Sunday, December 4, 2011
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Thursday, November 3, 2011
SEMESTER - 4
One more semester has come to an end and we are halfway in between the course, many of us (including me) use to talk about leaving the course in between, but now it seems nobody is going to leave.
We are a big drama party, we fight with each other, we love each other and most importantly we even miss our foes, life is hell if we don't talk S#!T about our so called competitors. This is the way life goes at NIFT, nobody is untouched with these (un)ethical values, the college life has taught us.
Spectrum: This semester had our scheduled annual college function, SPECTRUM, Don't know why it is called Spectrum, but a wild guess could be because of the use of bucketful of all the seven colors in whatever way possible to paint the Campus.
Nobody was much interested except the 2 secretaries from our class, everybody has lost the enthusiasm they had in 1st year, even though a few of us were a part of online gaming event, a flow show it was, nobody damn cares about playing games here, it was next to unbelievable how could the participation be so much small.
We hoped that the big music show event goes well to be performed by "Parikrama", and indeed it was a hit when compared to the other events, the crowd really enjoyed it, but there were a few to bitch, i have an advise for them, if you don't like it, don't come and participate.
The more interesting part of this Spectrum was PSP or the Post Spectrum Party, i regret my decision of not attending it after i came to know about the happenings of the party, it ignited sparks between people and some ended up doing nasty jobs.
ASSQC Swatch Collection Assignment: The assignment got rescheduled because of spectrum, the group activity that required groups to make a swatch file of defective fabric samples.
The assignment taught me one thing for sure, there are no defective materials with any shopkeeper, so never ever go to a shopkeeper asking for some defective samples or materials or otherwise he would yell on you,
"Bhaisaheb hum defective maal nahi bechate hain."
In this process of exploring textile market, our group met a shopkeeper, who referred himself to be a fashion designer as well as merchandiser from NIFT, Bandra. Only that day i got to know that NIFT has setup one new centre in Bombay at Bandra (Pun intended). The assignment taught us techniques to create defects in fabric that looks like in-line production defects.
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| Mangaldas Market, Ghariyal Gali |
Valentine Semester Squared/Quadrupled: The class saw changing relationship status of their friends on Facebook on subsequent days and now the singles are minorities group.
A heap of likes and comments followed these posts and i learnt a lesson that if there exists a thing that could bring the maximum attention on a social network, it is certainly change in "Relationship status".
Abhilasha, The Social Initiative: Yasmin Kakar's and Niyati Rai's Brainchild, a social initiative
to bring together the underprivilged in this society.
This dream reached to fruitation this semester, most of us were a part of it, organizing meetings between the Old Age People at Old Age Home and the Children at Orphanage was successfully executed. It brought smile in lives of those people. I feel Proud to be a part of Project "Abhilasha" and on the behalf of group is thankful to everybody who helped the cause in any possible way.
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| Abhilasha |
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| Abhilasha |
VB.NET End-Semester Jury: It was the most memorable project/assignment for me in these 2 years. At one point of time during the course of developing "Windows Application", i felt i have to go through the Re-exam in this Subject.
The whole class was Clueless during the Windows Application Development, Nobody have had an idea to write a single line of code himself/herself.
At least my group ( Me, Jatin, Pankaj and Pavan) would never ever forget it, we started developing the project at 12 O'Clock, 1 hour before the jury starts, the Application running on the computer screen was 'Chelsea Football Team Management System' at 3:30.
A result of Wit, Humor, Luck, Intelligence and Jugaad, it ran superbly in front of Jury members and only we know what we have done and this way the semester came to a fruitful End !!!!!!!!!
Hope You enjoyed going through it!
Saturday, September 17, 2011
HINDI DIWAS AT NIFT, Mumbai
To respect Hindi and to bring Awareness and Increase its uses, we celebrate HINDI DIWAS at NIFT, Mumbai in the month of September.
Few events are hosted to celebrate it, Such As:
The level of participation is low, but I expect the participation increases in coming years and Most surprisingly of all is that I have fetched 2nd prize in one of these events.
