dad's friend co-worker studyin thr now. before startin i told him tht il cmg thr nu on tht day]. Within a few minutes a guy from the indian community came for my pickup too. After finishg the airport formalities, tht Indian guy and me went to collect my baggages. lolz. One of my bags got missed!!! Last, i saw it at new york b4 handin it to the customs.But it seems it normal for such things to happen pola. Imme i reported to the authoraties thr. Hopefully i should get it today or tomrw :)

Then we both went to McDonalds and had our dinner there. The awesome part is, these fuzzy drinks are unlimtd here once u pay a amt of 5 or 6$. Say lik u pay it once in the morng, u can refill the 600ml container how many ever times u want tht day.

Then i entered into my apartments which is just a 5 min walk from my campus. 4 of us gonna share this apartment. Its actually more than i expected. The rooms are quite big and furnished. A big hall with a kitchen and two rooms upstairs above this. As of now, i dont have a proper net connection. Iam usin some unauthorzd signal pickin up here :p. So from now, should start off with my wrks. Planng to get student id card today, which is essential for nethin u buy and newhere u go. Then one by one should strt doing things...openg a bank accnt... gettin a mobile connection... nd last but not the least.. search for job :( :)

10:00pm 12th august 2009

my EQ test

2008-12-06T11:06:00.000-08:00

Your EQ is 140

You are remarkable when it comes to relating with others. Only the biggest losers get under your skin.

You are warm and open. Even when life gets you down, you're unafraid of the world and its challenges.
You are comfortable with who you are. And you accept your weaknesses - as well as the weaknesses of others.

Your emotions aren't always stable, but you can go along with the ups and downs pretty well.
But you have enough emotional intelligence to know when you need a course correction.

What's Your EQ (Emotional Intelligence Quotient)?

12:37 AM 7/12/2008

Varanam Aayiram - in a lighter sense

2008-12-03T09:00:00.000-08:00

( :) ths post s a mix of englibish nd tamil )

Varanam Aayiram - right frm the day they released the stills, lik many i too went gaga over it.. nd when the songs nd promos came, lolz, thts it.. i went even more crazy abt the film.. ippa varuthu , appa varuthu nu, kadasila nov 14th release pannaga.. koduma enna na i had my ooad semester xam (analum inda sappa matter lan nambala stop pannuma !!?? from xam hall direct landing in theatre..rotfl :) )

padam 3 maneram... kathara kathara pathen.. surya vum harris jeyaraj mattum illana pathiliyae odipoirupanga audience..surya'z actg really rocked.. he has worked really hard in the portrayal of each phase in the lyf of the both the characters he took...his body lang, dialogue delivery et al was excellent....ella irundum padatha 3 hr pakamudiliyae .. gautham !! enna koduma sir eduthurikinga!!.. "daddy daddy ..daddy.. " ethana daddynga!!! scriptla ovovoru pageliyum inda varathaiya kandipa sekanuma !!?

first father surya.. theriyama than kekaren, avaruku velayae illaya.. oru scenayavadhu office pora daddy madri kamichirukalamae ... vituliyae thanni adichutu , simran mattum suthi suthi vararu.. enna, appa appa paiyan kitta nalla inspirational oru dialogue ae adichividuraru..ana ivaru super daddy.. paiyan enna pannalum ok than ivaruku.. ( roadla yaravadhu adicha,enga ooralalan paiyanuku adipadakudathunu than papanga.. kandipa thirupi adikiliyanu usupetha matanga..) AMERICA vae inga thana irukunu kamicha columbus sir ivaru !!! vitla than hero, ana pavam manishan.. setu kitta paiyan munnadi asinga padama samalikaruthukulla pothum pothum aagirukum.. nalla vela, surya drug edukum pothu atleast NO solrarae...aprt frm ths he gives good advice at the rite time..kudos daddy !!!

