Amazon Interview - Chitchat with a friend

I am posting this conversation with the consent of the other guy. I have edited here and there for privacy concerns and grammatical errors :P 


Anonymous: Hey

Sugavanesh Balasubramanian: Hi! How are winter holidays going?

Anonymous:
Good and idle
I am gonna bug you for the next few minutes !!!
you free 
?

Sugavanesh Balasubramanian:
shoot them!

Anonymous:
Stuff like spoj and topcoder help ?

Sugavanesh Balasubramanian:
programming help?!

Anonymous:
For my ppo ?
Frankly speaking I am not very much interested in codin these algo questions , For everything I learned the stuff required for interviews from these books
Crackn the codn interview
Geeks For Geeks

Sugavanesh Balasubramanian:
Do codechef cookoff's, TC SR's, COdejam (Google), FB Hackathon, and sometimes spoj.. That should do..
Disclaimer: I myself didnt do all this!
SO u are on my league! I wont say I dont like, but I am lazy enough to code 

Anonymous:
Is it compulsory ?

Sugavanesh Balasubramanian:
Not much! U are done with basic algos and ds right?

Anonymous:
yea
I mean decently good
I know good deal of Java

Sugavanesh Balasubramanian:
I think that should do for clearing PPO (as such, from my interview experience and I didnt know a good deal of them)

Anonymous:
And I love hacking and coding applications

Sugavanesh Balasubramanian:
Oh, great! So u have an added advantage..
k.. U have done sth? have a github profile?
Thats not compulsory.. just asking out of curiosity..

Anonymous:
I dont have one !!!
But I did work on few web applications , web pages !!!

11:56pm
Sugavanesh Balasubramanian
If u love hacking, coding, create an account with github and start doing what u love..

Anonymous:
Have them on my local git

Sugavanesh Balasubramanian:
U can find many freaking stuff! Oh, good.. Somewhere online or offline..

Anonymous:
offline
I will better have them on git hub
Not very great stuff

Sugavanesh Balasubramanian:
Just upload them on github or code.google.com.. Never mind.. That doesnt matter..

Anonymous:
Btw , can you tell me when did your intern start
when did it end ?

Sugavanesh Balasubramanian:
They ll ask u for the dates..

Anonymous:
Oh !!!
And how much did they pay you  ?
I dont know anything
They never mentioned

Sugavanesh Balasubramanian:
Me and the other guy from our college decided to ve 1 week before and after the intern as holidays.. so accordingly it turned out to be 2 months and 2 weeks as holidays

Sugavanesh Balasubramanian:
30 + 30

Anonymous:
ohk

11:59pm
Sugavanesh Balasubramanian:
Just tell them, I dont know.. I maintain the same even after knowing the package..

Anonymous:
and food , Is something avlbl in the company ?
That was the the thing I mentioned to everyone , "I DO NOT KNOW"
Easiest way out !!

Sugavanesh Balasubramanian:
They ll give u food coupons but that ll be hardly enough for more than 15 days.. There is a food court where u have many stalls like KFC (This is in Chennai, not sure abt the rest), etc.. Also u would have cafeteria in every floor which is absolutely free.. U get soup, all milk stuff..

Anonymous:
oh ok !!!
What time do you need to be there and when do you leave from work ?
Does a cab pick you up ?

Sugavanesh Balasubramanian:
In our team, there was no restrictions.. From what I heard, he also didnt have any restrictions... I used to come by noon (12!!) and leave by midnight.. My staying place was sloppy so I chose to go there only for sleeping..
It depends on the team u are put in and the kind of work assigned!

Anonymous:
Thats osum and cool

Sugavanesh Balasubramanian:
U have cabs to pick u up and drop!

Anonymous:
great !!

Sugavanesh Balasubramanian:
Mine was completely independent work from the entire office so I just wanted to disturb my mentor if at all otherwise i got to work in my own pace.. So it didnt matter much for me..

Anonymous:
How did it go about

Sugavanesh Balasubramanian:
what?

Anonymous:
The entire thing
when you went to the company till you got your ppo ?

Sugavanesh Balasubramanian:
U mean.. the intern?

Anonymous:
yea
you had some explicit training ?? !!!

Sugavanesh Balasubramanian:
I didnt go to the company till I got PPO. The results were conveyed only after a month or so. and he opted to have his PPO interviews here in campus after college started!

Anonymous:
I dint get you !!!

Sugavanesh Balasubramanian:
It depends.. I didnt have any. As I said, no one knew anything abt what I was working on.. But he had a bootcamp for about a week, I think

Anonymous:
You had your ppo interview during ?

Sugavanesh Balasubramanian:
my intern.. But he had his interviews only when Amazon came to campus (he opted that way!)

Anonymous:
oh !!!
And you got a confirmation on ?

Sugavanesh Balasubramanian:
After a month or so. they called me and informed..
and also sent a mail

Anonymous:
Oh no one would know ryt after their interviews ?

