The Blog is Alive

Well,its been a long time since my last post.I had infact,forgot that i had a blog,Now pls dont think that , I don have time to write blogs, I have all the time in the world to do everything, but I hav become so very lazy that , I dont wanna do anything. Well, the mistake is not fully on me, the place is to be blamed too..San Jose, is a dead place, and the place "Japantown" in San Jose , is almost like an "extinct place", good weather thou... neither too hot nor too cold, Jus perfect , this perfect is not for studying etc, it is for SLEEPING. Chumma comforter ulla pona , U get into a different world altogether.My sleeping habits have become worstestststtst after coming here , go to bed, oops comforter by 4-5 and get up by 1 or 2 or even at 3 :(, except on mondays n wednesdays, cos i have frigging ethics classes in the morning, I just hate to get up n go to the class , tat too , for a horrible subject, sacrificing my sleep, I guess is too much , but wat to do... I have no other choice other than going :( . My eyes are blood red when I go for ethics class,eyes start drooping automatically during the class.Now coming to the house , fully settled now , 4 guys in 1 BHK, the rent is again bloody $250p/h. PPl in other places like Kansas,Missouri,Kentucky get 5 bhk for the same price or even lesser, But tis is bloody CA, where money sucks yr blood till the last drop.Laptop has been my besht buddy in US :P.Other than laptop, for entertainment , we have MANI, if we feel bored , we jus Key him, and watch the comedy. more you key , more fun u get. Nice guy, afterall, been with him for 4 yrs, now 5 yrs [:P][:(]. Well, we have a mumbai tamilian with us, who is mani's besht buddy, has started speaking tamil swear words after lissening to me and mani, we feel proud to impart tamil to anyone.Well, we are 4 of us, 4 different backgrounds , so difference in opinions are at its peak, smal small fights do happen, but then, everything is volatile..Apart frm ethics , have 2 more subjects ,Physics of semiconductors and Linear theory. Physics of semiconductors is like Greek and Latin to us , me atleast. Linear Theory is good , interesting, but I find new ways of screwing the tests , because mind is very active durin the tests and thinks of everythin other than the correct formulae :P.Mid sem I got over yday, got screwed up badly, have to patch up for this Debacle. I have been hyper vetti all these days, got to compensate for being so.The beauty is , back in India, when we have bits , we feel more confident to face the exam, here one full paper 'bit' which is called the 'Cheat Sheet' is allowed , in which u can write whatever u want . Even though, we carry that Cheat Sheet, bloody theres 0% confidence of facing th exam, Its more like an open challenge by the prof, he knows the psyche of the students, like what students will write in the cheat sheet, they set papers , in such a way that , cheat sheets become Useless, or sometimes, theres no time to see the cheat sheet. Hayyo Hayyo!! oRe Kushtamappa, illa Kashtamappa.Another Comedy is , there is no fixed blueprint for the paper, Its upto the prof,he can set the paper how ever he wants , for ex, he can ask a single Q for 100 marks or 200 q for 100 marks, or 10 question for 100 marks, Phew, thats Iriitating too... U never know how to study, what to study....Each professor has his own style of paper setting n correcting, unlike in India, where all the subs have the same blue print, 10*2 and 5*16. Tough going as of now.Lack of good food makes the going even tough :(. But I must admit the fact that , God is taking very good care of me.My classes get over 7pm on tues n thurs, so me n my friends catch a bus frm the univ and go to the temple, where they serve Lipsmacking,mouthwatering Food,I must also admit that the main purpose of going to the temple is to eat, infact HOG.But then, its the oly place u get good food,restaurants are fucking costly, and me being a veggie is another disadvantage, my choice of food is restricted , so I make it a point to visit the temple atleast 3 times a week,Rewinding my past in India, parents used to pester to go to temple and i wouldn, here its a part of my weekly schedule, 3 times a week. :-). Well, i get nostalgic @ times, its a good feeling thou... time running off like this... Jus hope 2 yrs flies away n i also come out in flying color.. he he he ... Nothin much to add now.... Ll update regularly from now on....

USA!!

Its been more than a fortnight i reched US now, Its been good going so far... So lemme give u the US exp so far...Boarded the flight frm Chennai to Mumbai on 14th August in JET . This plane is damn puncutal. Reached Mumbai on time. Spent the evening in Mumbai and on 15th morning I boarded the flight to SFO via Shangai.Heavy rains on that day,I always wanted to see Mumbai rains, just wanted to know why it is so much hyped. So I did manage to catch a glimpse, and my god,really poured cats dogs cows buffaloes etc.So I got into the flight after the immigration etc etc. Flight took off . I was expecting a Chick by my side, or atleast an Indian, so tat i could pass the 17 hour journey.But Damn,one english fella sat by my right and a japanese by my left.Fk! I was wondering how to pass time,jet has good in flight entertainment.somehow time passed. 6 .5 hours,reached Shangai.Shangai airport was deserted. The fellas by my side got down @ Shangai,again slightest hopes of wat i had @ Mumbai.Tis time 2 Chinese by my side.Reached San Francisco at 7 pm (sfo time).Again had to check in the immigration and customs. Took the luggage frm the belt and came out. A couple of my friends had to pick me up.The airport was huge and awesome, its spsd to be one of the busiest airports.Had to pick a cab (called shuttle here) to reach our place @ San Jose. There was a Gilma activity going on inside the cab , damn, I thought, Wat a way to welcome , the cuple must have smooched atleast 1000 times in an hour.Well,tats USA, public display of affection can be seen here, and no one seems to bother.Reached home .It was 11 . And here came the bomb. I reached home and saw, I had picked a wrong suitcase. GOSH! I was shocked. But ,Luckily , the name of the person and his address was stickered on the suitcase. I thought tis confusion must have happend in the cab. Dint Sleep properly tat nite. One of my roommates knew the place. So we set out found the place after lots of searching and they said that they dint have my suitcase, and I asked if they saw mine as i gave em my suitcase details, they said it was in the airport. I felt relieved and asked them to collect the suitcase frm my place . Then I called up the airport and they delivered the baggage home, FREE OF COST!! Then after a couple of days, went to the university and finished all the formalities.Was feeling home sick fr a couple of days, I literally cried the second day wen my parents called up.Well, It happens! Then Went to do some shopping for our home, Walmart and Target. HUGE HUGE hypermarket. U get everything here.A-Z.University started and no surprises,Indians and Chinese dominate the Masters course.The Grading system sucks here, Overall aggregate is calculated by our performance throughout the semester, for ex.10% attendace,20%first mid term,30% second mid term 40% final. Painful!!! that too after OB adichufying in UG,its gonna be a daunting task ahead!!Now coming to the food, All the veggies out there, it will be a tough time, cos veggie dishes available here are very less, Indian restos are there, but it ll burn yr pocket.I have been surving on Subway these days :((. Even McD doesn serve veg burgers... So if u have any plans f cmg here, start learning cooking in advance , else u will have to pay the price , like am payin now. Everything is fucking Costly here... I saw an Amrutanjam Balm in an Indian Store... Indian Price was also given , it was a mere 16 rupees.. but US price was $4.5. I was Shocked!! it accounts to more than 180Rs.USA isnt as glitzy n glossy as it seems from India.. its calm, peaceful and sober. Weekends @ the Downtown rocks... so many lounges, so many chicks :P. its worth suthifyin the downtown on weekends, mainly on sat nights :P. Anyways, Its been Kind of an OK going here,Missing Homeland thou! :((. Thats it for this post...
Ps. Excuse me for my bad english!! :P

Finally.... it got over!