I know, even most of the presently studying students have not heard of it and so this post could be Informative to them.
:)
UPDATE: Another Treat
Few events are hosted to celebrate it, Such As:
हिंदी वाद विवाद प्रतियोगिता
हिंदी निबंध लेखन प्रतियोगिता
हिंदी काव्य पठन प्रतियोगिता
हिंदी सामान्य ज्ञान प्रतियोगिता
The level of participation is low, but I expect the participation increases in coming years and Most surprisingly of all is that I have fetched 2nd prize in one of these events.
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| THE ENVELOPE WITH A CHEQUE INSIDE |
I know, even most of the presently studying students have not heard of it and so this post could be Informative to them.
:)
UPDATE: Another Treat
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| CERTIFICATE |
Saturday, August 20, 2011
GARMENT TECHNOLOGISTS AT WORK.
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| PATTERN MAKING |
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| GARMENT CONSTRUCTION |
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| SLEEPING WHILE A LECTURE |
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| STUDYING MACHINES (S.P.M.E.) |
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| A NAP IN THE LAB |
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| PROBLEM SOLVING ON WHITEBOARD |
Sunday, July 3, 2011
LOOKING BACK!!!
This is a post by Guest Author JATIN SHARMA, Sharing his Experiences of Semester - 3, Some parts of the article has been censored keeping in mind that it is a public post by now.
Yet another semester comes to an end. Our (B.F.TECH 2009-2013) clocks work in accordance with the semester rather than the year. Every semester is a new beginning. And every end brings to close the fun, camaraderie, and happiness we share. The end also, thankfully, brings an end to the endless assignments, submission dates, jury, and the jealous irritation that comes with the constant need to score more than the other person. The 8th of December saw yet another semester finish. Many things changed this semester and inevitably some did not.
THINGS THAT CHANGED
MASS BUNK: The most telling feature of this semester was that we had our first mass bunk. It required a certain bit of persuasion but it was expected. Unending assignments and classes finally took its toll on the batch and we managed to pull it off. We were finally following the footsteps of our seniors. Unfortunately the high of finally breaking a rule and getting away with it wasn’t a reward big enough for our HARDWORKING batch and the coup was never again repeated.
VALENTINE SEMESTER: I would like to call it the valentine semester simply because it involves so many people moving toward relationships. The biggest change is that our beloved PAVAN POWAR finally found his dream girl. You cannot but appreciate the commitment of the man. He was subjected to humiliation and jokes were cracked on him. (I admit I was a part of it but my happiness for both of you is genuine). But after swimming through a plethora of options he zeroed down on a girl. We do wish both of you best of luck.
His commitment rubbed on his roommates and his mentoring has yielded brilliant results. All three of them are beautifully placed. One of them is bigger player than PAVAN himself. One has more options than the number of subjects we have. And the last one turns out to be the dark horse who will do his mentor proud.
BOY got HIS girl.
The ending of the CUPID semester was fantastic. The most imaginative fellow could not have written the script better. Had I not been so involved with my assignments it would have knocked my socks off. And it would be safe to say PICTURE ABHI BAKI HAI MERE DOST.
REALLY HIGH CLASS: Move over cigarettes and beer, wine and whiskey…..the newest and the most happening place was U**A. D**U had become a necessity on weekends and visits to U**A became frequent.
Yaar marks kam aaye…..chal u**a chalte hain…..bimaar hun yaar ….chal d**u pee le……neend nahi aa rahi yaar…..chal bhand hote hain.
Getting high was the new mantra. There were some new entrants in the bhand gang. XXXXXXXX XXXXX made an inspiring debut and his dialogue, “MAIN BHAND NAHI HUN” will always be etched in our minds.
PRIYA GAUTAM: Priya GAUTAM changed.
THE THINGS THAT DID NOT CHANGE
Prateek Agarwal remains the topper. (MERA NUMBER KAB AAYEGA.)
