It's already a month since I landed here in Bangalore. I got my laptop two weeks back. It's a
Compaq nx6310. The routine of assignments and tests started the day before we got our laptops. I guess the course still hasn't reached full steam yet as we still haven't started working on our projects. Sleeping in class is not something new to me...but do you dare sleep in front of a camera that is capable of 240X zoom???
It's not that the professors complain about sleeping in class....I guess they have seen this in their life....and the worst part is that the notebooks tend to fall down from the desk with a loud thud...and everyone turns in that direction immediately...
the person wakes up from his sleep and gives a sheepish grin...
Monday, August 28, 2006
Friday, August 11, 2006
Home Sweet Home
I've returned home for a short vacation...till the 15th of August..
Yesterday I had to rush to the station with my friends and got a good taste of Bangalore's horrible traffic...The railway station is around 35 km. away from where I study. I caught the bus at 7:30 pm. Under normal circumstances, it would have taken me an hour to reach the station, but I reached the station at 10 pm. Fortunately, my train was only at 11:45 pm. But still....
Some of my observations...
1. Driving sense gets an absolute zero...sometimes goes into negative values as well... Not that other cities in India have a driving sense....but still these people never use that something called a common sense.
2. All people drive on all sides of the roads...buses on all roads in India, except Bangalore, are supposed to keep to the left or rather drive on the left side of the road...
Here 's the base rule...In all other parts of India, people drive on the left side of the remaining road, but in Bangalore, people drive on the remaining of what's left...
3. Bus drivers think they drive a bicycle and that they can squeeze in within the smallest of gaps. The bus driver on the other side of the road thinks he can do better...and finally both of them end up in front of each other and quarrel in the middle of the road, while the whole traffic goes around them a la Kathipara junction..
4. Every hour is busy/ rush hour....however you wish to call it
5. The horn is the most potent weapon on the road...everyone thinks honking would scare the hell out of the other person....but when all people have the same opinion, it only ends in noise pollution...
I'm not a Bangalore basher by any means....I love the place for the beautiful weather, but if only God could give the people of Garden City some common sense...
Yesterday I had to rush to the station with my friends and got a good taste of Bangalore's horrible traffic...The railway station is around 35 km. away from where I study. I caught the bus at 7:30 pm. Under normal circumstances, it would have taken me an hour to reach the station, but I reached the station at 10 pm. Fortunately, my train was only at 11:45 pm. But still....
Some of my observations...
1. Driving sense gets an absolute zero...sometimes goes into negative values as well... Not that other cities in India have a driving sense....but still these people never use that something called a common sense.
2. All people drive on all sides of the roads...buses on all roads in India, except Bangalore, are supposed to keep to the left or rather drive on the left side of the road...
Here 's the base rule...In all other parts of India, people drive on the left side of the remaining road, but in Bangalore, people drive on the remaining of what's left...
3. Bus drivers think they drive a bicycle and that they can squeeze in within the smallest of gaps. The bus driver on the other side of the road thinks he can do better...and finally both of them end up in front of each other and quarrel in the middle of the road, while the whole traffic goes around them a la Kathipara junction..
4. Every hour is busy/ rush hour....however you wish to call it
5. The horn is the most potent weapon on the road...everyone thinks honking would scare the hell out of the other person....but when all people have the same opinion, it only ends in noise pollution...
I'm not a Bangalore basher by any means....I love the place for the beautiful weather, but if only God could give the people of Garden City some common sense...
Friday, August 04, 2006
A Simple Man
It's been a week's time since I landed up at the hostel in IIITB. Classes started on Monday, July the 31st. We have 5 courses to complete this semester. Among them is one Algorithms course....
The prof. who handles the course is the simplest person you can ever meet....He's a gold medallist at MIT, not Madras Institute of Technology, damnit....did his Ph.D work there with 6 Nobel laureates...got his B.Tech at IIT, Kanpur....M.S at MIT
He has biscuits and fruits for lunch and dinner....travels by the city's public transport system.
Now, here comes the best part....in his first class...he showed us an animation of a knight moving around a chessboard on all directions and decrypting a 'Sloka'
And then he jumped off into a realm of information....at the end of it we were all fully drained and did not understand a word of what he said!!!
He handled the subject at such a high level that everyone in class started wondering if it was right to come here in the first place....
Then we had a one-to-one session with our seniors...and they said that we would come across several situations like this and this was part of life here.....
Hmmm.....Lets see.....
The prof. who handles the course is the simplest person you can ever meet....He's a gold medallist at MIT, not Madras Institute of Technology, damnit....did his Ph.D work there with 6 Nobel laureates...got his B.Tech at IIT, Kanpur....M.S at MIT
He has biscuits and fruits for lunch and dinner....travels by the city's public transport system.
Now, here comes the best part....in his first class...he showed us an animation of a knight moving around a chessboard on all directions and decrypting a 'Sloka'
And then he jumped off into a realm of information....at the end of it we were all fully drained and did not understand a word of what he said!!!
He handled the subject at such a high level that everyone in class started wondering if it was right to come here in the first place....
Then we had a one-to-one session with our seniors...and they said that we would come across several situations like this and this was part of life here.....
Hmmm.....Lets see.....
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