Life Reloaded!!!

Last month committee selection took place in my college (such as AlumCom, PlaceCom, B-Gyan). Being active in such during my college days, it was obvious for me to apply for such committees. But this time I decided not to. Reason? There are few which are as follows: Many of the committees do the same job under different name. For e.g AlumCom brings an alumni of NITIE who can guide us, brief us about his management experience. Now even Samiksha and B-Gyan are doing the same. Few weeks a ago we had Mr. Ashwin Jacob from KPMG brought by B-Gyan, previous to that Mr. Sunil Shidwalker from Delloitte (Whenever I hear/read this name, I keep wondering why I had skipped this Biggie in my campus placements) had come. Obviously these committees are doing great job but why have 12+ people in each committee where they are more or less achieving the same purpose (exceptions Impact, PlaceCom and Prerana) Now the most important reason. In my Ruparel days I was busy with studies. I regretted not...

     After, I don’t know how many years I finally won a game of Carom. And that too against someone like Jitendra. Aditya, Viraj and Nik always made a fun of my style. No doubt they are better players than me, but I seemed to have lost interest in winning a Carom game, as I would assume that I am going to lose against them. P. S.: I am one of the very few people who are proper “right handed” but play Carom left handed. Most people are surprised by this fact. Are you?

     A year ago I had gone to Jeetu’s home in Pimpri along with my friends. I had told Jeetu about Ubuntu a lot times previously, so he was curious to see how Ubuntu really works. I had brought Ubuntu CD which we used to install Ubuntu on his Sony Laptop. Unfortunately, since used the Wubi installer which was in its early stages of development, his Vista got corrupted. Obviously he was pissed off with this, I thought he would never again try Ubuntu.      One year down the line since that incident, there is a total contrast in the way we are using our laptops. Jeetu has installed Ubuntu on his Laptop on his own and since then been using Ubuntu instead of Vista. On the other hand, even though I had installed Ubuntu on my laptop, I hardly used it (one of the reasons being lack of connectivity in NITIE which means I won’t be able to download and install software from net for Ubuntu). In fact, for past one month, I have become a proper Windows user w...

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     On last Wednesday and Thursday, I had my first forum interview. I had earlier skipped committees and wanted to join only those forums where my skills would be utilized properly. Mastishk was one of them. I had earlier worked on an online gaming contest, i.e. VJTI’s very own Virtual Stock Market.      First interview was more technical, was much better than the second one. The second wasn’t bad actually. Just that I could not answer some “why?”. For e.g. “Why you didn’t apply for committees?”. They even tried to stress interview me, by telling me that I wont be able to study in August as I would be coding for Mastishk and might have to miss quizzes in the classes (implying zero in class test). I was really confused at that moment. But hey, I am a Naruto fan, and even I don’t know when to give up. I kept saying that I would be able to manage it. They even said that it might affect my summer internship. Finally, at the end of the interview the...

What I like about Naruto is that the writers always come up with something new and interesting. Recently, I was going through wiki of Naruto where I found that most of the characters and their names have references to the Japanese mythology. The thing which amazed me was the Power of Mangekyo Sharingan. The power of Sharingan, the eyes possessed by the almost extinct clan of Uchihas(Sasuke Uchiha being the anti hero of the series), is related to the Mythology. There is ancient Myth that when Izanagi a deity, comes out of underworld, he washes his face which gives birth to 3 gods – Amaterasu (the Sun goddess) from his left eye, Tsukuyomi(the moon god) from his right eye and Susanoo (storm god)from his nose. Now, in Naruto, the possessor of Mangekyo Sharingan receives these 3 gods’ power – Tsukoyomi, a genjutsu where the victim is stuck in an imaginary world in night under the moon, Amaterasu – highest form of fire which makes it burn anything, and Susanu – creates a spiritual being whi...

     What I am talking about is our Google group. We have long tradition of big group conversations which usually divert from the main topic in first 5-10 replies itself. There will be one guy or girl who comes up with a totally funny reply.      For some period now these discussions had stopped because people got busy with their post grads, jobs, etc. I was really missing those threads where you would have either Anup/ Gabaru or KK being targeted. But I am really happy to say we are back!!!.      Maddy, Sidscope mi barobar bolalo na???

