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Sunday, May 09, 2010

What Not To Do at BRECW : Confessions of a final year B.Tech Graduate

Declaimers

What ever I write below is sourly applicable to my college fellow mates and in specific to Computer Science and Engineering branch.This is work of pure fiction which happened in my thoughts and may be yours.Any resemblance to BRECW'S teaching and non-teaching staff is purely coincidental. I do not take any responsibility as it highly reflects my memories and I am quiet forgetful by nature. This article is not recommended for candidates who attain classes regularly to college and take notes in books but not micro papers. It is also not applicable for candidates who have exam or last minute submits regarding records,assignments or bunking their classes but instead wasting their time on reading my article. You are requested to exit this window if your are facing social hazard problems,computer illiterates or having fear of attendance shortage even after having 90% attendance. I strongly recommend you to attend your classes and top JNTU. Finally , this article is not recommended for intimates, ingrates or anyone professing an irrational fear of cats or any other mammal, those who have a penchant for time wasting, illiterates and lawyers. Eating before reading may result in unhealthy indigestion.Not recommended for people over the age of 120.

What Not to do at BRECW:

Never enter the college in "walk-out" or "Drive-out" phase.Breaking of this rule leads to ear blowing whistles and stick directions to get into the college.
Never enter college without ID card.If this rule is broken you are either sent back home with a hope that you will return.
Mostly you wear your friend's ID card and manage to enter college.
Do prefer staircase while going into the class and lift while going out of college.[Would you care if you are late for class?]
You tell proxy to couple of friends and forget your own attendance very often.
The first thing you ask your friends before exam is "whats today's date" / "Do you have a pen?"
You start reading only a couple of minutes before the exam with help of your friends.
You are mostly found roaming in corridors during classes but in lunch/breakfast you sit in class playing UNO, Spin-the-bottle etc.
You do your records,assignments just before the submission time with a lot of combined effort from friends.This is also done mostly during classes.
The number of books you carry with you is highly proportional to the year you are present and this has nothing to do with the faculty or subjects.
You always go in groups to your H.O.D when you have problems to resolve but always hide among your friends and pretend you got nothing to do with it.
You drink water from aqua-guard even though if its flavored with insects.
Mostly you pick easily fooled person as your CR.
You will be the first to exit college but last to enter college.
The only reason you may violate the above rule is when you have a fear of sitting in first bench so you make sure to come early to occupy last bench.
Before exam you spend maximum time in counting number of pages or SMSing with friends.
You are not caught in class when you chat in first bench but you are caught when you yawn in last bench.
You find reasons to come to college but, when you reach, you will be the first to bunk college.
You get screwed up if your lecturer didn't give you the marks you expected even when you know that all you wrote is crap.
You always kid around or play spider solitaire during labs but, in last minute you execute the already executed program and be proud of it.
Unity is quiet common among your friends when it comes to helping before and during exams and mass bunks.
You prefer bakery food or any other available to canteen food.
The only time you come to canteen is when you couldn't manage to get movie tickets.
You believe that a lot can be learnt from web than books so you are found mostly in web labs than library.
The only time you are in library is to return the books of yours friends whose submission date is often forgotten or elapsed or for magazines and news papers for fun.
You manage to smile at your lecturers even when you hate them because you want to have a good impression.
You hate people who compare your class section to a counter section.
You often find empty benches in your class.You feel extremely happy when you find your class to be full but get pissed off when your lecturers appreciate for the same.
You always feel proud that your class mates are better when compared with your counter section.Even when it got nothing to do with your effort.
The first thing you do when you reach home is to call or chat with friends even when you spend the whole day taking and gossiping with then at college.
The most common topic while travelling home with friends will be about lecturers or common enemies.
You always go in circles for the answer during viva and the source will be from the question asked.
You manage to write assignments, records and have fun in a half hour break allotted.
You chat or play bingo etc during class but you concentrate on each and every word of the lecture only when she/he is giving you important questions.
You always take leave for a couple of days before and after holiday(s).
You know every short path in the college. But you manage to take the longest one while visiting the staff rooms.
The only time you really like to go to staff rooms is when you need attendance or marks.
You manage to shop well before the Freshers/Farewell dates are around but still complain that you do not have any.
You are thrilled about your feasts but they either get postponed or cancelled.
The only thing you like about your college is gardening but-you are not allowed to sit and enjoy.
The only time you take a look at notice board is when you have circulars regarding holidays and attendance.
You relate every point above to your memory and smile. You feel bad that you are missing your college.
The ultimate reaction to the above is.. "antha seen ledu","chall hut","tokka le" etc. even when you are feeling the same.