Every student still has to be on his/her toes while talking to Kakar because without a warning she might spring up a question in a style that is invariably hers “KYA MAIN MOTA LAG RAHA HUN?” God bless the soul of the person who says yes. Her ‘barrage of questions’ style hasn’t and (I hope) will never change.
Our commitment to come 15 minutes late to every class hasn’t changed.
All of us still drink water from my bottle. (Absolutely no hard feelings you can continue to do that. Waise bhi mere kehne ka kuch khass farak nahi padta)
Each one of us will always say “mujhe kam marks ka koi farak nahi padta...nift ka marking system bekaar hain....in ko marks dena nahi aata“but will be over the moon when we get good marks.
There are so many more things to write but I know that none of us are in the habit of reading so much in one go. But I hope you do and hope that you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it.
Finally I would like to say that it has been an absolute pleasure to be a part of this class and you guys make the college happening and it is only because of you that I wish to return. I hope our next semester is better than the previous ones and i hope THE NEW YEAR FUL FILS ALL YOUR WISHES. And remember YOU ARE HERE TO LEARN!!
Yet another semester comes to an end. Our (B.F.TECH 2009-2013) clocks work in accordance with the semester rather than the year. Every semester is a new beginning. And every end brings to close the fun, camaraderie, and happiness we share. The end also, thankfully, brings an end to the endless assignments, submission dates, jury, and the jealous irritation that comes with the constant need to score more than the other person. The 8th of December saw yet another semester finish. Many things changed this semester and inevitably some did not.
THINGS THAT CHANGED
MASS BUNK: The most telling feature of this semester was that we had our first mass bunk. It required a certain bit of persuasion but it was expected. Unending assignments and classes finally took its toll on the batch and we managed to pull it off. We were finally following the footsteps of our seniors. Unfortunately the high of finally breaking a rule and getting away with it wasn’t a reward big enough for our HARDWORKING batch and the coup was never again repeated.
VALENTINE SEMESTER: I would like to call it the valentine semester simply because it involves so many people moving toward relationships. The biggest change is that our beloved PAVAN POWAR finally found his dream girl. You cannot but appreciate the commitment of the man. He was subjected to humiliation and jokes were cracked on him. (I admit I was a part of it but my happiness for both of you is genuine). But after swimming through a plethora of options he zeroed down on a girl. We do wish both of you best of luck.
His commitment rubbed on his roommates and his mentoring has yielded brilliant results. All three of them are beautifully placed. One of them is bigger player than PAVAN himself. One has more options than the number of subjects we have. And the last one turns out to be the dark horse who will do his mentor proud.
BOY got HIS girl.
The ending of the CUPID semester was fantastic. The most imaginative fellow could not have written the script better. Had I not been so involved with my assignments it would have knocked my socks off. And it would be safe to say PICTURE ABHI BAKI HAI MERE DOST.
REALLY HIGH CLASS: Move over cigarettes and beer, wine and whiskey…..the newest and the most happening place was U**A. D**U had become a necessity on weekends and visits to U**A became frequent.
Yaar marks kam aaye…..chal u**a chalte hain…..bimaar hun yaar ….chal d**u pee le……neend nahi aa rahi yaar…..chal bhand hote hain.
Getting high was the new mantra. There were some new entrants in the bhand gang. XXXXXXXX XXXXX made an inspiring debut and his dialogue, “MAIN BHAND NAHI HUN” will always be etched in our minds.
PRIYA GAUTAM: Priya GAUTAM changed.
THE THINGS THAT DID NOT CHANGE
Prateek Agarwal remains the topper. (MERA NUMBER KAB AAYEGA.)
Every student still has to be on his/her toes while talking to Kakar because without a warning she might spring up a question in a style that is invariably hers “KYA MAIN MOTA LAG RAHA HUN?” God bless the soul of the person who says yes. Her ‘barrage of questions’ style hasn’t and (I hope) will never change.
Our commitment to come 15 minutes late to every class hasn’t changed.
