as I see it

Aam is a Hindi Word which means the fruit Mango or as it is widely used, 'Common'. I wonder why then is it the benchmark for comparison by companies that make all sorts of products, primarily the FMCG market.

Without taking big-big names here, I would like to draw your attentions to any one of the majority of advertisements in the FMCG sector. They do have a comparison of their product against the benchmark - 'Aam'.

Aam Sabun
Aam Conditioner
Aam Shampoo
Aam Detergent
Aam Toothpaste
Aam Fairness Cream
Aam Namak

'Aam' seems to be a very big company (FMCG at least). Every other player has one of these lines in their ads - Aam Toothpaste se 10 guna behtar, Aam fairness cream ke muqable 100 gunna zyada asardar.

Not sure about quality of products of 'AAM' company as every company's product is better than it's but the point here is that its used as a benchmark and is widely used. So, its because of AAM products that other biggies thrive for improvement.

This company exists in Biomedical Sciences as well because I remember seeing a company saying 'Yeh hai AAM zindagi aur yeh hai ****** zindagi'. Deals with LIFE !

If there doesn't exist a company with this name, then why not register one and earn royalty :)

Arrey, if there can exist Apple, Mango why not AAM.


PS: Just a random post, written in good humor, arose out of a small discussion with @desh over lunch.

Shawty had them Apple Bottom Jeans [Jeans]
Boots with the fur [With the fur]
The whole club was lookin at her
She hit the flo [She hit the flo]
Next thing you know
Shawty got low low low low low low low low

My alarm is buzzing. Phone speakers singing Get Low on top of their voice and what am I doing?
I am busy listening to what my Angel soul and the Devil soul have to say. It used to happen pretty often in the first month of my engineering days when I had to listen to arguments given by both the Angel and the Daemon about if I should wake up or continue sleeping for a while. As Isaid, Daemon beat my Angel soul hollow and maintained his position as a Champion for 4 years thereafter, not considering the occasional walk-overs given in by the Daemon ;)

It was like a routine for me then. No arguments, no noise, nothing at all. It was like an agreement that Daemon is the winner unless and until he decides to give away a match to the Angel to boost the latter's confidence.

But now it has started all over again. Since I can't afford to sleep as much I want to and whenever I want to (though I put in my best to achieve it) the chain of arguments and counter-arguments takes place every time my alarm buzzes. The Angel knows that my schedule is such that I have to wake up and thus, comes in with the 'Angel Allies' army but the Daemon still continues to fight single handedly. One Man Army ! And all the arguments put forward by both Angel and the Daemon make sense and seem to be pretty logical when you are half-asleep.

A snippet from one of the conversations :

A : Wake Up !
D : No need.
A : Wake Up, you have to go for the class.
D : Don't worry, it is XYZ subject's class. It is nothing that difficult, simple concepts, you can read it some time later and cover it yourself. Continue sleeping.
A : See, you will have a tough time before a quiz or exam as you always do when you listen to the Daemon.

By now, my roommates wake me up so ya it can be said that Angel wins.

But when I am sleeping in the evening and there is no class to attend then,

A : Wake Up !
D : No need.
A : Wake Up, you have slept a lot. You have a submission to make and you should do some bit of self-study and those pre-reads !
D : You can never sleep 'a lot'. There is no limit. The submission is a Group Submission, which means that someone in the group will do it. Self-study is something you can do before the exams. Pre-read, hmm, do it when the Angel wakes you up tomorrow morning.

And the Daemon wins. It has been happening almost everyday and I have bee losing quite a bit because of this on the academic front.

So now today was the funniest of all arguments. I have a mid-term exam tomorrow and the arguments when my alarm buzzes today in the evening.

A : Wake Up !
D : No need.
A : Wake Up, you have XYZ Mid-Term Exam tomorrow.
D : Relax, as Angel said it is a Mid-Term. Even if you are not able to score, you have finals to comeback.
A : NO ! It carries 25% weightage.
D (seeing match slipping from his hands, with utter innocence on his face) : But Angel tell me, how can the poor soul study if he doesn't have a sound sleep. Even if he manages to then how useful will it be if he sleeps tomorrow during the exam just because you didn't let him sleep now.

