Happy new year 2010
I am wishing you all a very very happy and prosperous new year 2010.
Wish you will get more than you aspire..
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Different figures of speech(Important for XAT)
METAPHOR: A figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one object or idea is applied to another, thereby suggesting a likeness or analogy between them, as
(1)”The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one.” (2)”I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!”
PERSONIFICATION : A type of metaphor in which distinctive human characteristics, e.g., honesty, emotion, volition, etc., are attributed to an animal, object or idea, as
(1)”The haughty lion surveyed his realm” or (2)”My car was happy to be washed” or (3)”‘Fate frowned on his endeavors.” Personification is commonly used in allegory.
HYPERBOLE: A bold, deliberate overstatement, e.g., (1)”I’d give my right arm for a piece of pizza.” Not intended to be taken literally, it is used as a means of emphasizing the truth of a statement.
N.B: A type of hyperbole in which the exaggeration magnified so greatly that it refers to an impossibility is called an adynaton.
Oxymoron:An oxymoron is a figure of speech that combines normally contradictory terms. They appear in a range of contexts, from inadvertent errors such as extremely average, to deliberate puns like same difference, to literary oxymoron that have been carefully crafted to reveal a paradox (1)The most common form of oxymoron involves an adjective-noun combination. For example,
(a)”And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true.” (b)Some more examples of the more commonly seen “adjective-noun” oxymoron are shown below: Dark Sunshine, Happy Depression, Amazing Dullness, Dynamic Equilibrium.
(2)Less often seen is noun-verb combination such as the line”The silence whistles”
Non Sequitur:It is an argument in which its conclusion does not follow from its premises.In a non sequitur, the conclusion can be either true or false, but the argument is fallacious because there is a disconnection between the premise and the conclusion. All formal fallacies are special cases of non sequitur. The term has special applicability in law, having a formal legal definition. Many types of known non sequitur argument forms have been classified into many different types of logical fallacies. such as
(a)”If you buy this car, your family will be safer.” (While some cars are safer than others, it is possible to decrease instead of increase your family’s overall safety.
(b)”If you do not buy this type of pet food you are neglecting your dog.” (Premise and conclusion are once again unrelated)
(c)”I hear the rain falling outside my window; therefore, the sun is not shining.” (The conclusion is a non-sequitur because the sun can shine while it’s raining.)
Euphemism: Euphemism is a figure of speech which is used to pacify the harsh,offensive, blatant comment. As in
(1)passed away for die (2)washroom for toilet (3)lady of the evening for prostitute.
CAESURA: A rhythmic break or pause in the flow of sound which is commonly introduced in about the middle of a line of verse, but may be varied for different effects. Usually placed between syllables rhythmically connected in order to aid the recital as well as to convey the meaning more clearly, it is a pause dictated by the sense of the content or by natural speech patterns, rather than by metrics. It may coincide with conventional punctuation marks, but not necessarily.
A caesura within a line is indicated in scanning by the symbol (||), as in the first line of Emily Dickinson’s, I’m Nobody! Who Are You I’m no | body! || Who are | you?
N.B: As a grammatical, rhythmic, and dramatic device, as well as an effective means of avoiding monotony, the caesura is a powerful weapon in the skilled poet’s arsenal.
ONOMATOPOEIA: Strictly speaking, the formation or use of words which imitate sounds, like whispering, clang and sizzle, but the term is generally expanded to refer to any word whose sound is suggestive of its meaning.As in Keats’ “The murmurous haunt of flies on summer.”
LITOTES:A figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite.e.g:
(1)”for life’s not a paragraph And death I think is no parenthesis” (2)We made a difference. We made the city stronger, we made the city freer, and we left her in good hands. All in all, not bad, not bad at all.”
ALLITERATION: Also called head rhyme or initial rhyme, the repetition of the initial sounds (usually consonants) of stressed syllables in neighboring words or at short intervals within a line or passage, usually at word beginnings, as in “wild and woolly” or the line from Shelley’s The Cloud.
ASSONANCE : The relatively close juxtaposition of the same or similar vowel sounds, but with different end consonants in a line or passage, thus a vowel rhyme, as in the words, date and fade.
