Who created who?

A: Man is creation of God.
B: God is creation of man.

Options:-

a) A is more correct than B.

b) B is more correct than A.

c) Both are correct.

d) Both are incorrect.

e) Both may be correct but are mutually exclusive.

f) This is a worthless, unanswerable, controversial question.

My choice is (e). What's your take?

(many subjects)

A normal day in my life these days is sleeping, eating, reading, sleeping, gaming, squash-ing,sleeping.

Got a bit of injury in the elbows. But don't worry its just scratch (big ones) and it's healing day by day.

It's been 2 days of getting early and Im liking it. 7:30 and 8:00. Gota sleep now.

Left with a 40-page journal to read before tomorrow's meeting. And lots of 'Literature Survey' on the topic. They say that literature survey is first and important task in a research work. But it's ultimate boring thing to do. You never know what you are missing in your survey in spite of through googling and science-direct.

It seems our squash coach Vikas Sharma is fond of starting blogs (www.squash4iitkanpur.wordpress.com/ ) that too with long web addresses. I never understood the UI of wordpress. That is one of the reason I'm using blogger in spite of it's buggy editor. It is shit if u r used-to using Ctrl+Backspace key.

All this hard work on squash court is giving me pain in different muscles and bones. Now I believe the when they say we have as many as 206 bones in our body!

--Signing off

Dull

No work makes Jack dull. Life's dull these days. Nothing much happening around. So much so that I'm not blogging at all.

Indians are playing pathetic cricket specially the mister over-confident arrogant captain cool Mahendra Singh Dhoni. They are out of the race.

Last night we guys decided that morning time is the best time to do thing. Actually it should not be 'decided' but understood the already stated fact. And to be accurate with facts it was'nt night either. It was 4:30 in morning . So we 'decided' that we will (try to) reset our body clocks to conventional timings.

Y5-BBot - Commemorating best years of our life

Its just yesterday that I realized now is the end. Yes it all ends here. Best four years of my life. Here it goes. I see its trails as it goes away.

Today is the graduation day of many of us, supposedly a red lettered day for them but somewhere in their hearts everybody is sad. Sad because this is the end of four years of joy. The thought that when I wake up next day I will not find my friends in the rooms beside me is horrible. I wish I wake up tomorrow to find that it is first day of fourth year and we all arrived from our homes. We are running here and there for registration. I just wish! Who says boys don't cry!
May be we will meet each other or may be not.May be very often of not. But we cannot live together the way we lived. It was mere celebration of life and the joy of being together.

But we celebrated in style on 29th of may. A farewell cake and celebration to mark its end.
All things must pass. Good or bad. So does this. Its time to move on. A new phase in life begins - life without all of Y5-BBot group.

There are places I remember
All my life, though some have changed
Some forever not for better
Some have gone and some remain
All these places had their moments
With lovers and friends
I still can recall
Some are dead and some are living
In my life I've loved them all

But of all these friends and lovers
there is no one compares with you
And these memories lose their meaning
When I think of love as something new
Though I know I'll never lose affection
For people and things that went before
I know I'll often stop and think about them
In my life I love you more 

Squash coaching

I've joined squash coaching which started last to last week. I had to shell out 1000 bucks for protective eye-glass. They say ball hit in the eye is very dangerous. Leads to excessive pain and unsuccessful operation. Apart from that a new graphite made racket will cost me another 2000 bucks. That's lot of spending.

Its been over 1 week and 2 hrs daily is a tiring schedule. I must say I never toiled so much (physically) in such short duration. Only in the first few days things were taught and thereafter it is just repeating the same thing and physical work out everyday. It has become as boring as lectures during semester. Though till now I've missed only 1 session I think I will skip more in coming days.

