Rain!!!!!

i was playing snooker in the evening and after playing for more than 2 hours i realised i had a presentation(univ.) for the project the next day. and also i had not finished my project.
still had many issues and major part of the code was not yet present. so i went to my friends place to give me a hand in coding but found we were both not that good with the coding part. after fighting with the java code for 3 hrs(would you believe it!!) the code was working with some bugs. i didnt even realise it was raining outside. it was already 10 in the night and i had no clue of it. my mom couldnt reach me(i had not paid the bill and airtel had pulled off their service). she was kind of worried. she didnt know where i was. another friend of mine contacted me and asked me to call my mom which i did. after facing some real music she said it was heavily raining and places were filled with water(velachery was the worst hit area). after uploading whatever i had done i pushed off from my friend's place. it was heavily raining and i was fully drenched before kicking the bike to start. on my way back to home, many roads were filled with water and i couldnt see a damn thing on my way back.the street lights were gone and i didnt find a single soul on that road to ask help. the road was filled with some 2 ft water and i was riding carefully with the accelerator on. suddenly my bike coughed and came to stand still. water went inside the engine through exhaust. thought it was the end of it. she didnt fire at all. i was kicking the bike frantically. i gave up and was now walking. i gave one last try after walking for some time and used every ounce of energy left in kicking and the bike fired. i was relieved when she fired and went back to home and again she coughed and came to a stand still.atleast this was near my house(1 km.not bad at all) . at last i reached home shivering from cold at 12.

i was kind of worried about my not finishing the project and after what had happened i was in no position to even sit in front of the computer. i woke up at 7 and my mom was shouting(she does this when i am late). i got up and was ready to go to college without finishing the presentation as well as the project. i boarded the bus and the principal told that the univ exams were being postponed(too late to return as the bus had already left poonamalli) . i was overjoyed by that announcement and thanked god. for he had once again saved me.

Inverse of Puntually Late theory

the inverse of Punctually Late Theory is also true. the theory is if u finish of a work before the deadline, some kind of problem pops up or u r not successful. these some of the instances that validate this theory.
here it goes...

the reviewing committee at IEEE had asked us to make some changes for publication of the paper. we had made the changes the day after they had intimated us. and guess what we had finished the work 10 days before the deadline(something unusual). but we did not upload the modified paper for we were waiting till the last minute and found to our surprise that IEEE has accepted our paper without changes. you might think that it was good to have accepted the paper without changes. well it is not the case. the paper has evolved for the past 2 months and we now have more results to validate our proposal. the paper certainly is in a better shape than it was 2 months before.

here is another instance that just happened. ananth had finished his project report in the mornig itself (i have just finshed it). he gave his printout for binding. after binding the report he found that it had the wrong Bonafide. i though have not yet bounded my report and i am late(nothing unusual) for submitting the report.

these instances tell you one thing, whenever we are not late things dont go our way.....

Punctually Late Theory....(contd)

these are some of the instances that happened to me and ananth that substantiate the "Puntually Late Theory".
1> the deadline for uploading the paper for IIT Kanpur was Jan 15th and we uploaded on 16th Jan 00:05(late by 5 minutes....not bad)------>we were 1st at the contest
2>we forgot to apply for IEEE conference and the deadline was extended from 15 july to 15 aug------>we are publishing a paper there
3>we were the last to approach AUKBC and they thought we were late(but not too late) ----> we got a project there
4>when i joined 11th i was late by 7 months(i joined in Jan)------>i scored 85%(never in my life i had crossed 70%)
the list goes on.........

Punctually late theory.....

there were two unusual things that just happened.
one was our(ananth,me,aswin) approaching for a project earlier than everyone else was a very unusual thing. but we had done some of the things first than anyone else in our college
here it goes
we were the first to present paper in 2nd sem
we were the first to start the fashion of growing hair in college
we were the first in our department to publish a paper
we were the first to get a project
we were the first to teach staff
............(there are many things which i cant tell openly)
the second unusual thing being ananth blogged.
we are not always late
sometimes we are ahead of time

paper publication

i was not at all surprised to see my paper selected for publication at the IEEE conference held in IIT madras. me and anantha had worked day and night on this paper. we always wanted to publish our paper in IEEE or ACM.it took us more than a year to publish a paper in IEEE without any guidance and help from any one(except google). we had presented our paper in almost all the colleges in and around chennai. it was frustrating since not even a single soul could understand what we were saying or the gist of our paper. the questions they asked were very trivial and was not at all challenging for us. but as we were applying for every other college the paper was evolving and that was the only positive thing about presenting in so many colleges. we never gave up and were trying hard and also were analysing what really went wrong. we always knew that there was nothing wrong with the paper . there was no doubt about our presentation but something was missing. after many presentation we found out that the judges were never acquainted with TCP/IP.finally the break came. our paper got selected in IIT kanpur for presentation. after many hurdles(hod was not permitting me) we finally got the official signal to proceed with the presentation. it was a poster presentation. ananth as usual did the preparation for the poster in the last minute and we went to IIT. it was a awful place and with lots of participant. we didnt have proper accomadation there. we were ready for the presentation. and the judges came at 8 pm. we couldnt give our full presentation. the judge stopped us at the second minute and asked us "why are you using this method?". for the first time we had found our match. for the first time we felt some satisfaction that there was another person who could understand what we were doing and asked a sensible question. we were actually overjoyed by this response from the judge. we had no hope of winning any prize and by then were winding up. the event organizer asked us to wait till the results were announced . after the result was out, we went to the table where the result was put up and to our surprise found our name beside the first prize. we were kinda frozen and couldnt utter any word. even now thinking of that brings a smile to my face. after that incident we had realised that our paper was worth something more than mere presentation. after that we gave presentation a break(sem exam). we were working on the implementation of paper to extend our proposal and to come up with results. then we applied for the IEEE conference. it was selected for publication and presentation. it was one hellava experience for us from nothing to publication and the road was not at all easy.it took a lot of hardwork and our passion to achieve something had got us to this point.

Simcat

i was having a sound sleep and heard some voice. after some time i realised it was my mom shouting trying to wake me up for quiet a long time. then i looked at the wall clock and it was 9:30. and after 5 minutes i realised, i had a simcat today. i slept late last night and was in some other world in the morning. then within half an hour i was ready to go. and then started my bike and it had a starting problem. on my way to the stella mary's atleast the road was clear and had no signs of traffic. i was doing 70 in my bike and suddenly an old man was trying to cross the road. i honked my horn but in vain and was jamming my brakes. that oldie didnt even notice what was happening. he was in some other world. the brakes were not working in the begining and i was trying everything i could do. atlast the speed of the bike was decreasing thanks to the gear cutting technique and still it wasnt enough for me to avoid an accident. then the brake got locked with the rear wheel. and my bike was now skidding and out of control. the scene was like some guy pulling off a stunt in a movie and i nearly missed the oldie. after my bike came to a stand still i looked at the oldie and found to my amazement that the guy was walking like nothing had happened. i was furious and i was already late(as usual) . then i went and wrote the exam. the paper was tough and i couldnt attend most of the questions even after working out.

My first Blog

hey
this is my first Blog.
i have heard ppl talk abt their blogs
i am giving it a shot
let me see what it is really like to blog