My MS dreams took life when I cleared all my papers in the VII sem, but then I thought it was too late to apply. I once told my friend that he was pretty late with his applications, he was applying in the month of December :P. So I thought Fall '08 time was over and I planned to apply for Spring '09.Though people say Fall is comparitively bttr than Spring, I had no other option,because I wasn placed in any comp till then. So Fall'08 buried alive. Jan,Feb , March and a week in April passed, then I went with my mom to a consultancy to enquire about the Spring'09 intake on how and when to apply etc etc. There , they asked me to apply for Fall'08 itself as the deadlines were open. I wasn't very interested in applyin for Fall'08, as I thought it was too late for me to apply, as US univs grant admits on "first come first served" basis. They kept askin me to apply, I just wasnt interested . So, they turned to my mom and brainwashed her. So after coming home, I told her the drawbacks of applying late, but she just dint listen. She called up my dad and they started pressurizing me to apply for F'08, finally, I succumbed and agreed to apply. The counsellor gave me just one week to complete all the formalities of application . The next day, went to the AU to get the marksheets attested. Then got the financial affidavit. No time to write my own SOP( even if I had all the time in the world, I wouldn have drafted an SOP on my own :P). So, I got the SOPs of my classmates(who bloody already had their admits :X) and i also googled some SOPs too. Now that I had enough SOPs , i read all the SOPs and used the Ctrl C and Ctrl V option and created an SOP. My SOP was ready and it was good too :). Even the Letter of Recommendation is to be written by us, the professor just signs. You can write whatever you want , the professor will sign ,no matter what, atleast in my college :). So I got the sample letters from my friends and again used the Ctrl C and Ctrl V option and finished it . SOPs ans LORs were ready in some couple of hours. Finally, In a week, my documents were ready somehow and I started with the online applications. Damn,Its such a pain to fill up the online applications, where u fill the same thing in all the application. Its very boring.So, I finished the online applications and documents were also sent by the consultancy. I finished my applications my April III week and I was expecting the final decision by June . These American Univs are real, no matter, how perfectly you send your application, they keep telling that something or the other is missing. IIT(Illinois Inst... )said that they havent received my GRE/TOEFL marksheet(I was wondering, if other univs got the marksheets, what the hell was wrong with tis univ alone.) The status got updated sayin my application was complete, cpl of weeks back. Then USC, asked me to get a letter from the Anna Univ registrar saying my college is affiliated to the university(God oly knows why they askd me to get it) and the greatest comedy was from Washington St. Univ , where they said I had applied for UG instead of Graduate study, In fact, I got a mail from them saying my GRADUATE APPLICATION was complete after I submitted my online application.But laters, they said I had applied for UG. ( got irritated really). Now my mind was totally focussed on MS, and from no where, came Reliance Communications, fortunately/unfortunately, got placed in that. Now, again,mind started wavering whether to go for MS tis year or work for Reliance, strengthen my profile and go next year. April ,May June passed, no updates from any university. By June end, my friends had their Visa in hand and had started with their shopping. Since, I had no updates from any univ, I was now clear with Reliance , thought of working there for an year, if in case I get any admits, would defer it for an year. After some days, came in one update
Polytechnic Univ-Reject (Rejected due to inconsistent academic record, ok Agreed)
then after some days
RIT-Reject(Lack of accomodations,Grrr ... why accept applications if they don have accomodation)

One fine night, I was too bored sitting online, so thought of checking if any new updates from any univs , logged into San Jose Univ after so many days,
Status-Accept(Surprised, as some of my friends who had applied ages before me hadn got any updates on my status). Now my parents asked me to go with this univ as schoolmate and my coll class mates were heading to the same univ. But then, I wanted to work in Reliance for 1 yr and then pursue my Masters.My protest again flopped. Started with the necessary documentation work from the very next day. Damn, there was so many documents to be prepared. Loan,house evaluation, CA, etc etc. The documentation work was gng on, but I hadn got my I20, bloody , they sent it through sea mail . Was expecting it in some 20 days from the day they had posted. Days kept passing, no sign of the I20. So finally, asked my mom's friend who's in San Jose to collect it from the univ and courier it . Well, a normal fellow follows the following steps
1) get the I20
2)Loan sanction
3)Book Visa slot
4)Book tickets
but me being a special case always, mine were different
1)BOOK,not blocked , BOOKED the ticks
2)Booked the visa slot
These 2 were done even before i got the duplicate I20 from them
3)Bank loan work was going on , as i produced my friends I20, they needed it to check the fee structure.
4)Received the I20
Had booked the Visa on 6th Augustus, 11 am slot, to be frank, I never had the confidence of getting the Visa , cos of the super duper profile which i was having, Because , i was going through the Visa interviews on Orkut, ppl who had many backs were mercilessly rejected. My friend's friend had 12 arrears , 2 less than me :P got his Visa only on his 6th attempt.
The previous night , I was checking the Rejection Interviews thread on Orkut to see why their visa got rejected. 80% due to excess backlogs. Seeing and hearing all this , my confidence hit the rock bottom.But I dint have to worry much , as I had Reliance for backup.All the necessary documents were ready and the Doomsday arrived.Woke up early, by 730 , went to the temple etc etc , got ready and reached the Consulate by 10am. Got the security check done and was waiting for half an hour at the Indian Counter. In this half hour hour time , I was just thinking of a convincing answer to cover up for my backlogs,but in vain, couldn think of anything convincing enough. They checked the basic documents and asked me to head to the adjacent building. I went in , and saw tat it was empty. My friends and other people told me that its very crowded and u shud take the Snake 'Q' etc etc, but to my surprise, it was literally like a Sathyam ticket Counter durin Off peak hours :P. Was asked to stand at the first counter , where a gal was almost completing her interview, her visa got rejected. FK!! Bad Sign. Butterflies,honeybees,flies,mosquitoes , grasshoppers all were flying in my stomach. Then the VO called me and here goes the interview

VO-Good morning
Me-I am fine, TY
he was checking my docs for some 4-5 secs
VO- Wat are you going to do @ San Jose State University?
Me- (was thinking , what a dumb question, as it was clearly mentioned in the I20, i would ve told GUMMI ADIKKA poren, if some one else had asked me )
I am going there to do my masters in electrical engineering
VO- So why this particular university?
Me- (Actually, had oly 1 admit from tis univ)
Sir, my splization will be VLSI and the coursework for VLSI is extremely good.
Climate in California is also well suited to the Indian people sir( Actually , I dunno why i said this , but at that moment, it jus popped out)
VO-Your father's occupation?
Me-Sr. Air Traffic Controller ,AAI , Chennai
VO-Your final %age
Me-(Nerves Nerves everywer) 70%
He looked at me straight
VO-Are you any of the rankers in your class?
Me - ( Actually , I dint understand the question) Pardon me Sir
VO-Repeated the same Q again
Me- I said I am a First Class degree holder
VO- No no, not that, I asked if you are any of the rankers.
Me- U mean , my rank in the class sir??
VO-Yes
Me- (should be in the bottom somewhere) Hmmm.. Must be in the top 25 sir :p
He signed somewhere and said, Ok Gentleman, your visa is issued , you can collect your passport later.
Actually , this interview might seem long, but it was like a rapid fire round and it lasted only for 20-25 secs. I really din believe that my visa was approved, so to re assure , I asked him, Can i come and collect the passport in person. He said yes!!
And that's it. Got my VISA the same day!! I never thought that I would get it so easily. Gods grace + Luck+ Stars shining helped me get the visa. Ppl say that how u present yourself is important, your attitude is important etc etc. All Crap . Its jus pure LUCK!! If ur stars are shining on u , job done , else doomed irrespective of the profile you have .
My friends have finished their packing, I 've just started, still a long way to go!
Leavin to Mumbai on 14th and will be leaving to San Francisco on 15th from Mumbai.
Thats it. This is my last post from INDIA.I' ll update bout the US life once i reach there . BYE!!
Apologizes for any gram/spelling mistakes here n there!

VIII sem.contd..end of a saga !!

Placement interests had also dried up, hardly any companies came on campus . But our princi used to call the "NOT YET PLACED " students to the seminar hall and talk crap as if companies were flowing in and we werent good enough to get selected .Those times were the most humiliating . When I had backs, many companies came and recruited , but when i had cleared off my backs , no companies came on campus . This was like adding fuel to the fire. Coming out without a placement from an engineering college is like failing in the XII exams, thats how people from outside view it. It also pricks u at times when u sit in the class wit all yr peers placed and u sitting like a dumb duck . Pool Campus placements were still on , and our college used to get invites asking the students to attend the interview.So once , we got an invite from Krishna College of Engineering to attend EDS interview. That bloody college was located at some remote place called Padappai. The Interview was bout to start by 8am. We had planned to go by train as it had rained heavily the previous day. We planned to meet up at the railway station at 630 am . But lazy me , slept over and got up by 630 and by the time i got ready , they were already in the train :(. So I had no other option but to take my bike . Luckily one of my classmates was going on his bike , so I called him and asked him the route. And I set off, It was one awesome ride, RIDE OF MY LIFE , i must say. The twilight, chillness of the air and lush green view on both sides was jus Awesome . I somehow managed to reach the college by 715. Fk I was the third person to enter the college. After few mins, my other classmates also came . And slowly, many others came in and we were led to the mess , for the brkfast, I dint have it , because I could guess , tat it would taste Yuck and I was right, my friends threw it away after one or two spoons. It was past 10 now and even the presentation hadn started . I was kicking myself for getting up so early . Around 11, the presentation started and FUCK, Can u beleive it , it was Not EDS, It was Mphasis , A BPO of EDS. Crap. I was really irritated and I was fuming . The pay was even worse 10 k per month. :(. But then, after comin all the way , dint wanna returrn back home immediately . So me and my friends gave the written exam, so called APTITUDE, I still wonder why they call that shit an APTI round, It was all crap l, the questions were 

1) how will you clean the computer?

2)what is the shortcut key for copy?

3)how will you minimize a window.?

Even a third grade student would have cleared it easily . 

