ifocus Finale — all good things come to an end

Well after the temple incident I decide to stay clear of this dude, as I was sure, he belonged no were but ina  loony bin.

So it was during my final Year Project presentation I saw him again, well this time, his project partner was in great deal of trouble, as he wasn’t participating and he was shuttling between Bangalore and Hyderabad for the Project thingy, as quite Honestly he was fed up of his unseal Behavior and Finally lost his cool, when he failed to show up for a Diagnostic test of the System. So when the teachers arrived to evaluate the System, it wasn’t working and they went on by some weird story about, him developing a new project so, he didn’t help out on this as his earlier academic record was sound, the teachers decided to cut him some slack and gave him, average points even when the system wasn’t working.

 

Well after few days, our regular examinations started and fortunately Mr. Focus was being seated in my exam hall. I didn’t pay much notice, but, when I saw him dressed in a Bright Yellow T, it occurred to me, that something weird was bound to happen, and it did.

Focus baba sat down on his seat, but turned behind glaring at his bird, who acted as he didn’t exist, well I decided to get back to my paper, but the events which occurred next were very bizarre,  We have a teacher whom we refer to as Pink panther, he is a guy wiv huge butts and pants stuck up to his ass-crack, which makes him look pretty funny, But he is a hardnutt to crack, pretty much suspends any student he feels is out of the line. Well Focus baba didn’t even spare pink panther, pinky found him sitting idle in the exam hall, and questioned him, why is he acting weird; well what happened next was not something anyone expected. Mr. Focus baba Exploded at full blast at Mr. Pinky shouting * who the hell r u to ask me, it’s my exam, my wish, I can do anything I want, go mind ur business…etc* well, Pinky didn’t know how to react, but just got on the defensive side and said, sit down sit down son ur hyperventilating and asked * do u want water*..Etc and he left bit confused and Shocked.

Now Focus baba took his pen and started to scribble down on his paper, and after a while got up and handed over the paper and left. Well the teacher didn’t question him why, because she had earlier seen him lashing out at Mr. Pinky. But she showed the students, what he wrote,

IFOCUS FOCUS FOCUS

BOSS BOSS BOSS BOSS (bachelor of Social Service)

He scribbled Boss all over his paper in bold letters. Now we all were sure, he flipped his lid.

And after the exam we saw many of the teachers coming down from the other block rather amused and sniggering among themselves and when enquired, they said they were visited by a special student, Mr. Focus baba they said he offered them to work in his company, and he planned on sending the teachers for special training to Australia, and that his company had striked a deal with GOOGLE.. So they knew something was wrong with him, as he was acting all weird, when they asked him to come to the medical wing, he left.

That evening, few students went up to his house so speak to his parents about his disturbing behavior, and found his parents on the same page , they took them up to his room which was on the 3rd floor and, when they entered the room , the walls were covered to every inch with pictures of God’s ( sai-baba, ganesh.. an…..and so on). So they students found it quite Odd.

The next exam was set with a day for preparation and the next day, while driving down to college, I found two people on a speeding bike, drivin like crazy thru the small country road (the University is 30 miles from city) when I reached the Exam block I found a small crowd and, found a man who’s was trembling his hair was ruffled and he was pretty much shaken- he was the pillion rider on the crazy bike, he was Focus babe’s dad. Focus baba had come in a weird costume and did the same thing he went into the class signed the attendance register and left.

Well, it was the last day of exams for engineering so nearly the whole class went up to his house, and apparently took him to a physiatrist and he got violent there, so he was shifted to a Mental Asylum. After some therapy (shock therapy) he was released. Now is doing well. Ive hrd he passed the exam’s he left, he had a good percentage and perfect score, but what can we say, we can’t have everything in life.

Some get to know it the easy way; he got to learn it the hard way

So this was the end of Focus baba, the last I saw him or heard from him was in July 2008 until now I was updated about him Passing Engineering, which prompted me to complete the blog story about him.

