Bangalore lessons

It's been sometime since I blogged.So much happened in between the prev post and the present one! In a breeze, i had my convocation at NITC with Dr. APJ Kalam as chief guest, converted my internship to full time, had a good diwali @ Blore(could not witness the saturday nite fireworks show since I was in Calicut) and lots more.
After coming here to Bangalore, I have learnt a few things:
1. Bangalore sleeps early and gets up early(unlike popular opinion of non-Bloreans).
2. Nitt lingo (chaaaat,kela n the likes)
3. what to look for in a pg.
4. some telugu words(note:not kannada, but telugu)
5. how pan is not bad for health and not all pan contains hashish and other drugs.
6. how tickets need to be booked on the 1st day of reservation, even 2 months before the D-day can get you in a WL-169 status.
7. how the world is basically a small place
8. Girl company can be so much fun/risky..it's easier for a girl to walk with a guy than with a girl :P
9. how dogs can be such loyal friends,keep you company all the way till the main road :)
10. meetups can be quite pitcher-isque ;)

Friends and mutual friends just keep increasing every weekend...do not get bored during my stay at bangalore...the weekend company is pretty entertaining i must say.
However, there's something I miss when I look back... even after having the best time ever I could hope for in Bangalore, I realise that I miss college, I miss our LH, some of us are here in Bangalore, occasionally meet up too :), but its not like those nights in college..ahh the college days!
I do not know if ppl have noticed, but once we leave school/college there are some people whom we might not have talked much with during those days, but after leaving, we tend to become good friends!..i mean extremely good friends! :) (read:kappu,preeti)
P.S: I stay near a golf park and some DJ night is going on here now...miss clg musical nites :(

P.P.S: Yours truly takes back her 1st point, Bangalore does NOT sleep early and does NOT get up early. It's Domlur and Domlur ONLY!! This is after Yours truly witnessed some really enthu and wild show @ Blore few days after writing her post.

The Third Phase

Hi folks! It's been quite a long,long time. Have been spending the past few months getting adjusted to a new place,new surrounding and the beginning of a third phase.
Firstly, the place... Bangalore! I have no comments except that this place is a bit hyped up. I kind of started liking "namma bengalooru" for what it is, the people, the places and the radio(lol). If you have friends here, this place is just great. You can always come up with some new and exciting way to spend the weekends.
The place where i stay is kinda close to my office, 15 minutes walk. My school friend also stays very close by...just hop over to her place when I'm really bored.
I am interning with Yahoo right now, been almost 3 months. This place is simply awesome! They have almost everything an employee can ask for, including cozy beds to sleep when u want to take an afternoon nap and unlimited sick leave. It's a great place to work. Colleagues are also very helpful and FUN :)

Every week here has been crests and troughs..some weekends are so packed and others are almost absolutely nothing to do. Met college folks, saw a few movies, went for a party, went back home when I had absolutely nothing else to do ;). Had a bike ride at awesome speed in an extremely cool bike...was so blinded did nt even bother to check out the bike.absolutely sure its better than a pulsar.
chal folks
signing off for now
my first post from Yahoo... :)
Anna
P.S:Wish my friends would get a hayabusa

The end of chapter TWO

So many things have happened in the past few months...it was like a hurricane..moving at lightning speed...the gud,the bad and the ugly :-). So now I'm blogging about the close of chapter TWO in my life..the life @ NITC..the college life..almost the best 4 yrs of my life. The last few days were memorable...celebrated my 1st and last birthday in LH and it was the last midnight birthday party in LH of the 05-09 girls batch @ NITC...one rocking batch with the fewest memos possible :P
We had procession,csea farewell,branch treat @ sea queen..and sandwiched between all this was the running around for the "no dues certificate"...loadz n loadz of stuff. It was quite fast...a blur was what the last few days were.
So now comes a new beginning(yea yea..:P)...a different world, no matter how much i want to still cling to chapter TWO...we have to stride to chapter THREE in our lives...uncertain of wat lies ahead in store for us...
PS:spending a good vac @ auh meeting old frnds, tweeting and facebooking(i know there's no such term..but heck..who cares!!)

world getting way too high tech

Just the other day, i read a post that would definitely evoke different sentiments in different people...chk it out:
prodigy kid

It's about a 9 yr old kid writing iphone applications :O.. Must be a child prodigy. Anyways we are 21 yr olds copying codes for lab assignments. That's okay..in my opinion, the guy(9 yr old) is missing out on a lot of things that normal 9 yr olds do...

"What you focus on decides what you miss". It's all a matter of choice and of course the amount of effort varies depending on what we focus.

Seriously, I'm wondering--> can a 9 yr old be passionate about programming??!

Developing such an awesome software is definitely mind blowing...frankly the kind of stuff he has done..I'm sure most of us would not even be able to imagine coding for it...even if he was an 18 yr old!

Last Sem...

So this is it. It's nearing the end of a 4 year saga at NITC. haven't written anything for the past few months. Notable events are quite a handful!On the technical front, we finally installed moodle server at NITC.. all thanks to "hash" :-).Moodle is supposed to be a course management software, which is free and open source! Anything you want to do in a course.. like conducting quizzes,assignments,grading etc.. u name it.. it's there in moodle.
I had just taken a seminar/presentation/demo of moodle for the faculty. I sincerely hope all of them use it... considering the time and effort put into it by so many people like Deepak sir,hanoosh etc... I started enjoying the LAB admin work. I actually have fallen in love with the LAB.. though it would probably never reach as much as Hash's love for LAb :P. Another reason I love the lab os the fact that we do not have NEt in the morning in hostel.. yea! only for girls :(.from 8-2 p.m. We hav complained to everyone possible.. written petitions, verbally complained what not!...but all in vain :(
On the personal front... past few months have been quite a struggle.. trying to get over an addiction... movie addiction.I sit in front of the computer for more than 5 minutes.. and LO! switch on lansurfer and see as many movies as possible.. till i finally get a headache.
Coming to college, life is just the same.Class is the same. Though we hardly ever meet our classmates much thanks to different electives and just one core subject.Some of us actually have fridays off since electives are in a such a way that 1 and 1/2 hour each in 2 days a week rather than 3 hours a week. So that makes it a 3 day holiday in a week!Thankfully I don't have it that way..i say thankfully coz seriously after a few weeks.. i bet it would start gettin boring.. plus 1 and 1/2 hr continously is too much.I slept through my first ever 1 and 1/2 hour class, thanks to the timing in the afternoon...We might hopefully go on some trip this semester considering that we are probably the only branch in 4th yr who have never ever gone on a trip.. excluding of course what we call the "bangalore trip" :).