After the first round , we were asked to have lunch @ the mess. I dint even go in the direction of the mess. I was feeling hungry too, but then i dint wanna have the mess food at any cost. We enquired wit the students of that college and they said there was no hotel nearby . There was one petty shop inside the coll campus , me and my friend went there to find out if they had anythin to eat, Crap, they had chicken biriyani. And Can U beleive it , they had cigarettes too. So me and my friend had a fag each and were waiting for the results of the first round. I was shortlisted to the second round. II round was speaking , where they checked yr accent , grammar and all those shit. I was waiting for my turn, It was 3 o clock, Clock kept on tickin, 4,5,6,7 and my chance dint come .It was a telephonic conversation round . The volunteer closed the door and walked away . I was thinkin , WHAT THE FK IS HAPPENING ???. I normally don lose my cool , but this time , irritation, hunger and the long hours of waiting triggered me and I was really angry , went downstairs and met the Placement officer and Principal and started blasting them. (Who cares, they are no way related to me ). I vented all my anger on them.By now a big kootam had formed around us . They said that they lost the network and asked us to come next day. I got pissed off again and started shouting at them again. So hurriedly , they somehow got the interview going , and my chance came , and immediately the volunteer told me I was selected , but another volunteer made some gestures to him and that fella told me that I was not selected . I still I donno if i was selected or not , but who cares now. I was really enervated and i couldn ride the bike , so i asked my friend to do it . We went to  brilliant tutorials where many of my other classmates had come over for dinner . Hogged like a pig :) and headed home and FLAT!! One helluva interview which i cant forget in my life . 

Next came in Sutherland , I was feeling sleepy as the previous night was spent fagging at our usual place . So I was sitting in the auditorium for the presentation was shocked to see Meenakshi College girls reading Newspapers to improve their english just before the interview . My eyes were drooping ,and wen i m sleepy i m not in my senses :P. So the first round started, it was 1 on 1 round . He asked me to tell about myself ( a std question asked by any /every company). I was not in my senses , and i started telling some crap rather than telling wat was necessary. I knew I wudnt get through and it exactly happend.

Next was CSS, (I wasnt interested in joining any bpo's , but then something is bttr than nothin, atleast some job after studies.Gttn into Bpos is like jus passing in the XII exam, they look at u as if u are worthless . If u get into the IT giants, its like scoring 90+ , Phew! ) . In this the first round was an extempore, I spoke on the India Australia series( I can speak about cricket for years together :P) . So i got thru easily . Next round was a written round . technical + verbal. It was more of a co-operation stuff , i copied the technical part frm IT/CS fellas and i showed them the verbal part. So, overall, everyone had written the same answer, and wit no surprises everyone got thru to the final (HR) round . Nearly 50 students(Engineering + Arts & Science) were through to HR round. My chance came in after 2 hours of waiting Vettily. I was called in and again I was asked to speak some topic related to cricket and a few networking questions (As the company deals with networking ) and I finally made it through. I remained stoic, but the Arts/Science college gals who got through were in Tears , so excited as if they had got into Microsoft/Google :P. But then , girls are girls , excessive outburst of emotions is unstoppable. 

Admist the placement thing , since I had cleared off my arrears I was planning to pursue my MS and go there for the spring intake . So me n my mom went to the consultancy to enquire bout the spring intake , bt then , damn, things never go as i plan, the counsellor brainwashed my mom askin me to apply for this fall as the deadlines are not over for the univs  and then my mom brainwashed me to apply for this fall .I applied reluctantly as I knew I was i very late wit my applications . By the time, I applied some of my friends had already got their Admits/Rejects. :P. So within a week, i had to send the applications to the univs . In a week time , i had to get the marksheets attested, write my Statement of Purpose for the univs  get the Reco letters and get the financial affidavit ready. Phew! I managed to do everythin within a week . And finally and successfully i finished applying to 8 univs. Now my mind was fully focussed on MS . 

After long days of wait and with lots of expectation(Jus like Kamal's movies),  Reliance Communications came on campus . First round was Tech + aps written round . Technical paper was greek and latin as I dint know anythin in communications . Aps was a piece of cake . They said they would announce the results in a couple of days . After a couple f days I got a call from them,askin me to attend the next round at their office. They asked me to report at their office by 9 am as the interview would start immediately. I reached there by 840, and kept on waiting for hours together . Me and my friends were scanning the office lookin if there were any good chicks , and bloody hell, the person who was spsd to interview us was on leav and some other Senior technical staff would interview us . All of us were shell shocked . I was called on first. He was askin my personal details and slowly started firing the technical questions, As I was answering his question, that bloody ass was openin some drawers, typin somethin on his system, It was really irritating and i stopped answerin. He then fired some more questions and wen  i was answering back, he started speakin over the fone . This act really got over my nerves, but i somehow controlled. Finally after 30 mins he let me go . Then his secretary asked me to leave the office , I thought that was the end of the road , flop show at tis company too . After few mins , my friend followed, he too had the same treatment, infact his interview was worse than me . I had lost hopes on Reliance . After long days of wait , the reliance results were out , me along wit 3 of my classmates were selected. Phew !! finally not a BPO, can say to ppl wit some pride that am into RCOM :P.  Finally I ended wit double placement , one in CSS and other in RCOM. 

Exams were nearing , but more importantly the IPL, It was to start on Apr 18, our betting on the teams had started as soon as the team players were decided . :P.  I was waiting for the Apr 18 to come . The match fixtures were out and after few days Anna Univ VIII sem time table also came , 2 Chennai super kings matches clashed wit the exams, i.e . it was on the evenin before the exam, but who cares, match ll be given and was given the top priority. After few days, the calendar read Apr 18 and  I was all excited bout the IPL. I was glued to the TV and my bad luck continued , there was a cable cut in my area, jus before the inaugral session :((. I waited and waited and waited , no signs of the cable comin back. So i went to my friends house to watch the match, Damn , I missed the inaugral session fully , but what an opening game for a tournament, thou a one sided game, Mccullum hit the ball to every corner of the ground. Well, the excitement never came down , irrespective of whoever played. I saw all the matches , ball by ball incl the pre match and the post match shows :P. Atleast in the previous semesters, I used to buy the book a month before the exam, but this time , it had become worse , I had totally forgotten bout the books due to IPL. I got them oly a week before the exams . My studying time got delayed by 1 hour due to the IPL. Started by 12 and slept oly after i finished studying , by 4am or 5 am. 2 exams went fine , Telecom and Mobile comm. The last exam was Satellite Communication.It was Rajasthan Royals Vs Chennai Super Kings , the evening before the exam. CSK got crushed mercilessly by Royals. I was Shockd . I Coudln beleive what i was seeing . Thou, the match ended quickly, I coudnt get over the shock for hours together. I coudn even concentrate on my studies because of the match. Slowly got over it and that was the worst preparation  in my 4 years of engg . I gave a shit performance in that exam, I knew oly for 50 marks. :(. But then I couldn help, I finished the paper in less than a hour and half and slept.  I was sure of flunking tis paper. Total Mood out after the exam. But u never know anythin with Anna Univ , that gave me some confidence. 

I somehow , by god's grace managed to clear all the papers in the VIII sem successfully.  I scored some 74-75% in that semester and guess what , my highest score was in tat Satellite Communication, which i had messed up. Finally , I became an engineer within the given time, which was looking impossible in the past semesters. Phew!! What a relief . My Provisional Certificate says I am a "FIRST CLASS" engineer, but hell, i donno even a single piece of shit in electronics as well as communications. But thats how Anna University is ... was and will be......

AU "NEVER EVER"REVOIR MSEC AND AU!!! Bye Bye Foreva................................ 

VIII sem..

It all came to the final showdown, VIII sem, which meant i had oly one more sem to clear off all the arrears . The hopes of me passing out of college in 4 years was diminishing, infact , I had lost all the hopes . More and more humiliation got over me . My confidence level hit the rock bottom .  Whatever the case, I had to move on. 

We had college only 3 days / week  in this semester, and even in those 3 days, I used to bunk 1 or 2 days. Hardly any staff came to our class this semester,so i dint want to break my sleep and go sit in that useless college. I used to go to college only when i was very much bored @ home. We had 3 subjects and a Project. Me , Azz and Chopra were project mates and we did our VLSI project @ Accel. And guess what , all 3 papers were shit papers, Mobile Communication (compulsory paper) , Telecom and Switching Networks and Satellite Communication ( Electives) . Communication papers are a real torture, theory theory theory everywhere(tailor made for Mugpots). 

My night time fags continued in full swing with woof, used to be there till 3am or 4 am , if mama patrolling wasnt there. Once , on a saturday night  there was strict patrolling by the mamas( a usual sight on saturday nights) at teynampet , so we got the fags and went into a lane opposite to GRT Grand. We heard loud screams from the hotel, we ignored it first time , again we heard , and ignored it again and again , we could hear some one shoutin, this time we stopped our conversation and listened carefully to wat he was shouting , he was shoutin all tamil swear words (*&%*&*%&$&$&#*&($(%(%*%*(%*%*%*%*%). Woof got over excited and wanted to go inside the hotel and see what was actually happening, I dint want to go , but somehow he convinced me and we took our bikes and went into the hotel . Crap, by the time we entered the hotel, the fight got over . We got totally pissed off. But then, we dint want to leave immediately, we parked our bikes inside the hotel and went in. Fk, wat a crowd, the restaurant was full and a huge crowd was waiting to get in . We both were the "odd men out" there, poorly dressed, but then who knew we wud be @ GRT Grand.Since , we were oly 2 , we got a place and orderred a pack of fags and coffee ( actually dint want to order coffee, but then you need to order something to kill time there, so we thought coffee would be the cheapest and ordered it) . It was around 1 am and FK, it was filled up wit hot chicks , really hot chicks! we din want to leav the resto till the crowd cleared  , Now which guy would want to leave  early when he is surrounded by chicks :P. Finally , we got the bill , WTF! coffee costed 90 bucks, but then it was  worth payin, not for the coffee , but for the scenic view !! That day we planned to come here on every saturday , but then when has our plan succeeded.As usual,  this plan also flopped!! 

