Triple E

Resolution: stop complaining on blogs. I know its a bit too late for resolutions, but what the hell! Ok fresh start:
1. Pracs-went on pretty well.
2. Study hols-i'm gonna dubai..(yay!! no more hostel!). Ok there i go, bringing up the hostel again.
3. Univ-well..some things better left unsaid.
Now talking of university, sorry folks, but i just cant help breaking my resolution. Now which university takes 400 bucks for revaluation of a paper, gets its students photocopies of answer sheets for 300 bucks more and apparently re-evaluates the paper, only to find "No Change". Well, mine did. The whole concept of scoring marks in a paper corrected by the use of a key totally eludes me. Its more like a who-can-guess-the-answer-better sorta contest. Ok university exams coming up. I shouldn't be saying this.

I've realised that my blog is desperately crying out for a new post, and something other than the lines of control systems, machines and the hostel..so here goes:
While i was absconding the following things happened (not necessarily in that order):
George Bush visited India, Saint Gobain opened the new float glass plant at sriperumbudur, the largest of its kind in asia, India managed to beat Pakistan on foriegn soil, but pulled a face-saving draw against England on home ground, Salman Khan sentenced, Jessica lall's killers acquitted, Sensex reached an all time high of 10,500, Lakshmi Mittal's unannounced bid for Arcelor was followed by some very unpleasant rhetoric, Nokia announced that their manufacturing facility at sri p will be inaugurated by the Indian and Finnish Prime Ministers, and oh, results were out.
It seems like a mass of contradictions to me. Nokia setting up a manufacturing facility is reason enough for India shining. Nokia phones have become ubiquitous, sure enough, but isn't it time that we in India come up with something indegenous? I'm actually not surprised. Out of the 40 lakh engineers the 280-odd engineering colleges in the state churn out every year, how many can truly call their college an institution of learning, where they spent their 4 years, looking forward to each day as a day of reckoning.
The marks obtained in exams shall depend on how much and how accurately Bakshi or Dhananjayan has been studied. Practical marks shall be awarded solely on the neatness of records. Out of such an education system emerge the leaders of tomorrow. Most of them (before i get mugged, most, not all), are happy to join one of the numerous BPOs, offering help to ppl, whose IQ may be better left unknown. Is this how our future should go about earning a living? How many of us might have thought what actually makes certain people "click" in India. Its the thoughts of service to the nation, the thought of the country that so selflessly offers itself to us. Its time we stopped pointing fingers, something that so easily comes to us, and actually did something. We're not low in resources, we've got a huge talent pool, why else then do we look at others for help. Sadly, its taken outsiders to make us realise. (contd.)

Its that time of the year, when people think they're irreplacable, what with hostel day n stuff coming up. Been there, done that, i think it's a total waste of time, funds and intellectual resources. It was supposed to mean a whole lot of fun, according to our RTs(resident tutors..whatever). Now when i say fun, i mean that kind of fun which those people have who throng the tv hall at 9.30 in the night, to watch selvi, a soap, the logic of which i'm yet to work out. So due to their awesome talent of managing HR, (more to do with managing and flattery of RTs) they're given the godawful task of managing the hostel day. With a crowd like the dimwitted serial gang(as i prefer calling them), you can't expect more than the usual stuff, dumbc, antakshari, crackpot, turncoat(it's called speak for and against, to aid those who don't believe in taxing their brains for something not remotely connected to serials and gossip), and take a wiiild guess, musical chairs!! Come on guys, get a life. You're not organising some 3rd grade party. For heaven's sake, this is Venky. Its an engg college and you're enrolled in a professional course. Seriously!! Oh, and how could i leave out the dance stuff. With so many gyrating bodies, mostly out of phase with each other, its even a wonder that the hostel's still standing. And these people go out of their way to entertain us with their vocal skills, unasked. If you're listening, thanks, but no, thanks.
I thought it was better last year, but now, i realise that the only people who make life a lot better, when you're holed up in the middle of nowhere, parents away, and contact with the outside world depending on the vagaries of cell networks in godforsaken places, are friends. But times change, people move out and you're left to pick up last threads and get on with it. That's life, i guess and that's venky hostel life for you.

"You can enjoy idling more thoroughly when you have plenty of work to do". Read this in Reader's Digest some time back and ever since, it's been nagging me when i've got 3 observations, 3 records and i sit reading Gone with the wind or Jeffrey Archer. Awesome book, Gone with the wind. Margaret Mitchell's managed to capture every aspect of human emotion, mostly envy, romance and satisfaction, with patriotism, anger. You end up feeling sorry for Rhett and as for Scarlett, well, she deserved what she got.
Jeffrey Archer's a league apart. His writing's is awesome. "...The Parliament house which usually looked like the Lord's on a rainy day had now taken the look of a crucial Ashes final..."(First Among Equals). His latest book, false impression wasn't all that good. It read more like one of the run-of-the-mill potboilers. But then, its definitely more entertaining than listening to machines ma'am drone about induction motors. Trust me, she doesn't know her stuff. And with cats coming up...(some things are better left unsaid). And I seriously can't figure out what covering your observation has to do with getting it corrected. Will it in some way alter your values, or does it make you look so irresponsible in front of staff that by default, an uncovered observation has manipulated data. Grrr..

Curiously, this is my first post and I seem to be suffering from writer's block already! I've got nothing worthwile to say(I actually do, but its too tedious digging up stuff from the recesses of your brain after 4 hours of electric machines) I'll just say i'm a second year electrical engg student studying in one of the 280-odd engineering colleges in tamil nadu, India. To be more specific, its called SVCE. And since one of my interests lie in cricket, and since curiously enough, one of the players has slammed a century (which has already made headlines in the website of one of the leading newspapers), and since our college still believes in good ol' dial-up for net(making crossing the highway to our college during peak hours look faster), and since i can't think of anything more to say, well, adios!!