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Showing posts with label College. Show all posts
Showing posts with label College. Show all posts

Saturday, February 04, 2006

Project- Vibration Detector.


Hi,
Open House- went on well. Had lots of fun and also gained some practical knowledge about Electronics ;) And my project is 'Vibration Detector'. In short, it detects any heavy vibration and it makes alarm sound. It can be implemented in Car doors, Shop shutters, wardrobe/bureau keyholes etc so that when the thief tries to breakthrough the alarm sound is produced and hence the thief will be caught. With a good sensor we can vary the sensitivity so as to detect even voice signals, seismic waves. It was a great experience teaching the lecturers. I mean explaining the project, circuit, applications etc. Have uploaded a snap of it. Have a look :)


Many were attracted because of the wardrobe/bureau keyhole usage and they asked to sell the kit to them. Especially ladies. May be to keep their jewels (alone) safe :P


That's all for this week. Nothing much. Take care and bye!

PS: All the mugs were really cool and I felt like owning each one of them :D. Thanku for posting them.


Have a nice day,
Ponnarasi.

Sunday, January 01, 2006

Years are passing by- Getting old day by day-Am not a teenager anymore :(

Happy New Year! Wishing others and getting wishes from others always gives great pleasure. I guess this is the only occasion where we can wish anyone unlike other religious festivals, birthdays, anniversaries etc where we can wish only one particular person. Happened to hear a funny statement while conversing over the phone with one of my friend. He said "I wonder why the hell these people are celebrating New Year not realizing the fact that we are getting older and older after each year". Till certain age all of us wish to get old but only after few years we realize the advantages of being young (not caring or bothering about things that are happening around). Apart from the most frequently heard sentence 'Happy New Year' there exist one another, "Made any resolutions?" For those who have made up their mind to read more books this year. Here are few tips, pasted from a journal. Thought it would be worth sharing. Even if not interested in this particular goal, it might give some general idea to organize our own goal or resolution.

PS: How do I blogroll? :-/ I tried in blogroll.com, but I dont find the list here in my blog. Help me with this pls.

Obstacle: I don't know what's good to read.

Tasks
  • Decide if you want to read fiction or nonfiction
  • Ask for three recommendations from friends who read
  • Read reviews of books in your interest area
  • Make a list of three books or magazines to read

Obstacle: I don't have time to read.

Tasks

  • Schedule 30 minutes of reading a day
  • Subscribe to an executive summary service
  • Take a speed-reading class
  • Adopt a Time Management Goal plan

Obstacle: I don't know where to get the best deals on reading materials; I can't spend much on books/subscriptions.

Tasks

  • Check book prices at an online bookstore
  • Look for books at clearance bookstores
  • Subscribe to magazines via discount subscription service
  • Download a great work from the Internet

Obstacle: It's inconvenient to carry books and magazines around with me.

Tasks

  • Schedule reading time at home
  • Download a book to your handheld computer
  • Get an ebook reader

Sunday, December 25, 2005

College is always fun!

College reopened after vacation. Was eager to see everyone after vacation. Many have put on weight and many have lost weight. For few, holiday was boring and for few others they are still longing for more holidays. My case is, cat on the wall. Surprisingly, I find all the papers interesting in this semester except PD. Not the smoking 'Beedi' ;) How can that be a subject. This is Personality Development-PD. I could hear someone asking, "Personality..?? It can be developed only if there is some." No, never have a doubt, we have great personalities amongst us:)).

Let me brief about the previous semester PD classes. We were asked to bring candles and light them. Each sitting infront of the candle and were asked to look at the candle with dedicated concentration. SirMadam said the higher flame reflects on your concentration. That is if my flame goes higher than my friend's I have more concentration than my friend does. Hahahaha...Funny! Where the hell could he get such stupid logics? Then we were asked to bring EGGS. Thank god SM(SirMadam) didnt turnup for the day. Wondering what SirMadam is...:)) No I should'nt say that. What if by any chance he peeps into my blogs..

SirMadam told that this semester he/she will be taking us outdoor. Inside the campus when we were doing all this. We were talk of the campus. Don't know what he is really upto. Will tell you more stories about PD in future. But ofcourse one way or the other college is always fun. Take care and bye!

Tuesday, December 13, 2005

Pleasant day!

