Insane logica

Photo Fun

2011-12-24T08:25:00.003+05:30

Not a bad idea to return back to my older blog and sharing one of my recent Image for my Photography Page on Facebook. Just failing to catch any sleep, so better will keep the photoshop on for some more time. :-)

And here is my first edit work for the Page: https://www.facebook.com/deezphotography:

Moved! :-)

2008-07-26T20:03:00.003+05:30

Finally, i step onto my another weblog which looks technically sound. I can have a back-up at my desk and can try to make it much more better in looks and works.
First editing: Check the embedded image on the top of web, when the openning of web is done. :mg:

By the way, it's worth a read: Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Though, I will keep stalking over here and will keep updating, whenever i will feel like!
Keep visiting! Adios! :-)

Capacity hai be!

2008-07-26T18:38:00.007+05:30

I posted last time, "Life has just begun".

Yeah, how can i forget the day, when the dawn came in my life. Sometimes, when i look back, I just say, "Thank God!" Life was changed the very moment we broke-up. I tried my level best to solve the matter but it has to end this way and we did it! You must be feeling alleviated too. Thanks to you too! We have ultimately taken a right decision to step further in our life towards a thing called "Successful Career"! God bless you! :-)

Oh Jesus, I subdued, though I was little intensive on my take! Shout Shout Shout..! Hold Hold Hold.. and conquered!

Chalo, main bhi thoda nostalgic ho jata hun, when i look back.

Coming back to life, lemme tell ya guys, I will be soon moving on to my another weblog called Insane Logica .

Now, why I went off with scribbling here? The answer lies somewhere around. As, I have been busy taking my last semester exams for B.Tech life, meanwhile i discovered some people's story reading which i felt so guilty, What am I doing, and gained some faith, so that I can overcome my flaws. Now, this part has no relation with my earlier days of our tale. I insist here, that was in my concern only. So, no paradoxes here, no confusion. I'd studied harder in my final semester which showed up as an overwhelming result to my surprise. Finally, I topped the class, but alas, still missed some pointers to reach distinction on an overall picture, better say it aggregate score. Anyways, I am more than satisfied with that. Having been to three different farewell ceremonies did let me know, where do I stand in my fellows hearts. (esp. Malyalis and some Norther mates). How pleasing, I am for them. I was screened as the "the coolest hunk", "maska bazaar" and "Impressive Voice". And, FYI, I really didn't expect this much from my fellows and beloved ones.

By the way, did you hear three farewells? Yeah, I had it!

Let's count,

1. Farewell, which was arranged by our juniors.

2. Farewell, which was organized as a see-off party by SFI gundas.

3. Farewell, which we ourselves supervised, to bid an adieu to our fellows and teachers and to promise, "we will keep in touch".

The farewells 1 and 3 were the best of the gathering moments i had ever attended.

And the breaking news is, I had a company of "Mambo and Metal" as well as "Hayward's 5000 and Romanov" on the Farewell 3 night. We had a special event called "Lose Control". It was my first time. Yes, I got drunk to my extreme capacity, though i could have done more but we fell short of stock. Not that they asked me, I myself was kind of excited to feel the difference and that night I was too happy, and I still don't know, what brought me to that happiness. I did buy that from somewhere else, I guess. Anyways, before i took the first sip, i asked Metal and Mambo to promise me to help me out when i loose my control. They did promise, Oh, I can trust them, they are much more experienced, esp. Mambo. :-D And viola, the reverse thing happened. To my surprise, it was me who took both Metal and Mambo to their rooms that mid-night. They woke up next morning and let me know, "Tere pass capacity hai be!".... And, I just loughed out loud! I would remember this helluva sort of words (slang).. "Capacity hai be!" :-P

Life has just begun!

2008-03-31T12:20:00.001+05:30

It happens!

2008-03-31T12:12:00.006+05:30

When you spend 4 years, staying away from home, completely on your own, you become a clown, so lazy and successively you come to meet certain circumstances which is never expected to be happened. But, I have seen this, it happens a lot many times when you meet the "dude" callers, or some aliens!

This happens, when we get engineered!

Original pic sourced from prashant_iitiim.

Thoght of the day!

2008-03-31T12:05:00.001+05:30

Thought of the day, I'm gonna live by!

Gobi Chilli

2008-03-28T09:56:00.004+05:30

Last evening was terrific! As usual, i peeped into the kitchen of my mess. Saw, Mannu was cooking something which smelled familiar to me since I've been to this place. Yes, it was Gobi Chilli in our menu today. !dea popped up! Well, I have kind of decided, I am gonna stay single for next few years, unless i make it to some "crazy" place in this world. Fellas, the term "crazy" really matters a lot and you are intelligent enough to understand this term! So, what if i make myself to try my hands on cooking too! I would love to have this "Gobi Chilli" in my weekend menu, specially made by me, the chef, Dee.

Again, last evening was terrific, I'd my hands on Gobi-Chilli. I asked Mannu, the entire recipe for Gobi-Chilli and worked on it. Viola, taste was awesome, yummy! And I'm lovin' it!

All the ingredients needed is, Gobi, corn-flour, capsicum, besan, soya sauce, tomato sauce, chillies, onions, masalas, refined oil, and yes, lot of patience! 20-25 minutes to go, and you are done! :P

Just found some decent tracks of my favorite Ghazal album by miscellaneous artists, "Love", tuned in "Aahat si koi aaye to lagta hai ki tum ho"! I wish, I'd a puy widget here to follow the smiley suits here too. Let it be :listen: ! :-)

Thanks ruchii, i had to make this post, look delicious and yummy! :P

I mean it, not IT!

2008-03-26T09:09:00.001+05:30

I had to confess, when I was broken up with the winds of change. But never had I got enough courage to tell myself, and it went again and again, over and over and eventually when I woke up this morning, I knew a new spark is thrilling me up. Maybe GOD has something else for me in his store. Suddenly I am feeling so pleased and blessed, and I never knew if I had a shock just a day back in past. So, whenever people do sleep, they do wake up too (Argh, arbit! ), they respire the fresh air in the morning, they take a walk on the seashore, they jog, they have mirth and so do I, not everything, but yeah, again some part of it. I respire! And rest of the world makes me doing this! I do accept your challenge, LIFE!

I have no idea, how I am going to live for next couple of months, but there is an instinct which may be incipient enough for me to take the revenge on all my confessions. I never have worked hard, even never it seemed like “harder”, to get or achieve any thing I ever wished for. So, maybe this is the time for me to cheer myself and wake up early in the morning and live happily throughout the day till it dawns. And I mean it perfectly, whatever I wrote in last sentence!

Prefacing "a walk to remember"

2008-03-03T00:22:00.005+05:30

Well! To please you, my beloved Dee, here I come!

