What they say

You know what they say about no risk no reward. Well that's stupid. There are somethings that are crucial, you don't take risks with them. People in the know, know what I'll be referring to what it is that I consider to be crucial to me. Now, there is something stupider than no risk no reward, that is taking the risk for a pointless reason for something which is that crucial. Here comes the cherry on top of it all, taking it when you rationally realise what is happening and still don't do anything about it - that is the biggest idiocy of them all.

That's what I just did. Now, off to sulk in my own solitude.

In The Waiting Line

Wait in line
'Till your time
Ticking clock
Everyone stop

Everyone's saying different things to me
Different things to me
Everyone's saying different things to me
Different things to me

Woooohh
Do you believe
In what you see
There doesn't seem to be anybody else who agrees with me

Do you believe
In what you see
Motionless wheel
Nothing is real
Wasting my time
In the waiting line
Do you believe in
What you see

Nine to five
Living lies
Everyday
Stealing time
Everyone's taking everything they can
Everything they can
Everyone's taking everything they can
Everything they can

Woooohh
Do you believe
In what you feel
It doesn't seem to be anybody else who agrees with me

Do you believe
In what you see
Motionless wheel
Nothing is real
Wasting my time
In the waiting line
Do you believe
In what you see

Ah and I'll shout and I'll scream
But I'd rather not be seen
And I'll hide away for another day

Do you believe
In what you see
Motionless wheel
Nothing is real
Wasting my time
In the waiting line
Do you believe
In what you see

Everyone's saying different things to me
Different things to me
Different things to me
Different things to me
Different things to me
Everyone's taking everything they can
Everything they can

So you think you can

Well, not exactly dance ? but closer to remain amoral. I did something today, it helped me. I also in a way did something that was ethically - incorrect.

It helped me though, it helped me a lot. Saying it out aloud is just one way to gain redemption, to be able to continue being amoral.

Still I'm Sad

See the stars come joining down from the sky
Gently passing they kiss your tears when you cry
See the wind the summer blow your hair upon your head
See the rain, the falling rain, it's great
Still I'm sad

All my sounds my tears just fall into days
They are driving the night will find they are lost
Now I found the wind is blowing time into my heart
When the wind blows hard we are apart
Still I'm sad

See the stars come joining down from the sky
Gently passing they kiss your tears when you cry
See the wind the summer blow your hair upon your head
See the rain, the falling rain, it's great
Still I'm sad

Still I'm sad
Oh heart, I'm sad
Still I'm sad
Oh heart, I'm sad

Speaking of benchmarks

Well episode 13 season 4 of scrubs was interesting, the most interesting thing in it however was the statement that JD made - "You're the one who is supposed to struggle, not me", hmm why does that sound familiar to me. It seems interesting to me that those of us who work on performance of systems don't worry too much with respect to our own performance ? How do you benchmark a human being ? when do you start thinking that a human being is obsolete and should be left to the pasture - whether he is 21 or 89. I've been told that these thoughts are 'an emotional trap', 'ego problems' and 'crazy talk'. Maybe we all really should be made to watch scrubs, just to get life lessons from it.

On the subject of benchmarks I have a couple of the more - 'gooey' things in life - those things that can't be defined with quantitative numbers. This is garaunteed to satisfy that itch to arrange, sort, serialise and stack. I present the 'Harry Potter' bench mark for fantasy novels. When you haven't read it but have read one of the harry potter series do as follows - take two books you read that the person whom you are talking to has also read. Now ask him/her (Let's stick to him for convinience) to rate the books you spoke of with respect to the harry potter series compare where you've put them with where he's put them. Now do the same for the book being refered to you. This lets you judge a couple of things, do your tastes match his, and how much weightage should the book be given. The second benchmark is for relating to a person how well an author has done with the book. Take the book - distill it into it's basic essence that is create a rough outline of the universe created by him. Now, think of what the most awesome things you could have done with respect to the same universe, now modify the universe slightly and do the same thing, do it a couple of times. Grade all the changes you made now go tell the idea to a person who has roughly the same taste as per the harry potter benchmark as you, ask them to grade it on the harry potter bench mark. Do not insert any bias at all and do the same with all the iterations you had. If you start scoring below harry potter as your number of changes increase, then place the idea above harry potter. If the increasing modifications doesn't have any correlation to the position in the benchmark put it along side harry potter, and if it decreases then put it below harry potter. We call this it iterative variant of the harry potter benchmark.