SYMBOL: An image transferred by something that stands for or represents something else, like (1)flag for country, or (2)autumn for maturity.
Symbols can transfer the ideas embodied in the image without stating them, as in Robert Frost’s Acquainted With the Night, in which night is symbolic of death or depression, or Sara Teasdale’s The Long Hill, in which the climb up the hill symbolizes life and the brambles are symbolic of life’s adversities.
Irony:The use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning. A statement or situation where the meaning is contradicted by the appearance or presentation of the idea. The most common form of irony is when the spoken words do not convey the underlying meaning.
For example, it would be ironical for you to sa He is as smart as a soap dish because if your audience did not know what a soap dish was, or how smart it was (not), they might interpret the statement as a compliment, whereas the underlying meaning you intended to convey is an insult. This example is not a very skillful use of irony, because everyone knows what a soap dish is. Irony is much more successful when subtly applied.
Antithesis:The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas in balanced phrases.
e.g: (1)”Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.” (2)”Hillary has soldiered on, damned if she does, damned if she doesn’t, like most powerful women, expected to be tough as nails and warm as toast at the same time.”
wake up call
Now-a-days I refrain myself from writing any piece which seems to showcase the ebullient days and the main cause life disuses to imitate or to generate the same kind of feelings. Not that it matters when you dream to achieve big, and many a times you have to take an inactive stance so far as gaining is concerned. Does it detest you or does it sufficient to generate the ennui to keep yourself miles away from the apparently impossible things, disbelief created from all the diatonic elements somehow or sometimes try to reduce the feel good factors and day by day u get entrenched into a deep paranoia about your capability and compatibility. You hardly remember when you jolted last to your good results. If you find any of them, but your obsession discovers a harsh dichotomy between the two and you get into a groove further and target seems to be unachievable containing something different outright from your previous series of successes. Does one special element can change the definition of success, what you canvassed throughout your life, which is a perfect blend of hard work and tough mental chimera. I think it is not that. Definition of success can’t be changed overnight and it is deeply embedded in your mental faculty which never give up hopes (in spite of back to back defeats) and triggers a lot of vengeance to give the best of you. But when everything falters, you are exterminated by the harsh reality (at least what you feel) you see you can’t retaliate whatever you set in and the balloon of your dream bursts: consequence, you start denouncing your past for it. Yes, only your past can somehow be blamed but I guess ( read think) your giving up mental frame should be accused more than anything. The discern of truth is You can do, not You can’t do. If you want to be at the apogee, these defeats cement your basic well, you have to keep up your faith and have to enshrine your self belief from the externalities. One fine day you you find everything gets into the place.
“If you want something from your heart, the whole world conspires you to get it.”
—This column I have written for me, if you guys are at the same condition then time to rethink. Not the cry or pain, the last smile of victory is what matters the most And for it you have to pass this phase.
All the best!!
This is for U Thoamasites!!
Finally college days are over. Entire four years emasculated the enthusiasm of studying and it is the time to come out of the umbrella and keep the anorexia going.
I started this column with a bashed feeling but why? If it’s true for a few people like me, then it’s better to keep it furtive and look it on a broader sense which is derisory and fills with leg pulling, ecstasy and all matters, that are obsessed as an integral part of engineering college life. Can you forget those last minute cramming before the semester and when we were busy in collecting the guess papers from friends to get a harbinger. Sometimes they ditched but sometimes they came out as the savior for a lot of us. It is easy for the reader to guess about our unfathomable knowledge that we gathered during these four years 
Four years, really a long time. Where few inflated themselves in overnight tasks except studies and few raised their heads from the hoi polloi and a few made balance in between them. And this is time to forget about all these and make ourselves ready to face the new challenges to explore our personality and I am sure that a good bunch of THOMASites of 09 will do the justice and will be at the top of the table, where the life is measured by not so easy points counting. Persons with lesser subtractions will add more values, which will help them to reach the pinnacle and other will lag behind. But when I mention the indicator in bold then it’s not subtle to anticipate the clear picture of my notion. Yes you hit the bull’s eye. Students of this college know how to take the challenges and carry them out blindfolded. At least the rich legacy of strict disciplinary label will be with them. Hectors before that personage and cursed feeling after paying ten rupees, irrespective of the last min haste, will be with the Thomasites forever. Someone’s status massage of orkut advocates the same. It really gives your soul a soothe when you are able to get rid of from the eyes of that very person, who always reaches the college before nine o’clock in the morning, but I am sure, you have to try for umpteen times in order to carry this feel good factor for the rest of the day!!! Am I right ?
