"Insanely Sane.....: The story of my first "Paper"

k-RTP : A Reliable Transport Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks......does this make any sense to you?? This is going to be my first paper to be published....hurray!!!

Yesterday my friend manu called me up to tell that our B-Tech final year project got selected for the IASTED conference on Wireless sensor Networks (don't know wat it is, you are free to write to me anytime). This was one real happy news for all three of us...me, manu and irshad. But theres one person who'll be happier than all of us, our project guide Mr. Vinod Pathari. He had been telling us from those last days in college (of which we celebrated the first anniversary recently )....but all of us were too lazy or was it the lack of hope on our project idea...i donno... we didn't send it for any conference for almost a year.

The thrill of entering a professional life should have made us lazy, besides that manu and irshad went to hyderabad and i came to b'lore. Our work schedules kept us busy all the time and in between i even went to my college for an award ceremony(and there pathari sir did ask me about the project paper, and i had to give some excuse ) .

Every time we accidently came upon our project in our discussions, we were pretty eager to get that topic out of our conversation. Things turned around with manu getting transfered to b'lore.... We finally decided to get the ship sailing... It took me and manu just a few days to refresh it and somehow create a draft to be sent for this conference which he had digged out :)

And we waited...or truth being that i even forgot about sending that paper. One week back manu calls up and tells that our paper hasn't been selected. That didnt come as a surprise to me and i even startd asking about what we are supposed to do next. Then he told me that our paper hasnt been completely thrown out, they have just deferred their decision on our paper as they got quite a lot of good papers. We were asked to wait for another week...enough time for me to forget about it again:)

Now yesterday we got the final judgement.....our first paper got selected for an international conference!!!

This is Banff, Alberta, Canada where the conference is to be held from July3-4. I dont know if i'll be able to attend that, but this place looks really cool and i wish i could make it there...