Change of blog!

I’ve moved to a new ‘wordpress’ blog on my own site. The new url is http://www.anuragsinghrana.com/blog. Actually, I’ve set up a new website of my own at http://www.anuragsinghrana.com which will be up and running soon. Please update your bookmarks in your browser, del.icio.us, blogroll and minds!

Adios,

Anurag.

A small survey.

Hi people,

Tanu is conducting a small survey for some advertising thing. And I request you all to go and fill it up as a favor to me. This will help her get a grade, and I know people at IIIT know what ‘getting a grade’ means! Thanks in anticipation!

Here is the link …. http://196.12.53.39/~tanu/questionaire/index2.php

Ciao.

Wrapping up

So finally my days in Delhi (or rather Noida) have come to an end. Just another 3 days to go. The project work finally got completed. Though we kept thinking about improvements, but nothing seemed to make it any better. I completed documenting it in doxygen, commenting the code and also a general writeup about the whole thing. Since about two days, I’ve been looking for work to do. There is really nothing left now. I’ve to still keep coming to office for the next 3 days from 10 to 6.

Independent for the first time

Past two months have been great. Landing in a new city alone for the first time, looking for a place to live without dad to help me out, roaming in unknown places using maps, asking people around, etc. Then, in the middle came the big tension of being extravagent. So from 21st of May, I decided to write down every transaction and expenditure, be it as less as 1 INR. Now, not only do I have a log of the expenditures till 17 June, but also a log of the places I went to, where did I eat, from where to where did I travel and by what means. This log isn’t of much importance in the sense of money matters, but I’ll still go through it once to recall everything.

Places I visited

I saw some new places in Delhi. I had visited Delhi before this only once, and I remember to have visited India Gate and Qutub Minar. This time I went to see public places like Cannaught place, Palika Bazar, Metro, Lotus temple, India Gate, Appu ghar and Oysters park, PVR Priyas, PVR Spice, and CS Mall in Noida. I also went to a pub for the first time in my life, namely TGI Fridays and Aliens Foot. I also went to a disc for the first time in my life here. Its named RPM.

I didn’t go to

Well, even this time I didn’t see Delhi completely. I missed seeing Akhshardham temple, Gurgaon, Red fort, Chandni chauk, and whatever places I didn’t mention in the above list. I’ll come here soon. Lets see.

People I met

I met quite a number of new people in this place. One of them is my dear net friend, sms friend, phone friend and now a friend-in-person, Snopy aka Alvy. She is a nice girl, too bindaas and all. Sometimes forgets me for weeks in her careless attitude. But thats okay, shes expected to act dumb and careless hehe.

I came to know some students from IITs who are interns here. They are Sandeep and Rohit. Most of my interaction in this office has been confined to Sandeep since a few days. He is a nice simple guy with no worries in life. He can be naughty at times, and irritating. But he is nice. And well he is good at maths too. At least faster than me in algebra. He has been a great help in solving some of the complex equation which play a major role in my project.

I came to know Phanindra aka Phani. He is one of my seniors from IIIT and my project lead too. He is too nice and friendly to be called a project leader. He has been working on this project of mine as a partner rather. And its so easy to approach him, talk to him, roam around, eat bhuttas, sit adjacent in movies (company outing… movie: Fanaa). Nikhil keeps teasing him all the time, hehe. He is a great guy and I like him as well as respect him.

I met Piyush sir again. He is as he was, nice, friendly and with a great voice. Even here he is a bond and people approach him for tricky problems. Though I didn’t interact much on the project front, but he has been a help in some of the problems I faced.

I met another great guy called Gautam. Another Linux lover like me. Actually a pure linux user unlike me. He is also nice, friendly, casual, jovial natured. Sits right behind me and keeps talking about Linux and related stuff. He has suggested me to try out Gentoo. Lets see if I get my hands on it sometime. We also went to a movie together.