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Friday, May 07, 2010

A SMS in my Inbox

Were you ever in a gloomy mood?? The reason was because your lecturer was angry with you?? Did you wish you could tell him sorry but did not have any courage?

Well it mid of May in 2007 I remember it too well because It was the day when Mr Naresh asked my friend Jyo and me to help him out with stuff. He directly gave us the answers scripts and said "Correct this answer scripts for me". We were glad and helped him ,but due to some miss fortunate stuff were were asked to get back. I figured he sensed that we were up to some mischief.

Days passes all was going fine. Well I thought all was going fine. It was hot summer April and time to submit our project documents.We should submit our documentation by 4.30 pm and like any final year B.tech students we arrived exactly at 4.30 pm. He checked our documents and asked if any thing was missing. My heart skipped a bit. The fact was a lot was missing.We managed a lot of levels from our internal guide too. We also learnt that escaping Head of Dept.., was easy then Mr.Naresh.

He shouted on us and spoke few words but gave enough time to recover from our shock. We were asked to copy the whole thing in a compact disk and submit. We thought we managed with the project at least now.We submitted and empty CD with few things which we thought were needed like a "Walk to Remember" movie.

Frustrated I went home. I was in off mood. I called my friends. I don't know what went wrong. I still feel it was because my friends did not receive my call I directly wrote a lengthy SMS and send it to sir.

I was bitting my fingers when I realised what I have done. Like my whole project was in his hands and some subject marks too. My blood was boiling. I let a huge sigh of relief when my friend called me. I managed to stay under control and explained her what I did.

Her reaction was unexpected!!! She was laughing and took her time to say "Chill kaar yaar its Naresh sir naah..thats the only reason you dared to do such a thing naah??"I still couldn't take it. I felt some thing will happen when I get back to college tomorrow. I think God heard me and there was a SMS in my inbox.

It read

Frustration lo undi alla annanu. Do not take it inside.

m sorry.

Please forgive me ckD :)

I was shocked!

Back in college when I showed this message to my friend ,we literally cracked ourselves up!! When we met Mr.Naresh, we just exchanged few smiles.People thought we went mad when we were rolling on floor and laughing to the core.

I always think we should be lucky enough to get those days back

I can still hear her saying "You will remember this incident and laugh like hell"

Oh well I do agree!! ^_^

[Note: The guy in the picture may not look like Mr.Naresh but he is equally cool!!! ]

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Thursday, May 06, 2010

A Farewell video:Journey Of Unforgeable memories [The Making]

There was one once when I truly thought to make a small documentary for my fellow mates.The idea struck to me during second year of my b.tech life.I would like to pen down all the memories I needed to face during the making of video.

I want to tell you the truth that there were many difficulties I faced while making this video. I need to first over come my ego and laziness.Though the thoughts seem too small collecting all the pictures were not difficult at all.It was then I realized that my friends were very cooperative.Its like you cant see this group effort in CSE-B section at all ;)

I wanted to relate what I have learnt all these years to people around me.Based on that I allocated titles.I took a lot of help from picasa in doing the editing part. It was strange to me that all people appreciated my wok but none took the credit.I felt weird about it a couple of moments though.It was nice that a couple of students at my college talk to me using this video as a mediator.

I had my times when I enjoyed ,got bored and was excited.I still remember the best part was playing this video in our college during a lecture's class. We convened Mr.Naresh to play this video during his class.He was one of those persons who was jovial and friendly. I personally feel he was way to excited to watch the documentary too.

There were curious and anxious faces in my class as the concept was new to every one.Girls were way to excited but it was only then we came to know our college Desktop doesn't have sound drivers.A couple of girls rushed to their hostlers to get their laptop and fix it.But all wanted to see that on a big projector.Computer operator Mr Sai was helpful enough to let us borrow their projector screen.While the movie was played they were laughing and were happy to see their daily college on screen.Being a girl's college the news spread very fast and all came to know about my work.

Like I proud maker I say the making was the fun part apart from playing as usual.

But I provided the link here so you can enjoy too!!

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Missing Droplets

Some one has rightly said -It takes only a minute to say Hello but Forever to say good bye.This picture has twelve girls who made my life colorful rite from 11 ,16 , 23 to 29, 35,45,51,20,50.

Gone are those days when we were happy and laughed at something stupid over stupid things.Gone are those days when we said Bye but hoped that we will meet next day to attend the boring lectures.

The joyful moments and stomach aching laughters. I still can remember the day I joined this college with some hope that I can make friends and now when I look back I feel it's hard to accept that it's already time to say goodbye.