 

Now FOCUS this- Now Solar powered

Well it’s been quite a while since I got back to Blogging, since a lot was happening around me, so it kinda kept me busy. But now I found myself Free and ready to start writing my blog again after a gap of probably 1 year.

Last I posted was about an unusual dude, who had flipped his lid and was going to any lengths to get the attention he taught he deserved.

Well after the last episode, my classes were done with so I was at home preparing for my Final exams and as well as the final year projects, So During our Pre Exam tests I was walking down the stairs were I find our Mr. ifocus, surrounded by group of boys , who seemed keen on interrogating him.

So I decided to hang around for a while: D. Well, it seems that y Focus here was offred a highpost and highpaying job by *Google* but its was a top hush hush matter. So he came that day, wiv 20-30 Boxes of Traditional sweets and Distributed among the teachers and also made a point on degrading the other students and his friends saying, they wouldn’t even dream of getting such a job as they r *mediocre* and cant think the big picture, so this got the other students jumpy so his best Friends were interrogating him about the matter as he had also abused them.

Well he was acting all weird Jumpy and finally said, he would speak, but he asked them to come to a nearby Hanuman temple. So this lot started for the Temple and I was hanging around the campus fooling around, whets when I got a call from them saying, there was something going on and it was too good to miss. So I made a point of going there. When I entered the temple I saw this bunch of guys waiting outside and the loony dude was inside chanting some mantra.

Now he comes out, and this guys say, ” ok, enough with ur shit, whts up wiv u , u gone crazy or what ” so  the next what this guy did gave me the creeps, he stood in the sun jogging and kept looking up and started to chant, the others asked what the fuk r u doing, he says, am absorbing the energy from the SUN to talk, we were Dumbstruck thinking  what the hell was wrong with him and I took some steps back just in case,  the Others started the interrogation continued , I couldn’t get most of it as it was spoken in *telugu* and am no pro at it. The conversation turned into a heated argument and there was exchange of swears and leading to a fist fight. Then he blurts out, saying ” he was joking and it’s a lie, that he ever got a job in Google, he confessed he did it for so called **girl**. So the others said, *ok u were after the chic, but why degrade US in the process he as on about, that she liked it…etc stuff, so these guys called her up and i couldn’t hear the conversation between them, but it resulted in mr Focus kickin his bike down the hill and he went off walking.

Well that was end of that; I went on to my preparation for my examinations

 

Bunch of thievs

Well I don’t even know where to begin on this one, As many of you may be familiar with the Term “Supplementary” as it becomes quite often used when ur a student of engineering.

We Write Supplementary in hope of clearing the exams which we couldn’t Clear, which can be due to whatever reasons, but one can expect is the Support from the teachers (moral or whatever), but that is not the case here, this Time I had 3 Subjects remaining and it being the final supplementary of the season so it made it even more crucial, as if the subject wasn’t cleared then it would take 6 months for the exam to be re-conducted.

well that’s all that, Coming to the college, the exam is suppose to be schedule to begin at 10 am, so most of us were there by 9am, during which we were made to run barefooted across the college grounds, as there was a new rule being forced by an JNTU external that, all students are required to remove footwear and socks before entering the examination hall, this rule was weird enough,

The External Examiner ( a woman about 22-23 yrs of age),was given every one a hard time, as she went to every bench , to every student , checked then thoroughly, she came up to every student demanded the hall ticket and ID card and verified both the pictures with the student’s face, and sometimes claimed that the student on the hall ticket is not the one writing the exam, During which she made lotta noise and created scenes on the exam hall, * shouting n stuff* , She made us empty all our pockets , dust of pants , check the hall tickets as if they were bank Notes( checking in Light), I didn’t know what she was looking for Probably the RBI Gandhi strip found in bank notes, but am sure didn’t get close to finding them. when this was done, the students became very uneasy, as the way of questioning was not proper and it also meant loss of crucial time and Most importantly Disturbing the Fine Thread of patience, We spend all night preparing for exams, if any incident of this sort occurs, we tend to forget things or are not sure about them, resulting in very poor performance.

