OOP!!!

"Electives"- what comes to your mind when i say that word?... Ask any Bitsian, the spontaneous answer will be ..."An easy 'A' Grade!".Yeah....I'm also one among them....

It was my third year beginning.Back from the vacation with a lot of plans, very unrealistic ones. Just like every year,i vowed to do well atleast that semester. As usual was too confident or rather over confident and was too sure that i would do well that semester.I wanted to make all kinds of positive moves.I too planned to take an Elective just like most of my wingies.Then started the discussion, what elective should we take? DP.... SimLog..... IWMM ..... ComNet.....OOP....a lot more came to our mind..... some decided to take DP, while some decided on IWMM (which meant the easiest A).Myself and Bala decided to go for OOP,as though we were some computer geeks!.Everyone warned us about OOP.Seven Sup-T,three online tests,one assignment with heavy weightage and all that components meant lot of hard work was needed.Knowing my attendance rate and amount of time i spend studying, my wingies advised not to go for OOP.But as usual, my thadi took over me.I took the course.The worst of all, Bala also took that course following me!

OOP class was at the seventh hour(2.00 P.M) of monday series.It was the worst class hour that anyone would ask for.Right after the lunch, no one feels like goin' to the class.So did I feel.But somehow forced myself to attend the class cos i had vowed to do that sem well.To add to my laziness, the OOP instructor was too bad and heard it was better not to attend any class than to attend his!I decided..."Thats it !! I'm not goin' to that class anymore".So, just like any other course, I stopped attending OOP class in the second week of that semester and Bala also stopped attending that class.At times, we both used to go to that class for Sup-T 's sake. Moreover, I wanted to attend atleast one Sup-T in my bitsian life ( it doesn't mean i didnt have Sup-T in any course before that . just that i never attended any!).

Time went.There came the first OOP test.It was on thursday.Unlike other subjects, I read for this one.Not for a day or two but for 4 days.I felt confident or rather over confident.But that was normal for me.I never touch the book, but when i do that.I start feeling as if i'm a master in that one!.We went to the test.It was in the first hour.Second hour we had EDIC Tuts.But who cares about that EDIC!.After the test, i was confident of making av +. and quite naturally, i didnt go to collect the paper.One night, i saw MP in the mess and he told me that I had made av - 10 in my first test.Well, surely this wasn't the start i wanted for my elective.I was really pissed off.But as usual, gussed it.I just told myself,"I dont give a damn !"

Then came the second test! I wasn't in a mood to write the test.I decided to get a makeup for that one.I inquired about the OOP IC.Everyone said he was pretty sac.So Myself and Bala took makeup for the Second test!We sent our request letters through MP.I waited for the makeup test for the next two weeks.No notice was put up.I just told myself "just forget it!".Then came the time for the assignment.We submitted the assignment group.A Group of Five was allowed.But we just had three in our group.Myself, Bala and MP.None of us were interested in working for the project.We somehow submitted the first module of the assignment copying from some group.

Then we heard that we had missed the first two Sup-T.So, myself and Bala decided to attend the common hours atleast, there after.We went to the common hour.It was 8.05 A.M. Even then Instructor did not come.Everyone started leaving the class.So we too left the class.While walking back, I heard someone say, as the makeup test was scheduled that day, the instructor didn't turn up.I was totally shocked.Then we both ran down to the IPC Notice Board from FD-1 upstairs.We found the notice there.We had forgot that thing cos of the OASIS Fever.The test was happening in FD-2.So, we ran to 2206. The instructor had asked to submit the medical prescription the previous day which we didnt do.So, the instructor asked us for the prescription.We didnt have it with us that time.He asked us to bring it.Time was 8.20 A.M. We went to our room and brought the prescription and the OOP Book as it was an open book test.Then after showing the prescription he allowed us to write the test.We were the first people to leave the hall though we started late!Then after a few days, we learnt that we had made av in that test!

