an Innocent Life

where do i begin??

lot of things going on lately which has left me so darned busy. long days.. reach home after 7 now( my fault), auditioning for Incident (am in Dumb Charardes , potpourri and wordgames so far-the fault why am late), dropping off in HDL,MC and that one class of CS, etc, etc…

Of late, i restarted using Google reader to keep track of feeds.. which will also explain why ive not been commenting on you people’s blogs more often.. u know its just that im so lazy and there’s way too much to read. Also started subscribing to Comics on it, hence 2 of you will have to adjust with my excessing comic strip sharing ( reading PHD comics, Calvin and Hobbes, Dilbert..)

Then there’s of course the quiz auditions on Monday and the article for the College magazine to be written. Man!!! do i have my hands full!!! so full that i guess i will have to stop reading Shantaram.. renewed it last weekend and havnt read a word over 200 pages

the only good thing that i ve noticed lately is that im being more like myself deciding to give that “nice boy” tag a bit of a nudge

p.s. if any of you people believe that EC students are nerds… well u havnt met our 2nd year bunch of nutcases.. check out this 20 second video from Vigneshwar containing a crazed moment from the last trip . sadly , i wasnt there eventhough the subs totally suck balls there’s hardly a dull moment in coll

/reflecting on the fact that ive used too many smilies in this post

yesterday me, Syn and Raison ended up going to Engineer 2008 at Nitk- the engineering fest. Karthik sadly cudnt make it. unexpected last minute change of plans. Since it was the last day, we didnt get to see very much of anything. we reached there at 4 something and sat in for the Apple demo by a senior guy from Ample tech., their leading indian partner. then we didnt have anything much to do after that since either all the good events were in the morning or at night. but it wasnt all that bad. i met a lot of my old friends who i havnt met in almost a year!! chatted with most who were there. checked out the canteen and found out that the same guy who owns our college’s one owns this one too !!! Arun (a nitk friend) took part in the Architect competition ( build strong structures with ice candy sticks and fevicol). he came third. overall Engineer had a lot of innovative competitions and workshops. sad i missed it

but wait thats not all…. next up is Nitk’s Incident’08 and Yes, i am going to take part in it. so now the preparation begins … i dont want to make a fool of myself na it may also mean bunking about 4 days of classes the fest is from 27th Feb -3rd march.

wish me luck.. taking part in quizzes and word games…

“…and for this topic i would recommend u to read the first prescribed textbook, Ayala. Kenneth J. Ayala….”
Heads turn towards me from all around the class. Sudhir shouts “Kenneth!” while Amruth exclaims ” Aila?!” ( if u get tat pun ).
it s not often that my name comes up in a classroom discussion.
i was ,of course, expecting this reaction when i had gone through the syllabus earlier on.
Everyone likes a good diversion.. especially when we have just come back from the holidays and confined to sleepy classrooms.

My name, being a foriegn name, doesnt appear much out of the way. it did pop up once in primary-the fourth standard- in a poem called the ‘Duck’s Ditty’ (i think) by scottish poet
Kenneth Graham. this caused a fair amount of hullabaloo in the class that i remember so much about it. Also you might have come across it in the credits of movies,..etc. especially in the credits of Tom and Jerry cartoons.
You will find there’s a Kenneth Muse in there.

All the same i like my name ; the whole of it, and ofcourse all the undue attention it brings

04/02/08
the day was more or less the same….. the start of the EC fourth sem!!! typically started off with what we have become so accustomed to-no class.
Actually we had labs which are not held in the first week so afternoon free, yay! plus LIC ma’am left us after just 15 minutes of class.
as it is, the wednesday is the prescribed half day but i forsee more with tutorials usually being the casualties.
The teachers are average. we got our NA sir teaching us S&S another mass-audi subject, which is good. The rest of the lecturers are new to us,
a couple of whom we have met earlier in the labs last sem. only time will tell how this even sem will turn up! what with apparently the fest line up and all.

the above para was written by me 2 days before this present one.. just observe the change in it.

06/02/08
the days are getting back to boring. our attention span has gotten less and i think that the new subjects are the culprits. every time that the lecturer turns towards the board , we look at each other and give a smile acknowledging the fact that not much is actually entering our heads.
rest of the time if i look around i mostly see people staring blindly at the board with blank faces showing no emotion. dazed.
ok so we have 2 HOD’s the EC and the Math one. most of the subjects that we have are frigtheningly horrible and most of what is taught so far sounds very much like gibberish.
its as a friend said ” this sem when we understand something its like we are glad we are making sense of something at least.”
also those free hours we enjoyed so much last sem are going to be scarce this time around with the B section getting 2 of the lecturers who allow their classes to be cancelled.
they already have tomorrow free due to that. the CS sir looks nice.. he’s one of the most experienced one in college.
In HDL u cant talk. MC sir wont allow us to come in t-shirts. most of our subjects deal majorly with maths.
Everywhere…. integrating, differentiating, laplace and z transforming, fouriers and other series… forming an integral part of the subject.

so here we go!!!!

p.s. we got saturday off