Blog by Varun Deshpande...C.O.P.(I hardly do any engineering stuff!!! Not even studies...)
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Thought for the day.....
Had Rajnikant been there during Newton's time, he would have got the ultimate exception to his laws and it could have saved all the trouble scientists take today to prove that Newton's laws have exceptions!!! :) (And it could have saved lot of trouble for my brother too who is having a hard time remembering them!)
Monday, June 29, 2009
Be careful while you say...Cadb(a)!!! :)
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BEFORE :-
A desolated place,village horizons seen at a distance, wind blowing at full speed, hardly giving any chance to move.........
Four miserable people, walking through the lonely,endless road.Scanning all the directions,nowhere a ray of hope. Hunger,lack of sleep.Searching for means of transport. But all attempts in vain.Furious nature-a pleasant drizzle, but threatening to turn into a heavy downpour anytime...Adverse conditions.All four must find their way, as fast as possible, to the nearest village, otherwise they could get inflicted with wrath of nature, freezing cold and paralyzing winds! They must stick together, fight all obstacles with unity and patience, try to seek happiness in each others company.......
And asking for happiness.....there was much of it,more than needed!! :) So this is what happened....We had gone for a visit to a factory at Paud, on the outskirts of Pune. While the visit was expected to last till evening 5:30, we were done by 1:30!! :| (We could endure the theory and all the logic stuff only till then :)) The factory was located fairly away from the village,almost around 3-4 kms so we had to walk our way to it. We began our walk enthusiastically only to give way to blazing enlightenment that it was more tiring and much more boring than we had thought until the conversation suddenly changed like this..........
"Mala cadb khavasa vattey! "-me.
"Ithe kuthun cadb milnare ? Green cadb khayla milel. Gavat padla ahe tikde shetat!"- A.G.
"Tu gappa bus! Uth suth khaycha dista tula!"- Ab the incredible.
" Cadb mane! Ithe cadb nahi cadba milel!"- Her.
"Cadba..? He kay asta ?"- A.G.
"Aga tula cadba mait nahi ka? Te janavar khatat! Mhashinna khau ghaltat te!"- Her.
At that time(impeccable timing!!), a stern look from Ab the incredible, a jerk to his neck in disagreement and then the fitting joke....
"Tula barobar kalta he sagla!!! :) :D :P"
AFTER:-
Two uncontrollably laughing people, trying to hide it in vain,one slightly confused,in dillema whether to laugh over his own joke,one exceptionally quiet- with a constipated expression on her face! Paichan kaun? :P
The best ever perfection of timing Ab has achieved till now. We were rolling on the floor laughing, there were two thunderous outbursts of laughter!!(Third time I had to put handkerchief in my mouth to stop! :)). We couldn't stop laughing while we still continued walking, walked another km or 2 untill we reached a bridge. There she stands for a while and looks at her reflection in the clear waters. After 10 minutes of steady observation she finally regains her attention towards walking. There is a smile on her face! :) (I think lack of horns made her reassure herself that she looked quiet different! :P) We forgot all the pain,hunger,thirst, anything that could make us deviate from the fun! It was a happy trip back home! :)
P.S. - My sincere apologies to all the buffaloes in the world!! I really and heartily sympathize with all of them! To buffalo kind, my condolences.... :(
Monday, June 22, 2009
Eternal sunshine of a spotless mind....
Mind.....one of the most beautiful things gifted by God!! What will we be without the mind and the heart? While the heart could give you unexplainable happiness beyond words,beyond expressions, it can also give you equally tormenting,excruciating pain! The heart makes you aware of the beautiful feelings that lie within you - love,happiness,care,etc. But what if things don't go your way? It is the heart that burns the most,makes you restless,sad,hyper. But the mind ?! It might not give you the pleasure heart offers but it won't give you that much pain as well. All that reside within mind are thoughts,some logical,most of them illogical,random!!
