Hello!! Well i am really very busy these days!! vaise in the last few posts i made it very clear ki mein kitni veli hoon... but recently i've got smitten with the ring bug :) I am reading "The lord of the rings" byt J.R.R. Tolkien.. i guess most of u ppl must have seen the movie if not read the book.. And i am so in awe of the author's imagination... Its such a gripping story to read :) and the description of everything is too good a detail :)
I got this book as a gift last yr by my best fren who visited me in hospital after i underwent a minor surgery... and i never ever got so much time to even start reading a few pages of it.. this one is a very thick book and its print is small... every time i took it up, i ended in keeping it back safely in my book shelf since i never thought i'll b able to complete it... now i have started reading it and i am just occupied by the chronicles of the middle earth... And i am enjoying it a lot :) I have read the first novel(Fellowship ot the ring).. and i am in betwen the second one(The two towers).. By the way, i noted there r two words most often written in the book -- "Ring" and "Peril"...
In between all this, i saw fanaa on friday.. After such a long time i saw first day first show of a movie.. A superb movie.. And kajol is like Wow!!! Her acting skills are just beyond words.. As many will know she plays a role of blind girl... and she is happy and at peace with what she is.. not at all complaining... And there is a dance sequence.. When u see her dance u will admire her even more the way she dances and not even once u feel like she is not blind.. Anyways i wont speak more of the movie now lest i give away the story :D
And i am definitely planning to see The da vinci code tomorrow.. :) Any comments on it?
Me in a teacher's role!!
Have you ever tried teaching maths to a 5th grade student?? well try now!! I taught a girl from neighourhood n just cdnt imagine how little they know!! Though she learned (or rather crammed) tables of numbers till 9 in 4th class itself, she still cdnt remember them.. Her mom sent me to teach her how to add unlike fractions..
And so i had a student who is supposed to know all multiplications/dicisions involving numbers not greater than 12 and who learned LCM in class 3 to tell her how to add/subtract unlike numbers...
(( BTW.. those of you, who dont know how it is done shd see here.. And who actually had to see this page.. pls go and read class 5 Maths textbook :P ))
Before teaching her this i asked her a few questions to know her skill level.. In a problem to reduce fractions.. she got
and what she did was---
:) now i called my mom for SOS.. how to tell her these basic things.. now accolades to my mom who finally made her understand/remember how division is done...
Next she got 30/10... and guess wat she did now... she wrote 10) 30 ( and sat there thinking with which number shd she divide???
She wrote 3 x 3 =6...
then triple of 2 is 5...
2 x 2 x 5 = 30!!!
So at the end of half an hour i was abt to pull my hair... But with what remaining patience i had ( It wasnt much i tell you) i started correcting her mistakes and by the end of another hour... voila!! she had learned how to add unlike fractions...
Now please please please pray for me that her mom never asks me again to teach her maths...
And so i had a student who is supposed to know all multiplications/dicisions involving numbers not greater than 12 and who learned LCM in class 3 to tell her how to add/subtract unlike numbers...
(( BTW.. those of you, who dont know how it is done shd see here.. And who actually had to see this page.. pls go and read class 5 Maths textbook :P ))
Before teaching her this i asked her a few questions to know her skill level.. In a problem to reduce fractions.. she got
and what she did was---:) now i called my mom for SOS.. how to tell her these basic things.. now accolades to my mom who finally made her understand/remember how division is done...
Next she got 30/10... and guess wat she did now... she wrote 10) 30 ( and sat there thinking with which number shd she divide???
She wrote 3 x 3 =6...
then triple of 2 is 5...
2 x 2 x 5 = 30!!!
So at the end of half an hour i was abt to pull my hair... But with what remaining patience i had ( It wasnt much i tell you) i started correcting her mistakes and by the end of another hour... voila!! she had learned how to add unlike fractions...
Now please please please pray for me that her mom never asks me again to teach her maths...
Hi all... specially shreyas, who recently wrote in my chat box... "itna bhi kya busy".. :) hmm.. now imagine urself in my place.. you have got 4 projects, research proposal, 3 presentations and 2 assignments to be done in short span of 2 weeks, which although got extended to almost 3 weeks.. my all this work ended yesterday with lest demo... and i have my final exams from tomorrow...
:( i am fucked up here.. loads n loads of work..
