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Well, the blog is back with a bang and new stuff to write on :p haha
I dropped the previous blog bcos I heard it was getting -ve hits :p
Here I am now 4th sem CS n engg, BGSIT Mandya........
Hmmmm, last week during the 15 minute so called "tea break", I was searching whether they were serving tea anywhere, I landed up in the E&C dep. My eyes fell on the notice board which normally has "cow eating grass" on it. But this time there werent any cows or grass, there was a notification on it...
It read "Knitte++ State level tech fest". I kept on reading and suddenly my eyes fell on "C programming compitition" and "Game-a-thon". So, I decided that I want to participate in that..
There arent ANY gamers in our college (*sigh*) except a few. I knew only one guy who can play well, Vishal S.R (a.k.a junior,kiddu,rabbit etc :P ). He is a Counter-Strike and Quake 3 player.... I spoke to him about that and we ran to the notice board.. we jolted down the numbers of the student co-ordinators and Vishal smarty stored the numbers in my calci (smart thing he did :) came handy)...
The names of the student co-ordinators read, Prashanth Pai, Praveen Pai, all Pai's :|
I called him up and a very bad news :( there is no Counter Strike in the tournament :_( there's only warcraft (sucked up game). Me and Vishy are FPS(First Person Shooter) gamers. Warcraft is a stratergy game, like we drag a few people with the pointer and point them somewhere and they keep fighting with swords, bricks stones and crap crap lol.
Disappointed I was heading home on thursay night to home while in auto I got a call from Pai (I dont remember which pai) he said "Counter-Strike is in". I jumped off the seat and the auto driver looked back. Later that evening I called Vishy and we made sure that we are heading to nitte :D,
Another prob, we are 2 we need 4 and gamers are at a scare in college and we are scared to recruit the so called gamers in college who play dave and mario ... :|
I was discussing with my roomie Hussain, he preferred Sunil Rao (a.k.a Mr.Bean, Camouflage guy). He is so ver y thin that it seems skin is wrapped on bones minus the muscles/flesh :p. Vishy said "One stands in front of him, he turns and he is so thin, paper thin he cant be seen and he shoots him, he gets confused who's shooting, sunil turns, oh here you are, again he turns, where did he go." lol :D
I went to his room, "there is a counter strike tournament and Warcraft tournament we want you". He thinked quick and said yes :D
weeeeeeeeeee... we had 3 in team........
One more guy, we ended in taking Aakash who is a car gamer and strategic player. Since we had none FPS players, he said he can chip in and if you get any I walk out no prob :D
Finally we were 4, the tournament was on 18. We were to leave on 17 morning as it took nearly 10-11 hrs...
17 April was a very bad day :( . Morning Aakash's grandfather passed away (his soul rest in peace). He called Vishy out of the class and gave the news. Vishy came to my room and we had to search one more guy..
Vishy said there is a guy called Sudarshan (a.k.a Sudi). I didnt know this guy so I left vishy to sort out. After some discussion we put him in team....
We were running late as we had to leave at 12.30 PM, we were still in the campus at 1.00 pm. Finally we were ready to leave and we spotted my HOD :) me and Vishy ran to him and spoke to him "sir, we are leaving" he:"ok, all the best :D " he is a well built 6 feet man. He shook hands, the next moment I thought I need a scan on my hand, i thought my bones are broken.
Thank goodness they weren't :p
Sudi is an over smart ass***e. He thinks he is the smartest around. I hate that guy :|
We had none so we had to pick him :(
Meanwhile the bus's accelerator wire went lose and it was halted in no mans land in forest. The forest was beautiful and Vishy found time to crack plenty of jokes. Vishy can crack jokes any time any moment, he is the best mimicker we got and takes out different kinds of voices starting from his own voice, animals, guns, vehicles etc etc to wimpy noises.
We left Hassan and looking outa the window from bus, there was an Astrology ad out, the regular palm and the lines on it marked. Vishy shouts "Gimme five!". omg, I laughed my heart out.lol
Sunil is a very silent guy, speaks when necessary but intelligent :) good at maths he sorted out the calculations of the amount spent in travel including the paises :) :p
Ok, cutting some crap we ended up at Mangalore, damn very humid. We felt as if we puntuctured all over body the water from body was coming out. In no time shirts pants and chaddis were wet :|
We caught the last bus to Karkala where nitte was in between Mlore and karkala. Damn, all the places including Mlore, Surathkal, nitte karkal all smelled of fish. I wondered whether fish grew on trees here. Damn smell yech :{
We crossed across NITK, it was dark we weren't able to see much. But it was huge :) .
Vishy was dozing of in the bus and I was watching him laughing silently, he opened his mouth, with a curved back, banging his head on window, front seat and me :| . I kept giving him a conie :P
FInallllllllllly we reached nitte and called up Praveen Pai (yes, I remember). He sends a guy called Hemshekar Reddy, first look tells me he is high on weed, i told the same to Vishy and we laughed. There was an instantaneous namakarana "The Weed Guy" xD
He escorted us to the so called "NRI Hostel" which looked much like a hotel. The rooms were posh with graffiti all over the doors.