It's been a long time since I have scribbled and wrote something insane in my blog. Looking back at 4 long years reminds me of some of the sweetest and sourest moments, back through the beginning of this so-called professional training life where we confront with lot of mathematical explanations of technologies and there interpretations and applications. The question is, why would I bother sitting and penning down the things, right down the memory lane, more precisely, through the memory lanes. I can say it will be right from my heart, but I may even excuse like, I will try my level best to keep my judgment undisclosed to the other me. Other me? Even I don't know!

So, people, as we call it junta, may even feel shock-surprised and I may overreact reading me and myself again and again, substantially finding out that I have just scribbled here and there like a mediocre. So am I! :D! Ok, let me take it like this, the note which I am gonna take here, a walk to remember, may be full of grammatical and other serious errors, which can even go beyond the limit, for that, Thank God, I am not paying blogwala to take care of my spells and grammatical mistakes. Later on, it can be well found out, how proper I could have made usage of a particular word. It's all about "Go-about-words-formats-and-usages".

Isn't it?

Letting it be done, I always had have a personal instinct to play around and write something like the life I spent here at CUSAT. It's simply like preparing and gearing up to post into a popular and coveted thread among the puys, All I want to speak about CAT. So, I am gonna do it! Now on and on! Let's part it, say in four sequels, making it out for the four subsequent years that a poor fellow. beginning like a Freshman, spent here and feels like Andrew Eliot as in The Class by Erich Segal. To remind myself, Eliot wasn't a mediocre, but he really didn't had any fixed ambitions and expectations in his life, so the way I feel now, even though I can say that I have 3 pretty job offers in my hand, to please myself and some definite part of you! So on and so forth, the gossips never ends when you wanna put your heart, throw it outward to make a shadowed heart and imagining it as if whole the world knows the inner you. But it still casts a completely black heart, the shadowed part.

Has anyone got the points, I have just conveyed? The answer may be a big NO. Ah, don't call me a pessimist or maniac. This hurts me, so badly!

Explore further!

Tour Pics Reloaded!

2007-12-29T22:55:00.000+05:30

Just trying out with some recent snaps that we took during my stay at Delhi.

While visiting "Qutub" on December, 22nd, 2007.

In "someone's" mausoleum ... Sid is trying hard to know who this "someone" is.

This looks lil perfect..!

The finest pic that Deeps took.. . i think she loves this kind of arts..

Some pics don't need to be captioned..!

Sid came all the way to take care of us as a guide and a historian.

Dee: "hey Sid.. look at that..we must try out there something ...can you see what i am looking at?"

It must have gone imperfect...isn't it?

It's a great idea to be a photographer... do you bother symmetry too..??

Dee: "Come-on young man.. let's have a snap..!"

Dee: "Awe :-/... i really didn't mean to scare him." [mum's caught in action to keep her kid from an alien]

We both, sid n me.. just tried to climb few more steps up this rocky structure.. deeps captured us in action... :D

How I made it.. the tree having its roots up in the sky..!

do we have another "PISA" out here...!

I never imagined "QUTUB" looks so gargantuan.

Sid told this one must be the "Persian" script.. looks so..!

While visiting "India Gate" and "Red Fort" on December, 23rd, 2007.

Bass band displaying SSB's theme at INDIA Gate.
[SSB: Sashastra Sena Bal]

It was a bright sunny Sunday at the Red fort.

Two kids flocked around as we were about to leave the Red fort.

Bass band of SSB gearing up for a display at India Gate.

Um mm...!! SSB jawans geed up for a snap.

"Nanha munna rahi hun, desh ka sipahi hun..."

I wondered, how do they make things so funny!

Symmetry ...it simply interests me.

"Where she goes.. where she goes again!"

Jazz band of SSB in action for a display at India Gate.

Even till now, i love to play around with this sorta fizzes!

I love my INDIA! :-)

The band of bagpipers, Sashastra Sena Bal (SSB), displaying at India Gate, it was extraordinary!

Very useful - Chinese Remainder Theorem

2007-09-23T13:07:00.000+05:30

Here i come with amazing articles available on following links.

Its a fun reading and working on it...

Chinese Remainder Theorem

Chinese Remainder Theorem(2)

Notes on Remainder Theorem

a little deviated... but worth a read.. Game Theory!

....stepping ahead...

2007-09-22T23:35:00.000+05:30

Here i begin ... and here i come to ace you! :)

I lose it all... don't let me fall

2007-09-16T23:49:00.000+05:30

Today, i am full with reminiscences of our talks, leg pullings...etc etc...! I just can't confess...! I miss u a lot. I miss you! That's all i have to write today. Rest is nothing but just few lines taken from the song Addicted (Enrique)...

I am wasted away,

I made a million mistakes.

Am I too late?

There is a storm in my head;

it rains on my bed

when you are not here.

I'm not afraid of dying,

but I am afraid of losing you.

Maybe I'm addicted,

I'm out of control,

but you're the drug

that keeps me from dying.

Maybe I'm a liar,

but all I really know is

you're the only reason I'm trying.

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I miss u a lot dear, don't let me fall...

Countdown begins....! beef it up...!

2007-09-13T03:23:00.000+05:30

I counted it! 63 days...9 Sundays...9 Saturdays.. 9 sets of weekdays... just before the D-Day.
All i need to crack is all the hurdles to crack. Strengths...weaknesses.. accuracy.. speed...and after all CAT ... these are the words i am living by these days. Mocks ...Well..most (though very few) of 'em i take in my room only....after a dreadful performance in open aimcat and simcat with %iles around 88 in each of 'em... Honing it up.... though i am not participating in BBLT, DT etc on PG.com. ... coming up... a fresh work plan... for coming two months...considering btech curricula.. and end sems...

now, enough time spent here...! Will be updating it soon...! lemme begin afresh....!

All that glitters is not gold ....

2007-09-13T01:15:00.000+05:30

2 minutes for 0200 Hrs... I don't care what clock at one's end points to..! Here, this is what and when life begins, say around the corner or edge of this earth, beloved place of social and humanized human being. Now, after a huge gap, i am here to write about the thoughts i made in my complex and weird mind just few days back when i was lost digging in for the measures of relational conflicts.

4th sept, 2300 hrs: A message enters my inbox as I was trying to fix the drafter on my drawing board and gearing up for whole night work on sheet after having a general talk with friends. Sudden changes happened and i went just pointless about what to do after reading the message. I found it really hard to either work or sleep. There was no other way left behind, despites i turned off the lights after unusual conversations which kept me getting out of control more and more... i was totally angered and distracted. So i later, decided, better to have a phone talk...have deal with it and feel better for just a give away. I was completely disparaged and depreciated...! After hanging it up... dark room... me on bed...a sleepless monster....cries and relieves ...cries and relieves.... boosted....boasted.... and finally lost my self-control.. i broke up. Thanks to my swinging mood .... i swear.... it all happened after a deep thought... physically and mentally tiredness brought me a one hour sleep at around 0500 hrs. I woke up around 0600 hrs and forgot everything to work my ass off over the drawing sheet, though reminiscences were coming up but it was all over then... relationship had no more meaning.. it already had went senseless... And still the heart beats... every second.... every moment...It has never forgot everything except beating...! These were my morsels of emotions which i carried through and i felt, i am getting used to it. And life is still going on....!

