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We came to IIT KGP on 26th Jan. Well, everything looked deserted. Clearly the preparations for IIT KGP have been inadequate. The tent wasn’t ready on 27th. Unless they pull off a one nighter, its unlikely to look too good today. Apart from that, we haven’t seen anything worth recording. Will keep uploading pics as I get them. We haven’t worked much in the last 2 days. Just played NFS and San Andreas. Let’s hope we can finish this bot today itself. First look photos will be uploaded soon

Before I start, let me declare for the record that I am fan of Chetan Bhagat. I liked his first two books, though though the third one was a piece of …well you get the picture, but apart from that I ike him. So my views here are independant of my liking for either Chetan or Aamir Khan, they are purely objective.

Those who don’t know why I wrote that Disclaimer, please read this wikipedia article on the 3 idiots controversy. Now I am not saying the movie wasn’t inspired by the book. It was, more than 2-5% but not enough to say that the book was a screenplay. Let’s get to that first.

Points of Differences

1. The theme: 5.someone is based on the lives of IITians, the most elite institution, and how the most elite institution is not the most comfortable one. IItians would disagree, but this ain’t about you. So the basic theme is diffrerent. This one is about how the established system and norms aren’t always the best.

2. The Subtler differences: Well there are hundreds of subtle differences even between the parts adapted from the book and the original book. Like the key being willingly given by the daughter, rather than being stolen. The main trouble making character, Rancho in the movie, Ryan in the book are a lot different from each other. Rancho is an identity thief, Ryan a rich bastard. Ryan ends up with a job lesser than his fellow Chuddy-buddies, Rancho is one helluva lot richer.

3 idiots is about chasing your own dreams fearlessly, FPS is more about defiance.

Having said that, you already know how different they are, if you’ve seen the movie, so let’s skip that part. My point is they are very different, the storyline has traces of similarity here and there but overall, even if you’ve read the book, you cannot predict the story and vice versa. Now Aamir gave Chetan credit. If I read the contract correctly, he was supposed to be given a name in the rolling credit, he was. I also assume the monetary formalities were taken care of, otherwise there’d be a whole lot different issue and Chetan would file for theft/fraud/ any of the million things.

So the legal contract was fulfilled. As for the moral ground. Let me tell you the story as I see it and as Chetan would probably want us to think about it.

Aamir’s writer comes to chetan and says heya fella, we are making a movie out of your book. Chetan smiles in delight and says “Ya cool, let’s talk money”. Writers say we’ll send our lawyer. Lawyer comes says “We give you a lac bucks for chai-pani now and 10 lac, after the movie is released.” Chetan says “Ya cool, but give me some sunshine” Lawyer says “Your name will be in the rolling credit” Chetan says “Oh Goody, thank you. Have some chai in our humble house” Lawyer says “No thank you, I cannot accept anything from you that might be considered a bribe in any way”. Lawyer hence goes(Ya that part was how lawyer would react if he knew what he’d have to do later). Movie goes into production, and all. All the time Chetan doesn’t consider it necessary to check the script, which he has a right too, and doesn’t file for a stay order, if he had read the script, on noticing that the movie is adapted quite a lot. So the movie is released and then Buhuhu Chetan says “Aamir stole my booksie.”, goes to his wife, who welcomes him with a warm hugsy. Chetan gets over is tears and goes to Aamir. Aamir says “Chetan, I am the Koyal’s egg, you are the crows egg, you are broken”. Chetan says “I want to be in the nest”, Aamir says “No, you are broken egg”

Okay so that story wasn’t very realistic, but translating it to a more sensible version you will see there are big flaws. I mean for God’s sake Chetan is the writer of 2 best-selling and one bullshit book. He is smart. You expect me to beleive he never read the book. Infact, I may be wrong but isn’t he supposed to consent to the release of the movie.

He didn’t mind then, but now he sees that he could have extacted more money so how about break Aamir’s eggs. So you see the flaws in the story. Chetan is actually just looking for money. Maybe he has a strong case, but Aamir was never wrong. He promised credits, he gave credit. Chetan could hae stopped the release of the movie at any time, but did he? No he waited until he was sure the movie was good, and then attacked. So who is right?

Even

So it was a week and a half of constant tension, overslogging, self-infliction and frustration. I finally asked myself the question: Why Slaith why? I could have prepared all over the sem, instead of doing almost nothing. It would have been so much easier. So hell I am signing a decree to myself. Hell I am not letting this happen one more time. I am going to study before the exams from now on. Iknow I do it each time. This time I really mean it. As for now, I have Gate on my mind.