chota surya : scriptla ivaruku 2 std dialogues "daddy daddy ..daddy.. " "daddy, inspired by ur love fa mom".... itha thevayana edathula mattum sollirukalame.. arrears kuda mudikatha ivara nambi tvs company epdi than outsource pannicho.. lolz.. ivaruku ellamae inspiration daddy mattum than.. daddy pathu than love panna decide pannaru.. saraku kuda, daddy olichivacha bottle than thedi adiparu.. nalla paiyan than.. :) six pack develope pannirukinga.. othukuren.. athukunu second half anauna shirt ah remove pannanuma !!! right vidu.. inimae enaku ethavachu kanama pochu na, unga kitta than report pannuven..ninga thane 'therula' erangi thedi tharuvinga !!

sameera reddy..tharu maru !!! theatre la ellarukum meimaranthu pakra ore edam surya sameera scenes than.. ore doubt than.. love pannatha varaikum. "appa strictu.. appaku ithulam pudikathu... bla bla.. " ..love panna odanae "unna enga appaku romba pudikum.. onnumae kekamataru.. "..athu mattum epdi !!! lolz.. second half la surya jodiya yarumae varaliya gautham sir ?? en ipdi.. akka role irukuthunu sollikutitu vandingalo !!??

overall . film can be watched once.. music nd cinematography are two fields thats needs a mention.. screenplay cud ve been done bttr.. neways surya carried the film toppingly :)

p:s theatre la ella patukum clap pannalum , ezhunthu atam pota ore song ithuthan.. lolz.. enna karanammo !! lolz.... :)

Playin with emotionz

2008-12-01T07:35:00.000-08:00

its really a long long lonnnngggg time since i updated my blog... infact i forgot the fact that i too own a blog until recently i saw the link to this page in ma friend's blog.. .lolz.. :) really .. i started off this blog with an idea to bring out things that interested me r made me think.

really, the 5 months gap between this post and the previous one, lyf has taken me through a series of roller coaster jolts ....... ur true strength doesnt lie in weaving out a dulcet of good things, but how much u can withstand when ur continuously hit by bitter experiences.. when i sit back and retrospect the events that happend to me in the recent past, i had been too emotional and literally getting worked up.. when everything goes fine we naturally tend to be happy.. what if it happens the othr way around.. say, ppl around u may not understand u.. r the ones u tot 'can be trusted' may have back stabbed u.. its really difficult to take it in.. we get dejected and sad..lol..sometimes in those moments we even tend to get reminded of the happy moments we had earlier, which obviously saddens us further...experience is the best teacher for any man...bitter experiences must be tapped in such a way that they become ur drivin force..but, of late this tot had struck me.. how it wud be, if we learn to live a lyf emotionless.. be it any gr8 victory or the most miserable defeat.. take things in a calm attitude and approach the nxt one in a composed manner, shedding off all the emotions.. what eva hell u meet , dont loose the calmness within u..its always better that we control our emotions , rather than they deciding our mood.. time is somethin that introduces u to different kinds of ppl...different types of experiences and etc.. it shouldnt be necessary that all the ppl u meet are always good to u.. its better not to trust ppl until u truly know abt them.. few years back when my dad advised ths, lolz, lik any teenager i dint tak it seriously.. but now starting to get the inner meanin of his words.. an emotionless lyf doesnt mean tht u should live like a vegetable.. but it strikes a right balance in the 'amplitude' of ur 'lyf curve' that has both ups nd downs, without amplifyin them further....