We also present here some ideas on the anime. The basic underlying point of some successfull (pop culture not rabid-anime-fan-escaflowne-is-godlike-or-I-kill-you-variety) 'collecting items'. That's right, I've revealed the basis of almost every successfull anime here - you need to collect stuff. Alright, so I've made an oversimplification, the point is - during each episode you need a monster of the week type situation which ties in well with the over all story line. There are very few ways of doing this in a formuliac manner - the simplest is to collect stuff. Take Bleach for example - you collect new zanpaktu's - not literally of course, but each week or couple of weeks you get to see a new type of sword with new powers and a new cool name and a new cool 'slogan' associated with it. This means that each week you get that craving to find out what happens this week, they feed you as little as they can get away with, and then drag it on untill next week. A benchmark for anime has not been fully developed, the use of bleach and naruto instead of harry potter is suggested, naruto seems to be a more popular option. Note that manga and anime both may be benchmarked the same way.

Now I've spent some time listening to Norah Jones, I think people should. Her voice is incredibly awesome, and the piano suits it well. So here is a song that I like a lot.

Norah Jones - Don't Know Why I Didn't Come

I waited 'til I saw the sun
I don't know why I didn't come
I left you by the house of fun
I don't know why I didn't come
I don't know why I didn't come

When I saw the break of day
I wished that I could fly away
Instead of kneeling in the sand
Catching tear drops in my hand

My heart is drenched in wine
You'll be on my mind
Forever

Out across the endless sea
I would die in ecstasy
But I'll be a bag of bones
Driving down the road alone

My heart is drenched in wine
You'll be on my mind
Forever

Something has to make you run
I don't know why I didn't come
I feel as empty as a drum
I don't know why I didn't come
I don't know why I didn't come
I don't know why I didn't come

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Sinc wave Sine Wave controversy

This is to help those poor souls who still end up on the wrong page despite my previous post go to the end of this post you'll find your sine and sinc explanation there. Since I used to turn to the internet for information while I had to deal with sines and sincs I'll help them out. Turns out search engine optimization is tougher than I thought, but this should nail it. I have the search terms in the title, and shall be referring to them once again in the body.

Now for the math. People interested in Sine and Sinc waves, or Sinc and Sine waves look no further a short summary is given below.

sin(pi*x)/(pi*x) can be called a sinc(x) wave, and from what I remember it is the result of a fourrier transform on a square wave. wider the square wave the sharper the sinc, the thinner the square the wider the sinc.

Like I'd said in my previous post- remember always - time frequency duality. That means that what looks like something (say X) in the time domain can look like something else (say Y) in the frequency domain. What is interesting is that if you have the shape Y in the time domain it will look like X in the frequency domain. I had a project I'd made that converted images to sound via their frequency a little more complex than I'd like, done in matlab though so shouldn't be a problem to most to make something similar the reason for using frequency - we know that the human eye has a range as does the human ear create a map for the extreme ends map to frequency take inverse fourrier voila - sound. Any one wonder what a picasso sounds like ?

Mada Mada Dane

To those of you who don't know what this means - boo. Well no, it means "You've still got a long way to go", like a taunt of sorts in japanese. The mada mada part is what makes it that - one mada is good, two mada's is bad ahh well what can you expect from a language with over 12 degrees of politeness (not to diss the language at all), atleast that's what harsha says.

