The Last Presentation

Well, I open my eyes and Aman is trying to wake me up. I get myself together cause its 9:35 and the class usually begins at 9:30. I quickly dress up and go to class, well lucky the teachers were late by 30 minutes so its not a problem. Begin with our presentation with Alexi, Lionel along with Sophie and Kevin from ISD. I taught personally that ours was the best presentation, we put lots of pictures (nostalgic memories - had to have them there) along with a lot of humor and made it very entertaining for our audience. Felt Great after finishing the presentation with very few remarks. Went to Lunch when it was 10 more mins left for lunch time to get over. Continued with the presentation for the intensive week and I dozed off. Aman again woke me up (for the second time in the same day) and by the time I reached class the presentation already began. I made my way silently into the group talking cause the intensive week was a group excersice and started talking randomly out of no where. Well that went okay too. Later in the day after class, me Aman and Urvashi left to buy swimming trunks.

Midnight Snacks

We were supposed to have a guest from Ubisoft company to talk to us - future game designing students but unfortunately it got canceled and got rescheduled to Wednesday instead. Did basically nothing the whole day, the same download frenzy continued and did zero preparation for the presentation for the next day. Later at the night after all the free time in the morning did we realize that we had to give a presentation for the very first project we worked on when we began college at Supinfogame - creating a board game. And so we begin at 11 in the night and make one of the best presentations we ever made and worked on it till 4 am in the morning. The reason for working so hard on this presentation considering that it wasnt even being marked is that, this was our very first project and with this we all got to know each other, became friends and basically the beggining of everything so it is important. We ate some smith and jones instant noodles in the raw form with out the boiling in the water, broken into smaller parts and tossed inside the packaging along with the masala :| , also had some apple juice all thanks to Harika - the food bank. Some chocolate chip cookies and a pista kulfi in the same night. Finally slept at 4 am in the morning.

Download Mania Begins

Most of my friends were having a hang over cause of last night, hmm nothing important today, just that Deekshith gave me his megaupload account and I going insane downloading loads and loads of stuff.

Mariana's Bday

The only important event today was Mariana's birthday and her dad flew over from Venezuela and we had a big party at Ganesh's place. The theme for the event was 'Indian' so the rule was to wear traditional clothes and she threatened everyone who did not wear traditional Indian clothing will not be allowed into the party. Well, I almost never wear traditional and had nothing but jeans to wear so anyways she didn't throw us outta the party. We had a good time, drank a lot of beer with Soumya, Ankit and Akshata. It was fun to see all the foreingers wearing Indian clothes while a lot of Indians came in casual wear. The party continued upstarits but I didnt go anyways, got too drunk and tired already..

Exams - 21, 22, 23, 24

Kevin asked us to choose a chit of paper each from a bunch of them and we had to model and texture whatever we got within 5:30. I got a sub woofer and well i didn't do a great job with it. The effects of not sleeping the previous night were evident and I was drowsy for most part of the exam except the end when I had to finish it up. The texture was taking a long time and there was very little time left. So i created a texture with just black and white and therefore my whole model was just in black and white. Well.. just hope Kevin likes it... had to get some sleep, woke up around mid night to study a little for the next days exam on production management. All my classmates gathered some information and put it under the common directory so that all of us have access to the same resources which was just what I wanted cause all my notes were scattered due to my bad organization.. Didnt sleep this night either and gave my exam. The exam was intended to be 4 hrs but due to some misunderstanding, we had only 3 hrs for it which is the first half of the day. Wrote it well except the math part of it... which was 9 marks outta the 20 :| so gonna lose a chunk there. Then Alexis gave us a shock by casually saying that... I have all of you have made something intresting for the jury after lunch... And we were like WTF. None of us made any presentation or anything like that and we didn't have any time left either. Had a really quick lunch to begin work on the presentation and slept half of the lunch working on it. The jury had Alexis and Lionel as usual along with Jersey, Matthew and Kevin from animation as well. Sadly Philip was in France at this time so he wasn't around for the jury. We were really worried how this would go but once we started, it all seemed natural and me, Aman and Karl handled it well. It also gave rise to a lot of argument and debate as we had a controversial topic which was Violence in Video Games and as Alexi said in a 10 minute video, we just scratched the cover of the real issue, but everyone was happy over the job we did and we were really happy ourselves cause we prepared and managed a complete presentation in just 30 minutes. Next day was game design exam and cause we didn't know the topic there wasn't much we could have done to prepare. And the exam topic was to create a game design - version 1 with the basic idea of making a game based on the Dhoom series. We had 3 hours to think and come up with the design of the game. I made a game which had elements of racing, role playing and first person shooter mixed in. The rest of the day was just spent playing and doing time pass. Got "I am a perv! and Chankanako" written on my t-shirt by Urvashi cause I wrote some funny stuff behind her dress. Aman and me also went to buy a External Hard Drive and I bought a 1 TB maxtor hdd. Also a funny incident happend at the counter which I wont talk about, Aman got a stuffed toy for Urvashi and also picked up some chicken friend rice and chilli chicken on the way.The last exam was the viva exam of art history. After asking some basic questions on the work I did on The Gupta Art, The Evolution Of Knife And Its Connection With Rituals and a script for a short video. That it, end of exams... The rest of the day we found all of us completely bored for the first time, we have work all the time and now we find ourselves jobless for once and it was weird to handle. Also I began backing up all the personal data on my new HDD which I love :D. Also watched the movie 'L: Change The World' which is based on the Japanese anime series Death Note.

