Just Do It!

Well, I am not promoting Nike but it was the parting words from Mr. Sandipan Deb, in the inaugual function of Careerz '05. Yes, just now I returned from the Netaji Auditorium. We met there two of our gainfully employed (as coined by Prof. Kalyan Chakrabarty in the Human Behavior in Organizations(HBO) lectures) alumnus, Mr Sandipan Deb ('85 batch of ECE), the famed author of "The IITians" and the director of IBM Global Services, Mr. Agnimitra Biswas ('92 batch of ECE).

It was nice to hear from the persons who have watched the market trends so closely and have felt it. Mr Biswas was talking on "Why is IT so exciting?". He talked about the recent studies of on "market-booms" and their final fate. He nearly scared us by stating the strange co-incidence that after every such boom, be it after the industrial revolution (followed by surge of Nepoleon), or the boom of automobiles (followed by the World Wars), humanity always experienced the peril of warfare in the history. May be we are awaiting another after the IT boom. He talked about the visions one should have in IT and how is it different from traditional professions. He also added issues like insourcing, outsourcing, open-source applications with relevance to the field of IT. The parting phrase was, "IT is less about the technology.... .... and more about the YOU".

Mr. Deb seemed to be a bit nostalgic initially. He talked about his decisions and stakes at life. But his conclusion was 'explore your passion'. Don't do things as if u r doing it for the sake of 'duty'. Explore ur ideas. You might even fail in realizing your dream. But being an IITian u can 'afford a failure in ur CV' after all. Further in this process of failure, you will learn not to repeat the same mistake again. So in the process you learn through the failure. He cited several examples where men from these premier institutes have chosen a profession pole part from engineering. Even he mentioned about an alumnus who became a sergeant even after being the topper of Mechanical Engineering Department. Mr. Deb cited a simple stroy of three stone-cutters. First one when questioned what is he actually doing, his straight-foward reply was "Don't u see I am cutting stones", the second reply, quite innovative, "I am cutting stone for the new building", the third was a visionary reply, "I am cutting stone for the building this new city." In reply to the last question from audience, "What single thing would like to change in the IIT system, if you were given the power to do so?", his thoughtful reply which was surprisingly in tandem with mine was "the mess food".

I found almost all the aspects raised in today's inaugural function were covered in the post-dinner bhaat sessions with AnupamDa in Aachen. It was the same vision that Anupamda talked on. But unlike the parting words of Mr. Deb, I would simply like to extend, "Do whatever you like remaining within ur constraints or limitations." Isn't it?

'My Sassy Girl'

Cute and sweet movie! Just now watched it after an hour of indecision in deciding what to do. My exams are not yet over. Still after appearing for two consecutive days, that too before a short break of one day (tomorrow), thought of taking a break. Dhali told me about this film.

It's a Korean movie. It's about how a boy meets a girl, saving her from fatal accident in a metro station. Story started in a very natural way. The girl is somewhat awkwardly bold and forward, and hence the name of the film. And she is unpredictable too. She wants everything as per her desires. Her poor saviour boyfriend, fell in love with the girl. Several odds came in his way, but not in the way of his love for her. Somewhere down in her he felt a deep sorrow, which got discovered in the end.

The story seemed to be quite new and innovative, successfully depicting the eastern culture and social expectances. Liked the lightness of the movie parsed with comedy and romance. It was really a nice break for me. Thank you Dhali!

Back to business

Yeah!! after a lot of fun and bunch of new experiences, I am back at my own place. Well, myself again in front of another mid-sem examination. Uff!! that is enough of it...isn't it? Preparing for exams has just became my other self. Assignments and exams parse juxtaposing our life since 2002 in this weird place called IIT Kharagpur. Whenever, I set myself in doing something that really reallly interests me, I find exams or 'fultoo' assignments lurking around and distracting me.
After a lot of drama in our CSE dept regarding the SRIC chaos everything is again normal abiding by the universal law of abatement with time. Now all are set for GRE and TOEFL. The wordlist indices bear our degree of mugga virtues at this point.
Mangal Pandey to me, is an utter failure after a long patient wait (for four years) for Aamir Khan fans. Heard 'Iqbal' was good. Waiting to watch it. Already downloaded!
Coming back to acads, AnupamDa is the name of the jackpot whom I discovered in Germany during my internship there. Anything regarding research, ask him! Surely you'll get a suggestive reply within a day after a thorough search over net. Even today i mailed him regarding my term-project on VLSI Testing and Verification, "Power Minimization through re-ordering of scan-chains". He replied me back with the exact paper I would have required for the implementation.
Anyway, its already a long session after my return to Kgp. I think its time to wrap up!