<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/" xmlns:blogger="http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" version="2.0"><channel><atom:id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7591679195254566079</atom:id><lastBuildDate>Wed, 28 Aug 2024 07:47:25 +0000</lastBuildDate><category>BITS</category><category>FOR-BITSIANS</category><category>IIT</category><category>LAST-DAYS-AT-BITS</category><category>Movie</category><category>SINGING-SPREE</category><category>APOGEE</category><category>अशोक</category><category>आर. पी.</category><category>ऍम. ऍम. एस.</category><category>ऍम. बी. ए.</category><category>गाँधी</category><category>व्यास</category><category>सिविल</category><title>The wind Am I ?</title><description>MY WEB DIARY :)</description><link>http://nirpam.blogspot.com/</link><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>25</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7591679195254566079.post-7387134785559099691</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 06:56:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-07-26T12:30:05.225+05:30</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">SINGING-SPREE</category><title>Kailash kher - Saiyyan Lyrics</title><description>&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 28px;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://grooveshark.com/s/Chaandan+Mein+Www+songs+pk/2yJAXu?src=5&quot;&gt;http://grooveshark.com/s/Chaandan+Mein+Www+songs+pk/2yJAXu?src=5&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 28px; font-size: medium; &quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 28px; font-size: medium; &quot;&gt;हीरे.... मोती. मैं न चाहूँ....., मैं तो चाहूँ..... संगम तेरा....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 28px; font-size: medium; &quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;मैं तो तेरी.. सैयाँ, तू है मेरा ...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;सैयां .....सैयां &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;तू जो छू ले प्यार से...., आराम से मर जाऊं....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;आजा चंदा बाहों में.. तुझमें ही गम हो जाऊं, तेरे नाम में खो जाऊं &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;सैय्याँ ....सैय्याँ....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;मेरे दिन ख़ुशी से झूमें गायें रातें&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;पल पल मुझे डूबाएं जाते जाते&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;तुझे जीते जीते हारूं ये प्राण प्राण वारूँ &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;तहे ऐसे में निहारूं, तेरी आरती उतारूं &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;तेरे नाम से जुडें है....., सारे... नाते &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;सैय्याँ ....सैय्याँ....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;बनके माला प्रेम की, तेरे तन पे झड़ झड़ जाऊं, बैठूं नैय्या प्रीत की, संसार से... तर जाऊं &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;मैं तेरे प्यार से तर जाऊं &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;सैय्याँ ....सैय्याँ....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;ये नरम नर्म... नशा है , बढ़ता जाए...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; कोई प्यार से घुन्गातिया देता उठाये &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;अब बावरा हुआ है मन, जग हुआ है रोशन&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;ये नयी नयी सुहागन, हो गयी है.... तेरी जोगान&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;कोई प्रेम की पुजारन, मंदिर सजाये&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;सैय्याँ ....सैय्याँ....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;हीरे.... मोती. मैं न चाहूँ, .....मैं तो चाहूँ..... संगम तेरा....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;मैं न जानू, तू न जाने, &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;मैं तो तेरी, तू है मेरा ...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;Follow this Blog&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://nirpam.blogspot.com/2011/07/kailash-kher-saiyyan-lyrics.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7591679195254566079.post-536160855272857528</guid><pubDate>Wed, 24 Nov 2010 19:55:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-11-25T01:25:50.906+05:30</atom:updated><title>Why away?</title><description>Why have i so been away from the blog?&lt;br&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;gmail_quote&quot;&gt;After the previous entry i posted here back from some time during the last sem at BITS, I have a feeling of not making so very valuable a contribution by writing my own web content here. I have a whole public-personal diary here since I started in &amp;#39;08. I have hardly not thought of posting at least once a week since my last post but I did not want to be discussing mundane things here.&lt;br&gt;  &lt;br&gt;I have now felt that here is a place where I should post in a limited manner but some useful quality web content.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;As for the updates one wishes to share with his network only, there&amp;#39;s fb and twitter, my next post after this silence-breaker would be meaningful and something unique and useful for the www!&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt; &lt;font color=&quot;#888888&quot;&gt; &lt;br&gt;-- &lt;br&gt;Nirupam&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.linkedin.com/in/nirpam&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.linkedin.com/in/nirpam&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;Follow this Blog&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://nirpam.blogspot.com/2010/11/why-away.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7591679195254566079.post-5855660021904745994</guid><pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2010 15:55:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-04-23T16:13:11.300+05:30</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">अशोक</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">आर. पी.</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">ऍम. ऍम. एस.</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">ऍम. बी. ए.</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">गाँधी</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">व्यास</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">सिविल</category><title>बिट्स पिलानी  - पंचवर्षीय योजना - 2005-2010</title><description>&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;ये क्या है ? अगर याद न आया हो तो ये 5 year plans है, भारत सरकार के शायद दस सम्र्पूर्ण हो गए हैं हमारा तो एक ही है, पूरा होगा या नहीं, ये एक व्यक्ति विशेष के हाथों में है ( हमारे thesis गाइड भई! )&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;अच्छा ये बताइए नृत्य सिखा है कभी आपने ? हमने अपनी पंचवर्षीय योजना के अजेंडे में ये शामिल किया है हाल फ़िलहाल में ( डांस वर्कशॉप) ... तैराकी आती है आपको ? मुझे भी नहीं आती थी ! पंचवर्षीय योजना के अंतर्गत हमने ये ठाना कि सीख कर रहेंगे, सो हमने पांच साल और 9 सेमेस्टर में कुल 15 बार स्विमिंग क्लब के दर्शन किये .... अब शायद थोड़ी सी आ गयी है :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;हम्बी दम्बी जैसे नाम की एक संस्था ने हम जैसे मुर्ख की रोजी रोटी कि व्यवस्था करने की बरी कृपालु भूल भी कर दी है, आशा बस इतनी कि जिन मित्रो की अभी तक नहीं लगी है, उनकी भी लग जाए ....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;क्या नहीं मिला ? पंचवर्षीय योजना में हमें बस एक प्रेयसी नहीं मिली (:O) अजी छोरिए, कौन सी आपको मिली ... 90 &quot;सुंदरियां&quot; (:प) और 900 &quot;जिह्वालोलुपत्य नवयुवक&quot; भी भला कोई न्याय है !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ये तो था हमारी योजना का सारांश, जो कि अपने समाप्त पर होगी .............