Sugavanesh Balasubramanian:
?? I didnt get the question..
You wont know right after the interviews...

Anonymous:
Oh !!!
So when was this , after a month
I mean which month ?
August ?

Sugavanesh Balasubramanian:
I am not sure abt the exact date.. It was a Friday though..
after fb initial screening.. May be..

Anonymous:
Oh
Okay get it !!!
July 20 or so

Sugavanesh Balasubramanian:
May be..

Anonymous:
And how are the people there ?

Sugavanesh Balasubramanian:
again, it depends on the team and place.. One of my friends' friend had a 'not so good' time due to the high demand placed by his mentor.. But for me, like I said, I was left to work in my own pace..

Anonymous:
Oh
And what do they offer in Amazon as CTC ?

Sugavanesh Balasubramanian:
same as Microsoft.. should be 16.. I think But all that matters is what that comes in hand..

Anonymous:
"I do not know" - not for me 

Sugavanesh Balasubramanian:
*to hand.

Anonymous:
yea !!!

Sugavanesh Balasubramanian:
??

Anonymous:
And how are people in general 
Do they work extremely hard ?
Do you know of any interns who were denied a PPO ?


Sugavanesh Balasubramanian
some, yeah.. few ppl like me, No!! Ask Harish!! he would give u a great narrative.. He used to work his ass off that his mentor called him and told this is just intern dont work this much but my manager always told u got to do more.. I worked at my own pace. 
Yeah, many..

Anonymous:
Oh

Sugavanesh Balasubramanian:
In our office, me and only three others made it, out of say 15 roughly..


Anonymous
Oh theres a high chance of not making also then
:|

Sugavanesh Balasubramanian:
Never mind.. U still didnt even join..
Just keep ur options open!

Anonymous:
hmm
he did it at B lore ryt ?

Sugavanesh Balasubramanian:
yeah!
how I wish he was with me...

Anonymous:
any differences here and there ?
And do they ask you for your preference of location?

Sugavanesh Balasubramanian:
ask him.. I dont know much.. Few things i know are, climate, clubs, fun outside office, cheap rooms..

Anonymous:
oh !!!
Btw all these 15 ppl are from ?
I mean which colleges ?

Sugavanesh Balasubramanian:
Yes! But in my case it turned out to be exact opposite! My choices in order was B'lore, Hyderabad, Chennai.. But I was posted to Chennai. (I dont regret it now, though!)
IIT K, IIT KGP, Anna University, few other NIT's, Delhi University and few others!

Anonymous:
Oh !!!

Sugavanesh Balasubramanian:
And IIT guy was the first guy to get it.. (to my knowledge)

Anonymous:
So tell me things I need to do and shouldnt do

Sugavanesh Balasubramanian:
He did an excellent work it seems..

Anonymous:
to ensure I get a PPO
Oh !!

Sugavanesh Balasubramanian:
Shouldn't do: Dont think about PPO ever.. I never thought about that till they called me to schedule the PPO interview..

Anonymous:
Oh !!
but somehow this thing is making me more anxious !!!

Sugavanesh Balasubramanian:
2) Dont ever hesitate to ask doubts and get it clarified. They are uber-cool. And try to create some kind of bonding and friendship..
Never mind, as soon as u go there.. u have better things to worry about..

Anonymous:
lol
and 3 ) ?

Sugavanesh Balasubramanian:
Also, there were events for interns from US (I found it through internal wiki!) and try to have such events in India. I have already put forward that notion... I was the only one to participate from India in all those coding contests, puzzle champs!
they didnt have any when i went there..

Anonymous:
Oh !!!

Sugavanesh Balasubramanian:
Hope they ll come up with sth when u guys go.. otherwise u take the initiative.. (if u are interested, i mean)

Anonymous:
Oh cool
and technologies ?

Sugavanesh Balasubramanian:
i mostly worked on opensource software except for some proprietary code.. Its no big deal.. U can figure that out there..

Anonymous:
Oh

Sugavanesh Balasubramanian:
Just be comfortable with debugging, eclipse... that should do
*get comfortable

Anonymous:
Any idea why people were denied ppos
i mean any obvious reasons ?

Sugavanesh Balasubramanian:
Few reasons as I heard, 1) they weren't productive enough (as was expected, I wonder why I didnt become a victim of this reason! :P)
2) didnt fit in the team
3) didnt have the expected talent or knowledge (this one too!)
4) not so committed to work like being unable to figure out the problems (again, I might have gone down here!)..

As I said earlier, just care about the quality of work u do.. Do u work for the money's worth they are paying u? Thats all that matters!

Anonymous:
And yea the quality of work is it in our hands ?

Sugavanesh Balasubramanian:
Dont care about PPO.. U know ******?! He was denied a PPO, it seems! But look at the bright side, he made it to MS IDC (though personally i think working in Amazon is better!)
most of the time, yeah!

Anonymous:
Oh cool
****** is from your batch ?

