Mail from Philips

I got a mail from philips to confirm the joining dates. As my project work will be completed in may 2nd week, i gave the date to join as 2nd week of july.



I am planning to stay at home for a month and want to have fun with my friends.



There was a shocking news on yesterday. Our course coordinator announced the dates of presentation and thesis submission. We were expecting the final presentation in 1st week of may, but due to the inconvenience of my  professors on that dates,  they scheduled it on april 16th and 17th.



Have to work more on the project for this 10 days to complete it.



Our juniors are giving farewell party tomorrow. I will post the photos and about the party tomorrow evening.

Programming contest

On 23rd evening one programming contest was organized as a part of nakshatra - 07 all india MCA meet. They invited me to evaluate the code submitted by participants.



That was a prelims round. Many students participated in the event. Almost 80 people came for the prelims. We expected only 30 and we prepared a programming preilims rather than written prelims. We were unable to change the paper on the spot. So we continued with this programming prelims.



The event was started at 10:00 pm. Duration was 2 hours. Very few people completed the programs with in time. I started evaluating code at 12:30. It took 1 hour to complete the evaluation. Finally, i picked 6 good programmers from the participants.



We went to our mini canteen at 1:45 am. We had some food.

Some people did extremely well and some people did very funny.



We were discussing some funny incidents in the event. One of the organizer told that, " one fellow called me and showed like this scanf("Enter the number %d",n);

And it is not printing Enter a number.

what an excellent programming yaar......... :-))

Then organizer told that, u wrote enter a number in scanf, not in printf

then the person replied, "that's OK, why is it not printing?"

Organizer was trying to explain, but that person was not convinced.

Finally, this guy wrote enter a number in printf and then removed it from scanf. Then the participant satisfied.

Waaah, kyaa programming hey bhai..... :-)



Another joke was, one person met me after the prelims and said that

"i am incrementing i using i++, but i value is not incremented. becoz of that i lost prelims". I told him to show the code.

the code is like this

while(flag!=0)

{



// i++;



printf("%d",i);





Ohh my god, he is keeping it in comments and saying that it is not incremented. That was too funny and too nasty programming.



some other organizers told some jokes like this. After the drinks we came back to room.



When i came back, i saw the score, India was almost in loosing situation. I felt very bad about this. Finally India lost the match. The day ended with sad news :(

Telugu Cultural Fest

Telugu cultural fest had been successfully organized in NITC once again.

Its very happy to organize this function on telugu new year festival UGADI.



We decided to have the function on sunday 25th march. But because of busy slots on the weekends, we were unable to get a hall. So we got a chance to celebrate this function on a fine UGADI day. We formed a team to organize things. Srinivas(PG- Sec), haranath, sudeep, sujith, kalavathi, parimala, sowjanya and my self formed a team to start work. As usual i got food section :-)



Work started with super-fast speed. Haranath and team were invited some guests from calicut and near by places of calicut. The guests are telugu people working in some companies, airport and in police department. It was a nice feeling that many telugu people gathered in one place.



We decided the food menu. We decided the menu as pulihora, daddojanam, chekkara pongali, payasam, mirapakaya bajji and dal with tomato. We finalized the menu. Prepared the list of items that we need to prepare this items. Our college canteen people helped a lot in preparing the food.







As we scheduled, the function started on tuesday evening 6:30 pm(UGADI is not a holiday in NITC so we had the function in the evening). Our Director G.R. C. Reddy gaaru, he is also from andhra pradesh. Guests are Niranjan babu, sasi, perumella, anjaneyulu gaaru. They are working in different places. Some Ph.D telugu families are also attended the function.







Function started at 6:30 pm. Totally 350 people gathered in Aryabhatta hall. Kalavathi did anchoring. Function started by our director with jyothi prajwalana. Then followed by a vandana geetham by vasu. Till 8:00 pm we had some speeches from our director and guests. Some students also prepared speech. Everything is working as per the expectations and schedule.



All the speeches were excellent. Our director speech was so impressive. He was using some english words in the speech. Students caught this and started shouting to have the speech in pure telugu. He explained that he started with telugu medium and changed to english medium after 10th and now he neither belongs to telugu nor to english. That was too impressive. Another impressive speech was given by niranjan babu gaaru. He said that student life is precious and we can achieve anything that we want in this life. Never step back in this age, he added.







Then, some of our students gave their speeches. In that, sainath speech was so impressive. He started that, beside calicut there is arabian sea, but inside nit calicut, there is telugu sea. Every one impressed with that. He also wrote some kavithalu. Some students shared their own feelings too.



We conducted some games under TTCA. Our director distributed the prizes.







One great news is, one telugu student in B.Tech 3rd year EEE got GATE 2007 AIR-1. Director appreciated him for the excellent performance in GATE.







We started dinner at 8:00 pm. We served ugadi pachadi and dinner also. Everyone enjoyed andhra food after a long time. Pulihora was the center of attraction for the dinner. Most of the people said thanks for preparing excellent food. It was my pleasure to serve the food for 350 people. We had the dinner till 9:00pm.











At 9:00 pm, cultural programs were started. B.Tech students prepared a skit. They used many telugu movie dialogues. It was very nice show by them. My M.Tech juniors are very energitic compared to us. Many people came forward to perform dance and singing. We had couple of dances and 3 songs. Then one of my junior did mimicry. Every one enjoyed the function up to the maximum extent.