Have you ever noticed the start of a spiders web? I bet nobody has! It looks so beautiful...ecstatic!! The mind is just like a web,various thoughts webbed into each other create a string of thinking, you never know what begun from where,you just go through them...think over some of them,neglect others which may seem foolish to you!! The mind is an unsolved mystery(if you look carefully you will find resemblance of the shape of the mind with a question mark!! ) The mind is a question!!! Nobody ever knows what is going on inside. A large flow of thoughts creates traffic,everything gets stuck up,you become numb! Have you ever thought why did you get the exact thought at that exact instant? If you try to think so you'll get another thought...n another thought about why you are thinking about it!Have you ever thought why you are in this world?
What is my purpose?Why was I born in India only? Not somewhere else?Why did I come to coep?(Well,i know answer to this one.. :) I got good marks!) Why do I look like myself? Why
are there so many people hungry in this world? Isn't God merciful enough to feed them? Why does Sky have so many shades? So beautiful? Why do we call it sky? Not something else? Why do I talk so much? Why am i thinking so much? Don't I have any important things to do? (Oops! Have to complete an exercise!! :P) Why do I always forget things..? Why am I so stupid? Didn't God get any other Bakra..? Sa re ga ma pa madhe singerschya singing peksha judges jast badbad ka kartat? Just because they get money for it?! Why does my mum see all those serials from 7 30 to 9 30 despite the fact that they all offer same mirch masala in the story.(Problem in every household! :|)
So many thoughts - some have answers, some don't. What if thoughts were not there? We would be like a machine,manually operated,push-buttons for every work. Besides being spotless,mind is like sunshine,eternal,never ending chain of thoughts as long as you live!!! After every night,it just rises above horizon!! Without mind,the heart would be just enough to keep human body ticking!Just wish this eternal sunshine of spotless mind never ends.... :)
Friday, June 19, 2009
Hansi da parathas.......from childhood till now....
To err is human, to forgive is divine; but what about to forget?! Its okay once or twice, but to constantly and consistently forget can prove troublesome!!!.Here is the list of some of the funniest incidents happened with me( most of them due to my absent mindedness! :)), some with mirch masala and each having a new ingredient to forget!!!
1. In 2nd standard, i woke up from my sleep at 5 pm approx.(nind ki jhappi...quite normal...) and straight away went to play cricket...it was after batting for 15 minutes that i realized that everybody was staring me awefully. It took me complete 5 minutes to realize that i had worn nothing over my upper body!!! I broke the record for fastest running that day only..... :)
2.In 5th standard, i came to school, took my place at the backbench.After the first lecture started i realized i hadn't brought my schoolbag!!! My classteacher didn't know whether to laugh or cry! I entertained myself for the whole day outside the class!! :)
3.In 7th standard, i rode my bicycle through the streets to the nearest bakery to buy cookies. I parked my bicycle,bought the cookies,they looked delicious(yummy...) and walked down happily down to my house :).(Got the point...?)
4.More often my father asks me for water, i end up giving it happily to my grandmother;who drinks it happily ever and i am left with an empty glass with shouts from background!!!
Well....countless times i have forgot address to my house, vegetables my mum asks me to bring, to study(:)),countless pens,pencils,rulers,water bottles,movie dvds to be abstract.Speaking of particular, i have lost 3 calculators,2 bags,a fast track goggle,a timex watch,a mobile phone,a sheet container,a drawing board! that's only for the first two years of engineering! I just know i have forgot something after i have lost them!Otherwise i am quite normal..... :).
1. In 2nd standard, i woke up from my sleep at 5 pm approx.(nind ki jhappi...quite normal...) and straight away went to play cricket...it was after batting for 15 minutes that i realized that everybody was staring me awefully. It took me complete 5 minutes to realize that i had worn nothing over my upper body!!! I broke the record for fastest running that day only..... :)
2.In 5th standard, i came to school, took my place at the backbench.After the first lecture started i realized i hadn't brought my schoolbag!!! My classteacher didn't know whether to laugh or cry! I entertained myself for the whole day outside the class!! :)
3.In 7th standard, i rode my bicycle through the streets to the nearest bakery to buy cookies. I parked my bicycle,bought the cookies,they looked delicious(yummy...) and walked down happily down to my house :).(Got the point...?)
