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I am back with a Miss !!!

2009-11-09T11:56:00.003+05:30

Trying to guess by the blog title who the Miss is? ;) Well, I might just disappoint you this time. I am not referring to any girl here, rather I am referring to miss that means "regretting the absence".

Well, the story continues.. I have been missing many important event's of my life's journey and here I am all set to miss another one. :(

The company I work with, Symantec, is organizing a STAR (Symantec Technology and Response) wide event to celebrate the recent success of our NAV/NIS consumer release. It is organized as one of the most innovative and thoughtfull event which is to have all the fun, food and entertainment events for a full day long in a naturesque place. Its on 13th Nov 2009 and I am gonna miss its memory. But never-the-less, I have a reason to miss this event that surpasses any joy that I might have got in attending this event. I am going to see my new born Nephew "Vihaan" for the first time during this same time of event when my brother is celebrating his birth (brithday-28th Oct. 09) at my home town. :) I am rather excited about my visit to home than having missed the office gathering..

As I started my post with, this is not the first time I am missing an important event due to its clash with other priorities. I have missed quite a handfull like below:

1. My School's 25th year, Silver Jubliee, function, when I was in class 9th.
2. My School's Farewell function and the grand party, when I was in class 12th and it was my farewell as well.
3. My Engineering college's Department farewell night when I myself was in Final year.
4. My professional life's first work company Symantec Corporation's Silver Jubliee Grand function organized when I was about 6 months old in my work place.
5. And here goes the recent one.. My company's acclaimed high innovation, highly fun filled celebration (which is sure to leave a lot of memories) to celebrate our hard work that made our product a success.

There are more to above, but seeing above list's I am now taking these misses as routines in my life..

[Well guys, this is my post after about 34 months of break.. I now plan to keep my blog up. :) ]

One Fantastic Eve.

2007-01-13T10:21:00.000+05:30

That was the time of half freedom. The last string of work was tying us restraining from becoming a lukkha of final semester. On 8th Dec'06 morning, my MTP (MTech Project) report of Stage-II was submitted. Presentations for the same were scheduled on 17h. After 17, it was sure a celebration time.. But still the feelings showed up on 8th evening too.. :D

It was one of the best evening in its own genre.. A comibination of things that I havent tried before..
Well, we first went to "Go-Karting" in Hiranandani. I did this for first time. I came at 1st rank with Avg. session lap time of 00:35:48 seconds. Good for the beginner, I suppose.. :)
Next, it was turn of "Banging/Dashing Cars". Its always a fun banging others..
Then it was time for some food (God, I love food !!). We went to "KFC", then "Galleria" for the same.
Lastly it was time to relax. We spent some good time in "Cafe Mocha". Jayesh's Takila shot of Coffee will always be a memory.. ;)

A good time for 4hrs.. IIT doesnt refrain us, but the system doesnt give us regular time for such wonderful eve's..

There was even more left for the day.. We came back and joined the birth day celebration of 4 of our friends at 00.00am at night,, followed by movie at room.. Isnt it a great way to use time !! :)

Doing What you want to do.

2007-01-05T01:27:00.000+05:30

Its always so much of a satisfaction in doing/achieving whatever you have ever thought to do. And it add's to your satisfaction when its done with extra incentives and results..
I had always thought of organizing a batch celebration together in open air. After becoming CR (Class Representative) for CSE MTech 2nd Year, I very much wanted to have a freshie intro session to be organized in OAT (Open Air Theater) of our great hostel Hostel-12. I could not do it since after the Departmental Freshie Welcome event, got late enough to get dark outside. :( Alas!! I missed that chance.. (But still I settled for 2nd best in going to lake side. ;) )

But as said, "There is some good in everything that happens". On new year eve of 2007, I got chance to get my desire done. Despite not getting total support of batchmates for any celebration (due to academic load), I still organized a New Year Party on the Hostel-12 OAT. Both batches of CSE MTech 1st and 2nd year were part of it. The added attraction was the Bonfire celebration. It still gathered a nice number of my pals to join. Although I expected more people to be there on the get together, but it was a satisfaction from within to have done what I had always wanted to do while being a CR of my batch.
I indeed felt, "Life is too short not to make the best and the most of everything that comes your way everyday."

So, do whatever you want to do in your life. Never keep any emotion/desires pending to the best of your effort. Live upto your dreams. Only then you can enjoy your real self. :)

Among the happiest days of my life.

