Raviteja Palanki Photography Blog: December 2012

Still In Final Year of Engineering @ N.I.T Jamshedpur

Well, I exactly cannot recollect how my Dec-31-2011 night took place, because it was little frustrating the before night when I and along with my friends Chaitanya (Samanchi), & Ram (Pasala) decided to have FUN....and it didn't exactly turn that way round... :P

Cut back we were on road at 11 pm near Siripuram and hovering around went to some new Italian Pizza place called Spaghetti I think there and ate some Pizzas. Then we called up our School friends Chakravarti & Mrudul Gautham ( & also Sai Vinay i guess ) ; By the time they came we bought some Punjabi Food parceled at Dhaba Express in Siripuram and finally before 11.45 pm got into Chakri's Car and went on a Ride.

At 12.00 Am I don't know where we were, but some how it was a small Nostalgic moment, Simple & Cool school friends suddenly meeting up on this special stroke of midnight, All knew that everyone would leave Vizag and go on to their paths in a few months etc etc...

Ya, I forgot the 10-11pm part and Post 12apm part Ram & Chaitu made a Few Prank New Year calls to YOU KNOW WHO ALL :D :D

Atlast here and there roaming and sitting at MVP Bus stop near my home till 2 am (also wished My dearest friend ARUN and his friends there) we went and slept in my home.

I guess I didn't even give much thought about 2011, that night too.

Cut -----January 1, 2013.

I will make short notes of significant happenings in my life in each month.

January :

I stayed back till Pongal was over, thanks to the"Mahesh-Novotel coming prank" of Chaitu & Arun I cancelled my plans of going before hand.

Watched 'Business Man' First Day morning show. It was great Fan-fare inside & outside theatre, simply loved the celebrations from V-Max till Jagadamba.

The cool part was going again in Second Show by ARUN persistence and got lucky to catch the Director himself - 'Puri Jagannath' in Jagadamba second show. We three shouted loud " Puri ante Peru kadu, its a BRAND!' He laughed and went away after handshake.

Every day we all went to play Snooker at that place near Heritage-Tycoon, its called '13 Square' I guess. My Snooker skills were still very much amateurish.
- After I came back to college on 17th Jan I guess, It was a very unfortunate day.
- Our close friend Andhra Gulti - ADITYA VARDHAN from Vijayawada had been drowned along with 2 otther friends near the lake in our college premises.
- Next two days I witnessed the aftermath of sudden demise of a person just like anyone of us who was there a few hours ago and next moment he lingers as a simple memory. It was little deep, and there was gloom all over for some time.
- It was indeed very heartening moment to see all of us being there till everything got over and showed we have Grown up to tackle emotional turmoil also.
The last part of Jan was more running around in conducting the "Soft Skills Club" - Naivete Fete as Co-ordinator.
I guess it was all done pretty well and I really loved the 3 Essay topics which I gave to the juniors, Sad I don't remember them exactly except one.
One Topic -

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February :

I cannot recollect any significant things from Feb, guess i saw "Glee" Tv series 1st & 2nd season

during this time, and ya downloaded & watched all over Mani Ratnam movies Repeat right from Nayakudu.

Also significant time i've spent in downloading the "dangerous" tamil movies which my friends - Murali Pavan & Pushvanth Teja & Raveendra Nayak (Uuru/ Pidugu/Manmadha@NIT)

know very well - The Psycho, and "urrra naatu" movies.

e.g - Mirugam(2007)

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March :

Went home for Holi holidays and when I came back it was time for OJASS -2012 (Tech fest) Preparations.

All my batch mates were busy heading the various activities, I was enjoying reading some Books everyday that time, mostly I remember stories of Entrepreneurship.

[[ I FORGOT, this time in holidays @ Home two wonderful things happened. One was Me, Arun, Chaitu & Praveen (VVS) went to EK VEERA movie 2nd Show Balcony. This was how much we loved Cinema, if you knnow what I mean :D
Second was - The night out @ Praven's home when me and him made his Portfolio for Whistling Woods film Institute.( Today he is learning Film Direction there :D ) ]]

In that i am big fan of Rashmi Bansal books - "Stay Hungry Stay Foolish".

& My personal Favourite " Connect the dots".

Also " I have a Dream" is a superb book that moved me.

The "Poor Little Rich Slum" cover Design is one of my favourite book designs i've seen, and its content is worthy to read in a different perspective.

I didn't read all of these at a go, but very slowly like digesting I soaked in every story little by little till my college was over in May.