It was January , which meant Saarang was round the corner . Saarang finally arrived and on one fine evening  , Me , Chopra and Rahul went there. That day's event was Western Music finals. We reached there very early, so decided to walk it up instead of taking the bus. Sem Results were also expected in a week's time, but I was confident that it wont come for the next two days , because the next day was 26th Jan(national holiday+saturday) and the other day was a Sunday. 

We went into the stalls section, where they were conducting crazy events..3 of us dint have guts to participate in any of the events, we were comfortable watching others do it. Time flew , it was 7 and we went and sat in the gallery because the western music finals was going to start. It started around 730 odd. It was horribly bad, it was like , they were riding motorcycle in our ears. 4 bands had finished , wen rahul's mobile beeped , he showed me the message from VB-Results coming  tomo, Chk icqresults.com( I wonder how and WHY  ppl visit these kinda sites when you have so many sites to browse , it was the first time i was hearing the name of the site, jobless ppl :P) . I told them , no way it can come tomorrow because its Republic day , a national  holiday, Though i was convincing them, some fear creeped into me . After that message, I jus coudnt sit there , wanted to have  dinner and head home directly. Went to ascendas , had dinner and headed home . As soon, as I reached home , I switched on the system to check , if a site called ICQRESULTS.COM really existed. It opened and the opening lines , Anna univ results tomo! I closed it immediately, but I was still thinking how could they work on  a national holiday and release the results. That night again I went for a fag with woof and we were discussing about our how many cups expected tis sem. I  had written 11 papers , so miss ratio was on the higher side compared to the hit ratio. 26th Jan arrived,The Doomsday, I got up late as usual, by this time , over enthusiastic students of my classes had called up AU helpline and confirmed the result news. Fk,  I was really nervous . Around 6 pm , one dumb dog confirmed that results had come . Anna Univ site also dint load quickly , which meant results had come 

. This is one symptom to confirm the arrival of the SANGU(results)!!! The bloody site took its own fkn time to open. I first checked the result of Akshay( roll no.1 in our dept) , all clear, next i tried chkin the result of 52, all clear, 53 , all and i slowly typed my no.  and when the results page was jus loadin , i got a call from from VB, sayin dood, u ve cleared all the papers  , the moment he said it , the page also loaded , for the first time after the I sem, i was seeing all P's in my result. I was speechless. The Glitter pens and the art work inside the answer sheets had worked!! I never really expected all clear, as I had fucked up a couple of papers . But tis was pleasant surprise. Phew , some hopes of me graduating on time came alive. That night I couldnt go for a fag wit woof as he had couple of arrears ,which he later  cleared in reval and re-reval, Can u beleive ,  re - reval , a re-evaluation for a re- evaluation, well , thats the DUMB Anna Univ for you. 

Most of the colleges had finished their final year tour and we also planned to go for one tis sem. While most of the colleges like St.Josephs n SMIT etc went for north tour, we bloody stuck to a low budget trip to Kerala. Though, I wasn interested in Kerala, I just wanted to go just because it was a final year tour . Well, everythin was nearly done , though oly around 27 students had agreed for the tour. On the other hand, another group of students were plannin a tour to the same place , same dates i think , but they were not interested to come  with us . They asked me to join with them , but I declined their offer. Most of the others rejected sayin they dint have money! Bullshit ! On the whole , It was a total fiasco, both the groups dint go ! Never did my class unite in all the 4 years!! :(. Many more to add- farewell, placement , Krishna College , IPL and VIII sem exams . 

VII sem.

We were in the Final Year of engineering ... I have always thought if i could finish engineering in IV years considering the backlogs i having.  I was low down on confidence . Placement preps were on, My friends were rolling over R.S. Agarwal,Barrons,CAT books and what not.I never got involved in this because   I knew , I woudnt be eligible for most of the companies , cos of my arrears. Max a company allows 2, not more than that. Oly a few companies allow everyone to write. Mock aptitude tests were on in the college @ full swing in the college. I attended all the tests , aptitude tests are fun . But there were some guys who dint attend the mock tests. They got caught , and I was shocked when my name was also called. When I asked the department staff as to why my name was called , they fkn dint bother to answer me . It totally pissed me off. I was made to stand near the princi's office for one whole week. They told that they would leave us oly if we ask our parents to meet the princi. Now , WTF! i wasnt even knowing the reason for me standin,why should i bring my parents. But it was jus waste of time thinkin , Cos if princi says somethin, thats FINAL! Period! We were 6 in no.

(Me, Subbu,Azeez,Water pkt, ramf and oof). Our routine for that whole week was to come to college , sit on the stairs near the princi's office and talk bout all the college matters etc etc . It was actually fun sitting there rather than in the class:P. Slowly then, from 6 it became 3 and i was forced to call my mom. Fk, I was made to stand outside for talking inside the class , Can u beleive it,! Kiddish behavior !! Damn!! Luckily i wasnt fined and i was let off. 

Next day TCS was on campus , thou i wasn eligible, it was mandatory to attend the pre placement talks ( GOD knows why!). So after 1 hour of preplacement talks , around 11 , the first round started. Me  n  some guys were planning to go out some where. Some of my friends wanted to booze ( Morning time la booze, donno wat struck their minds ), I also accompanied them, we were there from 11 am to 4 pm. We were gttn updates on whos in n whos not after each round. 90 odd students got placed finally. Companies followed Infy , Hcl, Keane , HP. We never turned up to the college wen any company came on campus. After a few companies , came UST, this company created so much hype with its name .. ( uma shankar tech or unni shankar tech or Unni S$$$$ tech so many names). First interview  for quite a few of us . First round had 90q to be completed in 75 mins . On top of tis Sectional cutoff was also there. It had 3 sections , Analytical, Verbal and Logical. I completed all the questions in the logical n verbal. And i had done oly 2 sums in the analytical and the time got over. Thats it! Lost hopes . Some of my friends had cleared the first round , so I was waiting for them to get thru the interview . 

( Woof - cleared the interview, was wearin a GREEN COLOR adidas running shoes , Mani, after 6-7 companies , cleared the first round and finally cleared the interview too.) . Next was I Flex, again flop show . There was some confusion in the evaluation, which no one knows yet! Time passed by, hardly attended classes. I was gttn busy wit the Gre preps, as it was jus some cupla months away. I started attending classes again , and  i was slogging hard for verbal. Quants , i knew i could manage as it was more of 6-8th std maths. I had booked my exam on Aug 22, Mani had booked it on the prev day , i.e 21st august. He always used to score more than me in Quants in mock tests. I went to  the centre to meet him after the exam, he had scored 680 i quants, I was shell shocked . I lost hopes on Quants too. The next day was the Doomsday - went to the centre, First was the essay section, wrote some stuff and next was the Quants section , which surprisingly pretty easy. I completed that section in less than 30 mins (scheduled time is 45 mins) and next was the verbal section , i screwd it and i luckily finished  it on time . And i slowly click the GET SCORE button, I was fkn surprised to see 800 in quants and a bad verbal score of 430( it was pretty less for the effort  i put , but i was happy wit my quants score, rather shocked  n surprised). 1230 is OK score , but i was the second highest in my class :P. First person to score centum in quants in my class, thou a few of them followed after mine . 

After Iflex, after a long time , a company called Visual Business Tools came on campus, It had oly II rounds .  I did the aps well and was sure of gttn thru the I round but damn, they refused to evaluate the papers, as they found many ppl copying  ( But , at those times , nothing was coming  my way, It was all topsy - turvy ) . So thats all, that company also gone. Companies stopped coming, and the rest of the companies were scheduled oly in the next sem.

This time again 6 subs-

Advanced MuP- Siji----> No comments!! $^#$^@%&&*#*##$%@%$@#$%@#^*&*@#*#%**###&#&#&#&#. I have to quote about her amazing knowledge... Jus look at tis conversation 

Jaishankar(my classmate)- Ma'am,Computer is not working .

Siji- Take it near the AC, it will work

Jaishankar-?????

Can U beleive it, Shes our Head of the Department ,Damnit!  

Televison- Babyola- One horrible subject, never paid attention to her class.

VLSI- Diode- Interesting Sub- but i don know how he taught

Microwave Engineering - Saraswathy- crap subject, crap teacher. 

Optical Communication - Sivarajan alias " Going to be off." He used to add " is going to be of" in every line of watever he spoke . For ex. The earth is going to be of spherical in shape. Most of us counted the no. of times he said its going to be of. 

TQM- No Staff. Free hour

In btw all the placement hungama, results were out , Arrear count reduced from 6 to 5. Dint bother me at all. Mid sems followed , super sixer . Revision exams, again super sixer. The thoughts of me completing engg in started haunting me  more often . 

