I was finally allotted CSE at NIT Calicut (which I deserved in the 5th round if CCB hadn't messed up ).

It was exhilarating, phone calls to make, stuff to pack up, tickets to book..! Getting the "No Dues" certificate stamped all over the campus was irritating though.. although it was done somehow…

So.. car to delhi.. 12 hours of pain.. night over at le meridien (amazing hotel) early flight to calicut.. (via mumbai AND coimbatore ) and here I was.. along with dad, at the gates of NIT Calicut!!

So, went in.. took some time finding where the admissions were taking place, though the process went smooth enough (unlike the running around in NIT Hamirpur)..

Okay everything going great, then they dropped the bombshell, hostel office is closed (was saturday), please come back on monday (and btw, parent must be there)..

We ran to calicut city.. wasted time looking for a hotel and finally landed up in Hotel Asma Towers (decent for the price). Wasted another 2 days in calicut city trying to comprehend malayali and returned on monday morning to find a long queue for the hostel admission..

Somehow we got the room (finally) to find out that the inmates had gone home for Onam (and locked the room in the process), so.. after standing and roaming around for 5~6 hours with no one coming to open the door, I realised that something was wrong and got a temp room allotted.

Stayed there somehow for 4 more days and finally, the guys returned today. After shifting and unpacking all my luggage (have to reduce it.. way too much).. finally settled down..

Now looking forward to classes beginning from monday!

English 78
Maths 100
Physics 100
Chemistry 96
Computer Science 99
Physical Edu 86

No Idea what went wrong in English, paper was the best I'd written. Turns out a lot of others who are very good in english got similar low marks, whereas less deserving candidates received 90+. We will be sending for re-evaluation but hope's low looking at past cases.. Its sad when CBSE evaluators mark papers in this manner..
Oh Well..

Overall the results are great

Time to rejoice.. or is it?

With the IITJEE looming over the horizon, I doubt there's going to be much fun up ahead, but hey, its one hurdle cleared.

Chemistry, Physics and English over : expecting to get good marks on them.

Maths is on Saturday, seems like forever…

CS and PE should be fun

Apprehensive about April and May though.. IITJEE, AIEEE, BITSAT..

Lets see what's in store

ps: I love the new admin section on wordpress

I haven't been able to make a blog post for forever…

Real Life is too stuck up…

I'll try to do this more often though…

Sorry to all those who (used to) follow my site..

This is to calling all bloggers who can attend this event. It will be a great meet as it is being organised by my friend Archit Tantia.

As far as I know, the venue is somewhere in Eliot Road.

Lets meet up and share ideas and learn more

Head over to indiblogger and confirm that you will be attending as it is on a limited seat first-come-first-serve basis.

Kolkata Blogger Meet

21/09/2008 at 16:00

Looking forward to meeting you there~

sHubH

Finally version 1.4.0 of CVS was ready and we had a successful voting session at school today. All the teachers were very happy with it and all of them alongwith lots of students congratulated us and displayed their appreciation on our effort.

The voting went very smooth and fast and no confusion or stampede took place as it had always done. It took around 3~4 hours with the students coming class by class and lining up according to their houses and then casting their votes on the respective computers (1 per house). Archit and I were running around since 8 am setting things up, getting them ready and hoping that nothing goes wrong, and I thank God that it went fine.

There was media coverage too, as this was apparently the first time in India that a school's council election process was carried out electronically and that a couple of students made such a software for the school. We were interviewed by reporters from NIE, The Hindustan Times and a couple other newspapers. Some random voters were also questioned as to how they liked the new system and they sounded pretty happy and satisfied with CVS, and all of this made us beam with pride and happiness.

When we were informed that our software would be used for the following years as well and also for the Junior Council elections, it made us immensely proud and the hint that we would be given a "Certificate of Appreciation" and our work be announced on the Founder's Day in the presence of the parents were the icing on the cake. It was really amazing to give back something to the institution which has shaped our lives for the past 10 years and make history for the school.

We thank Ma'am J. Mishra and Sir N. Motilal for all their support and encouragement throughout which really made the difference…

I hope that we can continue updating the software and keep adding new features and making it even better.

You can read up a detailed page on the software and its sections here – Computerised Voting System

I finally quit WoW, as I hit 70 on my shaman, cleared Karazhan, got some epics.. and finally lost the inclination to go on..

Computer was screwed up this month.. first the processor started overheating, then some worms infected the hard-disk and stuff. So I was computer-less for over 3 weeks.. bad days…

My cousin bro got happily married as we suffered the blistering heat of Allahabad last week… Was a horribly fun trip… pun implied… it was horrible and fun

So.. as the summer vacations approach, so do the school council elections, but no, I'm not standing for any post, rather me and Archit have been working on overhauling the era-old ballot paper system used @ school to a modern computerised one..

And in this regard we have developed a voting software using Visual Basic [Thanks for the free Express goodness Microsoft, finally something good...], got it approved from the Voting Board and are giving it a few final touches before we unveil it before the school… All coding by me.. [Learnt VB in like 1 hr?] and design was a joint effort, Archit came up with a really cool design

Photon classes scheduled for today and tuesday were canceled for some reason, probably Malay Sir out of town.. well can't blame him for wanting to escape the sweltering heat here at Kolkata… Next is on thursday.. can't wait for it [yeah right..]

SAT got postponed to Jun 7, for me i.e., lets see what I'm gonna do with it.. still gotta hit the Vocab Charts..

Okay this has been a long enough post, back to working on CVS – Computerised Voting System  lets see what we do, and how it turns out.. hehe

Yours,~

sHúbH

Exams goin on .. finals at that.. 8th march.. come soon…

Playin WoW, havin fun!

Nothing much ~

2moro maths exam, gonna get screwed…

back to book, laters!! [wow server down for maintenance QQ]