Election Results - SMS rulz

Its election time and so it gets reflected in my blogs to. Coming from state of Uttar Pradesh no surprise I am interested in politics. (Detailed Results at http://www.ndtv.com/elections/)
Good thing about this election is that one party, Congress(with allies), got near to majority. Out of 543 seats 272 are required to prove majority in the newly elected parliament. This means that we are going to have a stable government. There were a lot of surprises in the results. Left parties reduced to around 24 that is about 36 short of last election figures. Mamta Banarji's TMC in West Bengal got around 20 as opposed to last time's 3. A remarkable increase. Much of this can be attributed to Nandigram land issue.
Also after a long time Congress was able to attain considerable no. of seats in the most important state U.P.
Now staage is set for 5 more years of UPA rule. 5 more years of SMS rule in the country. Btw SMS is for Sardar Manmohan Singh.

Unreported days

Several days have passed unreported and unrecorded.

Last major semester exams ended on 29th. It was a bit of nostalgia. Half of my friends leaving soon. It pains to part from the 4 years of friendship. Spending time in last few days together with our friends. I feel lucky to get 5 years (1 still to go) of life at this wonderful place. But this place in last few years has not been the one it used to be. Seven suicides in last seven semesters. and 2 attempts, though unsuccessful, in the last month. This place is up to something.

A chain of night strolls together with friends makes best of memories. On one of these one of my friends says that it will be lonely fifth year with most of us lively friends gone suggesting that we should get gf. My friend has not yet evolved to the IITK style of life. Getting a girl is not into the tradition of this place. But like every other thing in the world this tradition is changing.

Came back home after the exams after a little bit of thesis work. My thesis guide is a very calm and considerate person. Seems we will make a good team.

Watching a series of BBC’s Story of India, a must watch for all Indians, a good informative and entertaining documentary by Michel Woods.

Returned from home on 12th this month. Now back to college. Got to read a chapter on 'Blood Flows'.

With much time to spare computer gaming is the major activity around. Plugged into CS and the good old Quake3.

Whole summer is ahead. I still have to make plans about how to spend it. Btw I joined squash coaching camp in campus.

Years of Joy

Years of joy in final stages. It's time now foe most of us to dismantle and settle in different places. Places so unknown and not yet decided.

I will post after I finish 3 of 5 exams

Wake up call!

Probably the last one. here comes the bell from DOSA. Library goes round the clock from this Saturday. This time the call has been delayed a bit. Exams start from coming Tuesday that is 3 days to go for endsem! Gosh! This is the do/die call. Hoping to get not less than 8 even in this bad time of recession... Btw placement figures at IIT Kanpur are improving. Many department have morre than 70 p.c. placed. All eyes on next year.

This is the last semester which sees me giving pool of courses. Next one year and 1 course.

Good luck Saucy!

--Saucy

Simple

Simple is sophistication
Simple is beauty
Simple is style
Simple is simply good
Isn't it?
[:)]

thoda jyada fek diya kya...
(Translation: Have I exaggerated?)

NB: Mitchell's Law of Committees: Any simple problem can be made insoluble if enough meetings are held to discuss it.

Homogeneous Flow

This post is kinda technical and may be relevant to very few. But then it has to be like this. If one still reads on one may understand it.
Today I will talk about two phase flow i.e. flow of liquid + vapor(of the same liq.) in a pipe. Homogeneous flow model is a theory which proposes to quantify the flow process to get numerical values out of it. It assumes that the liquid and vapor states are mixed homogeneously and a pseudo state - a mixture of both of it - is formed in the pipe. The assumption is wrong as it can be felt with our experiences with water and water-vapor in our daily life. All the laws of Fluid mechanics (with slight modification) are assumed to be applicable on this phase. This gives all the parameters like mean velocity, mean density, mean viscosity of the flow, wall friction, Reynolds number.
This modeling looks quite vague in the first look but is very good to start. It gives results of the orders of magnitude close to the actual values obtained by performing experiments. In fact this model works quite good (error of around 30%) in the type of flow in which vapor and liquid are mixed such that vapor form small droplets mixed in bulk of the flowing liquid. This model is also known as fog flow model because of the above formation.

