First Job

I finally got placed in the night of 4th December. That is early morning 4.45 am of 5th december.

I was short listed at 11:00 pm of 4th dec. and I went to MB, had 2 interviews from 11:30 to 1:00 am. Then one more from 2:15 am to 3:00 am. I was confident that I would most likely be selected, but still there was some doubt in my mind. They told me I can go home. I came to my friend's room and slept there at 4:00 am. I got a call from placement cell telling me that I am selected by Adobe at 4:45 am. It's 12 lpa! That's one L per month! I was really happy! I called home and told abt this. They were happy.

Finally, thus ended my placements on the 4th day of December.

Placements

Now that exams are over, placements time has truly started. Need to revise all the concepts learnt in 3.5 years within, oh! 5 days! That too with BTP presentation on 28th so need to prepare presentation for the next 3 days! Two days preparation for placements. Really good!

Dosta na ?

Many told many stories about this movie. I happened to watch this movie. It's not what everyone thought about it to be. It's a fun based movie which shows how two people pretend to be "you know what" to get a home along with a woman. It shows how that results in irksome situations and how they both fell in love with the same girl etc.

But the main thing is, there is nothing much great about this movie. They only depicted how to laugh at others' feelings. There are people who are struggling in other places of the world to make these things acceptable to the society. We make a movie laughing at situations involving those conditions.

Indian v/s Hollywood movies

Why are Hollywood movies better than Indian movies? The answer is simple!

In Hollywood movies it is the director who plays important role in making the movie. Hence, he extracts all the talent inside his artists. He shows situations that are as realistic as possible.
Most of the Indian movies are Hero based ones. In every situation, it is the hero who is given importance. Hence, situations may not be natural, especially fights.
We cannot put the blame entirely on movie guys. It is the audience and media that is to be blamed mainly. If people want to see movies where there is hero centrism, only such movies are produced, after all, movie industry is also a free market, hence, the same rules apply there. Atleast media should try to educate people about the nature of movies because people on an average have average knowledge about anything and hence it may not be true.
About plagiarism: We now know that many movies and songs which are popular have their "inspirations" from other movies made in some western languages. How far is it justifiable to do that? Whenever we use others' work we need to pay some money for the copyright if we acknowledge that. So, why bother? As long as the work produced by us is not visible to them, it is OK. But, now due to increase in information exchange, this may not be possible. Consider "Hari Puttar". Now we know the sources of many movies and start questioning them about copying. They have to acknowledge, they have no choice. But, we should not be rude to them.
How many people would bother to see the english version of "Black" which was made in some 1930's ? But, by making it in India, many people were able to see it in their own language. Also, in earlier times, when making movies was not all that easy, they used to look for Hollywood because that is where many movies were made. Hence, it may not be completely wrong to take ideas from them.

So, what we finally want is to have movies which can take copyrights from originals. If that seems pretty costly, we can at least acknowledge that they are "inspired" before some one points out the same. Also, basic story line can be the same but at least sequence of actions etc. should change.

E=mc2

Finally, E=mc2 is proved to be correct in subatomic ranges!
French, German and Hungarian physicists collaborated to calculate the mass of protons in terms of mass of quarks etc. As mass of quarks account only for 5% of mass of protons, the remaining mass is accounted for by using this world's most famous equation, by associating it to the energy of the movements of quarks and gluons. A good proof for a great equation!

What a great idea it is to be formulated in 1905 when even protons etc. are not known. And it is valid till now for scales not even possibly conceived at that period. I always wished I were born in that period.

good sceneries

Some of the beautiful pics that I took with my digital camera.
The first one is of HN as viewed from my hostel.
The second one is a setting moon with Powai lake in the foreground.

Jerry Seinfeld

One of a lot of good scenes in Jerry Seinfeld:
Jerry and Kramer go to a movie and sit with an empty seat in between as a buffer when some other guy who Jerry knows happens to be around them looking for seats.
Jerry : Hey Kramer, pretend that we are talking.
Kramer: But we are talking!
Jerry: Yeah, pretend that we are talking something important.
Kramer: So, I had to Kill that guy! and the police are still looking for me!
Jerry: Oh, yeah!