SNIST the end of the end.

I am Here!!!!!!!!

2008-06-04T20:03:00.002+05:30

Hi Hijake.....
I.. Me... Myself.... Rocky is in Hyderabad & U can find Me ( Myself) in Madhapur (sometimes in Coimbatore/chennai :P) most of the times......

Las week we all went to RuNwAy - 9..... had fun.....

*By the way before asking others!!! please post ur updates :P

Ur's
RoCkY

Where are they now???

2008-04-24T10:31:00.001+05:30

Well, where is everybody? It's been almost a year post SNIST. It would be great to share where and what everyone is doing....

FareWell Blog-II :(

2007-08-15T15:22:00.000+05:30

Hi all,

It was really tough for me to live without my old friends after joining an MNC.
The First One week was like hell, thinking abt the new atmosphere. Took some
time to make new friends, remembering those good old days(College Sickness),
The good thing is that even Zaphod started watching BLEACH :) beastu is settled
in IISC-B, Hijake, Vizgoth flew to US to pursue their higher studies, Zaphod
preparing to enter a prestigious Organization. DD, Murt marking their presence
in reputed MNC's.

hope that all SNISTians Do well in which ever field they chose.

Missing U all,

Rocky.

More Pics.

2007-08-02T14:25:00.000+05:30

Beashtu, Hijake, DD, Vizgoth all looking at the dinner table(or someone standing at the dinner table).

The fabulous foursome (AFK)

DD, Zaphod, Beashtu, Vizgoth(Waiting for food)

Beashtu and Hijake (Love is in the air)

Murt and Zaphod (More love!)

And now we present to you...

2007-08-02T12:49:00.000+05:30

One week. That's all it took for all these guys to leave town.

Since I have to act like I'm feeling lonely, I'm going to put up some pics of all of us.
Just so that they remind me of you guys <3.
One by one now!

Vizgoth aka Haze aka Niranjan with Snoopy the dog

Hijake aka Abhijit with ice-cream and a wicked smile.

Beashtu aka Abhirama with ooty cold and a thick Blanket.

Zaphod aka Keshav with Kefa the half dog half kangaroo

Farewell Blog!!

2007-07-24T11:57:00.000+05:30

A lot many things have changed these few years, for instance zaphod 'can' sport a real beard now, beashtu finally realized his dream of becoming 200 pounds and Mr curd now eats other things too...
but not all things change....hijake is still chased by dogs when he rides his bike, i still get nightmares of snist and murt is still trying to find a way to tell something to a certain someone.

talking of change...even snist has changed a lot...mostly for the better.
however even with these amazing changes snist has managed to retain a bit of its old flavour... for instance a 'dress code'( this is spelt as roflmao by other college guys) was proposed recently by the director.(ya the same guy who wears sandals over socks while in a safari suit)
i dont know how this is going to benefit...but may be its just a stratergy. if the dress code is implemented...the guys will just have to work harder, to not flunk, since nobody wants to wear that prescribed shit for a extra year.

anyways i am glad i am done with snist and wont be visiting it anytime in the near future.
and speaking about the blog....these few years we had great time writing stuff, which i am sure will bring back the bitter sweet memories...when we read it in the future.
today 24th july incidentally is the 2nd anniversary of blog.
so HAPPY BIRTHDAY BLOG!!!!
but in this moment of happiness i also feel little sad since i wont be writing again about snist in this blog anymore.
all good things must come to an end and its the same with the blog...will miss it though :(

well thats it then,
farewell snist. farewell blog.

mirror mirror on the wall WTF was that

2007-05-14T11:06:00.000+05:30

4 years of struggle, 1357 days of waiting, 8820 hours of torture....and now its finally over!

The last day of our college was 2nd may 2007(i like the words 'last day of college'), and man what a day that was! We had a farewell organized by the department...a farewell unlike any other.

It started off this way - Morpheus addressed us as friends and went on to stress on why he addressed us that way, this was followed by tonnes on laughter and wise cracks everywhere. While this was going on someone was constantly shouting 'abbey AC on karo re'. meanwhile students were asked to come and tell about their experiences in SNIST and a few people went and spoke.
Immediately after that PG started off with 'you should have only one child...blah blah blah'.We were like WTF, is he going to talk about con**ms and other things next. But then the real shock of our lives came when our very own vuk(ya the same old guy who always goes...you seeeeeeee...but then you seeee againnnnnnn) started telling, he doesn't agree with PG and we should have 100's of children. by the time he said this half the girls had fainted and half the guys became immobile out of sheer shock and a few other were ready to go touch his feet. The rest of the time was spent in bringing order in the auditorium(vuk later told that he considers all those whom he taught as children) .

Finally Morpheus came and spoke something for little over an eon and finally said 'i wont take too much of your time' after this it was time for the thank you note.However due to the heroics of one dude, this was transformed into a anger venting session...where everyone was pointing fingers at each other as to who was the bigger asshole.(this was the time we made a silent exit, but according to our sources this was finally decided with a rock paper scissors and a freeforall wrestling and Morpheus won(not so surprisingly(actually the result was decided even before anything started(isn't this a bit too deep?)))).
and thus the eventful day ended.Overall it was more of lectures and less of partying.(but what more can we expect of SNIST...a mongolian funeral is more lively than a rock show in snist)
hey but who cares! we are free!
i survived snist!

Do you know what time it is!?

2007-04-21T16:54:00.000+05:30

Well, as I'm writing this, the clock on the wall here shows 3:33 AM.
This, surprisingly, might or might not be the right time...Apparently there is a theory that states : "The time you are at depends upon the relative motion of light around you and whether or not you are eating lunch."

The theory goes on to explain how time, speed, gravity, mass, light and lunch are all inter-related and even states a bold but simple equation.

T = ( 4*(3.14) * g * l * c + 42) / ( M * r/2)

T is the relative time you are at, to be added to or subtracted from the Time zone you are living in/ate lunch at, depending upon the sign of the resultant term.

3.14 is pi. It has to be present in every self-respected scientist's equation.

'g' is the gravitational constant of the planent you ate lunch at. For example, if you dined at the quadri-cuisine restaurant at Gittejiche, a planet at the far end of the nebula, 'g' will take a value of '-36.23'.

'l' is the 'chow-dependent universal constant' = 34.5 for Indian food,
= 21.3 for Mexican food,
= 11.6 for Chinese food
= -143.02 if you ate at MacDonalds,
= -21323.50 if you ate at KFC.

'c' is the speed of light.

'42' is the answer.

'M' is the mass of the person in question before eating lunch. (For the female sex, it is calculated after eating lunch. This is one point that is not covered in great detail, but has something to do with the fact that females talk more than they eat. Yeah, I didn't get it either.)

'r' is the number of items in the menu, or the number of people eating, if there exists no menu.

[end-of-theorem]

Ah well. Wow! Now the clock says 3:49 AM. Where did all the time go? Oh yeah, I ate at MacDonalds yesterday. No wonder!

Buckethead rocks. I've been listening to him all day long. Beautiful music.
And at times like this(yes, early morning times) it sounds wonderful.
Can't believe he likes KFC though.

