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improvement in the personality and you would human frame but, he is one – yes one with you, have been your best friend. It is only when you your own conscience, your love, and your true understand your flaws and shortcomings that you understanding without any biases. Once you will be able to help yourself as a friend does. By manage to take up this dual role of your friend now you will have developed the capacity to within you, there could be no stopper to your understand your own capacities and view your own progress, your happiness and your achievements. vulnerable points, and the work of a good friend Thus you can be your own best friend if you take would have been done. Now when you have done up the role of your friend, and find him within your so much, to analyse and appreciate what all you own self, and the off heard slogan that we are two really are, there are no possible restrictions on the bodies with one soul, becomes the slogan that we furthering of your interests, plans and are one body one soul. It would be a wonderful achievements. day when all of us could become our own best Thus it may well be understood that, there can friends for, who knows us better than ourselves, be no friend for you, who could be better than and who can check our actions and behaviours yourself. You can be your best friend as soon as better than ourselves. The result of this would you step into the shoes of your friend. At this be a world of no betrayals, no disappointments stage the difference would only be that, the friend and no treachery from a friend. would no more be another individual in another K Neeraja R Neeraja Rajanajan Neeraja Rajan Neeraja R Neeraja Rajanajan Semester 4 Civil A Pearl Parting Don’t you just hated When you part a friend? Just when you feel that, from a Your friendship would never end? Friends come and friends go, Don’t you wish that it was not so, That just when you get a friend friend You lose him, the one on whom you depend. Friends are part and parcel of life, The ones who helped you during your times of stride And when at last you say good Bye, And ……. Around with a sigh. You think about your recent past? And realize that you knew that it would never last, Is it then that you’re wrong, for friends never part,] Unless you forget then in your heart? 42 Time is the essence of life

Laugh out loud “A sense of humour is the play ground of Jackie kicked at the door of his friend’s house. intelligence.” -Jose Porto When his mother answered he said, ☺☺☺☺☺☺ “Can Bruce come out and play?” In our town there used to be a physician who plays Mom: “No. I am afraid not. It’s too wet”. a game with some of his young patients to test their knowledge of body parts. One day, while Jackie:”Well then, can his foot ball come out and pointing to a boy’s ear, the doctor asked, “Is this play?” your nose?” Immediately the child turned to his mother and KIDDY PHYSICS KIDDY PHYSICS KIDDY PHYSICS KIDDY PHYSICS KIDDY PHYSICS said, “I think we better find a new doctor.” ☺☺☺☺☺☺ Sir Isaac Newton may have discovered the laws Eager to know the marks of a first yr physics of gravity. But there are a parallel set of laws that examination he had taken, my cousin asked his teacher, “How far am I from getting the best govern mums and dads. possible marks in this sem?” Do you want in light 1) A child’s enjoyment of popular music is years?” Replied the teacher inversely proportional to that of the parents. ☺☺☺☺☺☺ 2) A chance of surprise visit by relatives is “Do you believe in life after death?” ,the boss directly proportional to size of mess in your asked one of his employees. home. COOL IDEAS COOL IDEAS COOL IDEAS COOL IDEAS “Yes” replied the man. COOL IDEAS “That’s okay then,” said the boss. “Because, while Great ideas that would make life easier for you were at your grandmother’s funeral yesterday, parents. she popped in to see you.” y Vegetable that would taste like ice-cream. ☺☺☺☺☺☺ y Library books with sirens that screech on due The psychiatrist: “Do you ever hear voices dates. without knowing who is speaking or where are they coming from?” y Furniture that fights back when jumped on. Patient:”Yes Of course I do”. Psychiatrist: “And when does it happen?” K Patient:”When I answer the phone “!! ☺☺☺☺☺☺ This time like all times is very good one only we should know what to do with it. 43

Time, Nia Paul Nia Paul Nia Paul Nia Paul Nia Paul Semester 4 Computer Ruby The Key To Success Time is the most valuable gift given to man. If eyes and brain cells. wisely and judiciously used, it is the We are prone to waste greatest resource that we can have. Are much of our time if don’t we in charge of our time? Let’s think. plan our work properly. Either we squander away our time or Planning has an advantage, some of our time is robbed by not only it makes you decide other inconsequential people. priorities but also target the Make it a point to be in time required for finishing the command of your time. For this, work. If we start doing every day’s we have to change some old work within the bounds of a time table, we habits that waste time. Here are would realize that a lot ore could some top time wasters and how be achieved than in an unplanned they affect our life. d a y . Doing service for others is a laudable proposition, but it should not be Sometimes, we waste time and money in buying done at the expense of your personal things that are not essential. Here two things engagements. are involved. Any money you spend on things is earned by using valuable time. When you spend If you think for a moment, how much confusion that money on something not necessary, indirectly you get into everyday. In searching for things, you you have also wasted the precious time that went will understand how much time you waste to no into making that money, in addition to the time purpose. Had we cultivated the habit of keeping spent on buying the unnecessary article. everything in its place, we could have avoided the Unnecessary spending becomes a waste of time time wasted in search of them. and money. We spend a lot of time waiting, waiting for the Solve problems then and there, unsolved problems bus, waiting for the train to arrive, waiting for a eat away your time, because you spend a lot of friend; In such circumstances, make it a point to time, worrying about unsolved problems. Such carry something with you for getting engaged, say unproductive time should be spent if possible on a book you want to read. concentrating on the problem and trying to find a Anxiety about the future kills a lot of time. We solution to it. miss the present worrying about the future. So People waste a lot of time in what they call lets learn to live the present, and that would teach entertainment. Television addiction has become us how to spent our time productively. very common. But in fact, watching television Mind, time is a treasure and other treasures follow provides not rest but additional strain to your by using your time properly. 44 Time Management is a big part of the director’s job.

PRECEPTS OF SUCCES PRECEPTS OF SUCCESSS PRECEPTS OF SUCCESS PRECEPTS OF SUCCES PRECEPTS OF SUCCESSS Harris K. Harris K. Harris K. Harris K. Harris K. What is secret of success? What is secret of success? What is secret of success? What is secret of success? What is secret of success? Semester 4 Electrical Its neither environment, nor IQ, nor education nor Pearl unusual talent. It does not mean they are not important, but having all these, if the right Don’t escape from situations when they are attitude is not there, they become ineffective. For adverse. You must develop the skill of adaptability achieving success, the following three precepts are to changing times and circumstances. equally important. Adaptability is very essential not only for survival but to go up in life. Accept any crisis as normal. Assume responsibility for your actions. When you Consider adversity and failure as corrective decide to act in a particular way, be prepared to feedback. Develop critical attitude for success. face the consequences of your action. As we sow, And have the conviction that you are the master so we reap. If you feel you are bound by shackles, of your own destiny. you have to break free. You cannot expect someone else to do the job for you. Stand up for yourself. Success doesn’t happen; you have to make it happen. Success is a matter not so much of talent Discover your own gifts and follow your own goals. or opportunity as of concentration and In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Polonius tells his perseverance. As Sheridan, the English playwright son,”Above all to thine own self be true, and it puts it, “The surest way not to fail, is to determine must follow as the night the day, thou canstnot to succeed.” be false to nay man.” One should live according K to one’s conviction and ability. Rija Johnny Rija Johnny Rija Johnny Rija Johnny Rija Johnny Life is what Semester 4 Civil A Pearl you make it Sooner or later the man ‘who wins is the man who Firm must be your will, patient your mind and thinks he can. Believe you can, and act on the passionate your aspiration to attain the fulfilment belief. And certainly you will win. You cannot of your grand goal. Anyone can learn from loose as long as your faith remain unshaken and experience, the costly and time consuming process your will unbroken. Everyday we find some kings of trial & errors. But the better way is to learn shattered and new one established. The success and benefit from the experience of others who have story of every great one proclaims that whatever travelled our way before us. Our hidden desires one’s chosen field of activity, if he / she works motivate and drive us to work, to work towards hard, works with faith, works with concentration the fulfilment of our goals. Biographies of great and determination, he will surely reach at the top. people proclaim that “Life is what we make it”. K For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned 45

Jophin K. Jose Jophin K. Jose Jophin K. Jose Jophin K. Jose Jophin K. Jose Semester 4 Electronics Pearl Love and Infatuation It’s a world wide fact that people, young or old fall in love, but has anyone ever tried to realize whether the feeling which has got hold of them is love or infatuation? Decide for yourself. Infatuation Infatuation Infatuation Infatuation Infatuation It is an instant desire. It’s one set of glands calling to another. It is marked by a feeling of insecurity. You are excited and eager, but not genuinely happy. There are nagging doubts, unanswered questions, little bits and pieces about your beloved that would make you loose your sleep! Infatuation says, “We must get married right away. I can’t lose him”. Infatuation has an element of sexual excitement; if you are honest you will admit it. It is difficult to be in one another’s company unless you are sure it will end intimacy. It lacks confidence, when your beloved is away, you wonder if he or she is cheating, sometimes you even check. Infatuation might lead you to do things you will regret later. Love Love Love Love Love It is friendship that has caught fire. It takes root and grows – one day at a time. It is the quiet understanding and nature acceptance of imperfection. It is real. It gives you strength and grows beyond you to bolster your beloved. You are warmed by his presence even when he is away. Long distances do not separate you. You want him near, but near or far, you know he is yours and you can wait. Love says, “Be patient, don’t panic. He is yours. “Plan your future with confidence. Love is the maturation of friendship. You must be friends before you can be lovers. It means trust. You are calm, secure and unthreatened. He feels that trust and it makes him more trust worthy. Love makes you a better person than you ever before. K 46 Time is an endless song.

Roshni Thomson Roshni Thomson Roshni Thomson Roshni Thomson Roshni Thomson General Knowledge Pearl General Knowledge Semester 4 Civil A Trivia Trivia 1) Which Documentary film from India won Answers Answers Answers Answers Answers Oscar In 2009? 2) If you are travelling on train from Ernakulam (coded ERS) to a south Indian city (coded 1) Smile Pinky BZAO) where are you going to? 2) ‘Vijay Wada’ (Bezawada was the name of this 3) In which country was the US president city under British) Barrack Hussein Obama born? 3) Kenya 4) Name the Indian author who won ‘The Man 4) Aravind Adiga for ‘white tiger’ Booker Prize in 2008? 5) New York. 5) Which city is the ‘Big Apple’? 6) Chithira 6) Asterism of the last ruler of Travancore? 7) Elamkulam Manakkal Shankaran Namboodiri 7) Expand the initials of the first chief Minister Padu. of Kerala state? 8) George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, 8) Which U.S. presidents are featured on Theodore Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln. Mount Rushmore? 9) Vishu 9) If Navjot Sidhu celebrates ‘Baishaki’, what 10) Sagittarius. does ‘Mohan Lal’ celebrate? 11) 40 years 10) If you were born on Nov. 25, what could be your birth sign? 12) Northern lights 11) If you are celebrating ‘Ruby Anniversary’, 13) Physics, Chemistry, Economics, literature, how many years would you have been married Medicine and Peace. for? 14) Cape Morris, Jessup, Greenland (Not north 12) What is Aurora Borealis commonly known as? pole as it is in artic ocean) 13) Which are the six categories in which Nobel 15) Morgan 4/4. is awarded every year? 14) Northern most land on earth? K 15) Which British sports car has been in production continuously since 1935? 47 Time is the essence of life.

