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???