The Most Indebted Anna University!!

As you traverse down the line to the South of India, and if you move a little Eastwards, You will find the most awesome state of Tamil Nadu and the Populous city of Chennai. More than anything, people here venerate Education. They also instill the beliefs of becoming an Engineer and nurture them in the little minds right from the moment they are born. Indeed, few people even started naming their sons with the initials "B.E" so that whenever they read their name, they will be motivated to become one!

A cousin of mine has just visited the earth few weeks back, a not more than 14 day old baby, and i thought every one would be partying the addition of the recent smart one in the family, but to my astonishment, all in the hospital were exchanging thoughts of what he would be in the future. The little fellow who is yet to even open his eyes steadily, has been straight away made to take position in the olympic race for engineering with a feeding bottle in his pocket. That's what life today is - You don't even know to walk, but you are expected to run!

A relative comes near him and stares him with a wild smile which gave the debutante an idea of how a Ghost on earth would look like, As he lends his ears to her mouth to listen something for the first time - she says "Thambi papa, we belong to FC, General Category, 100 eduthaa thaan Seat kidaikkum in Anna Univ, So you have to work hard and prepare well, Life is a tough competition ok??" - Then, the discussions stopped completely and it was again ignited by the arrival of another guest, as they started to discuss about the fellows who attended counselling now, Who are going to the US for higher studies, who got placed blah blah blah .. I tell you, The most sinned babies are the ones born in India, Specifically in the South during the period May to August! I was banging my head with my hand with a mind voice "Oruthanukku Endhichi nadakkave vakku illayaam, andha pullaya 9 degree vaaanga solreeenga" and my mind voice was supported by another mind voice from the room "Dai, En da ungalukku indha kolaveri???" - the kinginee manginee little fellow's mind voice, poor fellow, might be this is the first phrase he formed on earth!

This is what happening here. And i'm no exception of it. I can recall an old joke i read in a paper before -

Univ of Texas at Dallas- Hey dude, I'm the best in the world, I'm graduating around 18,000 worthy engineers a year!

Univ of Berkeley, California - Dude I'm only great, I'm graduating around 25,000 Engineers a year!

Anna University - Bitch Please! , I graduate 2,00,000 engineers a year!

Yeah, so true, they sell engineering, indeed like a supermarket. Of course, the city has few great colleges like the IIT Madras, College of Engineering, etc, but those form just 1% of the total students graduating. A thought that runs in the mind of every student attending counselling - I must do a lot of good deeds in this life, so that i can be a SC next year" - Yeah, the bloody Caste System add flavours to it!

I was nurtured with stratospheric dreams and was prepared for this race and finally managed to clinch a seat in one of the 564 engineering colleges housed by Anna University and became one of the 2,00,000 so called "successful" engineering students of the State.

As i entered my college, the feeling was "Hell Yeah, I'm an Engineer" with all the pride of  Engineering, with the thoughts of the Research Laboratories seen in Hollywood movies, the HONDA's new Bot series promo videos, etc as i chose the Electrical Stream and suddenly a tap at my back - How dare you dream in the Machines Lab??, Be ready for the attendance! - That was when i was awake to reality and again with the pride of an engineer, i was looking around the Machines Lab with the feel "Hell Yeah, this is going to be my play ground for 4 years" and i was teeth broken to see few dusted rusted motors on ground, left unpainted, yeah, that's the machines lab! ---It was like having a free fall from the top of the Eiffel Tower leaving your bones fractured! - I started to laugh hardly bursting my stomach, a friend of mine was into Mechanical Engineering with dreams of  "Daimler Chrysler" and "BMW", i was just pitying the level of his Free Fall. My friend tells me "Naa Appave Sonnen idhu ellaaam velaikku aaagaaadhu" - I console him, don't worry, Anna Univ is the best, we will enjoy Engineering with lot of confidence. The very next hour was the theory hour and i could hardly find the staffs teaching without seeing the book and an Electrical Engineering Professor writes the Ohm's law as VI=R, and there came my Free Fall II with my friend saying "Naaa Appaaave sonnenn", but this time, it was chorus with my voice too.

