Half hour with complete strangers. I was completely lost. The sky was ready to shower a rain, and breeze where working as catalyst for the rain. I walked to the left side a bit – and I saw some faces that I could recognize – Rajnikanth and Nayanthara! Actually, seeing the poster of film was a great relief for me. It was a talkies named Prasanth, where Kathanayakudu the remake of Kadaparayumbol was released. By the time Jayamama reached there and picked me to his house.

The rain welcomed me to his home. It was my first trip to there. In fact none from our home had went there. The home was lovely and had a great food, thoughts and jokes. The was great. The wonderful food made me to sleep as i reached the bed and the sleep continued for upto 12 hours. Just reached the mukt.in for the day2. I need to make some modification in slide! Wait for more.

Note : I had got camera from Roshiba, but till this moment it was not working – as I put the battery in inverted

We become the seniors of the institution. The college formally gave sent off to the 2008 batch seniors from college, branch wise and from hostel and we made our registration for the last two semesters.The seniors.

While looking back, I can see some smiles, some laughs, some one digit internals, a dozen of mark list I have obtained and some sad moments. Nothing more!

ആ കാണുന്നതു് മിഷന്‍ സ്കൂളല്ലേ… എന്നെ ഈ കോലത്തിലാക്കിയ സ്കൂള്‍… ന്നാ കേറീട്ടന്നേ കാര്യം… ഞങ്ങളുറപ്പിച്ചു.. നൊസ്റ്റാള്‍ജിയ എന്ന വാക്കിന്റെ അര്‍ത്ഥം എന്നിക്കു് മനസ്സില്ലായതന്നാണു്.. പാവം പ്രവീണ്‍… എന്തെല്ലാം കേട്ടൂ… എന്റെ 3 കൊല്ലത്തെ ജീവിതം മുഴുവന്‍….

അന്നെടുത്തചിത്രമാണിതു്. സ്കൂളിന്റെ പുറം ഭാഗം.

മുന്‍വശം. ഒരു പഴയചിത്രം.

ഞാന്‍ ഏട്ടാം ക്ലാസ്സ് മുതല്‍ പത്താം ക്ലാസ്സ് വരെ പഠിക്കാനായി ശ്രമിച്ച സ്കൂള്‍.

This time for the fifth semester, we labs are two – hardware and programming paradigms. Hardware contains simple MASM works and some interfacing and PP had C++, Java and LISP. It was PP on Monday and MASM on Tuesday.

It was on Sunday evening I started to work along with Java, and after a couple of hours hardwork to make do the basic programs (helloworld, factorial, inheritance, quicksort) I came to understand a fact, its not my cup of tea. One among us Java or myself is stupid. I was conviced on that theory and came to conclude by making myself stupid. For the first time I saluted three persons Praveen the Javaman, Rakesh my neighbour who works with Sun and my own sister who tells Java as something cool, funny and great. They are genius!

Being a computer specialist in others veiw, I had some calls by night asking doubts over clisp. As to answer the question installed clisp . The first program I took was quicksort and I tried to play with it for an hour and more, keeping both my speakers and mouth shut. It was awesome and result was negative. On 11PM I again started with lisp, I was able to get the concept after moving through the notes provided by pramode sir. Within 10 minutes I was able to see the output of helloworld, quicksort,gcd and lcm. It was great. I become so mad over the thing – keeping myself engaged over the lisp for next 3 hours!

I wake up at early morning by 9.30AM and had exam at 11. The question was to find least common ancestor using JAVA. Making an algorithm that does not work is a simple task for me. I did it and acquired the externals signature for further proceedings. Within 10 minutes, I was able to make my hello world work. Its the fastest ever time I took to write and run helloworld.java and as the time moved, I was able to make a workable algorithm, with could do the work it is supposed to. I got the output and for the first time I started to feel that java is good for me.

The evening I spent completely with java and lisp. I started loving lisp than any other things in the world. The hardware lab is something always bad for me. It runs on windows, creepy MASM and I always bunk the lab. As I am not having windows over the lappy I was not able to do a trial and what I could was understanding the code. The lab started at 11AM and by the time I did some things over lisp and java and some in fontforge. The MASM question was luckily simple, to find factorial and I did in the same way what I had learned. The commands where not by heart to me, but the procedure was more or less by heart. With in a quarter hour I obtained the output, and showed to external. A small error was found and he requested me to correct that – to make 0 factorial 1. Its simple I started with a smile in face and an algorithm in mind.

It was not simple as I expected and within a minute I confirmed my failure. I can’t do the thing. The experiments the computing and the energy what I got from the free software community made me to work again, to think again. I was not ready to repeat the lab – I need to work over the windows machine again. After some simple thoughts and applying the concepts exactly what I had in my mind, I was able to obtain the output, making an excitement. My romance with the programming is now at its height, what I had never so far.

It’s not syntax that rules the computing, its merely the logic and algorithm!

My talk was on Friday at 9AM and my strategical approach made me it parallel with Praveen’s talk on Open ID. Still some number of audience where there, though not a house full one and was one good, even the fontforge broke while I worked over it. I was not able to take a picture of audience as my mobile cameras got ‘polluted’. You can adjust with Kiruba’s! The examination at Calicut University had badly affected the event in number of audience. Being a candidate for the semester 5 examinations, I came back “immediately” after my talk (Promise, I didn’t attend the Day2). Tuxmaniac’s magical touch over the cheese made it to work!

Trip on a packed bus to kozhikode, travel to NITC with syam, Mid night making the slide for talk at Men’s Hostel with Kishore, the dinner, and times with Praveen, Anivar, Santhosh, Pramode sir, Baiju, tuxmaniac, Sharath, Mobin, Anipeter, Sreerenj, Seena, Renjith (room mate of Kishore, who told me that he ‘reads’ my blog!), Niyam, Rahul, Kiruba and was so great, that I even forgot need to write examination now after 1 hour (at 9am, monday morning).

Other blogs on event : Manu, Kishore, Sarath, Kiruba, Tuxmaniac

The slides are made available at my slide page

Note: Draft was made earlier, the title was changed after writing exam