CBSE Salt Analysis
Inspired by Ankur cheatseet which you can get here.
This is not exactly meant to be taken in to the lab, its slightly more comprehensive ( Read : Longer) than his, includes most of the reactions, also some of the tests are different, as per what is taught in my school. This is more for the idiotic prudes like me out there that would actually like to study for the prac.
CBSE Board Examinations Date Sheet
All right all ye custards, looking towards these with apprehension and disapproval – Your Worst Nightmares have been realized.
The date sheets are out – check below for ones a la cbseguess.com. As far as i know, they correspond with the one published in the TOI today.
Class XII
Class X
A shuffleboard of crazy
Its been a crazy crazy couple of weeks. Writing essays, ensuring applications get sent, getting weird stuff signed by the school, even having to get a counselor re-fill my forms because she thought she knew me in the context of “An Obedient Student” rather than the school counselor.
To put things in a nutshell, I really should have listened to the people who warned me to finish them off mid November. Instead, I end up frantically trying to complete them in the second week of December, slap bang in the middle of my third term exams. Which if you couple with the two month long atrocity called my school’s Diamond Jubilee Celebrations, means I ended up doing extremely badly in them- which consequently means my mid year report (when I send it) is absolutely going to suck. So yes, it is a messy cyclic life we lead. Somewhere in the middle, slipped out of school to attend Access at modern barakhamba (Which traditionally is the last event of the year) – stayed there till three, then had to leave before the SQ prelims because some very bright people thought they’d be better off starting the event prelims not only after an hour long lunch, but an extra hour late, while some other bright person had to run to attend a BT class.
Finally got my hands on the Them Clones album, quite obviously paid it forward. I’ll get around to writing a review if I get some time after the preboards. Just FYI though, Ignite and Walk Away (A Bonus track) is frigging awesome – better than most of the tracks on the album itself, except maybe The Bomb Song.
My cowon’s volume increase button seems to have become rather moody – you end up pressing it and praying the volume will increase, which caused me to hack it once again, installing Madman’s Serenity Flash Skin and Cassini’s Utopia Theme. Purpose is, now the volume control buttons on the top of the body are disabled, and the volume controls like everything else, become touch controlled, off’ve the screen. Another bonus is that all the buttons on the Now Playing screen have disappeared, and everything runs off a finger swipe (And not the type of swipe you’d make towards the guy who cuts in the line)
Preboard prep is rushing on full steam, though getting a 103 fever that refuses to respond to paracetamol but miraculously breaks at 2 A.M. supposedly because of 500 mg of Amoxycilin you took roughly 7 hours ago doesn’t exactly help. Recently picked up James Clavell’s A Children’s Story again, and really every time I read it, I discover something new. I’d recommend all of you people lazy enough to read this crap to pick that up. Though you might have trouble finding a copy – it went out of print ages ago and you’re not going to get mine, especially if you’re one of those people that end up borrowing a book and clutching it in their oily talons for months without even opening it up (That means U)
And now I need to get back to organic chem. Hurray.
By the way - I apologize for most of my blog posts being rather, disorganized (The understatement of the century I know), Its just that I can’t be bothered to come up with a cohesive train of thought – especially for a blog that noone reads anyway.
Cheerio, and all that jazz…
Failure.
This may not exactly be the world’s greatest secret, but staring abject failure in the face is absolutely the worst fucking thing in the world.
Ahlcon Public School in Mayur Vihar held its Symposium Silico Battles over the 28th and the 29th of this month. Unfortunately, we only found out that we were allowed to go on the 27th. Whats worse, is that most of the stuff that we had to create, had to be brought to the event, rather than made on the spot. As a result, most, in fact all of the work we displayed was created perhaps two hours before the event.
The first day of the symposium, saw us take roughly twenty people to the school, thankfully this time the organisation on behalf of Samit and co. was pretty well done, so no large holdups at the registration desk (A far cry from last year, when we ended up waiting for roughly half an hour before we were let in). Thankfully, we had a smaller contingent of junior school students (1 exactly) and didn’t have to spend most of our time running around looking after(Read : for) them.
So we’re all done and settled in the auditorium, desperately creating our submissions on the two netbooks we had brought (strictly against the rules, but we had contacts a valid reason) when a couple of the events started. In retrospect, there’s very little I would not have given to be a participant in those events, simply because the unlucky bastards sitting in the audi were subjected to the most inventive form of cruel and unusual punishment known to man – The School Band. Now I don’t mean to sound like a snob, but that band was simply terrible. The instrumentalists were strictly o.k. but the singers honestly deserved to shoot themselves. I think I can finally comprehend just how bad caterwauling truly is. The first number, Lips of Angel by Hinder had a bunch of high notes which the singer just completely failed to approach, let alone achieve. Now I don’t know exactly what they were smoking but they actually thought they could actually pull off Smells like teen spirit (It sounds easy, but is one of the hardest songs to pull off correctly) honestly speaking, when Nirvana first recorded it, they had a guitarist, a basist and a drummer (David Grohl I think). Since then, I’ve seen people put 6 guitars and 2 drummers on the stage and still fail to do a decent rendition. At Ahlcon, the singer just screamed. over. and. over. It got so bad, that the people from DPS Noida (sitting next to us) actually wrote “stop the torture” on the handouts we’d been given. Thankfully, no one asked for an encore.