Amrutha C.H. Amrutha C.H. Amrutha C.H. Amrutha C.H. Amrutha C.H. Semester 4, Electrical The Art of Living Pearl “Punarapi jananam punarapi maranam punarapi body is the prerequisite to a healthy and creative janani jathare shayanam”. ‘Birth again, death mind. Care should be taken regarding the quality again. Again to lie in mother’s womb’. – exclaims and type of food we eat. India’s indigenous system the great Shankaracharya. of medicine Ayurveda asserts the importance of food and exercise for well being. Is then man just a hapless creature appearing and reappearing endlessly? No. Man is the crown of Yoga and exercise are gems which brighten life. creation. Man has the power to think, has wisdom, Yoga ensures all round growth and health, and has the power of discretion, restrain and will maintains youth, health, power and vigour. It is power. These qualities make man superior to all equally effective for people of all age groups. other objects of nature – inanimate or animate. Exercise provides burning out of excess fats which But this life, fragile and beautiful given to us, has may otherwise lead to diseases. to be dealt with at most care and respect. This is Meditation is also an important aid which brings an art in itself – ‘the art of living.’ out the hidden potentials of human brain. Man has always been in search of happiness. He Meditation is concentration. It makes mind pure wants to be free from wants, fears, miseries and and clam, builds and strengthens one’s faith, difficulties. Happiness and freedom, which in fact brings happiness, and knowledge. Even Lord are the same, have been the goal which man wants Buddha gained enlightenment in meditation. to achieve. Man alone, through his acts, behaviour Our actions may be good or bad and all of them and will, can attain freedom, whenever he wants. are moulded and judged by ethics. Values or ethics Thus, it becomes necessary for him to know in merely perceived is worthless. It must be lived. this limited life – span, broadly called the conduct We must look into ourselves.” Life is not worth of life or ‘Dharma’. living if it is not reflected upon”. Be faithful. It The first and foremost requirement of every should not be an escape from responsibilities, but human being is to keep himself or herself fit and be brave enough to face the repercussions after cheerful. Health, wealth and happiness are propagating high ideals. certainly the birth right of every person. A healthy “Yasmat no udurijate loko lokan na udurijate cha”.- 48 Time and tide wait for no one

says Gita. ‘The ideal behaviour is not that by culture include and embrace all the other branches which others get disturbed, nor the person who of self – culture. “Ethics penetrate though it can follows the particular behaviour, gets disturbed be the best remedy”. – Says Sri Ravishankar, a by others.’ Though, difficult, it is, but definitely pioneer in the art of living. Greatest the achievable and is worth the rigorous practices one commitment, greater the energy or power you gain has to undergo to achieve this. A commitment is to fulfil that commitment. what inspires us to achieve the fore-mentioned ideal behaviour and also to use it for the Humbleness is one path among the many betterment of others. Commitment is essential available to a student of art of living. The humble to keep focussed and directed to our ultimate goal. man is just like a flower. He is not assertive. He “To the wise, commitment is a comfort. To the is simply natural. He is not representative. When lazy, commitment is torture”. Through he blossoms, fragrance comes out of him. When meditation, the unlimited powers possessed by he becomes enlightened, he radiates light. Love human mind are revealed. overflowed…… his compassion is so abundant that it has to be shared with others. Above all the physical norms we may adopt, the cultivation of a positive attitude towards life is “What a piece of work is man? the most rewarding and at the same time, most How noble in reason! demanding. It is a strenuous effort to train our mind to find solace and contentment in what we How infinite in faculties! are. This can be achieved only when our destiny In action, how like an angle! is clearly marked out with values that are eternal. Once a strong base of values has been formed, In apprehension, how like god! any building on it need not fear the emotional storms and mood swings. The beauty of the world It is obvious that the essence of all human The paragon of animals”. relationships is based upon the presence or -Shakespeare’s evocation of the infinite faculties absence of values. Human values bring into play, of man represents the full faith of his age in man’s not only our emotions, but our faculty of reason ability to scale the heights of thought, love and as well. In the day- to day world of mundane beauty. Yes, we have to understand and adopt “the reality, the man who stands out is the one who is art of living”, and raise the glory of humanity”, to seen to possess the basic elements of honesty and the heights dreamt about by the great drivers of integrity, coupled with an imaginative yet history. disciplined mind. Human values and ethical K 49 Take time to be friendly, it is the road to happiness.

Basil Basil Basil Basil Basil Semester 4 Electrical Ruby FAC FACEE an Interviews are a hurdle for an example, appropriate body many...! People who qualify language like nodding can the written tests with be used to support your flying colours may perform interest). Enthusiastic terribly when they face the feedback can enhance your interview board... Know why?? chances of being further Simply because they were not well considered. prepared. . How to prepare??? Well read 7. Answer questions by speaking in terms of the along...!! position. Emphasize what you can do for the 1. Plan to arrive 10 minutes early. This will give company. Mention specific accomplishments you ample time to catch your breath, gather that show your abilities and determination to your thoughts and make a quick trip to the succeed in this job. Your answers describe the washroom to give your appearance one final position and duties to you early in the check. To avoid unnecessary stress, choose interview. This will allow you to apply your your interview attire the night before. background, skills and achievements to the 2. Greet the interviewer by his or her last name. position. Should tell the employer why you If you are unsure of the pronunciation, do ask would be an asset to the company and not why the employer to repeat it. Or better still; check you need a job. it with the front desk personnel or receptionist 8. Bring an extra copy of your resume. before walking into the interview room. 9. Explain whenever possible; don’t answer with 3. Let the interviewer lead the conversation but a simple “yes” or “no.” try to get him/her to describe the position and Be prepared to answer questions such as: duties to you early in the interview. This will allow you to apply your background, skills and • Tell me about yourself. achievements to the position. • Tell me about your background and 4. When asked: “Tell me about yourself?” focus accomplishments. your answers on your background and a few • What are your strengths, Weaknesses? professional and personal accomplishments. • How would you describe your most recent job 5. Stress on your achievements. For example: your performance? sales records, the processes you have developed or systems installed, projects that you • What interests you about our company? initiated, etc. • What are your long-range goals and objectives? 6. Show enthusiasm. This can be demonstrated • What are your short-range goals and through verbal and non-verbal cues (for objectives? 50 Doing the right thing at the right time makes all the difference

• How do you plan to achieve your career goals? • What college subjects did you like least? Why? • What are the most important rewards you • If you could do so, how would you plan your expect in your career? academic studies differently? • Why did you choose the career for which you • Do you think your grades are a good indication are preparing? of your academic achievement? • What are your strengths, weaknesses, and • What have you learned from participation in interests? extracurricular activities? • How do you think a friend or professor who • In what kind of work environment are you most knows you well would describe you? comfortable? • Describe a situation in which you had to work • How do you work under pressure? with a difficult person (another student, co- • Describe a situation in which you worked as worker, customer, supervisor, etc.). How did part of a team. What role did you take on? you handle the situation? Is there anything you What went well and what didn’t? would have done differently in hindsight? • In what part-time, co-op, or summer jobs have • What motivates you to put forth your greatest you been most interested? Why? effort? Describe a situation in which you did so. • How would you describe the ideal job for you following graduation? • In what ways have your college experiences prepared you for a career? • Why did you decide to seek a position with this organization? • How do you determine or evaluate success? • What two or three things would be most • In what ways do you think you can make a important to you in your job? contribution to our organization? • What criteria are you using to evaluate the • Describe a contribution you have made to a organization for which you hope to work? project on which you worked. • Will you relocate? Does relocation bother you? • What qualities should a successful manager possess? • Are you willing to travel? • Was there an occasion when you disagreed with • Are you willing to spend at least six months a supervisor’s decision or company policy? as a trainee? Describe how you handled the situation. Summary Summary Summary Summary Summary • What two or three accomplishments have given If you are interested in the position, stress this you the most satisfaction? Why? to the interviewer. If you get the impression that • Describe your most rewarding college the interview is not going well and that you have experience. already been rejected, do not let your discouragement show. Once in a while an • What interests you about our product or interviewer who is genuinely interested in you may service? seem to discourage you as a way of testing your • Why did you select your college or university? reaction. Remember to thank the interviewer for • What led you to choose your major or field of his/her time and end the session with a confident study? and firm handshake. • What college subjects did you like best? Why? K If timing is right, unachievable becomes achievable. 51

Jaison Joy Jaison Joy Jaison Joy Jaison Joy Jaison Joy Semester 4 electronics Pearl aVaTaR– a SToRy of LoVe and PandoRa Bottom Line: James Cameron is back! The story takes place in 2154, three decades after a multinational corporation has established a A dozen years later, James Cameron has proven mining colony on Pandora, a planet light years from his point: He is king of the world. Earth. A toxic environment and hostile natives As commander-in-chief of an army of visual- — one corporate apparatchik calls the locals “blue effects technicians, creature designers, motion- monkeys” — forces the conglom to engage with capture mavens, stunt performers, dancers, actors Pandora by proxy. Humans dwell in oxygen- and music and sound magicians, he brings science- drenched cocoons but move out into mines or to fiction movies into the 21st century with the jaw- confront the planet’s hostile creatures in hugely dropping wonder that is “Avatar.” And he did it fortified armor and robotics or — as avatars. almost from scratch. The protagonist, Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), After writing this story many years ago, he is a disabled former Marine who takes his late discovered that the technology he needed to make twin brother’s place in the avatar program, a sort it happen did not exist. So, he went out and of bone thrown to the scientific community by the created it in collaboration with the best effects corporation in hopes that the study of Pandora and minds in the business. This is motion capture its population might create a more peaceful planet. brought to a new high where every detail of the Without any training, Jake suddenly must learn actors’ performances gets preserved in the final how to link his consciousness to an avatar, a CG character as they appear on the screen. Yes, remotely controlled biological body that mixes those eyes are no longer dead holes but big and human DNA with that of the native population, expressive, almost dominating the wide and long alien faces. the Na’vi. Since he is incautious and overly curious, he immediately rushes into the fresh air But let’s cut to the chase: A fully believable, flesh- — to a native — to throw open Pandora’s many and-blood (albeit not human flesh and blood) boxes. romance is the beating heart of “Avatar.” What a glory Cameron has created for Jake to Cameron has never made a movie just to show romp in, all in a crisp 3D realism. It’s a fairy tale off visual pyrotechnics: Every bit of technology in about flying dragons, magic plants, weirdly “Avatar” serves the greater purpose of a deeply hypnotic creepy-crawlies and feral dogs rolled up felt love story into a rain forest with a highly advanced spiritual 52 You can cross a mountain, taking a step at a time.

design. It seems — although the scientists led projectiles, bombs and armor that seemingly will by Sigourney Weaver’s top doc have barely be their ruin. scratched the surface — a flow of energy ripples As with everything in “Avatar,” Cameron has through the roots of trees and the spores of the coolly thought things through. With every visual plants, which the Na’vi know how to tap into. tool he can muster, he takes viewers through the The center of life is a holy tree where tribal battle like a master tactician, demonstrating how memories and the wisdom of their ancestors is every turn in the fight, every valiant death or theirs for the asking. This is what the humans cowardly act, changes its course. The screen is want to strip mine. alive with more action and the soundtrack pops with more robust music than any dozen sci-fi Jake manages to get taken in by one tribe where a powerful, Amazonian named Neytiri (Zoe shoot-’em-ups you care to mention. Not a minute Saldana) takes him under her wing to teach him is wasted; there is no down time. how to live in the forest, speak the language and The only question is: How will Cameron ever honor the traditions of nature. Yes, they fall in top this? love but Cameron has never been a sentimentalist: Well people said that he cannot do a much better He makes it tough on his love birds.They must film after all his films like TERMINATOR, overcome obstacles and learn each other’s heart. TERMINATOR 2, TITANIC... Etc. But he The Na’vi have a saying, “I see you,” which goes always succeeded in coming up with better & beyond the visual. It means I see into you and bigger things on the silver screen... So for the time know your heart. being we shall just praise and admire the The battle for Pandora occupies much of the final greatness of Avatar and hope for more magical third of the film. The planet’s animal life — the touches from the master… creatures of the ground and air — give battle along with the Na’vi, but they come up against K My Anand R. My Anand R. Anand R. Anand R. Anand R. Semester 4 Electronics Ruby Love My heart had been woken Love Now it’s broken Ripped from my chest Mutilated flesh Things used to be so bright Now all is night For true love what price to pay Nothing as it just wastes away You faked, you lied I tried, I cried We had such a beautiful start Now all I have is a broken heart Progress is the activity of present and the assurance of future. 53

