CET-2010

STEP 1: Collect form from a post office (waiting in a long queue)
STEP 2: Take a snap in ‘specified’ format
STEP 3: Scan the snap such that the size is less than 30 kb.
STEP 4: Fill the form online
STEP 5: Appear for written exam
STEP 6: Register for GDPI online
STEP 7: Go for document verification at various venues
STEP 8: Appear for GDPI
STEP 9: Fill CAP round forms (which has weird rules)
STEP 10: Admission procedure (for the ‘lucky’ 1s)
OR
REPEAT ALL STEPS NEXT YEAR (for the ‘unlucky’ 1s)

Looking at the algorithm, anyone can say that it is a procedure for an exam organized by the government. Instead of filling a simple form online, they will make u go through this irritating procedure just for you to realize that the exam for which you will appear is a big deal. So after preparing for a couple of months, around 1.5 lakh candidates expect a paper that would do some justice to their hard work( OR intelligence) and would act as an optimum barometer that would help them get admission in some good colleges.
However, CAT failed to meet these expectations with a surprisingly easy level of questions (CET level) and some horrible fiascos in other domains.
And if u thought that CET (not being held online and considering its reputation of having a predictable question set) would be a smooth exam with no un-pleasant surprises, they were all set to prove u wrong.

Here’s what they had to offer................................

DATA INTERPRETATION: 20 questions from this section. All the 4 sets just testing speed rather than skills, they could be solved in less than 20 min easily with a very good accuracy.
SPLIT UP:
Tables: 2 sets of 5 mks each. difficulty level ( E )
Line Graph: 5 mks difficulty level ( E )
Bar Graph: 5 mks difficulty level ( E )

LOGIC: 50 questions from this section, with most of the questions being extremely easy, they could be solved in less 45 min with more than 80% accuracy.
SPLIT UP:
General questions : 7 difficulty level( M )
Code string: 5 difficulty level ( E )
Symbol substitution: 5 difficulty level ( E )
Sequential Output tracing: 5 difficulty level ( E )
Selection criteria: 10 difficulty level ( E )
Puzzle: 8 difficulty level ( V. E )
Syllogisms: 5 mks difficulty level ( E )
Symbol substitution(2) 5 mks difficulty level ( T )

VERBAL ABILITY: With 30 questions and a difficultly level that was less than what you generally expect from this section, it could easily be attempted in less than 20 min with a decent accuracy.
SPLIT UP:
Phrases: 5 mks difficulty level ( M )
Fill in the blanks: 10 mks difficulty level ( E )
Fill in the blanks( paired) : 5 mks difficulty level ( E )
Grammar : 10 mks difficulty level ( E )

READING COMPREHENSION:
Though the ans to the 8 questions were not straight forward, 7 marks of synonyms and antonyms were a bonus.
Q n A: 8 mks difficulty level ( M )
Synonyms n antonyms: 7 mks difficulty level ( E )

VERBAL REASONING
This could well be the deciding factor as the margin of error is relatively less in the other sections.Also, a good reasoning ability will be the only factor to score with a moderate to good accuracy.This section was also time consuming.
SPLIT UP:
Chronological order: 5 mks difficulty level ( M )
Cause and effect: 6 mks difficulty level ( M )
Course of action : 5 mks difficulty level ( M )
Conclusion, Inference N Assumptions: 9 mks difficulty level ( T )

VISUAL REASONING: Those attempting this section with patience can score well around 20 out of 30. But that might consume around 25 min or so.
Total 30 questions:
10 mks difficulty level ( E )
15 mks difficulty level ( M )
5 mks difficulty level ( T )

DATA SUFFICIENCY
5 mks difficulty level ( M )

NO. SERIES( Finding d wrong no.):
A set that was meant to be left5 mks difficulty level ( V.T )

SPEED MATHS
This section was time consuming but it would depend a lot on the student’s practice in this area.
10 mks difficulty level ( M )

MATHS
Relatively easy for those who had prepared this section for other exams
10 mks difficulty level ( E-M )

MORAL OF THE STORY:
Thus, with very easy questions in most of the parts, the margin for error in the paper was very less, and every mark may result into a bigger change in percentile as there will be a lot of people in the same domain.The overall cut-offs for the colleges will definitely be higher than last year by atleast 3-5marks.GDPI will surely be a deciding factor after most students aspiring(and standing a realistic chance) to get into the top 10 colleges will be hanging in the 115-135 marks domain. The competition will be cut throat(deeper than every year). Lets hope that some MARKING ERRORS or some silly mistakes will not prove to be too costly.