These were huge inspirational stories that sparked interesting thoughts into my primitive brain cells.

Ya by the march end, I asked my dad to give me a gift for successfully completing my engineering.
He was curious, as I never asked for any special item in years for myself.

Then some how I thought after seeing Manish Sharma - My ever wonderful closest Friend from college buying a digicam, I said to myself - I never owned a camera before, and missed to capture loads of wonderful moments,.. guess this one should be my gift.

and then the very amatuer google search began and with in hours I zeroed upon Canon SX150 IS, Can't say why i choose this, my only logic was for the specs its having under10k and good reviews I should go; also i've once seen how SX130 IS picture clarity was, I havent looked at Nikon & Sony thinking they are crap.(intuition)

Yes buying a camera for 10k is a BIG deal...for some one like me.

My dad transferred the money immediately without asking Are you sure.? He trusted me and believed that I have asked him first time to buy something special.

I had in my mind not Photography, I was an alien to the real meaning of that term then, but "TRAVEL".

So On March End I had in my hands on this tool -

Point & Shoot - Simple

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April :

April was I guess the most awesome and busiest month in my 2012.

1.) Ojass. - CONTAGIOUS short film.

2.) Gultz farewell Short Film - Manmadha@NIT

3.) GULTZ 2k8 Batch farewell

4.) Placement Treats and Farewells.

5.) Last Days well spent at all restaurants around Jamshedpur

6) Hail Storm.

7) Vicky Donor @ Eyelex - Our last film all together.

8) Final Year Project submissions and PPT.

9) the last Semester exams of Engineering.

Lastly the The AWESOME PHOTOSHOOT around the campus

The link for Contagious Short film -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v3FSP4cW70

The link for Gultz Farewell Short- Manmadha@NIT -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbVv0MaMf8k

During 'Contagious' Shoot

The Contagious Team

I can very well say that I had hardly slept before 4 am in this month, each day was living it all for one last time,where i was saying YES YES YES to everything that came my way.


The Makers of Manmadha@NIT

Hail Storm

Gultz 2k8 Farewell:

Our juniors have done pretty good arrangements for us but what was more important was we all had felt the nostalgia how we all united here in this college where we were select few who came from Andhra and helped one another during various times in these 4 years.

I'm a person who never used to cry at all .
For all the stupid things ever happened, I was an Optimistic from childhood.
From the time I remember i haven't cried beyond the count on my both hands.,..but Not this time

From This farewell, I didn't want to control my feelings & Emotions, I let it fall free when it is heart-felt.

Suddenly during the various speeches my batch mates gave, I sat silently and remembered the last few days that bonded each one of us like never before in all those 4 years, we had some what breaked open our barriers of lines only these last few days but never from the start.

I can say it is important to have some people who speak your language and communicate immediately in a new place to get into a comfort zone.

It's important to tell the juniors what you have experienced, but its not important' they take it to value'.

Do take time in farewells to re-collect and introspect, that moment will trigger these memories more warmly than some other time.

GULTZ 2k8 @ NIT JSR


Final Year Project Report

Remembering the First year ragging

Snake

@ Hostel - C : First two years our home

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May :

Well the Month of Good-Bye

It was also the month when before leaving the college I've got my share of the Love-bite first time from our reputed and Legendary "R.I.T Keeda".

Its very hard to write the emotions of the month of MAY in words.

It was the time when we all had become into some form from the rawness with which we stepped into this campus.

Every one leaving the hostel one by one had taken with them a life-long cherished treasure chest of memories & armour of skills along with the heart felt emotions in Heart and eyes.

The hard part was we were exchaning Diaries to fill in our thoughts about our dear friends.

Manish Sharma :

When he gave me his diary, I took it with a heavy heart.

I closed my room door and sat down.

It did not take much time for me to begin re-collecting everything that we both shared, and I started crying from deep with-in. He has been through everything, almost every moment in these 4 years.

I could hardly write the letters in his diary as every letter reminded me of everything and that it was - all wonderful memories. We both were like ~ Brothers!

The first person I've met @ NIT, My room-mate and My BEST Friend....

I have eaten his brain with everything I thought about and disturbed him all the time.

I became so much interested in Science & Technology because of him,..He was my first Wikipedia, and Anti-Virus for every problem.

We both were destined to be placed in same company on same day, yet with different locations.

Till date, I stand by what our friendship means in truest sense.

He gave the best company I could have asked during our formidable time.

When he, me & Khalid Akhtar (My third room-mate) are to-gether, its pure Awesome. We are like open books in front of each other and time goes into toss.