CS != IT

Sometime back in our 3rd yr, Jeethu, Subbu, Viswa and I were chatting near the ground where our college buses, which are about to leave in half an hour, were parked. Our talk is about to drift from sem-end exams, subjects and up-coming interviews to sleazy jokes and girls ;). There entered a guy, whom I know by face, from mechanical branch. I asked casually “So, what are the companies you people are getting? I mean core mech companies?”. He sighed and heaved, finally made up “Oh! Actually very few core companies recruit from general engineering colleges. All they need is IITians and NITians. Its not like CS. Any layman can sit before computer and type. Even IT companies have confidence in us (non-IT branches) that we can learn it. But, Mechanical isn’t like that. It’s tough!”. My blood raged, as I am an CS chauvinist, and my mind rebelled “Ignorant Fuck!”. Jeethu, Viswa and Subbu are also visually dissapointed by this stupid remarks. But we couldn’t start up a fight, there, with some fellow who is as ignorant as this one. So, we left him to the shade of a tree, nearby.

Information Technology is not Computer Science.  Its just a part of CS, which is made glamorous in India because it brings big bucks.  Majority of Indian IT industry is loosely related to core CS.  It’s more inclined towards business applications which their client ask for.  Whereas CS is all about understanding and empowering the machine.  If research in IT industry is all reducing the project development time, increasing efficiency of personnel, innovating methods to satisfy the client etc. It is about challenging the Turing’s test, improving an efficient neural nets, solving Traveling Sales Person problem in a better way etc. in CS.  A person, who truly admires and understands CS, knows the beauty of it.

Revenge of the seth : Part 2

This story is a continuation from here.

6:15 PM, 22 Mar’08

” What I’ve got you’ve got to give it to your mamma, What I’ve got you’ve got to give it to your pappa……. Give it away! Give it away! Give it away, now!”, RHCP is screaming out of my speakers at full volume to the ire of my brother. I cant hear a thing because the rock sound completely made me deaf to all other sounds. Suddenly, my bro slamed the door open and screamed ” Your phone is ringing!”.

Rakesh, over phone “arey! We are at the gate of your apartment. Viswa, Dinesh, Jeethu and I. Come down!”. I raced down with my cell still in my hand, joined them and started chatting. Viswa, surreptitiously came from my back and in an instant, my cheeks and neck are powdery. Dinesh , jeethu, rakesh joined the party to spoil my hair,too. Finally, they all screamed “Happy Holi bava!”. I throwed a wry smile because thats the only thing I can do in that situation. Rakesh started the conversation saying that jeethu started it all by coming to their gym and colouring their faces. I asked “Whats the fking color you had on my face!”. Dinesh answered with a smile ” Its pink! “. I raced up the stairs, cleaned up my face and got down to head towards srinivas house.

6:45 PM, 22 Mar’08

Srinivas greeted us with a big smile, “Hi all!” and pointing towards me “I asked this ass to come to beach, this morning, to celebrate holi. Ahh! I enjoyed like hell.” leaves a sigh and finishes “Just now, I has a long bath and am fresh now!”. But, we are completely in another mood. 😀 ‘We are here to make you dirty, again’ screamed our evil brains, inside us. As, he came near me, I throwed a fist full of color on his face and others joined the routine. “Theja! you are a fking asshole! I called, in the morning, and you said – take lite! and now …shit!”. I sported a big grin unabashedly showing all my teeth. 😛 After settling down a bit “Ok! lets go to Rahul’s house!” said Rakesh with a wink. “Yea! lets go” answered Srinu and I. But Dinesh and viswanath has other plans for us.