I woke up ! C'mon its 25% and the Angel is right ! And now I think its high time I start studying and don't let go the Angel's victory in a hard-fough battle over a tough opponent. Trust me, Daemon is the toughest to beat when it comes to my Sleep Battlefield, just like Nadal and his Clay court :)

Breaks between classes can be effectively utilized for blogging :)

Well what brings me here to this topic is essentially ESPN broadcasting the Euro Cup 2008 and the Hindi Commentary that goes on. This was for football and yet another reason is some sorts of revisiting and discussing the ones related to Cricket with desh.

So of all those I can recollect, here is a short list

Cricket :

1.) If India wins a match then in the commentary box (Hindi) or some post match analysis by "experts" on various news channels the one line that is famous is

Yeh Bharat ki jeet hai !

and if India loses then it automatically becomes

Cricket ki Jeet !

2.) On every commendable performance by Indian Team you often get to hear

Mujhe unees sau tiraasi ke woh din yaad aa gaye Arun (or Moninder or Maninder)

Unlike some trademark Bollywood dialogues the above two lines doesn't seem to fade away and you can hear them quite often. What has become obsolete is listening to commentary on Radio.

3.) I miss the exciting

Aur yeh behtareen shot deep square leg ki taraf utha ke maara hai EK RUN ke liye

and

4.) Even more popular

Yeh shaandar Dabur Chawanprash Chauka Sachin Tendulkar ke balle se

Moving on to Football now there are just two which I remember, both somewhat related and revolving around the word Khalbali

If I am not wrong it is by Sunil Taneja (please correct me if I am wrong)

So here it goes

Ronaldo aaj koi VISHESH KHALBALI machane mein saksham nahi huey hain

and

Raksha Pankti se ball katate huey Ronaldinho ! aakraman teevr karte huey bakse mein pravesh. Khaasa control bana rakha tha ball pe par koi vishesh khalbali machane mein saksham nahi

Besides such full of excitement comments its all boring. What you get to hear is

Ballack, Germany ke khiladi hain yeh....behtareen cross lekin...

Podolski, Germany ke khiladi hain yeh, behtareen shot lekin...

Kazim, Turkey ke khiladi hain yeh, behtareen move banaya lekin..

Which esentially means its absolutely organized. The syntax is as follows :

Name, Country/Club ke khiladi hain yeh, behtareen move/cross/shot (dynamic) lekin..

So I guess it can be automated. but then why do we need Mr.Taneja ? Well, if he is not there then who will inform us about some Vishesh Khalbali :P

Sounds funny ?

Well, if you ask me then, ok I am not writing all this without any reason. Taking the word 'Baksa' for Penalty Area does sound weird if not funny. And Vishesh Khalbali is indeed funny !

so after reading this does anyone recall uneeswe dashak ki woh commentary which still continues?

Now if I get appreciable amount of readers for this post then obviously its Blog ki Jeet ! or else well Internet ki jeet !

Surely they aren't discussing this :

Person on the Right : Will you tell me what is going on? You said players who play Test Matches can play any format of the game. Then why don't I see any results ? Did you mean they can only 'play' any format of the game or you meant play well, perform and win ? No, you tell me how the hell does Wasim Jaffer fit into the side. Why didn't you pick Rohit Sharma or Robin Utthapa ? Was it because it was they who probably stole your place in the national team ? No, you HAVE TO tell me how the hell does Wasim Jaffer fit into the side. Could have bought many bottles of bear for that money ! At least it would have signified its existence. Ain't I right ? Everyone thinks we are probably the best Test side in the tournament. But this is Twenty20. You still haven't told me that how the hell does Wasim Jaffer fit into the side. You and Charu made the worst choices possible first and then to cover up you chose Misbah and Boucher. How can you expect these two to do the job of eleven players. WILL YOU TELL ME WHAT MADE YOU CHOOSE WASIM JAFFER ?

Person on the left (Monologue) : God ! Keep it this way. Please make sure that by no chance the name 'Sunil Joshi' pops up into his head. What will I say ? But seriously, why Joshi ? Was it Charu's choice.
I guess he is right how can we expect a win with the side we have ? But now what can I do before the next season ? Oh my God ! he will put me up for sale. Mr. Modi can 'Icons' be kicked out and put up on sale ?
Why wasn't Kumble made an Icon for BRC ? Then like Dhoni even I would have been bought, perhaps by Rajasthan and it would have been great.