Though I didn’t meet Dipinder (whos the head here), but still all of us admire his communication skills and the way he makes everyone feel comfortable. It has been a nice experience to work with him. Also I met our HR manager, Miss Rakhi. She has been more like a school teacher, pushing small kids to work. But then now when I think about it, I can only smile about it.

Other people I came into contact, which were again employees of Kritikal are Tarun, NS sir, NT sir, Deepak sir, and others. They all have been nice and friendly too.

I didn’t meet

I didn’t meet the only person who knew me from back home in Delhi. That is Anurag bhaiya. He is one of our neighbours back home and works in Airtel here. He was supposed to be the first one to be contacted after landing in Delhi. But I haven’t met him yet, though we talked on phone as late as June! I haven’t ever seen him in my lifetime though.

What did I get

I got a new experience of being independent. I learnt how to manage money and maybe sometimes spending it mindlessly. I learnt how to bargain in Palika bazar. I learnt to be punctual, come on time, keep working during working hours and leave on time.

I understood some new concepts in opencv, doxygen and linux. I came to use NFS which I hadn’t seen anywhere in college. I learnt from Phani, how to plan and work, instead of working in any random direction.

Whats next?

Now, I am returning home on 1 July by Intercity express. I’ll reach there by 2nd noon. Then I’ll meet friends and family, fill up my GRE form, and leave for IIIT by 5th or so. I’ve to rebegin my Computer Vision project there. And I have to complete my J2ME project. I’ve to talk to Jawahar sir for leaving in the middle and restart work on the BTP too. Next semester is going to be light. Less subjects, less working days. I might be able to sneak out to home in the middle if the schedule is less busy. Lets see.

Conclusion

These days in Noida have been wonderful. Some of them were somewhere in the dreamworld. Some of them were sad and rude. But most have been good, full of energy, zeal to work, some fun days with friends, and what not. I am going to leave Noida in a happy note. Three cheers for Noida, Kritikal, these days and me.

Hip hip hurray !! Hip hip hurray !! Hip hip hurray !!

Ciao.

Live in reality

If we put on pink colored glasses, everything looks pink. If its just momentary, then we remember whats reality. But then, if we keep them on for like two days, we might start thinking that the world is pink. Its only when the rosy glasses come out that you see the reality. Its not that the reality is worse than the rosy world. There are more colors in the real world per say. So, there are advantages and disadvantages.

Last month, I sneaked out for a movie in office hours. I thought that all people have been so good to me. So no one will bother if I took a little break. But I had broken rules. Immediately the HR manager called me up and asked me to return. That day one of the rosy glasses got shattered. I came to the realities of working in a company. That day I was very angry with her, but then today I realize that its better to remain in senses that to go into the rosy world and then shatter it.

Every person is different in their own way. And everyone has a certain opinion towards you. Everyone has a degree of closeness to you, from either side. Everyone has some things which are their own. Some people come so close that there is nothing hidden. Whereas in some other cases, a person maintains a protective canopy around him/her so that we can’t go beyond it.

If we keep living with a world in which all people are very close to you, you expect that everyone of them will tell you everything. But we’re not some colgate packets made in bulk. Every human is designed in a unique way. Having high expectations, and having expectations beyond a limit can be really dangerous. Not only can it lead to quarrel but it will then shatter your rosy glasses. This time its not just removing them, but shattering them, so that the glass pieces pierce your eyes and blood starts dripping.

Maybe you’ll feel I am sad or angry. But I am actually relieved. I’ve managed to survive after something similar happened to me. And now, I swear I’ll never leave the reality. I’ll not fall for fancy looking words. I’ll stick to hard facts. I’ll live in this real world. Maybe its bad, harsh, rude or anything. Maybe there is loneliness, sadness, pain. But at least I know its for real.

