Collider test called a 'great milestone of mankind'

On Wednesday morning, just outside of Geneva, scientists shot a particle beam fully around a 17-mile loop in the world's most powerful particle accelerator -- the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Twenty years after development of the collider began, a particle beam made the full journey around the accelerator for the first time. It's a forebear to the time when scientists will accelerate two particle beams toward each other at 99.9% of the speed of light.

Smashing the beams together will create showers of new particles that should recreate conditions in the universe just moments after its conception, giving scientists the chance to answer one of humanity's oldest questions: How was the universe created?

"This is truly one of the great engineering milestones of mankind," said Harvey Newman, a physics professor at the California Institute of Technology. "It was characterized as having gone as 'smooth as silk,' considering everything that had to work."

Newman told Computerworld that scientists sent one beam around the tube and then sent a beam in the opposite direction -- each going one at a time. Each beam made one circle around the accelerator. And they hit 99.999998% of the speed of light.

"It's actually very exciting," said Bolek Wyslouch, a professor of physics at MIT who has been working on the collider project for the past seven years. "We were anxiously waiting, with the whole world watching, to see how this worked."

Wyslouch said he's not sure when scientists will run the first particle-collision experiment, but he estimated that it will be closer to days or weeks away rather than months.

"That's really exciting because just a few minutes of [that experiment] will give us a hint of where this is going … and confidence that we are on the right track," he added.

Scientists predicted that they will be running particle-collision experiments for the next 10 to 15 years.

The $9 billion LHC project, which sits astride the Franco-Swiss border, operates a tunnel buried 50 meters to 150 meters below the ground. The tunnel, or tube, is designed to facilitate and control a head-on collision between two beams of the same kind of particles -- either protons or ions. Traveling through a vacuum comparable to outer space, the beams are guided around the tube by more than 1,000 superconducting magnets.

According to documents from CERN, as the European Organization for Nuclear Research is known, each of the two beams will contain about 3,000 bunches of particles. Each bunch will hold as many as 100 billion particles. Despite these huge numbers, the particles are so tiny that a collision between any two is quite small. However, since the beams will be traveling at near light speed around the 17-mile tube, they'll cross each other about 30 million times per second, resulting in an estimated 600 million collisions.

If a beam circulates around the tunnel for 10 hours, for instance, it will travel more than 10 billion kilometers, which is the distance it would take to travel to Neptune and back.

With the Big Bang theory, scientists largely believe that more than 13 billion years ago, an amazingly dense object the size of maybe a coin expanded into the universe that we know now -- with planets, stars, black holes and life.

A main goal of the experiments is to find the elusive Higgs particle, which is believed to be responsible for giving other particles their mass. Though its existence hasn't been proven yet, it's believed that Higgs particles are what give electrons their weight, for instance.

Scientists are also hoping that the particle collider will give them information about so-called dark energy and dark matter.

"This is part of the quest to explore our surroundings. It's part of the quest to understand our world and ourselves," Wyslouch said in a previous interview.

CRAY TAKES SUPERCOMPUTERS TO DESKTOP

Supercomputer maker Cray Inc. today announced that it teamed up with Microsoft Corp. and Intel Corp. to produce a desktop supercomputer. That's right. It will sit on a desktop. And maybe just as surprising, it has a starting price of $25,000.

The Cray CX1 supercomputer uses up to eight nodes and 16 Intel Xeon processors -- either dual-core or quad-core. It's the first Cray machine to use Intel processors. The CX1 has up to 4 terabytes of internal storage and 64GB of memory per node. The machine also comes preinstalled with Windows HPC Server 2008 and interoperates with Linux.

"Rather than constantly pushing upwards and out, here's someone pushing down onto the desktop with a supercomputer," said Rob Enderle, an analyst at the Enderle Group. "We could find that existing [Cray supercomputer] customers will buy these to do work on a $25,000 machine to free up space on their $25 million supercomputer. It could help them balance their load."

According to Cray, studies by the Council on Competitiveness and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) found that many organizations and departments in large firms that could use supercomputers were locked out by the high cost and a lack of in-house experts to run them. According to Cray, the CX1 was designed from the ground-up to tackle these problems.