A couple of updates on the college front :

.End-project. The final viva was today. No presentation. As hijake was saying, '200 marks in 7 minutes! What the fuck!!!'
Unbelievably, he over-estimated the time. Most batches were inside the interview/viva room for less than two minutes. Beastu and I managed to talk for an entire half minute before we were asked to leave. So 200 marks in 2 minutes! I'm at a loss for words.
Everything just reinstates my absolute confidence in the fact that the system is flawed and cannot improve. Nothing matters anymore though! We are finished. The end. Goodbye college. Good riddance. Hasta La Vista. Sayonara. Adieu. Farewell. Toodle-oo. Thanks for nothing.

Ah. That felt good.

.Exams in one week or so.
We know nothing, but what the heck! We never learnt anything in college anyway.

4:00 AM now. I'm intermittently reading up on some weird stuff off wikipedia. What an amazing concept Wikipedia is. Whoever would have thought a free-for-all-to-edit encyclopedia would revolutionize learning(and provide material for desperate project-report writers)!

I just thought of something...Since the four of us will be leaving college this year, we'd like to post a few guest posts here about the current college students' experiences. (Preferably from CSE students It'll be nice to carry this on as a tradition. But others are welcome here as well!)
How about it? It'll be nice to see a few fresh faces here as well. (And, of course, to read the few extra comments that might come in then.)
So, anyone interested, please leave a blog link or profile link here. And a link to sample posts. We will, of course, pick only the best!

We'll upload a few photos of us pretty soon. Next month, maybe. And some of college and farewells and final exams too if we can!