Society vs Individual

Since time immemorial there are two rivals. One named society and another named individual. There took a fierce battle between them one day. The individual lost and the society won. The fall of individual. The rise of society. Since then society governs every individual.

Camera

Switched to Picassa for image viewing. Downloaded a software called NEAT Image which claims to be a effective noise reduction software. First few results are effective. Lets check more.
I've decided that my next cam will be Nikon D40. Initially i was a bit confused between the newer version of Nikon entry level cams D60. But all it provides is some fancy buttons here and there, air flow lens cleaning system, in-camera editing and active lighting for some 100 extra dollars. Now only incentive for D60 is that the kit lens with it is a VR(Vibration Reduction) lens as opposed to D40's basic 18-55mm without VR. If D40 will not be available with VR lens kit I would be forced to opt for D60. Hoping for getting some filters and telefoto and macro attachments too as shown in ebay.ca shops.
Im also counting on Indian economy to boom so as rupee value gets stronger over dollars. In that case I might be tempted to go for an extra 55-200mm (not necessarily VR) lens too. It will be great for tele photography. equivalent to 8x zoom! An SB-400 flash instead of extra lens will also be good for indoor photographs and is priced approx $12o instead of $200 tele lens.

Searching for reviews I came across this person named Ken Rockwell. Any body looking reviews of advice on which camera to buy must read his page http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/recommended-cameras.htm as well as http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/mpmyth.htm. Megapixels really do not matter beyond 6MP. if you are owning a compact cam you will never be printing larger than 20x16" in which case 6MP is enough.
Read the recommended cameras page, choose your budget and buy the one that fits. believe me it will the best thing for you

Talk

I feel like talking a lot of things but not getting dynamic enough to do that. Just hope someone comes to me and insists me to talk. Then I will fool around and talk no sense out of laziness to collect the words into a sentence which is literally meaningful which can be very difficult at many times. How to make sense out of your sentences. Has any book ever been written with that title. Well, I need it. Write it. I will buy it.
Well I've got company Transporter is ready to come in my room and also go out for a stroll. I'm out for night stroll

Illness

Illness and poor health surrounds me. Throat infection is really painful but I've learnt to live with it. With the kind of medical advice available in Health center of IITK I can't take risk. Few days back I woke up in the morning only to find my left eye black and red instead of black and white. Colour stayed for 3 days and now fading. Whenever I think I'm falling ill, more frightening than the fear of illness is the idea of getting treatment from HC.
Awakened in the new era of health consiousness today I gave me spectacles for new pair of glasses. The health revolution movement which is taking place in my life these days is much attributed to the 51.5 kgs slip from the railway station weighing machine. I don't know how good they working but they really working for me to help me in good health. I started eating lots of food. Stopped eating ice-creams frequently. More so after the troat infection began. Minimized oil intake. Boiled egg in breakfast. I'm missing breakfast less frequently.
Now its 3:30 a.m. and not healthy to wake up so long so I will go to sleep. :)

Quote unquote

Read somewhere.....

"I have not failed 100 times. I have discovered 100 new ways how I cannot succeed."

Leisure time

It is rare of events that one has completely leisure time at disposal in IITK. It happens only just after exams has finished. Coming after the midsem exam break I relax and use my leisure. No deadlines, no assignments, no nothing! A relaxing time. I enjoy this time not in cubing, not in reading, nor on chating. Watching loat of movies in last few days. To name a few - V for vendetta, Wall E, A time to kill, The Prestige, Sin City,..... All in HD print. Believe me it really makes a difference watching movies on High Definition and normal quality. HD is great!