My first salary

It has been a nice week althrough and supposedly going to be a great weekend too. I've got my 'mid term presentation' tomorrow afternoon at 3 PM. Some professors from IIT Delhi are going to witness it. I am kind of nervous too, though my ppt is almost complete. We're going out to see 'Fanaa' as a monthly outing of the company. We'll be leaving shortly for the movie.

At about 1:30 PM, there was a loud noise in this building and the power supply unit stopped functioning. I hadn't completed my ppt and was least expecting a powercut. The HR manager asked us to go 'off' as in, leave for the day. I was happy and sad both. We were just leaving when she called 'bacchon.. idhar aao…', as if asking some kids to take away some chocolates. And then with a mild smile she told us that we are going to get our salary. My first formal salary in a 'real' company. Wow! I wasn't that thrilled, but then I signed the document and held the check of 8000 INR. I called up mom and dad, and dad congratulated me. Then I called up Tanu too and shared the good news. It feels great to have earned my first ever pieces of currency. Thank you god for letting me live and feel this day. Nikhil also got his salary along with others.

Three cheers for us. Hip hip hurray! Hip hip hurray! Hip hip hurray ;) 

I am preparing for the presentation, and will be leaving for the movie in a couple of hours. You have a nice evening and also the weekend to follow. Wish me luck. Ciao.

I hate “The Da Vinci Code”

The movie

Big banner, big publicity, big controversy and for me, a big failure. Yes, yesterday night I saw the much awaited, sure-shot success movie The Da Vinci Code. I hadn't read the book. Some of the parts were quite understandable and nice. But then, as time passed, it failed to generate interest to continue watching it. The whole thing boiled down to a man getting killed and passing a secret Grail to his grand-daughter. And as usual, some evil/hidden elements trying to stop her and kill her in this whole drama. Even Tom Hanks failed to infuse any life in the movie. I confess (and its not an exaggeration) that I slept (deep in sleep) for the last 30 minutes of the movie, waken up only by the roar of people getting up and leaving. Nikhil said that it is better and more understandable for those who read the book. My suggestion, either watch X Men III or read the book word by word and then only dare to see this movie.

Missing IIIT

I am missing my college like anything. In the first year when I arrived, it was like I left my school, oh my great school. The college was some alien place which I thought I could never belong to. But, after these 3 years of living there, am really attached to the place, and all my friends and other people there. Every morning I come to office and see that Hyderabad is cooler than New Delhi. This makes me more and more tempted to go there. Hope that day comes soon.

Grades

Amazingly my grades have been nice in the past couple of semesters. Most subjects like PR, DIP, Networks, MoMM, Compilers and so on have shown nice results and I am very happy about it. Hope I get good grades in the projects which I took in those semesters. I am returning to Indore on 1st July by Intercity Express. I'll be reaching Hyderabad on 5th evening.

GRE fever

I badly want to prepare for GRE but I am not getting the mood and the time to do so. The available dates for GRE are 22nd, 23rd and 25th of August and all days from Monday to Thursday in the month of September. My mid-semester examination will also be beginning on 28th of August. I am really confused about which date to choose. I also need to find out whether I can give it once or twice. After October, the course of GRE is being changed. As a result, I need to attempt it before that. Lets see what happens. Anyone knows if we attempt it twice, do we get the score as the maximum of the two or the average of the two? A lot of decisions depend on the answer to this question.

At present, I am working in the company. I have a presentation on 2nd June. Hopefully I'll finish work by then. Wish me luck. Have a nice day!

Ciao.

Noida and me

Actually there is nothing to write today and as some people mentioned, you shouldn't write when you have nothing to write about. But then, its all your fault, yes, YOUR fault. Today, the hit count dropped to 50 and I got worried, lol. Finally, I've decided to write this post, which contains almost no content. Read it if you still care to.

