All the alumni are invited to this wonderful day to rejoice and revive those wonderful days @sbce.

May this be a time to awaken old memories,
meet long lost friends,
talk about old times as well as
share new experience and thoughts.

Most of  us are going to the polling booth for the first time this April 16. our nation the great INDIA is the biggest democracy in the world (china the biggest populated nation is  communist nation). I used to get thrilled when my parents went for voting in my child hood. Myself  and my friends eagerly waited for that big day to come when we can vote. But recently when i was with my friends, v talked a about the same voting process. half of them didn’t want to vote, some others don’t kw whom to vote and some others didn’t kw why to vote. i was disappointed on hearing this. v call ourselves men and women, v cry out for our freedom and rights, v say v r responsible citizens of India and patriotic so on so fore, but v are note ready or v dnt kw y to make this small contribution that decides our motherlands future, our future, the future of generations to come.

its on ur finger tip, who to rule you

Friends let me tell u one thing, the democracy and the right to choose our own government is the greatest of all rights granted to us by our constitution. many countries and more than half of the world population doesnt have this right. our democracy is 60 years old its mature enough now and now its our turn to unleash the true value and power of democracy. v all call foul on the political parties and most of the youngsters say that all parties are equally corrupted and equally worse and so whom to vote to power, our one vote cnt make any change is what many of the youngsters believe. recent elections we have seen if the voting percentage is more the actual gap between the winning and loosing party is small. so the election will b tight only if the votes are more, if the participation of the citizen is more. v have seen some not so good MP’s & MLA’s getting voted to power just becos the voting percentage was less.

Recent surveys has shown that in constituencies with equally bad candidates of major parties geting voted to powers is just bcos of poor voting percentage. this is bcos the people think that both are equally bad and sme if they vote or not some one among them wil only get elected then y shud i waste my time and energy going to vote? this mentality has to b changed bcos if v dnt vote for wat ever reason its indirectly two vote for the winner(bcos that one vote that u dnt vote shoud have gone to the opponent, ie u are not only reducing one vote of the opponent but also reducing one vote less to climp for the winner).

waiting to make a change for the nation and for us uning our finger tip

then another thing is the ignorance about the Indian politcs. there are frinds among us who dosnt kw the candidates in there constituency or not even knowing which constituency they belong. its very poor of those friends. just check out urself. these has to b made by oneself. any way i wil try to put history and other details of the political parties and the candidates of the Kerala and nation wide in the posts to come. i think that can help u to make the rigt deciton why, and for whom to vote. vote for the Nation first then vote for ourself.

Each of your Vote is Valuble for the future of our mother land INDIA. so Vote and b a part of constructin the new secure, secular, phosporous, developed INDIA. So vote and b a dutiful and true patriotic citizen of INDAI. Jai Hind

As most of you know, the recession in US combined with depreciating Rupee value is giving sleepless nights to the CEOs of both Indian and international IT companies. The profit margin for indian IT companies is decreasing and the cost of operation shooting up. India is loosing its ranking as the favourite destination for “IT Outsourcing” to countries like srilanka, philippines,vietnam etc.

IT majors like IBM,Yahoo,Siemens,Texas Instruments and a host of top tier indian IT companies are giving pink slips to their employees or cutting the salaries in a bid to have the profit margins on the up side. And with US presidential hopefuls like Barack Obama strongly against Outsourcing, the future of indian IT industry doesn’t look very bright.

Ok, having said all these I am not trying to intimidate you guys. I am just putting forward some plain truth about the IT industry. Indian IT industry has come a long way and a complete washout is near to impossible!!! Whatever the world market statistics be, the indian IT industry is going to stay.. We will still be developing softwares and powering the machines around the world. The only thing is it is going to be a tough competition from now on..

So what does the IT slowdown implies to all the students of SBCE ???……………………………………………… It implies that getting in to a good IT company is going to be even more “harder” because the companies are cutting down their recruitments by almost 30-50 %.Then what can be done from your part to survive ????

Some suggestions from me would be :

1. Be rock solid on your technical knowledge in whatever stream you are like CS,IT,EC,Mech,BT,Electrical etc.. and prepare well for the tests. Soft skills also holds a very important role……………………….During the time we were passing out, the IT companies used to take truck loads of students and that also with a plum salary.We had a long list of recruitment drives in kerala to attend. Getting in to an IT company in those days was lot more easier compared to present scenario. But now the companies seems to be much more choosy. The tests are harder and more painful.

What I want to communicate with you all is to be strong in the technical areas. Even after getting into the company, it is the non-technical guys or the non-performers who face the axe. By being technically sound you guys can jump to better companies even if the present one looks lousy!!

2. It is always better to  have 2-3 offer letetrs rather than a single!!

I have read and noticed that a lot of IT companies are INDEFINITELY delaying the joining dates of the candidates to some future dates due to the slowdown. This means that even though you have got an offer letter from an IT company, you can’t still be sure that they will definitely call you. So better to have 2-3 offer letters in your hand, so that if one doesn’t give you a joining date you can still join the other company.

3. One more thing is to “Look Beyond IT”.

It is time to look beyond IT. There was a time when mechanical engineers, civil engineers, chemical engineers etc & etc used to be the front runners for securing an IT job.  The explanation of choosing  IT field to core engineering field was the fat pay package offered by the IT companies compared to the traditional engineering companies. But now I think it is time to rethink over this approach.There are lot of core engineering fields like automotive,mechanical, electronics, communication etc, which generates a lot of job oppurtunities and are more or less immune to the global financial turbulence. And morever they are also now giving handsome pay packages .

