Virtual Editor

Virtual Editor is a tool which edits for proper style, grammar and usage. To use it for checking any grammatical errors, just upload the doc file from here. What it does is that it compares the document against a database of authoritative style rules and then shows us the errors.

I was particularly looking for tool like this, as it would help me to write better. The tool can be enhanced a lot so that it correctly pinpoints the grammatical mistake. I think it could be embedded with browser so we can directly check errors as we write.

Got this link via: DailyWritingTips

BCB5

My plan for this weekend ..

The beauty is

The beauty is certainly in the Deatils.

I was following many articles regarding telecom industry, though I was reading them from a Managers perspective (which is basically to look things from strategic view). But now I have been assigned to study on particular technology and see if it can be ported on our platform. I am loving that, as now I am supposed to know in and out of the platform, the messages which are sent from one layer to another etc. Certainly I could say the beauty lies in the details, more deep you go you can appreciate the beauty within.

This is the news I was waiting for

I have been tracking the rumors regarding GPhone. I think everyone loves to talk about Google nowadays. There has been so much speculation regarding Google phone that it will change all the equations, it will revolutionize the entire industry. As I am working in Mobile platforms I had to keep a close eye on whats happening in the industry.

So the news came today, those rumors were false. Google is not making GPhone, but they have announced Open handset alliances which comprises of something around 30 companies including biggies such as Google, NVidia, TI, HTC etc. So something new is going to happen in few years. They want to standardize the entire Mobile platform like our PC's so that any one can install any applications they like.

Waiting for 11th Nov to look at SDK and other details.

Its time to do something

I have been reading a lot of stuff lately. Mostly related to mobile technology. Went to OCC meet at Bangalore too. Met there interesting people, people who had started their own company, people who are into IT business for a long time. So in all having a nice time.

But now is not the time to just read blogs or track how google is performing or read the specification of google phone. I am in now my twenties and if I am not doing something at this age then probably couldn't do in future. This is the very high point of my life. I am in Bangalore where so many bits move around, outsourced from US to here and then back. Its probably the best place to stay, and also my company with its cool (European) work culture is optimum for me to do something. Bring out something best from me.

So its not the time for just reading and thinking only, its the time to DO...

Pretence and nothing else

Its 29th of this month, which means that its about a month I have joined the new company. And still hasn't done anything. Just pretending to work. Pretending to solve something, compiling code from baseline and then run the code. Procrastinate the work to the fullest possible. Even my manager comes to me and asks me how am I doing because I am not showing my face to him for weeks, try to run away from him. I don't know why but I am in the same mode which I used to be during college days. Not doing anything in the lab hours,talk at length with pc.

I want to change my self, I don't want to be the same chintan which used to be at college not doing anything just sitting and thinking like all the mango mans in the world. In fact I don't want to be one of them, a aam adami. Lets hope things might be different from this moment on and I do some productive work rather than just following Dilbert principle for staying away from boss.

Mysore Trip

I made it.. I wanted to be at mysore and I went there alone. Checkout pics from here.

When no one responds to your call, walk alone. Walk alone.

Group Dynamics

I was planning to go to Mysore today as I wanted to be there during dussera. I was planning to go alone. I knew if I am going to ask my friends and tell them to make a plan then it would just remain as a plan. Because usually when you want to go in as group then mostly due to one person the entire plan would fail. If anyone says yaar chodo nahi jaana hai then entire groups morale would die and eventually everyone would sit at home.

The same expected thing happened. I am at home writing this blog and other friends are planning to go to MG Road. This way I am spending my weekends. I don't want to spend my time like this. I am cursing my self and telling that I should have went alone without asking my friends.

Big Idea : Abstraction

"Any problem in computer programming can be solved by adding a level of Abstraction"
"Performance can be improved by removing a level of Abstraction"


I am also adding another layer in order to solve problem.

Remembering Gandhi

Was following Gandhi for a quite while now, read his biography 'satyana prayogo' Gujarati version of 'My Experiments of Truth' also watched Gandhi My Father movie recently. I really appreciate the work and his philosophy. Many people accuse him or his philosophy, they think that if Gandhi was not there then we would be independent much earlier and so on.

