UNSUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT ( midsem - 3rd paper )

After a disastrous start with 2 papers in a row, it was the turn of most unsustainable paper of entire engg career. We along with ECE students were appearing for SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT. We were asked to write everything taught (notes + assignment – approx 50 pages). Quite an impossible task for someone like me. This meant :

NOTES of 35hrs (7 weeks 8.15 am  to 9.00 am ) = our 2 hrs 

Sufficient for antagonizing everyone against the PROF. Due to his sinister deed of setting such lengthy Q.Paper and inundating us to write.

 However, his cruel act affected few mundane souls. As many others had extended exam duration. They went on early, revised the whole thing on the desk, on the wall, pillars, their own seat for 2 hrs before exam. Some had burned their midnight oil in preparation of tidbits of notes (Chutka), writing on the calculator.

A guy carried 2 calculators with him in every exam. guess?????????

( though this mid sem didn’t had even a single arithmetic calculation involved)

What kind of calculation is involved is history of CAD/CAM. Management of information, environmental pollution (calculating the rate at which arctic penguin are causing environmental pollution or humans polluting the morning atmosphere. 

OR his cell phone bill spent on Ma , Op etccc....

On my first glance of Q.P arrrrre  SUMIT this last question itself would take 1 hrs. ( I completed it in  less than 15 minutes -- read to know  HOW & WHY)

I started writing at my own pace and completed first Q in 55 minutes, (Pranjal submitted his paper after 5 minutes!!!!!!!!) writing down everything remembered and invented during that period. My hand was severely paining after writing continuously for 4 pages for just 10 marks. Then it was turn of 2^nd question. Again a bad  start as  the first part took 15 minutes which was beyond my expectation.

 An impending disaster to proceed. Suddenly, kind of irresistible and an unwanted thought. I tinker my course of action. Aaj INDIA ka ODI hai score kya hua hoga?? I looked for my cell phone (banned in hall) in my pocket silently and started browsing for score. With full network available it took just 3 minutes (ooppsss)to show the score. The score read (80+) Tendulkar on 50.

 YAARRRR Ab jaldi jaana hoga nahi toh match nahi dekh payenge. 

  IT WAS HARD TO CONCENTRATE AS I MOVED MY HEAD HERE & THERE IN DESPAIR. .

The whole process took away my 7 valuable minutes. I was left to be perished with 40 minutes & more than half of the paper to be answered. I proceeded again,  writing at accelerated  pace with miserable handwriting and completed the paper. In the mean process taking extra sheet consumed up my valuable 3 minutes.

I tried my best and just left a Q of 2 marks. The recent development was fully unsustainable on my part.

With just 15 minutes remaining I scribbled down whatever aroused my mind at that point of time for the third question. Even I won’t be able to understand such vulnerable handwriting. One can’t resist it when 1 is at such cataclysmic position. However my natural handwriting is the same ........ EVERYONE knows..

Finally I left the examination hall discussing the paper with my mates & others of electrical branch .The final  destination as for now was towards watching the ODI. Hope, all of u had the same reaction on first sight at Q P.

I am impenitent of my act, have no regrets as I witnessed the marvelous magnum opus of SACHINs double century innings.

VOILA ! SACHIN. LONG LIVE THE  MASTER BLASTER.

There are many stones thrown at you & you turn them into milestonesssssss.

1 OF AWESOME QUOTES

You must not let your life run in the ordinary way; do something that nobody else has done, something that will dazzle the world.
Show that God's creative principle works in you.

-Swami Paramahansa Yogananda

PARTICIPATION IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN WINNING

NIT VS XLRI (@ LORDS - 26.01.10)

On the auspicious occasion of the REPUBLIC DAY the cricket match was being 

organized between the technocrats from NIT & the budding managers from XLRI. The match was being scheduled from 10.00 am.

