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2006-10-26T18:43:00.000-05:00

Thats Art

2006-10-26T11:28:00.000-05:00

Couldnt resist putting this up somewher :)

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
~Scott Adams

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
~Ansel Adams

The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.
~Hendrik Willem Van Loon

You don't take a photograph, you make it.
~Ansel Adams

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
~Oscar Wilde

Saturday morn...an unwanted picnic

2005-02-19T15:20:00.000-06:00

It all starts with me cribbing every Friday night "i dont wanna goto class tmrw morn :(("
And then deciding to sleep early staying awake late as usual.
And the alarm goes off Ti Ti Ti Ti.....8 am
A loud voice screams " x-( SATURDAY KO CLASS RAKHTE HAI SAALE.... ALARM BAND KAR"
I snooze the alarm and then the usual discussion begins

Me: Do I have to go to class???
Voice: NAH
Me: hey i have to
Voice: NAH...U JUS NEED MORE SLEEP...U SLEPT AT 3. DONT TORTURE URSELF...
Me: I'll get up at 8:30

Me sleeps alarm laun 8:30 cha
Ti Ti Ti Ti.....

Voice: IS IT 8:30 SO SOON!!!!
Me: I guess but i am sleeping till 8:40 now
Voice: ABBE ALARM LAGA NA
Me: hmm

and just sleeps.....

Voice: WAKE UP
...nothing

Voice: WAKE UP WILL YA. U GOT A CLASS..
Me: huh
Voice: HMM
ME: not going
Voice: HEY U SHUD....THE CLASS IS INTERESTING DUDE!
Me: I know... but Prof. Tamil keeps repeating stuff yaar...
Voice: HAAN YAAR SERIOUSLY...... DONT GO
ME: Thanx...wat time is it anyways??? :-/
Voice: MAYBE 8:40

I try to open my eyes...baapre kiti kashta

Me: :o :o :o ........8:55!!! Oh God!!
Voice: FORGET U CANT REACH FOR CLASS AT 9. LEAVE IT...... ANI GAPCHUP ZOP GA
Me: ayee yaar gela pahije na class la....
Voice: NAKO NA PLZZZZZ... MALA ZOP YETAY
Me: nahi nahi chal uth
Voice: U R IMPOSS $$#^#^@@%#@%
Me: chal chal

So I get up...decide to just brush and change and run to school...

Me: (calculating) I will be 5 min late for class...
Voice: U WONT MAKE IT BEFORE 9:15.
Me: not taking a shower.
Voice: OH YEAH... DO YA EVER GO OUT WITHOUT A BATH?????
Me: Well today...
Voice: I AM NOT GOING WITHOUT SHOWER
Me: Dont be difficult
Voice: NOT GOING AT ALL
Me: I give up
Voice: GR8... GO SLEEP
Me: noooooooo... shower it is
Voice: :((

I decide on the quickest shower ever. And by default am in for a looooooooooong time....Then I get ready and look at the watch....

Me: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 9:20... AHHHH
Voice: WELL ITS LATEEEEEEEE...... LETS NOT GO PLZ
ME: Coffee will wake ya up

I drink coffe and outta the house by 9:27.... Aramat chalat chalat....

Voice: HE'S STILL DOING THE RECAP I GUESS
Me: hmm.... chal lavkar
Voice: JAYACHAY KA :-/
Me: shut up!! aala class
Voice: CHALEL

Class madhe Prof Tamil is intensely explaining the same thing he explained last week and a week b4 that and a week b4 that......

Voice: AYEEEEEEEEEEEEE FAKT 5 LOK
Me: yetil na... 5 is more than half anyways

People trickle by till 10-10:30
then break- at 10:30....... everyone cribbing

Vikram: WHY DID I WAKE UP SO EARLY AND COME???
Me: Yaar ye to vahi padhata hai har hafte
Most of them: haan yaar....
Jace: Hows Comp arch going???
Voice: :-/ MADHECH???

Lecture restarts at 10:50.... no actually it starts.... now Prof will teach something new.....

Voice: NEXT TIME COME AT 10:30
Me: hmm.....bhukkkk
Voice: NAHI YAYACHA NA MAG... LAKSHA DE CLASS MADHE
Me: ho pan....

Well sensor networks is interesting and I quite enjoy the second half of the class and its truly refreshing.. and it is the only lecture I enjoy!!!!

11:30
Me: oh..no.. its over already... I could have done with some more
Voice: I COULD SIT FOR ONE MORE HOUR ACTUALLY......... HE IS GOOD
Me: jaunde
Voice: jaunde

And then Vikram and Jace and Anshuman and I walk back discussing abt the lecture and Prof Tamil and how we waste half a day and how we have to get up and come Saturday morn 9-12 and still how we enjoyed the lecture and.................

2004-12-19T02:00:00.000-06:00

Duniya badi jalim hai re.....

lol...

