+2 results - Namakkal sweeps the accolades

Tamilnadu Directorate of Government Examinations have declared+2 Results today May 22 2012 (Wednesday). Pass Percentage- 86.7%

Toppers List: (With Tamil as 1st Language)


1) State 1st Rank - 1189 Marks (out of 1200) 
- - Sushmita from SCV Hr Sec School,Namakkal 

2) State 2nd Rank - 3 Students - 1188 Marks
- T Manikandan from Namakal
- T Kaarthika from Nammakkal
- B Ashok Kumar from Namakal

3) State 3rd Rank - 2 Students - 1187 Marks
- Maheshwari from Namakal
- Prabha Sankari from Namakal

Centum 200/200 Statistics:

- Mathematics - 2656 Students Scored 200 out of 200
(2720 students in 2011)

- Chemistry - 1444 Students Scored 200 out of 200
(1243 students in 2011)

- Physics - 142 Students Scored 200 out of 200
(646 students in 2011)

- Biology - 616 Students Scored 200 out of 200


Tags: +2 State First, Second, Third Rank - TN 12th 1st 2nd 3rd Ranks - State Board Plus Two, HSC, 12, Plus 2 Top Marks - Highest Score - Pondicherry Puducherry Public Exam - Centum Hundred out of Hundred 200/200 Statistics - Mudhal Manavar Peyar - Thervu Mudivugal

Congrats to all successful candidates. 

P.S: Thanks to vaartaahaa blogspot for sharing this.

Indimerica

I read this recent article on NY Times. Pretty interesting observation by a not-so-biased author.
#AusterityVsProsperity

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/opinion/sunday/how-india-became-america.html?_r=1&hp

Run Baby Run

I have been using mapmyrun.com for logging my workouts/runs and looking at the stats (some motivation for my next run). Today, I was quite surprised to notice the beautiful integration of Google Earth for each run. Hi5 for the new visualization.

http://www.mapmyrun.com/routes/view/67820650#



#google_earth #mapmyrun 

My Valentine

Hard struck Cupid's arrow
Just seeing her dazzling shadow

O'girl, beauty can ne'er personify you
   
Kissing thy nectarous lips
Endowed me with immortal bliss

Enchanting eyes & graceful smile
Even in my grave, 'll keep me alive

Never love, leave me never
Clever love, be with me ever

Cornelian dilemma

மூன்று வருடம் நெஞ்சினில் சுமந்த அவளுக்கும்
பத்து மாதம் கருவில் சுமந்த தாயிற்கும்
இடையில் நடக்கும் போரிலே,

தோல்வியுற்று மாய்ந்தது அவனும், அவனின் காதலும் !!!

End of First Semester !

First of all, wish you all a very happy new year. Adios 2009 & welcome 2010. I could have never wished for a better year with God showering his blessings over me throughout the year. Many things have changed positively around me and in me as well. Now, 2010 seems to be promising and I hope it turns out even better.

All these days I had been following the 'Think before you ink' rule in blogging but I had been doing only the first part while my blogspot went to hibernate. So, here I am to blog my random thoughts which might or not make sense to you.

After the last exam of my first semester, I wanted to cease this blogging hiatus. But I was quite drowning in enjoyment, particularly watching TV series like Prison break and How I met your mother (btw, both are good.. watch them when you find time). Ya, my first semester in Virginia Tech comes to a close and believe me, I have no idea how fast it could be. But it has been a great semester, my start of life in US. My experience in this whole new world has been great here so far.

With a Graduate Research Assistant job at Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, the semester started very smoothly and no financial worries. To my knowledge, the free education system cannot not really work well in many places, but mine has always been a special case. I have loved my studies so far and hope to do so even in the forthcoming semesters.

On the disappointing side, I did not get a chance to visit many parts of US. I just made a nice trip to Asheville (NC) with my friends here during the thanksgiving hols. The trip was wonderful and the rafting experience has made it memorable. Last week, I had been to Seattle and enjoyed my stay there for 3 days. Hope I explore more of US soon !

Realization Point..

It was yet another day in my busy life (ya, I am busy nowadays. .trust me). I sat with my laptop with coffee in hand. For every sip of coffee, I was thinking of the various deadlines of projects, assignments, dates of quizzes etc. Suddenly, the network was down and I was not able to connect, even to google.com. I was turned off completely and it seemed like the whole world has come to a halt.

No sooner the connection restored, my mom reached me in skype from India. She was really sad and inquired about me and my health more than usual. Wondering why, I stopped her and asked why she was worried about me, when she told me that it was more than a week since I spoke to her. "What? A week? Mom, stop kidding.. I spoke to you a couple of days back and ..", just when i realized 'ya, she is true. It was 8 days back when I last spoke to her'.

I started to realize (tardily as usual) on how I'm into the internet world more than real one - mails, chats, twitter, blogging, facebook, orkut, news etc. And truly, Google is my best friend now, to the extent that I can't imagine a life for a day without it. Ridiculously, I can live without speaking to my mom for more than a week but not without google for a day. What a major transformation !

I am not able to stay from internet for more than a hour. My heart pounds for getting myself connected online - to refresh inactive mailbox every five minutes & keep waiting for non-coming incoming mails, to check the online list of buddies in instant messenger when no one even cares a damn to ping you and so on...

It is an unfortunate fact that we are trying to spend more time finding friends online than meeting the real ones next door. We are ready to spend hours scrapping, tweeting, blogging ourselves to really live this second life rather than seconding to live our real life.. So sad !