[PS : Please feel free to tell me something else that you think they AREN'T discussing]

Now that the IPL ends I wonder what on air will be able to catch my attention. Argh, even Roadies is over so now there is nothing to watch even on Saturday evenings. Let us try to find out what all is on air these days and then I'll try and decide on a few.

1.) News
Whats up ? Nothing much. There hasn't been any BIG STORY of late so some channels have put up repeat telecasts of some 'Comedy' shows and some other put up tricks (walking on water, disappearing) performed by Criss Angel (described as 'Lambe Baal, Gora chehra') and then ask viewers to call them and give in their opinions on how he must have done it. Surprised ? Then heres more to it. People actually call. Some of them said its 'Kudrat ka Karishma' some other said its 'Shaitani Taqat' and I heard one intelligent guy correctly pointing out and revealing the secret behind the trick. By the end of this story the news channels actually reveal the secret themselves and say that they just did a 'Pardafaash'. Now someone please tell them that there is obviously some trick involved and its not 'Kudrat ka Karishma' and that you are revealing the secret behind the trick and its not 'Pardafaash'

And of the other stories that appear on these channels, I managed to collect some interesting images.




2.) Reality Shows
Kya aap Panchvi Paas se Tez hain ? I actually liked the concept but lately I got to know that even this show is an exact replica of a show named "Are you Smarter than a 5th Grader" (perhaps, they have appropriate rights to do the same) just like KBC was much like Who wants to be a Millionaire and Indian Idol (which gave birth to a hell lot of singing competitions and is not at all interesting) was on the lines of American Idol. Not that it makes a difference as far as my viewing is concerned but then the rumors that the answers are told to the students before hand is not totally unbelievable and that kind off pulled me away from it.

3.) Daily Soaps
No.

Guess, it has to be sports then and Yes ! Euro Cup 2008 starts 7th June. So its few more days and then at least there will be something I can see though watching TV is not mandatory.

[OK, so I know my blog is very popular (for bakk atleast and lately HOI). I am a 'chashmadeed' of the incident described below. But for the first time, a reader of mine ne ichha zahir ki that he/she would like to describe this incident, so here is the episode in my reader's words. PS : This reader turned writer has done a wonderful job :applause:]

The title suggests that the episode finds its basis on the “popular” and very widely known application-s called SUPERLATIVES-S on facebook. And I shall inform that this “I” here is not the usual ‘I’ who has been reporting the previous episodes (although :hats off: I must say great work :D).

Hmmm now coming back to the issue! Firstly I’d like to brief you about facebook although most of you are well aware of it. So you see facebook is a popular social networking website that allows people to communicate with their friends and exchange information mostly through the no. of applications in it and superlatives (the reason I use the plural form is because there are two of them, with no difference as such, they only serve the purpose of variety) are among such apps. :phew:

So the story goes like this ………

A few days ago I met this person (whose HOI I shall be reporting!) who seemed to have immense knowledge about the different sites online and ofcourse a lot about facebook and its various applications and in fact introduced me to quite a few , one of them being the IQ test. So now that he/she scored above average in this test, :applause: he/she always used it as a boastful measure to reason his/her immense knowledge I just spoke of. :pich pich: :P no modesty!!

Hmmm.. (srry :P) so there is a short series of nominations that take place between me and Mr./Ms “Know-It-All” (supposedly) through SUPERLATIVES 1 (S-1)(for easy understanding). NOTE: The nominations will be received if the application is there on your profile and if not an invitation will be sent to accept it. So now that there were a series of nominations between the two of us, the obvious fact here is that we both had the application on our profiles. Now, I was bored (normal human nature) of S-1 so I decided to nominate through S-2 which offered me a new variety. Since he/she did not have S-2 on their profile an invitation was automatically sent to him/her to add the app in order to receive the nomination.

In response to the sweetly sent nomination he/she tells me, “You have the wrong application (when he got the invite of the app…. Hw cud it jus be a wrong app??? :s :scratching my head: I wonder… but cud it?? I mean if “he/she” says so... naaaaaaaaaa!! :faith on my knowledge: 8) ) … use the right one no!! : Hmmm wait for him/her 2 finish: Wait, I’ll send you the link.” (sends link).

