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I am fortunate to get a break of two weeks before joining Intel. I am making full use of this time : I am going for a trek to Valley of Flowers!

After my return to Bangalore, the reader can expect a flurry of posts, and some beautiful photos too!

The Constituents

And finally the day broke. The day when I officially passed out of IISc. I started recalling the people who have left a permenant influnece on my mind. I'll never forget the time spent with them. I may have missed out on quite a few, but even the unknowns have played a great part in building me, developing me. My success (so-called) is all due to these guys :

Sudarshan. Mohan Reddy. Rejin Raghavan. Varchas. Richardson Lal. Praveen. Peter. Suresh. Shivamurthy. Mr Narayan Murthy (beloved Grandpa). Shekhar. Ashique Hussain. Tahir. Abhijit Parkhe. Sujit Mandal. Murali. H Srinivas. Prakash. Maruthi Naik. M G Narayana. Patra. Mukesh Bauskar. Yogesh Kumar. Amit Kaushal. Vishwanath. Mr Poonacha. Pradeep Kumar Gudla.

Sandeep Pathak. Atul Singhal. K Kumar. Santonu Ghose. Santanu Singha. Dinesh. Prashant Kelkar. Samridhi. Debarshi Mukherjee. Claudy. Yogesh Chati. MD. Ramakrishan. Imbaraj. Prakash. Paliwal.

Shantanu Prabhudesai. Pankaj Sharma. S Rangarajan. Rahul Hirve. J Bharatha Partha Sarathi. Sai Krishna. P V Faizal Jeswant. P Chezhyan. R Venkataramanan. Shailesh Kumar. Kapil Vyas. Nithin S K. Mahabaleshwara. G Nithin Kumar. M Suman Kumar. Amita-Renu. Vijay.

Ganesh Kiran. G Sriram. N Balki. M Rajesh. Permananda Jena. Rakesh Oza. G Vinod. Mangesh Gupte. Rajani. Vinod Koul. Sumeet Agarwal. Harish Shetiya. Nitin Jain. Sachin Farfade. Milind Kulkarni. Kaushik Rajan. Rajesh. Govind Shenoy. Keyoor Shah. Jignesh Vyas. Umang Shah. Avinash. Pranav Darji. Ravindra Nayak. Naidu. Bishnu Prasad Das. Khitish Behra. P N Tekwani. Amod Umarikar. Tanmoy Bhattacharya. Rahul Kanchan. Rajan Mishra. M S Bhat. Sameer Pawar. Sujit Gujar. Reema Railkar. Vinayak Kulkarni. Prashant Potnis. Prashant Kelkar.

Alok Kumar Pugalia. Sanjeeb Kumar Ghosh. Hiral Mehta. Shilpa Rahalkar. Neha Bhargava. Vishal Mishra. B Nithya. Dheeraj Chavan. Hemant Parate. Rupesh Bartunia. Ritesh Parekh. Abhijit Khadilkar. Jaydeep Kulkarni. Sanjay Parwal. P P Ouseph. Prakash Lekala. Agnish Jain. Niyaz. Amit Vijayvargiya.

Piyush Khanwalkar. Shantanu Nalage. Kapil Kumar. J Karthik. Kunal Desai. Gaurav Kasbekar. Vikas Makhija. Ravi. Sudhir Kudva. Sandesh N S. Vasuki H A. James. Ubbala. Mukesh Kumar Saini. Svatantra Singh. Balaji. Vijay U K. Sudhir K A. Ayan Roy. Parin Bhuta. Uday. Kapil Bajaj. J P Rao.

Mr Kuruvilla Varghese. Dr N S Dinesh. Dr L Umanad. Prof Joy Kuri. Mr N V C Rao. Prof R Vittal Rao. Mr. G V Mahesh. Prof Pavan Nuggehalli. Prof. H S Jamadagni. Mr M Krishna Kumar. Prof Navakanta Bhat. Mr Muthukumar. Prof Bharadwaj Amrutur. Mr Haresh Dagale. Mr T V Prabhakar. Dr Ashok Rao. Mr Salim Ahmed. Mrs Rekha S Bhat. Mr Sachidananda. Mrs Vedavalli. Mrs Lakshmi. Mrs Kalpana. Mr Vinay. Mr Kalim.


I have left IISc, but I am sure IISc cannot leave my mind. Never!

No 'Due'd

The weather is gloomy. The sky is overcast. The wind is not cheerful. It is not raining at all.

I am riding up and down the hill for getting signature-and-seal on n number of no-dues forms. The mind is heavy, and so is the air. I can remember each and every day I spent here. I remember the queue for opening the bank account, and so soon, it's now time to close it!

Unbelievable...yet true. Everything that has a beginning has an end. And this is just the beginning of the end: This friday, after the annual project expo, everything will be over, and that'd be the end of it.

I was down with a high fever over the last two days. I was prescribed quite a few pills of strong medicinal value. One of them, a C-vitamin tablet beared name "Celin".

Q : If Celin[e] is the name of C-vitamin tablet, what would a D-vitamin tablet be called?

A : Dion!

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The only thing I like about the Health Center, IISc is the collection of Readers' Digest. I always find a story or two quite amusing despite unhealthy state of my body. This time I read,

"I was employed by a software firm. While working I always wondered what fun it would be if I played games throughout the day! And what happened was just that : I was next hired by a computer game company. My job was to test out the games. Once during the working hours, my boss came over, and in the heat of moment, I quit the game immediately and opened an Excel sheet and started pretending. "It would be great if you didn't waste any time on such nonsense and got started playing the game...!", my boss almost shouted at me"

:)