December.. month.

The month of December.. has overall been a low profile month .. although .. an eventful one too..
finally .. finished with the End Semester exams of the fifth Sem. i had heard a lot from people in college that the Fifth Semester is quite important .. and rather stressing .. however. .it turned out the other way round... :P

And .. it is always good to be back home ... feel lot more relaxed.. however.. havent worked much .. this vacation ..

Awaiting a New Year and a New Semester.. even the Resolutions are pending..
lets see. how the new Year pans out .. till then .. enjoy life.. cheers!! BRB . .

Devil's Advocate

Allegation 1:  You dont mingle well with people ?? Are you Anti-Social..  or something ??

Answer: Well.. these social groups .. and all are being made by people around you.. and i dont think I fit into the 'hey.. no work lets go to Back Canteen or  to Jhoops' .. category .. and or into the 'Are you coming for the new release .. today '.. category ...  sorry guys gimme a break..  I think  i feel more at ease  being in my room in front of my computer... than cracking stupid jokes.. or grinding  those gossip mills... and if i do have work with people .. i talk to them.. i mean  no point with those montonous Hi's and Hey's ...   i try to be genuine in my actions atleast..

Allegation 2 : You have this  'ATTITUDE'  Problem .. ?? 

Answer: I dont think so.. if u do think i always move with this ATTITUDE  tag then u need to consult a doctor  for sure . On a serious note.. i always have something running in my head all the time.. (like a thread.. in java .. but which doesnt sleep.. ) so i think even if i am physically present at a  place.. i dont care about people around  which some may interpret as this Attitude thing .

Allegation 3: You always seem serious ?

Answer: Not that i am serious .. it is just that i am more focussed on what i do .. and what i plan to do in life...  and hence there is a priority list in my life which i strictly try and adhere to.. 

so there are things that ought to be neglected..  which includes those NON-SERIOUS things too..

Allegation 4:  You didnot come to the Picnic or  to any social outing by the IT Dept?

Answer: Picnic.. .i couldnt attend because the previous day had .. the MS interview.. so a genuine and valid reason.. (was exhausted both physically and mentally)..  and in case of other outings.. i feel ..movie was a real bad idea . i cant stand movies in multiplexes (especially the ones in here)  i would rather watch 'em all at the comfort of my room.. and there are sections of people who rather love seeing me not coming to such outings.. and i oblige to them out of choice...

PS:People feel free to post your allegations .. too.. i ll try answering them .. these allegations were levelled against me .. at different time stamps.. so cant recollect them.. all..

My very own Digital Signature

It feels good to have a unique Signature especially since most of ppl in TC have one..so found time to make this very unique Digital Signature..there  isnt much of obfuscation involved..only uses ASCII values and Bit Fiddling .. that too trivial ones..

#include "stdio.h"
   main() {
       int  a=(1<<6),i,b=(a)>>2;
       int c[]={b+2,-1,-1*(a>>3)-1,(b>>2)+1,-1*((a>>4)+1),b-((a>>5)+1),-1*(b+((a>>4)+1)),
                 (a>>2)+2,-1*(a-b+((b>>3)+1)),(a>>1)+(b>>1)+1,b,-1*(b+(a>>4)),(a>>3)+1,
               -1*((a>>3)-1),-1*((b>>1)-(a>>5)),b+1,-1*((b+2)<<2)};
       a++;
       for(i=0;i<=(b)&& (a+=*(i+c)) && printf("%c",a);i++);
 }

What not to do at Home !!!

hey .. nice to be back... in Mumbai.. when i had planned to be in College instead this time around. all thanks to my fickle mind :P.
But then .. as an afterthought no regrets.. even when the Connecting train was more than 2 hours late. and had to run on the platforms of Howrah Station with luggage and crossing railway tracks too.. and catching the train to Mumbai just 2 minutes before departure.. memorable and most aweful experience.. Memorable because it has never been so exciting running on the platforms. and awful because of my track record of being well before time for departures .. which my friends would vouch for.. :)
Now that almost 10 days of the month are over.. and within a week i have to be back to college again .. and the mundane chores would start all over again.. which stresses me a lot..
But i feel i have best utilized these vacations ..finally working on a really good project and learning new things.. i tend to feel confident by the end of each day.. and that is what really matters i guess..!!
And looking forward to more exciting projects .. and more of fun .. lets see.. how the month spans out.. will surely come out with a review of October too..
Till then Cheers !! Enjoy Life..!!