The function is over by 11:00 pm. We cleared aryabhatta hall and removed our banners and came back to hostel at 11:30pm.



శ్రీ సర్వజిథ్ నామ సంవత్సర శుభాకాంక్షలు.

Hostel day celebrations started

Hostel day musical night, I really enjoyed very well. Nice orchestra, good dancers from mangalore.
Every thing is good and my friends are also in the mood of enjoying. As we completed our assesment today, I enjoyed a lot without any thinking. Danced a lot and I enjoyed every bit of the musical night.

Hostel day celebrations will be organised every year. This time it is 4 days. We have one musical night and 3 days movies. This weekend we will be full busy with this movies.

God, its really hard to kill time

I felt very much bad about myself that I am unable to kill some time.

There is no big background for this. Well, we (me, nagaraju K.LV) came for a over night programming competition in FOSS. This starts at 9'o clock in the night and ends at 9'o clock in the morning. we came to the venue (software lab) at 9'o clock. But contest was postponed to 10'o clock becoz of a talk.
ohh god, i went back to my lab to kill 1 hour. Luckly i got orkut, so i killed one hour easily.

We came back to software lab at 10'o clock. I asked the coordinators about the competition. They told that the talk was not yet over. so we had to kill some more time.

Finally prilims started at 10:30pm. 12 basic C question, 2 per team, i think hardly we need 20 minutes to complete that prilims paper. We did it in 20 minutes. Then we saw many ppl still breaking their heads on this prilims. So, we verified our answers twice. Then i handed over my paper to the coordinator. He told me to wait for some time, till the other participants completes it.

Ohhhh god, i need to kill some more time till others complete it. My friend came to software lab(directly after the talk). Along with him, some other ppl came and started writing the prilims. So, waiting time had been increased by another 1/2 hr. Ohh god, i thought of breaking my head on the table.

Any way i have to kill time till others finish it. So, i took a problem given by Suresh Kodati during the workshop. He told us to find the problem in one 'c' code. I started applying pressure on my poor brain to solve that. fortunately i have nagaraju as my team mate. He started analyzing the program. as a part of understanding we googled the man pages of some functions used in the program. Luckily we killed some time with that code.

at 12:00am they gave one program on insertion sort with logical errors and told us to solve. We tried that. Nagaraju and me finally trace out where is the actual problem. fixed it. God its too early (we completed at 12:30). I saw the compititors. Few teams completed that progrma. Most of the ppl are breaking heads.

Ohh god, i have to kill some more time. Really this time i am exausted. Nagaraju started sleeping. I strted killing time by google man pages. Nagaraju was unable to sleep. so started cracking some jokes. I too started cracking jokes.

Nagaraju took a paper and told me that he wants to draw a picture. I told him to draw something good. He told that "I will draw a mouse". Ohh No, he placed the mouse on paper and started tracing the mouse ends with the pen. As soon as i shake my head, he draw the mouse and added some buttons with the correct dimensions. Not bad, he is a good painter... lolz.....

Ohh god, again we have to kill some more time. Its 1'o clock now.

Still ppl are making us to wait. I asked one coordinator and he told "This is a overnight programming contest, dont worry about the time, we have plenty of time". lolz, i am unable to kill time and this guy is saying that i have to kill some more tme even after that. God, give me some patience and put me into some thing that kills my time.

It was 1:05, still there is no sign of next program.

Thank god, they gave us 8 questions at 1:30. I was thinking that they will give us 1 by one Q. But thanks to the orgaizers, actually they do not. Questions were nice. we completed those by 5'o clock in the morning. Answered all the questions. Hope all the things are correct. It took a big time but we dont up to our best.

The funny fact is that, i thought of killing the time, and after working on the program given by suresh, i was unable to continue. So, i started writing this post. and i continued this whenever i get some time, clearly saying whenever i have to kill some time, i added some thing to this post.

My small advice is, If u ever conduct a compitition, please please dont make the participants to wait for a long time. Give them a couple of questions or all the questions in single shot. And tell them to work on that. God, its really hard to kill time.

A Blog about a blog in a blog :) funny

This is my first blog.
U may think that, what is this guy, is he mad, writing a first blog and that is about a blog. U r partially correct. I am not mad but i can say some thing that i knew about blogs today.

Well, there was a (UN)conference in our college as an event in FOSS. That talk was good and i got little interest on blogs, writing a own blog for me.

As i understood about a blog, Blog is everything that comes to ur mind. Blog can be anything, that u want to share with ur friends, neighbours and others. U can write ur daily life things in the blog and u can use it as ur personal dairy. As there are two sides of the coin, the blogs can help in sharing our own incidents, thoughts etc and as the other side it may drag u into troubles when u post some comments on some companies.

The speaker(he told he is a moderator for that (un)conference) started explaining the power of blogs with an incident happened before 2 weeks. U can read it here
The title is Seen Life Crashing Down? http://www.kiruba.com/archives/2007_02_01_archive.html
I am touched with the incident. Shankar raised 1,00,000 rupees contributions from people with this blog and handed over to prabhus parents.

Shankar quoted few more examples about blogs. The talk was too nice. Thanks to shankar for such a nice talk.

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