Sugavanesh Balasubramanian:
dude, ******* is the same batch of ******* blah blah (edited for privacy!)

Anonymous:
Oh
cool
sugavanesh
Let me start thinking on real stuff
than ppo ppo

Sugavanesh Balasubramanian:
like?!
hehe.. exactly!

Anonymous:
coding something
improving myself
on algos , ds ,
Ok Comp Arch ?
will this serve any purpose ?

Sugavanesh Balasubramanian:
think about how u wanna see urself after say 4 yrs! do some projects, participate in competitions.. learn some other stuff..

Anonymous:
I mean shld I learn ?

Sugavanesh Balasubramanian:
i dint get u..
do u mean, should I learn comparch?!

Anonymous:
Computer Architeture
yea

Sugavanesh Balasubramanian:
depends.. u again have a subject in 7th sem! also, if u are interested u can further pursue a carrier in that.. Also, few companies might require that knowledge.. Just know the basics. that should do if u dont like the subject..

Anonymous:
OHk

Sugavanesh Balasubramanian:
Try to be strong in networks and OS (general advice! nothing related to Amazon!)
Though, my OS knowledge helped me a lot!

Anonymous:
and OS DBMS ALGOS DS C Java Networks 
anything more ?
I am not good at C++
I mean I knw stuff but then I dont use it

Sugavanesh Balasubramanian:
Get comfortable with linux and shell. I was able to automate a lot of stuff in my intern for trivial stuff like logging and settting flags..

Anonymous:
Okay linux and shell
I dint get you
you mean writing scripts and all that ?

Sugavanesh Balasubramanian:
yeap! exactly!

Anonymous:
Oh cool
I will meet you in person and know more on this !!!

Sugavanesh Balasubramanian:
U are CSE student! u are expected to know basics of everything.. so try to cover that! it should be helpful in future in some form or the other!
Sure!

Anonymous:
Okay
I indeed bugged you
And thanks for this

Sugavanesh Balasubramanian:
No issues, buddy! All the best!
Just think beyond 3 yrs and ur career.. THat should do!

Anonymous:
Bye

Sugavanesh Balasubramanian:
Can I make this conversation public (a part of it?! ) l
Never mind, bye!

Anonymous:
cool !!!
you are making it now ?
Let me also watch 

Sugavanesh Balasubramanian:
Nah! I shall edit some stuff and post it on my blog..

Anonymous:
oh cool
give the link
whats your blog ?

Sugavanesh Balasubramanian:
k... ll do once i post.. amastersidea.blogspot.in (not that active, actually!)

So I watched a video (Hiphop Tamizha - Manithan Tamilan) and this is what I feel

TL;DR

This video is not worth the time (Just skip to the last 1.5 minutes which is worth the time) just like this blog post. :P

Link to the video:

Uh, wait! Seriously? Did u watch the entire video? Is it really a must watch?! 

Personally, I have nothing against the video as for the motive behind it. But the way the promotion is done is what irritates me!! On a related note, read my article regarding the same here.. 

He is citing Lemuria, Alex Collier, 20000 yr old language (??),  DNA research (Watch Story of India by BBC!), Angkor wat and what not?! 

Myths demystified:

1. Lemuria : Read my other post on it.

2. Alex Collier : Avan onna number dagaalty! Controversy is all around him! He also claims we were extra-terrestials and he has made contact with Andromeda! (I mean, seriously?! ) Read this, and google his name! (You ll have the most fun time of your life!)

3. 20000 yr old language: Few excavations here and there has cited proofs of Tamil Brahmi script to be as old as 6K yrs old but 20000 yrs is too far-fetched. And I am not going to buy it! 

4. DNA Research (and Tamil being the oldest DNA): For that they need not be Tamil ppl from the origin for all I know, thats what the researchers concluded. Yes, its true that the oldest DNA from the human race was found from the person somewhere in a village in Madurai but that doesnt say anything, for all I know. 

5. Angkor wat : Watch videos on Angkor wat (Digging for truth: YouTube) and read Sivaranjani's article (its a great one!) on the same in our magazine, Aayutham. Nowhere, it has been proved that it is a Tamil King. Yes, there have been clues and hints like, the architecture of the temple, the irrigation system of the entire old city (Read about this! Its an interesting piece of engineering for the age of it!), few artworks here and there, religion of the temple. But its still inconclusive. It is safe to say, it is by some Indian origin dynasty but nothing else can we derive as of now. 

6. Citing aganaanuru and puranaanuru as oldest treasures: I mean seriously?! What happened to Tholkappiyam, Thirumanthiram, and all other scientific works in Ettuthokai and 18 Keezh and Mezh?! 

This is how low, an argument can be. All the above are myths! And just that! Atleast, he didnt claim to bunk other languages. I am happy about the way he has concluded that we should just be proud about our language (That, I like it..)  

Personally, this is how the video should have been!  (I feel it this way!)