Ophiuchus-The Serpent Holder

2004-12-16T20:41:00.000-06:00

23 years down the line... and i just find out that I am not a Saggi... haha...
just take a look.. http://www.griffithobs.org/SkyOphiuchus.html
yeah I am a Saggi no more, I am an Ophiuchus

I guess some have us have changed signs now!!! wow!!

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Ophiuchus

Abbreviation: Oph

Genitive: Ophiuchii
Translation: The Serpent Holder

Position in the Sky
Right Ascension: 17 hours
Declination: 0 degrees
Visible between latitudes 80 and -80 degrees
Best seen in July (at 9:00 PM)
(http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~dolan/constellations/constellations/Ophiuchus.html)

THE ZODIACS
ARIES ................APRIL 19 - MAY 13
TAURUS............. MAY 14 - JUNE 19
GEMINI .............JUNE 20 - JULY 20
CANCER .............JULY 21 - AUG 9
LEO ....................AUGUST 10 - SEPTEMBER 15
VIRGO ................SEPTEMBER 16 - OCTOBER 30
LIBRA ................OCTOBER 31 - NOVEMBER 22
SCORPIO ............NOVEMBER 23 - NOVEMBER 29
OPHIUCHUS ......NOVEMBER 30 - DECEMBER 17
SAGITTARIUS ...DECEMBER 18 - JANUARY 18
CAPRICORN ......JANUARY 19 - FEBRUARY 15
AQUARIUS ........FEBRUARY 16 - MARCH 11
PISCES ...............MARCH 12 - APRIL 18

Gr8 quotes by gr8(??) ppl!!!!

2004-12-15T01:01:00.000-06:00

Rohan: apna creativity solidly hopless hai....

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Sagar: 'to(mhanje kapil cha comp) 10 mintani 1 taas lavel....'

(Rohan and I were not ready to give Vini's laptop to Sagar....He wanted it for 10 mins.... told him to use Kapil's comp... His remark on that: 'to(mhanje kapil cha comp) 10 mintani 1 taas lavel....')

Confused!!!!

2004-12-05T19:48:00.000-06:00

Project karava ki blog lihava??? :-/
Udya sem sampnaar \:D/

Message from Nam

2004-12-04T20:05:00.000-06:00

Girl meets boy.
Boy gets killed in Nam.
Girl goes to Nam to find out what happened.
Girl falls in love with soldier.
What other way is there to say it without giving too much away?? Great book though!!!
~Debbie, Resident Scholar
(http://www.allreaders.com/Topics/Info_1195.asp)

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Novel by Danielle Steel... the story revolves around an American girl and the way she fought the Vietnam war.. emotionally and physically.............

One of my favorite books...... very engrossing.......
Well every sentence in the above review superficially seems just a statement......... go thru the book and u will find that each is heavily loaded with emotions and passion....
havent watched the movie though....... the book itself is a movie!!! the whole picture just stands out in front of your eyes....
Well heres a part from the preface of the book.....

THE BOYS WHO FOUGHT IN NAM

Passed hand to hand
the wishes
the dreams,
the hopes
of an entire generation
an entire nation
sent to war,
a score
of old men
leading all our boys
to die,
while we watched
in horror
in pain
in grief,
the disbelief
that we had to lose
so many of our boys,
their toys
barely left behind,
their eyes
so young
so bright
so full of hope,
the fight
so long
so sad,
the pain
so bad,
the wounds
so deep
until at last
our young men sleep
in their maker's arms again,
thier names carved
in stone
never to come home
never to touch our tears
again.....
lest we forget,
lest we grow old,
our hearts must never
be so cold
we must not run and hide,
we must remember them,
the boys who
died.....
let it not be in vain
let us not forget,
the pain,
the cries,
the agonies,
the braveries,
the heroes,
and the smiles,
the time that was
so long ago
across so many miles
in a land so bright
so green
caught in a place
just in between
hope and lies,
we must remember still,
must promise that
we always will
touch their hearts
while still
we can,
remember, friends.....
remenber
the boys who died,
who lived,
who cried,
the boys
who fought in Nam.

~Danielle Steel

B'day bash

2004-12-03T20:22:00.000-06:00

Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. ~Larry Lorenzoni

Well, I just had one more......
age++;

And wat an awesome day!!!! ok not the whole day..... but still....

Cut the cake at 12am... well after 12... was on fone at 12!!!
Lotsa people in my home... yelling at me to keep the fone and all...
Anyways, had a nice time .... cake and cola and fones and chatting!!! and then a movie which i didnt watch...

job at 9:30 in morn....... 9:30am-4pm... then lab... project!!! done by 11pm.....then came home and cooked chicken and THEN we had the b'day party.....well into the next day.... Wat a day...wat a birthday!!!