The stalwart managers arrive at the LORDS. Player’s mean of transport was an auto-rickshaw. What? Surely, they could have afforded to keep up the reputation of hefty pay packages offered. However our star of the day VKG comes riding his black Apache. The teams practice in the meantime untill the inauguration ceremony. The total number of team members  that the visiting team could congregate was 11. Just enough to complete the squad. Among them few seemed to be so lethargic as if they were paid to be the member of the squad.

The inauguration ceremony occurs and the director is back again in action (speech) after his flag hoisting speech. Acting smartly he keeps it short. Finally after a long wait the captains go for the toss. The toss being won by home team, the captain decides to bat. XL team take the field with cheers all around. We take our position in the pavilion straight behind the wicketkeeper. As other places were pre-occupied with throng that was forcefully brought from UPs hostel. It seemed that the opposite sex was not even interested in cricket.

Only FEW had gathered there.

(YAAR GLAMOUR HI NAHI THA 20 -20 MEIN)

The batsmen take their crease. First few over were well bowled by the XL. Our batsman looked placid giving respect to the bowlers. After the span of 4 over they slowly accelerated the innings. However the regular fall of wickets was a cause of concern for the home team. Players like V. GAUTAM, MR.K, G.SINGH  etc. made a great contribution in the team total. It was because of them the team made a challengeable target. However they were really capable of scoring better than this score of 156.

Our star batsman was Santa who faced 3 balls for scoring a duck.

He was an epitome of DHAMM enterprise after he came back from the crease. ( DHAMM to be understood by only MECH people) So, the scoreboard read 156/9 in 20 overs for the home team.

After an interval of about 30 minutes the next innings began.

Team XL batsmen at the crease. They really looked underprepared while batting. As every delivery seemed unplayable to them. They were not even eager to play with the bat and were busy protecting themselves. In the first 4 overs the scoreboard read just 11 runs with no fall of wicket. First wicket fell in the 5^th over, a moment of respite for the home team. This was accompanied by 2 successive run-outs at the bowlers end. Both occurred in the same fashion. The over smart XL captain was also among the run outs.

Mr.K and V.G bowled some excellent deliveries. Their line, length was impeccable. Our fielders were showing their exuberance of youth in the field unlike those of XL. In the process they injured a XL player. The visiting team looked miserable at the crease. At one point of time it seemed they couldn’t even reach 50. However the cameo of the inning came from one batsman who played smartly utilizing the balls speed. ( didn’t remember the name)Instead of hard hitting he concentrated on placing the ball for boundaries. The wickets kept on falling at regular intervals and the whole team made meagre 68. Our star player from XL also didn’t contribute to provide some respite to the agony of XL team. They couldn’t even play the whole 20 overs.

The final result was loss of XL team by huge margin of 88 runs. An UNDERPREPEARED team. This clearly showed 

HOW CRUEL THE LIFE IS AT MANAGEMENT COLLEGES.

The pressure on them throughout their academic period to perform. They didn’t played to their potential. Otherwise few match winners of the visiting team could have gave the home team a run for their money. However cheers for the XL team who could manage to play the match on that day.

THANK U ALL FOR PARTICIPATING.

Remember 

PARTICIPATION IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN WINNING

CONFESSION OF A NAYSAYER’S MIND

I missed the flag hoisting ceremony as I arrived late at the ceremony.Shame on me…

The last republic day at college for me and I think the first. Till now I hadn’t been part of college republic day celebration due to my affection towards home. However I was tenacious to be present this time. So a day before had my alarm set on 6 ’o’ clock. The day began as per plan but with 15 minutes delay. 

Thanks to my irresistible sleep and to the inventor of snooze button along with alarm. 

It took me almost 15 minutes to wake up. Shivering cold accrued another 60 minutes to the agony. Then came Roshan holding the bucket to remind me of the time. I needed to hurry otherwise we could have got late for the ceremony. However paying least heed to him I carried on with my own pace which was indeed very slow and lethargic. 

Finally I had my daily morning exercise of the HUL products. 

