Some people did ask me(at intermittent time intervals) why my blog's name was "anamgine" or why my mail id was "goths_numbers_"@"some_domain".com..So i thought i could actually build a post on it :P
Anamgine:
Anamgine is actually a concatenation of two strings An and enigma. Here the reverse form of enigma || amgine is taken and concatenated with an. So ultimately the name is anamgine.
If the question is why an enigma? The answer would be that I consider myself to be an enigma. I arrived at this conclusion after a simple self analysis where I asked myself a few questions from time to time and came out with inconsistent answers(at the corresponding different points of time). Off late though, the consistency factor has improved a bit with me showing clear lines of demarcations between the different answers/views possible for different questions(if it sounds a little too vague, i suggest you to read the above paragraph again/ask yourself some random questions and try to come out with answers!!)
Goths:
a.Its not inspired from the goths civilization of aoe. I coined this name well before I started playing aoe.
b.Its actually an inspiration from Gotham city of Batman fame. Gautam-Gotham:Homophones. Gotham's->Goths: a kinda shortened form. This was the exact thought chain that went through my mind when I coined this name sometime in my seventh class!!!
The inspiration, as obvious, is Batman. I was so much impacted by the character in my childhood itself. I mean, the way he does things, the principles he stands for, his love for the darkness, turning his greatest fear towards his enemies...and finally doing things "alone"_not trusting anyone else..... All these were traits that I wanted to have actually(I am sure I dont have even half of them)...Despite all this, I was quite rudely shaken at the new definition given to the batman character etched by Nolan and actually found the recent avatar of Batman a lot more well defined and refined than his previous counterparts. And this character has forever created an irreversible impact in my mind. Hopefully I imbibe some traits from my inspiration in the long run.
I am pretty sure many of you would have had these sort of inspirations/ideas/thoughts and I dont think its wrong to be inspired by any crazy thing. "If you are inspired by something/someone, you want to be that thing/person"....
cheers,
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Hence goes another sem
First of all i pretty much know that its been two months since I last wrote and thats a huge time gap considering I saw so many movies, did so many things and flunked so many other things...But i guess the title explains it all and its anyways better late than never...Comebacks(even as mundane as ones of this kind)have to be appreciated!!!
To sum it all up in a few words...4th sem has been a revelation...I have reached the peaks of happiness and depths of despair....Busy like a bee one day, lazy like a buffalo the next...raping one exam and flunking(_big_time_)in another....You could call that a truly roller-coaster sem(and it aint done yet...results_the biggest game changers_are yet to come).
To summarise briefly the things over the past four months,
January:
The busiest of months-albeit non academically. Saarang ambience, Institute Web ops, Lemalabs, my pet project and Amalgam-well...they squeezed all the time out of my hands in the first few weeks. Ambience was especially severe with me having to go to some arbit welding shops in taramani, running temperature and also work late into the night for almost ten days in a row. Then came Saarang-my first insti festival where I had not reached a final/semi-final. But good things turned up at Saarang(Dreams on canvas, Kamal)-but i did flunk big time at flirting(I know i am not "that" kinda guy). And hence went January.
February:
Lesser work load. Federer won the Australian open after three years. Amalgam was taking most of my time now and I think I did a fair amount of justice to it. At the end of the day though, results matter :( ....Flunked almost all exams in quiz-1. Project didnt go as smoothly as expected. Forgot to wish mom and dad on their wedding day!! Slipping health. And to culminate it-the bizarre Kovai trip. Exhilarating ride.
March:
March was a nice turn around. Amalgam got an unexpected boost towards the end. I got my internship confirmed. And the biggest of all-I became a core member of Shaastra 2010. It was only a dream when I stepped in at IITM in 2008-and to have achieved a dream in life was totally great. I owe it to my previous cores for showing immense trust and confidence in me(and dont forget the Gods). My project, though, was completely derailed in a matter of an hour. We had to go in for a total revamp there, and taking such a decision was humongous. As far as my quizzes for the month went, I did them better than I did them during February. It was also a month i went for a few treats.
