titration & logic gates
14 September, 2009
Filed under College Stuff
Tags: amazed, Chemistry, circuits, college, digital, electronics, estimation of chloride ions in water, gates, Lab, logic gates, mechanics, NAND, NOR, spam, teachers, titration, twitpic, twitter
[ Do NOT advertise on my Weblog! I am freaked out at the frequency of spam this space is attracting. And most of them are about making money, promoting their sites, etc etc. WTF. ]
We had an amazingly good chemistry lab today. Estimation of chloride ions in the given water sample. Took us less than 15 minutes to perform this titration as the silver nitrate standard solution was already given to us and we could directly start the analysis. Our lab hours is for 2 hours. We had 45 minutes + 30 minutes [of the lunch break] free time. Went out during that time, had pizza, spoke stuff and came back. Math was good too. I really pity the teacher who struggles to explain things to us and 70% of the class doesn’t even care. Mechanics is just too good. Nobody cares. Everybody minds their own work [messaging- though cell phones are banned, flirting- ahem, sleeping, talking, talking...].
I am really amazed at the fact that so many people on twitter are helping me with my assignments. Reema had clarified a few of my doubts 2 weeks back. Then Anvesh solved a problem that I’d put up on twitpic. Vivek gave me ideas about solving them. Ranjith explained to me almost everything that I needed to know about converting the logic gates to all NAND and NOR. Can’t be more thankful to these guys.
29 August, 2009
Filed under Photography, Randomness FTW!
Tags: Book, cadbury, chocolate, colors, engineering mechanics, gems, meriem
had cadbury gems after a long time
after 4th day
27 August, 2009
Filed under College Stuff
Tags: bangalore, college life, engineering, exams, study
College is half good and half bad. I get to sleep till 7 am everyday and still be able to make it there by 8. I am not going to WALK till college even if it is 1.5 kms away. Buh.
Classes started from day 1 itself. Tests, Exams and Quizzes dates were announced right in the 1st hour. 2 units are already completed by the end of the 4th day. And no, it is not as bad as it sounds. We get a lot of free time and “let offs”. Some of the teachers are really interesting and fun. There are google groups created by teachers for their subjects where they put up interactive links that help in learning the subjects. First day was weird as all the teachers started to scare us about attendence requirements, GPAs and stuff. The fact that I “actually” opened my “Engineering Mechanics” book on day 2 itself should say something. There are people from Bombay, Jharkhand, Mangalore, UP, and other places. They must have fun at the hostels. I feel like I live in a hostel too. The girls hostel is 2 mins from home 
I really hope we get to do something apart from studying too. I can’t believe we have “Environment Study”, “Constitution of India” and “Economics” as compulsary subjects. Eww.
Been catching up on the basic concepts and other things. Got no time for anything here. Haven’t even touched my camera. Got this sudden urge to post something on flickr. Tried out some layer experiments on PS with this picture. Sorry for typing everything in half sentences. I think I’ve lost the ebullience to blog :-\
Take the Good with the Bad,
Smile with the Sad,
Love what you’ve got and Remember what you’ve Had,
Always forgive and never forget,
Make mistakes but Never Regret.
video photographs
17 August, 2009
Filed under My Music ♥, Photography
Tags: art, composition, creative, different, films, frame, images, inspiration, inspire, learn, music, Photography, photos, pictures, songs, Video
It’s amazing how music can inspire us at so many levels. I’ve come across some really good songs with very creative videos and that has inspired me to a large extent. It makes me think about the composition, framing and abstractness. Some videos are so well made that when you look at them, you can cut them into 100+ different perfect frames. It is true that filming was invented after photography. Some of the songs that have really beautiful creative videos photographs that inspire [my favourites]-
- Apologize- OneRepublic feat. Jay Z
- Hey There Delilah- Plain White T’s
- 21 Guns- Green Day
- My Immortal- Evanescence
- O Sanam- Lucky Ali
- Bad Day- Daniel Powter
- Waiting on the World to Change- John Mayer
- [Will add more as and when I stumble upon an inpiring video!]
Special Mentions by fellow tweeps-
@milcom_ – Return to Innocence- Enigma, High Hopes- Pink Floyd
@FagunB – House of Cards- Radiohead
@jk_singh – On a Day like Today- Bryan Adams
@airr – Would- Alice in Chains
@SohamMondal – Dooba Dooba- Silk Route
Do leave behind your favourite, most creative video names/links. Looking forward for some inspiration for photography =]
10 days
14 August, 2009
Filed under College Stuff, Tittle-Tattle
Tags: b'lore photo walk, Blog, BPW, celebrations, college, Experience, independence day, life, panicky, scared
Exact 10 days left for my college to start! And I’m all panicky now. I have no expectations what so ever. Ready to experience anything that life throws at me. After 2 years of hell, I now feel strong and confident.
College is 2 kms from home so its kind of an advantage and disadvantage for me. There are so many things to it. Can’t list them all. For one, I can get up every morning with a peaceful mind positive of making it to college on time! And this whole 4 years of college experience scares me a bit. For starters, this is going to be my first time at “college”. Not like a lot of my friends who were at the pre-university. Secondly, its a very reputed college, so will have to magane the pressure and stuff. That I have no problem with [+1, +2 has taught me enough].