But what I feel is Gandhi wanted to build the society. His movement was not against the Britishers but it was against the system which was installed or working. His way was much more difficult to follow and it was based on fundamental principle of Truth and Love. And to follow on such path requires strong conviction and character.

I was asking my self one question yesterday that if I was born in 1900s or during that era so I would be around 20s when Gandhi started his Satygraha movement. So which movement I would have chosen ?? Satyagraha or Krantikari movement which was the spirit of youth at that time ?? I was thinking between these two philosophies ..

No doubt both were very much patriotic and they were correct in their ways but I would prefer Gandhian way. Because it's important to Live for country rather than die for it.

Yesterday there were many news regarding the mistake Noble committee made not to honor him with peace prize despite nominated for 5-6 times. And one viewer on CNN iBN aptly replied that Gandhi do not require any awards or recognition and if the committee feels that they missed Gandhi then they should rename the prize as 'M.K.Gandhi Peace prize'.

Be the change you want to make in the world. -- Mahatma Gandhi

dilbert and only dilbert

Incidentally I too got fired just after publishing this post :(

Tao of AOE

the basic philosophy of playing AOE ..

To rise from ashes
To expect the unexpected
To lose oneself in imagination
To fight till last breath
To face the darkest fears
To survive against all odds

its not about just playing the game

its the way of life too..........

bullshit.ppt

I think powerpoint presentation has enabled people or rather empowered them to convey loads of shit to people. I am experiencing it now being at the other side. I gave many presentations during my ug and won some prizes but that was all really crap. Today I fell like victim of powerpoint presentations. Today I feel what overdose of ppt can cause

Last few day I got heavy dose of ppts .. infact some 300 slides .. all telling something about RTOS .. faculty is not from academics they all are company people so basically even if they know practically, don't know how to teach .. so the simple solution for them is create ppts .. they come to class start with slides, show some slides and jump to next one ..

I don't know whom to blame for this wonderful tool. I think its blessing for manager whose basic task is to convey some or other bullshit. For teaching purpose only blackboard (sorry ! white board with marker) should be used.

Tommorow also I have to be prepared to listen to bullshit_new.ppt

I can't help..

She dragged me into quagmire .. more i try to come out of it , more i get into it ..

She is sitting in front of me .. i really cant think anything else .. the teacher is teaching the topic which i love .. he is teaching ARM processor but here i am deep in the thoughts .. nothing i can think beyond her .. after some time i tell to my self that okay leave this concentrate .. but again into it .. more i try more deep i go ..

So the same old story .. i am not talking to her .. just enjoying watching her .. Lost .. seriously lost .. i don't know how to approach her or talk to her ..somebody help !! but now i am enjoying every glimpse of her ..

Seriously i can't help .. falling in love with you

Freakonomics

In Levitt's view, economics is a science with excellent tools for gaining answers but a serious shortage of interesting questions. His particular gift is the ability to ask such questions. For instance: If drug dealers make so much money, why do they still live with their mothers? Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What really caused crime rates to plunge during the past decade? Do real-estate agents have their clients' best interests at heart? Why do black parents give their children names that may hurt their career prospects? Do schoolteachers cheat to meet high-stakes testing standards? Is sumo wrestling corrupt? ..

follow this link

My job description

job description :
so my part of job is to create bugs and then fix them ... make sure that there are enough bugs in the code .. so i get my monthly pay cheque ..

so write a buggy code ..

Dreams

"A dream is not what you see while you sleep,

A dream is what does not let you sleep.. "

-APJ

Making the impossible possible

Read this wonderful article by Dayo Olomu .Its about the story of Legson, and how he achieved his dream ..

."I learned I was not, as most Africans believed, the victim of my circumstances but the master of them." - Legson Kayira

One of the things my Christian faith has taught me is that with God nothing is impossible. I live by 4 Ps - Prayers, Planning, Perseverance and Persistence. Hence one of the words that are not in my dictionary is 'impossible'. I seldom use it. Ditto words like providence, destiny and fate. Anything I want to do, I do it irrespective of any obstacles by using the 4 Ps.