College life without paramour or coquette is hard to believe but when it comes to Thomas then there are a very little gatherings who fall in love and make it a huge success. So, not a handsome amount of serious tandems hover around the college premises but I guess most of us at least tried to enter into this alien territory. I can vouch on that. Some said some unsaid and some done some undone, this kind of mixed feeling should be saved in the core of these jovial personalities. Tell me the truth guys. Have you not roamed a single night in this contour till date, irrespective of the milieu.
Was a novice with Flake but expertise with king size. Hope most of us are familiar with these two terms. Smoking in between classes injects the adrenalin to be glued with the lectures to come and keeps the enthu going. Which helps to play the prank inside the classes, specially in between those environmental lectures. Really some unforgettable incidents made by Saurav, Sayantan , Kushal and others. Felines, cows, dogs and what not, I mean every kind of odd sounds kept the teacher flummoxed. You guys really need our bow for converting those intangible classes so interesting. But all of you have the sheer intelligence and you coruscates the same in all examinations. You rocked the portal in all sense.
Entered the hostel in tumbling face. First night of ragging and eventually good interaction and jester with the seniors made the ambience very ease. We carried the legacy and replicate the same with the juniors. Late night booze, movie watching, playing missed calls, sharing books with fellows, frankly speaking we enjoyed every moment of this tenure. After missing the entire last year, really it feels very odd to me as the college life will never come back in this life. Curtailed in another chapter of life. School life surrogates college life but almost all of us remain in the state of oblivion, unless the last minute is round the corner. You may shrug off but the discern of this truth cannot be negated, at least to me.
Everything happens by the accident of time. Some people will be bind together in random meets, some will remain faceless and few will be drifted apart by the flow of time. But these entire four years kept ourselves closed to heart. We exchanged gesters, cracked jokes, played pranks, pulled legs of each other, enjoyed life to the fullest brim and leave no stone unturned of the cannons of friendship. Everything comes with an expiry date. We were together, fought together and done together. One day lives will be seized and no body will be able to even remember this time. But this time, the accident of time will remain forever. Thank you ST. THOMAS’, thank you THOMASITES!!
CAT 2009 Session
TIME already came up with the AIMCAT dates..It will start from 24th of May.Hope all CAT aspirants are slogging hard to make them a part of the hallowed portals. The journey will surely have lots of ups and downs but we will not be dejected at any time, rather will fight against the odds with all guns blazings.
From my part I will do few things to help you guys from my learnings and mistakes. I am a person who never wrote IIT/AIEEE from the fear of not having any chance. The same person today thinks about the biggies. So folks , I invite you all people to contribute and make our dream possible.
I will keep updating this blog as soon as mock session kicks off!!
Two quotes that always inspire me,
“If you really want something from your heart then the whole world conspires you to get it.”
So picture abhi vi baki hai mere dost. “Everything will be happy at the end if it is not , it is not the end.”
Keep your all hopes alive and NEVER SAY DIE!!
Will come back soon.
Here the schedule of AIMCAT goes
AIMCAT 1020 24-May
AIMCAT 1019 7-Jun
AIMCAT 1018 21-Jun
AIMCAT 1017 5-Jul
AIMCAT 1016 19-Jul
AIMCAT 1015 26-Jul
AIMCAT 1014 2-Aug
AIMCAT 1013 9-Aug
AIMCAT 1012 16-Aug
AIMCAT 1011 23-Aug
AIMCAT 1010 30-Aug
AIMCAT 1009 6-Sep
AIMCAT 1008 20-Sep
AIMCAT 1007 27-Sep
AIMCAT 1006 4-Oct
AIMCAT 1005 11-Oct
AIMCAT 1004 18-Oct
AIMCAT 1003 25-Oct
AIMCAT 1002 1-Nov
AIMCAT 1001 8-Nov
Source: TIME talktime forum.
