HUNGRY NIGHTsss

So,ultimately the semester is in its penultimate incarnation...and this definitely deserves a special mention...DA HUNGRY NIGHTS.

And boy what nights were they..

reigning in the taste buds and daydreams of a trio was the bursty and cheesy "CHEESE BURST"

(courtesy dominos).Every saturday would unveil the evil ,the darkest of all from deep caverns of manipal,and ascend into sheer mercilessness.They would devour the thick layer of bread studded with cheese and a wave of mexican green and leave no traces of their heinous act.

Time has rolled on...but the spell of the night seemed to have transcended into a ritual now...as days passed on...life would witness one of the most incredible friendships based on sheer hunger and lust for a unique piece of pizza.As if first of its kind...it was subject of attention and humour and rumor among allies and others.

DOWNLOADING ,UPLOADING n LEECHING

Hello all ..I am not a computer-freak but i am deeply involved in downloading + leeching + uploading.. I agree that in MIT we don't have gud wi-fi connections or to better say they are overloaded because of people like me and many others.

Now i wud start from beginning when i was in 1st year . we all got TATA wi-fi connections then.
Speed was not gud but we were able to use torrents which give constant speed so it was okay even at the speed of 6-13 kbps..at this time i was a terrible downloader and there were people who kept their laptops on for 24*7 hrs .... no other reason that most of charger and batteries were down even before completion of 1st year (why to curse HP-COMPAQUE then ?? [:)] )

Anyway i was more lucky than others to get my battery and charger replaced by HP while most of others got only charger replaced.

Anyway now moving on to the 2nd year , we got I-ON , some gud speed but with some conditions imposed on us like mahe proxy.Connection used to end at exact 12:29 AM but downloads used to continue ....only thing was that you could not browse the net.But proxy thing was soon checked over by DJ python script (thanks to him). Our ultimate source for download was MEDIAFIRE and DUCKLOAD ( not commonly known to all ). Rapidshare and Megaupload were blocked completely and even we can't download properly from other servers.

This was the time i entered into leaching and ended my year with ending up as a PRO-LEECHER. For those who don't know what is Leeching i would simply tell that you are just providing links for things like softwares,movies,tv series,etc. which other people demands . Check out my favourite orkut communities

FREE FULL DOWNLOADS (http://www.orkut.co.in/Main#Community?cmm=26015095) and MEDIAFIRE DOWNLOADS (http://www.orkut.co.in/Main#Community?cmm=48973053).

Now as we entered pre-final year here @ MIT, we heard shocking news that only available LAN connection was taken off the 10th block for us. We were doomed with ION moving its prawl over the 10th block. Finally we were set with the only conclusion .... Lets take AIRTEL in groups ...that's the best way possible . Ion seriousle causes trouble more than before ..even i can't open my best source of warez leeching ===> katz.cd and it troubles with its embedded troubling features like watchguard ... see pic below



All these troubles won't stop me and many others from leeching and uploading...
Yeah about uploading ...i started it about 1 month ago...but have to rely on IE for uploading as all other browsers asks for PROXY with the exception of IE ..... uploading changed my schedule a lot .. i had to wake up around 5:30 AM for uploading ...speed varies with traffic and time ...
I usually get speed around 2-5 mbps in morning and 500-900 kbps in evening (this is for uploading only) .But as i already told u ION is great , sometimes it gives 15 MBPS in evening .
I had taken a pic but it has gone with formatting...

MY VIEW : Administration wants to make MIT equivalent to IIT's [:)] but it can't be
just done by making good solid infrastructure only . We require good net speed also
which is given by LAN only.So please make all block equiped with LAN. WI-Fi may used in IC, NLH , old college building and also the new one.


SO ,if u are @ MIT ...... Take AIRTEL connection becoz ION sucks else go for mediafire , duckload downloads only. If any other observation is made by you all , please share here.


Now its time to start studying as mid-sem starts within 3 days...People looking for internship advices can contact me and also all those interested in leeching and uploading.... [:)]

Message for people looking for internships and trainings ==>
Its time to spread spam emails now [:P] otherwise it would be late.

