College Life — Part 1

As college life is towards its last days, let me travel sometime back to relish some best moments.First Sem was totally fun, meeting knowing strange people like me.E-Mech terror,workshop which makes us feel sick, getting ragged @ sports complex,nirmal’s classes(total fun),thalaivar selvaraj’s classes,shared lunch with alan, varun , hari, rada et al A sec buddies,playing with aju’s cellphone(those days cellphone was rare in college campus).’A’ section had personalities of all sorts.Studying was the last priority,though it was the only sem in which most of people got highest % and we considered writing unit tests close to writing exams.4 months was too short to know all and some acquitances turned into lost contacts, but still met quite a few buddies who will remain forever.Overall it was a wonderful time.

Second sem was again meeting new people,but this time we know we are going to stay with the group for next 3.5 years.Being a short sem,just had time to make acquintances with people around and had laughing/sleeping sessions in classes where one lecturer says only 7/35 of them passed in this subject last year while another blessed half of us to gracefully fail in exams.Had a rocking subject called Engg Drawing.(School friends know once i even failed in ART in 8th standard, such was my acquitance with pencils and charts).Intellectual discussions with Ragesh was side dish for every lunch.I was still an introvert owing to my not so bright acad-life.

Most part of 2nd year went like this(pic above).sitting in the free space outside the class and chit-chatting.Occasional visits to hostel to write CDs.It was during this time “logic” was born.I still dont remember the exact reason for the name,though many things come close and people often say thats the reason.My bond with Anna strengthened.Hope he remains my anna forever.I was also seeing the outside world quite a bit.Went to symps,then the year long Java @ NIIT where me and nitin learnt lot of things other than java.We had a great time together and there was no hotel/fast food in adyar locality which we dint taste.Hope we cherish atleast a few more moments like those in future. I was also slowly becoming online junta(in dialup days).Yahoo Chat helped me in creating strong bonds like Joe, CRK, RK and my circle was slowly growing.Symposium,College Day,Bus day were fun filled unlike ever.

One of the most cherishable moments in 4 years happened in this period.(4th or 5th sem, im confused,dont remember exactly, mind says 4th ,but facts say it must be in 5th,anyway try guessing.)’Backseat boys’ guess and comment.I will keep it suspense for now,let it be climax,i will reveal in part 2.

Clue : It was just an ordinary day, all of us(more than 20 of us for sure,few unlucky ones might have missed) enjoyed the moment to the core. The answer will be title of the next post and winner gets a ‘memorable’ gift from me. You can comment any number of times with any amount of guesses

And please make guesses because even if its wrong(not matching with my choice) at the end of it we will have a collection of best moments we had together.

Still to come:: Weight ra nee,Oh Soltaar da, Guhuhu, Surree… Letter, Naalaikku,Maar Thaar — Story of 3rd, 4 th year.Keep watching this space.

Moved to Feisty Fawn

The much awaited Ubuntu release feisty fawn rolled over and its time to upgrade.When edgy eft came i dint have a reason to shift and decided will move to feisty straight away.so i tested feisty installation on a test hdd which had ubuntu drapper,FC6,SuSE.I found a cool thing during installation.It detected all three OS and asked me which home directory to backup.Now this is one great feature.Especially gaim(should i call pidgin?) chat logs,firefox preferences,bookmarks are always lost during upgrades.Unfortunately i couldnt test the feature out as it said my hdd had errors and the installation struck in the middle.After long hurdle(writing 6 DVDs to make free space,so that i can format each drive and fix errors) i installed Ubuntu Feisty in my main hdd.But i made a foolish mistake.Instead of formatting my / of Ubuntu drapper and installing in that,i formatted /home partition of old ubuntu.Lost 8 GB of data 😦

Some of the positives are more n00b friendly.Add/Remove programs will really make things easy for windows users to migrate.Universe repos added by default.Better support for my ATI card through proprietary driver.But still 3D Desktop isnt working 😦 . It just took me 4 hours to set things back to normal settings and installing all required things.Sudoku and Chess added to games 😀 Feisty is all set to give tougher fight to windows.

To download goto — http://releases.ubuntu.com/feisty/

To request free feisty CDs — https://shipit.ubuntu.com/