So its the Independence Day tomorrow!! We are having a i-Day photo walk!! Some members of BPW will be celebrating the day with government school children somewhere on the out skirts of bangalore. The kids have a painting competition and all. We’re hoping to capture some portraits, indian-ness, past-present-future related theme photographs! Its all for having a good time, so looking forward to it!
I have so much more to write, but my wp link keeps breaking [as i've mentioned earlier] and i get frustrated at it. Hoping to keep this space updated in the coming years. I will not miss out on the fun engineering adventures on my priceless junk! =] Time to pull up my [invisible] socks!
City Market Experience
22 July, 2009
Filed under Bang-alore, Travel Experiences
Tags: Bangalore City Market, Experience, K.R. Market, learn, life, people, photos, places, travel
“The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.”
I understood what that means when I visited the Bangalore City Market today.
I left house at 9 in the morning and headed towards K.R. Market [the Bangalore City Market]. There are lots of direct buses to the place and it was not at all difficult in terms of travelling. I had to meet Joel there by 9.40 for a TOI project [yeah..whatever, chuck]. I reached there before him and was waiting, while lots of freaky things happened around me. One advice to you- if you are coming to Bangalore, don’t ever visit this place just for the ‘heck of it’. Unless you are haunting for some good deep Indian portraits [or if you want to buy 10 gerberas for just 2 bucks]. We walked towards the flower market and shot everything on the way. I realized that street photography is not my thing AT ALL. Out of 84 shots that I took, I think not even 2 of them came close to me liking it..
The Entrance of the B'lore City Market
The inside of the city market is hell lot of spooky. But people [mostly traders] there are real friendly and will show you around. There were a group of kids who were so excited when they saw us with cameras. They made us shoot them with their mom, dad, aunts and uncles and everyone :-\ There was SO much activity inside the place that we were just lost. There were pots, vegetables, fruits, bags, spices, flowers, coconuts, seeds, etc. They sell all this in whole sale and this is the main place from where the other shop keepers from all over the city buy stuff from. So you-get-the-idea.
The Flower Market!
We wanted to go to the “rose market” from there but found out that it closes before 9 am. So we walked all the way on the fly over [it was exhausting] and took city shots from the high view. Ofcourse, I ended up with only lamp posts on the fly over [I find them really fascinating even now..]. We walked around 4 kms only on the fly over. What kind of a sane person does that?? But twas fun, I admit! We could see a lot of activity happening in the market from the fly over.
View from the Fly Over
I’ve started to understand what some things in life mean. My father is right- “the more you travel, the more you learn”. And its not just about us. Its about the place we live in, the kind of people there are, the kind of lives they live, the activity that happens around the city, the conditions that you get exposed to… The “rush of life” that you experience when you visit such places is really something. You realize that its not just about the malls and the multiplexes. There is something more to it all.
i keep making lists. and lists.
14 July, 2009
Filed under Randomness FTW!, Tittle-Tattle
Tags: bangalore photo walk, BPW, clean, flickr, iPod, lalbagh, last.fm, music, nature, report, room, talk talk, twitter
It seems so long that I’ve logged into WP. There are 101 things that must be done in my life and I’ve not even started with the first thing. Anyway.
The Lalbagh Photo Walk went pretty well. I seriously cannot describe everything so you can view the shots and read the report here. I learnt a lot of things from BPW- never under estimate your camera [even if it is 6 MP point & shoot], cloudy days are not good for nature shoots, I need to talk less [and not make a fool of myself by talking without thinking], a lot of things that I thought were a #fail were actually #NOT, never be on time coz no one is :-\
It has been so breezy in Bangalore from the last 3- 4 days. Doors keep banging and curtains keep swaying all the time. My iPod is dead from when last.fm has taken over all sorts of music links. My room needs to be cleaned big time. School books need to be thrown given away. Books need to be returned to the library. More files to be organised. Testimonials to be written for some sweet people 
New set of clothes need to be bought for college [yay]. And etcetera. And etcetera. So now I’ll just go back to making more lists of “what needs to be done” and and then make more lists
updates
6 July, 2009
Filed under Bang-alore, Happyness =), [Personal]
Tags: bangalore, bangaloretweetup, death by chocolate, Friends, hangover, lessons, life updates, photo walk, school, tweetup
Life has been eventful now a days. Finally.
Went for my 2nd #bangaloretweetup yesterday at Corner House. It was actually a #DBCtweet up. It was the first time I could actually finish one whole Death By Chocolate by myself! Met @hnp, @9_6 and @dkris. These guys are real nice and friendly. We roamed around the Brigade road area. Had long talks about everything on the way back home. This was much better than my 1st tweetup where people talked about ‘why engineering sucks’ and all =\
Other than the tweetups, I’ve been roaming around everywhere with my brother. It is so much fun, really. He has holidays too. He took me to his college and people started ’staring’ and he was like, “my sister!!”. Haha =P
Saw the movie “Hangover” with 2 of my friends. Its a real fun movie! I’m actually very glad that its over. I don’t miss it at all to be honest. I don’t want to get up at 6 every morning, wait at the bus stop, mug equations, be frowned at, suck up to the pathetic rules our school had and all that.
There is going to be a “Lal Bagh Photo Walk” this week end. I’m hoping it will be a success ‘coz Natesh and I are the ones who are organising it. I have no clue how to proceed, but I’m learning slowly. The whole point of this group was that the existing ones are designed for “almost professional” photographers with fancy DSLRs. We felt like we were left out. We still have so much to learn. So I’m hoping this will start off with positiveness for the amateurs.
