~Random Imaging~ PART 1

I brought a couple of cd's to perth which had some old pics of mine in them so thought I d put em up just to show "Eppadi irundha naanga ipadi ayitom ;)". May be it d refresh a couple of my memories and yours ..!
Ivaru peru 'Mundhanai Mudichu" K.Bhakyaraj.. Ivaru mrungakka mattum than sapiduvaaru...Appuram enna pannuvaru nu yaarukume theriyaadhu.. Future la oru padam edukka poraru..Athuku "Isai gnani" Ilayaraja than producer a podaporaaru..Padam pearu "Thiruvasagam"..

This image needs no introduction or explanation if u studied in EIE 06 batch :D

This is Bharath.. He is one of the intelligent people in our class...Has interest in things like Astrophysics, Chaos Theory, Quantum Mechanics and 4th year IT girls... :P..He is right now in Gujarat basically for 2 reasons : One , for work in Essar and two, because his "In-laws" are there.. Always like to hangs stuff on the moon..;)

This pic was taken durin our hyderabad tour, using swami's cam (if m not mistaken)..

Ivaru than enge "THALA"..Ivaru peru Mahendran..Ivaru chatting le kingu..Englis band "BLUE", espcially LEE e pathi kaeta ivaru ku ellam theriyum.. Ivaru periya musician..GHALIL classes la poyi guitar kathukutaaru.. Ivarukku "PHYSICIST" aganum nu romba aasai..

Hope u knw where this page came from ?? ;)

More to follow ...!!

Kambu Kootu Kulla Scentu Factory (KKKSF)

This one again is known to quite a few in class but it's quite a prank worth mentioning..The effect of this prank were many but one of them was that Gokulnath threw his mobile and card and dint have a mobile till our course ( So much was his frustration !! :P)

Ok starting off, Gokul to keep up with the trend got himself a Nk 1100 with a Hutch prepaid connection ( the 98845 series ) and was pretty careful in givin out his mobile number to others as he din want ppl to give his number to girls who ll call him and torture him thereby makin him lose concentration on his studies...( DUh!!)

Anyway a lil intro about Gokul aka 'Thunder armpit'.. He was also called Akulnath, Anikulnath and Snowkulnath respectively.. He was particularly interested in cold places like Himalayas for 2 obvious reasons ;).. I could damage his repute at this point but that would dilute the essence of the prank we played on him..So ll save it for later..:D

I cant remember some parts of the story, however ll write as much as I can remember... As usual raghu & me were the ones involved :D in this prank and this was at a time when 'Aircel' had unlimited free local sms to all mobiles.. I still believe the both of us drove aircel to a total loss by sending the maximum no of sms's in a day :P ( My mob no : 9841613684 / Fact : The sms counter in my sony ericsson mobile reads 57,600 within 10 months of buyin it !) that we got a 100 sms/day limit..

I dont remember how we got his number or why we picked on him to play the prank (may be raghu could help me out !) ..I m just guessing we got the number from 'Mundhanai Mudichu' K.Bhakyaraj aka Gopinath.. Well me & raghu teamed up to tease gokul ( we had done it before when swami tried to pull a stint and we ended up screwing his happiness :D !!) and we started to msg him at random ofcourse since our sms's were free..We did come to know that he had a soft corner for anitha ;) and pulled priyanka's name as the other girl and started creating a scenario like both of em were gawkin for him !! ;).. Unfortunately (and fortunately for us) he fell for it hook, line & sinker...He was basically amazed at first as to how these girls got his number which he had kept a secret (raanuva ragasiyam illaya?!) but enna panrathu Oru MANMADHANukkaga ponnunga alayirathu sagajam thaane?!

Anyways back to de story, He believed that both of em were smsin him and we could pretty much observe a change in his attitude ( basically he started to think too much too of himself ) and he used to walk head high into class... And ofcourse me & raghu made a deal to send each other a copy of the sms's sent to him and the corresponding replies..He was on cloud 9 that Anitha (who he had a soft corner for) was smsin (lame-o) him and there was this incident when he found he found out tht she had a fever o somethin and sent an sms to raghu like "I know u have fever that's why I prayed for you" (Romantic isn't it :D)..Another incident was in one of our university labs when he shyly went and asked a doubt to her (nelinjifying :P) .. I had the chance to observe it and i conveyed it to raghu who sent an sms like "Thanks for your concern abt me..I wanted to thank you when u came to ask a doubt to me..".. This kinda went on in the romantic way for some time but he always used to reject my sms's, replying rudely always simply cuz he preferred to sms raghu ..

I m guessin he din sleep that night (Pachai nirame...Sakiiye..Snegithiye...etc...:P).. There was this time he started sending 'Dating' service msg's to me and raghu , those dumb service msgs u get if u have a hutch connection ( What was he thinking ???!! )..Everyday we used to get those dating msgs ( Kadhal panrathu na thaan sindhichi kavidhai eludhanum, mokka madhiri service msg ellam forward pana kudathu, wat do u say ? )..This leg pulling went on for like a month and a half and all we could notice was his EGO bloat and drastic attitude change and one fine day he sends the famous (infamous) to Raghu (Anitha) as "MANASU VALIKIDHU...., PURINJIKO..." :P (Idhu kooda SETHU padathilendhu sutta dialogue!!). We couldn take it anymore so we decided to break the ice and we basically scolded him back *censored*.. He eventually found out our numbers from classmates and threw his mobile and disconnected his connection..