2009 Oscar Winners
After a long hiatus again India is in the list..Couple of attempts din’t make it to there..This time marketing was on our favor with spell bound direction and songs.That’s the result..Anyway here is the full list of 2009 OSCARS
Best Picture: Slumdog Millionaire
Actor in a Leading Role: Sean Penn,Milk
Actress in a Leading Role: Kate Winslet,The Reader
Actor in a Supporting Role: Heath Ledger,The Dark Knight
Actress in a Supporting Role: Penélope Cruz,Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Director: Danny Boyle,Slumdog Millionaire
Original Screenplay: Dustin Lance Black, Milk
Screenplay: Simon Beaufoy, Slumdog Millionaire
Animated Feature Film: WALL-E
Foreign Language Film: Departures (Japan)
Original Score: A.R. Rahman, Slumdog Millionaire
Original Song: “Jai Ho,” A.R. Rahman and Gulzar; Slumdog Millionaire
Art Direction: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Cinematography: Slumdog Millionaire
Costume Design: The Duchess
Makeup: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Film Editing: Slumdog Millionaire
Documentary Feature: Man on Wire
Documentary Short Subject: Smile Pinki
Animated Short Film: La Maison en Petits Cubes
Live Action Short Film: Spielzeugland (Toyland)
Sound Editing: The Dark Knight
Sound Mixing: Slumdog Millionaire
Visual Effects: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
CAT AND MY LIFE
CAT, this weird word I heard when I was in first year. One of my pals uttered it. I had no perception about it beforehand. He told about the awesome placements of IIMs and I just let him allow to speak,what the hell I do to think about this diadem, let those people to do their work at B-schools. And eventually was busy to indulge in other egregious works other than studies. Rocked the hostel life. CAT was like one among those frivolous things for which men become mad.
Life went on. Never got time to think about what I wanted to do, my life was boisterous amidst the regular hangover due to hard cocktailed liquor consumption,almost at every night. Then all on a sudden, I got a friend with whom I found myself most comfortable. Her every word was really inspiring to me. When the same word ,CAT, heard from her, the impulse was like a magic. First time managed some time to contemplate on it. Browse different sites and got to know, it is an exam which tests people on Maths, English and another section named DI(God knows what is DI!!!). I was lost after seeing English on it. After fetching just 80% in Maths in XII, I was also sure Math was one of my dreaded region(That is why wanted to become a doctor 
) So was dejected,considering CAT as not a cup of tea of mine. But assured my friend to seat for it. Somehow collected a paper of previous CAT. Solved the Math section. At least 50% question was doable by me. Got the enthu and signed up with a CAT related site. But it was just like hovering around without any aim. In between placements time came. After managing a call from a s/w company I again was back to my previous mode. Party time was prevalent in full swing. CAT!!!(Woh to bahut din bad hai,so just enjoy….)