To me, nothing is impossible if you have a clear goal and vision. The legendary boxer, Muhammad Ali, once said "Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision."

Anytime I remember the story of the award-winning Malawian Writer, Legson Kayira, I am inspired. The facts of Kayira's early life are legendary: a Tumbuka born and educated in Nyasaland (now Malawi), he walked 3,200 kilometres to North Africa seeking opportunities for further education.

Like Martin Luther King Jnr., Legson had a dream. He wanted to be like his hero, Abraham Lincoln, the 16th American President, who had risen from poverty to become President, then fought tirelessly to help end slavery. He wanted to be like Booker T. Washington, the foremost black educator of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who cast off the shackles of slavery to become a great American reformer and educator, giving hope and dignity to himself and to his race. Legson's dream spurred him on a journey fuelled by his determination to get an education.

Like these great role models, he wanted to serve mankind, to make a difference in the world. And to realise his goal, he needed a first-rate education. Legson knew the best place to get it was in America.

When he was 17 years old, he sought his parents' blessing to go and study in America. His illiterate parents didn't know where America was but reluctantly gave their blessings.

His possessions were meagre: five-day supply of food, a Bible and Pilgrim's Progress, small axe for protection, and a blanket. Legson eagerly set out on the journey of his life. He was going to walk from his tribal village in Nyasaland, north across the wilderness of East Africa to Cairo, where he would board a ship to America to get a college education.

After five days of trekking across the rugged African terrain, Legson had covered only 25 miles. He was already out of food, his water was running out, and he had no money. To travel 2,975 miles more seemed impossible; yet to turn back was to give up and to resign to a life of poverty and ignorance. Legson turned to his two books, reading the familiar words that renewed his faith in himself and in his goal. He ploughed on.

By January 1960, fifteen months after he began his perilous journey, he had travelled nearly a thousand miles to Kampala, the capital of Uganda. He was now growing stronger in body and wiser in the ways of survival. He remained in Kampala for six months, doing odd jobs and spending every spare moment in the library, reading voraciously.

In the library at Kampala, he came across an illustrated directory of American colleges. One illustration in particular caught his eye - the Skagit Valley College in Mount Vernon, Washington. He wrote immediately to the school's Dean explaining his plight and requested for a scholarship. The Dean at Skagit was so impressed with Legson's determination that he not only granted him admission but also offered him a scholarship and a job that would pay his room and board.

Another piece of Legson's dream had fallen into place, yet more obstacles awaited him. Legson needed a passport and a visa, and to get a passport, he had to provide the government with a verified birth date. That's not all. To get a visa he needed the round-trip fare to the United States. Again, he picked up his pen and paper and wrote to the missionaries who had taught him since childhood. The missionaries then helped to push his passport through government channels. However, Legson still lacked the airfare required for a visa.

Undeterred, Legson continued his journey to Cairo believing he would somehow get the money he needed. Fortune smiled on him when, upon hearing his story, the students of Skagit Valley College, with the help of local citizens, sent $650 to Legson to cover his fare to America.

In December 1960, more than two years after his journey began; Legson Kayira arrived at Skagit Valley College. Carrying his two treasured books, he proudly passed through the towering entrance of the institution and began his studies.

But Legson Kayira didn't stop once he graduated. Continuing his academic journey, he became a professor of Political Science at Cambridge University in England and a widely respected author. His first book was the autobiographical 'I Will Try' (1965), and he has written four novels: 'The Looming Shadow' (1968), 'Jingala' (1969), 'The Civil Servant' (1971), and 'The Detainee' (1974).

Like his heroes, Abraham Lincoln and Booker T. Washington, Legson Kayira rose above his humble beginning and forged his own destiny. He made a difference in the world and became a magnificent beacon whose light remains as a guide for others to follow.

Legson's story shows that with faith, determination, a dream and a vision, we can achieve anything in life and rise to the top.

A to Z of my life (part 2)

B for B.Tech

Infact I am engineer now !!