And if you are still wondering what CET did in competing with CAT in the field of goof-ups, here’s a bit of info. There are 4 sets of question papers released every time so that due to the jumbled questions in every set, students can’t just copy the options blindly. But this time, all the 4 sets had the same order. So if you don’t want to solve any question, just trust your aagewalla or pichewalla...look at the corresponding question and then option....your job is done.
And to see that you don’t strain yourself much by peeping in the front desks, some centre had taken care of your comfort by having 2 people sitting on 1 bench....now u can just relax and copy......!!!
And people complain that our education system INCREASES stress ....!!!!!!!!!!!

So if you have been consistently accurate in the paper (OR your partner/aagewalla/pichewalla has been good and you have a good presence of mind and a proper set of eyes) OR if you are lucky enough, you will definitely pass the TEST!

BEST OF LUCK FOR YOUR RESULTS!

KUNJ CHITALIA- COMPUTER ENGINEER!!!

PART 3-COMEDIES AND BRAVERIES!!!!




Here r some of my adventures,comedies n braveries at Engineering...

ATTENDENCE:

1 of the reasons I hav been famous(or infamous)in comps n kind of support n inspiration to many is... attendance....
if u want to bunk a lec or pracs but ur name is shining in the defaulters list...
either u attend it forcefully
OR
say this to urself...chhod na...kunj,mohit,sutta,gogri log ka to hum log se bhi kam hai...
wo log to aaj college bhi nai aaya..aur kunj galti se aaya bhi,to break mein ghar jaane ke baad to wapas nai ayega...kuch hoga to phele wo log ko detain karenge...chal jate hai....

The attendance factor wil always be associated with me...
So here r some acknowledgments, highlights n credits in beatin the 75% mark... (officially)...


ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:

1)ALL THE DEFAULTER LISTS...

2)the 'love' letters sent to my parents from proctor n college...(we wil detain ur ward if he dsnt attend...lol)

3)MALI ma'am....(after term end wen she was suppose to sign my assignment...she asked chintan...IS KUNJ IN MY CLASS...n she was my project guide...lol)

4)the 8th sem...with cet prep in 1st month,n goa after cet,i had attended coll only for 2 days in entire jan and feb...n after attendin in my 'NORMAL way'...my attendance dint even reach 60% in ny theory subjects at term end...n yet without ny medical or extra lecs or ny extra assignments...I slipped out quietly...guess I dint come to coll at all so tat they could even catch me n question me...


HIGHLIGHTS:

1)There wasnt a single defaulters list in which my name has not been BLACKED...tats true..not even in the 1st sem were many wer a bit conscious of the consequences...in not even a single sem hav I reached 75%...even after those extra lecs..n without ny full fledged medical certificate in all 8 sems...

2)I havnt attended a single lec of a subject called presentation n communication skills....0% unofficial attendance...i can count on my fingers the no of lecs i hav attended for some profs who use to allow proxies but 0%...tat too for a prof who would hav caught my proxy many a times...towards the end,just to maintian this record,I even bunked its term test tat was held in the last lec...haha

3)PRACS-I had bunked 7 pracs(without proxies)for S.E in 7th sem...guess tats the highest I have even heard for some1 without medical certi...
after bunkin 6, i bunked the last 1 for playin football with bakwaas gang...coz they convinced me tat if i was to be detained...6 bunks or 7 bunks would not make much of a diff...lol


CREDITS:

1)PROXIES...As nishit feels...'mere khayal rakhne walw log bhaut the'...
I guess khushbu must hav signed against my name more then me...atleast in the last year...

2)Had it not been the company of mohit,nishit n kunal in bunkin...it would hav been really difficult for me to maintain such consistency...

3)GOIN HOME FOR LUNCH:
I never returned after lunch break...if ever I did...there had to be some real concrete reason...but i should not be blamed for tat...
after havin a full course meal...who would want to get up from the couch,come back in the sunny afternoon just to attend a swati mali of a sharma sirs lec...


So tats my story as far as attendance is concerned...And if u find some competition for me in the attendance section...i would like to eliminate this by sayin no medical certificates....atleast in the major achievement sems...



Movin on in my bravery section...the next 1 after attendance is exams n vivas...
1st things 1st...had I not been frnds with a certain khushbu busa,I would definitely hav had a k.t. in 1 of the subjects....or may be many....
Being highly frustrated from this technical field,i started loosin interest n subsequently patience sem after sem...here are some of my frustration driven achievements...


1)sem 2...ED(engg drawing)...

I hated drawin...so wen it came to completing the assignment sheets of orthography i was so irritated tat i refused the teacher to complete them...'u cut my term work marks n mark this incomplete but i wont complete this' is wat I told her..poor miss shivangi ruparel ma'am...I remember her completing my last assignment sheet...imagine the level of irritation due to which I managed to make a teacher complete my assignment...
also i dint even bother to buy a book(part 2) of ED....attempted only part1 in final paper n managed to pass....

CONSEQUENCE:I scored only 60(theory ppr n term work combined)were majority scored more than tat only in theory...ny ways i saw tat through...not even buyin a book to study half the portion for a subject I dint like,was just a foundation of the madness that followed sem by sem...

