Me n Maths teachers

As mentioned in previous post, i never really liked maths but somehow the maths teachers were always my favourite.
Let's begin with Mathai Madam in std 5. Daily homeworks and a very enchanting smile was why i liked her. Now i liked the homeworks because she always gave "good" in that.
Next was Khandeshwar sir in 8th and 10th standard. He taught very well, but that's hardly any reason to like him. I liked him because he liked me and had hopes on me. At teh beginning of 10th standard when he was leaving us he told me that if he would have been there, there was no chance of me getting even 99 in teh exams.
Then was Pandya sir. In 10th, 11th and 12th standard. It is him who taught calculus and trigonometry. But i liked him because he wore very fashionable clothes and was liked by nobody except me and his crush (one of my classmates). Later i had also chosen to be pandya sir in the annual teacher's day.
Then when i was in college, it was Dr. Lavanya S. Her beauty puts aishwarya rai to shame and teh amount of jewels she used to wear would put even a bride to shame.
2nd sem and 3rd sem, it was Manjula Madam. She was beautiful but wore no jwellery but took real pains to teach maths, she discussed Dickens and philosophy in the class. I had a serious crush on her and did many funny incidents. But then we never knew that she was cancerous and when she died, was my unhappiest day in the college.
So that was my maths teachers stories. and tehy are my only favourite teachers.

Which is a contradiction to the supposition that I hate maths.

Hence i love maths.

Hence proved

Q.E.D.

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Me n Maths

Well to tell you at the very beginning, I didn't like Maths. No, never. But somehow this things comes back to me again and again in many forms and finally now, i have no other go than to like the subject.
But now maths is more of a powerful tool, just liek say MS word to solve the problems that we face, And nowadays i am seriously thinking about doing something to mathematically model the human body. Can we do it? ......... Well, let's not worry about it for teh timebeing and start the story telling.
Why I hate Maths? Well there is nothing bad in maths but it was my failure in subjects, thankfully at teh non crucial times that made me averse to it.
The very first one: My standard 1 admissions. I know it was a mockery show as nobody was rejected after the interview, but still we had this so called interview. There after taking milliseconds to answer the colour of the object and identifying the animals in the pictures i was given this herculian task of counting the number of bottle lids. And i was wrong. I had counted 9 instead of 10.
From that time onwards, i took up Maths as just something to scrape through. But yeah, i didn't ever had to really try hard to pass. But as a hype created by people around me that even below 95% or 4th highest in Maths is a failure, i failed quite many times.
I remember that I got 97 in 10th exam because of a cistren and tank filling problem and i am so angry on that class of problems that till date i always leave them as with the case of conditional probability because of which i lost another 3 marks in 12th.
But now here I am, through and through in control system, full of applied maths, and developing new theories considering the span and nullspaces of vector space and then finding their root plots. I have chosen my life in such a way that i have to love this now.

No, I can't wait.

Well i like day dreaming a lot and I always think that I am very famous and so i am finally interviewed by some television channel. It is generally either Barkha or Oprah. Let's stick to Barkha.
And now the most awaited question comes, if you were to date any 3 women in the world, who would that be. Ahem Ahem.
So here is the answer. Well, the answer is so much thought of and may be by the time I get famous, these people will be real old granmas. But yeah, these are the women i would really like to spend an hour or two with.

1) Juhi Chawla : She represents the huge band of actresses i love. I mean in my list of favourite actresses which also include Hema, Sridevi, Urmila, Rani and Sushmita, she is the one who has held up the place for the longest time. yeah now i agree she has become "buddhi", but noone was more happy than me i guess when she got a nomination for best actress 2005 in star screen awards. I bet it will be a nice date with her coz she is always so chirrpy and fun loving. Great if she brings her daughter Jhanvi too.