I don’t know where she was from *external* but, u could make out she must been working in a Central jail office or summat.Well on my First exam, she decided to pick on some poor old unsuspecting Soul.

The guy had forgotten his Hall ticket amidst the tension of the exam’s, so the general procedure for misplaced hall ticket is to inform someone at the office and request and reissue of the hall ticket which is a Xerox of the original one.

So this guy had went to the office and requested for a replacement, the concerned faculty was not present there, due to unknown reasons, so instead passed on the info to the other staff, as our college does not permit anyone inside the exam hall after 10am.

He had to rush Bk to class (in this case exam hall); the reissued hall ticket is usually sent to class during the exam. So the examiner had begun checking during which she found he had no hall ticket, after that it was more like, public show, disturbing everyone, including the teachers. She withheld the paper and demanded the hall ticket, when she was told that the student had applied for reissue, she didn’t take that as an explanation, his paper was tossed around quite often across the room, and by chronological order, every member of faculty was brought in to scold or torture the guy, this went on till 12:30 which left him only 30 mins to write and 3 hr exam.i don’t know what she was trying to achieve by doing this, but it surely didn’t help anyone but her sadistic self.

The Next day, I had an exam as well, so 2day was an other guy’s turn to be emotionally n physically harassed. as usual she was doing her usual bomb scan on the students, but 2day the college teachers had not requested to remove shoes as it was causing a foul smell in the corridors, so her day started by checking shoes, pockets, wallets, pens (checking for slips of paper), bus-passes, calculators…etc and more places u wouldn’t even think, that it could be possible to smuggle materials or data..Etc.

Well she came across a guy whom she had already checked, which eventually made the guy snap, he asked her * why she was performing such unusual checks as-if they were in jail, and wasting the students time, the argument continued so on, and she bought in the office guys again, to pester the student on grounds that he was disrupting an investigation, and he might possibly have material, the scenario continued for quite some time and students left the hall in disgust, that even the college authorities didn’t support the students and were entertaining the external Examiner. Well I don’t how,

How far this attitude will carry this woman, but one should keep in mind that they were also student once. If u want to c my college copy n past the co-ordinates in Google earth (latest version recommended)” 17 23 19.91,78 36 13.84″

Project Woes

 

Well its the Final Semester, and As know al Final year students are required to work and Submit Projects,  

Well Generally Most of the Students Look Into The fact that they have to do it from a Reputed company or Institute.

Our Project Woes Started Before our Final Semester, Me being From the ECE dept were Required to Submit the Project Group name and Abstract in the 1st Semester.

earlier we were asked to Decide Groups for the Final year Project , when it was decided many were scatted as 2-3-4 members in a group.

So our Project Co-ordinator Stepped in and Forced us on the fact that Minimum requirement for a Project is a 3 Member group not a 2 member group.

we talked amongst ourselves and after Long battles and back byting the groups were selected, and During our Lab Final exams they really steamed up the engine by applying a new Rule which requires a student to submit the *abstract* of the Project in order to get the Hal Ticket to the Regular exam.

Every thing went haywire as ppl started going to companies rather than studying for Lab Exams, wasting precious time, and later we were told That no Company was good enough for us to Work in, and we are all required to do the Projects in College Premises itself.

I had submitted for College Premises, dat was that, many others battled to include govt companies but in vain they pleas were rejected, but sme were allowed.

exams goes on holidays pass the first day of 2nd semester starts

Our Project Co-Ordinator walks into the room and announces that all groups are required to perform the project at College premises, and all other projects will be rejected.

and asked us to come the next day for the final decision

The Next day they have a totally new story, all groups are cancelled and we were told to divide ourselves into 2 members per group, rumble broke up, as the general notion was, hu;s going to decide hu;s going to stick with the same project and which Member has to leave the group,

Lot of Friends were put in a difficult position as many fights broke out, many members hadn’t come bk from the holidays and they didnt know the scenario here, it was every man for himself, fights ..etc

the next day the Class decided to approach the Director and explaining the nature of the problem, but after an 2 hr Debate with her, we didnt get her to agree to any of our terms, but it made us feel dat we were jst some Expendable assets and sacrificial Lambs of the College.