Oh well, I'd better kip now, before people start waking up.
Ta.
~~~~

Fake Nostalgia

2007-04-13T09:33:00.000+05:30

Two days of college + Two exams. That is all!

This is unbelievable. All of a sudden, with no warning, we are done with college.

I'm pretty sure I'm expected to feel nostalgic, with fond remembrances of people and situations and place and lecturers...well, maybe not lecturers, but the rest?

No sentimentality? No slush? No tear-jerking farewells and goodbyes?

I've been trying to publish a post here for a long time now, but I just haven't managed to come up with anything decent. The problem is, out of the two classes per day, two days per week, 'x' weeks this semester, we have all managed to attend, maybe, a total of 20 classes. That doesn't leave us with enough 'fond memories' to write about. I've only been thrown out of class once, this semester. Not one dire warning of "You will fail this subject". Zero sports and games. Zero carroms and table tennis. No fooling around in college wasting time.

Well, probably the best semester of all time. Not coming to college does that to you I suppose.

Project work was a very enlightening experience. I now know I don't want to work in IT.
In case you are curious, all of us did manage to do legitimate projects. Under good companies.
We are a bunch of smart students, after all.

I'm completely out of things to write about.
Let the rambling begin.

. Wikipedia has a new entry on SNIST
. The famous clock tower is still as elusive as ever. (rumour has it that the first person to spot it will attain nirvana and complete attendance.)
. We have a three day fest this time. Sports-cum-Annual day-cum-Cult. fest. It is called sprishti or something. Something that starts with an 'S' anyway.
. Vox populi still exists. I'm shocked.
. We have a principal. Again, I'm shocked.
. No more classes. Whoa!
. College finally building a new basketball court. After 6 years of promising. (How do I know? Our seniors say their seniors told them) It should be ready for the 2014 batch.
. More construction. More Air-Conditioners. (Though, I have a feeling the A.C's are fake. Probably hollow, and made with papier-mache.) The canteen is finally not open-air. Juniors, let us celebrate this day.
. The football ground is still the same. Buses still struggle to park there.
. Football matches are still played on "neutral venues". Osmania grounds, to be precise.
. No more classes! (I know, I just love saying it!)
. Everyone talking about "Where do you see yourself 10 years from now". Us astoundingly humourous(in our eyes only!) bloggers keep talking about "prison", "on the streets", "off the streets", "in college", "dead".
. The famous SNIST movie is finally uploaded here. Scroll down a bit to find it. If you haven't seen it, I strongly recommend a comfortable chair, a strong drink, a barf-bag and an empty
room.
. Dinner time is now.

That Famous Man

2007-04-11T18:56:00.000+05:30

Cast -GRT, Mir, KaPaK, RIA (rod in ahem), TFM (That famous man)

Setting - CSE block corridor.

GRT, Mir and KaPaK were enjoying a cup of well deserved tea and loafing around on a bench in the corridor, when RIA and TFM enter the scene in a typical Tall-thin /Short-fat combination.

RIA: What is this? Do you people have no manners?
GRT: Huh?
RIA: Common, stand up and show some respect for the faculty!!
Mir: Huh?
RIA: What the HELL!!! (almost breaks down)

Sensing the man's agitation, the three stand up, wondering who these two were.

RIA: Who are you people and why are sitting here??
GRT: Errmm..we are students from the final year.
RIA: So?
GRT: Ermm...so?
RIA: So why are you sitting here?
TFM: (Deciding that he wanted some action too) Luckily there were benches, or else these idiots would be on the wall.
Mir: I think we would be in the canteen.
RIA: Dont act smart, do you know who we are?

At this point, the smart and usually quiet KaPaK notices that RIA is holding a pink book of somekind and realizes that its an attendace register. He points the same to the other two.

GRT: Ermm...I know who you are, you are a lecturer cos you are holding an attendance register, but whos this other guy? (gestures at TFM)

TFM suffers a near coronary and tries to throw himself off the building. Ok, maybe not, but I'm sure he must be atleast contemplating to do so.

RIA: (red faced)..err...guys, hes the principal of this college.

So, the tall-thin-short-fat duet walk away, leaving the three protagonists trying hard to recall the principal's face.

Murt walks into the scene and points at the duet thats walkin away and asks "Who're they???"

So, you guys can expect some billboards and posters of That Famous Man to dorn the walls of our college. Poor guys desperately needs some publicity :P

SNIST the movie

2007-04-05T11:36:00.000+05:30

This is THE video which started it all, a must see for every snistian.

The 7 minute version:

the complete 25 minutes version will be put up soon, keep checking this space

Life, the Urinals and Everything

2007-01-10T12:50:00.000+05:30

[warning this post will get disgusting as you go reading it.recommended only for snistians and those in the rehabilitation centers]

These 4 years snist has changed a lot but this hasn't changed anything for the students here. They say one has to be an insider to know how the system works. But with snist things are a little different - 4 years and we are still struggling to find an answer to "whattheheckiswrongwithsnist". In this post i will attempt at giving a gist of everything at snist[the life here(or the absence of it), the landscape, and other things not worth mentioning] hoping this will bring us a step closer to THE answer.

To start off, let me talk about the canteen. Previously this looked like a stable, producing food which tasted like bullshit. Now things have improved - it looks like a stable with windows.The food too has improved - now it tastes slightly better than hay and now even the canteen people taste the food(before spitting it out and disinfecting their throat's). No wonder with a canteen like this snistians are mocked by everyone else.

next the technology.Well now snist boasts of campus wide wifi,amazing connectivity,high end systems blah blah blah blah.But whats the use of this when you cant actually use it.The other day we were not even given the session id to connect wirelessly, this is really pathetic. The computers though have vastly improved. Compared to the hopeless computers which took days to start, the new ones are amazing.The other good thing is the overhead projector,each room has one and no one uses them.But the biggest surprise has been the range of worms and viruses available on the network here - Beastuh's usb drive got screwed and my HD got jacked.

neither of the above 2 can compete with the snist landscape when it comes to absolute idioticity. i have no idea what the management is thinking.i doubt if even god himself has the faintest idea as to what is going on. Stupidification of the landscape is going on at a ridiculously exponential phase. In the midst of all this we get to see some really weird stuff. For instance the tiles in the main block. I don't understand what satisfaction people get by removing them and laying them again and again removing them... either the college does not have any idea about how to spend the world bank money or they are all gay(or both). All this is going on while there is a shortage of class rooms. The amazing thing this year is that one of the batches does not have a class room to call it their own. But here snist has invented yet another "snist original". Those poor people are allocated class rooms dynamically - when some other class is vacated due to lab practicals.
Sticking to landscape, football ground looks like a minefield,basket ball court is still crap, everything else is rubbish. However for a gamer, this will be nostalgic since it will remind one of dust2,arabia and blackforest.

next are the urinals.When i was new to snist, this used to cause a lot of trouble. Back then, there was no sign or board to tell if it was a girls room or boys room.Few of my friends even got whacked good for entering the girls toilet. i don't know about the other toilets but the boys toilets are utter rubbish. This is largely due to those idiots practicing 3 pointers there. This explains why there are lots of amazing athletes in snist though there are no facilities. Firstly since you cant actually walk all the way you either need to perfect at precise shooting or be an amazing long jumper. this also explains why most snistians are also expert deep sea divers. Since the canteen does not have a urinal, snist also boasts of many 500m dash gold medalists. But the funniest thing that happened with urinals was when the urinals in the main block were newly opened. It had a watchman guarding it who shooed off students telling this wasn't meant for students. I can only pity the guys who had come running from canteen.

Enough of theory,now let me show you the layout and landscape of snist.

OK now i tell that is what in the photo.
1) canteen.
2) bike stand
3) football ground
4) EEE,ECE block
5) main block
6) CSE,IT,MECH block
7) basketball court
8) volleyball court
9) invisible 3rd block
10) invisible clock tower
11) way to amby valley
12) mystery block under construction(wasnt there in the video)

however the landscape isnt as dry as seen in the previous photo...
see in the next photo....this is the view from the train(the block seen is the CSE block)

so that was it "SNIST in a nutshell".Incase you find out THE answer please do comment.
till then see ya.

All along the clocktower(retake)...live version

2006-09-13T21:24:00.000+05:30

There must be some kind of way out of here
Said the joker to the student
Theres too much confusion
I cant get no relief
Lecturers they drink my blood
HOD men dig my brains