Then came the assignment submission, we didn't write any code.We submitted some empty file with some other files which had nothing other than few variable declaration statement.After that we got screwed properly in the viva.There came the precomp total.Myself and Bala, we both had made some av -30 . All our "'A' in Elective" dreams have gone.Then, all that we wanted that time was a 'C'.We wanted to avoid the embracement of making a 'D' in an Elective.But to add to the worries, our OOP Compre was scheduled in between two CDCs! we tried to read for that one.As usual, we slept and atlast we had read for only 3 hours totally for that exam.We went to the compre and got a very unusually rod ...or rather roddest paper for the objective section.No hopes.We wrote something and came back.We didnt even bother to collect the compre paper.When we were in Delhi waiting for TN Express, we got the news from Pilani that myself and Bala have made av + 25 in the compre! That surely was the most unexpected news of that semester! Thank God....At last i was able to make a 'C' in that one....!

Bala saw my other blogs and he wanted me to write about our OOP test .Thats how this blog came!

A Bitsian Nostalgia

Past :

It was an usual winter day in Pilani......cold weather....freezing....frightening to think of that ice cold water.... fog was covering every inch of the bhawan corridor......even the ever active ...ever studying ghottu in my wing was asleep.....It was cold even inside the room......... not inside my rug....yeah....that was my heaven.....i would say ...there was nothing so heavenly.....like.... sleeping inside the rug on a cold winter day.....Room no:257,Budh Bhawan......yeah....that was my room......I never felt like coming out of it...when it was winter...... So did i feel even thatday......

BEEP!!BEEP!!.....hmm.....sounded familiar.....a very familiar sound..... oh.. yeah... that was praga's alarm clock.... it must be 7.55 A.M...... I heard some noise outside my room...... footsteps...... hurrying...towards to bogs....then...again in seconds ....hurrying back to the room....then the shouting started...."lets go to tuts..!!" ....." wake up da....idiot!!" ...i heard all sorts of foul words..... Determination.... yeah....i was showing a great deal of determination....."wont come out of my come....whatever....you say!"......then the banging started.....looked like i can't pretend to be asleep anymore.....i opened the door...unwillingly....hmm... as expected...praga was standing there.....he was telling me it was already 8..... time for tuts....I heard a voice in me..... "curse that tuts man!....why do they have these tuts everyday....! .... which idiot's idea is this tut thing!".....I told myself...."i juz cant take it any longer!....I waiting to get outta this shit..."

I went out.... and got ready for the tuts..... searched for my pen..... couldn't find that.....oh there...it is...it was inside my computer cabinet....safest place in my messed up room...... i took that ...examined it....checked if it was working.....nope...wasn't ......i ran to the H Wing .....knocked the first room.....no reply.....started banging...then slowly...a first yearite...came out....asking what was my problem...i asked him for a pen.....before he gave it to me...i snatched it from his hand....was already.....on my heels.....

The whole budh bhawan......road was covered by fog..... couldn't see anything beyond 10 ft........after a good sprint.....entered the class in FD-2..... even on that cold day....i could feel the heat in my Instructor's look.....oops ...did i call that a look....it was a stare...!..... but nothing was new to me......after all...i was a regular customer.....:) .... then took the tuts paper and went to a bench.... and started turning the Mu-E (Micro Electronics)book..in all directions....(it was an OB tut....else i wouldn't have come!!!) ...... "oh..yeah..there it is!...thats the answer....how could they afford to give such a stupid problem straight from the book.....that too.....in an OB...!".... I laughed....told myself..."Its your day...man!!!".... copied that problem....from the book...hurriedly....before i could finish.....i heard the instructor shout "Time up"...Somehow ...i managed to finish it and returned the paper to the instructor..... walked out of the class....

We guys started walking back towards bhawan.... while other studs left for the class (never had the habit of attending any class)..... On the way back ....i heard someone say..." The problem looked easy...but there was a small twist in that....did any of you notice that?"... thats what i was searching for...."Oh Dear!!! you missed it even today!!!one more zuk!! can't even open the account in this god damn course!!" ....well..i was sad..... not for making a zuk..... but for goin' to that tut.....could have slept a little more......

Then we came to the mess .....checked the breakfast....it was the same...uppma........surely that wasn't the best of my days.....went to the mess biah and asked for bread and jam...got that ....... came to the table....ate that bread and jam ... talked about the Marudhara cup.....that was scheduled for the weekend.... then we started walking towards the bhawan.....there it was....back in my clavern....once again...i got inside my rug...my heaven....sleeping.....with all my heart.....