*From Raghu* - He gave a romantic look to priyanka ( Metukudi padathla goundamani karthik kitte nagmakku 'romantic look' uttu kaamipaaru le andha madhiri !! :)) thinking she was smsing him :D

He never used a mobile till the end of our course.. * THE SAD ENDING * of a PRANK :P

Family Planning !!

Edit : Pic added !

Even though I havent sketched out the pic I had in mind whic I intend to add in later, I thought I d write about a recent conversation between Prathap & me and how impressed I was after listening to his determination and enthusiasm towards achieveing his goals.. Hats off to him for his determination in Family Planning.

*Family planning is not "Kudumba Kattupaadu" so don get the wrong idea about Prathap - I m actually praising him*

To start off, I have read many articles in newspapers and general columns about youngsters like us not starting our own business and becoming enterpreneurs but pretty satisfied with our jobs and continue to work as employees theoughout our lives.

One such exception is Prathap and his idea of business development and product outline really impressed me..None can think BIG like him , atleast in our age.. We might be seein another Ambani soon..

Anyway as you all know, Prathap has resigned his job in wipro even though it was in VLSI which is an upcoming technology to join Robert Bosch to do "Automobile Electronics" design. Prior to this, he sent Nivedana to US to study "Industrial Engineering" as part of his master plan..

Relating both words, we get his simple plan to start an "Automobile Industry" using comcepts of "Electronics Engineering" ( yeah again back to P-N junction diode, signals, transistors and the like).. His vision was to launch a two wheeler by the name "JUNCTION BIKE" JB(TM) ..

Whats special about this bike? How can it compete when top runners like scooty, spirit and others are on the market.?

The reason here is electronics..It utilises the concept of telepathy (ESB, MSI, POC etc..) to reduce the length of the seat depending upon the degree of charisma between the boy and the girl..This means better the romantic spark between boy and girl, the shorter the length of the seat and vice versa..So if your seat is the size of a 15 cm ruler, you d know better :).. This bike uses signals and diodes so than the P-N junction can be used to forward bias and reverse bias the seat length :P

He plans to call the bike "Lover-420" and the name of the company would be "PN Automobiles India" and is equipped with a free 'Dating Manual' exclusively signed by Prathap bsed on his dating experiences..

The vehicle is set to hit indian roads soon and prathap is still working on the wheatstone bridge part of it..

Fianlly, hats off to this future enterpreneur for his continuing services!!

Subject Torture !!

After a hell of a busy week completing assignments ( namma ellam porandhandhu lendhe ipadi thane..) and studying last minute ( nadaraja night service ) and 4 sleepless nights made it all the more encouraging to continue this blog..

One of the exams were on Petroleum Geology basically dealing with things like Sedimentary rocks, Metamorphic rocks, Seismic Surveys, Fault detection, Geological Analysis of exploration wells, Layering, Cementing , Compaction of friable mud ..(Arnt u feelin sleepin already ??) which basically dates back to the subject I hated the most in school - Geography. Like they always say "What goes around, comes around", this unit was the epitome of intoxicating sleep induction.

One of the ways I avoided sleep during this period of exam preparation is by saying catchphrases of funny incidents.. Two of my favorites at the moment are :

1. Jetti jetti bun jetti what jetti do you choose ? ( This was cuz one of my roomies throwing used underwear all over the bathroom )

2. Kuththunga yejaman kuththunga..Intha ponnungale ippadithan. (Frm one audio clip sent to me by swami / sathya ;) )

3. Yov unoda kadaila irukka appala thatta kanala nu azhalayaa..ennoda appana kaanum nu aluvuren..

If anyone of you have insomania (lack of sleep), I would definitely mail u the links of Petroleum Geology lectures and guarantee u sound sleep in the first 10 minutes of listening to it.. :) or MONEY BACK GUARANTEED!!

This certainly reminds me of Antony sleeping in HOD's class and eventually going to Priyandarshini ma'am (Personality development) and asking her how to avoid sleeping in class.. She asks antony to quit eating heavy food and start on eating breads..Big deal!..Antony still slept in class intoxicated by HOD's soothing voice.. Another incident related to this was in Raj Narain's VLSI class when Mr.Bomber Man (*Explanation not provided*) was as usual sleeping ( HOD e madhikirathu illa ivan ellam enathuku!) when suddenly koti tricked him and woke him up sayin tht Narain pointed a question to him.. The result is a half dazed and petrified antony getting up and both narain & antony are looking bewildered (Narain thinks : Yenaku kooda ivalo mariyadhaya??, Antony thinks : Okkamaka thookatha keduthutaan da panada) :D

I accept that I sleep in class considering the fact I am awake till the morning (even now) but i use the GLASS REFLECTION TECHNOLOGY (Analogous to Watch - Sight Technology) like few others in class to sleep.