Anyway i have 2 more topics in my mind on which i will write in future :
1) MIT CENTRAL LIBRARY
2)Hungry Nights....ummmmm
So gudbye to all and best of luck for your mid-sems...

" CAT "

We all heard about "CAT" ... rated as one of the most tough competitive exams in the world.
But it is even tough job to appear for CAT...Yes...really it is..

Now i wud like to go thorugh some picturesque...these just show that it is INDIA ...really competitive for anything.... above can see future managers can't even manage themselves [:P]...
Somewhere situatin was good ....
1 of student told that he came down at 7 to take the forms which were to be given at 9:30 ..
there were already 15 people before him with the fact that the earliest person came at 5:30 AM..





What d hell......Fight for CAT, Fight before CAT n Fight after CAT...
This is the destiny of CAT aspirants...
Well , best of luck to all of them.


Comments are welcome as always...
have a nice time...gudbye...

Techtatva 2009

I remember that i started this blog with the first article about REVELS 09 .
After such a long break this blog continues with TECHTATVA 09 (www.techtatva09.in).

This time there was a new event category VITUVIRUS .
Response obtained was massive from the massive batches [:D] .
Particularly in events like TECH-OPS , MATRIX ,etc.
Codebreakers problem were not too difficult but only the time would decide the winner...
instead of 20 hr if they give complete 24 hrs this event would have got more participants .
Only AIRTEL connection exists from 12:30 am to 5:00 am in all the blocks.
Anyway i feel that it was managed better than previous year's fest.
Hats -off to all Organisor's , Event heads , Category heads.


Our team " TEYCH " was formed finally and we entered into the circuitry with event of TOKYO DRIFT ..this was the our first attempt which was overflowed by the Team SCHNEIDER and some others .. but our team is not discouraged .We were able to identify our mistakes and would definitely do better in future.

Meanwhile sessional 1 marks were out and i was doomed....but i didn't even had time to remedy over it .... now coming to the Placements....
Only 3-4 companies had come till now .

1) Netapps : took a CS guy with gpa arnd 6.6 and paying him around 6.5 lpa (the rule does not apply for 10 pointers [:P])

2)Tescon : still interviews to be taken

3) Futures First : some 9-10 people were short-listed for interviews

4) Deloitte : 500 students were allowed to sit for written.
At the end of the day they selected 11 people out of which 2 were from KOTA (my hometown ) : Ms. NUPUR JAIN (EnC) and Ms. RICHA SHARMA (EnE)
conclusion : Deloitte people wud take you on your communication skills .
Heard that package is somewhere around 4.5 lakhs, not sure though.

5) JUNIPER NETWORKS : Conducted a test for 6 months paid internship for EnC,CS,IT,EEE branches.Selected 11 people ...
Conclusion : EcE n EEE shud also look into CS n IT branch subjects like DS, OS

Congrats to all selected...

Now at this time i am still deciding what to do and what not to do..
Some people in lab's marks *** in front of my name..
Some people praise me in some communities for my leeching and uploading work..
And i am still wondering whether i have lost my true capabilities here...
This question needs answer but here at MIT, Manipal i don't have liberty of time to think and work on this..Let's see where future takes me..but now its time for assignments once again ...

I still cherish those moments when i could capture anything without any stress on brain and at this time , i can't even remember after putting loads of stress.Hope you people enjoy ur weekend ..gud bye...will return soon ....

Please point out any error if here ; through comments..
If anyone wants to contribute here , contact me ..

TELECAST TIMINGS

FINALS at a Glance.........

