Study is going serious

Another week has passed. All lectures have started and teachers praised my programming skills. Again there were heaps of things going on on the campus and beside. Enjoy reading!

Being out to Pune: I have been a lot to Pune last week but mostly I spent the time to eat out. A few minutes of some evenings were also spent to buy some most wanted products, for example sandals (800 Rupees) and a toothbrush.

I also made new friends with a couple of girls who are partly in my class: Apoorva, Chitrangda, Sonakshi, Pooja, Anupriya, Rini.
This weekend on Sunday I went shopping with Mohit, the other Germans and the new made friends which I just mentioned. All in all a very very nice day out in Pune!!!

Krishna’s Birthday: Krishna is a God in India. And on 10.08 is his Birthday. We went to one of Krishna’s temples in the city and worshiped him. Here is some of the worshiping procedure: First you get rid of your shoes at a shoe drop off. Then you walk barefeet into the temple. The queue is very long. Many many People want to pray and worship Krishna but still the queue is constantly in movement. After just 15 minutes wait you stand in front of a gorgeous altar. The air is filled with the sound of a song. The song lyric is easy and contains mostly the word ‘Krishna’ and ‘Hare’. Then one follows the queue to the exit where a small portion of halva like food is served. After exiting one goes again to the shoe drop off and picks up his shoes. All in all nice to see how Krishna’s birthday is celebrated.

Campus Hangout: I also had a few nice evenings in the Hostel especially after coming back to the hostel with the 9 o’clock bus. Mohit for example showed me some of his pictures from Würzburg and Hannover he took when he was in Germany for summerschool. Another evening passed by while watching the movie “The girl with the dragon Tattoo”. One more thing to mention are the times when I was sitting in front of the Hostel and were talking to some friends I made here.
Last Friday was Mums birthday and I knew that she is celebrating at my German neighbour location. I surprised her with a call at neighbours place!

Rhaki: Is on 2nd August. It is kind like a public holiday and it tightens the relationship between brother and sister. The sister is giving the brother a wristband. This wristband shows that the brother takes care about its sister.

Food and Beverages: We, the Germans, learned that the up hill food court, the one with great food, is not opened on each and every public holiday (for expample: Rhaki). Not just on this day we ate in the mess facility down hill. Update: The chinese chef came from his vacation and is now preparing Chicken Hacka Noodles and other nice food also in the food court down hill.

Here another list of things I ate and drank in the passed week:

  • chocolate/marshmallow pancake and toblerone shake in the chocolate room
  • Lamb brain: never thought that I am going to eat the brain of lamb. And actually it didn’t taste very nice. But I ordered it so I ate it all. It tastes a bit like liver but is even more smooth and generates a kind of weird feeling in your mouth.
  • Fried onion for tea-time in the mess. Actually very nice and I would like to have some more of these in near future. Once there was also some spinach in the mess – a bit spicy but very tasty! More of it please, more!
  • Of course there was heaps of Chai. I think I can not live without it even after coming back to Germany.
  • Chicken Tandoori in  Hangout Hotel @ Village. The DJ there accepts music wishes from the guests. This was a really nice night out!
  • Then there was this warm chocolate cake and chocolate toast on FC Road. Yummy!
  • I already explained what Momos are. Another thing I don’t want to miss in Germany.
  • There is a small Cafe beside the Food Court on Campus where one can buy an awesome chocolate shake for just 23 Rupees
  • A buffet in a 4 star hotel. There was pizza and pizza rolls and chicken nuggets and pasta and two kinds of soups (chicken and pumkin soup) as starter. Followed by the main courses where one had to choose from several indian dishes. To conclude this delicious meal ice cream and custard was served.
  • Beef Burger. Unbelievable there is a restaurant with the name ‘Burger King’. No I don’t mean the ‘Burger King’ chain. At this place  one can buy a King Beef Burger for 50 rupees. Actually the taste was not that great but still beef in India – awesome!

The time table: Awesome. I never had such big trouble to follow a time table. The whole confusion started from Monday when Cloud Computing was cancelled and after 30 minutes waiting the Advanced Database teacher held the lesson.
4 of my 5 subjects are out of the 7th semester. Only ‘Data Structure’ is choosen from the 3rd semester. This 3rd semester subject caused the problem that a part of our time table was based on the CS department and the other one on the IT department. So that ‘Data Structure’ fits in the schedule. The CS people thought that we have all lectures with them and IT people thought that we have all lessons with them. Of course there are some subjects equal between CS & IT but held in a different time frame. I was just following the instructions of other students and attended some classes twice once at the IT time frame and once at the CS time frame.
Finally Anton and I complained about the situation which caused the head of the department to give us a just CS time table. Conclusion is that the ‘Data Structure’ lesson is held when we don’t have any subject – just for Anton and me.