Noida

Now that I am writing about nothing, let begin with Noida. How does Noida look like, what is the whole thing about, how are the people, etc. Well, I haven't roamed a lot in this place, but still. Noida is basically a city very close to Delhi. You just need to cross Yamuna river (and change of state from Delhi to UP), and you are in Noida. Its about 40 mins by bus from Hazrat Nizamuddin station and about 100 mins from Connought place. The whole place is like a big developed city with clean broad roads and loads of traffic, offices, company buildings, malls, gardens, and I heard there is a stadium too.

Every colony in this place is called a sector and each one is not very big. I mean, sectors change at each crossing, so basically you can say every small part of the city is one sector. Generally people travel by 'Cycle Rickshaws' to go across sectors and use the bus for going to Delhi. I personally feel Rickshaws are a great help to the environment friendlyness and give employment to a huge bunch of people who ride these rickshaws to earn their livelihood.

Thieves and safety

As people said that Delhi is a place where you can get looted, at least I was told this. Its not so, or maybe I haven't been looted yet. People here are the same like other places and not all are looking out to rob you. Some places like Palika bazar need great bargaining skills but thats about it. No one will actually pull out money from your pockets if you are not willing to.

No, its not that safe, and more so for females. The other day Nikhil saw some men on a bike snatch away a female's bag and run. She also got hurt badly as she got dragged along with the bike. But then, such incidents don't happen much.

Power problems

As you people must have read in the newspapers and seen on television, Delhi is facing major power problems these days. Noida is no different and every office/home has a generator or inverter to cope with the challenge. The powercuts are random and unannounced, and range from 1 hour to 4 hours. I guess this is the worst part of being in Noida. I really miss the uninterrupted power supply at my college.

Spending a lot

Well, Noida is a costly place, but its more of the options that one gets. Mc Donalds, Pizza Hut, Pizza Corner, Dominos, Waves theatre, Barista, … you name it and its there. Generally eating here costs a lot if you don't have a permanent tiffin system or something. There is a place called Logix Park, which is basically for employees of a set of companies, but generally almost all employees have some of their meals there. Its really cheap and provides good, hygenic and sometimes delicious food. Rest of the spending is all about roaming in the rickshaws which requires good enough bargaining skills.

Accomodation

As most of the major companies are here, accomodation is really costly here. Most PG rooms cost around 2500 per head per month and don't provide any food either. It has been a really tough job to actually get a room here, and for kind of cheaper rates. Thank god.

Conclusion

All in all, today I described how Noida is and how am I living here. The company is good, but I don't like the strict time constraints. Can't help it though, I guess these will be there in any company I join. I have to learn to live with it.

Last night

Last night, I came to the office to check mail and talk to friends or something. Nikhil had some coding job. I didn't realize that all people except us have left the office. We called up some employees to get keys so that we can lock the place and leave. But, it was too late for anyone to come. Finally, we had to sleep on the sofa in the office till it was morning and some other people arrived. It wasn't bad though, sleeping in the AC, but then my room is my room, the free-minded-ness and the comfort, hehe.

Take care, ciao.

First time

Tension mat le mamu, life mein bahut see cheezen first time hoti hai ..!!

Well, as you people know, its 20th May, Alvy aka Snopy aka Dodo's birthday. You might not expect this, but we met for the first time in this life ever 'Today'. She asked me to meet her at PVR Priyas (a place in Delhi) where she had decided to meet some of her friends to kind of celebrate her birthday. I hadn't gone to a pub or a disc ever in my life. She also knew that, and very proudly announced to the rest of her friends. Her friends were all switched off kinda, maybe not interested in me (me as in such a boring seedha sa person). Anyways, Alvy was nice and friendly and made me feel comfortable.

She took us to some pub/restaurant called TJI Fridays. The ambience was nice there. Very nice and comfortable place as she had told me. I wasn't too hungry and also not willing to have any alcohol. So, I just had some kind of juice she chose for me. I gave her the greeting card and a small humble gift which I had got for her and she was more than delighted, I guess. After that she took us to a 'disc' called RPM. Wow, RPM is my favorite word, lol. Anyways, the disc was all crowded and stuffed up to the brim. There was smoke all around, and besides that, I am a really bad dancer, actually I am not a dancer at all. Anyways, I tried to keep pace with Alvy's moves. She kept talking a little bit in that noisy place, though it was difficult. After some time, she left the place. We wandered there for a while gasping for free air.