1. Tanjore temple (Thats a great one! I liked it!)
2. Thiruvalluvar
3. Siddha medicine 
4. Thirumanthiram 
5. Pythogorean theorem (Tamil version)
6. Scientific quotes in 18 Keezh, 18 Mel, ettuthogai
7. Tholkappiyam (Its claimed to be the oldest book on grammar by many. I dont know how far its true!)
8. Third (might be forth) most popular language on the internet (Thanks to the Srilankan Tamil patriots for their amazing work like Noolaham!)
9. Yaazhpaanam library (I liked this one too!)
10. Kalaigal 64
11. Secularism embedded in the language
12. Importance to arts, science over religion in the literature (Read ancient works, some wikipedia articles, watch some videos on how advent of Hinduism and other religions corrupted the literature works to be religious!)
13. Semmozhi status for its literature
14. Carrying over culture over centuries through customs, arts and language.. 

This would have been a valid and fine argument! Rather than quoting Alex Collier and co. That substantially defeats the argument in itself.

I mean seriously, having a conversation with Andromeda extra-terrestials, and Lemurians are extra-terrestials. Oh, please save me on this one!

I rest my case. Valid Comments (with proper citations and proofs!) are welcome.

P.S: I am not posting this argument over there in the source as it might lead to unwarranted comments and unwanted bashing. People just don't understand. So I am limiting the audience to my commentary.

Ayitham (Aayutham) Edition 1

      After much delay, it was released successfully. And here is the soft copy of the magazine for your grab. First Edition of Ayitham (Aayutham), an Inter-college Tamil Magazine, first of its kind! Need I say more?! Comments are welcome...

To the person I look up to, My Dad...

I got the notion of sharing this article when I was returning to Chennai, the other day with few hours remaining for me turning into an adult from a teen.. It was the time for some realizations, commitments, blah blah.

I have never been close to anyone like my parents lest few friends.. But, I have been always more close to my Mom, sharing everything with her and asking for guidance more than my father.. This is not about how relatively I like my Mom and Dad.. This is about what I have realized or say felt about my Dad !! Originally, I wanted to write something about my Dad on Father's Day but I was waiting for his birthday.. In the end, settled for mine.. Ah, lets cut the crap.. and dig into my thoughts to see what I actually wanted to say!!

#NOT.. BUT.. SO..

I look up to my father all the time, not because he is successful but he is CONFIDENT that he can be successful even after years of toil, not because he is rich but his wisdom, situational abilities, rich circle he has surrounded himself with (few trust-worthy friends and many notable acquaintance ), not because he is a genius but he is passionate about what he does ( only when he does ), not because he is a celebrity but because he and mom always made me and my bro feel we are special, not because he is in a responsible position but I saw a reformer in him.

#AURA

I have never seen him cry nor sit dull even at the toughest of his times that I have witnessed him in.. He always had that calculative mind which clicked most of the times.. Though he was out of business due to unexpected reasons (which happen to occur most of the times), I have never seen him broken nor did he yield in to any other stuff (uknowwhatimean). The loss he has seen, the failures he has gone through, Man it should take a lot of confidence ( I have a better term in Tamil - 'Nenjazhuththam' ) and he perseveres it yet..

#PURE LOVE

I have never seen a man who doesn't sleep for more than 2 hours for 6 months in continuum.. I saw a devoted son doing the same, my father as a devoted son to his father.. I have my grandpa saying to my Mom, "Please leave me in Ashram, I ll manage with somebody's help over there.. I can't see my son's toil and sleeplessness for nights...." Well, we hear (or atleast I have) heard even the richest ignoring their parents. though they love them, they just cant bare the pain in serving their parents.. But here was my Man, doing what is unmatched service ( who cares about literature.. I saw one in my home!! ). My grandpa was well-built and composed. I would see my father carrying his father as a child around places.. Kaana kann kodi thevai irunthathu!!

I would never have used the pc cam for a better purpose than picturing my father taking care of his.

#INTIMACY

Now, it has been one year since my Grandpa's demise and there broke a fight between parents over an issue about his clothes. And all I could see in my father was the pure and atmost love to his father in the fight.. And that was what my Mom was trying to overcome.. Who ll know this man better than she does?!

#ABILITY

Due to his procrastinating nature, he faced failures in many ventures irrespective of his hard-work, effort and intelligence.. This lead to a lot of criticism from the relatives whom are less talented than my father in many ways (which I say with 'garvam' ) which was unbearable and remains that way for me and my Mom.. He seldom cares about that.. And thats where the spark for other fights raise between my parents.. When we know he deserved enough credit for what he has done but was neglected or not given the same, we can never feel good about it.