2)SEM 3-MATHS 3

Of the 4 chap we had...I studied only 2...complex no. n matrix....no laplace n no fourier...
those who hav been there might no the importance of atleast knowing the formula of fourier series...tats the most basic preperation 1 can ask for...i dint even know the formula...so in the ppr...i attempted 50 marks n managed to score a 40...many of my frnds scored more than double...

3)ADBMS:

My 1st vivas where i dnt even open ny notes or book ever before the vivas date...I read my 1st word in the coll on the day of vivas...tat seemed to be brave then but I n many of my frnds repeated it many a times in the forthcomin sem...

4)WEB TECHNOLOGY:

After mastering the art of studyin in coll itself on the D day for vivas, I magaged to repeat it but this time around in a theory ppr...my selfless frnd khushbu taught me for 3 hrs...8 30 to 11 30...n I studied for another 3hrs 11 30 to 2 30 n managed to score a 40...trust me...its like the smallest crash course ever...hard to describe in words but those who had seen me tat day might either slap me for bieng this stupid or give me a red n white bravery award for being extra ordinarily brave....

5)SEM 8-C.V.

If I had written my ppr at 8 in the mornin...i would hav managed to write only for 10 marks...but the ppr was at 11...n that might just be the extra 30 marks...wil boast bout it after my 8th sem results...or wil delete this post if i get a k.t..... IF these few were memorible...the other 1s were surely not gr8...they were just like how an engineer's exam should be....


So this was my(or a generalized for many) algorithm for a majority of the exams....

1)START---extremely late to study for the exams,
2)'kuch nai ho raha hai yaar'.....,
3)'khushbu mere ko sihka'.....,
4)'yogesh chalna revise karte hai.2 ghante mein sab thusa hai...sab khichdi hai dimag mein...'
5)'lagnewalla hai dost...thoda bhaut kiya hai...dekhte hai'.....,
6)'bandish ppr mein dikhna plz.nai to aaj gaya',
7)after exams...'70 ka likha hai'....,
8)exams result read 40+....
9)'next time se jaldi chalu karega'....
10)if(engg exam)
goto step 1...;
else
STOP(hopefully...coz i dnt wanna use this algo in MBA exams...)


Tats been the common story for almost all my exams...but some how, have managed to escape(so far)...
I wil always remember the adventures of engg...be it the combine studies, or the exams or the pracs or the lecs...
n mazak mazak mein 4 yrs khatam....

If u think all these events were stupid or brave or comic or wierd...then that was actually how my engineering was...
so after all the fun n frustration...a significant journey came to an end....
n it doesnt matter how much i know bout nything related to computers....if some 1 asks me what hav I studied...all I can say(thanks to mumbai university) is....

KUNJ CHITALIA....COMPUTER ENGINEER!!!!!

THE FUN FACTOR IN ENGINEERING-MY BAKWAAS GANG

PART-2




ADVENTURES WITH BAKWAAS GANG!!!!



At K.J Somaiya College besides having regular lectures ,the students have to endure the weekly tests, long practicals and heavy duty journal completions.
.
We have maged to handle this AATYACHAR in our own ways and have successfully done so for the last 3 years…..Yeah..of course ..we have had our disappointments and disasters in the process of getting the formula right, but all said and done we have managed fine so far.

The golden rule which we dutifully follow at BAKWAAS

“TO BEAT THE SYSTEM…YOU HAVE TO CHEAT THE SYSTEM”


STATUTORY WARNING:
1) Use the CHEAT CODES at your own risk
2) Consequences of using the Cheat Codes is disastrous to future Career.It may make you lazy ,unambitious and “i-dun-give-a-damn” type of person ,ultimately making you overconfident and ruining your life.

NYWAYS...Lets get on with the Bakwaas Cheat Codes for making your journey in engineering as eventful and as enjoyable as ours…
Chao!!




SYSTEM TORTURE 1: TESTS
BAKWAAS CHEAT CODE :COPYING


At Somaiya they have invented a genious way of torturing students.Besides final exams we have weekly tests.And if this was not enough we have two tests for every subject .

Normal method:(followed by the SCHOLAR category):
Study hard for entire previous week. Then study the entire night before the test. Then come to college and learn the difficult part of the portion and give the test.

OUR METHOD:

1) Method 1:
Copy from the person sitting exactly in front or exactly behind you during the test.
If you are Priyank, you can take help from any student sitting anywhere in the class.

This method is time tried and tested.But on some occasions it has failed.
And failed miserably.

Eg:
Situation:
During one of the term tests 3 members of bakwaas gang were sitting as positions indicated
Nishit-----Ameya---n--ME.

Ameya had given his answer sheets to both nishit and me.