2006-12-21T01:35:00.000+05:30

Few days back I was enjoying some of the happiest days of my life.
I got placement in Symantec Corp. Pune from IITB campus and right then on the same day I went to my home to attend my brothers marriage. Double most happy moments occured together in my life, with no tension left at that moment. :)

1st Placement phase in IIT was from 2nd to 9th Dec. I had confirm reservation for 9th night and 10th morning. But when I got placement confirmed on the early morning 3.30 am on 8th Dec., I planned and left on 8th evening itself. I got few days to spend with my brother before making him sit on ghodi for the Baarat. His marriage was on 12th Dec. '06 from Shahdol for which we left our home Durg on 11th evening. My placement in 1st phase helped me to stay home 2 extra days than planned. I returned back on night of 17th Dec.
Needless to say, I enjoyed the whole week to my fullest. One of happiest man at that time.

I am not putting up here all the fun I had during the trip, coz there are many worth mentioning and I dont have time to put up all here. Anyhow, those moments will never get away from my heart.

Fighting a BAD day!!

2006-11-14T11:08:00.000+05:30

Today is just another day, but not as usual to me. Some day you wake up and find that you are not in a good mood. It contributes from everywhere. Be it your talk to your friend, be it negligence by someone, be it a bad dream. All seems to be against you & conspiring..

The source of bad mood may be varied for me, but the hidden conciousness had caused it for me today.. Sometimes you just cant stand these.. Dissatisfaction turns to Anger, Anger becomes Hatred, someones smile seems laugh, or even listening to someones name makes u go mad.. I hope I dont hurt someone today!!

The best way to avoid foul mood is, what I thought, to write it down. Hope this will help me get back to normal early..

Similar feeling!!

2006-10-24T15:09:00.000+05:30

Ohh no!! Its coming again. I can sense this.. Having witnessed it various times before, I can tell u for sure that its the same.
Last Diwali too I got the same feeling, and after this Diwali vacation is coming to an end now, I am getting it again..

What is this feeling??
"The feeling that I wasted my vacation. Ohh, I could have gone to home instead." :D

Anyways, taking this wholesome deal was not a big deal either. No matter how less I worked, I did something. :) Having went to home, I would have taken atleast 2 more days to get into the mood of study.. This should mean that the feeling I am getting is deceiving and I did the right thing staying here.

Having recently been to home for Brother's Engagement (during Dushera) & with most judicial semester on the way, I am happy that I took the right decision.

I missed my home, but with friends in here the feeling is subdued. Do u wana know what I am waiting for now?? Well, I am waiting for my friends to come and share a lot of sweets.. Yummie!!

Happy Diwali..

Why this mentality?

2006-10-23T00:22:00.000+05:30

Nomenclature: WD -> Work Done

1. Max u(WD by Leader) - v(WD by public)
subject to condition:
u,v > 0 &
u/v > 4 (Magic Number!! :D)

2. Max (Chaos + Effort Required for WD)
subject to condition:
Support/Motivation/Involvement by public is minimum &
Prob. of progress/success is still maximum
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I know guys, Its a very fuzzy way to express myself. Dont break your head on above.. ;)

The thing is, people expect default behavior from the leaders. Want everything to go right, but yet without their own invovlement. This is a general scenario which I can very well associate with the term 'Indian Mentatliy'.

When criticizing the govt. people talk about bad roads, pollution, thrash, crimes, mismanagement, etc. They want everything that can be corrected and go right, to indeed go right.. But the catch is, without their any contribution (except for the critcism).

I remember when I talked to few people about the "Juhu Beach Cleanliness Drive" early this year, many people had a laugh at it. They believe that things cant go right. They are not willing to do their part (not also when they themselves are throwing wastes). But they still want Indian Beaches to be clean like any foreign nation's famous beaches.
When and How will this Indian Mentality will change?? The above is just an example and if you really think, you can find N no. of examples where you yourself can play a part in improvement.

People also expect things to be defaulty done by the leader, without junta itself showing any interest in it. Tell you friends, this is the age of expressivenes. We need to emphasize on our demands to get things done. Even if some leader is interested in doing something new, he may atlast avoid it if the task dont get people motivated. So try to be expressive.
The power of expression and a hand of support can take things to a better level.

Humans Vs Machine Learning.