The evening has been nice here. It began to rain as we reached here. By the time we reached our room, we were completely soaked. We quickly changed and had dinner. Now, I am sitting in the office, writing this blog. I might work on my project, or just check mail and return. All in all, the day was pretty nice, and it was great to meet Alvy. And I must admit, I actually wanted to stay in the disc for a little more time.

Have a nice Sunday. Ciao. 

Learnt a lesson

Learn a lesson today. Well, it was a kind of free day and I hadn’t got much work. So, I thought of going for a movie during office hours. I had heard other people plan movies in the office and so I thought maybe its okay if we do it for a day. Anyways, finally I was called back to the office and had to cancel the tickets. This didn’t anger me though, infact I learnt the lesson of discipline and puntuality through this. Will remember it for a long time.

Heard people are protesting very fiercely against the reservation thing. Some doctors are on hunger strike since 96 hours and 94 of them have ‘collapsed’. Anyways, I can’t do much but still am with the ‘antireservation movement thing’. Going out now, my code is kind of working. Will meet Alvy tomorrow and have to finish work on Monday. Have a nice evening.

Ciao.

My mood swings and some techno crap

Human brain is an amazingly complicated thing. It can create virtual scenarios out of thin air, it can come up with thoughts which have no meaning at all and still depress you, it can come up with imaginations and ideas which no one ever thought about (using their brains, lol), it can make you feel romantic or excited or what ever in the world’s most gloomy and dirty places, it can make you imagine that something is great or beautiful or wonderful or amazing, though it might not be so, the brain can …. eh.. it can do what ever your brain can think of.

Last few days, I have been kind of irritated and/or depressed about being in Noida. Well, if you judge materialistically, everything was fine. An office with AC/PC/net, freedom to do anything in the evening, two new cities, Noida and Delhi. But then, it got a little monotonic,

• come out of office
• go to the Centre Stage Mall
• eat or see a movie and return
• sleep early and wake up early.

Maybe that wasn’t that exciting, but then, it wasn’t like I should decide to return to IIIT. Actually, the problem is, I was feeling bad that I couldn’t work on the BTP, which Jawahar sir was eager about. Mixed with some other feelings, last Sunday I had decided to quit the job at Kritikal. But then, I stayed on. Its feeling a little better today, lets see.

Kingsun DKU-5 USB to serial cable

Well, as Nikhil has this cable, I wanted to make it work on FC2 which I am using. I googled again with some success. I found out that ‘cypress’ driver which is a loadable module in the kernel supports this cable. But for that we need to patch cypress_m8.c and cypress.m8.h in KERNEL_SOURCE/drivers/usb/serial directory. The patch wasn’t compatible with the kernel source I had got. So, I read the patch file and manually patched the two files. Finally the kernel compilation failed when it reached the patched files due to some errors. Frustrated and tired, I finally gave up. Here is the link to the patch (nokia ca-42) (http://gnome.dnsalias.net/patches/). Though it mentions that it works for the CA-42 cable, it might work for DKU-5 (http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/showdev.php?id=3565).

Bon Echo alpha 2

A new alpha version of Firefox 2 has been released called Bon Echo Alpha 2. I downloaded and installed it. It has prebuilt session saving crash recovery, a suggestion system for ‘google search’ (like intellisense), and is much like the good-old firefox. Most extensions say that they are incompatible with it, but that’ll change soon I think. Due to lack of extensions and themes compatibility, I am back to Firefox 1.5.0 for the time being.

Conclusion

Rest of life is fine. Its Alvy’s birthday on 20th. I’ve to get a gift for her, lets see. My code isn’t working well, so rest of the day is just hard work!