कुछ देखा है इस जगह, उस पर दो तुक शब्द.....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;क्या अच्छा लगा ?&lt;br /&gt;छात्र! बिट्स पिलानी में किसी रिसर्वेशन का ना होना, और अन्य परीक्षाओं कि तुलना में bitsat का काफी पारदर्शी होना यहाँ अच्छे छात्र लाने में सफल है ! (जय हो !) ..... और कहें तो पिलानी में छात्रों को सभी प्रकार के हुनर प्रस्तुत करने के मंच मिलते हैं, मंच कौन सा चुनना है, ये आपके ऊपर निर्भर करता है :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;आप जो करने आते हैं, वो शायद ना करें, और चाहें तो कुछ भी ना करें !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;हमारे 3 फेस्ट हैं (कृपया इन्हें प्राथमिकता के क्रम में पढ़ें) :- ओअसिस, अपोजी, बासम! .... ये क्रम इनकी लोकप्रियता का ही नहीं, बल्कि ये भी दर्शाता है कि पिलानी में पहले मौज मस्ती, फिर थोड़ी पढाई, और स्पोर्ट्स काफी हद तक, सिर्फ कुछ लोगो में सीमित होती हैं&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;एक alum सुनीत रिखी एक बार मेरे रूम (जो कि 25 वर्षो पूर्व उनका था) आये थे उनकी एक बात अबतक याद है :- रेगिस्तान में रहने वालो का जीवन अलग ही होता है, सच है वाकई ! हमारे अलुम्नी शायद इसी जीवन को याद कर, पिलानी से काफी जुड़े हुए हैं, एक काफी अच्छा पहलु है ये हमारे विश्वविधालय का ( बिट्स को कॉलेज न बुलाएं, UGC हमें university का दर्जा देती है :), एक इंटरव्यू के दौरान पूर्व डीन नट्टू ने मुझे ये सीख दी थी ) हमारी पढाई ! - 4 सालो में दो डिग्री के विषयों को समाप्त कर देना, 2 वर्ष तक सामान्य course और 1 वर्ष में इंजिनियर :), थोड़ी बहुत भाषा-वादिता, थोड़ी बहुत अनुशाशन में लचरता (जो कि हम सभी को काफी रास आती है ), पर सब कुछ, अन्य कितने ही गौरवशाली शिक्षण संस्थानों से कहीं बेहतर !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;कुछ दिनों पहले मुझे एक पूर्व ME छात्र का mail आया कि उन्होंने IISC बेंगलुरु में IEEE पेपर पब्लिश किया है जो शायद वो यहाँ नहीं कर पाते, और बिट्स के शिक्षक और छात्र सिर्फ अपने को बिट्स पिलानी का बुलाने में गौरवान्वित महसूस करते हैं रिसर्च की इसी समस्या को अब काफी गहन तरीके से देखा जा रहा है, वर्त्तमान में हुए बदलाव इसके साक्षी हैं, और रिसर्च होती तो हैं ही, थोड़े और प्रयास की जरुरत!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;चलिए अभी पंचवर्षीय योजना पर वापस ! रूम नंबर 2207 में आपने कभी क्लासें लगायी है ? देखिये अगर आपने ध्यान से देखा हो तो इस रूम में blackboard थोड़ा नया सा लगेगा :) ओअसिस 2005 में गलती से किये गए करामाती प्रदर्शन ने डॉ सुन्दर से एक मीठी मुलाकात करवा दी थी (:P) और मेरे प्यारे मित्रों, हालाँकि मुझे Chem-2 बिलकुल रस नहीं आती थी पर, मैंने फोरम पर कुछ नहीं किया, कोई और ही जिम्मेवार.... लेक्चर में सोना मुझे बड़ा पसंद रहा, पता नहीं आपमें से कितनो को अपने रूम से अच्छी नींद 5102/5 में आती है ? पर पहली बेंच पर सोना सबके बस की ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;इस पंचवर्षीय योजना में विंग!, मौर्य विहार, हिंदी प्रेस, अपोजी 2007 , वाणी - 2008 , मैनेजमेंट assoc, H R क्लब, ऍम बी ए प्लेसमेंट, सभी का आनंद उठाया, योगदान करने की कोशिश की क्या लेकर जा रहा हूँ ? दो - तीन crushes :P , कुछ सम्माननीय शिक्षक-गण, कुछ आदरणीय सिनिअर्स, कुछ बहुमूल्य मित्र, काफी सारे प्यारे जुनिअर्स, और ......... अनगिनत अविस्मरनीय यादें !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;पंचवर्षीय योजना संख्या 2005HS49488P&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;Follow this Blog&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://nirpam.blogspot.com/2010/04/2005-2010.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>4</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7591679195254566079.post-5483169608866672381</guid><pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:03:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-01-27T19:45:11.976+05:30</atom:updated><title>4-days</title><description>OUTSTATION FORM-GANGA GATE-BUS STAND TEA-2 HOUR BUS TO JAIPUR-JOHRI BAZAR-LMB-DAL-BATI-GARIB RATH-CHAIR CAR-SEAT NO 81-TATA-PHOTON-ABU KI RABRI-BANDRA TERMINUS-BANDRA LOCAL-VT-ECONOMIC TIMES OFFICE-VADA PAO-CONSTRUCTION REST HOUSE-SEA LORD-ZAFAR BHAI-CHICKEN BRIYANI-COLABA-REGAL CINEMA-TAJ-GATEWAY OF INDIA-HAIR CUT-LEOPOLD-MARINE DRIVE-JET SKIING-CHURNEY ROAD-HAMINGTON ROAD-CHURCHGATE-TRIDENT-WANKHEDE-CUFFE PARADE-WTC-IDBI TOWERS-RBI MESS-FISH CURRY-JAI KUMAR-MULTIPURPOSE HALL-BAN-STAN-DAHI PURI-NOKIA PRIORITY DEALER-BANDRA-THE TRAIN THAT STOPPED-BHAU BHAU-BANDRA TERM-ARAVALI EXP-AJMER-KHWAJA MUHHAMAD KAWWALI-THE CRYING NEIGHBORS-SANTOSH BHOJNALAYA-THE BUS-THE DRUNKARD-THE PLACE-PILANI&lt;br /&gt;four days!!&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;Follow this Blog&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://nirpam.blogspot.com/2010/01/4-days.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7591679195254566079.post-7747219279368827236</guid><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:04:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-11-09T09:34:43.252+05:30</atom:updated><title>US Pizza - Raj&#39;s Snooker Day</title><description>&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 19px; &quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;There&amp;#39;s an interesting hunt that we guys had this sunday, trying to figure out if we had an appetite for pizzas; These US Pizza outlets  in B&amp;#39;lore do have a unlimited eating package, which we hungry guys wished to exploit, The hunt went interesting when different franchises offered different rates and claimed to have these offers only at their outlets. This was when we were doing our preliminary market research on our thinking palmtops..&lt;br&gt; We Finally went to HSR layout franchise which apparently had one lone guy as a staff... We ordered and finally asked that guy to cancel it, for which he seemed pretty happy as well ...&lt;br&gt;We moved to Marthahalli&amp;#39;s outlet and this at least had more guys... the salads were fun..quite good pastas and makaroni salads .... but pizzas..we guys finally realized weren&amp;#39;t for us.. after three four slices we all gave up..gorging on the garlic bread instead was me..&lt;br&gt; I just realized that we were close to a friend&amp;#39;s place so went over to meet him...the cricket match between India and Aussies was almost looking finished so we decided to play pool for sometime, It was hard to have a game with three guys, me, tarang and Raj, but we trid innovative ways of doing that...But then we had this &amp;quot;pro&amp;quot; emerging out of no where... Never having player pool bfore, this guy was like making shots of a lifetime and the lovely ones, the lucky ones...all were raining..Tarang obviously a mastro was having his own time, but the god was this chap &amp;quot;nirupam&amp;quot; again... the rule of &amp;quot;black and white&amp;quot; was invented wherin he got only white and black balls to these 6 damn holes...but mind it the black was no longer a black once other balls were done...so had such a wonderfully bad time at this game...don&amp;#39;t know if towards the end some magic or some great counselling whatever be it.. tarang asked me to hit at certain angles and I did get some of the really odd ones.. The only sad thing that weekend&amp;#39;s over... Sadder is the fact that I dont expect any weekend coming over after this mostly....But its a beautiful world anyhow isn&amp;#39;t it .... ..