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The Missile Man

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I was hoping someday I could attend one of his lectures and question answer sessions and finally my hope turned into realtiy and all due to the summer vacations at my college. Bemused?? Well actually Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam, the missile man of India visited our city on a 2 day tour here on the 24th of June 2009, and he was to address a gathering of around 500 students of different schools and colleges of the city. Since we were having the summer vacations so only the Ranchi guys could come and luckily I am one of them!!!

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Dr. Kalam , as I had heard and read has a real simple demeanor and way of talking. His interaction with the students with the well timed jokes and several pledges made the address just fly by…I liked the way he objectivized the various ways of achieving what we want in our life and to contribute to the society…the splendid concept of succeeding with integrity was a real food for the thought. The best thing that I remember from the address is, the four things that we need to avhieve anything in life:

  • Having an aim in life
  • Gathering knowledge to achieve it…making friends with good books
  • Working Hard to achieve it
  • Perseverance…never be defeated by failure

The most important thing that I noticed was…well to be truthful I and so many others in my college lost the will to listen to other people…be it classes or the guest lectures by the imminent guests during our college fests…I just could not bear to listen after the passage of a mere 10 minutes…and today I listened on to Dr. Kalam for over an hour and even repeated some of the things he said and requested all of us to repeat with him (which I am sure I would not have if I were attending some other guest lecture!)…Man he has some charisma…certainly he’s the missile man of India…a real pioneer!



Confessions!

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Well its again a pretty long time since I blogged and this is becoming a habit, a bad bad habit. I have become lazy, I agree and apart from that whatever free time I get these days, I spend it on DOTA. Now that I think of it, I have been wasting even my study hours on this stupid computerised running around with a sword in the hand looking for fellow heroes to kill or rather PWN!

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I mean there is a lot to life apart from DOTA, and that is the truth that no Jazbaman can deny! I even have tried my hands (rather legs) on football and you know what the amount of physical exercise it gives makes me feel light (though I am a heavy dude!) and even makes me feel DOTA repellant. Finally, I have found an antidote I guess!

Now, coming back to the original problem of laziness, I have tried to blog not once more than ten times lst week, failing each time due to DOTA, a kinda Writers Block, Naruto etc.

Its time now that I come back strong and hard on to the field of blogging! Believe it!

The “joys” of late night studies!

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First of all no one (abolutely) loves to have a late night session of studies, but there is little option to us engineering students, who have time for everything else but studies during the daytime!!

So, the joys of late night studies eh? Well the most important thing that comes to my mind is the peace and tranquility that around you during the late hours of night. Yeah people may argue that even early morning has the same advantage, but I would say that early morning has one major distraction : Light 😉 and the birds’s chirping! Moreover sometimes early morning is really chilly to wake up to!

Other joys, well you are absolutely without any disturbance from peers, friends and that damn mobile phone of yours. For me, this becomes a major factor. Again, you have the freedom to listen to music (anything you want) though its better if you do keep the volume down for the sake of others!

Well joy kept apart, it becomes a necessity just the night before the exams. Its the time of intense pressure, and the pressure plus the darkness of night add to the understanding to the subject or atleast grant you some power of concentration and cramming!!

So go ahead, and enjoy your late night slog!

EEhaaa!

Long Time No See!!

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It has been a long time since I last posted something here. The  good thing is that I can blame it on so many things like the shi**y internet connection out at our hostel, or that the mid-sems this time went on for more than  a fortnight or that just after the mid-sems came TechnIEEk 2008 that made me so busy that I had barely enough time to look at my room! But dont worry am back now!

Yeah, long time no see, so lets update a bit!

First up were the mid-sems. They weren’t the only thing that troubled me at that time rather they were the lesser ones. The serial bomb-blasts at Bengaluru, then Ahmedabad and then Delhi happened and left the country shocked! I mean what the hell these Indian Mujahiddeen as they call themselves want? Killing innocent people as if they are swatting flies, who gave them this liberty? What the hell is the government doing?

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Then came TechnIEEk which made me realise the meaning of responsibility in a yet another level and even taught me a lot of things. As for example, it indeed told me how to reach the press and get things done in an efficient manner. Moreover, it got me one friend while it cost me another. Ha! I saw myself in a new light, one in which I never imagined myself to be! I simply loved it!

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But the light of TechnIEEk was accompanied with the sudden crashes of big-shot companies and the stock-markets worldwide. I don’t know much about this subject, but all I know is that the top investment-banks invested too much in the housing sector without giving it much of a thought, and the result was their bankruptcy. Houses made of hundreds of thousands of dollars are not being able to be sold off at a few thousand. Its a mess, the world economy at this time. I know its bad, but I couldn’t care less, I don’t know why!!

EEE Rocks!!!!

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Sometimes even amidst a desert u find reservoirs full of water, even amidst lots of sadness and sorrow you find reasons to laugh out loud. The trip to Patratu (on 30.08.2008) was such a thing only in an otherwise quite so unflattering semester as yet.

It was an educational tour cum picnic for the EEE people from 2k5, 2k6 and 2k7 batches. We visited the PTPS i.e. the Patratu Thermal Power Station whic h has a capacity of 840MW though due to shortage of fuel and high scale power theft prevalent in Jharkhand, all the power plant produces is around 275 to 300 MW and that too after incurring heavy losses! But the whole power plant as such was a good experience to us. It gave us a practical insight on how power is actually generated. But the biggest impact was that we people finally saw throught the sheen of the huge packages that the power companies offer to us during the placements, as the whole power generation things costs the engineers heavily. Firstly, the incessant high decibel noises going on inside the power plant is sure to leave people deaf in some years, and then come the flurry of different problems that arise due to coal powder viz. skin diseases, bronchiitis etc.

The tour ended on a very very high note after the lunch in Madhuban Dhaba. It was not just food out there but pure fun too. We all danced out there like anything. There were few boundaries , but still on the whole nothing was there to prevent us from enjoying the whole of the party. The whole dancing and singing thing went on for more than a couple of hours. The food was so-so and the arrangement a bit lax but still the whole enjoyment came from this laxity only!!

The best part of this trip or for that matter any trip is the memories that they weave in the complex walls of our minds. One thing is for sure, that the bond between the EEEians is gonna be stronger from now on. Even the large gap between the boys and the girls has started to heal after this and this sure is going to be the best thing that happens to our class!

EEE Rocks!