Let Us Vote

Finally D-day has arrived ,the decision is in our hands .Let us participate in this mass festival -not for the well being of others but for ours- . Let us go to polling booth and vote for  whomever we think the best or atleast not the worst. if u feel noone is elgible to get your vote , go for  49 0 form but Let us make sure that we exercise our right . Let us vote

 

Whats So Special on NOV 28th 2008

nov 28th 2008

6 25 am
i had 5 mins, i just checked my cell so that i can get from bed in time for my office .
chandru  woke me up and asked me to see the street . i walked towards our balcony ,telling to myself “what was so spl in our street ,only 3 or 4 stray dogs there” . but what i saw ,shocked me .  our home was like a island and our area  like a mini-venice . i cant find a sq ft where i can see a slightest of  sand .  rain is in no mood to let the situation  get better , it  started pouring again. too soon , too many questions popped in my mind ‘ohh god , how can i get my bus @ 7 55 ?” , “ even if i applied for an   leave  , how do i get my breakfast ?”  i started to discuss  our next course of action with my collegues. to our relief,  i recieved a text message  ” today holiday” . we were happy and started to pass that info to other collegues and started to discuss  water levels in various parts of chennai(velachery in particular ,thats where i stay ).once we are done with that , we  decided to start to our hometowns and catch vaigai express by 12 25 pm . we thought that train would be better option than bus in rainy/morning  conditions(is that so !!! )  and our plan is ready , we decided to go to velachery MRTS station and from there to egmore to catch vaigai. we decided to start by 9 am.

        once we started to pack , a sudden valid question popped in our minds , won’t they  cancel vaigai(amount of rain and flood is such that ,most parts of chennai  were virutually floating ) we all called  various friends for help , but none replied back with a  answers which would help us to decide . so we decided to follow our instinct

9 00 am

we were ready with our gears for the adventure  . we slowly started walking into the flood waters , rains has been taking a short break. flood waters stood around knee high for us ,it is not easy to walkin that waters but we had no other option left with us . our neighbours are busy taking photos of floods and occasionally us . then we too decide to capture our adventures in digital  ,so we all had a brief photo session . and then we started moving towards the main road . whenever something brushes my legs , i had some weird feelings .i had reasons for that ,  i witnessed a snake in that  road hardly few days back . and i tried to walk fast but i was keeping a constant watch on waters for some snakes . after walking for a KM or so ,we reached the mainroads .but the mainroads seem like perfect waterways ,where constant movement of vehicles threaten our dress  with muddy water. when i was  about to reach velachery mrts station, i witnessed the boats are being assembled to resue people. I entered the station sending a text msg “GOD BLESS velachery “

10 00 am

our train started and i thought that surprises for the day  were over , but there some more to come . we reached fort railway station  and waited for electric train to take us to  egmore . even after 20 mins of waiting , no train seemed to pass us in either way ,we decided to check the status of train with information center  and we heard him say that ” all trains from tambadaram cancelled ” we scolded our fate and got a auto to egmore.. just while moving in egmore , we realised if trains from tambaram were cancelled how would they opperate  trains from egmore via tambaram !!!!??  OMG !!!

11 20 am

we reached egmore , luckily !!!! vaigai wasnt cancelled . we were discussing why so much people were staying in platform 4, just then we came to know that it was the queue for unreserved seats in vaigai express   some of our guys stayed there and some of us went to fetch tickes for the train . we started calculating our probability of getting seats , just then i felt the butterflies in my stomach .. oh god , i’m starving  . we cant have our food and come to catch the seats ,we decided to get food during our journey. a sweet announcement told that train is delayed by an hour , i was happy and we all utilised that time to have our lunch

2 30 pm 

Train arrived later than expected but in the mean time queue has grown thrice and we all got a seat but where ??  when we entered the train no seats were vacant ,but we found that luggage grils were empty so we jumped and climbed there . it is such a nice place ,i cant sit erect (train’s ceiling wont  allow me to do so) , i cant allow my legs  to free down(i pity for co passengers sitting in usual seats), i cant relax lying ( since three of us were sitting ,then  one of them would be kissing the floors) but as the time passed on , i felt myself lucky compared to people standing. there were no space to breathe and as stations passed on , numbers keep on mutiplying . though my legs started paining due to walk in waters and my back and neck started aching due to  my postion , i was able to sleep(keeping my record of sleeping in extreme conditions  ) for some time. during tambaram or chengalpattu ( i cant see out of train, all i can see is ceilings ,fans , some human heads ) some fight took place and disturbed my sleep.. i was searching for 2 or 3 min , where was it taking place . then only i  noticed it is happening right below us . our situation never improved but we al somehow killed the time but chatting about our college and corporate stories..

