Friday

My First year in NITT.....!!



AIEEE result came as much of a surprise to me when i found that i've ended up with sumthing much better than wht i had expected in my worst nightmares..!!
A Gateway Straight into one of the top engg. colleges of the country...!!... An opportunity to study among the breed of some of the best brains of the country...
Although i regretted about not getting into the IITs...
but still... With all this on mah my mind, i took admission in NIT trichy, Mechanical Engg (which soon slided to Elec. n Elex. engg.).... but who knew... what more surprises fate had for me...
Going to the college.... was the very first time i travelled in train for complete 2 days!!
Initially, coming to this tambiland seemed no less than coming to some terrible place in Africa!!... BUT i was mist
aking somewhr...
With people speaking tamil, i felt no more than an illiterate...!!
Then was the first day of colle
ge... class at 10 a.m. I reached the class 10 mins. before the time (for the first and the last time) jus not to take any risks on the very first day.
but for the very second lecture.. the teacher was absent..!!... 'what a college!!' i thought...
Anyways... it all got over...
A very good thing over here was finding new frends all ranging from "Kashmir to Kanyakumari.."!! in a single hostel... Its a great opportunity to learn about different cultures and diff. ppl...!!

There were ppl coming from the some unknown villages of rajasthan with Awesome AIEEE ranks to ppl frm Metro cities like delhi
and bombay...and many Tambis from chennai...

The best experience was t
o come around with NRIs... The simple way to distinguish them was, a guy speaking every sentence starting with that 'f' word... seemed surprising initially but very soon we all got accustomed. ..

With 4 roomates, you could hardly think of anything like home-sickness...
Infact i was scolded by mom many a times for forgetting to call her, with such a busy schedule in first year... [ hey!! i donn mean studies... ;).. they are hardly a part of daily schedule..!! except for ppl better known as 'muggers'..]

Waking up at 8.15 and then runnin
g out to get the attendance for 8.30 class, soon became a normal thing... for guys who woke up in the nite till 4....
And then too... thrown out off the class many a times for coming tooooooooooooo late... (or better called by the teacher as "coming too early for the next lecture.. :D.." )....
And then begging someone inside... to give a proxy... thanks to sunil for giving me so many valuable proxies... and saving me...!!!! [:-D]

The worst part was, being thrown out... after being caught sleeping in the class... :-(...
i still imagine how others were able to keep their eyes open in those CHAAT, and DEADLY lects... !
But still somehow managing all this to maintain the minimum attendance required was the "Main Aim".
{the pic shows my first year classmates}
Washing clothes and many such things were first timers for many guys here....(Thanx to mom!! for teaching me all these things at the home itself... )...

Apart from all these, were interaction parties specially for first years... where you get to meet, "maals of first year..."... ;)...
But beware if its your b'day.... and be ready to get your ass f****d up... with those Hard bumps as the BEST b'day gift @ midnight.....

Then came the Fir
st cycle tests... alongwith "niteouts" (waking up almost the whole nite either to comple ED assignments or to mug up for tests)... to somehow complete.... the vast syallabus... and still ending up with... most of it left untouched... :-S...
Time passed very fast except during xams...

well, I am not going to write here anything bout the results .. :D.. for obvious reasons... ;-)

The end sems brought happiness (about going home on holidays) "magneticallly coupled" with some bad memories of life... about the xams ofcourse...
But, after that, going home for 15 days semester break... was fultoo fun time at home... :-)
The second sem. passed very soon... but with much more fun and enjoyment... and with events like Pragyan (college's tech fest) and NITTFEST (inter - deptt. fest) it is the time when you really get to know the big difference in colllege and school life...!!
And "Section Dhamaka" (inter-section cultz n litz event for 1st yrs.), awakening that competitive spirit in all of us..... I still remember the enthu we all had for preparations and when my dance partner got irritated with my idiotic dance steps... :-D... But still somehow she taught me... and we ended up with a much better performance than i could expect...
And yea... how can i forget the freshers party... and even FTR (final touch of raggin... )... !!