"IDC research shows that HPC has been one of the highest-growth IT markets during the past five years and the segment for HPC systems priced below $100,000 is headed for continued growth," said Earl Joseph, IDC's HPC program vice president, in a statement.

By comparison, the world's most powerful supercomputer, the IBM-built Roadrunner, carries a price tag of approximately $120 million. Run at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the hybrid system runs AMD Opteron processors and Cell chips, and this summer sustained a speed of 1.026 quadrillion calculations per second. That's about twice as fast as the next-fastest supercomputer, IBM's BlueGene/L, which is based at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

KUSELAN Review: Kollywood directors make a mockery of Rajni's movies with glamour

ahhhh ... it was certainly not the usual kind of feel u get watching thalaivar(SUPER STAR) in kuselan... the movie lacked in all concept of making a RAJNI film... but u will get the feel that its a cheap war amongst kollywood directors making movies with RAJNI ... kuselan movie spins around friendship which the director P.VASU has spoiled completely ... there doesn seem to be any feel of action or entertainment in the movie... P.VASU has lost his dignity by just trying to imitate the techniques followed by SHANKAR, who directed SUPERSTARs last movie SHIVAJI... SHANKAR handled the sets of SHIVAJI with the creativity of art director THOTTA THARANI, and everybody got the feel that he was a micer with SHREYA and her costumes.... u dont get to see any difference with P.VASU in the sets of KUSELAN... this fit for nothing director has ringed the bell to inagurate the new glamour war in kollywood by using NAYANTHARA in his latest stupid creation ..... NAYANTHARA flashes off too much of skin in this movie just like wat SHRIYA did in SHANKAR's creation - SHIVAJI ..... P.VASU's inexperience in imitating has shown in the costumes and makeup of RAJNI ... SUPERSTAR just looks like the same as he was in SHIVAJI in one of the songs....

























VADIVELU's comedy has been the best mockery of all in the movie.... He has nowadays become an useless comedian doing nothing on the screen ... his actions makes u feel annoyed rather than the other way .... Directors have started to play the spoil sport and i recon RAJNI not to choose any more films with P.VASU in particular... it was stupid to watch a movie like KUSELAN in a theatre... P.VASU has miserably failed to build the characters in this movie.... no character gets the center stage except the poorly looking PASUPATHY.... though VASU has portrayed SUPERSTAR to remember his childhood friendship, he has also portrayed PASUPATHY to be worthless as a human .... the character BALU seems to posses a very negative attitude of not taking any efforts watsoever in life to improve his lifestyle.... RAJNI and NAYANTHARA on the other side seem to be doing nothing in the movie.... i probably think this is the first time in history of SUPERSTAR movies that there has been no fight....


I deeply pity , VADIVELU and NAYANTHARA who are soon going to disappear in the cinema market for not putting themselves right on the screen.... On the whole KUSELAN shud have been a better one for RAJNI but unfortuanately VASU has made a huge mess of everything with his egoistic intentions to prove himself big before other popular directors like SHANKAR and MANIRATHNAM sir.......

THE UPA GOVERNMENT- unfortunate progressive alliance

well .. i do have few more personal experiences of mine and the ppl who have made difference in my life to be text out here... but at this moment, i just felt that i shud express my views abt the current upa government and they way its been taking the nation forward/???....

i am presently residing in the capital and it was quite anxious for me to know the on goings inside the lok sabha, the day 22nd july had to decide the sustenance of the congress led govt the next morning.... and its obvious the news channels had their predictions abt the trust voting... the forecast was that the congress led govt wud survive the trust voting and it did happen to be so later in the day .... but the events that happened during the course of this process needs to be given major attention than the trust voting....

the speaker of the house had announced that the voting wud take place just after lunch ... but the drama begun just then .... when the honble members of the parliament congregated for the post lunch session ... i seriously doubt wat the XXXX the security guards waiting outside the house were doing.... few members from the opposition claimed that the ruling party had bribed them and each member held in his hands bundles of rs1000 currency notes and it was supposed to be just the advance amt .... the reason for bribing as stated by these members was they were asked to vote in favour of the ruling party .... this created lot of agitation in the house and it was the first time i was watching on tv the happenings and i cudn find a single member atleast looking like literate.... the country thus is in a very pathetic state and i am quite sure every indian will accept this ... the key players of this drama inside the hall were sitting quietly watching the ongoings.... u will know who they are if u had seen those events live...