2006-10-18T16:37:00.000+05:30

What you are going to read is a basic draft written in mostly one pass. (Disclaimer -- Some analogies may not be intuitively descriptive). If you know some terms related to 'Machine-Learnig' approach, then its an easy ride for you.. :)
[Note: in brackets you will find analogy to help easy understanding]

To go with Machine Learning Way:
"It takes time to learn Classifying (understand) different points (people). It takes a lot of instances (experiences) to be able to build a good classifier (impression). You can fasten the process by Active-Learning (enquiring about someone) to learn quickly.

For many a dataset (persons), the initial-guess (First-Impression) decides how long will it take to get a perfect classification (Faith). The slope/gradient (small small acts) decides the converging(goodwill) rate."

We apply Machine Learning, in a way Human thinks and percepts various things. Being human and our own Active Learner, why we take so much time to judge someone. We judge people, go along with them, but most of the time people later regret of having misjudged the person. Why is it so?? May be we are not seeing enough features (taking kernels to higher feature space) of the person. Or may be we (our classifiers) are not adaptive.

The classifier needs to be keep on trained, on not just training set(inital impression), but also on the furthcoming Test dataset (actual personality) so as to learn and adapt. The more time and instances we give to the classifier, the more we can understand the classifier.

The boundary values (or Support Vecotrs) are the good points which decide the classification hyperplane in Machine Learning. Similarly, its only in the time of crisis that u actually judge the real person. The character of the person is not what he does when everything is going right way. Its judged by how he handles pressure and behaves when things are not going right.

I always hope that people should not always form a rigid first-impression. Its important, but so is the time and reliability. Having judged a person in a long run (or having trained a good classifier), always will get you in touch with the right person. Be ready to accept them being a HUMAN. If Machine Learning can do it with a good accuracy, why dont we give chance to people around us.

[Please comment on the blog. Read it multi-pass and tell do u find analogy fine?]
Thanks,

Not a FOOL, but still !!

2006-10-17T00:17:00.000+05:30

Every one does some foolishness at some point of time. It often effects us, but more or less they become memories of long time. Today just sit and think about what all foolishness u have done in your life by now.. I am sure u cant refrain a smile thinking those, and magically u still remember most of them even may be after 10 years.. :)

Actually foolishness is something you do without thinking of the consequences. In a way you do things which tempted you so strongly that you did not even thought of diving into the matter. Am I making sense on this for you.

Well, Today I was thinking of some such cases of mine.
Tell me,
What will happen to you, when in your life your first (and the only) proposing to a girl happens only in the 4th or 5th meeting with her?
How will you react when your Cheet sheet slips out of your Desk during the examination time? :)
What impression would you get, when you send a Friendship request mail (offcourse on the friendhship Day) to a pretty girl who is your co-classmate, when u both dont even realy know each other well?
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..
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I think it may be difficult for you to get the feel of above, but to me they are some of the memorable foolish acts of past. Although few of them dont seem that bad to me now. After all, expressing oneself is a good thing. :)

There are many more, which better remain confidential. After all telling all the foolish act open in the public is also a foolishness in itself. :D

I am Back !!

2006-10-16T23:30:00.000+05:30

Am I really Back??
Well guys, for this you have to keep watching the space. I will try my best to be regular on this.

As latest update after last blog on April'06,, I have stepped into the 3rd Semester of my MTech. :) Its a tough, not so tough semester of the Mtech program,, but its rather the crucial one too. With Placements scheduled on this December and PPTs already began, its a high time to tie all the knots tightly.

So do u wana know how my time is getting passed these days?? After taking two of the toughest thought course this semester, I am really understanding whats streching the limits really is for any 6 credit course.. I am sure after the semester is over I will rejoice this 3rd semester of my MTech prog. as one of the best semester of my whole Engg. life.. :)

Thats all folks for know.. Have a lot of work for now.. Stay tuned.. I will be right back.