Another thing which i noticed was about kids. Just look at them once... look into their small glittering eyes... they would never get shut to keep staring at you with awesome looks. Kids have no worries, no barriers unless they are forced tactfully to be so and so....They never say no when you ask them for a kiss.. a hug... they simply stretch out their arms to hug you and when you find them friendly, they always like to be with you....whether you play cricket or carom with them or you watch shows of Tom and Jerry on Cartoon Network....they never get hurried. They are the purest form of heart on this planet apart form all the complexities of life... look at them.. do care for them....they are too lovely.... have them friends....!! :)

New era of Nuclear Power

2007-09-11T23:21:00.000+05:30

A nuclear revival is welcome so long as the industry does not repeat its old mistakes

IN MARCH 1986 this newspaper celebrated “The Charm of Nuclear Power” on its cover. The timing wasn't great. The following month, an accident at a reactor at Chernobyl in Ukraine spread radioactivity over Europe and despair in the Western world's nuclear industry.

Some countries never lost their enthusiasm for nuclear power. It provides three-quarters of French electricity. Developing countries have continued to build nuclear plants apace. But elsewhere in the West, Chernobyl, along with the accident at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania in 1979, sent the industry into a decline. The public got scared. The regulatory environment tightened, raising costs. Billions were spent bailing out lossmaking nuclear-power companies. The industry became a byword for mendacity, secrecy and profligacy with taxpayers' money. For two decades neither governments nor bankers wanted to touch it.

Now nuclear power has a second chance. Its revival is most visible in America (see article), where power companies are preparing to flood the Nuclear Regulatory Commission with applications to build new plants. But the tide seems to be turning in other countries, too. Finland is building a reactor. The British government is preparing the way for new planning regulations. In Australia, which has plenty of uranium but no reactors, the prime minister, John Howard, says nuclear power is “inevitable”.

Managed properly, a nuclear revival could be a good thing. But the industry and the governments keen to promote it look like repeating some of the mistakes that gave it a bad name in the first place.

It's going nuclear's way

Geopolitics, technology (see article), economics and the environment are all changing in nuclear power's favour. Western governments are concerned that most of the world's oil and gas is in the hands of hostile or shaky governments. Much of the nuclear industry's raw material, uranium, by contrast, is conveniently located in friendly places such as Australia and Canada.

Simpler designs cut maintenance and repair costs. Shut-downs are now far less frequent, so that a typical station in America is now online 90% of the time, up from less than 50% in the 1970s. New “passive safety” features can shut a reactor down in an emergency without the need for human intervention. Handling waste may get easier. America plans to embrace a new approach in which the most radioactive portion of the waste from conventional nuclear power stations is isolated and burned in “fast” reactors.

Technology has thus improved nuclear's economics. So has the squeeze on fossil fuels. Nuclear power stations are hugely expensive to build but very cheap to run. Gas-fired power stations—the bulk of new build in the 1980s and 1990s—are the reverse. Since gas provides the extra power needed when demand rises, the gas price sets the electricity price. Costly gas has therefore made existing nuclear plants tremendously profitable.

The latest boost to nuclear has come from climate change. Nuclear power offers the possibility of large quantities of baseload electricity that is cleaner than coal, more secure than gas and more reliable than wind. And if cars switch from oil to electricity, the demand for power generated from carbon-free sources will increase still further. The industry's image is thus turning from black to green.

Nuclear power's moral makeover has divided its enemies. Some environmentalists retain their antipathy to it, but green gurus such as James Lovelock, Stewart Brand and Patrick Moore have changed their minds and embraced it. Public opinion, confused about how best to save the planet, seems to be coming round. A recent British poll showed 30% of the population against nuclear power, compared with 60% three years ago. An American poll in March this year showed 50% in favour of expanding nuclear power, up from 44% in 2001.

Fear of fission

Yet the economics of nuclear still look uncertain. That's partly because its green virtues do not show up in its costs, since fossil-fuel power generation does not pay for the environmental damage it does. But it is also because nuclear combines huge fixed costs with political risk. Companies fear that, after they have invested billions in a plant, the political tide will turn once more and bankrupt them. Investors therefore remain nervous.

How, then, to get new plants built? America's solution is to lard the industry with money. That is the wrong answer.

Nuclear and other clean energy sources do indeed deserve a hand from governments—but through a carbon tax which reflects the benefits of clean energy, not through subsidies to cover political risk. Exposure to public nervousness is a cost of doing business in the nuclear industry, just as exposure to volatile prices is a cost in the gas industry.

It may be that fears of nuclear power are overblown: after all, the UN figure of around 4,000 eventual deaths as a result of the Chernobyl accident is lower than the official annual death-rate in Chinese coal mines. Yet there are good reasons for public concern. Nuclear waste is difficult to dispose of. More civil nuclear technology around the world increases the chance of weapons proliferation. Terrorists could attack plants or steal nuclear fuel. Voters will support nuclear power only if they believe that governments and the nuclear industry are doing their best to limit those risks, and that such risks are small enough to be worth taking in the interests of cheap, clean energy.

One of the reasons why the public turned against nuclear power last time round is that it found itself bailing the industry out. It would be wrong, not just for taxpayers but also for the industry, to set up another lot of cosy deals with governments. The nuclear industry needs to persuade people that it is clean, cheap and safe enough to rely on without a government crutch. If it can't, it doesn't deserve a second chance.

Source: http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=9767699

Rivalry with pursuits ...

2007-08-17T06:49:00.000+05:30

Estella.... the character i was introduced with this early morning, when a message entered my inbox around 4:50 a.m. Am i standing at Pip's position who tells his story autobiographically in “Great Expectations” by Charles Dickens ? And is she's been trained to live Estella's way?
.........As a vaquisher, so i am, do i think Pip's way? ...... Or as a loser, am i the kind of man who's being pursued?... Tell me, what are my great expectations?....

Freaky, the mediocre, beloved!

2007-08-17T01:06:00.000+05:30

I want to yell... can you hear me... can you?? It wasn't so far.... that a guy who was beloved and cared... wept to store cupfuls of tears. My last post indicated my vis-à-vis with love and affection…call me painstaking, my obstinacies or discouraging or whatever be…. but defining this life of keeping trusts and faiths is not that easy task. Well the going has to go on … but being perpetual is my motto of life… I’d never stop… I never have learnt to stop!

