Fun at Final Year BE Project - Part 2

One of the people who was in the same told us of a place where they served home food but it was not an 'official' restaurant and was run by a brahmin joint family. We got home food there wen our tongues almost died eating in hotels!!. Ofocurse the place was always crowded and the setup of the place was just a few benches and a stool to keep the plate and eat. Still remember that tony used to write his 'dhum' expenses as 'snacks' incase his parents catch him :D!! (Intha madhiri nerathla than moola nalla vel seiyum!!). I had no problems as such as my parents were abroad that time..

Going on, we always used to get late because of the 'night' drinking sessions and get scoldings frm the external supervisor, neverthless we always told him that we were studying and he always believed us.. A couple of instances which made him believe us was; 

1: One day on the way home he asked us "Do u guys drink ?", to which Antony instantly replied "Ofcourse sir!, we drink. We drink bisleri & aquafina !" (Dei akkava pathi pesna seruppu pinjidum !!) . God knows he would have thought wat big idiots we were !

2: Another one was "Enna pa enna pathi theriyathu, naan college la semms J.P pa. J.P na enna nu theriyuma ?", to which Antony replied "J.P na Jolly party ah sir?". To which he replied "J.P na jollu party pa".

We used to eat the Rs.5 meals there as we were not allowed to go out as BHEL was strict..And ofcourse Rs.1 kadala muttai after which we sat on some broken planks till the lunch got over and then went back to work.. 

BHEL closes at 4 30 pm, which is when the DGM becomes free and sits down to teach and talk with us till 7 30 pm. He manages to stay till then cuz his house is 2 minutes walk from there. We, however have an hour odd of travel to get to our house, when we have dinner and drinks before retiring to bed. 

Next morning, I get up at 9, wake up tony and get back to sleep till he gets ready and we leave at about 10 to reach there at about 11 am. Finally our project got over and we had to return to chennai. Mind you, it was fun neverthless ;) (Did I say fun ?)

Coming back to chennai, Mr.KK was frustrated that we did a company prject when infact it was his intention that we take up one and apart from that BF No.2 claimed the project was a waste and that he needed some numerical analysis. We went back to our external supervisor who was no position to help as they did not use any numerical analysis software, so we had no option that to use the all famous "Keyence". We got the processes in the DPCM and converted them into sequential processes and then into ladder logic. One part over, we contacted the mech engg department who helped us out develop a simulation for the cutting sequence using their CNC software. Thanks to this man we learnt how to write use graphs to write cnc code.

Finally, our project accepted we went for the final review. On that day I woke up late because of slides preparation the previous night and forgot my copy of the project report. Luckily, I got the college copy and was asked to replace it later wit mine. The external appreciated our project despite the put-down by the internal staff. Another comic was the internal supervisor, Germin nisha Ma'am who absolutely did NOTHING, I mean nothing toward the project. Probably we should have asked her to tell the title of our project.

The final comedy was when Prathap took my mobile when other presenations were going on and accidentally pressed the walkman button on the phone. It started to play, he got panicky and gave the phone to me. I switched it off and slid in into my socks. Mokkaraj came and asked whose phone it was to which Raghu replied that it was his own phone. Frustrated on not getting a good answer he went back to his seat. Finally we had a session of photographs and then went back home.

I know that I wont get such a project ever in my life and this one brings back memories ! :0

 

Fun at Final Year BE Project - Part 1

Hi all. am back after a veeery looong gap to write about something that I wanted to write about, for quite some time now as there were 'misconceptions' among class guys regarding the same. Yes! its about our final year BE project in BHEL, Trichy.

To start off, we ofcourse decided a lil late that me & tony are going to do our final year project in a company and not inhouse for a few obvious reasons (which any EIE person should guess, if not refer to the 'Comedy Classes' post !) and I came up with the idea that we could get in BHEL as my dad's industry in trichy was doing work for BHEL. So far so good, we went to trichy and stayed in Hotel vignesh for a couple of days. We rented a room with tv in it and drank on the first day of arrival itself..Thts where it all 'started' ;). Then v contacted the Senior DGM who was my dads friend and he asked us to apply directly. So we went there and we were unfortunately told that they stopped givin projects for electronics guys and computer science guys just a month before. We were distressed as we had already started d project late and now we are in a position where v wont get it at all.. So we called up the SDGM again and told him that we are in a do or die situation and that we have no other hopes apart from this..So he helped us by gettin a reco from AGM which eventually got us inside!!

We were redirected to another DGM who was our external guide, a very knowledgable person by the name of Palanivel who had completed his Masters in Electrical from IIT. He gave us big books to read to get a feel of the project and since the AC in his room was making the room cold, antony as usual dozed off in his room as soon as he left, with the book in his hand :)!..We got rooms in a mansion in porur to minimise accomodation costs (of course to save more money, for other reasons :P). It was decent in that it had a couple of iron cots, a couple of tables & a hardly running fan.. The main feature of this mansion is its location, just outside of which it had three TASMAC shops in the same road with corresponding fast food centres opposite them!!. There was also a grocery shop next to the shop conveniently set to buy coke, karams and 1 rupee pickle for touching :D!

So where was I? Yeah, project..He told us to automate the Double Column Planing Machine and ofcourse told us to stand near the machine to study its entire operation so that we could get an idea of the various operations performed by it and later he would ask us questions based on our observations..Ofcourse we would hardly answer his questions and one fine he called tony as 'Kumarimuthu' :).. Then we would drink like 3 days a week, sleep late, get up late and always run late te report to the DGM and ofcourse get scoldings from him.. Both of us spent like Rs 1000 a week each, most of which would go for food expenses and travel charges (pun intended) ..

One of the bset drinking sessions was when we got 2 bottles, one MC and one 8 pm rum. As soon as the first round got over, tony put omelette and thus refused to drink further..I told him that I will not waste anything and drank up the rest..Naturally high on alcohol i went in a zig-zag manner and finally slept off to avoid damage to myself and others around me..:D