May be this idyllic life was not stored for me. Had to loose that closest friend, without whom I could not imagine even a single second of my life.(Don’t know whether I can consider it as the end of paramour or not.) Life became a full circle. Loosing hope from everything. In the meantime I enrolled with TIME AIMCAT series. But I had no interest to seat for it. Most of the time was passed in recapitulation of the ephemeral relation. Attempted the first test but with full frisson. Result was very abysmal and no hope was stored for me at any section. 2-3 AIMCATs were passed unnoticed. Now I have to say about the site Pagalguy.com.Have seen lots of people were busy in discussing about one of the mock tests. Ambience was electrified. Could not hold on my finger without registering at that site. Then I realized why people is that mad for IIM-CAT. But I was not that prepared, now planned for giving some inputs from my side. I passed innumerable times in several forums, specially those articles which were like apotheosis of success. For the first time ever in my life,I dreamt about something big. Those fellows who had done it became my inspiration and I started to burn my midnight oil. AIMCAT was busy to take the revenge of those lousy sluggish days that I passed and every test used to castigate me badly. I found verbal section deliberately equivocate. But I did not loose my hope rather I was enjoying. Pagalguy and CAT have become my two close friends and that pain was blown away in smoking. Filter Wills, AIMCATs, Pagalguy and I rocked every day and night. What I have not got from the journey? Everything!!! Seniors like Himanshuda(IIM-K), Saugatda(IIM-A), Sohamda(IIM-C), Sumitda(XLRI), Prem sir(moderator of Pagalguy), Sinchanda, Ronilda, Somyada, Rahul and lot more…Seniors were ready with their helping hands, they always could manage time from their hectic schedules. Ronilda, Sinchanda were like my guides and friends. I felt free to revert anything and never hesitated to ping them at any time.(Guys you are rock. Wish you all a very successful life.) Never stopped myself and score was improving. Quant cutoff was crossed almost effortlessly and I performed DI alternatively but VA, where I could not mange to improve that much. D-DAY came, after having a cursory glance I came to know IIMs have no clemency for people like me who are weak in Verbal. So all dreams shattered. Could not manage to sleep well for two days. I am again in the journey. Hope to make it this time. I am already signed up for a full time course and is taking proper care on my weak links.
People say it’s like another exam, but really how much I got from it, I couldn’t forget. Those ebullient mock days, the forming of DT(aka Dream Team), UDT(aka Underdog Team), Mocks Premier with refulgent stalwarts are my inspiration of these days. Members of insane lands have carried the legacy of PGs for another year. 3 members of our DT got the magic figure 100%tile and PG is pervading with lots of calls. Hats off to you man who made our insane land proud. CAT has changed my life and direction of thought, it has offered a chance of insurgence, it turned on my vengeance. CAT has given me lots of amigos and what not? I am extremely elated how’s my life is passing. If I can make it to one of the DTs then it will be my greatest achievement amongst the callow life. CAT or no CAT, life flows but these prep days of exam is like an asset. Though it’s like any other exams but lots of emotions are attached with it. Prem sir rightly said,“Give CAT, to feel it.”
Picture abhi vi baki hai mere dost, it’s just a prologue. Gearing up for last shot, and don’t want to be denied
Satyam:Crisis of confidence or Crisis of revenues?
On the morning of Jan. 7, Ramalinga Raju, the chairman of troubled IT company Satyam Computer Services, has sent a starilng letter to his board and exchange board of India.There he clearly acknowledged that he had inflated the amount of cash on the balance sheet of India’s fourth-largest IT company by nearly $1 billion, incurred a liability of $253 million on funds arranged by him personally, and overstated Satyam’s September 2008. Raju made us shocked by admitting to one of the biggest corporate frauds in Indian history. Raju confessed that for years Satyam had been inflating its numbers.
Now it is notable that Satyam Computer Services is India’s 4th largest company.But this amount of inflation really arising the question whether that position can be owed by Satyam or not.When global economy is navigating through the sub prime crisis or economy slowdown,this kind of shock makes the whole IT industry bewildered and it is tough to foretell what is going to be with Satyam.Though different companies of IT sectors claim Satyam’s case is different but no doubt it will leave a greater impact at the present scenario.
Investors sent Satyam’s Mumbai-listed shares plunging 78% after his announcement. Regulators and investigators are now working to unearth more details of the very comany, and Raju has to face a possible prison term.But we can have a look at several milestones of Satyam which made it India’s one of the best IT company. 1987 Satyam was incorporated as private limited company in 1991 it made a debut in BSE 1993 was another landmark for Satyam when it signed up with Dun and Bradstreet and awarded by ISO 9001 certification 1999 was a golden year for Satyam because it has been listed as 1st Indian internet company listed on NASDAQ.After several achievements and rewards 2006 it revenue crossed US $1 billion.At last 2008 within only two years Satyam’s balance sheet was shown to have US $2 billion into it’s account-fastest growing company.
