Life's twists..Ena vazhka da ithu

Enna Vazhka da ithu ???!!
Its been more than a year since I started working, so earning.. Looking back , I find it full of twists, surprises, sad things, happy things, in short a eventful life..Of all things in life, we think once we start earning we will be free, we will enjoy, live our life the way we want, will be happier than before.. But unfortunately its not true.. Last weekend made me realize this..The events as follows...

Growing up with Potter !!

Hi all,
 There are certain good things which we like, we think it should remain forever, but all things have to come to an end.. So it did.. The last potter movie released yesterday, and to summarize it, it was just awesome.. I am a big fan of the Harry Potter series, and may be its the book which I started to read first I think.. My chilhood best pals will read novels stories, and I don know why I just couldn connect to it that time, and I wont read much also. The first thing while reading a book, which I used to see is the no of pages in it, the shorter the better is what I felt those days. If it was a big book, I wont touch it unless I have no other go, and during my school days, it was like my early stages of reading, ( even now I am not a avid reader, but when compared to now , that was very early, may be like Sachin's first ton while he his nearing his hundred'th now) so I wont understand that much, and the vocabulary will make me feel that this book is not meant for me. At that stage, I think almost all authors were like foreign authors, and very few may be Indian authors, and whose books never came into notice in all places. But somehow it was JKRowling who broke the jinx between me and foreign authors, and then I started noticing a few, even now I am a selective reader, but now due to abundance of Indian authors, I follow their blogs, books , newspaper columns regularly. It was JKR who made me to read, and it was Harry who cast me in his spell, which I never recovered from.

The series contains 7 books, as u all know, and when I started reading those I dont remember , but the series had definitely made an impact on me.The first book ' Harry Potter and Philosopher's stone' ,  was just fantastic and I started waiting for the next ones, though I never knew whether there was any sequel to it. It was my friend Nithin, who was my neighbor, gave me that book, and I started reading it whenever he was unavailable for playing.

I remember seeing the first movie, though that time I was not a big follower of English movies, the movie I felt it was good, as I knew the story before hand. Whenever you read a book, it should bring a picture to your brain, thats what the first movie did to me, and all the characters had a clear picture in my mind, though I had some after reading the first part. Then on, it was announced that second part of the movie will also come soon, so I decided to read the book before the movie releases, and I get the vcd of it.

Soon I started reading the second book,Chamber of Secrets again with the help of my friend Nithin who got that book from someone for me, and I was cast in its spell. The book was just awesome, and it was great, it started dealing with friendship, when in school , we were blossoming with friends..

It was that time, that I started following Cricket, and in the daily, 'The Hindu' column of Peter Roebuck was the one which I started following, though I wont understand it fully.The matches which I saw, those last over thriller matches which I enjoyed seeing, I wanted to read expert opinion on it,and the next day I will be waiting to get a grab on the last sheet of the paper, as the last sheet was the sports sheet in the paper. So I grew up along with it, slowly proceeded my reading from sports column to friday review, young world in saturday's.

So I  grew up with Harry , who made me read, who made me imagine, who made me understand. Then it was the third part, 'Prizoner of Azkaban' which again my friend gave me, made me crazy, that part had the best complications as far as i think, it had the concept of time turner, which made me read it again and again to understand it. So i started reading things repeatedly, and so harry had made me change the pages so fast, and had put me in a infinite loop to read from the first again and again, and the movie came, it was the best movie which I had seen during those days, as it had shown the concept of time turner very well, and it was the one which made me think, how a writing can make think of different possibilities, how it has the concept of OO programming, abstraction, telling only the essence, making the reader think how it was done, leading to different possibilities, and make the reader think than just understand it..


Then I got my hands on the fourth, 'Harry Potter and Goblet of Fire' , which was just awesome, and started getting darker, as the villain Dark Lord was rising in his power, and the war was on from the first chapter literally. So it was a brilliant book, probably the best book which I read that time, which had dark elements in it, and again it made me think a lot, imagine a lot. I was a bit mature that time, i still remember those days, where I used to think how she had written such a book, that too a sequel , having small small things which forms the plot, and has hints of it from the first book wherever possible.