#DECISION MAKING

Not just through his character and way of life, but also through his guidance through the life he has inspired me a lot and made me feel he is the man I look upto.. Even during adverse situations, he has always said, 'Never indulge in anything or never buy anything which doesn't give u 100% satisfaction.. Never haste into any decisions just considering few factors compromising ur satisfaction for it.. ' Damn!! Those were the lines driving my life!! '

#REFORMER

Thinking back, I would say My father was the first reformer, I saw. And the second one would be my Mom. While, it is not customary to allow women work in my relational circle aka caste ( as i perceive ), a man who encouraged and supported my Mom to work who in-turn supported the family economy, was my father. And I take pride in saying that he was more excited in our success while he was least bothered about his own though he saw and cherished our success as his own. 

#UNCONDITIONAL LOVE

Still remember the reaction of  Prakash Raj on his child's cry ( from the Movie : Abhiyum Naanum ) And such was the love he has always shown to me and our family. Though we never really shared many pleasantries (which i sometimes feel bad about), Our conscience knows that We are there for each other all the time.

When all these thoughts ran through my mind with few more incidents (which I have avoided to defy from vagueness ), for a few moments, my throat choked... I felt like having tears (I actually had).. And that was the moment I decided to share this amazing feeling with others.. 

Love u Dad!! This is for u :-) You are my first mentor, friend, above all my beloved father :-)

My journey to Amazon intern....part 3:P

                         Continuing from...."I was bitterly hungry so went out with a friend to have something and then came the call on my phone...."   Yes it was one of our guys who was waiting there outside for the results just like me... The only difference is right now am not there at the spot... So i went back along with my friend after gulping what i meant to enjoy drinking...Anyways chuck that... We reached over there... and the guy who called me said i made it to the next round along with few other people.. You know the exact number was not known to anyone 'cause afterwards they called few more.....


                      So, though i didn't have any expectations as a fellow candidate i was a bit apprehensive about what is next... So i asked others about what is gonna be next...Of course each had their own versions just like me... Then i managed to make out something from the morning experiences and my friends' ... that they were specific about something called 'approach'... so i was bit comfortable that i might be able to satisfy them with what i call that 'i just work on my intuition at the moment'... So i was waiting for my turn to come while discussing all petty things with others which was possible at that moment....


                     I didn't feel like sitting there anymore so i just gave company to the other one who was just having a walk around near-by asking about how he developed all such good programming skills specifically coding skills..i shared my stuff too... and then asked about some random stuff and time just passed for some time. I no longer felt like walking around as one of our guys was called in and he just left.. As i said earlier i was waiting for my turn.. Then one of the panelists came out and said that the others were busy with other candidates so we   could have  a short break or something, have our lunch and then could come back after one hour... we actually didnt have a mind-set to eat at all... After all we just need to know whether we would make it... But still as a bunch anything is possible....


                    Me and other few guys left to sc to have something and then there we met few of our friends who gave their wishes... I dont think that whether it really reached our minds or not as we were busy thinking something else... So we came back before 15 minutes of the stipulated time(let me say so... )... After sometime they called few of our friends and seniors and then was MY TURN....I WENT IN... to be continued in the next post.... Sorry for the extension of time.... Bye....

My journey to Amazon intern....part 2:P

       Continuing from... Damn man i never received any messages till then.. Then i texted our supposed to be cic-rep about the results.. and yes the results were out... To my relief in the message that followed contained the shortlisted candidates... and i was able to see my name present in full... Sugavanesh B... Then i asked about the timings for the next rounds and procedure...and yeah i was also supposed to forward this message to the other shortlisted friends of mine... well yeah i managed to do that... then i go myself ready with a slight relaxed manner with the idea that things never start in the mentioned time atleast here in our place... 

       But no, there came a message from one of my friends asking me to come fast.. OMG, i need to rush to the spot now... By the time i reached there others already have started taking the test... On the board were the questions something related to trees yet another time... and some stuff related to subsequence....

      I managed to understand the question by the time few were already ready to show their approaches or solutions... God knows what it really was.... But yeah i managed to crack the second problem first and then explained to the panelist and he felt it was right..(But you know what i was a little unsure whether it will work for few exceptions but yeah it actually works and he found that prior to me...) Then i was asked to think on the approach for the first one...which i had no idea(as of that moment)...

     Then came the memories of the past where i failed 'cause i thought monotonously without even thinking about other possibilities due to which i failed... So i was firm not to commit the same mistake again.. So i was thinking of all the possible computer algorithmic terms in my mind to relate to it rather than thinking about the basic thought behind it... DP, Hashing, STL, vectors, class, branching, greedy, local, and anything i have heard of or that was in my memory...... Nothing really worked except cracking few solutions here and there... Damn then came the sad part... The solution was the basic idea behind it... i guess u guessed it right...  monotonous thinking was the actual solution with best available space complexity(at least) and yeah i explained him the context he wanted to reduce the time complexity also but i had a thought about it and found it impossible.. This time i was more fixed with my idea and point that he also felt i was right.. and thats it i was asked to write the code....after struggling a lot i was actually able to 'programize' my idea... because of all those conditions and exceptions......