This is how it begins… http://www.onemanga.com/Naruto/1/01/

Lesson No. 1 Greed is a very bad thing. Be careful and don’t be greedy Lesson No. 2 It is not enough to know lesson no. 1, you need to follow it too….

This one was the “WHOA!!!” moment of my life. On Saturday, mine was the only section to have lectures. We were informed at the end of lecture that a session was organized by Prof. Prasad where a NITIE alumni was going to come to guide us about the NITIE’s special project- “Hamara Dhanda”. Let me first tell you about “Hamara Dhanda”. NITIE has a unique way of identifying entrepreneurial abilities in students. A group of 4-5 students have to form a company and continue to run it successfully. Aim is to produce at least 3-4 ideas which are new and can be taken forward by experienced people once the group passes out. It gives the students exposure to company internals, how it is built, the actual implementation of the theories learnt in the lectures. Secondly, I would like mention the way I organize my music collection. I have around 8+GB of music ( 99% Hindi) which I have divided into multiple folders of around 500-600 MB each. The reason for selecting 500-600MB is that it should fit in...

In case you have not noticed it, GMail is finally out of beta!!!

“People can have the Model T in any colour--so long as it's black" - Henry Ford

A dropout will beat a genius through sheer hard work. - Rock Lee to Naruto

Remember the time when we use to say, "Lets meet and plan something", Now are the days when we say, "Lets plan and meet someday" Friends are the same, priorities have changed....

Just received an SMS from Yatin. Thought I would share it with you all - What to do when you face choices?? Simple Just toss a coin It works Not because it settles the question, But while the coin is in the air, You suddenly know what your heart is hoping for…… Technorati Tags: sms

NITIE's famous Pond

Whoa!!! What a match!! I am really proud to have watched the last set of yesterday’s Wimbledon Final. Initially when I came to know that Roger was pitted against Roddick in the final, I thought it would be a piece of cake for the swiss master. But Andy played the best tennis of his life. He not only dragged the match into 5 sets, but also took final set to 14-16. In fact, Federer was not able break the booming Roddick serve till the last game. In fact, it basically came down to who loses his serve. Federer was coming up with Aces when he needed and Roddick was making those unplayable body serves. To be honest, Roddick has improved a lot in last few months. He even improved his record in French Open last month. He was regarded as a one dimensional player with a great serve. Even though I am a great fan of Federer, it felt a little sad to see Andy lose like that. He wasted 4 set points in second set. He not broken in the whole match till the deciding game. Hopefully, as Roger said, And...

Naruto and Harry Potter!!!! What can be connected between them? Well, I have been great fan of both the series. Have you observed the biggest similarity between the two? Naruto and Harry are both orphans, that too because an evil attacked their homes, and one of their parents sacrificed so that the kid will live on. Harry’s mother sacrifices herself whereas Naruto’s father “The  4th Hokage”, often called as “The 4th”, uses the “Death Reaper Jutsu”, a forbidden jutsu which rips his soul from his body into Death Gods container forever. Take it a little further, both have a part of the evil inside them. Harry is the 7th Horcrux of Voldermort, whereas a part of the Nine Tailed Fox’s soul is intentionally stored inside Nartuo by The 4th. Both get special powers because of this. Harry is a parcel tongue whereas Naruto has 2 levels of chakra and can perform “Multi-shadow clone jutsu”, a forbidden jutsu because of its high level of Chkra consumption. Potter series has magic and ...

We have had total 24 lectures out of 32. We would have to sit for extra lectures afterwards :(

The story of Naruto manga is taking a decisive turn now. It has been more than 6 months now since I started reading Naruto manga. Sasuke is heading to the 5 Kages meeting, and I expect he will face off with Naruto there. As usual the story will move slower than what readers want. I also eager to see the “Pain Arc” in the Animated form- basically the 6 paths of Pain, his Raningan, and his various abilities, and obviously his fight with Naruto. For people who want to read Naruto manga: http://www.onemanga.com/Naruto/   Technorati Tags: naruto

Just started writing Industrial Engineering where I have to write about a company. Need to write minimum 20 pages (one side). Lets see how much time it takes. By the way, an ultimate co-incidence happened today. I will blog about it tomorrow. Now, I am a firm believer of “The Secret”.

From the 6th floor (photographer- Susmit)