Suddenly an egg splashed on my head! Before I could turn back and realise who made my hair stink, there’s jeethu and srinivas already messed up with the stuff which we generally use to make an omlette :D. Immediately, rakesh went into srinivas’ house and came out with 2 eggs. Its revenge time :). I splashed one on the neck of dinesh and rakesh took care of viswanath. I went inside and cleaned up myself. But srinivas has one egg in his pocket and is slowly approaching me. I thought “This ass is up against me!”. So, I cried “Ass ! no more gimmicks. I know you ve an egg in your pants!”. The moment i said it, viswa just squeezed that egg in the pants( say pockets) of srinivas to make him more messy :). Srinivas cried “You are a fking asshole! Why are so afraid ? I am not after you!”. I just replied “How the fk I can know that you are not after me when you are coming towards me with an egg up your pants? “. Everybody burst into a laughter and we headed towards rahul’s house only after jeethu emptied a bucket full of water over viswa. 😀

7:30 PM, 22 Mar’08

I grabbed Viswa’s cell, entered Rahul’s number and hit the dail button. We are under this dark shade of a tree before his apartment. Dinesh and I started some conversation with him. In a minute, he’s down with us. This time, its srinivas, who took the initiative. He came towards rahul’s back and done the ritual of egg spalshing :). Before Rahul could realise what really happened, his face is coloured by all of us. “You! You! You know that you belong to my fking project batch and I am your leader! You are finished! I will tell the project guide and he’ll rip ur ass off!” pointing towards srinivas. Srinivas, merrily laughing and was trying to reply. Finally he managed “Come on! It holi time” with a smirk on his face. Rahul derisively replied “Fk it!”

Now, we need more people, no just faces. Call it bakras. Viswa called Pavan 😀 and acted wonderfully. He convinced him to join us, at rahul’s house. Dinesh and Viswa are busy mixing colors with the egg yolk. Dinesh used some creative (or say stupid 😛 , as Rahul puts it ) technique to pour colors into the egg yolk with out breaking it….waah! They are just about to finish it, Pavan entered and brought srikanth along with him! 😀 “Anyone is welcome here! More the faces, better the fun” we thought. Pavan managed to brake his kinetic, just before my parked splendor where viswa placed the egg. I thought “Oh! This guy would ve seen that! shit..a bit late” . But to my relief, pavan didnt notice anything and infact said ” Why are your faces like that?”. Pointing towards srinivas head , he added “Is that crow’s shit?”. We laughed “Its that very same shit, you are having on your face, now” after splashing the special color yolk egg on his face ;). Srikanth got one, too.

..to be continued!

Theatre nunchi Prekshakula PARUGU!

A unbearably elongated drama which neither entertains nor enlightens. Ali, AA’s dance and PR’s action spark.

Some films entertain, some films enlighten, some films connect with the audience. But this film doesnt accomplish anything of the above. This Film takes itself too seriously but if a film does so, it asks for some serious acting by the lead actor, which doesn’t happen in this case.

Yes! Arjun performed well, in compared to his old movies but thats not enough for this role. His inadequacy in histrionics is clearly evident in the scene where drunken PR emotes exceedingly well wheres AA just twitches his lip and sports a deadpan expression. Another scene, where his amateur dialogue modulation is exposed clearly is the climax confrontation between PR and him. Nevertheless, we can pardon all this because he’s just an young actor and is improving fast. He danced with elan and made that nammavemogani song memorable. My favourite number Parugulu teeyake is ruined with some stupid constumes and getups. Coming to PR, he’s becoming repetitive but nevertheless , he gives what the scene demands. His performance is the best thing about this film. Sheela neither has a beautiful face nor done some ground breaking performance. She is a miscast. Jayasudha is wasted. Ali sparks.

The biggest culprit of the film is the story. Actually, there’s no story . The director takes upon a sensitive concept and drags it monotonously. Since, comparisions are inevitable with his previous film which is blockbuster, I will dwell into that too. Bommarillu, too, is made upon a senstive subject about over-obsessive parents who dictate their sons’ career and marraige, which happens to be the most important constituents of the life. But, this film is loved alike by sons and parents since it culminated with a convincing climax where both the parties will be left satisfied. All this is due to the extra ordinary scene where PR and siddhu act as if its their last movie.