When Indian IT market is turbulent then Satyam’s botched attempts really aggravates the situation to a grater extent.Satyam’s shares fell nearly 80 percent in India and dragged down Bombay’s main benchmark index 7.3 percent reported on January 8.All other companies now started offering the customers of Satyam.53000 employs of Satyam as well as fresh graduates of Satyam now find themselves in a fix.
Now we cannot discard the fact, Indian economy setup is emerged as a risky environment which is deprived of regulatory oversight and protections.It also highlights cultural risks inherent in India’s family-owned businesses, which have long battled issues such as nepotism, mismanagement, weak boards and lack of transparency and professionalism.Only half of the companies are firmly controlled which reached the landmark of 30 share index under BSE.This episode could caste a cloud in investment @outsourcing sector. If it happens then yes India is going to plunge into financial crisis in nearby feature.But investing companies thinks it will not have that big impact on investments if you are looking forward for 6-10 years.But this is time when Crash Management system would have to be controlled in strong hand and obviously employment will be a bigger issue.By this time of economy slowdown small portfolios may become larger and they all are tuned with same opinion, private equity is still running in a safe condition.
IT AIN’T OVER TILL IT’S OVER
” The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It is a very mean and nasty place and it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t how hard you hit; it’s about how hard you can get hit, and keep moving forward. How much you can take, and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done. Now, if you know what you’re worth, then go out and get what you’re worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hit, and not pointing fingers saying you ain’t where you are because of him, or her, or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain’t you. You’re better than that.”…ROCKY BALBOA
Life,where priority changes like anything. When we consider it as a motionless river, then come to know how capricious it is! It is like a multi dimensional and flamboyant cube which never takes anything for granted and one second means a lot,It can do anything; yes anything……………….
In the prologue of a village guy’s life,nothing gets that much importance to be mentioned. Just a callow kind of life dealings.When he was on the verge of taking secondary examination a challenge was going to be explored in his idyllic life, which instigated the fuel of strong zeal and determination to prove his worth.Most probably he understood life in another way,which is neither whimsical nor a bed of roses.
That boy was really struggling with his studies and got literally flunked in the additional Mathematics in the pre-final year of secondary examination.He was clueless, no support was on his shoulder and he became a food of teasing of everyone.The topper too advised him to leave addl and swing to other subject.Within this kind of ambience; he did not know what to do to ameliorate his result.Male ego didn’t permit him to leave life in halcyon and doing nothing like the previous years.He wanted a change in his life and it was not that easy for a juvenile who rarely used to touch his books since nine years and liked to play video games and cricket.It did not matter that much whether it is an examination time or not.But first time in his life he took the result another way and wanted deliberately to surmount this task anyhow. Someone has rightly uttered ,”Tease plays an important role if it ignites the fire in your stomach”.Heart was broken but belief was unshaken.With all hope he went to a most renowned teacher at nearby town.Alas!!!The teacher was enough confident that it was impossible for that lad to conquer the loads subtle tasks and as well as he was frightened pondering that his carrier might go to an astray for that non serious fellow.The boy wanted someone who can salvage him.All on a sudden he came to know about a teacher of mathematics, who was more than a teacher;he was like a source of energy and inspiration.After a long tete-a-tete with the man that guy became confident and somehow was able to understand himself that still there was a chance and he didn’t want to leave the battle anyway.He was out of the ambivalence and threw shattered confidence outta window-Vengeance was triggered.He wanted a revenge to stop all bloody comments.
First time priority was changed: With this chimera he became a bellicose and cried overnight.Promised himself to win here and to bit the topper in addnl. Math. Used to burn his mid night oil and was strongly focused on the prep. Did his best.Now exam time came.After a pathetic Mathematics examination(compulsory) still he held on his nerve for the D-DAY: Additional Mathematics.He navigated through the paper well, barring few mistakes paper was aced.Result was out.Praying to the almighty he checked his result.Eyes were glued on the Addnl. marks.Wow!!!read as 95.With his utter surprise he was able to bit the lady topper.Tears rolled on his cheeks.He won at last.He was tired.He was lost in delicious slumber.Still that line was echoing in his mind: “It ain’t over till it’s over” .
Raiso’n D Etre: Elan For Voila