( toothbrush, toothpaste, soap, shampoo, hair-oil, cream etc…-- as if the whole HUL runs for me only). The time ticked 8.15. I had my breakfast by 8.30 and was dressing up to show my patriotic feelings. Again its Roshan at the door asking me to come along. Again I waste his precious 10 minutes in discussion. Trusting the college functions and public display of indiscipline we were sure of the program to get delayed. Finally I was accompanying BABA & PRABAL along towards the college by 8.50.

However our director was impeccable this time. And to our amazement on reaching the AD building, the throng was returning back. This implied that the whole ceremony was over. Ah all our efforts go in vain. However my friends find their fruits even in most gloomy situation. This time the glamour present there was their fruit for taking the pain of waking up early. 

Sorry to Roshan as he missed the ceremony because of me. I came to know that he does not even takes food before the flag hoisting from his childhood. Salute to such patriotic spirits out there. How many of us have such patriotism, devotion and love for our country.

We should readily punish those mundane souls out there who still treat this day as a holiday. Who don’t even have time to get up for the flag hoisting and are busy dozing off on the bed. Though I am in the same league as all of them right now as I missed it too. We should condemn such people and ostracize those lazy souls who don’t even have a sense of respect for their own motherland. Such mean public are so much obsessed with themselves that they have lost their ethical and moral sense. 

SORRY for those harsh words but one should respect his country.

... ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

John F. Kennedy

JAI HIND

Unbound Controversies @ LORDS (down ground)

The stalemate match --- 21.01.2010

The match began with the distribution of 19 players among 2 teams. With unequal distribution of 10 & 9 respectively, all frenetic players barring a few like MOTA (SLOTH BEAR) were anxious to mark their impression on this to be a historic match. The 2 captains go for the toss. Finally PRANAV wins the toss and there is no vacillating decision making, as always he decides to bat first. The opening pair takes their crease. 

In the scorching heat I decide to be the umpire. Not because of my capability of cheating but to grab the bat first as the first bat gets out.  Sordidly but from heart who damn cares for the team? You got to be selfish for getting to bat in the limited edition of game. (UNIVERSAL TRUTH)

The first phase of the game doesn’t go smooth. As the lady luck fortuitously was with the opposite team. Some examples of the sorry state of affairs were Mayanks one hand catch, Pranav getting run out that on a 5 x 10 cm red brick kept at bowler’s end, Archit getting bold on Ankit’s loose delivery etc. Finally after such disaster we reach a respectable total of 91 in 14 overs. The total was not even challenging but thanks to some amazing bowling display by ARCHIT and PRANAV .They maked the target as  something unachievable to opposite team. One after another batsman were tottering to their miraculous bowling display. Archits in-swinger and Yorkers were almost unplayable. He was bowling at an amazing speed with great variations. The spell of PRANAV AND ARCHIT were doing wonders for us as all of them were getting out within this spell. Their brisk deliveries were indomitable. As usual THE controversy was in the offing as the second last wicket fell.

Yeah .. GODHRA RIOT IN THE MAKING

Intense situation arise with 7 runs to be scored from less than 3 over’s. Ankit at crease was facing Archits unplayable deliveries. Till now the only thing that came in contact with the ball was his body and butt. Archits 4^th delivery outside the off stump, ball takes an edge from the bat and to the body. The impact with the body slows the ball, resulting in a juicy catch to me as wicketkeeper. As usual like other previous matches I take the last catch of the match. Don’t know whether its tryst of destiny or mere coincidence that the last last catch is always mine. The game always ends there whether any other batsman remain in the opposite team or not. Thus the final controversy begins.