4. Start your own company.

—- “It is time to not go to work. It is time to get people to work for you”. May be this might not be practical to all of you, but for some it may!!! Come On!!, who knows one of you will be building the next “Infosys” or “Wipro” or “Reliance” or “Google” or “Microsoft”… The list will go on and on and on…

Regards,

Vishal

Day 2. on this day my friends Vineeth, Sibi, Azhar, Aniesh, Sreeraj, Varun, Mahesh, Nithin, Salim, Swetha and Sre Devi came for the fest to participate in short film making. as they where making the film I went for mock press. i got A P J Abdul Kalam as my personality. The question panel was bit rough and tough, Adarsh sir of that college who is a real genius was in the panel and he virtually nailed me in their. Here also I dnt hv any hope to win so after that I went to our gang to make the short film. The topic was Melody Of Youth. We really didn’t understand hat the organizers meant by it still v made a short film out of the theme of ‘room mates’. Our team was participating for the first time in this and lack of experience was really seen and only due to that v lost the prize. But our film was good and next time am sure our team will win the FIRST PRIZE. Then it was treasure hunt. Really that took a lot of me. We where provided a map and a clue using which we have to find the next clue. It was really tough to get my first clue which was took me more than 40 mins and I was the 5th person to get the clue out of 6 participants. The first clue was dug on the ground and a grass neatly planted over that. Hooo but from second clue onwards it was bit more easy and collecting all 8 clues I became the winner. I was really happy because I took more than 90 mins to find the eight clues and had to run a lot was really tough and I became more happy as all others could make it up to only 4-5 clues, night v had prize distribution ceremony followed by a ganamela by great play back singers and idea star singer fames.
I could win a lot of very good friends and the fest was really a superb and a hit. It was well organized and in all means it was enjoyable. I really appreciate the college and student and the organizing committee for such a grand event. Thus I could make one of my dreams true a clean sweep representing our college in a tech fest.
Now my advice and tips for the juniors.

1> Participate in as much fest u can. It will improve your confidence; u will get a nice exposure, experience, friends, contacts and some times a good pocket money.
2> failure is the step stone to success.
3> participation is greater than winning and after some participations u will surely improve and win.
4> these will help u greatly in your placements and future ventures.
U also try to organize competitions in college under respective associations or in ur class.

To the management I would ask to permit and encourage these fests both tech and cultural. It will increase our publicity and our reputation, I wish v cud start a club or something with the support of management to encourage our student and help them develop their talents.

Lemme scrap some thing from my experience…………..

So many people weave ideas and they afraid to discuss it with their friends or Veterans. They do think that the other guy will steal their Ideas. So they keep that ideas with them and at last it will buried in the corner of their mind.

This is the greatest stupidity. You have to discuss about your ideas with friends and veterans, then only you will get it more vivid. When you discuss that idea with others, keep the core business in mind, just talk about the idea as a whole. From the other’s comments, you will get more and more views on the same. More and more sharing of ideas will make it strong. An idea is your own baby, you will never think about it negatively, but others do. And from those comments only you will get know the pros and cons of your baby.

Getting an idea is tough but the toughest part is implementing it in right time. An idea alone can’t be survived; it needs the right time and right money to start and definitely the right people in right environment.

If we have an idea and we don’t have time to implement it, then? That idea is waste

If we have an idea and we don’t have money to implement it, then? That idea is a big zero.

If we have an idea and we don’t have the manpower to execute it, then? It’s a dump idea.

If we have an idea and we don’t have the environment, then?????

Environment depends on various matters like geographical aspects, politics, rules and regulations, so on.

An idea is said to be successful if it is executed in time. For that we need

1. Right Resources including HR, infrastructure etc.
2. Right Time
3. Enough money

An idea, let it be a greatest of ever time. If it is implemented in wrong time, what use in that?

So an Idea alone cannot make a boom. An idea is just an idea till it gets right resources. Starting an HR company was something which came into my mind when I was in my 5^th semester. My idea was a bit different. When I discusses it with Kala mam (Mrs. Kala Karun, Dept of Com Sci), Mam said its just waste. If it is a great idea, people will come with that idea. Later after ma degree, I consulted with another HR Director, Ms.Sabeena. She is working as a HR Director in Mumbai. When she heard that idea she said I have to apply that idea for patent.[;)] When I start ma company she will come with me and she waited 2 more months for me…But at that time only idea was with me. Later on I saw some great initiatives like brainbench, smartframe etc. Last year Ms.Sabeena called me and scold me a lot for not taking any initiative.

Then again “On Demand Computing:. The money tree of IBM. The most interesting fact is that Similar idea was presented by me to ZEE Business Plan contest when I was in ma third sem and I was selected from the prelims. But I cant attend the finals due to my supplementary exams. [;)] My parents didn’t allow me to go for that by dropping ma exams. [I afraid what will happened when they get know the number of exams I skipped…shhhhhhhhh……………..]

So what I have to tell you is

1. Never try to make all ideas urs, share it.
2. Remember, never share the core. [:)]
3. Making money and time is the biggest deal than making a flawless idea, coz the first two can clear the flaws sometime.

An idea alone cannot change your life.

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with love

DD

-the Daemon in Dark!

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