Now like I told you if the series of nominations took place between us, using common sense (which is not so common… not at least for “Mr/Ms above- average- IQ” :super sarcastic: ) one can say that I would already be having the app!! pich pich !! So much for the immense knowledge and above-average IQ!!
PS: Vote for the names! (hint: title and description of the person) :P

PPS : I apologise if the report was not as expected but since I was the “chasmadeed gawah” :P- I had to for this one.

Just when I thought it was time to end HOI, two more interesting events failed to pass unnoticed.

The first one is about how relating things unknowingly can make it a laughing stock.

So, its about 4-5 people sitting in the FC having lunch and discussing about events in the college (past and upcoming).
The college magazine Entelechy's 13th edition was up and we were discussing about the change in fonts and the new logo that showed 'SUN RISE' (its all about the name). It was then when one of my friends started shouting at one of the members of Entelechy (present at the location) and blaming the club of spamming the mailboxes.

Ohh !! @#$@#$$ Toh tum hee woh jo saara din mailbox spam karte rehte ho.

:quizzical look: on everyone's face till came yet another statement from his mouth.

SUN MICROSOFT walon, sirf apne club walon ko mail kiya karo na #$#$$@$#$^ :x

And we got it. Everyone, started laughing. Actually, it was this Sun club in our campus that mailed us quite a many times informing about the events being held by Sun Microsystems in our college (or something like that, coz i din read them :P).

So, our friend here very intelligently related the Entelechy's new logo showing SUN RISE to SUN Microsystems, and hey did you notice the name he mentioned 'SUN MICROSOFT'. LOL !!

The second one is...err..not much about it. Google actually started Transiletration in most of its applications. What it does is that it enables the user to type HINDI (or few of the other languages) in ENGLISH and it will convert it into HINDI Font all by itself. Cool na !! So anyways, in ORKUT to do this you need to press Ctrl + G (on Windows) to enable it. One of my friends tried but was unable to do it. So bugged was he/she that he/she actually thought...ya he/she did...that it is because he/she was not pressing '+' but only the Ctrl and G combo. So, he/she actually tried pressing the three keys together, 'Ctrl', '+' and 'G'. Strange but true :P

Hey, all you geeks out there, did you ever think it this way :P ?

PS : Vote for 2 names !!

After three years of hard work, finally came the placement fair. With one job each in their kitty and results of second yet to be declared, The Three Stooges (T3S) were all set for a third company. After clearing the written test, it was time for a technical interview and incidentally T3S had their interviews back to back according to the schedule put up.

(T3S were confident enough after having 1 job each and sure about the second whose result was yet to be declared).

Missing their daily dose of sports they were ready dressed up (fake 'we are gentle men look' :P), resumes and certificates in a file in their hands. Just before the start of their interviews they were a bit tensed and asked the same question to every one who came out from the interviewer's name, "Kya Poocha ? Kya Poocha ?"

A common answer was "Bubble Sort".

T3S knew it was easy and just to recall tried writing the code on paper. LOL. Third year B.Tech (ICT) students with decent CGPAs appearing for a Software Engineer post in a company(with decent repute) together couldn't figure out what the code should be like (but were disappointed, generally they laugh out loud when they sense trouble :P).

Interviews started and..and..and...LOL. Jinse Bubble Sort ka code nahi bana woh to kya hee karenge :P

T3S were screwed big time. With questions related to Linked List, Operator Overloading, Virtual Functions, etc. being thrown at them, what else do you expect (remember Bubble Sort :P ) ?

All had the same expression on their face -> :S
and the same line on their tongue , "gg, pata nahi kya pooch rahe the :S Jo aata tha woh to poocha nahi, kya tha yaar"

They were not comfortable with all this stuff like Linked List, Operator Overloading, Virtual Functions, etc.

Does it qualify to be HOI ?
LOL
ask the interviewer :P

HAHAHAHAAHA...

PS : After success kissing their feet :p they have shifted focus to CAT :)
GOD knows whats going to happen :P
Fingers Crossed !!!

Due to a very poor response to the polling last time, the results will not be displayed :P. Some PG got 71% votes out of a total of 7.
The post served the purpose it intended to though.

Let me now move on to the fifth episode of the HOI series : Samba !!

with advancements in technology, people want everything to be done by a machine, every work of theirs. E-Mails substituted postal mails, VOIP provides substitute to telephones and so on. Providing such services is no longer the only task. Enhancing the user interface, making services and application more user-friendly is what every service provider is trying to provide. And mind you it is not an easy task, you need sound skills in human-machine interaction (which is a vast subject).