She explained that she earlier had made it clear to the project co-ordinators for ECE dept that she wanted Most of the Groups in College and 2 members per Group, but they Changed the Rules as they didnt have enough Faculty to support 2 member groups as the number will significantly increase.

And the report was submitted to her yesterday ( 30 days after we submitted).

So y did they make us run around like dat, when we could have submitted it now, Holidays would have been a good chance to review Project Titles………

So the Lack of Communication between the Director and the Co-Ordinator resulted in gettin our Asses in the Vice.

in the End we were at the receiving end….

even so now we r not sure wht wil happen tomorrow, maybe 1 member per group- hu knows……………

Trivandram

We Arrived in Trivandram dat Night and Checked into our Hotel which was quite Near to the Railway Station, Before Going to bed an Anonymous Caller had called to all the rooms of the students asking them to be quiet and some times abused them, we had got one such call from the Anonymous caller, we abused him out heart out for we had longed to do dat to some one for quite sometime now this created a commotion in the group and every one was out of their rooms and began hunting for the caller but alas he wasnt found, so every one had to go back to sleep.

The next day we al got ready to explore trivandram, we had Visited a Temple were we had to shed all our clothe’s and wear Dhoti and Kurta for Entry. After that we had our Breakfast and headed off to Kovalam Beach which was 3 hrs away from City.

On Reaching there all the students got an unusual Greeting from a unlikely Clad Foreigner, every one got busy into getting themselves nice place on the beach. Many from the groups had unpleasant encounter;s from the locals as they were not much friendly and abused the other’s if they got on “Their Side of The Beach”i personally woulda pissed around his perimeter To mark his Fencing for he couldn’t afford it

We all got to enjoy the beach and the powerful Waters’s one thing about Kovalam beach was that the water was very strong and really Muddy ppl had Sand in their pockets and in the lining of their Tracks.

We got to take a Canoe Ride over the Arabian Sea which was really awesome, Then we had our Lunch at the Leela Place Royal and then Headed off to Trivandram for our train was at 3am to warrangal

kanyakumari

The Trip from Tekkadi to Kanyakumari was a very long and tiresome one, we had to pass Trivandram on the way, so after Reaching Trivandram we had our Dinner then headed again for Kanyakumari, As Kanyakumari is very famous for its Sunrise and Sunset,it was set to be a spectacle for every one else,

We arrived Kanyakumari at night fall so we directly Checked into our Hotel and Headed straight to sleep,

Here was the place where we Other’s Faced Problem in hotel rooms as they had master Bed rooms which made 5 students to accommodate in a single room , as for us we had got a Deluxe Room with 2 Master Beds. As the Sun was about to come up we made out way to the beach to view the Sunrise, as it was promised to be a spectacle, But to our Distress Clouds had Clouded our view of the Sun coming up so we didnt get to watch the sunrise, After this was done Myelf ( Syed Junaid)of ECE and Arun of ECE made our way to a Rock made Stone path Going to the last point of India it was about 1/2km long and made of some Black Rocks, we spent some time there but it was really windy and unstable dude to the winds. Well as we were making our way back to the hotel we got to see some real awful sight’s of Grown men Shitting on the beach and them not being shy of it.

We then got ready to explore Kanyakumari, and headed off to the Twin Islands near Kanyakumari where they Held the Foot Print of the Goddess which befallen the Region’s name as Kanyakumari. As we made our way to the Docks we had to take a boat to the twin Islands which had a fare of 20rs, the Boat would pick us up and drop us at one of the twin islands then another boat later would pick us and drop us at the other island and back to main land.

