Hello World

For the uninitiated “hello world” was the first program that any respectable programming language book taught the user. Consequently this phrase has been incorporated in the everyday lexicon as the first step at anything you do. Got a twitter account, the first tweet is hello world, Have a FB? Say hello to the world.  Thinking about blogging the first blog should be hello world.

Now why do I care about it? I mean I already have a blog and I have been posting seemingly arbitrary and random stuff on that for the past- let’s see 3 years. Why Hello world? It’s easy I already explained it above. Why now?

Well now would be a good time as any to write this. Isn’t it?

On a serious note I have been pestering my friends(?) to read this blog by posting the link on their wall, putting it up as my status message, even sending them an IM about the recent updates. So for their convenience and for mine, I am writing this because I don’t want to explain certain things again and again. 

• Please don’t read too much in the title, or for that matter in the address. When I registered this blog page,  I was reading Naruto, which has three legendary Sennins , or was it inspired from the hermit crab or from some similar kind of stuff. The gist is that people thought that the title suited me and my personality and that was it.

• The caption “I am just a puppet who can see the string” is not of my own creation. They are plagiarized from what Dr. Manhattan says to Silk Specter in one of his melancholy moods. The lines kinda fit the whole hermit thing I had going on. 

• All the posts that have some mention of any girl, love affair, marriage proposal, divorce, kiss, hug, etc have no connection to the reality. At any instance of time I am influenced by a multitude of things that I am reading, watching, listening, observing( when I am not being my usual narcissistic self) and the posts are “inspired” (just like Opal Mehta was inspired) from them. So if you find a post about someone killing someone else just for getting off, you should not conclude that I am a psychopath( but then again no psychopath just comes out and claims that he is one, so you are free to draw conclusions of your own. )

• The posts that have narcissistic tones are all me.

• I don’t have any particular thing that I blog about. No Niche, no expertise on offer I just blog about what I see. So there can be a post that is seemingly considerate, and there can be other which portrays me as an obnoxious, irascible, condescending and selfish idiot. 

• I was able to put a name to the face I saw when I looked at the  mask in Venice, I won’t tell you who she is another thing altogether.

• Since I have already explained that the posts are not of personal nature, you are free to comment on them. However I am also free to make fun of them if I find them too critical.(on a serious not please leave comment even if anonymous ones, because it adds to my narcissism)  

That probably sums it all. If you want to know anything else then please don’t ask because in all probability I won’t want to tell that to you. But still you can try, because nobody knows that it might be your lucky day. 

Adios

 

Modeling and Simulation, Or how I lost sleep for a night and missed classes in the morning.

 
(The following is a recipe of destroying your life in the final year of your study. Those who want to try this out please beware that you have been forewarned of the consequences and the author won’t be held liable for any losses of sleep, mental faculty or life as you know it. )

• Start towards the end of third year by getting an ambitious project as a Btech. final year project .
• Choose project guides who are enthusiastic, intelligent and hardworking, who in turn expect you to share their enthusiasm, intelligence and most important of all - the capacity to work hard.
• In the summer after the third year of your studies go on an intern to a European country- so that you won’t like the life, food or the humid and hot weather when you get back here.
• Resolve to get a good job or a PHD in some foreign university.
• Screw your CGPA over the three years of your studies so that you don’t have an alternative other than to work on the BTP if you want to get what you resolved for.
• Clear your courses and enter the ‘final year’ (otherwise everything on this list is redundant).
• Take up an additional to cover for the scratched course even after acing it, due to some obscure rule that says you cheated “academically” by taking the said course in your second year.
• Meet your BTP guide and promise him that you will share his enthusiasm and the capacity to work hard.( You can’t share the intelligence because frankly speaking it’s not in your control)
• End up getting a task too onerous for the limited mental faculty you possess. Promise him that you will complete the task in one week. 

Sometime during this register yourself for a GRE and start taking coaching classes for CAT

• Start preparing for GRE. Procrastinate. Start preparing for CAT. Procrastinate. Leave preparation for both. Start the background study of the Project assigned to you.
• Get bored.
• Download a new TV series. Promise yourself that you will watch only one episode per day.
• Finish 3 seasons in 4 days.
• One day before the meeting.
• Panic.
• Enter crash mode. Decide to skip meals, sleep, whatever it takes to complete the task given to you.
• Pull an all nighter to complete the background study. 
• Rejoice at completing the background study, before 7:00 am in the morning.
• Decide to treat yourself for an hour of sleep after breakfast. Class starts at 8:30.
• Sleep.
• Wake at 12:30. Panic. Jump up and down. Shout.
• Realize that you have only 2 and a half hours left to come up with a good and solid model. (Remember you chose intelligent guides, you can’t pull wool over their ears.)
• Calm down. Start working. Realize that model was actually easy. The concepts fit in once you understood the background, the sleep actually helped you consolidate the concepts you studied over the night.
• Get stumped again. Start jumping again. Panic again. Again calm down.
• Pull out the mass transfer book, get ideas from it.  
• Sometime during this ordeal make a promise to yourself that you will complete the assignments on that very day on which they are assigned to you. Update on facebook about this resolution of yours.
• Get an epiphany. 

(Ok, this goes here, this goes there, and Einstein says this, Newton this and voila your model is complete.)

• Check once. Find some mistake. Check again, find some more.  Finally have a sigh of relief.
• Check the time. Shit!! Its 2:50. Get dressed up in a hurry.
• Realize that you have had an acid build-up in your stomach due to not eating which has developed a stink in your mouth.
• Brush quickly.
• Find your cycle. Paddle more than one kilometer to get to the department.
• Reach the department. Good news, you are only five minutes late. Move your watch back five minutes. Now you can walk in and claim nonchalantly that your watch was running late.
• Park your cycle. Lock and bolt it. (this is not a figure of speech, I really use a bolt but then again you have to use what not to secure your cycle otherwise it’s very easy to steal it.)
• Receive a phone call from your guide informing you that due to some reasons the meeting won’t take place. It has been postponed to the next week.
• Curse Murphy and cycle back home. Sleep. Forget your resolutions. Watch another 3 seasons in another 4 days. Repeat from top.

Adios