The issue was that our team had 9 players so our last player was allowed to bat single. On the other hand the opposite team with 10 players had their entire batsman out. So the last man could not bat single according to the rule book of the LORDS. Some baseless allegation follows with interchanging of the ritual slangs one after another between the players.The opposite team complained of being unknown to the number of players in both teams. So they allowed our last batsman to bat single and therefore it’s cheating that their last player is not allowed to bat single. The neutral men are consulted (murari). Even he replies in favor of our team. However the slanged discussion was not to be resolved easily. The matter gets exacerbated as it includes someone like Ankit and Archit. They were fighting as if their life is  at stake. Archit was the hotspot target from our team. It seemed that if allowed they would kill Archit. Some innovative skill in slang making is displayed by the contoversy kings. They argue for their teams at the top of their voice and using frequent slangs in favor of the opposite player. Their sordid and sardonic exchange of words doesn’t gets over there. Ankit being called CHIK…. & Archit CHA….. . The last batsman throws away his bat angrily, being annoyed with the unfruitful discussion. 

Finally the matter remains unresolved.  The final verdict  -  We declare ourselves as the victorious team as per the circumstances. On our walk towards the hostel from LORDS Archit contemplates of resigning from the game. My fervent hope is that such glorious bastards can give a new dimension to this silly game of cricket.

Baba Ranchor Das says:

Controversy rejuvenates the cricketing spirit in the tired players.

CRICKETERS UP FOR SALE UNDER THE HAMMER

Again after 2 successfulyears of completion of IPL. ( an initiative of brilliant managerial skill possessed by a non manager) the cricketers again are on sale. Showcasing some extravagant entrepreneurial skill, the current auction has surprises again via the introduction of new policy from the non manager.

 (KOI APNE JEEVAN KAL MEIN ITNE SARE CHAMATKAR KAISE KAR SAKTA HAI)

The promotions have already begun with all new advertisement marred up on television screen.

Recent threats by the Shiv Sena, introduction of Pakistan players, exuberant participants of  ICL, have added another feather to the controversial wing of the IPL.

Last year, CSR initiatives were well thought off, with the donations for supporting education system in the recent IPL held in SOUTH AFRICA. The same trend should be carr

ied forward this year as well in INDIA for improving the scenario of the rural education.

The big guns of various countries (cricket playing) are ready to fire at their escalating cost price. The current auction has 12 available slots to be filled from the introductory bid of 66 players. ( barring few last moment surprises of non manager) an interesting mix of players ranging from Afridi, Bond, Pollard have made the cut in the final list. The upper cap has been limited to 3.4 cr. for each of the teams.

The new controversial clause says that:

"when a player has attracted the maximum bid - each franchise has a cap of US$750,000 in total to spend at the auction - from more than one franchise. The franchises would then have to put in a separate, additional bid - to which there will be no cap - to break the tie. Whoever submits the higher additional bid will get the player. However, the controversial part is that the additional amount would go to the IPL and not the player."

The current idea seems ridiculous and unfair.The extra bid should be used for the purpose of supporting various social causes & should not be pocketed by BCCI. Few such initiatives could earn BCCI a good reputation for itself. If such additional money could help our nation prosper that would indeed be helpful.

Further BCCIclaims itself as a charitable organisation. it has been well commented that....

 Only in India can an organisation holding millions of "auction" money be termed a charitable organisation.And all charitable organisations must have their earnings/ expenses in the public domain. I have been told that in India 85 pct of the income earned by these charitable organisations have to be spent in the same year on the aims & objects of the organisation and the balance 15 pct within 5 years. If the bids are over 750k then the player together with a representative of the franchisee should be the ones deciding how this extra money should be spent- see how Steve Waugh has started a Trust in Kolkutta and other players have also done so- Mr Modi & Co must not have anything to do with this extra money. 50K USD will go a long way to help the poor n the suffering in India where the poor are becoming poorer which the rich are becoming richer.

KOLKATA -- I WAS COMINNNNNNN for being FaMouS (FMS)

People rightly say

 “don’t trust anybody” 

& we always tend to forget those words. I was a victim this time trusting MR.YY and result was change of plan at the death hours. The new plan was to board the train in afternoon. I knew that this person was not to be trusted. As he is always preoccupied with his PAST & present affairs.( boss PAST MEIN KAUN THA...hehehehhe)  Everyone knows about his core 2 duo characteristics.