The supervisor was aware of some suspicious movement on these benches and went over to keep an eye on them.
Seeing this, Nishit had a idiotically brilliant idea.He couldn’t copy in front of the supervisor,so he put ameyas sheet behind his own and started copying only the left hand side of the answer .
The supervisor at once saw what was going on; he grabbed the paper from nishit
And said
“Kiska paper hai yeh”
Nishit “ Ma’am Ameyas”

Ameya was already terrified and frightened.
He blurted”.aiiin???par..par..mera paper tere pass kaise aaya..”
The whole class started laughing.
Waah,by sum unknown miracle ameyas paper had simply slipped on to nishits bench..lol
Seeing that the situation was going out of control nishit tried to bribe the supervisor.
Nishit :”ma’am ,cut my attendance…but give my paper”
But in vain …he was robbed of his paper.

Now ameya had another tension.One of his sheet was with me.So he started pinching me to give his sheet back to him..
And i said:
“ Arre bhaggu,maine daal diya tera sheet tere pass..dekh neeche pada hoga..”
So after all this drama ameyas 2nd answer sheet was in his desk while he was worried it was with me..Phew…wat comedy of errors.
They got of the soup safe and sound but new comers may take a note of this situation .


2) Method 2:
Another loop hole in K.J is that teachers (on extreme pursuation by students) give Question Banks comprising of 10 important questions out of which 5 will definitely come for the exam.Morover due to lack of answer sheets we had to use our own full scape sheets as supplements for the test.

So the Bakwaas minds started to work on cracking this situation as well.
This requires a bit of hard work but works wonderfully and yu’ll complete your paper in no time

Step 1: Write each of the question(or the most likely questions) on a separate single fullscape sheet at home or early morning before the test in the library.

Step 2: During the test ,for first 45 minutes write just one answer.

Step 3: In the next 15 minutes remove the full scapes containing the answers which have been asked in the exams and staple them to the main supplement.

That’s it you are done.All answers word to word from the text book and so huge making teacher wonder at what speed you write your paper..lol

In case of Official supplements, try smuggling some blank supplements directly after every test. They come handy for the next test.

This has failed only on occasions where people have been clumsy.

Eg:situation:

Sumit ,was writing a term test in the Einstein hall.
While removing the written answer fullscapes from the plastic bag…he made such a fuss that even the most ignorantly deaf man could have been attracted to the noise.
So far it has helped a hell lot of us to get out of term work marks unscatched and unharmed.Thanks to sheet stapling.



3)Method 3:

After they found out that people were scoring extremely well in the test, the Somaiya guys came up with a new idea. They made two different set of papers A and B.
Two students were made to sit side by side and both of them had a different set.

But we again ,were not to be left behind….

Every member sat with a guy who had studied for the test .
They then wrote the same set which their neighbour was writing
During the signing of the sheet by the supervisor the real set name was written.
But during submission of the answer sheet and on final bell, a hyper chaotic situation was created in the class…and in all the jumbling we changed our answer sets matching to the set from which we had copied the answers.

Thenga to the super intellectual SET theory.

This is actually a high risk method and increases the chances of getting caught if the examiner checks the questions in the set. One such situation arised with Mohit and me.


I was idiotically copying from the Yogesh’s set A and mohit was sitting behind me again copying the same set.
So in all there were 3 people writing the answers from the same set A on two consequitive benches.Mohit,me and Yogesh.

I was caught by the supervisor when she checked for the different answers in set A and set B.
When she found that I was writing the set A when he was supposed to write set B,she took away his paper.Yogesh was straightaway given a Zero.
This got Mohit in a dilemma…..
So he got on with writing answers from set B
And ultimately Mohits answer sheet consisted of two answers from set A and two answers from set B.lol
SUCH STUPIDITY NEEDS TO BE AVOIDED.Young guns please note!!




SYSTEM TORTURE 2: FINAL EXAMS
Our next stop over: The semester final exam .The most risky of all the situations where you can use the Cheat Codes. This is an extremely HIGH RISK zone where one single mistake may cost you a year or may have you debarred for 3 years.

Besides using the normal “aagewale se chapo “ method which is very actively used by Baxi, me, Sutta ,K.K and most other members in the gang, people like priyank have introduced more riskier methods of beating the system.
In the “ aagewale se chapo” method a lot is dependent on the person sitting in front of you.
But if you are desperately in need of marks and are sure you are gonna flunk in exam then here are some methods which have been very successfully implemented cept for some.they are listed below:

Method 1: Easy solutions
The answers given in the “EASY SOLUTIONS” are precise,.to the point and compact enough to be cut and stuffed into your pant pockets.In case where you are a hopeless ,shameless and useless engineer wear 6 pocket pants and a shirt with a upper pocket consisting of an index to tell you which answer is in what pocket.

