2011 and me

2012 is at the door and it is a high time to recollect everything that happened in 2011. I have given up the habit of diary writing so early (I wish, I could start it from New Year onwards), so it is very difficult to summon up the past incidents. Anyway, 2011 was a good year for me. I had made many decisions by my own; some were good while some were total failure.

Things happened in 2011

• For the first time I moved out of Kerala. It was along with my friends for an excursion. We went to Mysore and I enjoyed Wonderla the most.
• I have cut my hair short. I feel both sad and happy on it.
• I’ve deleted my orkut account and started accounts on fb, twitter and linkedin. I’m really inactive in linkedin. I often feel to delete the fb account as it is very difficult to update all. But I can’t leave my friends’ updates.
• Met some of my long lost friends mainly through SNS. :)
• Forgot to send birthday wishes to my best friends (I’m sorry). :(
• I got placed in a MNC through campus placement (Thank God), but Mom is insisting me to go for higher studies.

These are some of the random incidents that came to my mind when I think of 2011.

The things which made 2011 a special year are the moments which I’ve spend with my dear ones, friends, cousins… The celebrations in the college, the get-together with my school friends added colour to my life in 2011.
Thank you everyone for making this a wonderful year and I hope that it will be more wonderful in the coming years also.
Good Bye 2011
Welcome 2012
Happy New Year


-Athira M. K.

Passport-size Photo

“Affix your passport size photo here”. Everyone has come across this statement several times. How many passport size photos does a person need? Even students require an average of 10 photos an year. Hall tickets, forms, passes all require the passport size photos for identity. Some are important ones and some are unimportant.

Actually most of them are unimportant which doesn’t require good quality images. Even then we a spending a good amount for that purpose. Why should we need to spend much for the college bus pass or for the library identity card? When I thought about this I struck with an idea. I have taken a laser printout of my photo thereby saving a good amount of money. So get ready to take your passport size photos in bulk.

- Athira M. K.

for, while, do-while

Looping are most common in programming languages. It makes programming easier if we understand it correctly. Loops are used to repeat the execution of a set of statement that come inside the set of curly braces { } of that particular loop. There are 3 different types of looping statements- for, while and do-while. Once u understand any one of them, then the rest of them become understandable.

Consider the C++ code below

      1     2    4
for(i=0; i<5; i++)
     {
      cout<<"\n"<<i;        3
      }
(rest of the program)     5

At first the value of i will be 0. It happens by the statement i=0. This statement get executed only once i.e. when it first enters into the loop. Then it checks i<5. If it is yes then the statements inside the loop get executed otherwise the statement after the loop(rest of the program) gets executed. If the statement inside the loop is executed, then the statement i++ executed. It increments the value of i and i becomes 1 this time. Then it checks i<5 and the above mentioned steps continues till the value of i get incremented to 5. It checks i<5. That time i is not less that 5 as the value of i is 5. Then the loop exits.

The sequence of execution will be.

1234343434345

The output will be.
0
1
2
3
4

So if we need to execute a set of statement for 5 times then we should put inside the loop in part 3.

It is same with the case of while loop also, but a little bit difference in the syntax.

i=0;
while(i<5)
   {
   cout<<“\n”<<i;
   i++;
   }

The do-while loop is a bit different from the other 2 loops. It is exit controlled loop but other are entry controlled loops i.e. they perform checking when it enters the loops whereas do-while performs checking after executing the statements. It checks whether to continue the loop.
So that do-while loop performs the execution of the loop atleast once.

Code eg.

i=1;
do
   {
   cout<<i;
   i++;
   }while(i<0);

The output will be.
1

The statement inside the loop get executed once even then the value if i is not less than 0.


- Athira M. K.

Thread Bangles

Have you seen the bangles wore by Sruthi Hassan in most scenes in 7 aam arivu (Tamil movie)??? And it is seen in the hands of most of the Indian celebrities these days. Those multicolored bangles are the latest trend in bangle designs.

It suits well with the multicolored salwaar-kameez, kurthis-jeans and also with other casuals. I felt as it is a must in the collection of each college girls. So I decided to purchase it when I came home for the sem break. I’ve asked for it at many ladies store but found only in one. It looks so colorful and elegant in the silk thread. There it costs Rs. 50 for each dozen. I felt the price so reasonable only after I have made by my own. It really required some pain.

If you are ready to spend some time then you can also make it. Here are my DIY tips to make these beautiful bangles.

Things you need:
1. Ordinary plastic bangle.
2. Silk thread.
3. Gum (Fevicol).

Steps
Apply some glue over a part of the bangle. Wind the silk thread along the bangle starting from the part where glue is applied. Also apply some glue when the winding ends.
I am very interested to make these kinds of items by myself. Try yourself. It will be great fun and also a sense of satisfaction. Those who are so lazy can contact me, so that you can purchase it from me, if you didn’t find it in your locality.

Thank You. Have a great style ahead.

- Athira  M. K.

Last days in my College

Seventh semester also ended up with not much hustle and bustle. University exams, lab exams, project design presentation all have finished. How the time can move this much fast??? I still remember the day when I joined the college for Engineering of four years. Now, only one more semester is remaining before me. I’m quite sure that it is not only my case but a thought with several others who are in their final semester of B.tech.

Hey all, have u enjoyed your college days or are you happy with your life so far?? No need to answer me, just answer yourself. If your answer is yes, then move on guys. Otherwise think about yourself, about your ways of enjoyment. For some it is the happiness that you get when you learn a new subject. Or when you find something out of what you have studied. For some it is the moments that you share with your friends and dear ones. Whatever it will be, find time to enjoy in your way. We hardly have four or five months. Days move faster than us. So don’t give a chance of regret about the lost days in college. In future we won’t get time to share our success, our birthdays, gossip…(endless list).

Who knows where you will be and where he/she will be???

- Athira M. K.

Design Phase Completed

I have created this blog for a couple of years ago and designed it for a couple of days ago, but still confused about what to write as the first post. I rushed through the pages of my diary but didn't find anything in that unfinished piece of poems, short stories and other scribbling. So let me tell about the designing phase. I have tried many themes and designs but none suited my mind. I felt that my blog need something cute. One day while I was browsing on the net I found this theme on some blog. I read every nooks and corners of it to find whether there is anything mentioned about the theme. “No… nothing…” I went for the source code. This habit got into me while doing my mini project for btech degree. It is clearly mentioned that the theme is notepad- chaos :) . I googled it and found a download link for wordpress users :( .
I’m using blogger. For my goodness I’ve found a link as notepad- chaos for bloggers. I have soon downloaded it and uploaded to my blogger. Unfortunately I’ve still troubles with header image and date. I have edited the stylesheet to resolve the design related issues and changed the time stamp at
setting --> formatting --> timestamp format
which corrected the date related trouble also. Every problem has a solution. If you are so dedicated to solve it, the solution will definitely come by itself :) . Now I love my blog even if there is no post and no comments. It looks so cute in the notepad- chaos theme.
Thanks to Evan Eckard for creating notepad- chaos.

- Athira M. K.