As per plan finally I arrived the station on time with Mr.xx  (with all doors closed???  ) & Mr.yy  (dedicated .devoted, passionate about. …….jo sochna hai soch lo yaar…….).  Mr.yy impecunious trait and past experiences saves off our hard earned money as he refuses to travel with ticket i.e. we travel with 2 tickets only. This was a result of trusting the INR services & with the  new found conception that “ALL IZZ WELL”. On reaching station, we see a plethora of our friends already waiting there to get famous (FMS). We board the train in the mad rush for seats. All effort go in vain & as the only available seat was at upper birth. Adjusting to the circumstances we have ourselves at upper berth. The ride went on smoothly with a tit bit of revision of words, which had least influence on my pathetic scorel. A pack of cakes made by…………. Brought by Mr.yy rejuvenates us after a tedious half journey. Everyone has his dose of nap in between for a short interval.

The INR against expectation, breaking off its all past records reaches on time at the destination.  In my 3^rd journey of lifetime I again find HRH station with crowd strength more than  all stations combined.

(The railway station that I have been throughout my 22.3*365*24*60 are TATANAGAR & KHARAGHPUR)

To our horror we find the TTE waiting to accolade us with fine. Saving ourselves from the oblivious, feeble, cantankerous spirit we repite ourselves from him by paying no heed and walking confidently. Moral of the story :

  “Be confident whenever u make mistake”. 

As always the very scene of HOWRAH Bridge amazed me with its constructional feature. The only thing that reminds me of KOLKATA every now and then after its pollution level .Finally we reached our destination in the mad rush of KOLKATA (the life rather traffic was very fast). At an instant, even though we were at remotest part of the lane, still it seemed that a car intentionally wanted to crush us. Finally after searching for the hotel we arrived at the desired place (hotel METRO PALACE). A moment of respite after a tedious journey. It was already pre-occupied by the whole of NIT. The greatest advantage was its presence in front of a church. It was well connected & situated in the middle of the market inTHE ESPLANADE. Till now I had the misconception that esplanade was a name of a mall. I came to know that it was actually a township in Kolkata. This was our journey to the hotel METRO PALACE.

Now it was the time for dinner, with no clue where to go in search of a nice dinner. We went ahead in 2 groups & arrived at a restaurant. Didn’t knew what excited the group to have dinner at that place. May be the name ANARKALI HOTEL. After having to wait for 45 minutes we received our orders. My first impression after having the first bite of the food -

This is the hotel ANAND (vegetarian)of Kolkata with food quality even worse than OP GUPTA. 

Even ANARKALI would have refused to have food which was served to us.

 While walking towards the hotel I made an observation that “every decorated place (with lights around) in the night was  a bar“ . There were many such facades throughout the length of the streets. So this was the reason of Kolkata  being called as the CITY OF JOY.

This was all about the first day at the CITY OF JOY.

X - A - T ---- EFFECTS

Based on a true incident experienced few days before. The day when my little brain and the lady luck conspired against me  and      

  “ ALL WAZZ NOT WELLLL  “.

I am used to leading a vegetating lifestyle& belong to the lower echelon of the LOGICAL world. Hence I experienced such grave situation.

The scene starts with the Showing off of my inherent intrepid characteristics. I opened my jacket on taking my seat in the room, in that harsh cold freezing temperature. The consequence of it was my shivering during the entire duration of 2 hrs.  Readily Kept the jacket aside & was enthusiastic  for giving  X my best shot.

The invigilator distributed the Q paper to the class. Q.P comprised of 35 pages. My first take at Q.P  

OOPS it contains more no. of pages than the max number of Qns that I would be able to solve.

I really gave my best shot not to the paper but to the table on which I kept my Q paper. This was so spontaneous & tremendous producing a cacophonous sound enough for gathering the attention of whole class. The whole room gave a horrifying look to me. As if I possessed some weapon of mass disruption. The whole surrounding seemed pugnacious and arrogant to me at first instant.