the media channels nowadays play the worst role of guiding the ppl with the news... they blow up unwanted issues to the max possible ... why cudn they emphasize on educating the masses... i finally get the feel that this country is getting worse every day and the repair work seems to be next to impossible... the trust voting took place late in the evening at 7 after all possible chaos was brought to end by the yelling speaker mr.somnath ji .... before the start of the voting ... the deputy general was summoned to announce the instructions of the electronic voting procedure... the very famous ajith singh was screaming at the height of his voice .... poor deputy general had to repeat the instructions for nearly 4-5 times .... u just realise the level of arrogance the mps have ...

my agitation levels are pretty high and if given a chance i wud have burnt alive the whole house of mps.... when the voting started the initial total reached 487.... the population of the house was 545 .... am ashamed to tell u that the rest of the members dint know what to do with the voting...
each mp was handed out with slips in diffirent colors.. red : vote against the govt... green: vote in favor of the govt and yellow: abstentions ...... the speaker and the whole nation had to wait for the illiterate mps to write down their opinions in the slips and later collected and totaled by the officers of the house.... though the govt just scrapped thru this process... it has indeed taken down the statuesque of our nation ...

u can to a level accept the atrocities of these politicians but if they are also illiterate and they don care for the development of our nation it really shows how bad we the electors are ... new laws and constitutional phrases need to be amended and the most important one of all shud be that .... well qualified post graduates shud only be allowed to contest in any form of election ... unless the ppl of our nation realise this there is no way of looking into a better india tomorrow...

i wud like to mention this here ... it is indeed a serious issue that mp's entered into the parliament house with bundles of money with them and the negligence of the security guards needs to be investigated... this information brought out to the public by the news channels and newspapers was just suppressed just after the next day ... even these private players seem to be involved and the news of such a serious issue was thrown into the bins .... if any news channel had guts to bring to light the corruption of these members it wud have made the ppl realise the seriousness of the issue...

really we the literate need to think abt something that cud make our ppl realise and vote during the elections next year .... one best thing that cud be done is that ... the EC needs to add ashoka chakra along with all other election symbols and ppl shud be free enough to select this symbol if they are not interested to elect anybody.....

venki .... the prodigy of srm ....

venkatesh manoharan...... always the topper since his school days .... i met this guy in my college .. am proud to introduce u that venki belongs to cse too !!!.... it was the bus no 166 which made me and venki good friends from my first year... soft, humble, kind and humorous too ..... this guy has this huge potential to sleep for long hours... even when we all used to travel in the college bus this guy will doze off as soon as the bus leaves the campus.... morning journey's will be interesting ... we used to discuss abt subjects, current affairs and sports..... i still remember the day ... when it was exam tme and we were on the way to college.... when its exams i used to sit next to this guy in the bus... this incident narrates his determination towards wat he is focusing.... when we were crossing adyar he got stuck with one question ...."the chairman of infy is narayanamurthy .... who is the one next to him in position ...." he remembered that guys name but at that moment he cudn recollect that..... u wont believe till we reached tambaram he was thinking abt that question until he found the answer to be "nandan nilkani " ..... that day we had a semester exam ..... he never bothered abt..

infact the 8 semesters of my engineering career .... we have prepared together for each exam ... the first semester he came to my house... venki and myself along with some of my other friends prepared for the exams sitting in the terrace of my apartment.... later from the second sem .. i used to go to his house and we used to prepare from morning 10 till night 7 or 8 .... the way we prepared was really enjoyable... i had never felt the strain of going thru even the toughest subjects of all ... i used to go thru the topics and he used to patiently listen...

from the second year i had to stay alone and so when it was semester time mostly my breakfast and lunch wud be in his house... i owe a lot to his mom and dad for this.... venki's mom was too good in cooking and was so caring for us .... she used to ask us daily how much we had prepared and spend some time with us in the evening... morning by around 10 i used to reach his home .. we wud start preparing by 11 and it wud go uptil 2 then .. we wud take the break .. the break being specific at 2 cos at 2 the tamil movie wud start in sun tv... we wud watch the movie till 3 sometimes go to the nearby krishna sweets for some snacks .... the preparations wud start again by 4 and go up till 7 or 8 .....