All of us still drink water from my bottle. (Absolutely no hard feelings you can continue to do that. Waise bhi mere kehne ka kuch khass farak nahi padta)
Each one of us will always say “mujhe kam marks ka koi farak nahi padta...nift ka marking system bekaar hain....in ko marks dena nahi aata“but will be over the moon when we get good marks.
There are so many more things to write but I know that none of us are in the habit of reading so much in one go. But I hope you do and hope that you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it.
Finally I would like to say that it has been an absolute pleasure to be a part of this class and you guys make the college happening and it is only because of you that I wish to return. I hope our next semester is better than the previous ones and i hope THE NEW YEAR FUL FILS ALL YOUR WISHES. And remember YOU ARE HERE TO LEARN!!
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Online Shopping and its Future in context of Garment Retailing.
The world is moving at a fast pace, people are more connected to each other thanks to the revolution in the communication world.
The shopping habits are changing and more people are willing to pay for a product online than the number of people a decade ago.
This change in human spending behaviour is happening globally and is going to disrupt the existing business model of retailing sooner or later but this change is certain.
Different clothing brands are offering option of online shopping from their well designed portals and websites.
Retail chains are collecting vast amonut of data about the customers through different loyalty, membership and discount programs. A stiff competition is going on between the stores to collect larger amount of customer data in their database.
But there is a lack of a strong mechanism to use this data for the further enhancement of shopping experiences and increasing the sales and brand value of the store.
The percentage of online purchase as compared to traditional purchase is increasing in this world and is carried out through the portals of the garment retailers.
The present model is designed in which a person is required to be a member of the store, s/he logs into his/her account, selects thr commodities from a large database that is tough to browse, most of the time the customer doesn't come through the products s/he is looking for. The customer then puts the order and the product is delivered.
The fundamental flaw with this system is that product discovery mechanism is not strong and the customer seems unsatisfied after the browsing resulting in a bad image of the brand and resulting in non-sales.
If by some mechanism, this experience is enhanced for the end consumer and considering these sales as not a 1 time transaction, it could increase the consumer loyalty.
Now consider a situation in which a customer is an avid shopper and does most of his shopping online, he spends a lot on his shopping and is willing to buy more products if he could find the product he is looking for.
Now the retail chain has an oppurtunity to tap the potential of this field.
Lets assume the retail chain starts collecting user shopping behavior data, analyses it and looks for a shopping pattern and customer's Thinking and his likes/dislikes towards a commodity.
Lets assume the retail chain starts collecting user shopping behavior data, analyses it and looks for a shopping pattern and customer's Thinking and his likes/dislikes towards a commodity.
An algorithm is developed by the store that could compare and find some sort of similarity between two products on the basis of type of fabric, silhoutte, colour, shade, style, fit and blah blah blah.
Now analysing the past shopping history, the store could develop a graph of customer's interest, now the next step would be integration of the recommendation system with this intrest graph.
Recommending and displaying the customer products that have a level of similarity with the past shopping history, one example could be if a customer buys trousers with narrow fit most of the times, the recommendation system could display trousers with narrow fit more than any other fit.
Now this personalised suggestion would vary from one consumer to other and would increase the probabilty of the sales.
But this system also has a flaw, if the whole shopping experience is personalised (100% personalisation), it would turn out to be a small world for the consumer with little choices and would lead to balakanisation, the personalised experience should be tailored such that it adds the external shopping enviornment, international trends, what's new in fashion and these stuff that gives a balanced experience (e.g., 50% personalised, 50% random or external).
There is one more factor that affects the shopping experience of a consumer that is his/her social graph, e.g., friends and family.
The customer asks for a suggestion from them.
The customer asks for a suggestion from them.
The system could add a social layer to it with the help of social networks. The system could be developed such that the customer could ask for feedback about a particular product of his choice from his social circle.
Friends could vote for it and comment about the style, this could in turn bring in more interest data about the person voting a product.
The personalised shopping experience would make the product discovery mechanism simplified and one fring benefit of this system would be contextual discovery from tha addition of social layer to it which would in turn boost sales.
