Life is Short & Sweet

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

“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.

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 beco

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