None will level on the line
Nobody of it is worth
Hey hey

No reason to get excited
The student he kindly spoke
There are many here among us
Who feel that college is but a joke but uh
But you and I we've been through that
And this is not our fate
So let us not talk falsely now
The hours getting late
Hey

Hey

What is it we can do now
seems to be no way out of here
lets go get the pink slip now uh huh
said the joker to the student
but there seems to be no release
from behind these enemy lines
there seems to be only one way out
but first we need to find the clocktower

Hey
Hey

All along the clocktower
Principal kept the view
While all the freshers came and went
Bare-foot football players too, but huh
Outside in the cold distance
A rabid dog did growl
Two companies were approachin
And the bell began to ring
Hey
Oh
All along the clocktower
See you stare at the clock
Gotta beware gotta beware I will
Yeah
Ooh baby
All along the clocktower

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the end.

thank you...thank you!!

jimi hendrix lives on!!

(rolling in his grave, he is)
oh...added a whole paragraph here...i just hope he will forgive me!

luv y'all
-Zaphod

All along the clock tower

2006-09-12T18:54:00.000+05:30

Every year we see a few changes(for the better) in snist, but essentially the stink remains.

But then this year was different,..now snist boasts of decent computers and overhead projectors in every class.This has something to do with some inspection.For this same reason, the once head of department has been replaced by a bald head of department.All for the better they say.

But not all things change...
This year again the yearly spectacle of 'construction' started which roughly coincides with the fresh influx of prisoners.The bulding being built now, wasnt a part of the visionary's original dream, and the legendary clock tower shown in the video has become a myth.The tower location now resembles the marshes of mordor,.. teaming with org sized mosquitoes.The once upon a time football ground looks like a mortuary and some say even the ants here are more poisonous than a king cobra.However under no circumstance sit anywhere close to this field,...zaphod once had a funny experience with a scorpion here,...and had his ass mummified for a week.Sticking with wildlife, ..now we have a beehive for everyfloor sometimes even two...these bees they say were geniticaly engineered to serve just one purpose - monitor the prisoners.
The other tradition which has survived the test of time ...is the gate pass,...but the horrible twist is that many of the previously secret path ways to freedom have been either blocked or have become inaccessible due to other reasons.

All in all snist didnt change a lot,..its the same boring lectures,the same old landsacpe and the same invisible tower.

We make a difference!!!

2006-08-05T19:52:00.001+05:30

Ok..as zaphod said..we all r now part of the dynamic elite employed youth:P

Annnnd..this blog finally made a difference!!! Apparently the college management googled SNIST and came across this blog and when they saw the exclusive tour of SNIST, they decided that they needed to atleast upgrade their PCs.

So..they went ahead..searched their pockets and bought approximately 300 new dualcore machines with LCDs..machines that are faster than my own UBER rig..kudos to SNIST for that.

Now for some pics.

2006-08-05T19:52:00.000+05:30

Check out the new "talk to us"

if any of us are online, you can chat with us!

Who's talking about unemployed youth now, huh?

2006-08-03T22:16:00.000+05:30

What a day.
day-1 of campus recruitements, and ....well... :)

here is what happened, in brief.

-Hijake, Haze, Beastu and I...
all decided not to join the ever-increasing, ever-more-powerful, Great Indian unemployed youth.

yes, you read it right.
WE GOT JOBS
(whether any of us are ever going to take them up is a completely different matter)

-Hijake broke the sound barrier, in ways noone ever has before or ever will.

-You've heard of doggy style, haven't you?
Hijake is doing research on "froggie style"
anyway, the basics of it are simple, but the time they take is just too long.
or, at least that is what hijake told me...who knows? it might've been a different pair ;)
this research involves trucks, big tyres, squashed frogs, cat classes, big frogs, small frogs.
i've heard of horny toads...but horny frogs...lmao!!!

-Haze, Hijake and I had an amazing 15 minutes laughing session before the interview results came out...talking about mr. pressman! (rofl)

-Beastu rocked everything and everyone as usual...
he and haze were the first confirmed non-unemployed youth, among us four.

-I had a great indian laughter challenge session during my interview....everyone was making everyone else laugh...wierd.

-oh, the others who suddenly ended up with jobs are Mr. Curd and Bombo(murt), Gilli, Mamoo, and lots of others....

-My interview really was hilarious....
it started off with a conversation about lunch, manchuria, the college canteen and the college
after which we talked about nothing in particular followed by not much and then, finally, nothing at all.
they also asked me why i didn't know what formal clothes look like.
that was the essence of my interview...
for some reason, it seemed much funnier in college.. :$

whatelse whatelse....time to party soon, as soon as we all get the time.

later then...everyone.
love and kisses(only to the girls....don't look at me like that now, hijake)
-zaphod

2006-07-25T21:10:00.000+05:30

I'm a little late, as always.
but, happy birthday, blog.

it's been a year...feels like a lot more
happy reading everyone.

my guess is everyone has a lot more fun reading this than we do experiencing it.
anyway, keep reading and commenting(yeah, i'm talking about the blog members here, coz we are the only "commenters" on this blog :P )

-zaphod

First anniversary!

2006-07-24T19:04:00.000+05:30

This blog is exactly one year old now.

A lot of changes have occured in everyone's lives. A lot due to the college sadly. All of us are now desperately trying to resurrect our lives after the tormenting effect the college had on our lives. But for now, lets celebrate the first aniversary of snist03.

Cheers!

Where humor ends.

2006-07-21T22:38:00.000+05:30

Where humor ends, there starts the daily rut at SNIST. This post is being published by the author(s) who have all but lost their sense of humor somewhere between the classrooms and the main gate.
Never have we felt so disgusted with our college management.

If u dont feel like reading the rest of the post, then the next line should summarize it for u.

"Snist is no longer an educational institution that it once was. It is now a corporate business factory that has the sole aim of running a totalitarian rule over the lives of the so called students (pawns??). The result is only complete discontent and resentment among the student community to an suxh an extent that an elite few of them (we??) are typing out their woes to share it with the more fortunate public."

Now, it is obvious that if u google for SNIST, this blog will be the third in the list of results and hence many potential subjects (students :P) might come across this blog. The following set of quotes is for those poor souls.

"Snist is no paradise and its definitely not a premier instituion as you might be thinking. It is a typical slaughter house with about as many flaws within its management as the number of hair on ones scalp. You might be thinking that a bunch of losers blog here to vent their frustration against academics and their poor performance academically. Let us assure u that we r well above the mystical "average" and absolutely NO credit goes to the college management or faculty. As haughty as that may sound, it nothing but the truth. Lesser "rated" colleges shows performances that are eons ahead of Snist. So, dont say that we dint warn you."

Now, for the jobless souls who are still reading this post might as well drop in a comment on whats going on in your mind this semester. If we are still as dissed as we are now for the next few days, pls do expect some elaborate(and accurate :P) descriptions of some of Snist's esteemed "faculty".

signing off for now,
cheers,
H

jeez, whatever.

2006-07-13T22:41:00.000+05:30

Heck...i can't think of a way to start this post.
hey...that did it!

anyway, it's been a while.
hopefully everyone out there is doing better than we are.
hols were good.
but college was always the dark cloud in the silver lining.
so, almost our last semester in these hallowed, insect-infested, dust-covered halls
and corridors.
The head of the department is killing us all over again, this sem....much to his and
our dissatisfaction.

Ah...as is tradition, it is now time to describe our outstanding lecturers...
the ones who are supposed to mould us into what we will be years from now.
upon whose influences we are supposed to base our future careers and lives.
thank heavens we never listen to any of them.
okay, here goes.

Mr pink pants...or, the pink panter.
with a voice that would make lata mangeshkar's sound like amitabh bachan's.
btw, he is a guy(we think), just in case you missed the "mr" in the pink pants.

The hod...needs no introduction...popularly known as morpheus...still doesn't hesitate
to pick on me, as is his tradition.
oh, btw...today, he cracked this brilliant joke on the principal(ex principal, actually,
but then that is a story for another day) and the college and the south indian railway.
after which he guffawed so loud, the rest of the college thought they heard a asthmatic
fish being strangled to death in a bucket of soda pop.

The same old man who taught us something last sem. is teaching us something else this sem.
It seems totally the same, his attendance calls which last the better of fifteen minutes
his incessant rambling and sporadic shouting...deja vu!

