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Steed William's blog: April 2006

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Saturday, April 22, 2006

This time when i came home..

This time i came home only for 4 days,i can spend more time here, but i need to go back as only 20 days are remaining for my exams.This time i knew that i would not be able to stay here for long,in SEM 1 i had come home for abt 9 days.This time i came home because i was really bored there,the conditions were really bad,we had no power for many hours in a day,the food was getting worser by the day and the weather was really extreme.
Jalgaon has severe power cuts,sometimes power is cut for an hour or two in the middle of the night,and with mosquitos buzzing around and sucking every ounce of blood from my body,i cant sleep.Power cuts have been there since quite some time,but every time in summer the situation intensifies like never before.there is more waiting for me when i get there,the temperatures will keep soaring and the food might get worser.All this might be the worst exams time i have ever had in my life.
Since the past 15 days or so,we are having a visitor in our house,how has now become a resident,It is a very small bird which has made a nest in our window.it seems to be a cuckoo.It had a regal crest on its head.it is black in colour but it has a big red patch in the posterior side of its body.there are 3 chicks in the nest.It would have been fun watching them grow up.
I have my exams on 10thMay.the papers will be getting over on 12 June.and after a day or 2 ill be back here.
Bye for now.

Wednesday, April 19, 2006

Arjun Singh

This post is specially dedicated to Mr Arjun Singh[the HRD minister of India].I must say that he is the worst minister and his efforts to keep the legacy of his counterparts to discriminate among people in our country will eventually fail.I am in the league of all the bloggers who have condemned him seriously since he made a proposal of having quotas in educational institutions.He might have done something similar in 1990 when the same problem had erupted,and there were huge demonstrations.And thats when a guy on his early twenties immolated himself to protest against Arjun Singh.
Mr Arjun Singh does not know what Merit is! He just wants to get votes of Dalits by favouring them.Its is a shame that we have such ministers in our country who do not want equality prevailing in the education system in our country.
I know that the plight of dalits living in the rural parts of India is very bad.And it is a fact that Dalits have suffered for generations.But then past cannot be changed.And i think awareness among the general public and strict laws are the only way the life of Dalits can be changed.

Saturday, April 08, 2006

The end of internal VIVAs

Finally my internal VIVAs have ended for this year.Most of the VIVA's i gave were quite good,the only exceptions were EEE{Elements of electrical engineering}and ET[Engineering Thermodynamics]E.T was not that bad but EEE was really bad.I had initially planned to go home as soon as all my VIVAS ended,according to the initial time table, all my VIVAs were about to end on the 6th.and i would have gone to attend my cousins engagement.But then......
Today we had a photo session in our college.It is held in April every year.I was in two photos, as i am a university level player.Though they did take a few students who were not .there were even a handful of students who had not participated at all.The photos taken today will be posted in the college magazine.they may also be posted on the new prospectus.
From now on i will have to be more committed towards sports.
i will start practising as soon as i get back to Mumbai.I need to get a decent timing for the events in which i participated[mainly 100 mts freestyle].
I am sad that i had to quit swimming 2 years ago,when i was told be my dentist that if i continue swimming then my enamel would be severly damaged .I could have opted for a better pool but it would have been very expensive,and with my 12th exams i had no other option but to quit my favourite sport.

Monday, April 03, 2006

VIVA started

I have been really busy lately.we had our submissions going on.It was quite hectic to be working for 12 hrs a day.I did finish everything on time.
Today i had my first VIVA.I could perform well.

TRIP TO NANDURBAR:
Bang in the middle of the night ,i was woken up by my room mate.
"we need to go to Nandurbar"he said.
We started at 4 in the morning.We had to cover approximately 183 KMS by road on the bike.
It was quite a good experience.The air was cold and there were no street lights.We drove at 90-100Km/hr for most of the time,unless in small towns that we occasionly crossed.We had to first go to Dhule then take the road to Nandurbar.Dhule is about 100 kms from Jalgaon.Then Nandurbar is about 83 KMs from there.we only stopped once for Tea.Infact in our return journey we didnt even stop once.
Nandurbar was a small city.It is a district.It was given importance by the British government.There is one old railway station there which we could not see.I had been to Nandurbar for a pals sisters wedding.The wedding was good.
The road to Nandurbar was empty for most of the time.
Nandurbar was the first place where bird flu was discovered.Recently wind mills have also been installed there to generate electricity.
But one unfortunate event did occur,my cell phone's display was damaged when a friend accidently dropped it.I was really disappointed after that.I loved this phone very much.At that time he had promised to pay me to make good of what was damaged.But when we came back he turned a deaf ear to all my requests.Then I complained and finally he agreed to pay half the amount.
Then i went to a shop to repair it.He did the job in about 15 mins or so,and charged me Rs 300/- for that.But actuallyinstaed of replacing the whole thing,all he did was to heat the surface of the display to get the crystals of the LCD in a specific order.
It no longer looks as good as it once used to.
 
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