Why do we need it ?

Well, there are many reasons. Firstly, there are usually more than one service providers providing a particular service. UI is one field where you can get past your competitor. Secondly, not every consumer is a techie. If a product is not user-friendly, how can you expect a lay man to use it. Lastly, expectations have increased. People want everything to be done with ease, a personal assistant to do all their work, so that they can release.

Consider the rotary dial phone, followed by keypads then touch screen with stylus.

It is the demand of the consumer that makes service providers to develop such products.

Any problems ?

Not problems as such, but people tend to get addicted to a particular feature in a gadget and try using it on others. Didn't get me ? I'll give you an example.
One of my friends was fascianted about voice dialling in his phone. You speak out a name and your handset calls that person. A month or two back he installed some new software on his computer and while configuring it there was some field where he was asked to enter his password.
Two of my other friends were also there in his room at that time (all fully aware of his VOICE DIALLING obsession). This person wants everything to be perfect yet simple to use (has also been fascinated about the idea of HUMAN COMPUTER interaction), so just for some fun all of us asked him to speak his password after a beep sound is played. Guess what ?

Ya, he looked into the screen and said "SAMBA" (his password). What makes it more interesting is that even the COMPUTER teamed up with us for some fun and GOD knows how, indeed played a BEEP sound.

How could he possibly do that ? With no microphone connected, with the software not claiming any such voice recognition why did he do that ?

Well, as I said, the reason is not one. Expecting the product to be USER-FRIENDLY and trying to use a feature of one gadget onto other. Guess there should be this universal set of features that should be present in every service and product so that such incidents do not happen in future.

Start polling !!

Previously on HOI, ordinary people reach extra ordinary HOI.
- Some PG who messed up with Print Screen key
- An ignorant conversation about a pilot incident
- A student who was not familiar with the RC rules

And now HOI continues

With "off-season" (as someone said) going on here at college, I chat a lot. This one is about a...err...not 'a' but 'quite a few' of the many online conversations I had with a friend. What makes these 'quite a few' conversations special is that in all these conversations I told my friend about some interesting picture online or a web page or some website (mostly hilarious) that I stumbled upon while surfing the net. So, in all such conversations I just gave imer (hope you remember the terminology : his/her shortened to imer) a link to a page which I want imer to see.

Expecting a positive reaction to what I thought was hilarious I wait after pasting the link in the chat window and after waiting for about half a minute what is the message that I get back

Tere paas firefox hai na ?

I am like huh ?? What does Firefox has to do with all this ?? In fact, where did this Firefox come from in this conversation or on that page ??

Still I reply

Yes

and hs (recall the terminology hs implies he/she) replies

mere paas nahi hai..

Action Replay : Again, I am like huh ?? What does Firefox has to do with all this ?? In fact, where did this Firefox come from in this conversation or on that page ??

me : so ?
hs : error aata hai yaar..

As I said before this didn't happen once but many times and I was all confused as to whats going on.

Lately, in some other conversation I got to know that due to some problem with the browser hs used someone adviced imer to install Firefox which hs didn;t like and trashed out from imer computer.

So, I kind of diagnosed the problem which I still think is the improper uninstalling of Firefox which for other applications had been set as the default browser, so whenever a link is clicked on, it tries to open Firefox which obviously it is unable to find as it is no longer installed and thus throws an error. (Too technical I guess)

And then, when "tere paas firefox hai na" thing happened again I tried explaining imer about this error but just when I type

I know wat the prob is..

I get the reply

nooooooooooooooooo....i dnt want 2 knwwwww.....

Ab kya hoga aise logo ka ? They don't want to get down the heights (HOI I mean) they have reached :P

PS : But quite surprisingly, on clicking start menu the top left menu item (which generally is Internet shows the icon of the default browser) has a "blue coloured icon" according to my friend, furthermore "it is always blue and never orange" according to imer (when I asked if it was orange in colour or blue).
Seems that even I diagnosed the problem incorrectly (HOI on my part too ?). Anyways, I can only be sure if I get hold of that computer.

You start voting !!

One change, I just omitted "HOI Episode 3" from the title because it would have made it too big. And yes, is anonymity ke chakkar mein he/she likhne mein bahut problem hoti hai, I will use hs instead of he/she and iser instead of his/her from now on.