Late night fags was the Hit of tis semester, Me n oof used to meet up @ Teynampet for a fag, and it would so happen that time used to fly away as we used to keep chatting some crap thing . 3 fags each + 3 hours of vetti chatting . Sometimes even 4 hours , but never felt bored, infact , never felt like leaving that place too.. but ... had too.. This became one daily routine that semester. We used to spk about all the topics , rt from politics, crkt, college matters , what not! Well to tell u bout deepak, he is also another victim , jus like me , oly difference , my boat started sinking in the II sem, while his started sinking in the III sem. 

Sem exams closed in, This time , the timetable was also quite sensible , we had the normal time table for regular and arrear exams followed oly after the regulars.  I knew my handwriting was one of the factors for my bad performance , so i bought couple of using Glitter pens, hoping that it could create some magic. Well, these arrears dint change the pattern of my studying, It remained the same even now.. Started by 11 and ended by 430, sometimes even 5. Because the subjects this semester were terrible, u just had to mug up all the shit and vomit it the next day. Well ,  I somehow managed to finish all the 5 units in all the subjects and gave my best shot in the exams once again and i did the designer work in the paper by putting boxes, double line etc etc. Did Glitter pens create the magic , which i was hopin??? Wait for the nxt post~~

VI sem...

Sincere apologies for Mani, as i totally forgot to mention his name in our Mocha,Ascendas,Star Rock  and tea kadai visits, he also wanted publicity and was angry on me for not including his name in the previous blog. 

Semester exams finally ended, heaved a sigh of relief after completing the hectic schedule of exams, lack of sleep , etc etc  everything took a toll on me , fell ill for a cupla days . We get sem holidays jus for some 3-4 days, whereas other colleges open after a cuple of weeks . So half of my leave went begging , but my other friends were still going there ( Mani,Vb and harri).I joined them two days later :P .By this time , i should say we had mostly  been to all the places in Chennai , Bessi,Marina,amethyst,mocha etc etc etc . U name it  , would ve gone. 

So after the so called 4 days of Sem leave , Coll reopened again :(. But I also felt coll was fun, instead of lazying around in the house.So even semester , Symposium time . Most of the colleges conducted their symposiums in odd sem , but ours was a lil different.This time , it was our turn to conduct the symposium, Our Dept sympo is named Pranav, so it was time for Pranav-07, we had to resurrect it as it was kind of a no show last time @ Pranav -06. Our class had so many creative minds , so it was quite sure if all unite , it would be one blockbuster. But , 'll everyone unite or keep stayin with their group was a real ?. So Sponsorship brouchers were ready , and again time for time for ODs. Well , I still remember the way i got my first OD letter during our sympo signed. I was wearing a Jean(thou banned in AU, our college never really bothered) and my sick HOD noticed it and said that she wont allow me to go to company wit Jeans ( who the F was gonna go to company anyway), Then i went to my classmate's hostel room , changed my pants and got the OD letter signed . Despo Stuff!! As expected , the 4 of us headed direct to our II home ( no prizes for guessing again :P). This became a daily routine, as days passed by , many others from our class joined us.(woof broken bhai chopra hari etc etc). When we were kinda broke, we used to head to Sathyam and get the 10rs ticket irrespective of which ever movie was being screened . But , again we did collect some sponsors from some companies, tis time we were smart enough to get sponsors only  from the companies which sponsored us last time instead of walking into various companies and being sent out decently. 

Days were flyin and our sympo date was finalized Feb 9 , 2007. Anna Univ 's sympo Kurukshetra and IIT's Saarang ( now would miss saarang and attend symposiums, if given a choice , i would prefer to attend saarang rather than volunteering in my symposium :P) and was also scheduled around the same time , so considering the dates of these 2 sympo's we finalized it on 9th cos it did not clash with any other thing

Work started in full swing. We were split into groups and were alloted our committee, I was again part of the Mock Interview committee. Then the Poster was developed , this time it came out really well, 1000 times bttr than our senior's . It was time to distribute the posters to colleges . Again me and  my friends set off to the colleges in our own bikes . Long rides are really awesome , that too on smooth free roads , there's an adrenalin rush when yur bike crosses 100kmph. Still remember the day wen we were fagging our way to glory jus outside of Panimalar engineering college on the highway road after distributing the posters . Must have easily travelled some 100+ kms that day. Very rarely we were at college, if we were in the college , we used to move into another classroom called CREATIVE ROOM, Its jus like Innovation Station of IBM :P. We used to play cricket continuously for hours together. Days passed and everythin was nearly ready Banners, sponsors etc etc. Ours was the 4th symposium after CIVIL,IT and CSE. Just an average amt . of crowd turned up for IT n CSE symposium as it clashed wit AU n IIT symposium. So , there came the eve of our sympo, huge banners were erected. Banners everywhere in the mini sized campus of ours. Most of us were there till all the work got over . We all left by 3 am . The big day arrived , Damn again formal full sleeveshirt wit tie :((. After the presentation session got over , we were all shocked, So much crowd , more than what we expected . We ran short of food and many other things . It was really a blockbuster hit !! Finally it came to a close , all of us were so fkn enervated that we laid down on the benches outside the classrooms. Phew!! Happy times ,were shortlived, results had come out . This time I became stoic w.r.t the results . I had 6 backs, dint bother me too much as i had got used to it in the previous year. Arrears became an integral part of my coll. life :P. 

This time again we had a few new staff

 Principles of Management - Siji- HOD- Better i don comment on her else my BP will shoot up.

 Numerical Methods- Ramya - Never cared to listen to her class, so I donno how she taught and she also dint bother to  trouble the students

 Digital Communications- Dont know her name :P- She used to teach the walls , jus my perception. 

 Computer Architecture - Yamuna - She was jus one year senior and our coll pass out , so u can expect wat respect she got . 

 Computer Networks- Jerin- Mrs. Perfect. No way we could cheat her, she maintained a perfect register . So i was forced to put an observation for Networks Lab. This was my first and last observation .We once got caught for not even entering the lab even once , not completing the obse and record, while others had nearly completed their records . Well again , Me Harri VB Mani and Akshay got caught for tis sappa reason and she complained it to Princi. We were standing outside her office for the whole day . Then Princi called all our houses and warned  , unfortunately my granny answered the call from princi and my granny called up my mom and my mom being one hyper active woman directly and came to college. I was shocked to see her at college , I asked to leav the college as the matter got solved, but she refused to go as she wanted to know what was the problem. So my mom met the Princi... PERIOD!! 

 Antennas and Wave propagation - Saraswathy- She once told me " Nee un velaiya paaru , naa en velaiya paakarein, but un velaiya konjam silenta pannu " Need more?? 

Jus a week after the symposium stuff , Mid sem was On, Miserable results again, Super sixer! Well, it was a tough job to fill even the main sheet, Don think even after totalling the marks of all the 6 subs , i got 50. But I was not the only one , there were ppl who scored lesser than me :P. 

 Days passed by and on March 10, eve of my b'day that nite i was near doraiswamy subway in a shop faggin. Mani and Harri were there , They were the ones to wish me first . Treats and b'day bums followed. 

  

One fine day , I donno what struck all of us , we decided to go to GRE class, So all 10 of us went n attended the class. After the class , we decided to go to Marina , as its jus few mins from the class, All 10 of us had vehicles. Our class rep, Siva initiated the raced as he raced past us , in order to catch up wit him , all started vrrrrrrrrrroooooooooming @ RK salai, taking cuts and turns, we all stopped at the signal  Mr. Mani who owns an activa was screamin , telling Activa enna speed pathele......... and he took off immediately as the signal turned green and again we sped off and Damm.. Mani suddenly pressed his brakes n turned left towards the bike park, Shankar w/o knowin bout the bike went and hit Mani at full speed and Thud! both of em fell and  It was really a close shave for me , as i was js behind shankar and i just managed to press the brakes on time . It was a pathetic scene . As usual , all the ppl there formed a kootam lookin @ wat was happening . We then took those 2 dogs to a nearby hospital. Shankar escaped wit minor injuries while Mani suffered Multiple Compound fracture . After few days , Revision exams were on , no improvement. Exams started , I did give my best shot cos this was a critical sem, cos placements would start next sem. But i have a shit handwriting . One of my biggest let down in the exams . Results of VI sem to released in the nxt post! 

V sem contd....