Method 2: Nishit method ( highly harmful, extreme caution required)

Carry a cloth pouch cum pencil box with white interiors.
Write answers on the inner side of the pouch.
Act to search for a eraser or sharpener or refill every 10 minutes and read the answer from the pouch.
After every exam give the pouch to your “Kaamwali bai” for thorough washing,
So that you can have it ready for the next exam.

Disaster:
Gaavwala getting caught with his pouch confiscated and facing severe consequences which were not effective enough for him as he still copied regularly in his term tests.





SYSTEM TORTURE 3: PRACTICALS


Though not as torturous as lectures,the practicals may get very boring if you do not have good innovative and creative friends like the bakwaas gang members around.
These creations can be dubbed as the most intellectual ways of passing time in computer practicals and may be used without the fear of getting caught and whats more…the professor may actually think you are working hard on the program.

Some of our highly sophisticated ways of passing 3 hours in any Computer practicals can be given as below:

GAMES WE PLAY:

Game 1:
CD DRIVE RACE:
This involves any number of players and an appropriate number of umpires to keep a watch.
Here on the umpires signal all the players press the CD drive button on their pc.
The member whose CD drive opens full and closes fastest is the WINNER.
HINT( it helps if the umpire is a friend)

Game 2:
BINARY GAME:
Here you have to form binary numbers using the 3 LED lights to the right of your key board.
Use the 3 keys SCROLL LOCK,NUM LOCK and CAPSLOCK on the keyboard to change the lights.
Eg:
If the umpire says number “2”
The binary representation is : 0 1 0
So only the middle light should be on ,the other lights have to be off.. So you just press Caps lock.
One who does so fastest is the WINNER.
(HINT: it helps if you don’t have a K.T in DLDA)

Game 3:
Define a point on the C++ screen , and get the cursor to the exact point as decided by the umpire.
HINT: No amount of cheating can help you in this game. Its purely a talent based game.



PRANKS WE PLAY:

Besides playing games we do fool around with each others computers and do hell lot of prankings.

Some of them are:

1)Shutting neighbours pc, without his knowledge
2)Transfering songs and movies from the folder which has been very generously filled by other Bakwaas gang members who have already done good work in the practical labs.
3)Press lever of partners chair making his seat drop down.
4)Go out on the pretext of going to the loo and come back after having 2 vadapavs ,one dabeli and socializing with other bakwaas members

PRACTICALS WE PERFORM:

How we have survived the practicals till now is still an unsolved mystery to us.
I guess the various unique strategies we use have helped us pass through the 6 semesters without anyone having a hint that we are miserable at programming.
Anyway,our most important strategies include:

1)Copy from neigbour (only if its bhavin or palak)

2)Access divyas ,bhavins or other shit gang members pc using network ip addresses and get the readymade programs from their computers.

3)Search for programs previously done by other studious jerks and rename them with yur name…gives it a personal touch you see.

NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR:
If everything else fails then just do some basic stuff ..like writing all the header files you know like:

#include stdio.h
#include conio.h
#include math.h
(I know only these,since past 3 years)



Next time when the teacher asks for the programs…..speak out this eternally famous dialogue
“MAAM, ACTUALLY LAST TIME I HAD DONE THE PROGRAM.
IT WAS EVEN RUNNING.BUT I CANT FIND IT NOW.
SOME ONE MUST HAVE DELETED IT.
”
Has saved us all of us n number of times.







SYSTEM TORTURE 4: JOURNAL COMPLETION


At Bakwaas we follow strict rules.
One does not complete any journals before correction date is announced.
Only once the correction and submission dates have been announced we start gathering ammunition for the WAR.

We use the following methods dedicatedly

1) Method 1:
Collect all the journal material from the most punctual guys in the class.
Buy 2 bundles of both side ruled and one side ruled journal pages
Arrive at Priyanks place at 11.00 pm
Complete all journals amidst Loud Rock Music with Baxi as the DJ changing songs on priyanks PC.

2) Method 2:
Write in the worst possible handwritting(like mine) so tat the teacher is not able to und wat u hav written.also write using as many lines u can n leavin as much space between the words as u can.this wil help u skip paras n paras n save u hell lot of time.

3) Method 3:
Write any shit and correct the journals your self.
Usually these journals are given to Darinda for correction as he is considered the most accurate forger of the lot..
But after himself getting caught by Prof.Chandan,his popularity has received a kind of blow. None the less he is not the one to give up and has continued doing favours for others long after the episode.

There r many more incidents but is impossible to list them all.....
but to sum it up...BAKWAAS GANG is full of the most mad,item n time pass set of ppl i hav ever met....cheers to the cartoons.................!!!!

MY TRYST WITH ENGINEERING

PART-I





SOME 1ST EXPERIENCES N SOME 1ST IMPRESSIONS!!!
4 yrs ago,wen I went to coll for the 1st time....i was there with my junior coll frnds to check our div....n guess wat..all the shahs n sheths were in div B...n i was in A....my 1st disappointment in Engg....

