Two weeks without internet!

I never knew that I had become so addicted to the Internet! Spending a week without it was a torture...I almost went into depression.

The nightmare started two weeks ago. I was not able to access my mail account. When I checked I found that the connection was suddenly off, and I could not reconnect how much ever I tried. The error seemed to be there forever: Phone line is busy. What the heck! This is supposed to be a broadband connection. Checked up all the ports, went through whatever could be done at the control panel... Nothing helped. Finally got all fired up and asked mom to call the BSNL office. ( Guess we are at war with them! There were some problems earlier as well. ) And finally, today I get it back! It's an exhilarating feeling - to get it back when you thought you would never get it any time soon. Thank God!

Killing time was not a big deal. We had our lab exams this week. So it was a blessing in disguise. But then, I missed the whole Olympics story.. I couldn't access the net when it mattered the most - one gold and two bronze medals for India, for the first time in the history! How I longed to read about it.! I am not going to forgive the BSNL anytime soon.

Wondering.............

Well, it is another 'university exams' season. The only time you understand perfectly when they say that the envelope of the Gaussian distribution is Rician distributed, the only time you read two or three of the driest textbooks ever written, in one go (it takes longer to read a magazine), you find that your memory has more capacity than a 1GB flash drive, you write one or two pages on as simple a thing as a piece of wire (ahem, when used as an antenna, of course), a twelve page derivation seems to be one of the simplest things on earth, you draw the wickedest of the block diagrams at a moment's notice ................

I was just wondering the other day: if everyone 's brain worked the same way as they do on the day before exams at all time, what would happen?
Why is it that I have no problem in understanding a subject on the day before the exam, though I would have found it totally undecipherable just a week ago?

And now the final question:
Why does this university put questions, which are, as a rule, out of syllabus?

The mother of all deals

So, the Left has withdrawn its support for the UPA government, but SP has come to its rescue. We may have a confidence vote on 21st of this month.Will the government survive the floor test? Let's wait and watch. This is the time when facts are becoming more fantastic than fiction. It is a thriller, with many of the SP MPs voicing their opinions against the deal. We can hope to have enough drama till the last minute. Keep your fingers crossed, everyone!

Now, this is fantastic. We have a double digit inflation, an about-to-fall-if-he-doesn't-help-me government bent on pursuing the n-deal to its conclusion, an opposition party which would have been proud of the deal if it had been in power, a mentally unstable stock market and a university which has no sense of time. How to get out?

Getting ready for the battle ahead

Finally, the University has published the timetable of our examinations. A jam-packed schedule with barely any breathing space in it. Again, in a way, that's good. It will be over in a very short time and time, right now, is in great demand.

For most of the exams, we have only a one day gap in between. It is going to be terrible unless we are well-prepared. We haven't much time now, given that exams start on 21st.

Getting placed in Deloitte was really a confidence booster. Now I can concentrate on the things I want. Otherwise, placement would have been a point of worry.

But then, it still is. The department still has a lot more people to get placed. I hope that August turns out to be a really good month for all of us.

Placement blues

Our placement started two weeks ago. From the department, only two have been placed till date. It is a sad spectacle. Everyone is so depressed that I sometimes feel like starting my own company and giving them jobs. But buddy, I don't have money to start one. So everyone goes on writing test after test.

However, I am not. I wrote two tests till date - one for CC and the other for a good S/W company. Honestly, I didn't want to work in either. I want to work in a financial consulting company. That is my dream. One is coming tomorrow and I am nearly desperate to get into it.

The distinguishing factor about the company is that it hires you on the basis of your intelligence and not your 'mugging up' capacity. I love companies like that. It is also one of the Big Four. Now that's more than enough for a clue. Hope they will take me.

Food for thought

I have almost given up watching the television. What is the point? Listening to stupid comments by politicians and more stupid replies to them isn't exactly my cup of tea. Still, the comment of Mr. Georgr Bush almost got me to watch news again. Blaming India for the rise in the price of food, oil and what not. It was a pleasure, listening to his comments and the reaction to it.
Sadly, our Prime Minister refrained from taking up the issue. I have always thought of Mr. Singh as a sensible man, and his behaviour confirms it. Mr. Bush's comments were not worth commenting upon.

The only thing I watch regularly now is a serial, Kadamattathu Kathanar. Ghosts and evil spirits are far more interesting thanhuman beings; the stories about them seem far more realistic now than the soaps being aired on other channels.
Earlier, I used to watch at least the news. News then was really NEWS and not a gimmick as it is now. Thanks to 24-hour news channels, news has become trivia and trivia has become news.

God save the TV!