        I was a little confident of having solved both the problems and so i felt i have a kind of chance to make it to next level 'cause many felt their complexity wasn't that good... this complexity stuff always makes things complex.... 

        I was bitterly hungry so went out with a friend to have something and then came the call on my phone.... Continuing on part 3... You know i cant actually write the entire stuff altogether......

My journey to Amazon intern....part 1:P

      Well, yeah!! Now that i have got an intern offer from Amazon.. I can really feel the peace of mind which helped me to recover myself from the huge burden of the guilt of doing nothing during summer... That doesn't mean I am gonna stay doing nothing for the rest of the days till summer... It has really given me a strong boost to work on my future and projects...

      Having said all my bla bla bla... Let me share my interview experience... Actually I have no bad opinion to share about the entire process not just because I was taken in.. But its because i genuinely felt so.... The way they dealt with the candidates and the stuff they actually expected from us rather than the ultimate solution... I really liked that...

      After the lonely and lazy holidays... I never had the confidence of attending any intern interview the very first week after joining college..May be i need to put it this way that i was actually not ready for another humiliation and feeling of guilt... But yeah...as days passed by, i was able to pick myself..COURTESY:my past, seniors, friends and well-wishers... It all started with fb online written test.. To my surprise i was able to complete the problem (never mind all that complexity business...:P) but yeah that itself was a mark of improvement in my problem solving skills.. Then as expected.. to be genuine.. as deserved... i didn't clear the next rounds.. THe most deserving candidates made it... and i was sure about it... 

       Then came the Microsoft written test.. Was able to solve those problems... But to my dismay..i found myself not in a strong position even with the basics of C and C++..the demigod of CSE students of India(at least)....So that made me embarrassed really.. Yeah, I overcame the feeling in the matter of few days...


        Then came the amazon.. I really didn't have that kind of a bright picture of amazon like i had with facebook, microsoft or google for instance... But i found IMDB is owned by amazon COURTESY:the wonderful presentation they gave the other day's morning... I would have missed a lot if i had missed that presentation... And that excited me to a lot of extent obviously being a movie freak and a regular visitor of that website.... So i had a new energy(undefined).. and more passion to make it... and of course the thirst to get an intern at any cost... 

       To my good luck.. the questions were really of my type.. you know testing  apti , data structures and algo rather than just raw algo and stuff... which i should work on.. I managed to attend everything..inspite of negative marks for wrong answers in MCQ's ( that being my general tendency...).. And i found many of my answers happened to be right... Results were not released that night which i was eagerly awaiting.. Next morning i woke up due to a call from my friend..you know it took me some time to actually buckle up from my sleep...and there you go he said that the results were out and asked if i knew about it or recieived any intimation about it... Damn man i never received any message till then... Let me continue the rest of this long boring story in the next post....  Bye....

Done with the semester holidays

                Started with a heap of expectations, plans, goals, dreams, responsibility, and ended even without a worthy note.... and thats it my holidays are gone..
           
                But know what... this holidays.. i believe ll be in my memories through out my life..'cause if i fail to reach my desired destination, this blunder will hold responsible for it... And if i still managed to reach over there... then my will power and capabilities will be at par.. Hope my environment suits me and helps me in this case....

 "Life has a lot of surprise for you and it never fails to entertain you and excite you.."

                 I hope it goes as per this law... Came with a plan of reviving my knowledge in my field and ended up in reviving my maturity level... Hope so.. Some one out there must help me to execute those plans of mine.. if not possible atleast edit and modify my plans to suit me.. Come on.. we ought to bend and strive to execute our plans.. And i am sure i didn't even try the least of it... 


               All said now can i make it from here.. Yes.. still i believe.. There is a small ray of hope somewhere in the dark which shows the path i should follow..The more i delay the more thinner and dimmer it becomes... I can realize that..I can feel that and still am waiting and didn't start my journey.. I don't know what is inhibiting my journey towards it.. one thing might be my laziness, my crazy wavering and unclear heart.. But still you have to take that risk to find what is hidden over there.. and i hope i ll take that asap..... 


               Here i am leaving to my clg. with all those plans and dreams as i left the clg.. Only thing that has changed is time constraint and my maturity level.. May be this can help me or something else is there in stock for me... Lets hope for the best.. Do what is best and think what is best... May God gives me what he thinks is best to me... After all these many bests may be exaggerating but still thats me with unbelievable plans and lots of belief in myself... Still managed to and continue to rock life.......... 

Thought for the day: Mistakes are not meant to be repeated...

                Someone said, "Practice makes a man perfect...."..
               
                From the lessons i' ve had from my life, i understood one profound truth.. Practice is accompanied my mistakes.. No one can oppose that.. But each time you practice something you got to be better at it..rather than being in the same state... If not there is no purpose of practice in there except killing time and resources... Well said now ... Does that mean we are not supposed to commit any mistakes as we practice?


