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Sometimes back, not so long, I have been running after love. I failed catching it though for reasons which were not so different from those seen in movies. And then earth starts rotating again, rain is nothing more than a RAIN, time got back its old pace, life was normal in general. I don’t regret much for I learned a lot, looking at the funny side of life is one among those. And then one day.. BAAANG!!!! Love is at my doorstep, knocking and started chasing me… And I am scared.. so scared that now I am the one who is running away from it.. I started saying logics, philosophies, practical aspects of life (!!) and in between crushing someone’s heart.. This article is an open apology for the pain I brought(brigning/will bring) to you knowingly/unknowingly..

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It is almost 2 months since I blogged. I am not going to give any explanations or justifications as you all know it is just my laziness. Well, I don’t have anything in my mind to write (and enlighten as usual :P) though. On second thoughts I will write some incidents happened in the past months which were new to me.

International Symposium on Biocomputing.

Our department hosted an ACM symposium on biocomputing and we (M-Tech students) were the volunteers of the program. The invited talks, paper presentations, cultural feista were all praised by the delegates, guests and the media but for me the best part of the symposium was the free five star food, from Kadavu resort. Working (seriously!) for the symposium was fun, checking the format of the papers, talking with american and chinese professors, etc.. and an unique experience.

JEST.

For those who don’t know, it is an entrance exam for IMSc (Institue of Mathematical Science) and similar institutes. JEST is the first entrance exam with descriptive questions that I have written and I did enjoy writing it. The exam was in Cochin (CUSAT) and hence it was the least priority item in the list. Met some old friends in Cochin and had some great time with them. A special thanks to Shalini (and her family) for the wonderful lunch.

Wearing the cruel examiner’s suit.

I was always against copying and the most I did against it was arguing with friends, till recently. I had this assistantship in the lab last week and found that majority had plagiarized code with them. The cold blooded cruel me made sure that they got the lowest possible grade.

Reading Malayalam Books.

Recently, I am getting great reviews about my malayalam blog like “Your malayalam blog is so very substandard like your english blog” “It is a wonderful idea not to publish your malayalam articles” etc..

So, I decided to improve my malayalam writing skills and moved on from books like Bobanum Moliyum and Balarama to classic (!!) malayalm literatures. I got hold of some books from library and finished Odayil Ninnu and VKN Kadhakal.

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I can’t believe that it is December 31st already!! Didn’t this year feel short. I guess, Vijay Mallya had bribed our government to cut out certain months (or is it the same through out the world!?).

Anyways, now that we are here (31 of December) let me tell you those few things that happened to me other than the routine eat-sleep-watching movies-eat cycle.

M-Tech Second Semester:

The first half of 2009 was fun filled classroom entertainment. I was very serious about my studies and developed my own ingenious method of taking class notes in an efficient manner as shown in the pic below

From MIsc

Apart from the academic lessons, I was determined to fine tune many of my soft skills like improving the efficiency of observation.

From MIsc

Reinforcing Economic Recovery.

When the much hyped recession was hit the market took a pause. There was complete silence and all of the economic gurus were clueless about what to do. That is when I took it up and pumped a lot of money from my account buying very expensive (but completely useless) camera and bike into the economy.  Yes, it surely made me a pauper but the market woke up once again regaining to its old glory. All those high paid job holders (in NIT), you owe me!

Teaching Assistantship:

Teaching Assistantship started and was assigned the duty of compiler lab for B-tech students. For those who don’t know about it. It is a job where wonderful, beautiful, gorgeous girls with *very* nice dress sit besides you and you cant ogle, flirt or stare!! The maximum you can do is, just smile and evaluate their work. I always thought about teaching as a great job. Now I understand it is not just because of the pay most graduates drop teaching jobs!

