Necker Cubicle

Not much of preparation for tomorrow’s trip to kozhikode for attending FOSS.NIT. At this point I am really excited to travel with Pramode sir and to watch his show (magic with Phoenix and the robot) at NIT. Anjali had her permission from her parents today and will be coming with us. And of course there is Anish and Shaleena from our class (the real FOSS people of GEC). Three of my juniors (Krishnanunni, Sreeraj, Anil), the members of dhanush team and the representative of Electronics department, Naveen makes the whole team set for the trip. NIT is National Institute of Technology so there would be students from all over the nation, right? There should be students from north India studying out there. Hope I could have some real OPEN SOURCE fiesta out there … Some of my friends out there in NIT had given me a lot of promises. I found out an advantage of having guest lecturers today. I could listen in a much better way to Sminesh sir’s class (he is a permanent staff and is knowledgeab...

  Just completed the assignment I have to submit tomorrow (Wah, 31 pages!!!!).   I thought of watching the video ‘The divine healing’ given to me by Piyush today and he has his reasons for that. He said if I am really searching for truth then the video could transform me (transform me to a believer… he thinks I am an atheist :p).. Well, I am not in a mood right now to get transformed so will see that tomorrow..       Back to the topic:   For the first time I heard a madam telling that she don’t mind us copying from others (the assignment) and what she demands is 15 sheets of papers stapled together (Well, she didn’t mention how many words per page .. muhaha). The new era of Guest lecturers would kill the department for sure. One of my friends who don’t know that an IC chip requires a Vcc and a GND for it to work is a teacher now (this is true) and another friend (?) who is his student told me how terrible his class is. What is the point in having class...

It was about midnight and I was half asleep with the VHDL cookbook on my chest (books are better than sleeping pills) and my system playing some old melody and all of a sudden, a strange sound caught my attention. Oh, a strange insect was flying around my room producing some irritating sound. And that’s it…. I was on my foot and was desperate to catch it but it was much smarter than me….  Well, the insect was a complete stranger; never saw anything of its kind before…    It was about 2 cms long, reddish brown in color and it do move much faster than other insects of its size. I couldn’t count its legs but I think it to be four legged. It loitered in the room for about 10 minutes and disappeared. These are the times when I really miss a camera; I could have at least uploaded a photo in here if I had one.    So, what was it- maybe an Amazon Unidentified Insect? Whatever, I am waiting for it to come again and next time I am gonna catch it ...