               Not at all.. This is my view... All i need myself to see is I just don't want to commit the same damn mistake which i committed in the previous session of practice.. That doesn't mean that i ll be devoid of mistakes.. Now as it goes i should see that i ve an element of improvement...


               Let me add that, " I've  always and continue to commit mistakes but never the same again....." And i take prestige in saying that... Certain stuff go unnoticed.. Like while practising for singing or dancing or any other form of art... We cant perfect it at the very second time we perform that or practice that... There mistakes are not actually mistakes... There comes actually the concept of improvement....


                With all this boring, long, weird, lecture of mine all i meant to say was..., "Progress must happen in life... No matter what..." Progress means not in time... but in our character, our learning, our experience, our way of understanding, our experience, our relationship with others, our maturity, our IQ, as a whole that part of life which ACTUALLY ADDS SENSE TO IT.... So I hope to never repeat the mistakes which i ve been repenting for the brief past.. Let that be brief but let our life's context not be brief......


              Continue to rock in life.........!!!!

Thought for the day- Punish yourself

       I never knew punishments were this good after what i am undergoing now... I think i will succeed even if i start after this punishment for the repeated crime yesterday.. i understand this doesnt make any sense for strangers... But what is more important is the consequences...
       
       If you feel that you have committed a mistake then better give yourself  a punishment otherwise you will be forced to undergo the punishment given by the third person-it can be your fate, god, friends, relationship, life whatever you name it... but its so true that it would be more harsh on you than your own punishment for self...


       I think i am right so i gave myself a punishment that i must undergo for this day... and i hope this would eventually change my life drastically in the positive sense...


       As someone says,


            " Work hard and get what you like or else you will force to like what you get"


      My line goes like this,
 
             " Punish yourself and make yourself sorry otherwise you would be forced for a harsher punishment by the will of god or nature"


      So punish yourself rather than giving the right to someone else... After all we like to have the ball in our court rather than someone else directing it... Isn't it?

My first sci-fi story..

Day 7 ADD(After Dooms Day) 

 Albert Karamchand,

CTC(Chief Technical Consultant),

Sector-2,ISSI(International Survivors’ Solutions Institute),

State Magragendi.

To the World I might not see,

                 Things should never have happened this way. I never thought that I would be part of the world when it would become extinct. I just wish we should have seen it coming. We could have used the ULTRACOMP 3 to evaluate the data on incoming radiations. Atleast we could’ve given more importance to the characteristics of NEXAGENTUM rather than just admiring at its characteristics. When I joined ISSI after War 3 (The Third World War), I never expected there would be a further more major disaster ,just on its way to us.

                   Well, War 3 had already caused a catastrophe more than anyone could ever imagine. 46.37% of the population before War 3 were dead after it. Thanks to the peace policy of State Magragendi which kept us away from the loss. Credit goes to our ancestors – the Indians. Though India was split to two unequal parts, it turned out to be a rational, fruitful idea in the future. Atleast we were able to construct as many TOAW’s (Towards Another World) possible so that we were able to save around 400 million people and other living beings.

                    This entire web of events initiated on 3 pm of March 3, 2033. Those many 3’s sounded really nasty even today, as we all were forced into these TOAW’s by nature on the same day. Yes, NIEB ( National Institute of Extra-terrestrial Bodies ), Russia reported “few remains of an asteroid (so called) was found in the desert of UtraMoscow”. Soon, they had the entire area under tight security. I was working for ETI (Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) at that time. I still remember few of my colleagues were so apprehensive about what NIEB was having in its mind. I and few of my co-scientists were asked by the U.F.(United Front) to check for any form of Intel in those rocks. All we were able to find was abnormal decaying of cactus plants around that area where the rock had hit. We proposed to stop all kinds of experiments, rather find the whereabouts of the rock as NASA announced that it’s telescopes nor the Russian ones were unable to detect any asteroid coming in any range possible. But NIEB neglected our proposal and also sent a 'NO NECESSITY' notice to U.F. So we returned, doing nothing. They also tried to convince us saying that the cactus burnt and not decayed..

                        One good thing I managed to do was contact someone in IMB (International Metallurgical Institute) to ask for the reports of the element ‘X’ in the extra-terrestrial rocks. To a common scientist’s astonishment, (not to me anyways as I expected something strange), it had mind blowing properties. He was dumbstruck and didn’t know how to exclaim it. In his words,

"That thing, whatever it is, is completely phenomenal. Z:A ratio was 1:4 but still 98.4% stable. Still, when induced by ZERO rays gave ultimate, rather more viable and consumable radioactivity. We actually managed to electrify a 6 storeyed building with it and Zero rays using Master RadioElecticity technology. Though it was a heavy solid of high density, it bent in a glass hole but can’t be pressed by bare hands. When it was exposed to UV rays , it suddenly became partially invisible. We understood that when its atoms get excited it transfers the visible energy to the other side. So to try to comprehend this, we went to our lab at State Of Antarc where it was completely invisible. We  understood that cosmic rays also played its part. We tested with all possible radiations after that. Every outcome was completely irrelevant , unjustified to the existing theories. So we are still in evaluation process”

                          After listening to all these, I was totally astonished when the next day news aired “ IMI had reported that it had found a new element – a metal and have named it as NEXAGENTUM (Next Generation’s Ultimatum) owing to its electrical properties. It can light up a big building indefinitely with ZERO rays nullifying law of conservation at its face. However no other new characteristics observed.” The ironical part was even the BOS (Board Of Scientists) of U.F. accepted their acclaimed facts. BUT, Future was about to reveal itself by series of consequences.

