Today is Gr8

What Ho .. OLD EGG??

2006-06-12T10:47:00.000-07:00

IMPORTANT NOTE: THIS POST HAS BEEN WRITTEN IN THE P G WODEHOUSE'IAN STYLE. I HAVE PUT THE BEST OF MY ABILITIES TO MARK IT UP WITH THE GENIOUS OF THE CENTURY. A MUSICAL COMEDY AS THE WORD GOES AMONG THE FANS OF WODEHOUSE. DO READ IT AND PLZ POST UR COMMENTS AS TO HOW U FELT.

one wonders where this man all on the face of earth wanders when there are things bright and beautiful and of importance doing round the globe.

Paggi,as you know him is a man, who makes round here and there, with no special purpose on mind. There had been bright providential proceeding in the life lately. Though its a little late to bring notice to the fact that he has been appointed at M$ for his excellent academic and technical skills, We will drop on this matter of attention in later posts.

So what has brought this chap meandering to blogosphere. Well today has been one of those heteromorphic moments which one feels like sharing with the old pals ( internet surfies ).

This bright and bewitching morning when i was marching down the corrider of a pal of mine Hariveer bunged into me

"morning Paggi "
"morning Hariveer"
"coming for checking DWDM copies?"

DWDM (DATA WAREHOUSING AND DATA MINING) as some of you are aware, was taught in our 5 sem. The subject brings one down to the lane of memories where you catch glimpse of Paggi sitting at the end of the class 305, profoundly occupied in the work of the great P G WODEHOUSE. well leaving those distant memories far-flung lets jump back to the present.

Checking copies or lets say validating the scrutinizing work of the faculty, shudders me to the deep. One says what is the use of digging into the past mistakes and blunders, merely a waste of time. But one will agree, there are times when the old educator adds 5 and 5 to 8. So one should be at safe stand and prevent such follies which ulimately leads to retrenching of grade and SG and CG.

So i say " wait for me a min and i will join u"

Heading for the main building, and finally to the doors of the experienced guide. I dash to the end of the room where the answer scripts are placed in neat piles. Three seperate piles for the three assessments viz mid-sem1, mid-sem-2 and end sem. Having secured up to the mark in the mid sems, I had apparently done some mis-judging of the
end-sem Q paper. I mean a instructor should not go to the extend of asking practical implications of Data-warehousing and mining in real life. such devilish things ought to keept strictly to the academia. But no.

And then there are Qs asking for making minuscule transmutation of age-old algorithm and methods to solve a puzzle as to how to cluster web-pages in yahoo like hierarchy. Sinister, the whole prospect of this Q paper appeared to me.

One of my batchmate sumeet-jee as we call him with pure affection
"Paggi, you ass.. what brings u here? Tera Ekka to pakka hai naa saale"
"One can not be certain of such things unless the preacher of the subject gives you his words in writin on the stamp paper. Ones own future is in ones own hand...", a wise thought I imparted.

I return to matter of rechecking my marking. In one of the 10 mark Question I had been devoid of even a single number. I mean a curate like me who has gone to the extend of filling one and a half page on random forest, should be awarded atleast 4-5 marks. But a big red O (zero) is what you notice with your bare eyes. I made a swift dash to the professor sitting in his chair brooding into the answer script of my batchmate.

"Sir, I have not been given a single mark in this particular question"
"Haan ? is it not checked ?"
"No sir, this being not the circumstance.. no question has been left under the impeccable eyes of yours. But I have not been given a single mark in this particular question", I repeated myself.

"Ah.. Is it? ...Is it so ? .. well lemme have a look"

"Rubbish.. all this elucidation. The whole recollection of answer is all vague and does not conclude nowhere", he remarked.

Someone needs to delineate to these people of high positions to not say such words to a meritious and scholarly student. It hearts one deep to the soul. I say, you cannot plainly dismiss the work of a student. It needs certain effort to cook up answers in the exam hall on the verge of limited time, topics which are of sparse interest to the person of the student community.

But i stood up and argued that the facts presented are true and correct to my understanding. That random forests are indeed whats been written in my notebook.

"We neednot squabble over the matter.. in fact u should be considerate that i wasted my time reading this odds and ends of yours" and with this he went on to the point of explaining random forests.

but i was taken aback at the soulless nature of the words. I was fuming inside as to how callous can the old blood be of such rank.

I spurted out of the room and sat flared up in my den. his words echoing in ma head, i could not even enjoi my after meal snap. then in the evening while checking my students mail and marking "D" all over the purposeless mails send, i fall across the mail of our DWDM instructor. The subject said "DWDM grades". And my heart starting pumping with 4 times the ordinary thumping rate. and when I click open the mail, and scroll down the page to locate my name i was taken aback.

