I OPINE – Page 15 – Ripples of my Reflections

Hi people,

Had a tough day @ office today.Nothing special to blog about.However, random thoughts are flashing through my mind like a multi-coloured string. So I think I gotta try hard to maintain the coherence and you gotta try hard to bear with me 😛

1.Yesterday was Sachin’s day and he was all over twitter,facebook,blogs,Gbuzz and what not… Strangely, I felt out of place. The reason being the fact that I can’t appreciate cricket as much as many do. There had been and still are times when I had been crazy about cricket (Note:Only if India played). The day before my last 10th public examination was the finals of a close ODI match between India and Pakistan. From that day to this one, I don’t know anything technical about the cricket rules and stuff. All I know is India wins or loses. I never even got interested in the game if India is not playing.I cannot logically offer reasons for what I feel. I appreciate the players and all that stuff. Still…… So, I can understand that it’s a combination of players’ achievement and the country winning,but sadly, the former part fades out of my mind most of the times. It’s been a while since I stopped or rather I lost touch of matches even when India plays.No specific reason,though. With all the hype that came up yesterday, I can’t help getting that old crazy feeling.However,”Only if India plays….” still stands. Hats off to Sachin though all I know is he won India another match and I am and will be a fan of him for that.

2.The second erratic thought of mine is totally incoherent with the former. It is the fact that how people cannot forget bitter things though they fully forgive the person who caused it. This has been going on in my mind for a while. It’s true that human memory is a double-edged sword. Pleasant memories are not a problem. However,we simply cannot forget how we were hurt or exactly by what words were we hurt and the like. I often wish that if it’s possible for us to forget things that we really want to forget,though I know it would never work that way.

3.I have a problem in decision-making. Though I may have appeared to be decisive and steady to many persons,I frankly confess that I am not. I often regret things after I decide on it and when am halfway through it. This might happen to anyone,but,I found this pattern repeating in my life till last month.After much self-analysis or something of that sort,I have made some improvement in this issue. I don’t think it is much to be proud about,yet I feel happy about at least being able to think about this and try to sort it out. Hoping that I should be making a constant progress in the positive direction. 🙂 Also,suggestions from great decision makers are most welcome 🙂

4.This one is just a rant. I am tired of politicians running the media and accusing each other to cover up their own blunders.When is it going to be the time,when you could listen to the news without hearing “X did this and Y did this and so on…” When is it going to be the time when people are entitled to unbiased news on all media,not only in Doordharshan. I know this is one thing that is gonna be a rant for long,still I cant help complaining.

Started blogging today just to kill time,but am feeling better that I got these thoughts off my mind-train. Now that the traffic is lesser,gonna cheer up for the better.

See you,fellas. Until Later 🙂

The people who are most pitiable on earth (or at the least in Tamilnadu) are the students who are about to enter college. All the news that are permitted to enter their ears is crap about idiotic colleges and stupid courses. Why the hell do others bother so much about your college and course? There will be a sudden traffic of advice constantly coming in until you doubt your sanity.

Coming to the point, there will be loads and loads of crap about ECE and top institutions (say,PSG.In my case it was CEG and PSG).However, when you get into one of the “TOP” institutions with an ECE seat in hand and castles built in heart,you are in for a surprising-shocking-devastating whatever.All will not be well.There will be three reasons that will be listed for ECE being advised as a cream course and certain colleges as top institutions.

For ECE:

1. It is the trend and you have good placements(OMG,Come and see for yourself)

2.You can have a blend of software and hardware and hence you have more options in placements(Definitely not!!)

3.Good choice for higher studies(This point is too mute to be explained.Higher studies option is there for any course)

For Colleges:

1.Good coaching(An example will suffice.All I learnt in LabVIEW from my respectful teacher is how to arrange the blocks on the front panel and the block diagram with an aesthetic sense and nothing else.Now I find out what a great role LabVIEW has in the automation industry from my uncle.Good coaching huh?)

2.Placements(This depends on the college,its placement officer and the alumni strength of the college. For my college,I am quite satisfied with this factor)

3.Exposure(This depends partly upon the student and her/his interests.Even if you study in a local college,if you have real interest you can do well without the cream exposure. I have seen live examples for this in my family and many others too)

Let me tell you,when my interviewer asked me “Why did you choose ECE?” or “Being in ECE, why are you choosing this software company?” I will feel like-“If you want the truth,don’t ask me”. Yet,my career being at stake,all I could manage was a weak smile and blabber about something related to linking hardware and software.Most of the ECE students have to go for software companies,because the few core companies that come wont need more than the top 8-10 students at the maximum.Why on earth,should I take an ECE course for getting placed in a software company competing with CSE,IT,Software Engg people. I could as well have taken up CSE or the like.

When I was asked “Why did you choose PSG?”, my mind went even more blank and I managed with just the usual “one of the top institution” crap. Honestly I don’t have an answer to these questions.I took ECE in PSG because I was expected to do so.I wish that I had been in more control in deciding my career path. 🙁 So,whatever is in the minds of post-higher secondary advisers is just notions that have been proved wrong by our lives.Hoping earnestly that this should change. 😐

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