A lot of the guys have left, in fact most have. I am surprised at how some feel they haven't coped too well and are lonely while others seem to be having a blast. Don't know. This post has been some time in coming, so I think I'll split it accross several closely spaced posts. For those that don't know - my lappy stopped working quite recently so I'm still kind of upset, send money and chocolates (and new laptops) to get me in a better mood. Ok, so now updates of a less morbid variety for those who want music I'd suggest muse if you haven't already tried it "Apocolypse please", "Stockholme syndrome" and "Assassin" being favorites untill my lappy breathed it's dying gasps. The Angra cover for Led Zep's Kashmir is of course also very very awesome. Kittie is good - but not all just some, especially those with the overlaid melodic with guttarals. Coheed and Cambria for those getting started is also pretty nice, but you need to stick with them a little, start with "Welcome Home", which is awesome.

While on the way from Home to work, which in case you didn't know of, I had gone home for about a month or so - mid June to mid July, I met this interesting auto guy. Now this is what he tells me and I repeat it as best I remember it. The secret to good health is to get up at 5 in the morning, drink water from a silver (or was it copper I forget, take silver - scientifically proven) thi s water should have been used for the germination of 'desi chana', not any other kind. Then excercise till about 6 or so, then work drink ganna juice around 12:00 or so. Have a light lunch drink not more than two cups of tea a day, do not induldge in anything excessively - don't do too much muscle building otherwise you'll regret it. Yes, and sleep at 1 or so that means about 4 hours of sleep a day not more, no chance. These tidbits of wisdom cost me about 30 Rs. extra - but then who am I to complain if the elixir to eternal life costs that much, it could easily be a lot more. Then is the people who I live around, that's for the next post though, their sense of morality is rather entertaining. Till then read the webcomic abstruse goose, XKCD-ish with more science and less tech.

I also realised a lot of people seem to get this page when they search for sinc waves and sine waves. People sin(pi*x)/(pi*x) can be called a sinc(x) wave, and from what I remember it is the result of a fourrier transform on a square wave. wider the square wave the sharper the sinc, the thinner the square the wider the sinc - remember always - time frequency duality.

Now that the lesson for the day is over we move onto the much awaited lyrics section.

Muse - Assassin

War is overdue
The time has come for you
To shoot your leaders down
Join forces underground

Lose control
With increasing pace
Warped and bewitched
Intend to erase
Whatever they say
These people out torn
A wild and bereft
Assassin is born (yeah)

Aim, shoot, kill your leaders,
Aim, shoot, kill...

Oppose and disagree
Destroy Demonocracy

Lose control
With increasing pace
Warped and bewitched
Intend to erase
Whatever they say
These people out torn
A wild and bereft
Assassin is born (yeah)
[Aim, Shoot, Kill...]

The guesstimator.

It has been some time since I last posted. Been busy with the papers of course, however I have been lazy as well as expeceted. I have of course just as every one already has - downloaded firefox 3 it's good, exactly what I need for a new browser the memory footprint is down with a little set of tweaks, it's as fast as required and it has all the eye candy any one needs . Sai has been obsessing over some pathetic twitter posts and blog or the other. As expected my contact with the others has been reduced, conversations on the net trickled down to a few lines a week - at best.

It seems as though there isn't much to write, there is of course, but nothing has been collated. I have been watching some TV series, some comedy central stuff there is a kid Demetri Martin he's rather good. Then there is George Carlin he's a little profane but otherwise insightful. On the whole a not very productive but also not unproductive week. The papers are coming along fine by the way. Music has started getting to be repetitive back to Rob Zombie I guess, although Fuel seems to be good as well, need some time off before I get back in the mood for TOOL. I got introduced to Muse - decent music progressive rock Coheed and Cambria are better but then they are different, Flower Kings and King Crimson are closer in style to them Super Massive Black Hole seems to be a decent song.

Fuel - Quater.

I know I'm dead before my time
I know It's coming down
If you could only see what's right
You'd see what's coming 'round

[Chorus:]
So I walk Alone
I ask no quarter friend
I walk alone
Til I find you again

I know no place to call my bed
But I know this thorny crown
If you would only feed your head
You'd see your hands are bound

[Chorus]

A sine wave ? is it a sinc wave? No it's Superwave !!

