my final yr project -a chronicle

This blog is dedicated to my unofficial project guide( my good friend and classmate) and my batchie (who had the guts to pair up with me for her final yr project).
After much ado and lots of title hunting for a suitable project, our unofficial guide ( he ll be referred to as S henceforth ) asked us to do a project in robotics, and asked us to design and implement a light sensing robot. Little did we know about PIC microcontroller S gave us the basics since none of the staff in our Dept were familiar with it.We then went from staff to staff to guide our project and finally landed upon one so called 'student friendly' guide. We reported our progress every two weeks ( even though we were caught up at some point in project without any progress, we had to report else he ll go about complaining to other staff that we did not bother to tell him whats happening and how we are faring even though faring=0) and the first time we went the conversation was like:
We: Good morning sir, we are so and so doing a project under your guidance
Guide: hmmmm... So what do you want?
We: We came to report our proceedings sir.
Guide: Hmm.. wat project?
We: Light sensing robot sir.
Guide: hmm the one you are doing is analog voltage comparison . it is outdated. do frequency or PCM.
We: OK sir., we ll first do what ever we know then do the new stuff sir.
Guide : yeah that is fine

Then we sat and with of course the guidance of S broke our heads for coding in PIC programming and somehow made the project work using amplitude modulation.
Again our report to guide ( after two reviews) believe me we introduce us and our project everytime we go to him

We: Sir we have finished what ever we knew in our project sir. Pl guide us with your ideas for further improvements.
Guide:hmm.. which year students are you? third yr or final yr?
We (totally pissed off bugged agitated but helpless ): final yr students sir doing so and so project under you . tell us what to do using frequency stuff and bla bla?
Guide: tats already been done by third yrs ( bull shit man he does not recognise who we are but remembers some non existent third yrs to have done that project easily). They even showed me the videos for the analog part of project
We came out wordless. Actually we were the 'third yrs' who had shown him the video presentation a week ago !!!!
And we have the formality of getting our project form signed from the guide the day before review and our guide is usually absent that day ( Murphy s law again)
Then we decided perhaps we should go and meet him post lunch so that he might be a little more interested in wat we gotta tell him. But the aroma of chapathis, sarson ka saag and oranges in his room post his lunch made us feel all whizzy.We were asked to work on 'cutting edge technology' (which means technology when I was born).
But kuch bhi ho, he did not give us a tough time when it was documentation time. He approved of all our stories packed in 50 pages and said chalta hai and gave green signal for everything( lucky we in that regard where others like S had to prepare some 200 rough drafts :) ).
Finally, destination day arrived . All the batches were blasted for even one small spelling mistake in their documentation and I was totally pumped up.Batchie handled it well since she got worried abt some other prob( low internals for her in a real tough subject, where a min of 14 was necessary to clear and she had got lesser than that) and since she was already in fire , frying pan did not matter much. Finally we did it. Got laurels from external staff as well as internal profs. The external lady asked if we were university rankers !!! ( we would be had only we two studied in the univ) we said no for which we got a dirty look in return ( we are used to such looks so no big deal at all ).
All's well that ends well. Hats off to you for reading this rigmarole :)