who else...who else?

ah, yes...a character who teaches us something to do with web-pages and stuff...nothing
much I can say about him, except that he seems a decent sort.

This other guy...Mr pressman's ex...enough said about him...wait...i've something to add.
he looks like a deflated balloon.

and another weirdo who keeps smiling at all the girls in class...not much to say about
him as well.

That's it for now...
when you are feeling down, you know where to go!
until next time....god speed.

Highway snist

2006-07-06T19:32:00.000+05:30

Ok ..before i forget how to get to snist, let me just write here about it.

firstly- if you just go and stand near uppal cross roads... you might reach snist in a few days, since...snist "sucks".

A relatively faster mode of transport is the college bus which for some reason starts off before everyone gets in.Once it starts the next stop is college.On way to college you will come across a lake which of late has become direct competition to the hussain sagar.After the lake there are not many things worth talking about till we reach 'highway snist'..,here we need to take a left turn.This road has two or three factories which probably produce steel besides dust and sand.By the time we pass this stretch of road(which probably has more dust than arabia) we will be half covered in a blanket of dust.And just after this...you will come to halt near a rail line,...where for some reason the train always comes at the wrong time.And after this, its campus next....but before that you get to eat dust oncemore.with our senses satisfied(nose and tongue)we finally reach college.

Now that we are in snist, we need to know how to get out of here as fast as possible.The default route out is via amby valley.Passing through the pits,we come to the amby valley and from here its trecking all the way to the bus stand.
The other route is through the gate..,from here... apart from the uppal route you can even take the route to ecil.Those going in bike in this ecil route are also expert bull riders.Besides these routes there are also a few other forbidden routes about which i am now allowed to speak :p .

So that was your road trip to snist.until next time bye!!

The end begins

2006-07-05T21:39:00.000+05:30

Final Year!!!
Numerous stumbles, miniscule triumphs and loads of fun later, we finally made it to the final year.
This is the beginning of the END.

So, we made it to the fourth year and along with us on this ride is our very own jester, joker, villian, scapegoat...MORPHEUS!!!
He has reached a new level of eccentricity and we dare not hope what lies in store for us this year.

A new addition to our superstar filled faculty is Mr.Pressman..not the author, but just a guy who, we think, sleeps with the author.
So, Mr.Pressman, who looks like hes gonna pass out if he sneezes out loud, knows a lot of things; some which he isnt sure of, some which he doubts, some which he cant remember, and the rest which he read in Pressman. He deserves a place in the Looney toons in the least :P

On a more serious note, the placement division of our college has turned out to be a bunch of incompetent morons. They actually managed to send all our names as well as our registration numbers incorrectly to the recruiters.
Looks like our life is now care-of naukri.com

I will leave this post without a proper conclusion, because this is just the beginning....of the end.

cheers!

The Dream vacation!

2006-04-22T13:35:00.000+05:30

The Discovery channel of travel n living presents to u world's best vacation tour at the SNIST campus!

Get closer to the nature by visiting our classroom and our not so friendly neghbours..the B family..with its 60-odd members :

(pssst...does the A family agree?)

Try out our adventure sport section and try to clear the obstacle course that the CIA itself termed as "The pits" :

Multicuisine restaurant (Buffet service available) :

Keep yourself connected to the internet with our range of supercomputers,
The Crap T-90's :

Get our special packaged tour $999 only and make ur summer a memorable one!

the calm before the storm

2006-04-10T13:51:00.000+05:30

here i am, sitting at home, listening to steppenwolf, waiting for lunch... for the past two hours, on a working day.
went to college today for a mid-exam, left both papers blank and walked out of college; because of some freak accident, i happen to have enough attendance to last the rest of this semester...(that is another week or so)...

exams up in two weeks, and i still am not sure of all the subjects we have this semester...

i'm moving towards disaster...we all are, and we don't even realize it until it is too late...
i know, i know.....this is the first serious post on this blog, but it just had to come...

as i said...2 weeks to go for the exams, less than one week for the lab externals, and i'm still reading books, listening to music 24x7...

bah...pathetic...i'm sure everyone went through this phase...

enough of this...when i'm feeling a li'l blue, there are two things that cheer me up immensely, immediately...
direstraits..(alchemy-live), or the most hilarious video on earth...SNIST(comedy).

oh...some updates from college...

discovered the worlds first guarded toilet.
in the new block.
needed to use the washroom the other day, the closest one was in the new block, went towards it but was shooed away by a security guard..."only for staff", he said.

bees multiply like rabbits...
in first year, there was one hive hanging around, i think...now, there is one hive per 10 sq. yards.
weird.
--will upload pics when i can.

canteen's been upgraded...
-heard strains of led-zep, the other day, while waiting at the bike-stand.
was shocked...so shocked i couldn't move.
apparently, some canteen guy discovered orbit rock on worldspace...good on you, mate!
-new entries on the a-la-carte` menu...
pav bhaji, bhel puri...damn...this place never ceases to surprise me.
-they've extended the seating area a bit...now that more people seem to have found a liking for the canteen food.

new (newer) block still is a plan full of holes...
actually, it is just a lot of holes in the ground.
probably rain water harvesting in the summer or something...
this is snist.....don't be surprised.

well...finally, lunch time...
later, all...

oh, and good luck for the exams, if any of you are "cool" enough to waste your time reading this before the hols.

ps: we need all the best wishes and good luck that we can get, so expecting some through comments.
thanks, everyone.

More bored ramblings and an update.

2006-03-22T20:54:00.000+05:30

Well, nothin much happened recently. However, as u can see the template of the blog has been changed.
Base template provided by Ekta Paneri.

Anyways..a couple of incidents that occured

1)
Another boring dawood session was in progress when this occured:-

Hijake: Dude, tomorrow last day of col, yippeee..and then its 3 days of hols!
Zaphod: Ohyeah! Damn thing has turned out to be a pain!
Dawood (screaming): And the tomorrow i taking will be last the two hours.
Hijake: Guess what??..Make that four days of hols..am not comin tomorrow.
Zaphod: *ROTF*

a couple of hours later:-
Announcement: Friday n Saturday are not holidays, Annual day postponed to next week.
Hijake: *zonked*
Zaphod: *Tries jumpin outta the window*

2)Later:

Hijake: Im bored
Zaphod: Im bored
Ippu (Zaphod's "Extra-curricular" activity): Im bored
Ippu: Hijake, do somethin!
Zaphod: Yeah, take off ur shirt
Ippu: *whacks zaphod*
Zaphod: *out cold and then makes an entry in his diary that goes "Never act ghey in front of her"

3)
Some uber-cool statements by Dawood:-

"We have two weeks and after those three weeks i will conduct one lab exam, otherwise i ill conduct 10 min viva, otherwise i will conduct external lab exam"
uhh?..i mean..we getto write only one of those? :O

"I will give u CD with material, if u want, u copy, otherwise i happy"
I dint get that :-??

Theres actually a book on Dawood's english skills... wait for more :)

p.s: Exam time..so blog may be inactive for a while..but then..who knows? ;)

got inspired,got lost

2006-03-14T15:31:00.000+05:30

The 6th sem or 3-2 as we call it has been different from the previous semesters in more ways than one.

The people of my class for instance, are strangely trying to improve their vocabulary and speaking skills , of all the things in the universe...."we are the got inspired by Dawood sir our" is the unanimous reason they give, with a crazy grin on the face.I dont listen to most of Dawood's lectures,but the good thing about him is.....if you are talking to your friend,rather than changing only your place,he says"both of you are come in the sit first bench"(so that we can continue our discussion there lol!!)
Another bunch of dudes have started reading books like "all about birds"( or words rather),"work power made easy"(or something like that),and so on...........this time inspired forcibly by morpheus . This morpheus who previously used to tell "set the benches in an order,u there....yes you.. set that bench right( it is off by 0.0122 mm),i like discipline,order blah blah blah..." is more considerate with respect to the 4th dimension....he allows us inside class even if we are late by a whole 2 seconds!!!! how considerate.
Three other prof's inspire us to bring pillows to class.But true credit has to go to the maam with that amazing voice,because of which our batch is expecting a PhD in lip reading shortly.

With such amazing people to get inspired by,murt and I got inspired(dont ask how :p) to give a paper presentation at jntu.But the central thought behind this was,...in murt's words,...."hey even if we cant get it right on stage,let us entertain the audience and return, and who knows we might as well get the prize"...followed by loads of laughter by me,him and the neighbours dog(btw do dogs laugh!!).So it was decided,and the day arrived....me,murt,MR curd,(called so since he will search for curd rice even in a continental-style buffet)and another guy(famous for his vanishing acts) set out.It seemed like an endless voyage to me and i didnt know the route....i followed MR curd while he raced ahead with his pulsar.Finally after a long long time we reached the campus.