Its all about shopping experiences and if it could be enhanced it would lead to better market value and market share for the brand.
Saturday, May 7, 2011
Submissons at NIFT
Ask a NIFTian about a thing having a "Time Period" of 4-5 day?
And you are certainly gonna get the answer: SUBMISSION.
It happens every 4-5 day from the start of the semester to the end of it.
On days of submission, it is a common sight, guys running from Classroom to stationary, from Computer labs to Library.
A Chaos.
But why the hell on earth these submissions happen, because this is the System of Evaluation here.
Many a times, students are tension free, everything is done days before, they are only supposed to go to Academics area and get their assignment books signed and sometimes the situation is such that the students get so much feared about the results and its consequences on their SGPA.
BACKGROUND ANALYSIS ( Why these 2 different types of situation arises?):
1. Submission work done days before time, it happens because you are not supposed to apply brain in these assignments, it is to be copied from sources like Internet and Library books. Most of the people would be done with it ( 'most' because some guys don't move their Fingers until they are kicked in their *ss).
Some of the guys would come out with a lot of content just because they know how to mine hell lot of Data on Internet and some would come with a lot of aesthetics on their document thanks to their creativity or that of the people around him/her.
How evaluation of all these documents is done is a different subject but how much understanding has been developed is a question that even the faculties know and i think everybody agrees with me.
I don't know why we do such assignments (do you know) ?
2. submission work not complete until 4 O'clock on submission day, The assignment to be done is never clearly understood by the student, or it is continuously changed and modified by the faculty.
In this case, the student doesn't know what to do, either he is confused or he has no idea about that particular topic, this happens a lot.
He/She tries his/her best to know and understand it, finally it is deciphered by someone intelligent enough in the class, the class follow it like a flock of bird going after the Head of the flock, different trick and tips are applied, more precisely JUGAAD is done.
The class tries his/her best to complete it until the continuous modification is halted by a Bunk and finally a submission happens.
Sometimes the second problem arises because everybody is not good enough at SCAVENGER HUNT because you have to come up with such ridiculous things in your Swatch File that you would not come up with even if you go to the Remotest location on the Earth.
And you are certainly gonna get the answer: SUBMISSION.
It happens every 4-5 day from the start of the semester to the end of it.
On days of submission, it is a common sight, guys running from Classroom to stationary, from Computer labs to Library.
A Chaos.
But why the hell on earth these submissions happen, because this is the System of Evaluation here.
Many a times, students are tension free, everything is done days before, they are only supposed to go to Academics area and get their assignment books signed and sometimes the situation is such that the students get so much feared about the results and its consequences on their SGPA.
BACKGROUND ANALYSIS ( Why these 2 different types of situation arises?):
1. Submission work done days before time, it happens because you are not supposed to apply brain in these assignments, it is to be copied from sources like Internet and Library books. Most of the people would be done with it ( 'most' because some guys don't move their Fingers until they are kicked in their *ss).
Some of the guys would come out with a lot of content just because they know how to mine hell lot of Data on Internet and some would come with a lot of aesthetics on their document thanks to their creativity or that of the people around him/her.
How evaluation of all these documents is done is a different subject but how much understanding has been developed is a question that even the faculties know and i think everybody agrees with me.
I don't know why we do such assignments (do you know) ?
2. submission work not complete until 4 O'clock on submission day, The assignment to be done is never clearly understood by the student, or it is continuously changed and modified by the faculty.
In this case, the student doesn't know what to do, either he is confused or he has no idea about that particular topic, this happens a lot.
He/She tries his/her best to know and understand it, finally it is deciphered by someone intelligent enough in the class, the class follow it like a flock of bird going after the Head of the flock, different trick and tips are applied, more precisely JUGAAD is done.
The class tries his/her best to complete it until the continuous modification is halted by a Bunk and finally a submission happens.
