April 11, 2011

Down the memory lane...

It was a lazy Sunday afternoon and I was just gazing at the huge carton placed in the attic of my room! I have named this carton as "The Encephalo" because I had dumped all my books right from Class II to Engineering! ;)
Just to come out of my laziness and to be surrounded in the aura of quondam,I thought of a clean up.  As I was dusting the books, one of them caught my immense attention and made my mind to swirl around the subject. With a sardonic smile, I held this book and read its name aloud ... 

"Microprocessor 8085 - A P Godse and D A Godse"
The horrific, atrocious, awful subject I ever came across in Engineering. It was this subject which enlightened me not to step into the world of programming!! :D

The architecture, the memory allocation, interfaces, the lengthy programs, blah blah, all these made me think "Why didn't this Godse kill microprocessor!!!" :(
I somehow managed to understand the architecture two days before the exams, and with least hesitation, I admit that I did byheart the programs for the lab exams! As per me three months is very short time to understand the subject and write programs.  My aim was to get an All-Clear result!! 
I do still remember the day I got my 5th sem result.  For the first time, I was so proud of myself, as i had cleared "The Microprocessor". It was the greatest achievement of those days ;)

The book which brought a smile on my face today, was once upon a time a "nightmare"!!! This reminded me of a quote, "The problem of today is the joke of tomorrow" :D :D