Ciao.

Today

Wow! Nice day it has been today. No work all day! I finally shifted to the new place which was quite an unpleasant experience. Maybe thats how life is. I mean, it reminds me of the SBI card advertisement. Jo dikhta hai, vahee milta hai. We were told that the room is generally cool all the time and there is power supply all the time. There is a TV and two beds, and we can go in and out anytime. There are a lot of bathrooms and toilets, and generally there wont be any issues about them.

When we shifted, the problems began immediately. The fan was throwing hot air blows and there were no windows either. We didn't pay much attention to all that and quickly got ready to go out for dinner, as it was already very late. At 12, we didn't find any shop where we could have dinner. Finally, we managed to get inside a restaurant called 'second floor' or something. The restaurant was actually on the 'second floor'. When we saw the menu, we remembered the latest Amir Khan ad of Coca Cola where he has become Chinese and demands 'Thanda Samosa'. Everything in the menu was above 170 and at least beyond what we could afford to afford. Finally, we decided to have some Chicken Biryani (Rs. 200). Still not satisfied, we consumed a cup of chocolate icrecream each and finally reached the room. Oops! No water! There was actually no water! After walking for about 1.5 kms, I was very thirsty. But, we had to sleep without water.

We increased the TV volume a little, and as we were not told that there were 'neighbours' who wouldn't let us see TV in the night, we had the third blow to our faith in the room facilities. In the night at about 3-4 AM, the power supply went out. As a result, we had to sleep in dark without any fans and even without any window! Even after so much, I woke up at 9:30 AM, thanks to my cell phone whose alarm was on 'Silent'.

We got ready somehow and rushed to the company where I had the first drops of water since the 'second floor' episode. Rest of the day was kind of fine. I went out for a few hours in the middle of work to the Centre Stage mall with a friend. In the evening, amazingly Snopy aka Alvy came online after a zillion centuries. She was amazed to find out that I was in Noida. We exchanged our cell numbers, and she invited me to, or rather asked me to join her on her birthday. Its quite far actually, I mean the date. Lets see, we'll talk and fix up some timing. She is quite excited to actually see me 'aamne saamne'. She'll be disappointed though, because I'm generally calm and quiet in person, almost opposite to what I am online. And besides that, these problematic facilities have made me all the more irritated and sad. Lets see whats in store.

I've to work hard this evening because I didn't work in the afternoon. I guess I'll be here till late. Lets see what happens. You take care.

Ciao. 

Past one month

I've been 'offline' on my blog since long now. Almost a complete month it has been. Most of the month has been nice, happy, exciting, some days were like in the dreamland. A few of the days have been depressing, sad, irritating too, not many though. Where should I begin from?

I kept longing to write a good entry many times in the past one month. Most of those ideas/memories/events have become blurred in my memory now.

I reached Bhopal on 14th evening by Dakshin Express after a kind of long and tiring journey. I was happy that I had got the upper berth in the train. Suddenly some middle-aged man asked me to vacate it as it was his seat. I told him that it was mine, and in confirmation told him my seat number, and correspondingly the number printed beside my berth. Ooops… amazingly the sequence was a little wrong, and my seat number was printed beside the middle berth. I, reluctantly moved down. It was only after two hours that I realized that my seat number was actually printed beside the upper berth, but was occluded from view, damn!

It was nice in Bhopal. If only I didn't have the SE assignment to submit in the evening, it would have been better. I had to rush to a cyber cafe to submit, and so, it was too late to go out anywhere, except for dinner. People (especially my Mami) were 'excited' to see me in a moustache. I didn't like it at all, I just grew it because mami asked me to. The very next morning I left for Dewas.

It was wedding time at Piyush's place. Pinky di was getting married. Almost all day I spent at his place, helping in doing some stuff, and just enjoying most of the time. There were some really nice girls too there. But I didn't know who all were his sisters and who all were friends, so …. hehe. Anyways, on 18th, I went to Indore, met Tapan and taught Tanu about some HTML and Java. She kept on sounding scared and confused till late in the night. I returned around midnight.