Finals

AMAZING WORLD

1. Brainchild of Harry Lumsdar, first used in the 52nd Regiment, Got popular later on.

A. Khakhee (eldrich got this one from the audience)

2. Initiative called Mood Consulting from the world of Godrej

A. Funda answer, something to do with mood modulated homes by Godrej properties and they give you houses based on moods etc etc (kickass crack by Christ University on Table 5)

3. Delsey Boyle, 105,000 Dollars, team of 11, one vote

A. Best job in the world by Queensland Tourism (no one cracked it)

4. Developed in 1980 by Mehboon Ul Haq, another british professor and Lord Meghnad Desai

A. Human Development Index (cracked by IIM B)

5. Rengade and Renaissance have replaced two others.

A. Basically renegade and renaissance are codenames for Barack and Michelle and two others were for George and Laura Bush

6. Business - Moving from Corking and Tainting

A. Related to wines and champagnes

ROUND 2
AMAZING IDENTITY

1.Logo of Mohan Meakins (cracked by yours truly)
2.Logo of Nobel Foundation, pic of the floormat was there on which winners accept the award
3. Pic of Carla Zletkin on a stamp. She gave the world WOMEN's DAY, which is incidentally today
4. Pic of Ashok Kapur(repeat question from another campus round this year)
5. Pic of TELSTAR ADIDAS FOOTBALL. Funda is the football was named thus because it was the official football of the WC Football which was going to be telecasted on TV, thus from television star it became TELSTAR
6. Pic of Steve Jobs with "It's True" in the backdrop
Cracked by RVCE, it's basically to denote that they were changing their systems to Intel.

Round3
Tata World

1. Taj changin its name
A. Gateway

2. Titan watches under 500 rs.
A. Super Fibre

3. TCS has a strategic tie up with which superbike manufacturer?
a. Ducati

4. Tata Tea could not get OBV as the domain so they registered wat?
a. Jaagore.com (obv stands for one billion votes)

Round4
Lateral Pickbrain Connect

1. Raghav Bahl, Dilip Sardesai, Dainik Jagran & Akshay Kumar's CC2C song played in the background.

a. TV18

2. Manoj Bagdale, Bajaj Allianz, Tata AIG & Ringa Ringa played in the background
a. Rajasthan Royals

3. Allianz Group, Manipal Group,ING Vysya Bank & Indigo Nation and song from Meerabai Not Out
A. Anil Kumble

4. Nimbuzz, Mandi Bazaar, Second Life
a. tata indicom

Final Round
3 clues

1. Rand Corporation
2. Michael Porter's 5 force model (IIMB gave the answer on the 1st clue)
3. Economies of Scale, again IIM B cracked it on the first clue

FINALS

Finalist teams were :-

1.TEAM 1 RVCE = HARISH & SAMARTH
2.TEAM 2 IIMB = RAHUL R. & SIDDHART VIJ
3.TEAM 3 CHRIST UNIVERSITY = ANIRUDH & ABHINAV
4.TEAM 4 BMSCE = BALRAM S, SANTOSH S
5.TEAM 5 CHRIST UNIVERSITY = SANHARSHAM & KULDEEP
6.TEAM 6 IIPM = DIXIT & JAY

TIE-BREAKER

It happened for the first time in history of CRUCIBLE that there was a tie-break between 4 teams. Anyway to sort out this, PICKBRAIN give a q's:

1.It was something like this...
My brand name comes down under daughter of mythology god MYTHERIAL(dere may be errror in my spelling)...a local brand under coverage

NANDINI

even after this tie-break persisted so

2.Punchline "Together we can" belongs to?
CANARA BANK

WILD CARD ROUND -2

Q1. This leading multiplex chain in india is part of Gujarat florochemicals ?
INOX

Q2. Which media group is associated with video magazine "pu mallav/y?
SUN TV

Q3. It is a film production house and is conducting a campaign
"pen uthao. bollywood hilao"
TIMES GROUP(MIRCHI MOVIES)

Q4. Carol bartz ,CEO of YAHOO was previously CEO of ?
AUTODESK

Q5. Dettol is owned by ?
RecKITT BENCKISER

Q6.Pepsi to apple ?
JOHN SEARL..

Q7. PRO. vaughenburt at stanford university designed this ...
SUN's LOGO

TATA CRUCIBLE - a wonderful Experience

PRELIMS

Q2 Logos of FIAT in the given years.. [the latest logo gave us the clue]

Q4 Largest book publishing company....... ans: Random House

Q5 ans: Times Now

Q6 ans: hp [quite easy]

Q11 The entertainment company started by Chris More, Matt Damon & X . Identify X.