For getting the HOD approval for presentations outside and for various reasons,must wait for a minimum queuing period of 4 hours - Learnt what patience is, Did a mini project with friends and submitted for college approval to be sent for scholarship, but was rejected by the staffs and HOD as they wanted the block diagrams to be in black colour (i have put them white), and font size of 12 (i had 14) and i submitted 2 days before and they told me 1 hr before the deadline given - Learnt what disappointment is. A friend of mine taught the entire class what Data Structures is and everyone passed except him in the exam, he failed in reval too - Learnt what failure in life is, Another friend of mine wrote the same paper only for 15 marks and he was passed with good grades - Learnt what luck in Life is. Another friend designed an ebike completely himself and waited for the HOD's applause and response to it, I tell you the best feel is when you're applauded for your hardwork - the HOD checked the bike horn and says "Horn ellaam adikidheyy, paravaa illaye" - Learnt what Respect and Mockery is. It was not 4 years of Engineering, But it was 4 years of seeing what life is.

Final Year arrived and Placements came and this time we were all mature enough not to dream about ABB, SIEMENS, IBM, etc, as we dint want to have any more Free Falls. It was like people guess the company we got placed even before we say them. But worst part is about 3/4th of the colleges doesn't even have one. Engineering has become like investing in a finance company, which after 4 years bids you bye.

If you could remember, i told my friend at the beginning"you would enjoy engineering", but let me introduce a preposition into that line "Yeah, We enjoyed IN engineering, but not engineering". Used to scold my friends who are going abroad for their higher studies to UK and US. Might be lately now i realize, all these 4 years they learnt what life is, at least now may them learn what "Engineering" is!

The Chaotic Indian Development !

A country rich in Bio-Diversity,Agriculture, Information Technology, Inventions, Technology and Science,A land of Business Investments, Very nice to listen  them, sounds sweet, but the real fact here, is many indians still don't even know many of the above facts !!

The development here looks chaotic, like one part goes rising and rising, from peak to peak, while the other part, it goes from bad to worse and so on, so both gets compensated and neutralised, whats the use?? Where is the development?

Let me share a live experience that i had at Nagercoil, my hometown. My uncle and aunt are both teachers and they've been given the "census 2011" duties. Here they need to take a census of the population at each house and the development taken place in every house in the localities given to them, it takes place once in 10 years and it has started now. There is a provision of 36 questions for every house. As i was just a workless bee in my holidays, i went for help by each of us taking one house at a time, and i came to know the unseen areas of india. Though those areas were just few kilometers away from my home, i never knew them !,Have not even seen those houses !

All those were Govt Houses, there were many many families living there. Each house was 100 sq ft in area and a people of 5- 10 residing in a house,Generations together! And when i started taking the census, i couldn't digest any of the facts,chaotic chaotic chaotic about the political happenings. It was Bushy everywhere, a snake villa it was, no stree lights work, an airport of mosquitoes, many landing and taking off the skin every second. I got scratches within very few hours of stay there. For this, the Cruel Govt which is called democratic, is asking for a rent of 200 per month and, they've to give it for free!

I started with my first question, what is the name of the family head, and that was the only question where i got a proper answer, there were questions like whether they have radios,cycles, vehicles, bank accounts, passbooks, toilets,kitchen, cell phones, landlines, etc etc and to everyone's surprise, the answer was "NIL" for every house.Every house has the free tv given by government and if that tv was not there, there life has nothing. None of the houses had a toilet. Only one person was working in a house and they were struggling to make a living. Loads of illiterates.They don't know their initials, and like a guy tells his dad's name as murugan and asks me to put whatever initials i want, as he don't know alphabets!

Of the many many people living there, only 2 knew their birth dates, and none others knew, they don't even know that it is 2010 presently and guess years like 2011 etc, and we need to correct them as 2010, such is the situation. When asked their Birth dates, they showed strange reactions, as if we were questioning them on Indian civilization, history and physics. They guess their ages and from that we subtract the years to get the year born and they don't know about the months in a year, so we have to put our own months at random, where is india traversing??

In a house, there is a cute grandson born for that lady, when asked for his age they tell he is 5 months old, and wen asked for date of birth or month they don't know, after thinking on it for minutes, they came with a clue that "when he was born we were given sweets by everyone, people told that it was some new year,might be that month i guess?" , man its jan 1st 2010 !!!, they din't know that!!, if i stand in an election here and bid hands for them and give 2000 each, i'm the winner, sure, its a bet, because they'll do anything for money, they've never seen it!