A "A" it read. And a "A" it was after i confirmed it one of my batchmate.

Hip-ho-HURRAY ...

A terror tale...

2005-08-01T02:19:00.000-07:00

The unexpected do happens ... u get what u have long desired for....U hold what u dreamt of.... it comes when u lest expect it.....

Yippyyyyyyyyyy.. Hurray................... I am happy with the fortuitous turn of events, Dr. Jawahar has offered me TAship in C programming (:)). Suddenly u feel like on top of the world...Teachin was my fantasy when i was in my 5th grade.. I liked the commanding nature the job demands.. the sudden altoughter BIG feeling u get in teaching (i used to clear maths doubts of my classmates ) .... the respect u get from ur (ah...ahem) 'students' .When u r not strict, give them space to make noise while teaching, and clears the concept of whats being taught ... atlest this is how i portray my "IDEAL TEACHER".

The first two classes went extraordinarily well if u look it in the light that it was my first official class (lab in this case). I came back from library at 11:02 AM check mail and see that i am supposed to take the lab of group A2 and A4 at 10:45 PM along with one other tutor.I was like "HUH?? come again". i went through the mail twice... double check the TO and CC headers, the addressee. All shocked, thrilled and electrified at the same time.

I rush(ran) to the lab.(late on the very first day of my TAship..no beforehad preparation for Lab.. no idea from where will i start...tut-tut). Dr. Jawahar has already given them the problem ( find whether the given no is prime or not )and left.. i lurch in the class, the other tutor hadnt turned up yet,people are burried deep in their terminals , thinkin deep thoughts to make the program.well then i walk up to the stage and start

"PLZ Pay attention here (people raise their heads and gave the look 'now WHATTT !!!' as if i had disturbed the deep silence and intervened in their thoughts' ) Has any body got any probs with the problem given here.... i mean everybody knows what a prime no is ??"

"YES" , came the reply with some explanations what it was .

" ok then , clear with the syntax of the language, the loops , conditional expressions?"

" " <-- a long silence. and thus started the tutorial, and it went well. I took the tutorial till 12:45 noon. i was all thirsty and thwarted. scurring from one pc to another.

Similar stuff on the second day, i was accompanied by Nidhi and not late like the prev day .... well this TA thing has added livliness to my daily routine. I am all happy and excited.well i wish this continues for ever, I am loving it .My father and mother were all blithe and delighted, sister thrilled with the news.She said "Jaane is desh ka kya hoga? :P, tujhe yeh teachin ka job mila kaise, kisi ko bhi de dete hain kya?? bechaare baache :(" ) .

I hope my TA classmates, also had the same joyous and merry experience on their first tutorial. Rest all is going fine in my life and it seems that GOD is in HIS heaven and its all right with the world :).

Two years Flown by....

2005-07-22T02:05:00.000-07:00

Hmmm.... they r here ..... and we are havin a blast :) .......
This couldnt have been better ..... the faculty declarin it official.....
Only the time limit sucks .... only till 10:30 ..... Whole two weeks to delight ourselves......

The college commenced on monday, 9 classes per week. we have classes even on weekends x-(
Well, two years have passed by like a melting black-current icecream, i think i couldnt have enjoyed it more.I feel a sense of becomin senior, big grown up.It has to up in everyones life one day or the other(:D) I hope everybody is feeling the same.
Compilers, is being taught to us this sem by our Beloved "Prof Govindarajulu" .On the very first day people didnt disappointed him, 6 proxys ( if i remember it clearly) :) and i missed the second class,one sluggish mammal i am.

Well i shifted to OBH, all my classmates are here.Its more lively here compared to NBH.This week i had nothin worth to watch on "My Room Theater" ;) , save War of the Words .Karthik says the H.G. Wells novel hadnt been justified in this crap. A divorced Tom Cruise saves his children from the marshians and returns them to their mother .... a happy (sadistic) endin...
one slow melodrama.

I think i will stick to my readin, Been reading "the Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring",more addictive then HP. JRR Tolkien is one great writer, all the Middle earth concept,
Goblins, dwarfs, wizards, men and Hobbits. How i wish he was the one who had written Ramayana alike , i m not exaggeratin but he does it so beautifully, u feel carried out by the flow of the words.
And HP reminds me of the new Book "The Half Blood Prince"I want to read it earnestly, the suspense seems killin to me, someones going to get killed, Ahh i need a copy, anyone out there has a copy.

I m all weared out and feelin sleepy .Good night.

Here I am back for work but doin nothin

2005-06-25T02:27:00.001-07:00

I returned on 21st and enjoyin day and night and day and .....
The sole purpose of workin on the proj seems to be at the farthest end in my mind.

Watchin movies and Full time BC , net, chats ,...
saw half a dozen of movies in the last 5 days : Mr and Mrs Smith, Kya Kool Hain Hum, Hitch,
Malena, Miss Congeniality-2 , and the other one i dont remember the name.

