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A dream come true

I had always wanted to take photos since I was a child. This wish was fulfilled during these holidays.
I had gotten my mother a Sony DSC-W70 last time I had come for holidays after the IITB project. But that had been only for 2 weeks and I had barely gotten a day with the camera.
But this time..... things were different (with an evil smile). I got all the time I wanted with the camera. I played with it to my heart's content. Here are some of my shots :

A painting on the wall

My little bro Jay

Me, nani, and mummy in a car

Me... in the mirror.

The driveway

A few more snaps

My mom.. a second ago

Book shelf

Curtain from the top

The same curtain

My drawing room

The same door

Study table

Classic mom!

My sister, my inspiration

My bro and my sis

A lot happened when my closest sister Pooja came to Delhi to her nani's house. She had come to collect the fittjee scholarship she had gotten because of coming within the top 50 all over India in one of fittjee's scholarship test.
It all started while Pooja, Sagar and me were sitting on the bed playing Uno. A thought occured to me of teasing her. So I simply asked her - what would be the probability of one us winning a cards game in which one and only one of the players win? Probability is topic in standard X and she was in standard XI. She immediately replied -1, while my bro kept thinking. I was impressed by her sharpness.
Then I asked them a few more probability questions (my favourite topic ;) ) and she answered most of them! I was awe-struck. She had joint fiitjee coching in IX and had improved by leaps and bounds! No wonder she came within India's top 50..
Meeting her made me feel ashamed of myself. How I had wasted my self. She had the determination of a winner. While I get very easily distracted (whenever I work that is). I do everything but study on the study table! Think about everything that's not related to study. Every half-completed work that got left uncompleted for some reason has to be completed then. Every movie that I wished to see has to be seen then. What an ass-hole I am!

I got a new monitor!

My old monitor : LG 775FT

My new monitor : Samsung 940BW
It's HUGE. And so now the home theatre system is almost complete (still have to mount the 5.1 speakers on the wall).

Coming back home

Now I am back home after what seems to be a very long time. (During the last sem hols I was doing a project at IITB and could come home for only 2 weeks. The hols before that I had come for 2 weeks but those had gone by in training at ABB. So this is one time when i am really home.)

One reason I am delibrately writing this blog is Hari's suggestion of writing blogs regularly.

I got the tickets for bengaluru today for the hpic conference. I also took the gre diagnostic test today -- it simply shook my feet. I got 1010 out of 1600 in the test. 310 in verbal and 700 in quantitative. That's ... bad. I havn't yet written my CV. Could cause me great deal of trouble later.

Things I have done in the past 6 months..

1. Become central webteam member. Become the manager of Pragyan and Dalal Street.
2. Give shape to delta. To make it at least be able to stand in comparison with Spider.
3. Coin up the concept of Neo... A portal to test and implement new delta services.
4. Suggest the concept of pingufest.
   

IIT B project

The IIT B project here at IIT B turned out to be more work than play |=( .

Of course, I learnt loads of things - java tomcat server installation, java applet, java servlet, got to know about online website development, made full use of del.icio.us and a lot more...

I found out IITs are not that much different from NITs.. Except the mess I dont find much difference in the work environment. Atleast in NITT, enthu towards work is the same. The professors here in IIT's are really dedicated. But then again that can be compensated for by studying more.

What are books for?

In a nutshell, there is nothing here that can replace our good old OCTA :)

Project at IIT Bombay

Guess what...
I am currently doing a project in IIT Bomabay. Can't believe it myself.

(And I googled out the topic PC Based Oscilloscope to select it. !!!!!!!!)

And we are even maintaining a blog on the project. Well.... what can you say?

Last Row of the SUN lab
Here's a great blog to keep yourself updated about the last row of SUN lab!! ;)