&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;And apologies, On a very short note again,&lt;br&gt;btw just stuck a blog which has a couple of movies one should watch, esp. if he likes one of them. I &amp;#39;ve CTRL C-V&amp;#39;d a note from the author&amp;#39;s &lt;a href=&quot;http://pilanipictures.blogspot.com/&quot;&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt;, Hope the author doesn&amp;#39;t mind - for a reason that he&amp;#39;s a bitsian, and yeah an Income Tax Commissioner as well&lt;br&gt; &amp;quot;.... seen some of the best movies I have seen ever... It started with The Virgin Spring &lt;i&gt;(Sweden/Bergman/1960)&lt;/i&gt;, Mongol &lt;i&gt;(Mongolia/Bordov/2007)&lt;/i&gt;, The Counterfeiters&lt;i&gt;(Germany/Ruzowitzky/2007)&lt;/i&gt;, Pan&amp;#39;s Labyrinth &lt;i&gt;(Mexico/Toro/2006)&lt;/i&gt; and stands with The Downfall&lt;i&gt;(Germany/Hirschbiegel/2004) &lt;/i&gt;that we watched last night. It is difficult to single out the best one out of these...however if compelled I would go for Mongol...er...also The Downfall. Mongol traces the life of the most famous person from Mongolia - Ghengis Khan. &amp;quot;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/span&gt; &lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;Follow this Blog&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://nirpam.blogspot.com/2009/11/us-pizza-rajs-snooker-day.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7591679195254566079.post-4527214881265755324</guid><pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 02:48:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-25T08:18:18.572+05:30</atom:updated><title>Mini-Oasis</title><description>I went to this event called the great Indian &lt;a href=&quot;http://theoctoberfest.in/&quot;&gt;October fest&lt;/a&gt; mostly a Kingfisher initiative...where it was basically lots and lots of beer for guys who love it, some small indian rock bands intermittently performing with some indian &amp;quot;so not rock&amp;quot; bands on 2 stages - one in the open and one apparently for the not so known bands - in a bit small Auditorium stage! Had to spend time, so did chat a bit with a UCLA Phd candidate apparently having a nice taste for music and doing some &lt;a href=&quot;http://rockandrollbangalore.wordpress.com/&quot;&gt;research on Indian rock music&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt; Vijay Mallya made sure to send in some of his girls to walk around, pose on one of his sponsored F-1 car, but then the place had a couple of nice chics! Other Frnds did join in the evening and we basically were looking to KK&amp;#39;s performance which as expected was kool as he is a guy with the popular Indian songs and you could again dance to the words..&lt;br&gt; Had a good time back as well! Wouldn&amp;#39;t really reveal more on that....&lt;br&gt;Hope to have not missed this year&amp;#39;s &lt;a href=&quot;http://bits-oasis.org/&quot;&gt;oasis &lt;/a&gt;(our university&amp;#39;s cultural festival) especially &lt;a href=&quot;http://rocktaves.ibibo.com//Groups/ContestOverview/rocktaves&quot;&gt;the rocktaves&lt;/a&gt;, but was quite a Mini Oasis this fest! Oasis would start shortly, Hope it rocks as the rebellion against mediocrity gets live and going...yet again!&lt;br&gt; &lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;Follow this Blog&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://nirpam.blogspot.com/2009/10/mini-oasis.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7591679195254566079.post-3818587733882739806</guid><pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 02:33:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-25T08:03:07.659+05:30</atom:updated><title>Investment Banking and happening world!</title><description>Friday, I had a nice time from 9 to 1:30 (read am&amp;#39;s) at HSBC. Firstly I &amp;#39;ve begun to love the Healthcare Industry :) and secondly Its quite fun when you work while knowing it goes next! &lt;br&gt;&lt;div&gt;I got a call from a London based Banker (an associate director at HSBC) and it was funny working with the timeline (next 10 mins) though it turned out apparently to be 25 mins. The flair of exploring opportunities which have just come up is well, too good..&lt;br&gt; Its like you just listen to an earnings release webcast and realize that yes! there could be something happening for this company in a short time-span - sure a matter worth being discussed and the next moment you are up there analyzing it, sneeking into what several broker analysis and your analysis culminates to... and present something up to the big guys for discussion..!&lt;br&gt; Looks great..&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;Follow this Blog&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://nirpam.blogspot.com/2009/10/investment-banking-and-happening-world.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7591679195254566079.post-1004284752637523181</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:34:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-12T21:04:45.536+05:30</atom:updated><title>The flow of snow</title><description> &lt;br&gt;&lt;font size=2 face=&quot;sans-serif&quot;&gt;Yesterday was a Sunday!, ehh what a way to start,.......but really was one hell of a sunday guys! legends of rock rocks again and has some good company. Moved around, chatted, gud time yesterday...&lt;br&gt; I came across some CNBC TV 18&#39;s business books on ETF&#39;s (Exchange traded funds - ones alike the mutual funds and tradable like stocks on exchange), Indian Commodity markets,.. and read a &amp;quot;beautiful&amp;quot; line on investing ... it went like .. &lt;/font&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;font size=2 face=&quot;sans-serif&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Market investments were like driving a car blindfolded being guided by a passenger looking off the back window&lt;/b&gt;, Now that&#39;s really the line according to me and hardly demands explanation&lt;br&gt; Also saw the Chetan bhagat&#39;s book on his new Indian marriage thing, no idea how it is, need to grab time before the copy per se :), It&#39;s good to give yourselves time for thought...had plenty of that as well..&lt;br&gt; There&#39;s this thing with the remaining days at HSBC, how to be using it for the maximum learning, and on the flipside, is, the question of how to be using it &amp;nbsp;to enjoy... lets see... striking a balance huh!&lt;br&gt; Btw, before the sunday was this awe&amp;quot;full&amp;quot; saturday with night being spoiled by the really &amp;quot;cheap&amp;quot; shit of a movie called Do Knot Disturb which we 4 of us together tried to enjoy best as we could and bettered our times by dining at Hyderabad house, trying to break into the seemingly akin to hardened rubber stuff, apart from other good food; the manager was kind enough to be not charging for serving us that rubber.&lt;br&gt; All the time of fun and hanging out, Hope keeps on flowing the way same!&lt;/font&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;font size=2 face=&quot;sans-serif&quot;&gt;The title of the blog &amp;quot;&amp;quot; is nothing but a secret code heh and really! it is&lt;br&gt; Btw yeah talked of Chetan Bhagat, gotta tell you that Chetan Bhagat&#39;s &amp;quot;the best one&amp;quot; 5 point someone i now almost a movie and is called &lt;b&gt;3 idiots... &lt;/b&gt;but guess what the nationwide music launch of 3 idiots is scheduled to be organized with grandeur at the place where the journey begins &amp;quot;BITS Pilani&amp;quot;.... but how sad it is, that I wouldn;t be making it there to Oasis 2009, where you&#39;ll witness this and so much more!&lt;br&gt; All the best with Oasis guys! rock it yet again!&lt;/font&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;  ----------------------------------------- ******************************************************************* This e-mail is confidential. 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The sender does not accept liability for any errors or omissions. ******************************************************************* &quot;SAVE PAPER - THINK BEFORE YOU PRINT!