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       I spent the first three days of my holidays as recklessly as possible. However I didn’t go out and play, I stayed inside and read a novel, surfed the net, and also poked other guys who had exams after mine. It was sweet. I was planning on learning Java, doing some chores and gear up for the third year of college. Well, till now everything was going according to plan except that they went slower than I thought. I was under the predicament that I could finish this particular book in 6 hours, but it took a zeal of 19 hours which when spitted spanned three days and took most of my chore time, my all other time. All I did was read the goddamn novel and voila I was three days older than I was before.

       Later, when I had finished the novel, I started searching for core components for my design for a robot with interactive speech recognition system which also controls the movement. It was a difficult idea, Involving, Processing of commands, speech recognition software with custom commands and possibly to learn (That is dynamic updating of the database of commands thro storing of new commands), main-metallic frame which has to be custom casted, motors, batteries for running the motors, LCD monochrome display and controller, Speakers, Microphone, a dome coverage for holding face components such as the LCD, speakers and the microphone. Optionally an IR sensor and processor could be used for proper alignment If the robot were to move too much too often.

      The above said stuff would cost me two semester fee together. When in a group the code gets diluted and difficult to ascertain and debug. Since an informal group of unorganized, amateur programmers will be doing the programming, it’ll be difficult to optimize and run the code and also to verify the code we would need to build an simulator which would be possible if NASA is in the neighborhood and impossible otherwise. With all these worries I decided that it won’t work out as a college project besides it has been done before and heck I don’t want to ruin my holiday like some gewy geek. So I ditched the whole idea and went to  a movie. I regretted that later. The movie took what little spirit I got in me. So there I am ruining my impossible-to-ruin holiday and I’m not proud of it 

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