The rise of the king

Disclaimer : A purely "imaginary" story with "imaginary" characters.

On one fine saturday morning, the whole of H12 was shaking.

Whoa, what was happening?

Is it an earthquake?
Did some terrorist manage to infiltrate our campus and throw a bomb?
Did Ladha fall in the bathroom again?

Many possibilities. No answer.

I quickly opened the door to investigate the reason. Never in my wildest dreams did I expect what I saw next. The whole corridor was filled with students running in a particular direction. And by students I mean both boys and girls!!!

"Whoa, so many girls in a boys hostel on a Saturday morning???"

I happened to hear a bit of conversation of 2 students who were running along with the crowd.

"Run fast lest we won't be able to get a glimpse of him"

"But where is he staying?"

"I don't know yaar, just follow the crowd. Everyone is running to see him only"

I couldn't understand what was happening. I asked this question to my neighbour, who was standing nearby.

"Yaar, what is happening".

"Don't know exactly yaar. Heard a rumour that Darkha Butta has come to the hostel"

"What!!!!Darkha Butta!!! The famous reporter from MDTV!!!!!!!!!wooooow. But why?"

"No idea re. Seems the institute has got a new academic genius. And that she has come to interview him".

"Cool"

"Also heard the genius is from 2nd year Mtech Computer Science."

"What!!!! You kidding right?"

"Well , this is what I heard. Don't know how true it is"

So some guy from my class is an academic genius and Darkha is interviewing him?
Hmm now who can that be.

Is it the deadly Borol-Sriram combo? Did Darkha madam happen to hear one of their lunch time "technical" discussions.....Na, not possible. She's still alive isn't she?

Is it our sit-through raja, the one and only CP?......Na not possible. He must be attending one of the 1000 sit through courses he has taken this semester and so he cannot be in the hostel at this moment.

Err, could it be me? Hmm a very high possibility. But then how come crowd is not running towards me? I guess people still haven't learnt to recognise a genius when they see one.

And since the genius is a guy, as unfortunately no girls stay in H12, it leaves out the network queen Chotu, the compiler rani Ambika, the mtech-convert-to-phd-convert-to-postdoc-convert-to-god-knows-what-is-left-to-take Riju and operating system "expert" Jaya.

Well it still leaves many possibilities...Rakesh, Kamle,Chander and so on.

I guess I need to find this out myself. So I dressed up and followed the crowd. I noticed that the crowd was running towards the A-wing of H12.

The whole of A-wing was jam packed. People were pushing and crushing each other. I somehow managed to make it to the front. Darkha Butta was standing a few meters away, apparently waiting for our hero to make entry.

Suddenly a back ground music started:

"He walks like a king, he talks like a king...He isssssssssssssssssss....THE KING"

And in a slow motion, our hero comes running out of his room with the song in the background. The camera moves from his toes up. As the hero comes running in slow motion, the camera shows a pair of black shiny shoes, then black shiny leather pants. The camera then moves up to reveal black jackets. Looks like this guy has been bitten by the Matrix bug. The camera then moves furthur up and finally our hero's face gets revealed....and I nearly died of shock.

Him????An academic genius??? Since when??? Am I dreaming?
I pinched myself. Whoa it is paining. Na, I am not dreaming. It is really not a dream.

The back ground music was still going on.

"He walks like a king, he talks like a king...He isssssssssssssssssss...."

This time I completed the song

".........SHEIKU?????"

Meanwhile the girls were going crazy. Sheiku was planting flying kisses to all the girls who had arrived just to see him.

"Oh he's soo handsome"

"Oh look look, he's smiling at me. Oh someone hold me or I will faint...."

I stood there mouth opened.

What was happening. Isn't this still the year 2009???

As I was wondering whether I was still living on Planet Earth, Sheiku's interview with Darkha Butta started.

Darkha : "So Mr Sheiku, how did you manage to top score in the machine learning course"

What!!! He top scored in the machine learning course??? This is definitely not the year 2009.

Sheiku : "Oh it was nothing. Just years of practice and a little use of my excellent brains".

Darkha : "But you were never even on the critics' radar before you became the course topper".

Sheiku : "Aaah critics. What do they know about machine learning".

Darkha : "A few words of advice to anyone who wants to take up machine learning courses"

Sheiku : "Well study hard party harder"

Darkha : "O is this how you top scored in this course".

Sheiku : "Yups...except for the study part".

