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Guess Fraxer is back after a pretty long break - not that I've been busy or anything, but something or the other always kept happening and I just couldn't finish any post fully.
Anyways, let bygone be bygones. So I'll restart with a dream I had not long ago. Some might think I'm seeing a lot of horror movies, some might say I'm bluffing. But here it goes...
The backdrop : No one at home - dad out to receive a relative, mom out for a walk and me cycling around pointlessly.
I come back - and find the lights off in all the houses except ours (eeks!). I assume everyone is sleeping (quite naive, eh!?)Then I see a snake crawling in the garden and the first thing that comes into my mind is,"I need to take a snap!" Little ahead, I find an oddish-like creature hopping around (Pokemon fans will know what I mean here). So I reach my house and am surprised to find the main door open. But the house seemed empty. Then something in my head tells me to turn back - and what do I see!?........a cobra with a raised hood in the garden just in front of the door. Nevertheless, I run inside and grab my camera..
I try to take a pic of the cobra, but when I raised the digicam and try to see the cobra through the lens - bingo! I find a girl clad in white standing behind the snake (am I seeing things!?) I lower the cam, rub my eyes to make sure I'm not hallucinating and try to take another look through the lens. Maybe I'm dreaming (of course I was dreaming, but I thought I was dreaming in the dream - does that make sense? I don't know) - coz a second girl clad in red joined the girl in white...
I somehow muster courage and click! But what do I see in the camera's LCD screen...the two girls standing in front of my house. Now this was insanely bizarre - the house was behind me, the girls were in front of me... just what the hell is happening!? I turn around to check - just in case the girls were indeed in front of my house and there was a mirror-of-sorts in front of me. Nothing... And when I look back at the snake via the lens, the girls are no more there. Out of curiosity, I take another snap. This time, it's a pic of me standing in front of my house, thus supporting to my 'ethereal mirror' hypothesis. I stretch my hand forward trying to locate the so-called mirror. No luck!
I try to view the previous snap on the digicam, just in case I've seen those two girls somewhere before. But all I find is a black backdrop, nothing more! Then "Aaarrrrrrggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhh!" I hear a scream. Another sound - my alarm ringing - and I'm awake...
No speculations - I'll leave them for your imagination...
As a matter of fact, one of my friends says those two girls were the "White Angel" and the "Red Devil" of my life - were they!?
Anyways, let bygone be bygones. So I'll restart with a dream I had not long ago. Some might think I'm seeing a lot of horror movies, some might say I'm bluffing. But here it goes...
The backdrop : No one at home - dad out to receive a relative, mom out for a walk and me cycling around pointlessly.
I come back - and find the lights off in all the houses except ours (eeks!). I assume everyone is sleeping (quite naive, eh!?)Then I see a snake crawling in the garden and the first thing that comes into my mind is,"I need to take a snap!" Little ahead, I find an oddish-like creature hopping around (Pokemon fans will know what I mean here). So I reach my house and am surprised to find the main door open. But the house seemed empty. Then something in my head tells me to turn back - and what do I see!?........a cobra with a raised hood in the garden just in front of the door. Nevertheless, I run inside and grab my camera..
I try to take a pic of the cobra, but when I raised the digicam and try to see the cobra through the lens - bingo! I find a girl clad in white standing behind the snake (am I seeing things!?) I lower the cam, rub my eyes to make sure I'm not hallucinating and try to take another look through the lens. Maybe I'm dreaming (of course I was dreaming, but I thought I was dreaming in the dream - does that make sense? I don't know) - coz a second girl clad in red joined the girl in white...
I somehow muster courage and click! But what do I see in the camera's LCD screen...the two girls standing in front of my house. Now this was insanely bizarre - the house was behind me, the girls were in front of me... just what the hell is happening!? I turn around to check - just in case the girls were indeed in front of my house and there was a mirror-of-sorts in front of me. Nothing... And when I look back at the snake via the lens, the girls are no more there. Out of curiosity, I take another snap. This time, it's a pic of me standing in front of my house, thus supporting to my 'ethereal mirror' hypothesis. I stretch my hand forward trying to locate the so-called mirror. No luck!
I try to view the previous snap on the digicam, just in case I've seen those two girls somewhere before. But all I find is a black backdrop, nothing more! Then "Aaarrrrrrggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhh!" I hear a scream. Another sound - my alarm ringing - and I'm awake...
No speculations - I'll leave them for your imagination...
As a matter of fact, one of my friends says those two girls were the "White Angel" and the "Red Devil" of my life - were they!?
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The transition from school to college - from notebooks to notebook, from home to hostel.....and from teachers to professors (if I can put it that way).