Naveen Gopal Naveen Gopal Naveen Gopal Naveen Gopal Naveen Gopal Semester 4 Electronics Pearl A library in your hand! Well all of us have heard the term USB. In the protected either by a removable cap or by present technical world devices with flash drives retracting into the body of the drive. Most flash like pen drives, portable music players, mobile drives use a standard type-A USB connection phones etc have become an inevitable part of our allowing them to be connected directly to a port life... But have you ever thought what this USB on a personal computer. and Flash actually means??? “No!” Right?? To access the data stored in a flash drive, the drive Actually, USB flash drives are NAND-type flash must be connected to a computer, either by memory data storage devices integrated with a plugging it into a USB host controller built into USB (universal serial bus) connector. They are the computer, or into a USB hub. Flash drives are typically small, lightweight, removable and active only when plugged into a USB connection rewritable. and draw all necessary power from the supply provided by that connection. However, some flash USB flash drives offer potential advantages over drives, especially high-speed drives, may require other portable storage devices, particularly the more power than the limited amount provided by floppy disk. They are more compact, faster, hold a bus-powered USB hub, such as those built into more data, are more reliable due to their lack of some computer keyboards or monitors. These moving parts, and have a more durable design. drives will not work unless plugged directly into Additionally, it has become increasingly common a host controller (i.e., the ports found on the for computers to ship without floppy disk drives. computer itself) or a self-powered hub. USB (Universal Serial Bus) ports, on the other hand, appear on almost every current mainstream Flash memory is actually a combination of a PC and laptop. These types of drives use the number of older technologies, the low cost, low USB mass storage standard, supported natively power consumption and small size being made by modern operating systems such as Windows, possible by recent advances in microprocessor Mac OS X, Linux, and other Unix-like systems. technology. The memory storage is based on EEPROMS (Electrically Erasable Programmable With nothing being mechanically driven in a flash Read Only Memory) technology where the drive, the name is somewhat of a misnomer. It is erasure region can be broken up into smaller called a “drive” because it appears to the computer “fields” that could be erased individually without operating system (and the user) in a manner affecting the others. Altering the contents of a identical to a mechanical disk drive, and is particular memory location involved first copying accessed in the same way. the entire field into an off-chip buffer memory, A flash drive consists of a small printed circuit erasing the field, and then re-writing the data back board typically in a plastic or metal casing .This into the same field, making the necessary makes the drive sturdy enough to be carried about alteration to the relevant memory location while in a pocket, for example as a key chain. Only the doing so. This required considerable computer USB connector protrudes, and it is typically support, and PC-Based EEPROM flash memory 54 “You can’t change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future”

systems often carried their own dedicated full control over where information is actually microprocessor system. Flash drives are more or stored. The actual EEPROM writing and erasure less a miniaturized version of this. processes are, however, still very similar to the The development of high-speed serial data earlier systems . interfaces such as USB for the first time made USB s and flash drives have now replaced all their serially accessed storage memory systems viable, predecessor technologies and are now the reigning and the simultaneous development of small, high- kings of Data transfer and storage. But better, speed, low-power microprocessor systems allowed faster technologies are emerging... The time may this to be incorporated into extremely compact not be not far when we throw the USB’s and flash systems. Serial access also greatly reduced the drives to the waste bins just as their predecessors number of electrical connections required for the and embrace the newer gizmos the tech world will memory chips, which has allowed the successful offer us… Sad?? Excited?? . Well most certainly manufacture of multi-gigabyte capacities. Modern that is what is going to happen... Whether we flash memory systems are accessed very much like like it or not!! hard disk drives, where the controller system has K Sarath Krishnanunni Sarath Krishnanunni Sarath Krishnanunni Sarath Krishnanunni Sarath Krishnanunni Semester 4 Electronics Friend Like Pearl You There’s lots of things With which I’m blessed, My problems have been few, But of all, this one’s the best: To have a friend like you. In times of trouble Friends will say, “Just ask, I’ll help you through it.” But you don’t wait for me to ask, You just get up and do it! And I can think of nothing more That I could wisely do, Than know a friend, And be a friend, And have a friend like you. If we are good, time is good. 55

Savin Saju Savin Saju Savin Saju Savin Saju Savin Saju Semester 4 Electronics Pearl As a first step in managing time better; you might want to analyze how you spend your time now. To do this, divide your day into fifteen-minute Time, while short and fleeting, is something that segments, and then record what you are doing can be handled even by simple human beings like every fifteen minutes. Afterward, review this time us. The best way to deal with it is to know early diary and total the time spent on each activity on what we want to happen to our lives and which throughout the day. directions we would like to go, in order for us to For instance, you found that you spent three hours map out a more effective life plan. If we do not watching television, one hour exercising, one hour know what our plans are, then it would not really studying, and two hours shopping. Next, evaluate make sense to get into time management because the use of time. You might decide you spend too we will just end up with one big mess of activities. much time watching TV and too little time However, the man who fails to plan plans to fail. studying. Based upon this evaluation, decide on Determine what you want first and then try to an adjustment, but make it specific. A good way manage your time. Remember, every day is to make this change is to draw up a contract with precious, so you need to speed up. It is for your yourself that includes a reward for being own sake, anyway. successful. One of the tasks we often fail at is managing our 2. Set Goals time well. There really is no excuse for this, since The most important thing you can do to manage there are several effective time management time is to set daily, weekly, monthly, yearly and techniques. These techniques can help you with long-term goals. If you do not have a clear sense your most valuable possession - your time. Time of where you are going just yet, you will not be spent is gone forever. In spite of what we often able to plan how to get there. Organize your use believe, we cannot save time. Time never stops time in order to maximize the chances of achieving and it is used one way or another. your goals. If we waste time, there is no bank where we can 3. Learn to prioritize withdraw time that we lost. To come to terms with our mortality is to recognize that our time is Once you have set your goals, you need to limited. Given this realization and probability that prioritize them and your activities. Not all of your you would like to organize your time better, here goals will be exactly important. Focus on those are five time management techniques. goals that are the most important to you, and work on the other goals secondarily. Likewise, focus on 1. Assess how you spend your time activities most important to the achievement of 56 Time allows no overdraft.

your highest goals and on other activities and, conversely, acquire only 20% of our rewards afterward. on 80% of the time we spend. What this states is that we need to make sure we recognize and 4. Keep a schedule engage in the 20% of the activities that give us Once you have prioritized your activities, you can 80% of our rewards before we move to the other then schedule them into you daily routine. When activities. Maximize your rewards by organizing will you go to the bank? When will you buy your time. groceries? Do not forget to schedule some relaxation and recreation time, as well. The fact that you have shown the patience to read this article means you have time & necessity to 5. Maximize your rewards do the above techniques and apply them to your In scheduling all your activities; remember what personal life… so go on…plan your life and be a some time management experts say: we obtain winner…… Goals achieved by none are waiting 80% of our rewards on only 20% of our activities for your arrival... K Taby Tom Taby Tom Taby Tom Taby Tom Taby Tom Semester 4 Mechanical I saw a young mother Ruby Two Little Shadows Two Little Shadows With eyes full of laughter And two little shadows Came following after. Wherever she moved, They were always right there Holding onto her skirts, Hanging onto her chair. Before her, behind her - An adhesive pair. ‘Don’t you ever get weary As, day after day, your two little tagalongs Get in your way? ‘ She smiled as she shook Her pretty young head, And I’ll always remember The words that she said. ‘It’s good to have shadows That run when you run, That laugh when you’re happy And hum when you hum - For you only have shadows When your life’s filled with sun.’ There are no speed limits or breakers to slow down time. 57

Riya Roy Riya Roy Riya Roy Riya Roy Riya Roy Eight Ways to Right Semester 4 Civil B Ruby Communication We all have people with whom we have to work aren’t sure how to say a word, don’t use it. to get things done. Our ability to communicate Use the right words Use the right words – If you’re not sure of the Use the right words Use the right words Use the right words with clients, customers, subordinates, peers, and meaning of a word, don’t use it. Start a program superiors can enhance our effectiveness or of learning a new word a day. Use it sometime in sabotage us. Many times, our verbal skills make your conversations during the day. the difference. Here are 10 ways to increase your Make eye contact Make eye contact – I know a person who is Make eye contact Make eye contact verbal efficacy at work: Make eye contact very competent in her job. However, when she Develop your voice Develop your voice speaks to individuals or groups, she does so with Develop your voice – A high whiney voice is Develop your voice Develop your voice not perceived to be one of authority. In fact, a her eyes shut. When she opens them periodically, high soft voice can make you sound like prey to an she stares off in a direction away from the listener. aggressive co-worker who is out to make his/her She is perceived as incompetent by those with career at the expense of anyone else. Begin doing whom she consults. One technique to help with exercises to lower the pitch of your voice. Here is this is to consciously look into one of the listener’s one to start: Sing — but do it an octave lower on eyes and then move to the other. Going back and all your favourite songs. Practice this and, after a forth between the two (and I hope they only have period of time, your voice will begin to lower. two) makes your eyes appear to sparkle. Another Slow down Slow down Slow down – People will perceive you as nervous trick is to imagine a letter “T” on the listener’s Slow down Slow down and unsure of yourself if you talk fast. However, face with the cross bar being an imaginary line be careful not to slow down to the point where across the eye brows and the vertical line coming people begin to finish your sentences just to help down the centre of the nose. Keep your eyes you finish. scanning that “T” zone. Use gestures Animate your voice Use gestures Use gestures – Make your whole body talk. Animate your voice Animate your voice Animate your voice Use gestures Animate your voice – Avoid a monotone. Use Use gestures dynamics. Your pitch should raise and lower. Your Use smaller gestures for individuals and small volume should be soft and loud. Listen to your groups. The gestures should get larger as the local TV news anchor; take notes. group that one is addressing increases in size. Don’t send mixed messages Enunciate your words – Speak clearly. Don’t Don’t send mixed messages Don’t send mixed messages Don’t send mixed messages – Make your Don’t send mixed messages mumble. If people are always saying, “huh,” to words, gestures, facial expressions, tone, and you, you are mumbling. message match. Disciplining an employee while Use appropriate volume Use appropriate volume Use appropriate volume – Use a volume that Use appropriate volume smiling sends a mixed message and, therefore, is Use appropriate volume is appropriate for the setting. Speak more softly ineffective. If you have to deliver a negative when you are alone and close. Speak louder when message, make your words, facial expressions, and you are speaking to larger groups or across larger tone match the message. spaces. Improving your communication skills will improve Pronounce your words correctly – People will judge your productivity. your competency through your vocabulary. If you K 58 All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that. Balthazar Gracian

