Karnatakada bandugalu

I guess ppl have already seen this..but if not, this is a good one..enjai!! :)

English Band	Karnataka Version	Complexity
ACDC	CurrentuByattree	High
Aha	Oho	Killer
All Saints	Yella Saadhugale	Low
Audio Slave	Dhvani Gulaama	Low
BabyFace	MaguMaka	Low
Back Street Boys	Hind beedhi huduguru	Low
Bad Boys Blue	Neeli Poli huduguru	Medium
Bad Company	Kettu Kharkane	Medium
Baker Street	Iyengar Raste	High
Bananarama	Devuru Baalehannu	Killer
Barenaked ladies	Nagnavaadhu Hengusuru	Low
Billy Idol	Bekkina Vigraha	High
Black crowes	Kappu Kaagigalu	Low
Black Sabbath	Kari Sabbakki bathu	High
Blind Melon	Kurudu Kalangri	High
Chemical Brothers	Rasayane sodharegalu	High
ColdPlay	ChaliAta	Low
Collective Soul	Atma Chow Chow	High
Color me badd	Kettudage banna haki	High
counting Crows	Enuso kaagigalu	Low
Creed	Vichara	High
Culture Club	Samskaradha Ispet Kendra	Killer
Cutting Crew	Hajam Nan makalu	High
Deep Blue Something	Aallla Neeli eno	High
Def Leppard	Kivdu Chirute	Low
Dire Straits	Sakkath Ayomaya	High
Duran Duran	Maadu Ood-dha Maadu Ood-dha	High
Eagles	Garuda	Low
Everything but the Girl	Figar bittu bere yalla	Medium
Faith Hill	Nambike Betta	Medium
Faster Pussycat	Bega bekku	High
Fine Young Cannibals	Valle yuva nara-bakshakaru	High
FireHouse	Benkimane	Low
Fools Garden	Huchura udhyanavana	Medium
FourPlay	Nalaku Jana Aadodhu	High
Garbage	Kachada	Low
Gipsy Kings	Lambadi Raja	Killer
Go West	Paschima Hogi	Medium
GodSmack	Devuru Kapala	Medium
Goo goo dolls	gugoo (peddu) gombegalu	Killer
Grateful Dead	Aabhari Sattavaru	High
Greenday	Hasuru Dhina	Low
HoobaStank	Yarappa bittidhu?	High
INXS	Solpa Jaasthi Aithu	High
Iron Maiden	Kabna-dha Kanya	Medium
Journey	Prayana	Low
Kansas	Krishnan maavan-dhu	Killer
Linkin Park	Jodso Udyana	High
Little River Band	Chikka Nadhi Baaja	Low
Lou bega	Ousara	Killer
Matchbox 20	Benkipatna ippathu	Medium
Maxi Priest	Langa-ony Poojari	High
Meat Loaf	Mamsada thundu	Medium
MegaDeth	Vishaala-Saavu	Medium
Metallica	Kabna-nekkan-a?	High
Modern Talking	Aadunika Maathu	Medium
Moody Blues	Neeli Feelingu	Medium
Naughty by Nature	Modhlinda Thunturu	High
NickelBack	Childre vapas	Medium
No Doubt	Anumanane illa	Medium
Noble Savages	Punyathma baddi makalu	Killer
Papa Roach	Jirle appa	Medium
Pearl Jam	Mutthina Gojju	High
Pet Shop Boys	Saakuva Praani Angadi Huduguru	High
PM Dawn	Sandhye-ne Bellagge	Killer
Radio Head	Aakasha Vani Thale	Medium
Rainbow	Indradhanusu	Low
Red Hot Chilli Peppers	Bisi Bisi Kempu Menasinkai galu	Medium
Red Nex	Kempu Kathu	Low
Roxette	Yella Thara Kallu	Killer
Rush	Bega	Low
Salt N Pepa	Uppu Kara	Low
Scorpions	Chhelugalu	Low
Seal	Mucchu	Killer
Simply Red	Sumne Kempu	Medium
six pence none the richer	aaru kaasu astay saaku	High
Smashing Pumpkins	Vadadhuhogthairo Kumblekaigalu	Medium
Smashmouth	Moothi vadee	High
Snoop Doggy Dogg	Thika-nai-mari	Killer
Soul Asylum	Atma ke Lodge	High
Spice Girls	Sambhara Hudigiru	High
StarShip	Nakshatradha Dhoni	Medium
Stone Temple Pilots	Kallidha Devasthanada Pushpaka chalakaru	Killer
Take That	Thogo Adhu	Medium
Tears For Fears	Bhayake Kaneeru	High
The Byrds	Pakshigalu	Low
The Police	Hoysala	High
The Who	Yaaru	Low
Third Eye Blind	Moorne Kannu Kurudu	Medium
U2	Ninu kuda?	High
UB40	Mallya Nalavatthu	Killer
Uncle Cracker	Vadiyo mama	Medium
Uriah Heep	Shagni Kuppe	Medium
Weather Report	Vaathavarna Soochane	Medium
wet wet wet	vadday vadday vaddy	Low
Yes	Howdu	Low
Bands banned in Karnataka, Translation Problems.
Jamiroquai
Jethro Tull
Antharax
Queensryche
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Credence Clearwater Revival
Bands that have always been welcome, (Names already sound like kannada)
Beck	Cat	Pre-Trans
Nelly	Tap	Pre-Trans
Madonna	Shall we?	Pre-Trans

