Bakar

what's with him anyway?

well, that's a rhetoric, so don't bother to answer. but apart from all the cheap tricks he plays, i do see some meaning in the lectures. slides atleast, as probably that might have been copied from somewhere. i mean, come to think of it, the lectures actually do have some meaning and substance as opposed to the lecturer. what do i do? what do i do? .... me too busy doing nothing in sen lab, so came up with some interesting propositions. just take a look.

okay, here are some guidelines, and proposals on how to improve on this course:

• make it an elective, it is too trying on students not related to software engineering.
• make it a course with 6 credits, as 5 credits quite obviously does not deserve this kind of effort.
• stretch out the course onto two semesters.
• First semester, only theory. teach all the principles, the phases, tricks, whatever. take pop quizzes, take exams, take vivas. no labs.
• ask the students to come up with ideas for projects, viable in 1 sem. let them search, improvise, reuse and generally ponder on ideas and topics for projects.
• Second sem, only labs. no lectures, tuts + 2x2hr labs. teach the tools of the trade, take evaluations instead of exams, vivas instead of pops.
• increase the team size. divide each group into two teams, of thirty members each.
• either of the team acts as the client and developer for the other. as in group 1A signs a contract with group 1B, stating as to what they want, and how they want it. group 1B goes ahead and develops the software. the reverse also goes, as in 1Bsigns with 1A. or some such shematic can be developed, whereby the teams actually work for a live client with demands. or probably the institute can act as the client, actually offering some fee as an incentive. industry environment does not mean a professor breathing down on the student's necks. it means real and live situations. it can be simulated. or ask our parent company if it has some ideas.
• make the course exciting, such that the students actually want to achieve something, not just grades and a good impression on the lecturer.

what would you people say? i mean these are my ideas. feel free to state your own. remember, there are chances of out feedback being considered, if it is constructive. no point in crying our loud that the course should be cancelled.

hello world!

ya i know it's cliched, but living in this ne0-cyber 'techie' insti, you get used to 'hello world' a lot.

neways, hello ppl. welcome to my world, my space.

i like to think of it as bizarre, dark and mysterious, but finally it might look like a lot of silly whimsical fabrication...

i really don't care.

i am me.

ppl love me, ppl hate me, ppl can't even stand me sometimes. same goes with me. (i.e, i luv me, i hate me, i can't stand me, and not the other way round...) i like to think of myself as big tank with a lot of potential output, but i kinda have trouble figuring out what that output is. for all i know, that tank might turn out to be a sewage collection sump! or might be the crystal clear pool of elixir, which gives life to the gods! ah, fancy is but my sly friend, offering a hand for me to step on, just so that the hand can be taken away the moment i step on it.

come to think of it, i really have trouble finding out what i did with my life all this while. a dormant bear whose full potential is yet to be seen? or a lab rat whose faith in life has completely vanished? or just a deer sampling the grass in this country, before moving along with the herd? i dunno. bullah ki jaana mein kaun hoon!

a dry leaf fluttering in the wind, an ant driven by the herd mentality, a mindless automaton. i envy them. no need to think, no need to take decisions, no need to take responsibility. i hate taking responsibilities. i've been fed on 'guidance' and 'advice' for so long, i don't know what it's like to stand up for your word, for your thought. coz i never did. a vicious cycle i say, to be spoonfed. i haven't yet found the way to break that mould. and have no idea whether i'll ever be able to!

so much for today, so much for 'morrow.
life goes on, be it gay or sorrow!
none hath the power to still time,
for none can cange the rhyme.