On a high

After a night out, Cycle and I were on our way to Himalaya mess for breakfast.

Siva: Hey Cycle, I am on a high due to lack of booze.

Cycle: Wtf... You seriously are on a high after the night out


After breakfast, on our way back.

Cycle: How are you now da? Are you slisha better?

Siva: Not sure da. Need to find out if I gained or lost altitude over the last half an hour.

Cycle: Machaaaaa...... Ok lets see. Tell me a joke...

Siva: Give me an altimeter...

Cycle: Wtf... Go crash.... You seriously get into a high after your night outs.

Best stress test in the world

3rd year CS at IITM especially with these courses in 6th sem:

1. Software Engg + Lab with Ramkumar as the TA - Lab project - Add a new protocol to Gaim to support serverless chat on LANs. Our TA claims that this is not a sufficiently complex project.
   
2. Computer Networks + Lab
   
3. CAD for VLSI - no lab credit, but you need to make a fully pipelined super-scalar 32 bit Tomasulo processor with over a million transistors and synthesize it on an FPGA board to pass the course. The problem statement for this project is 10 pages long! This is in addition to a few other lab assignments which seem to be peanuts.
4. Planning and Constraint Satisfaction - A very recent field of study. As far as I can see, this field was started only for the sake of the biannual International Planning Competition initiated in 1998. No lab credit, but you are given some planners that were used in the International Planning Competition and you need to design metrics to figure out which planners are better in which sort of domains and then run numerous tests to evaluate the planners.
5. Computational Geometry - A self study course. I never managed to understand anything in the book. It takes about half an hour to understand each page in the book. None of us who took the course managed to proceed much in the book. Finally we have been asked to make a presentation on one topic each. Most of us are dependent totally on the presentations to understand syllabus for the end sem.
6. E.Commerce - Ah the only 'peace' course this sem. No end sem. Just a term paper and a presentation. I really liked what we worked on for the term paper. The course is over and I unofficially know the grade too.

With 5 projects to be completed during or after the end semester exams, I seem to be heading towards a rough fortnight ahead.

I hope the internship in California would be a hard earned reward.

On a lighter note, just found this on a friend's status message

World Cup 2007

Yesterday was the grossly overvalued Indian Team's match and they did not quite come anywhere close to meeting the expectations. And today was the match of the current world champions - the Aussies. I just saw a few moments in today's match and the difference between the Indian team and Australian team was so obvious. The Aussies are such a professional team (read consistent). They always perform to a certain level irrespective of the team that they are playing against. Today they played South Africa which is a very good team but has had a lot of bad luck in the past. The Aussies scored a mammoth 377 against SA! When I was watching the match, every throw by an Australian cricketer at the stumps did hit the stumps! All this just indicates their professionalism.

The Indians on the other hand are just a pack of highly talented bunch of cricketers asked to play together in a team. Consistency has never been in the Indian dictionary. Even in the last world cup, they performed miserably for the first couple of matches and then won all the remaining matches.

But we will continue to support Team India and bet on them winning the next World Cup. HAIL Team India.