Convocation, Day of self-realisation :)

Since I am 3rd in my department, i thought i will be receiving my degree on stage( as my parents are coming to see convocation, i have deeper wish), but to my surprise college announced that only department topper will be receiving the medal on stage. I felt really bad from the day the news was announced, i am disappointed so much and was not able enjoy the moment. During the convo i went to deep thoughts upon the incident. Then i realised some thing great, i have achieved want i predicted during my college life in relation to academics, so why should i get disappointed? These are few things i want to achieve 

• Get a CGPA of >9.13(don't ask me why 9.13, it just first cutoff i have made in first few days of  college life)
  
• To be in the top 3 for the final year, since it will fetch me Honor on the stage during institute day 2009, which i wanted my parents to receive.

And i realised i made it, my CGPA > 9.13 and i am in top 3 for the final year, so from that moment i stopped cribbing about not letting me on stage and started enjoying "the moment", Our Convocation. By this time the chief guest started talking, and it's good. Spent a great time with our juniors, batch mates, fellow gultis, playing cricket, meeting Master Ashok Raj, my Karate Master, chatting with faculty of ur college and so on. Finally there ended the "4th Convocation of NITT", one of the moment of achievement of the life for me and and memorable moment for my parents :). Gone home from there to celebrate Vinayaka Chathurdhi with parents.

Wow, To my surprise i got a chance to go to Google,MTV

Its about 2 months i joined Google, took off my first days of leave from 28th Aug-2nd Sep, as there is convocation on 29th, and Vinayaka Chathurdhi on 3rd.  Have returned from the trip on 4th, the train got delayed, it added to my lazying that resulted in bunking office that day(Ha ha started bunking office, bad, very bad !!). On the next day to my surprise, my MTV buddy asked me if i am interested in coming to US and work from there, I can't express my happiness when i heard this, they asked me to come immediately, Wat the , i don't have visa, so started visa process, and lot of things, but at the end after receiving the visa, i felt, i have over done lot about visa, wasted lot of time on it. What ever the reason might be i finally got my visa, Rescheduled the travel 2 times and decided to leave on 27th let's see what more is in store for me? 

Still i can't believe my fortune :)

Starting from May 2004, when i started browsing internet till few days back i just used to sit in front of computer, open www.google.com if want some information. And now the fact is that i am a employee of Google, a Googler, I still can't believe this, i can't express how much i am enjoying these moments of my life. Gonna work in a team i want to work with, great company to work at, want more a guy wants more on earth :) . And as i am going to enter a new phase of life, employee life from student life, i decided to be kill procrastination, shyness, etc as much as possible in this new phase of my life. And one more thing i decided to do yoga everyday from now. Thats all happy happy times of my life :) . Catch u back with updates every soon

Today is Institute Day ...

Final my everlasting dream came true, I got a award in the Institute day award ceremony for being 2nd in the department for 3rd year. This day is one my happiest days of my college life.

Back Again!!!

It's quite sometime i updated my blog because of various reasons. So i just want to cover this inactive period with quick review of what all happened. First of all my Birthday on 6th Feb, i enjoyed a lot, gifted with photo frame from fellow gultis, wrote GATE, Ist Cycle test got over, wrote GRE in Bangalore, GRE score(800 + 380), took responsibility as event manager for Pradarshan, paper presentation contest at Vortex'08, GATE results out(Got nice score 99.98, AIR 4), 2nd Cycle test, started project, acted in Movie Spoof in Nittfest, celebrated Ugadi, and so on.

My technical blog...

Here is the link for my technical blog( http://confi.wordpress.com).

Fresh Ambitions...

The ambitions for the new semester are getting decent GRE score, Gate score, Improve programming skill, learn Hindi(i am trying to do this for semesters but not yet successful), and lot more.
I was the problem-setter for a local programming contest held on 22nd Jan. Setting a programming contest and see people solving it, is a great experience. Even though, out 3 problems i gave, one was very easy, one became so easy as the test cases and constraints are weak and the last one was still a mystery(One of the participants found a counter test case to my solution, so problem became a bit complex to solve. Hopefully i will solve it in a day or two).
I also started a new blog just to blog some tech problems that i found interesting. I will include the link when it has enough content. That's all for now...

History repeated...

Even the ACM Regional at kerala is decent( just ok). We ended up at 6th position, and a Taiwan team bagged the top slot, followed by CMI(Chennai Mathematics Institute) team. The place is too good. Backwaters of kerala is a nice place to watch. We alloted a complete day after the contest to see some nice places in kerala, but all we able to manage is visiting many railway stations :).
U know what!! we got into the train that is going in opposite direction and realized only after 3 hours, so whole day we spent in train doing nothing. All my thoughts after the Kanpur contest replayed as the performance at kerala is also not that great.
Instead of going to home directly i went to Hyderabad to my brothers place. Stayed there for 3 days, visited my old friends, visited MS campus, met some of the seniors, did lot of shopping, etc.
I am back to home. In 3 days i started back to the college, this time with a fresh ambitions. Lets see how far can i achieve them.

Got motivated rather than achieved ...

Finally we participated in ACM Regional at Kanpur. I messed up things a lot there and our team ended up at 18th position. As expected other team from my college (killall) headed by prasanna stood first, followed XTC++, IITM team and so on. Both the teams got selected for ACM World finals at Canada. When i analyzed my performance during the contest, i realized that i lacked confidence about my solutions to the programs. I felt bad for sometime for not making much success in the contest, but then i got reminded of my IIT Entrance test.
I lost the opportunity for getting admit because of my ego, pride, or what ever u call it. Then instead of cribbing about what happened i decided such a situation should not take place in my future, and it has not happened till now. Similarly after the contest i decided that i should never be in a situation where lack of confidence is reason for a failure. So the bottom line is

"The motivation from a failure(if realized) is more important and everlasting
when compared to feeling of achievement after a success."

The game is not over yet, one more show(i mean contest) is waiting for us at Amrithapuri Institute in Kerala where the next ACM regional is going to be held. Apart from the contest, fun we had there is enormous. We visited Agra during our return trip to college. Agra is a great place to watch, TajMahal in particuar.