&quot; &lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;Follow this Blog&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://nirpam.blogspot.com/2009/10/flow-of-snow.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7591679195254566079.post-8235192328056918402</guid><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:21:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-09-26T04:29:40.141+05:30</atom:updated><title>another-erudite-lexical-ambiguity</title><description>4:10 am, Saturday, 26th September, Kormangla, Bengaluru, India&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Been time, time since I found time; Seems a great time now so lets share words before drooping off. I am through with almost 3 months of my Internship at Investment Banking Team, HSBC, India where its honestly some good amount of learning. Mostly into M&amp;amp;A Advisory, with big clientèle makes things interesting, and barring the long hours, its a good time here.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Valuing targets, approaching acquirers, assessing viability, everything enthralls, sadly, its not in a so not mature Indian market that many of these activities would be happening, so you again sit back in a low cost destination, and work for the more mature markets. What is better in the case is the level of involvement hardly differs and you would perhaps be involved to the same extent at that hierarchy. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Am learning to speak less now a days and would limit so much, a 3 months younger me, would have talked about.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;BITS Pilani is still happening and BITS Open Sports Meet (BOSM) recently concluded, but what&#39;s been just so wonderful are the activities of HPC (Hindi Press Club) out there at campus; It takes an effort of a time to maintain and run such a body; but people after us would take it again, so passionately and you would be able to see your own thoughts in their determined shining eyes, is nothing but nostalgically  mesmerizing.   &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;What has happened in these three months here is initially happening weekends, following rest or work; the happening part being kool to cover most of the fun in the city and a couple of trips to Nandi hills and Shirdi. The city&#39;s good I guess, though don&#39;t often brush shoulders with it as I would have loved to. Life&#39;s a bit stuck on that front in a sedentary job, Isn&#39;t it?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; Apart from probing into my own nuances with life and Investment banking, I still dream, read, argue, plan, think, without many a feats, but buzzing with my own musings, like a breeze, a more intermittent one though!  but still alike Wind! and I am happy to believe the answer&#39;s still yess to my blog&#39;s title.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;Follow this Blog&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://nirpam.blogspot.com/2009/09/another-erudite-lexical-ambiguity.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7591679195254566079.post-7147112851533705775</guid><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:53:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-06-09T21:09:52.373+05:30</atom:updated><title>Symbiosis Distance learning Management Degrees</title><description>6:25 pm, Chennai, India&lt;br /&gt;Just now went through the courses in PGDBA (Marketing) distance learning market conducted by Symbiosis center for distance learning (SCDL). The course content was quite apt for a distance learning MBA (PGDBA degrees are almost equiv to MBA). It went like this&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1st semester&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1.Management Accounting&lt;br /&gt;2.Business Law&lt;br /&gt;3.Managerial Economics&lt;br /&gt;4.Organizational Behavior&lt;br /&gt;5.Principles of Management&lt;br /&gt;6.Business Communication&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2nd semester&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Financial Management&lt;br /&gt;Production/operation Mgmt – I &amp;amp; II&lt;br /&gt;Marketing Management&lt;br /&gt;Human Resource Management&lt;br /&gt;Management Information Systems&lt;br /&gt;Strategic Management&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3rd semester &amp;amp; 4th semester: Marketing specialisation courses&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For sure, SCDL is quite a profit center for Symbiosis but they quite lack the degree of persuasiveness to commit the students to undergo coursework. They allow 4 years after enrollment to the candidate to finish these courses. The degrees would then be awarded but placement opportunities are quite meagre based on this degree alone. It better be used to add value to your current position. The programmes of SCDL use web and media as learning tools though in the indian way(web 2.0 still takes a hit back owing to indian bandwidths).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, I do find this course well poised but then whats needed is a comparative study of institutes offering distance learning programmes for any MBA aspirirng working guy, coz getting entrance to a distance learning programme, stands pretty easier than full time, so why not from a bigger brand.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Work Integrated programmes where your company has tie ups with institutes and normally sponsors your higher education are quite a good option and you should make full use of them. they normally have a more regular curriculum than individual distance learning programmes.&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;Follow this Blog&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://nirpam.blogspot.com/2009/06/symbiosis-distance-learning-management.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7591679195254566079.post-4731662718835877699</guid><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 16:39:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-05-13T00:44:27.635+05:30</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">BITS</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">FOR-BITSIANS</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">LAST-DAYS-AT-BITS</category><title>GRANDing The END:::....The last-compre-Khetri-A-night-to-remember</title><description>&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;   style=&quot;  font-weight: bold; font-family:verdana;font-size:18px;&quot;&gt;The last Compre:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;10th May2009, Ashok 101 to 112&lt;/span&gt;, Every Room had a notice posted on its gate, inviting him cordially for his last Comprehensive examinations at BITS Pilani&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4k_dsn3fnMo/Sgm8uZmPeuI/AAAAAAAAAIM/gyHtZc_O_Og/s400/Picture1.jpg&quot; style=&quot;display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 283px; height: 400px;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5335002738928351970&quot; /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;12th May 2009, 2:45 pm&lt;/span&gt;, Everyone in wing gears up in wing&#39;s Customised U shirt to give the Last Comprehensive exam of his BITSIan Life&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;4:45 pm, Room No 3215:&lt;/span&gt; Someone closes the answer book as he seems to be done with it, but the decision was that we&#39;ll stay back till time for the last one so he stays back, looks around, especially back left () and leaves the room only after the bell strikes 6 pm for the end.