Sweet Sixteen

Posted on October 20, 2011 in Announcements | 10 comments

So it seems like I’ve revolved around the sun 16 times, without appreciating the fact that Earth takes such an effort in transporting us. The same day, Sri Lanka beat West Indies to win Sharjah Champions Trophy final and Columbia 18 was launched into orbit as some history sites tell me, but I was really too young at that time to understand those things (I do now, though! ). Put another way, I’ve turned 16 years old also dubbed as “sweet sixteen”. I just wanted to share some updates of my life, things that I was busy with, things I’ve been busy with and things I would be busy with.

Things that I was busy with

1. WordCamp Jabalpur 2011 – This was one of those awesome events that I’ve attended in my life. I was invited as a speaker and I spoke on the topic bbPress. There I met many amazing people, whom I had been willing to meet for long. It was a very nice experience for me. I’d really like to thank the organising team.
2. CyberFundu – A YouTube channel of various cyber related videos, started with my schoolmates.

Things that I’ve been doing

1. DatumDroid – An Android application that I’m developing for IITB TechFest Appsurd event. Should be over by October or November.
2. fests.in – Check the site to know more! I hope it’s big! Launch date is probably the first day of 2012.
3. AIMUN – Amity International Model United Nations, to be held in November.
4. Discover I – As mentioned in a previous post, this is a project that I’m working on as a part of Youth Power.
5. SpaceSet – A project in which we’ve to design a full Space settlement. The deadline keeps getting extended and we keep missing it. Next is November 15.
6. Studies – CBSE’s CCE has really proven to be exhaustive, than stress relieving.

Things I’d be doing

1. Google Code-in ’11: I’d be participating in this year’s Google Code-in too! And try to make it to the Googleplex again to take the pictures I couldn’t, or forgot to. ps. I’ve also made it to the front page of the competition’s site, check it out!
2. TCS IT Wiz: One of the competitions, I really like to attend. Would be held on 12 November, so I better prepare.
3. Amity 46 MUN – Our school’s very own MUN to be held in December.
4. Learn Java, Python and C++

Following all this, I had also deactivated my Facebook account as that really used to eat up a lot of my time and has wasted months of my life. I changed it’s password to something that I myself didn’t know, tried to reactivate it today for my birthday via forgot password, and it has asked me to wait for 24 hours – when all the fun would have got over. Though it looks like it has been activated, but I’m still locked out. When I again have access to it, I would probably permanently delete it.

Future Plans

In India and elsewhere, one really needs to study hard to get into a good university. I would probably do the same as it would help me get my skills polished and do even better in life. Being over-confident is bad. For that I would study more of Physics, Chemistry and Maths (subjects which I like the most) in the following two years – XI and XII, than coding. I would still like to continue with a project or two but not with that pace.

More things follow as soon as they hit my mind. Just want to make sure that it’s published at 00:00 IST.

Update: As Shobhan tells me, our dear moon has revolved around me 204 times.