Licenced to drive

Hiii,

Today I have a big reason to be happy :). After the delay of three long years finally I got my driving licence. Well.... This can be a very good example of ultra lazyness. I am driving in Pune city for last three years and still I didnt have a driving licence. I had tried to get it before once or twice. But everytime some paperwork problem was used to be there. 

Today was different everything went pretty smooth and I cleared paperwork for the first time :). Another interesting thing was I met a girl with very cute smile in one Government office.....???

Well... thats nothing but the truth and this is the best thing I am gonna remember for any government office I have ever seen. Chalo yar m signing off for today, bye bye and have a great life!!!

Illuminati....

Hiii to all,

  Today I just finished my most avaited book Angels and Demons and certainly felt it has to be bloged. Most important thing about it is I finished it in record time!! (well m a slow reader and it took 4 days to finish). 

  Book is another good example of Dan Brown's ability to make story picturable to an extent where u start dreaming about descriptions given in the book. For first half it was going pretty much like Da Vinci Code, but Danny have given absolutely fantastic twists to the story.

  The important thing jumps out while reading the book is Danny's thoughts over releign and science. Really he has given very good debate from both the sides.

   Recently movie is also released and now m planning to watch it (eager for it). Thats all for today folks. Enjoy!!

skool math....

Ohhh its really a long time since my last post. Not that I was busy. But somehow didnt make it. Basically much time gone in project frustration and debugging. Nikhil (my proj partner) and I had lot of tensed moments and restarts. Finally everything is over now and I am back here.

Talking about school math, there are really some concepts from school level math which I haven’t understood completely yet. May be the way we are taught at schools is responsible for that or may be I really never tried to get to depth of things.

Few days before I got confused between Rational and Irrational numbers. The only thing I remembered was definition of Rational numbers. i.e.

            number which can be represented in the form p/q

            where p,q are integers, q != 0.

 

Basically why this kind of classification is needed. And if above formula is true our well known number  PI = 22/7  should be a Rational number. But facts are opposite and PI is not a Rational number.

Ummm if someone asks me what according to me should be the definition of Rational number I will simply say, number whose position on number line is known is Rational number. Book writers really make it difficult for those little school children to understand.

We can represent 1, 2, 3... 1/2, 1/3... 2.4, 3.56,  all such numbers can be represented on number line. Obviously next question will be then which is the number we can’t represent??? Answer is simple number which we don’t know we can represent. Here I was wondering how it is possible that we don’t know the number. Anything we write we have name for it. (one = 1, one point one = 1.1...)

Now lets go back to our today’s guest of honour PI. Really its the number we don’t know and still it is involved in almost everything we use, see and think of. For introduction lets have a look on story of PI.

In an ancient world some great mathematician was trying to calculate perimeter of circle. For square it's easy to calculate: for side 'x' it is 4x. But what about circle, how can we calculate circumference of the circle given its diameter. A very basic and correct  way to do this is take a string make a circle of desired diameter with string and then measure the length of string to get the circumference, and mathematician did the same thing. For some readings he took he observed that circumference of the circle is directly proportional to diameter. He calculated the ratio for each reading and APPROXIMATED that value by taking average Which today we say is PI.

As it is approximated value, no one knows what is the accurate value of PI. We just can go closer and closer to that value but can never get it completely. So, actually from this explanation it is clear that 22/7 is not the correct value of PI but just the approximation. Irrational numbers are mysterious of all in the number line. Its like a god, who is said to be everywhere but we can never see him but faith in his powers keeps world running. Irrationals are everywhere and we cant reach them but they have occupied most of our Physics' laws and keep our civilization live.

That’s all for today folks!!!! Enjoy math!!! Respect the unseen and unknown!!!!

Akbar chacha

It is a way back 10 years from now. I had just completed my primary school. I was in 5th standard i.e. roughly 10 years of age. One day while coming home I saw Akbar chacha for the first time. May be he was newly came to live there or I had not noticed him before. This time he was with his few nice lookng doves. I stopped a while and observed them. He was a young man of about 25-28 years of age. He was throwing grains for those doves, and doves were busy in having a feast with some rivalary to finish first. He wore a dusty shirt of large checks and still dustier pants.Had a small beard and a round islamic cap on head.One thing was very interesting about Akbar chacha that he could give a loud whistle without putting fingers in mouth.I was amuzed by those birds and from next day it became part of my routine to observe them for hours.