        Ans: Ben Affleck [a sitter]

WILD CARD 1

Q1 This man registered his company at the Isles of Man.

      Ans: Naresh Goyal [jet airways] a sitter again..

Q13 Identify the logo .....

Ans: The Nobel Logo

Q8 Identify her: Ivanka Trump

TATA CRUCIBLE 09 @BANGLORE

Dear friends i don't know how many of you know about TATA CRUCIBLE CAMPUS QUIZ which
is being held since 2004.Well it has a great name and we came to know about it as we entered the venue of quiz.Its a city of great managers,technocrats and corparations as well.

It was a tough job for our team after working for REVELS and we were just able to take bus around 9 p.m. to BANGLORE on 7th of march.Registeration for quiz started about 2:00 pm in the NIMHANS convention hall,BANGLORE.As far as i can make a good guess ,more than 500 teams had applied online for the quiz and about 270-280 teams had arrived there.TATA CRUCIBLE CAMPUS QUIZ @ BANGLORE received a huge response of public marking the highest number of teams participating from a centre till now(in 2009 quiz).


Well quiz started a bit late, but PICKBRAIN(quizmaster)took up the speed and we all went for the PRELIMS ROUND.Here i would like to share some q's that i still remember.


Q1.A ice-cream punch-line "count the flavours where the flavour counts"

Baskins & Robbins


Q2.They had given 3 pics each with a year 1907,1925,1968;respectively.
We had to identify the connecting brand.

Fiat

Q3.Its a apparel company which has launched one stop for NECKTIES & **...
Identify the company

RAYMOND

Q4.It is a very big book compnany..q's was much longer ..can't take it down fully

Q5.Which channel had launched the obama campaign with head-line
"when a nation voted for change"
"a new leader emerges"

Q6.which computer major has taken initiatives to take back old computers at some
of its stores and thus going towards green environment.

Q7.which company has made a tie-up with CN for use of BOB the builder & DOEMAN on
its school bag brand BUDDY.

VIP

Q8.pic

Q9.Japanese company -deals with optics and imaging-name comes from god in greek
mythology

OLYMPUS

Q10.pic of a management guru (foreign one)

Q11.don't hav full q's but
chris moore + moot demon+XX = something was here written
wht is x?

Q12.MOM & ME is the store of which one of most popular automobile comapanies ?
this company has started moving to electronic market as well now.

MAHINDRA & MAHINDRA

Q13.pic = ?

Q14.It is a multi-brand watch store by TITAN in BANGLORE?(oops,local one)

Q15.Tim cook is acting as CEO of which company as its original CEO is not well.

APPLE

Q16.A company's red and white can design have been taken from the colors of CORNELL
football team.which company?

Q17. pic=?



This was the PRELIMS round.After this 16 teams were selected, 1-4 were reserved to play in final, while 2 groups were made :1)5,7,9,11,13,15 & 2)6,8,10,12,14,16.
Out of each of 2 groups , one team was to be selected to be played in finals.

WILD CARD ROUND 1:-

IT was completely a buzzer round with +1\-1 as scores.

Q1.
ANSWER was NARESH GOYAL

Q2.Jaiprakash described this moment as a master stroke in political sarcasm

NATIONALIZATION OF BANKS

Q3.It is a 1 word/term ;capital expenditures of certain assets under accounting rules, particularly intangible assets, in a manner analogous to depreciation.
AMORTIZATION

Q4.This word can be traced back seed work-person who manages his household
ECONOMICS

Q5.....

Q6.This was created by MFS investments in 1927.
MUTUAL FUND

Q7.In 1975,Ogilve launched the ad-campaign "Don't Leave Home Without It" .
AMERICAN EXPRESS

Q8.Indian political statesman who called himself pilot (in 1946).he also started KALINGA AIRLINES...

Really a very gud q's...BIJU PATNAIK...

REVELS 2009

Sorry people just too late to write something about our cultural fest REVELS-09.Well done the REVELS TEAM, it was a very well organized effort from your side. This was a four day event ,from 4-7 march. EVERGREEN band rocked on 5th march in the battle of bands .I had an equally good time while acting as an organiser.


Well keep it up MIT.