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Haven't posted for a long time for two reasons, first, got nothing much to write about and second, busy with end sem preparations.

Already finished with 3 of my end sem practicals, just 2 more to go before the real thing starts. Really studied hard for the practicals this time.
Aanchal has captured the flavour (flavor for US readers) of the DCE pracs very well in her post The "BRGR" Pracs.

Meanwhile, google just updated their page rank statistics. Third Wind got a jump from a rank of 2 to 3 (higher the better) which I feel great about. My other blog AseemBehl's Reviews still stays on 3 (it dropped from 4 to 3 at the time of last page rank update).

The examinations end on 24th this month, and so would the period of blog inactivity.

I am back!

Finally my mid-semester exams are over, so here I am writing my first post in almost a month. Midesms were different this time from the previous three semesters, and that is because I studied too hard for them this time. I hope the results are different too this time around.

On the blog front, expect to see a lot of action on the blog in the coming few days. I will be coming up with something different now, there has been too much of my college life crap. So watch out!

Bombay Rockers live at DCE

College fests were so much fun this time. I didn't attend much of any techfest but was there in almost every event at our cultural fest(Engifest). I must congratulate all the organizers of Engi as IMHO the standard of Engi increased by leaps and bounds from last year.

I have a lot to write about but I will put everything in a separate post later(watch out for it!), this post is dedicated to the MEGA EVENT, live performance by Bombay Rockers. First, I have to tell you that Bombay Rockers is one of my favorite bands(you can confirm that from my orkut profile), this may sound as an amateurish choice but I really think they are awesome, I love the fusion of Hip-Hop/Bhangra and English/Punjabi they have created. There first album "Introducing" is from the time when I actually used to buy my music(like by paying for it), it is the album I have heard the most ever(yeah!)

So obviously I was very excited when I heard Bombay Rockers were going to perform at Engi, the only dampener in my excitement was that I thought they were going to lip-sync(they didn't though).

So after the Western group dance was over, it was announced that they were here and were going to perform in a few minutes so I went to Mech canteen to have a quick snack. When I was coming out of the canteen I heard something like a countdown, 10...9..8..(I ran to OAT)...7..6.....2..1...Ashish Jha(college student president) comes on the stage, lol, with his usual warnings of canceling the event.

Soon Bombay rockers came out and started with Rock the Party/Teri To(their most popular number in India), and pretty soon the whole OAT stage was crowded with fans(the crowd was huge, the reasons being IP examinations were over a day before, it was a Sunday and obviously Bombay Rockers were here). Me and Ajay tried to cut through the crowd and managed to come to the front(almost).

The next number they sang was Nonstop for which the lyrics said "We gonna start with the ladies in the front" where they wanted the girls in the front to cheer and then "We move to ladies in the back" when they wanted the ladies in the back to make some noise, this kind of audience interaction though had to fail at DCE(REASON--miraculously skewed sex ratio at DCE).

Then they went on with other tracks from the album, Ari-Ari(another popular number), Substitute, Wild Rose(one of my favorites), Out of Control, Sexy Mama, Bring your Girlfrind.
They didn't sing Shimi Shake, Lovesick, Name & Number and X-rated though, instead they performed a Bombay Rockers remix of the popular AR Rehman track Chaiyan Chaiyan, and some popular Bhangra numbers(they knew north-indians have this Bhangra-fever).

And one funny thing which kept happening during the concert was whenever Navtej(the Indian half of Bombay Rockers) addressed his audience as "DCE", the audience kept screaming "ROCKS". When the third time the same thing happened, Navtej had to say "Guys! I am not finished yet". This incident speaks a lot about the IQ of DCE students.

In all it was a great performance, much above my expectations, I couldn't stop dancing the whole hour they performed. I think others loved them too as there was a loud encore too.
If you enjoyed the performance as much as me, then say it with me "When I say Bombay you say Rockers...Bombay...ROCKERS...Bombay....ROCKERS
Repeat"

PS: The snap above is borrowed from the blog From The DCE Campus.

Bak-Bak,Bakwaas aur BAKRA

So the blogging culture has caught on with DCE students finally. A very dear friend of mine at college, Ajay Goyal (yeah, AOL's Ajay Goyal, the same one) started to blog again on my persuasion (that is one of many other reasons). His personal blog Bak-Bak,Bakwaas aur BAKRA , shares his experiences (actually adventures) at college.

