12. Finally, final year

Final year was completely filled with project team selection, project meetings by team members and all the other things related to projects.

We had to do two projects one in 7th Sem on Java and one main projects which should be done in one year(i.e, 7th and 8th sems). Teams were made(according to attendence register) for both the projects and the teams would decide among themselves and do two projects.

Our "P" group, as PSC (Prashanth SC) called it, was consisting of 6 people with names starting from "P". The only thing i did not like about the team was that there were no girls in our team.

Project without girls? YUCK!

Everybody was busy in project meetings, discussing about their project. But people "P" group never met until time came to submit the project report and implementation.

When time came, everybody met to decide which project to do and who can do it for us.
An unanimous answer came "Vikas". But which project? some body suggested "intranet chatting".

Done. Everyone agreed.

Project started, everybody read little about chatting software and used to write some code which never worked. Some ideas poured in from outside to check out the Java-Complete reference book for Scrabble game and it has one in built chatting software.

Leave out the AWT, networking packages,none in team knew Java. We started coding(copying) from the book. Nothing seemed to work.

Two days left for demo. We brought in Vikas to help us out.

Of course not without "bribing" him with a cup of cold coffee in night. He started coding and even finished doing it in 2 or 3 hours. We wanted to make a chatting software but ended up in making a "broadcasting" software (as it was easy).

While, some lines in Kannada (as i dont want to call them as poems) could be found in my scribbling pad. Here its in English ;)

Ninaginta ninna nenape chenda,
nenapada iruttave kanna munda.

Gelati,
nee jothegiddare kasta-dukha ella doora,
nee illavadare ondondu kshaNavu bhaara.

We also had to decide and start our final year main project. We were interested in "Design and implementation of DBMS on Linux" project. Every one except Pritvi accepted, as he was not present for the project meeting.

After he came to know about the project, told,"Abey, saalo, abhi isko nahi kar sake toh kidhar se bhi utha bhi nahi sakte. Yeh kaisa project karne ko decide kiya".

Somehow the project started and again Vikas helped us to design the project.

I used to call up home every sunday. Till now, i used to dial correct number
(connecting to home); but now whenever i pick up phone my fingers automatically dialed number which got connected to Krishna Sundari (yes, Raji). After talking to her, i used to call up home by typing the numbers carefully.

Prashant(SC) used to come early in afternoons to work on the project we all had chosen. But only to find us sleeping(as we would have worked all night). Every day he used to come and inform us when he is meeting next. Fed up of this, he once wanted to work in night and stayed back too.

Pundalik and me had a strange routine. We used to wake up at 5 pm and start working till 10 pm then go for dinner. Then we would work till 5 in morning and have chitranna at Pawar's or bisi idli at Ashok's hotel.

Prashant also had to undergo this routine to work with us. He had come over without having dinner. We made him sit all night and code for some insert, update queries. We used to discuss a lot and code first for backend and then make it work from frontend (a editor based on ncursors library done by Prashant). We took him to Pawar's hotel where i ordered for chitranna and Pundalik ordered for Egg fried rice which Pawar prepares in the same kadai. Next Pundalik ordered for a dosa and i ordered for omlete (needless to say, prepared in same pan). Seeing all this Prashant refused to have anything. He decided to stay alive by eating a packet of Good Day biscuits. By the time we finished our breakfast Nandini coffee bar was open we had Horlicks and returned to room.

Prashant had to spent this night staying awake and hungry.