Placements!!

Our placements are around the corner! Campus recruitment is supposed to commence on the 26th of june with Microsoft Yahoo. Preparations are going on. I hope everyone gets placed as soon as possible without much difficulty.
I'll be quite busy the next few weeks, so will remain dormant in the blogging world for some time.
Cya soon!
Hopefully with some good news ;)

Law abiding citizens??!!

Check out this pic that I had taken a few days back in Mangalore. This is in front of a busy complex, which has a lot of clinics in it.Can you see the no-parking sign?!!

Blog update - 10,000 hits!!

Yeah! My blog got its 10,000th visit today!!

PS.- Reached college today! Now staying in a temporary room in C-Hostel till the room allotment on 23rd.

Cousin's engagement - Nice trip :)

Today one of my cousin had his engagement. So had to leave to my native in the morning with my father. Here's in brief how the day went..

0807 - Left home in our car with my father.
0935 - Reached my cousin's place. There were a lot of relatives there, whom I hadn't seen for a long time. Its a custom there for the 'men' of the house to go to the girl's place and ask for her hand formally and then decide everything about the marriage.
1040 - So after an hour all of us started off to her place. There were 2 buses and a car to take everyone. I got into one of the buses, and was quite excited as there were lot of my relatives there and I always wanted to go on a 'trip' like this one! The driver put in a malayalam cassette into his player and started the journey.
1110 - Passed Kanhangad. Its a town on the way. Note the last 5 letters ;). By now many people were dozing in the bus. But I was wide awake and admiring the scenery around! And it was raining pouring outside! Guess what?? Only one person in our bus had an umbrella!!I was trying to imagine how it would be if all of us reached there fully drenched!! lol!
1118 - Thadakk!! There was a loud noise. Someone fell on top of the bus??!!Spiderman??!! It woke everyone who was sleeping. Everyone was startled!
The driver told us that just a branch that fell on top of the bus from a tree on the roadside, because of the storm! Haha...Luckily it was a small one :)
1154 - We reached the place - Karivallur. By now luckily the rain had stopped.Everyone from the girl's side were ready there to receive us. We took our seats and were offered refreshments.
1215 - The elders were seated separately. The girl came out with her father, holding a lamp. Then they sat discussing 'serious stuff'. After some time they announced that the marriage was fixed!
1245 - By now my stomach was growling as i didnt have time to have a proper breakfast. Went and sat in the first sitting itself. The food was good, and was served in the traditional way on a banana leaf. The meal ended with a delicous payasam.
1350 - Everyone had their lunch and we left the place in our vehicles.
1440 - Reached my cousin's place.
1515 - Left for home with my father.
1645 - Reached home

Ran into the house and grabbed the remote of the television. India Pak Final!! Pakistan is moving towards a good score :( Hope India will bat better!!

P.S. :I havent simply guessed the time here. I had noted down the time everytime we reached a place, or did somethin.
hf

Its Vacation Time!! Looking for a hotel to stay??

Recently one of my friends, Amith had planned a trip to Mysore, with his family and wanted a good hotel to stay. He had tried calling few hotels there for booking. But there was no room vacant there for those days. And so he called me up, two days back, and asked if I knew of any good hotel in Mysore. I had no idea of hotels there; but I told him that I would ask some people and get back to him.
I called a few guys here, who had gone to Mysore earlier, but they didnt know much about hotels there. So took the help of one of my best friends - my Comp!
Searched on the net for hotels in Mysore. Then i came across this site - Hotels Combined.
It was so easy searching the site for hotels there! I just had to enter the city, the number of guests, and the date of accommodation. And the site gave a huge list of hotels! Most of them were sold out but there were still few hotels left. The site gave every detail you needed to know about the hotel, with the price, photos of the hotel, user reviews, and map showing its exact location too!
I immediately called up Amith and gave him details of some of the hotels and also the link to the site. He then booked rooms for himself. In the meantime I started searching the site for hotels in Mangalore and Calicut. And there were a few big hotels in both the cities that i had never heard of!Impressive!
Its Vacation time for most of the schools and if you are planning a tour and want to book rooms in any hotel, you've got to check this site! Its got hotels from all over the globe.
Anyways take care, have fun!

Other useful links:
Hotel Club
Lonely Planet
Side Step
Browse hotels by Country
Hotels in Mysore

Dataquest T-school Ranking - NITC in top 10

Dataquest recently came up with their ranking for the top technical colleges in our country.
And guess what?? NITC is placed 9th in the ranking!!
There are a few new entries in the top 20 and a few premier colleges are missing.
Here's the list:

Rank 2008	Institute	Score	2007 rank
1	IIT- Khadagpur	84.0	1
2	IIT- Delhi	81.4	4
3	IIT-Roorkee	79.9	5
4	IIT- Kanpur	75.0	7
5	IIT-Guwahati	73.7	6
6	IIT-Chennai	72.4	2
7	IIIT-Hyderabad	69.1	9
8	IT-BHU	67.9	10
9	NIT-Calicut	67.3	15
10	NSIT	66.9	23
11	NIT-Warangal	65.7	8
12	DA-ICT	62.5	22
13	Thapar Institute of Engineering	62.1	18
14	IIIT-Allahabad	61.0	13
15	BIT-Mesra	60.2	19
16	PSG-college of Technology	60.0	24
17	M Vishvesvaraya Institute of Technology - Bangalooru	59.9	–
18	MNNIT-Allahabad	59.9	17
19	VIT- Vellore	57.9	–
20	NHCE-Banglore	57.0	–