The paper: I think my ‘Network Security’ teacher has not seen me programming. Nevertheless he thinks that I am good at programming. Hence he offered me and Anton to write a paper until the end of August. A paper about Visual Cryptography. He gave us an Algorithm and asked us to help him to improve it. I don’t feel like doing that because this is a bit beyond my programming and brain skills. Also this will steal some time which I otherwise would have for travelling and relaxing. Still there is nothing to loose when we don’t manage to improve it – so I just go for it.

Mobile Access: I have finally bought an Indian SIM Card this week. The best thing is that it is also working in my Samsung smartphone. It might take another week until I buy data plan but for the moment I am more than happy to be able to call mates from the campus.

Internet and the IT Crowd: After a few weeks without ‘proper’ internet we finally got dedicated bandwith during the evening hours. This enables us to skype home. The IT Crowd in the server room is very friendly and also helped me out with the download of Visual Studio and the Windows 8 Release Preview. That would have taken hours and days when I would have done that on my very own computer due to daily traffic limit.

Sport: I just played table tennis once last week. There was this trekking weekend in between where I got a major cut in the sole of my right foot which made me unable to do sports. Actually I am not unhappy about doing no sports.

Injury: I wrote about my trekking trip but forgot to write about the cut I got in the sole of my right foot. The cut happened when I was having a shower under the sub waterfall as mentioned in the last post. The wound almost healed within 5 days.

DS: Finally we, Anton and me, managed to make them believe that we are great software developers. This is why our teacher decided to give us seperate lessons. Hence we got rid of 4 lessons and are allowed to develop the programs on our own in our leisure time and not at usual in lab times.
In the last lecture I was told what sparse matrices are and which structure is used to store them in a computer. Furthermore I learned how to fast and simple transpose sparse matrices.
Our teacher reviewed my polynomial and sparse matrix programs and gave me the assignment for it.

Network Security (NS): This lecture started last week Friday and is all about en- and decryption algorithms. In the lab we have to develop 3 programs: message passing between server and client, rsa algorithm and a program with both together.

Cloud Computing (CC): I have got a short insight in what the contents will be. It is all about cloud services, sharing resources and elasticity.

Advanced Databases (ADBS): Here the teacher also started with the explanation of the syllabus. Our first topic is: Parallel Databases.

System Programming (SP): Another subject where the content is explained with the syllabus. The teacher likes to discuss many things but is always ending in a monologue. He discussed with us the system programs which are necessary to compile a program and got more into detail when discussing the assembler. Obviously the teacher uses the word ‘discuss’ a lot.

Police Station: We, again the Germans, need to register at the police station. This was a process where you would find no word for it at certain points. Staff from the international office picked us up with a taxi and gave us a lift to a police station. Lets call it police station 1 just to avoid confusion. We sat about 3 hours there and waited for the paperwork to be done. The international office staff asked us sometimes for passports and photographs. At least something was done after this tiring afternoon but the process is still not finished because we need to show up at another police station too.
A day after the international office staff was supposed to pick us up at 10 AM at the college entrance. The staff finally arrived at 20 past 11. The other police station, lets say number 2, seemed to be a bit more in the outskirts of Pune and the roads were just more narrow and bumpy than the ones to Pune. This time we used a few minutes of the 3 hour wait to shop. I got 3 t-shirts at the price of 390 rupees. At this point I don’t have proper words for what happened at the end of our wait: the international office staff said that the officer who needs to review our documents is not present today. Hence nothing was done at all.
On the third day of the “police story” we got picked up on time and again we were riding on the narrow and bumpy road to police station 2. Once arrived we had not to wait for long until the international staff announced that the officer is waiting for us at the up hill campus. Actually this is not a problem as long as you do not have the information that the international staff had a phone call with the office just before he picked us up. Okay all the way back to the Symbiosis up hill campus. The officer was tall and had dark brown hair and is not a person you will fear when you meet him on the street. In the end he just compared the picture on our passport with our face: no signature, no stamp, no anything. Finally we were registered.
All in all heaps of paperwork. At least we had support from the international office otherwise the registration would have been impossible.

Tech Festival: Cancelled.

Blog Writing: I made heaps of notes and sat in front of my computer for ages to write this and the last blog entries. Please let me know when you have read this entry with leaving an comment!

I have got another gallery of pictures of the last week:

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