    

8 30 pm

i somehow managed to jump to floor from my seat(in the meantime , landed on someone’s foot ) and said a bye to my friends . when i get down at railway station and started walking towards the  entrance ,i had a weird doubt .. Am i in trichy junction or got down prematuraly @ srirangam itslef.. i asked a person and confirmed that this is trichy only. i scolded myself  ” staying in trichy for 21 years ,you still dono whether you are in  trichy or in srirangam’. my alter ego replied ,you can expect anything in this day .why not ?? !! 

i was waiting for my dad and thinking. is there nothing really good on this day !! why not ??  there is something to cherish  “my first month salary is credited today !! “ i wished myself ” GOOD job young man “   and all my pains from morning went to nowhere

 

The wait ends ..

After a wait of more than 5 months , i joined cognizant,chennai officially on oct 30 . it has been very interesting/boring/different period of my life . i went through different phases in this period .In the first month , i have been busy visting various friend’s homes and receiving friends to my home . in the next month too ,i never get out of college mood . though physically away , i was in constant touch with friends . i also used this time to find my old friends from school times and share our memories . i read quite a number of books too.. but once friends one by one started moving towards their new journey , i started feeling the pressure. The Question of when would DOJ would come ? and life moving without any target made my life very monotonus .
Then i wanted to search for some new things that would make my life move on. i started learning swimming and see lot of movies . i saw a lot of variety of movies from award winning classics,actions ,adventures ,oldies to romantic comedies. but i lost interest of films too in one point of time ,same goes with the swimming too (but anyway , i finished my swimming course ) .
then my search started again , i was seeing one documentary in NAT GEO at that time . it rekindled my passion for seeing documentaries . i started to download and see variety of documentaries . now i have a video library that would run atleast for one day .jus when my passion for seeing documentaries were rising day by day , i got a call (from cognizant) from no where and joined the company within a week.frankly, i never expected a call and even doubted it as a prank call

5 things which made my life easy in that 5 months

* taxi taxi song from sakarakati and kangal iradal from subramaniyapuram , there was not a single day i slept without hearing these days in this period. i loved the visuals of kangal iradal song to the core

* call from the friend :
a call from a friend is always spl to me . that too in this period , whenever i get a cal from friend that would be very happy moment for me it is natural to be happy , whenever u knew someone remembers u even in their busy schedule . there are days when i have looked @ my college photos till mid night and thinking of those beautiful memories . but i learnt that , i need to move away from past and live in the present ( when others are doing that to perfection ,i’m trying my best)

*gtalk

*srichu ( my sister’s son)

*computer and my friend sam (he has been with me since our kinder garden times )
atlast my vanavasam ended and my new life @ cognizant and chennai began

it is always nice to have new friends and learn new technologies ,this is something like having a feel of cool breeze and exploring places. i’m right now doing both

 

172

only 172 runs separates sachin from becoming highest run getter in test cricket . it is one of the few batting records that is left for him to conquer in his world. by doing that feat , he would overcome one of the another finest player of all time none another than lara. i love watching these 2 players.

i started watching cricket by seeing how sachin plays .. it was his 127 not out innings against kenya , which made me a hardcore cricket fan. i started watching all matchs including test till 2003 world  cup and after that , i watched matches only on special occasions and restricted my  following with hindu sports page  and cricinfo

in al these years , he is one of the players who has shown such commitment , consistency and skill. it would be one of the greatest sorrows , when he finishes his career without a world cup victory in his bag(he has slightest of chances with 2011). he always makes his bat speaks for himself unlike his other counterparts.

INNINGS THAT LIKED MOST (there may be other great innings , but i may have  missed it live )

* 90 against australia in 1996 world cup
* 169 against SA in 1997
* back to back cup winning hundreds 143 and 134 against australia in sharjah
* 155 againsht australia in 1996 in chennai
* 136 against pakistan in 1998 ( series in which kumble took 10 wickets in an innings )
* 186 against NZ in hyd (  oDI match )
* 140* against kenya in 1999 world cup( after returing from his dad’s demise )
* 98 against pak in 2003 world cup( one of the best)
* 50 odd against england in 2003 world cup( for his pull shot 6 of caddick )
* his 241 aginst aus in sydney(some critcise it for being more onsided innings)

there are other good innings too in this last few years.. but i was not privleged to see those

 

The Religion War

This book is written by scott adams , it is a sequel to novel god’s debris . the plot is about the avatar ,who tries to avert the religion war between christian  countries and muslim nations by the year 2040 . general cruz is the head of NATO Forces and AL-zee is the powerful leader of the muslim nations. The avatar tries to stop the war by finding the prime influencer , who has the power to influence all the people . by the mean time , he meets both powerful rival heads to stop the war. The avatar is  the smartest person in the world  by his acumen and ability to predict things correctly

This book is less of a story book and tries  to explain about the faith , who is god  , and more. if u have enjoyed reading  god’s debris and i assure , you would enjoy this book too

 

why i would miss TCE ?