Finding Nirvana:

I always wondered what I was destined for. Throughout my life my mind wandered over all those philosophical questions rishis from HImalayas used to think, like, ‘why do we study?’, ‘When will Malyalam film industry adopt bikinis?’, ‘Why did India choose bowling in 2003 world cup final?’. Well, my point was I discovered why I am send to earth. God realized that Chet Atkins and Les Paul failed in their mission and wanted me to spread the *real* music of Guitar. Oh yes, I meant I started learning guitar.. Those who know malayalam can read about it here. Those who can hear can even listen to my play in that article :P.

Campus Placements:

After a big gap I again attended campus placement dramas. Attended two interviews this time and got job in Philips (a month back). The best thing was that they gave us a cool jacket (well, the offer letter too).

To end with, this is what I want to tell you 2009…

‘Some come to our lives and go, some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same! That is what you have done to me, 2009.!!’ (Sssh.. I don’t mean that.. :P)

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Wish you a Merry Christmas and let the festival brings joy and happiness in your life..

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Couple of weeks back, I was in Andhra Pradesh to attend the marriage of my classmate Reshma.

Reshma’s Marriage Pic

And these Andhra friends of mine were introducing us to a hell lot of their friends. And then Shalini called me and introduced me to a B E A utiful girl..

Me: Hai.. I am Vivek.

The girl: Hello. My name is Sawjanya..

Me: Sawjanya!! You know what.. In our language Sawjanya means free.. Are you free?

Isn’t that a wonderful way to hit a girl? My friend says that it was the stupidest..

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PS: There are a dozen bikes in the shed. But this happens only to my bike!?

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I want to be like this man, one day.

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I have mentioned about my cousins Adwait and Aditi here before. For those who don’t know them, they are my little cousins. Adwait is half my age old and Aditi, one third (the ratio almost works for height too, I guess). So, a week back I had a call from Adwait asking me how to get an e-mail address. I was so excited to tell him how and within 10 minutes we created an e-mail id for Adwait. Two days later I got an orkut friend invitation from Adwait with a profile picture of Mamooty (his favorite actor). I just smiled and added him.

And yesterday when I opened my mailbox there was this mail notification and I could not stop smiling. It said the following…

“Vivek chetan, add me also as friend in orkut..”    from aditi3d8@….com.

Initially, the smile was for the message but soon it was for the e-mail id. Adwait might have helped her create the id but the choice of id should have been Aditi’s.

Aditi 3D (her class and division) 8 (her roll number)..

Later, I spent some time reading their as well as their friends’ profiles.. Some of the interesting things which I saw in a kid’s profile are

About me: I am smart. I like football
Books: Scary!
Body Art : Visible Tattoo.. (I think he is mentioning about those free tattoos with chewing gums.. )

Then in another profile…

About me: I am studying in eighth. My best friends are Sanjay, Rohan and Thomas. (For most of us, these were the first lines of our introduction for a long time, right?)
passions: I like my father the most, then my mother, then all my relatives and then friends. (Sounds familiar? )
cuisines: I love as well as hate them..

Good or Bad, I am not against kids using computers… I am waiting for Aditi and Adwait to grow and master this wonderful tool. Will they start a blog one day and write about me ??

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It is over four months now since I started riding the bullet. It is a wonderful experience handling this huge thing. The following is a poem on my bike, which is also the fourth poem of my life…:P

Bullet is more than a bike..

It hits the road like a pike..

Comfort is what it feels like..

As in running in a spike..

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Rallying in the bullet..

Empties the wallet..

For what you get in return..

Is a ride without any concern!…

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Back in primary school it meant to convince my friends about the pencil box tree in my backyard and the swimming pool at my stairs.

Then in high school it meant to make my parents believe that report card wont be sent home due to the fire at school.

And in college it meant; to fake severe aches for help in assignments, to fake (to prof) that those were self-written.

In the short period of industry exposure it meant to project my irritating bugs as wonderful features.

Finally today, it was to present a new algorithm to my professor (read it as perfectionist) in a subject he is GOD at and to get it approved. And my idea has been approved! The couple of sleepless nights were not fruitless!!

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