Coming back to this movie, it cant boast of such a convincing climax. The films repeatedly bashes you with that idea of elopement to the ire of the audience and atlast, says otherwise. The entertainment qoutient is also low because of non-existance romance and comedy though sunil evokes a few laughter, here and there.

The song in the shed (Nammavemo) is picturised well and Allu danced to style, the scene where Allu chases down the bus to help the eloped couple in vizag (personally, my favourite), Ali’s comedy and PR’s drunken scene are a few positives that you ll find in the movie.

Finally, Bhaskar failed to recreate the magic of Bommarillu.

My Rating: 1/5

PS: It bored the hell outta me!

Special Mention: It would’ve been better, if the roles of poonam bajwa and heroine are interchanged. poonam is sexy 😛

Why i hate Orkut?

It, recently, introduced an option to lock picture folders and many gals are using it to my ire :fumes:

Other minor reasons, bcoz above is the major reason 🙂

1: too buggy

2: 99% communities inactive 🙂

3: doesnt work gd with opera  (it may be opera’s fault but i want to blame orkut, only 😉 )

4: chain testimonials

5: Dumb group scraps

etc etc

Is B.Tech a ticket to job?

Its customary for all the professors to while away first few classes of freshers without any lectures. Whether its due to the fact that they aren’t ready, yet, to take up the classes or to wait for all the students to enroll, only God knows. So, most of the classes at the beginning of the first semester are devoted to ‘so called’ introductory sessions. They say “All of you will spend 4 yrs together in life. So, you gotta know each other well”. Yeah! What they said is absolutely right, but to tell the truth , no one will know each other in those introductory sessions becuase people just repeat the lines of the previous one.

A guy ascended the podium of the class and told his name, inter marks, 10th marks and everything thats customary as if he is being recorded. Then , the professor asked ” Why did you join CS?”. The answer was “Its hot! Its happening! Its booming! “. The professor laughed.

“Whats hot, actually? Is it the fact(or myth) that IT and ITES sector provide a lot of openings? and whats booming? Does it represent the fact(or myth) that the then IT sector is burgeoning in strength. Whatever the meanings of those words, its an insanely stupid idea to join an academic course or to select a specific stream just by judging the openings in a sector of it. Its never wrong to join a course or a stream if it ensures you some exciting future prospects but that doesnt mean that thats the only reason of joining it. Thanks for the pressure from parents, who themselves are half-knowledged.

For a first year student, joining a course with out knowing why he joined it is not really a big mistake. But deluding himself with the same reason till his 4th year is. B.Tech, for that sake any academicsourse, should be taken as a learning experience but not as a ticket to job. The mistake lies in the system: Students, Colleges and Parents. If we take students, how many have the luxury of taking an genuinely independent decision regarding his engineering stream? (I thank my dad for giving me this liberty 😉 ). I saw lot of people who are disinterested in engineering, in first place. And then I saw many people couldnt manage to a seat in EE (read ECE) , thus contending themselves for a seat in CS. I dont understand this mad craze for EE in AP, considering the fact that many EE guys end up with IT jobs which make their 4 years of learning in EE , literally meaningless. Coming to colleges, their first target is pass percentage for rankings in JNTU list, then placements for popularity among parents circle. They never really bother about the quality of teaching, to the peril of students. Parents are also culprits for this vicious notion. The general notion among (Great?) Indian middle class people is “lets walk the oft beaten road but with care to ensure u pick up some pebbles now and then.”. They fear thinking in any other way. They dont want their children to take risks(?). They want their life to be secure ( and they have their own reasons).

Parents always love their children. So, they wont change. Colleges will never change until a universtiry called JNTU grants colleges to every other businessman in AP. So, only one can change all this. He is the student who’s joining the course. He may not know everything when he joined the course. Why he joined and all. But, as he goes through his B.Tech. He should learn to take B.Tech as a learning experience and identify it as his first step towards his career ( not job).

And If you ask me, Is B.Tech a learning experience for u? My answer will be a definite yes! But dont ask me “What you ve learned?” 😉 😛

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