On 20th, Pinky di got married. To confess, am actually confused about the name of the bridegroom, Sameer, I guess. Anyways, it was fun there, got a little shouting from mom for overusing our car in the marriage. She doesn't understand much about the 'friendship' kind of relations. Her 'domain' in just 'family and family and family'. I realized that its not possible to change her outlook however much I argue, protest, give example and counter arguments.

I was reading about this too, I mean the opinion clash between the parents and children. I read that in these growing years, the child is making a new personality of his own. At that time, he/she needs a lot of freedom and privacy. Obviously his is going to be a new personality. Though the child is supposed to be 'derived' from the parents, he/she is a new individual, and the opinions, ideas, ways of doing things, the morals and ideals are bound to differ. The parent doesn't understand that their child is a 'different individual' and the child doesn't understand that the parent is 'already made' personality and it wont be possible to mould him now. I guess some flexibility from both sides is the solution. The parent should try to accomodate the 'new person' in their framework and the child should try to blend well with the 'already made' framework.

Coming back, I got an offer to do an internship in KrikalSolutions around 22 April. I hadn't planned for an internship in summers. I was 'obediently' going to persue my BTP in the summer. But then, the craze to go to a new city, to work in a new environment, to work on something other than my BTP, to get an internship listed in my resume, to live alone and independent, to see Delhi and Noida was strong enough to motivate me to want this internship. There wasn't much that I could do in order to get it. Somehow, by gods grace, my prayers, Nikhil's 'sifarish', and the goodwill of people at Kritikal, I got into this thing.

The next big target was the pending 'Vision assignment' and a 'permission from Jawahar sir' to go ahead with the internship. I still remember the confidence and certainty he told the professors in the BTP viva meeting that I'd be working on the BTP in the summer and will complete it then and there. Those words kept ringing in my head for long. It was not that I was not eager to fulfil what he had said, but it was a question of choosing one of the them, both being great opportunities. I kept mailing Jawahar sir about every progess in the internship issue. Finally, when I got the internship, Jawahar sir replied saying to go ahead with the internship if I was interested. I was more than delighted that very moment. Seriously, I have to confess, Nikhil's communication skills, at least with Jawahar sir, are zero.

Finally, with much fuss and hassle, a zillion lines of instructions from all elders, a lot of chits about places, paths, phone numbers and other minute details, I landed in Delhi. The company KritikalSolutions is a nice place to be. Just like our CVIT lab. I haven't been here since too long, but it feels great. The project I'm working on is also kind of interesting. Hopefully, I'll be able to contribute in a positive way here and also gain in some positive way from here, its a give and take thing you see.

Delhi and Noida are nice places. I was telling Nikhil and Sumeet that we'd settle in Noida after graduation. Though it has been a little hot these days, and a lot of power cuts too, a lightweight earthquake yesterday and long tiring walks to distant places, it has been fun too. The nice roads, the huge flyways, the metro, the Mc Ds, the Centre Stage Mall, Waves theatre, the gals around, wow!

The best part about the company is the great mess inside. Coke, Mirinda, Maggi, Milk, this, that, anytime! Nikhil keeps hogging something or the other all day. And well, the powercuts haven't left this place untouched either. We were enjoying in the company guest house since a few days, but today we vacated the place. Shifted to a rented room with two beds, a fan, a plug-point and a TV. My god, the other bad thing about Nikhil is TV. I mean, this guy is always pressing some button or the other on the remote. So many movies did I miss just because he couldn't bear the 2 minutes ads, grrr.

Rest is all fine. Just realized that I've to finish the Robotics term paper in two hours, which bears about 40% of weightage of the entire robotics course. God help me. Anyways, for the next two months or so, am in Delhi, enjoying and cribbing, both. I might blog once in a while.

Ciao.