2) Sushmita Sen : I don't know why i like her so much. I don't think she is so beautiful. But her news always catches my attention.
Here are teh reasons why I like her.
a) She is so bold. it's really a great thing to adopt a kid when u r the most eligible bachelor in the country.
b) Her Miss India wardrobe was made by her mom, with socks and glove and all. But then she proved herself. Her confidence inspite of having a well established model as competitor was awesome.
c) Rendezvous with Simi Garewal. she was absolutely stunning in the show and i guess the only person amonst her guests who could have put even simi to shame. More at the time of the 100th episode celebration of the serial where it seemed that she herself was the anchor and sang that George Michael song.
d) Her absolutely stunning looks in "Main Hoon Naa". she gave a new deinition to saree.

3) Maneka Gandhi: Yup, it's teh old woman Maneka but i really adore her. I knwo most people hate her but don't see that part. Yes she is a bit too serious. The issue may be not. But then she is not like the polititians who say something and do something. I was surprised to find that she doesn't even drink milk as a hardcore vegetarian and sets example of stunning son Varun Gandhi as an example of a boyraised on only mother's milk and vegetarian food.
I am not a vegeratian myself and will never be, but her strong will and determination are so good. It's so difficult to be agianst such a powerful lady as Mrs Indira Gandhi. But she did it. she could haev become the PM by now if she would have done footlicking of her sasu maa. But she dared to be different. and that's why i like her.

so here wer my dream dates. hope my dream comes true.

A lovely challenge

Well , surely no doubt about it that there are many great Mitra's born till date. I can remember 2 S.K. Mitra's only. One is some hotshot physics guy whose pics i saw in my school physics lab. Another one is the author of famous DSP book.
Other than that, there is the famous fictional character by Satyajit Ray- Feluda or Prodosh Mitra. Then there is Bibhutibhushan Mitra, Suchitra Mitra and many many more.
But surely with due respect to all mentioned above and those who i missed, the most famous atleast whom most of the people throughout india know is This woman ------------------->
Koena Mitra.

And surely my dreams have not died yet. I do want to be the most famous Mitra. What a lovely competition !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tryst with small cities

Somehow against my wishes I have always been a small city guy. Though I always wanted it big. First of all it was Nagpur. Though I can hear no bad thing about nagpur, but it is a true fact that it is a small town.
Then people generally go to big cities to study further. But I went to an even smaller town. Mangalore. It's beautiful. Real cute and 100% literacy which you can feel around you. Beautiful beaches, beautiful people. But still a small town and it was here that I decided that I don't want to stay in a small town. After placements I was confident that finally I will settle in my dream city bangalore. But fate had something else in store for me.
I was put for training in Mysore. Well, I agree it was a capital city earlier and still hosts the best looking palace in India but still a small town is a small town. It's in mysore that I learnt how good the real kannada people are and the general grudge people have against the south Indians just ca't be for the kannadigas. These people are the real "mind their own business" types. Now after four months here and the weekends in bangalore, my will got stronger about staying in big cities. Most of the people in the training were scared of a gimmick that Chennai Infy is expanding and there is a high chance that everybody would be placed there. Only I was happy. My first choice was always bangalore, but if not, chennai was my second option. People said the food is bad but I am a fan of rice and rasam lunch. People say girls are bad, who cares?? People say autowalas are bad, I agree. But is that a reason to hate a city. I had 3 reasons why I liked chennai over any place than bangalore.
1) It is nearest to bangalore. Hehehe ( kahani mein twist)
2) I had one of my best friends there.
3) It has a beach. Rather it has beacheS.
Whatever the speculation was, I was transferred to a small town yet again. Bhubaneswar or BBSR. I have already written enough about BBSR, so no more. But the only consoling that people gave me that it's only 6 months. Then I will be in USA.
But the reality is even USA has it's small towns. And College Station is one of the smallest. It's the more modern and well equipped than any other big city in India I agree. But you still see the small town mentality.

