Procrastination is a Disease

 
 
 ".........

Hobbies: Playing video games

TV Channel: Cartoon Channel

Likes: I like maths

Bad Habit: Procrastination

......"

The last word in the resume of an eleven years old child took my attention. He innocently calls it a bad habit. Procrastination refers to the act of replacing high-priority actions with low-priority, and thus putting off important tasks to a later time. What caught my mind is that as a child we all know it very well that deferring work implies to a direct or indirect punishment may it be  stick-beaten by a teacher or getting scolded by parents for getting lower grades. What is more surprising is that the fear keeps us away from procrastination in our childhood.

As we grow up, things get harder and our attitude gets lighter. We start delaying the work and become a machine working for deadlines. The disease takes worst shapes when we know what we have to do, but since we are so habituated to the similar situations, we think procrastination is fun. The fear which we once had in childhood wipes out and we become more responsible or in other words more irresponsible in terms of work, just because of procrastination.

And I must tell you that after six bangs by a sweeper on my room-door, I finally allowed him on his seventh visit, to clean my room. I gave him weird reasons, eyes and door both half-opened, in his past six visits, like "Dada kal kar dena (brother, do it tomorrow)", "abhi bahut nind aa rahi hai, raat ko late soya tha (feeling sleepy now as I slept late tonight)", "mai pehle se hi college ke liye late hoon (I am already late for college)" and so on. While he was cleaning the room, I asked him, "Dada, aap itni baar kyon bole room saaf karne ke liye ?(Why were you so eager to clean the room?)" and he replied gently, with broom in one hand and eyes on spider nets on ceiling, "Agar hum kaam khatm kar dete hain, to kaam hum se darta hai" which meant that, "If we finish the work, work will fear from us".

In short, if we don't procrastinate, we don't have to worry.

Procedure to Join VSRC IITKGP Google Group

 

 
 

I have seen many boarders of VSRC seeking to join group mail and find no help publicly anywhere which prompted me write the procedure to join the same. Please follow the steps:

Step 1: Click on the following link:

VSRC Google Group Mail

Step 2: Click Sign in to the Google Group. If you are already logged in, goto the next step.

Step 3: Click on Apply for Membership

Step 4: Choose the options as per your preference regarding the emails you receive. Though other options might be suitable for you, it is recommended to choose "Send each message to me as it arrives" as it will give you a real-time insight of what's going on around.

Step 5: Provide your room number in VSRC to assist the admin and Click on the button "Apply to this group".

Your request will be processed soon and we hope you would enjoy your stay in Vikram Sarabhai Research... Oops... Vikram Sarabhai Residential Complex!


P.S. You may also request to join VSRC group on Facebook by clicking the top right button on this page. Researchers Get Social. :-)


Read the Ph.D. post here.

Open Blocked Web Pages

Simple yet interesting.


Follow the steps to open any blocked website from school or college without using any proxy services.


1. Open any page translate service (lets say Google Translate)


http://translate.google.com


2. Copy and Paste the blocked URL which you want to open .


3. Change the language from English to any other Language (Hindi or your mother tongue).


4. Click translate and you are Done.


Enjoy opening blocked forums, cracks, keygens and more!

IIT Kharagpur Hot Start-ups 2011

 

Yes, We still have more than a month, to pack '2011' in a colorful box, throw it into memories and celebrate the 'new year 2012' but we have to wind-up present chores well ahead of this year's decay. Here is an attempt to compile a list of hot start-ups of IIT Kharagpur in 2011. The list is non-exhaustive and more content will be added in due time.

1. ABCIITIAN - Career Counseling (site is not up)

This start-up as the caption above says, is meant to give career counseling to juniors by final year IIT Kharagpur students. Indeed a great step for the well-being of student's community.

2. Start-up Era

The webpage says as follows:

"We are team of 4th year students working on developing innovative technical and service based  products. We have represented and won in many prestigious competition, and have the ideas in front of VC etc. We wish to develop an entrepreneurial culture in kgp by sharing our knowledge of business plan writing and patent drafting.  We want extremely passionate people who would like to see the growth of an idea and be a part in the idea formation and documentation."

In short, this start-up is an start-up to support start-ups!

3. Employee Mutual Transfer 

This is a start-up for West Bengal employees. The website says, "InnWebs (Innovation Web Service) is an experienced team of tech geeks working desperately to deliver best services at NO cost. Employee Mutual Transfer is a web service which provides potential matches for transfer of teachers of school and Madrasha mutually. We not only provide free email intimation but also free sms and call for the suitable matches found for mutual transfer". Good for those who wants their friends or relatives to see closer to their home.





4. MartAGain 

It is a service started by an IIT KGP alumni, which provies a local market access to buy and sell. Currently MartAGain is in beta stage, and has started its services in IIT.

This is a non-exhaustive list of start-ups at IIT Kharagpur in 2011. If you or your friends have started something, please let me know by comment and I would add it in this list.

Tiya: A Journey Within

 

"If you think you are different, Think again".

'Tiya' is a small but valuable creation of Samarpan, better known for his services as a monk. I came across the book in a very strange way. Having heard about it since many days from an insisting friend, I decided not to read it just as any other book. For more than three months, I didn't read it but had talked about it every alternate day when he told me one story or other to substantiate his arguments to make me read Tiya. All in vain.

Sitting in his room one day, I just flipped a page and found it indulging enough to continue till the end. After three hours, I had actually finished reading it. The book is just so small, indulging and valuable. 

The story begins with a parrot's daily routine. With some realizations, he begins a journey to the outer world from his habitat, the tree. The author takes the parrot to various places while making sure that the reader looks within himself/herself during the whole journey. The characters are planned to give a feel of how people are like. Although I can continue writing the whole story here, I would recommend Tiya for people who are open for suggestion in a very unique way where you are not directly told to do or act something specific, but are implied to understand the hidden facts conveyed in a very simple language. 

Those who think they know the world better, must try it and those who think they are different, think again!


Book: Tiya
Author: Samarpan
Rating: 3.5/5.0

The Indian Succession of Attacks

 

Past six months has taught too much politics to the people of India, for the people of India and by the people of India. The series of attacks from top-notch leaders to the civil society urging for a prosperous India, a systematic India and a corruption-free India is unquestionably pathetic.

The ex-CM of Madhya Pradesh has brought MP residents to shame by his worst use of mouth. The so-called sequence of events, Plan A, B and C can be viewed from a totally different angle.

Baba Ramdev's initiation with the black money agenda had done half harm to the cruel intentions of government. The government was neither serious nor attentive to that. Baba is well-known for his yoga teachings and health care medicines through patanjali. That it is a known fact, Baba preaches to take Lauki juice which helps curing a number of diseases. The telecast of anti-Lauki programs backed up with research from medical institutes during the PRIME TIME is surprising. Is it really Lauki harming the people or the person behind Lauki has become a danger to the smooth-running-corruption in the centre and across India?

Plan B is crystal clear from the eyes of Mr. Singh as alleged that Anna Hazare is a puppet of RSS, though I doubt whether the speaker's heart is too with him or not?

Then comes the Plan C: Shree-Shree's connections with anti-congress parties. Is it? There of course is a technology known to the speaker which India has yet to witness, which can read people's mind and can be alleged without the necessity to let alone prove but justify. 

We don't want a time-machine to get us back in time to change our past but we definitely will not allow to spoil the future of our generations to come. All Ra.One's are thus hereby requested to be kind to the G.One (Lives) of public. Non-violence have chances far better to win this battle.