He can write all day about his college life but he would still have something more to write. This is because he is always in the midst of all the action happening at college.
He has been thrashed by college professors for asking them to allow students to watch pron at the college computer center, he has slept during the lecture with his phone ringing on the Garam Masala ringtone, like I said before he is always in the midst of action.

There are some other great posts too at his wonderful blog, so if you haven't checked it out yet from the DCE blogroll, go on and have a look now, I am sure you will find something amusing to read.

What the f**k!---My college life-Part 4

As I have already mentioned in a blog post, I hate to sit idle, so I generally carry a book to read during lectures and the free time I have. On Wednesday I decided to take a text book with me as I had got the book-bank the day before(new books somehow motivate me to study).
I don't know why but someone so desperate for the book stole it. I was reading it, moved away from my seat for 10 seconds, came back...poof!, the book was gone. I asked around in the class if anyone had just taken it for a look, NO.
It is a pity that a student of a college like DCE can do something so cheap but I guess it is nothing new. Every other day you hear about friends loosing stuff from their hostel room.
The college library seems to be the worst victim though, first I have to mention that DCE's state-of-art library is the pride of the college and not many colleges in India can boast of a library like that. But DCE's students do not seem to appreciate the excellent facilities they have been provided with, they take home with them everything they can. Stealing of books are common form the library.
Recently about 20-30 computers were installed in the library for the students who wanted to refer to the vast online resources(the membership of which the college has bought), but guess what, there are no mice on the library computers. Why? You should have guessed it by now, THEY have stolen them too.

Girls can drive!---My college life-Part 3

Today we were having our first Surveying-I practical for this semester which for some reason happened on the busiest road in our campus. We had to stop our surveying every time a vehicle passed, which seemed to happen every 10 seconds. As always it was a boring and super easy job which I had least interest in and neither did any of my friends.

Suddenly a Bajaj Pulsar with 2 girls on it sped away in front of us getting all the stares in the world from every guy in my practical group. This was the first time I had seen a girl drive a motorcycle and that too with such confidence. I didn't know the driver but the girl seemed to be quite popular with others in my practical group and I was told that she was a first year civil engineering student(yay! I study the same, why am I proud??)
For all those who are skeptical about the driving skills of the fair sex, I do not agree with you anymore, they sure can drive. And finally its time to change the tagline of Bajaj Pulsar, its not "Definitely Male" anymore.

DCE Blogroll

I have got a new addition to my blog's sidebar and that is a blogroll for blogs maintained by students currently studying at Delhi College of Engineering(DCE).
For those who are not familiar with what purpose does a blogroll offer, look here.
Its just a start, as I have added just a few I know. So if you are a DCEite and have a blog, comment on this post with your blog URL, I will love to add them to current list of blogs.

DCE makes you lazy---My college life-Part 2

Its almost a month since fourth semester at college started but I am still in vacation inertia. I go to college everyday, attend the morning lecture and then wait endlessly for hours for the next one. Seldom we have the second lecture for the day. This may sound like a "Dream College" to you but it has been very frustrating for me, all we do the whole day at college is just sit idle at the college open air theater(OAT). As I cannot sit idle I usually read something. When we are bored with OAT we go to the nearby mall Metro Walk. I am sure of this and this by no means is an exaggeration that I have spent more time at Metro Walk McD than my lecture hall this semester.
One or two lectures/practicals which are held in a day are boring as hell, we have got the worst lecturers in the college his semester, most of them have such an amazing accent that you cannot understand a word they say.
This all feels very strange since the last semester we had lectures through out the day with some excellent professors. But I know that things will change pretty quickly after the techfests are over and the midsems are on our heads. And I hate midsems, I hate all kinds of exams and like everyone I hate them more when I am under prepared, but again that is another college issue.

My college Life-Part 1

I have been inspired to write about my college life by a blog(From The DCE Campus). The blog is maintained by my junior at college(junior...that is we second year students call the first year ones). The blog is actually quite fun to read. So here I am writing about MY college life.

First of all I should let you know what I study and where I do it. I am a student of Civil Engineering at Delhi College of Engineering, Delhi, India. It is one of top engineering college in the country rated 7th in India last year by India's most popular magazine India Today, although I am not sure whether it deserves the ranking, but still it is a great college and provides us with excellent career opportunities. The best part of DCE is that it never puts too much of a workload on students, it is up to the students to decide what is good for them.

So I am done with the boring introduction to my college, look out for more(many more) posts about my college life on this blog in future.