every semester i wud rather give my credits that i scored to venki..... if i had not met this guy i wud have been in trouble preparing for my semesters... second semester preparations were interesting ... the maths and foreign lang subjects was common to all the depts... venki and myself used to prepare with another genius from mech dept.... k.balasubramaniam ..... hmm this guy was equally good as venki... we three of us used to solve maths together.... balu wud be very quick in solving them .... the days i enjoyed with balu,venki , jai, rathnavel, dheepak in the college bus will always remain colorful in my memories.... infact i am writing this article with the request from 2 jnrs who travelled with us in the college bus ... aditya and keshav... the nutty professors of srm....

chandru joined the party along with venki and myself during the 7th sem preparations... he used to be punctual in reaching venki's house on dot at 10.... we had one more solid company and so chandru and myself used to go thru the topics alternatively and venki used to patiently .... infact we have never prepared like others wud do .. i have known my friends preparing for the semesters sitting late night.... venki never believed in it and i accepted his thoughts in this... we used to wind up at the max by 9 .... we had tough times preparing for theory of computation and compilers subjects....

those days wont come back in life... i hope that i join venki once again during the ilp period at tcs for the second edition of this joint venture for exam preparations.... i pray god to give venki all good luck in his life.....

venki's friend.... raghav....

Placements..... celebrating 1st year of success

this day ... last year in 2007 ... i got placed in tcs..... in no time one year has passed by ... and thus i have also completed my graduation ... thinking of those days i struggled during the placements brings in a feel of satisfaction and pride in wat i have done so far.... i need to give a long description abt this day last year ....

jul 2nd 2007....5.30pm: the day when tcs had come to college after a considerable gap due to some issues with the mgmt of srm and tcs... it was all exciting for us that day as we were sitting in the huge audi of srm ..... a vp from tcs along with mr.dinesh hrexecutive tcs came to our college for the pre-placement talk .... they came late bcuz they were having recruitment process going on at the nearby cresent engg college.... they started off their talk with a short movie abt taj .... and it went on for some 30 mins.... then it was a detailed session abt wat tcs was expecting from us during the course of recruitment and equally the students side also had few questions....


jul 3rd 2007... 8.00 am: aptitude papers, barons and wat not .... i had these books and papers all around me... most of the time i was going thru aptitude questions and i was quite sure that it wud be waste of time preparing verbal section.... the air around me was stinking with formulas and equations and critical reasoning questions.... preethi and raji were well versed in solving the tough part ... the critical reasoning ones... including all my friends and myself were trained in this section by these two gals.... around 9:00am we were all called for the exam... the exam was to be held in the hitech computer lab ... one of the most familiar places for me in college.... the test and its instructions were complicated as we had to take up them online.... the test went on fine... with me and prasanth sitting next to each other.... when i started with the verbal section ... prasanth and myself got the same question and he was waiting for me to answer that one... but even i was in a state not knowing wat to answer... the word seemed to be a weird one to me... and so this section passed with time as i answered the questions with random guesses... the next section the aptitude one was interesting ... the questions were lot familiar and it was a cake walk for me to cross this one... prasanth was in a rapid speed of completing this section much before i did and was into the last section ..... this last section is the most important and tough one of all ... the critical reasoning section ... i was forced to do some calculations in this one to answer the mcq's.
tension and pressure was rising faster in my nerves... i was so tensed and had almost lost confidence that my performance was poor and i wud surely not get thru in this... at once i clicked the exit button after answering all the questions.... until the result got displayed i was at peak of my tension.... thank god... somehow i got a positive result... and the invigilator in my lab handed me with an application form which i had to get for the interview....all my friends got thru this round except raji....

