UG2K4 and football

I just looked at avi's status. It read "missin futball". I think we as a batch are crazy about football. Football was in my view one of the first good things to happen to our batch. At the peak of our playing time 70% of the college starting line-up came from our batch. It formed a part of the daily routine of a lot of people and was one of the high points of life in IIIT for some of my batch-mates. We won *EVERY*competitive match in 4 years except for 1 draw this year. I think I can safely say that no batch/house will ever match this. This is a list of the people who played for the batch. Sorry if I miss out on anybody. This is a random order. People with a * played for the college as well. I guess we are the "invinvcibles"

1.Avinash Shukla*(F) -Captain
2.Kochar*(F)
3.Rishabh*(GK)
4.Arjun*(RW)
5.Pavan Pandey*(LW)
6.Ankul Batra*(D)
7.Pratyush Bhatt(M)
8.S.Rahul*(everywhere!)
9.Turbo(M)
10.Supreet(D)
11.Joy(D)
12.Rathi(somewhere)
13.Singla(D)
14.Mohit Jain(D,GK)

It has been a pleasure playing with you people over the years. I hope we can play one more time some day and kick some more ass :)

PS: I too miss futball :(

My introduction to IDE's and why I hate Google

One of the reasons I never liked programming had to do with "vim". I never liked the interface. It seemed too geeky and dull to me. But during my intern I have come to work with two new IDE's. Visual Studio and Eclipse. I liked Eclipse the most. I have kinda started to enjoy programming with Java on the eclipse IDE. It's fast and reasonably error free. Plus the IDE does a lot of conceptual checking for you along the way. Pretty neat stuff.

I can now imagine a barrage of pro-Vim comments. Vim is good in it's own way. It's pretty fast in dealing with long files and has a lotta functionality but it can never beat an IDE.

Miscellanious things

1. I hate the subway guys here in Bangalore. Apparently there is no cheese or mayonnaise in the sub-of-the-day in Bangalore. WTF!! plus they are pretty rude. I miss the Jubilee hills subway :(

2. I am planning on getting a CCNA certification. The exam is easy but it's expensive. I plan to dupe the college into paying for me :D

3. From my 2nd year to my 4th year, Google always used to have vaccancies for a job profile titled "Information Security Engineer". Just when I am in a position to apply for jobs, Google removed the position from India. I hate you Google :(

Back to Bangalore

After a pretty uncomfortable journey on a APSRTC bus I'm back to bangalore. I can see why people want to have offices in this screwed up city. Even though there are no good roads, lots of traffic and and a pretty high cost of living it's a hill staion compared to Hyderabad. After a week of Hyd's blazing heat this feels nice.

Here is pic of my workspace it's a pretty neat place with lots of space and some major computing power.

















In totally urelated news

1. I don't who Vijay Mallya will fire next.
2. I do know that deccan chargers totally suck
3. Man-ure won the EPL fair and square but they still suck and so do chelski.
4. I tried to sell my laptop, but there were no bids. One matka did send me a mail where he offered to pay me Rs.7000 for a laptop with a HD screen that runs crysis on medium at 1280x800 at 40 fps. And we wonder why we make fun of matkas :)
For those wondering why I would want to sell such a laptop...well it's a 17inch, 4KG monster. Not interested in carrying it around anymore.

The return of the student SysAdmins

Finally the server room has been returned to students. From next year Kulbir Saini and yours truly will try our best to revive the IIIT Network. This transition has taken the students, and a few of us in particular a lot of hard work. It's sad that it took so long for this to happen because a lot of talented people in UG2K3 and UG2K4 missed out on being SysAdmins. I hope such a thing never happens again.

Amitabh Bachchan's blog

Yes I wrote a post! After almost a year in hibernation I wrote a post! And what drove me to write about it?? Amitabh Bachchan. I was going through his blog. It's more like a press release web-site rather then a blog. But when you are Amitabh Bachchan you can do pretty much whatever you want :)

For the un-informed I am in bangalore interning at RSA Data Security! (That's why you don't see me in campus...mystery solved!) It's a nice place to work. Will write about it in some future post.

Found out today that, pretty sadly two of the brightest students of our batch are passing over the chance to study at Stanford and Colombia respectively because of a lack of funding. That suks big time. For all those alumni out in the industry earning big bucks: Considering all the college has given would you like this to happen? and are you sure you can't do anything about it?

Congratulations to the following people

Shashank J - IIM Ahmedabad
Joy Bhakat - IIM Calcutta
Samba(sreekanth p) - IIM Calcutta
Abhay Kesharwani - IIM Calcutta
Arjun A.V. - IIM Calcutta
Ranjai banerjee - IIM Lucknow

donno about anybody else sorry if I left you out :)