Akbar chacha had bought his doves recently, so he didnt have large colony of them. Most of them were white, some whites had gray spots, few reddish ones and one black. Akbar chacha just loved them. He had his own names given to them - Kagdi(white), khairi(spotted white), Bhura(reddish) and so on.Everyday in morning and evening for 2-3 hours he used to put them free, feed them and also give them some flying exersize.

Well, Akbar chacha was not alone who had doves. In our village there were others too. But I never went to their house. The reason was friendly nature of Akbar chacha.He used to give a dove in my hands and say, "Akshay, fek upar fek!!" While flying Akbar's doves many times used to get mixed with doves of other group. But as doves remember their native place so well, they used to come back at his house. But somtimes it happens that one bird goes with other group and lands to their colony. People do catch such birds and damage thier wings so that they cant go back to thier colony. And by the time its wings get heeled it gets mixed up in new group, finds pair for himself and fergets about its old group. And there was some unwritten rule that once caught, bird becomes property of person who caught it. And they were never used to return such birds to original owner.

One day a dove from Akbar chacha's dove colony was caught by another person. He had slightly bigger colony than Akbar chacha. But then a strange thing happened. After 2 days bird's pair also went their and then that wounded unable to fly bird literaly came running after his pair. I dont know what kind of chemistry or love both of them shared but it was touching experience. After he came back, Akbar chacha saw his wounded wings and was very upset. He loved his birds so much that he could not see how mercylessly his bird's wings were cut. To be put in his words,"Chyayla, palwa palwi chya khelaat harami jeev ghyayla bi kami karyache naay!!"

But soon time gave opportunity to Akbar chacha to equalise with opposite colony owner. His one dove came to Akbar's colony. Akbar caught it, but didnt cut his wings. He locked that bird with his birds in thiers closets. The very next day when he set all birds free, that guest flew away. I asked Akbar chacha that why didnt he cut doves wings. He said, "Rahana hoga to rahega, jindgi jabardasti se nahi pyar se jee jani chahie."

Today I miss Akbar chacha the most. When people choose terrorism as a solution, he tought me a simple lesson of humanity with some simple things around. Really... some things cannot be tought in classroom, you have to just experience them!!

Memorable day

Hiiii to all,

So, finally after signing up for last 2 years, this is going to be my first post on this blog.

Well, its not that I didnt have time for this, but I will prefer to say there was a lack of motivation for the same. One of my close friends has inspired me for this activity, so first of all I would like to thank Shaizeen.

Ok, I am Akshay Galande persuing a course of Engineering in Computer Science field. Yeh.. perfectly that engineer who does all kinds of stupid things in this world and keep wondering about what is going wrong with his studies. In India engineers are famous for their habit of doing a hell lot of things at 11th hour.(Don't know about other countries). They are also known for eating up all syllabus for the exam in few sleepless nights.

Well, today I am here to share one good day of my life with u all. 2-3 months back first Sunday of August i.e. Friendship Day. This year it was meant to happen differently for me and this was made possible by two very sweet and my favorite friends Kanchan and Deepti. Both of them are members of an organisation named Spandan which is active in different social activities. On friendship day Spandan members were going to one old women's hostel and one children's hostel nearby our college, and I was invited by these two friends for the same.

That day we all got together near the hostel in the afternoon. I met with other Spandan members who came for the program. Really those guys were very friendly!! Hostel's pricipal wellcomed us and we were inside the hostel. My friend Shreyash and I were new to this environment, so we were staying back, but some of us went into rooms and gathered all grandmas together. We played with them for some time, and they also quite happily joined us.

Some of us performed various activities like singing, dancing and play. After that we tied a friendship band to all of them and we got new friends from then. I tied band to a woman named Sarala. She is a very nice woman. 

After grandma's hostel, it was a time for us to become kids again. We went in neighbouring hostel for kids.  I really remember those moments very well just as they happened few minutes back. I enjoyed so much with all those little friends. I remember naughty boy Anwar, sweet girl Shweta, with whom I played too much. Really that whole day gave me a great pleasure for rest of my life.

At the end of the day I was home with very different kind da joyous feeling with me. And I will remember this day as one of the best days of my life.

Well, thats all for today. Have fun, cheers!!!