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A journey by the misty greens Part 1/2

  On the 7th of this month, at 4:25 pm, I found myself standing on Platform no. 3 of Chinchwad station. Looking ahead, I saw the 1030 Kolhapur Mumbai Koyna Exress chugging in. I got into the train in the AC compartment. I was going to my relatives in Thane for  a week. This was my first holiday in a long long time. Sp, I had planned to enjoy it to the most. However, this being the month of July, the monsoon was upon us and it was showering everywhere. The train journey I took was going to pass through a very scenic route.It would pass through small towns as well as the popular twin hill stations of Lonavala and Khandala. My entire 3 hour odd journey was spent looking out, of the AC bogie’s tinted window. My eyes marveled at nature’s beauty. It was something that we miss in the hustle and bustle of our busy city life. The best part of the journey started after I passed Lonavala(sandwich anyone ?) and the Sahyadri ghats came into view. They ended at a station Karjat, renown ...

Last unit test of my engineering life!

Hi friends, I intended to post 1 blog post everyday. but I forgot. It's already 12:40 in the night. However, i am gonna post one now. The college where I study, Rajarshi Shahu College of Engineering, Tathawade Pune. Now, this college has a stupid tradition of conducting 2 unit tests in each semester. We students used to give the tests seriously for 3 and a half years. But now since we are in the final semester of engineering and have already got placed in our dream companies, studying for these tests seems a waste of time to us. Till this night, we gave the 1st 2 papers somehow, not knowing whether we will pass or not. Tomorrow, we have the next 2 papers and I have not studied a bit until now. Plan to study in the morning. Today, a friend of mine updated her status message as the following " All my classmates, I'll miss u a lot ". This brought tears into my eyes and I realized the importance that my college friends have played in my li...

An article after a long time- Another movie review

I am blogging after a long long time. Don't know why I stopped but here I am. Hello friends, Yesterday I saw the movie Julie and Julia. It is about two women Julie Powell and Julia Child. Julia Child is a cook and a writer of a book about French cooking. Julie Powell is a 30 year old woman living in the USA who has nothing passionate to do. One day, she discovers Julia's book on cooking and decides to give herself a challenge - to cook through and blog about all the recipes in the cookbook. The time period she gives herself is one year and she completes her goal by her deadline. Moral of the story: 1. Whatever you do, do it with some passion. If you don't have the passion, then you won't do it as you should. 2. The second one is for me, I pledge to write one blog post every day.(Conditions Apply) Let me see for how long can I keep my pledge. P.S: To all the readers of this blog, please suggest to me the topics that you would like me to write about. Till then , signing o...

My first company technical festival!!!

Yesterday, on the 30th of January, 2010, a software company named Zensar organized what they called as the first ever technical festival - Zenspark 2010 for students by a software company. It was a fun filled event with a lot of real life tips given to students. However, this article is not intended as an advertisement of this event. But, it will state my experience of that day. We reached their Kharadi campus at 9 in the morning. After a quick registration, we were led to their open air amphitheater for the opening ceremony. There were speeches by the MD of Zensar along with some other people. Then we went to the competition venue. Their buildings were named by the names of the mountains like Alps, Himalaya and Rockies. The entire campus was very aesthetically designed with a lot of greenery. The entire Zensar Team of Excellence(ToE) worked hard to conduct the events like Testing(the one I took part in), Debugging, Problem solving, PPT building and a host of other non-techni...