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I can’t believe that it is December 31st already!! Didn’t this year feel short. I guess, Vijay Mallya had bribed our government to cut out certain months (or is it the same through out the world!?).

Anyways, now that we are here (31 of December) let me tell you those few things that happened to me other than the routine eat-sleep-watching movies-eat cycle.

M-Tech Second Semester:

The first half of 2009 was fun filled classroom entertainment. I was very serious about my studies and developed my own ingenious method of taking class notes in an efficient manner as shown in the pic below

From MIsc

Apart from the academic lessons, I was determined to fine tune many of my soft skills like improving the efficiency of observation.

From MIsc

Reinforcing Economic Recovery.

When the much hyped recession was hit the market took a pause. There was complete silence and all of the economic gurus were clueless about what to do. That is when I took it up and pumped a lot of money from my account buying very expensive (but completely useless) camera and bike into the economy.  Yes, it surely made me a pauper but the market woke up once again regaining to its old glory. All those high paid job holders (in NIT), you owe me!

Teaching Assistantship:

Teaching Assistantship started and was assigned the duty of compiler lab for B-tech students. For those who don’t know about it. It is a job where wonderful, beautiful, gorgeous girls with *very* nice dress sit besides you and you cant ogle, flirt or stare!! The maximum you can do is, just smile and evaluate their work. I always thought about teaching as a great job. Now I understand it is not just because of the pay most graduates drop teaching jobs!

Finding Nirvana:

I always wondered what I was destined for. Throughout my life my mind wandered over all those philosophical questions rishis from HImalayas used to think, like, ‘why do we study?’, ‘When will Malyalam film industry adopt bikinis?’, ‘Why did India choose bowling in 2003 world cup final?’. Well, my point was I discovered why I am send to earth. God realized that Chet Atkins and Les Paul failed in their mission and wanted me to spread the *real* music of Guitar. Oh yes, I meant I started learning guitar.. Those who know malayalam can read about it here. Those who can hear can even listen to my play in that article :P.

Campus Placements:

After a big gap I again attended campus placement dramas. Attended two interviews this time and got job in Philips (a month back). The best thing was that they gave us a cool jacket (well, the offer letter too).

To end with, this is what I want to tell you 2009…

‘Some come to our lives and go, some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same! That is what you have done to me, 2009.!!’ (Sssh.. I don’t mean that.. :P)

Shoo, po!  Bloody nuisance! Not interested!  We aren’t done with the old year yet! 

We still aren’t done with all the nothing we wanted to do in the last year, err, this year… err, whatever.

Someone has written something about our poor english and it is our duty to defend it by saying "this person does not understand only."

http://litterateuse.wordpress.com/2009/12/13/we-are-indian-and-so-is-our-english/

We Indians are very good at spellings but very bad when it comes to arrange the word one after another or to pick up the correct word / phrase. This happens because we don't read much, speak to our friends who are as good as us and most importantly translate everything from our mothertongue to English.

A lot of sytle mistakes are pointed out in that article. So what? We Indians also know one thing and that is the "power of numbers". If we get enough number of people who does something then the rest of the world accept it. Simple na?

Even my maid says "Why should I clean the floor daily daily?" Now it is nothing but the simple translation of hindi "roj roj" and it means daily.

Doesn't google's translate service sounds like Inglish? So what is wrong with this type of transalted english?

Actually a lot. A language is not just a way to communicate messages, it is also a medium of communicating culture, history and the smell of soil. The last thing is again foreign for some of us but unless you become the "son of soil" that term again translated from "bhumi Putra", you won't understand it.

So my advice is, don't wait for the world to start communicating in Inglish just to make you comfortable, start learning the "standard" english.

"(The Chief Programmer) personally defines the functional and
performance specifications, designs the program, codes it, tests it,
and writes its documentation... He needs great talent, ten years
experience and considerable systems and applications knowledge,
whether in applied mathematics, business data handling, or whatever."

-- Fred P. Brooks, _The Mythical Man Month_

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Wish you a Merry Christmas and let the festival brings joy and happiness in your life..