Quite sad and sorry. Before I start with the bad, let me start with the good. The MJKPS Band is excellent, no mistaking. Those little kids play really really well. They played the National Anthem so well that it put some patriotism back in me, and I realised that yes, I did know all the words of the National Anthem, which I was muttering under my breath. For those who don’t know, I really am not a very patriotic person, and neither am I religious (I’m practical an atheist, an unbeliever).

My only event today was the last event, so I had to pass my time in the Pandal watching Senior Declamation, which was good, I must say (it was on Outsourcing and how it’s evil), but firstly, it wasn’t a Declamation as they promised, but it was actually more of a Debate because some people were for, and some were against the motion, and secondly, all of the speakers (save one) missed two big fat important points (which I don’t really want to discuss here) and that was just pathetic. Plus, I could see from their speeches that each of them had typed in “Outsourcing” into Google and they were all saying exactly the same things and quoting the same figures. That was that.

Senior Quiz started a bit late, as expected. The quiz-master was an alumnus of the same school and it was obviously his first quiz (either that, or he’s generally pathetic) and he was sweating like hell. This quiz even left Mr. Quizzer Outsourcer dazed (but not speechless). To answer each question, one was given a whopping 5 seconds!! For logic questions, 10 seconds. So, basically most teams weren’t able to answer. The rapid fire round was 15 seconds each and at max. one could get three or four questions. Let me cut to the chase, we ended up getting second position. The quiz-master first announced us as the winners, then their scoring software coughed up a hair-ball and suddenly put this stupid school ahead of us by three points. With their Ahlconian attitude (long story about Ahlcon Public School… they disqualified us from the overall trophy for some null reason – basically, people who don’t listen to reason), they didn’t listen of course. I’m also very doubtful about their home-grown scoring software because it had previously added (right in front of the whole audience) 5+5+10 = 10. We didn’t have a chance for the Overall anyway because numerous morons (namely: Gursartaj, Dhruv, Abhishek Suri, Abhisheyk Gaur, Manas Gautam, Mohit Taneja, et al) either didn’t show up for this event or they didn’t win anything (all but the last name are people who didn’t show up because of pathetic reasons and they should be lynched in my humble opinion); hence, I chucked it and walked off carrying a 2nd Position trophy, which is extremely pathetic because I think that in a quiz, one should either bag the event or get nothing.

We won Senior Programming!! I am so happy that SP is working out well because I didn’t want Exun to lose its forté while I’m in Presidency. I would obviously never want Exun to disregard its crux, but if it ever does, let it not be while I’m, uh, in power. Mr. Azgez went home carrying two first position trophies from his first symposium, which I consider to be quite commendable.

–Karan Misra

President, Exun^{We take printouts}

Arrive at Mata Jai Kaur Public School: drum-guy of the marching band wearing the exact same sash as our head boys and head girls – totally ditto, same chatai material, colour, knot and everything. This school calls its computer competition Cyberfest (as you would probably have noticed), but wait, its computer club is called WHIZKIDZ. Next, they don’t even have an auditorium; we were seated in a Pandaal, which would be more suited to a langar than a computer competition. The chief guest looked like he was the school’s peon, with his chaprasi clothes and simply horrid grammar. We did ourselves the courtesy of not listening to him, and instead munching on our lunch boxes (in my case, of course, munching on other peoples’ tiffins).

The first event was Senior Quiz Preliminary Round. I was quite pissed off because it started an hour late, and Bhavya was even more pissed off, because after seeing the question paper, he realised that it was all technical. I managed to get sixteen out of twenty questions pucca right, guessed on three and left one.

Result: We got the first position in the written preliminaries.

The second event was Linux Programming. I’ve always thought of myself as a seriously pathetic programmer at computer symposia, who couldn’t program even to save his life. That changed today. It was Linux programming of course, which means that there’s less of logic and more of “knowledge”. You have to “know” the arcane commands in Linux. For example, in normal computer languages like C++ and BASIC, ‘if’ statements are either if…else, if..then..else, or if…then…else…end if, but in Linux, it’s if…then…elif…fi. Sorry to geek you people out, but it simply looks stupid. Here’s where we prospered. You see, Mr. Azgez (Exun Programmer 2004-05) agreed to learn these arcane commands and so he did, and with efficiency, over the weekend. Hence, we were the only team to actually type something meaningful on the computer. The logic for all the questions was easy, but we couldn’t attempt one question due to knowledge and time restraints.

Result: Came first

Third event was Extemporé. I’m really not good at it. I got a topic like “Computers have destroyed writing form and expression.” I occupied two minutes of the judges’ time and got out.

Result: Nothing

In totality, both the quizzing teams qualified, no one qualified for extemporé, we bagged Linux but those hapless tenthies and ninethies couldn’t win a thing, neither the digital imaging competition (apparently, in which, they lost their file) nor in hardware assembly (in which they put in the CD-ROM drive upside down).