jul 4th 2007....8.00 am: i have never seen my college mates look like that...it was like entering into a place of pure professionalism.... formal shirts,trousers,ties and shoes shining like never before... gals dressed up so neatly ... hardly that happens in colleges.... it was so good... and it was the second time in my life i wore a tie... i was waiting in the canteen along with my friends and by around 9 we moved into the audi though none of my friends were interested to come there.... at around 10 we were called to the front near the stage and made to sit according to a list the placement cell had prepared.... it was 1.00pm when i was called for the interview.... there were 2 different types of interview panel ... 1 was the senior panel waiting to screw the candidate... there were only 2 members in it ... and the second one was the junior panel consisting of 3 hr ppl.... i luckily went to a jnr panel..i was feeling a lot better now... they asked me questions from dbms,os etc etc... and few hr questions and i was done within halfanhour... but after coming out heard strange situtations where candidates were screwed for more than 1 hr and one case where the candidate was not asked any question.....

jul 5th 2007...3.00pm..... the previous day's interview continued ... around 1100 students had cleared the initial round .... and so the interview process had spread across 2 days .... we finished the interview the first day itself and we were told that the results wud be out the next day i.e today by around 6.... but we were so eager,tensed and excited and i along with my friends started around 3 and reached college by 4.30 ..... the interview process was still going on when we reached ... i told my friends that it wud take min of 3 hrs for them to finalise on the total intake after the interview got over.... and by the time the last candidate was interviewed it was 6 i believe.... so we were quite sure that it was going to be late night by the time the results were annoucned.... to entertain us in the audi .. college management was too generous to screen the movie " the mummy returns" .... imagine just that situation.... the movie all in all a thriller and action packed one... was off the worst trouble we got at that moment... i along with my whole gang of friends were sitting to the left corner of the audi .... it was 8 and 9 and still we dint get info reg the results.... top officials ... vice chancellor, pro-vc and placement officer were among those in the meeting with the dinesh and the vice president.... the students in the audi got frustrated and we all moved out and were sitting in the entrance steps.... prasanth and myself took a two wheeler from a friend and went to the nearby hospital canteen to buy something to eat... we were waiting till 10.15 outside the audi .... suddenly guys outside started to rush back into the audi .... we knew that it was time then ,..... dinesh came up to the podium and happily announced that we were amongst the top 3 partners for tcs this year.... first being anna univ... second vit and third srm ... tcs had selected 538 students out of the 1100++ cleared .... it was like some hard nuts cracked on our heads..... one good female rep from tcs voluntarily came up to read the names of those selected.....


I WAS IN ... I WAS THE 5th NAME TO BE CALLED FROM THE CS DEPARTMENT....... today is jul 5th 2008.... its been a year since i got placed in tcs....

The 7th Sense- event of reality ...

wow... the name 7thsense... will only bring to my mind the days we, the cse students established our reign over the mighty tall building ... the hitech block... though there were many depts in this block... it became ours after this event... nobody cud have ever utilised this prominent structure of srm much better than we did....srm noticed cse to be the forerunner after all efforts and struggle and pain we took ...i indeed realised that day " true efforts are always paid off heavily"....

the preparations for this mega event started under the leadership of mr.harish (2005-06) when we decided wat had to be done .... initially the symposium hosted by cse dept was named innovate... and we wanted that to be changed... and so new names were flying here and there over the discussion table which ofcourse had the 4 of us amongst few other seniors and my own batchmates.... finally the congress of executives decided to have the name ... "THE 7th SENSE - the sense of computing" to be the title of this grandeurs of symposiums ... we were all excited and quick in our thoughts ... under the presidency of our beloved Sridhar sir ... the team was formed...

the association members were the top level organisers with about 100 organisers from the dept forming the entire team... ideas poured in for the events... frequent meetings almost daily were held .... we used to discuss discuss discuss and always discuss... i was the joint secretary then ,but the proud name that i got from my team was.. "THE OFFICIAL STENO" .. u wont believe i wud have typed atleast around some 100-150 letters seeking permissions for this and that .. my goodness i never knew i had such patience.... prasanth was quite brisk in taking care of works that had to be done out of the campus... including posters, banners and wat not... chandru was the lead in almost everything... sajith played the most important role of getting the permissions from various officials ... balaji sir was the driving force and the time keeper.... scheduling was his best job ... sridhar sir the elegant hod ... wud accept wat ever we did ... praveen and shiva assisted the working force with their ideas... and ofcourse shiva was the most influencial and praveen came out successful winning the apache bike as a sponsor....