Darkha : "So what next. Where do you go from here"

Sheiku (blushing) : "Well I guess I will go straight to the restroom. A little emergency".

Darkha : "Err I meant career wise"

Sheiku : "O sorry. Most probably I will apply for 'Machine Learning for Dummies' in MIT". You see no more machine courses left in IIT for me to take up".

Darka : "Wow MIT eh? Cool. Sheiku,a few words for your girl fans".

Sheiku : "I will always be there for them. They can ask any machine learning doubts to me anytime anywhere".

Darkha : "O your fans will be so happy to hear that".

Sheiku : "Err you asked only about the girl fans right".

Darkha : "Right. Anyway congrats once again for being chosen the academic genius. Wish you all the best in your life".

Darkha turns and faces the camera and continues

"And thus we have come to the end of your favourite program 'Even impossible things can happen'. By topping the machine learning course which only a selected few in this world has ever accomplished, Sheiku has indeed announced to the world...He is the king".

MTP stories

Disclaimer : Some parts of this blog is contributed by Ajinkya Joshi

It's project season in IITB. We need to submit our stage 1 of our MTech project
(MTP) by this month end. All the class geeks are so busy with their project reports submission that it's been ages since I have seen some of their faces, apart from the coincidental meetings in the boys' restroom.

In order to evaluate how the situation of our class is in this hectic month, let us look at how some of our folks are doing their MTP. Names have been changed to protect the identity of these people.

The first in the list is Mr CurryPurry. So how is Mr CurryPurry doing his MTP...well let's see how

One fine saturday morning

"Knock knock".

Someone knocking at my door. I open the door.
Standing outside is Mr CurryPurry.

Me : "Hello Mr CurryPurry, what can I do for you"

Curry : "Hello Mr Sree Shankar, I need your help"

Me : "Anytime Mr Curry. Go on. Tell me how can I help you"

Curry : "Please call me on my mobile"

Me : "Why Mr Curry. You are standing in front of me, then why should I call you on your mobile"

Curry : "Please Mr Shankar, do as I say, pleaseeee"

Me : "Ok Mr Curry, relax. I am calling"

I gave a call to Mr CurryPurry's phone.

"The number you have called is currently out of range"

"My Curry, I am getting an out-of-range message"

Curry : "You sure?"

Me : "Positive"

Curry on hearing this became very excited. He, who can't dance to save his own skin, now started dancing and singing!!!

I couldn't understand what was happening.

"Why are you soo excited"

Curry : "Now my guide will not be able to contact me and fix the project
meeting. Yahoooooooooooooooooooooo. Another guide-free weekend."

and Mr Curry returned to his room, dancing all the way.

What can I say. Different people different styles.

Now we will see a different character. His name is Tree_In_Kresit (As mentioned above, name changed to hide the identity of our characters). Tree_in_Kresit sits in the Circular Hall of the Kresit building.

Tree_in_Kresit has almost finished the stage 1 of his project. The smart boy that he is, this was only expected of him. As Tree was marvelling at his own work sitting in front of his computer system, a colleague of Tree's, let's call him Mr X, came up to him. Unlike Mr Tree, Mr X is an ordinary Mtech guy. Why do I say so? Well he, like many of us, is successfully screwing up his project with high precision and accuracy.

X : "Hey bhai, how's your project going"

Tree : "Yaar, ye bhi kuch puchne ki baath hei. It's almost done re. Just some brushing up to do here and there"

X (Going green with jealousy) : "Yaar gr8 man. So what is your project about"

Tree : "It's a GPS related project. See suppose I give the coordinates of a place in terms of latitudes and longitudes, the program will return the output as -

You are currently sitting in such and such place "

X (Feeling even more jealous) : "Wow yaar, kya program banaya yaar"

Tree (blushing) : "O it was nothing"

X : "Hey can you enter the coordinates of our lab into your program. Just want to see what what the output will be"

Tree : "It's output will be
You are currently sitting in the circular hall of the Kresit building"

X : "Cool dude. Just give the coordinates to the program"

Tree : "Ya sure"

Our friend Mr Tree enters the coordinates. The program starts processing
Mr Tree and Mr X both glued to the computer monitor waiting for the output.

And then with a flash, the output screen appeared.

"You are sitting in the middle of the Arabian Sea"

Silence for some seconds.

Mr Tree looked at Mr X.

"Satellite problems"

PS: Thus completes the 50th post of this author. He has thus successfully managed to bore the readers 50 times over :-).