My Mechanical Engg course, Cricket n Time pass
Well, GRE material seems to be having the better of my bed! With so much material, I hardly had place to sleep…
PS: This image is just an indication of the mess that I am making and not of the amount of study I am doing for the GRE
Well, I am a dilettante in the true sense of the word. Though I
have been a good drawer I have been never been able to paint
well, I do draw on bits of paper sometimes. And yes I did manage
to clear elementary level drawing exam!
This time I have finished drawing what my friend had started and
it came out really well. I really liked it!
Can u guess the things drawn by two different people?!
And yes, Drawing Analysts are welcome to analyse!
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Well, I have never been much of a poet myself though many of my friends have come with their brilliant pieces. The reason for this I believe, lies in the type of poems I like i.e. ones with a good rhyme scheme. This poem here will be in contention for the universes worst poetry ever and will warrant a revision of the entry for the same in a future edition of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy which would normally run as:
“Vogon poetry is of course the third worst in the Universe.
The second worst is that of the Azagoths of Kria. During a recitation by their Poet Master Grunthos the Flatulent of his poem “Ode To A Small Lump of Green Putty I Found In My Armpit One Midsummer Morning” four of his audience died of internal haemorrhaging, and the President of the Mid-Galactic Arts Nobbling Council survived by gnawing one of his own legs off. Grunthos is reported to have been “disappointed” by the poem’s reception, and was about to embark on a reading of his twelve book epic entitled “My Favourite Bathtime Gurgles” when his own major intestine, in a desperate attempt to save life and civilization, leapt straight up through his neck and throttled his brain.
The very worst poetry of all perished along with its creator Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings of Greenbridge, Essex, England in the destruction …”
So here goes nothing:
Awake at 3oclock in the morning,
Coz something stupid went into my eye.
And this line is just here coz,
I found a rhyming word in ‘why’.
Rhyming words are what I never seem to have,
So I will put in “Bye, Bye Miss American Pie”
And because I love reading Agatha Christie,
I will put in “A pocketful of Rye”.
So, on this fateful and sleepless night,
as GRE words doing am I,
But Yoda would say “GRE words doing I am”
How did I think about him and I wonder why?
Was it then a coincidence yesterday,
that I should come across a lullaby,
Written by an Android, Paranoid he may be.
‘&’ that I heard “Zaphod just this guy…?
Was it also a coincidence then,
That I came across a pie chart of pie?
Or that I could answer a quiz question,
Concerning both Isaac Asimov and Helen of Troy?
Now as I look out of the window,
Into the not so dark and not so starry sky,
Never have I thought so many rhyming words,
How did I think about them and I wonder why?
Doesn’t any poet find rhyming words difficult,
Or to everyone do they easily come by?
And do they have choice to make,
Whether to rhyme with “bee” or with “buy”?
And perhaps I am inspired to write this,
After reading the blog of this limerick loving guy,
And/or after reading this short poem by another friend,
Who gave a lecture, which introduced me to the cricketer CB Fry.
Rhyming words I have thought of many,
They include dry, my, cry, try, die, lie, even fungi and rabbi,
How to put them into lines,
I will think, till then BBYE!
Now I will put down my pen,
The magnum opus complete and the mind rested.
I don’t think I will write again soon,
Till I have so much time to be invested.
The latest BO news is that Tashan (brilliant review here) has turned out to be a super-duper flop. Not that I expected otherwise. A friend of mine who actually saw the movie the day his exams got over, was ruing the fact that he wasted 3 hours of his life. “Its a dud movie from start to end, not even good in parts”, he remarked. And yesterday itself the brilliant Tickr on MTV decided to take on Tashan. It begins as always with:
THIS IS IN FOND MEMORY OF TASHAN
And so on… For latest tickers keep watching MTV
For the Tickr on U, Me and Hum click here
Megs actually thought it was going to work.
Yes, I finally got my real first opportunity to watch a cricket match live. The occasion was the IPL clash between the Mumbai Indians and the Deccan Chargers at the newly constructed D.Y. Patil Stadium at Nerul, Mumbai. Aditya, Abhishek, Gadre and Ashwin were with me to enjoy the match.
