May 2007
11 posts
Kaapi.
Yesterday, we had our second Yofa meet in Bangalore & the meet went on for a marathon 4 hours over 3 rounds of kaapi… Amazing levels of energy… & a wave of new, brilliant ideas…
The power of Kaapi! Cheers!
“We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two....”
– Spotted in some old CAT preparatory material…
(N. Rose, Mathematical Maxims and Minims)
A lesson on Adaptability?!
Talk about Bangalore and traffic jams! A 20 minute ride took me more than an hour… Phew.. And my cousins tell me that I just got lucky!
While you are stuck in the jam sulking, you begin to understand why Aziz Premji had been vocal about moving his work out of Bangalore… to ensure that his “employees aren’t sitting in traffic when they should be in the office.”
And...
Idea.
You burnt nights working on an idea. You pushed your limits. You were running out of time and energy (and… more importantly, grades). Yet, you tried to keep the momentum going. Things got tougher and more chaotic. You slipped couple of times. Choices had to be made. You risked a whole lot of things. You knew that there was no turning back now… It seemed as if this was all that you ever...
The End.
15 minutes to go for my final CDC exam - Analog & Digital VLSI Design… and that makes me an Electrical & Electronics Engineer from BITS Pilani… Interesting… 8 courses… 1 year… zillion tuts & tests & countless zuks… And here I am.. EEE graduate!
So how do I feel about it… A bit cheated that EEE courses could never figure in my priority...
“There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want.”
– - Moral of the semester [3-2, EEE, BITS - Pilani]
(Courtesy: Calvin & Hobbes)
45 deg. Pilani. Yoga time.
Here’s a tip from WikiHow on how to survive the scorching heat…
“Try the yoga practice of shitali pranayama. Sit down cross legged and take a few deep breaths, inhaling and exhaling slowly. Roll your tongue into a tube with the tip outside the mouth. Continuing slow deep breath, breathe in through the tube and then move your chin to your chest as you breath out through your...
“The probability of me ducking in time and actually avoiding a punch depends on...”
– A Game Theorist
The Game.
The game begins. A pair of boxing gloves and a guard to protect your privates (… no permanent damage, they insist!). The opponent is 10x times your size and you know for sure that he can clobber you to death. Almost. He likes to take his time. He wants to keep the audience entertained for all of 10 rounds.
You try telling him that you are more of a ‘chess’ person. He just...