Friday, June 27, 2008

When someone you know dies....

When someone you know maybe not very familiar but you know the existence of the person in this world, dies you feel sorry for the person and his/her family.

But when someone who is very close to you dies, someone who cared for you and shared some great moments with you dies you wonder why did this happen to him/her? Death is truth of life, i think only truth but still its the most unpleasant truth to hear. Your heart wants to cry out, your brain stops working, there is no way to console yourself, but you need to live with it.

I can't even wonder my mami would die at such a tender age, she was just 45. Her greatest moments of life came now, her daughter got good job, her son got into best college but someone didn't want her to cherish those moments. Destiny can be sometimes so confusing so mysterious that no body could understand why did that incident happen. What would have life been if that incident wouldn't have happeend, if these things were meant to happen then whats the use of living as a human being.

Some questions really have no answers...

Sunday, June 22, 2008

Day 28 @ Qualcomm, the change...

Met one of my good old friend Shadab on Saturday, he is doing robotics project in IIIT, HYD. Hard working student toiling for hours to prove his worthiness, as he is the youngest one to work upon a project that is only handed to M.S. students. Meeting old friends always give you a piece of mind.

Yesterday i was seeing one of the best, but uncrowned movie "Rang De Basanti", which shows so many faces of mankind. Frustation of a man giving rise to problems, turmoil in our mind the youths of nation making the world look like battle field.

I really wonder how fearless were all the revolutionaries, how fearless can a man be when he is exposed to those conditions where your imagination can't even pierce in your darkest nightmare.

Some of these revolutionaries were quite affluent, even todays opulence can't match that era's classic taste. But still they wanted to give up all the worldly pleasures, choose the path on which only a man could walk, without even thinking of the extreme consequences.

The movie didn't made me think when i saw itr first time but yesterday i thought what are we doing for the nation, what am i doing for nation? Future of a Computer Science Engineer like me is pretty predictable where one joins a Billion/Million worth software company and work and work untill you opt out to start your own business or join other company.

But i have decided i will try for IPS, will work for it with my friend who is preparing for IAS. Somethings are written in your "Kundli", somethings you opt, but in my case my Kundli and my heart both speak the same dialect.

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

20 Days @ Qualcomm, HYD

20 days over here at Qualcomm, Hyderabad. My work is going at good pace, and my mentor Mr. Uttam Pattanayak is very helpful and knowledgeable person. Other than him even the other employees are very friendly. We play Table Tennis together, have chats about cricket matches, and whole lot of experience which you gain by interacting with these guys is splendid.

Today especially we interacted a lot with other teams since there was Tech Day of BREW Team and the event was named as Resonance '08 with the theme "Watch...Listen...N'joy!"

Yeah and we interns really watched, listened and enjoyed a lot. We got a Cap with Resonance '08 written on it as we submitted which product we liked which were displayed by the teams.

So what does this team do? All sorts of entertainment products, then some ideas which at least i dreamt about. Let me briefly tell you about them,

1) Tagging images clicked by your mobile phone with the GPS. (Esp. liked this idea and according to me it was best one)

2) Application by which sound from a sender can be varied according to sender's coordinates, speed and orientation with respect to receiver. You could feel the experience of real time sound!

3) A software by which you can change how your mobile phone corresponds when you get a call or SMS. Like changing the vibration type, ringtone (when it should actually ring like after 5 sec of getting a call), then animation played while you get a call, LED blinking etc.

4) RTSP on mobile phone.

5) Video Call (uses 3G deployed in UK and Japan).

6)Biometric recognition in phones.

7) Byte based A/V sync.

Today also came to know that Qualcomm actually makes API for many things like ones listed above, and companies like HTC, Samsung, LG, Spice, Reliance etc., also called OEM here, uses them by building a GUI over it.

I really would like to work in that team, if Qualcomm offers me 8 Sem internship.

Monday, June 9, 2008

12 days @ HYD

Work has been assigned to me here @ Qualcomm, had to learn Perl/Tk. One of the good parts of Perl is that it uses "Regular Expressions" or regexp (for short) rigorously. Then its learning curve is pretty normal so if you are thinking of learning it you can do it in a day, but you need to be familiar with notations, its very close to C but more closer to Python when it comes to OOP's.

Leaving Technical funda Hyderabad is more so like Bhopal it is almost same here except the building part in HYD.