As many of us dream of pursuing MS in US, I also did and wanted tis dream to come true. So in , wat we call" aaruva kolaru", me and some of my friends nearly 10 of  them, joined THE LYCEUM, which is supposed to and is the best place for GRE.So we paid the fees and sat in the class, we sat  in the last row, as the class is jam packed during the verbal classes.I still remember , he was doing the Q words. Damn, we couldn understand a bit of wat he was teaching. We were scratching our heads, thinking if its ENGLISH. Finally, the class ended , we lost hopes on GRE. :P. next day was Quants , oly few of my turned up to the quants class.  I was again late to the class and to my surprise , oly 10-12 students had turned up.My maths was getting terrible, i could answer oly 3-4 questions out of 20. Well, nearly a month passed and i found that , i was the oly person from our group attending the classes, but still no improvement in verbal and quants,maybe because i lacked interest, thinking nearly one year was there  before i appeared for the exam. Slowly , I also skipped the classes.But that class was valid for one year, July'06-07, so i thought of going there,some couple of months before taking the exams, thinking that would be enough.One fine day, me,hari,harriharan,vb and akshay went to mocha and  then it all  started. We started visiting this place quite frequently . Then, from no where, a school mate of mine, Tharun contacted me after some 3 years. I met him at amethyst and den we got along well and once i called him to mocha to introduce him to my college friendly, surprisingly , he was harriharan's sklmate too. He was in PSBB before he came Narayana Mission.He was the only person who used to fag & booze at that time. Slowly harri and vb also started fags and also booze. I was  steady till then w/o fags n booze.This sem again, we used to get OD, tis time in the name of GRE, telling, we have tis exam, tat exam, mock exam. Since all my staff were dumbasses , they used to give us permission. Once, there was some India's match was going on and we couldn sit inside the class , we desparetely wanted to watch the match. So, as usual we got OD in the name of GRE and we set off to find a place where they had tv . Mocha doesn't have TV, so that was ruled out. Then, we went and enquired in leather bar @ The Park, no tv again. So, finally we went to Barista and we were watching the match. As usual, Indians screwed it up, we lost interest and went to mocha. Tharun joined us @ Mocha. This time , another classmate of mine, name ashwathaman, came along with us. So again, we all ordered something, and those 3 started fagging and they started forcing me to have it . I said no way, they dint stop either.Then  I told them, If Ashwathaman smokes , I ll also. I told all this , thinking he wont smoke and i could also escape but that jackass lit his cig and started smoking. Damn, I couldnt say  no anymore. Then I took a fag lighted it . By tis time , Harri and VB had become professionals in fagging and they thought me, how to take it in and all those stuff. As my first cig went on , tears were flowing from my eyes, (NO! NO!! I wasnt crying , just that the smoke was going into my eyes) And Yeah, that atmosphere @ mocha was another thing. Everyone were fagging , incl the gals.Well , i cant say, i dint like it , it was good and thats wen it all started. From that day , we became daily customers of mocha.By this time, Mani also joined hands with us,we<> used to get OD, go to mocha, order something, fag and come back. Come what may, we used to go there everyday . At times, more than once.By this time, we started frequenting the pubs too. Star rock is where we went most of the times. I just went there for fun, used to eat the side dishes, drink pepsi and fag.Once those buggers forced me to have a beer,i reluctantly took the glass, i coudn't stand the smell itself and i jus licked it, Yuck~~ i immediately went to the restroom and spat it out . Oly once after so much of forcing , i tried Vodka, 30 ml of vodka and mixed it wit 300 ml of pepsi and I was having it for hours together , before i could finish half , my friends had completed 2 rounds, slowly , i finished half the glass and i asked the bartender to fill up the glass wit pepsi again.(so it accounts to 30ml vodka and nearly 450 ml pepsi)My friends were furious , seeing me do all this crap. And we from star rock, we again went to mocha. Cos my friends believed a cup of coffee can reduce the hangover(experts opinion).Days passed by , and sem was jus a month away, which meant , study hols had started(One of the few good things bout my college, we are given one full month leave before the exams>Holidays dint stop us from going to Mocha :P.There are times, wer we used to order jus one drink, jus for the sake of ordering( I mean, thou we were 4-5 in number , we would just order 1 drink , per group and not per head :P).Sometimes, we used to meet up @ tea shops at nights for fags. Guess, u can make a clear picture of how jobless we were. Yes , we were! :D. From the other experienced faggers in my class, we heard that Ascendas(Tidel Park) is open for all , 24*7. Thats it! That became our hot - spot in the night. After finishing our work @ Mocha in the evening, go home , freshn up , have dinner and leav to ascendas around 11 became a routine, (Not a daily one , but we did go there twice or thrice a week) . Sometimes,my other classmates (deepak, hari etc etc) also used to join us  and we used to stay there till 3-4 in the morning , keep talking bout some shit topic, and no count on the no. of smokes.  The ride from my place to Ascendas was grt, free roads , fast paced songs on my ipod  used to vrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrroooooom. Pleasure ride infact. This routine was on, and guess what exams were just 2 days away , we were given our hall tickets , and no prizes for guessing where we went after getting our hall tickets.Guess wat, we used to sit @ mocha, discuss bout the subject even the day before the exam . Since it being an odd sem, we used to have 3 days in btw some exams , so we used to night out @ Ascendas btw the exams for which we had 3 days leave. Well, I couldnt go to Mocha during some days , as i had exams daily (Arrears + regular), but my friends were going strong. Last exam of the semester was PROFESSIONAL ETHICS and guess where I studied , beleive it or not , @ ASCENDAS, Me Harri and VB and a pack of fags for company, we studied very less , but that was enough to clear the exam. Qwikys was open full night at those times, whether we studied or not , we had some ting from there every hour. Time passed away eating fagging and sighting the chicks, admist all these distractions ,we did manage to study a bit.The thing is Mr.Tharun came i from no where, and once we all got used to booze n fags, that fucker left. No contacts again. I still wonder at time , why did he come , why di he leav etc etc. One thing , before u start smokin, u wont notice how many ppl smoke, but once u start , u ll find so many , like ever 3/5 ppl smoking . This doesn apply for smokin n drinking alone, so many other activities too. During this sem, we discovered so many tea shops :P. These days I can never forget in my life , Damn the fact that i cant get these days back! :( Results of V sem to be released in the  next post

PS-

1) Cigarette smoking is injurious to health :P but who cares! 

2) Fags help in bonding friendship (Universally accepted, personally too)

3) I am not an addict

4) Excuse me , for my crap English!! So many thoughts, coudn't control !! :P

V sem Part -1

Successfully, not in my case though, 2 years , i.e we had crossed half the bridge. So we entered into the third year, I was as usual late to the class<> .Class had started before the came to the class, But then i was used to it now.The subjects and staffs given below

Communication Theory - Mrs. Babyola- She was pregnant at that time , so she finished the full syllabus in 2 weeks and was off on maternity leav, She was teaching at express speed, couldn understand a bit of wat she taught, Well, i wouldn have understood even if she had taught us patiently :P.

Microprocessors - Balasubramanian-Nick'd -Hiode /Balsu-Many say  he taught well, i paid no attention to his classes. He was one real backstabber, Damn!! 

DSP which is also called as Degree Stopping Paper-Shailaja-Well, difficult to explain in words, She was one helluva #####.I dont know how she taught , cos most of the times, me along wit a big gang were always outta the class, She was irritating . Well, even by chance I sat in her class, I used to do some crap or the other so that she notices me and sends me out . I never stood alone , always used to have a big company. As soon as we get sent out , we used to sit on the stairs and start our useless vetti talks. These vetti talks are anyday better than sitting inside those boring shit classes. I did only two things wen i was inside the class, One was to observe everyone's reaction and to give miss calls to those who were listening attentive.:P

Transmission Lines and Waveguides- Sangeetha- Nick'd Gomma- She used to pronounce GAMMA as GOMMA , thus the name. She was one vayilla poochi.She never used to bother wat we were doing and we also dint bother to listen wat she was telling . In between, we had a teacher called Chembian, from IIT . he was there was some 3 weeks . I thought that being from IIT , he would have good knowledge etc etc and taught of listening to his class, but unfortunately his voice was not at all audible, i also tried to listen but in vain :((.

Ethics-Deepa Jose- The same staff who handled LIC for us . Again she was also not a problem . As it was one mokka subject she also never pressurized the students. But I used to wonder, why engineering has crap subjects like this?:P

Control Systems-Senthil <>. Yabbaaaaaaaaaa... he is one real Psycho. Just cant explain him in words. He ll talk to properly , but the very next second used to start shouting. Quite helpful thou, as many students say. I don have any idea bout his helping nature because i never went to him to get any sorta help or someting. It was an interesting subject, but he taught us like an idiot, which no one followed.

Few weeks into the V semester, I bought a new mobile ,MOTO L7. Though cell phones are banned in our college, no one cared bout it..My cell got caught in one of the most unfortunate ways possible. The worst thing is , I wasn't there when the cell phone got caught. So wen  i came to know that my cell got caught, i rushed in to meet the staff. Pleaded like hell, and she said she would return it tomorrow. The next day , wen i went , that ##### had read all the messages in my inbox and outbox.It was on the day wen the phone got caught, my bloody friend , who never sends me any fwds or anything, sent me a coupla A jokes :(. But i dont think she understood the jokes . To add fuel to the fire , I was messagin my cousin few mins before my cell got caught asking him about some hotels in Coimbatore bout its accomodation as we had planned to go to Coimbatore n Ooty for a trip , which is called Industrial Visit in professional terms, 

Well, this conversation was the main 

Cuz- Are you in college?

Me-Yes

Cuz- Free hour or wat ?