The presentation was fine except for a few minor details that we omitted.....like our intro....so I gave a ishara to murt....and he amazingly managed to fit it somewhere in the middle of the presentation(though both of us had no idea what he was speaking).meanwhile one judge was getting bored,and left the auditorium only to return after our presentation was over.amidst all this my turn to talk came and since we were running short on time,i rushed through with the rest of the presentation at a amazing pace....this helped us since no one asked any doubts(mostly they were asleep) .After that it was lunch time and MR curd proved himself yet again,and after that while we were about to leave the "another guy" vanished..,murt in the pretence of searching him was engrossed in ornithology :p .So finally we left without him.
while going,suddenly i find Mr curd and murt no where (they suddenly got a brilliant idea of returning to the jntu campus to collect certi's).I didnt know the route but i continued to go till i was going up a road inclined at 45°. This didnt seem right as my house was never on such a isolated high hill.so i immediately took an about turn and using sun, clouds and direction signs for navigation finally reached home.

It is after this, that I decided never to give a presentation again.....but my decision changed again, the movement I stepped into SNIST the next day,since nothing else could be more bad than this.....lol.

A day at SNeeST!

2006-03-01T19:43:00.000+05:30

A day at our college ranges from and unimaginably boring to very boring. Soon after the first lecturer's entry, we hear guys (nowadays, gals too! they seem to be learning the art from us :D) shouting "arey oye..box kholo re bhai!!". After a couple of dabbaas are done with, we get down to some serious work - discussions which generally range from a "boyfriend - girlfriend relationship ;) " to "what can be done for our country?" we occasionally bother to look at the lecturer when we get pitiable looks from him. We too occasionally pity him but as fast as we feel sorry for him, so fast we get back to our discussions. After a couple of hours of discussion, we take a well deserved break :-).
We devote the next 2 hours to music :D . After the break, we get to hear a one of its kind mix of music, a multilingual mix of music ranging from good old rock to death metal, Ilayaraja to A.R.Rahman and Mohd. Rafi to Sonu Nigam...and what not!! we can see atleast 50 % of people's heads buried in the desks and 50% of those people's ears plugged with a wide variety of ear phones and all this during the class, believe me!! You have to see Hijake's (and a few others' to believe it!) phone to belive it. Everyone of us wakes up for attendance and soon after their turn, they get back to 'work'. We get an hour of lunch break and we finish off the few remaining tiffin boxes within no time. Zaphod begins his 'extracurricular activities' soon after all the boxes are done with and soon Hijake joins. Haze and myself keep ourselves away most times.
After the lunch break, 50% of the people take their afternoon nap, albeit uncomfortably. They are rarely woken up by anyone and the class goes off smoothly with none paying attention to the class. We begin counting down to 4.40 PM soon after the classes resume. The afternoon session is not very different from the morning session except for the number of people awake.
We get out of college as soon as the last period ends.

If you are thinking how this schedule can be boring, I say that you have to experience it to believe it. This is SNeeST man!

Welcome!

2006-02-22T21:57:00.000+05:30

Need i say more? *a long sigh*

so far, so bad!

2006-02-20T21:00:00.000+05:30

Okay, it's been a while and i'm without an excuse, as always.
so, i'll just bash on regardless anyway...

oh well...it was a brand new semester about a month back, and all of us knew pretty much what we could expect, after having been in the college for 5 semesters earlier...
BUT...
all our combined experiences couldn't prepare us for the woefully pathetic situation we are in, in this present semester...how???, you may ask...as in ..."how could it have gotten any worse", or if you are from hyd, "aur bakvaas??kaisa, bhai, batao batao?"

oh well, it is a long story...not one, but a whole sequence of them.
it all started off with us joining this college, but let's not get into that, lets start directly with the point in question...

SEM 6!!!
starts off with a bang, with the much heard of HOD, morpheus, coming to our class, and telling us that he is going to handle us...note the word "handle" for a particular subject...i'd tell you what it was, but i'd have to call up a couple 'o guys to find out!!!
so, morpheus teaches(tortures) us twice a week, for two classes at a time, after which, all of us, to a man, need to urgently take a leak, wash our faces, or even better, just drop dead.

we also have another senile old man, i quote myself..."semi-retired, retired in mind only" teaching us some other subject, again, i'm not too sure which.
though, his class is a lot of fun, what with him taking attendance for 25 minutes in a crazy sing-song voice and all...whoo...i love his class.

apart from this, we have teaching us young students...

-one very depressed young man, who loves the sound of wood on glass,

-one very vertically challenged young lady, whom we can't really hear, coz 80 percent of her speech is in the ultrasonic.

-one very depressing fat man, who obtains sadistical pleasure from making us write notes, assignments and even other peoples' doubts!!
yeah, that's write..oh, sorry...that's right...he makes us write down our own doubts and then dictates the answers to them(which we have to write down too)...they generally go like..."visit sourceforge...s-o-u-r-c-e-f-o-r-g-e-d-o-t-c-o-m and search...etc..etc."
depressing, yeah! tell me about it.

hijake will prolly tell you more about these aforementioned two, because if anyone hates their guts more than i do, it is prolly him.

and last and definitely the least (hated, that is)
-one boring guy, who just wants everyone to love him and to listen to his class.
he also has this very irritating habit of giving an assignment each week...
his conversations with us are like...
sir-"you have to submit an assignment today"
one languorous voice "which one, sir??"
another slightly less languorous voice "i think he is on number 8 now"
a serious voice(this might be sir).."what about the first one???you did not submit?"
and so on...

apart from the sad faculty, we now also have a lot on our minds,
what with 6th sem turning out to be the carrier of the love bug(hijake, don't kill me!)
and lots of gre, gate, cat type of pressure from various sides,
its been quite a piss-off, to put it politely.

snist03 rox!!!

2006-02-19T19:50:00.000+05:30

yeah...thanks for all the comments, guys and gals.
the fabulous fearful foursome have now decided to give this blog the same amount of dedication that we don't give to our classes!!!and that's saying something!
anyway, lookout for more posts and updates every week...
and, thanks again for all the comments...this gives us an excuse to have a new new year's resolution(a bit late, yup, but still...)
to quote Haze who quoted someone else...dunno his name...."i have a dream", but i dont know what to do with it...
okay, there was a point to that point, but it has temporarily skipped the chroniclers mind....
ok, whatever...
the point is that we post more...and before i confuse myself anymore,
later, guys!!!

10 things that make SNiST uNiQuE

2006-02-09T17:01:00.000+05:30

1. SNIST canteen, that looks like a cycle stand from a distance, is a habitat for the fly community of Ghatkesar. Awful food is what we get if we are permitted to call it 'food'. Easily the worst in a 10K radius.

2. As Haze already said, okay, let me quote him, "We have a basket ball court ...probably one of its kind in the universe.....we call it mud court in summer and bull-shit during monsoon.we also have a football field whose shape is under research.we also ocassionally get to have TT tables which vanish into thin air till we complain again.there is also a cricket pitch on the foot ball field which happens to be the outcome of snist brilliance and a mixup between some clay vendor and cement vendor."
Doesn't this explain it all??

* Haze for such awesome writing ^^...keep going pal.

3. Morpheus, H.O.D., CSE.. I am sure no other college has a professor who succeds in imparting knowlodge about his beliefs and experiences but not any computer science subject (No Jokes!).

4. SNiST Library, which has almost everything but what you want. The procedure inside the library is quite unique too!

5. SNiST teaching staff. No one speaks more hilarious english on earth, I swear. U only have to read Haze's posts to find out more. I am sure u wont stop laughing :-)

6. A SNiST hilarious CD made by the administration for advertisement i guess. U have to see it to believe it. I am sure, u will be laughing ur asses out!!

-> contact CSE III/IV for the CD. :-)

7. SNiST toilets! No. u r not drunk. U didnt read it wrong. Thanks to the new block, which is under construction (and will remain so forever!), SNiST got new state-of-the-art toilets. For proof, ask any SNiST male!!!

8. SNiST office. Thanks to the world bank fund, our college started to think of spending it. Knowing not what to spend it on, they spent it on the furniture and other office infrastructure. God knows if it is a worthy investment.