Being Extrovert

2006-04-14T23:11:00.000+05:30

How does being an extrovert helps? People generally dont like to be an introvert, not even ambivert.. I had always tried to be an extrovert and am practicing it. As result of being that, I developed a notion about myself "Whats on my mind implies What I say and do".. Today I feel like analyzing upon this..
I agree that this has given me much satisfaction at many times, coz u dont have something hidden in ur heart. Its better to speak out whatever u feel like. It helps u remain stable and open in ur thoughts.. The question I generally face is, Is it really helping me?? Many a times it works against me..
People can judge u more precisely, know whats on ur mind, have their own strategy for u, and u can do nothing coz u are already an open book.. They have very less to guess about u..
Its like, u wont buy a toy that has a minor crack.. But if that toy is packaged nicely and if u dont even now whether that toy even works or not,, even then u may opt to buy this.. The same principle apply to characters and human beings.. Thats why I wonder, is it helping me.. If someone reading, feels that he can help me with his opinion, u r welcome !!

One of my friend often reiterates on me certain things like, "Kyon Bataun", "Kya hoga Bolke", "Koi fark padta hai kya", etc.. And many a times I had been thinking this, "Does it really matters behaving an extrovert?"
Frankly speaking,, at the current instance,, I am really confused about these thoughts of mine. Currently I know one thing, I am taking some time to think about it and decide which way I wana head !!

Perceiving Reality

2006-03-29T23:13:00.000+05:30

I had wanted to pen down this blog much before, but got time now..
During some recent days, I had perceived a feeling which I feel had given me a touch to reality. No matter how open u r, no matter how u treat the mob, no matter how u feel within,, The people around u may have their own rules of classification.. I guess its a nice time for me to accept this truth, and be ready to face the similar challenges when stepping into the real world after this educational phase..
The discrimination in thinking of people persist, even in an institute like IIT. Discrimination by region, discrimination by language, discrimination by group, etc.. Although this feeling of mine had find a place in my blog, but to its +ve side, I am happy that there arent many people like this and such people can be counted on fingers, but still... there are some people who still discriminate.. No guess, Why??
I had always tried to walk together with the folks and always kept the feeling of humanity with the pals,, but had realized this harsh truth that this is something that not all likes.. Again,, No guess Why??
But it still gives me courage.. that I had gathered more appreciators around me than any common man have, and I know the way I go with people, meeting with equality, will be doing its effect in someway or the other to the ones who doesnt care for it !!
May we all always live in a world with equality,, and May we all contribute to this !!
[If u had read this, Please do not ask me the motivation for this blog. Thanks. ]

A whole new experience.

2006-03-05T13:49:00.000+05:30

From last 2 days I had been involved with the 'Secnet 2006' event organized here by the CSE dept. of IIT Bombay. (Today is 3rd and last day of event). I was a member of the workshop team for the 'HoneyPot' workshop. That was all together a different and quality experience for me.
When the team of Secnet was being formed, I was too much enthusiastic of being involved in the organizing stuff, that it felt like I should be involved and doing most of the things. But later when time passed, I realized the fact that how tough the time can go in managing things.. I was jumbling most of my commitments and still trying to give my best to get them all right. Managing time along with the studies here (especially when we have 5 courses already screwing us) for an event such as this, made me more strong to feel,, how much satisfaction one gets when all these pass away successfully. Yes, I did managed my studies and workshop,, taking time for all the commitments,, and mostly fulfilling them.. The workshop was fine enough to satisfy the participants..

Vamshi & Shyam, both were good supporters and caring, and helped me a lot in managing my time well. Thanks to both of u. My other partners of workshop (of my batch), Alok and Vishal,, both too went along nicely with this new experience. Next year, I will try to organize a workshop by my own for the next years Secnet event. :)

All in all, I enjoyed being part of the Secnet'06. Now, the time has came to get back to the routine studies. Some quizes and midsem are scheduled this week. So, better I get back to work now.. Life is a journey & it keeps heading its way... And so am I..

Rang De Basanti

2006-02-04T02:06:00.000+05:30

Having watched the movie "rang de basanti('06)" would be better..

"Ab bhi Jiska Khun Na Khoula, Wo Khun Nahi hai Pani Hai,
Jo Desh Ke kaam na aae, Wo Bekaar Jawani Hai... "

Very True !! I was surprised to find the correlation of this movie that I watched tonight with my previous post "Man with a Mission" (this blog was b4 release of the movie).. The topic continues.. Isnt having a Mission, imp. in ones life. I agree that generally the motivation for it arises due to circumstances, and thats what was shown in the movie too.. But my point still remains intact, "Doesnt a person in his/her life go through enough such circumstance, that raises his desire to defeat those, and there by motivate him/her to fight against the wrong???? " If u have watched the movie, and if it had touched ur heart, then I am sure u wont wait for some real incident to happen to put u on this track..

