Back from Paradise!

Just got back from a short but highly cherished sojourn in Kolkata. It was a lovely, lovely experience (as always!). Just what I needed to recharge my batteries. Had a wonderful time with my family, went shopping with mom and sis (a mega-event in itself, with the puja-s round the corner), even went to a beauty contest and saw a young contestant not being able to tell who the prime minister of India is! Beauty and brains don't always go together, do they? :) Top it up with some great ghar-ka-khana, lots and lots and lots of adda and a cool little haircut, and voila! c'est la perfect weekend!

Best thing I saw after coming back? Well, definitely the fact that you can now watch Cricket matches live right in your hostel-rooms on your computer screen, streamed over the local network, and the video quality is pretty good too! Ah, the joys and wonders of technology...Kudos to the guys who made it possible! IITM LAN rocks!

Now back to busy-ness, with an onslaught of exams and seminars coming my way. Wish me luck, I need it.

Elective Blues

The incident that inspired today's comic took place, as you might have figured it out already, in my 6th semester. We had to choose an Elective in our department, and it turned out that only 1 of them was related to Circuits (Integrated Optical Circuits and Devices)! I'm not going into the debate as to whether it was actually a circuits course at all; all I want to say is that, as far as I remember, the Communications guys had at least 2 options to choose from, and guys in other departments had some 3 to 4.

All these things coming back to me, of course, thanks to the tremendous harassment I had to face in the Humanities department recently, where I wanted to take my last course, a supposedly Free Elective.

Life isn't so cool at times in this place. Especially when people with inflated ego come over at the helm of things and start dictating terms which contain little logic.

Compared to the bitter taste that the recent turn of events left in my mouth, even the not-so-hallowed corridors of ESB look so much better!

Ah, the twists and turns of life...

Complicated things

I'm loving the Your Ad Here experience.

The theme for today's strip struck me when I found my keychain at ESB (which I thought was as good as lost), and I came outside to find the leaves on the trees swaying and swinging, as if with a joy that was also a part of my soul.

And, yesterday's strip was actually dedicated to someone. Don't worry, she'll understand :)

The strip's a poetry, I tell you, which, sadly, some of you will never be able to comprehend. It's so very personal. Not that it matters to me, though. Those who know me know it very well. I seldom do something for something else in mind.

Apart from that, felt nice when I went to a class today, after such a long time. (Not that I've been bunking too many of them; they kinda started today for me). One of the last few courses I attend here in IITM. Never knew would get sentimental over such a thing.

I'd never understand my heart.

No PHP!

Oh! The Horror!!

Realized that our departmental server (where I had plans of hosting my le grande webpage) doesn't support PHP and MySql.

Another big dream bites the dust. Sigh.

Ah nevermind. Hope I can get around with this Flash thingy soon enough.