My personal wish would be, the ward councellors and ministers have to take this census, they'll know what they're. I was amidst feelings, a lady asked us to tell their difficulties and bring them to light, we said, we'll give this to govt and they'll give houses by 2011 end, that lady said, that when she went to the government hospital some 10 months before, she was told she has cancer in her breasts, and then she never went to the  hospital side, she smiles and asks "will they give houses before i die??" , tears filled up my eyes :( :(

To everyone's surprise yet again, all belong to "OC" cast vise, i'm an "OC" and they are given the same offers i get, and the rich SC's and MBC's enjoying????, a democratic country we call !! Should be ashamed! A guy loses his education, the highest qualification seen was a guy completed 12th standars, despite having a decent score in 12th of 76%, it was not enough to fetch a govt college seat as he belonged to "OC", and he was not worth enough to pursue his degree in a private university, so happy to cut down a citizen's education?? Please bring this to light.

We pour moneys in temples, but easily erase the fact that helping these people makes us God. We people pray for rain to enjoy the chillness, these people pray to the same god that rain shouldn't come, as it wud bring in snakes and leaks at houses, so which one does god pick?? Is god really there? What will he do?? Imagine?? If a person's wish has been fulfilled, another's wish has been neglected !!, thats the truth !!

I really pray for them and we have to do our best, if hundreds in nagercoil area, then millions in entire india???, and we call we'll be a super power on 2020? , we'll be nothing, but still a developing nation. A rich's son goes in the benz and the poor's son washes it, both 're 18! , the education of a citizen is just worth a car's cleanliness??, are we selfish? , hopefully we're not in real life, but we're, when seen from a human perspective. We're selfish!, I'm not an exception!, I just don't tell we give all our earnings, But just telling please make them earn, share this, share this to friends, Pray for them ,Help them, finally bring them to lights , this is what makes us a human being, lets allow youngsters to study, they've blood,brains,hands, but sorry, they don't have castes !

I wish we're developed in 2020 !, Please Spread this to as many people u can, bring these people to light! Please Please Please !, We're Unborn Siblings !

Vande Maatharam :)

Regards,

Mahesh

Is CAT , really Tough??? ( but Fun!! )

Hi Guys, it has been a dazzling phrase, that has been pubished in all the minds of the engineers and graduates aspiring to get into the iim's is "BELL THE CAT, The Toughest of all" . But , the truth is, it is the biggest joke of the century!, that can be laughed out when you know, what really it is, I'l tell you the truth!

Very recently, read a book entitled "How to bell the CAT? " , haha, i really loved reading it, might be, even it can be named as one of the best books, i have read ever. It din't have a specific author, putting all the steps aligned in order with bulletins, that has to be followed daily in order to bell the cat, nothing serious like that, it was just different, and it was a collection of the stories of different iim-alumni students sharing their experiences that happened to them on the so called judgement day of "interview and gd rounds" and the day of cat exam, it was just funny, and i bet you, it had around 100 stories approximately and none had a serious background score, it was damn funny and all were having their best days of their lifetime.

Let me tell you the biggest jokes of CAT, how it would be when you've been told a joke by your friend and you take that very seriously with fear, thats what happens here in CAT, being told that "it is the most difficult nut to crack, you keep working on it seriously, thinking of bulldozers, equipment's to crack it" . If you do that, really thats the funniest part of your prep!

Well,one guy's experience in that book, goes this way, he cleared cat with a score of 97.8 and he had his brother's marriage the day before cat and was busy the full week before, that he even forgot that he had cat that weekend, and on the day before interview he got bitten by a poisonous insect at iim-B and his mouth got swollen, that he was dumb in the gd and hardly tried opening his mouth in PI rounds and that guy was selected , for being confident on that situation and keeping himself cool and despite having some illness in speaking, the way he answered the interview knew no bounds.

It is all about being cool, the only way of cracking the cat, it should be an attitude of "CAT?, hey remind me the day before exam, i'l give my shot" , sounding over confidence??? , please try knowing the difference between the two, its always better to forget the exam date and do something everytime that strikes for us.