A random thought on Television

Our previous generation called TV as an idiot box. But they forgot that it is fun to look at an idiot. It is actually amusing. At my place, i get 4 channels on TV and I love watching any of them. It is like real life.. filled with suspense. You will not know what will be the next program going to be like. you may like it or may not. It is the suspense and the randomness which make it so different from a cinema hall .

I always liked to watch TV. It gives me great pleasure to watch something which is so utterly foolish and scrappy but lively. It fills me with a relief that I am not one of those characters they show on the scree.. This may look like addiction but what the heck??. It is relaxing and thats what I want to do right now.

The "Vikas" Identity

No..this is not the latest book by Robert Ludlum..rather, it is about this guy called Vikas, that's me whoz kinda lost his "identity" in the US of A. How, you ask? Read on...

Firstly, this is a crazy place where people are tightly bound to the rules of calling someone by their firstname and lastname (I had also posted an article abt this once, remember??), and right from the day I have landed in US, I've had problems with my name. For those who do not know, my entire name as per the passport reads:
(Given Names) Venkataramana Vikas
(Last Name)Yelagondanahalli
Some examples of reactions which people have had reading my name...
My first day while registering, at the International Students House: Your name!!... Your Name!! God!
At the Social Security Office:
Officer:While you were 4 years old, did your parents ask you to remember THIS name??
Me: No, in India, I go by Vikas.Y.V.
Officer: Oh, thank goodness me!!!
My VLSI prof: So you are the guy with the super long name!!
Another Prof, reading out my name: Yel..Yala...Yalago...(triumphantly)Yalagondanaal!!!

With all these problems, I advice people to call me by my First Name, Vikas which is much easier. If they can do that well, my identity would still remain intact..but how do people call me????
They call me Vikas (Pronouned: Y Kus), or Vikas (Pronouned: Veee Kus). Can't help it. Viking is spelt as "Y King" and not "V King"...A few days I tried correcting them and told them the actual pronounciation, but after a while I gave up.

Recently I met a guy from Sri Lanka and we were talking and he asked my name. I pronouned my name as VeeKus, so he asked, Vikas? (The Indian way!). That's when i realized I have lost my identity...

Funny Comments

This is great..
Take a look at the last blog by Shaggy on rvinst..

Yup "An exhilarating Experience just missed"

Click on comments and there u go!!!

Link

Check out the 4th comment by scott

The most amusing (auto??!!) comment I ever read.

Anyone booking a ticket to texas now????

What about you shaggy or ambar??? Do u guys have any hand in this?? :))

Elizabethtown

Aim: To get a break from stupid assignment and to give some rest to the rear end which is already sticking to the lab seat.

Abstract: Watch Elizabeth town which is vouched for by roommates in a solitary cinema hall in clemson.

Procedure : Go directly to the cinema at 9:40pm from the lab. Roomates to purchase the necessary ticket.

Result: Slight delay but BAD movie .. Had to think a lot to understand the story and finally give up.No story!! Confusinig and made me lose sleep for 2 hrs.

Conclusion: Never watch a movie which has the name of a city and boasts as intellectual movie.

Grade : C

To hell with lab assignments

Applies to all electrical engineers who have/had lab in their BE and-or masters courses

Being an indian and a RVite at that, I had never imagined that labs will be tough to complete. All we had to do in BE was to copy a senior's ckt , rig up the ckt, tune the pots and get something which looked like what the senior had got. This is how we all passed the lab and assigned marks similar to the senior's record we were using.

It is not the way in MS!! Every univ has lot of funds to get all sorts of liscenced softwares to help (??) students. So every assignment goes like this

Day 1. Prof gives specs and deadline of 4 weeks...Everybody thinks 4 weeks is too long

1st week: Read some books/paper which use the words given in the specs

2nd week: Try completing the assignments of other courses

3rd week: Start with the design, not able to meet the specs, Panic!!!!!!!!