Currently the economics theory as taught in “FREAKONOMICS”, by Levitt and Dubner, has caught my attention. I never have been a student of eco, but while growing up, i saw my bhaiya, reading the economics books based on several theories like Macro-economy, Micro-economy, Econo-matrix… etc… As brother told me that time, don’t ever treat economics as an art paper… its completely scientific and has close relations with public behavior and interrelationship… a whole psychological status phenomena and relativistic concepts. Marginal cost, marginal revenue…blah blah blah… Index variations in NSE, SENSEX, Rupee vs US $..….I always wondered that what do these things mean and how it affects the economy of a nation. Now, I have a gist on these things…. So, I am finding it wonderful to study the different case studies and practicalities as presented in the book. Though, I didn’t grasp the Cheating Algorithm implemented by Chicago schoolteachers completely... will take a recap soon… needs lot of attention… though! I anticipated, Paul Feldman would not have started off that straight way ... to sell off his bagels. Executive level was found more corruptible than salesman level…. how to reel it off, i wonder! Two more cases are left ... hope I finish it by tonight.. ! Enough time is spent on blogger now… time to go back to freak out with economics (not an engineering paper :D ) ...!

I would better survive!

2007-08-05T09:51:00.000+05:30

All this time I can't believe I couldn't see
kept in the dark but you were there in front of me
I’ve been sleeping a thousand years it seems
got to open my eyes to everything
without a thought without a voice without a soul
don't let me die here
there must be something more
bring me to life!

I don't know what being in love demands. I have felt it and realized that it's so painful, but still if you have got the feeling, you have got to share them with the one you love. She says, she trust me, she likes me, she believe me, she adore talking with me, she takes my classes - i take hers.... but why this relationship gives you a sweet taste and sometimes get rotten with general misconceptions. People admire and feel great being in love, and how they learn surviving? Is it so easy! I wonder..! No, my case demands more and more survival and outcast. Enduring the fashionable and flavorsome love and affection and being perpetual .. whats wrong in it? Apart from all this i have few words to say about my life@(ehl o vee ee)! I want to yell the deadlocks but my heart stops me! I know she's got certain limitations and family constraints.... i still have to say.. lets get to know each other as much as possible.... she too agrees. We shall go on, and will face it when time comes...! I don't believe in dreams and the world of imagining, but when i dream of our friendship, love and affection, i wish the dream come true one day in my life. So i've got to survive! Lets go ahead!

Blurring and stirring - the truth and the lies.
So I don't know what's real and what's not
Always confusing the thoughts in my head
So I can't trust myself anymore

I'm dying again

I'm going under
Drowning in you
I'm falling forever
I've got to break through!

Have you ever loved a woman?

2007-07-23T12:14:00.001+05:30

When you love a woman you tell her
that she's really wanted
When you love a woman you tell her that she's the one
Cuz she needs somebody to tell her
that it's gonna last forever
So tell me have you ever really
- really really ever loved a woman?

Take on .. Take on..! Hurry up!

2007-07-05T23:42:00.000+05:30

Hurry up man..! But why? It's pretty cool night and clocking around 00:00 Hrs.. ! But still i am in hurry .. I don't know why .... Perhaps i am running short of time.. need to finish it all by tomorrow... some sections remaining .. and time is running out....! Piss off...! Time to Cut-Copy-(and finally)Paste! So the following is my take on the discussion going on a thread on Orkut which has to decide whether the work of Arundhati Roy on The God of Small Things is worth a good read or not..! Amused..! dun worry .. it happens.. but sometimes only..!

".... It is really amusing to know that such thread is going on about deciding whether 'The God of Small Things' by Arundhati Roy is a good read or a bad one..! While reading the book... personally i never felt like something is going odd or so irrelevant . Each and every part of the book is so commendable that one's words will fall short of explaining it. Awesome Read.... !! And one thing i liked about it, the art of presentation is very beautiful.
However i do agree with Gautam's statement that .. whenever Roy speaks for media or whatever be ... it goes off so controversial often and that is only due to her critical and straight forward statements, i think so .. Whats bad in being a man/woman of clear thoughts and clear perception! I am afraid, but this is really the dark age of Indian Politics which doesn't deserve any word of extol if we total it on an average! So, i totally disagree that the book of interest needs even a single groan! "

Extent of Madness

2007-06-25T09:26:00.001+05:30

Being a PGite, who won't like to know his/her madness level...! :D
All are sane but still possess insanity about something .. say CATting..! :P
I would love to wear the certified pagal Tee one day.. ! sooner or later..!
Thanks to Chandoo (PG name)! I took the test today and and the result was something like this.....

I am 84% Pagal. Test Your Madness.

Seems this is the right time to get promoted from trainee to expert pagal..! :-) .. Ok..Done..!

A good article - Biological Big - Bang

2007-06-18T23:34:00.000+05:30

Today, I read, infact loved to read a good article related to scientific revamps and revolutionizing RNA (Ribonucleic Acid) into life sciences. The article was mainly focused to emphasize the recent growth in the biological world and the RNA revolution has to store the full credit for it. The article was quoted -"What physics was to the 20th century, biology will be to the 21st—and RNA will be a vital part of it".

Here goes the full article.

The RNA revolution

Biology's Big Bang

NATURE is full of surprises. When atoms were first proved to exist (and that was a mere century ago), they were thought to be made only of electrons and protons. That explained a lot, but it did not quite square with other observations. Then, in 1932, James Chadwick discovered the neutron. Suddenly everything made sense—so much sense that it took only another 13 years to build an atomic bomb.

It is probably no exaggeration to say that biology is now undergoing its “neutron moment”. For more than half a century the fundamental story of living things has been a tale of the interplay between genes, in the form of DNA, and proteins, which the genes encode and which do the donkey work of keeping living organisms living. The past couple of years, however, have seen the rise and rise of a third type of molecule, called RNA.

The analogy is not perfect. Unlike the neutron, RNA has been known about for a long time. Until the past couple of years, however, its role had seemed restricted to fetching and carrying for DNA and proteins. Now RNA looks every bit as important as those two masters. It may, indeed, be the main regulator of what goes on in a cell—the cell's operating system, to draw a computing analogy—as well as the author of many other activities (see article). As important, molecular biologists have gone from thinking that they know roughly what is going on in their subject to suddenly realising that they have barely a clue.

That might sound a step backwards; in fact, it is how science works. The analogy with physics is deeper than just that between RNA and the neutron. There is in biology at the moment a sense of barely contained expectations reminiscent of the physical sciences at the beginning of the 20th century. It is a feeling of advancing into the unknown, and that where this advance will lead is both exciting and mysterious.

Know thine enemy

As Samuel Goldwyn so wisely advised, never make predictions—especially about the future. But here is one: the analogy between 20th-century physics and 21st-century biology will continue, for both good and ill.

Physics gave two things to the 20th century. The most obvious gift was power over nature. That power was not always benign, as the atomic bomb showed. But if the 20th century was distinguished by anything from its predecessors, that distinctive feature was physical technology, from motor cars and aeroplanes to computers and the internet.

