Sunday, May 1, 2011

Now Its your turn!

"Education is the manifestation of perfection already in man" - Swami Vivekananda

An inspiring Tamil short film about helping a lesser privileged student's education.


 Let every lamp be lighted! Lets begin the Chain Reaction!!!

I dedicate this video to my Under Graduate lecturer VUP~

Life and Heart

I recently bought couple of posters for my room which I liked most. One is about life with a motivational quote which states 
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about Creating yourself

What is Life?

Another poster is about how the most beautiful things in life are a felt by heart. The touching lines are as below
Why do We close our eyes
When we pray,
When we cry,
When we kiss,
When we Dream
Because the most Beautiful things
in life are not Seen But felt only by Heart..
Feel it!

Needless to say, both are really nice quotes. Also, the background images are simply awesome and depicts the quotes very nicely. Hope you also like these.

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Young buSINess MAN

Day before yesterday night, I saw a business man in-front of a restaurant in Connaught Place, New Delhi. He is young, really very young. Yes, he was around 4years old and selling different shaped balloons on road side.
I was just watching him for a while. The way he sold balloons stormed me. Yes, he just goes to kids and shakes his balloon stick very close to them. Once the kids started to pay attention he shows the balloons still closer to them. By seeing all these, a kid insisted her mom to buy a balloon. Then the mom asked the price of a balloon and our young business man replied its Rs 15. She gave Rs 20 to him and waiting to get Rs 5 balance. To all of our surprise, the young business man started to move on without giving the balance. When the mom asked him to give the balance, he simply replied that balloon cost is Rs 20 and asked her to return back the balloon if she doesn't want one for Rs 20! She argued him but, at last, she was not able to return the balloon back nor get the Rs 5 balance from the young business man.
What is so important to write about this incident? I looked this in two different angles. First, the mentality of the business man: cheating at young age, though its just for Rs 5. Second, the worst, is child labour. To me, the young boy is a business man. His balloons are colorful but I don't think his life is. By looking at both the kids (the above snap), I just asked myself, What did the wrong thing the young boy has done to work at night at the age of 4years itself? or What did the good thing the other kid, of same age, has blessed? This is just one incident I observed. And, of course, its not uncommon to see such a huge divergence among people around us in our country, India. What is the solution or what can we do? Simple! Let's raise our hands against child labour; Let's educate our uneducated friends; Let's extend our hands to lift underprivileged ones around us; Let's contribute and work towards India Vision 2020.

I faith, NO ONE will write a blog like this by year 2020~

Friday, February 4, 2011

How did I reach here...

Seems, I have taken quite long time to write my next post. Here I am sharing the wonderful moments happened to me in the past few months.

Well, I was seriously trying for July 2010 batch research(PhD) admission in reputed institutes in India. Even my GATE score was decent but not so great, I focused more on getting admission in IIT Bombay and IISc Bangalore. For IIT Bombay, it was my third attempt :) but I never gave up. I prepared well and the admission process, written test and interview, went so good than my earlier attempts. Later, interview panel people recommended me to join MTech and the reason told was my GATE performance. But, I was not interested doing MTech for various reasons.

Next, IISc and it was my second attempt. This time I got call letter from SERC department for PhD admission process. I attended the pre-interview familiarization program there and it helped me to prepare well focusing more on interview point of view. And the judgement day came, I did my best in written and interview. To my surprise, I was shortlisted not for PhD, but for MSc Engg by Research program.

Even the masters program in SERC is research oriented, I was thinking deeply whether to join MSc or not as I am a MCA graduate already. Moreover, I felt difficult to come out from IT industry job after three years of experience and also for various family reasons. But, at last, after analyzing all possibilities and having discussion with friends, I decided to accept the admission offer.

When I was counting down my days, a close friend of mine, shared link stating there is a 2nd round of PhD admission for Mobile and Ubiquitous computing group going in IIIT Delhi. Till that time I was not knowing about IIIT Delhi. So I went thru the institute website, got inspired, applied, got shortlisted and called for entrance test which was scheduled on Thursday 10th July 2010. Due to leave constraints I planned to travel by flight, rather my usual train journey. Of course, that was my first journey on flight on 9th July 2010!!!

The PhD admission process in IIIT Delhi had three components: Written test, Programming test and then Interview. I did well in Programming test and did my best in the other two, also I was very confident this time. And, finally, I got a call on the same day evening saying I was shortlisted for PhD admission. After returning back from Delhi, I had a discussion with my Manager explaining my wishes and to initiate the releasing formalities as soon as possible. Fortunately, all my exit formalities went smooth and my last working day was 23rd July 2010. Later, I joined IIIT Delhi on 26th July 2010 and then after I am called as PhD Scholar~

Monday, April 26, 2010

The Virtual Barbershop - Binaural Recording

Last weekend I happened to meet my friend Senthil Kumar after long time. Since We were seeing each after our college days, we had a very nice and fun time to disscus about all our past experiences. And it continued to sharing whatever musics we had in our mobiles. Surprisingly we both are having the same model mobile, Nokia 5130 Xpress music. He shown me one of the amazing music clip from his collection, called "The Virtual Barbershop". Its really a nice listening experience for me and I enjoyed the recording technique of that music clip.

What is so special about The Virtual Barbershop music clip?

Actually "The Virtual Barbershop" is a Binaural Recording music clip. According to Wikipedia, "Binaural recording is a method of recording sound that uses a special microphone arrangement and is intended for replay using headphones", thus gives perceptually realistic sound effect when we we hear through headphones.

How to listen The Virtual Barbershop clip for best effect
  • Listen here
  • or Download the High quality clip(Mp3/6.16MB/4.29Mins) from here
  • Should listen the clip through headphone for its best effect.
  • Sit in a silent place and close your eyes.
  • Turn the volume up and concentrate to the clip.
More Binaural Recording clips are available at

Thursday, April 15, 2010

UGC-NET Computer Science and Applications - Previous year questions (Cracked for Copying and Printing)


UGC-NET - Computer Science and Applications previous year questions are not printable or copyable either. Here is the cracked version of those pdfs :)

2005 December Paper 2

2006 December Paper 2
2006 December Paper 3
2007 December Paper 2
2007 December Paper 3
2007 June Paper 2
2007 June Paper 3

For other subjects, do drop an e-mail at mails [dot] samy [at] gmail [dot] com

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

My first post - Tag lines

Am late, but not too late!!

Yes, atlast I created a new blog with more sprit and started posting. Ofcourse, I already had a blog, but didn't post anything. Lazy fellow :(

To start with, these are few of my favorite Tag lines, I use to remember.

Think, Yet things are undiscovered~
(Way back in 2006, Karthick and I formed this for our C website)

People laugh at me because I am different
and
I laugh at them becasue they all are same!

- Unknown

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world;
The unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man!!!

- George Bernard Shaw