in this article i will miss my duty if i don mention abt the chief designer of cse... Mr.Vishwaanth... wat a contribution he had for this event.... my goodness ... he never had the attitude that he was senior to us... we used to call him by all names ... with patience he completed the design work of posters banners pamphlets and wat not.... the king of photoshop... the jack of all designs and graphics..... day and night he worked towards completing the designs at its best.....

days neared the event... it was planned to be held on oct 6th and 7th.... so much of preparation were going around... heaps of thermocol and bunches of charts watever were all over the dept library .... jasmine,preethi,raji,poornima,sundari and many more crushed their creative ideas to bring out colorful stuffs to decorate... oct 2nd being gandhi jayanthi was a national hold ... but just imagine the dedication we guys had .... we came to college on that day .... from 10 to evening 5 we all worked hard to complete this decoration work.....

it was all going well until few things happened within my class.... since the day 1 we started this preparation for 7thsense i cudn attend the class as my presence in the meeting was necessary... so staffs who were handling subjects in my class were not that happy with wat i was doing... especially the maths teacher... i held a very good record in my engineering maths until this .......(dash) of a lady came.... she belongs to the maths dept ... and a so called useless Asst.Prof... ppl i tell u .... staffs in cse dept are the best compared to staffs from any other dept of srm .... this is true and i challenge students of other depts if they can prove me wrong in this...
the end result .. my sem results were bad ... for the first time in 6 semesters my grade in maths dropped down to "d" from "s" .... i applied for reval ... since it is srm .... i dint get any change in my grades .... so this was the only hurting experience i had ... i learnt that we need to give importance to those who give us a lil trouble cos of this incident....

days passed ... the team enjoyed a lot and we friends grew thick .... i had just started to taste the sweetness of good friendship.... a couple of weeks before the event.... prasanth came to college at around 12.00noon with a big canvas sheet neatly folded and tied.... we took that to the roof of hitech... an area which was usually prohibited...this canvas was nothing other than the 80X30 banner that was supposed to be hung from the top of hitech.... my goodness after college hours we stayed back and we hung that up with great strain and power..... sam and his friends ... jana anna and satish were among those guys who helped us out....

being a top level organiser doesn mean that u'r work gets done when u step out of the meeting table... its something more than that guys need to realise... its a feel of responsibility that u take it on u'r shoulders and tell u'rself ... "yes am here to do watever i can do ..." this in specific is for my beloved jnrs who are just trying their best to bring up the second edition of 7thsense... we used to work late nights.... of the 4 of us ... no one was a hosteler... we all stayed very far from the college ... even then we used to stay back around till 6 in the evening .... most of all ... the secret behind the success was the unity we had .... so much difference in our thoughts but still we stayed together.... till date prasanth and myself use to fight for wat not .... but still we have been the best pick ....


it was tuesday oct 3rd .... we were onto the final preparations... posters and letters dispatched to some 1000 colleges across the nation and infact we personally went to invite a few.... the incident i remember still was that day after the meeting was over... one guy was waiting outside the library... i noticed him long back and he was not from srm ... so when i approached him he said that i am so and so and am from iit kharagpur.. and he wanted to advertise amongst srm students , a symposium they were hosting later in the year... i accepted his request and asked him to attend the 7thsense where he cud advertise for wat he came... this seemed to me as though going in for a bigger deal .... ok putting that aside... we were all closing inn for the day ...

it was thursday the 5th evening ... decorative materials were all over the portico of hitech ... full credits to the gals of my dept... and ofcourse my friends who assisted that day in putting these all around the campus... we had brought in huge amt of sponsors and for that we had to arrange for putting up stalls inside the campus... we were waiting for tat guy to come and he reached college around 8 in the night.... the brand new apache bike was put to display n the main meeting junctions of collge.... the highlight was praveen had even got permission to arrange for a test drive of the vehicle in the nearby service road of the campus.....