April:
A month of treats and interviews really. The first two weeks had one treat or the other and I had close to five days of treat food in 2 weeks!!. Add to this the hostel night fever. It was a totally amazing experience(shying away from the mess food that is). I did go to Sharav hostel night for the first time and it was a nice experience(the food was stud!!!!!!!!!!!). This was also a month when my co-core and myself had to spend an entire weekend+two evenings interviewing people and also make some tough decisions to select the "best possible" team...and so we did(or we hope we did). I do regret missing out on the meta farewell trip though. End sems towards the end(as always). IPL took away the chunk of my preparation time with me seeing some hopeless matches like DC vs RCB in the third place play-off. But I was happy that(As Dhoni puts it)"at the end of the day" CSK had won the tournament and turned out to be a deserving winner at that. But my heart also went for Sachin-for coming so close yet too far-and yet again!! The performances in the end sems ranged from Nervous shows(few silly mistakes) to utter flops(silly mistakes giving rise to blunders). There is still hope though that I will put good grades and hopefully I can see light at the end of the tunnel.
And hence went another sem. It was another of my sems where I hit new lows personally. But I kinda think its "OK" to be emotion-less most of the time. Though you grow sick at heart, you do become stronger and less influenced by others' thoughts. Hopefully something good and cheerful comes in the following sems. "Hope is not a bad thing to possess"-Shawshank Redemption.
cheers,
PS: I am not half an engineer yet, I still have 6 sems to go :'(
To sum it all up in a few words...4th sem has been a revelation...I have reached the peaks of happiness and depths of despair....Busy like a bee one day, lazy like a buffalo the next...raping one exam and flunking(_big_time_)in another....You could call that a truly roller-coaster sem(and it aint done yet...results_the biggest game changers_are yet to come).
To summarise briefly the things over the past four months,
January:
The busiest of months-albeit non academically. Saarang ambience, Institute Web ops, Lemalabs, my pet project and Amalgam-well...they squeezed all the time out of my hands in the first few weeks. Ambience was especially severe with me having to go to some arbit welding shops in taramani, running temperature and also work late into the night for almost ten days in a row. Then came Saarang-my first insti festival where I had not reached a final/semi-final. But good things turned up at Saarang(Dreams on canvas, Kamal)-but i did flunk big time at flirting(I know i am not "that" kinda guy). And hence went January.
February:
Lesser work load. Federer won the Australian open after three years. Amalgam was taking most of my time now and I think I did a fair amount of justice to it. At the end of the day though, results matter :( ....Flunked almost all exams in quiz-1. Project didnt go as smoothly as expected. Forgot to wish mom and dad on their wedding day!! Slipping health. And to culminate it-the bizarre Kovai trip. Exhilarating ride.
March:
March was a nice turn around. Amalgam got an unexpected boost towards the end. I got my internship confirmed. And the biggest of all-I became a core member of Shaastra 2010. It was only a dream when I stepped in at IITM in 2008-and to have achieved a dream in life was totally great. I owe it to my previous cores for showing immense trust and confidence in me(and dont forget the Gods). My project, though, was completely derailed in a matter of an hour. We had to go in for a total revamp there, and taking such a decision was humongous. As far as my quizzes for the month went, I did them better than I did them during February. It was also a month i went for a few treats.
April:
A month of treats and interviews really. The first two weeks had one treat or the other and I had close to five days of treat food in 2 weeks!!. Add to this the hostel night fever. It was a totally amazing experience(shying away from the mess food that is). I did go to Sharav hostel night for the first time and it was a nice experience(the food was stud!!!!!!!!!!!). This was also a month when my co-core and myself had to spend an entire weekend+two evenings interviewing people and also make some tough decisions to select the "best possible" team...and so we did(or we hope we did). I do regret missing out on the meta farewell trip though. End sems towards the end(as always). IPL took away the chunk of my preparation time with me seeing some hopeless matches like DC vs RCB in the third place play-off. But I was happy that(As Dhoni puts it)"at the end of the day" CSK had won the tournament and turned out to be a deserving winner at that. But my heart also went for Sachin-for coming so close yet too far-and yet again!! The performances in the end sems ranged from Nervous shows(few silly mistakes) to utter flops(silly mistakes giving rise to blunders). There is still hope though that I will put good grades and hopefully I can see light at the end of the tunnel.
And hence went another sem. It was another of my sems where I hit new lows personally. But I kinda think its "OK" to be emotion-less most of the time. Though you grow sick at heart, you do become stronger and less influenced by others' thoughts. Hopefully something good and cheerful comes in the following sems. "Hope is not a bad thing to possess"-Shawshank Redemption.
cheers,
PS: I am not half an engineer yet, I still have 6 sems to go :'(
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