During the last few days i learned a lot too.. not really in terms of studies but how different ppl react n work in different conditions...
a teammate of mine didnot even understand or took the pain to understand the protocol we were going to implement.. i did abt 75% of work n assigned him the rest, and to my surprise he din do even half of it.. i told him step by step, how to plan n implement things.. but then i cant go inside someone's head n feed the information there..even if he hadnt done it properly we had to submit our work on 2nd.. i had demo at 3pm on 3rd and on 2nd night i again asked him to implement it nd told him AGAIN what to do.. he said i'll do it right this time.. i woke up till 2 am in night, listening to his dumb doubts and replying to it.. when i thought he has understood everything, only then i went for sleep.. nd wen i woke up at 5:30 am, i checked the amount of work he has done (this protocol was a distributed one, so implemented on a remote server(our institute's) so i cd check it from my room too) but i was so dissapointed that he dint even do a fraction of his work.. later he told me he slept in between!!
i started working at 5:30am and worked till 10 mins remaining to 3, when my protocol ran perfectly well.. Clearly if my fren had put in his time and effort wd have done this program in a day or two, for which i took half a day.. but he couldnt do it in 3-4 days either..
And in another one of my project team.. my partners cant rest till they complete their work.. with them, they were the ones doing major part of the project since i scarcely know java.. so just to feel involved in the project i started looking into their programs n keep giving dumb inputs which though resulted in removal of 3 major bugs :D.. and since java is all about finding right methods to do a job rather than applying complex programming logics.. i helped them in finding just that wherever they got stuck, with the help of 3 books ofcourse.. i got an adjective for doing this work too.. MSDN library.. lol...
I told all this story just because i was wondering what motivates ppl to do certain things in life with dedication? vaise the only thing that motivates me to do all my work is the thought of long vacations ahead.. :) :) :) 80 days!!
i know it'll be difficult to stay at home doin absolutely nothing, especially after such a hectic
work schedule.. i'll have to think of somehin to keep me busy.. dance classes, swimming/jogging, art n craft classes, probably some programming classes, or some personality development workshop... hmmm.. pata nahi kuchh to karungi :D
:( i am fucked up here.. loads n loads of work..
During the last few days i learned a lot too.. not really in terms of studies but how different ppl react n work in different conditions...
a teammate of mine didnot even understand or took the pain to understand the protocol we were going to implement.. i did abt 75% of work n assigned him the rest, and to my surprise he din do even half of it.. i told him step by step, how to plan n implement things.. but then i cant go inside someone's head n feed the information there..even if he hadnt done it properly we had to submit our work on 2nd.. i had demo at 3pm on 3rd and on 2nd night i again asked him to implement it nd told him AGAIN what to do.. he said i'll do it right this time.. i woke up till 2 am in night, listening to his dumb doubts and replying to it.. when i thought he has understood everything, only then i went for sleep.. nd wen i woke up at 5:30 am, i checked the amount of work he has done (this protocol was a distributed one, so implemented on a remote server(our institute's) so i cd check it from my room too) but i was so dissapointed that he dint even do a fraction of his work.. later he told me he slept in between!!
i started working at 5:30am and worked till 10 mins remaining to 3, when my protocol ran perfectly well.. Clearly if my fren had put in his time and effort wd have done this program in a day or two, for which i took half a day.. but he couldnt do it in 3-4 days either..
And in another one of my project team.. my partners cant rest till they complete their work.. with them, they were the ones doing major part of the project since i scarcely know java.. so just to feel involved in the project i started looking into their programs n keep giving dumb inputs which though resulted in removal of 3 major bugs :D.. and since java is all about finding right methods to do a job rather than applying complex programming logics.. i helped them in finding just that wherever they got stuck, with the help of 3 books ofcourse.. i got an adjective for doing this work too.. MSDN library.. lol...
I told all this story just because i was wondering what motivates ppl to do certain things in life with dedication? vaise the only thing that motivates me to do all my work is the thought of long vacations ahead.. :) :) :) 80 days!!
i know it'll be difficult to stay at home doin absolutely nothing, especially after such a hectic
work schedule.. i'll have to think of somehin to keep me busy.. dance classes, swimming/jogging, art n craft classes, probably some programming classes, or some personality development workshop... hmmm.. pata nahi kuchh to karungi :D
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