It seems that the fact that life has it's ups and downs is common knowledge, what isn't I guess is whether is high low structure is continuous like a since wave ? or sudden - discrete if you will, like a square wave. Do the highs or lows follow a pattern ? would the amplitude said highs and lows decrease over time ? will it increase will it oscillate rapidly varying with some random parameter ?(is it a stable ? decaying? or increasing ? wave). What is the Fourrier Transform of said wave form.

These and many other thoughts are going through my head now, now that I've left, now that I realise that my BTP was not as trivial as I thought as it was (designing a co-processor in a super computer - as an undergrad, not half bad is it ? - well I wasn't alone, but still a team of two.) - this being the high of the day. The fact that our design was not radically different from the one we were trying to beat, which came to light when I asked the guys who had come over to understand our design, a couple of questions and it becomes painfully clear that people can publish whatever they feel like, explanations don't matter, and that the work we had done, which seemed to be so revolutionary as compared to the others was in fact very similar to the work we were set out to beat.

Ahh .. sweet irony. Well not so sweet any ways, I heard a pretty interesting comment the other day, I'm talking about how the change in the electric field affects the magnetic field and vice versa in the case of Electro Magnetic Waves, and a guy says - "But damn it why does it move?", actually a very interesting question I know an electro magnetic wave has its E vectors, H vectors and Z vectors orthonormal to each other - but why must it have a Z vector at all ? I thought this has something to do with the equations of the wave when combined with whatever relativity Einstein cooked up - they only give a traveling wave equation. May be some one who is interested can model what a stationary (standing wave) version of an EM-wave would look like.

Let's see what else I left college - not tearful at all, I thought I may be but I wasn't. Some guys did come to see me off - that felt nice, I would have been much more worse off had no one come to see me off, I guess. Also I heard this song with respect to Delft's computer engineering department's unofficial video - it is a sad song but evokes a nice feeling, maybe because I have heard it in Harsha's room so often that I automatically associate it with that.

Honestly what will become of me
don't like reality
It's way too clear to me
But really life is daily
We are what we don't see
Missed everything daydreaming

[Chorus:]
Flames to dust
Lovers to friends
Why do all good things come to an end
Flames to dust
Lovers to friends
Why do all good things come to an end
come to an end come to an
Why do all good things come to end?
come to an end come to an
Why do all good things come to an end?

Traveling I only stop at exits
Wondering if I'll stay
Young and restless
Living this way I stress less
I want to pull away when the dream dies
The pain sets it and I don't cry
I only feel gravity and I wonder why

Flames to dust
Lovers to friends
Why do all good things come to an end
Flames to dust
Lovers to friends
Why do all good things come to an end
come to an end come to an
Why do all good things come to end?
come to an end come to an
Why do all good things come to an end?

Well the dogs were whistling a new tune
Barking at the new moon
Hoping it would come soon so that they could
Dogs were whistling a new tune
Barking at the new moon
Hoping it would come soon so that they could
Die die die die die

Flames to dust
Lovers to friends
Why do all good things come to an end
Flames to dust
Lovers to friends
Why do all good things come to an end
come to an end come to an
Why do all good things come to end?
come to an end come to an
Why do all good things come to an end?

Well the dogs were barking at a new moon
Whistling a new tune
Hoping it would come soon
And the sun was wondering if it should stay away for a day 'til the feeling went away
And the sky was falling on the clouds were dropping and
the rain forgot how to bring salvation
the dogs were barking at the new moon
Whistling a new tune
Hoping it would come soon so that they could die.

Incidentally for those interested I have realised that method of visualising numbers that I use, it seems I hear them as compared to seeing them in my head, although I can see them and count if I try (without hearing them) - but that is strenuous, interesting to know though.

A Farewell

Well, since I ended up missing my own farewell I went to the dept. farewell (it shall be called VALFI from now on), it was a staid affair at least for the time that I was there. I was told that the VALFIs at the hostels are a lot more important and interesting. On the plus side, I got to have vanilla ice-cream with gulab jamun, a nice combo indeed.

