Internship woes

Some things are just the way they are. We do not question why the sky is blue(or white when cloudy, or whatever), why sugar is sweet or why bk is fat. Its just in their nature to be what they are. You're probably wondering why i'm talking so much crap now..well, so am i; so join the club.

Everyone in my coll seem to think its trendy to do internships and/or (yes, there are some psychos out there who are doing both..kareemangya for one (dont ask me, I dont know what kareemangya means)) projects during the summer vacations. When everyone at coll agree on something, it'll probably turn out that there is something disastrously wrong about it. I should have realised this and not forced myself to join them in the mad scramble to land up interns, but well one cant always be wise and imba (nope, not even me). Hindsight sees the farthest; I now realise that there are very few useful things that come out of an internship; well actually only one thing, and thats the pay cheque. Shashi would say that I was too institutionalised and was in bad need of disillusionment..he would have quite a few other things to say too, but no one really cares for anything he says, least of all himself. So I wont bore you with that stuff.
What I will bore you with is an account of my internship experience, that is (unfortunately) still two weeks away from conclusion. My daily schedule for this 'vacation' looks something like this:
Morning: 7.00 ninju messages 'come to the court quickly da dog'
Morning: 7.30 go to basketball court (quickly da dog)
Morning: 9.00 come back exhausted (after starring in the day's play as most imba player)
Morning(still??): 10.00 arrive for work
Several millenia later: 8.00 pm still at work
Here's one important requisit to be part of an embedded systems startup: do not, by any means, have a life (if you want to know what a person without a life would look like, stop by at NITK hostels 3rd block room no:%& and take a look at arindham). I am forced to work for about 8-10 hrs a day at this place. So you can very well imagine what the guys who run this company are like. I come back every evening totally exhausted, eat and crash. Period. And they call this a holiday.
I have been enduring six bloody weeks of this and am at my wits end now (if you want to know what a person at his wits end looks like, this is what you do. If you are a ps-ite, try to imagine bk answering a question put to him by sundari ma'am. If you are a nitkian, imagine
adi trying to explain that he is not gay. If you are ponky, look in the mirror. If you are anyone else, use your god damned imagination and bugger off..btw you cannnot be part of my readership if you are in this category, anyway)
If you still doubt that I am crazy, where are you interning this summer?
To the rest, dont blame me. Blame it on the internship.

Why Set Max is the best channel ever

I just got back home yesterday for my summer vacations and since this is the time every year when I always (try to) revive my long inactive blog, here I go again.

This semester was the longest ever spanning an incredible five months, thanks to our crazy new director who just had to do something wierd to get noticed. An insecure kinda fellow..he keeps doing something eccentric once in a while to get himself in the limelight. I guess he's one of that lot who believe there is no such thing as bad publicity. A week before the exams when all of us were looking forward to the end of this seemingly never ending sem, he makes an announcement that the mandatory attendance will be increased to 85% from the next sem. This was just when we (the non nerds) were deciding whether it was worth it to even try to prepare for the exams and he comes up with this kind of a statement. I mean, here we are in bad need of some encouragement and the least he could do is keep that big fat mouth of his shut. Instead he decides to cheer us all up with this very exciting piece of news. Maybe he believes, somewhere in that hopelessly confused and screwed up head of his, that such news might 'motivate' us or something. If he does, I am afraid I cant put my sentiments into any words that would do them justice.

Enough cribbing about coll I guess. Why waste time discussing such dismal topics when there are much more entertaining subjects ripe for analysis? Like the movie that I (accidently) ended up watched on Set Max yesterday.

As I said earlier I had got home only yesterday evening and on discovering that there was an IPL match at 7 I decided to check it out. Because I hadn't followed any of the previous matches and wanted to see what the tournament was like. And also because I was colossally bored (hardly half a day into my hols). And I guess I switched on the TV a bit early because guess what, there was a hindi movie running on that channel. Now anyone even faintly acquainted with me knows of my passion for hindi movies (that doesn't quite mean what it seems to mean). But even after taking into account my prejudice, this movie was a stinker. In the first place, it was called "Good boy, Bad boy"(!!!!) and it also had Emraan Hashmi in it. Do I need to say any more? Actually I do because it was a lot worse than you can imagine even after those two very enlightening pieces of information. Thankfully the movie was in the climax scene when I tuned into the channel. I'll describe the scene briefly. There was some inter college quiz competition going on and our man Emraan was predictably losing. There was one more round to go and he needed around infinite points to win. No guesses for who won; the novelty was how he won. The round had some ten questions and it was a buzzer round. I actually tried to make a list of the inconsistancies in that scene. This is what the list looke like:

Inconsistent Fact Number 1: Emraan Hashmi was on a quiz show and not smooching some girl which is all that I guess he knows (or does he now?) to do.

Inconsistent Fact Number 2: After hitting the buzzer every candidate gets 30 seconds (on their timer) to think and answer the question. Clearly the director hasn't watched even BQC.

Inconsistent Fact Number 3: I said 30 seconds on their buzzer because after 10 seconds the buzzer counts once in every two seconds and after 20 seconds it counts once in every five seconds.

Inconsistent Fact Number 4: Given the above two points it would be fairly normal to expect all contestants to go for every answer. However that is where you err; this is bollywood, dude. Fairly normal doesn't apply here. So only Emraan goes for every question and voila!, he gets them all right. As a matter of fact, there is one question about the national anthem when he gets up to answer rebuking the quiz master for not doing the same. (that wierd noise BK makes to show disgust and disbelief would sum up my emotions at this point).

There is of course a tie breaker in the end and this is the best part of them all. The question is: "Albert Einstein kis year mae Third Law of Motion discover kiya tha?" (pardon my hindi grammar. Its next to non existent, much like my coll director's common sense) And thats not all. The options were "A) 1840 B)1850 C)1860 D) 1870". Our man takes all of his 30 seconds(real time:10+20+50=80 seconds) during which an entire recap of the whole movie was shown as a pseudo flashback sequence. This time I really dont need to say anymore. I mean, I agree that there are tamil movies especially those with 'Captain' in them where you can find a fight scene with more inconsistencies than this but this was incredibly more hilarious. I have to watch more of Set Max. Thats going to be my first resolution for this vacation. The second is the usual 'I wont let the blog die' resolution. Lets see how successful thats going to be this time.