Ubuntu- Pass it On! Pass it On! Pass it On! Pass it On! Pass it On! Ubuntu Fans of MACE Ubuntu Fans of MACE Ubuntu Fans of MACE Ubuntu Fans of MACE Ubuntu Fans of MACE Semester 4 UBUNTU… Ever heard of it?? Well if you software should be available free of charge, that haven’t then all that it means is that you are still software tools should be usable by people in their in the 19 centaury! Stuck in the chains and rules local language and despite any disabilities, and th imposed by priority software! Wake up dude!! that people should have the freedom to customize And see the changes that UBUNTU and other and alter their software in whatever way they see free softwares have brought to our world!! fit. For those reasons The UBUNTU community promises us that: Ubuntu is a South African ethical ideology focusing on people’s allegiances and relations with y Ubuntu will always be free of charge, and there each other. The word comes from the Zulu and is no extra fee for the “enterprise edition,” Xhosa languages. Ubuntu (pronounced “oo- They make best work available to everyone on BOON-too”) is seen as a traditional African the same Free terms. concept, is regarded as one of the founding principles of the new republic of South Africa and y Ubuntu includes the very best in translations and accessibility infrastructure that the free is connected to the idea of an African Renaissance. software community has to offer, to make A rough translation of the principle of Ubuntu is Ubuntu usable for as many people as possible. “humanity towards others”. Another translation could be: “the belief in a universal bond of sharing y Ubuntu is released regularly and predictably; that connects all humanity”. a new release is made every six months. “A person with ubuntu is open and available to y Ubuntu is entirely committed to the principles others, affirming of others, does not feel of open source software development; they threatened that others are able and good, for he encourage people to use open source software, or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from improve it and pass it on. knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole The Ubuntu community is comprised of and is diminished when others are humiliated or developers, programmers, testers, Tech writers, diminished, when others are tortured or documentation testers, translators, and most oppressed.” importantly, the people who use Ubuntu every -Archbishop Desmond Tutu day. Their support can never be matched by any corporate or MNC. ! That is people power for As a platform based on GNU/Linux, the Ubuntu you. operating system brings the spirit of ubuntu to the software world. So what are you waiting for?? Break the chains... Move on. Be a part of the UBUNTU revolution. Ubuntu is an entirely open source operating Your contribution could me small. But it all counts! system built around the Linux kernel. The Ubuntu community is built around the ideals K enshrined in the Ubuntu Philosophy: that An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth. 59 Bonnie Friedman, in New York Times

Importance of Thomas Jacob Thomas Jacob Thomas Jacob Thomas Jacob Thomas Jacob English Language in Semester 4 Mechanical Pearl India India is a vast country with different languages to explain and convince friendly nations our point in different parts of the country. These regional of view. All this is possible only through a languages differ from each other so much that it common medium of exchange of ideas and views. is not possible to communicate with people of English is such a language having an international other regions without a common language. Further, status and can provide the best medium to interact India is growing on all fronts whether it is social with outside world. In all international seminars or economic angle. India is on the road to become or summits, all speeches or course material is in a strong and prosperous nation in the world. India English. If India is to utilize these opportunities, is trying to maintain a good foreign policy. For all and expand its universal view point, then English this, there is need of a common language i.e., is the only language which should be learnt by all English. It is this language which is understood of us. almost all over the region in addition to national language of Hindi, all schools and colleges teach Further, a nation can remain intact only when its English and mostly have it as a medium of leaders can understand the people living in instruction different regions and can communicate with them in effective and cordial manner. All leaders cannot In today’s world, we have to get knowledge of understand more than ten to fifteen languages of advanced technologies and lal kinds of branches various regions, however, they can easily of Science. There is an urgent need of such a understand the common language English. This common language which can be understood by language is important to inspire unity not only at youth all over India and the language in which all the national level but at the international level. data and information is available. It is English only To curb the separatist tendencies of our varied which can be rightly selected as the language to communities, we must continue to teach English. be studied by all of us from the very primary level. Without learning and communicating in this This language is a store house of social and political language, we will perish one day. To survive in knowledge. Hence, study of English language is modern society, English knowledge is as essential of great importance for a developing country like as water. India. Without knowledge of this language, our technicians, mechanics and engineers cannot Today, USA and other countries have made progress. tremendous progress in the field of science and technology. In space technology, we are no match India is a peace-loving country and wants to spread to them. The world is making progress in these the same message to all countries of the world. fields at a terrific speed. To increase and encourage The other countries also take interest to more research work in Science and Technology, we understand and know this policy of India. We have have to study all these subjects in detail. And for 60 Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967)

this the importance of English cannot be denied. Under such circumstances, we cannot wait for Our own regional languages do not have the depth long, otherwise we will be left far behind. As such, and capacity to understand and co – relate all these till such time one language is developed, we must technological developments and as such, cannot learn and teach English from the beginning itself. served the purpose to keep pace with the fast Some subject like Science, Mathematics and growing world outside. Most of the best books technology books must be taught in English only. on all such subjects are available in English This fact is being realized now by those who had language only. We cannot translate it all in our opposed teaching in English few years ago. They own regional languages, therefore, knowledge of now know that we have not been able to prosper English can only prove to be a blessing. like other countries of the world due to keeping ourselves away from English. It is this language Every nation must develop and encourage its own language. However, in India we have diversity in which can uplift us not only within our own country languages and it is not possible for many years but throughout the world. We will be no less than ahead to have a common language like Hindi. anybody in the world with knowledge of English. K AFSAL N. A. AFSAL N. A. AFSAL N. A. AFSAL N. A. AFSAL N. A. S S unset When the sun dives in the horizon Semester 4 Mechanical Pearl I am alone!!! As the breeze soothes my skin, I don’t feel! But the birds fly in the sky, They do feel As the waves touch my legs, I don’t feel But the shores, They do feel Everyone and everything do feel, But I don’t! Nothing is alone on earth Why should I only be alone??? Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones. 61

Brain As As Aswin V.R Aswin Vwin V.R.R Aswin Vwin V.R.R Teasers Pearl Semester 4 Mechanical 1) You are standing outside a closed door. On the eggs by even a few seconds. What is the the other side of the door is a room that has least amount of time it will take to prepare three light bulbs in it. The room is completely the egg? And how will you prepare it so that sealed off from the outside. It has no windows it is neither undercooked nor overcooked? and nothing can get in or out except through 5) I am the owner of a pet store. If I put in one the door. On the outside of the room there canary per cage, I have one bird too many. If I are three light switches that control each of put in two canaries per cage, I have one cage the respective light bulbs on the other side of too many. How many cages and canaries do I the door. have? Your assignment is to determine which light 6) Here is a series of numbers. What is the next switch controls which light bulb. You are number in the sequence? allowed to enter the room only once, and once you come out, you must be able to state with 1 100% certainty which light switch controls 11 which light bulb. ? 21 2) An Arab sheikh tells his two sons to race their 1211 camels to a distant city to see who will inherit 111221 his fortune. The one whose camel is slower 312211 will win. The brothers, after wandering aimlessly for days, ask a wise man for advice. 13112221 After hearing the advice they jump on the 7) My daughter has many sisters. She has as camels and race as fast as they can to the city. many sisters as she has brothers. Each of her What does the wise man say? brothers has twice as many sisters as brothers. How many sons and daughters do I 3) Beulah died in the Appalachians while Craig died at sea. Everyone was much happier with have? Craig’s death. Why? 8) Two women apply for a job. They are identical. They have the same mother, father and 4) You are a cook in a remote area with no clocks or other way of keeping time other than a four birthday. The interviewer asks, “Are you minute sandglass timer and a seven minute twins?” to which they honestly reply, “No”. sandglass timer. (The kind you turn over - How is this possible? hourglass shaped) You do have a stove, 9) A boat has a ladder that has six rungs. Each however, with water in a pot already boiling. rung is one foot apart. The bottom rung is Somebody asks you for a nine-minute egg, and one foot from the water. The tide rises at 12 you know this person is a perfectionist and inches every 15 minutes. High tide peaks in will be able to tell if you undercook or overcook one hour. 62 Don’t count every hour in the day, make every hour in the day count v

When the tide is at its highest, how many contestants could not walk over the carpet, rungs are under water? cross the plane of the carpet, or hang from anything; nor could they use anything but 10) You have two buckets - one holds exactly 5 gallons and the other 3 gallons. How can you their body and wits (i.e. no magic or telepathy, measure 4 gallons of water into the 5 gallon nor any items such as ladders, block and bucket? tackles etc). One suitor figured out a way and married the Princess and became the new (Assume you have an unlimited supply of King. What did he do? water and that there are no measurement markings of any kind on the buckets.) 16) Two guards were on duty outside a barrack. One faced up the road to watch for anyone 11) During WWII, there was a bridge connecting approaching from the North. The other looked Germany and Switzerland, and on the down the road to see if anyone approached German side, there was a sentry tower with from the South. Suddenly one of them said to a guard in it. He would come out every three the other, “Why are you smiling?” minutes to check on the bridge, and he had orders to turn back anyone who tried to get How did he know his companion was smiling? into Germany, and shoot anyone trying to 17) You have four chains. Each chain has three escape without a pass. There was a woman links in it. Although it is difficult to cut the who desperately needed to get into links, you wish to make a single loop with all Switzerland, and she knew she didn’t have 12 links. What is the fewest number of cuts time to get a pass. It would take her at least you must make to accomplish this task? six minutes to cross the bridge, but she 18) Three closed boxes have either white marbles, managed to do it. How? black marbles or both, and they are labelled 12) How many people can read hex if only you white, black and both. However, you’re told and dead people can read hex? that each of the labels are wrong. You may reach into one of the boxes and pull out only 13) A man is travelling with a fox and two chickens; if he leaves the fox alone with the one marble. Which box should you remove a chickens the fox will eat the chickens. He marble from to determine the contents of all comes to a river and needs to cross it, he finds three boxes? a small boat that can carry only him and one 19) You are given eight coins and told that one of animal, how does he get himself, the fox and them is counterfeit. The counterfeit one is two chickens across the river safely? slightly heavier than the other seven. Otherwise, the coins look identical. Using a 14) A man is looking at a picture of a man on the wall and states: Brothers and sisters I have simple balance scale, can you determine which none, but this man’s father is my father’s son. coin is counterfeit? Who is the man in the picture in relation to 20) I was visiting a friend one evening and the man looking at the picture? remembered that he had three daughters. I asked him how old they were. “The product 15) A wise king devised a contest to see who would receive the Princess’ hand in marriage. of their ages is 72,” he answered. Quizzically, The Princess was put in a 50x50 foot carpeted I asked, “Is there anything else you can tell room. Each of her four suitors were put in one me?” “Yes,” he replied, “the sum of their ages corner of the room with a small box to stand is equal to the number of my house.” I stepped on. The first one to touch the Princess hand outside to see what the house number was. would be the winner and become the new King. Upon returning inside, I said to my host, “I’m sorry, but I still can’t figure out their ages.” The rules of the test were that the He responded apologetically, “I’m sorry, I Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. 63 Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)

forgot to mention that my oldest daughter snooze interval on alarm clocks, why not 10 likes strawberry shortcake.” With this instead? information, I was able to determine all of their 27) An 18-wheeler is crossing a 4 kilometre bridge ages. How old is each daughter? You have that can only support 10,000 kilograms and enough information to solve the puzzle. that’s exactly how much the rig weighs. 21) You’re in a room with two doors. There’s a Halfway across the bridge a 30 gram sparrow guard at each door. One door is the exit, but lands on the cab, but the bridge doesn’t behind the other door is something that will collapse. Why not? kill you. You’re told that one guard always 28) Ida puts her coffee into the microwave, as she tells the truth and the other guard always lies. does every morning, for exactly 2 minutes. You don’t know which guard is which. You When the microwave goes off, she opens the are allowed to ask one question to either of door, but then closes the door again and sets the guards to determine which door is the exit. the microwave for 2 more seconds. What good What question should you ask? would 2 more seconds be? 22) You are a prisoner sentenced to death. The 29) What is the next number in this series? Emperor offers you a chance to live by playing a simple game. He gives you 50 black marbles, 1, 2, 6, 42, 1806, ? 50 white marbles and 2 empty bowls. He then 30) You have 50 quarters on the table in front of says, “Divide these 100 marbles into these 2 you. You are blindfolded and cannot discern bowls. You can divide them any way you like whether a coin is heads up or tails up by as long as you use all the marbles. Then I will feeling it. You are told that x coins are heads blindfold you and mix the bowls and marbles up, where 0 < x < 50. You are asked to up. You can then choose one bowl and remove separate the coins into two piles in such a way one marble. If the marble is white, you live, that the number of heads up coins in both piles but if the marble is black...you die. is the same at the end. You may flip any coin How do you divide the marbles up so that over as many times as you want. How will you have the greatest probability of choosing you do it? a white marble? Answers Answers Answers Answers 23) What is special about the following number Answers sequence? 1) Turn one light switch on, wait a few minutes, then turn it off and turn another light switch 8, 5, 4, 9, 1, 7, 6, 10, 3, 2, 0 on. Go into the room and feel the light bulbs. 24) By moving one of the following digits, make The one that’s still warm is connected to the the equation correct. 62 - 63 = 1 switch that you first turned on, the one that 25) You are the bus driver. At your first stop, you is on was the second switch you turned on, pick up 29 people. On your second stop, 18 of and the last bulb is controlled by the switch those 29 people get off, and at the same time that you didn’t touch. 10 new passengers arrive. At your next stop, 2) The Wiseman tells them to switch camels. 3 of those 10 passengers get off, and 13 new passengers come on. On your fourth stop 4 3) Beulah and Craig were hurricanes. of the remaining 10 passengers get off, 6 of 4) The answer is 9 minutes. First, flip both those new 13 passengers get off as well, then hourglasses over and drop the egg into the 17 new passengers get on. What is the colour water. When the four minute timer runs out, of the bus driver’s eyes? flip it again. When the seven minute timer runs out, flip it over. The egg has been cooking 26) Why is it very common to have a 9 minute 64 Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death. Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey, ‘A Woman of Independent Means’