It is too early to be sure if the distinguishing feature of the 21st century will be biological technology, but there is a good chance that it will be. Simple genetic engineering is now routine; indeed, the first patent application for an artificial living organism has recently been filed (see article). Both the idea of such an organism and the idea that someone might own the rights to it would have been science fiction even a decade ago. And it is not merely that such things are now possible. The other driving force of technological change—necessity—is also there. Many of the big problems facing humanity are biological, or are susceptible to biological intervention. The question of how to deal with an ageing population is one example. Climate change, too, is intimately bound up with biology since it is the result of carbon dioxide going into the air faster than plants can remove it. And the risk of a new, lethal infection suddenly becoming pandemic as a result of modern transport links (see article) is as biological as it gets. Even the fact that such an infection might itself be the result of synthetic biology only emphasises the biological nature of future risks.

At the moment, policymakers have inadequate technological tools to deal with these questions. But it is not hard to imagine such tools. Ageing is directly biological. It probably cannot be stopped, but knowing how cells work—really knowing—will allow the process to be transformed for the better. At least part of the answer to climate change is fuel that grows, rather than fuel that is dug up. Only biotechnology can create that. And infections, pandemic or otherwise, are best dealt with by vaccines, which take a long time to develop. If cells were truly understood, that process might speed up to the point where the vaccine was ready in time to do something useful.

But physics gave the 20th century a more subtle boon than mere power. It also brought an understanding of the vastness of the universe and humanity's insignificant place in it. It allowed people, in William Blake's phrase, to hold infinity in the palm of a hand, and eternity in an hour.

Know thyself

Biology, though, does more than describe humanity's place in the universe. It describes humanity itself. And here, surprisingly, the rise of RNA may be an important part of that description. Ever since the human-genome project was completed, it has puzzled biologists that animals, be they worms, flies or people, all seem to have about the same number of genes for proteins—around 20,000. Yet flies are more complex than worms, and people are more complex than either. Traditional genes are thus not as important as proponents of human nature had suspected nor as proponents of nurture had feared. Instead, the solution to the puzzle seems to lie in the RNA operating system of the cells. This gets bigger with each advance in complexity. And it is noticeably different in a human from that in the brain of a chimpanzee.

If RNA is controlling the complexity of the whole organism, that suggests the operating system of each cell is not only running the cell in question, but is linking up with those of the other cells when a creature is developing. To push the analogy, organs such as the brain are the result of a biological internet. If that is right, the search for the essence of humanity has been looking in the wrong genetic direction.

Of course, such results are speculative and primitive. But that is the point. Lord Rutherford, who proved that atoms exist, knew nothing of neutrons. Chadwick knew nothing of quarks, let alone supersymmetry. Modern biologists are equally ignorant. But eventually, the truth will out.

Source: The Economist.

Time to begin baby ! tera tempo bahot low hai !

2007-06-14T15:46:00.004+05:30

June 14th !! till now what i did ?? nothing...!! null....!! whats this, only 5 months left now, planned anything, developed strategy?? Ahhhhh.. grrrrrr..!!! Nothing is fixed as of now.... poor show dude...! And you haven't started yet...!!! How fool you are, playing with your precious time...!! Well, all these things are cropping up in my mind now and they are completely irresistible for me... So, to swerve my mind to a calm state, started searching for some web sources where i can find out some IIM getters story to rise my tempo level....Sucks ... m damn low at that now....! though, i kept reading blogs and posts on PG.. these days sitting on the chair for long hours and searching on internet haphazardly.... Thank God! Google and PG helping me a lot to get some materials, concepts and strategic points for the long run. now i just need to get set and go...!! At least now there is no point to make any delay.... because, i feel i have to regain my Quant basics and DI can only be sharpened with lot of practice and of course Verbal requires lot of attention and care too.... Oh God...please help me.. i am loosing my grip...! Here i am pasting what i found today, excerpts of an interview of an IIM Ahmedabad alumni, running his Educational Consultancy, is very good and kind of booster for me.... !

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Most of the CAT aspirants have already given up hope on IIMs even before starting preparation for CAT. Why?
Well, this is a result of twin factors. One, most of the students taking CAT, in their 20 years of upbringing have never been exposed to an entrance exam. To add to this, the kind of aura that has been attached to CAT by the media, students and the bunch of coaching institutes mushrooming in the market makes the aspirant vulnerable to succumbing at the slightest confusion caused by the myths making rounds in the market about CAT.

Let’s expose these Myths!

Myth 1: Success ratio in IIMs is 1:120
Here, we will have to separate IIMs from CAT. By my experience I can say that almost two-third of the students taking CAT are not targeting IIMs in the first place. They are targeting host of other institutes affiliated to CAT. They would not have even applied to IIMs if each IIM were charging a separate fee for entrance forms like the other CAT affiliated institutes. So this leaves us with 40,000 students and a ratio of 1:40.
Let’s go a step further. CAT is an exam that requires a lot of perseverance. However roughly only 50 per cent of students are able to persevere through the preparation period and are prepared to their best level on the day of CAT. So if you are taking CAT and seriously targeting IIMs and are ready to sweat it out till the CAT day, your chance of making it to IIMs will be 1:20.
Feeling Better?!!

Myth 2: Maths Genius + Vocab Stud + 800 wpm Reading Speed = IIM Call
Contrary to the popular belief, CAT is not a test to gauge mathematical aptitude and verbal aptitude. CAT is recognized as one of the best tests in the world to check the management aptitude of the candidates. The candidate needs to be good in mathematical and verbal ability but if those were the only areas IIMs were testing, there was no need to design a complicated exam like CAT to test the same.

Myth 3: The exam is getting tougher every year
Well, CAT 98 had 180 questions divided across 4 sections to be solved in 2 hours. So, a candidate was required to clear 4 sectional cut-offs and one overall cut-off in 2 hours. CAT 2004 contained 123 questions divided in three broad sections; hence a candidate was required to clear three sectional cut-offs and an overall cut-off in two hours. So a CAT taker in 2004 roughly had 50 per cent more time per question compared to a CAT aspirant in 1998. Of course, CAT in this period has moved from fundamental based test format to application-based questions.
So CAT has evolved into an application based test which in its course not only checks the basic fundamentals but also how you apply these fundamentals, given the pressure cooker exam environment with multiple simultaneous goals.

Myth 4: Speed and Accuracy match is what you need to crack CAT
An aspirant may have a great accuracy level and high speed, but if he does not possess the right exam strategy and the right selection of questions he will land up in no man’s land.
For a CAT taker one key trait is self-analysis. He needs to analyse his skills at regular interval and accordingly arrive at the right exam strategy. A CAT taker, who carries his ego up his sleeves on the day of CAT, will never be able to crack it. Rather he should use his presence of mind and keep an eye on the war (i.e. individual sections) rather than let his ego fight out each battle (i.e. each question) till the end.

Now, when the big myths have been shattered, let’s analyse why is CAT what it is today?

