the one with social drinking...

last saturday, six of us went to "thank god its friday" .. in short, "TGIF" in cinemax at around 7:30 PM .. I guess most of us know that its famous for "social drinks" .. I must say that I was quite surprised to see a low crowd, given its a weekend.. good thing was that we got a corner table immediately :D ..

Everytime I order a social drink, I try out something new .. So, I went ahead with long island iced tea this time.. But something went wrong (may be I had it a bit 2 fast) and I was "half drunk" by the time I completed consuming it. I knew what I was talking/doing but wasn't in total control of the situation :)) .. I turned a bit wild and did a few things which I don't feel good about ;) ... I think alcohol consumption brings out the wildness inside you (which might be either for good/bad but nevertheless u feel like in a different world altogether) ..

We then played tennis doubles on Wii (yes, playstations and Wiis are present in the ground floor) using Wiimotes .. Wii was a nice experience and by the end of it, everyone was back to normal state :) ..

P.S1: Long island iced tea rocks ..

P.S2: pyramids in TGIF is just a fancy name for samosas ..

The one with "convocation"

After celebrating a very good independence day, I was expecting some bloopers during the convocation today to wrap up this week .. but to my surprise, looks like the "dress code" was not that bad after all :P ...

Though I was not a part of the convocation "directly" by receiving a degree (which btw was the same case last year), I did njoi the sighting of "flying caps" ... so, there we (dualites) were, in the audience section ..

It all started with breakfast in yukthaar where I actually decided to attend the convo.. though I wasnt interested in attending it, I decided to show up since I knew quite a many fellow juniors and had to wish them "all the best" and "congratulations" for one last time ( dunno when they will meet again in life ) ...

The degree awarding ceremony went the same old way and was wrapped up by 10:30 or so .. After meeting almost everyone I knew, I jumped back into my chair for the convo address ..

We had such a frustrating time with Dr. Raj reddy's speech .. gosh !! I doubt if it was audible beyond the first few rows .. We had absolutely no idea what we were clapping for !! ..

Dr. Kasturi Rangan gave the convocation address but it was such a disappointment .. ppl had absolutely no idea what he was talking about .. he went on with some text/literature which I doubt if anyone present there knew ..

So, here we are, done with yet another convocation .. The best part was ppl replacing the usual caps with "kanduva" and throwing them into the sky after they were declared graduated ( we never expected that :)) ) .. so, finally, congratulations to all the graduating students once again [:)] .. wish u all the best in life [:)] ..

P.S1: special congratulations to poori and abhi for gold medals :)

P.S2: yup .. 3 of the dualites made it to this convocation out of 65 :P ..

P.S3: hoping that mera number next year ayega :D ..

P.S4: love aaj kal - "mein kya hoon" is excellent ..

P.S5: Nice show by 1st years on independence day ..

P.S6: And the record of attending the function after "flag hoisting" still holds for 6 yrs in a row :D ..

P.S7: yeah .. Dravid back into the team :D ..

Relapsing blogger community !!

Its been a long time since I wrote my last post !! But, here I am, finally back to blogging :-D ..

A few points to be noted from the blogroll:

I. Got bored of the same 'thesis' posts by rama :P ..

II. Ankit's cheap take to increase his "TRPs" :P ..

III. Come on shiben, we need more GAME from you :D

IV. Where are the IV, Halley, NIR and of course not to mention "The ghost runner" ..

V. SMR, we need you back to the blogging sphere :D, we seriously miss ur awesome blog ( yeah yeah .. he is back in college ) ..

VI. Have to applaud Makrand for his excellent stories ..

VI. Any plans to revive IIITBUZZ ??

Apart from the above, a heck lot of things r happening with the institute these days (this part is for all those 'alumni' creatures living away from the college :P) ...

1. No YSR/his speech this time for the convocation :))

2. You guyz should have already known about the dress code :P

3. IIIT participated in 5th round of counselling

4. No jeevan vidya week this time .. Instead a new course called "search for a human society" is being offered :)) ( I guess all the telugus remember 'anukokunda oka roju' )

5. The college threw a lavish party to all the corporate folks, but none still came forward for the donations .. So, high fees for quite some time to come

6. UGC committee hailed IIIT-H to be the best they have seen so far in India ( dunno if this is for good/bad ) .. and recommended others to follow us ( I guess the same old dictatorship continues :)) ) ..

7. I guess the GALS : BOYS ratio has increased drastically this year .. Is this an anomaly or a sign of what is to come in the near future ? :P ..

PS1: Relapse - beautiful rocks :)

PS2: For how long has IIIT-H been listed at #1 in SPOJ ?? .. I badly need the answer ( has to go into the convocation address it seems )

PS3: We badly need to revive the CS community in the college .. The tradition of producing some very good GAMERS is coming to an end ..

PS4: ICE AGE - 3 is awesome ..

PS5: The most annoying Q: Which year are you in ?? .. A: 6th yr :( ... anywayz, we CVITians need not take it seriously since its taken for granted as per the tradition :P ..

PS6: Some one please update the authorities with the statistics.. they still think the "normal" ppl will leave in 5 yrs :)) (as per the orientation prog.) ...

PS7: I suppose this is the longest take on PSs after a loooong time :D ..