Many of my friends told me that they didn’t want to pursue engineering; they would love to go in statistics, media or arts. But when I think about whether I made right decision? Or whether I truly wanted to become engineer? Then answer was always yes. Certainly no doubt about it . no second thought.

Because engineers are problems solvers, they are the people who make Newton & Kirchoff’s laws into action. And I love to do that.. to solve problems, apply a rough theory into practical application ..

So done with engineering .. and now I am in technology business .. and there is no better time to be an engineer. The only thing I like about technology is speed. The speed at which technology evolves is amazing, and that opens up space for people like me who wants to strike early in tech business.

Also in particular I am in software side. There is Moore’s law which is ruling the hardware side, which states that in 18 months we will get twice speed at half price. But thankfully (fortunately) the software is not governed by such rules. Always software lags behind the speed of hardware, so there would be place for engineers like me who will be writing codes to tune software with the speed of hardware.

Sometimes I regret that I couldn’t study computer science engineering. But thankfully ICE (Instrumentation and Control Engg) wasn’t that bad!! Along with sensors and control systems we studied electronics, computer science, management (some six odd courses). So in all got balanced perspective on many subjects. The engineering was like interdisciplinary course comprised mainly of Sensors, Systems and Signal, and spent amazing time with my batch mates in ICE department.

Even if the toughest code which I have ever written is “Hello World!!” or still struggle to connect circuit on bread board or just made block diagrams in all the exams .. I am engineer now .. and infact I love that.

C for Chintan

If u ask Shakespeare, then he would say “what’s there in name” but if you ask Gogol, protagonist in Lahiri’s novel Namesake then you have to read entire novel to find out what’s there in name. Well for me, there is certain platonic relationship with my name.

Chintan, a Sanskrit word which means to cogitate, meditate or in simple words just think. And that’s what I do most times. When I am alone (most of time) I always like to think, think and think. There might be any idea jumping in my head all the times, that doesn’t let me sleep. Also it is the reason why I am talking constantly to my self, always occupied with some thought; so it helps me see things in different perspective and allow me to take right decisions.

So Chintan is not just noun, its adjective as well as its verb too.. Sometimes the persons name just serve the purpose of noun only but for me its all the above three. When I sign as chintan then it can completely describe me. The name is chintan, the guy always like to do chintan (as verb) and most importantly as an adjective. It says/ describes succinctly what am I doing whole my life and mostly rest of my life . .chintan only.

inner voice

I really do not worry about death ..

but more concerned about part of me which dies out from within when i am still alive ..

A - Z of my life

My brain is baldy wired. Sometimes there are many crazy idea seem to pop up in my mind. Sometime these ideas can not let me sleep. Infact now also I am unable to sleep because of that many things are running in my mind ranging from to start reading for GRE before its too late or to noble lecture “My father’s suitcase” by Orhan Pamuk.

There are many things which are closest to my heart, about whom I always think subconsciously. Was trying to put things together, and found out that all those things can be organized in alphabetical order.

will start with A today ..

A for AOE (Age of Empires)

Started playing this game in second year, when sameer was my roommate in coral hostel. We both became very crazy about this game. Still I couldn’t rationalize playing this game so fanatically but sometime you have to follow your instincts. The voice of Paladins and Elephants kept running in my mind. In second year of engg there were many important subjects to study like Network Theory to Microelectronics but found AOE more attractive.

As the game started to evolve from original Spanish Persian Black Forest Late attack game to All Random Champion game and then many new players joined the battle. ET (a.k.a Achilles) was the first to join, infact AOE gave him reason not to watch porn and rather play AOE.

We moved in Emerald hostel in third year. Because of tech savvy persons like Saraf and Nikhil we were the first in our batch to have lan connection in hostel. As Iqubal Quadir, founder of Grameen Phone a telecom major in Bangladesh ( which is sponsor of Bangladesh national cricket team ) said “Connectivity is Productivity” , hence we became more productive as we got our lan connection.