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;Khetri&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Plans: &lt;/span&gt;Trip to Khetri, sipping colored fluids and a &#39;nightful of frendship&#39;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Start:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Pilani &#39;madhu&#39; shalas close at 8 sharp, hence sensible people like shivam, sid and the wiki leave at 7:30 sharp after taking respective madhu orders of the more lax ones.&lt;br /&gt;The others now leave and find a suitable Mahindra&#39;s Giant at the Pilani bus-stand for carrying a full cricket team&#39;s headcount.&lt;br /&gt;all meet at Bunty Da Punjabi Dhaba barring CKP violating the dogma of dining with the same sex at Cnot. great food at PD was taken in morsels, too atomic, as people wanted to live the night later. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-family:verdana;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 0, 238); &quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4k_dsn3fnMo/Sgm8uvhQooI/AAAAAAAAAIU/aVsjwu4vdbU/s400/blog2.JPG&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5335002744813036162&quot; style=&quot;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 291px; &quot; /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;&quot;&gt;Need was felt for dilutionary fluids and &#39;cleaning agents&#39;, everything of which was arranged for in appropriate quantum; Hygeine was accounted for while choosing dettol soap as cleaning agent.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Journey:&lt;/span&gt; 2 fellows with shaken hearts and a highly absorbing capacitated creature tried to tetrapack the front row (the thin driver being the fourth) 3 fellows sat at the back with a loaded cylinder of gas, threatning intermittent leakages and possible explosions. the middle row packed with 4 of their own kind&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 0, 238); &quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4k_dsn3fnMo/Sgm8uhVsopI/AAAAAAAAAIc/jKwfghBKMxg/s400/blog3.JPG&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5335002741006443154&quot; style=&quot;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 271px; &quot; /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;The songs&lt;/span&gt; started coming, ones of their own kinds, then they started flowing and ended up inundating the singing spirits,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;the reaching &amp;amp; hunt for a suitable place:&lt;/span&gt; while climbing uphill to khetri fort took something out, finding thornful blockage in rani&#39;s opening at the fort caused distress as well, it all ended up by the discovery of raja&#39;s large and open thing (here meant are roofs of rani&#39;s mahal &amp;amp; raja&#39;s mahal at gopalgarh fort, khetri)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;The wind now blowed; &lt;/span&gt;It did boost up spirits and the B tender got to his work instantly. People opened up and tried WINDing their small fellows down.&lt;br /&gt;what was awesome was not the place or the different types of fluids, but the wave in the ambience which somehow made everyone talk.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 0, 238);  font-family:Georgia;&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4k_dsn3fnMo/Sgm8u8ZRLpI/AAAAAAAAAIk/KR4JRNz78W8/s400/blog4.JPG&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5335002748269178514&quot; style=&quot;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 306px; &quot; /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;We had sessions all around,&lt;/span&gt; and the wave made you speak, speak with purity and everyone had something to say to others, getting back his own share of words, some of which really really precious. This session of selfless talks  had the effect of melancholising thoughts for everyone.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-style: italic; font-family: verdana;font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;the morning was so resplendent and the chilling wind so pure,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot; font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4k_dsn3fnMo/Sgm8u2cq-JI/AAAAAAAAAIs/KbM3LYEcmPY/s1600-h/blog1.JPG&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4k_dsn3fnMo/Sgm8u2cq-JI/AAAAAAAAAIs/KbM3LYEcmPY/s400/blog1.JPG&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5335002746672838802&quot; style=&quot;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 242px; &quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-style: italic; font-family: verdana;font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;&quot;&gt; &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;it pulled you suddenly out of the session of so beautiful selfless feedbacks from everyone to everyother on the eve of the beginning of the ending gloom&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;&quot;&gt;, and made you think of how happy you were with this place and ambience. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic; font-family: verdana;font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic; font-family: verdana;font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;&quot;&gt;People clicked here and there, and respecting the sun, when it said i m up here, starteD getting down, inundated with feelings,  things termed as words will never be able to express.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To their BITsian life, they in Sid&#39;s feelings, bowed and owed!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And that&#39;s the way these guys started the end! together, they took back with them, a night to remember.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;Follow this Blog&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://nirpam.blogspot.com/2009/05/granding-endthe-last-compre-khetri.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4k_dsn3fnMo/Sgm8uZmPeuI/AAAAAAAAAIM/gyHtZc_O_Og/s72-c/Picture1.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7591679195254566079.post-7053858290615750155</guid><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 21:56:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-05-08T09:18:08.288+05:30</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">BITS</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">FOR-BITSIANS</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">LAST-DAYS-AT-BITS</category><title>8th August 2005</title><description>&lt;span xmlns=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Am awake, tommorow is a Operations Management Compre, that&#39;s hardly any reason to it; have been sleeping since past 2 days (30/48 hrs) but tonight after coming back from ANC, Saayan and I tried studying and saayan slept on my bed, that&#39;s a better reasoning why a bedless me is awake.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;As I have just come back to my room AK 111, from a short stroll outside on the road from Insti Main gate to ANC, I write this at 2:59 AM on 8&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; May 2009, Three years and 9 months since when I first walked through that road on 8&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; August 2005 alone, ya alone… for most of the students would come along with people around them to join their university for the first time, wasn&#39;t thatway for me, but I did get some good company from the bus to pilani from delhi, who eventually turned out to be my sidey and roommate. 