Though I was not impulsive and continued concentrating on & going through first few questions. It was explicit by this time that XAT was mocking me with the message :

“ ALL QUESTIONS ARE ENCRYPTED & CANNOT BE ACCESSED ”

I endeavored to find some questions of my level. Elated to find & solve a maximum of 5 questions myself. This was the maximum number of correctly solved simeaultaneosly. Further my  affection for flowers made me attempt the DI set on flowers. (The paper seemed to be playing with my emotions.) The result was betrayal of my affection. Time loss of 10 min accompanied with no question solved. Then again went for another gullible DI set. In hope of solving the 4 questions in the set correctly. This time the result was better than previous ( 2 c + 2 incorr ). The time4education remarked on the website as “ THE DI SETS WAS ALMOST UNDOABLE ”. The level of difficulty increased exponentially as I moved on the logic ability section. The difficulty level was  next to IMPOSSIBLE for me.

“ if impossible is written in the dictionary of fools “  Then yes, I am one."

Decision making questions always amazes me. My very decision of taking XAT itself was so poor. So, How could I be certain of arriving at right answer in any caselets. Such controversial sections should be avoided. I did the same leaving out 80% of decision making questions. Tried to solved logical puzzles instead. Another trap in the offing, it almost exhausted my precious time. Although I solved about 2 sets with 75% accuracy. ( tolerance level of – 20%). Thanks to XAT, I came to know that puppies are kept in pens through a set. To exacerbate the matter a crossword was also included. In my entire life I had filled a maximum of 2 entries in CR puzzles. How could I attempt it when it was associated with logic also. I was dumbfounded via such set.

I was dancing to their tune in a bovine and non-pragmatic way.Finally 25 minutes left  for the verbal section.

One question with lots of (al,de,il)-lusion seemed to me as an optical illusion in itself.

I thought that some questions were misplaced. Otherwise how could a probability question be a part of verbal section. Nothing seemed to mitigate my grievances. The verbal section also composed of decision making, logical ability. Para jumble question have thier own  weird story. However the sentences can be arranged, they always seem to be correct. The scenario at that point of time lead me to a state of hallucination.

As usual the invigilator exploded the time bomb. Guys the final 10 min remains now. WHAT??? I almost  lost my mental balance. As I had just attempted 4 question from English section till that time. I needed to hurry and so solved a paragraph without even reading it with my general conception. On verifying the answers from internet, found that the net result  was –ve. (1 right +5 wrong). Before submitting the OMR I found that, I had attempted just 12 questions in VERBAL section.(7 during last 7 minutes with 50% accuracy).

Finally had my wildest guess of the season. Attempting Q no .93 without even looking at the question. The logic was 93 = 9+3 = 12 : 12 / 5 (no.of options): rem = 2: so marked answer to Q no 93 as 2.

Guess what???????? THE ANSWER WAS 1. I WONDERED HAD I SUBTRACTED I COULD HAVE GOT IT RIGHT.

With my power-packed performance & my illogical guessing techniques, I can guarantee that:

my probability of cracking XAT & CAT = probability of Osama bin laden winning noble peace prize.

Hence proved = probability can be equal to ZERO

People always have this misconception that “probability is never 0”. Its zero for me most of the times.

Throughout I attempted just 40 questions thus maintaining symmetry with my number of attempt in CAT. Well said “Nature loves symmetry”. I love nature more than anyone.

I am quite confident that the result would almost be the same for both exams.

Surely 99 + on the cards for me from both exams.

 (  54.XX FROM CAT  +   45.YY FROM XAT = 99.ZZ  )

…………………GUYS & GLS ALL THE BEST FOR RESULT………….…..

Hope all of u get through. Though i am sure that i won’t be a part of your successful LEAGUE. 

(LAGI SHART: @ ROOM 204 ------kitne ki ???)

Finally i disliked the whole caboodle of XAT paper. How was yours??????????