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Another one from our B-tech batch losing his bachelor status.. My project partner (a.k.a partner in fraud ) Ibrahim getting married on Jan-6.. He's special in many ways.. -- Only student in perhaps the entire NITC history to have his home nearer than hostel from class.( his home is couple of plots behind Mamachan) -- Even with that proximity , he took a room in hostel with the intention of studying :-) -- He studied quite a bit..And at the end of 4th year, he became an expert in FIFA-2000 :-) . -- NITC Football captain with a rather awesome victory streak in Calicut league :-). -- Now enrolled in M-tech @IITK, he aspires to come back to NITC and join there as a lecturer few years down the lane..I sincerely wish he succeeds in that. ( Hopefully he won't read this post :-) ) His wedding ( or rather reception ) gives me another opportunity to visit NITC Campus..I'm off to Calicut on coming saturday eve... Last time I visited college was in Feb-07 for Raagam .. Heard ...

When do you realize that you are going through a bad patch ? -- When you take a wrong turn at a very familiar traffic junction.. -- When you get problems from the least expected sources.. -- When things which you'll normally do within an hour takes you about one day.. -- You blog when you should be sleeping.. -- When everything that u do hit one roadblock or other.. -- When you forget things that you should be remembering -- When even your cellphone fails ( My motoming is getting switched off automatically once in a while..any pointers to probable reasons?? ) Suggested solutions by various people -- Take a beer :-) ..( New yr party coming up :-) ) -- Be professional..Do one task at a time and be focussed on it.. ( I try to do that ..but in the long run, man is not a machine ) -- Assume nothing is wrong..Do things the way you do ( Thats a good one..but things will go on till one thing or other...

This is a unique place in the road-map of Bangalore ..or even in India.. The unique features of this place .. 1) This is a four-way junction under a flyover and over an under-pass with 8 roads , 2 each in each direction , all one-ways with well visible & working signals..Technically a well-thought about and well-designed traffic plan - an extremely rare piece of engineering in India perhaps .. 2) 90% of the people don't bother about the signals at this place.. Even if the signal is green, you'll have to look to all four directions and then take your vehicle. All are alike i n breaking signals at this place..bike riders, auto-wallahs , bus/car/lorry - drivers and even cyclists. 3) Only place where you can see vehicles taking all possible directions and U-turns simultaneously even if the signal is red . -- See the snap of this place..Taken at a time when there is not much traffic..but you can still see vehicles moving in all directions.. I'll upload another one once I ...

Scott Adams comes back to the IIT topic again..See the latest strip @ http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20071210.html ( Link Will be active for about a month ) .. The intern Ashok claims to have learned "Guided Reincarnation & Advanced Shape Shifting " ( Phew !! ) @ IIT .. Some of Dilbert's best IIT linked comic strips can be located @ http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~ajitb/dilbert.html People have varying opinions about this IIT aspect in Dilbert..Some say it is a testimony to the success of the IIT system...Some say he's being sarcastic beyond a limit.. But either way, it is a good stress-reliever :-) .. Ajith

I keep getting this question again & again from various quarters..professors, friends, relatives, acquaintances .. when they hear that I'm studying management.. Recently a lady whom I knew during Pre-degree popped the same question " Why I didnt study Computer science/Technical Stream further ? " .. The reasons are a lot.. I'm describing it in a nutshell below. These views/experiences are extremely personal and if it offends anyone studying technical stream/ Computer science, sorry for that... 1) A good portion of research in Computer Science happens in areas which does not have the potential to do any immediate benefit to human beings..I mean, algorithms, theory of computation, graph theory etc..Even if you theoretically establish something new, it may take generations for it to be of any good use to an average human being... And I'm not that innovative or extra-ordinarily talented to something really path-breaking ... 2) A good amount of thesis work in...

I see a lot of interesting books and DVD's on Amazon's site.. And quite a lot of them are not available in book-stalls in b'lore like Landmark.. How is Amazon's reliability over these online purchases ? I've stayed away from that mode of purchase after an irritating experience with Indiatimes .. And anyday, I'd prefer going to a huge bookstall like Landmark/Crosswords rather than buying online because of that atmosphere.. But, maybe owing to low demand, lot of books & DVD's are not available even in these top-class stores in India.. So, I'm thinking of trying Amazon.. If any of you are regular/one-time customers of amazon, could you please comment here or mail to ajithprasadb - at - gmail.com over their reliability/speed of delivery etc in India.. Thanks Ajith