8&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; August, because I was a late Registration candidate (Late Re&#39;s) floated off from BITS Goa&#39;s degree to MMS at pilani, now extinct as we walk out as the last batch.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#00b0f0;&quot;&gt;This 8&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/span&gt; of the month shall probably never come back again at pilani for me, certainly not 8&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; august; precisely &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;1370&lt;/span&gt; is a number myriad enough, it&#39;s the number of days that have passed since, the boy with 2 small baggages on a rickshaw came in looking for Vyas Bhawan, supposed to be his reporting destination, turning out to be his abode for an year as well. &lt;em&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-style: normal; &quot;&gt;Thirteen Hundred and seventy&lt;em&gt; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;days after the day&lt;/em&gt;, he had a chance to walk alone again on the same road, he went till ANC and traversed the road back again, trying to feel something, he did, recollect a few memoirs of those 1370 days. Lovely they were, certainly, the best ones he got, &amp;amp; sweet she was, and so he wrote this post.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#009900;&quot;&gt;Adios dear road, adieu dear 8&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; August, &amp;amp; stay back with me, dear….&quot;&lt;em&gt;my memories of these thirteen hundred and seventy days&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;Follow this Blog&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://nirpam.blogspot.com/2009/05/8th-august-2005.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>7</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7591679195254566079.post-1377177353558603039</guid><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:30:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-04-01T07:26:02.116+05:30</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Movie</category><title>GULAL- What a .....</title><description>&lt;span xmlns=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;I am confused, but I Dont wish you to confuse with the title of post, for me this mostly sucks, I kept on trying to understand what were they trying to show in the movie form the beginning, 2 hours and 21 minutes of useless cinema s enough to put you to thrashing it like any thing , and that&#39;s what I am doing. The movie tries to show a war by the Rajputanas against the Government perhaps, but runs more like a stupid thriller to woo some of the pathetic Indian crowd (I bet, It must have failed in its those intentions too). Trying to show some love and fight masala coupled with nonsense blended in Rajasthani cultural taste and screwing up everything is what Gulal has succeeded in! &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;Follow this Blog&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://nirpam.blogspot.com/2009/03/gulal-what-movie.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>2</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7591679195254566079.post-1887748752011073439</guid><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:34:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-03-31T00:04:31.949+05:30</atom:updated><title>Jaipur-Amer-Jaigarh-Pink pearl- CHOKHI DHAANI!</title><description>&lt;span xmlns=&#39;&#39;&gt;&lt;p&gt;Fun packed day from sight seeing to the largest canon to forts and palaces to Water Park to a great Rajasthani retreat.  The Amer Fort was great and Jaigarh fine. Food near raj Mandir definitely awesome and then to kool up your body great rides at water park all around Jaipur and then off to Chokhi Dhaani resort which was some real fun again. Great food and shows. In short awesome trip to in and around Jaipur; wonder if ever again, a day alone would be so wonderful!!! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sure they call rajasthan a good tourist attraction and should be fun to explore more in future, if time permits. If you happen to drop by jaipur during evening, do visit Chokhi Dhaani on Kota highway; opens at 6 and up to 12. Amer fort is also close by and Jaigarh and Nahargarh fort are closeby, but on some opposite highway outside jaipur, better to have some personal transport, we had a cab and so it was fine. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;Follow this Blog&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://nirpam.blogspot.com/2009/03/jaipur-amer-jaigarh-pink-pearl-chokhi.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7591679195254566079.post-1085558200753570553</guid><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:22:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-03-30T22:53:38.269+05:30</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">APOGEE</category><title>GSVC-ISB-APOGEE</title><description>&lt;span xmlns=&#39;&#39;&gt;&lt;p&gt;Past week has been certainly happening and it yet again confirms my belief that travelling is so much of learning; was there at &lt;a href=&#39;http://www.isb.edu/GSVC2009&#39;&gt;ISB for B plan presentation&lt;/a&gt; and had a real hand&#39;s on tryst with the busy life that business could offer, Gave a presentation just after a Bus and Flight ride; went kinda well but a bit of disappointment for not being selected. And back to pilani, a good chance to hear, learn and network at TechBazar and listen to eminent speakers like Michael cremo, John C Mather and Jimmie Wales (frankly, din&#39;t find so interesting stuff in any of these lectures, but went to listen mostly for their big names. SP Kothari was better to listen to, perhaps because he talked about the global financial crisis and most of which was already familiar stuff and you could catch things but for more obvious reasons, it was something that I took my interest in as well. Like everyone else, he had his own forecasts and I could have mine, for when we are going to get over this one. I would however choose not to predict anything but better just reaffirm that it&#39;s a big one. Mithali rocked and MIMERS ruled, but Jai Ho went to Music Club. I can go on writing but I still believe what shailesh wrote in his editorial for the last Newsletter of Hindi press club for &lt;a href=&#39;http://bits-apogee.org&#39;&gt;Apogee 2k9&lt;/a&gt; went just right in his words, The SU should certainly be praised for all of it. Do read Shailesh&#39;s Editorial from Issue 5 Apogee Hindi Press &lt;a href=&#39;http://hpc-bits.blogspot.com&#39;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;Follow this Blog&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://nirpam.blogspot.com/2009/03/gsvc-isb-apogee.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>2</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7591679195254566079.post-6886998068236511184</guid><pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 09:59:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-04-01T07:22:37.211+05:30</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Movie</category><title>SLUM DOG&#39;S ?</title><description>A great movie finally, not a complete bollywood prod, still I would name it as a work involving artists from it, undoubtedly one of the best the Indian Cine Industry(Artists) would have churned out.  