The life after freshy was damn cool... much more than we could think of
..
catching seniors for treats and getting fundas from them was gr8...

Then came farewell for Final years... with their senti emotions about coll
ege and their 4 years in NITT...
Now "niteout" in octa (Octagon computer centre of coll.) was also added to 'its definition', sitting in AC while orkutting and doing some other stupid things on net... It soon became the "real home" for many guys...

First year life is something i can never forget... never... :-)

Monday

Sometimes i think.... Really Weird !!!

Today me and mah 3 more frends went to the temple. When i was parking my cycle one of them said... "why r u locking it? atleast dont lock when v r in temple. Atleast you must have this much trust in god.!!" Then suddenly another guy said, "ofcourse we can trust god, but we cant trust people". as nowadays even keeping your shoes outside is not so safe...

I was jus listening to them and thinking... who's more correct?
ofcourse both have their own point of view... and none of them may be said wrong...
but... if you see it...

The perspective of first one was if you believe in god , you must believe in all things god has made... and humans are one of them.. And those who will come to temple wont do anything cheap like this... atleast in front of god....
coz even if a person is scared of nothing, he is scared of God. (coz wht we r taught since your childhood days.. is to beware of GOD... coz he is the almighty....)

The other guy's perspective (more practical one)....... ofcourse you must believe in god but, god doesnt say to make mistakes by being careless and afterwards blaiming god for the consequences...

But i am confused which view is correct?
Well, I myself dont believe in god (but yea...they both do). And I go to temple just because i find it a very peaceful place (and yea also coz it just makes my mom happy).
But one thing i know is that Belief is something which is made on belief... if you believe someone ... then only he may believe in you...
But, why do we always forg8 the first part...??
why dont we... take the risk to believe others....?? But expect them to....
why do we?

If people can believe in god, whom they have not even seen ever... then why not in someone you are living with?
why?? why cant we believe in humans only?? And if you dont... then why should i believe you?? huummm...!!??

if you can help out.... plss tell me ...? cozzz i still cant find a conclusion...

Time of writing - 1 A.M.. (past midnight... so pls dont mind... if this is going above head.. or seem like something stupid....)

yahoo mail beta

hey guys...
jus thought i must share this over here... (not doin any publicity for yahoo ofcourse... )
yahoo has launched its yahoo mail beta, (since a long time now... )...
but many of us are still unaware of it...
Its really awesome... and very user friendly. It makes reading emails much easier and " faster" than our normal yahoo mail.
so to all those who haven't tried out yet... i recommend them to try this once.. n im sure u'll love it.

and one more mostly unknown feature is that... you can have "one more yahoo id" for the same account you are using currently... i.e. like whether you mail me at bhuvan_imcool@yahoo.com or bhuvan.gupta@yahoo.com i will get the mail to the same inbox which is registered as bhuvan_imcool@yahoo.com...

to try out both this things... go to the link below...
http://whatsnew.mail.yahoo.com/

keep yourself updated...
bhu1 :)

Sunday

some important websites

many ppl keep asking me about website for this and website for that...
so i m posting here some important links... may be u are jus looking for one of these....
so here it goes..

for downloading music - www.coolgoose.com

for CAT aspirants, forum - www.pagalguy.com
CAT clearant's experiences

for listening music online
- hindi- www.raaga.com
- english (listen to launchcast radio) - music.yahoo.com

for using yahoo , msn etc. msngrs - meebo.com

for coolest videos online - youtube.com

will add some more useful links here... till then bbye...

tell me how you find this... give comments...