CAT — a test to check managerial aptitude
CAT checks the exam taker on the essential traits of a manager apart from the quantitative and verbal fundamentals that are prerequisite for anyone joining the MBA programme. These essential traits include adaptability, stress management, analytical approach, decision-making skills, self-analytical skills, and competitive benchmarking. All these skills are required to crack CAT in one way or the other. Apart from these, a manager is supposed to be a team builder, growth-oriented individual and have good ethical values. He should be able to look into a problem from multi-disciplinary angle. These skills are tested in the attitude tests viz. Group Discussion and Personal Interview.
So if you are able to get through the aptitude and attitude tests of CAT, you already have the right management aptitude and are fit for the revered team at IIMs to shape your future

CAT — What it takes?
Let’s understand what it takes to be a potential CAT cracker. Unlike college exams where one can slog it out, burn midnight lamps for 15 –20 days, solve last 5 years’ question papers and can still be sure to get a distinction, CAT preparation requires a single-minded effort, disciplined approach and a lot of perseverance. To be prepared for CAT, one needs to have maths & verbal logic as well as fundamentals in place. Mathematical and Verbal logic are a product of the way one has exposed himself to these logic areas over a period of time and cannot be mastered overnight. So, one should not be shocked if couple of people claim relatively good scores in Mock CATs without much of preparation. It only goes to say that their mathematical/verbal logic is in place. These candidates now need to work on capitalizing their logic upstart by giving due stress on mastering the maths/verbal fundamentals, striking the right exam strategy and getting that split second decision making in place.

Remember, it’s not the most intelligent, most diligent or the most spirited who cracks CAT. Intelligence, diligence and motivation pay only if you are a smart test taker.

Dudes, are they banning ORKUT !!!

2007-06-13T09:02:00.000+05:30

Ahh...! Dudes, days are going to be tough...! I have heard that your PM/PL/GL don't allow you to open Orkut and IMs at IBM and all other proxies like meebo are kept blocked. Even if you manage to get some new proxies which is unknown to the network administrator, you are not supposed to do so. I pray to GOD and I wish, at least they allow Orkutting and PGing (there is no other way to get out of stress while working). This really sucks....!!!! Now, 10 more months of B.Tech are left and they (not IBM People though) are planning to ban ORKUT. This is very shocking and dreadful news to all adored of Orkut.

However reasons for banning ORKUT is very obvious to all. Such networking organizations makes one avail of opening any kind of discussion forums they want to talk about. I have been on Orkut for some 2 years. As a newbie, as all of us do, i found plethora of profiles and communities, which are interested largely to harm the prides of nations, celebs, saviors, and prominent personalities like Mahatma Gandhi, Pt. Nehru.... Erotic profiles with nude pictures have been proliferated these days. All we know orkut is affiliated to Google - a software Jumbo which is challenging Microsoft and Yahoo. Do we expect Google kind of company to offer us such kind of freedom?? This is true that world is a home for several communities having different paths and sometimes very opposite to each other. Orkut is offering all such bands to talk online whatever they want for. Lot of hate communities, rebellious organizations, millitant groups are using Orkut and other such networking sources to spread there messages to the rest part of the world and their peers.

A very good example is ULFA (United Liberation Front of Asom ), the banned millitant BAND of Assam. ULFA frequently makes use of Internet to attract sympathizers for its cause, with ORKUT being used for the purpose. ULFA is a well known tech-savvy, with its pawn of "Freedom", which are updated on internet through orkut on a regular basis and the statements are e- mailed to the peers. There are some orkut profiles of such persons concerning ULFA which declares themselves as Messiah and there scrapbooks and testimonials are found filled with supports and critics on opening such communities. They come up with the messages like India is a terrorist country and Indians don't take care of Assamese. ULFA introduces their millitants as Brave Soldiers and they aim "to bring together all the rebels and rebel groups of the northeastern region". Some members of these communities speak up against their community, with many other communities in ORKUT itself working on restoring peace in the state and NE region. Several communities are present, with huge memberships, which propagate a positive campaign and question the role of the militant groups in disturbing peace in the region in the name of struggle for sovereignty. The anonymity ORKUT is offering to its users could be abused by ULFA members or supporters to attract sympathy for the outfit, especially among the upcomingma generation. To explore these kind of activities by ULFA, a very good article on IBN Live is there.

Now the million dollar question which arises here is - Should we ban ORKUT? The recent news and happenings related to same what i mentioned above can be seen as a hot matter of talk among the orkut users. A bunch of orkut users, which i am a part of instead, login orkut to see their friends online, have a talk with them, hellos, byes, take cares..... There are many advantageous communities where people do share there views and ideas related to a particular matter of discussion whatever its span be - scientific, philosophy, spitituality, religious, cultural, chit-chats, puzzles, automobiles.... The activist group like Shiv Sena in Maharashtra and Goa has come up with the urge of banning orkut completely. The Shiv Sena has a point, what they're saying is valid in a certain context. The 'non-shining' India – close to 70 per cent or more – is not happy about some empowered 'haves' maligning their heroes. 'Shiv Sena activists ransacking cyber cafes!' is the type of news which came up in nearest past. More recently Mumbai Police has asked to ban Google/Orkut to block such offending communities and profiles instead. Now personally i have few words to say. I am a Trainee Pagal (Puys exceeding number of posts greater than 30 and less than 100 are called Trainees - A PG lingo.), using pagalguy (an online forum for CAT aspirants) for some 2 months and it has been very obvious that few moderators are there who themselves are PG members (mostly Certified Pagals). These moderators are very strict if you post irrelevant things in particular thread, in fact they comment and direct you to go to the thread which is having a place for your post. So, this is one of the best example that how such kind of moderation fix you in a limit, which you can't go beyond. What i meant actually is, yes ofcourse we should ban, not orkut or google, but banning the malicious communities and profiles, which are intended to harm the peace and pride of a nation or people or a personality will do instead. Google should use some sort of moderations to restrain on such communities and profiles. This is the unanimous voice too, DON'T BAN ORKUT!

The Superhero Persona

2007-06-12T14:39:00.000+05:30

I tried an amazing website link today in quest of knowing my superman category....actually found this link from a PG pal's blog. The result was auspicious for me. Surprisingly and interestingly sidhesh_j has also the same. The web itself suggests to copy and pasting the html codes in one's blog ...and that shows who you are :P
Here goes what i found as the result for me....!

You are Green Lantern

Green Lantern		80%
Iron Man		55%
Robin		55%
Wonder Woman		50%
Spider-Man		45%
The Flash		45%
Supergirl		35%
Batman		35%
Catwoman		35%
Superman		20%
Hulk		10%

Hot-headed. You have strong

will power and a good imagination.

Click here to take the "Which Superhero am I?" quiz...