The panorama  of Indian Situations that this movie depicts may not be all true of date, but on a gross scale undubiously related. An inspiration for many, who have perhaps come to belief that some standard spicing is essential for making movies work among this nations crowd, partially true it is. The success of Slum Dog millionnaire only suggests that the above may not be the necessary and sufficient condition to do so.  The revenues earned by movies like Singh is King and Chandni chowk to china should entice the filmakers to follow their trails. The Indian public at large would continue to possess its bourgeois taste for sure, and a harangue like this one shall never tuck into their heads. No, I dont intend to be, though it does sound satirical.Nay, the short lived nexus of these idiosyncratic movies shall not change your heads dear Indian fella&#39;s, nor shall they change the way, the world looks at you. These shall only reaffirm to the globe that India and Indians are what they think of them to be.&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;Follow this Blog&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://nirpam.blogspot.com/2009/01/slum-dogs.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7591679195254566079.post-2767359998711017451</guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:53:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-03-30T23:01:47.204+05:30</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">IIT</category><title>@ MDS 310 High Perf Comp Facility ?</title><description>Using the internet to chat and chirkut when a training program is going on would have been fun if it was not cooking you up inside @ 36 Degrees. Damn these people; I love the IPC back at BITS not for the machines that sometimes really do suck but for the A/C that&#39;s just like heaven. here its almost hellish with the indoor temperature higher than the outside. though its the first day and quite undubiously has not been successful in endowing me with too much of Lab View Skills, its goin on.... Would have been much better with some nice girls around (quite a tough ask at chennai).&lt;br /&gt;So to pass your time, the best is to write and write and write&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some Lab View for today&lt;br /&gt;Virtual Instrumentation - User defines the instrument&lt;br /&gt;Supports all OS&#39;s&lt;br /&gt;LV programs are VI&#39;s or Virtual instruments&lt;br /&gt;Components of VI Front Panel(GUI)  and BLock Diag(WHere you write the code) and Icon&lt;br /&gt;Control pallete COntrol- COde&lt;br /&gt; Indiacator- feed in&lt;br /&gt;Sub VI&#39;s Any VI can act as a Sub VI&lt;br /&gt;Extended version of Sub VI is Express VI&lt;br /&gt;BLock Diagrams Wires of Diff Colors Represent diff data types&lt;br /&gt;Ctrl-H for help on highlighted entity&lt;br /&gt;ctrl E to switch between&lt;br /&gt;Debugging tools palette use stop probe etc&lt;br /&gt;3 types of error Status Code and Source&lt;br /&gt;Tools Add Stop and Probes&lt;br /&gt;Add a page before and after by search tab control&lt;br /&gt;search simulate signal for sine wave&lt;br /&gt;Searh Enum Data Type Right Cl &gt;&gt; Define Items&lt;br /&gt;Right Click &gt;&gt; Priogramming &gt;&gt; Structures &gt;&gt; While Loop&lt;br /&gt;Add Control &gt;&gt; Stop&lt;br /&gt;Right Click &gt;&gt; Priogramming &gt;&gt; timing &gt;&gt; wait&lt;br /&gt;Create Another While loop window&lt;br /&gt;search simulate signal for triangle wave&lt;br /&gt;loop tunnels for iterations&lt;br /&gt;Error out three components &gt;&gt; Status Code and Source&lt;br /&gt;Wait Time&lt;br /&gt;Elapsed Time&lt;br /&gt;Shift Register for iterative data transfer &gt;&gt; Storing iterated data &gt;&gt; Right Click on for loop border and add shift reg&#39;s&lt;br /&gt;tunnel &gt;&gt; right click indexing&lt;br /&gt;Use default if Unwired &gt;&gt; Dont use &gt;&gt; COmplicates code&lt;br /&gt;Case control Add case after&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;Follow this Blog&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://nirpam.blogspot.com/2008/06/mds-310-high-perf-comp-facility.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7591679195254566079.post-313462558478998770</guid><pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:18:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-03-30T23:01:47.204+05:30</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">IIT</category><title>From Madras</title><description>Madras, NIce-Girls disappeared from this place during the Jurassic Ages perhaps. What is Madras- A BIg hot Oven. No Wonder Right now at DCF Civil Dept IITM feels great in an A/c environment.&lt;br /&gt;Jindagi kat jaayegi ab yahan aisa lagne toh laga hai.. Chalo let&#39;s see if ultimately kuchh meaningful ho  jaaye,..till now everything&#39;s useless and meaningless for me here.&lt;br /&gt;See you again Dear Blog, The wind will blow again and I ll flow alongwith............till then just a Good bye&lt;br /&gt;_The Wind Am I!&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;Follow this Blog&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://nirpam.blogspot.com/2008/06/from-madras.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7591679195254566079.post-666423815254880593</guid><pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 00:16:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-05-26T05:53:34.781+05:30</atom:updated><title>NOCTURNALIZING MYSELF</title><description>6:00 am, @ home.. Not because I just woke up but for I din&#39;t sleep yet again..&lt;br /&gt;This one&#39;s the best of my nighouts.. wasn&#39;t trying at all to help with some study shit..just watchin IPL/TV, Washing Clothes!!, and now fiddeling with the Internet. Ganguly was a treat to watch with his clean Sixes.&lt;br /&gt;Leaving Home again today, Will step into the land of Illadas next and post again.. C ya blogger till then!!&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;Follow this Blog&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://nirpam.blogspot.com/2008/05/nocturnalizing-myself.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7591679195254566079.post-8465157665647899204</guid><pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 15:08:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-04-01T07:24:03.000+05:30</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">SINGING-SPREE</category><title>Sexy eyes</title><description>This song&#39;s almost a boon to boredom!&lt;br /&gt;repetitions of this song alone weren&#39;t enough for TE though especially the Traffic portion by Mr Sarkar!&lt;br /&gt;A lot of surprises @ 2217 3 pm today.&lt;br /&gt;40%??? Handout said 35&lt;br /&gt;Out of the first 60 28+3 out of reach as well!!&lt;br /&gt;Finally, the good part of it... It&#39;s over.&lt;br /&gt;@6 to go&lt;br /&gt;The question: Will 3rd year&#39;s end crown me with my first D as well!&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;Follow this Blog&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://nirpam.blogspot.com/2008/05/sexy-eyes.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7591679195254566079.post-6086384088248621514</guid><pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:16:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-03-30T22:52:45.241+05:30</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">BITS</category><title>@ Neg Ski Tomm</title><description>Back Am I?&lt;br /&gt;Yes dear, the very reason being the divine impetus - The Compre&#39;s&lt;br /&gt;They are so inspiring Aren&#39;t they ?&lt;br /&gt;I just love them; They inspire you to blog, they inspire you to watch movies, play!! in BITS and what not. After all when do you feel like having such a free time at BITS.&lt;br /&gt;So One Fine 23:50 As is today, I would blog again. Today for Nego Ski. Then for the other Seven to go.