seven minutes. Now when the four minute with 4 gallons of water in the 5-gallon timer runs out again (after eight minutes) flip bucket. the seven minute timer back over. Since the 11) She walked on the bridge towards Switzerland seven minute timer has been running only a for 3 minutes and just as the guard was about minute between flips, there’s a minute worth to come out, she turned around walking back of sand left. And when that minute runs out, to Germany. The guard saw her and asked the egg will have been cooking for exactly for her pass but she didn’t have one and was nine minutes. sent back (or what the guard thought was 5) Four canaries and three cages. back) to Switzerland. In her case it was the very country she wanted to go to. If you put one canary in each cage, you have an extra bird without a cage. However, if you 12) The trick is that the word dead represents a put two canaries in each cage then you have number in hexadecimal. That number in base two canaries in the first cage, two canaries in 10, plus one to include you, is: 57005 + 1 = the second cage and an extra cage. 57006. 6) The next number in the sequence is 1113213211, 13) Take the fox over, return with nothing. Go because the rule for creating the next number over with one chicken, return with the fox. is to simply describe the previous number. For Go over with the second chicken, return with example, you start of with 1, with is simply nothing. Finally, take the fox over. one 1, so the next number is 11. Now you have 14) The man in the picture is his son. Since he two 1’s, so the next number is 21. Now you doesn’t have any brothers or sisters, the have one 2 and one 1, so the next number is statement my father’s son is himself. A 1211. The solution is to simply continue shortened version would be this man’s father describing the previous number using only is myself, so he is the father of the man in numbers. the picture. 7) Four daughters and three sons. 15) Asked the princess to touch his hand. 8) Because they were triplets. 16) They were facing each other. As to why his 9) None. The boat is floating on the water, so companion was smiling, the world may never as the tide rises, so does the ladder. know. 10) a. Fill the 3-gallon bucket. 17) 3 cuts. Cut each link in one chain. Separate them, and use the links to join the ends of b. Pour the 3 gallons of water into the 5-gallon bucket the 3 intact chains. 18) The one labelled both. Since you know it’s c. Fill the 3-gallon bucket again. labelled incorrectly, it must have all black d. Fill up the 5-gallon bucket with the 3-gallon marbles or all white marbles. After you bucket, leaving you with 1 gallon left in the determine what it contains, you can identify 3-gallon bucket. the other two boxes by the process of e. Empty out the 5-gallon bucket. elimination. f. Pour the remaining 1 gallon of water from 19) Weigh three coins with three other coins. If the 3-gallon bucket into the 5-gallon bucket. they ’re the same, then weigh the two remaining coins and the heavier one is the g. Fill the 3-gallon bucket. counterfeit. If one of the groups of three was h. Pour the 3 gallons of water from the 3-gallon heavier, weigh two of that group of three. If bucket into the 5-gallon bucket leaving you they’re even, the third is the counterfeit. All my possessions for a moment of time. 65 Elizabeth I (1533 - 1603)

Otherwise, the heavier one is the counterfeit. bet at surviving. 20) 3, 3, and 8. The only groups of 3 factors of 72 to 23) It’s the numbers 0-10 in alphabetical order. have non-unique sums are 2, 6, 6 and 3, 3, 8 24) 2 - 63 = 1 (In other words, 2x2x2x2x2x2, which 6 (both add up to 14). The presence of a single equals 64) oldest child eliminates 2,6,6. 25) Your eye colour !. The first sentence is the 21) Ask either guard what door the other guard key: “You are the bus driver” would say is the exit, then choose the opposite door. 26) By setting the snooze time to 9 minutes, the alarm clock only needs to watch the last digit If you ask the guard who always tells the of the time. So, if you hit snooze at 6.45, the truth, he knows the other guard would lie, so alarm goes off again when the last digit equals he’ll point you to the door leading to death. If 4. They couldn’t make it 10 minutes, you ask the guard who always lies, he knows otherwise the alarm would go off right away, the other guard would truthfully show you the or it would take more circuitry. exit, so he’ll lie and point you to the door leading to death. 27) Since the bridge is 4 kilometres long, the halfway point would be 2 kilometres. The 18- 22) Place 1 white marble in one bowl, and place wheeler would have used much more than 30g the rest of the marbles in the other bowl (49 of fuel to drive 2 kilometres whites, and 50 blacks). 28) To rotate the handle on the mug so she can This way you begin with a 50/50 chance of comfortably remove it. choosing the bowl with just one white marble and living. But even if you choose the other 29) 3263442 {( n*n)+n} bowl, you still have an almost 50% chance of 30) Take x coins, flip all of them and put them in picking one of the 49 white marbles. There one pile. The rest of the coins form the second are no guarantees in life, but this is your best pile. K 66 Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch. Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park

Melody of Kannan D oars Kannan D Kannan D Kannan D Kannan D Semester 4 Electronics Pearl Well, since I am a resident of Alappuzha, boat races were a passion for me from my early childhood. I have never missed a chance to be there at the shores whenever the oars make melody in the waters. Even after coming to MACE I have always found time to enjoy the beauty and grace of all “vallam kali”s that has occurred at my hometown. The final races took only a few minutes each, but This year also, the story was not different. With were an astounding spectacle. Each race was my pals I setoff early from my home and arrived somehow different. One of the longer boats lost at the venue pretty early. We reached a clearing control just after crossing the finishing line and with wooden scaffoldings, packed with people. toppled into the water. And so the winning boat “This is the starting point. Your tickets are for was upside down. Loud laughter followed the the finishing point”, said the ticket-checkers. We sheepish rowers as they dragged the boat away. had decided on the ‘finishing point tickets’ after The snake-boat (Chundan vallam) race was the much debate regarding the best view of the race. grand finale. These elegantly carved snake-boats, So we trudged back to take a ferry that dropped with the front of the boat shaped like the raised us a couple of kms away to wait for the boat that hood of a snake, can seat 120 rowers. Their race would take us to the finishing point. When the for supremacy was really worth watching. Perfectly boat arrived, everybody who was not in the queue synchronized, each lift of the arm, each swish of boarded it! The police men had to do quite a the oar to the rhythmic beat of the navigator is a struggle to put things in order. And at the same ballet-or a symphony. It is also an incredible time, next door to this pandemonium, the sedate frenzied burst of energy - like those final moments VIP queue advanced in sweet order ! of a horse race. Difficult to describe, but At the finishing point, the front row spectators impossible not to feel. The organizers did were sitting with their feet in the water. We whatever they could to mar the show - speeches, wedged ourselves into the second row on the true advertisements, and cheer girls and the prize blue coir mat. ceremony took place in the middle of the water, in Sitting there we saw different boats and the a boat! referees, dressed in white sailor uniforms, rushing And finally when all the rush was over…All of us around in boats, whistling furiously. The navigator were very tired due to all of those howling and sets the beat, and thereby the pace. As the race shouting. We were all happy to have witnessed progressed, the boats got longer. One boat race such a great event. At the same time, the fact was manned by women. And there was one boat that we’ll have to wait for one more year to see that was figuring out where to turn. The front- this all once again was bit painful to us. But I had rowers rowed one way, and the back rowed the no time to feel bad or enjoy...Heaps of opposite way. The boat veered crazily, like a assignments and workloads were waiting for my drunken man, making no progress, but moving all arrival at MACE.So leaving my joys and passions the time. The navigator shouted, gesticulated at home it’s self, on the very next day, I had to madly, set up a steady rhythm, and steered them board the Alappey–kothamangalam bus, which the right way. The navigators of the longer boats would take me to Mar Athanasius collage of used a long drum to beat on the floor of the boat Engineering where my race of life was going on!!! for the rhythm. K If time flies when you’re having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don’t 67 think you’re having enough. Jef Mallett, Frazz, 08-01-05

Love will find out the Way OVER the mountains Do the best that ye may, And over the waves, Blind Love, if so ye call him, Under the fountains He will find out his way. And under the graves; Under floods that are deepest, You may train the eagle Which Neptune obey, To stoop to your fist; Over rocks that are steepest, Or you may inveigle Love will find out the way. The Phoenix of the east; The lioness, you may move her When there is no place To give over her prey; For the glow-worm to lie, But you’ll ne’er stop a lover— When there is no space He will find out the way. For receipt of a fly; When the midge dares not venture If the earth it should part him, Lest herself fast she lay, He would gallop it o’er; If Love come, he will enter If the seas should o’erthwart him, And will find out the way. He would swim to the shore; Should his Love become a swallow, You may esteem him Through the air to stray, A child for his might; Love will lend wings to follow, Or you may deem him And will find out the way. A coward for his flight; But if she whom Love doth honour There is no striving Be concealed from the day— To cross his intent; Set a thousand guards upon her, There is no contriving Love will find out the way. His plots to prevent; But if once the message greet him Some think to lose him That his True Love doth stay, By having him confined; If Death should come and meet him, And some do suppose him, Love will find out the way! Poor heart! to be blind; But if ne’er so close ye wall him, Anonymous Anonymous Anonymous Anonymous Anonymous 68 Nothing is as far away as one minute ago. Jim Bishop

Annu Anna Lal Annu Anna Lal Annu Anna Lal Annu Anna Lal Annu Anna Lal S4 Computer Ruby Fan fiction Hello friends, let me introduce you to a new and A fascinating world comes alive when you touch completely fascinating side of being a fan, be it of the paper (or key board), where you play god and a book, a movie, a comic, or an album. your heroes are at your mercy. Ever heard of fan fiction? But it is important that you realize that a fan fiction (by this, I mean the story you have written) Yeah, fan fiction is the art of writing a story using is just a fan fiction. Its not a part of the real book, characters from well known novels and extracts. or movie. Do not believe anything written in the It’s like taking people out of a story and fabricating fan fictions to have actually happened in the book your own story. or movie. The real story by the true author and fan fiction bear no relation. For Example: Take Harry Potter books, or The Princess Diaries, the movie; you long to add You can write in any genre: adventure, mystery, something more to the story, you want to have tragedy, romance. Give it any rating, then publish certain completion to the story, or you want to on the web-site, “www.fanfiction.com “, which will change the way something happened in the story. give you further details on the topic. There are a How do you do that? wide variety of fan fics on a variety of books movies comics and others available there for your Solution: Write a fan fiction. What you feel, pleasure reading. convert it into words, convert it into ideas! What the actual story has missed out in giving you, you Now, here, I’ve produced a fan fiction story for can make up with your imagination. Thus creating your enjoyment. ‘I’ in the story is Harry Potter. I new dimensions, new perspectives, to your hope after reading that, you will have a clearer favourite stories. view of what a fan fiction is all about. Anti-Harry MACE ians, please excuse. Fan fiction is like a portal. Once you enter it, you are so gone! Sucked into the world of magic and Have fun. Visit the web-site. Let a new generation myth, mighty warriors, dragons, daring of ‘authors’ arise in MACE. mountains, pristine waters, leaping unicorns and singing mermaids.. The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the 69 tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, ‘In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!’ John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)

