May 2013
7 posts
Lunabotics
These days are tiring, guys! New posts all coming after the competition ends. Days have been great: saw many new robots, alligators, manatees and tomorrow, we’ll be off to see the Delta 4 Launch! :D Other posts soon!
Hong Kong - New York - Orlando and assembling the...
So, its been almost been more than a day since I last posted. Lots have happened since then. Hong Kong airport first. Massive airport. Massive crowd (well, we all know of China’s population woes). Real amazing place. Free wifi was one of the best things to happen. Unlike Indian airports where the wifi works for twenty minutes or so for free, this was quite the surprise. To dampen our spirits...
NASA Trip: Phase 1 - Till Chennai International...
After the last exam and lots of hours of hectic packing, it was finally time to leave Manipal. I hadn’t slept for more than two hours since the night before and the cab was late, sleep deprived and waiting in the excruciating heat and humidity of Manipal was seriously pissing off.
Luckily the cab arrived in about fifteen minutes and my pissed-off meter turned down a notch. But my worries...
January 2013
1 post
Manual Bot test for Robocon
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September 2012
1 post
The age of the Internet.
This isn’t an article of mine. I just read it on the internet and shared it; it is worth reading, no doubt. ..Dear Muslims, Christians, Hindus, and Jews, You’re living in the age of the Internet. Your religion will be mocked, and the mockery will find its way to you. Get over it. If you don’t, what’s happening this week will happen again and again. A couple of idiots with a video camera...
August 2012
15 posts
Summer 2012
It was one of those warm April nights when my phone lighted up with a new email. And that changed everythi ng. I forgot about my hectic day, the assignments, everything. I just had been accepted for a summer research internship at AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland. God, I was so happy that night!Before I go ahead, I’d like to explain how I managed to reach an unheard place...
Stranded
It wasn’t even a week ago when I was about to leave Krakow when this real adventure occurred. 10:35 AM - Krakow to Frankfurt. 01:25 PM - Frankfurt to Mumbai. It was the perfect itinerary. One hour in Germany and then to home! The fastest way to Mumbai. And then came that damned announcement. Delayed by 30 minutes. Shit. Anyways, I asked the staff. It seems it was pretty cool. I...
July 2012
2 posts
Leaving Krakow
After only two months in Krakow, Poland, it is kind of strange how much this place felt like home. Leaving newly made friends, newly explored places and that real cool workplace, it is sad on one hand, for sure. But on the other, going back to India has never been more overwhelming. Sitting at the Krakow airport right now, waiting for my flight at Frankfurt, I am looking at the pictures from my...
Last days in Poland.
Whoa. That was one hell of a journey. This 2 month long experience was way much better than what I had ever expected! Seen new places, met new people, made new and some real awesome friends. Damn, I’m gonna miss all of this back in Manipal!
The last fortnight here in Poland has been some of my best days EVER. With the awesome weekend at Gdansk followed by the just as awesome ICEM Weekend in...
June 2012
3 posts
Almost a week. Loving it!
Well, it has been almost a week here at Krakow! Met a lot of people, made new friends and life’s good! I will be working on this uni-wheeled robot under a PhD student and a professor (that professor has 607 publications OMG!) and the project is so amazing! Life’s pretty great here! It is cold, it rains (not so much, kind of the way I like it) and the UEFA Euro 2012 spirit has...
At Krakow.
Frankfurt Airport was HUGE. In fact I even got lost in it for some time! :/ Anyways, after waiting, roaming around and getting lost at Frankfurt Airport for four and a half hours, I boarded my connecting flight to Krakow, the place I will be interning at for the next eight weeks. The flight hadn’t even landed yet and I had already fallen in love with this place. Krakow is one of the big...
Off to Poland. Post 1.
Yes, it has been some ages since I posted on my blog. It has been too long, in fact. Well, it has been some days since I had this idea in my mind, and it is finally time to start the implementation. Why not blog about my journey, my days in Europe (my first trip to the glorious continent, in fact). To start the kind-of-travelogue, here I am at the Chatrapati Shivaji International Airport, Mumbai....
May 2012
2 posts
Facebook: Stupid Criminals Get Caught After... →
Just when I thought criminals with Facebook accounts can’t possibly be more stupid, another imbecile comes along and proves me wrong by robbing an internet cafe at gunpoint—after using one of the computers to log into Facebook and leaving his account open. It happened in the neighborhood of…
April 2012
9 posts
Just the beginning...
Chaos. That is what has been in my life since the last month. My phone screen stopped working, I couldn’t dismiss my alarms; I couldn’t even shut them. But I /had/ to wake up for class; they had to be kept on. Waking up early mornings, sleeping in class; having no clue about anything…that is what my life was. And then I had to go to Delhi for the Schengen Visa process. That was...
Bi**ch be tripping balls! ROFL.
This is interesting!
A shop sells one chocolate for $1 each. You can exchange 3 wrappers for one chocolate. You’ve got $15. How many chocolates can you get? One really interesting question I saw on the internet. Got it wrong on the first attempt myself; but then it clicked! :D
Signing off…
Again, back after long! Lots of stuff happening these days here. Recruiting guys for the NASA Lunabotics tired the hell out of me! Got some real awesome candidates but yes, most of them were ridiculously idiotic. Even after reading the problem statement, they were under the impression that the bot has to be actually sent to the moon! OMG.
These have been some real awesome days apart from all the...
March 2012
2 posts
Loong time!
Damn, it has been a long time since I saw Tumblr! It has changed too. The new link tab on the dashboard even looks like the Arduino logo (grr.) Anyways, feels good to be back, blogging. So, what have I been doing these days? Apart studying, that is? Well, for one thing I was making up RoboManipal’s website. Chose WordPress, chose an awesome theme and awesomized it even further!!
Real...
February 2012
1 post
January 2012
9 posts
Old blood, new blood...?
It was just four days ago, almost at the same time when I was sitting, comfortably in a multi-axle Volvo bus, just finished with about two and a half hour of unintentionally funny screen time. They were showing this movie called Force. Ridiculous scenes (Well, what can one expect off a John Abraham movie?). But that is not this post is about. Going ahead, we were shown this second movie. Some...