The world today needs people who are strong enough and guided by their conscience to fight for the right. I am ready to take the challenge with strong WILL, whenever I feel i need to stand up strongly on any issue. And Believe me friends, .. the real game has just begun for me, and I am ready to play it..
I only want that people should be ready to change themselves before talking about the corruption and wrongs of the world. Comeon, lets try make the World a better place. Its we who comprises it, runs it, and can too change it in a better way..

The movie is the best example, that I had been trying to communicate to the people through my blogs. I wish u all watch it, and not just see it but feel and try to adopt the moto of it, and be ready to face the world, like a "Man with a mission" ..

Today I am strongly feeling to Salute again, all the freedom fighters and revolutionaries of Indian Independence, and all those too who apparently or non-apparently still fight for the good, to bring a bright change through their actions..
Keep going all bright, inspired mortals. The world does need u..

In my own lines, just a little expression :
"Un Nigaho se bhi aage dekhe, jinse dikhta aakash hai,
Shitijo tak sirf nahi hai duniya, usse bhi aage sansaar hai.

Un Ummedo se bhi uncha soche, Jinki sahas rahi misaal hai,
Sagar hi nahi hai sabse gehra, usse bhi gehra vishwas hai.

Us Vaani se bhi sarthak boole, Jinse bana ye itihas hai,
Agni hi nahi hai sabse garm, Usse bhi Jwalant Awaz hai.. "

Thats all !!

Man With a Mission

2006-01-18T22:28:00.000+05:30

Ever heard it? I bet you would have, if you watch english movies. There are many movies which are based on this line. In promos they say, "Only one man can save it..", "Only this man has the power to change...", "He's the man with a mission", blab blab blab..
Well, why am I saying all this? Tell me, ever liked a movie with such a theme? I know, mostly YES.. Why is it so that such movies inspire us greatly.. As I feel is, such movies keep us motivated. We believe that one man with a will has the power to challenge and change the world..
Then what,, after such movies we get back to our original life, and then again look for such new action thrilled and motivating movie ?? Right!!

I guess, my idea is getting clear to most of you now. Ok, lets forget about the movies. Coming to the reality talk with another question.. Dont you feel that life will be boring, crawling, and kind of tiredsome without the challenge in it? What about having a mission in our life? Now this is what I want you to think !!! I was just watching such a movie now and felt motivated. Now what??

The purpose of this blog is just to throw an open question to all the visitors here, If u like such things on ur screen, then why not make a mission of your life too.. I bet u will live and feel like no less than a hero,, and will really achieve something great contributing to the world.. If you have it, its great. Share with us and set an example, but if not think about it.
The fields are endless, and i am not talking about ur job as some mission,, its about facing the world with a will to change it in the right direction. Your targets can be anything, any corruption, enviroment, rights, or anything u like. Just have belief in you to stand before the world with high WILL,, Like a Man with a Mission..

Keep your child instinct alive

2006-01-17T16:23:00.000+05:30

Yet again from the ever same dreary schedule of lectures and studies, I, with my friends, managed to get time to go outside of the IIT. We went to the girgaum beach (Chowpatti) on sunday 15th Jan. I was initially chaotic about what will we be doing there. But it was amazing for me to find out how most of us turned kiddos out there.. And tell u friends,, that was a wondrous evening for us.

Thanks to my friends (especially, Vib.) who cook up the eve, by buying ballons, and all.. (Thats why I suggest, always keep few gals in such a trip). We enjoyed the merry go round, had nice snaps, enjoyed chowpatti food as a hungry single family and lots of more fun..

A Thought :
What would have been if that child instinct was missing in our character? And what if it gets lost when we grow old? I feel that many people out of something, avoid being childlike at times,, and I bet they loose many a good time for fun. After that trip, atleast I decided to keep that instict alive within me for as often as possible.. What about you?

Welcome All

2006-01-16T18:45:00.000+05:30

Today I got to know about a fact. The year 2006 began and will end with a sunday. Highly unlikely event to happen again in our lifetime. So friends, enjoy the year with maximum number of sundays. Happy Holidays!! Have Fun !!

Fun is the inherent part of our life. Being this my 1st post in my blog, I take it as a privilage to wish a happy, adventurous, yet peaceful life to all the visitors of my blog. Keep smiling :)