When the stars revolve and the When the stars revolve and thethe stars revolve and the When When the stars revolve and thethe stars revolve and the the other… When moon twinklestwinkles moon moon twinkles moon moon twinklestwinkles We had to move on, through life, swiftly and yet Those smiling stars was never meant to weep and somewhat cautiously, looking back once in a while, that silver moon was never meant mourn.. but if but striding confidently into something we knew they could, then there wouldn’t be a night that nothing of. I’d have to cry alone anymore. Its not easy to look back and see them smiling through to me, their Deep inside, we all knew that… faces young and sweet.. full of love for life, and for each other. And now, here I am, staring up at these baleful stars, just like the way you looked up at us at Thinking back on the day of his graduation from that day, so many years ago…. I wonder….. Hogwarts, Harry could clearly see himself and his best friends Ron and Hermione clutched ‘We’ll always be around for each other…..’ together beneath a silver oak. Will you? “You will keep in touch with me, won’t you?” Hermione asked, tears cascading down her face, Will you both still look out for me, from wherever while Harry fruitlessly tried to console her. The you are, and care the way you have always did? soft passing breeze seemed to try to console her Up there among those stars… those stars that too, as it playfully blew back her hair away from cry and sob with me and yet smile at me… her face and made lips crack into a slight smile. Yes I guess you will. Both of you will. “Of course we will” I say grinning at her. We’ll always have each other to laugh with, to “Yeah and we’ll always around for each other.. you talk to…. to cry on, to watch the night stars dance know that…” Ron adds, fishing out a grubby old around the moon and to go through the worn and handkerchief from the front pocket of his purple dusty patch called life. graduation robes, and handing it to her. Harry thought back to day when his two best “Oh! But it won’t be the same!” she says, gazing friends got married. He was Hermione’s ‘best up at us. “We’ll all be doing different things from man’. He got to walk her down the aisle to Ron. now on, and we won’t be able to see each other as How happy he was, he could never tell them. much… an oh.. I really don’t want to leave Hogwarts..” “Harry, stop fidgeting! You are making me nervous…” says Hermione. Yes, I didn’t want to leave too… I wanted to go around exploring every nook and cranny of “I’m sorry. It’s just that it’s too hot in this suit… Hogwarts, and adventures with you two, are you ready?” I ask turning to face a pretty everyday, inside that magical castle which we woman in a beautiful white satin wedding gown. studied in, yet called home. “I guess.. mm.. Harry thanks for all this.” But in my heart I knew I had to leave. “What do you mean? All I’m doing is walking you Just like that breeze had comforted us, when we down the aisle…it’s nothing” I said, taking her stood there on the grounds of the school, staring nervous hand and looping it around my arm. at each other, a bag in one hand, our diplomas in 70 We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch. John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)

“Yes, but it really means a lot to me… I mean, “Ron, Harry basically is your brother!” corrected daddy’s in the hospital and he told me you wanted Hermione, smiling. to walk me down the aisle, but I didn’t know if you wanted to… so I thought of asking Fred or “True,” shrugs Ron, looking down, but then, George, but somehow I thought I might not get snapping up again and grinning at me, “And you to the ‘I do’ part without one of their jokes blowing sure are one great brother Harry.” off… and I definitely can’t ask Ron ‘cause he’s the one I’m marrying, so-” You were wrong, Ron….. I wasn’t a great brother to you. You were to me. “Calm down, Hermione, you are rambling again. I really don’t mind doing this, in fact its an honor. You always stood behind me, pushed me on when I mean, think of it, I’m your best friend, substitute times were tough. You would always walk beside dad, best man, and most definitely the future god me and together we would face whatever life would father to your kids… what more could a guy throw on our faces. And now, you would always want?” I tell her flashing her a teasing grin, and guide from above, and lead me on from the front…. she blushes a faint shade of pink. Brothers we were…. Ron, brothers we were. A wedding.. What a wonderful one it was. Your wedding was different though. It was one where Death is a cruel actor. He doesn’t care when or two hearts merged into one. And how splendid it whom he plays. He might steal all that is yours was… Ron was smiling, you were laughing and I but might still leave you there.. wretched, and was happy. It was a day that was worth more than devastated, to watch it all in agony. all the diamonds and emeralds in the world put together…it was a day that has a large part of And now, when the stars twinkle and the moon my heart all to itself. casts away its gloomy shroud, where are you two? Oh where did the laugh go? Where did the clink Are you there under this slab of stone? Can you of glasses, exaggerated bows and humorous joke hear my heart cry and rip itself apart at the wander off to? Why do all I hear is the beating of memory of your laughter and jokes? my lonely heart and the dismal crunch of the fallen leaves beneath my feet… Answer me… talk to me… why did you have to leave me….. The stars are still bright, though a grey, hazy cloud threatens, to shun away my moon. My pale The stars shine and the moon beams down… I flickering moon… lay the flowers down on your stone. It’s petals are wet from my tears, while its leaves bathe in “Hey take care, alright… and forget to send me a the moonlight. post card or something, and of course have lots of fun” I said adding a wink, just to tease them. ‘We’ll always be around for each other.. you know that.’ “Harry you are starting to sound like my brothers.. I think you’ve been spending a lot of time with The stars shine and the moon beams down while Fred and George” exclaimed Ron, giving me a my tears glisten and my heart greaves. playful punch on the shoulder. K There is never enough time, unless you’re serving it. 71 Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990)

Minsu Jose Minsu Jose Minsu Jose Minsu Jose Minsu Jose Semester 4 Mechanical Pen is Mightier than Pearl the Sword Pen stands for expression, for literature, for what against this, but there is more might in the pen. comes out of a writer’s pen. And it is true that The American Revolution of 1776 was the product literature or writing wields far more power than of the writings of a host of political philosophers arms can ever wield. Battles are fought over a and statesmen. The very slogan of liberty, equality certain period of time and within a particular area. and pursuit of happiness raised in their writings They certainly affect and influence events but by the American revolutionaries and almost the only in a limited way. The effect of the pen or identical slogan liberty, equality and fraternity literature is wide. Sometimes it is universal. The raised in the writings of French revolutionaries not messages of Buddha, Christ, Confucius, Gandhi only did much to change the history of these two and Marx are universal in their appeal. They are countries, but also revolutionized the very thought valid for all times and for all climes. The sword and outlook of the people about the role of the has a physical effect, it hardly affects the mind state. It is a matter of common knowledge for a and the spirit, while the pen affects the mind, student of History that, what Benjamin Franklin, intellect and spirit. The latter can shape the Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson in America and minds, hearts and spirit of people in a desired way Rousseau, Voltaire and Motesquieu in France, if only the wielder has the mastery of its use in could do by their writings could never have been the required measure. achieved by was an outburst of the centuries old people’s grievances, but the background for it had The pen is a source of power and inspiration for been prepared by the writings of a host of creative all times and for people in all walks of life. The writers as well as statesmen like Trotsky and fact of superiority of the pen over the sword should Lenin. not lead us to believe that the sword has no value. Arms have changed history. Sometimes only force Erroneous view is held by some people that the brings about results. When everything fails, when sword is mightier than the pen. They actually do persuasion negotiations etc., fail, the use force to not understand the meaning of pen. When taught Ravan a lesson. Arms were used to ensure comparing with the sword they have in mind only the victory of the forces of good over the forces of some object six inches long with which one can evil. If the great war of Mahabharat had not been write. This object of six inches in length and about fought, the forces of evil which the Kauravas one inch in thickness compares ridiculously in represented would have continued to plague the power with the one or two feet long sword with kingdom and the rule of justice and righteousness sharp edges, the very sight of which sends could never have been established. Krishna, shudders of fear down the spine. therefore, induced Arjuna to fight a violent war What Gandhi could achieve by the use of his pen to destroy the forces of evil and rehabilitate the could never be achieved by thousand of strong rule of the right. emperors ruling by the force of their arms. The There is might in the sword, nobody can say writings of a host of patriotic writers and men of 72 If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves. Maria Edgeworth, O Magazine, April 2004

literature contributed very significantly to burning wars and ideological wars of all types. It is only of the fire of patriotic zeal in the hearts of the false propaganda that cause of spread of violence. multitudes of people and inspiring them to Only a writer can conquer such a lie. Writers can sacrifice their lives for the sake of freedom. V.D. move the soul and touch the hearts of the affected Savarkar’s ‘Indian war of Independence’, Lala people in great depth. The writings can serve a Lajpatrai’s ‘Unhappy India’, the fiery messages powerful and swift force waging a relentless of Swami Vivekanand exercised much greater struggle for the dignity and glory of human soul. power than the actual thought which issued from It is the strength of the pen only, which can stress the minds of a host of individuals and liberal the similarity rather than the differences between writers has done more in democratizing and people living at distant places. A writer can create socializing our attitudes. a better understanding of each other’s problems An important role in preserving human and thus lessen strife and conflicts. All types of civilization from the onslaught of barbarism can wars and battles emerge from misunderstandings be played by the strength of a pen only. A writer which can be resolved by a powerful instrument can make the whole world see things in their true of the writer’s pen. The concept of ‘One world’ light and facts of life. They can really make the becomes real and effective only through the words world aware of the tragic horrors of wars, racial of a writer. K Celebrate You Prianka T.K.K Prianka T.K Prianka T Prianka T Prianka T.K.K Semester 4 Civil A Pearl Celebrate you Or your colour, You are worth celebrating You belong to none You are unique It doesn’t matter what you In the whole world, there is have been, Only one you The wrong you have done, There is only one person with The mistakes you have made, Your talents The people you have hurt, Your experiences, your gifts You are forgiven, you are accepted, No one can take your place You are loved in spite of everything. God created only one you So love yourself and nourish Precious in His sight the seeds within you You have immense potential Celebrate you, start anew To love to care Give yourself a new birth today! If you believe in yourself, You are you and that is It doesn’t matter, your age all you need to be. Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. 73 Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

Divya Mary Jacob Divya Mary Jacob Divya Mary Jacob Divya Mary Jacob In the nursery as buds; Divya Mary Jacob Chirping and playing, Semester 4 Electronics Counting and singing, Pearl We kids were together. In the school as students; Learning and grabbing, Reading and writing, We pupils were together. In college as youth; Trekking joking, Commenting and aiming, We teens were together. In family as members, Feeding and working, Organizing and loving, We mothers were together. At home as eldest; Praying and inspiring, Thinking and enjoying, We grandmas were together. A credit to say at all times; We were all together, all the time, But the time came at last, Which was different to all of us. They all flew away; Now leaving me to see, Each one flying away, Watching the heart breaking scenes! No answer when I ask; Why did they fly away? Where did they go? To whom did they fly? And now, I, on a branch, Joyful Climbing hither tether uselessly, Praying for somebody, Thinking about aimlessly. A busy flock in front of me, In busy world they rush through; Do not knowing this fact, That they too would fly away someday, Birds Leaving all their dear and dear ones, Searching for a busy less world. I have a dream, now at last, That we may summon together. In that dream land, holy place! 74 Regret for wasted time is more wasted time. Mason Cooley, O Magazine, April 2004