Present:

The same..usual...typical Bangalore morning.....pleasant weather....I wake up at
8.30....dont hear anyone shout...dont hear anyone bang....... take all my time to get out of the bed..... come downstairs....brush my teeth.... take the newspaper....start reading all the crap...... then...when i feel there is nothing more left in that paper.....go to the bathroom.....get ready......

I come downstairs....lock the house.........take my bike..... "oh man....!!! not again....not this traffic...not the signals....not this...BMTC buses..!"....there it is... I'm maneuvering my bike through the dense traffic....i get to my office at around 11.....time for breakfast....call Bala on his phone....we both have our breakfast..in the 8th floor....come back...."oh..cha...forgot my coffee!"....get my coffee...when i settle down in my seat....the time...is 12.........start the coding from where i left the previous day.....i hear some sound in my stomach....probably some kind of acidic reaction.....is that some kind of a signal..."oh..i have to get something for my lunch!".....look at my watch....it is ten past three.....i go to the cafeteria and get bread & omelette.... then come back to my seat in half an hour...then i realise.... I 'm late for my all-hands meeting....rush to the conference room.....Thank God....my manager has not come yet.....i sit down....with a coffee in my hand.... time goes in a flash....it must be around 4.30 or probably 5.....come back....start doing the correction that my manager had said in the meeting......it is 7.30.....i feel..it's the time to leave home....go downstairs....start my bike......

Then something strikes me..... "oh...Am I really longing for this life....is this the real world....real life...that i was searching for ! " .... God created...everything in pair....He created....day...then...said...let there be night......He created light.....and then said....let there be darkness......He created good and to balance that.....He created the evil......He created Happiness and then said....let there be Sadness ......Experiencing only one half creates an imbalance....Any state when its prolonged ....human mind doesn't like...."Change"....it searches for Change....Well.....we learn to accept that....digest that....after all....Life has to go on!

Silence

Everyone have their way to telling things out....few of us tell it out gently....a few... shout it... a few of us...gesture it.....but we all have moments when our silence spoke for us...spoke more than what we could have spoken.....Silence....is it a way of making others experience what you feel .... A more clear way of conveying your untold feelings....i really dont know....

A moment where you silence conveyed more than your words ....did you ever have that?.....Try to think of such a moment....... you love someone so dearly that you want to live every moment of your life with her.... but you can't tell it out to her.... b'cos .... you are afraid that you might lose her.......but why will you lose her?i dont have a reason !!! its just the fear....the fear of losing your loved one...... now, the moment comes ....where you have to seperate......you have to leave her.... you sit with her.... hold her hand.... make an honest attempt to say whatever you have in your heart.....but....there is a much better way of conveying that..... you sit next to her......hold her...hand....stay silent..... let the silence do the talking..... silence conveys.....

Or imagine this....... you love your dad n mom very much...times comes...when you have to go abroad.....you have to spend atleast three or four years there..... they miss you a lot.....Of course...they are happy to see their son go abroad......And you too miss them a lot.....you dont know how to express that....you take your mom n dad...out for a dinner.....tell them...how much you love them...how much you are gonna miss them.....but....there is always this option.....the better option....silence.....your silence always conveys more....much more than you could say.........
if there's something ....that can convey unexpressible...its surely.....silence....

A Pleasant Drive

It has been a long time since i posted my last blog....!!!well....nothing motivated me to write a blog all these days....but..this drive...as soon as i came back from this place...i decided to write a blog about this place!!!
Date : 27.08.2005
7.00 A.M
I woke up hearing some rustling sound in the room.I found something was different.Only then i realised, i'm not in Indiranagar.I had come to BTM Layout the previous day to meet anand , praga and everyone. But to my dismay everyone there except Anand was goin' to some DLPD Exam Invigilation.So myself and Pomi were kinda disappointed.Everyone left at around 7.30 A.M. I turned towards Pomi and Anand.Both of them were asleep.Neither did i expect them to be awake.I turned on the computer.I started watching some movie.
10.00A.M
Pomi woke up slowly.Then Anand woke up.We were feeling hungry and decided to get our breakfast soon atleast before 11 !!!! All of a sudden, I asked them....if we could leave to "Mekedatu"? Anand wasn't too impressed with the idea.But i told him that it really a nice drive in NH. Almost immediately Anand agreed and we decided to leave as quick as possible.