Now I have observed a trend. I am going downwards. I mean Nagpur>Mangalore>Mysore>BBSR>College Station..... Who knows what my next destination is??????????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

KVIPE 2/19 Part-II

Telling more about 2/19.
Our weekly movies:
Almost every week we saw some movie at theater as it is only 20/- for a ticket and halls are worth more than 20/-. So name any hindi movie from december 2004 to july 2005, i have seen it all. Forget the hits like Black, Sarkar, Dus, Kya Kool hai hum I didn't even miss Tango Charlie, Jo bole So nihal, Nazar etc. Mostly we all went for movies together but only once did we come out seperately. That was bewafa. It was beyond the tolerance limit for abhishek and krish. I could see it full for sush's sake tough. The intervals were obviously some cold drink and cream rolls.

Our Airtel connections:
Lots of stories with our airtel connection as well. Airtel launch in orissa almost collided with our coming to BBSR. They were new and so were we. We were handed wityh a corporate connection but somehow they didn't give me STD. So there was lots of calls and loads of visits and it was quite natural that we made a few friends. There were 3 good girls in the central Bapuji nagar office. each one of us went to a particular girl. And they knew it. There was this girl called sudipta on whom i had that temporary crush. She was that simple but modern girl with bright looks and killing smile. But the best part of her was her non-dedication to employer. Don't get any heart-attack but even i had the same feelings. Why love your company? Just because it pays you? She was that revolting kind and always we had a good laugh on any of the Airtel problems.

Our Hangouts:
This was one thing which was not utilized to it's full potential. But the bike trips to the far away reebok sales were great and the best was our nandan kanan zoo trip. Never thought that zoo's can be so much fun even at 22. We acted like we are the ones to be put in zoo. The best part was the poking of Haina by the tour guide and the fashion show that followed. Haina rhymes with Bhaina (for the slag like anna, dada, maga, daa,bhaisaab etc).

Our eatouts:
This was the most special thing. No restaurant left untried, the knack of K Deb fueled it more. Abhi's jaundice checked us out of bad hotels thankfully. the final chosen few are as follows:
1) Chinese : Shanghai express is the best but Shanghai chicken at golden dragon is too good.
2) Steaks n Sizzlers : At barabati, mind, it's not BARBADI
3) Good indian : Pal heights
4) Daily eats : Dhaba Neelachakra
5) Never go to : Asli dhaba, swosti hotel, swosti plaza

Fun @ home:
This was the best part surely. from the funny kuntal cooments to our weekend long movie watching spree. From lalit's dealings to krish's comments. Abhi's half an hour washroom sessions to the logistics of K Debs closing the doors while changing. It was all fun. Our photosesions were simply great with no action missed. I really miss those people.

Uff, this blog has become quite boring. Little will be understood by the people who don't know about it. So quitting it here.

KVIPE 2/19 -PART I

This is another article on bhubaneswar but on my roomies. We stayed in Kanchunjungha VIP Enclave, flat no. 2/19. Sadly my other roomies also had to leave the flat after about 2 months of my departure because ethe owner of the house came back and wanted to stay there. So 2/19 is now a history. But it was fun and it was good.
It was 15th of december (or 18th ???) 2004. 6 of us landed from mysore to bhubaneswar. 2 of them residents and remaining we 4, me, kuntal, abhishek and Krishnendu.
The other two were sulalit and sukirti. We 4 stayed in Hotel new marrion. Our house search began on the first day of office itself and this KVIPE 2/19 was found in the same day. Though we all waited for some better deal, somehow, that flat had clinged into all of us. So finally, after 4 days, on a sunday, we four shift there. Sulalit/lalit says he will also join us and thus 5 of us sign the lease.
It was a huge flat. 3 BHK/3BR, but the bedrooms are huge and the hall and dining made up tyo a cricket field. The 3 bathrooms helped us a lot and there were 3 balconies though we were on the ground floor. To assure you that it was really very good, my parents and my bro who came a few days later said that they would simply love a flat like that and had the feeling that i was having the best times of my life.
Anyway, why am i writing about the flat? It is the flatmates who are to be described. Somehow i was too apprehensive about again staying with a new set of people because i knew i was never going to stay for long there. So i was sort of aloof to everything. But tehse people changed it all.
Let me introduce them now.
Abhishek Singh: My roomie, i mean we shared one common room. A really no nonsense and high confidence guy whose potentials always fascinated me and it still does. He is crazy for clotehs and ends up buying one everyweekend. Obviously he has a good dressing sense though i quickly pointed out a trend in his clothes and thus changed it. A bit short tempered but never without reasons. Me and abhishek were the only 2 amongst all who did not wish to come here. Though I had my home closer to BBSR, Abhi didn't even have that advantage but still he adjusted to all the people and the place much quicker and much faster than any of us.

