Will I B or not B in the H1B slot

April first seems to be a big D day ..... Now no its not a repeat of my previous blog......ok then in which way.....

• ok its the world fools days...... seri seri....jus wondering if ive got something new.....hang on


• i was fooled by google............. never mind the world doesnt care


• what else........... The day every engineeerrrrr in america.........berica......stay put yar....craves for

So whats this.....This is the day on which the H1B application process starts.Long Long ago so long ago till 2005, there want any mad rush.you could start filling the application from April 1 and it could go on till even the month of august or september and u can still get ur H1B slot.But now from 2006...phew!!!!!!!!!! oh my GOD what a rush.....

The number of applications against the number of visas granted is almost triple.This year in 2007 on the first day of opening they received around 3 lakh applications for 75k visa slots.But this is for the open quota......I dont care...or we dont care......We are doing our Masters ...so we dont come in that quota claimed some of my friends and me..... we got the blow jsu in time...guess we forgot it was kali yugam......the masters quota was over in a weeks time... whattttttttt ....25000 MS engineers from American schools applied for H1B..The numebrs were making us dizzy...........goshhh!!! never even though so many MS engineers would graduate each eyar.....Others who ahdnt completely finished their MS had to actually opt for the less-probability-to-get open slot...........

The student community was astounded, shocked and frozen........

Now ok, we are engineers yar..so how do we solve the problem......The congress has to increase the numebr of visa slots......But why would it? Why should it? Because it need human brain power to keep its economy moving...Now was that convincing...when we were discussing among ourselves about the various options to get the problem solve....The congress came up with "THE" solution.......

Whatsss that?????????????

LOTTERY

LOTTERY????? did I hear it right.....is it the same system that was banned in my state of tamilnadu by the government.....Yes it was....The applications of all the peole who have applied in the open quota is going to go through a process of lottery....Its was jsut not enough for lady luck to smile at u..but shes gota be madly in love with u for you to win the lottery.....

An engineers fate decided this way.....Whats the big deal say some???????

Ofcourse the congress got its way and this ahs been established as a standard.The lottery ofcourse took place and some got some dint.....I saw many of my friends going back home....(lucky for them I thought...ofcourse this is personal)...But they dint share the same feeling......

For those who have completed the MS degree completely it was not a cake walk but it was not that hard.They atleast had some preferences....But who knows the congress can by all means introduce the lottery system for the MS quota if it exceeds limits....wait now dont call me pessimistic...am being practical....

Now after going through all tis grueling thoughts one thing that comes to me is why?????

why should I still pursue this mad rush...???????????

why dont I just finish my masters and come home to amma and appa??????

I dont know the answers for all this...I cant tell till the day comees................ofcourse hopefuly less than a year from now I will know if am gona play the CONGRESS LOTTERY or go back to my sweet motherland......

If you dont like the weather in Wichita,wait for ten miutes!!!

Heyyyyy hold on !!!!! BTW Wichita is a little sweet town in the state of Kansas in USA.Whats so special about that now???

It has me.... :)
----what else

It is the air capital of USA....Beleive it...dont keep your mouths agape.
Boeing,Cessna,Raytheon,Learjet....you name the aerospace company and we have
it :)...Proud us.......

It has WSU my Skooooooooooolll

The next best thing here is the weather.Its crazy...Does it snow heavily in April..Yes it
does for .....Does the mercury crawl to 40C in august....ofcourse by all means........

Tuesday of this week ,I did my usual habbit of checkin the weather by peepin into my balcony.....ahhh it was pretty warm for 9O clock in the morning.I dressed in thin casuals and went out happily with a tune in my ear to school.By around 12 'Oclock I went out from my airtight, no-fresh-air lab to have my lunch.Mannnnnn was this the day that started with a colorful weather.It was very windy and we were getting all the sand and dust into our eyes. Somehow,as I usually do , I managed to go the cafeteria and eat those godforsaken burgers.Yes I did it this time too. Around 1.30pm I started teaching my Lab when around 2.00 OClock one of my students exclaimed... "I dint know it was gona rain so badly!!!"I turned around to see through the french window in my Lab that it was raining cats and dogs....Now how in the world am I gona go home , I wondered ,since I had neither my car now my umberella.Brushing that thought aside I went along with my class.It was around 8.30pm that night when i finally decided to relax for the day.So my brother and myself got ready and when i stepped outside the engineering school....... agghhhhhh ,,,my teeth started typewriting..It was cold no colder..no it was coldest.......I somehow tried to find warmth in my spring clothes ,but in vain.We somehow did manage to make it to the warm comforts of our home .....

Now what do u call that .....In the spring season we started off with a hot weather..drifted to a windy one....managed to change it to a monsoon and then finally we ended with a wintery chill.....When I was wondering about this,my friend told me this --> "if you dont like the weather in Wichita,wait for ten miutes!!!"....Now wouldn't I beleive her .....

I Dont Get Fooled Easily!!! Do I ?????

April seems to have all kinds of things in store for me...
April 1st :-My sweet little niece and my close friends Bday.They are intelligent fools,whom I love.Now was that interesting.Yes it was,but it does come every year.What next!!!! The Big Questiion???? Was I fooled by anyone.Not untill the end of the day,when guess who Google Succeded.I was checking my gmail,when a friend of mine,who was sitting ner me gave a shreak.He said theres a new networking technology.Being sophomores with open ears for anything in networking and eager to make a differecne, all of us gathered around his notebook. He went on,theres a techonology called TISP BETA that google is offering for guess what FREEEEE!!!! That word was striking.High speed internet for free.I couldn't digest it.There was a simulation that showed flushing an optical fibre from the drain.DRAINNNNNN am I seeing it right.Since all drains are networks too,this optical fibre that reaches the other end will be connectd to a high speed server.So no laying cost,no manpoer wasted,just the fibre ,so its free.All my friends (and this does include my brother !!!!;) ) were ooo'ing and aaaa'ing at the technology.It couldnt penerate me though!! I took his notebook aside and was getting overwhelmedand excited with the tech and was bringing out the different blocks in TISP BETA,declaring it was possible to have the newly christened "Drainy Net"when somehting hard fell on me.It was the reality that it was April First,World Fools day............Google did play its part of the pranks on April First........Claiming to be Masters in Engineering and oh my GOD the truth,specialising in Networking...I did feel embaraced or rather unexplainable for being fooled in this particular fashion....GEEKS we call ourselves huh!!!!!...Never will I atleast till this fades away....

Wanna check this out...try googles drainy net set up.... http://www.google.com/tisp/

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1) I will follow all the punctuation rules..........
2) I will not miss letters in the end 'n in the middle
3) I will not use use slangs whatsoever.....
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