Sunday, April 27, 2008

Ladies & Gentlemen Now I present you...



Do you know what VHDL is? It stands for 'VHSIC HDL'. Which stands for ‘Very High-speed Integrated Circuit Hardware Description Language’. As the name says, this is used to design and describe digital circuits (very complex) in a easy way.

Our university's engineering curriculum has an elective course named - 'VHDL Modeling & Logic Synthesis'. Well it's considered as one of the toughest courses. All the students hesitates when taking this course.

But I can assure you that there is a teacher who makes the course a piece of cake. But you know, there is no guarantee that you'd have him on your course. What should you do then.

No problem. All you have to do is to go to road No. 21, Bloc-B, Banani, in front of house No. 76, 78 (which is another university.). Then you should find a little guy. The best way to recognize him is to start yelling - 'Hamba Hamba' and you'd hear a loud laughter. The laughing person is him. You'll find him with a cup of tea (without any sugar or milk) and a cake in another hand. He'll be soaking the cake in the tea and bite.


He is a great man though; he is very small in size. But you know size doesn't matter. He is the wisest person in the whole university in the field of VHDL. He is doing his undergraduate thesis on designing a FPGA board for programming FPGAs. If you have any problem regarding this subject, you can go to him. I'm sure he can help you no matter how tough the problem. He would definitely help.

He would start showing you how the problem can be solved. And after half an hour of discussion, he'll say, 'Oops, how this can happen? Let me check again'. Then he will go through all over it again but with more care & more time. Then again, he would stuck at the same point. It would go infinitely if, you don't stop him to quit. But to realize that it would go infinitely you'd need 3 to 4 run. And then you'd need considerable effort to stop him. No matter how much you tell him to stop, he would say, 'No, you'll have to understand. Why this can’t be done. We should clarify the matter now'. Oh! I forgot to tell you, by the time, you'd forget why you came. A new idea will flash in your head. Which is, not you, he came to you to understand something.

This is the guy. And don't forget, if you have any problem regarding VHDL, you can always go to him. At least, you'll forget the problem and be free of tension.

This is the guy, who has a special honorary title, because of his contribution on the fields of VHDL.

So now, “Ladies & Gentlemen… I present you, Shuvojit Neogi, the Grandson of VHDL”.

Saturday, April 26, 2008

Great minds behind the Sign-board...


Ever thought about the people behind the marketing concepts? Consider about a simple logo. Ever thought how a designing is done? I know that, those who do this type of job are great minds. And a simple sign-board kept me wondering about 2 hours to get the idea. You can see a portion of it. It contains a logo of a university. Well as you can see, this is a logo of an educational institution. A university, as it says. As the slogan says, 'A carrier minded university'. The name is given in the logo- 'The University of South Asia'. Have you thought about the factors which had to be considered on designing its logo? I guess no. Well let me put some light in your thoughts. The easiest way of designing a logo is to take the initial letters of the words forming the name (i.e.- get the Acronym). Like BBC for British Broadcasting Company. Now if we take the initial letters of this university then it becomes USA. Well, it can't be taken because though it's not copyrighted (as far as I'm concerned) but the US government will surely send a missile at the campus. So there is a simple modification. They took 'UniSA'. Now a new problem arises. The harmonic balance is destroyed. So, people find it difficult to get the meaning of the word 'UniSA'. Now how this problem can be solved... Can you solve it?Well don't put too much pressure on your brain. Because, I am going to tell you anyway. Well they have taken a very simple approach to solve it. They have put an arrow under the word 'UniSA' pointing to the abbreviation of it. Yes, the whole name for the ease of the people. And at last, the logo should be bounded by a defined shape. What can it be? Obviously what could be better than the great 'U' of university! So, as you can see, there is the Big 'U'. Inside it, the word 'UniSA' and a red triangle shaped arrow pointing to the actual abbreviation of the word, in case, people wrongly interpret it. And now I present you the complete logo of 'The University of South Asia'. After all these, do you get the idea? Do you realize how tough it is to design a logo? Now I'm giving you a little practice task, have you seen the slogan? It's written at the beginning of this post. Your task is to find the idea behind it.

Friday, April 25, 2008

Let the divine hand solve your problems...


