Say hello to 2010 and Goodbye to 2009

Well another year comes to an end and another starts.

Don't know how this cycle keeps on going.The last year breezed by so quickly that before I realised its 2010.

2009 hasn't been that great a year for me but I hope to make amends in 2010 by making it the best year till now in my life.(well that's the resolution we do take in the beginning of the year isn't it?) I just understood how great people can be in the previous year.People whom we think are the closest to us turn out to be our bete noire!So its not worth it spending our time thinking about such people cos the more we dwelve into others' minds the more we lose our own identity.The more we think why the other person hurt us,the more we hurt ourselves.The bottom line is that some people never change no matter how hard we try.Hope they eventually realise our worth and make amends.

Very excited about the Indian Science Congress '10 which I'll be attending in Trivandrum this week.Will update on the event once I'm back from it.

Ignition '09

Well,it was sympo time today.The day went off quite unexpected as there were loads of surprises at store.

First thing,our college symposium hardly attracts participants from other colleges.Even last year there were around 20-30 for the symposium.So this time too we expected only 50 to turn up.But guess what-the total turnout was 380+.Now believe the kind of hard work we guys had to put up for such a challenge(if that's the name to be given).

Secondly I was one of the organisers for the event "Mechathlon".The thing is we just prepared the question paper for the finals yesterday and planned out the entire thing.The unexpected thing is that here too we expected hardly 20-25 to turn up.So didn't give much thought into conducting any sort of prelims.Plus 2 other guys had taken the onus of preparing the questions.But today morning I find them nowhere.

Time : 9 am only 2 hrs remain for the prelims and no paper set yet!Entered the CADD lab hoping to print out the questions.But where are the questions?!? So off i went googling "mechanical quiz questions" and voila,the very first site that pops up got all the questions.

9.30 am By now we selected the questions and finished editing the prelims paper.Now it was just a matter of time by which we managed to take printouts n xerox. Came to know that more than 43 teams registered for Mechathlon(each team has 3 members).So realised that we had a big task at hand.I prepared few tie breaker questions too just in case!!!

11 am Prelims under way.You should have seen how much I was sweating it out!!!running here n there.Seeing that all the things were in order.

After this 5 teams got selected and each of these teams were assigned a volunteer each to accompany them in their journey to being the ultimate mechanical champion!I was in charge of one of the teams.Now here's the format of the event:

The contestants are given different tasks in different labs and they gotta finish them up all within 90 minutes.Tasks involved were maching a cylindrical workpiece,carpentry,sheet metal and tasks in SOM,DOM n thermal labs.

Time: 1.50 pm The event gets over and so does the lunch in the canteen.Survived on few biscuits and an ice cream!!!

In the meantime we gotta see some of the coolest cars on display like Mercedes SLK 500,SLR 350 which were both convertibles.Hope to own them some day(by legal means)!!!

Had a great day today.Only thing we all cribbed was that we got very less sponsorship with the college giving us nothing but peanuts.Still quite happy that we put up a great show!!!

A new year,A new beginning

Well today marks the first day of my 3rd year in college.I still remember that day when we just entered college,the day when we entered a completely new environment,the day we met completely new people,professors and not to forget our great canteen food to which we are so much habituated now.
Why I'm telling this is a new beginning is cos' I've decided at last to struggle hard from this year atleast.Well i just somehow managed the first two years with some decent marks(83% is decent for me!!!).This year atleast I gotta strive hard as I got number of important "career deciding" exams next year.Plus the "main distraction" is gone.What I supposed to be mine was never to be.That's life in a nutshell.The moment we think something is almost ours and we've almost reached our goal,the next moment it comes crashing down before us leaving us crestfallen.Maybe I'm better off without that "distraction".Nah,I won't mention what or who's that.The ones who know would've already guessed by now.And for the ones who don't,then "mind your own business" LOL!!! maybe i'll drop some hints in the forthcoming posts!

Aniket has returned!!!Beware!!!

Back to the Blog world

HaHaHa
Aniket has returned to the blog-o-sphere!!!
well its been quite some time since I've been blogging.
But sometimes life gives us a second chance and sometimes not.So better inscribe my life atleast online.Who knows maybe someone decides to make a film on my life such as a biopic!!!
So I'll be posting quite a few things now but in flashback!!!

Topsy Turvy Ride

19th March,2009
Well I literally had a topsy turvy ride that day!!!One of the unforgettable moments of my life.

The bus was enroute to college as usual in the morning with most of us happily sleeping inside it.Suddenly there was a loud thud and the next moment we realised our bus tilted at 45 degrees on the edge of the road.A boulder prevented it from overturning.Lest I may not have been posting this now.
Had a really long day today.The bus apparently was going at full speed when suddenly a big trailer came in front of it.So to prevent it from crashing head-on with it,the driver swerved to the left.As a result the right side of the bus dragged along the front part of the trailer thus breaking all the glasses attached to the window frame. And I was on the window seat somewhere in the middle of the bus.I was half asleep when it happened but thankfully the glass that broke near my window didn't hit me somehow.Or so I thought.

After the bus swerved off the road it was inclining at 45 degrees!most of the people got down from the front door.But some of us who were in the rear portion of the bus decided against it as then the bus may have toppled.So we got down through the windows!After reaching college through another bus(incident took place 10 mins away from college),I felt some pain in my lower back then I realised I had a deep cut in my back.Maybe it was due to my getting down through the window or maybe the glass piece would have hit me. Then we were taken nice care of in the medical center of our college.Given snacks and not to forget the great "Tetanus" injection.Parents took me home by 2 pm as I couldn't stand the pain.

Hope such an incident never occurs again.The drivers should be more careful particularly ours as he was listening to radio through his headphones!How irresponsible.He doesn'y realise that the life of future "engineers" is at stake.

Industrial Visit to ICF

Today had a pretty good time at the ICF,Perambur Shell division.30 of us class guys attended the first half of the IV.Well I was among those who "bunked" the second half of the IV.
To start with,we assembled around 9.00am and it was only around 10.15am when we got to enter the factory."HUGE" is the term that comes to my mind when describing the factory.Its basically like a workshop where they assemble and manufacture the railway components.(well what else do u expect in a coach factory). Pretty interesting though we had to walk a long distance inside the factory.Must have knocked off a couple of kilos!!!

Photography was prohibited until I took snaps without getting caught.(u r r8,i like breaking rules).
We exited the factory around 12 thinking of having lunch in the ICF canteen.But compared to it our college food turned out to be better.Seeing is believing,so we decided to have lunch outside.3-4 guys brought their cars,so we stacked up inside them and went to the Hotel Paramount right next to my house!But after that most of us didn't return.Not a sensible person can walk again for IV after having so much for lunch.I would have puked for sure!!!
Heard that only around 15 guys attended the IV again from 1.30pm.It must have been inside some furnishing division and so called "museum".It went on till 4 pm.Just the time I got up from a heavily needed sleep!!!

Back 2 blogging

hey everyone,
me back to blogging after almost 2 months.The main reason being I was out of blogging for so many days was simple--I got BORED of it!!! But now Im bored of everything else so blogging maybe a way out.
Have been pretty busy since the college opened.Loads of tests,record works,long bus journeys.
Now practicals in a month and then sems from November---Hectic time ahead.