EEE Rocks!!!!

Sometimes even amidst a desert u find reservoirs full of water, even amidst lots of sadness and sorrow you find reasons to laugh out loud. The trip to Patratu (on 30.08.2008) was such a thing only in an otherwise quite so unflattering semester as yet.

It was an educational tour cum picnic for the EEE people from 2k5, 2k6 and 2k7 batches. We visited the PTPS i.e. the Patratu Thermal Power Station whic h has a capacity of 840MW though due to shortage of fuel and high scale power theft prevalent in Jharkhand, all the power plant produces is around 275 to 300 MW and that too after incurring heavy losses! But the whole power plant as such was a good experience to us. It gave us a practical insight on how power is actually generated. But the biggest impact was that we people finally saw throught the sheen of the huge packages that the power companies offer to us during the placements, as the whole power generation things costs the engineers heavily. Firstly, the incessant high decibel noises going on inside the power plant is sure to leave people deaf in some years, and then come the flurry of different problems that arise due to coal powder viz. skin diseases, bronchiitis etc.

The tour ended on a very very high note after the lunch in Madhuban Dhaba. It was not just food out there but pure fun too. We all danced out there like anything. There were few boundaries , but still on the whole nothing was there to prevent us from enjoying the whole of the party. The whole dancing and singing thing went on for more than a couple of hours. The food was so-so and the arrangement a bit lax but still the whole enjoyment came from this laxity only!!

The best part of this trip or for that matter any trip is the memories that they weave in the complex walls of our minds. One thing is for sure, that the bond between the EEEians is gonna be stronger from now on. Even the large gap between the boys and the girls has started to heal after this and this sure is going to be the best thing that happens to our class!

EEE Rocks!

The Don’s Average

This again isn’t a work of my own. I found it yet again while surfing the good old net, but I thought it made a nice read.

I know that Sir Don Bradman finished his career with a Test average of 99.94. But would he have finished above 100 if he had not played his last Test? asked Dhanushka Edussuriya from Sri Lanka
This is an appropriate question, since it is the 100th anniversary of Sir Donald Bradman’s birth tomorrow (August 27). The Don went in to his final Test, against England at The Oval in 1948, with an average of 101.39, after having scored 33 and 173 not out (his 29th and last century, in his 51st Test) in the previous match at Headingley, where he led “The Invincibles” to a remarkable seven-wicket victory after they were set 404 to win. Statistics weren’t so instant in those days, so I doubt whether Bradman actually knew he needed four runs to maintain his three-figure average. He also didn’t know for sure that it would be his last innings – his famous second-ball duck, at the hands of the Warwickshire legspinner Eric Hollies, came in Australia’s first innings and made the score 117 for 2. Since the Aussies had already bowled England out for 52, an innings victory was on the cards, but it was by no means certain that Bradman would not have to bat again (he would have needed to make 104, or 4 not out, to average 100 if he had gone in a second time).

If you want to give the whole article a read see this.

Feels Nice

Whenever you find somthing you were really looking for, however small or big the thing is , and you find it unexpectedly its the most exhilarating feeling. I just now experienced it.

I was searching high and low for the Back Ground Music of Swades but I returned empty handed from each and every shop in the town. As always, finally the internet turned out to be the saviour. I found the whole of it here and its spell binding! But I dont recommend people to download it, rather I would like people to buy the original CD if you are successful to find it. Even I will buy it, if I find it as of all music producers in India, its A.R. Rahman who deserves to be heard and appreciated.

The True Thoughts

Sitting in the classroom, attending the lecture of one of the most boring teachers, my thoughts were wandering. Then I felt a creepy little sensation on my left arm. A small little red ant was crusing in the highway of my arm. Without giving a second thought I just picked the little insect, put it on my palm and crushed it.

Normally I just throw’em off after this, but due to the boredom of the lecture or whatever other reason I looked at the dead ant. Its bulbous posterior was separated from the rest of the body. The ant was literally squirming with pain. It was moving like mad, rolling over, trying desperately to reach its torn off torso. I kept on looking and then I started feeling strangely bad.