So we started playing AOE on lan. By this time many new players were there, but it was time of Hector and Achilles, Bal Thackery (a.k.a sameer) and Rash. We played 4 -4 ( four vs four ) most times, for which we have to wait many times for the last person to join. Mostly played in team of Oddu vs Non Oddu, Circuits vs Non circuits, Kamakkal vs Rest and our personal favorite Top wing vs Bottom wing. Sometime we have to wait because it was difficult to get 8 comps. Thankful to Kancha, Neel and Yogi we found comp most times. And then we would start the ultimate battle, which would last for atleast a hour after that hours of discussions, playback and match analysis. Once we start we would play two to three matches, so we end up sleeping after breakfast ( which was the incentive to play third game to have breakfast)

I was playing good, rather very good at that time?? Me and ET were winner at Pragyan 06 AOE championship. But I wasn’t good enough to beat ET on one on one, and still I regret that. So things were good at that time, studying OpAmps or Control systems in classroom and then playing full night AOE after class and in mean time just think about AOE. We used to play mostly during Exams when all busy people would be in their rooms to study !!

But things came to end in seventh sem. Our top wing team ( Me, Achilles, Bal Thackery and Sardar) started to beat bottom wing team comprehensively. One thing is that I always like to win only I don’t like to lose in AOE. So because of my attitude (p.s because of me only) Sardar (a.k.a Baggu) shouted at me, bahut chillaya ki tu bahut hero mat ban and so on.. Then we became “Best Friends” afterwards. Despite of sharing a common wall we never talked in entire seventh sem. Today also I feel bad about my attitude that day. Hey Sardar yaar sorry for that day.

Unlike of all Bollywood story, this story didn’t had a happy ending. We never played in Emerald after that. Just recollect that once we went to SAASTRA for AOE tournament but unfortunately lost in Semis there. Tried to play many times in last sem, but sadly couldn’t play last game.

Still I can not forget those nights when I played 4-4 or the time when there was only goal in life was AOE. Despite falling grades (became 7 pointer in two consecutive sem) only direction was AOE. AOE was in my dreams, it was in classroom lectures, was in dinner time discussions it was every where ..

Only one wish unfulfilled, I wish I could do ..

net send * guys join AOE

This message successfully sent to Emerald

& could play one last game …

on commitment

had a conversation with my friend on commitment .. we talked a lot .. he tried to convince me that commitment is a positive force ... but i think other way round ..

Life before commitment

The person thinks that he is the center of the universe .. he makes all the decision on his own .. doesn’t think of anybody else .. thinks that world revolves around him ..

And after commitment

He has to revolve around her !!

And that’s true ..seen for many people .. change is either for good or bad .. but life and perspective will change drastically ..

axioms

Was thinking that how my life should be, wat are the things which should be always there and so on .. thought for days , in fact months .. and came to realize that in my life these two things should be present

One is Simplicity

As the word suggest ..my self should be as simple as possible ..with minimal input impedance

And the second one is Honesty

Should be honest with people and especially with my self .. sometimes during my past four yrs , when i think back i realize that i was not at all honest with my self .. was trying to please my self with some arbit stuff .. was synthesizing happiness .. but now hopefully things would be different ..

as in design world, there is one important rule which says KISS - Keep It Simple, Stupid .. hopefully life should be that way ..

A question

Can computers achieve everything the human mind can achieve?

Human beings make mistakes. In the arts—and in the sciences, I believe?—those mistakes can often open doors to new worlds, new discoveries and developments—the mistake itself becoming the basis of a whole new world of insights and procedures.

Can computers be programmed to 'make mistakes' and turn those mistakes into new and heretofore unimaginable developments?