The tickets were booked at an outlet. Ironically, thought the tagline of the company to whom the distribution was assigned was ‘Jump the Queue’, we still had to stand in queue to get the actual tickets in hand! Earlier, like in a typical bureaucratic organisation, we had been asked to travel from one gate to another, bearing signs of “Tickets SOULD out.” Finally, we found the tickets being given at what seemed like a watchman’s cabin. Of course, there were no board there…
We had time to kill, so we wandered around a mall near vashi. After having a hearty meal, we came back to the stadium.
The DY Patil stadium just near the university of the same name, is a real class act. Its unique cantilever design has no columns in between the spectators and the action. It boasts of a seating capacity near to 60000. The seats too were comfortable and to my surprise, numbered. A glass media centre looks down the pitch at one end, while the pavilion at the other. The architecture of the entrance is also good. We were in the second tier, looking sideways on the pitch. In hindsight, it turned out to be a good choice. We were relatively close to the action and we enjoyed overs being bowled from either sides equally. Also, we could gauge the height to which the bole frequently rose to, which was not possible from the lower tier due to a small projecting roof overhead. The Mumbai cheerleaders were right in front of us, so we did not mind staying far from them!
Coming to the stadium, the first thing that strikes you is the scene. As we emerged from the stairs, we were treated to a magnificent sight of the ground below, the three tiers in between, the darkening evening sky above and the lights shining down. The next thing was the seemingly very small distances. When you watch on TV, the ground seems huge and the action really far away. However, it is in reality not so. We could easily identify the players and having a pair of binoculars made it more interesting. Sadly, the Deccan chargers’ cheerleaders were far from us…
It is just pure entertainment to watch the game live. It is so much faster than what we seen on TV. It seems more continuous with no ad breaks. The DC cheerleaders were doing fantastic dance routines! They were just too good, graceful, sensuous and brilliantly coordinated. Their outfits though completely restricted , were in good taste. Strikingly sour were the Mumbai ‘local talent’ cheerleaders. They wore hideous shining blue costumes and could not coordinate their own too hands let alone with their team! The dance moves were sad and repetitive. More entertaining were a bunch of guys dancing in our block. Atleast they were hilarious. In the end the MI cheerleaders stopped dancing. Whether this had to do with their team not doing well or to do with gross embarrassment will remain a point of debate. Gadre writes here on cheerleaders.
For the data skeptics, there is no way that you miss any of the action or the statistics. A screen, albeit a small one, continued to show the score and replay for all balls. Fielding and caching too is a just a treat for the eyes. And the most special thing of all is the resounding sound of the ball hitting the meat of the bat. Also, one can understand the value of sheer pace in the bowling attack. And, seeing the ball disappearing over the boundary line is just amazing. The atmosphere was simply great before the match began and only when the home team was going good!
Coming to the actual game, MI were playing without Sachin and obviously without Harbhajan. They made a mess of their batting with nobody particularly supporting the innings. They ended on a modest 154. And then came pure delight. Adam Gilchrist was in devastating form and scorched his way to the fastest hundred in T20! With 10 towering sixes and 9 cracking fours, he made easy work of the target and DC hauled it in just around 13 overs. I was initially supporting MI but with a sub-par performance, I switched to the Chargers. That was obviously just for the night…
We had plenty of snide comments to enjoy from the back throughout the match. Pollock, Nehra, Laxman and a sandwich vendor were the hot favorites. It was a really memorable experience, one which I plan to undertake as frequently as possible from now on. Next on my list is an closely fought ODI (:p)
Yes, my exam is over. Atlast! An exam, for which I was so bored to study for. And with IPL going on, it was always going to be difficult. Yet, I enjoyed every moment doing time pass during the exam and I must confess, studying for some papers! The reality will strike me tomorrow only when I would have usually sat to study…
But tomorrow comes with its own good promise. I will be traveling to the DY Patil Stadium to watch the Mumbai Indians take on the Deccan Chargers. I could not have chosen a right time. Both are yet to open their points account! Hopefully, tomorrow will be a real cliffhanger, maybe even end in a bowl out [:P]
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, OH GOD OF CRICKET! HAVE A BLAST! AND MAY YOUR TEAM WIN ON SUNDAY!
(I am traveling to Mumbai to watch it :P)
I gave one of the silliest papers in my entire life today. It was titled EDCS - Entrepreneurship Development and Communication skills, a compulsory subject. Yes, as you will agree the notion of a written paper is itself pointless. Who became good at both of them by writing papers?!