Speaking of professors,some of them sure are strange. They have studied too much but are afraid of forgetting it unless they use it in their daily life. And the students usually end up being on the receiving side of this gyanopdesh...
Time Management Funda!
When a professor can't enter a class on time as the professor in-charge of the previous class didn't finish his class on time, two possible cases arise. One, he finishes his class on time and leaves. Second, if the professor is too much of an idealist and insists on taking a class not less than 1 hour, the students proceed with their standard warcry "Siiiiiiiirrrrrrrrrr...." Pat comes the reply, "I entered this class 10 min late at 12:10 pm, resulting in a phase shift. I need to take this class till 1:10 pm to the cycle..."
Uniplexing!?
There are times when the student is supposed to be jotting down notes during the lecture. But, the way we are, we keep murmuring to each other throughout. The professor realises this and starts erasing the board. Of course, very few would've actually completed it by then. Then comes another quote, "Multiplexing is not harmful in only those cases where efficiency is not a criteria. Those people who couldn't complete were the ones doing multiplexing!"
Transmitters or Receivers!?
If the professor finds everyone talking in his class (which isn't such a rare sight) and he wants to tell them to keep quiet, how does he say it!? "When someone speaks, he gives out energy and a person who is not talking at that moment must receive that energy. If all the students in the class keep talking, the teacher must receive the energy from all the sound waves generated by them. One person can't handle all this energy." Perhaps the professors should be equipped with storage batteries!
Caught Copying!?
If the answer scripts of two students who sit beside each other during exams is exactly the same, what happens!? The strict professors have only one thing to say - zero to both..."The waves generated in the two cases have same amplitude and frequency. However, a phase shift of 180 has been introduced which results in destructive interference. The resultant amplitude produced is zero."
Coupling!?
When an orthodox professor sees a guy and a gal together, he feels like saying, "Tumhara kuch nahi ho sakta!" or in other words, "It is true that opposites attract. But when two waves travelling in opposite directions interfere, a standing wave is produced with no net propagation of energy."
Proxy!?
If someone tries putting a proxy and ends up getting caught. "The receiver should respond only to a particular frequency. If it starts responding to everything, there'll be interference. Then on the same FM frequency, you'll listen to a amalgamation of different FMs."
LOL...
Keep quoting... And I'll keep scribbling...
Speaking of professors,some of them sure are strange. They have studied too much but are afraid of forgetting it unless they use it in their daily life. And the students usually end up being on the receiving side of this gyanopdesh...
Time Management Funda!
When a professor can't enter a class on time as the professor in-charge of the previous class didn't finish his class on time, two possible cases arise. One, he finishes his class on time and leaves. Second, if the professor is too much of an idealist and insists on taking a class not less than 1 hour, the students proceed with their standard warcry "Siiiiiiiirrrrrrrrrr...." Pat comes the reply, "I entered this class 10 min late at 12:10 pm, resulting in a phase shift. I need to take this class till 1:10 pm to the cycle..."
Uniplexing!?
There are times when the student is supposed to be jotting down notes during the lecture. But, the way we are, we keep murmuring to each other throughout. The professor realises this and starts erasing the board. Of course, very few would've actually completed it by then. Then comes another quote, "Multiplexing is not harmful in only those cases where efficiency is not a criteria. Those people who couldn't complete were the ones doing multiplexing!"
Transmitters or Receivers!?
If the professor finds everyone talking in his class (which isn't such a rare sight) and he wants to tell them to keep quiet, how does he say it!? "When someone speaks, he gives out energy and a person who is not talking at that moment must receive that energy. If all the students in the class keep talking, the teacher must receive the energy from all the sound waves generated by them. One person can't handle all this energy." Perhaps the professors should be equipped with storage batteries!
Caught Copying!?
If the answer scripts of two students who sit beside each other during exams is exactly the same, what happens!? The strict professors have only one thing to say - zero to both..."The waves generated in the two cases have same amplitude and frequency. However, a phase shift of 180 has been introduced which results in destructive interference. The resultant amplitude produced is zero."
Coupling!?
When an orthodox professor sees a guy and a gal together, he feels like saying, "Tumhara kuch nahi ho sakta!" or in other words, "It is true that opposites attract. But when two waves travelling in opposite directions interfere, a standing wave is produced with no net propagation of energy."
Proxy!?
If someone tries putting a proxy and ends up getting caught. "The receiver should respond only to a particular frequency. If it starts responding to everything, there'll be interference. Then on the same FM frequency, you'll listen to a amalgamation of different FMs."
LOL...
Keep quoting... And I'll keep scribbling...