Wednesday

yercaud trip



Yercaud is a beautiful hill station near Salem ,Tamil Nadu(India). It is at an altitude of 1,500 metres (4,920 feet) from mean sea level. The town gets its name from the lake located at its center - in Tamil "Yeri" means "lake" and "Kaadu" means "forest".
Its not so known hill station ... but that is w
hat makes it great for peace lovers. Its not so commercialised and so theres much of naturality and beauty than other hill stations.
we were 6 guys in a desparate need for fun jus after finishing our mid- Exams... we guys started at 4 a.m. (crazy!!) from our college and we reached salem by 10.30....
from salem frequent buses are available to yercaud at i
nterval of every 1 hour... so its not a problem once u reach salem. we started from salem by 11.. after jus 15-20 mins. the real journey started. we were now going uphill in the bus and this is really one of best parts i feel when u go to a hill station... the scenery outside was awesome.. yea but for this you must sit on the left side seats of bus, otherwise you will miss most of this part and end up looking only at the mountain walls.
i took couple of snapshots with the cellphone cam.
Finally we reached the bus stand of yercaud after 1 hr. journey.

Then there is problem is of stay!!
wch hotel to choose...??
there are very few hotels here, yeah but mostly no problem of accomodation as theres not much of rush over here. But still if you dont want to take any risk then better contact some hotel and make the bookings be4 u go.

we hadnt had any luggage wid us apart from two small bags for 6 guys so we were in no need of any hotel xcept jus for relaxation purposes....
so we all took one room for 2 hrs. @rs.150... after a good bargain.
Then finally we started for wht we came here for....
wht??
enjoyment ofcourse...!!

initially we started towards the lake, its the nearest place to visit from bus stand. In the way we looked for a good restaurant hotel as all of us were feeling damn hungry.
but one problem is that you cannot find much of north indian food
in here. There are jus 2 big hotels and the food is very expensive there.. so its better to take south indian meals if you are pocket concious... ;)...
after meals we were now ready to get set and go...
we went to lake..
There are taxis available (also frm the bus stand) wch will take you to all the places to visit @ rs.450 but you can bargain to bring them down, we hired one for rs.330...

Its better to hire a taxi bcoz most of the places are far away and theres no other ways of transportation. (u cant expect city bus etc. at a hill station ofcourse!!).. Also this guys are good guides so feel relaxed once you get in... :-) ...

we all got into the Omni ...
me n gaurav took the back seat and asked him to open the back door... its the best way to enjoy ur trip if u are a crazy mind (like us :-D) !!!
First we went to Servarayan temple. It is one of the farthest places but also one of the best ones...
it gives u a very sexy look of the green hills
around...
Then he took us back to Pagoda point wc
h is on the other side of lake ...
but wait..!!!
in the way we were stopped by a jam, due to the accident of a truck (look at the picture). People were trying to get the truck up with the help of crane. They had almost got it but then they silly lost the grip and it was ditched
back...
we thought to go ahead as we hadnt had much time.
we reached pagoda point.
And tell u, its a damn good place...
one of the sexiest place i've ever been to..!
i liked this one the most...
one more important place is rose garden,
theres so much to roam around and look at the maintained natural beauty.. a good one.


but as soon as we got out of the rose garden, it started raining. wht more you can expect to make your trip better!!
If you come to a place like this and it doesnt rain, then dude!! you've got a bad luck... :-)...(yeah but hope your luck is not even so good to get the rains, enough to spoil the whole trip ... ;).. lols..).

Then, you'll be taken to some small but good places like ladies seat, children's seat and gents seat... (they guys cudnt find any better names to this places so kept those sick names ... as it has nothing to do with whether u r a male or female !.. they are just places to get a good sight of beautiful greeny hills...)...

but yeah.... rain washed away our plans of boating in the lake..
. :-(...
Then it was already 6.30 pm and most of the guys wanted to watch the new released hindi movie in salem [as we dont get to watch it in trichy theatres, all playing tamil versions.. :-( ].
so we caught a bus back to salem.
In salem 4 of us(sunil, nikunj , avinash n gaurav) went for the latest released movie. Whereas me n abhishek decided to come back to college as i was really feeling drowsy with no sleep for almost last 30 hrs and still to complete mah practical records for submission the next day... :-(....
we both had a good dinner there, in a restaurant.
And then started our way back to "The most weird place on The Planet, our college... NITT "... :-D...
It was a memorable trip and all of us enjoyed it to the max.... :-)..


you can find more details about yercaud at the website
www.yercaud.com

started..!!

hi ppl,
i jus started blogging.. :)