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You wouldn’t have got any more better Valentine’s day gift. So, it is high time you realize what you should love - your job.

Guys, you’ll rock wherever you go.

I know you wont read this post. I know this is a meaningless post. But, you know what? I’m missing my ipod a lot, especially quite heavily today. It wasn’t just some pen-drive for me. It was something special, I loved it - a lot. Above all, it was my Dad’s gift.

You took it from me three months ago. Today, you must be using it, or you would have sold it to someone. Hmpf.

PS: Since aalu is back, I’m getting to hear nice songs at home.

Recently I found via someone that Aaha FM is streaming its FM broadcast online. Ever since then, I am tuned to it. Listening to a good collection of songs changes the ambience and gives me a different, fresh mindset altogether. I also have a good set of songs in my iPod, but 250 songs is a small number.

For non-chennai-ite like me, tamil FM radio channels are out of reach. I always wanted some FM tamil channel like Radio Mirchi online. I used to hear Suryan FM via Isaitamil, but Suryan FM sucks. It is yet another audio version of Sun Music. I always hated call-and-play-me-a-song programmes. I also don’t prefer the Shoutcast stations. Aaha FM is playing good collection of songs, I am especially interested in the morning programme by Chinmayee and late night Ilayaraaja songs.

Back in college(trichy) when were in second year, we used to get Radio Mirchi(chennai) if we had to adjust the wiring and attach some extra antenna. Bad weather would spoil the radio, also we could recieve it only during the late night timings. Me, Suresh, Kicha and others got addicted to FM. We went to a limit of recording the radio and playing it again and again :p

During our Third and Final years, we had our own radio jockey, Aalu! Even now, there is no FM channel which could match Aalu’s collection of songs. His taste of music is appreciated by everyone in our wing. Late night mokkais, Pearl Coffee and Aalu’s playlist is something that I’ll miss for a quite long time.

Hope more FM channels start broadcasting online, following Aaha FM’s line.

PS:Aalu is also known as Rajashekar

Thanks to pongi, here is the convocation video

Some more photos here (from Vishal)

Yeah, that is how our degrees were distributed last week. We had Former President Dr.Abdul Kalam as our Chief Guest. Our college website said,

“Since the duration of the Convocation is restricted to 1:30 hours due to the limited time of the Chief Guest, only Ph.D. graduates and Gold medalist will receive their Degree / Certificates on the Dias.Others will receive their degrees where they are seated, from the concerned faculty in-charge. Cooperation is requested from everyone.”

Everyone was frustrated. Everyone spammed & kept discussing in orkut groups, but who can change the administration’s decision? Even the deans weren’t happy about this.The administration was also helpless. They had to open and close the convocation in the presence of the Chief Guest, and Kalam had only 2 Hours of time. They could have called some other Chief Guest, but who can let Kalam go Here are some photos :

Ok, if you still have problem imagining the situation there, you can correlate it with the selling of murukku and vadai in a Touring talkies. Dr.Kalam’s speech about linking rivers and water resources was quite irrelevant to the situation. Read the entire speech here, if you are interested. On a surprising note, the whole convocation was live-webcasted! People who missed it, could still see it here. Is it possible to convert it into a youtube video?

And btw, I got graduated! I’m a B.Tech now