I hunted on the net for VALFI and found a blog with a couple of links to it ... seems to be a guy from IIT-B himself.

http://kaustubhyn.blogspot.com/2006/04/start-of-valfi-s.html
http://kaustubhyn.blogspot.com/2006/04/my-valfi.html

Seems to be a sentimental thing. Well I got to have my share of food, the profs. made lame speeches about making sure that they kept the IIT-B name aloft etc. ... well I guess I am calling them lame maybe some people were inspired, but hey this is a subjective thing not an activist blog (there are wayy too many of those in my opinion). Any ways ... an interesting experience if there ever was one. You could kind of tell that the sentimentality of the situation had gotten to some of the people if not all.

Some points to note
- Seems that these guy had their endsems at this time (well 16th is one exam I know that for sure), so they could have their farewell this late so should we...
- Instead of titles to some people, they have profile readings (these are written by and read by your own batch mates it seems) and this happens for every one. It is way better and more senti as it should be (it also lasts all night).


Thats all I guess, I am sure that people reading/not reading this may/may not find this interesting. Any ways till then.

Hastalavista BayBee ...

So long, and Thanks for all the Fish!!!

As ussual, I have made a half hearted attemept at a witty title and yet ... not managed it. Any ways, I remember some time back, I was in 2nd year I guess, thinking to myself that the seniors were getting way to attatched to the college I mean they actually missed being there, and they liked it and ... well you get the general idea. Then during the 3rd year when we gave the seniors their farewell once again I was all gung ho about not caring for the college once I'd pass out.

Well ... Today is our farewell, which I wont get to attend cause of the fact that my BTP is outside, in BBay which is not all that far away, but prior comitments have been made and must be kept. This is the only thing I have against my juniors they kept the date at some akward time which is neither too close to BTP-1 in which case I might have managed to attend it, I managed synapse after all, nor too close to BTP-2 which I can't fault them for, cause they got their endsems at that time I guess.

Any ways, my point being that I had thought that I would not miss the college when finally my time came to leave. I was right of course, but I was wrong as well, I dont miss the place, what I do miss are the poeple. I mean I have spent 4 years of my life living with the same set of people, they are as close as friends can get, so although I cannot attend the farewell I am doing somthing else. I am ermm... wrting a sort of 'Thank you for ...." for a lot of the guys that I knew over the course of the 4 years, I will most probably miss out on most, that I did know, that isnt because I forgot them (though it might be), but cause - 1) I am lazy, 2) There isnt anything specific man .. it's just in general. So, for those guys I am thanking them right now for whatever interaction small or prolonged (yeah, poor you) we had. I had thought of making the list alphabetical or somthing, but thats too difficult so I'm jsut typing them just like that, randomised to remove any sembelance or priority.

• Thanks Harsha for a Bed even though you wanted to sleep, a fellow anime fan even though I spoiled them all for you, and well simpely for being you man ... For doing wiered things like not having chocolate, for doing SEN with me, for well .... being you ...
• Thanks Kayal for the nights of conspiracy theories cooked up, with wild political debates.
• Thanks Kaloo, thank you for the music, thank you for the songs your bringing . ..
  
• Thanks Pradeep for the bed even though you wanted it more, for allowing us to make your room the common room for the wing, for listening to the music that I forced upon you and finally for shouting yes to TOOL when Black performed it.
• Thanks Neta for not beating me to a pulp as yet, or strangling me in my sleep.
• Thanks Garry for being as wild as you are, for the time we took apart muskaan laptop, and for TAgiri bitching.
• Thanks Bharad for being one of the few I know interested in math and in culture :O ... I mean whoaa ...., oooh and also for that time we went to mica and were the 250Rs. area.
• Thanks Prakhar for being artsy man, life would have been a little duller without you.
  
