to visual studio....

I have been doing this thing called .net for only 2 weeks now and am already more than stumped...
It is as good as programming language gets....
I dont think that putting the codes and fundas will excite many of you...
but the best things are sometimes better heard than said...
So if u havent done .net yet plz plz do it... It is too good not to be known!

Now this is geeky and all.. but still I think that i know what objects are! i guess u must have heard OOP for sometime now.. I have been for more than 10 yrs now.. but only last week realised how powerful it was and why there's been this hype abt it for so many years..

After Visual studio, i am a bigger Microsoft fan :)

The Indian era.....

India poised is only a recent thing that many of us have realised through a campaign of ads on print and TV... The fact that India was 'poised' is known and is being observed for more than 3-4 yrs now.. Things are more than visible..

This post is both for the optimists and the pessimists.. I happen to be a big optimist about the future of the India story.... (though i have to agree that the journey to success will be rather long and tough one..

The way the Indian companies have grown is well documented.. We are already the largest and the best in many fields.. when i say many, it does not stand for outsourcing.. It stands for everything that you could think of...

From satellites to cars... from axles to aircraft maintenance.. from CD to Nuclear power plants... from wind energy to pharma.... There are arguments about the quality and all of the indian products.. but then who manufactures all the high quality "GAP" & "UCB" shirt that people wear in the name of quality?
It is the Indian companies... who manufactures the high quality CD's and DVD's labelled as SONY etc...

The Tata Corus deal is more than well publicised.. thanks to the media.. But then there are a lot more deals than just this one.. The foreign investments by the indian companies now exceed the FDI in India! 15 yrs back when the country took to globalisation, there were open opposition and lobbying by the indian corporates... no more.. today reliance and bharti and tatas welcome foreign companies with open arms to take up the challange... The this in itself is a testimony to the confidence and the maturity of the Indian corporates....

There are a lot of articles.. research papers on the net that speak in a similar tone.. but then this post is specially for those who are full time pessimists... if u happen to be one.. then buddy u need to be more neutral first.. dont try to argument that the world is as bad as it was for India.. atleast accept that somethings are better indeed... then may be a couple of years from now.. who knows...

BTW pls see this india poised video..

It happens only in BIHAR.....

Could any one of these ever be a beauty contest winner in any other place in the world... One of these must be laloo yadav's relative.. n the other... Ram vilas paswan's ... ROFL....

if u dont believe me... click here

Sorry if any of u were repulsed by the image....

Wake up call......

Now this is gettting real creepy for me.... have failed in the actuary exams for 3 times in a row... This is probably the only thing academically that i love to do..... really really love to ... and have never been insincere in working when it comes to actuary... but unfortunately...
Hopefully for me things will get better the next time...
No excuses... just that things are not as simple and that i take a lot of things for granted...
This is not for any of u reading.. but more for myself that i need to remind myself everyday that i need to work harder and harder at this thing for the next few months at least......

Woodstock(ed)

The last few weeks have been tough, tough in the sense that Ive had a tough time setting my priorities right...... I have never felt so much time crunch in my life... unfortunately Ive never done anything worthwhile and hence have always had so much time to enjoy(waste??)

After an era of failure, realisations that i did not want to do what i was doing and bad performances...bout an year back.... I finally found something that i really want to do.... ACTUARY...
This is now my career goal.... so much so that i wud not hesitate to leave IIT if i felt that it is becoming a really big road block.....

But then there was something else.... WOODSTOCK
6 months back was discussing this idea with himangshu.... and at that stage i thought that getting data from the net and processing it needed huge huge programming knowledge... I regretted the fact that i din know how to connect to the net to get data thru a code :( I din know how to run a database manangent thing thru a software.. I had never heard PHP... even if i did.. it was like some extension that cud be opened by IE....

But just about that stage.. i started to learn PHP... This is the easiest coding in the world.. and still so powerful !!! Actually u dont need much brains... just hardcore boring coding..... oh... and abt 2 months back i had refused to do the woodstock thing.. because Actuary exams were scheduled in November.... And that is when Woodstock was supposed to start...... Now I find myself doing the coding for the same event..... Its been a satisfying experience doing the coding... but then Actuary's taken a back seat...

The exams are just two days from today... and this time my preparation is the worst ever for an actuary exam.... Fortunately... I do have the pleasure of having done something like woodstock so successfully... (Of course this would have been a distant dream.. had it not been for Akhilesh... whom i think is the most genuinely interested computer coding guy (other than the CS guys) .. who knows everything from XML to JAVA to AJAX to VISUAL C to ... whatever I had heard of...... )

But then the main reason for writing this post......

Pls Play WOODSTOCK..... atleast i will have some comfort that the Failure (almost certain even b4 i have given the paper) in Actuary which happens to be the last thing i want to have .... is not just for a trifle thing...

PS: Sorry for writing such a long boring nerdy blog..... (I thought that this is the worst i have written on this blog) but then there was a reason :)

IIT.... Need I say more?

I guess not.. at least not in India....
These three letters are more powerful than probably anything else to prove that "u r someone worthy"

How false it all seems to those in IIT! Ask any IITian and almost certainly he will say things..
Infrastructure: 0/10 Professors: -10/10
This is not about this IIT or that... it's the same everywhere.......

But I differ... right or wrong i dont know... but there's something that keeps us apart....

I seem to find a comparison to my school... the one and only "DELHI PUBLIC SCHOOL R K PURAM"... Among 500 students who got admitted for class XI... I knew of no one with a board score of less than 90%.... Just imagine... Could it get better??? NO.... Today when I look at these friends of mine, I hardly find someone not doing well in life... Every second student there was a topper in his previous school....
So What's the point?
What this kind of competition(quality of students) does is that it takes away the (false ?) aura of being the best... It adds modesty to a lot of people... You will hardly find an IITian with the false show of being the best.... All the IITians know that there are a lot of people above them..... Some of them feel that they know nothing...

To me there is much more than that brand name that we carry... we may in general be the least sincere of the lot... but the 'output' is still much more than a general college guy..... come on... they study crap like vector algebra newtonial mechanics and matrices in their first year... (barring a couple of good colleges.. probably IIITs and ISIs)

What we study in a week is sufficient to pass the sememster exams... not just pass.. but get a good grades... and this is not because the papers are easy..... the standard of the paper is good..... (only some 'elite few' like me who dont even put in a week every semester end up with bad grades.... but even we pass (easily?))

About half the college is involved in some kind of fest or hall post.... does it help? not much.... then what's the point....
Then does doing all this extra acad helps? Yes it does... To me, a person with a good personality will end up much higher in his life than the ones who carries only good grades all his life.... One of my profs. had this comment... "You wont take your kid to school on your CG." How true indeed.

I fully agree that there is a lot missing in IITs... A lot of things could be better.... a lot of things need to be better... a lot of things need a lot of change and that too very sooon.... but then it isnt such a bad place after all....

PS: This post is for those who feel that the worst mistake was to join IIT.......
I am not trying to downplay the students of the other colleges... apologies for any inference of this kind......

To the Pseudos......

How often have u seen some 'cool' 'hep' guy wear one of these on the streets of an Indian city????


Now if u are one of those .... pls ask one of these to urself?

• wud u wear a I luv New Delhi? /I luv Bombay? Even when u have not lived there? (I luv Goa is not included ... Goa is indeed a cool place!)
  
• Were u to NY once in ur life and then u really mean u luv it and want to spend the rest of ur life there?

If the answer to both is no .. then i pity u... I mean just give it a second thought.... Dont u seem stupid... n not 'hep'....????!!!!