Its Vacation time! Yay! Yay!

Having finished the 8th semester exams, I feel very free and relaxed to the core. Its a feeling i have been longing for, a feeling that refreshes one’s perspective towards life and prepares one for the next big step in life. Well, you must feel euphoric about such a vacation after going through 152 internal exams, 59 VTU semester exams and 2500+ class hours

I still remember my first day in RVCE as though it was just yesterday. The anxiety of being in a new place, the apprehension of tough competition in the best engineering college of Bangalore, hundreds of dreams and ambitions.. ufff!!! These four years of engineering have been as adventurous as they can get. I cherish the memories of the first program i compiled ( printing “hello world!” in C), the first time bargain for books on avenue road, the first time i was ragged, the first programming contest won by me…

Now, that i have all the time in the world for myself, I ought to plan and become more disciplined, focussed individual. I am interested in learning hindustani classical music. Please inform me if you know any good hindustani music classes in bangalore. It would be nice if classes happen during weekends. For the fun element, here is a song sung by me. Please give me your feedback so that i can improve and sing better.

Netra IMproved!!!

This is a blog after a looong pause…

Life has been a sinusoidal wave since last 9 months. Some times i ll be so happy that i ll thank GOD for giving me this life, but sometimes things are so disappointing that i keep scribbling “Ultimately, everything boils down to nothing ” in my diary.

Here are some updates

• I am interning at Yahoo!. Its been a great journey till now.  and ya,  I love Bugs/Tickets!!!!!

• @College, i have been busy with my final sem project. Its quite interesting.

• Juggling between college and office is very hectic.. But thats ok, one more month to go!

• My last few days in college — i ll miss all these friends, studies, internals, attempts of mass bunks ( i always used to resist mass bunks!! stupid me!!?? ), friendly teachers and most importantly “i am still a student” feeling

• I am earning now.. yay!! Bought lot of things for family from “my money”, feels really good.

Apart from those, my routine has become realllllly boring, { home  -> college -> office} being in an infinite loop.

Thats all for now..  See u soon

-Netra

P.S. : You might wonder why i am blogging in terms of  “bullets and numbers”.. Well, this the result of  ‘n’  number of presentations and documents prepared for VTU project

“Open Dream” come true

Remember my post about Yahoo! ? Its title was “Life at its best”.. Today it was a dream come true for me since I got a job offer from Yahoo! Research and Development. Well, I have been dreaming about this company ever since I wanted to work, concentrating on the skills that Y! looks for, took a lot of risk waiting for Y! to arrive on campus and now.. its worth all those efforts. With God’s grace and good guidance, i got through.

The selection process consisted of a written test, 2 technical interviews, a programming round and a HR interview. The best thing about the overall process is the emphasis on thinking BIG. Y! seldom asks memory based questions. All they need is the right approach to the right problem at the right time. It was a great learning experience. Looking forward to working at Yahoo!

This is how i feel now – “YAAAAAAAAHOOOOOOO”!!!!!

***Life is ssoo STRANGE***

I was completely unaware of the blasts in Bangalore when we started planning for a beautiful Friday evening. The perfect weather and good mood had an amazing effect on planning. Its only after stepping out, I realized that LIFE has its own plans for each of us..

I was shell shocked when i came to know about the bomb blasts, more so  because of the  multiple blasts on Mysore Road. It is very painful to see innocent people living in namma Bengaluru suffering this way. The jammed network added to my “all-time-high” tension. Calling up my family and friends and ensuring that they r safe cheered me up to some extent. In the mean while, the count of blasts kept shooting up and my concern for my loved ones raised exponentially.

Amidst such confusion and fear, LIFE indeed gave me a great evening.. A drive in city’s heart when the entire city was gripped by fear was very daring!!! Long beautiful discussions, playing pool and good snacks.. everything seemed to be too good to believe in such a situation.

We never know what can happen next moment.. All we can do is hope for the best and keep giving our best to LIFE

Hopelessly Bored :((

The past one month has been very hectic with exam preparations and interviews. I was praying all these days for the exams to get over because i hate studying for exams.. its not as interesting as studying for knowledge. Today, i realize that i have actually grown “workaholic”.. Now, dont imagine me studying late nights, coding all day and doing other geeky stuff.. “work” according to me includes ssoo many things be it sleeping, singing, listening to music, dancing, talking on the phone or chatting online.. its all WORK

Some strange things happen during exam time

* the urge to sleep increases with the study load

* the interest in reading general books and solving programming problems shoots up as exams approach

* the last exam is the hardest to prepare for.. most of time is spent on (fruitless) planning for the vacation and stupid dreaming

Life seems tooo rosy on the day i finish my exams.. but the excitement soon dies out. Morning naps are no longer so enjoyable, spending time with loved ones in spite of busy schedule is no longer a problem.. Well, exams really bring out the BEST out of me. I tend to compete with myself each time to accomplish more n more n more, to read more in lesser time, to keep up with the challenges thrown at me by life

Its been only one day since exams got over and i feel ssssssooo bored.. no mood to read books. I tried listening to songs, chatting online, chatting with mom for one hour on phone, sleeping but still dont seem to be satisfied with all these. I want to go on a looooooooong vacation to a calm and quiet place. A place free from differences, a place where peace and harmony prevail, a place free from jealousy and arguments.. a place full of love and faith, a place which makes me feel that “I AM ALIVE”!!!

“Random” between limits

Many algorithm correctness and performance tests, games and others require random number generation. Here is a way to generate a random number between two limits min and max.

#include<stdio.h>
#include<stdlib.h>
#include<time.h>
int main()

{

int randomnum;
int min=1;  /* lower limit */
int max=7; /*upper limit */

time_t seconds;
time(&seconds);
srand((unsigned int) seconds);  /*seed for rand() */

randomnum = rand() % (max-min+1) + min; /*generate random number within limits*/

printf(”random number=%d\n”,randomnum);

return 0;

}

The idea behind the solution is very simple.

• rand() generates a random integer between 0 and RAND_MAX. The number generated depends on the seed
• rand()%max+1 generates an integer between 1 and max
• On the same lines, rand()%(max-min+1) generates a random number between 0 and (max-min) thereby randomizing the difference between the two limits. To this random difference, we can add a lower limit min to generate the random integer between min and max