We had been under British colonial rulings for 200 years. Then we had been under Pakistani dictatorship. We had fought for establishing our mother language, Bangla as the official language of our country while under Pakistani rulings.


The effect of all these is, we have a 12 year schooling on which we have English as our subject. After that, for higher education, most of the universities use English medium. And the ability to speak in English is taken as a measure of how smart a person is. Though I can't find how not speaking own language can be taken as smartness. But that's another story. Despite all these, we don't use English anywhere in our everyday activities. And I think except some rootless junks of the society, deep down ourselves, each of us have an unwillingness to learn the language.


As for example, in our university, we have an English medium environment, but that is somehow limited inside the class. And sometimes, even inside the class, we freely use Bangla. Another thing is, our English is not perfect. It's normal, as it's not our first language. But we make fun of those who make mistakes while speaking in English. Sometimes, there are very interesting situations regarding the language and wrong application of the terms.


I heard it from one of my juniors in EEE department. Some days ago, in probably Industrial Electronics class. I won't mention his name, the lectures was in a hurry finishing his lecture. It was almost at the end and he started to pack his materials. Suddenly, a girl stood up and said something like 'Sir I didn't get what you said about something (I didn't understand). Would you please explain it again.' and the bell rang declaring the end of the class. The teacher was startled for a second then he said, 'If you have problems... ' (pause) 'You Physically Contact me in my consulting hours'. And he got out leaving the whole class grinning.


This kept us wondering, how the physical contact would solve her problem and how the Physical Contact would be accomplished. (Because, we have a totally different meaning of this phrase). One of us came up with the safest idea...

That teacher has a divine hand. He could rearrange her neuron cells with his mare hand to clarify the lecture. And thus it would solve her problem & surely it is a Physical Contact. I would leave the other unsafe ideas on your imagination.

Thursday, April 24, 2008

How to identify drunks



Two friends were meeting after a very long period. It was so long that they both decided for a celebration. As the old times, they got into a bar.

They were having a great time there just like the good old days. And they were getting back their old mood. The empty glasses were getting piled up in front of their table. It was such a wonderful time! And they were filling their throats round after round as if they were thirsty for a century!
After an hour or two have passed, one of them told the other with a requesting tone, 'Pal, I think you've had enough. 'Would you please stop drinking’? The other paid no heed. Some more times passed (as well as some more glasses), the man looked up and suddenly rose with a scream, ‘Pal! YOU MUST STOP! You’re GETTING BLURRED! SOME MORE DRINKS AND YOU WILL VANISH!’
Well I got the story somewhere. But that's not the matter. The matter is- the two people in the picture, I am very much sure, are drunk as dead.

April's sleeping beauty


What would you do if you had an exam after 30 minutes and you have zero preparation? If you arranged the night before exam to have all your friends at your home to get prepared by group study and slept all night without doing so, though your friends were not sleepy? If they didn't sleep for a second and studied and tried to wake you up in each 15 minute to get you some studies? If all of your friends couldn't leave for the exam, just because they couldn't awaken you and didn't want to leave without you.


One thing is sure you didn't have a sound sleep that night. So then, after the night, on the exam day, if your caught in the middle of a traffic jam (because you ware late) just 30 minutes before the exam, which would last for at least 1 hour, how could you pass this time in the jam efficiently? Definitely you'd try to sleep in the bus, in a position, just as this guy is sleeping.




You should try it. Because, this is the best way (until anyone finds any other) to pass the time after all these.

P. S. -
1. When he reached the campus, the exam was over and above all, he was still sleepy.
2. If someone could find, what he had before all these, please contact me. (His friends haven't yet uncovered the reason behind this sleepy behavior, for which all of them were late for the exam).


So please, Don't forget to contact me. I also need the answer of this question- Why. As I was one of HIS FRIENDS.

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Smartest beggar of Banani



This man, I don't know where he lives, but I do regularly see him at Banani. He recently had an eye operation and has to put on a black sunglass for protection. I saw him some days ago and he looked funny. I asked him for taking a picture. Then when I held the camera in front of him, he suddenly changed his position and stood before the camera as erect as a soldier. No matter how much I tell him to stand in his normal way, he gets back to the same erect position when I hold my camera. So I had to take his picture as it is.

It's funny how people change in front of camera.