9. The road to SNiST. I mean, the road ( made up of pure sand brought in from Thar desert I beleive!), from the railway gate to the so called 'main gate'. Bikers have to be more careful than ever to avoid the embarassment of falling off the bike with their girl friends behind them!

10. SNiST internet. SNiST boasts of providing the students with 24 x 7 broadband internet facilities (they say its a 1Mbps line)....lol.
Whenever, students want to use this ultra unique 1Mbps facility, the computers in the lab react quite unbelievably. On some comps, the IE window just refuses to open! On some other, the comp. just reboots or hangs!! Any url u enter will take atleast 10 mins. to load, if at all it is going to load (which doesnt happen most of the time)!!

** Its tough to get many unique points about our unique college. So if u guys have any, feel free to comment and our team will try and add them to the list.

the college with trenches

2005-11-22T18:49:00.000+05:30

Not too long ago....me,murt,the beast and zaphod decided that college was too boring that day (besides the other 364 days ;) ), and decided to escape.We decided to take a path through the fields, behind the canteen.Zaphod was our scout and we tried to keep up.we were going along a path which people probably used(thats what i hoped).But after some time the tracks disappeared, and we seemed stuck(murt thought this was cooool).But thanks to the brilliance of zaphod, we found a path.He went first,and we followed.

Soon i discovered that we were almost walking on quick sand(or rather wet mud which looked like a pile load of shit ).Suddenly i realised that i was walking with one sandal on,and later fished out the other sandal from the mud.Meanwhile murt discovered his true weight,he was in mud almost knee deep.The beast succeded in both losing his chappal and going knee deep in mud.Zaphod was telling shit.shit.shit... all along.
Miraculosly we reached firmer ground and our escape was complete!!!

But then, i guess some learned souls saw us escape and didnt want us to do it again, and thats when the fortification started.trenches and barricades began to appear randomly everywhere, and at one point of time we had to come with hiking gear just to enter the buildings.Our entire campus was turned into a huge dumping site and looked like a home for dinosaur sized moles.Our beloved football ground(where people for some reason always played only on one side) became a huge, messed up, mud maze.now even the marines want training in our college.
But inspite of all these hurdles we still manage to sneak out of college!!!!!because...where there is a will, there is a way(or rather...where there is no guard, there is a way :p)

dreams,ways,valleys and trains

2005-08-11T21:40:00.000+05:30

“ Failing to plan is playing to fail ” …that’s what was written on our ‘day planner’ sort of a book given to us. Incase you thought that I had typed 'playing' by mistake….then you are wrong. This quote is yet another example of how snist is unique.

To understand how snist became 'so unique' you need to know its story......It all began when some really important person supposedly the college secretary 'had a dream'
a rather awfully long dream where he dreamt things that all of us put together cant in 25 years.He dreamt how he would start a college at a really prime location in the middle of no where,how the college will be built (one reason for the dream to last that long),how it will become one of its kind,how its biotech department will be the best,how dinosaurs will be cloned there,how ece department will become the best,how aliens will be contacted,how jaadu will return back,how cse department will be the best,how ....how...ok leave this,how eee department will be the best,how microchips will be exported from snist,how mechanical department will be the best,how...well all that matters is,it has to be the best even if there is no use.
ok, so finally the dream was dreamt,'The Dream' because of which snist is what it is now.

leaving the dreams aside lets come to things real. Firstly where is the college? and how to get there? ok before i go into the details....incase you dont know telugu,the next few words may sound awfully ridiculous,but i assure you that they are not insults. SNIST happens to be at a place called yamnampet near gatkesar.ok....before i tell you how to get here...i feel its apt to tell how to get out from here ;) . Incase you are not a student then you can walk out the same way you came in. But if you are a student,then there starts the trouble. If you want to go back by the main gate(but i dont find a gate here no matter how many times i look) then you need a thing called gate pass to show the watchman. To get the gate pass you need the sign of some senior staff member which is most unlikely. This is when amby valley comes to the resque,if you like cross country hiking then this is the closest you can get at snist.(i guess by now no one wants the way 'to get here')
but then you need not risk coming inside the college in case you are still interested to see how it is, all that you need to do is board a hyderabad to warangal train which goes so close to the college that probably you will even learn a few things(or perhaps forget) if morpheus was giving a lecture. And if you board a train going that way in the morning,then you will have added satisfaction of making, students in half a dozen buses go late to college.
By now,if you still have doubt about 'snist's uniqueness', then i suggest you to come and see for yourself(and perhaps ask Mr. Curd incase you want to know how amby valley got its name :p)

the usual college week

2005-08-07T12:16:00.000+05:30

It's been an astonishing week.
monday was our usual weekly test...
the one that is supposed to ruin our weekend, but fails miserably to do so in my case.
anyway, with minimal preparation, i landed up in college on monday, managing to reach the exam hall about 30 seconds before the exam started.
The exam went off normally...normally for me, that is...which means that the only thing I was sure of was my name and my roll number.
I'll probably scrape through in one of the two tests, because of some blatant copying, instigated by me, of course, with maddy...

It was all downhill from there on...
morpheus came over to class,
some absolute crap happened...

he asked for everyone's names, and told them that their marks will make their respective cv's look like toilet paper (i'm not kidding...he really did say that!)
That particular trip of his to our class was on the request of the DC lecturer...the guy who doesn't know anything.

After that was the turn of our Artificial Intelligence lecturer...the female, mostly pregnant, who also, doesn't know anything...

She was also not able to control the class, and therefore called morpheus...and, since she knows only two names, in class, mine and invisible man's, she complained about the two of us..
morpheus then proceeded to ask me to get up, which is when my finely toned acting skills came into play..i coughed like i had no tommorow.
and he decided to take it easy on me.

That was monday...i relate to garfield really well, in this respect, or, actually, in most respect...i'm a foodie, i'm lazy, i hate mondays, love dogs(hehe)

Tuesday was a normal day, even by my standards.
was shouted at by only one lecturer.
wasn't sent out of class even once(surprise, surprise)
fell asleep in the lab.

Wednesday, bunked college, went to apply for my passport with joshboy.
After a disasterous start, and a 3 hour trip from home to musheerabad to home to musheerabad, (i forgot my certificates!), we finally managed to get things done.
It turned out to be a pretty good day, in fact.

Thursday was boring...
it was so boring, it wasn't even funny (if it was funny, it wouldn't be boring, would it???....again, i'm not making too much sense now, am i???)

after monday's lecture by morpheus, we decided to just ignore our dc lecturer and see what would happen...

During the class, in one of my short gaps between naps when i look up to see if the bugger is going to take attendence soon or not, i noticed that a lot of people were asleep.
i then did a head count...out of fifty odd students in the class, at least twenty five were in deep sleep. The rest were languidly listening to equally languid talkers, the mood of the class was generally bored, and sleepy.

Our sir, of course was his usual deferential self...i think he doesn't care about what people do in his class as long as they don't make too much noise doing whatever it is they are doing...
the poor guy...you can't help but feel sorry for them once in a while, but, for some reason, the feeling never arises during any of his classes.

Friday was a good day, overall....
Our dc lecturer finally finished the first unit, the fact was lost amongst all of us, until, of course, he decided to proudly state it.
we, being good students who never let an opportunity to humiliate a lecturer pass, applauded him for all we were worth...

but, to give him credit, he took it rather well...on hindsight, i have a feeling he was just a wee bit too dense to realise that we were in fact, mocking him...the poor guy.

He actually even raised his hand in acknowledgment of all the applause.

He then proceeded to tell us a joke, in Hindi, about a sardar in a restaurant...it might have been well recieved if it was told to a slightly less boistorous audience, but then, we will never know...
we, of course, laughed at all the wrong places, and were totally silent, and waiting for the punch-line with bated breath as soon as he had delivered it...until, some guy(i think it was joshboy), decided to let us all know that the joke was over..."Joke ho gaya, be...hasso..hasso"..this was followed by 15 minutes of lung-racking, throat wrecking, laughter...while we all were recovering, and the classroom was full of people trying to get back their breaths, sir made a hasty exit without his usual long, winded attendence check.
