One day my friend said that, "Riaz, i tell u...you cannot get into IIM...coz u cant match the IITans and other "dudes". I asked why i cant. He said that "look riaz...each finger in our hand is not same, there are huge differences. The same applies with man, you cannot try to be like someone else...coz that cant happen. I told to him, "look da, yeah ur correct...all the five fingers are not same, but God has given the same five fingers in a hand to every person in the world. You see the fingers, I see the hand." That was two years before when I started my ride to the CAT. Since then, i have stuck to my thinking even if i know that i wont be able to do something. When you take someone as an example, it would just wont work out. You compare your attributes with that person. First you must understand that these things are not comparable or even measurable. You just have it in you. Its how you bring it out. Each and every person has these things. Its just that how much effort they put to bring these attributes out of them.
Nothing is easy in this world. I had to fight hard for everything what i have now. Only few are gifted with the "Midas Touch." The point i just want to make is don't compare your attributes with others, coz it just wont help you out. You yourself try to cultivate new things, however trivial it may be, how ever silly it may be to others. But these little things will help you to achieve want you want to be.
To be unique, you need to be different. You should be different in you style, your approach, your perception of a situation, your perception of the result and your style of implementation. To put long matter simple, you need guts to venture out in the untopgraphed zone. Have that, be different, but dun be silly. I think at this age we have came to know the difference of being silly and being different. Just see what happens when you go out on teh street with that little bit of guts to be unique....
Monday, April 11, 2005
Saturday, April 02, 2005
My (sour) project experience...
It had started during the last exam of our seventh sem. Two guys came to the college giving the maverick info system visiting card telling that they could be approached for the project. I think from that time on, sani(saturn) began to dance bharatnatyyam at the top(uchi-in tamil). We were really complacent from december till february about the project. Only during the late feb we have begun to got some doubts. Those guys didnt understand what we wanted for project. They said they will do something, which, at that point of time, we thought was good because we dunno the concept. We really didnt belive them so we began to make a separate code. If you ud have read the previous blogs u would know abt this. Even at that point of time, we were depending on their project and our code was just a module. But at match, things began to look bleak. They said it would be hard and all that sort of things. Exactly at that time, pratheeba, vasanth and other told their experience with their consultant too. Coincidence!
Around late march, something around 20th, we have began to get the picture. We were going to the project consultant every other day about the project. Guys, the pinnacle was readned on march 24th, when they said they we wont be able to show the demo in the college! Can u belive that...no demo. We were pissed to hell. The very next day, without no hope we went to college. We went and talked with pushpalatha maam. She guided us to Mr. Vijayabaskaran. We went and talked with him. He understood what we want and he showed some demo in the lab. It was then we began to get some hope. Still we had no idea about linux. The very day i installed linux and studied a crash course! Only after learning the shell script, me and kannan got some hope. Then kannan separately began to code and we began to code. I never knew kanna had this much talent. Beautiful algorithm guys, i will post that once the code gets over. Then days passed by and four days before the project guys said that they werent able to do our project. Now, we know, we had no back up. We brought surendran's computer to my home and began to work simultaneously day and night. We progressed but we ran to a wall. That didnt sort out till 12 am today morning. Now, according to kannan we have some 30% of the code left to do, which i belive can be done coz the difficult part have been almost finished. I sincerely thank ramkumar for his help and many guys whom u udnt know who have been backing us since we ventured out of the consultant. Thank you balaji and vikram...if you would ever read thsi blog, think that i am deeply indebted to you...so guys i have to sign off...work to do. And hey, i have posted my slam blog below. Do check that out too...i ud definitely appreciate comments. Take care. And guys one more thing, not many ud have got this, but we have got almost full refund of our project from the mavericks.
Around late march, something around 20th, we have began to get the picture. We were going to the project consultant every other day about the project. Guys, the pinnacle was readned on march 24th, when they said they we wont be able to show the demo in the college! Can u belive that...no demo. We were pissed to hell. The very next day, without no hope we went to college. We went and talked with pushpalatha maam. She guided us to Mr. Vijayabaskaran. We went and talked with him. He understood what we want and he showed some demo in the lab. It was then we began to get some hope. Still we had no idea about linux. The very day i installed linux and studied a crash course! Only after learning the shell script, me and kannan got some hope. Then kannan separately began to code and we began to code. I never knew kanna had this much talent. Beautiful algorithm guys, i will post that once the code gets over. Then days passed by and four days before the project guys said that they werent able to do our project. Now, we know, we had no back up. We brought surendran's computer to my home and began to work simultaneously day and night. We progressed but we ran to a wall. That didnt sort out till 12 am today morning. Now, according to kannan we have some 30% of the code left to do, which i belive can be done coz the difficult part have been almost finished. I sincerely thank ramkumar for his help and many guys whom u udnt know who have been backing us since we ventured out of the consultant. Thank you balaji and vikram...if you would ever read thsi blog, think that i am deeply indebted to you...so guys i have to sign off...work to do. And hey, i have posted my slam blog below. Do check that out too...i ud definitely appreciate comments. Take care. And guys one more thing, not many ud have got this, but we have got almost full refund of our project from the mavericks.
My memoirs.....