Me-Yes

Cuz-Dont tell me you have free hours in engineering, some idiotic professor must be taking class for u

<>

Now, these ppl had read my messages and the staff thought i had sent the message sending the teacher was an IDIOT<>But i should say , I was lucky enuff in this issue atleast , cos on that day, another phone got caught, again from my department, but my junior. Tis was one big matter , It had some filthy messages . Like Panchathantram dialogue, mine was Pedda phone chinna matteru, her's was Chinna phone<> pedda matteru.This case became more strong and my matter got amungified.Well, I did samalichufy in my house by getting an L7 from my friend and i gave him my old 2600 and after few months, my friend ,due to whom my cell got caught, bought me a cell on EMI. In between all these stuff, IV was also scheduled . Frankly sayin , one of the worst and fucked up Itinerary of the trip. Many students boycotted the IV due to the tension created during the previous one . Thou , the itinerary was a bad one ,travelling with friends is always a nice feeling . IV got over successfully without any problem, this is something to be appreciated :P. Soon, after the IV , we had our midsems . I flunked again miserably, scoring a duck again in Microprocessors . I had become bad to worse, i used to fill the main sheet atleast in the prev sem's midems and revisions, but this time , filling up the first page itself became a Himalayan task.This sem we did not have any maths papers too. So it was a super sixer in the midsem.Few days later, DOOMSDAY arrived , the results day, I was on my way back home from SSN's Culturals -INSTINCTS. I was literally shivering with fear, I dint get any calls from my friends, so I was sure that , my results were bad. I came  home n checked  , Biggest shock of my life , I had 8 backlogs. I had cleared oly in Random Process and signals and the 2 practicals . I had 8 F's and 4 P's .4 in the IV sem and the 4 in III sem :((. My heart started pumping for a second , Never ever seen such pathetic results. @ home , i said i had 4 arrears, 4 current ones, cos i dint have the guts to say i had 8 arrears.I was feeling ashamed to go to the class the next day, but then i had to go , no other option. Again, the next day after the results , Gloomy faces and Happy faces. Things had to move on, my sadness is always short-lived. So i never got worried bout those backs after some days. Soon after few days , Revision exams followed, again Super sixers , no ducks tis time :P. AU finally released the Exam time table , I had to write 6 regulars and 8 arrears. Since it was an odd sem, we had 3 days and 2 days study holidays between the exams. But cos of my bloody fucking backs, exams came in between those holidays  too. It really became tough for me. I had exams continuosly  for a week from monday to friday. Oly for 1 or 2 exams , i had leave to prepare. Inspite of all these arrears, i dint change my studying habit. I read oly from 11 to..... till  i finished, around 330-4. This has already become a big post, and I have many more interesting things to tell durin the V sem , like Mocha<>, Ascendas ,Night outs etc etc to be continued in d next post. 

IV sem..

After the III sem ended, we got the so called Vacation for 4-5 days.Those days flew away, time was fully spent for sleepin, eating and going out. Then, College reopened and we were into the second half of the second year.Classes went on, as usual never bothered to listen to any.The subjects were, EC-II,Linear Integrated ckts, Measuremnts and Instrumentation, EMF, Random  Process and Signals and Systems.

EC-II-Malathi- Easy Subject, made it look difficult . She was again one crap staff, adding to the department.

LIC-Deepa Jose- Used to come @ times, more like a guest lecturer, but again no teaching @ all.

Measurements & Instrumentation-Preeja-She was afraid of our class and i need not say more.

EMF-Kalpana- nick'd Crazy frog-Used to keep on shoutin some crap in the class, but who cares! 

Random Process-Chr/Raman sir

Signals and Systems- Again, the same crap , Anuradha, became from bad to worse, i shud say

It was symposium time, every even sem in college is fun cos half , infact more than half of the days is spent on the symposium.Its Fun actually..

So, Our department Symposium was scheduled on some date. The first thing which strikes everyone durin symposium is OD. OD-ON DUTY, which means, you can bunk college, legally.

First and Foremost thing during symposium is to collect the sponsors, This is the best thing in the symposium, actually.You can get permission from the HOD sayin u are going to X ,Y,Z company and can escape from the college, at the end no one bothers to check if we have got them sponsors from those company.I was not a good boy , to sit in the class wen we are given OD's .Since, it was the first sympo for us , most of us worked hard, going to d companies for sponsors, getting Bulb'd most of the time. The daily routine was to come to college by 9, get the OD letter signed and leave, there are days wen we never entered the classroom too.After some days, after getting so many bulbs in the company , we got fed up wit the companies and started going out to movies, malls, some place to kill time or worst come worst , go home n get flat.It was at tis time , after lots of pestering and pleading, nearly an year , i got a bike . Yipeee!Slowly, I started learnin how to drive, and den there was no stopping me. :P. Me n my frnds discovered so many hang outs, so many restos durin the so called sponsorship voyage.But we did some justice to our OD's by fetching some sponsors.We enjoyed each and every moment of the trips. Time passed by , it was ages since we sat in the class. But again , who cares! The preparations of the symposium was going @ full swing.Most of the work was taken care by our seniors, as it was their symposium mainly. Then , after the sponsorship deadlines got over , we had to deliver the symposium poster to the other colleges. Seriously , The poster looked like Crap, with the starting lines, MSEC vazhangum ELECSAwin PRANAV , C'mon man, shudn't it be professional, we aren't makin movies, oly there we have these kinda kinda, XXX vazhangum YYYwin <>.But , seniors had done it, so we cudn say anything. 

Days passed by, it was the eve of our symposium , many of us stayed back after the college hours , helpin in raising the banners , arranging the benches etc etc. In between all these things, we had to choose the events, i mean, u had to choose whichever event u wanted to volunteer. I chose Mock Interview along wit another friend of mine , Mr.Mani. By midnight , most of the work got over and most of us started as we had to come to the college a bit early too. The D-Day had arrived, thou i was happy bout it , i was also upset of the fact tat , OD's myt become difficult, oor sutha mudiyathu :(. All of us had dressed up in formals with a tie , Damn i tell u, tie , full hand shirt etc etc on a hot n sunny day @ chennai can be irritating like hell.But, I had to carry on wit it. Was really feeling sleepy , i dozed off during the Presentation, welcome address etc. and  i woke up suddenly and luckily , the initial mokkai's was about to get over. Then, everyone headed to their own respective committees. Me n my friend walked into the seminar hall, where the first round of mock interview was gonna be conducted. The seniors were there , before us ready with the question papers .To my susprise , oly around 4 ppl turned up at first, Well, frankly it was kinda flop show wit oly 40 odd turnin up for the event. We had to invigilate and see to tat no one copied,<>. Evaluating those papers took hardly 10 mins. and we shortlisted the selected candiadates fr the next round, which was an extempore. Our super seniors were the judge fr tis event. and some 5 students were  shortlisted for the nxt round and finally 3 of them won. Well, Finally Pranav-07 came to a close and it was declared a hit . And from next day , routine college started. Was sitting in the class after ages, so each subject seemed like Greek n Latin to me. Soon after a week, MID SEM was on, as usual , flunked miserably, thou i had the questions the previous night. And soon after ., the III sem results were out , the most shocking day in my life, i had got 4 backs. 4 Fucking arrears , i cdnt beleive my eyes wen  i saw it. I had cleared oly random process and Signals. Had a  nice archanai @ home , i also felt a bit guilty, but i had not written it so badly as the result said. But things had to move on, I applied for reval, but in vain. Well, i never take things seriously, so these 4 backs , dint worry me too much. But it was terrible result , pass % was oly 33%. But things had to move on.  I have to tell you about our lab sessions, It was more or less , 3 free hours, we were divided into groups , each group had 3 members.52,53,54 formed one group, 52=> gymse kumar, 53=>VB 54 => yrs truly. One of the most dedicated , punctual and sincere groups in our batch. The probabilty of all three of us present in the lab session was 0. It was either two of us or one of us or the whole group absent. We hardly did 4-5 expts durin the 4 years.I   never maintained an observation for any of the labs, except for 1 subject in the sixth sem.  I was very lazzy to write obse, and one more thing, oly if we perform the experiment we can take down in the obse. Records, another pain in the !!!. used to get it corrected at the last moment. We had the spiral bound records , all the writing and drawing is done on A4 papers and den its spiral bound. I was poor in drawing, i used to finish the writing part alone. I was good at outsourcing, by the time , i started my record, most of the students in my class would ve got the completed sign . So i used to give them the paper and ask them to draw the diagrams and tabular columns. If there were 10 expts , used to give the papers to 10 vetti dawgs and ask them to help me complete the record. By the time they finished their work, i used to complete the other pendin work . Then i used to collect the papers, and used to arrange it and den get it signed . PHEW! Revision exams came , flunked miserably again in all subjects, except for Random Process. Study holidays started soon after the revision.Apart from the regular 6 papers, i had to write those 4 backs too. Most of my exams were a total fiasco tis time , as i couldnt prepare properly , as the 4 arrears kept haunting my mind. Gave a shit performance . Results of the IV sem to be released soon.. 

II year of engineering.... III sem

Well, i apologise for the crap grammatical errr and screwd up sentence formation in the prev post, quite a few reasons for that , 1) started writing the post around 3 am, 2) Thoughts kept flowing in , cudn't control them and 3) I am still an amateur, hope i don make as many mistakes as in the first post this time, if u find any , Ignore them .

So here i go...