My thoughts wandered even as I looked the ant’s final dance. I thought about the suffering it was going through. I thought about the soldiers who die in wars, who most of the time are disintegrated by bombs, dissected into pieces. I thought about their suffering. I thought about the people who are still awake while they are being operated for say a bypass heart surgery, their brains just screaming from the unbearable pain of it all. I thought about their suffering. I thought about the parents, whose children die, and who due to the loss of their most important organ of their lives desperately try to make the child awake again. I thought about their suffering. I thought about the father infront of whose eyes his only son was pushed out of a running train by a railway cop, to be crushed to death by the iron monster. I thought about his suffering.

Suddenly coming to the present, I saw the ant still squirming. So I ended its suffering.

But can the people whom I talked about ever feel an end of suffering? The ant had to die before its suffering ended. So does that mean that after suffering such a huge loss, the people have to die to end their sufferings? Yes, there are men who say that only the weak think of dieing to end their agony of separation, but they are the people who haven’t ever experinced such a seperation.

Suddenly the partition of India came to my mind. Yeah, I am too young to be have been present there but still all the books I have read and all the movies I have watched have hidden in them the immense suffering of the motherland for its children, and of the children  for their motherland.

But the worst suffering is the one when one is separeted from their dreams. When dreams are broken, the heart breaks, and the pain that comes with it is like hell. And this time I do speak with experience by my side. So many dreams I wove, and now , where are they? Where did they go?

It seems that pain is endless. It seems that there will never be an end to suffering until the civilisation is there. It seems that time heals all kinds of wounds. But believe me, its not so easy. The little red insect taught me atleast this thing.

I am no more a thoughtless and heartless insect crusher any more.

General Motors REPLY TO BILL GATES

While surfing I got this interesting post in the “FUNDA”. I am producing here the ditto copy of the post. Its a great read!! Full credit of this post goes to the “FUNDA” and some to CIS for recommendation!

At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates  reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated,
“If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we  would all be driving $25.00 cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon.”

In response to Bill’s comments, General Motors issued a press release  Stating:

“If GM had developed technology like microsoft, we would all be  driving cars with the following characteristics (and I just love this part,  esp 7th point and 10’th point):

• For no reason whatsoever, your car  would crash twice a day.
• Every time they repainted the lines in the  road, you would have to buy a new car.
• Occasionally your car would die  on the freeway for no reason. You would have to pull to the side of the road,  close all of the windows, shut off the car, restart it, and reopen the windows  before you could continue. For some reason you would simply accept this.
• Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn would cause your  car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to  reinstall the engine.
• Macintosh would make a car  that was powered  by  the sun, was reliable, five times as fast and twice as  easy to  drive – but would ! run on only five percent of the  roads.
• The  oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all be replaced by  a single “This Car Has Performed an Illegal Operation” warning light.
• 7.  The airbag system would ask “Are you sure?” before deploying.
• 8.  Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse  to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key  and grabbed hold of the radio antenna.  (Read CTR-ALT-DEL)
• 9. Every  time a new car was introduced car buyers would have to learn how to drive all  over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as  the old car.

10. You’d have to press the “Start” button to turn the engine  off. ”

Back to Pink Floyd!

Yeah it’s a long time since I went away to other bands like Pearl Jam, Switchfoot etc. but my heart still lies with the Pink Floyd. I mean where else can you find great music, lyrics as well as overall quality other than these greats?

Yeah the other bands were nice too, but in comparison with Floyd they are simply nothing! I mean what other song can compare with Comfortably Numb, Lost for Words and High Hopes???

Pink Floyd Rocks!

Happy Independence Day!

Happy Independence Day to each and every Indian around. Its a day of great honour as the country turns 61 today, Obviously what I mean is that Independent United India turns 61 today, not our culture which is here since time immemorial!

But today is also a day to ponder whether we are really free. I mean are we free yet from the shackles of poverty? Are we free yet from the stigma of unemployment? Are free yet from hunger? Are we free yet from prejudices and superstitions?

Yeah Not yet, not yet. But we are progressing, however hard the pessimists may say that the country is going into a comatose situation.I am optimist and a staunch realist, so I will say that yes India is progressing, though the rate is slow. Perhaps we still can achieve our dream of being developed by 2020. Go For it India!!

This is also the time I would like to highlight how hard the fundamentalists of the society are trying to divide India yet again. So let me give you all fundamentalists a news , ” However hard you try India won’t fall again, no never. Not to your cheap mentality, the crappy slogans of yours or the foolish ideologies that you people carry with you and spread around .”

Let us- the youth of India pledge this one thing. We wont let’em succeed. Never!