4th week: start consulting the prof, ask for extension. Prof agrees for 1 week extension

5th week: Assuming the design is right, start simulations, no luck
2 days before neew deadline: do night out, somehow get the simulation working
1day before: Do night out, connect on the breadboard, no output!! Panic!!!!
Day of submission, Panic!!, write report, work on the breadboard, Panic!!, submit the report without output

After 1 week: Prof gives his solution and says all designs that were used are wrong. Everybody gets a B

Panic!! think about improving the grade in next test atleast which is due 4 weeks from now

Big Brother in action

This might be in chennai. But I think I have heard of these stories in blore also..

An exhilerating experience...just missed

You all must have heard the proverb..."u got food in your hand but you couldn't put it in your mouth".Well, something similar happened to me.

My orientation ended recently with a trip to a camp near the Smoky mountains, a really beautiful place and a 45 min drive from my college, though we did not exactly go to the mountains. It was a nice trip but the journey was not like how we have in India, with Dumb C, antakshari etc..., it was just sit and talk as there was a mixture of a few Indians, lots of chinkis (japs, chinese, koreans and taiwanese) and a bit of europeans and canadians.

The place was good, as soon as we went there, we had some salads and bread to eat (for veggies, non veggies had lot of choices), followed by some activities like canoeing, riflery, wall climbing, zip line(going from one end of the rope to another end at a lower elevation tied from the top) etc..we wanted to go canoeing but the bus was full, someone said there's gonna be a 2nd trip later, so we went to riflery. That part is run by a guy who's a shooter in the US military. The targets were not some 100 balloons in front of you like in India. It was a sheet of paper with those usual concentric circles, 50m or 50 ft away (dunno exactly) and we had to wear those googles, headphones etc. and shoot them. Well, my career as a sniper is out of the question...I missed all 5 as I could not even make out the target properly with goggles over my goggles!
well, we went back for canoeing, they said, no more trips :(

well, we went to zipline and wall climbing instead, but it was so crowded we ditched it. we went swimming then. man, what an awesome sight that was! we were swimming along with blonde babes in bikinis and playing waterpolo with them ;). this went on for about 2 hrs..

Then we went to archery, was much better in bows and arrows, infact i even hit a bull's eye (almost), came back for dinner and had lasagna.

After dinner, there was some group activity where we were supposed to talk and some bullshit like that, that took a lot of time. the chinks talk a lot, and we cant even understand their english!

there were 5 topics, but it was cut down to 3 (thankfully!). By then it was dark, around 8.30 PM (it gets dark only then). There were 3 options for us then, a bonfire (no way!), a night swim (hmm. interesting..), but we took the 3rd option, the V-swing. There were 8 of us for this, 7 indians and 1 chinki (i always thought that chinki was a guy, turned out to be a girl, we were discussing those things right in front of her, of course in hindi). now, this V-swing requires 8 ppl, 7 to pull a rope and 1 person to swing. First you'll have to wear all protective straps, then go up a ladder where there is a rope and they'll tie you to that. then, all of us, will start pulling a rope tied to him and he is carried upwards, more than 100 ft from the ground. then he jerks the rope open and starts swinging like tarzan!! the best part of that is, it is pitch dark and in the middle of a forest and we swing from a rope for around 5-8 mins!!! one by one, 3 guys and the chink finished swinging, I was next in line, all ready with straps and helmet etc.. The time was 9.35 PM, we were supposed to go back at 9.45 PM. everybody thought I'll finish it and probably the next guy in line. The person before me gave us a scare first, he started swinging, went some where and did not even shout! and after a while, he realized that and we heard a 'Aaaaahhhhhh....' from the trees and he came swinging back, much to our relief. Anyway, he finshed, I was all set, and then..the damned rope got stuck somewhere in the trees and they started looking for it, and after a few mins, they said, "guys, its gonna take some time, please remove your harness and get back to the main area, or u'll miss the bus!!" man, I was so f.....g close!! :(

All in all, an exhilerating experience...just missed in the end.

Bangalore is called the silicon valley....oops

Ever heard of foot-in-mouth disease?? Seems like I am contracting that disease after coming to US. Let me expalin a bit more.

We had our orientation today. Everything was going great. Then came this girl from new-york who was supposed to be our mentor for the day.She looked great but was married. Spoke abt her ex-boyfriend for some time(phew.. I pity her husband). Then she started asking things abt our background. When it was my turn, I said my name and I am from india. she asked me the city. I said bangalore. She was curious. She had never heard of the city. So I started to explain that the city is in the south of india and it is also called the silicon valley. This made her blush. I never understood why. But after a few mins of silence, she asked me what the silicon valley meant. I said bangalore is the hub of IT industries so they compare it with silicon valley of US california belt. With a smile, she replied that she thought that silicon valey as a slang for that "silicone" implanted(guess where!!) place . It was my turn to get shocked this time. Then onwards, the mentorship program went flat down with only academics and university to talk abt.

