I'm Trapped

Welcome to this world of mine
Welcome to this place where the sun doesn't shine
I'm locked in this cage
I'm fighting my own rage

Slowly and slowly I'm losing my pace
To the world beyond, I am a disgrace
Trapped between these walls
I keep looking at my scars

No gain in this pain
Only the wind and the rain
I wish I could erase myself
Look into my eyes & u will see urself

The pain I carry in me
The blame that's been put on me
What did I do to deserve this life
What did I not do to get this life

There's no day in sight
All that is there is this unending night
I crawl deep into the darkness
Trying to remind me of my lost goodness

Beyond the dark walls is there some hope?
This is something that I will only know
When will I be able to get away from this dark hole!!!
I'm trapped...

AIMK Rockkking and Zoooming Ahead.............

This goes out to all my fellow AIMKians. The time when I joined the college in the MBA-9 Batch, the college didn't have too much of a respectable image among great names like IIMC, XIMB and IISWBM. Then, with the help of many of our seniors, we did a lot of changes. We carried out State-wide events, participated in All-India level Management contests, won prizes in almost all the activities in which we participated.

Those 2 years were the time when we genuinely wanted our college to come to the forefront in line with great institutes like IIM Calcutta, XIM Bhubaneshwar and IISWBM. In other words, we just wanted to make a mark in the Eastern India, if not on the whole India. Thanks to our Students' Council members who had made a mountain look like a pebble. And, the results are quite handsome.

Perhaps none of us had expected such a result in just 2 years of handwork. Kudos to the present batches.

Today, we rank ahead of most of the colleges in Eastern India. Below is an analysis of a recently concluded survey by PTI:

• In terms of Living experience of the students: In this section, AIMK ranks 17^th in the All India level, and is behind only IIMC (Rank: 2^nd) in Eastern India. XIMB ranks 26^th, IISWBM ranks 57^th , and ICFAI Kolkata ranks 71^st.

• In terms of Learning experience of the students: In this section, AIMK ranks 55^th in the All India level. The other colleges in Eastern India rank as follows: ICFAI Kolkata ranks 28^th, IIMC ranks 29^th and IISWBM ranks 54^th.

• In terms of Placement experience: Here, AIMK ranks 64^th in the All-India level, and is behind IIMC (1^st), and IISWBM (24^th); but still beating ICFAI Kolkata, which is at 66^th.

• In terms of Return-On-Investment: AIMK ranks 45^th in the Top 100 B-Schools in India. In this section, IIMC ranks 20^th, IISWBM ranks 54^th , and ICFAI Kolkata, a distant 77^th.

• Overall Rankings: And here comes the ultimate rankings for the year 2008. AIMK ranks 44^th in the Top 100. Some of the other colleges in the Eastern Region in the Top 100 are: IIMC (2^nd), XIM Bhubaneshwar (14^th), and IISWBM (34^th).

But, don't lose heart, guys. At least, we have entered the Top 100 in this survey, and even the Top 50, Top 20 and even Top 15 in certain other surveys. Other colleges in Eastern Region have jumped ahead of AIMK only due to their high number of Foreign Placements. Now, it is the right time to tell the world: "Get out of the way - We are here to stay". HOWZ THE JOSH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Grasp of Death

I was racing ahead to meet life
When death stepped in to take me aside
In journey mid, I made a switch
On death I tried to hike a hitch

I asked no questions, I looked for no answers
Death is no mystery for me, we are lovers
I have sought hard for its cold embrace
Yet, when it arrives, it brings no grace

Stare away into an incandescent light
The sight leads to a darkness that's bright
On the mind's cornea, it leaves a blemish
A thin, obscure, dull, sepia finish.

I felt the dense, dark blackness encircle me
The blood tasted iron as it rushed away from me
Putrefying, rotting, beastly, brutal stink
That's how the smell of fear and death link

I do not know if this is what I wanted
It left me weak, helpless down to the count
Fear, Death ethereal so primal
My soul, surreal refused to die like an animal

Shrieking silently, rumbling deeply it erupts
From the far reaches of my mind, death it disrupts
Death clammy squeeze to love's warm clasp
Battered, bruised my soul, pushes me away from death's grasp

Breath scrambles and rushes in a gush
Bright red colors explode, my mind espy in a rush
I have broken the spell of death in its maze
I know, 'have repelled this with my life's love and grace.......

Top 7 Bikes of the Millenium

7. Aprillia RSV 1000R Mille

Engine : 998 cc, Power : 143 bhp, Max Speed : 281 kmph

6. Yamaha YZF R1

Engine : 1000 cc, Max Speed : 283 kmph

5. Honda CBR 1100XX Super Black Bird

Max Speed : 286 kmph

4. MV Augusta F4 1000R

Engine : 1000cc, Power : 174 bhp, Max Speed : 299 kmph

3. Kawasaki Ninja ZX-14

0-100 kmph in 2.4 secs, Max Speed : 302 kmph

2. Suzuki Hayabusa GSX 1300R

Engine : 1299cc, Power : 175 bhp, Max Speed : 305 kmph

And here comes the BEST OF THE LOT :::::::::::::

1. MTT Turbine Superbike Y2K

Power : 320 bhp, Max Speed : 365 kmph, Price : $150,000

Data Storage : The Next Generation

All data storage in modern times are done on disc, be it a computer hard drive or a CD-R disc. Blu-ray and HD-DVD have upped the ante when it comes to the amount of data that you can hold on a disc, but at some time they will eventually become obsolete. Right now our data storage needs are currently met, but as the amount of data available continues to rise, storage technology must evolve with it. The next generation of storage technology is going to be Holographic Data Storage.

What is holographic storage?

With CD-R and DVD-R technology, data is stored on the surface of the disc as distinct magnetic or optical changes. With holographic data storage, an entire page of information is stored at once as an optical interference pattern within a thick, photosensitive optical material.

How do they do this?

This is done by intersecting two coherent laser beams, the object and reference beams, within the storage material. The object beam contains all the information needing to be stored, while the reference beam is designed to be simple to produce. The resulting interference between the beams causes chemical and/or physical changes in the photosensitive medium that the data is being stored on. Basically “burning” the information to the storage medium, this mark is called the grating. When the grating is illuminated by one of the two waves that were used to record the information, the light is refracted in a way that the other wave is reconstructed. These gratings can be stacked or superimposed in the same thick piece of media, as long as there is a distinguishing spacing or direction, allowing the stacked bits of data to be accessed independently. In addition to larger storage capabilities, holographic storage also boasts to accelerate data transfer rates to about one billion bits per second and reduce access times to just tens of microseconds.

The benefits:

1. Larger storage capacity – Some companies are developing a technology that enables the storage of between 100GB and 1TB of data. Compare this to Blu-ray and HD-DVD, which max out at 50GB. Amazing leap in the amount of data you can store on one piece of media.

2. Accelerated data transfer – The holographic data storage medium in the works boasts data transmission speeds of 100Mbps to 1Gbps. The new HD-DVD and Blu-ray discs clock in at 36.55Mbps, which is only a fraction of the holographic data storage transfer rate.

Well, if you’re like me, you learned quite a bit about a new technology from this short article. This new technology is quite a ways off from being accessible to the common consumer, but some companies are in the process of developing holographic data storage for the corporate sector. Technology is a strange beast, always changing, always mutating. The sky is the limit, and only time will tell where we’ll be headed after the rise and fall of this yet-to-be-seen data technology.