                       

                         Suddenly, lengths of days and nights changed abruptly. It was poorly attributed to the ozone layer depletion and global warming by BOS. We, a few conspirators from ISSC had no belief in it. Added to our doubt, were the succeeding events. Sudden malfunction of the FLYBOTS and aircraft in huge numbers in mid air; Formation of icebergs from nowhere in the great sea of Sahara, though it was cold ; Increase in number of underwater active volcanoes ; an entire island gets erased out of the world map by meteor showers from nowhere. NIEB, ETI were desperately finding reasons behind these incidents. Thanks to ETI, I was thrown out due to frequent pressure from my side to have access to the so called asteroid in the RESTRICTED AREA of our zone.

                         We in ISSC were working on TOAW’s expecting an another war which might require us to leave this planet or some attack by the aliens due to many recent communications made with Extra-terrestrials. That day on June 3,2043 when suddenly there were showers of rocks in many places of Earth, reducing quarter of the world to ashes. Later NASA announced the warning signal of incoming celestial masses in huge sizes and numbers of unknown substances and compositions, effectively UFO's. All we were able to do was save as many people as possible by emergency FLYRESCUERS, FLYBOTS and so on and leave via TOAW’s in huge numbers to nowhere. I still remembered that moment when I thought, that day has to be the DOOMSDAY for Earth when I was getting aboard… “A huge mass hit the earth in distance. The earth trembled. Soon there was a huge mushroom cloud in the horizon and that was the end of the world.”

© sugavaneshb@amastersidea.blogspot.com

Thought for the day- Promises are meant to be kept

"I give you a word!!"
"You can take my word for it"
"I promise!!"
"O god, please help me to hold to my promise!!"
"I wish I had kept my word the other day"


       These are just the lines ringing all the time in my ears ( if not my inner-self) now-a-days.. Still I continue to do the same crime i was doing before making all those blasphemous promises..Let me call that a blunder- a mistake that can never be corrected.. My pity, cant some one just stop me and say." Damn man!! you are not born for this!! Don't you dare repeat this again!!"..The least was me.. And I just continue to fail me..


       As someone said, "Human hearts just strive to find mistakes in others' perfection, while striving to find excuses for its own mistakes....!" How true!!


      Some one adds to this fact of all time as," We are so mean and lame that we continue to find some loop-holes in our words and promises and try to sum it up using those filthy loop holes...How disgusting!!"
  
      I feel so embarrassed when i get to realize that am one of those convicts of this major blunder which just goes unnoticed to make ordinary life and nature running at its pace.. O Lord...! Where is my self-conscience!! Wont there be someone to help me out!! Its already high time that i still didn't get rid of this!!


      So I hope some one would write a book on how to give a perfect word to someone else or inner-self!! So that me and the other convicts would learn from the book!! How sweet it would be!! After all we are all learners..and we continue to learn...


     Damn, what if there are some loop-holes in that book also..After all that book would be written by some other ordinary if not extra-ordinary human being who would have himself lost in many promises... Only god might help us or whether he himself has committed a blunder by creating such imperfect humans like us..(sorry me..I shouldn't have mentioned others as i don't have that liberty).. As the say goes..,


         "Practice makes a man perfect..No one is perfect then why practice....!!"..Let me have the least liberty to edit as.,


         "Promises makes a man perfect (by standing by it)..Seldom do they keep the promise..Then why promise...??!!"..how right ..( atleast for the moment!! )??

Thought for the day- Laziness is the first enemy of your dream

I ve always felt what 'Laziness' does to me...But now-a-days, it has crossed its bounds.. Now it has started shaking my belief and talent too.. It took me nearly my entire holiday period to overcome my evil in order to come to a resolution to start doing sth. effective.. Well then now its time to bounce back.. I can realise that i cant get back what i have lost.. Atleast I can repent my mistake..I suppose i will..Better be.. Or else who knows i might lose track of where i should have been going towards.. External factors always play a major role in shaping your mindset ...But its all your will power to fix and work towards your destination inspite of all that it takes..

I hope I am conscious and cautious of my past and the cost it made me pay in the future(of the past actually) so that i wont repeat the mistake (Its not an exaggeration to call it a BLUNDER...after all it cant be reset or corrected now)..

With all my conscience and this long(should have been brief) break, its time to start off....It better be the right time if not high time....

Buddy,its show time....