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Most of the time it is me who passes the exams, but for once the exams have passed me by . Lol , ok i know that was bad mokkai but can u blame me ? i passed 8 sems of AU exams .

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

There are various factors that have contributed to me acheiving this feat and i'd like to acknowledge them here

First of all, Ara . Without doubt the fellow whom i owe the most to for gettin thro . From teachin me stuff from scratch in the bus durin CAT to telling me the important stuff to study for univ exams to discussing previous years papers on the bus ride to even lending me his text books to study after he sleeps the night b4 the exam , he's been a great teacher . Thx da .

Chandler , who i prolly have bugged the most over the fone tryin to get the important questions and patterns from previous years to ensure i dont have to study an iota more than what is required :-). Also a fellow quite capable of givin me company for all night study and vetti discussions late at night the day b4 the exam .

Hayu , the brainiac. Despite studyin juz the day b4 the exam like us mortals , still gets great marks ... has to do with his handwriting i think :-?? . Great online company on Ym during the nights of studying . Usually on whole night as well meaning i can juz ask him to clarify doubts instead of searchin thro the textbook, i even remember him once teachin me the whole of centralized shared memory @ 4 am the night b4 the exam over the phone :o .

Bala, that rarest of rare breeds, a person who prepares less than me for an exam. The one guy i can actually teach stuff b4 the exam . Teachin him the majority of the syllabus in the 1.5 hour gap before the exam helps me revise as well. And , of course the all important "mapping " we do with 15 mins to spare without which we would not know which set of mugged up words and figures to spew for which question .

Also the guy most likely to lift your spirits the day b4 the exam . After some 'padips' depress you by stating much they ve done and thereby exposing how much u really have left to study , a quick phone call to bala is all thats needed to reassure u that u are not the least prepared ;)
In the first few semesters, many were the plans we would make to finish so n so units by so n so time . Of course none of them were ever followed but that dint stop us from planning .If all that plannning time had been used for stuydin we actually might have gotten somewhere but oh , well . Of course,as the semesters wore on we dint even bother planning.

All my other friends who at some time or other have taught me , provided company ,inspired me ,etc etc ( basically , put up with me ) during exam time .I remember an incident , once Juju asked me @ 12 am to wake him up @ 3am so that he could resume studyin . Dutifully , i called him @ 3 but he dint pick up his fone or respond to messages . So i let fly all the audibles possible in Ym and that woke him up :))

Simba, of course for keeping me company late at night when i was studying . if the a/c was on in the other room tho it wud not think twice to desert me and take the luxurious way out :-

i apologize for the long post ..just think of it as the ravings of a habitual page filler as if it were a AU 16 mark question .

& Finally a thought for everyone whos now an engineer :

"Thermometers are not the only things to be graduated and get degrees despite knowing nothing "

The importance of Being Idle ?

Why is it that i feel vetti enough to blog only when there is something infinitely more important that i should be doing , like studyin for the next day's exam , and never when i got all the time in the world ? ?

Is it that the most enjoyable time to be idle is also when there is the most work to be done ? ?

Absolut Nonsense

No , the post is not about the content of my TQM answer paper today or even about the vodka ads .

Vilok: dude wtf da
u writin serious shit n all in blog

This was the inspiration for this post to show that i still can/will post absolute nonsense stuff here .

So anyway i post this convo Me and Bhavya had while waitin in ritchie street

B : ....... ? ( Some Question )
J : Curiosity killed the cat
B : What was the cat curious about ?
J : Abt how many lives it had
B : Hmm , so it killed itself to find out how many lives it had
J : Yea,Nice Theory
B : But how did curiosity kill the cat then ?
J : It got curious 9 times .

Lost in Translation

No , this is not a review for the movie Mozhi( which btw is brilliant and u shud watch ). Its about what it stands for : Language .

Many a time while chatting with non indians ( or even non - tamilians ) i get the response "huh ? " . Its inevitably because of my usage of "common tamil" words in the convo .