Nice party!!....Mutter paneer(that was awesome.... thanx Rash(she made it for my b'day)) and chicken and ice cream.... and no photos :-(....
Anyways, had a kewl time..... and a tension free party since my project was done!!! duna done!!

and then my b'day was suddenly over...... the day just flew off..... just like the past year...... and the one before that... and the one........ =;

The project that was......

2004-11-30T13:04:00.000-06:00

Was totally engrossed in doing the Comp Arch project yesterday....tension and all.... Atlast submitted and came back(this project also needs a whole page...but laterz)...
anyways it drove me down the memory lane....... the project i did in my third year of engineering...
Solar Tracker... not just a project but our baby indeed....

Prologue:
It all started with Jawa and me doing all kinda weird experiments on the stepper motors and the parallel port.... well and that too in the PLs and vacations!!! dunno why!!! anyways, one more thing to mention...since I distincly remember it... had a bad time recognising the para port pins... we had cut the port cable and very skillfully me removed the insulations(expert at that!!!!-mind u the teflon cable was a pain) anyways, and then trying to match the loose ends with the pins the other side.... well BAAM!!! "pins 2 and 3 are short ...hey no now its pin 2 short with pins 14,15,..oh GOD wats this... hey no now pin 15's good... but the red and green are short" this went on for 3 hrs!!!GOD!!! in he end the great mind figured out that one should not leave the uninsulated bunch of wires just lying together since they touch each other and mess it all up.......
once that done, we went on to run a stepper motor...oooh!! the triumph when it worked!!! i cant even imagine wat was in ther to celebrate... c'mon anyone does that.... and it was a wee bit dam easy... but still... was an achievement then....

Baby Steps:
In Second year, Jawahar came up with the idea of a Solar tracker..... we grouped up with Purvs and Sudarshan, and came up with an algorithm to track the max light..... went to Rajiv electronics, got LDRs and started cutting a cardboard sheet just to see it the the method works.... yes it does!!! good... but then we can do it the other way round.... yeah lets try that too... cut the cardboard again!!! Art and craft class basically!!! but that was ok... the other method worked fine ...cool....went ahead to design the assembly required to turn the pointer to max light. All sticks and paper and cardboard!! it was really funny..... and the motors were 1/2 a kg each....
We went to our HOD with this idea, this is the model... we want it made in wood or something.... he criticised saying thers no way u can mount this thing and make it work!!!...Well... that geared us up!!! WE ARE GONNA MAKE IT WORK!!! watch us.....
We went to dad's friend, Mr. Menon(a special thanks to him!!) and gave him the weird craft i had made.... and hey... he said he'd make an aluminium model for me!!! cool!!!

And a huge thanks to our mentor and Prof... Zakir Hussain, always bucking us up and helping out in every possible way.....

Gearing up!!:
Then we started pondering over the circuits we would require..... and actually went on to build and test them..... The soldering and testing !! gross!!! we made such mess out of it all...... loads of wires to work with ....and hey this was still the 1st stage... actually i dont remember why we didnt do it on a bread board!!! And of course it wouldnt work.......... then go on to desolder it and solder it again....... that was routine............anyway we had started quite early... guess we were the first in class to start....

Recourse:
We came up with different circuits... now had to interface those....... hmm..... and the model wasnt ready......... so we took a huge break... almost 2 and half months or maybe 3.. PLs, exams and vacations.......... then we decided to wok on a CONTRAPTION to present at IITB.... one more month gone!!! well 'gone' but gone well... we won the contest at IIT... that done we restarted on the project in full gear.... no one knew if it was gonna work or not... we just had seperate circuits...............

Back again:
Went on to write a code detect max light and to interface those circuits........well that wasnt enough......we had to rebuild all the circuits together......awwww........ again all the soldering and mess........ we messed up everybodys home.....

We then got the model.....it was superb... professional!!!

All this time there was a nice contribution frm excitement, anticipation, tension, frustration and all more that can fit in!!! yeah.... and quarrels and fights(even that was fun though)... and the frequent visits to Rajiv electronics.....

Finally we got the thing interfaced and all... now to get it working......... debugging!!!! guess most of us know wat a pain that is............... Well after long hours and days of hard work and frustration the thing ultimately worked GREAT... yeaaay \:D/.......now that was realllllllllll triumph!!!! CELEBRATIONS......
We just couldnt believe it!!!! the thing was working and it was tracking max light... it used to move along with just a torch... Awesome!!!(ok now this is kpk....)

Epilogue:
We won the prize for this in MIT.... hardly an achievement... :D:D
We were planning to continue this for BE, and make it wireless and stuff....... and our Zakir Hussain sir was planning to market it!!!! he always had real high hopes from Jawa and me!!!

Well, somehow we decided not to continue it and guess that was the fall of the curtain!!.......

Hey, it doesnt sound all that interesting to read i guess......... but we really had loads of fun doing it together.... am sure my partners in crime will recall those moments after reading this!!!

Phew!!! this was too long for me..... till the next blog.............ciao...