Guess i wasnt prepared for the fact that inspite of 6 frnds sharing the same course not even 1 was with me...n so with a sad face...i went on to attend my 1st lec....n there it was...i was 10 minutes late...n there came my 2nd dissappointment...
Lookin at the main bldn durin admissions process i dint realize that our lec wil be held in a bldn behind it that was a 2 floor vintage bldn...they called it the workshop bldn...n it looked like 1....lookin at tat bldin...i was thinkin...should i hav taken d.j. sanghavi....this place sucks....n the thought got stronger wen i found out a classroom that had no electricity...
O wat a horrible start.........
ppl remember some of their 1sts....but i dnt remember nythin after that coz i was far too dissappointed to be there...n that to without my garodian frnds....i might laugh on being disappointed for such silly reason now but then i was seriously thinking to write a request letter to change my div...coz i dnt want to bear this all alone....n i dint think i would even be able to be frnds with a single person from tat class...

Coz there was a certain PRIYANK DESHMUKH who came n sat next to me next mornin...wearin a sleeveless n a three-fourth n all sweatin...guess he might top the list of the worst 1st impressions...for not only in my list but the entire divs list...n everytime i looked at him all tat came to my mind was d.j.sanghvi???????..............

Then there was a certain KHUSHBU BUSA....she came n sat next to a YOGESH CHANDE who voluntarily agreed to be the C.R of our class....n that was the 1st couple gossip for us... There was this huge discussion in canteen wen we came to know that they dint knew each other at all n inspite of tat this girl kept talkin n irritating tat poor guy for the whole lec.........n had she been sittin next to me....all i would hav been thinking would be d.j. sanghvi....

I had some happy times between the lecs to meet my frnds from tat div...but then i was back for my praticals....

My 1st pracs(atleast the 1st i remember) were my mechanics pracs...
there i met my practical partner(agge ke roll no walla)BANDISH CHHEDA...
there were only 2 girls in our so called A1 batch...(no tat was not my next dissappointment...coz i wasnt expectin nythin frm 'tat' department)....n 1 girl was khushbu...

The other 1 dint look normal...n i was right...she was ...(a girl from some village who use to address every1 sayin AAP...wen a guy named AAKASH borrowed a protractor from her 1ce n misplaced it,she shouted n scolded him so badly that he had to go out in the lunch break n buy a new 1 for her)....n as the pracs progressed this Chheda was busy flirtin with that girl durin the whole pracs...seein that some had said...chheda ne....ko cheda...n wen i heard just a sentence of there conversation(he was asking her...tu kaunse gao se hai...)i was shocked hearin tat question....all i was thinkin was......d.j.sanghvi???

Then came another disaster....the workshop...
I was lookin like a joker in my boiler suit(coz wo mere length ka nai milta tha) the 1st time i wore it n behaved like a joker the entire workshop for the next 1 yr....m glad tat it was just for a yr...i just hated it...ny ways...some guys from my batch who were from U.P n bihar n other gao's(abhinav Bose,saurab bajaj n ANURAG AGRAWAL)were talkin in typical bhaiya language n i was worried...after 4 yrs i might turn into a bhaiya too... n wen i saw that anurag agrawal smokin outside the coll...i started wonderin again...d.j,sanghvi???

Then there was this AMIT BAXI who use to speak some words occasionally in between his long sentence of GALIs...but tat was just the way I wil describe his 1st impression...
for the rest,he wil always be remembered as the 1 who was asked to name 3 hot girls in our div by a guy(SHAWN FRANCIS) n he had famously replied...the 3 girls would be....NEHA,NEHA and NEHA...its been 4 yrs now...n all from my group has known neha only bcoz of this baxi......or rather bcoz of that shawn who made this into a big news....
it was hard to believe tat an almost bald guy who would be doin such bakwaas n faltugiri all the time would be our topper....

N almost 3 weeks down when every1 seemed settled...there came a new admission...his name was ANGAD CHAWLA....all those who know him would have their hand on their head or a grin on their face just by readin his name....if not seein him much in the coll was all bout his 1st impression...then it stayed the same for all the 4 yrs....m not too sure how many ppl recieved a good mornin msg frm thier loved 1s every mornin but many ppl in our div surely recieved a msg from angad almost every mornin for 4 yrs that read...plz sign for me or plz put my proxy tday...

Some 1st impressions were just unforgettable...some were pretty normal....as days passed by...i got habituated to these ppl n started makin some really good frnds...n by the end of the 1st sem i had strong friendships with NISHIT GOGRI N PRIYANK DESHMUKH...n a normal rapport with the most...
So there it was....the start of a journey called...engineering....

THE AFTERMATH......

