Proud to be a Scorpio !!

Hiii… I am a SCORPIO..!!
It said that i am 87% Scorpio!!! Thats coool..!!
The coooler thing is that 87 is my birth year..!!
If u r also one… y not try this :

You are 87% Scorpio

How Scorpio Are You?

Converita !! (continued…)

We went to attend the prelims contest… It was choose the answer type…

I and Sidd were team mates yet again… Sidd dint allow me to even thk the answers for prelims.. he was bombarding continuously the answers for each question …. hmm … thats cool right… hmm may be!! but the real thing is that… the ppl from SSN had just copied questions from a site.. which Sidd had seen just the day b4 !! And not even a single question was not from that site…!! -> (This is not double exclamation … dis is double ‘NOT’) -> (and dis is not forest!!)
So we were selected for the finals… The only team from MIT..!!!

A seniors team which came was not too appreciative about that… One of them asked us… how much did u attend?? wid a rather not so nice way…. They even fought wid some poor gal who was one of the incharge for the contest… We didnt know wot happened but even their team came to the finals..!! We just went there and gave our best…

To comment on the questions…
There were 3 questions..
1) It was just some simple ad-hoc kinda thing wid processing on strings….
We did that problem… together at first and we did it very carefully and artfully!! considering even some weird type of test cases… we did it as if we are coding for some hi-fi OPC… It was a BULB for us when the evaluators came and tested that prog. of ours wid a only one trivial test case..!!
2) The second one was a code which has to be debugged!!….
The code was given to us in paper… To our surprise… it was ANSI Standard C code…capable of executing in Linux… But … we were asked to work on TC @ Windows !!! We have to debug and show them the executable…. We just told them that its not possible…. but a gal there said confidently that.. “That is the error in the program and U have to correct it!” Later they said we can write the errors in the paper itself….
3) Implementing the Traveling Salesman Problem…!!
We just didnt know how to do it… we were about to leave without trying that….but wen the gal there said just write something and we may consider giving some marks for it…. it is enof if u write wot u will do as a algo… !! hmmm…. well we just kinda twisted the dijikstra’s algo…(since both of them are concerned wid shortest paths!!) and came outta the lab…

The Sens told us that u have to use Floyd Warshall for that… they told that it took time for them to implement it… hmm.. One of them even commented that its Tough to code standard algos… and that adhoc things can be done by anyone…!!! Later We found that the Floyd-Warshall has nothing to do wid TSP…. and implementation of Floyd Warshall Algo…(All Source Shortest Path) is as easy as taking a candy from a baby…!!
OK… The results were about to be declared… Some team got the first prize… And WE WERE SECOND !!! [:D] … The Sens team came Third… Do u expect they were happy!!?? …
Rs.2000 was the prize money!!! I and Sidd Shared it… Felt that attending contests is a nice freelance way of earning money!!! [:p]….

Converita !!

OK… i iam bloggin after a reaaaaaaaly long time…. sidd was telling “continue ur blog da… it was going on interesting…!!” …. so here i go again….
Converita!! the moment i heard this word for the first time….in the clg notice brd, i thought may be its some word synonymous to EUREKA !! and later i dreamt this should be the name of some damn gud lookin gal in that dept !!:P…. and this ones the IT tech symp. @SSN…on 13th september, 2006 !! ( and i still donno wot that word means )
We…. decided to bunk the college that day as usual and were eager to get the prize as usual!!
We had checked the bus timings from the college website… and all other guys were to start off from the college while i would be boarding from near my house… Thou i were in the bus stop well before the timing of the bus… i was waiting, waitin., waiti.., wait…, wai…., wa….., w……, and i lost hope.. and asked the gal who was standin beside me whether SSN bus would come in that stopin…. she said “The bus just went past a minute b4!! “…. I didnt know how to respond… I said.. “oh, thanks !!”( nyway cudnt hide my stupidity thatway )….I thought then how i could hv missed the bus while i was just staring at the vehicles without break..hmm… then i decided to break the thought… and decided the follow the travel instructions given in the website for Govt. bus. boarders… (luckily i had read it…)
As per that.. i boarded some bus to go to kalavakkam… and then from there i took some van to get tot he college… I entered the campus to see that there were not much trees to be spotted… infact it was kinda desert…. (it was noon by then)… i made my way to the hall.. for inauguration..
It was a very cheerful crowd filling the audi. The intro for all the events was the spotlight… some of them i remember r….
1. Vijaykant was standing in the stage and was giving speech… he was telling things like.. “A computer has a monitor, cpu, mouse…. blah blah…”(edited clip of Gap10!!)…. That was the intro for paper presentation…!!
2. Vijaykant was sittin in front of the computer…… he looked very serious….. the monitor showed him debugging some code…. he compiles it to find too many errors!! (ahhhh!!)… Gap10 did not lose hope…. He was so involved and devoted… his eyes turn red….!! Suddenly… he gets enlightened….he makes all the lines in the program as comments… and compiles the code…. (hurrah…. the code compiles succesfully !!) and Gap10 gives a proud, winning Smile…!!!! That one was the into for debugging contest!! — LOLZ…

The debugging event was late in the afternoon… so we thot… we would listen to Paper Presentation… so that we cud get some idea of wot it is…
To our ultimate regret, we found the ppl coming and presenting some papers on very generalized topics and they had not done ny kinda research … they had done gud home-work by mugging stuffs from net… and it was DAMN mokkai… so we got ourself out of da hall… to attend some other events…
It was time for debugging!!!