A toast to Murphy uncle

i had vivas for last three consecutive days .. and all those three days Murphy uncle made his presence felt ...

the first one was lab viva for Embedded systems ..

examiner was Shridevi .. she was RA few months back and then she became a lecturer .. i was in second batch (rno 34) .. so i knew wat are the questions she asking .. went there for lab viva .. was confident that will crack it ( obviously coz the only subject that i love and also the field i am goin to work) .. but something else happen ..

she asked me first question .. wat is POSIX ?? i just heard about this term .. knew that it is one standard .. so told her that it is one of the standard which is followed in UNIX , Linux or any other OS .. but she refused to listen to me .. then she went on to ask me some chaat question till i could not answer them ..

then one funny thing happened .. she told me to write one code to convert decimal no to hexadecimal no .. so i wrote the code and showed to her .. then she asked me what is the guarantee that the entered digit is a decimal no .. and she refused to listen any further and then sent me out ..

the second viva was our project one ..

in our project viva many things happened as we started with good introduction by our own sardar .. in his own words "we are goin for MEMS coz it is cheap " .. we digressed from MEMS to Mechanics and the external examiner instead of askin questions on our project asked questions on mechanics ..so our starting was 3 wickets down in the first over ..

then ET started his part .. after 10 min of introduction the examiner had no idea of our project and ET started with all tech fundaes .. and there was one this equivalent circuit diagram ..

and there was big trouble as they caught the fault that the direction of currents in the circuit is wrong .. at one node all the currents are entering and thats it .. not coming out from that node .. and we were now five wickets down ..

then baggu came ..as always tried to rescue from this mess .. but he could hardly do to save us from this condition ..mean time givin the presentation one page opened suddenly .. "Brontok Virus - Say no to Child Sex - Say no to drugs etc etc .. "

finally i came to end the presentation with conclusions of project .. started well .. but then suddenly my mobile rang( usually dont keep mobile with my self ..but that day had mobile also in ringer mode) one new message in middle of presentation !! thrown my mob on the desk .. and some how completed the presentation .. the only question the examiner asked was "What is ur blood group ?? " ...

thats it .. the thing for which i prepared for some 5 to 6 days .. ended like that .. our final yr project which has weightage of six credits ended like a joke .. the examiner felt that these are Cheel boyz .. had masti and done some chindi project .. btw after comin out from the hall .. i read the message and it was "Download songs of 70s and 80s .. Dial 646 Charges 6Rs/min"

on the third day i had compre viva .. basically viva exam in which they will ask wat u have studied in past four yrs of engg .. so they can ask on any topics ranging from sensors , control systems , computer science , electronics , humanities etc etc ..

for me i was confident that i could i answer reasonably in any topics other than electronics .. coz somehow i hated this topic .. i was more interested in seeing circuits from more larger perspective rather than just interested in one transistor and how it works ..

but sadly for me in the viva he started with MSI,LSI and VLSI .. then he moved to microelectronics .. optics etc etc .. could answer few but in most of the questions i was praying god that he please ask me some question other than microelectronics ..

i didnt thought in my wildest dreams that presentation could go possibly this bad or my lab and compre viva will be this much bad .. thought deeply on these ..one thing was constantly hitting me that was .. "If anything can go wrong, it will, and usually at the most inopportune moment"

my first sanskrit classes ...

started goin for Sanskrit classes from today .. the timing is from 5.15 to 7.30 PM .. today was the first class ... the teacher was from some organization that serves to preserve sanskrit and wants to spread the language ..

madam started with basics like tell ur name in Sanskrit ..she made the class very interactive .. asked everyone to communicate only in Sanskrit .. she told the story of thirsty crow in sanskrit.. was good to listen from someone who had real zeal and enthu to teach .. she forced us to speak in Sanskrit for the entire class .. so it was really fun to communicate in Sanskrit ..

this classes will continue for 10 days .. will see at the end of the class if i am able to talk some crap or at least write one blog in Sanskrit !!

Yanni live at taj mahal

watched this video and was running in my mind for so many days ..

" I don't know if music can change the world .. but its one of the factor that can change the world .. if in some small way .. even can change the mood for the better even a little bit .. how amazing is that ?? "

"There are as many ways to live life ..as many people on the earth "

What is Engineering ??

read one nice article on IEEE spectrum magazine .. it was about one prof. gives lecture to the class about perspective of Engineering .. he goes and write on the board ..