On Reaching the 1st Island we got to see Really big and beautiful Temple’s which held the Foot Print of the Godess, and a Shrine of Shivaji. Then we boarded another boat to the 2nd Island which held a Giant Statue of an very famous Poet, then we Returned to Main land. After returning we had our lunches and started to explore and shop, you could be surprised on how much u can spend in a place like this a coastal city is most often benefited with availability of Smuggled goods, During our exploring of Kanyakumari it begun to rain down really heavy so we had to take shelter, and made out way back on an Goods carrier Auto, but in a dry state.

In the Evening we made out selves Ready and had our Dinner and Started off to Trivandram which was 3-5hrs away.

Tekkadi

After Reaching tekkadi we all were exhausted and tired and Checked in to a Hotel Which was Ok, Soon after checking in some went to have Lunch, and some for Massages for which Tekkadi is really famous for,

We were all suppose to meet up back at the Hotel at 3:30pm for the Boat ride at the Periyar Lake which Departs Shore at sharp 4pm daily and its the last Boat of the day,

But None of the Group had turned up except for Few ( Myself(Syed Junaid)(ECE), Anudeep(CSC), Sushant(CSC)) we were the First one to arrive, out Guide was Frustrated for none had turned up for the ride and as every one had paid 150 for the boat ride already and the tickets are not refundable, he had us got into the auto and ask us 3 to go to the lake and try to stop the boat if possible,

Phone calls were made to the other’s stating the urgency of the situation, but all the students took it lightly, we 3 started of in the Auto to the lake which was 5km from The Periyar Forest Reserve and 2 km inside the Reserve, we got there in time and on the boat, the boatmen waited for 10 mins and after that they started the boat and the Ride left the Shore’s, To every one’s Disappointment the Boat ride was suppose to be really enchanting During this time 4-6pm, and the next boat left at 7 am next day.

The sights were breath taking and the pictures taken dont mount to what we saw on that day, To our disappointment we had Mobile Phone with camera’s and no handy cam for Digi cam with us we took lot of pic from Nokia 6680 and Nseries 80, But the clarity is more in Digi cam so the picture;s came out darker than expected, but the view was indeed splendid.

After The Boat ride the group had again decided to go on a Boat Trip again on tomorrow Morning, Tekkadi Forest Reserve had a Trekking Project , which took traveller’s into the Deep forest at appropriate times, timing are , 6:00am to 9:00am, 11:00am to 1:00pm, 5:00pm to 7:00pm, 8:00pm to 10:00pm and 11:00pm to 2:00am( Midnight).

We Opted for 11:00pm to 2:00am the Trekking had a price tag of 500rs per head so it had Few taker’s the Group Consisted of

1) Sujata madam, 2)Shruti(IT), 3)Anudeep(CSC), 4)Bond (Pridvi) CSC, 5)Arun(ECE), 6)Myself(Syed Junaid) ECE.

Each Group had 6 member’s and had 1 Guide and 1 Armed Guard, we got to explore the whole forest as we went walking 13km into the forest we got to see wild boars, Deer’s, Fruit bats ..etc, we were said that Auto’s will be waiting for us when we come outside but all we had was a drunkard fast asleep, so we had to walk 5km to the hotel at 2:30 am in the night, During the walk we came across a Truck carrying SYNTEX tanks so myself and Anudeep (CSC) just playfully clicked one the truck which dat very second started off at break neck speed and after few sec when we were really considering to Jump off the truck slowed down right in front of the Hotel, Very fortunate other;s had to walk all the way till the Hotel premises.

In The meanwhile the other’s had organised a Bonfire Dance party by collecting 50rs from every body so all could get together for a nice warm fire and Dance. as some where off for the Midnight Trekking.

Next day every one got up and got ready for the boat ride which every one enjoyed much then we left for Trivandram.