Sometimes the second problem arises because everybody is not good enough at SCAVENGER HUNT because you have to come up with such ridiculous things in your Swatch File that you would not come up with even if you go to the Remotest location on the Earth.
Monday, April 18, 2011
RELATIONSHIP STATUS OF MY CLASSMATES
What Facebook Profile Says: (PUBLIC DATA)
ANU MANDAL - Is in a Relationship With STANLEY GEORGE.
ARUSHI KHANDELWAL - Single
ASHUTOSH KUMAR - Single
ASHUTOSH VATSA - Single
CHETNA SINGH - Single
GARIMA KUMARI - Is in a Relationship With RAJEEV KUMAR
JATIN SHARMA - HIDDEN RELATIONSHIP STATUS
Kr. PRAMENDRA SINHA - Single
MOHAN PEGU - Single
NIKHIL CHAUHAN - HIDDEN RELATIONSHIP STATUS
NIYATI RAI - Is in a Relationship with NIKIT KANDWAL
PANKAJ PATHAK - Single
PAVAN POWAR - Is in a relationship with RICHA GUPTA
PRATEEK AGARWAL - Single
PRIYA GAUTAM - HIDDEN RELATIONSHIP STATUS
RAJEEV KUMAR - Is in a relationship with GARIMA KUMARI
S.K.PEGU - Single
SUSHANT KUMAR - Single
SHIKHAR VAIDYA - HIDDEN RELATIONSHIP STATUS
SHILPI - HIDDEN RELATIONSHIP STATUS
STANLEY GEORGE - Is in a Relationship with ANU MANDAL
YASMIN KAKAR - HIDDEN RELATIONSHIP STATUS
KUNAL KUMAR - Single
Wanna ask JATIN, NIKHIL, PRIYA, SHIKHAR, SHILPI and YASMIN ,
Why it is HIDDEN to even Classmates?
Kyon chuppa rakha hai?
Wanna Ask ABHISHEK, ARUSHI, ASHUTOSH K., CHETNA, PARAM, MOHAN, PANKAJ, PRATEEK, SUSHANT, ESKE and KUNAL,
Why are you people lying?
Kyon bhai kyon?
If you all feel that correcting your relationship status would left me as the only Eligible Bachelor,
Don't care about that.
Mujhe koi problem nahi hain, Being the only one Single in the class.
:D
Saturday, April 16, 2011
NIFT ADMISSIONS 2011 - Results Declared
National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) has declared results of the written examination which took place on February 20, 2011.
Candidates can check the results by visiting the link
http://specialtest.in/nift2011/resultnift.asp
Anyone who has qualified the NIFT written entarance exam held on 21st feb 2010, for Undergraduate ( UG ) course either from Design ( B.DES ) or from Technology ( B.F.TECH ) background,
and need suggestions or have queries or seek help about the upcoming situation test or counselling, do contact me on my cell no. 09967958564 or e-mail me ataashutoshvatsa@gmail.com
Candidates can check the results by visiting the link
http://specialtest.in/nift2011/resultnift.asp
This is the official website of NIFT for results.
Candidates have to check the results by entering their respective roll numbers and Form no or Date of Birth.
NIFT has its centers throughout India in the cities of
- New Delhi,
- Kolkata,
- Mumbai,
- Hyderabad,
- Gandhinagar,
- Bangalore,
- Chennai,
- Patna,
- Raebareli,
- Shillong,
- Kannur
- Bhopal.
- Bhuvaneshwar and
- Jodhpur
NIFT provides full time degree courses and it offers both bachelor degree of four years and master degree of two years in Technology, Design, Technology and Management.
Candidates are advised to refer to NIFT website www.nift.ac.in for detailed information.
Anyone who has qualified the NIFT written entarance exam held on 21st feb 2010, for Undergraduate ( UG ) course either from Design ( B.DES ) or from Technology ( B.F.TECH ) background,
and need suggestions or have queries or seek help about the upcoming situation test or counselling, do contact me on my cell no. 09967958564 or e-mail me ataashutoshvatsa@gmail.com
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