4 beautiful years of coll life is comin to an end now . it has been a satisfyin 4 years for me,leaving a few things. since i have been staying @ hostel.i have a lot of cute memories to cheer about i have been always blessed with good friends throughout my life and that continued in TCE too .only one thing that irks me is i cant be a  part of TCE quiz club . i feel that it is a missed chance but that’s life .
it is really hard to part ways with ppl whom have made my life@TCE,a pleasure ; not only ppl but every part of TCE speaks to me something,when i cross it .. it is a bit emotional thing for me to leave TCE.i would remember and cherish some moments and places for ever. to name a few

*cyber’06 and tecuthsav’08

*Fstival ‘06 an Fstival’07

*night canteen

*lonely night walks

*ccc

*representive

*pplab

*floodlights

*cricket/shuttle

*novels(devolped this habit here )

*hindu

*QC

*library

*cricket/football matches in hostel theatre

*debates with hostel mates over x,y,z issues

*treasurer

*IV’s

*orkut

*TCENet

*final year project

*pumphouse

*microproccessor 2nd internal and Parallel computing 1st internal

*glugot second sat meeting

*placements

*computer games

*20 members seein a film in one system

*bathroom Queue

*gossips

*interval time snacks

*treats

*sms/mobile

but this coll life have taught me a lot of lessons ,more about ppl and behaviour . my hostel life reminded me that ‘man is a social animal ‘  i always surpised to see ppl changing a lot(in their behaviour in the negative sense) after somethin new(position/friends/knowledge.. etc) enters their life,that really hurts .but’s that life ,u need to the learn it in the hard way only but  @ the end
MEN MAY COME AND GO
BUT I GO ON ,FOREVER
now,i’m looking forward to  new AND fresh challenges in the  world outside and willing  to go for it. till now i felt “proud to be TCEian” and now my chance comes to do something that would make TCE proud of ‘vinodh” .. would i ?:) !!.. bye bye  TCE

 

FOSSCONF’08

A group of 13 students attended the FOSSCONF’08 organised by ILUGC and NRC-FOSS on feb 1,2,3 . the event was held @ MIT,chennai. The event organised several talks on various foss topics and demo-stalls. we conducted 3 stalls,our juniors handled the stalls on collabrative development environment and TCENet, we handled a stall on basic networking using linux and tools for networking. we cant attend any talks on first day of the fossconf

on the second day , we switched our topic to GNU/Linux FAQs and had a nice time explaining ppl about FOSS. then we found time to listen to 2 sessions . one on python using DJango . and another session on php-attacks and defences.. this session was really good and informative. but the really enjoyable and instesting part of second day was i was able to get a feel of BOSS operating systems,developed by CDAC and NRC-FOSS. i got a copy of it ,which had a live cd and installation cd. this is a debian based GNU/Linux distro with built-in beryl features . this one is really cool with support for many regional languages.

on the third day, i attended 2 1/2 sessions . i mistake a session on KDE for another session and sit for some time then escaped .. i attened another 2 sessions on INTRO to RUBY and parallezation using FOSS techniques.then brian , founder of apache foundation, he gave away a inspiring and informative speech @ the end of the conference. then a open Quiz was conducted and many including myself were given ubuntu pen as compliment . then our college stall handled by 3rd year students were given best stall award .

This conf gave me a much needed break and i’m able to re-charge myself for further challeges

 

APJ visits TCE

APJ abdul kalam visited my college(Thiagarajar college of engg) delivered the golden jubilee lecture , and he declared open ‘Centre for Advanced Research in Evolutionary Computation’.. we were eagerly waiting for his speech and he didn disappoint us either.. he started his speech in TAMIL and that set the tempo for his speech. he first asked us take a oath , which he spell out an we repeated that. the main theme of the oath is BRIDGING the GAP between poor and rich,rural and urban ,men in power and who r not and so on. i don remember most of the oath i took, i remember the last one,, it is to change ourr society into a corruption less society (from my personal experience, it would be task which needs the change from bottom up )

then delivered his golden jubilee speech (click here to see full speech) in which , he pointed out 7 areas of research and devlopement which has the potential to get a nobel prize . in which , i liked nuclear power generation using thorium based reactors since india has the lots of thorium reserves and it have revelance to present INDIA-US nuclear deal. and the research regarding stem cells.
His half an hour speech motivated most students including me to achieve great deeds . he was accompanied by sivathanupillai (HEAD of brahmos project) i expected him also to deliver a speech , but that didn happen anyway , it was a memorable evening for most of us to hear a speech like that.

 

land of gandhi to land of godhra- FOLLOW UP

Justice has been given in bilkis bano gang rape case ,where 12 men were found guilty and convicted for life . this case has been moved to mumbai special court after the intervention of supreme court and justice has been given

 

Back with blogging :)

i lost the willingness to blog, so i refrain from bloggin for the past year an so.. but i got my passion back now .. in that period, i finished my 6th an 7th semesters.. an entered my last sem of beautiful coll life .. i’m recruited by cognizant technology solutions.. i bought a mobile ..got involved in QUEST ‘07 as committee member an organized Fstival ‘07 .. got my 2 wheeler license by driving a perfect 8 without paying any bribe.. i re-invent my passion for books and movies.. then i found many old friends thro ORKUT.. then after seeing a miserable world cup(one day) in  west indies,  seen  india triumph as a world champs(T20) in south africa..  atlast started feeling that, why B.E is only 4 years