Web presence of engineering colleges of Bhopal

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I remember in my engineering days, I used to go to net-cafes and find technical conferences, paper-presentations. If I found a good conference, I made sure that I write a paper as per theme and always wished that my paper makes it. The enthusiasm was just irresistible.

Thought of passing this contest’s information to a few engineering colleges in Bhopal. Finding email addresses of my college i.e. OIST and LNCT was a few seconds’ job. But that’s all, I couldn’t find email address of any college. Found MANIT’s site but there was no email address mentioned. To my horror, RGPV UIT doesn’t seem to have any website!

The world is making Internet its home and the most technically advanced places in M.P. don’t have web presence at all. They don’t even have email addresses.

Anyways, came across a nice blog on MANIT.

A bad day...

A bad day began when I left to office without breakfast. It was hardly one hour in office when I burnt motherboard of Rajeev's machine. While coming from hardware shop, tyre of bike got punctured! Got a repair shop around and got the tyre repaired for 40 rupees. Yes, fourty rupees for a puncture-repair! Just 400% costlier than Bhopal. It wasn't enough, I felt worst when I saw a Palio S10 in this condition...


Luckily, day didn't end this way. Got news that Arun sir's marriage has fixed. Had a quick party, took two samosas and one-and-half glass of Pepsi. :-)

My Lovely Yamaha RXG

I belong to a medium-class family. When I was in school, my father used to set goals (regarding studies) for me and if I achieved a goal, he awarded me as committed.

I can remember very well, when I was in 11th standard, he announced a bike (motorcycle) for me if I top the 12th exam in my town. From that day on, I pretended to ride a bike while in essence I was riding bicycle, I used to pull the right handle of cycle as if it were throttle of bike :-)

I liked the sound of Hero Honda CD100/CD100 SS. It was the only commonly-used four-stroke bike then. My interest started to increase in bikes. I noticed every bike passing beside me. After few months of noticing, trends, talks, I realized that CD100 is not the bike for me, this is Yamaha RX100, I should go for.

I was so enthusiastic about RX100 those days that I knew colors, model and even Registration numbers of most of the RX100s in Ambah. Few of them were on top of my mind. After all, I had to choose one of them someday! Actually my father maybe couldn't afford a new Yamaha RX100 then, moreover I too wasn't in favour of buying a new one. I always thought, its best to buy a almost-new bike. Its a good bargain!

As soon as I reached in 12th, there was a rumor all around. Yamaha company has been sold and the new Yamaha company doesn't produce the RX100 any more. In essence, Yamaha had acquired all the shares and it had no collaboration with Escorts. The news about discontinuation of RX100 was also true. Now the new bikes which were rolling out of the factory were RXG/RXZ.

When I first saw a RXG in Ambah, I was amazed at the sound of the bike. It was too soft in comparing to RX100. I immediately decided to buy a second-hand RXG. I just had to prove myself the best student in Ambah! Those days, my passion about bikes was at the maximum.

results of 12th announced, I was third in Ambah with slightly less than 80%. As per the commitment I didn't deserved the bike, but father is a father after all. He got me the RXG paying Rs.28,000/- in cash! I was the happy kid then.

Bike was in really good condition. I and my younger brother Girraj ran it to the limits. Whenever we were together, I always saw the speedo-meter saying 100KMPH, no matter who was riding! As per my information RXG was not as great as RX100, but still it was better among the competition. I always enjoyed it running on higher speeds. Don't ask me about mileage, you won't believe me. It gave me a 60+ many times without any modification in bike!

I have it today as well, however I haven't driven it for months now. I am in Bhopal and my RXG is in Ambah. :-)