true! i had a very bad experience with the vellore traffic police today. the inspector told me to get a licence fast and i obeyed him by getting myself a license fast, how fast?… 1 hour exactly!

that was easy. the moment i returned to hostel, i borrowed my friend’s license, scaned it into my lappy and opened the photoshop. and ½ hour later, by the time i closed Photoshop, my driving license was ready. don’t go by what looks in that one above. except for my name, nothing else in right about me there!!

finally the Google day. i had been counting days down for today as it was the day of Google’s campus visit for recruitment. i was preparing all the week like for a supplementary exam. this is one of the rarest moments when you see me study!

the selection process started with a written test with 3/4 questions on the general internet stuff which anyone who spends a decent time on internet can answer. the other 1/4 was aptitude. the good thing is that i nailed the test and the bad thing is, everyone else did that too! i donno why, but i still have a good feeling about this. they said that it would take about two weeks time for them to correct the papers and get back (hopefully, with a good news for me). later at the pre-placement talk, they told about the company and the job profile which only made me slip deeper into love with Google. then there was a little Q/A session where i won a flashy Google badge!!!

is what i followed in my second review of that freaky project i wrote about the other day. it wasn’t tough at all as i was myself very confused with my project. some said the project was right and some said otherwise. i could not decide on one thing to explain about the project.

i had many things revolving in my mind when i started my presentation to the panel. so i threw up everything that was in my mind and… yup, it worked! i convinced  the panel members that the project was correct but complicated and that settled all the freaky stuff that was bugging me from a week. seems, it also made a way for an A!

not a clue what that title means but what i mean to say here is that the mighty Google is coming to our college for campus recruitment in a couple of days and as a fan, i can’t be more excited. i read the job profile. its is the user operations department that fights the frauds in various Google products to make them efficient and it doesn’t ask for proficiency in programming skills which is something i am terrible at. moreover the job profile states that the students must have experience in SEO and related activities. now thats a good news for me as i have some knowledge of the SEO operations from the webbie stuff i did all of last summer.

so for the first time in years, i have opened my first year books and dusted them for a read. there is absolutely no way i would have opened those things if it wasn’t for Google! i just hope i have a good day that day. you know, i even thought of a status update if i get into this job: my job is to make the best… even better!

met you for first time around august,2007 and ever since you showed up twice every semester uninvited. i was serious about you in the beginning but later on you were no more than a surprise test. there were days in first year when i started preparation a week in advance. but gradually that preparation time decreased. from a week’s time it slipped to a day’s in second year, an hour’s in the third and to a mere walk’s time from hostel to the exam hall in fourth year.

there were even times when i wrote one subject for another and realized it only after coming out of exam hall. there were also times when i bunked you just for a good night sleep and even had to sacrifice you for some movie’s first day release. hope you understand. it all worth it!

frankly, i think there was never any point in even writing you at all. you hardly ever gave me marks in two digits, i never passed you after first year and my parents still think that CAM marks are out of 20!! whatsoever, i am sorry for treating you so carelessly! i guess it was mutual. nice meeting you CAM, i am gonna miss you!!!

huh… not even a long time since 26, august when i wrote one exam for another and it almost turned out to be the same today. it was cam-1 then and now its cam-2 this time. from that day on, i started seeing the name of the subject on the question paper first, without fail. i did that even today but seems the m-tech students have a subject with the same name. we had the subject called SPM and so did the m-tech students who shared the exam hall with us. though both of us had the same subject, their syllabus was different from ours. i dint know about this before. i picked up their question paper and found some numerical problems on the paper. that was weird, as we had only theory for syllabus. still as i prepare only half the portion, i almost started off.

but lucky for my habit of a brief discussion with my neighbor in the beginning of every exam, i got to know that i had actually picked a wrong question paper before i started. now, i learnt that just checking the name of the subject isn’t enough!

i don’t clearly remember when i took the last additional in an exam. probably it was in the first year and now after a long time, another in the final year. it is the first time in two years, can you believe?

since i blew the cam-1, i am putting an extra effort for this cam-2. still, i never thought i would be taking an additional at all; it just happened. i was writing and writing when i suddenly realized i was out of paper and i said “maam… additional please”, all the class froze!!!