Time to Write Something

Ok it has been like almost 6 months when i wrote my blog...i never enjoyed writing blog by the thought of whom am i writing it for? but today i was going through my own blog and ya u feel good after reading it...a sudden rush of memories...so past 6 months were best in my life, let me start month by month

Nov 07-> Able to set up LUG Manipal .... its up and running smoothly...my part has been just like a dummy moderator for now but i suppose next sem i will be taking classes on "How To program ur Mobile: PyS60"

Dec 07-> Had end sem exams till 11 dec,07 got great marks 8.92/10, never expected to get that much....ok after then it was even more exciting i was at my free will to work for as many hours i like on the thing i liked most "Implementing my idea into real solution"...ok ok let me tell u abt it...i was in class once taking notes...i saw my teacher writing "someone" on black board and always i like to note down in SMS lingo ....like i noted down it as "som1"...so i thought why not mobile does that means why should we think and write SMS lingo y cant a message written in Comprehensive English be changed to SMS lingo by a software like if i write "accelerate" and use software it changes to "xlerate".
This idea came along with about 5 other ideas for mobile phone in 5 sem....and ya that time i came to know what i was made for...so i decided that i will stay back in winters break and do something which i will appreciate. But how to program in mobile phone was a Big Question...so i searched in the sem itself i came to know abt Symbian C++ ( tried to learn but couldn't get it), J2ME (totally different than ur normal Java and as such i hate Java) and then i found my destiny Python ( i had a good acquittance with it since i had seen it in my 2 year and i totally loved it).
That winter break payed me off really...first of all I won II prize in international conference where there was Students Paper Contest...i got prize for telling what i was doing in my project the algorithm part...project name was "Smart SMS Converter".....My project mate was Kamna Sinha...We made the algorithm together and i implemented it...i think wasting ur time on thinking about how algorithm will work is far better than learning a whole new language...i sticked to it and ya i got results...

Meeting with Kamna was also luck i suppose...see she had been for the same course which i did in iit Kgp...we had a common friend so we knew each other but not that much and during the course also we didn't talk that much only abt how course was going on and all the stuff...then after coming back to college we didn't even saw each other for next TWO months...i thought she must have left college but then one day we had this treat in "Purple Edge Disc" and i saw her then we talked and she said in middle that she had this "international Conference" organized by her dept.(IT) so she is willing to participate in it, but she had no partners in it so i asked if i can join her and she said yes...so i saw what she was planning to do mostly research work on Networking but it was impossible to do that kind of research in just 2 months with that too exams in between...so i told lets implement any one of idea i was thinking about for mobile phone...

Jan 07-> So i won the prize in front of my mother...she came down to Manipal just to see how her kid presents a paper and she was the Happiest person at that moment...ok so went home with her...stayed for 12 days and college reopened...i had submitted this project idea in iit bombay's techfest under event "Qualcomm Innovator's Challenge"...we were shortlisted to top 10 ..called to iit bombay and guess what we won there III prize...and i loved it...

Feb 07->BITS-Pilani,Goa Campus organized its Techfest and we won I prize in paper presentation...but after that there was like a void in my life...see when u do a project of ur own u r attached to it...its like a baby to u...and when its finished u think abt what to do next?...so we "in a day" completed the reverse process of our project that is convert a SMS Lingo back to its original form like "xlerate" back to "accelerate". Again a void no work to do....

So i applies in Manipal DOT Net a company which gives software solutions...i was given a project on making a management system using Ruby on Rails (RoR)...i didnt had a clue about Web Programming that time but i thought y not take it as challenge? learned the basics of it and implemented my project to abt 15% when i was told that client has backed up from RoR to PHP another interesting language but not that interesting to me...because i thought if a thing can be done in a better way y to do it in conventional way? So i left MDN at that time...but i will complete that project...

March 07-> I was getting frustrated because i had no work to do and the work being offered didn't interest me like "Image Processing using VC++" means what the heck why do i need to learn VC++ for that purpose? Idea is what is most imp thing...and i had idea abt enhancing the image but no body cared so i left it and went home for some break there i realized that anybody should follow his/her interest...and thats what i thought i will do...

April 07-> Had done a very small project but more important was idea behind it...it is now at Nokia Code Examples ...but i followed my interest...had applied at many places for internship but most of them didn't found right candidate in me

IAS indian academy of sciences ->Reject

HP labs -> Reject (even though i was in top 90 abstracts from India in Hp innovate 08)

Microsoft Internship-> Rejected

Nokia-Siemens Network, Google India, iitm, iitb results still awaited.

But i think y rejection took place was because these companies look for how can u solve a puzzle may be a gud process to know how a student is...but i feel its better to ask a student what he is good at rather than what he can be good at....

So pretty long blog...now exams time starting but in summer break i will if i get selected doing internship at some place or be doing what i like the most implementing my Ideas...just got two good ideas recently...ok bye and take care...