I + I + I = S

and says .. this is the basic equation of engineering .. and this is what u learn while u are doing ur engineering degree ..

the first I is Imagination

because people has to imagine before something has to be carried out .. or something has to built .. because from there only great ideas arises ..

the second I is Innovation

i won't tell much about this I .. coz everyone knows that how important Innovation is in engg .. many companies survived because of their ability of them to innovate at every stage ..

and the final and most important I is Implementation

this one is important because in Engg .. unless you implement certain projects .. then only you will realize the difference between practical and theoretical world .. in theory you will see only rosy picture ..that u do this , add this component and that is !!! you will get the result .. but in practice when u sit and start doing something .. then you will understand what is real world ..

so this way when you add all three I's then only you get S which is Solution ..and that's what important in engineering .. do whatever .. use any method but get a result ..

what is the toughest C code u have written ??

a company named VMware ..came to our campus on 3rd .. initially their package was nice enough and their profile was a software developer .. so i was interested in working with this company .. and their niche area .. the kind of work they do is amazing .. as they shown in their placement talk they won every single award in the area for last some four years ..

the recruitment procedure was rigorous .. they had some 115 min of written test ( software c,os and aptitude ) followed by some three to four rounds of interview ..

i was lucky enough to get through first round ( after some 5 to 6 months i cleared a written test , the one which i cleared in that i eventually got through ) so was excited abt the interview ..

the biggest hurdle was PROJECT !! they were giving more emphasis on project done throughout your ug degree .. they wanted people that has done some kernel code modification like stuff .. and my projects were .. one is effect of parasitic capacitance on a MEMS sensor .. and we did all kind of simulation .. and other projects are we made a Lock Pulley for a nearby village .. so that was it ..

my interview was abt to start at 10 30 am on next day .. read some stuff abt os in the morning ... went for the interview in tp .. found out there that they were calling people in the random order .. so waited chatting outside .. was very hot outside so after some time i removed my tie , folded my sleeves ..

after long wait eventually my interview started at 12 .. just went inside .. there was only one guy taking the interview .. he was looking at my cv ... he just started by asking about Instrumentation engg .. i gave him loads of fundae that it is a interdisciplinary course wherein we study many facets of engg such as instrumentation ( ie sensors ) , electronics , control engg and computer science ..

after that he just started to ask me abt some simple question on os .. which i confidently answered all of them .. after that he started to ask me abt my projects .. and then i thought i am caught here .. i tried to told him some shit abt MEMS project and didnt seem to be that interseted in it .. so he asked me that what is the toughest C code u written ?

told him that i did some code for tree traversal .. linked list .. i couldnt imagine what might be the toughest code which i have written ( as a matter of fact i havent written any code for last 2 year except for Hello World !! ) ..

at end interviewer told me excellent talking to u .. gve me one pen and one registration license .. and i was very sure what he means by "excellent " ..

think different ..

watched video of think different campaign launched by apple ... u can download it from youtube ..try to recognize as many persons as u can .. here is the complete text of the ad ..

Here's to the crazy ones.

The misfits.

The rebels.

The troublemakers.

The round pegs in the square holes.

The ones who see things differently.

They're not fond of rules

And they have no respect for the status quo.

You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them,

disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them.

About the only thing that you can't do is ignore them.

Because they change things.

They invent. They imagine. They heal.

They explore. They create. They inspire.

They push the human race forward.

Maybe they have to be crazy.

How else can you stare at an empty canvas and see a work of art?

Or sit in silence and hear a song that's never been written?

Or gaze at a red planet and see a laboratory on wheels?

We make tools for these kinds of people.

While some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius.

Because the people who are crazy enough to think that they can

change the world, are the ones who do.

Apna sapna money money !!

watched this movie some 10 days back .. kind of like it .. it was something you would expect from a hindi movie .. but the movies theme succinctly describes the aspiration and mindset of people .. the movie ends with these lines ...

All we want is money ...

All we need is love ..

its really true that if we have these two things then the man will be happy .. so from now on Jai Jai Money !!!

the first one

I was thinking about writing some thing which comes to me .. but there was not time also was searching for a name .. but will write from now about Mango Man .. and his life .. .


chintan