Munnar

Well after Bangalore we boarded a train to Ernakulam, Kerala, from there we hired an High tech Bus to Drive us to Munnar,

Munnar being on hill side is a totally breathtaking Experience as its simple Fabulous, well its seriously means i cant type it in words as picture’s speak louder than words,

The Day we arrived in Munnar we had checked in into out hotel and Went to have our Lunch as we all were starving, the food was Served very slow but was worth the wait as it was simply scrumptious , after having out Lunch we headed of to the Munnar Dam, On the way we could see the large Landscape’s of Tea and Coffee Plantations which were speadout and it was and Endeavour to be experienced, when we reached the dam we were flabbergasted by the enchanting view of the Hill side of Munnar, The scenario at the dam was completely Different it was breathtaking and the water was Ice cold, we had Driven to the last point of the lake which flows, and we got to taste a exotic fruit which is only available here “passion Fruit”, on the whole it was a really good experience and we had a Lotta Fun Specially enjoying the scenery and more. The next day we got up early and got ready to Leave for Tekkadi.

As Driving away from Munnar on the way to Tekkadi we got to see more and more amazing View’s which were simply Breath taking, Specially the Scuide Point.

Bangalore

We arrived at Bangalore after an 6 hr Journey via Train in ( Sleeper Class) with Distributed seats as the seats wernt in Line Order. As the Reservations wernt made one time, But we still had managed to get Seats,

After arriving to Bangalore Our Tour Guide Got us Rooms at an Nearby lodge Very near to the Train Station, with looked Flimsy on the out side but was Pretty Ok inside, there was an small Clean Andhra Restaurant downstair’s to have Break fast..etc,

After checking in we had out bath and breakfast a bus was hired to take us around the Big city and to The Museum of Bangalore where we got to see some stuff and then to Electronic City where we met up with Indian ISP{ Internet Service Provider’s} who gave us brief introduction of their company and stuff, Later the students we Dropped off Near ” Brigade Road and MG Road and Near “Forum Mall” to get on with their respective shopping and stuff.

As a personal Experience we had totally explored Forum mall as it was pretty big compared to Malls at Hyderabad, at the ground Floor we had all Retail outlets of big Brand names Like “Tommy Hilfiger, United Colors of Benetton, Channel, Louis Vuittian, Adidas, Levis and Mac Donald’s and KFC Restaurant the 2nd Floor had other band labels like “SF jeans, Few Boutiques and stuff 3 rd floor contained Multi Cusine Restaurants to start of there were “Mexican, Italian, Thai, Japanese, Sushi, Indian, Continental, Chinese, Chat” and Finally Topping it off of with Prasad’s Multiplex in the 4th Floor with Normal and Large Screen, with Price Ranging from 60rs to 340rs depending on days and 780rs being constant for the golden screen.

The next day was quite as event Full as the First but today we got to See Iscon Temple which was quite Breath taking and awesome after coming out from the Temple we were standing so we came across and Kerela Style Marriage so we went in and Joined in the Celebrations, as u can c the pictures we had Lunch There Too!! lol,

After having out lunch at Marriage hall we went to Bull Temple to be equally amazed by the Breathtaking View’s of the age old temple.

INtro

Well Tour De South, was started fromxxxxxx with high hopes and sprits from the students as the college didn’t organise any such events recently.

The Trip was a pleasent one with a lot of memories to cherish from The Route was as follow’s

Hyderabad—>Train{ 6 hrs }—> [ Karnataka ] Bangalore{2 days }—>Train{6 Hrs}—-> [Kerala]Ernakulam—>Bus{6 Hrs }—->Munnar{1 Day }—->Bus{6 Hrs}—>Tekkadi{1 Day}—->Bus { 6Hrs }—>Trivandram—>Bus{3 Hrs }—-> [Tamil Naidu]Kanyakumari{1 Day}—->Bus{ 3hrs}—>Trivandram{2 Days}—->Train{32 Hrs }—>Warrangal—->Bus{4 hrs}—->Hyderabad

The Teacher’s who accompanied us were

Mrs Sujatha

Mr Vikas ( EEE) wiv Family