Phew.. talk abt bragging abt ur city and end up being the implant..

My Pre US adventures

Hello everybody,

Right now, I am in the US, in Knoxville, TN to be precise (I think most of you guys know that anyway). So far I haven't had any interesting adventures as I am just settling in, but I am confident there are loads of things to come in the future. Hunting for part time jobs right now, though I have got one as a tutor for undergraduates( This is a little tricky one. I get paid by no. of students per hour, e.g. 8 students, $8 per hour, something like that. The problem is, this is not a regular class, only extra tutorials. If 1 student bunks, I get $1 less that day, also, students who register pay only for classes they attend. Also, getting 8 students is no easy task!!). Anyways, I might get some other job at Dining, tech support etc... and if I get one, I'll take that.so thats my life right now...

Anyways, I had resigned from Infy on the 6th of July itself and sa at home for a month. Before that, I had taken 20 days leave(LOP) for "preparing" for my Masters. But the only thing I did in those 20 days was watch some 100 movies, hog like a pig and gain a few kgs. So i decided to compensate by working harder after the resignation. So first day, I actually took out a book on electronic circuits, got stuck for an hour trying to understand how equation 1 got differenciated to equation 2, left all hopes after 1 hour and threw away the book. Did not touch sudy books for the next few days, while I again started watching movies, but was also shopping for some time.
Meanwhile, mom started to teach me cooking and I showed deep interest in that. Now, I have learnt so many dishes that i can start a catering service business here!! But i think I need a B1 visa for that ;)

After a few days, I took out the book on digital design and started studying. This time I was stuck with K-Maps (not that i struggled, I started solving all exercise problems just for fun). After a while I realised, it is not so important and proceeded further.

My dental experience:
My visit to the dentist is one thing I can never forget (who'll forget??). The doctor has a huge clinic and it looks really good. He is also a professor and gets many students to his clinic to explain things. BTW, all students were girls, some babes also!
When I went inside, there was a patient withhis mouth wide open and the doctor and some 5 girls seeing inside. I sneered at the man's plight. Well, my turn came and the doctor told all the girls to examine me!! I got shit scared, being treated like a guinea pig by final year students!! luckily, the girl who treated me had some experience and did a good job, though I gave her a tough time, she admitted later. BTW, I had some 15 cavities!! (2 months in switzerland, atleast 4 chocolates a day, chocolate supply athome for next 1.5 months. 15 is a small no.). All the 15 cavities were filled in the same day and it took 1.5 hrs, with my mouth fully open most of the time. OMG, that was one horrible day!!

My other visits to doctors went fine, I had to make a lot of visits in the end as I caught viral fever with one week to go. had all sorts of medication one can think of, but now I think i am allright.

In the meanwhile, we had some gettogethers, the class one did not go well, because of have rains. Only me, nidhi, Harris and Yogs met up on a sunday evening and later, most of the other guys at the airport, that too for 5 mins. Had a big problem with excess baggage and started throwing things, some back to mom, some in my friends bag, some in my cabin baggage etc..Anyways, thanks guys, all those who came to the airport to see me off. I never had the chance to talk properly then.

My flight was Ok. Met a friend of mine in mumbai who came to the airport and we went to dinner and had pav bhaji. Well, all those who want to taste pav bhaji of aamchi mumbai and think Bangalore is bad (many people in Infy were complaining about the abd quality in Bangalore compared to mumbai), think again. It tasted the same. nothing special. Anyways, London was boring. Sat for 5 hrs doing nothing as the airport is expensive. Even to browse the internet, i had to shell out 1 pound! Anyway, I had a friend for company and a book, and I spent time. From London to Chicago, there were some good movies in the flight like Kung fu hustle, some jlo movie, monster-in-law, million $ baby among others. Chicago is a real busy airport, and immigration took more than an hour. Anyway, I had lots of time for the next flight and everything went smoothly. The local flights there are real small, 40 seater capacity and they do not serve anything other than juice and peanuts. Well, not a big problem, and I landed in Knoxville at 10.39 PM, Indian students had come to pick me up, so went with them to the apartment.

Well, hopefully everything goes well and I get assistantships ASAP. do pitch in the comments (i know there is nothing special in this post, wrote it just for the heck of it. No posts for a long time, thats why). Nidhi, by now even you'll be in US. Put down ur experience as well. Lets publish more posts guys!

Cheers,
Vicky