Parameters :- Placement (40%), Infrastructure (10%), Intellectual Capital(20%), Industry Interface (5%), HR Perception (25%)

Reasons for NITC entering top 10:
There was a 35.5% increase in the placement score in 2006-07 over 2005-06. The infrastructure score went up 1.9%, and the score of academic environment went up 15.7% in 2007-08 over the previous year.In terms of IT/BPO companies visiting the campus for placements, the number went up from 33 in 2005-06 to 41 in 2006-07.When it comes to all the companies visiting the campus for placements, the number went up from 58 in 2005-06 to 92 in 2006-07.

Links:
Dataquest Rankings 2008
India Today Ranking 2008 (NITC - 19th)

Wanna be invisible?

These holidays i was in front of my computer most of the time; always signed in on gmail and yahoo messenger. I prefer remaining invisible on the chat engines, because of the huge list of people online all the time. The people keep changing but the number remains constant at about 20. So you keep getting chats throughout the day. Not that i dont like chatting; thats what i do most of the time, but, you cant keep chatting all day, right?
Gmail has also added the invisibility feature recently. And i was wondering the other day how it would be if i could really be invisible!! A thousand pranks creeped into my mind! ;)
I would leave even my computer too, to play pranks on others all day. Also you could know lots of secrets by being invisible.
You could top in all the exams ;by getting the question papers beforehand ;) ..You could get into any restricted area, get into concerts without tickets...and above all scare the hell outta people ..haha...would be real fun!
But then, on second thoughts you would perhaps see and hear a lot of stuff you would never want to experience. You may hear people, maybe some of your closest friends, speaking ill of you, and you would wish you never heard anything or saw anything. People wouldnt always have praises for you, and you would hear a lot of sad things. You could also end up witnessing a lot of miserable sights too.
I decided i would be happier with my invisibility limited to the chat engines. :)
What do you think?

The art of Tagging - Yes i'm weird!!

Last year,Parvathy had tagged me...So here I am,passing the tag...

The rules are simple:
1) Put down 8 random / weird / habitual facts about yourself..
2) Tag eight ppl.
3) Ask, bug, coax , bully them into taking up this tag :)

The last two rules are quite simple...but not the first one...Never gave
it a thought,though few ppl have called me a really weird person :P

Okay...let me list out some weird things about myself...
Hmmmm...

1.I toss black pepper into mouth like groundnuts. Weird enough??
I find really hard to eat chillies but can even chew pepper easily.

2.I sleep really late..most of the days at around 5 in the morning...and wake up at around 2 or 3 in the noon. Perhaps am the last person to wake up in the country!

3. I dont snore ;) cant think of many weird things abt myself now so writin down watevr i can thiknk of...

4. I can sit with many people on the same table and not listen to anythin the person sitting next to me is saying. If i feel that the topic is not relevant to me i can turn a deaf ear easily and go into my dream world ;) ...It has happened a lot of times with me that people around me suddenly burst out into laughter and then i find all of them staring at me, waiting for atleast a smile. I would then humbly ask them to repeat the funny part.

5. I bathe everyday, in the morning before goin to class. haha...thats actually a little weird when you stay in the hostel. Many guys in ny hostel would agree. :)

6.I am weird.

7.I am weird.

8.I am weird.

Sorry. Couldnt think of anything else!!
If you have found something weird about me, please write them in the comments section. ;)


Just wanted to finish this post. I had actually started writing this post long back. Then kept adding points whenever i could think of. Each time changing the first few words. In the beginning it was ' Yesterday, parvathy tagged me...'.Then it became'Few days back, parvathy tagged me'... then 'few months back'...and now 'Last year, Parvathy tagged me...'!!


And now its time to tag....this part is a lot easier..
1. Naru (Varun Narayanan) for defining bloggin to me...
2.Anna coz of whom i started blogging
3.JD for giving me company while blogging...we startd our blogs almost the same time...we used to discuss about our posts earlier...
4.Shanker who comes up with really gud posts...but only once on a blue moon day...
5.Mithun for his poems and jokes.
6.Mammen(Justin) who started recently.
7. Parvathy (i think i am not supposed to return the tag...but its ok...u dont have to tag 8 guys again..)
8.Kiruba...I thought i could save one tag for a blog i visit often, but for someone i dont personally know... and then thought why not keep it for some really famous blogger!! So Kiruba, here you go. Lets see how weird you really are!!


Pfff...

Be part of a world record!!

Firefox is all set to create a world record for the most downloads in 24hours! The release date of the latest firefox 3.0 is yet to be announced. Around 744,072 people have pledged to download the software on the release date.

I'm actually using firefox 3.0 (b4 d official release date), and trust me, its the best!! It has many more features than the previous versions. I always preferred the previous versions over IE 7 ; so the latter doesnt stand any chance in front of firefox 3.0.

And above all firefox a free and open software! So i think it deserves to set the record!! So go to the site and pledge to download on the day of release; and do download!