Kya Kool .... is one good Bollywood movie, i would like all to watch out. Some rib trickling comedy.
Mr. and Mrs. Smith ... just created some hype ... nothin special ... if u have nothin else to do then only take a chance with this one
Malena in my opinion is worth watchin

I hope to start workin on my movie srry project tonite .....
Wish me best of Luck.

I am back.....

2005-05-30T20:40:00.000-07:00

Grrr....I published this post 2 days back
written a whole long post accounting the trip and
at the end, when i was writtin the "bbye then " part The light went off
(#$%^&*!@$%..)

anyways , had a gr8 time
Agroha, Chandigarh, Shimla, Kullu-manali, Dharmshala, chamunda, nainadevi, chintaharini, Guru Anand Pur SAhib , Kurukshetra

A 10-11 day trip .. went like a whip of fresh air .... travelled some 2700 kms in a brand new Bolero .........

shimla was a Cool Place (in both senses;) ) .... but in my opinion no use going along with the family , all lovebirds , newly weds and Romeo-julieots .....

Just enjoy the air , the freshness , hotel rooms, food and gals .....

the whole Punjab-Harayana area is gr8
The punjabi-food (parathes), punjabi-folks, punjabi-kudis ................ punjab rocks

booked my return tickets 2 days back .. will come there on 21st .... Its RAC hope i get the clearin

Alas Its all Rest and No Work and All Good

2005-05-10T20:33:00.000-07:00

i returned here after 4months. I dont know what is that takes up my imagination durin the journey, the treatment u get at home from ur mom dad is mesmerising u feel majestic.

the food, the sleepk,everythin.to its brim, so that u can take no more......Its Good,very Good Indeed.

But Everytime u meet ur mamaas, chaachas, chaachis, taujis, mausajis the same old
"START the CONVERSATION" topic:
1)how is it going?
2)u dont have any probs now , do u ??"no certainly not??"
3)U have good company there ??
4)U dont have prob killin ur time now ,rite ?? friends,work is it not so

Some go a step ahead :
to wahan log lungi(dhoti) pahente hai naa??
Maan lag gaya??Bore to Nahi hota??

I say Come on,not again :
Tired of tellin them its not kerala or Tamil Nadu

But i guess this is not a prob u always need some thing to startup.
what else they have to ask me abt,

"the weather ?? "
"Its k ,fine."

then starts the same old good fashioned BC. Teasin, ear-pullin, masti, cards
( most of my taujis,chachajis love to play them with us , even my dad joins the game and then its gr8 fun)

Alll in alll its worth the wait of 4 months.

After all not a bad day

2005-05-03T12:57:00.000-07:00

Today we went for Kaal but hard Luck, the movie was playing fullhouse.
We then decided to wait till the next show but it was Fullhouse for the next show too.
then finally decided to go for XXX-2 : State of The Union
And U know what, Ice Cube sucked hard in that movie. Just a bag of
shit, all crap bundled up.I could no longer stand up the "Adreline Pumpin"
Action Seens. All bullshit. Nothin like the Vin Diesel one (XXX -1 ).
I say even Austin Powers stands above that crap. No attitude ,
no looks, no scene(action/hot/comedy),simply nothin that u could recollect
(n believe me u dont wont to).

On a scale of 5 i would rate it *1/2.

But Still it wasnt all that bad ( i mean apart from the movie part ).
We went for the Boat ride in HussainSagar. It was good, the climate was
Coool and Pleasent.Had a gr8 time at eat Street and watched TV after
4 months, the promos ,ads good.
A not so bad outing at all.
And just for ur info i am leavin on 5. will be back in June.

And this is a good script i got my hands on,
found it somewhere wont tell u that but U will love it

" A PHP Script to send SMS "
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# 10 digit number .. can get it from a form using post method
$t = $_POST['toNo'];
$from="9885323234@ri.irisme.net";

# convert it to an email format
$to="91".$t."@ri.irisme.net";
$subject="hi";

# message body .. can get it from a form using post method
$body = $_POST['message'];
$header= "From:". $from."\r\n";
$header.= "X-Mailer: PHP/". phpversion();

if (mail($to,$subject,$body,$header,"-f $from"))
{
echo "To: $t \n";
echo "From: $f \n";
echo "Message: $body \n";
echo "message sent successfully.";
}
else
{
echo "Message delivery failed...\n";
}

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Aisa lagta hai .......(ummmmm) jane kaisa lagta hai ,i dont know;)

2005-04-26T03:42:00.000-07:00

why is everything so funny today i worder ,
is it what it is or is it the way i am looking at things ?

