@rgumental @dvisor

Visited my alma mater, NIT Calicut last weekend for Ragam .. Man..it has been a long time.. lot of changes, lot of new buildings...lot of new stories ( read gossips ) .. Guys, NITC has changed a lot :) ..Some good aspects..some not-so good aspects.. Before getting into those, take a look at the snaps below... ( Most of the content in this post might not make any sense to non-NITCians.. Sorry for that ) .. == > This is the how the entrance looks like now.. Closed gates, security guards etc at the start of Raj-path .. Almost all parts of the compound is encircled by 6+ feet high walls with glass pieces on top to prevent any of those old-style jumpings from hostel campuses.. Heard Papachan and Chechi have closed down their stalls ( didnt go there ) becoz , mess is compulsory now...( That is bad.. Isnt it ?? ) .. The Kattangal Shake shops , Mamachan etc are said to be still there..But to go to Kattangal, u have to go through the main gate..So, unless u have a bike, its a very long ...

Alright, some serious stuff... There is an organization called Asha , which focusses on education for underprivileged children ( U can read more details at http://www.ashanet.org/ ) . As part of fund-raising activities , we are planning to organize a corporate quiz here at B'lore ..This is something which has been successfully organized at Hyderabad over the last two years and has yielded good funds by means of sponsorship, registration money etc... Please note that nothing in terms of when, where etc are not yet planned for B'lore... Basically it involves talking to HR / managers of different companies about the mission of Asha, asking them to sponsor few teams from their organization ( The registration fees at Hyd was 5000/- per team ..and around 35+ teams came ) which can be done through your contacts, mails, phone...etc..It also involves roping in some sponsor to pay the prize money ( At Hyd, it had to be paid from registration money ) , getting a reputed QM to host...

I'm getting a dream nowadays that I'm writing my std 10 language paper again ( Malayalam paper 1) ..This is not like one of those numerous engineering subjects like Theory of computation ( which has a text book -- Lewis & Papadimitrou -- that has almost all possible printing symbols in this world) , Software Engineering ( Sommerville fame -- ask any NITCian about this book,95% chance that u'll hear #$%& ....) or Electrical engineering ( semster 1 ..- I forgot the text book name-- maybe I studied on photostats... or maybe I didnt study at all.. ) in which I somehow managed to pass the test / fool the evaluator , whatever the case may be... Malayalam first paper is something in which I scored 48 / 50 --- The dream caught me so paranoid that I actually verified the marks in the SSLC book - Any interpretations on what this dream means.. ?? Don't say that I've to go to Pareeksha Bhavan at Trivandrum and see if still my SSLC records are stil...