Till this Fourth part, I was behind time, and it was from the fifth part that I was in synch with the release dates of the book, I was in my tenth grade during that time, and I had ordered the fifth book 'Harry Potter and Order of Phoenix'   in a shop in Chennai, the first book which I bought on the series, but due to some issues, it was delayed to get delivered. The book releases in July usually,my friend Nithin was in twelfth grade that time, and we both share birthday in the same July month. So his friend gave him fifth book, as a bday gift , and he gave me it for a week during my birthday week, and this was the first time I had a strict deadline to finish off, and the book was the biggest among the books till that date. And as expected, I completed reading that fifth book within a week, and the book was just awesome, and some of the crucial characters started to die, and it became dark darker darkest as it proceeded..
My first Harry Potter movie was the fifth one, in Coimbatore on my birthday, in Carnatic theater. It was just great, though the movie was okay, and the book was loads better than the movie.

Then again in 2005, july ,  "harry potter and Half blood prince' was scheduled to release, my dad didn agree to buy it, as I was in twelfth grade, so he though I wont get the book and read that instead of my academics, but the electronic age made me overrule my dad, I had got an ebook pdf of it, and dad went crazy at this thought, not just cos i will read that, but the whole thought of reading book in computers, made him go berserk. So to compromise my parents, I said just a day, i will read it, but that day I shouldn have any disturbance, and parents agreed probably thinking that I cant complete reading in a day, and I wont read in one day in system, but I proved them wrong, read the book in one day, and the book was just awesome, and I never felt like I will get a proper sleep without completing it. My parents went crazy, and this became one of  the reasons for my specs, my eye problem started in its severity, and as expected dad went crazy more. :P

During July 2007, when I was in my second year, the last book 'Deathly hallows' released, and again ebook was the one which I got, and now I had company in my college. So I got a couple of frens with me, and that time none of us had laptops, so me and my frens got the ebook by sat evening thru mail, and sunday morning we all were in queue in lab, before the lab assistant came, and she was surprised to the core to find people in lab on sunday morning ! And we completed the book on the same day, sitting there from morning to evening having a very strict deadline, as labs will close by 6pm.
And yesterday, it was the last movie, the first movie which I saw in 3d in Bangalore, it was just awesome, and the movie ,based on the 7th part, came in two halves, which I appreciate,considering the plot, though the previous ones too should have come like that, at least the best they had kept till the last, and the last part was just awesome..My bday celebration couldn have been much better in bangalore !!

Growing up with Potter, has been just great, and it was potter, who has made me read more, and imagine more and may be this blog too.. If at all u need a time pass, potter series will be a nice one to start with for beginners who like to read..

Bye till nex,

Looking back ...How I landed up in Amrita..