A normal guy, if said to prepare vocabulary , will try reading 30 words a day and revise them daily, a cool minded person will read all papers, stuffs and find meaning for the words that he din't know and use them immediately in criticising his friends, in messaging with friends, chatting online, putting captions, and talking himself regarding, these stuffs can only be done, when we are cool regarding cat and think its the easiest of all exams. When we're cool, we get what is called the "presence of mind" . When asked to talk in gd's, a normal guy will be a sweat generator, and the cool guy will overwhelm with thoughts, because he must have had a lot of practical experiences than playing always with the engineering books!

Ofcourse, engineering is a game, but that game will have lots and lots of awesome experiences  in the practical part rather reciting the theories in the exams. A well built profile, will always have a cool breeze waving at them in the CAT and lets not forget the only solution for cat, being cool, and if we're cool, then its "CAT is a cake walk", ofcourse patisseries apart!

Being cool always earns you more credits, eg. MS Dhoni, and thats the reason the iim guys have been given stunning 6-7 digit pays, and talked big, so, lets all be a MS Dhoni in what we want.

Yours,

Mahesh Balan

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The 86400 budget!

Beam of golden rays,
Splashed on my face,
Starring at the calendar,
I really wonder,
Having many issues to ponder,
I opened the doors to the day,
Either a hay or hectic day,
Stepping my legs on the ground,
With fantastic friends around,
In the theory hours sleeping,
Ears weeping,
Fighting for lunch,
With houseful stomachs, Moving by inch,
Hunting for water, We guys sipping,
In the mean while gossiping,
Entering the air-conditioned computer lab,
Having a long nap,
Bidding bye's,
Ending Hi's,
In the night sleeping with the book,
With mom getting something to cook,
Again going to sleep,
With lots of promises to keep,
Having spent the god-given 86400 bucks,
I will rest on my back.

Access to Success

Over the stars, I stare,
To face any kind of failures, I dare,
Any kind of pains, I can bear,
Any kind of situations, I can wear,
All the happiness, Let it be invisible like air,
Success and failures, Always the best pair,
Let me wish the former to be uncountable, Like hair,
Visualizing the above mentioned stuffs, I swear,
To the world's comments, I don't care,
Will go high every year, Again i swear.


Not getting carried away,
With happiness all the way,
Planting self-confidence,
Uprooting over-confidence,
With Pessimism, Being eroded,
With Optimism, Being erupted,
With Creativity, Being flooded,
With knowledge, Being upgraded,
With Talents, Being uploaded,
We will get an easy access,
To the high sounding word 'Success'.

Love to Lose!

 






























Can u try to name any one of the world's top who're always resting on their dreams to have destined to their heights without any hurdles in between?, just get deep into your favourite personalities  you will know what life is all about!











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Can u try to name any one of the world's top who're always resting on their dreams to have destined to their heights without any hurdles in between?, just get deep into your favourite personalities  you will know what life is all about!


Just try to imagine what you would be if you're one among the following?

What would you do if u hav lost your dad when you were 8 years old ???, How it would be if poverty pulls you down from your studies, when your friends get goin thru it? how it would be if you've a big dream but you have a princely dinner of just WATER daily ??? just imagine what you would have been landed at -

It is none other than AR Rahman!


Here comes the next., Imagine yourself to be lying in the foot paths and urging yourself to sleep, just to wipe out your hungry ???? how it would be,  if you want to be a big-B in future (i mean a millionaire) and you don't even have money to buy a Burger??, walking miles every week end to the temple, just for one good meal - strange life and here he is - Steve jobs, owns apple today!


Still more, a plethora there, "Mam i will return to this school after my studies again only as a millionaire" -- Gates told his teacher.

Having dreams, not at all a big deal or a big stuff,executing them, solving them, working out them, has a part and sounds loud in the arena of success! Well you have a key to open the arena, its the master key and it is named "Hardwork" 

"If you're born poor,not your mistake,but if you die poor,its purely your mistake" -- Gates..

The Boss had arrears, was a dropout, his fellow-mate rank holders are his company employees, Just Dare Dream DO, life is just one, not at all a big deal...

Failures, Failures just love them,because those stuffs lifts you up, common, rock on!
always remember life is just one ! ..

Burst off your cretivity ! Erupt your talents ! Erode your Pessimism! Plant your Optimism ! 

And here you are, you will know wat you are and why you are on this earth :) cheers!
good luck !

 जय हो ! जय हो ! Jai Ho ! Jai Ho !