Dreams might remain incomplete but friend fly too far to reach.

I realized that time just passed away when a friend of mine gave her slam book to be filled with moist eyes.Some how I felt I could read her mind...No mater how busy we are in life we made a promise to stay in contact, But deep down we know that they are not the same any more.

A farewell poem to all my friends.....

The hardest part of any friendship is when it is time to say goodbye,

and even though I wished I could make you stay,

I know I got to let you spread your wings and fly.

For life is a journey that needs to be traveled

and I am certain you'd make it through,

I just want you to know and never forget that I will surely miss you.

So follow your heart and never give up,

as dreams and wishes do come true,

for I know that someday we'll meet again,

so never forget I will be praying for you.

The missing droplets can never come back to you again.

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Tuesday, May 04, 2010

Return of Hitler : A HOD story

All my life it was just me and my dreams and the days went ticking by.." This is one of the rarest song which pops to my head when I think about dreams.I am usually a dreamy girl who dreams day and night.

That day too I was dreaming during class. We all learnt that it was OK to dream during class especially if that class was taken by Mr. Ravinder Reddy. He is our Head of Dept.., and the way he took his classes were always boring as his subjects were dry.We used to hate his classes but were forced to attend them as many had shortage of attendance.

By and By we became more familiar with his way of teachings and know whom he would target. He used to always make the less confident and sleepy people in class to answer his questions.I used to always escape because I mastered the technique of sleeping in class with my eyes wide open and the girl ahead of me was quiet tall to cover the so called "diagonal" view.

I think it was his rule to make every one dissatisfied with life that day I was his target.I was really unhappy, obviously you cant expect me to answer his all questions but answered most of them because my friends were helping me behind his back.Unfortunately he came to know that and my ultimate punishment was to read and explain the whole lesson in next class ,that was after lunch!

I had one hour and decided to escape. We have to give a power point presentation and refer to slides to explain the stuff. With a little help from my friends we switched off the generator but out of luck as my HOD asked me to teach using black board.

Already feeling unprofessional I started to teach something as I was not prepared.

The lesson became hilarious as I created my own stuff and my HOD pointed out my mistakes.Some how I wanted to get out of the whole thing. I felt I was doomed in life .I started hating him and curses were put in an infinite loop in C program.

But now I feel , I over looked the whole thing.Yes it is common to scold and laugh when you come to know that he wear's a wig. I realized that it was OK to scold him because he was irritated enough when we did monkey business. I just learnt that he had his way with students and yes the day I realized was when, he actually beard the whole expenses for a student who met with an accident. It was not normal to do so.

I sometimes ask myself - Did he really change? He is way too good with all the student now.May be he wants to hide the truth from others that he wears a wig! Or may be he is some one like professor Snape in Harry Potter who wants the principal seat and now he got it so he is acting good.

I think he is an unimportant alien who fell on Earth after being kicked out from planet Aurora of Issac Asimov's world.Yes he is an out worlders!

I cant study in the college were an alien exists.Either he must leave or I.

So I am leaving this college in couple of days more. uffff!

[Note: My HOD doesn't look like the guy in picture.]

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A Note to note

It was my last exam back in 06' when I was at school still thinking about what to do in life after completing school.

I was walking along the road kicking the fresh mud and something stuck to my shoe.At first I thought it to be dirt but it was an old ten rupee note which was inky on one side.My old school was wise enough to pour some wisdom and taught me to return the money.But deep down , my heart said to use it.

Just when I didn't know what to do with this new money I found ,a boy came by.I didn't look back and asked the boy if he has lost his money.He took the note studied it for a while and said "Well Miss I do have good memory. I wouldn't write such things on Indian currency" and left.

When I turned the note I noticed that inky stuff was a list of groceries noted by some one who didn't want to forget about it.

I decided to go home and my tiny brain had exiting plans about how I should spend my money while my Heart still was saying some funny stuff which I ignored completely.I mean why bother about someone who was careless. God wanted to me to have that money and buy an ice cream rite??!

Taking a big sigh I opened my door when I heard my mom shouted "Again?? How can you forget this time?Do you expect me to cook food with mud and air??" and my Dad replied "Honey sorry! I didn't mean too.I even wrote down the things ,I must have missed it somehow..."

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Monday, May 03, 2010

What fingers can do??

Do you remember the day when you were little and you cried for a candy??Your dad used to cheer you up by keeping faces to his fingers... and you smile just for that simple trick?

Oh well the other that when i was browsing i found some pictures that sure made my smile wide and i am sure it will make yours too...Have fun...