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Monday, May 29, 2006

Dead Blog, Alive Poly

Okay this blog has been dead for a while, so let me be god and blow life into it!

My polytechnic:
  • HUGE campus! You would be lost in a Jungle of Numbers if you don't know what each part of the door number stands for.
  • Every class room (tutorial room) has an overhead projector each. No blackboard, only white board. (Blackboard is actually the name of a website related to my poly!)
  • There are several lecture theatres (LTs), each with two overhead projectors, one LCD projector and one computer. The LTs have a kind of portable tables attached to the chairs called "Writomatic" (patent pending).
  • In total the poly has four schools: Engineering, Design, Business, and IT/Applied Science.
  • There are several canteens, but the best one is the IT/AS canteen... LUV IT!
  • There is an ATM for two popular banks of Singapore within the poly campus.
  • The library has bloody slow internet! I'm yet to check out the free internet access labs. They say, it is faster than the library, and you can use it the whole day.
  • Engineering Drawing is done in AutoCAD.
  • We can do anything with our mobile phone in class as long as we do our work and we don't let them ring. Some people even bring laptops and play games during the lectures! Almost all of the mobile phones are camera phones.
  • Out of 250 boys, only one boy will have a mush... ain't i unique?
  • By 2nd or 3rd year, every boy will have a girlfriend and every girl a boyfriend... it's a status symbol!
  • Many things are done online over the Internet, so if you have absolutely no internet access, you can actually fail some subjects!!
  • Our own care person (class teacher) told us about the secret locations to smoke within the campus. But only 1 person smoke in our class of about 20!
  • A five-ten minutes ride from my flat to poly costs me 18.5 rupees! 741 rupees per month just to go to poly and come back!!
  • You would expect the finance department to be at the entrance of the poly, welcoming all the cash and cheques that pay the fees. But no, it's in the top-most floor of the main poly building!
  • If you step on the grass, you'll have to pay a fine of 50 dollars (1500 rupees).
  • The way you are expected to drink water in the canteen water coolers: Push the tap, and sip on the jet of ice cold water that is shooting up! (stupidest water cooler system i've ever seen!)
  • No attendance is taken in lectures because of the high number. So we sometimes bunk lectures.

That's all I remember now... Hope you enjoyed reading it... Bubye... ADTC

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  • :( no comments??

    By Blogger ADTC, at Mon Jun 05, 06:21:00 PM GMT+5:30  

  • Woh! I'm visiting the green room after quite a while. I'm back from my exile :). Yes ADTC, most of the research is done :P.

    Writomatic?:) Sounds like a super cool college man! And im sure your enjoying every bit of it!

    You are talking about moustaches in a place like Singapore? Cummon, give them a break! They aren't all from Kerala :p

    18 bucks for a ten minute ride? Hmm..Mumbai is costlier!! unless one uses the bus of course which would be half the cost and the train, which would be quarter. I guess bangalore is no less with petroleum prices going beyond the roof..

    And the canteen sounds nice, we have a so called "cafetaria" which does not sell food! :D
    Reminds me of the "Bethany Cafe" and its doughnuts..

    But cool..seems like you are enjoying..make the best of it, thats all that matters!!

    A big enough comment for you?
    Cheers,
    varun

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at Mon Jun 05, 06:33:00 PM GMT+5:30  

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Thursday, May 18, 2006

What happened to Bavu?

What happened to Bavani? About 6 days ago, we had a talk over the phone, and she said she is in the Changi Airport and waiting for a flight to Bangalore. But she was like worried and tensed about the flight. She was talking so tensed as though she was fearing for her life. But I assured her that everything will be alright, that she'll reach safely and that nothing will happen to the flight. She told me that the first thing she will do when she reaches Bangalore will be to call me.
6 days gone, and... no phone call, no e-mail, no chat.
There are just two possibilities:
1. She played a prank, either just for fun, or to hide away from me. (Mind you, we are in the same country.)
2. ... Oh no! It can't be!... I seriously don't ever want it to be the second one... ever!

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Wednesday, May 03, 2006

HEY EVERYBODY!!!

Greetings and salutations!!!
I thought I would blog before people start writing my blogging obituary!!!hehehe!!Anyway had an exciting couple of months packed with college work,exams and then finished with a much needed holiday to "The city of dreams" or Mumbai.Sorry Varun for not letting you know but it was a short trip and was mainly spending my time in a resort on the outskirts.Had an awesome time with all my cousins!!
Anyway nice to see that there are people keeping the blog alive.
Oh by the way guys,yesterday was Vishnu's birthday.He is apparently visiting on 6th May and Varun is coming down on 7th so I was wondering if all of us could meet up sometime next week.If you can make it please leave a comment.I think its been a long time since we all met up so please try and make it!!!!
Ok anyway will blog later.....please let me know about your decision.

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Hello from Singapore

Hey people, what's up? This is ARUN DAS from Singapore, just in case anybody has a bad memory... hmm... i think that sentence was completely unnecessary... anyway...

Singapore is just.... what can I say?... AWSOME... except the Indian part of it, called the Little India or the Tekka. That place is a duplicate Madras :P
I'm surprised by the way traffic moves here... no horns through out the entire day... it moves so smoothly.
I've not been to many places in here now, but I've been to Little India, Woodlands and around the place where I live, called Bedok.
Little India... well... go to Chennai, you'll see Little India... and vice versa... but the problem is, the food is so costly in that area! Min 4 dollars for a decent meal (A dollar is some 30 rupees mind you!) There is a giga-super market called Mustafa centre, where you get... E V E R Y T H I N G !!!... From chocolates to Tablet PCs!, even houses (real estate)!... no cars though, i think. I got a Motorola phone for 120 dollars from there. There is also a Tekka Mall, where I got my shoe for 20 dollars, which is CHEAP compared to the high priced ones.
Woodlands, I've not been around... I just went there to visit my Aunty. It's a residential area.
Bedok is also a residential area. There are blocks, each block having 72 flats (6 sections of 12 flats each)
The cost of living here is so high... money is just running out like anything, so I'm getting a part-time job as soon as possible. The main things that are costliest over here are food and transport. I think I pay about 5 to 10 times more for the transport here than I would in India.
The BEST part about Singapore is this: In a given area of land, if there is nothing else, there will surely be grass and trees... Everywhere it's green... Even the innermost parts of cities have trees lined up with the roads, so it's fresh air everywhere...
I've heard the main tourist attraction of Singapore is Sentosa, an island in the south. I'll go there once I get some free time.

I'll write in a post about my poly in a few days.

... I don't ever want to go back to India...!

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