Calm before the storm

Warning: REALLY LONG POST!
But, do take some time off and read. I think you'll like at least some parts of this post.

Its been a long time since I last had something to say. I am awfully bored! I'll have to start working next month. So, I thought I had plenty of time to accomplish a lot of things that I had always wanted to, but never could/did. Iceman's exam review inspired me enough to come up with my own review about the 8th semester exams of VTU. But mine isn't as dramatic as his.

Advanced Computer Architecture: There's nothing advanced about it. We still refer a book written in the early 90s. This subject usually scares the hell out of us students(SE,CO anna!). Almost everyone wrote the third internals in this subject. That's partly because of the subject and partly because of the lecturer, who didn't value our blue books! So, no one knew how much they had scored!
As luck would have it, a fairly easy paper. Most of my mates have managed a decent 60+ score.

Mobile Communication: For the last 4 years, 28hrs of this subject would cover 100 marks. This time, the 28hrs covered only 80 marks. Many heavyweights got stamped! :)

Cryptography and Network security: Lots of computation in this. Math like. I liked the subject. The evaluators seem to have been really jolly when they valued our scripts. I got an unexpected score. Higher than what I had expected. So did many others. One person attend 96 marks and, yeah..u guessed it, got 96! No, I didn't get 96.

Project: Well, let's just say I am glad it's over. :) The ordeal we(my 'team') went through the day before the project will require another 'REALLY LONG POST' and will be a blow to many king sized egos.

OK, results are out. Engineering is over. The dissatisfied have applied for revaluation. A heavyweight applied for reval in a subject he/she had scored 80+.

Coming back to boredom, the power cuts begin to take their toll. So, no visual entertainment for most of the day. I turn intellectual and read Advani's autobiography, Atlas shrugged and the Discovery of India. Boring, bland books. Autobiographies are meant to be inspiring/informative rather than interesting and I've never liked Rand's work.Let's not get into book review or reasons why I didn't like them. This'll then become a 'REALLY REALLY LONG POST'.

So, have been living on a healthy dose of political thamasha on newspapers and WEEK and India Today magazines. Awfully bored! :(

Some of my closest friends have started working. Their paid vacation is over. Suddenly, the response time for each sent message has increased exponentially. Can't blame them. Probably , I'll be the same too, come next month.

Forgot to mention that I've been doing a lot of research on bikes. I plan to buy one next month or in early September. Some friends have helped. Some(one) say(s) i won't buy one! Iceman's mails helped a lot. :)

The one other thing that I've done is watch Kurosawa's classics. Really impressed. Yet to watch the Dollar Trilogy. I still haven't watched even a single episode of 24 which was lent to me by a good friend some time ago. The Dark Knight is now #1 on IMDB's Top 250. I think it's because of the hype that it's Heath Ledger's last film. He died in January this year. I haven't watched the movie yet. I don't mind changing my opinion after watching the movie. I usually don't like superhero movies.

So, that's about it. This is all i had to say. I am glad I haven't made the routine "Now I am an engineer" post. I hope the power situation improves. Can't do much without it! On the verge of completing all the three afore mentioned books. That's 2500+ pages in 2 weeks.

I hope, the appearance of "REALLY LONG POST" and "REALLY REALLY LONG POST" more than once did irritate you. I hope you smirked.

I just previewed the post, and I'll have to make it a little longer to make it a "REALLY LONG POST". So, here is something that I didn't want to post, but now will.

I had planned to write a book!
Pure fiction with the usual disclaimer. I misguided one friend by telling him that it'll be based on Freaky Chakra (REALLY BORING, POINTLESS MOVIE). But, I wanted to write about a policeman of the Raj. He commits suicide bang on 0000h 15th August,1947 for having shot at his 'own people' in the Jalianwala Bagh massacre. I had wanted to play Rand and be very philosophical about guilt! I freakishly wanted to call it "Tryst with destiny"!
But I didn't write, rather type anything.
Guess I just lost interest.

I hope you are still smirking.

Finally, the reason for the title; I am awfully bored. I'll soon be very busy. It's obvious now, isn't it.

You surely must be smirking now!

Upon reading the first line/disclaimer, if you had scrolled down to look at the lenght of the post, you are not a fool or unintelligent or a person with low IQ as many e-mails claim. You are just normal.

The smirk is now a grin, isn't it?

Ciao.