Confused

The corporate world is one place where I still have to take my first leap. Understanding mergers and acquisitions has always fascinated me. So many factors just affecting one transaction, it amuses and confuses me all the same. The company about to be taken over appears like a fish looking about for some water to dive into, to save itself from the seemingly inevitable. Often organizations give in, often they fight till their last breath until they have no choice but to sell of their company.

I’m really confused as to how someone else can actually make life so hard for you.. So you have no other choice but to sell of the company you worked all your life for.

All of you must’ve heard about the proposal by Microsoft to take over Yahoo. Here’s an article I wrote a few days back. Please note it’s just a compilation of information from the Web, so please don’t sue me

Here goes:

Inquizitive

As i mentioned in my earlier post, I prepared a quiz for the CD-ROM to be distributed in VORTEX 08, I’ve decided to upload it.

To download the questions, click here.

To download the solutions, please wait until next week, as Vortex will be over. So till then I don’t think I should upload the solutions.
I would rate this quiz easy, anyone with a decent computer knowledge can crack it easily. So happy quizzing

Inquizitively yours,
Hardik
a.k.a. Voodoo

Sleepy

This weekend turned out to be like just another one. Came Friday afternoon and I was hurraying away, looking forward to my first weekend in which I could relax properly, thanks to the Pragyan(The National Level Technical Festival of NIT Trichy) and Vortex (The National Level Symposium of Computer Science and Engg. Department, NIT Trichy) work that had been handed out to me.

Once Pragyan got over, Vortex work continued without a break. My colleagues and me had just finished making our website for Vortex then i get called for the design team too, which in-turn was doing the content work for a CD-ROM we are going to distribute to the participants of Vortex. So i got the job of writing an article, and making a quiz.

So coming back to Friday.. In the evening I was determined to wake up the next day on-time for mess food (that means at least 9 a.m. ) .. Come Saturday morning and it’s 11:15 a.m. and I sigh heavily, looking at my cell, I wasn’t surprised I’d missed 15 alarms. Not a surprise to me though, I remember missing 30 alarms once a few months back. Never knew I’d make such ill-use of multiple alarms in my phone. The day just lingered, I even forgot I had a networking assignment to submit by 8 pm Sunday, which I’m remembering as I presently write this post !! Sigh…

Anyways, Saturday night comes along and I tell myself.. “Come on.. You can do it.. ” And today I wake up at 10:45 again, just a 30 minute improvement span. Maybe I’ll try it next week.. Sounds like a great idea…

If you’re wondering what I do on weekdays to make a good enough attendance sheet, It’s always post 8:15.. No matter how hard I try, this whole semester the earliest I’ve woken up on a weekday (or any day for that matter ) is 8 .. I don’t know who or what to blame. I’ve tried everything, sleeping early, multiple alarms in multiple phones, nothing seems to work. And the worst part is I’m so (seemingly) helpless about it. It’s just something I’m not able to control.

I’m feeling drowsy already thanks to the perfect temperature in the Internet Lab. There comes the first yawn of the evening. I’m actually looking forward to the food we ordered from outside.. some salvation from the mess in the mess.

Good Night,
Hardik
a.k.a. Voodoo

Thick Skinned

Today marked the end of another Pragyan.. the “International Tech Fest” by our college, NIT Trichy.. Well , listening to the valediction speech by our director, it seemed like it was a huge success.. There’s only one thing I have to say for that.. LOL..

Now the reason for the topic being thick skinned, is just accumulating everything I’m seeing since the past few months in this place. Just carefully observing the decisions of the Administration of this institution just amazes me to how thick skinned can anyone be.

It started off last semester when a few seniors were caught red-handed “ragging” some 1st years.. Do they even know what’s ragging ? Well anyways, strict action was taken against the seniors and what followed after that made life miserable for the firsties..
The 1st year boys hostel was sealed from the outside, and a curfew imposed at 10, failing which you can sleep wherever the hell you wanna sleep if you’re not in the hostel by that time.. Oh don’t twitch yet, first they just sealed the entrance and exits.. After that, the parapets were sealed off so that nobody can “jump off” and escape. Have a look at the hostel now and it seems no less than a Central Jail in some dump.

Sigh, really sad ain’t it ??