PS: TC..Timus have surely taken a backseat this month .. But will surely bounce back...

review of Sept ..(MS )

Finally the month of September is coming to an end.. so i found it was imperative that i review whatever i did this entire month...
So lets begin...
The first week: (1st - 6th )
1st - 4th :did nothing much except a few classes... hehe just mundane stuff..
5th september: Well ..MS had visited the campus .. and i was in my room when TC@nitdgp aka nawab aka Swapnil came to my room .. as usual i was enthusiastic about attending 1 more PPT .. (i had earlier attend AMAZON's Amazing PPT.. ) and then i came to know about MS IT considering pre final students for internships... and so i thought why not give it a try ...
I mean the written was pretty difficult considering the fact that even the final years had the same set of questions... and luckily i had cleared that written ..
Then the next day(6th sept) we had the interview rounds .. mine got over in 15-20 minutes shortest time duration of the interview among those short listed.. :P and the week was almost over after back to back tiring days...
one more week passed .. and i came to know we had our final round of interview in MS sales office in kolkata .. that was 9/11 .. had to wake up early and was there before time ..(very typical of me ..) and then i was the last person to be interviewed... and it was not much of a difference coz that was almost a ritual now for me to wait for atleast 3-4 hours ..for interviews and vivas... even that was very short one .. typically HR questions were asked..
Then the next day the results were out ..and i was one of the two people to be selected for Internships...
and then all the days after that passed with classes ,sessionals and Class Tests...

PS:1)won 2 out of the three codecracker contests.. one of them was a nite before the MS interviews.. hehe
2) MS PPT was lacking that Corporate feel that Amazon had.. i mean Amazon ppl knew How to monetize everything :)
cheers ...

The week that wasnt ... ? was it ??

The last week has turned things ..upside down for me atleast ..
i dont think i have attended any classes this entire week ..( haha some respite for me atleast..)
Moving onto the serious part ... i understand that there are more important assignments that are needed to be executed.. with no further delays ..(and i assume that i understand its importance.. )
But having said that i could never understand the importance of things and i still dont!!! and i guess it doesnt really matter.. because if u always think about the destination then the journey itself starts to bore u ..and the expectation to succeed chokes u up...
so lemme enjoy my journey as far as i am concerned the destination is still a distant mirage... . and am optimistic that the destination would always continue to elude me !!
cheers .. enjoy life.. BRB...

KODAK MOMENTS... click on ...Rock on ...

This week was fun considering that only 2 things were done in the classrooms.. well... one was baakar ..(tis almost a ritual now ..).. and the other part was that we had a great blast clicking pics of our class gang ...( or shall i say the KODAK moments...) whatever we call it this week was a breezer... considering i didnt get my ass moving this entire week..
Almost the month of August has come to an end .. but I still hear people singing 'Wake me up When September ends :P .. Let's see if they defer this deadline by singing 'This is my December' .. again ... well ..we are all a bunch of procrastinating fools .. afterall.. ha ha





Ps:I finally improved my Timus Rank to 3182 :)

obfuscated coding

Well... after moving away from Jilin online judge (the question set level was mediocre :P) .. then i shifted to Topcoder ..but the SRM are weeks apart from each other ..and that is why i needed the practice set of some other online judge ..and that is when i came across ZJU and then timus ..
Timus .. has by far the best of the problem sets among all of the above.. and also the participation from people is huge and from all over the world...
Right now my rank hovering around 3800 mark.. it feels better than the 240's that i had in jilin... and i have no hard feelings then that jilin site was closed down ..( may be to pave way for olympics i guess..!! :P)
Now that i am feeling sleepy again .. hope to be back with a better blog ..next time around...
till then enjoy life...

My first blog

well .. it just couldn't get better ... start writting a blog on a lazy morning ..
i just hope that i keep coming back to this URL.. :)