Alternatively the best way to avoid sleep would be to eat in class ..(Hey atleast your brain isnt working, leave your mouth to do ur work :P)

Concluding all of this I would say lack of sleep is bad quoting from an experience I underwent when taking class for undergrads..My mind was blank because of overload of petroleum geology, OG Transmission and Fluid Mechanics and I was literally blabbering when explainin the concept of "Fluid phenomena on an arbitrary curved surface"..As misfortune knocks, one of the students started firing doubts and I was in total confusion despite the simple answer for the doubt..Eventually I couldnt answer the doubt, save the embarassment after that :(

Anyway just a random post before I write about prathap's strategical development and gokulnaths famous dialogues !!

Different Routes :)

Just as I was chatting with Mahendran yesterday it just occured to me after may 2006 when we graduated, we have taken different paths despite our instrumentation background, especially the ones who went in for higher studies.. Each of us are in different fields, part of which are related to instrumentation.. But looking back, all of us do not do the same kinda work now..

Considering this, I thought i would write about how each one of us and their fields they are working on.. Starting from the ones who are abroad to the ones who are working right now..

Raghuveer - VLSI
Dhanavel - Nanotechnology
Me - Offshore Engineering
Mahendran - Biomedical Engineering
Masco - M.E
Nivedana - Industrial Engineering
Samson - Robotics & Automation
Kalyan - Lecturer
Rajaraman - Electronics
Sasi Kumar, Karthi - Automation
Kumaran, Bharath, Koti, Baskar, Prem, Logu, Haja, Nambi, Avinash, Gopinath, Sasikala & Muthumeenakshi - Electrical & Instrumentation
Shivaraman, Sunitha, Annamalai, Ramakrishna - Embedded systems
Sathya, Om sakthi, Bhuvaneswari, Smriti, Shruthi, Sivaranjani, Priyanka, Balachander, Sridharan, Anitha, Madhan, Senthil.B, Gayathri, Pradeepa, Srilena, Antony,S.K, Sangeetha, Priyadarshini, Easwar, Muthu Krishan, Smriti and Aravind - IT
Jagadeesh, Sharmila, Geetha Priya, Prathap and Sampath - VLSI

I missed out a few cuz i donno wat they are upto and the ones above are as my little brain can remember :P

-- Punch Dialogues --

Just thought i d include a section for some of the one liners/dialogues by our class guys ( I m keeping the names anonymous unless insisted ) and keep updatin as I remember em or reminded of by someone..

Ok..Here it goes...

1. "Manasu valikidhu.....Purinjiko..."
2. "Aenge unge DLD mark e paathen... Unge DLD notes e konjam kudukireengala..??"
3. "Machan ava paakurathuku ftv figure mathiri irukka da"
4. "In control da mama" - Courtesy : Hyderabad Tour Day 2
5. "Err...Where is the turn court ??"
6. "I will hang my underwear on the moon !!"
7. "Enakku daaaaa...Enakku onnu kudraaaaaaaa...Dei...Thank you very much!!" - @ some placement in Sathyabama :)
8. "Please tease me with someone else"
9."Dei I am going to become a priest da"
10. "Macha wat is prism da when did our college ve library how can court turn what does babe mean..And lastly what has my underwear got to do with the moon..And yes lastly go have some tea it will help you relax..." Extract frm one of the sms's i got :)

More to follow..

Pudhu Pozhappu

Just in case you were wondering why i m not able to concentrate on my blog these days is due to a few reasons.. One of them is that I have got a job as tutor for thermofluids where i have to take classes for 2nd year under-grads !!.. Happy as i was to get double the hourly pay than my existing part time job, it was not easy money anyway.. One reason would be that I needed to prepare for the class, which added to my extra load of assignments and exam studies for the 2 units I am doing this module.. (Btw i have exams every 6 weeks and 2 units per module)..Apart from that, the students pose a lot of questions if they dont understand a single concept (its not like our UG anyway!!)..This just got me to doing the teaching without much enthusiasm and am waitin for an opportunity to get fired (if they ever will !!)..

Apart from this, I have to do 3 days of my regular part time work from 9 am to 4 pm ( I am learning norwegian right now as one part of my job is to get prospective clients from norway..As you know learning a new language is a big headache !!)... This basically leaves me with partly one day of free time as I have classes from Monday to Thursday...To top it all I have started my project in "Pendulous Installation method of subsea manifolds" (just for info, forget the jargon !! :D) which is a 32 point project out of the total 96 credits i have to complete to satisfy my course completion criteria..

Apart from this I have scheduled meetings for my tutorial co-ordinator and project co-ordinator to discuss on the progress of the respective cases..The only free time would be the weekends in which I have to do literature review for project, study for exams and complete my assignments...( Did i say my only source of entertainment was having a good meal in KFC saturday nights ?!)

Well it keeps me up and going and for all of you who think going abroad to study is just for pass time and for those who got fooled by those pics uploaded in orkut here is the real scenario and difficulties of studyin abroad, a little bit of which we wouldnt have faced had we done masters in India.. :'(