By the way also had a weekend trip down(south from here) home. Reached Friday night and returned on Sunday night. And guess what? I was not pickpocketed this time! No wallet to be taken away. I've decided not to carry wallet no more (double negatives :)). Caught fever in this short time too. On Sat evening felt like cold and kept on switching off fan. Mamma noticed. "Who is switching off the fan each time?" And her suspect is right. Yeps! You caught fever. Fever is gone now but the throat infection thing is really hurting. Like pinching. And poking. With needles. Inside throat. It has become a friendly disease in some sense. Not that we like each other. But it is stays with most of the time. I've tried few tablets, with and without physician cnsult, but of no use. A kg of oranges kept on my table but can't have them for the fear of making the throat worse. It is keeping me from playing squash too.

The deadline to give testimonials for Y5 Yearbook ends tomorrow. Gota get on with in no time if is to be done. Right now stuck with an assignment to be submitted tomorrow morning.

Getting lethargic

Happy Holi to all the few who read this book. Happy Holi also to those who do not read this.

I decided to write a lot of things about the trip but somehow I'm getting lethargic and forced to save the draft of the post I started.

Back after the trip

It has been a dream holiday trip. Practically my first with college friend. And wonderful too. Though a bit tiring but we enjoyed like anything.

There was a little change in the original plan. As we reached we heard of strike in Darjeeling for the Gorkhaland outcry. We had to drive straight to Gangtok on Monday. Tuesday Morning we leave for Yumthang Valley, only place we were to witness snow. It took 2 full days. First day we traveled a mountainous road to reach a place called Lachung. On the way I clicked many beautiful scene. In the journey there was a traffic jam on a hill due to landslide. It was about 8 and raining when we reached Lachung. Stayed there for night. In the morning of Wednesday when we woke up it was biting cold there. The rain earlier night added extra flavour to the cold. Water gave frost bites. Thanks to those who carried toilet papers. It saved frost bites at several places. Coming out of the hotel rooms we witnessed some of the most beautiful scenes on earth. I clicked the picture (below) which captured the early morning rays of sunlight coming from behind the hill.
It was Holi the festival of colours on Wednesday. We drove in 2 cabs towards yumthang valley and stopped where it was most snowy and after roads were snow laden. My idea of carrying colours rocked and we had great time playing with colours and snow. Colourful Mr and Mrs Snowy that we made also rocked and the work and idea of bringing colours was appreciated by other tourists present there.
Return journey from Yumthang to Gangtok was not as dreaded as whole going there and we safely drove to our hotel. Thursday morning we were to drive to Nathula pass, the Indo-Tibet border. Situated at the height of 15000 ft it gave practical example of thinning of air which we study in 8th class physics. It was first time I saw so steep roads. As high as 30 degrees steep. Or may be more. Climbing up few steps hurriedly and we were panting like dogs in summer. Cold winds challenged hearing and breathing. On return we saw the Tsomgo lake pupularly wrongly pronounced as Chhangu Lake. A lake in the lap of mounting. Green water and snowy mountains around was distinctly to behold. New to it was a market which attracted tourists. I bought some gifts/memoirs from this market and from shop new a temple called Baba Harbhajan Singh Mandir of Indian Army which has a strange story of its own. That very day we returned to hotel and went out in the evening for stroll on MG Marg for the second time (First time was previous day). A beautiful street with beautiful shops, beautiful people and beautiful ambiance. We clicked all the beautiful things on street. It was on same day that my camera started malfunctioning. It is 2.5 yrs old and seems its life is over. Time for new cam!

Friday morning we took 4 cabs for as-called-by the hotel manager 10 point sight seeing around Gangtok. Only 2-3 sites were worth seeing but this time we enjoyed being together. All 4 cabs mountain racing was breath taking but we enjoyed it in the end as we came alive out of it.

Moved to Darjeeling on Saturday morning. Reach there and then city touring that day. on Sunday early morning we went to Tiger hill to see Sunrise but the cloud disappoints us. We could not see Kanchanjangha peak. Disappointed at last spot we catch the train and start with same shit again.

For first few days the images of beautiful scenery of Sikkim and beautiful chinks crowded our minds. But we finally adapt to our style and place of living and evolve to live with it happily!


Ending with a smile :)