dec 1st, 2008 9:15pm

Working of digi cams - simple explanation

2008-06-17T11:43:00.000-07:00

Currently the digital cameras work on the concept of CCD (charged coupled devices). To put it simple its somewhat like a matrix array inside your camera. When u take a snap, the light sensor is divided up into many small arrays of receptor cells. .. which are like small buckets that absorbs the light particles and stores them as electrical charges.The more light these arrays of cells exposed the more light is recorded. The charge generated by the CCD is stored as analogue information until it s digitized from analogue to digital converter or ADC. Every receptor in the array is equivalent to one pixel and it is the pixels that make up an image. these are anolog version is processed depending on the settings u keep.. the image quality can be kept in three modes.. low.. medium ..high.. the maximum size of an single image has reached approximately around117 mb.. but this methodology greatly depends on the light settings.. u might have seen tht when we take certain snaps.. there would be a red light blinking in the camera.. its an indication of lack of enough light to fill up the array buckets.
the other method is by using CMOS(Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) chips.The CMOS based sensors are manufactured using the same process that is used to mass produce DRAM and microprocessors. CMOS sensors are cheaper and easier to manufacture than CCD chips, as they are smaller and more energy efficient than CCD's. Generally speaking, digital cameras that use CMOS chips are usually lighter than their CCD counterparts.CMOS technology allows other circuitry to be incorporated into the same chips, making them useful to a manufacturer for use in other electronic applications.

18th june, 1:50am

Project exhibition @ my dept

2008-03-30T01:25:00.000-07:00

29th march 2008….. Today i went to college to see the projects made by my seniors... I was awestruck when I saw my lab…. computer science lab was full of electronics projects... lolz... I could hardly see any computer science projects... Almost every single project had chips, microcontroller and other stuffs... am not trying to degrade the hard work put by them or the standard of their projects…but why should a computer science guy do a electronics project, when his own discipline has exhaustive scopes… may be, making a model helicopter fly or making a model vehicle move on your command may look fancy.. But, for this why do we actually need to study four years of computer science..??? Engineering means more than making projects for the deaf and dumb which obviously aren’t commercialized... in the sense... I have never seen any of these projects reaching the people who really need them … Besides all this, yesterday I saw a guy silently sitting and working on his project... Even though his project didn’t attract much crowd as the other projects had… it was clearly the best one there... he had developed a software based open source project new to linux platform… he explained only the crux of the project… But it clearly gave away the hard work he had put in it...To my sense it somewhat resembled the wrapper classes we write for languages... hats off!!

Placement Fever :(

2008-03-29T10:17:00.000-07:00

A simple word that even shuts the most loquacious tongue in my class is ‘placement’… slightest utterance of ths word brings in dead silence within the class..lolz.. the expression on each face wud b like something had terribly gone wrong… some even happen to take notes which had already been repeatd umpteen no of times.. the latest craze amg, most of my class girls nd few of de boys s apti.. informally they r studyin ths with 6 semester pprs as 7^th ppr.. We had been expectin our placmnt dates since feb..nd finally they ve been declared.. 14^th may.. kewl!! one day aftr my semester gets over.. wow. So much time left fa us to prepare..!!??!! have they given the slightest thought abt those who terribly rely on the last 3 days b4 ne xam??… what does this actually mean… do they want us to be spontaneous for this.. r does the companies jus wanna fill the positions for their prospects..whateva mayb.. only those who had sincerely hit the books al these days would attend confidently.. k.. me signin off.. gtg.. atleast at ths point I must get a r.s.agarwal…lolz..

Destiny of Mankind

2008-03-28T08:56:00.000-07:00

Models xams are fast approaching and each time i take my book, the lyrics of linkin park... nakka mukka.. katthala kannala trackz keep runnin in my mind..Unfortunately every time i try to concentrate on my studies, it gets backfired nd i finally end up closin the book... think the same s gonna happn durin the model.. lolz. one thing s fa sure.. Human brain s made of weird stuff... can u imagine the vast amount of information stored in a 1.2kg hard disk..but there are still some questions for which it doesn’t give a proper theory r answer....

These are de two questions tht i have been askin myself frm childhood days

1) WHY ARE V HERE?

2) WHY WAS I BORN?

there are a series of other ques tht link to ths.. does only earth has living organisms? .. whtz beyond the milky way galaxy.. nd wht lies thr..k..i dont want to perplex ths more.. the whole pattern of this design s complictd..il put it simple.. We are born. We live. We die. Is there a point to it all?.. this happens to b one of the greatest mysteries yet to b unearthed..