Classic example :

Yank : Sup

Me : Nm, Vetti

Yank : Huh ? Vetti ?

Now i can never find words to adequately express what this simple word means in english .

Similarly " chumma " . I suppose it can be roughly translated as " juz like that " but it doesnt have the same feel to it .

Another word is the ubiquitous " da " basically used as at the end of a sentence to denote an informal , friendly conversation which cannot quite be replicated in english . There are a few alternatives like " dude" , " man " etc but they sound kinda forced and unnatural when i use em .

Of course the reverse is not true . any word in english can be made a tanglish one by addin a " o" or a "u" to it ;) .

a classic example wud be Worst being converted into ........ " Worstu " :-)

But , as the melodious song from the above mentioned Mozhi Goes

iyarkeyin mozhigal purinthu vidu

manitharin mozhigal thevai-illai

ithaiyathin mozhigal purinthu vidu

manitharikku mozhiye thevai-illaiiiiiii

Roughly Translated that means ,

Understand the language of nature

The language of men is not needed

Understand the language of the heart

Men dont need language at all .

So , Basically this post is just crap :-? :-|

Worstu

Oh well i was chumma vetti anywayz

Manu Rock !

Dint think i wud blog again but Manu v Roma was so inspiring and fun that i Juz had to .

First, the scenario :

Manu down 2-1 from the first leg and without paul scholes against a roma team that had only conceded 5 goals all competition & comin off Weekend loss @ portsmouth .United had never previously won a UEFA Champions League tie after trailing from the first leg . Not Quite the perfect scenario u wud imagine .

So , Kataben ?

Some Unbelievable football from Giggs , Ronaldo , Carrick & Rooney Made it 3-0 within 20 minutes .. As if that was not enough Ronaldo added another before halftime .. With the outcome a forgegone conclusion by now and thinkin this cud not possibly get any better i switched over to the simpsons .

So, Kataben ?

Missed another 10 minutes of brilliant play and another ronaldo goal :- . Manu not done yet tho .. Carrick with another brilliant goal to make it 6-0 in 60 minutes ... it was a measure of how fun the game was to watch that the 1 goal that roma did get was stunning as well . And if any further proof were needed that This was Man u ' s night and that everythin they tried was working , that was provided by evra's goal which wud prolly have gone out off the bar on most nights :)

Only dissapointment with the final score of 7-1 was that the average of a goal every 10 minutes was not achieved .

Gotta pity some ppl tho

The roma defence

The roma supporters who travelled all the way to england

But most of all , Ara

Woke him up @ 12 am to tell him match was on .. he said its juz manu match and went back to sleep :P

:o Long post

Dont xpect any more for a few months :D

Theme

Its been like a week since i "started " blogging and all i have to show for it is one measly post .. ppl have been buggin me abt that so here goes another ..

I wondered what to rite abt ... My Mundane daily schedule ?? Na , living it is Vetti enough without havin to rite abt it .

My Superhuman adventures as Arjun By day J man by night ? ? Na , too boastful .

Powerful Stuff that will Make People Sit up and take notice , invoke emotion, inspire people and such ?? Maybe Later .

in the end all i did was Pick out a theme song for this blog :D

Credit to Vilok For findin this link

http://www.geekhackfilk.com/comfortably.html

Searching for a Reason

Y ? Oh y did i take i blogging ? The answer is unclear even to me . Probably has somethin to do with the title of this blog .. No, not the comfortably dumb one -- the URL



It could stand for many things .. For lack of a better blog name .. For lack of a better pastime .. and for the reader of this .. For lack of a better blog to read . ;-)



I Dont have much hope that i will update this regularly .. as Aragon Says in Lotr " I Give hope to men , I Keep none for myself " .

Thats prolly juz a fancy way of saying im too lazy to blog regularly .



Anywho watch this space !! ( not too intently tho )