4.More often my father asks me for water, i end up giving it happily to my grandmother;who drinks it happily ever and i am left with an empty glass with shouts from background!!!
Well....countless times i have forgot address to my house, vegetables my mum asks me to bring, to study(:)),countless pens,pencils,rulers,water bottles,movie dvds to be abstract.Speaking of particular, i have lost 3 calculators,2 bags,a fast track goggle,a timex watch,a mobile phone,a sheet container,a drawing board! that's only for the first two years of engineering! I just know i have forgot something after i have lost them!Otherwise i am quite normal..... :).
Saturday, June 13, 2009
The Bouncy Bread Board Hypothesis....
" The chances of success of your electronics project decrease exponentially with the use of faulty breadboards !!!" - The hypothesis of breadboard.
It works very well...at least in electrical department of COEP! Though the corollary is not true...(You can always take the credit for a surprisingly well working project inspite of a bumpy breadboard!!! :) ).That rectangular 7*4 device has given me a lot of trouble and a hell difficult run for my marks in the last semester!
Nevertheless it was worth the experience it gave me; all the fun n hustle n bustle; spats with the group members(we had lots of them! :)) and the most important - it made me sweat badly!
It so happened that we had to do a project for 50 marks in electronics and I was the group leader of 14 people....(Each one weird in own respect!!!). We were given with the responsibility of making a digital multiplier(4*4 bit). For the first few days,it was all leisurely work which begun with search for ICs and ended with a movie in the lawn(Remember Happy Days...?!). With a few days of search, we came to know ICs weren't available in the market; so we finalized on solution of cascading smaller ones.Now, here comes the entry of breadboard. The department had provided us with a breadboard which was...umm.....not well 'bred'. While cascading the two ICs just wont fit together!!! While Someone pressed one IC; the other used to pop out and if if those two made it, some third would clear its strong disagreement with the place where it was fitted!! We simulated the project, everything worked well.....but the breadboard wouldn't allow us to materialise it in reality. We couldn't get it replaced either...(We are always short of apparatus,aren't we? :|).Three weeks passed,day of submission came yet the breadboard had shown us the courtesy only to make individual circuits work properly.It was a do or die situation...that breadboard had given us a scare!!! We made up our mind...reached some concrete conclusions. Half of us started working vigorously on the project while others engaged themselves more fiercely(Obviously...i was here!! :)) in convincing madam that the only fault in this project was the breadboard! At last we had some success......the breadboard showed some output!(Bravo for people who did it!!!) Only thing this time it showed an output of 12 no mater what the digital input was. We were forced to do following thnigs :-
1. Convince madam that our project had worked successfully dispite of a bouncy breadboard.
2.Proof the previous sentence by showing her an output of 12*1=12, 3*4=12 and 6*2=12!!!
Phew! A big relief it was.....
I have went through all this trouble to let you know only one thing.....even if your project doesn't work work well...don't worry....your breadboard is faulty...not your thinking! :) You are just another victim of the bouncy breadboard hypothesis!! :P
Monday, June 8, 2009
Saturdays, movies n sems.......