So Let’s kick som Gate Ass, guys

1.  Your marks in a subject are in inverse proportion to your preparation. You get the lowest marks in the subjects you studied the most (Not studying a subject intentionally will however get you a big F)

2. Exam dares are declared a week before they start.

3. You think Matrix is the best book to study from

4.  You think every other college is better than yours.

5.  You rarely study more than one night for most subjects(the night before the exam). Holds for all engineers actually.

6. Your girlfriend says “Eww!” when you ask for a kiss.

7. You have no idea how to do a fourier transform or a laplace transform even though you are in your final year.

8. You actually thought Ajab Prem Ki Gajab kahani was funny.

9. The word “Panu” means half your life to you.

10. You actually took time to read this.

So here they are again. Exams back at haunting you. You should really tell these people to get a life rather than being a complete pain in the ass of students. I mean comon they return every six months and kick your ass totally. What the heck is that now. Someone should put them in jail as they are abetted to 80% suicides among students. But who listens to me anyways!

So here’s how the time after my birthday has been. Wel my laptop had turned bad, so I had to rely on other things for entertainment that is until I went to Gurgaon on the 22nd. I enjoyed Durga Puja. Somik and Ankush were there. We played 29 pretty much he whole time. But anyways, it was interesting. We also discovered from Aindrilla tha Ankush had been hitting on her, Riya  Neogi, Shreya Bhattacharya among others.

Well lol, as the word goes. Then there was an extremely boring Diwali when I decided to stay home at Kalyani. Anyways, then there were attendance problems, mine stood a 57 while cutoff was 60. I managed to fill the form by crook, now let’s see wat happens next. Also SPIE student chapter is catching on, we’ve got 35 members. As for debate club, we have 11 members yet

Happy Birthday to me again. NOw this birthday would be my golden birthday. which has me wondering a lot of things some of which I will share in a seperate password protected post which I will share in the next post. The password I will leave clues to ofcourse. As of now, I can tell you that being single always on these special occasions has a certain drawback. I mean it goes good with the bachelor till death do me(hah!) image but can become a real boredom when the rest of the world is out celebrating. Anyways that’s all

Well the sems results came out on the 25th and apparently, I got a suppli in Digital Electronics. Its sad I know. My GPA is 5.93, it might increase to 6.3 or 6.4 after the supply is cleared, if ever that is. I hope it will be. Hang in there

So today, my training period at Denso got over. It started on the 29th of June, this year, I forgot to write about it then. Although I did make notes about the first and second days, I kind of drifted off later. I won’t boreyou my friends with the company profile since I doubt you care at all. Its a big company that makes ECU, fuel pumps, injectors etc for big companies like Maruti, Toyota, Honda etc..I got there on Dad’s reference. The first day was full of oohs and aahs the awestruck amazement of a newcomer at the great awesomeness of the company. These guys were pretty careful about the cleanliness, with dust mats everywhere. Apparently every employee who worked there had to wear different shoes at work than the ones they came in. To keep the company clean. When you got in, you went straight to the locker room. I’ll upload a schematic plan later, which will give you a rough idea of how the company is planned.

Anyways, you went straight to the locker room where you have your company uniform stored, in my case an apron and a cap. In the employees – who by the way are called team members at Denso – case, this was a shirt and a trouser and optionally a cap.

The exact uniforms are described below.

General Office Team Members
Old lace/ sea shell white shirt, black trousers

Plant all divisons but ECU
Old lace/ sea shell white shirt, black trousers and a cap and protective glasses, if you don’t wear your own glasses

Plant ECU

Blue Anti-static shirt and black trousers, a cap and protective eye glasses, if you don’t have your own.

Anyways, on the first day, Dad took me along in the Denso bus in which he himself traveled. So we went and met Jyoti Didi, who’s the receptionist. So anyways, he asked for Jaya Ma’am from HRD. So as we were waiting for her to come, a lot of other people came along: MR. Negi, Deepak Aneja, Prem Singh and manymore. So Jaya Ma’am gave me my temporary icard and we were all done.

That’s the uniform. Anyways so when we first entered, I was given a gate pass at the gate. That is like your own identity card. You need it to stay in the premises and you need it to get out. If you lose it, you must stay inside Denso forever.(kidding!)

So we went to the reception and met Jyoti who was the receptionist and dad’s friend. So anyways, Jaya Maam came over and gave me the rules which are pretty simple.

Wear the apron, icard at all times and the cap as long as you’re in the plant area.

So all that done, Abhimanyu sir came over and took me to the MTD ECU cubicle(It was a more like a small room open on the top and in a corner of the ECU production area. They dealt with any problems in the machines that make the ECUs. So my training began at Denso.

More later