As soon as we getup, we expect a day as pleasant as a flower. And I expected a pleasant day too. In the evening, we planned to go to a book shop. Was roaming in the same place searching for a better place to park. We came round and round and round several times that I will be able to tell the number of hoardings,shops etc in the same order. Atlast one car left that place and we hurried to catch that place before anyone else could. Sounds silly? Yeah, that was silly. But no other go. Parked the car. Had a short walk till the bookshop. Browsed through all the possible sections. Got 2 books and came to the counter by the time other family members had their browsing. It was a big queue. The crowd was frustrated because of the absence of attenders in other counters. Only one counter was functioning. Finished the rest of the job and came home happily. Had a good time watching a nice tamil movie in TV. Yeah, Day was good as expected. Bytheway, I just came across one of my frequent visting blog, Mr.Dinesh's and thought I would share a nice website from his blog, http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/.
Please do spend some time. Its worth spending. Am still in the search to find how to list my favourite bloggers. I will be happy to know from you as well. Okay, thats all for today.

Have a nice day,
Ponnarasi Kothandaraman.

Friday, November 04, 2005

Girls- Breaking the rules????

Yeah,blogging after a short break. Went to college after a long time to collect the hall tickets. While on the drive sent a message to one of my friend "Has Sir come?" and was happy to see the reply "No! He is yet to come, all of us are ready at his room". Reached college just after 5minutes sir came. (Gr8, My Guardian angels are around!) For doing nothing we were asked to pay Rs75 each under the name of common fine. Sounds absurd? Yeah it does. Nothing doing only if we pay and get the receipt our hall tickets will be given.
Since our H.O.D was busy (as usual), we were asked to get signature from an another staff who always pretends to be busy at times like this. Having no concern he said, "Will finish my breakfast, pls wait!" Hahahaha... Nice college, nice staff and nice students too ;) ! There the busy man came after half an hour or so, 'velakkennaiya kannla oothiktu'. Found all possible silly mistakes he could, "Who will write the date?", "You don't belong to any section?". May be its been a long time he corrected any answer sheets, so wanted to have fun- finding mistakes. At last, got the signature. Now all of us have to rush into the office to pay fine. Had a feel of participating in a running race. Hehehe...The biggest comedy is all the other department students are much ahead of us, worse than ration queue there was a long queue. We were standing there with long faces, after seeing the loooooooooooooong line, cashier told, 'Ponnunga thaniya pasanga thaniya nillunga'pa' .
As usual few were happy and few were sad listening to this statement. Like disturbed ants, within few seconds, two different queues were formed. But there comes another comedy after few minutes, I saw a new line emerging in between, hahahaha...(Silly idiot! Its not for 3^2). Girls formed another line next to the already existing girls line, may be some real interesting gossip :)), so that they could stand next to next and whisper! I never expected girls did this mess. There came a comment "Cha girls'ey ipdiya". Insulting, but that was true. Guys were quiet decent to maintain their own queue. But they had their own way, one guy was having around 30 students fine and was waiting ah.. (Its not just getting the receipt, we should get a seal in another sheet with college name). In between these chaos, a junior tried to slide herself inside the line, though I was not directly affected, I was irritated, so showed that anger to that girl by saying "Follow the queue!" and she immediately gave me a reply by saying, "No, Am thinking which queue to follow." (Oops....human psychology- showing our superiority to a much junior person ;)). Till that moment I never knew people could think only after coming and standing in the middle of a queue. All these are simple things! Though its part of college life, I guess we should behave like a matured person at least while doing a professional course. I really had a feel like standing in some cinema theatre for tickets. Worst thing is same attitude will be developed even when we happen to be in a crowd, where there would be no one known like in the case of college. We will be showered with wonderful comments like, 'Kannu therila, nikiromla!', 'Engala patha epdi theriyuthu'. Why should we be the source of someone's irritation? By the way if I irritated anyone with this blog, am sorry! ;)
Then came home flipped few pages in microprocessors...spent few minutes watching a nice movie, "Thiruda Thiruda". Saw only the beginning missed the rest. Hope they play it again. That's all for today. Oh, now the time is 12 A.M, the next day?, Okay, Gudmrng! (Reference to blog posted on october 22nd)Thought Citibank story would be a nice comedy story but turning out to be a tragic one, a sincere advice, beware of citibank! Will write when the whole story gets over.

Monday, October 24, 2005

Days are going without planning!

Study holidays are running very fast. Exams are around the corner. Nothing great for the past two days, except for wasting time... ;)
Thanks for the wonderful suggestions but its not my card its dad's and dad will never do all that. When I get one will follow your ideas @ thamizhan & kanniya. No idea about 'dead beat', pls give the answer! Let us know @ santhosh.
There will be some discontinuity in posting my blogs till my exams are over. Anywaz will turnup with loads and loads 2 share......Keep an eye in this space....Just out of curiousity a silly question striked, "Why do humans have the tendency to postpone?"