Surprise!!!

OMG, OMG, Oh My God!!!!!!
The only words which she could say when she saw two of her classmates in front of her home. She adjusted her age old spectacles to see if she was dreaming. It was morning not late than 10.30 but very early for an Anna university student who seldom gets time to wake up late. She was sitting cross legs on a plastic chair with TV remote on one hand and a plate on the other, having her breakfast. By now she was up on her feet and her mom came running to see who was at the door. She too was surprised. It was me and my best friend.

It wasn’t tough to spot her home for the very first time as people will be familiar of those in government services. And of course, her dad was. So we could reach directly to her doorstep posing a surprise.

We were made to sit and were introduced to her mom. I think her mom had heard our names couple of times before that she could get an idea of who we are. We were give water and etc. I was waiting to get to her room. My curiosity was to see the tidiness. Gosh, guys are better, at least me I guess. The room was in a mess. Bed sheets on floor, Books scattered, etc. I strained my eyes towards the door of the room, exam timetables were stuck, and more irritating was the walls stuck with her timetable of how much time to study each and every subject. (No wonder why my department HOD visited her home.)

Then we sat staring each other, thinking on what to talk. We always chat but that day there was no unexplored topics. Luckily her friend came, from Chennai, colloquially speaking, another padips. Now it was interesting. We had a good chat. Both their moms too joined for some time. It became noon and lunch was ready. The most unexpected was the full fledged meals her mom prepared at such a short span of time. It was wonderful. Stomachs full, we resumed our chatting. Time went so fast that it became evening. Coffee, snacks reached us and it was time to depart. It became a very memorable day for all of us.

Way back home, I was thinking this would be one incident that I would have as a memorable one in my college life. But little did I know that, this was just a starting of all surprises.

Ideas worth spreading

Recently I saw a video in TED. You might be very familiar with TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) a U.S. private non-profit foundation that is best known for its conferences. Building sophisticated educational tools out of cheap parts, Johnny Lee demos his cool Wii Remote hacks, which turn the $40 video game controller into a digital whiteboard, a touchscreen and a head-mounted 3-D viewer. This video titled “Johnny Lee demos Wii Remote hacks” reminded me of my visit to Bits Pilani.

As I had mentioned earlier in my posts regarding a project presentation there, it provided a wonderful opportunity to meet some of the architects of the future, techies. One person I met was Amit. He was a pre-final year guy who bagged the first prize for the project presentation. His project was titled “Touch the future of user interface” Well am just posting the two videos. Take a look at both of them. It looks similar, except a difference that Mr Johnny Lee is researcher but Mr Amit is a student from BITS.

Excuse moi!!!!!!!!

Not Reality, but the Response to Reality makes the difference.

Yeah, I think this sentence would be the apt one to seek an excuse for not posting anything for quite a few months. I was making myself busy. I wasn't busy but I was making myself seem busy. Well, I think its time to take off this mask and change my response to the reality here. The reality that I do have ample time.

So I hope I would be back blogging.

See you all in ma next post.

'Atithi Devo Bhavah'

‘Rang De Basanti’ was a widely accepted movie. I wonder if it’s coz of Aamir Khan or Rakeysh Mehra, the director. Whatever be it, the tourism ministry of India has taken advantage of this and launched an ad which turned out to be fruitful. Starring Aamir Khan, directed by Rakeysh Mehra, this ad has been a great success I guess. Aamir Khan is now seen asking our countrymen not to misbehave with foreign tourists and deface monuments as a part of social awareness campaign. I deem it successful coz I have experienced the impact myself.

It struck twelve in the clock while I was checking my mails one day. I was about to log out when I noticed a new mail in my inbox. It was from BITS-Pilani. It said our project has been selected for display there. I was so excited. I tried to contact my batchmates but none of them were awake. I couldn't convey it to anyone but then said it to myself again and again. It was long before I slept off.

So as we all know, time and tide waits for none, the most awaited day came. We were all prepared for the journey. We decided to go to goa via Manglore. We reached Manglore by midnight. We got into the train. We went towards our respective berths but one of my firend was surprised to find it occupied. We tried to convince the lady who was a foreigner but she refused to budge. He called for the TTR and informed it. The TTR approached the lady in the most polite way. She didn’t have the ticket but still she wouldn’t move. The TTR didn’t scream, didn’t fine. He commanded my friend to sacrifice his sleep sitting in a corner. 'Atithi Devo Bhavah'