The presentation culture

It has been nearly three years since I started my bachelors.
And no matter how much I have been trying to avert the presentation culture which is pervasive in each of my semester, it seems that I am at last accepting it as a necessity to accustom myself to this way of teaching.
But I still have my doubts.

I cannot have the patience nor the tolerance to just let go any piece of information that might be necessary.Nor the ignorance or the co-relating ability , whichever way it might be comprehended , to understand the material in the presentation.
The authors of the books are not crazy to write reams of papers with nothing significant in them , not like in some of the answer scripts which some of my batchmates and even a few of my lecturers urge us to do.

Do presentations save time?
I think if one wants a clearer picture, a book is needed , and a clearer picture is what one should strive for.

I think this very presentation culture is in some way responsible for the economic crisis that the world is seeing these days.
Everything was in the form of the high level presentations, the presentors in no way wanted to present the bad-grade mortage debts.
The high level just talked about the AAA securities which they had been cast into.
The managerial fraternity , which has been groomed on this ' presentation culture' were only interested in the high level presentations, forgetting about what actually constituted the AAA securities.
The presentors were paid hefty sums , so were the ones who were presented the slide-shows , either for them turning a blind eye or else for them accustoming themselves to the presentation culture.

If the presentation culture has such consequences that countries could go bankrupt , that people are stripped off their security,stability and peace of mind , I am sorry but I refuse the presentation culture to pollute me.

A grade lost here or there for my incompetence of finishing off with the course ,well I could manage that.

Polls

Around 70% sites that I am visiting are full of the 'LK Advani for PM' advertisement.

It is actually a great step forward by the NDA to address the indian netizens for the polls.

I wonder how many Indians do actually have access to the internet and the luxury to idle away their time and money on sites like youtube.

The color combination of the advertisement is quite catchy and poll-oriented.

Also , can this media , for the Indians described above , be effective in garnering votes for the NDA.

What was surprising was that on youtube , the same ad is on the videopage that has the Jai-Ho camapaign of the UPA.

And what is equally disguting about the Jai-Ho campaign are the frames in which students are shown waving their degrees as if they were just pieces of paper.

As if all those so-called welfare movements that were inititated in the quinquenial period were just a political gimmick and for the sake of education being a few pieces of paper to be waved.

Quizzes

What beer cannot do , where cough-syrups falter , only quizzes are sucessful.

I was thinking of posting something on my demonic lifestyle , sleeping at 7 in the morning and always asking my roommate for a proxy in the morning session.

But today , its not even 2 and iam sleepy.

Tomorrow is my Image Processing quiz and I am already dozing off.

Quizzes should be taken more often.

Revival .. and more

The cook in me has resurrected from its ashes.

Most of my time spent in the room other than sleeping , is eating.

And the pleasure one gets by cooking for himself , is quite smugging.

I make soup , noodles , soup and noodles , cheese-balls and noodles , and whatever which actually does not require any skill , but nevertheless.... But , judging the amount of water to put in is an art , my roommate critics me about.

And so I have found a new friend in the electric kettle that I had bought some one and a half years ago but realized its worth just a few days back.

The last time Dua and I( and well Manish and Crash) went to BigBazaar, we squeeked like hell on discounts and special offers.

The glow on Dua's face when he spotted 25% off on Maggi Tomato soup , was very much noticeable.

And the way he went on bragging about it to Manish and Crash , well I can't find sufficient adjectives to describe that.

Sometimes I think we are becoming the typical housewives they potray in those K-serials. We like to gossip. I want to describe it as 'bitching around' , roadies has made that word popular, but I think we don't have those many beeps to support us , nor those arguments .

We wait for Saturdays to download Roadies , wake whole Monday night to download Heroes for Tuesday , and garnish the other days with an episode or two of numb3rs or a movie everyday.

Manish and I cleaned our room just yesterday. Till now , according to my survey , we have managed to clinch the title of ' the dirtiest room inhabitants ' , with 5 and a half months of straight 'not-even-brooming' policy , but the competition was strong. At last somewhere we are first. Go Manish!

I am waiting like a maniac for DevD. It's not in Allahabad and also because our downloaders have failed IIITA. They could not find a single link on the internet from where they could get a pirated copy. I guess that is because the movie might not have been released in Pakistan.

Placements seem to be grim. I came out with a business plan for movie producers on an efficient way to curb piracy , till the time they are ready to give us a free copy for IIITA. We will direct out downloaders group to report every website , torrent site , where they find a pirated copy. Imagine 300 students on an active watch-out. Nobody could beat our system. IIITA downloaders come just behind the Russians and the Chinese in downloading pirated material. We could rake in money folks. UTV pictures, give us a copy of DevD , and we would ensure no piracy .

Someone give me DevD download links please.