Krishnendu Banerjee: That typical bengali guy image which i used to hate. But krish made me change that mindset. He is a softspoken and nice guy with loads of things burning up inside him but somehow wouldn't let them come out. Other roomies tried to extract his real ambitions but in vain. But finally he has achieved what he wanted and that is a job @ home, kolkata. Krish was fav of all of us coz he was laways ready for everything. He had his own days of tensions where he lost his temper very easily but thankfully they are over.

Kuntal Deb: Size : Huge, Brains : Huge and originality : Humongous. Well, teh adjective is not the best or rather even the correct one, but what i meant to say is, he is very typical with the very typical bengali accent but that's him. He never even tries to change it. He was the only guy who didn't have any immediate plans in the next one year so was the coolest amongst all of us.
He is also the first guy I saw who had a long lasting constant love affair since 9th standard and that is a lot of time. A foodaholic and a movie buff, helped me a lot coz it was both of us who were alwyas interested in going out. His hindi made us and also friends of freinds laugh aloud, like "main apni mammi ka banaya hua fish hi khati hoon" and "dhaamana" for "damana" chowk but the best was certainly "Mujhe latrine mila hai" a word to word translation form bengali "aamaar paykhana peyeche". The day he said that, we leterally laughed for more than 1 hr.

Sulalit Das: Lalit was the late entrant but was the "dude" of the flat. His fundas which he called "dealings" always amused us and his " beauty treatments" i always envied. His being oriya helped us a lot with the guard, teh caretaker and the makaanmalik becoming our friends. Also saved much of our money by finding low cost restaurants and active bargaining. His "Dude" dressing style was really killing and no wondre a lot of girls fell for him.
Well, with that i finish part 1. Part 2 will have the days we spent together.

My most coveted talent - My singing

First things first. This post is for the sole reader of my blogs- ***.
I have read in a book that one who has "sur" in his name, has "sur" in his voice too. The breaking of my name will be "saa nii daa paa nii". That Daa is close to "dha" and "daa" is written for a high scale "dha". So u see i have "sur" in my voice.
Next evidence is that my mom is a good singer, dad not bad, and bro also pertty good. So i have to be one hell lot of good singer.
So with this confidence, i went to sing in a group song with mike just in front of me. My partner in crime in this whole thing was Anuradha. She sings equally well. What happened is this: It was teacher's day and we were in 12th. So our principal ma'am came and taught us a song. But nobody bothered to learn it except me and anu. So naturally the mike was placed in front of both of us. After the performance, nobody clapped. I thought everybody was dumbstruck. But later i realised when principal ma'am came to the class and appreciated us and said "it was so good but somehow the effect was not good." That was the first time i realised hwo good i sing.
Before that also many incidents happened but i didn't kow it was because of that. Everytime i used to sing in my home, mom used to shout from the other room: "are u telling me something?" and i used to reply " no mom, just singing."
My house was close to the school so many children used to pass by. One day after singing 1 full song i went out to the balcony and saw around 20 juniors staring at me and asked me to sing again. I got some hunch and noticed that they all were giggling silently.
But there are good sides to it also. I was never asked twice to sing during ragging. Once they asked and that was it. Never again.
But my last 2 places, BBSR and College Station, my roomies are more considerate. They say that my battery goes down when i sing. That is so decent of them . I think i should give them a singing tribute.