Sunday n Monday

The Sunday went by really quickly.... spent most of the time playing and reading the book Frankenstein cause I have to return it to the college library before college ends which is soon just 2 more weeks left. The whole of next week we have exams and tomorrow is game analysis exam. Thought I would get a proper night of sleep before the exam so slept soon. But as it happens... we've gotten so used to the current lifestyle which involves sleeping quite late at night and waking up just before class and now, even though I tried I couldn't get any sleep :( Don't know when I finally fell asleep but my guess is over 3 am and I never woke up for class ! Pranav came and woke me up and I finally left for the exam. As it happens we had to analyze the game 'Little Big Adventure 2' and the game just wouldent run on my PC. And cause there wasnt any spare PC around, Alexi let me use his laptop and I played the game or tried playing that game half asleep. Took some shady notes and wrote my analysis. Had to print it and... just my luck, the damn printer wouldent print more than 2 pages. And there were others who had to print too like Julian, Pranav, Amol and Siddesh. Finally gave the printed version of my document to Alexi at 5:34 which is 34 minutes late, just before he was leaving back to his apartment ! #:-S Played more, slept a little and began to try out stuff on 3ds max cause the next is the 3ds max exam. I mean tried to practice but most of the night went off in playing DotA and doing timepass on Facebook and Orkut. It morning already and the exam is going to start soon :( I suck at using softwares effeciently and at 3d stuff. Mix them up and you got 3ds Max... which I hate !

Workin n Watching

Okay this post is for 15, 16, 17 and 18 together. So it all began with Phillipe's sound design class. We were made to pick chits from a cap and all of us got different chits which had names of different topics in it and we all had 2 days to compose at least 2 minutes and 30 secs of audio based on your topic. I got psychosis and did some research on that subject and began to work on it. The whole day went like this. Took a small nap and began to work again and basically worked till morning, took a break, got a couple of hours of sleep and back to class again. Worked whole day again on the same sound design stuff and just at the last minute, I over wrote my own files !! Just 30 minutes before we had to submit it, I basically deleted all my work. Whoa showed me the importance of backing up your work man. But luckily I had a backup of an older version and cause I wasn't willing to work on it anymore, I submitted that version. Then caught up with a couple of hours of sleep and work all night again on my Art History project. Finished it by 3 in the morning or so and then watched the movie Baraka which is special cause it had no story, no character or any plot. Just some amazing visuals and well those visuals had a silent story to tell. I was finding the movie long cause there was no story or twists to keep me engaged. Slept off in the morning, skipped of the morning class of Art History, woke up for lunch, met up wid the sir for the afternoon session, went well and spent the rest of the day playing and other stuff. Watched the movie The Exorcist (1973) with Aman and Urvashi. And the last day which is saturday was just awesome. Had no big submissions left, nothing to work on so we had a great time the whole day. Watched the movies Changeling, The Wrestler, The Reader and the korean movie Time all in the same day. Played some great games too. Oh well, one more sunday and the next week is full of exams :| good night :)