2 days of thoughts

2007-06-04T00:47:00.000+05:30

Sigh of relief ….!
Just arrived in the campus…. Was at my home in Patna for last couple of days…
Train was running late by 4 hrs… so finally I was getting bored when it was about to reach my destination… perhaps this would be my last journey from Patna to Cochin, as far as academic life is concerned. The last trip, I think, will be having in April’08 only. At that time I will be graduating and will be awarded with a B.Tech degree to become a fresh electrical and electronics engineer. However journey was, needless to say, quiet surprising, as I was again facing it the same way. A unique compartment with unique travelers, with whom I hardly found to speak a single word. Anyway, I didn’t speak anything, but we all had often conversations. Lot of words remained unspoken. It was feeling very strange and i was having a monologue after a long gap of time.... it happened and now i am able to recollect all of them.. about to write... !

Fachhas and Tuchhas

2007-05-20T06:28:00.000+05:30

Ahhh...! WIMWIians are WIMWIians!
And there lingo....!

Well, i saw a small video on youtube few days back. The video of length 1.11s, was about 2007, PGP batch convocation. All WIMWIians were assembled together close to LKP in there convo uniforms. They started with a catchphrase "Muggo Fuchoon Muggo" ... so many times.. like narabazi and later came up with "Fachhon ki ***** Zig Zag Zig Zag ....". Hehehehe.. I couldn't stop myself and started googling haphazardly to know what they meant actually. The listed links with keyword "Fuchha" were not that much in count. I selected a blog among them and read that interestingly to find it out that what they actually mean with this Fuchhas And Tuchhas. It was again a blog by one of the WIMWIians. wHe was recollecting his to years spent at iima campus, the red walls. It was really enjoyable to read the log thoroughly. And at the end i came out with the results. Fuchhas and Fachhis - PGP1 junta and Tuchhas and Tuchhis - PGP2 junta. Gawd...! Great Lingo! Later i saw the same lingo so many times which were unveiled further on PaGaLGuy (an online forum for mba aspirant) posts.

WIMWIians Rock..!!

All about "I"

2007-05-19T22:34:00.000+05:30

Hmm…. Long time.. No see... what’s going on Dee…!

Where were you?? At least you should have written a word of your business.

Okay … I am back finally…..!

Well, I had to see lot of chaotic and significant stuffs in this fastidious semester which just became a part of the past, again the same past, which never redirects... every moment of my life with people around me, has let me think of myself that how positive i am going and I think I am growing up now. I think I am learning well, I am living, I am wondering and wandering, I am moving, I am sensing, I am feeling, I am chucking the flaws of life form, I have started enchanting my world.. and so on .. So many new things have begun in recent past. I kept experimenting on them and I have tried very well to make them as relevant as possible. My stuffs weren’t the regular sem books of DSP, LIC-IE, and CE…. rather..... I've devised my own wisdom of life and fought well with all the hitches – Dee with his own insight. No more vacillations remaining. The path has swerved itself and I feel I am mature enough to sense this fast change in my internal world. So, finally existence and survival of my own being in this perpetual world has got some status that has a potential. The level translation has really made me happy. Now things in my life have wings of certainty.

However, with some bitter experience, the recent past has given me a potpourri of lively and colorful moments which I’d like to share here.

Forthcoming posts are founded on the same and the people close to my heart will come in show. The people, with whom I learnt, I gained, I lived, I laughed, I smiled, I cried….in all such cases the I is the real I. Also writing the hell outs on methodologies for whole night fight before coming into sight and how deadly I were fighting ….they were exam ghosts after all... other coming posts will be sort of precise of all my readings and my panoramic thoughts. It may let me head to the heights of my destiny.

Coming soon!

Do shabd.

2007-04-30T00:43:00.000+05:30

Khamoshiyoon ki bhi kya juban hoti hai,
dil ki saari bate bayan hoti hain,
dard hum sahte hain jinke pyar me,
unki aankhon se baate kahan hoti hai.

* * * * *

Kadardaan kahan hain mujh jaise shayar ke,
akela bazar me kho jata hun,
do din ki chandni militi hai,
fir na jane kis haal me ji jata hun.

The pragmatic relays of life

2007-02-13T23:35:00.000+05:30

My life is wholly inspired from the words and sayings of Swami Vivekananda (I call him " "Naru" - Narendra Nath Dutta.). Some of them are....

* * *
"Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny."
* * *
"Be creative rather than simply being adaptive!"
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"If in this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart of a single person, that much alone is true; this I have learnt after suffering all my life; all else is mere moonshine..."
* * *
"Never mind failures; they are quite natural, they are the beauty of life, these failures. What would life be without them? It would not be worth having if it were not for struggles. Where would be the poetry of life? Never mind the struggles, the mistakes. I never heard a cow tell a lie, but it is only a cow — never a man. So never mind these failures, these little back-slidings; hold the ideal a thousand times, and if you fail a thousand times, make the attempt once more."
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"Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness. All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in this world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear."

~~Please log on to my another blog Tributes to a life to explore the potent teachings of Swami Vivekananda.~~

Sense of Solitude | Abstraction

2007-02-13T13:36:00.000+05:30

Still no hope,
But lamp is still lit.

In desert of distress,
I carry some bits.

Likes, what they are.
Dislikes, what they persuade.

I've no words, no regrets,
But I've been persuaded,
To be like what I am!

A life in solitude,
An inimitable tranquilizer rep.

Hold me, hold my hands!
Hold me again!

sensation OR mirage | Matters to think about

2006-12-09T06:20:00.000+05:30

Matters come and go like seasons…. Oops...!! Seasons take a long way to come and when they come they don’t stay for a while and they never say good bye but they stay and stay only! They never GO……!! Whatever and anyhow some changes happen to transpire each & every moment….So, this is what we call LIFE. Anyway let’s think of something special. What make persons to think of something which is special but not a regular part of life. Is there something that a person comes across every moment and falls in distress??? Anyway this game never ends and we people have got excellence and essence to live with every moment whatever be the parameter. We never make a genuine way but always try to conciliate with. So where this segmented compromises will take us when we sum up? Do we drop our grounds and morale? What all circumstances are there and why we are suppressed of taking such actions or living with such measures? I never tried to differentiate the things and the ways they are coming to me and faced all of them like freely falling droplets of rain which strikes with a leaf of banana tree and splashes throughout the space. Does it sound like a FUN or is it amusing!! At least at this stage I’m not getting any feedback from the life consequents even. So that is what which is making me to feel preoccupied of myself. I had to think of something and to decide something and to act something. But as soon as examinations got over, I didn’t find any control over myself and started packing up for a home trip. I know I will lose some thoughtful moments which were going to be a deciding factor for my life ahead. Nowhere I stand… just nowhere…!! And no one can find a place for me even, I know that too. So finally I have reached three sounded letters which came across while I was coding this blog . The letters are T D A . Now I Don’t know where I am moving for and where I will get, but TDA will remain always with me. Let it be..!!