26th july 2007...i was watchin corporate in a theatre in chembur with some frnds when we came to know bout the train blasts....we raised our eyebrows,called our parents n after missin a song in all this fiasco,continued watchin the film.....

This incident metaphored the spirit of the ppl of mumbai...even 7 bomb blasts wont stop us from boarding a mumbai local even the very next day....we all were so v proud of the doesnt matter spirit of mumbai....
After 26th november 2008...
me n 2 of my frnds had gone to c a film in a multiplex....oye lucky lucky oye...(plz dnt stop readin further by judging me from the film i went to c)
we were enjoyin the film(the startin was not tat bad) until a muslim fellow,around 40 yrs old,chewing a pan with a white muslim dress n a muslim topi,not to mention his typical mehndi coloured beard came to watch the film all alone,,,he came n sat next to me.....
n the obvious reaction from the girl sitting on my other side was....he must be another terrorist....
we all laughed it away...but she n my other friend were continuously lookin at him as he received a few calls....
"he will blow this theatre off now"...joked my other friend...
it had started turning uncomfortable....so the girl whispered LOUDLY...we shall shift to another row after the interval....guess he might just hav heard it....i dint hav the courage nor the courtesy to look at him...
in the interval,the girl said..."i dnt know nything...we sittin in another row"... i explained her how bad that guy would feel if we did that...i was just being a wiser n responsible person in front of her....but the fact was tat even i was not comfortable sittin there...we dint shift a row...but shifted a few seats n isolated ourselves.....
while returning i was just thinking.....did we isolate ourselves or did we isolate him....he was just another INDIAN who had come to enjoy....just bcoz he was a muslim,n presented himself being 1 meant that he should be treated like some untouchable or a probable antisocial element....had he not wore a muslim attire or if he had a clean shaved face or had he disguised himself as some1 other than a muslim....m sure we would be sittin next to each other comfortably n laughing on the same joke...a smile matching with smile....
i wondered y we dont change seats when we r accompanied by some seemingly sober family man...after all the politicians,ppl who cheat every day,lie regularly n steal some poor ppls money,
some extremely evil people might just look like our dad or uncle or so called decent middle class man.....
for tat matter, the terrorists who attacked CST looked like some cool town college students...we might not even have realized them sitting next to us....we would hav exchanged a smile or a sorry if mistakenly collided.....
so if terrorists really dont have any face....y do we steal a right of a person of just being amongst us...just bcoz he has a mehndi coloured beard n wears a muslim topi......
we might argue that all the terrorists r muslims(or atleast a majority).....then y do we run like rats to catch a glimpse of a Salman or a shahrukh khan...y do we try to forget this terrorism thing by listening to Atif aslam songs or y we expect Zaheer khan to bowl the opponents out everytime...
if a Abu Salem or a Kasav would look just like wat shahrukh n Zaheer would look in their comman man days....then y be judgmental just on the basis of a beard.....
it felt terrible.......i felt that we shouldnt hav changed seats even if we were uncomfortable....
he would hav been a nice man....i felt like sayin sry to him.....but again....dint hav the courage n nor the courtesy to say him sry...

The recent attacks might just hav taken a toll on the spirits of mumbai...a tired janta seems to hav taken enough...their minds hav made room for fear....this time....it was really big....
THE AFTERMATH this time would really be different....a comman man is worried...is angry....is waking up....the goverment felt the heat....
Ram gopal verma will feel the heat on his next film release....
n pakistan will for a long time to come....
but y muslims in general.....specially y IN GENERAL....
wen all this was goin through my mind,1 of my best friend(i consider him highly sensible n respect him a lot n feel tat he can do no wrong)was forwardin this msg to a few....
"6th dec 1992 was the day wen we demolished the babri masjid...a symbol of the MUSLIMS n foreign invasion...
say jay shree ram n be proud to be a hindu....:"
I dont want to argue who was right n who was wrong n wen....i m not completely secular n i dont think in favor of the muslims...but this time i dint know wat to say...to be honest i still dont know wat to say even now...
i dint know how to react then...i just smiled.....i dnt know do they deserve this or not....but i wonder wat it takes to be a common n an innocent muslim....cant help but just smile....

WHEN A LEGEND RETIRES.......................

