This is the promised update of all the news from August 11.  This concerns all the general news - a separate update will deal with all the movies I've seen since then.  As usual, this is going to be a big post... so I will go week-wise.  Also please note that since I am summarising more than a month's worth of news, this update is a highly "compressed" one!

• Mon-Mon, 11-18 Aug: This week was basically taken up by assignments, and other work.  13th August made it one month to go for the holidays.  15th was Independence Day, on which I donated blood as part of the blood donation camp organised by TAPMI.  Other than those things I worked on my Doom maps.  There are currently two in progress now, one almost complete, another just begun.
• Tue-Tue, 19-26 Aug: On Tuesday, our entire TAPMI Episode 2003 Team went to the Suratkal beach, and we had a lot of fun there.  But that was not all, when we returned we went to Hotel Lake View for another party, which lasted till 11 PM.  It was here that I heard the song "Suzanna" (thanks to Prakash, my senior), which I now have!  On 21st we had group presentations using Microsoft PowerPoint for Managerial Communication class.  My group's presentation went well, and in the evening, I got the chance to visit Shathabdi Graphics (the people that designed and maintain the TAPMI site).  Since the Systems Committee would be responsible for the Atharva (TAPMI's annual festival) and BrandScan (annual market research fair) websites, we went to the company to enquire about getting some work done through them.  On 22nd, Sting was opened - this is our Systems Committee Message Board.  If you are on a computer at TAPMI, then you can access it from here (intranet site).  I picked Cartman from South Park as my Avatar, heh.  On 23rd a Scrabble tournament was held, and I took part; later watched some of Desperado on STAR Movies; and got Rs. 100 as prize money for the Systems Forum game held during Episode 2003.  On 25th I got back the evaluated "Athens Glass Works" case, (which I had completed the day I watched Darna Mana Hai) and was happy to see Prof. Rajagopalan's comments on it!
• Wed-Wed, 27 Aug-3 Sep: In this week, an event called "Funtakshari" was organised at our college.  And Ramakrishna, Guru and myself decided to take part in the preliminaries just for the heck of it.  As it turned out, we went through to the finals (on 30th), and came second place in that!  On 30th afternoon I gave a short presentation on databases (heh).  A project on Microsoft Access was announced about two weeks earlier (as part of the IT Skills for Management course), and our group's project was finished on 31st (I was the project leader).  The next couple of days was spent in preparing for the final presentation for the Managerial Communication course.  Our group had to present different perspectives on whether the Internet has changed Selling.
• Thu-Thu, 4-11 Sep: 4th September was the final presentation (dress code was ultra-formal - I had to wear my blazer) and it went very well.  I also bought four blank CD-Rs that day.  In the evening, all the committees involved with BrandScan went for dinner at Woodlands, Udupi.  The food there is fantastic!  On 5th, I attended a guest lecture by Mr. Sridhar Subhramanyam, CEO Coats, on Leadership.  On Saturday afternoon, I took one of those blank CD-Rs with me to the Computer Center in our institute and filled it up with MP3s.  Unfortunately I'd written it at 48x write speed, so it doesn't work on my computer at Manipal... so I'm going to make a copy of it (at 36x) here.  I also did some Doom mapping, and in the evening, Ramakrishna, Guru and myself went again to Woodlands for dinner.  The next day, Arun Ravindran (my senior) and me did some work on a design for the Atharva site, and a Flash intro for the BrandScan site.  My site's hit counter crossed 14,800.  On 8th, I tasted black coffee, updated my site on 9th, and had a very interesting experience on 10th (the last Managerial Communication class) - we had Impromptu speeches that day.  10th also was the LAST day of classes for Term I, and I packed my things to go home for the Term Break.  Another important thing: 10th was the day my site completed ONE YEAR online, and I also crossed 15,000 hits.  Pablo Dictter was visitor #15,000 and he sent me a screenshot.  On 11th, the End Term Exams started, I had Organisation Theory & Practice (OTP) at 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM, followed by Managerial Statistics at 2:30 PM - 4:30 PM.  The OTP test was an open-book one, and while writing it I read the Ezekiel 25:17 dialogue from Pulp Fiction which I had written on a page in that book!  Also booked tickets for the trip home.
• Fri-Fri, 12-19 Sep: On 12th we had Microeconomics in the morning followed by Financial Accounting in the afternoon.  13th was an important day - of course there was the IT Skills for Management exam in the morning (mine was actually scheduled in the afternoon, but I got it changed) - but more important than that was that I was going home!!  Left by bus in the afternoon, watched two Telugu movies during the trip, reached home on 14th.  The rest of the events have already been written about in the previous post.  I also watched a couple of music videos recorded or downloaded by Varun, heard some new songs, and played Quake III Arena.  I've also watched a few episodes of The Simpsons and Home Improvement (1998 nostalgia for me!).  On 17th I did a new drawing, one of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.

So there you have it, everything since 11th August!  Now in the next post, I'll talk about some of the Doom stuff I've been working on, and also give a quick summary of all the movies I watched from August 11 till date!