Confidence

This is one of the best videos I have ever seen. This is pretty much the definition of absolute confidence, just watch yourself ...

A Few Random Musings

Qualifier is over. Yoyoyoyoyo … whatever the results; it’s good enough that it’s over and not gonna come back before another year. However, let’s still hope that we pass :D

It was Bengali New Year’s Day this weekend. Shuvo Nababarsho to all.

The quals had obscured all other pending problems and now that it is gone, all those aspects have popped up. Midsems, presentations, term papers, research all menace coming altogether, going to be a pretty hectic one this week.

I forgot to write about the trip to UIUC two weeks prior to the quals. It was a real treat. Got to watch the vast fields, and the green all-around, long time I was missing the peace in the city of Chicago. In the twelfth standard there was this poem on a city guy going to the country side and enjoying a sunny day in its serenity. I don’t remember the name, but I pretty much felt like that. A thank goes to Aranb. I was in half a mind to cancel the trip when he called and asked, “Will a trip to UIUC over the weekend have a significant effect on your chance of failing the quals?” I thought “Hell! No! If I am to fail, I am already doomed, two days aren’t too much.”

A Few Things to Enjoy

Less than a week to go before the quals. No wonder what I am up to these days. Study and more study and yet with so many things left to study. It's pretty boring sometimes. Well studying was never exciting but it is even worse to study things only to pass a particular exam passing which is not going to achieve anything but failing which is going to be a real pain. I won't bore you with the acads. Just wanted to let you know of a few things I enjoyed in my study breaks -

1> 'The Seven Samurai' – An old (1954) Japanese movie by director Kurosawa. It's a real good movie. If you have time, watch it. It's rather long.

2> A BBC documentary named 'Space Race' – It has been shot like a movie in four parts starting from the end of WW-II to the journey to the moon based on the race between USA and USSR to conquer the space. It revolves around the work of the two engineers in the two competing camps.

3> 'Gmail Paper' – It says that google will print and send you all your emails that you request to get on paper along with picture attachments with no postage required. Well, not really! It was an April Fools' Day prank google. I was amazed by the announcement was wondering about a few things –

a> how google will handle such incredible amount of paper
b> no postage! That's too costly for the number of emails they have
c> “Photo attachments are printed on high-quality, glossy photo paper, and secured to your Gmail Paper with a paper clip“ - too good to be true for a free service
d> “Gmail Paper is made out of 96% post-consumer organic soybean sputum” - 'soybean sputum' that sounds fishy
Nonetheless, I looked for the gmail paper button in my gmail account. After all, it's google; they can do anything. As I couldn't find it in the location shown by the demo, i googled 'gmail paper april fool' and found the truth -:)