And the reason is you .....!!

2006-11-23T01:18:00.000+05:30

Million times......i heard the song - "the reason" from Hoobastank TODAY for the first time! Lyrics goes as...

"I'm not a perfect person
There's many things I wish I didn't do
But I continue learning
I never meant to do those things to you
And so I have to say before I go
That I just want you to know

I've found a reason for me
To change who I used to be
A reason to start over new
and the reason is you........"

The word hoobastank is somehow raveled to me for today at least, so curiosity made me to search about this word. Here is what i found (randomly)- {Hoobastank, at the time it was formed, spelled as Hoobustank (pronounced the same way as "Hoobastank"). In an interview with Launch Yahoo!, Doug Robb (the band vocalist) said the name had no particular meaning: "You're going to ask me what it means. It doesn't mean anything. And it's really cool, it's one of those old high school inside-joke words that didn't really mean anything."}

Apart from this, i just tuned to this song in my vlc player this morning after reading the newspaper and when the song started playing for the first time the initial guitar chords reminded me of something and i went some 6 months back when i was trying to catch-up the chords of this song, unknowingly the song comes from band Hoobastank. Even i was untouched with the lyrics of "the reason". Now i feel like ..... why i left learning those chords man ..!! why ..!! How sweet the song is ... !! I never minded playing & learning guitar, but now semester pressures are loading up more and more... so i had to leave it. And nostalgia never ends to blast my mind..... and i always feel like bellyached to myself....! People use to demarcate the things coming in their life usually which depends upon the situation. Inevitably the same thing made me to get secluded from playing and learning guitar and i started keeping myself amused. And the song closely relates my pathetic situation, if someone don't consider the visual part of the song. And i can never forgive myself for this abysmal as well as wistful act........ Because the reason is you and the reason is unraveled now !!

Internal crush matters....???

2006-11-16T00:17:00.000+05:30

Another insane logic boggling up in my mind at this time, like i was just dreaming about it last night. I couldn't resist myself to share this logic with people. So the point is, "CAT is knocking on the door, 3 more days to go, 2 and half hour fight with some 100 ques" .... not for me this year, but for lot of my friends who are either in 3 year course or senior to me. Again i couldn't stop myself to make wishes to all of them. Incidently i start to talk myself, a monologue starts in my mind, things just came up like 0's and 1's .... all binary formats. So interpretation was not that easy and my machine level interpreter stopped working. Finally i came to know that i was doing nothing at all and was in zero. I don't know why it happens and why with me only. May be, i don't know whether the same goes true with others too or not. Why sometimes i feel happy and jolly and why the sadness comes next second to make me look in zero ??? Is this going to turn around something in my life ???... no worries, but why not??? I have a great desire to see myself in one of the top institutions of india, sometimes i feel regreted and sometimes i just realize my time has not came yet. Still insanity goes inside my mind, the matters seem like puzzles and riddles. But why why why ....??? Suddenly the situation changes, I start feeling cool and cozy and mood counter resets at its default value. "Ten more days to go, I've to mug-up the whole 5 modules of all 5 papers for end semester examinations." I'll be passing out with a B.Tech degree and a job in hand "agar bhagwaan ne chaha to" but it is never going to keep me satisfied in future. Yeah...i know that!! But why I think like so, why things not come that easy way??? Despites looking at zero, I know I'll have to decide something ... at least now at this stage of life, where I've got another chance to make my dream come true. And more or less dream can come true only when i know what i am dreaming for each and every second of my life ahead. I need some moral boost-up, some care, some proper strategic plan and a lot of concentration and ofcourse I'll have to leave another co-curricular parameters of btech life. I will .. I will ... I will.. I will... Om shantih shanntih shantih...!

Anyway, now it's time to feel good as my elder brother (Bhaiya) has finally got in a company having nationwide reputation, the wages, package and facilities are the best he ever got. He seems to be happy with this job now. I'm a bit happy too with this news. But, Guwahati is some 18-22 hrs train-journey from Patna. Now, my Papa will get loaded with the family works and departments which were handled by my Bhaiya till date. So both things - Happiness in terms of good job and sadness in terms of work-load on my father- came simultaneously. But still life has to make a story which i am acting in and running throughout my life searching rays of happiness. Medium is not purely conducting - poles and dipoles are created in conduction path : +ve and -ve, only two polarities remain there which decides the flow of life.

A new glass glue opens the path to optical computing

2006-11-15T03:38:00.000+05:30

I am going to post my first blog but.. but...but not satisfied as i've just copied and pasted the latest innovation related to "Laser in Silicon". I thought that i'll write something on my own but it's already clicking at 3:45 morning, so better lets have a sound sleep now. It will be a test for my blog too.... let me check how it works or appears in other sense when i finish the job with my very first blog. Here it goes !!

==> Scientists at Intel and at the University of California, Santa Barbara, have managed to combine an indium-phosphide light emitter and a silicon chip to produce a hybrid laser that, years from now, could lead to cheap terabit-per-second connections within and around computers.

Lasers and other optoelectronic devices carry billions of bits through our telecommunications networks every second. But the materials they’re made from, exotic semiconductors such as indium phosphide, and the costly manufacturing techniques involved in their production have kept such gigabit-per-second connections largely confined to long-haul telecommunications. By integrating optoelectronic devices on silicon chips, Intel and other companies, notably Luxtera, in Carlsbad, Calif., and STMicroelectronics, in Geneva, hope to make optoelectronic bandwidths affordable enough for your average notebook computer.

Stacked up: Intel found a way to power its silicon laser by bonding it to a light emitter made from indium phosphide. Electrons and holes combine in the indium phosphide, generating light in the region just above the silicon laser cavity.

It has been a difficult quest. Silicon is not a natural for producing and manipulating light. Nevertheless, Intel and Luxtera each have been able to produce silicon versions of optoelectronic components, such as waveguides and the modulators that encode data onto the laser. Intel even produced a silicon laser chip, but impractically—it had to be powered by light from a separate laser [see “The Silicon Solution,” IEEE Spectrum, October 2005]. Now the researchers have been able to overcome that problem by binding a light emitter made from indium phosphide to a silicon laser cavity. The key was in making a kind of “glass glue,” a thin layer of oxidized material, on both the indium-phosphide light emitter and the silicon laser, and then bonding them together [see illustration, “Stacked Up”]. Applying a voltage to the indium-phosphide device produces light that passes through the glass into the silicon. Intel still has some kinks to work out of its new laser. For one, the laser peters out if the temperature rises above 40 °C. Commercial chips typically must work at up to 80 °C. “We have a pretty good idea of what the limitation is. We have a new test chip in design and hope to move [the working] temperature up above 70,” says Mario Paniccia, director of Intel’s photonics technology lab. His group is also looking to reduce the amount of current needed to get the laser shining. Right now, it takes 65 milliamps, but Paniccia hopes to get the device operating on less than 20 mA.