Jacob Mathew Jacob Mathew Jacob Mathew Jacob Mathew Jacob Mathew Semester 4 Mechanical Pearl A A Good good leader is not a product grown in fields or on trees. He/She is born to be a leader. There are quite a number of qualities that are essential for being a good leader, Leader and I daresay that, those qualities cannot be imbibed in persons by training or teaching, they are inherent or inborn in a person. So I’d say that A leader must always be genuine in his targets leaders cannot be made, they are born or are to be achieved. The targets he talks about must produced since birth. Now, the next question that be practical and he must be seen to be working arises is what are the qualities that are essential genuinely towards the goals set, only then the for becoming a leader? Can these qualities be leader will get a following. For there also we can taught or given by training? So we concentrate on look up to the leadership of the Mahatma. Had discussions as to what the qualities of good he not been genuine in his efforts, his following leaders ought to be. would have receded. A good leader is a person who an lead the people Another very important quality of a good leader in the name of an obviously good cause. For is that, he must identify himself with the attracting a following a leader has to, himself be followers. He should not sit on a high pedestal, deeply involved in the cause only then he will get and from there keep ordering about. He must mix a following. We Indians have a glaring example of with his brood and work hand in hand with them. such a leader, in Mahatma Gandhi. He was He must be able to step into their shoes and try determined to be non-violent and with certainty feel and understand their problems and difficulties, believed in the tenets of non-violence. He showed and if possible try to solve their problems. He loyalty to the cause, faced at the trials that barred must make it a point to be one of them and one his way, so, he got his due return in the great with them only then they will reach out to be the following he mustered. Had he just spoken from leader. The Mahatma remained one with the high pulpits about non-violence but did not follow masses, he partook of the minimum of food and the tenets of his own preaching of non-violence, I clothing typical of the common man of the India, am sure he would not have achieved the goal he and that was the secret of the huge following. did. Only when people see the leader do what he Now, these few qualities are absolutely necessary says or preaches, they do have a mind to follow for a budding of a good leader. Now, let us think him. This is an essential quality a leader of any if we can really imbibe these qualities in men/ stature must possess. women? I dare say a firm NO – NOT AT ALL! Time does not change us. It just unfolds us. 75 Max Frisch

These qualities are within an individual and this is because the qualities mentioned above cannot be taught by any amount of education and cannot be inculcated in individuals – they are training, they can be copied but not imbibed. A within an individual since birth. Leaders cannot copy as we can well imagine can never be the same be made, and, if we do make them, as we do so in as the original. However, today we find a number India, we can see what happens. This is because of leadership courses being organized in schools they are not genuine leaders, wedded to their and colleges etc. Yes, they may be able to teach causes. They are not original leaders, made to lead, the children that, qualities are essential for they are just duplicates created to steer a ship leadership but, it would be an exercise in futility and most probably make it sink. It is this lack of if we expect that such programmes would good leaders account for the overall deterioration generate the mushroom growth of good leaders. in India for, a good leader in reality is a difficult item to find. It is God who makes leaders, and it Regarding the growth of leaders I think I can say that, India excels in producing leaders. It appears is not man, who can train men to become leaders. that they are grown here on tree tops and can be This is amply proved by the fact of children like broken for consumption raw or pipe whenever born to do great tasks and to be leaders in their required. It is such leadership in India which is own rights. Such men are real leaders and I am creating the havoc we see everywhere in our certain that they cannot be coined by any human country. I vouchsafe that, it is not everybody’s efforts. The leadership qualities are inborn in cup of tea to become a leader. them, and are visible in them from their very childhood. In the final analysis, I feel that leaders are born, K Mariamma Baby Mariamma Baby Mariamma Baby Mariamma Baby Mariamma Baby Semester 4 Electrical English A Ruby Funny Language Have you ever wondered why most people have hamburger and neither pine or apple in a pineapple. trouble with the language English? We often take English for granted, however when Well, it’s because the language is quite we examine its paradoxes this is what shows….. crazy…..Here is the proof….. Quick sand takes us down slowly. If a vegetarian eats vegetables, then what does a Boxing rings are square. humanitarian eat? Guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. See the lunacy of the language where: a house Weird isn’t it? can burn up as it burns down and you can fill in a And why is it that when I wind up my watch it form by filling it out and a bell can be heard only starts but when I wind up these observations, it when it goes. ends!! There is no egg in an egg plant. No ham in a K 76 So little time and so little to do. Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)

Afsal N.A Afsal N.A Afsal N.A Afsal N.A Afsal N.A Semester 4 Mechanical Pearl Seasons First see the Pictures carefully........................................ The following pictures are of the same place but taken under different seasons!! ............................and now read the Moral of the Story Lessons on Life: Lessons on Life: Lessons on Life: The man then explained to his sons that they Lessons on Life: Lessons on Life: There was a man who had four sons. He wanted were all right, because they had each seen but only one season in the tree’s life. He told them his sons to learn not to judge things too quickly. that you cannot judge a tree, or a person, by only So he sent them each on a quest, in turn, to go one season, and that the essence of who they are and look at a pear tree that was a great distance and the pleasure, joy, and love that come from that away. The first son went in the winter, the second life can only be measured at the end, when all the in the spring, the third in summer, and the seasons are up. youngest son in the fall. When they had all gone and come back, he called If you give up when it’s winter, you will miss the them together to describe what they had seen. promise of your spring, the beauty of your The first son said that the tree was ugly, bent, summer, fulfillment of your fall. and twisted. The second son said no it was Moral: Moral: Moral: Moral: covered with green buds and full of promise. Moral: The third son disagreed; he said it was laden with Don’t let the pain of one season destroy the joy blossoms that smelled so sweet and looked so of all the rest. beautiful, it was the most graceful thing he had ever seen. Don’t judge life by one difficult season. The last son disagreed with all of them; he said Persevere through the difficult patches and better it was ripe and drooping with fruit, full of life and fulfillment. times are sure to come some time or later. K A single day is enough to make us a little larger. 77 Paul Klee (1879 - 1940)

Show Me the Susan Kuriakose Susan Kuriakose Susan Kuriakose Susan Kuriakose Susan Kuriakose Money ! Semester 4 Electronics Pearl Ever wonder how much the most expensive watch, in both the US and European markets. This easily or who makes the most expensive toilet? Well, makes it the most powerful wonder no more. Read along! production road-car engine in history. The most expensive car: The most expensive car: xpensive car: Bugatti Veyron The most e The most e The most expensive car: xpensive car: The The The The most most most most $1,700,000 The most expensive watch: expensive watch: expensive watch: expensive watch: expensive watch: The Bugatti Veyron 16.4 is the most powerful, Chopard’s $25 Chopard’s $25 $25 Chopard’s $25 Chopard’s most expensive, and fastest street-legal Chopard’s $25 million watch million watch million watch million watch production car in the world, with a proven top million watch speed of over 400 km/h (407 km/h or 253 mph). It Yes, you read that reached full production in September 2005. The right: twenty-five car is built by Volkswagen AG subsidiary Bugatti million dollars. Automobiles SAS and is sold under the legendary This gaudy Bugatti marque. It is named after timepiece by Chopard is adorned with three heart- shaped diamonds—a 15-carat pink diamond, a 12-carat blue diamond and an 11-carat white diamond. For good measure, they threw in 163 carats of white and yellow diamonds to bring the total to 201 carats of diamonds. The result is something that looks rather like a geode that’s been turned inside out and dipped in lemon Kool- Aid. Add to that the fact that the size of the watch’s face must make telling time into a fun game of ‘Where’s Waldo’ and you’ll see that Chopard has truly created a recipe for success. Of course, its $25 million price tag guarantees racing driver Pierre its place as the world’s most expensive watch Veyron, who won the 24 hours of Le Mans in 1939 for years to come. while racing for the original Bugatti firm. The Dodge Dodge Dodge Veyron features a W16 engine—16 cylinders in 4 The most expensive motor bike: DodgeDodge omahawk omahawk omahawk banks of 4 cylinders. T T T T Tomahawkomahawk According to Volkswagen, the final production Veyron engine produces between 1020 and 1040 metric hp (1006 to 1026 SAE net hp), so the car will be advertised as producing “1001 horsepower” 78 The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it. Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD)

W World’s most eorld’s most expensive toilet:Internationalxpensive toilet:International W World’s most expensive toilet:International The most expensive motorcycle in the world is World’s most eorld’s most expensive toilet:Internationalxpensive toilet:International Space Station Toilet–$19 millionoilet–$19 million Space Station Toilet–$19 millionoilet–$19 million Space Station T Space Station Toilet–$19 million the Dodge Tomahawk. Production was limited to Space Station T just ten models and they retailed at $550,000 each! The Dodge Tomahawk has the honour of being the fastest motorcycle ever (675 km/h, 419 mph), but it isn’t street legal Most Expensive mobile: GoldVish ‘Leish ‘Le Most Expensive mobile: GoldVish ‘Le Most Expensive mobile: GoldV Most Expensive mobile: GoldV Most Expensive mobile: GoldVish ‘Leish ‘Le Million’ Piece Unique - $1.3 millioniece Unique - $1.3 million Million’ P Million’ Piece Unique - $1.3 millioniece Unique - $1.3 million Million’ Piece Unique - $1.3 million Million’ P Guinness World Records certified GoldVish SA’s ‘Le Million’ Piece Unique on January 29th, 2008. The Geneva-based luxury communications What may just be the most expensive toilet ever built isn’t the world’s most expensive toilet. That’s because it’s being launched into space! The toilet system NASA had built by Russia was delivered to the international Space Station in November 2008. The system, the same as the one in place on the Russian side of the station, company’s expensive mobile phone was designed recycles urine into water. It will replace a toilet by Emmanuel Gueit as an addition to the Illusion system that has broken twice in 2008. Collection. The phone is made of 18k white gold and set with 20 carats of VVS1 (only Enough? Well I have had more than enough. And microscopically flawed) diamonds. The phone also I’m stopping!! features Bluetooth, 2 GB of storage, FM radio, a digital camera and MP3 playback. “Money, money money / Must be funny / In a rich man’s world,” The Guinness-backed world’s most expensive cell phone is available only by special order. ! K This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. 79 Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

Burj Dubai The world’s tallest tower, developed by Emaar which at 553.33 meters (1,815.5 ft) had been the Properties, will be unveiled on Jan 2010 to a crowd world’s tallest free-standing structure on land of thousands and the world in a crescendo of since 1976. fireworks, lasers and fountain displays. A closely Burj Dubai employs a record-breaking 330,000 guarded secret, the official height of Burj Dubai cubic meters of concrete, 39,000 metric tonnes of will be flashed onto a giant screen before an steel rebar and 142,000 square meters of glass; expected crowd of more than 400,000, as lasers and it took 22 million man hours to build. and fireworks lightning up the night sky. Other world records for Burj Dubai will include The tower’s height breaks all existing world the highest occupied floor in the world, the highest records for tall buildings. Burj Dubai will be the outdoor observation deck in the world and the tallest building in the world according to the three tallest service elevator. main criteria of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH). The CTBUH ranks Awesome! That’s the word. Right? the world’s tallest buildings based on ‘Height to Architectural Top,’ ‘Height to Highest Occupied K Floor’ and ‘Height to Tip.’ Burj Dubai is expected to be taller than Taipei 101, which at 508 meters (1,667 ft) had held the record for the world’s tallest building measured to the architectural top since 2004, the year the project was announced. Burj Dubai will achieve the distinction of being the world’s tallest structure – surpassing the KVLY-TV mast (628.8 meters; 2,063 ft) in North Dakota, USA. The tower will also beat the record of CN Tower, 80 Doing a thing well is often a waste of time. Robert Byrne