• Thanks Muskaan and Gandhi for entertainment man ....
• Thanks Prof. for being awesomely sucky ;), being yet another victim of my taste in music, for orkut stalking with me, and then letting me use your account to orkut stalk others for all the good times man ... the bad times, the rants and the discussions on which was the best ship, for being the guy for awesome comics and games and series and for putting up with me.
• Thanks Kaus. for putting up with me whenever I was in your room, for bearing with me making prof. laugh, and for being witness to that time when I pushed prof. down the stairs. for bringing Neta and Bhuvan to my notice :D .... and for not losing your cool when I would try to rag on your instead.
• Thanks Akansh for putting up with me in all those projects, for copying allthose assignments with me and for well an ear whenever I needed to rant, and a sounding board for my ideas and for sticking with me through the DP, and RNB :D ... for being the few that took electronics with me, and remained for the love of the subject.
• Thanks Asthana, Pentium, Nikhil, all you guys for providing us with an endless source of entertainment, and then after an hour of being ragged on making us stop with just one line
• Thanks Ravi, cause you are da Man !!!
• Thanks Pyro and Divey for being the two I know who have heard Belafonte.
• Thanks to all the girls of my batch for providing me and my friends with endless entertainment based on wild speculation, heated discussions and juicy gossip, without you guys(girls --wotevah), life owuld have been a lot more boring, and time would have passed a lot more slowly and pointers would have been a lot higher(well not really there is still the net but .... you get the picture :D ..)..
• Thanks to karry, cause you are the laziest guy I can imagine, and you still teach people a day before your own exam,
• Thanks to minni for being the few who took up cause for my own meme -- "Bloody Hell priety Sabbarwal" when every one else was shouting "This is Sparta"!!
• Thanks Ari for trying to burst the bubble around my head by making me think you were letting me win in arguments (he wasnt, he lost each time, but he did it so that every one thought that he was letting me win).
• Thanks Akhil for inflating my already inflated head by letting me win in arguments, even though you could easily have won each and every one, and also for calling me for cake that one time, and for being the butt of every joke from 4th sem onwards, and for not killing me while I slept for each time that I beat you up.
• Thanks Rahul Reddy for the Bourne Identity and others, my first ludlums, not great but time pass nonetheless.
• Thanks Divey for ermmm being nice, the very few nice people I know man and you are one of them
  
• Thanks to Harsh, Nimish Ari and the rest for their "Awesome" ness (not!!!), well Harsh is the gawdFather if nothing else thanks for being that man. And for company during the GRE crap.
• Thanks Bhuvan who will now give me a job, cause he will be a bigshot by the time I get out of Grad school (if I ever get in that is ...).
• Thanks Nirmal for being the only Kishore Kuma Listener between two Metal Heads.
• Thanks Sai, for the walks in the morning and being as shameless as me, and the always interesting Mac Vs. All debate. (you are in the RDF, there is even a paper on it now)
• Thanks to Kutte cause you put up with me during two months or was it one ? of RI, without killing yourself, esp. since I was going through my japanese words phase about then.
  

And now of course I follow up with the lyrics to a song, this one is stuitable for the occasion, its called 'The Graduation Song, it's by Vitamin C- apt I think, though I am sure I am a little too sentimental at the moment.

And so we talked all night about the rest of our lives
Where we're gonna be when we turn 25
I keep thinking times will never change
Keep on thinking things will always be the same
But when we leave this year we won't be coming back
No more hanging out cause we're on a different track
And if you got something that you need to say
You better say it right now cause you don't have another day
Cause we're moving on and we can't slow down
These memories are playing like a film without sound
And I keep thinking of that night in June
I didn't know much of love
But it came too soon
And there was me and you
And then we got real cool
Stay at home talking on the telephone with me
We'd get so excited, we'd get so scared
Laughing at our selves thinking life's not fair
And this is how it feels

1 - As we go on
We remember
All the times we
Had together
And as our lives change
Come whatever
We will still be
Friends Forever

So if we get the big jobs
And we make the big money
When we look back now
Will our jokes still be funny?
Will we still remember everything we learned in school?
Still be trying to break every single rule
Will little brainy Bobby be the stockbroker man?
Can we ever find a job that won't interfere with a tan?
I keep, I keep thinking that it's not goodbye
Keep on thinking it's a time to fly
And this is how it feels