Getting on with the third episode, I know you must have read the title but I must like to quote it again here that 'Student and RCwala' is 'Based on True Rumors' and I have no proof whatsoever to prove the events authenticity.

This is about my friend who joined college just after class 12th (out from school to be a student again) and is curious as everyone of us is about the new campus. So, hs just goes around exploring iser new campus going to the sports field, canteen, labs and accidentally reaches The RC - The Resource Center. Wow, hs was surprised seeing so many books (foreign editions with colored pages), good quality furniture, air cooled environment. So hs thought why not take some book and read it. Hs was neither the bookworm type nor the one who likes reading novels and stuff. Just as you might have guessed my friend did not have much idea about a library or RC. So hs pulls out a book from the shelf, moves out of the room and heads towards the gate of the RC.

Beep, beep, beep, beep, tyau, tyau tyau tyau..

What was this sound ?

Oh I see, my friend just missed noticing the magnetic checkpoints installed at the RC exit that alarms the staff there about unissued books being carried out. So, the RCwala runs after him and catches him with the unissued book.

RCwala : Why are you taking this book without getting it issued ?

Student(my friend) : Issued ? What is that suppose to mean ?

RCwala : You are supposed to present the book at the counter and get it issued for reading. You cannot just take that book away.

Student : Oh ! is that so ? I am sorry, I didn't know ?

(What ?? Man you didn't know that its the library and that you are not the owner of all the books present here and that if there was no book issue/return system, how will the RCwalas keep track of which book is with whom and where ?)

:ahoy: I mean Ah !! HOI !! :D

Time for poll again !!

[Sorry, could not go by the poll results. I found something very interesting, so thought of posting it first. As far as the poll result of the episode you people wanted, that will be posted next (if I don't find something as interesting as this one :P)]

As you all are aware that not long ago when I planned to start this HOI Series, I posted "Sandy can WAIT !!" where I described this series. After describing the rules, request and RTI part I wrote a line

This being a pilot post (lol :P), let me give you the titles of the upcoming episodes of this series.

Now I curse myself as to why I used this term

PILOT POST

As you all are aware or might not be aware that my blog is read all over the world and is discussed about often. (:boastingly:)

Somewhere on the net I came across one such conversation between A and B and was surprised to read something very interesting. Actually, surprised is not the word I should have used. I was shocked to read it. Here is the excerpt which made me feel so.

oi wats dis pilot incident ...pk toks of sum pilot post related wid ya

Wait people it is not over yet, the reply to A's question which B gave was even more interesting and totally different from what I had expected. B said

I dunno anything about the pilot incident...
pk bakk maar raha hai....

HOI pe HOI ho gaya yeh toh. :S

PS : Multiple votes allowed this time. Vote for two people. Guess who is A and who is the even smarter B. A and B may delete that conversation, don't worry I can prove it.

Welcome all to the first episode of this new series HOI. As I mentioned titles of few upcoming episodes in the pilot post, on Sandy's request, I start with "Print Screen".

[The story consists of fictional elements]

Not quite long back a friend of mine had to show me something unusual happening on his/her computer but did not know how to do it. So, I told my friend that you can take a screen shot of the screen and mail it to me and I began to explain how to take screen shot on the operating system my friend was using (Windows XP in this case).

I asked my friend to press the PRINT SCREEN key which can be found somewhere on the top right. To my surprise I got the reply that there was no such key. I looked upon my keyboard and noticed the alternate name for the key (in my case it was Prt Scr). But even this key wasn't there on my friend's keyboard. I couldn't figure out any other alternate name for the key or any other location for the key (except top right), so I asked for the model number of the computer or keyboard. My friend gave me the number and I searched for it on the net.

In the image I got on the net I could easily see the key I was looking for and that too in the top right. I told my friend that the key is indeed present on the KEYBOARD and was second from the left in the top row.

What reply could you expect ?

My friend said, "Oh ! You meant keyboard, I was looking for it on the screen. Sorry".

I began pulling my hair !!

Well, finally everything was done as it had to be but PRINT SCREEN KEY on the SCREEN ? :O

PS : Sandy and Aatish want me to reveal names but I don't want to. Aatish asked me to use initials and Sandy gave me an idea of having a poll. So, mixing both of them I have started a poll that you can see on the right. Participate in the poll and vote for who you think is the person talked about in this episode. I will continue the poll thing with every episode but not mention it again in the post. Go Go Go !!