Amazing Sreejith Vijay Sreejith Vijay Sreejith Vijay Sreejith Vijay Sreejith Vijay Semester 4 Mechanical Pearl orld Recorecordsds orld R orld Records W W W W World Rorld Recorecordsds without looking at the screen, Michele Santelia (Italy) typed backwards 67 books (3,503,013 words, 19,760,936 characters, 23.198 pages, 263,931 paragraphs, 499,554 lines) in their original umpkin Carving-Fastest Tastest Timeime umpkin Carving-Fastest Time umpkin Carving-F P P P P Pumpkin Carving-Fumpkin Carving-Fastest Tastest Timeime WHO WHO WHO WHO : : : : : Stephen Clarke WHO WHA WHATT WHAT WHA WHATT :: :: : 24.03 seconds languages including The Odyssey, Macbeth, The WHERE WHERE:: :: : Orlando, Florida, USA WHERE Vulgate Bible, the Guinness World Records Book WHERE WHERE WHEN WHEN WHEN :: :: : July 23, 2006 WHEN WHEN 2002, and the Dead Sea scrolls in Ancient Hebrew. Michele put together a 4,05 mt (13 ft 12 in) high The fastest time to carve a face into a pumpkin is tower of the books typed. He completed typing 24.03 seconds, by Stephen Clarke (USA), who backwards Etruscan scripts in Etruscan Language broke his previous record on July 23, 2006 at and The Million in Ancient Chinese on 16 Universal Studios, Orlando, Florida, USA as part November 2008. of ‘Food Network Challenge: Guinness World Side Wheel Driving Through Smallest Side Wheel Driving Through Smallest Side Wheel Driving Through Smallest Side Wheel Driving Through Smallest Records Week’. Side Wheel Driving Through Smallest Gap Gap Gap Gap Gap Most Books T Most Books T Most Books Typed Backwardsyped Backwards Most Books Typed Backwards Most Books Typed Backwardsyped Backwards WHO : : : : : Terry Grant WHO WHO WHO WHO WHO WHO WHO WHO WHO : : : : : Michele Santelia WHA WHATT :: :: : 68 cm (26.77 in) wider than the height WHA WHAT WHATT WHATT :: :: : 67 books (3,503,013 words, 19,760,936 WHAT WHATT of the car WHA WHA characters, 23.198 pages, 263,931 WHERE WHERE:: :: : Santa Pod Raceway, Wellingborough, WHERE WHERE paragraphs, 499,554 lines) WHERE UK WHERE WHERE WHERE WHERE:: :: : Campobasso, Italy WHERE WHEN WHEN WHEN WHEN WHEN :: :: : October 17, 2006 WHEN WHEN WHEN WHEN :: :: : November 16, 2008 WHEN A team sponsored by the Sunday Times has set Using a computer and four blank keyboards, and a new record for driving a car through the Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. 81 Rodin (1840 - 1917)

WHERE WHERE WHERE WHERE:: :: : River Dixence, Switzerland WHERE WHEN WHEN :: :: : 1961 WHEN WHEN WHEN Grande Dixence, on the river Dixence in Switzerland, is the highest concrete dam in the narrowest gap. In a 2006 Vauxhall Astra VXR, driver Terry Grant (UK) drove on two wheels through a gap 68 cm (26.77 in) wider than the height of the car, at the Santa Pod Raceway, Wellingborough, UK, on 17 October 2006. Largest Cut Diamond Largest Cut Diamond Largest Cut Diamond Largest Cut Diamond world. It was built between 1953 and 1961 to a Largest Cut Diamond height of 285 m (935 ft), with a crest length of 700 WHO : : : : : Ran Gorenstein m (2,297 ft), using 5,960,000 m? (7,800,000 yd?, WHO WHO WHO WHO WHA WHATT WHAT 210,400,000 ft?) of concrete. WHATT :: :: : 555.55 carats WHA Highest Library Highest Library Highest Library Highest Library WHERE WHERE:: :: : Belgium WHERE WHERE Highest Library WHERE WHERE:: :: : JW Mariott Hotel, Shanghai, China WHERE WHERE WHERE WHEN WHEN WHEN WHERE WHEN WHEN :: :: : June 2004 WHATT WHAT WHATT :: :: : 230.9 m(757 ft 6 in) WHA The world’s largest cut diamond is an unnamed WHA Fancy Black, containing small red diamond WHEN WHEN WHEN :: :: : 2004 WHEN WHEN crystals. It weighs 555.55 carats and was polished into 55 facets over several years and completed in The library on the 60th floor of the JW Marriott June 2004. The repetitive use of the number five Hotel at Tomorrow Square in Shanghai, China, is culturally significant in the Islamic world, and is situated at 230.9 m (757 ft 6 in) above street was inspired by Ran Gorenstein (Belgium), who level. Membership is available to members of the also commissioned this creation. public and the 103 shelves in the library contains an ever-expanding collection of Chinese and Highest Concrete Dam Highest Concrete Dam Highest Concrete Dam Highest Concrete Dam English books. The library measures 57 m? (614 Highest Concrete Dam WHO WHO WHO : : : : : Grande Dixence ft?). To walk to the library from the lobby would WHO WHO entail climbing around 1,435 steps. WHATT WHA WHATT :: :: : 285 m (935 ft) WHAT WHA K 82 What may be done at any time will be done at no time. Scottish Proverb

Some Definitions Elsa Kuriakose Elsa Kuriakose Elsa Kuriakose Elsa Kuriakose Elsa Kuriakose Semester 4 Electronics Pearl Dictionar Dictionar Cigarette Dictionar Cigarette: A pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with Cigarette Dictionary: A place where divorce comes before Cigarette Dictionar Cigarette fire at one end & a fool on the other. marriage... Etc ears Etc T T T T Tearsears: The hydraulic force by which masculine Etc Etc ears ears Etc.: A sign to make others believe, you know more than you actually do. will-power is defeated by feminine water-power. Compromise Compromise: The art of dividing a cake in such Compromise Compromise Love affairs Love affairs: Something like cricket where one- Love affairs Compromise Love affairs Love affairs day internationals are more popular than a five a way that everybody believes he got the biggest day test... piece Marriage Marriage Marriage: It’s an agreement in which a man loses Marriage Conference Conference: The confusion of one man multiplied Conference Marriage Conference Conference his bachelor’s degree and a woman gains her by the number present... master’s. Opportunists: Opportunists Opportunists One who starts having a bath Opportunists Opportunists Classic: A book which people praise, but does when he/she accidentally falls in a river... Classic Classic Classic Classic not read. Lecture Lecture: An art of transferring information from Lecture Lecture Lecture Diplomat Diplomat the notes of the lecturer to the notes of the Diplomat: A person who tells you to go to hell Diplomat Diplomat in such a way that you actually look forward to students without passing through “the minds of the trip. either”. olitician olitician College College: A place where some pursue learning and College P P P P Politicianolitician One who shakes your hand before College College olitician: elections and your confidence after. others learn pursuing. Committee Committee P P P P Pessimistessimist: A person who says that O is the last Committee: Committee essimist essimist essimist Committee Individuals who can do nothing individually and sit to decide that nothing can be letter in ZERO, instead of the first letter in word done together. OPPORTUNITY Ecstasy Miser Ecstasy Ecstasy A feeling when you feel you are going Ecstasy: Miser Miser: A person who lives poor so that he can Miser Ecstasy Miser to feel a feeling you have never felt before. die rich. Smile Smile: A curve that can set a lot of things straight. Smile Smile Office Office Office Smile Office Office: A place where you can relax after your strenuous home life. Divorce Divorce: Future tense of marriage Divorce Divorce Divorce Conference Room Conference R Optimist Conference R Conference Roomoom: A place where everybody Conference Roomoom Optimist: Optimist Optimist Optimist A person who while falling from Eiffel talks, nobody listens & everybody disagrees tower says in midway “See I am not injured yet” later on. K Source : Internet People find life entirely too time-consuming. 83 Stanislaw J. Lec (1909 - 1966), “Unkempt Thoughts”

Minu Jose Minu Jose Minu Jose Minu Jose Minu Jose Maths Semester 4 Electrical Ruby Anyone…..? o ...that outstanding mathematician Grigori same functions as the slide rule was the 1972 Perelman was offered a Fields Medal in 2006, HP-35? in part for his proof of the Poincare conjecture, which he declined? o ...that Archimedes is said to have celebrated a discovery about the principles of density and o ...that the Gudermannian function relates the buoyancy by getting out of his bathtub and regular trigonometric functions and the running into the street (having forgotten that hyperbolic trigonometric functions without use he was naked), shouting “Eureka!”? of complex numbers? o ….that chaos theory has expanded greatly in o ...that a regular heptagon is a regular polygon the past 30 years thanks to the exponential with the least number of sides which is not growth of computing power as predicted by constructible with a compass and straightedge? Moore’s law? o ...that the Catalan numbers solve a number of o ….that lindenmayer systems are able to problems in combinatorics such as the number simulate the growth processes of plants using of ways to completely parenthesize and very simple rules? algebraic expression with n+1 factor? o ...that the number 0 was invented separately o ...that a sphere can cut up and reassembled into in India and by the Maya? two spheres the same size as the original (Banach-Tarski paradox)? o ....that decimal system originated in India? o ....that the equal sign, or +, was invented in o ....that it is impossible to devise a single formula involving only polynomials and radicals 1557 by the Weish mathematician Robert Recorde? for solving an arbitrary quintic equation? o ….that there is a 4-dimensional cube called a o ....that Euler found 59 more amicable numbers while for 2000 years, only 3 pairs had been found tesseract? before him? o ….that the Reimannn hypothesis is one of the most important unsolved problems in o ....that Rene Descartes, Father of Modern Mathematics, was also an influential mathematics, and had a 1,000,000 prize for a philosopher who coined the phrase I think, proof or disproof? therefore I am? o ….that Fermat’s Last Theorem was unsolved for more than three hundred years? o ...that the first calculator able to perform the K 84 Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend. Theophrastus (372 BC - 287 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

Riya Roy Riya Roy Riya Roy Riya Roy Riya Roy Semester 4 Civil Ruby Just Do it! Can you believe you were once scared of water? Or even of getting your hair cut? Walking, which is one of life’s most basic functions, was once a real threat to you. That is, until you decided to take the first step and then, bang, you fell over! With a little bit of encouragement from your mum and dad, you persisted, and you haven’t looked back since. Fear of any challenge in your life is really there to stretch you, to take you from one comfort zone to the next. Think back of your first day at school and how nervous you were. It probably brings a smile to your face now, but back then you were so unsure of yourself, and that was okay. You have grown from that point. You challenged yourself, met the fear head on, and Wow! Think of a fear right now that could be holding you back from achieving more of your potential. May be it is speaking in front of your peers at work, or if you have mastered that, in front of an unknown audience. Contrary to public opinion, great public speakers are not born for it. They just practice a lot. If you can give yourself more opportunities to get up in front of an audience, you will find that you start to get more comfortable as your self-talk changes from. ‘I hate this’ to ‘I think I’m getting the hang of this……it’s getting easier- this is great- they are really enjoying my presentation ……..! When you challenge fear or pain in your life and meet it head on, you take away its hold on you. It’s the challenges in life that force is to draw our courage. So the next time you’re faced with a setback, always know that an equal or better opportunity is around the corner but only if you think so. K I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present. 85 W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Moon and Sixpence

The Final Cut…. The Final Cut…. The Final Cut…. The Final Cut…. The Final Cut…. It’s time to bid adieu, but we part with heartfelt gratitude. Gratitude is one thing for which words fall short in any language. However we use this opportunity to convey our heartfelt gratitude to all who helped us in various stages of this mission. Firstly we express our gratitude to the almighty, who has blessed us profusely and guided us throughout in making SPARK Beta a reality. We are grateful to our principal Dr George Issac for encouraging and supporting us. We also extend our gratitude to our mentors Dr. Saji C.B , Prof. Benny Cherian, Prof. Sony Kuriakose and Prof. Thomas Paul for their priceless support and advice. We are highly obliged to all who accepted to be a part of this long saga. The real flavours of this magazine are the Exceptional Creativity of the Campus Connect members. We express our heartfelt thanks to their inevitable contributions. With our voyage done, We bid goodbye On a happy note, thanking once again all those who helped us to conquer the rough seas and reach the shores safely. Editorial Board 86

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