Memorable call to call center

Normally we all are really pissed off by the long and tiring process that takes place when we call some customer care or we get really irritated when somebody from a creditcard company calls up and starts her/his ramayan.
There are 2 calls , 1 of each type which i will never forget.
The first one happened in bhubaneswar and i will never forget it for teh fact that it was most peculiar call. I was in the office but doing timepass only. The call comes and when i pick up, it says, "hello, this is chumki calling from 'Shanghai Express'. aap hamare restaurant mein kyon nahi aate?". Now this shanghai express is an awesome chinese restaurant in BBSR but a bit costly. I have been there once before the call. But how can restaurants afford such things? And that too what a funny name, "Chumki". As if she is some long lost friend. Then as i was also in mood, i said" Aaya tha ekbaar, ab aapne bulaya tho fir aaoonga."
She said," Kab aa rahe hai fir?"
Me:"aaj tho friday hai aur main kalkatta jaa raha hoon. Is weekend nahi rahoonga. MAy be next weekend."
Chumki:" Oho, aap kalkatta ke hai. Theek hai, fir next weekend zaroor aayiega."
End.
Somehow i enjoyed the call to much. I mean i was not flirting but the whole concept was new to me. And i really went the next weekend.

The second was just 3 days ago. New york times suddenly started giving free subscription and said that if not cancelled by calling to 1800-NYTIMES , they will start billing after 2 weeks. Now this is really irritating. Who asked them to give it first of all. But anyway, i had to do it. I expected long dragging and asking reasons of why not continuing and all. I mentally prepared the answers also. But then i call and after pressing this and that key, finally reached the lady. I said," I want to unsubscribe." She said "Ok , Done, You won't be billed.Thank you." That's it. end call. I was most surprised and really liked it.
Hope all call centers are like that.

My favourite quotes

Here is a list of my fav quotes. Some are in bengali but will be translated. But due to either the poor language or my knowledge of this language, appropriate words won't be possible. As i myself is the creator of some quotes, they are tampered suitably to meet my needs. No copyright is violated.
1) "No comments"
This quote was suggested by my school friend aparajita biswas as a means to ward off the 100's of useless questions about how the exam paper went (in 12th and the competitive exams). As competitive exams are unpredictable and relative, to comment on how they went sounds foolish. This stands out as the most humblest way to answer the stupidest question.

2) "Hole bhalo, naa hole aaro bhalo"
This means " If accompolished, its good, if not even better." This was by my eldest cousin Sudipta Mitra. It was suitable during competetive exams results and admissions time after 12th when each failure demoralized to great extent. Helped me during campus interviews and even while apping after GRE.

3) "sneho nimnogami"
A bengali adage, stated by whom i don't know but told to me by my mom. This means love flows downwards. You can never love your parents as much as you will love your kids but you expect your kids to love you more. Thsi has so much practicality in it and it is really hard to believe or realize. But it is a truth. You better agree. A story to exemplify:' A son, very angry on his mom for some reason, cuts her head off with a sword and goes past. While going he tumbles because of her mom's cut head on the path and falls down. The cut head says," Son, are u hurt." '
somehow this story has touched me greatly.

4) "Hardwork can make you lucky or unlucky, but without hardwork, you will never be lucky. So work hard"
roots can finally boil down to Shri Krishna's "karmanyavadhikaraste ma faleshu kadachana" but suitably modifeied by me based on my experiences. Any takers?

5)"Oracle is not about ulta and seedha traingle of stars"
stated by the oracle instructor during infy training, this actually speaks of some stupid programs in C where it is very complicated to do these programs of drawing inverted and straight triangles whic are really useless. while the C pundits in the class in first year did it in minutes and thought they are great, i struggled for long. But i guess this was a useless thing to do. I like this quote not because i like DB programming but because i hate 'C'.