III sem, This is the time when the so called "Engineering" life starts. First day of the III sem, I was as usual late and it took some time for me to search for my class as the classrooms are in the Main block, for the first two semesters, we were made to sit in IIET block for some sentimental reasons , its more like a haunted block, dark staircase, broken door, stinkin toilets and more... Now comin to the Main block, <>At that time i dint have a cell phone  too, so that i could message someone asking wher's the class, so i had to go thru all the classrooms and finally found it.I am neither a first bencher nor a last bencher , am d In-between category.So I went inside and sat some where in the 3rd or 4th bench.The first day however was quite free as no staffs came. The thoughts about E.Mech started haunting me . Our Class teacher came in and put some blade about electronics some crap, well i never had the habit of listening the class unless am interested.She put some mokka and finally told the subjects for the semester and the staff who were gonna handle the subject, The Subjects were Data Structures<>, Electrical Machines<> , and the 3 core papers Electronic Devices and Circuits, Electronics Circuits-I,Digital Electronics and Maths -III. Days passed by, I realized that , My class is divided into 2 , One is the Pazham group and other is the happy go - lucky , Come what may group, and i was neither in both of them,  I was a Total Misfit in the class, neither i could move freely with the pazham group nor i could get along wit the other group. Well, I dint like the class at all and the subjects and the staff added to the agony.

 The Staff names deserves a special mention

Data Structures-Ashok Kumar-Nick'd RAMP WALK ROBOT- was one real psycho,Once he made the whole class to stand out and he walking alone inside the class stroking the benches,and he claimed to have finished the subject in just 2 classes.GOD OLY KNOWS~

 

Electronics Devices and Circuits- Anuradha - She was one annoying lady who was fit to teach primary children, Her dialogues like Ennathu Ma, Ithu Ma , Athu Ma pissed me off totally.

Electronics Circuits-Meenakshi-Nick'd AMMAN-She was suffering from hysteria i guess, She never used to shout lookin at the student's eye, she used to look at the ceiling while shoutim... Most of the time , she was fast asleep either inside the staffroom or lab. 

Digital Electronics-Sivarajan-Nick'd Morris Mano- was a silent person, he also taught us proprly , came to each bench and gave personal attention , this subject was quite interesting and a bit easy too... atleast the first unit, which he handled. As luck would have it , he left the college and we had 'n' no. of staff to complete the subject, this made me lose interest in tis subject too.. :((

Electrical Machines-Rama-Nick'd BONDAmatics-Her FUW<> were basically,generally,actually etc, we rather used to count the no. of these words than concentrating on the subject. 

Maths III- Chr/Raman sir-

Chr again was kinda hysteric, her speed of talkin was equal to the speed of Japanese bullet train.

Raman Sir-The most respected person in our college, was at his usual best. Since i was kinda good in maths, this subject wasn't an area of concern for me.

Now after a few days, we had something called Mid-Term,We never considered it as an exam, we gave a damn to it.This is like one week holiday , where we get to continue our broken sleep. That is what i did, dint study for any of the exams, even thou i knew the question the previous night itself. <>. Laziness got over me , and i dint study and faired badly in mid sem, Except for Maths , i flunked in the others. Special mention to the EC-I paper, in which i scored 0<>. Well actually it became a matter of prestige to pass in the mid sem exams. More the subjects  u fail , more the "GETHU". hehe. Days passed by and IV was planned. After so much of controversies, the date and the companies , everything got finalized.These controversies increased the animosity between the students. I , as always kept mum, as I don prefer getting into a fight unless its inevitable. Well, all set to bangalore , we spent 3 days there. Again , some problems cropped up, as expected, Inter class as well as intra class. Inter class, we had a tiff with EEE students over a company . Intra class, some group of students wanted to complaint about the boys who had boozed the previous night to the Class teacher, really kiddish thought, I believe. Well, problems still persisted in my class , No , Unity at all. Poor me, I wasn't a part of any of the groups, Because I dint like to be a part of one group and create hatred against the other. I was a TOTAL MISFIT again. Days passed, and on one rainy evening , the second semester results were out. It really scared the shit off me... E mech , E Mech was what  running thru my brain at that time.By this time , I had a cell. So while I was on my way home , my friend called me and told that results had come. I asked him not to tell my result , as I would go home n check it , But my over -enthu friend broke it and it turned out as expected.Tears started flowin from my eyes, as it was the first time in my life i had failed in an exam. I dint know how to tell it @ home. So , I thought of telling it a bit later, but my friends started calling me and one friend of mine , called up , I picked up the phone, My mom also picked the phone, and tat ass asked " Machi, Results enna aachu?", thats all! My mom started screamin and came to my room asking if the results were out, I acted as i dint know it and I said, wait let me check,by this time my dad had also come , the university site took its own sweet time to open, as it does always on the day of results, I put my reg.no and there came d marks. An 'F' next to me E. Mech, My parents were shocked, My father started shouting as all fathers do, tellin ippo onnu , adutha sem naalu , athukku adutha sem ettu , and he left for work as it was his night duty , and after that my mom started polambifyin, again like any other mom. Next day , College , i went to the class, few happy faces and  few gloomy faces. I was terribly upset too. I had to move on with it. 

Sem III was about to come to an end. I fucking , dint know anythin about any subject and I again, flunked miserably in the Revision examination. Study holidays started , Tis is like a vacation for us , because , other than this we don get holidays post exam, So tis is the time to enjoy, wasted the whole month royally.Only good thing I did was that I attended Raman Sir's Maths Class. Its more like a one month crash course.Time flew,then, I realized that , the exam was on the next day , so I sat down to study around 11pm the prev night , The exam next day was DS.I burnt the midnight oil, studied upto 3-4 am and went to sleep. Got up around 730 am, revised whatever i studied and i left to coll. This became a routine during exam times.  Well , I felt i had done the exam properly and was kinda satisfied wit my performance. Next exam was E . Machines, again the same routine and i did tis exam a bit ok. Next Exam was EC-I and we had a cupla days and there was heavy rains , poured cats dogs donkeys cows buffaloes and what not , and tis made the University postpone the dates as the rural areas got hit badly by these rains. Since the exams got postponed , the seriousness in me disappeared too... dint even touch the books. The exams again started  . EC-1 , EDC and Maths -III went well, but Digital Electronics was a SHOCKER. Not even a single question was expected, It was one hell of a paper. It was my worst performance ever, worse than E.Mech too. So  I expected one CUP again.... So finally III sem got over... Results of the III sem to be released in the next blog . !! 

Joining MSEC and the First Year

Tis is wat vettiness has done to me ... Has made me write blogs. :((

 

Ok Let me tell you about my eventful 4 years of my so called Engineering Life. Well after scorin a good 92% in my +2 Examinations and havin an avg cut off of 250+ , I joined MEENAKSHI SUNDARARAJAN ENGINEERING COLLEGE.Infact , I really wasn interested in joining the college, mainly because of its name meenakshi sundararajan<>. I did not make it thru the University counselling, I joined tis college thru the backdoor entry, i.e the mgmt quota. Paid a sum of 2 laks :(( and joined the ECE department.The Worst thing bout tis is I had a call from Vellore Institute of Technology for the first phase counselling, wherein I would 've got ECE w/o any capitation, I wanted to go there, fought wit my parents, but my plea fell on deaf ears and i was forced to join MSEC. I liked one thing bout MSEC, it was in the city, infact 5-10 mins frm my home , which meant i cud get up late and get ready to the college unlike the other colleges, whose colleges buses picked their students by 645-715. That is the time wen i am in deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep sleep. Well, anyways, time passed by and the college opened . First day of the first semester, English Sir came to our class, he is one f the senior citizens of my college, 75+ . He put some blade on the first day,then after a few days, they split the sections irrespective of their departments  . Ppl who had a score of 85+ in +2 were in A section 75+ in B section and rest in C section.  I was lucky tat my school friends were wit me in the same section i.e A section.It was fun in our section. Made good friends with my classmates, had nice time. First sem breezed away and i cleared all  my papers wit ease, well who cares bout % in Anna Univ.Since i was fresh from school, my habit of calculatin the % was still there and i got 78% , I was not satisfied as i expectd more. Then I moved into my department , now it was a proper ECE classroom . I was left alone as my friends had moved into the CS and IT department.  To be frank , I really hated the class, I ,infact wanted to change my department. But , I had no other option other than to get going. It was kind of a rough time , missing my old friends , sittin alone. Things moved on, I made friends wit few guys in my department. The thing which i disliked in my class is everyone formed their own groups and they never came out of their groups. Tis really pissed me off. Well to be honest, i had made oly 3 friends in my II sem, it was jus a Hi-Bye relation wit others. Time flew away and it was Exam time , I was really afraid of the subject called Engineering Mechanics, It was handled by one of the worst professors of all times. Well , i was told tat E.mech is a diff subject by many ppl, infact i love problematic subjects, as they are challengin and its also easy to score . But as many ppl said , its diff , it created a psychological block in my mind and i couldn concentrate on the subject. The problem wit me is , irrespective of the difficulty of the subject , i opn book only the nite before d exam. So next day was E.MECH, since i hadn prepared well, the paper appeared to be like a Greek and Latin paper to me. I screwed up the paper, was disgusted wit my own performance. 

So What happend to the results tis time ???? To be continued in the next post...