&lt;br /&gt;8 am is a bad time when you are habituated since the last 10 days or so to get up at 81/2 am. So called up dear bhabs(di wud be asleep) and requested her to wake me up. Hope that works(wud be a wonder if it does). Hail to Handling Styles (Confilict/lies and Raghu) and Nego Ski. It WAS grt and it elates me coz it WAS!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Morning 4 mins short as I publish this one!&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;Follow this Blog&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://nirpam.blogspot.com/2008/04/neg-ski-tomm.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7591679195254566079.post-1770946916444328957</guid><pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:52:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-03-30T22:52:45.241+05:30</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">BITS</category><title>-24-03-08-22:42 MALVIYA BHAVAN BITS PILANI JHUNJUNU RAJSTHAN INDIA 333031</title><description>TIME ..LOCATION...&lt;br /&gt;WHAT?...&lt;br /&gt;I played a DVD err ... correction .. played with DVD.&lt;br /&gt;And Done!!!&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;Follow this Blog&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://nirpam.blogspot.com/2008/03/2242-malviya-bhavan-bits-pilani.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7591679195254566079.post-2012913023406112773</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:06:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-03-30T22:52:45.242+05:30</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">BITS</category><title>Wing Enthu The Big Belly The white don and the little man</title><description>unn ke nashe mein......&lt;br /&gt;ladhkhadaye kabhi kabhi......&lt;br /&gt;i was asked by the little man to visualize someone else in the GIANT and as you know the big belly king can and can seduce you.. just got to change the face..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;little man&#39;s ideas are always grt aren&#39;t they?.. We had the wing see birth of a white don as well...&lt;br /&gt;i was supposedly practising  out for  my bro&#39;s marriage; obviously any one would .. u got a chance with the &quot;market-leader&quot; in that kind of dancin!!!&lt;br /&gt;Was fun really&lt;br /&gt;i&#39; ve been confusing?..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;OH this all&#39;s in the context of the DW enthu @ wing _rp&lt;br /&gt;what more when you decide to crap up the MKtg plan and the official photographer plays some of those which provoke the belly guy often ... guess somethin special was there in the air today, we joined him.......and it all began.......this&#39;s how it ended&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;http://bp0.blogger.com/_4k_dsn3fnMo/R78E8XiCsxI/AAAAAAAAACk/5oOp0IpwzqE/s1600-h/Pic+004.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;&quot; src=&quot;http://bp0.blogger.com/_4k_dsn3fnMo/R78E8XiCsxI/AAAAAAAAACk/5oOp0IpwzqE/s320/Pic+004.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5169856332400079634&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;Follow this Blog&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://nirpam.blogspot.com/2008/02/wing-enthu-big-belly-white-don-and.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://bp0.blogger.com/_4k_dsn3fnMo/R78E8XiCsxI/AAAAAAAAACk/5oOp0IpwzqE/s72-c/Pic+004.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7591679195254566079.post-4990133391872979170</guid><pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:21:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-03-30T22:52:45.242+05:30</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">BITS</category><title>PD .. its inspiring YEt again</title><description>yeah, the PD to pilani is no less than a &quot;bottle to a bottle-boy&quot;&lt;br /&gt;how it goes... u plan a treat but the guy supposed to give it isn&#39;t really interested so it&#39;s now modified to a wing dutch to a half wing one, but where&#39;s the venue?.&lt;br /&gt;Yup Bunty Da Dhaba&quot; dear &quot;blinking-tubelights&quot;, if any...&lt;br /&gt;but you don&#39;t really go to PD but land up in an auto goin to Bhagat Singh Circle ...oh someone sittin around you asked the auto to bring us here ..... what brings us here ,.... the bottle boy&#39;s favourate  is here... so thats it..&lt;br /&gt;2 bottles weren&#39;t enough and obviously JAint needed to talk, IT after all, is the FUNDA of having PD food....  it&#39;s so that the chat began, my noble joining helped it through i guess,&lt;br /&gt;so it&#39;s PD or the Bottles or the MBA ....time pass&#39;s required...Giant&#39;s finally got a good movie?..after some dc searchin (hopeless fellows!! don&#39;t have new ones on dc for him)... hope he&#39;s busy watchin mr CHan and hope the bottle boy never discovers the blog at all....&lt;br /&gt;and let&#39;s see him burn down with envy the next time you pose with  one of  &quot;his girls&quot; :)...&lt;br /&gt;bit of Vaani work to ponder upon as this post&#39;s been written.....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;am still searchin life&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;The wind am I?.....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;Follow this Blog&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://nirpam.blogspot.com/2008/02/pd-its-inspiring-yet-again.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7591679195254566079.post-6482020555201132556</guid><pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:57:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-02-06T20:49:22.203+05:30</atom:updated><title>Wellnotcome Aboard</title><description>&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Does one realise his desire to write before he starts reading?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;In the world of my words, will things not be remembered for they were&#39;nt written ..........&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;Its been a small life say 27-30% of the whole pie, yet enough to have memories, and enough to consider them as long.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;                          As I say that, a desire&#39;s  still there to tell you all everything but can &quot;me&quot; do it?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;But I may still say a lot. Can&#39;t control my tongue at times and people close to me know, But the keys can be and hence what&#39;s here&#39;s just a bit too refined.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;                                                                    Have a Control systems Engineering exam tomm. but I feel like writing and isn&#39;t that imp enough to be a reason to write?... God do good to the RP messworkers,  it&#39;s partly for the good Wednesday night Fingerchips that inspire you to start your blog. You try to search for a suitable Blog Address and try your mail id.. Doesn&#39;t work so you try your trick cut down nirupam to nirpam and yes you get it just as the googlepage. Great are fellows to give you such pages to scribble and cherish. don&#39;t think Larry&#39;s surname made him think of the noble idea to giving pages to us, but they are there so I am writing before I start readin.....................................................for the exam tomm and in lives to come.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;Follow this Blog&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://nirpam.blogspot.com/2008/02/wellnotcome-aboard.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item></channel></rss>