Repeat 1

La, la, la, la�
Yeah, yeah, yeah
La, la, la, la�
We will still be friends forever

Will we think about tomorrow like we think about now?
Can we survive it out there?
Can we make it somehow?
I guess I thought that this would never end
And suddenly it's like we're women and men
Will the past be a shadow that will follow us 'round?
Will these memories fade when I leave this town
I keep, I keep thinking that it's not goodbye
Keep on thinking it's a time to fly

Repeat 1 (3x)

ok so I had tried to link to everyones blog/orkut profile but blogger seems to be making it difficult for me so, I'll leave that for another day ...

Ahh, Updates, Updates, Updates

Interesingly, there isn't much to update any one on. Started doing python for fun, have been reading a lot, mostly the old perry masons and I read a couple of Grishams books, but thats it. Nothing else, at all, seriously.

Well there is some stuff, but I'll post that once what I have thought is organised well enough. By the way the Star Wars extended universe is amazing, and I mean seriously amazing. I actually felt bad when they killed characters. That and G. R. R. Martins books, he of course kills characters with a ruthless regularity that is scary. I'll post links to sites later on, in the meanwhile, google for them and you will see what I mean. Of late Caltech seems to be an interesting place to be in, mostly because I have decieded that I shall not do stuff that isn't fun, and I thin that Caltech might be fun.

"Th-th-th-that's all folks!"

Ok, Day 3 (With all the spelling mistakes)

There was this DJ thing that took place in the FC, lots of dancing, sadly no girls this time, there was the DJ night on the 1st night itself that I think I forgot to mention. Yes, sad to say I did dance, both times, I was wearing black though so no one could see anthing other than jeans moving the 1st night- there were also GNLU girls dancing with us, the second time was in broad daylight - which I think I'll end up regretting for the rest of my life.

Jokes apart, I sat through one of the worst footloose competitions in the entire history of synapse, well -- worse than the last two years any ways. it was just the same set of guys doing the same set of things again and again and again and .... Our college won the group thing ... Dance coders were pretty decent ..., in the small duration between the end of the performances and the announcement of the results there was a short performance by these two kids (couldnt be older than 6 ?) to that aamir khan number from taare zamin par - those guys got the max amount of cheering from the audience. Annnd there was this girl from Nirma who had come a day late for naach so she performed but wasnt judged, she was in my opinion pretty good - could have given srujith and company a run for their money, had she come in time.

Then at like 9 or so RagnaRok started, it was good !!! just on the wrong day. I wish that they had had ragna yesterday, and Cynosure right after that ? or Today. There were a total of 8 teams, the last one was HTB (the DAIICT team), or Hum toh Bajayenge ('We Will Play' in Hindi, or maybe 'We will Beat Up' it can mean both), they had their last time together , it was a laugh kind of. The Bands played Trivium (they messed that one up -Lights to Flies), and Pearl Jam (I forgot to mention that Black Played Pearl Jam as well - they played the song Black). The band that won it in the end was Manefus(it means royal eagle in egyption they claim) I think, and the Best Drummer went to Nephalim(means band from hell), the Best ohh forget it. Listen to them all at - tempostand Along with Black, all brought to you by Naman, Thakur, Ujjawal and well I dunno. ...

Feel like dancing, they should have kept the DJ night tonight itself, too much unused energy need to burn it off, which is why this post.

See who ever it is who reads this 'kind of regularly', after I guess another couple of months ? or maybe some weeks, who ever it is have fun.

This one is about synapse day 2.

The previous post despite my crappy spellings did kind of give a rough idea of what happened on day 1 of synapse. Now, we move on to day 2. Day 2 had the following major events - cynosure, Raphsody (the Indian and the instrumentals) and Naach the 'classical/Indian' dance competition. Ok, so the Raphsody was ok, nooot all the great, the instrumentals were good, but the others were ok, Kiriti did a good job, I think most of the people did actually enjoy his version of the colonial cousins and A Band Of Boys - medely I think they did it pretty seemlessly. During some break in the performances Prof. Hrishikesh Venkatraman, was asked to sing, he was sporting enough to do so, though the crowd didn't seem to think much of it, in my opinion he was decent.