Classes were followed by ieee.
i gave a talk which was pretty well recieved....at least, people didn't ask me weird doubts about what i was talking about.
as i said...friday was a good day.

that's one more week gone in semester with around 17 more...
lots of lectures, shoutings, threats from hod's, jokes from lecturers(hopefully, not too many..my lungs won't take too many more), get-out-of-class shouts, fun and general hulla-baloo in class, to come .

further bulletins as events warrant..!!!

Morpheus el Morono!!

2005-08-03T20:49:00.000+05:30

I dont know what the title means in spanish, I but hope it retains the meaning.

Ok...now coming to the Morpheus saga.
It went this way...
I as usual was looking straight and sleeping, when suddenly i heard laughter everywhere and felt my back semi wet (yes, I was the poor guy sitting in front of zaphod and hijake when they suddenly decided laughing was more important than swallowing).
Later I came to know the 2 sentences (making the disturbs & 3rd yr standard) and thanked God that I was sitting in the second last bench.

While I was still trying to figure where sir vanished, he came back ....this time with Morpheus.
I was still sleepy then and didnt understand why everyone were standing and telling their name followed by some random number. Then came my turn, I too stood up, told my name and stood there like a fool. I couldnt decide what number to tell, my birth date,my roll number or my lucky number. But that wasnt necessary as Morpheus made things easy. He first asked DC(the prof with the funny language) if I spoke in class. DC said no (I didnt know what was going on). Then he looked at me and said, that face wont speak (or something similar..me thinking ...what the.....does he know that I was dozing?) Even before I could completly think, he said "you should be getting around 70's" (my mind was going in all the possible directions). I decided to say yes. He asked how much. I made a random guess of 73 trying to act like a saint. He said "Good sit down."
(I sat down...still thinking what on earth was going on!)

The rest, as the say, is history.

I take the bull by its horns

2005-08-01T20:12:00.000+05:30

Yep, thats what our Head of the Department spat today!

Apparently he was so stoned that he thought i was a bull and that i had three horns..yeah..not two but Three!

Not gettin it?..heres what happened:

It was the usual day in college and me n zaphod were havin the usual fun in the last row. Before u ask, no, Haze wasnt there. He was lost somewhere in the front benchers looking at the prof with the same intensity that any normal guy wud look at a stripper with. I am pretty sure he wasnt listening to anything but he sure gave an impression that he was (he usually notes down the funny quotes made by the profs).

Ok..back to the topic...so there we were..having fun...when the prof says the following two things which might end up in the list of the 'funny things ever said by a prof at SNIST'. Not kiddin folks..there really is such a list!

So he says:

1) Why are you making the disturbs?
2) Atleast you are in 3rd yr standard (refer to 'the guide to the twisted language for dummies' for the meaning)

What could we poor souls do after listening to stuff like that, other than burst out laughing and throwing all the pasta that we were slurping, onto the shirt of the guy we were hiding behind.

So, in this mayhem, the prof mysteriously vanished and reappeared with none other than Morpheus (thats the HOD).

Morpheus comes in, makes a big scene of removing his ray-bans and looks at the whole class with the same intensity that any perv wud at a room full of strippers.

Next he makes us standup and makes us announce our names and percentages. When my turn comes and i tell him whatever he wanted to hear ( i think it turns him on..whatever).

Morpheus: So? U think u got horns?
Me: Last time i checked i dint, u drunk!
Morpheus: U think u r some sort of bull? U know how i handle bulls?
Me: Wow, not only are u drunk, u r psychic too! How the hell did u know that i am a Taurean?
Morpheus: U know, i take any bull and all bulls by their horns.
Me: For chrissake i dont have horns!
Morpheus: All three horns!
*whoooooosh* thats the sound of the girl next row spitting out the water she was drinking!
Me: WTF!!
Morpheus: So, do u want me to do handle u by ur horns?
Me: ermmm...Just the ones that are supposed to be on my head please.

He orders me to sit down and stares at me in the same way that a .... *figure it out*

Next up is Zaphod.. I will leave it to him to retell his experience!

Which is better itnm or math???

2005-07-28T18:17:00.000+05:30

Incase you are not from snist and want to reamain sane then stop it right here... read no further.

Firstly lets kick start this with back to back quotes from our math maam (madhavi):

"no males no females,yourl are boys and girls" actually she was promoting gender equality but ended up creating 2 new genders.
"kashis alar equajen......." she probably meant caushys euler equation.
"dont think narrowness andi thats in the mind" i guess she meant we were narrowminded.
"you should by tried to homework andi" better do your homework next time
"infinity means so much of infinite" comeon guys i am not god to understand everything she tells.
"unless and untill you dont know the theorem you cannot get marks in the exam" actually i have spent 2 hours thinking daily for the past 2 years to get some remote sense out of this sentence.
"treat you all are as friends" this i guess was totally ridiculous and unnecessary.
"dont be over confidence andi" not sure what she meant.but i guess i know the logic.if an average person takes 5 minutes to solve a math puzzle and i take 10 minutes more then i have to be above average for sure.
"today once only i will tell so that you cannot understand anything" i guess she achieved what she wanted.now i dont understand why i came to snist in the first place.

Ok so wasnt that fun??? now lets switch over to ITNM maam (kavitha):
here i refrain myself to just giving the quotes as "ITNM is self explanatory" lolz
"and the maximum if at all we can that is"
"is that is what is"
"it is nothing but theee"
"when we can use the multimedia is nothing but the operating system"
"so where the buttons are provided are the buttons" this one deserves a comment!! lolz
"windows is nothing but running a window"
"giving the language....the called the english"
"that is nothing but, what it is?"
"what is nothing but theee..."

thats about i could find after searching all my previous year books.incase i find a few more itnm and math quotes then i guess you know where you will find them next....;)

the "feel" of the college

2005-07-27T20:13:00.000+05:30

you've gotten a 'taste' of snist.

but to get the "feel" of our beloved college, "you must go into deeper depths"
...as my wonderful, semi-retired ( retired in mind only),
senile, old, spewing, radio-antenna toting
computer organization lecturer used to say just before he embarked on one of his daily 7 and a half minute treks to the bathroom...
seven and a half...???
...(for us- in his words
" 5 minutes 10 seconds for copying down the contents of the present slide, 2 minutes 20 seconds for your break...GO!!!)
...and for him-in my words
" 2 minutes 40 seconds for the gruelling 200 yard walk to the toilet,
1 minute 5 seconds for him to figure out why he was in the bathroom once he gets there, 32.5 seconds for him to empty his bladder,
22.5 seconds for wondering how the zipper on his pants works
(one of the all time greatest mysteries of mankind as we know it ;) )
2 mins 20 seconds for the gruelling 200 yard walk back to the classroom from the toilet(i figured he walks a bit faster with an empty bladder!)

so, that should hopefully give you a "feel" of the amazing, overhyped education system my lovely college has on offer!

can't say we didn't have our share of laughs, though!!!

whats snist03??

2005-07-24T20:20:00.000+05:30

snist stands for sreenidhi insititute of science and technology
and 03 is the year when i joined the college to study computer science[ofcourse i ended up doing everything but that]

so whats different about snist??

2005-07-24T19:47:00.000+05:30

other than me nothing!! lolz.
but to tell the truth....its the people there.you get to meet all kinds of people...from morons to the so called scientists.no i am not just talking about my fellow friends,but even those enlightened souls who enter the classroom with a chalk and a 'i hate you all attitude' .
apart from this we have a basket ball court ...probably one of its kind in the universe.....we call it mud court in summer and bull shit during monsoon.we also have a foot ball field whose shape is under research.we also ocassionally get to have tt tables which vanish into thin air till we complain again.there is also a cricket pitch on the foot ball field which happens to be the outcome of snist brilliance and a mixup between some clay vendor and cement vendor.
leaving sports aside,we have a central library about which i wont comment since i dont know much about it.but according to legend,the library has huge rows of seemingly useful books,and u can find anything but what you want there.we also have many computer labs having lots of computers.they seem superb till you actually on them.in fact the first thing you will learn after coming to snist is how to quckly and efficiently press alt-ctrl-delete.even if you manage to get a proper computer...wait...dont celebrate...dont declare that you are giving a party to everyone on sunday....first check if the mouse works.thats our comp lab.
i guess by now you are familiar with snist and how its different from the rest!!