The weed guy said that we will come at 9 to get you to the college.....
so we dozed off.... .oO(zZZZZZZZZZZZ)
19th April
I chalked out plans I made the timetables and followed according to them so that people dont run out of hand. I said wake up at 7.30 get ready by 8.15. leave at 8.30 plans went perfect and the weed guy came with his original Weed look :p
Ok, so we all left the place and this mofo Sudi made the timetable late by 10 mins (bah) ....
We went there met Mr.Praveen Pai spoke to him, he is such a cool chap. We spoke as if we knew each other by a very long time :) and all the other people over there smiled at every time we crossed each other.
We read the time table and it said CS at 1.15.. we had nothing to do but Praveen said there is an opening ceremony at 10 and attend it, if you get bored you can sleep in the air-conditioned auditorium :P. We all laughed...
So all the important people lit the lamp and started the fest. The anchor had a phtaley awaaz, and we kept craciking jokes while this mofo Sudi met one of his old friends and went off and he said he will be back in 10 mins... CS was live in .5 hrs and there was no sight of this mofo ... I hate people like these, so we went and had our lunch after waiting for him and searching the campus....
Fortunately the bozo turned up.... The CS was live in 10 mins and we had to go to the E&C lab. We went and took places... I pressed TAB to see the stats....there is a clan called m3ch4n!cs (mechanics) of mech dep... well, these guys are national level winners and we didnt know that.. they wiped us out in 10 mins flat by winning 5rounds in row.. I was laughing so were others watching our game. I didnt mind as we are still n00bs in CS..
There were this paper presentations going on in the auditorium, as original we kept on cracking jokes like hell and laughing all the way, but a few were good, we listened carefully to em....
it was 5 pm, went to have tea and bumped into Praveen Pai :) ... later that evening we were haiving food in the canteen with Mr.Pai. He got impressed that we are just in 4th sem. Strange thing in canteen is that they have fixed a cam in the canteen so that they can keep an eye of the people who bunk classess.. I saw a few guys poking their fingers towards the cam, No Fear it was 8 pm. Princi wont be on his chair watching cams :P
Pai said "Hey there is CS game going on between lecturers and students, why dont you join?". We said yes in chorus :p
Happily we went to the lab and by time reached there Pai had called a guy names Santosh Vegas, he passed out college last year same college and joined the same college as a lecturer... very brainy guy and smart...
We again occupied our seats.... the people over there werent as professional as mechanics but 2 guys were g00d :)
we started at 8.30 PM. I acted like a n00b like I know nothing of CS and havent touched mouse in my life. I picked the best weapon in the business, the Magnum Sniper Rifle xD .... They just ran towards me thinking no fear.. I took 2 down but a guy from back shot me :P
The guys got veryvery irritated by my sniping, after they shot me and when i lie on ground, they put a few more bullets in my head lol :p
after we are dead, we we used to give directions to other people like "go left no right up looklook shoot" the guy never saw the screen, shot as we said..... :p
We played 150+ rounds of CS and ended at 12.30 mid-night. But these moments, I ll cherish all my life :")
Meantime mofo Sudi went to the college's hostel with his friends and it seems he had given the key of other room to some other college guys... that mofo didnt inform us about that :| 3 people on 2 beds and I was in middle, i didnt get sleep the whole night while the other made squeaky noises as they slept.... darn.....
19th April
Today was the event I looked forward to C programming, held at 10 PM. I was damn sure I am going to clear the prelims and enter the finals.. We learnt later that 150 people participated i.e., 75 teams and 10 teams were selected for the finals. Finals was like they gave a few questions and we had to code for it....
Questions looked easy but they needed time and they had given only 2 hrs of it :(
I was able to do 3 of which 2 were correct 1 had bug :(
There was a question called Harry Potter in which Harry had to brew potions which had to be of highest magical strengths. Given some ingredients harry had to select leaving only one with least magical power and prepare the potion..
Ok, what i did was bubblesorted the array, the question said we had to take the mean of the parent ingredient and add to the next...
Time was up and it was testing time, some standard inputs to the Q gave 7 as magical strength but I was getting 6.75 and didnt get time to round of :(
testguy1:"Can you show the program?"
me:"sure".
crtl+f9, that guy typed the inputs and output was 6.
he:"whats this".
I explained that was not able to round of etc...
he:"its invalid"
me:"look here, I bubble sorted the array" showing the code
he:"woah woah woah no no not that, wait"
he called another guy.. I wonder he didnt even know Bubble sort :|
testguy2:"show the ouput.."
samething.......
me:"look i bubble sorted the array"
he:"you can't Bubble sort" (chu**a )
me:"why not?"
he:"you cant"
me:"why not?"
He made a dumb expression and called another guy..
he to made the same remarks..... I walked out angrily....
Later I learnt that Mr.Praveen Paiseeing our discussion made Comp sc guys to check the code :)
I never thought that I would get a prize, but later that evening in the auditorium, we got the 3rd prize :D weeeeeeeeee :p
damn need to wake up at 4 am tomorrow (crap).. need to sleep BB laterz :D
Plzzzzzzzzzz comment :)