The quiz, ah what a bastard it was. The prelim questions were extremely ambigous, We weren’t sure what they meant. Honestly, if someone were to ask you the “web applications of cloud computing” what the fuck what you say? Correct me if I’m wrong, but the entire premise of cloud computing revolved around the web. What are you asking for here? Unfortunately, Samit (who had made the quiz) was a little too busy (understandably) to help us out. Now, it doesn’t really hurt to loose against someone like Prateek Vijavargia or Anuj Bhardwaj, but when you loose against, teams that to the best of your knowledge, have never been to a quiz before, its like someone stabs a little dagger into your kidney and twists. I’d recommend everyone reading this blog to experience it sometime. (preferably, me being the person that beats you 
)
The other events went off rather usually, the flash presentation got raped, but somehow, the presentation for GSym, created moments before our guy went up on stage came third. A nice surprise was Kendriya Vidyalya sending two girls to participate. Its not something you see everyday.
So, the day ends and Ayush, gets yet another job offer, from some company called MobileMantra (One of the judges)
Very pleasant surprises over the last day have been two victories, first Aditya Mehta (The smartest SOB I know, seriously this kid is like in 5th and knows C++) won logo programming and Our junior quiz team, Akshay Kumar and Pritesh Gupta won.
Overall, I’d say the event went rather brilliantly, all things considered, though I still don’t understand how the hell they manage to get so many sponsors. Kudos to Samit and his crew, the event was organised rather slickly, though the chief guest arrived rather late, causing the symposium’s inaugration to be attended by a rather sleepy (It was right after lunch) crowd.
In other news, TCS is up next, and as usual we’re taking along close to a battalion of students, and as usual we came rather close to not attending. Them Clones is coming to a concert at The Garden of 5 Senses right after, so it should be fun.
Ps- If anyone knows of a store which is carrying Love.Hate.Heroes, please tell me, the planet M in South Ex is seriously fucked up.
Filler
Just filling in for my posting duties, haven’t posted in a while -
Yesterday marked Gyaan.in’s first IRL meetup. For once in my life I had a driver at my disposal(My grandmother’s while she’s in the states) so I assumed I’d be able to make it there with minimal difficulty. Obviously the vagaries of fate would scorn at any sort of fortune so I ended up circling the damned block for roughly thirty minutes while I looked for the place. With all the damned construction going along, and reflection, I must have passed the door atleast three times without even seeing the sign. Finally walked in to crowded costa (Ankur’s already talked about why), and had to try and wrangle 7 seats. Obviously a far cry from the expected 20.
The meeting went rather well, though the combined effect of me screaming out obscenities and Ankur’s Pj’s landing us into fits of convulsive laughter, landed us with a shitload of odd looks. I’d like to say we got a lot of work done.
A point that came up (Almost inevitably, with @ankurb and @crystalunicorn there) was Linux. Frankly speaking I don’t think its ready to become mainstream, yes the software in itself is great, but its nowhere close to being intuitive or even user friendly for non-literate computer users to use. It needs a lot of work in that aspect as does most OSS.
Hopefully gyaan.in will see itself out of the latest slump, we really need to boost the number of visitors, honestly I don’t think most of the people that left before September will be coming back, unless we do something really radical.
I recently saw a movie called “The Bulletproof Monk” and boy does it have everything you need to make a blockbuster – Nazi’s, a punk begging to be reformed, an invincible, knowledge dispensing monk that somehow tries to relate to the public and a relatively hot chick.
The movie starts out with a Tibetan Monastery thats attacked by a Nazi patrol, now I’m not a big history buff but when in the name of all that’s holy were the Nazi’s anywhere near Tibet in either of the wars? Did they just get airlifted in and out? Plus, the entire patrol gets killed by the aforementioned monk so only the leader is left standing (*Gasp* how original!) so how does he get back to civilisation? Thankfully the directors were spared from adding a little bit of realism by the credits. The movie cuts to what I assume to be 1998-2001 and our monk picks up a friend. He meets a pick-pocket, and in a completely original, non-clichéd manner stick around in an attempt to reform him. The pick-pocket runs into an australian mob boss with a love for euphemism’s concerning men’s private parts and obviously gets into an ad-hoc fight, having learnt martial arts by watching old japanese movies at this completely original run down chinese theatre. To cut a long, painful story short, the movie makes absolutely no sense, includes every single cliché you could think off, and the ultimate truth in the Universe can be expressed as “Why do hot dogs come in packets of 10, while hot dog buns come in packets of 8?” Obviously the answer is basically “you can’t always get what you want”. The prophet Jagger could have told me that.
In other news, had school exams bombed rather badly in each of them will love to pass. SAT 2’s coming up on October 10th, wondering how I plan on being prepard in time, since I’m giving all three on the same day.
