The Book Circle

What the Hell, since i am awake and online, i might as well post the first list...
so this is the Bookist v1.0.0 ....
Will update at leisure later... Till then, Read In Peace

Wish List

1. Rich Dad, Poor Dad – Robert T. Kiyosaki
2. Freakonomics – Dr. Stephen Levitt
3. Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
4. Animal Farm – George Orwell
5. The Life of Pi – Yann Martel
6. Two Lives – Vikram Seth
7. Ulysses – James Joyce
8. Princess: The True Story of life behind a veil in Saudi Arabia – Jean P. Sasson
9. The Moor’s Last Sigh – Salman Rushdie
10. Grimus – Salman Rushdie
11. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
12. Moby Dick – Herman Melville
13. Wind in the Willows – Graham Greene
14. Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
15. Airport – Arthur Hailey
16. Schindler’s List – Thomas Keneally
17. All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
18. Bertrand Russell
19. P.G. Wodehouse
20. Amitava Ghosh
21. T.S. Eliot

Bookshelf

1. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
2. Brick Lane – Monica Ali
3. Freedom at Midnight – Dominique Lapierre & Larry Collins
4. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
5. Shame – Salman Rushdie
6. Dreamcatcher – Stephen King
7. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
8. Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
9. Five Point Someone – Chetan Bhagat
10. one night @ call centre – Chetan Bhagat
11. Inscrutable Americans – Anurag Mathur
12. Eye of the Needle – Ken Follett
13. The Third Twin – Ken Follett
14. Vital Signs – Robin Cook
15. The Day of the Jackal – Frederick Forsyth
16. Fist of God - Frederick Forsyth
17. 36 Short Stories – Jeffrey Archer
18. Overload – Arthur Hailey
19. The Fountainhead – Ayn Rand
20. To Kill A Mocking Bird – Harper Lee
21. Who moved my cheese? – Spencer Johnson
22. Beyond the Last Blue Mountain: A Life of JRD Tata
23. The Lazarus Vendetta – Robert Ludlum
24. The Paris Option – Robert Ludlum & Philip Shelby
25. The Partner – John Grisham
26. The Runaway Jury – John Grisham
27. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
28. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
29. Cervantes – Don Quixote
30. “Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman” – Richard P. Feynman
31. G E N I U S – James Gleick
32. Chaos – James Gleick
33. An Equal Music – Vikram Seth
34. Rage of Angels - Sidney Sheldon
35. Evening News – Arthur Hailey

Good Morning People

Well, at least ONE guy has got things right...

Lets hope that the internet access that God enjoys is made available to us mortals too… that shall save us from this terrible Reliance on dial-up …

And In case you are thinking who GOD is here at BIT, we take a rather concerted view of a person and call him that… to know more about him, go to http://facelessind.blogspot.com .

Kudos to SP, who has not only earned himself the career start he is truly worthy of, but for acting as an inspiration to all of us…maybe we will follow him sometime in the future…

As for the book circle, and final formalization, it finally exists. In case you are wondering what I am blabbering about, check up here around mid-December to learn more. I wish someone would start something of the sort for movies too.

And for a change, lets all try and do something positive and good for the greater good.. forget technIEEk, forget Unnayan, forget Drishtant, forget Bitotsav (whatever obscure name they decide for it this year!). How about putting in some serious effort , and then having a helluva time in having a College Fest for a change… after all, a sizable number of colleges manage to do it all across the nation… so people, this time when you come back from the vacations, prepare to come and make the next semester truly memorable.

One More Thing… We really relish you hurling brickbats, but do have the guts to give your name and own up. And if possible, please mind your language. There are many places to use your exceptionally colorful vocabulary, and this ain’t one.

As for End Semester woes, who doesn’t have ‘em?

I still say that the best time we have is during the end semester exams, which we shall remember long after we have left this place to fight our way thru our lives...

Like watching Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire, with half a dozen guys who have their PDC exam in 11 hours....

Like playing computer games and forgetting the rest of the world, if only for an hour...

Like reading the novels you just can’t put down and won’t come across once the papers are over...

Nearly a week of sleepless nights waiting for the papers to end, for the month or so that shall follow when we wont have anything to do anymore..

Taking long walks at night, in the freezing cold, cursing everyone and everything we can consciously remember….

Like writing web logs like these…

Some might say, in fact, quite a few do, that when the heck are you gonna study dude?

Thing is, we come here to learn a lot of things, our syllabus being just one amongst them. I’m not saying that studies are not important.

Oh no, they are paramount.

And it’s bout time I got back to them now. See you later. Good morning.

End sems time in BIT

People..people..people.
Why all the confusion over gryphus/nike/metallica ? Anyways, as someone rightly said, we ain't bothered by pebbles.
End sems are upon my head, and if i don't sit down to study,...well... quite a few of us know how eagerly they look forward to the summers...

Here's the newest news:
There's Wi-Fi Internet available in the RnD building.. or so it seems..
if GOD can surf for an hour at 4am, then surely it must be worth it.. though I'm deeply sceptical about the 160kbps "download" speed that it is touted to offer...
The book circle has been finally formalised.. or formalised finally.. (i can never seem to get the order correct) and hope it survives the onslaught of higher sem pressures.. and all
Quite a few good things have been happening on campus....
This semester:
ACM (Association of Computing Machinery, for the uninitiated) rose from it's own ashes... held programming contests.. gave away T-shirts (an absolute first i may add)... and identified quite some talent...
And ohh.. before i forget.. The vice-chairman of ACM (Siddharth Priya) is formally recognised as a Google employee !!! And to think that all the IITs put together, only one more guy got through the several rounds of interviews.. none of which, I assure u, allowed the interviewee a moment's rest.
technIEEk 2005 was a resounding success... with a budget of just 5 figures, team IEE really pulled it off.. in a way, they have taken technIEEk several notches closer to being the "techfest" of BIT... are the Unnayan guys listening ? buck up guys.. I'm sure this year's performance must act as a motivation for you guys to put up a better show...
after all.. that's what life in BIT is all about.... amidst strategically planned power cuts during exam times (only), and pathetic mess managers, it is upto the campus residents (and I mean the students, not the rodents) to make their own life.... agar yahaan kuch nahi kar paate ho, to phir baahar kya karoge?
more of the sunshine in my next one...
till then.. to all my readers... adios
-ONE

The First Post

The first Post, so let's start off on a good note, shall we? Though it might be rarity here, we might as well begin the trend of doing things differently and doing them well.

The End Semester Exams are going on, and as we always hope they are not going well and not going away fast enough.

Ah, the woes of student Life...

But new things seem on the cards here at BIT, and we are not just speculating as is usual here.

First a Blog, Then news of a LAN, probably being setup in the next semester,then a Book Circle and lastly MENSA....

Big Things coming your way soon...

But only after a relaxing month long R&R stay at home during the Winter vacations...

One Question though? If we are in the midst of winter,how come the winter timings never got implemented this sem?