I have searched the net exhaustively and till now, haven’t got ne convincing answers…but, I have found certain ppl who have the same school of thought.. for eg.. Ann Druyan, the author and widow of astronomer Carl Sagan..had quoted tht "All other mysteries lie downstream of this question,It matters to me because I am human and do not like not knowing."

Scientifically,

they have given various hypothesizes lik big bang theory and the concept of inflation etc.. but even as the theories attempting to solve this mystery grow increasingly complex, scientists are hauntd by the possibility tht some of de most critical links in their chain of reasoning is wrong.

Philosophically,

Buddha’s answr to de question of why we were born is..

Sankhara parama dukkha,

Nibbanam paramam sukham.

Etam natva vathabhu tam

Santimaggam va bruhayeti.

Compounding is utter misery,

Nirvana is highest bliss.

Really knowing this truth.

One is on the Path to Peace.

somehow , am still left unconvinced with these speculations.. mayb time should ly answr ths..

CSE , at its zenith

2008-03-28T02:45:00.000-07:00

25th and 26th 2008..At sairam campus, these two days completely belongd to the dept of cse.. wow.. we rockd.. firstday, we, the third years gave a memorable farewell to our seniors.. even though the function started in a monotonous way.. .the scintillating dance perf by the third yrs completely changd the atmosphere…. my classmates prem, divya and vasugi made their on-stage dance debut[as a mattr of fact they danced lik profesnls]… and it happnd to b golden oppur fa JAIKUMAR to exhibit his ‘gigantic’ dance talents.. lolz… thn came sathya’s presentation.. phew!! The blackcats standing outside must have heard nothing but, the auditorium crackin into loud laughter bursts fa the nxt 15 min..[must ve thought the dept musta gone nuts].. every fouth yr’s foto was kalasified with kewl bgm stuff.. hats off to sathya.. thn, again we had the usual talks by our lecturers.. nd last but not the least we were forcd to listen to a convocation speech accidently made durin the farewell day, happily rendered by our respectable dean..

Nxt day we had the culturals… right frm the start of off- stage events we had hard feelings towards the judges ...nd many other series of incidents made us stand third whn the day started.. our last chance was the on stage events whr our forte lied.. first, the dance event.. the choreography and coordination gave a clean sweep towards the first place.. thn we had the variety show.. whr our enna koduma saravan team cudn’t make their thoughts reach the audience.. luckily, due to the generosity of othr depts we stood third.Meanwhile, antagonism prevailed among ECE nd the CSE ians.. cos, both of us were closer to the cup.. .. the last event was ad-zap.. which also happnd to b the do r die moment.. Winning ths wud surely tak us to the cup.. the right mix of talent and enthusiastic support from the audience did the trick.. atlast we WON THE CUP!! aftr 6 yrs… The din and tumult made by us boomed throughout the auditorium.. thn, we were arranged a light music [‘kuthu music’ wud b more appropriate] for tht eveng.. but it was actually lik a celebration party for us.. from chndrn to anand everyone dancd ..lolz.. to give finishing touch.. we ran a train around the college campus while the fireworks sparkld in the dark night.. wow..everyone thr wud nvr forget tht moment….. one thing the cultural etched within me is the direct proportionality between teamwork and success….kudos to seniors!!!

The kickoff !!!!

2008-03-27T23:48:00.000-07:00

Here goes my first posting.. all these days i had a preconceived notion tht the 'blogging stuffz' are not fa me.. i never had the slightest thought of bcomg a blogger.. but.. times chnge nd so ve i.... jus a fortnight ago i realised tht, ths s a simple yet powerful medium to express ur thoughts.. a complete space provided to u to xpress ur ideas nd percepts.. ths stuff somewht makes me relate ths to the old kings who engrave the incidents tht happnd in their lyf time on temple rocks which can b seen by us today.. am not sure whtr my blog wud b one such thing..lolz..