I feel butterflies in my stomach. I think its momentry apprehension.
It will decamp when i take a good sleep. I think it has all got to do abt me going home on 5th and i am thrilled that i am going home after 4 months and dad has planned a trip ( probably to some hill station , he said we will hire a Qualis or some bigger SUV for the trip , boy i am excited)
By the way my project is going fine and here is a simple code to send a image to a server ( put ur url in the Connector.Open() ) and simply put a PHP to upload image there.

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import javax.microedition.lcdui.*;
import javax.microedition.midlet.*;
import javax.microedition.io.*;
import java.io.*;

public class ImageSend extends MIDlet implements CommandListener
{
private Image img;
private Display display;
private Command exit;
private Command show;
private Form fImage;
private ImageItem iitm;

private Form messF;
private byte data[];

public ImageSend()
{
getImage();
display=Display.getDisplay(this);
fImage=new Form("Some image");
exit=new Command("Exit",Command.SCREEN,1);
show=new Command("Send",Command.SCREEN,1);
iitm=new ImageItem(null,img,ImageItem.LAYOUT_DEFAULT,"Missing");
fImage.append(iitm);

fImage.setCommandListener(this);
fImage.addCommand(exit);
fImage.addCommand(show);
display.setCurrent(fImage);
}
public void startApp()
{

}
public void pauseApp()
{
}
public void destroyApp(boolean unconditional)
{
}
public void commandAction(Command c, Displayable d)
{
if(c==exit)
{
destroyApp(false);
notifyDestroyed();
}
if(c==show)
{
try
{
HttpConnection htt=(HttpConnection)Connector.open("http://192.168.36.200/~parag/linux/temp.php",Connector.READ_WRITE);
htt.setRequestMethod( HttpConnection.POST );
String boundary = "---------------------------7d43722015402c8";

String message = "--"+boundary+"\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data;"+
"name=\"bytes\"; filename=\"camera.png\"\r\nContent-Type: " + "/x-png\r\n\r\n";

byte []messageBody = message.getBytes();
htt.setRequestProperty("content-type", "multipart/form-data; boundary="+boundary);
DataOutputStream out = new DataOutputStream(htt.openOutputStream());
for(int i=0; i < j="0;j<" message="\r\n" messagebody =" message.getBytes();" i="0;" dis="htt.openDataInputStream();" baos="new" ch="dis.read())!="-1)" data="baos.toByteArray();" strb="new" r="0;r
strb.append((char)data[r]);

System.out.println(strb.toString());
//img=Image.createImage(dt,0,dt.length);
//iitm=new ImageItem(null,img,ImageItem.LAYOUT_DEFAULT,"Missing");
messF=new Form(strb.toString());
//messF.append(iitm);
messF.addCommand(exit);
messF.setCommandListener(this);
display.setCurrent(messF);
out.close();
dis.close();
htt.close();
}
catch(Exception e)
{
System.err.println("Msg: " + e.toString());
}
}
}
private void getImage()
{
DataInputStream is=null;
HttpConnection htt=null;
try
{
htt=(HttpConnection)Connector.open("http://192.168.36.200/~parag/linux/dcgui2.png");
int len=(int)htt.getLength();
data=new byte[len];
is=htt.openDataInputStream();
is.readFully(data);
is.close();
htt.close();
}
catch(Exception e)
{
System.out.println("Read Error");
img=null;
}
System.out.println("Image size "+data.length);
img=Image.createImage(data, 0, data.length);
}
}
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If buzz me if u dont get the code. I think its pretty simple .

Hello World

2005-04-20T19:50:00.000-07:00

Hi there ,
So u know this, guessed from d title, and have an idea where it will move on to .
"Hello World " The famous of all the programs that is written in most of the programming languages,to begin with, generally consists of the print statement...........well let me not go in the details i am no freeky programmer.

So why am i here ?? Apart from the accutomed reason for blogging ( to jot down special/significat moments, give my mind for your "food" for thought, my feeling/experience/observations ) , i think i m here for a special purpose :
I m doing a project (not that this is the first one) . what i experienced is when i am in trouble or i have a doubt i look for the solution on the net ( i use google , but i think i need to switch to some better one) and i have 1000's of solution there . Last sem someone suggested me why dont i try to keep the solutions to problems i faced on some website/blog.Hey that is a good idea ?
But why a blog ,i could have very well gone to some forum and done the same. Now here is the difference : on a forum it looks stupid to post d solution when no one is asking u the question but on a blog u can post it as a suggestion .secondly i dont find enough time to look out for the thousands of questions and answer them ( i mean the ones i have an idea of)..

but it wont be all community service; some fun and loads of "masti" ( now i m getting this feeling this is going to be gr8, incase u have noticed the title of ur browser).

So i think this is it for the first day.
so watch for this space regularly, for it may bring a smile on some face.