[Note : The thoughts expressed in this post are excerpts from a conversation between me and Sandeep Das (a.k.a. Sandy) which have yet not been penned down by him because its too trivial for him.]

I and Sandy were sitting at the Galla (a renowned research center) and discussing about upcoming exams and how much is each one of us prepared for the exam.

I told Sandy about my problem of being unable to get up early in the morning no matter what time I sleep. I told him that I don't feel like getting up in the morning and actually keep sleeping until someone wakes me up. He told me that the same happens with him and it actually is not a problem but an illustration of the well established Newton's First Law of motion.

I was puzzled as to how is this phenomenon related to Newton's First Law of motion and requested him to throw some light on it.

He said the simple cause of this phenomenon is the Newton's First Law of motion which says "A body at REST continues to be at REST until disturbed by EXTERNAL FORCES."

I don't think I need to say anything further. So, for all those who face the same problem of not being able to get up early in the morning, as correctly pointed out by Sandy, there is nothing you can do about it.

Never before hav i seen such dedication in creating a PJ...actually a visual PJ..
To appreciate this work I am posting it here..
Source : Nitesh Luthra
Original Source : Unknown (leave it in a comment if u knw about it)


It goes like this...




Imagine you are in Africa. You have been tied hanging on a tree

with a Rope anchored on the ground, a candle is slowly burning the rope, and
the lion is waiting for you to drop and be his lunch.

Your survival hinges on the rope staying intact, there is no one around to
help you.

The only possible way is to somehow convince the lion to BLOW the candle
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[Warning : This is the most lengthy post I have ever made..be patient to read the entire thing, after all its 1 yr long saga lengthy to hoga hee..u'll njoy every bit of it...shhaayy....its upto u...read it or not...bbye]

003-006-025-108 Production
presents
DP Me Mil Gaya P

Lights - Camera - Action


Hours n hours n hours....working all day n nite...I cud easily talk in OpenGL..
glutFCchale()..........glDinner?()......gluSubhaUthaDiyo()....

Somehow we managed to code...not what we had in mind at the start of project...but a fairly satisfactory model...

FLASHBACK

Hum chaar log the...
1.) Aatish (tension free chap)
2.) Ved (ek dum se gamer ban gaya)
3.) Tushar (Mr.Unpredictable)
4.) Me (Is poore blog me meri hi baatein hoti hai...so u knw who I m)

It was the time to choose our Design Project (DP) under some Professor...
We chose to make A GAME (POOL)...

Humne socha tha phod denge...mast game banayenge
APNI LAG GAYI !!!

Days n days n days passed....2 sem project ka 1 sem khatam ho gaya...we decided 2 stayback in December Holidays...and work on the DP....hum yaha ruke zaroor...par Dp ko chorr ke sab cheeze ki...

As compared to the time that was already gone...the progress of the project was not upto the mark...

JAVA 3D me shuru kiya tha kaam....kuch samajh nahi aa raha tha...sab kuch sir ke uppar....Shyaaaaauuuuu Shyauuuuu...

Sab soch me pad gaye...ab kya kare...fir Ved ko Idea aaya....kyo na Java3D chorr ke Applets try kare....wo bhi kiya...but all in vain...

It was then when I approached Mr.DK (my Bakk Idol...mentioned in a post below 2) as 2 wat 2 do...he was coding a game in OpenGl at dat time...and adviced me 2 use it...

Yahi the woh SHAKS....jinhone mujhe yeh rah dikhayi...rah dikhane ke saath saath...NEHE aur apne PROFESSOR ke LEcture FOlders jaisi jagaho ke HELPLINE NUMBERS bhi diye...

Par 1 problem thi...OpenGL as explained on the HELPLINES was using VISUAL C++...apne 2 pantar logo ki usme lagti thi...Aatish aur Ved ki...
To make matters worse...in yet another meeting with the Professor v told him v were switching 2 something else now....

Somedays later a friend told me that in the list of students working under our PROF our names were not included on his WEBSITE...

Aatish : Abeyyyy ye kya ho gaya...aur kyo...