–Karan Misra

President, Exun

Competition coming up. Please check out http://www.cyberfest2k4.cjb.net/ for details.

Tentative Decisions

Senior Quiz

Maanick Nangia

Karan Misra

Abhisheyk Gaur

Bhavya Khanna (if he obliges)

Gursartaj Singh (backup for Bhavya)

Senior Extempore & Declamation

Bhavya Khanna

Senior Programming

Prateek Rungta

Nisheeth Sharma

Senior Linux Programming (shell scripting)

Any takers?

Digital Imaging (Jr.)

Any two out of: Gursartaj, Abhishek, Dhruv

Hardware Assembling (Jr.)

Undecided

Crack the software (Jr.)

Undecided

Junior Quiz

Akshay, Srajan

Second Team: Undecided

Junior PowerPoint

Undecided

Junior Debate

Undecided

Junior Ad-venture

Undecided

Registration will be sent in ASAP. Anyone who wants to participate, please contact immediately at isharp@rediffmail.com or maanickn@hotmail.com.

–Karan

Ahha! Bloodfist has finally been added to one of the busiest clans in our school… lemme give him a briefing … Exun has now taken the lead in printing documents, producing perfect jackasses and all other sorts of useless stuff. Nevertheless Exun has been appreciated before . I recently met an alumni of our school who was a commercie. She was the Spokeperson of Exun.. Helped in organizing Exun events once or twice… She had only 1 thing to say : “I had never seen such loyalty of the members in a DPS club.. One comment against the club and all Juniors were ready to Murder you”

That was Exun of 1998. Its 2004 now but Exun has actually deteriorated. We have some of the biggest loonies of our school in Exun now. Exun now entering officialdom is now gonna go down even further. Next year is a ‘Big Worry’. We have no suitable successor to presidentship (even this year, one of the presidents is a perfect jackass.No prizes for guessing who it is). What shudders me more is that in 2007 Exun will go into the Hands of (Gulp!!) Gursartaj and Gang.. Then i think the club will be fit for dissolution. Exun scaled many heights but now signs of wear and tear are showing. We need a Fresh Approach .. A new Beginning.. We need to do something or else we might go the Intercrap Club Way

Thanks for Listening to my crap which is nevertheless important

You were expecting maybe Ben Kingsley??

Yes Ladies and Gents, believe it or not after years of deliberations and months of haggling with exun bureaucracy (our hon’able head of programming), I am finally here.

They have us going to this cyberfest thingy. We need someone for linux programming and up until now, all the presidents are in agreement. We don’t have a linux programmer. So if anyone has any secret skills with linux, you will please disclose them now. Better yet, talk to Rungta (you know, the H.O.P.). Oh and Karan, if you read this, why don’t you put up who is doing what (who goes for what event) up here, God knows this blog needs purpose.

–Bloodfist out.

This log shall have to be make more esoteric as nobody really cares to post on general matters, or at all. Shame on the other President and the other thirty or so members.

In the news, the three of us Exun appointees have to go for the March Past just like the rest of them appointees. I wouldn’t really mind doing it, because it’s not really something that involves a lot of physical exertion or anything, however, it does require me to miss classes, something that I’m vehemently against. Fortunately, the Investiture Ceremony is now in August (assumably on the day of the Independence Day assembly). We did get our badges. I’ll probably scan them or take a photo of them and post it on either this log or my blog. They had the option of choosing from a Rs. 20 and a Rs. 25 badge, they however, went for the Rs. 5 badge or so I like to call it. It’s plain bad, and looks CHEAP – made of cloth, golden border, sickly green background and Orange text.

The school has been getting new PCs recently, and I’m glad to say that Mr. Mukesh has finally got a beautiful black HP PC (though crap config, 2.8 GHz and a paltry 248 MB RAM, 8 MB shared with Video). As expected, I knew he’d be sad because he has to run Windows XP now, and like, Windows 98 is the second love of his life. He never fails to tell me (whenever I touch this topic) that Windows 98 gives you full control while Windows XP and all seem to control you. I’d usually tell him that it’s a load of bull and that’s what I did today as well.

–Karan

For the first time, I think Exun has been made an official school body. Along with the appointments for 2004-05, yesterday the Exun appointments were also announced. We’ll be having dual-Presidency this year with me and Maanick. The third official post is that of ‘Head of Programming’ and Prateek Rungta is taking it up.

Of course, everyone isn’t happy with this decision. It’s also not all that good for us. I wanted to be a member of the Editorial Board, but now that Exun is an appointment and one person can have only one post, that will never happen. Also, some alumni don’t like the idea of Exun becoming official. It has its advantages and disadvantages, but I hope it’s all for the best.

Cheerio

–Karan

Manx aka Manke aka Murphy aka Male Chauvinst Pig gives his rashing-dashing touch to this Blog.

For the known and unknown, ..-=W=-.. -w-as here.

-=-=-

ankit “W”

OK, I think a little explanation is in order for the theme of the log right now. It will be overhauled, do not worry.

–Karan