Movies.....my love since sixth standard when i used to go every Wednesday to watch a movie with my Dada,afternoon show.Even that love continues while i have entered engineering;only thing being Wednesdays replaced by Saturdays n
Dada replaced by friends!!!! COEP......college of eternal perseverence[:(]...where u are made to sweat right from starting of the sem till end through endless chains of tests n exams until holidays give you some air to breathe.I chose electrical engineering for my career, thought it suited me better than other branches. First day at college,particularly in the class....where every boy seemed a geek(leave alone the beauties..:P),I thought I had done myself in..but the moment we started conversating with each other;the scenario was totally different! They were just like me, two of them(They are still interesting enough to keep me away from others!!! ) ;we shared same interests, n to my surprise.... they were better movie maniacs than me!! Even I dont recollect how the chain started; but after first two weeks it was all movies n saturday......a new movie every saturday...at mangla or e-square . It was all fun;(We were very attentive on saturdays.!!!!)...imagine waking up at every saturday by a call releasing all kinds of shouts(u knw...******##***); only to make you realise that you are running half an hour late...(Again!!!!)....its already 9 o'clock whereas you all had decided to meet at 8:30!!! Then all hush n rush......putting wateverclothes you get your hands on and making it there somehow at 9:20.[:)]. Then affection to movies increased to such a level that we started to bunk every lecture(I was in defaulter list of all the subjects!! );sit at my home enjoying a movie on dvd eating maggie we bought in the way. First sem passed, my results dipped like anythnig ever(got 6 in maths!!!);but still the movie mania continued...second sem passed;this time my friends's results took a nosedive and we were seeing more movies than before!!!! But still it was worth it.....where college freaks you out for a complete week,watching a movie releases all your stress out;for all those three hours you dont think of anything; you are in a world that movie puts you in....enjoying thrill,action,emotion,drama and climax....But i have to agree- If the movie isnt woth the hype you feel liking banging your head on nearest wall plus you feel sad for wasting your money( It comes very hard for me!!!)
Since then my love with movies still continues;never ceasing to end. Current streak stands at a whooping 83(last one being Angels n Demons...didnt like it though....) and it'll continue to increase one by one every saturday...[:)].
P.S. :- My parents don't know anything about it.....so please if anybody of you know them personally, its a humble request please dont tell them...they'll kick me out of the house!!!!
Movies.....my love since sixth standard when i used to go every Wednesday to watch a movie with my Dada,afternoon show.Even that love continues while i have entered engineering;only thing being Wednesdays replaced by Saturdays n
Dada replaced by friends!!!! COEP......college of eternal perseverence[:(]...where u are made to sweat right from starting of the sem till end through endless chains of tests n exams until holidays give you some air to breathe.I chose electrical engineering for my career, thought it suited me better than other branches. First day at college,particularly in the class....where every boy seemed a geek(leave alone the beauties..:P),I thought I had done myself in..but the moment we started conversating with each other;the scenario was totally different! They were just like me, two of them(They are still interesting enough to keep me away from others!!! ) ;we shared same interests, n to my surprise.... they were better movie maniacs than me!! Even I dont recollect how the chain started; but after first two weeks it was all movies n saturday......a new movie every saturday...at mangla or e-square . It was all fun;(We were very attentive on saturdays.!!!!)...imagine waking up at every saturday by a call releasing all kinds of shouts(u knw...******##***); only to make you realise that you are running half an hour late...(Again!!!!)....its already 9 o'clock whereas you all had decided to meet at 8:30!!! Then all hush n rush......putting wateverclothes you get your hands on and making it there somehow at 9:20.[:)]. Then affection to movies increased to such a level that we started to bunk every lecture(I was in defaulter list of all the subjects!! );sit at my home enjoying a movie on dvd eating maggie we bought in the way. First sem passed, my results dipped like anythnig ever(got 6 in maths!!!);but still the movie mania continued...second sem passed;this time my friends's results took a nosedive and we were seeing more movies than before!!!! But still it was worth it.....where college freaks you out for a complete week,watching a movie releases all your stress out;for all those three hours you dont think of anything; you are in a world that movie puts you in....enjoying thrill,action,emotion,drama and climax....But i have to agree- If the movie isnt woth the hype you feel liking banging your head on nearest wall plus you feel sad for wasting your money( It comes very hard for me!!!)
Since then my love with movies still continues;never ceasing to end. Current streak stands at a whooping 83(last one being Angels n Demons...didnt like it though....) and it'll continue to increase one by one every saturday...[:)].
P.S. :- My parents don't know anything about it.....so please if anybody of you know them personally, its a humble request please dont tell them...they'll kick me out of the house!!!!
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