Anitha has asked me a question when we were going to tha railway station on a day. "Riaz, will you miss the college or any person in particular." I had remembered saying that, "no anitha, i dun think I would." i dunno what she has thought about me after that answer, may be im not sentimental or something. But the reason is, this is not my first parting. The same has happened in school, and it was really bad. That is because, i have been studying there for 12 years. So compared to that this i hope would be mild. But in this past four years i have had the experience of my life in the college. Started the very first day when i had to fight with a few girls to get the most coveted back bench in the class. Getting caught with christopher, our ex-h.o.d, bennet are a few experiences worth mentioning. I just know ramkumar when i came to the college. The very first friends i have made in the college were surendran, kannan, pratheeba and christina. The subsequently my friends circle widened. But unfortunately, that was not in our class. I had some bad experiences with few people in the class, which , by God's grace have been sorted out.
In the second year, i think, i had a very wonderful time. the frequent IV's and hangouts were really wonderful. Guys, do u remember the episode that happened during the industrial visit at ambattur. Where aravind had been total damaged...cool...wanst that...well sorry aravind...im just like that. When i went thru my slam book, almost all the people have written that i speak a lot and when will i close my mouth. I tell you people, the one thing i hate is TO BE ALONE. I really really hate that experience and most of you ud agree how painful that experience is. My first thought when i meet anyone is to talk with him/her and make friends. This attitide had bought me lotta teasings when i tried to talk with girls. I was wondering once, will ever the boys will talk with girls. Unfortunately, it has taken almost 3 years for that to happen but eventually it did. Cool. I just wanted to be friendly with whoever i be with. Thats why i crack something, joke r not. Some like it and some dont. First i used to feel bad that why some people dont like it. But the lessons i had learned had taught me that i had to be happy for those who have liked it and not about those who dont like it.
Only this mindset has made me to be cheerful all these days. I know few people who feel for the wrong reasons. I dont want to mention their names, but if they read this blog they wil understand. Why bother for those who dont care what you do, be for those who like you and dont make them feel bad because of a few. In this last days at our college I hava had the most memorable experience of my life. Again, I feel that i havent been able to mingle with you closely in the third year. And that is due to the CAT. But i dont feel for that, because for once i have had known a lotta people who were in the same league. Manoj, kumar, pratheeba, archana, saravana, bala, pradeep, vasanth...et al. We didnt study anything at the college at that time. If you have listen keenly, you ud have listened a humming sound from the last bench. Thats nothing guys, its just that me, kannan, kanagaraj and cd mugging up the wordlist.
This whole blog may not be coherent coz i have been typing the things that are coming to my mind. Right now, i am seeing who are really feeling for leaving the college. I just want to tell them one thing. Get on with your life. If you want, just take a look at the past, but never, never ever walk into the past. It would ruin you. I am telling this for manoj. Manoj, i tell you, you are one of the best guys i have ever met. Wherever u go, friends will follow da. You need not worry about being alone. Just dont change. The same applies for every one of you. Each and every one among are u is unique. Dont try to imitate the character or qualities which you dont have. Some may not like you, but why do u bother about that "some" when there are many to like you. This is the only this i can think of telling you people, coz i never realised how much you people will miss the college. Me either...
In the second year, i think, i had a very wonderful time. the frequent IV's and hangouts were really wonderful. Guys, do u remember the episode that happened during the industrial visit at ambattur. Where aravind had been total damaged...cool...wanst that...well sorry aravind...im just like that. When i went thru my slam book, almost all the people have written that i speak a lot and when will i close my mouth. I tell you people, the one thing i hate is TO BE ALONE. I really really hate that experience and most of you ud agree how painful that experience is. My first thought when i meet anyone is to talk with him/her and make friends. This attitide had bought me lotta teasings when i tried to talk with girls. I was wondering once, will ever the boys will talk with girls. Unfortunately, it has taken almost 3 years for that to happen but eventually it did. Cool. I just wanted to be friendly with whoever i be with. Thats why i crack something, joke r not. Some like it and some dont. First i used to feel bad that why some people dont like it. But the lessons i had learned had taught me that i had to be happy for those who have liked it and not about those who dont like it.
Only this mindset has made me to be cheerful all these days. I know few people who feel for the wrong reasons. I dont want to mention their names, but if they read this blog they wil understand. Why bother for those who dont care what you do, be for those who like you and dont make them feel bad because of a few. In this last days at our college I hava had the most memorable experience of my life. Again, I feel that i havent been able to mingle with you closely in the third year. And that is due to the CAT. But i dont feel for that, because for once i have had known a lotta people who were in the same league. Manoj, kumar, pratheeba, archana, saravana, bala, pradeep, vasanth...et al. We didnt study anything at the college at that time. If you have listen keenly, you ud have listened a humming sound from the last bench. Thats nothing guys, its just that me, kannan, kanagaraj and cd mugging up the wordlist.
This whole blog may not be coherent coz i have been typing the things that are coming to my mind. Right now, i am seeing who are really feeling for leaving the college. I just want to tell them one thing. Get on with your life. If you want, just take a look at the past, but never, never ever walk into the past. It would ruin you. I am telling this for manoj. Manoj, i tell you, you are one of the best guys i have ever met. Wherever u go, friends will follow da. You need not worry about being alone. Just dont change. The same applies for every one of you. Each and every one among are u is unique. Dont try to imitate the character or qualities which you dont have. Some may not like you, but why do u bother about that "some" when there are many to like you. This is the only this i can think of telling you people, coz i never realised how much you people will miss the college. Me either...
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