I went to the Prof...it was nothing but he forgot 2 include r names..he said he wud correct it..
Since no 1 was working I thought yahi mauka hai...I lied ki PROF said our names were not thr coz we wer not working sincerely...Aatish ki yeh sun ke lag gayi thi...Tushar guessed ki I was lying but din tell Aatish about it...aur Ved bhaisaahab ke saath hamara sampark nahi ho paata tha...

After 2 days I spilled out the truth and asked him 2 studyyyyyy :@...
Somehow we read something about OpenGL...par door door takk MANZIL dikhayi nahi de rahi thi...SAMAY BEET-TA gaya....aur ek din.....
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aur ek din MAIL aayi...DP shud b submitted by 29th April...

BAS ab aa gaya tha woh time...TABAD TOD TABAD TOD...padna shuru kiya...went 2 c the prof..b4 we cud say anything he asked if we were thr 2 take I grade (Incomplete) or submitting the project...we said submitting...he asked us 2 come on Monday..

Monday was not far away...we went to him on Thursday (wen I posted COUNTDOWN BEGINS)...3 days left...and I also had my STS Viva..

Comes in a new character : Mr.Abhishek Khurana

Dk sir ne bataya ki he was a BOND in OpenGL...we approached him...he helped us...cleared our doubts...helped us...helped us and heped us...

Tushar was there with his obviously UNPREDICTABLE DECISION.."I grade le lete hai yaar...next sem me kar lenge...Time nahi yaar Prateek...finals ke liye bhi padna hai.."

NO COMMENTS ON WHAT ME n AATISH FELT ABOUT THIS STATEMENT FROM TUSHAR (I consider the reader to be intelligent enuff)..

Ved was working on calculations, collisions n stuff...Me n Aatish on animation and Tushar on everything else except DP...sad enuff but true..though he had read some basic OpenGL from the book earlier...

Hours n hours n hours....working all day n nite...I cud easily talk in OpenGL..
glutFCchale()..........glDinner?()......gluSubhaUthaDiyo()....

Somehow we managed to code...not what we had in mind at the start of project...but a fairly satisfactory model...

It was Monday...we had to submit the project at 5:00 PM...
At 4:30 I sat on my computer...was about to transfer the codes on a PEN DRIVE...ki POWER CUT....and MY UPS down...v faced all sorts of problems and got thru it(problems not mentioned...coz baaki problems ke saamne kuch bhi nahi thi)...

5:15 PM...we presented our project to the Professor...some questions thrown on us...we answered...some more questions...some more answers...nd then he decided that all of us will get P...

Wat a great feeling it was....smiling faces...aaahaaa...yooooo...we were jumping, smiling..njoying as soon as we came out of Professor's office...I wished ki thr was an aircraft passing just over my head...and 4 of us cud perform that RDB scene...wid shirts off and jumping 2 touch the aircraft...
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ya rite AIRCRAFT ki problem to thi hi...but Mr.Tushar went straight to the RC..and only 3 of us were left...ANYWAYS I M 2 EXCITED...very happy..finally v did it...now its time 2 study 4 finals...

Song in background : Paas ho gaya Pappu Paas ho gaya !!!

CREDITS :

* No work done earlier by - All 4 of us
* All work done at the end by - Aaahhh...chuck it..
* MARG DARSHAN by : Mr.DK
* Help, Guidance...upto infinity - Mr.Abhishek Khurana

[The following is written in HUMOUR and should be taken as that. People who come up with comments like this is disrespectful its not 4 u. And lastly this is my Blog so MY thoughts matter and yours DONT. :)]

According to the SALARY THEOREM :

Engineers and Scientists can never earn as much money as Businessmen, Actors and Politicians can easily make.

The theorem can be demonstrated by reducing it to a simple MATHEMATICAL EQUATION.
The equation rests on two POSTULATES

1.) Knowledge is Power
2.) Time is Money

Now, we all know that

Power = Work / Time

or alternatively using 1 & 2

Knowledge = Work / Money

=> Money = Work / Knowledge

So when Knowledge goes towards zero, Money goes towards Infinity, regardless of the value attributed to work, even if the value of work is very small.

On the contrary, when Knowledge goes towards Infinity, Money tends to Zero even if the value of work is LARGE.

The Evident Conclusion : The less you know, the more money you make.

Those of you who had difficulty following the above will make LOTS OF MONEY !!