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India - the country with the largest rail network in the whole world! One would expect the train service to be at par, if not above, those elsewhere in the world. Alas! It ends up being nothing more than a hope - a hope which might never come to life the way things seem to be going..
Recently, the trains have been coming late, even by Indian standards. Just a couple of days back, I had to board the train no. 571 Salem-Bangalore passenger from Hosur to Banglore City. The train which was supposed to arrive at 1650 hours somehow manages to reach Hosur by 1750 hours - a delay of an hour in a four-hour journey, ie. a delay of 25%. Quite convenient, eh!?
Anyway, it's only a passenger train. So lets not bother about it now. Then I board train no. 2429 Bangalore Rajdhani Express at 2020 hours from Bangalore City. Now the Rajdhanis and Shatabdis are the best trains available in India, except trains which run primary for tourism like the Golden Chariot. (By default, I travel more by sleeper (and even general) compartments in express and superfast trains - but recently I've been getting aboard the Rajdhani quite often). But the moment I enter compartment B1, I was like "Is this really Rajdhani!?" The last non-Rajdhani air-conditioned compartment I had travelled by was that of Sheshadri Express from Vijaywada to Bangalore almost a year ago. And that compartment was in a much better shape than this one.
The restrooms were a complete mess. One of my co-passengers quipped, "The last time I travelled by Rajdhani, all the compartments were ancient. In this train, only this compartment seems old. Maybe they left this one behind." Forget the infrastructure, the service doesn't seem to be any better either. The next day, the newspapers are provided at 0800 hours, way past the schedule. The attendant comes and takes the order for breakfast (I wonder whether I should call it an order - we have only two options (omelette or upma-vada) at around the same time. Not a bad time at all. And then he vanishes and is nowhere to be seen till 0915 hours. Then also, he brings only the upma-vada. I had to get down at Kazipet Jn. and the train was scheduled to reach there at 0930 hours. So I hunt that guy down and ask the status of my omelette. He says it's not ready yet and tells me to take the only alternative available. Following the age-old saying "Something is better than nothing", I grab a packet of upma-vada, a couple of bread slices and a carton of juice (There was no time to eat in the train, so I decided I'll eat it on my way to college).
Then I just casually talk to him about the dire straits this train found itself in. He blames the whole thing on his manager saying that guy is inefficient - the start of a blame-game. It's not a matter of who is to blame, but how this situation can be improved. And if this continues, I'm surely gonna stop travelling by Rajdhani in the future. And I might not be the only one...
Recently, the trains have been coming late, even by Indian standards. Just a couple of days back, I had to board the train no. 571 Salem-Bangalore passenger from Hosur to Banglore City. The train which was supposed to arrive at 1650 hours somehow manages to reach Hosur by 1750 hours - a delay of an hour in a four-hour journey, ie. a delay of 25%. Quite convenient, eh!?
Anyway, it's only a passenger train. So lets not bother about it now. Then I board train no. 2429 Bangalore Rajdhani Express at 2020 hours from Bangalore City. Now the Rajdhanis and Shatabdis are the best trains available in India, except trains which run primary for tourism like the Golden Chariot. (By default, I travel more by sleeper (and even general) compartments in express and superfast trains - but recently I've been getting aboard the Rajdhani quite often). But the moment I enter compartment B1, I was like "Is this really Rajdhani!?" The last non-Rajdhani air-conditioned compartment I had travelled by was that of Sheshadri Express from Vijaywada to Bangalore almost a year ago. And that compartment was in a much better shape than this one.
The restrooms were a complete mess. One of my co-passengers quipped, "The last time I travelled by Rajdhani, all the compartments were ancient. In this train, only this compartment seems old. Maybe they left this one behind." Forget the infrastructure, the service doesn't seem to be any better either. The next day, the newspapers are provided at 0800 hours, way past the schedule. The attendant comes and takes the order for breakfast (I wonder whether I should call it an order - we have only two options (omelette or upma-vada) at around the same time. Not a bad time at all. And then he vanishes and is nowhere to be seen till 0915 hours. Then also, he brings only the upma-vada. I had to get down at Kazipet Jn. and the train was scheduled to reach there at 0930 hours. So I hunt that guy down and ask the status of my omelette. He says it's not ready yet and tells me to take the only alternative available. Following the age-old saying "Something is better than nothing", I grab a packet of upma-vada, a couple of bread slices and a carton of juice (There was no time to eat in the train, so I decided I'll eat it on my way to college).
Then I just casually talk to him about the dire straits this train found itself in. He blames the whole thing on his manager saying that guy is inefficient - the start of a blame-game. It's not a matter of who is to blame, but how this situation can be improved. And if this continues, I'm surely gonna stop travelling by Rajdhani in the future. And I might not be the only one...
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