Our penultimate show...

       It was bright sunny on a Monday morning and we had our final project presentation at college. (There will be another one) But this would carry 100 marks of our total of 200 marks. I got up very early so that I get ready on time. I ironed my dress till there was not a single wrinkle on it. I wanted this to be a perfect day. But somehow I was convinced that it would not be a cakewalk. 

       We had decided to meet at 9 AM and be prepared for the presentation. But when I reached college, only Bhuvan was present there. I was instantly reminded of the proverb- "In life, everything does not happen according to the way you want it". I was disappointed but there was nothing I could do. I stood numb in the corridors trying very hard to come up with a solution and find a way out of this mess. At first, my pessimistic thoughts told me to go and cancel our presentation and tell them we were not prepared. But the optimist in me said we could manage it somehow. 

      Bhuvan was at the shop getting the printout of the report which was so pathetically formatted (all of us are to be blamed for that). I was surprised that the reviewers did not slam it on our faces. I could see all of us failing then. Since we were the 3rd batch, there was sometime before our turn came. Ambika came from her hometown directly to college, she did not know the developments in the project or her part in the presentation. I felt so helpless. We had two options: either sit and sulk about our irresponsible work or sit and work out something before our turn came. Of course we chose the second option. Ambika and I worked on the ppt while Bhuvan and Anusha got everything ready to show the demo of our project. Our turn would arrive in 15 minutes and we hurried through it. We did not have time to decide who would present what. We managed to finally consolidate everything on time.

        Our turn arrived and we entered the presentation room. Since our laptops have become moving desktops now, we need to plug in to the power supply in order to get it working. Meanwhile the reviewers were taking a look at our report. By the time we could set up the laptop and boot it, they started shooting questions about the project. Now this part is very easy as long as we know how to make them understand our point. So one question led to another and they understood the working of our whole idea behind the project without the use of slides and paper (and also without Bhuvan's turrrrrr turrrrr lines on the paper ;) )  But this post would go for a waste if I didn't mention about Bhuvan's presentation that day. He had that confidence in his tone and body language and he was so articulate that everybody understood the concept very well. They did not have any more questions for us. Everybody seemed to like the idea and they were very happy with the efforts put in by us in the past 5 months. At that moment, all of us forgot the roller coaster ride we had in the morning and were so joyous. What we couldn't achieve by sitting at home for a week was achieved in less than 60 minutes as a TEAM which stands for "Together Everyone Can Achieve More". 

         Lastly, I would say that all this would not be possible without the continuous faith of Sudarshan Sir  in us and for motivating us all this while; for being our inspiration for now and for years to come. It is also unfair if I conclude his contribution in just 2 lines. ( A separate post on Sudarshan Sir titled "Superman Sudarshan" will be up shortly) ;)

All in all a memorable day! :) 

Kickass Ending! Part-1

Apu-"nagbeda neenu nang modhle irritate aagthidhe", WoOw what a start for the day! Thoughts in my head "Openinge heege innu real movie hegirutho!!?? 0_o"

Never seen apu like that before, in all pink wear she was all red in anger!! :D If I had cracked any single pj I thing that would have been "The end" story for me!!:P :P Lucky me I didn't do any stupid things.

One big drama about the report alignment, Ambika was late, Anu was late and our team was late!!! Woow what an beginning to our final project review, it was for 100 marks as always we would fall back to our circle "bad presentation"!!

We didn't have proper ppt ready, we didn't have proper report ready, we are doomed!! With these thoughts in head I entered the department, Apu and Amibka were busy in making ppt anusha was busy in helping them out, me thinking what would happen with our presentation, Upon that, everyone are in formals, i was in my old style blue loose t-shirt and jeans, adding to my tension.

"Okay its done lets go and stand in front of the boardroom Akshatha's group has entered in" from Anu, we packed it up and sat outside the boardroom, Just looked at the report once wow such an awesome crap!! spent 110re for this which will be thrown on our face no matter what! :P My thoughts - " Should have made little less number of pages, if they throw on our face it would hit little soft atleast" :D

Just peeped in, there were some serious faces and serious questioning going on, man we are gone!! We don't have anything properly, No good Report neither a good ppt, most of all NO PREPARATION!! It will be bad for sure, other team came out, they weren't looking good, as they were saying they are screwing out there! We going to get it all for sure lets enter!

We just saw panel of 4 with Vinay sir taking the lead role(villain) :P He took our report he asked about Mysql to me, piece of cake, i gave back sooper answer, this one question gave me hell lot of confidence, he asked us to give a brief description about the project, as usual Apu sooper dooperly explained about the proj, That was Vinay's turn to summarize what he understand about the project, "Its a very simple project just replacing the words with there synonyms thats all" {my heart beats raising} Apu started answering something, I don't know what struck me, I didn't care for anything i just wanted to speak i thought i should cut loose, i raised my big tone, cut through her, spoke about complexity of just identifying complicated words in a text for about 3 mins, after my explanations i just could see nodding heads all around, wooowww they are convinced!! :) :) I was damn happy, we made it a mark! After that question i just realized everything else would be easy, they kept asking about different modules, i could see everyone in my team were standing as if they want to answer more and more question, Ambika , Anusha, Apu were all raising there tone while answering, I could see the confidence in everyone popping out. By the way HOD was so supportive that day he actually helped us answering a question! We never went to him for reporting about the progress not much of interaction with him, we thought he would be angry but today was a day which was beyond our imagination! Everything is happening exactly opposite from what we thought it would be..

We are finished you can leave wait have u presented any paper?? - "yes sir at BNMIT" you are the first team to get that 10marks :D from Vinay sir with a smile :) My thoughts- "What just happened was any kinda dream!?? Did we really do that!?" haha :D At last one good presentation, that to with Zero preparation and Zero confidence :) :)

We did it! Something which was next to impossible, which was least expected from all 4 of us. By the way i had told anusha i would definitely speak, will get back with a bang! Kept my promise ;) ;)

Happiesss Endinggss :) :) :)

Points To Be Taken Care While Preparing Project Report

Any project is incomplete without a proper report. Now it's time to prepare report for our project. Today we got the format for writing the report. Before we start writing the report we should keep the following points in mind and come up with a good report.The points to be taken care while writing the report are

• No sentence in the report must be copy pasted.

• Sentences in the report must be as small as possible.

• Paragraph should not go beyond 10 lines.

• Include as many diagrams as possible(at least 20 diagrams must be there in the report)

• Maintain the same tense throughout the report.

• Literature survey should include all the papers which are there in the blog and also the papers in the http://www.citeulike.org site.

• Introduction part should include

  1. Why is this problem important.

  2. Entire report must be summarized in the introduction.

  3. It should include definitions of necessary terms such as co-occurrance .

  4. It should also include brief introduction of packages such as NLTK, wordnet,pygtk etc.

• Conclusion part should include the work we have done(in brief) and it's future enhancements.

Keeping all these points in mind, friends lets put our best effort and come up with a great report :):)