Destination : Mekedatu Vehicles - me and pomi in Wind 125, Anand in his pulsar. Distance- 95 Kms (approx)

11.00 A.M
We started from BTM Layout.I read about this place in a blog.So as per the blog we decided to start from JayaNagar and follow the same route.On the way, we filled in fuel and also got the money from the atm.(Dont look for any ATM centers r Petrol Bunk near Mekedatu....there isin't any).We went to JayaNagar and asked for KanapuraRoad.We were given direction and we followed that route.We were again in BTM!!! then we somehow reached the NH-209 (Mysore highway).We went 2 kms along the highway and stopped to have our breakfast.We forgot to get the Digi camera.So we had brought Anand's conventional one.So we thought we 'll get the film role and batteries.
11.30 A.M
We started again and decided to cover a decent distance before the next stop.As we covered some 10 kms, the traffic eased out.The concrete jungle of Bangalore vanished.We were travelling along nice green fields. We stopped again to have some tea.We took our first snap here.Then we started again.The sun was playing hide and seek.It was cloudy at times but mostly sunny.It was disappointing that we had to travel in that hot weather.We reached Kanakapura (approx 45 kms from Bangalore).
1.15 P.M
We didnt stop at kanakapura.We went along the Mysore highway till we reached a place where there was a board saying the right fork of the road leads to "Sangama".We took that one.The road looked very bad with lots n lots of potholes.But surprisingly the rough road ended in not more than half a kilometer.Then we were travelling in a very well maintained Country road.The drive was pleasant.The surroundings were much more green than we expected.We reached a checkpost.We were asked to travel straight for Sangama.The uphill wasn't too steep for we couldn't differentiate much between the uphill n plain's journey.The road wasn't too plain.They were full of ups n downs.We travelled another 25 kms with occasionally stopping for snaps.
2.45 P.M
We saw an arch which led to Chunchi Falls.We skipped that.We travelled straight for Sangama.Then it got gloomy and started raining.It was too good.The distant fields were covered by slight mist and the scenery was awesome.We enjoyed the ride in rain.Then again in another 7-8 kms we came to the Ghat road.The climb down was steep.We came across 3-4 hairpin bends.Then we reached our first destination-Sangama.The road ended there.We parked our bikes there.
3.30 P.M
Sangama is the place where river Cauvery and river Arkavathy confluence.We crossed the river and we were surprised to find a bus on the other side of the river.We took that bus.We travelled 4 kms in that bus to reach "Mekedatu".This is the place where river Cauvery flows through narrow gorge where even a goap can leap across the river.But legendary Mekedatu(Goat's leap) no longer exists as goap's leap, i guess.The gorge has been widened because of the constant erosion by the river.But the sight was awesome.The swift flowing river.Water splashing against the rocks.But we were cautious and didnt try to get near the water.It was too fast with lot of swirls.So we stayed on the rocks and enjoyed the sight for another half an hour before the bus driver called us.We had to leave that place as the bus was about to start.But we decided to come back to this place and spend atleast a day here.
5.45 P.M
We had tea in Sangama and started our bikes.We wanted to reach Kanakapura before it was dark.As we planned we reached Kanakapura and it started raining again.But this time,it was not a drizzle.We continued driving in the rain.At times, we stopped in some tea stall as the rain got heavy.We reached Bangalore at 9 P.M.
No doubt, Mekedatu is awesome.If you think MG Road and Brigade Road are the only places to visit when you come down to Bangalore, you are wrong. You can see the true colours of Karnataka only outside Bangalore. Village girls carrying pots of water on their head,thatched roofs,huts,cattles,lush green fields,dense forest.....what else....you name it....you 'll find it....If you are a nature lover.....you 'll surely love this drive.