Some sample questions:
1) Out of total message to be communicated, Words contribute ___%, tone of voice contributes ___%, and body gestures contribute ___%.
Ridiculous! Answers are not: less, more & most but 7, 38 & 55%!
2) Name ten “Time wasters” in your daily life.
I mean Come ON! First of all its a relative term. And i had half a mind to put in “studying for stupid EDCS over there.
3) For 10 marks, develop and present a Business Plan.
How can anyone come up with a B-Plan in an exam? If we could do that why become engineers?! Check out Aditya’s creativity in response to it.
4) Name three records to be kept under Factories Act, 1948.
^&$^%*$#$^&
5) Please List four possible outcomes to a negotiation.
Ans: LOSE-LOSE, LOSE-WIN, WIN-LOSE, WIN-WIN.
I did very badly as expected. We had to study from photocopies of 10 units going over 500 pgs and costing over Rs. 350. The matter was really good, but it was not taught completely (partly due to lack of students initiative in attending the lectures)
Thankfully, from next year this subject is being floated as an elective. Please nobody take it up. If anyone really wants to be an entrepreneur, please find another way to get the know-how. This subject aint helping anybody…
This post by Aditya sums it up for me too.
Its heat tranfer tomorrow and i am already bugged after attempting to learn the formulas.
Here’s an epitome of the seemingly endless and illogical ones we have:
For the record, it is for heat transfer coefficient for boiling over a cylinder surface. The whole bracket is raised to 0.25.
Huh! Writing a post after almost a gap of twenty days! Kind of a dark age for me. Cant say really whether I missed blogging or not, actually was too busy with college submissions and other activities that I was hardly online in the last three weeks. Also the endless chatter and discussions that I have managed to be a part of, have made up for it! Well as usual so much to write about and so little time. I think I just have time to list the topics that I would have liked to blog about!
India – RSA test series: A brilliant knock from Sehwag (319) in the first test, the dramatic 76 all out in the second and the much needed win in the third. This is what sums up the series for me. Ganguly played well in last two tests. With Neo sports not available, it meant I did not see even one live ball of the series and had to rely on web n mobile for the scores. It was irritating. Anyways I am glad the series ended on a winning note. Though I believe that India did not play their best cricket, we have managed to hold on to 2nd place in ICC rankings.
IPL n ICL: Well after all the media attention and screen time it has grabbed, IPL will be finally kicking off on 18th. I am supporting the Chennai team and am thinking of putting up a detailed post on it. Also wathced some ICL matches and thought they were really entertaining. Also witnessed a bowl-out in ICL, its always fun! Hopefully IPL will live up to its hype…
F-1: Force India have been continuously improved their performance, with Fisichella mauling 12th place and Sutil completing the race FI can start thinking of actually collecting some vital points by then end of the season. Hamilton had a bad race, Ferrari showing again who’s the boss and BMW competing brilliantly.
Football: Last night watched Man U- Arsenal. The devils silenced the gunners with a 2-1 win. Lots of great matches coming up both in EPL and Champions League, and I am planning to watch some of them.
Movies, TV, Books: Well moving on from sports… Saw Music n Lyrics, Employee of the Month, Yours, Mine and Ours, 1984, Longitude, Genghis Khan and plenty of LOST episodes. Enjoyed every moment! Also some silly Youngistan ads faced with a brilliant parody from Sprite! Read excerpts from 1984 after seeing the movie. Also continued with Shantaram. Really irritated by news channels while waiting for match score.
Engg n College: Would not like to talk much about submissions n vivas. Have the BAJA team interview today. I was busy in preparing for it with endless discussions on ppts. I also attended the ‘Senate’ meetings in college. Really enjoyed it. Also sat for atleast 20-30 hours on autocad doing sheets and wrote almost 200 odd pages of submissions! Also gave a stupid EDCS test paper which I must post about separately.
Had the first mango of the season! Delicious! Also went on tekdi couple of times…
Looking Forward to: Exam getting over quickly. Next f-1 race. IPL, football, lots of books n movies, Lost season 4, project in college, back to quizzing, GRE studies, accent training, baja competition, placements, hanging out with friends, a short trip and (if possible) some days of peace and rest! Will be posting about exams soon!
