3rd Semester!

Start of my third semester of engineering.
After 2 n a half months of boredom, I'm back at the college! And I will be entering the branch this time.
25th August. The day every one of us was waiting. And I had no idea that my day was gonna be so worse!
The 1st thing that I got to know was that my class had only one girl! Mechanical Dept, you see! Gals here prefer EEE rather than Mech. Later do they get to know that EEE is worse than Mech! Only 1 gal in the class & 60 odd boys! Holy crap!
The 2nd thing I learnt was that the professors who take our class were either too strict or too boring! I had a bad start for 3rd sem.
There were only 2 classes that day. 3 classes were cancelled! The 2 classes that we had were in the 1st hour n the last hour! So, v had 3 hr gap in between. The day went from bad to worse! But the final class made the day fantastic! A new maths lectures entered the class & everyone started Booing her! All boys team [As we are nicknamed] had to do something that day due to the frustration caused by the other professors.
The rest of the week went calmly. Some professors bunked the class more that they took it! Some professors were at their best especially AVK sir & Wadawadgi sir[Hope I got that right!]. And sometimes, there were no labs. All in all, it was a fun week for mechanical guys.
In between this, the only gal in our class shifted to the other division! How cruel can that be!
Now, the class looked perfect! Some Professors started expressing themselves freely [if there was a gal, the prof had to be careful with his words].
The juniors were scheduled to come on 29th. But due to the death of one of my senior, the opening day got postponed.
So we had a great beginning. N hope the professors are not so boring further onwards!
Fingers crossed!

Following the Games!

This is most likely the best thing I have done these vacations. I had mentioned in my previous blog that joining the Data structures course was the best thing.. But seriously, getting up early n attending the classes in this season is the hardest thing to do. Just one week remaining for the college to start & I am completely thrilled to attend the classes afresh. I will be entering the branch this time & I really donno wat to expect either from the seniors or the professors.
I was talking bout the Olympic Games at the start of my blog & I better come back to that. I have never ever followed the Games in this way before. I had to follow the games this time coz I had my vacations going on.. I had no better job to do than this!
So, the Games started exactly on 8th August at 08:08:08 pm! The opening ceremony, as I mentioned in my previous blog, was stunning! But later the news reports suggested that the Games opening ceremony was FAKED!! Can you believe that?!
Shooting was the 1st event of the games. Indian shooters Anjali Bhagwat & Avneet Kaur Sidhu were participating in this event. Frankly speaking, no1 had any hopes on them & every1 got it right. Some Czech player won the event & became the 1st player to get GOLD in the Beijing Olympics. I usually don’t follow any athlete in Olympics but this time I was following some1.. It was Michael Phelps. There was so much hype bout him winning the 8 golds. And I had, to some extent, followed him in 2004 Olympics. So, I had some feeling that he wud make it this time around. Here’s wat many athletes did which no1 expected..

1. Michael Phelps

The Phenomenal Phelps! 8 gold medals in a single Olympiad.. Superb! Michael Phelps conquered the pool by winning 5 Individual events[100m & 200m Butterfly, 200m & 400m Medley, 200m Freestyle] & 3 team events[4x100 Freestyle, 4x200m freestyle, 4x100 medley] & breaking the world record in 7 events. It was fantastic! The best race I saw was the 4x100m event where USA’s Jason Lezak stole the show by swimming the stunning last 100m to give Phelps his 4th gold. Phelps had become the Gr8est Olympian ever!

2. Abhinav Bindra

None of us had any hopes on this guy. Every news channel had hopes on Rathore, Gagan Narang & Manavjit Sandhu. Abhinav Bindra was quiet until he won the Gold in 10m Air Rifle event. Fabulous performance from the 25 yr old Chandigarh boy gave India its 1st ever gold medal in the Olympics. News channels went wild, newspapers printed his photos on every page & India had got a new hero! This was the best Independence Day gift for all the Indians!

3. Usain Bolt
“Lightning Bolt” as he’s called ran 100m in an INCREDIBLE 9.69 sec to become the Fastest man on Earth. He was the world record holder before coming into the games & I had some hopes that he wud win it this time. And he did! Probably, this was the best 10 seconds of my life! It was breath-taking!

4. Yelena Isinbaeva

Arguably the world’s best women Pole Vaulter had to do something out of the world thing to silence the media & her opponents. She created history by clearing the 5.05m barrier in the pole vault event. It was spectacular. She has an amazing 24 world records to her name & I think it won’t end here!

Those were the 4 athletes who stole the show at the Olympics.
China was amazing in Badminton, Weightlifting, Gymnastics & Archery.
African nations won the long distance running events as they have been doing from many years.
In general, China is expected to top the medal tally. I am hoping that India wins a medal in boxing.
That’s it for this time. Its 12.30am. Night! Night!

Of Holidays n Olympics!

As I mentioned in the previous blog, I wud rite something in these holidays which probably dint happen[Oops! Actually it dint happen]! The results of the 2nd sem were out jus after the exmas were over. The results were pretty surprising! An SGPA of 7.12 in SDM was not a joke. But later I realized that the grading points have been changed. The 5 points I got in 1st sem was eqvivalent to the 7 points I got in 2nd. But I was happy for one reason. No SUMMER TERM! After this, the real Holidays began! N i dont remember wat I did in this 2 months. Laying on my bed, watchin TV, Orkutting[sometimes], those evening meetings with my friends at Coffee day or betta, the data structures course[which by the way has to be the best part of these holidays], listineng to some Pink Floyd songs, a picnic with friends.. Thts preety much wat I've done in this holidays!
A roller coaster ride of hits, misses (mostly misses) and torture and boredom has finally come to an end. It still doesn't erase the fact that I have two more weeks to ride this coaster. But for now, its done. I can finally breathe, breathe the air of food, sleep and most importantly the internet[I hav hardly come to orkut this month]. I missed you. Not to say that I haven't been here all this time, oh I was here alryt but never in spirit. If you've noticed, I'm back to being myself, never knowing what to say, so reverting to the one thing I know best, typing crap to make it seem like I actually have an entire blog post mapped out in this little head of mine, which is not! Writing crap is the best thing in the world. You dont know wat you are writing, you dont if some1 will ever read this blog. You just keep on writing n finally you realize that no1 will read this piece of shit! But whoever reads this blog, thanks for reading it!
Look who finally decided to grace his beloved blog with his presence! Seriously, I need to get my life back on track here, laziness seems to be reigning over every little cell in my body. My life, in addition to being depressing is now turning boring, so boring in fact, that I can't seem to be able to find any balance anymore.Well, if you don't wat i'm talking about, then that's probably because this is the first time you're finding yourself here. To know a little more about my extremely unbalanced self, go read the archives of this blog. I'm sure they'll provide you a good insight into the utter and complete insanity that is me.

Today, Abhinav Bindra Shot an amazing 700 points to give India its 1st gold after 28 yrs n 1st ever Individual Gold medal. I got to know about this shooting sport just a month back. Gagan Narang, if I remember, shot an world record score of 704.
On 8th August, China did wat no1 could hav ever imagined of. Beijing Olympics was one of the greatest ever show on earth. China did watever they could to show the world that the they are one of the super power. The breath-taking fireworks, the fantastic display of Chinese culture.. Just SUPERB!
Well, I gotta end this topic for now. Whoever has read this line, well.. wat can I say.. Thank you very much for reading it! N ya.. Olympics is still goin on.. May be you will see another blog on this very shortly!