The summer of 2010

Exactly 3 months ago, I gave my BTP presentation; and thus ended a 4 year journey called college.

Never had I enjoyed, procrastinated, fooled around, partied, bunked, slept (in short "lived") as much as in these last four years. And as the realization of its end dawned upon, a nostalgic feeling started sinking in.

The next week was all about no dues forms, assi ghat, godowlia and lanka :)

I reached home on May 15th with a hard-disk full of tv series and some games.

Now as you all know, the first few days at home are like time spent in heaven. And then comes the boredom :(

So, I started with Lost, smallville, himym and justice league (the series aired on CN). Took a month to complete. I also had to go to a family wedding by the end of the month for a week. Spent some quality time  there.

So, the first month was spent easy.

Oh, FYI my joining is on 16th Aug. So, I had 3 months this summer to spend at home.

Most of the material on my hard disk was watched and the FIFA worldcup was going to start. I started reading a bit about football, but let's face it; the football fever subsided faster than it had attacked me.

I never followed football before, couldn't stay up late at night and had problem remembering most  of the players' names.

Meanwhile I had applied for a BSNL broadband connection, before the worldcup.

The telephone was installed 2 weeks after the worldcup :( and the modem took another full week :((

By then, I started getting newsletter and emails from the company, giving light homework and recommending books to study. I didn't download any book.

I got my hands on a cool DIY book, which had instructions for projects I had been wanting to do for months, like FM transmitter bug, remote control of laptop by bluetooth etc...

I started looking for electronic components in Dhanbad but I couldn't find most of my requirements.

So from the small inventory of electronic components I did manage to get, I built myself a cool astable-multivibrator, a pic of which I am shamelessly pasting here. ( this ugly no-use circuit cost me 200 bucks)

home made circuit.

Meanwhile, I was also getting interested in bash programming, java midlets, android platform and website designing. I also read some tutorials and made mobile apps. Now I was determined to buy an android phone some day. Sometimes you have a "this is gonna be BIG" feeling and want to go with the flow. I spent quite some time researching android phones currently available in the market.
You can get an idea from here. I rounded up on samsung-spica, but it seems samsung has stopped its production. Can't find it anywhere in Dhanbad as of now. Will search for it in mumbai :)
As of now, I received a cool gift from my parents, a brand new Canon Ixus 120IS :)

google for its specs, nice cam btw. I am currently busy fiddling with its features and settings.

I will be posting photos taken from my new cam in a few days. So stay tuned.