"On off-side,after god there is ganguly"....this is what rahul dravid had once said commenting on a typical sourav ganguly innings.And with impeccable timing,he had his graceful strokes on display for a dozen years.now when the bengal tiger is having his last roar,truly,an era has come to an end....its the end of the dadagiri era...
over these many years,we hav seen various aspects of dada....lets c a few of them.............
DADA THE BATSMEN:with a dream test debut at lords where he scored a century,he had a fairytale start.he then went on to score thousands of runs n many centuries....but ppl know him more as a unique left handed ODI batsmen who can craft the ball through the smallest of gaps or can come down the wicket to a spinner n hit him for a 6....his knack of finding gaps through the off side through graceful cover drives is something that shall always be associated with his batting....more than 11000 runs in ODI,2nd highest no of centuries n MoM awards...these figures speak by themselves the quality of this batsmen...he is arguably the best left hander India has ever produced...
DADA THE CAPTAIN:In 2000 wen the responsibility of Indian cricket was placed on his shoulders,not many knew tat he would change the face of Indian cricket...he built n led 'the magical team India' that made it to the finals of wc 2003...it was during this phase that we broke the 'heroes at home' image and made victory on foreign soil feel a possibility.The 'most successful captain of India' had indeed changed the face of world cricket......
DADA THE BOWLER(only for his fans):though he can never be considered 1,he has taken more than 100 wickets n has always been useful wen the team has looked to purchase a wicket....
DADA THE FIELDER(for his non-fans)wen u would c a batsmen take confident twos,ne1 takin a guess would feel,it would be ganguly...n were right many a times...always a liability on the field,this man has been a subject of mockery many a times...be it in a sarcastic way or a lovable way,the crowd has loved him on the field.....
DADA THE COMEBACK MAN: many ppl around the world from diff professions might know how it feels wen they r asked to prove their worth all over again after serving n being successful for a decade.though many might know wat to do to fight their way back,few would know how to do it.n v few would actually be able to do it.n v v few would be so successful in doin it...and 1 amongst them did something tat would take tremendous will power, gr8 character,sweaty hard work along with testing temperament n perseverance.n all this gets tough wen luck is not on ur side n expectations from millions of fans are.....
under such circumstances,to go back n change his basics(his stance n backlift)after having mastered them for a decade,practice kick boxing(specially from a person for whom fitness never really complimented along),playing for bengal in ranji matches in an empty eden gardens stadium after havin performed in front of jam pack int stadiums(imagine the motivation needed for all this.n if u cant then just compare it with rahul dravid's current body language), takes some guts.
n dada penned down a fairytale comeback.HIGHEST RUN GETTER IN BOTH FORM OF THE GAME COMBINED IN 2007...an achievement perhaps even the gr8est fighters would not be able to attain.his comeback shall always be a highlight of his carrier n shall always be an answer for y should 1 be his fan......................with a century in the final series n a cleanest of innings(85) in his final match justifies his 'going on his own terms' claim....if not officially,at least practically....
DADA has had the last laugh...
the prince of kolkata might show some more of his shots in the IPL,but the country wil miss dada n his dadagiri...........
All this(the praising adjectives used to describe dada n his attributes)might seem like a GRE reco letter(full of over praising) to some....n they r the 1s who hasnt felt tat he deserves this much amount of respect....they hav compared him with other Indian players n hav termed him 'a selfish batsman' or 'a man who ducked many a bouncers' or so on....here's something for them....
-shewag.....it was dada who asked him to open innings for India by sacrificing his own openin position...had he been selfish...................................................
-dhoni......his highest score was 13 in 6 matches wen dada sent him to bat at no.3 against pakistan...he scored 148 n announced himself for ever......
-laxman.....wen India having a follow on,dada sent him at no3 from no 6...n he scored an epic 281 against australia....
-yuvraj,bhajji,zaheer........with all 3 themselves saying tat they are grateful for the strong backing always provided by dada is 1 of the reasons for their confidence n performance,nothin much can be added to emphasize that dada has played a crucial role in the success of these gr8 players....

Be it swing a t-shirt to rejoice the natwest final win,an answer given to England(Flintoff had done the same after winning in mumbai) in England by recording the biggest run chase then..or the vb series victories of so many test victories on foreign soil or the champions trophy or the world cup or highest century partnerships with sachin or higgest 6s or wat not(too many highs to be listed here...honestly) ...he has always been a man with an answer....
In his own words....'he has made many friends n many enemies...all for the betterment of indian cricket'.....
After having served the country for so long with such pride n success,he should be given all the respect a hero deserves...........
A dhoni might replace him as the most successful captain, a yuvraj or a raina might go on to hit countless cover drives,but no 1 will ever replace dada from the hearts of his fans......

He shall never fiss off from ppls memory...he has had a habit of stayin in the limelight...be it for right reasons or wrong....be it good or bad....every1 has an opinion bout him...
so dnt be surprised if u c him again as a coach or a selector or even a POLITICIAN(high probability) ........

whatever be it...ppl wil always remember him....
A handful -as a man who lacked professionalism...
A few -as a cricketer who was an asset that turned liability.............
while many(his fans)-wil remember him every time they c some lefthander hit a classy cover drive,or a down the wicket 6,or some captain like dhoni think out of the box n take a brave decision,or c some1 swing a tshirt with aggression,or do anything of his sort,and u will hear his fans say in their minds.....
'MAN...HE JUST DID A SOURAV GANGULY'!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!