What else, let's see ... I think the only thing I remember about Naach was srujith's dance, which was the same thing he always does that Chandramukhi(Bhool Bhulaiya) one, it was good of course, don't remember the results.

There was procenium of course, I think our college did a decent job, the others were kind of saaad, corny jokes being repeated, and gags being shown jsut for the sake of getting a laugh without the story heading any where. Our's was first somthing about hostages being divided along religious lines, then there was Symbiosis which in my opinion was crap, then there was DEC, which again sucked, by the time ours (1st years I think)came again I deceided I wanted to eat so I left so I missed it but I think it would have been decent. Mica was good, seriously good.

Then came the event I think every one was waiting for, Cynosure was good , seriously good. There were two bands, Agnee and Black, Agni is the one that has done that theme song for MTV roadies. They had stage presence - Mohan, Koko, Arijit (Chinku), and the guy on the synth (can't remember his name), I met them all as well, but alas didn't go fanboy on them and didn't get photos with them, though I am sure I must be visible in some of the photos that all the girls had taken with them. Agnee was good, but Black was awesome, made staying back worth it. They did their originals and some seriously good covers (by good I mean the choice of songs, they claimed their covers sucked -- I couldn't notice any big messups). They did TOOLs sober, they did a very intersting version of Hotel California, they did some other stuff - one original was called field of thorns I think.

Then they left, well almost, Arijit from Agni was up there on a chair (like 3 feet away from me and almost falling off on top of us), coordinating the crowds chants with a "get back" and etc. etc. ... Finally they did come back, but didn't know what to play (couldn't play snow patrol or RATM), so they played Led Zep- Stairway to Heaven. which was awesome. !!!

This was at like 3 or so at night ... so ... that was the end of Day 2.

Hmm.. it has been a long time since I last posted, and it will be some time again for my next post. The current one will be about synapse.

this one is about synapse day 1.

Ok, so this year(2008), Synapse was organised by our juniors. and personally I didnt expect them to do much of a job. I spent the whole day doing nothing of course, since I had decieded in my first year itself not to take part in any event that causes me to spend all three days working for said event rather than having fun. Any ways the day was a bore, it seems like hte juniors hadn't dont much with respect to the small events. Went to the SAC and there was hardly anything going on. I had a talk with harshal he was the one who told me that they were having small problems and would most probably sort them out by the next day.

Any ways, for the 1st day, the major events AFAIK were Raphsody and Rampage. Raphsoday went of decent, the third year guy once again decieded to murder pink floyd, Don't know how they let the guy in each year - dunno how he passes the prelims. There was this set of NID girls who were pretty decent, they seemed to be rather good friends as well. Karry played, and was of course good, they didnt win however. I went away for the results, and I was told that it was the girls from NID who won. There were people from GNLU as well but they were jsut O.K.

I have of course not forgotten about the streetplay but defered mention of it to a later time- namely now. Any ways, that was decent - I missed junoons performance but I heard they were good as always, I got the performance of that all girls team, they were pretty decent. Symbi sucked a lot, in the street play.

Rampage was the major event and it was of course what these guys had put majoriy of their effort in. I think they were pretty decent though. Two rounds the first one had the theme tribal - in which despite choosing 'models' that I would not have, they did pretty decent. The second theme was retro/rodeo, the first team did rodeo, they actually did look rather decent in their cowgirl outfits, every one else did retro. What is messed up is that our own team did god knows what with the theme they ended up seeming like some wiered, going-on-a-mario-electronica-LSD-Shroom-trip. NIFT won, they did their second theme well, I think we should have done decent, won it I guess.

Makes me wonder why is NIFT so good at this stuff, I mean they learn how to make clothes and stuff right ? not how to be on the Ramp ? I mean we learn how to design electronic circuits not how to purify the HCl required for cleaning the Silicon wafers etc. I mean isnt that some one elses job ?