prasanth came in with the backdrops we had given for printing... the most horrible part of this was that there was a spelling mistake in the banner.... the word "national" had a spelling mistake.... sridhar sir was disappointed and wanted that to be changed.... prasanth got frustrated and we dint have a choice... that was the first day i had so much to do in college.... from morning around 7 till midnight i was working with these guys... prasanth and myself took those banners to tambaram to make the corrections.... it was the time when the local body elections were going on ... all the printers were busy printing stupid banners and posters for the useless politicians... we dint have a choice other than giving it to that guy and asking it to be done by 6thmorning... sajith who lived nearby generously accepted to bring them to college the next day ....that night was the worst i had ... prasanth was exhausted and dint have any energy to drive the vehicle ... we were approx 18kms from college... by the time we finished the deal at the printers it was 10... we entered a hotel which was abt to be shut ... pushed in something that the server brought .... and rushed back to college... we used shiva's two wheeler... the night traffic and the way prasanth drove the vehicle was the worst nightmare i have had so far.... we had purchased few decorative color papers ... to have a contact i called up anuroop my batchmate in the hostel and asked him to bring some 10 volunteers to decorate the papers next day morning.... by the time prasanth and myself reached college it was 11.30 ... i went to the hostel and stayed there in ganesh kumar sir's room....

next day morning with lots of thoughts running in mind i woke up with a shock .... after we reached college the previous night it had rained heavily and so all the chart papers hung out in the campus were spoiled... the windy rain had brought down some 5 shamiana's that were put up ... i was at the peak of my tension... rung up that guy and asked him to do the repair work asap ...
by the time i reached hitech from the hostel i was even more surprised to see around 100 cse students all in the new 7thsense tshirts gazing at the block... my dear friend anuroop had brought in these guys for the decoration work... i asked him for 10 but he brought in 100 ... amazing chap right!!!.....


we had organised a rock show during the eve of 6th as a part of the symposium ... and the funniest part of this was the way praveen got the permission from the mgmt.... he quoted this event to be a technical rockshow .... prasanth contributed almost watever he cud.... sam and prasanth negotiated with the rock band , the guys who were to put the stage ... the audio engineers and wat not ... for this rockshow we issued tickets.. and the way the tickets were sold was one of the better things the team did.... 1 booklet had 100 tickets ... each priced at 100 rs... so the guy who wanted to sell tickets wud give us 10k and take away 1 booklet.. now its up to his talents to sell the tickets to earn profit... the days events progressed far better than wat we had expected.... we had aimed at around 700 to participate but the kind of publicity we did resulted in a whooping 1300 participants and the most important fact was that we dint allow srm students to participate so the turned up crowd was completely from other colleges..... we even charged a small amt for reg... my goodness wat a collection it was.... the rockshow was abt to start at 7... entry was at 6.30 ... but due to delay in preparations entry was at 7.30 and u wont believe that the crowd for the rockshow was a long waiting crowd upto the enterance gate from the openair theatre.... we had engaged bouncers... a term and profession i heard for the first time in life.... mighty huge giant men capable of managing huge crowds were deployed at the gate ... we had tough time at the entry ... words cant describe them ....

the whole event kept srm on its feet ... guys from other depts were the ones most interested to know what was happening around ... ncc cadets helped us out in maintaining the decorum in the venue... hats off to those guys... poor guy prasanth cudn bear the heat of the events... and got hospitalised during the day and came back in the evening for the event... we all celebrated this as though it was our own homely function.... we had purchased new dresses for the event... and cameras flashing all around.... ppl i am sure i wont get those days back .....

the climax of 7thsense was even more entertaining .... we had 2 rounds of tie breakers to decide the winner of the event.... vijay daniel from ssn grabbed the apache at the end... the comments from the participants, marked the success of each and everyone of us.... one guy from ssn told that evening that " i have attended many competitions, even been to iit's but here at srm i have enjoyed the most .... u ppl ( we the organisers) have made this far better than wat the iitians do " ..... these words ringed the bells for us... it was spring all of a sudden... balaji sir was given the full credits for the success... sabha sir and labbai sir joined the party of leaders... sridhar sir was a happy man .... the event came to a very happy end... the first edition of 7th sense came to an end on 7th aug 07.... it was the 7th day of the month .... hmmm ...... to celebrate the enjoyment ... chandru,prasanth,sajith,myself,praveen,shiva,saravanan,vishwaanth, and the staffs we all went to vasantha bhavan,tambaram for a treat sponsored by sridhar sir.and co....