Hi all,
Continuing from  my final days in school  , it was a great experience during our entrance exam preparation, we were in Chennai , till date , I don know why and how I made such a decision , as in to go to Chennai to prepare for entrance exam , as if there is no coaching center for entrance in my place, the sad part is only after I went there I realized no-way you can crack an entrance exam with 1 month of coaching in fast-track as they say it, the funny part is our full gang was there ..Myself , Gautham , Karthi , Arun , Abi , and some more too !! Woah ! Those terrific days, each day will move, with our resolution to study seriously from the next day , as our maths tuition sir , Senthilnathan's , words of terror will always threaten us , about the entrance exam..
 I had my entrance exam in Training Complex, my frnd Gautham had it out of township , Karthik Abi Arun had it in Jawahar Science college, though our center were far, we used to go together in bikes and cycles, hoping atleas we should get a college in same place,chatting about colleges,and not about the exams which will decide where we will land in..So the results came up, I had scored 1098 2 less than my dream score, 1100 out of 1200 would have been a great achievement for me,but the biggest twist came in my Math paper,where I had scored 190, while I was expecting 200,and sad part is I applied for photocopy of d paper..Tragedy struck me there, I had answered 11 out of 10 questions required , and I had realized I had answered one extra,so I had striked off one , which was not a prove that kinda question,assuming that I would have done all the proofs correctly,but I had made a mistake in a prove that question in first step itself , and it had cost me the 10marks,which played a very big role in my life,and entrance I had managed a pretty decent 81.04 out of 100 ,for which I was very much satisfied with myself.
My frens too were like me , lost in board,but managed well in entrance, and we were applying for all possible colleges in TN wherever we had a better chance , the funniest thing which happened during that time was,we all friend will fill forms together in my house , and our Giri too was there,and he wil ring up to his mom , to ask the spelling of her name !! :D
So we had no other go ,had to go for Amrita ,which took students based on entrance marks alone,as our board marks would have never fetched us a decent one..So Amrita University , had called us for counselling, in batches with the marks in priority, I had it in the morning session of the first day, Gautham,Giri all the same day in subsequent batches..
We took the bus from Neyveli , a govt bus,which looked like it will never reach Coimbatore,and sad part was our college was not in Coimbatore literally,21kms away from the city,and Palakad,a famous place in Kerala,was nearer to our college,than the city..My first journey to Coimbatore,was full of funny incidents.The bus was full with students like me, and parents . My dad alone was coming with me,while almost all had both dad and mom,and their siblings even.First funny incident happened when,conductor was confused as there were more than 2 people for same seats,both the persons having reserved the same seat,and the reason for the confusion,my school mate Mithun,had reserved the ticket for the next day ,and not for that date. So after that issue was settled,we started,the moment we crossed township,it started raining ,and we had to shift seats to find a seat not leaking,and me and my pal gautham were sitting together now,discussing about the rain,we felt that,it was more situational than natural,as we see in movies,when hero moves out of his home or enters a new place where fate awaits him,it would start raining...
So it was 7am in the morning ,we reached Gandhipuram busterminal , I got down from the bus,and first time I had kept my foot in Coimbatore,expecting some kinda feeling as they show in movies,but I was welcomed by a hell lot of dogs barking at all of us (Thankfully not me alone ).. I had to go to a place called Ettimadai,so we enquired and me and my dad,and one more gal and her parents,had boarded bus to Ettimadai,while others had time to refresh,as their session was next to mine,and ours was scheduled 8 am. By the time I reached college it was 815,and I went to the auditorium,tensed a bit,as I was late,and finally I found the name in the sheet which the admin had,and he said the session is about to begin and hence I had a very little time to refresh up,i had just brushed,and we sat in order of the marks,and I could feel my dress giving a stinking smell,due to the rain n my sweat..I was ninth,my one more frnd,Anand,my classmate in 11th and 12th was 8th,and there was one guy who sat next to me with his dad,and was 10th in the ranking.So we were speaking with each other,while me and Anand were determined to take CSE,the other guy was totally out of mind,his dad called up and discussed with a faculty there,so finally he settled for ECE and wrote that and gave in the piece of paper,which they asked us to write and give our preference.Everythng went smooth,while the guy next to me was confused totally,he said ECE,his dad said CSE,when he agreed for CS,his dad said ECE..Anand,was the first one to take CSE ,and he opened the account as all others before took ECE,i being second in CSE,and twist was the guy nex to me settled for CSE !!! To all yo people,who don kno who tat guy is , he is none other than our Netta Gautham,the antenna of our dept ,called so ,for his height,from Trichy !!
My friend Giri too had got CSE,and 2 more people from my own place,whom I had met for d first time,Ajay and Madhu ,they had taken CS like me,and Aswin Raj,my classmate from 7th std again in CS.Mithun had taken IT,and biggest part was Gautham (my classmate ,not the guy from Trichy) again lost his veto power to vote for himself,decided to go with his parents choice,took EEE inspite of having a seat in IT,and his interest lightly being in it,as EEE is known as a terror dept alwas..His previous voting time was in time of group selection in eleventh,where he had managed to shift between comp and bio group a record 4 times,which I think nobody can ever meet,sitting in four different classes in first four weeks of our school
Ashok,my schoolmate again ,took EEE,Abinash too in EEE.Aswin, not-so-close friend that time,was my classmate too,now again in college in CSE..So there we were, in different groups,pondering about our departments and we never knew that time that,we all will form a gang ,which will become famous thru out d collg..
So there we were, my gang of frens in Ney,remained quite unscathed to get admission in Amrita,and my frnd Karthik had taken medicine in Pondicherry,while Arun had opted for a MSc prog in Anna University...

My first day in college awaits...

Bye till nex,