Day before, 7th of March, 2010, was a very lazy day. I slept through the entire day and when I could not force myself to sleep anymore; I finally decided to rise from my slumber. There used to be a time when the thought of going online used to make you happy; but I tried even that and got bored after thirty minutes. Its then that I met a friend online and we decided to go out somewhere for supper. As we were getting out of the lift, we met another of our friend who decided to give us company.
So three of us debated for sometime, deciding where to go. Finally we could pick a place from the very limited options we had. Oh, but am not writing this blog to tell you how boring my day was, or to complain about the very few eating options that we have here. My purpose to write this blog is something totally different.
We sat down, placed our order and started talking. Initially it was mostly random stuff, how someone hooked up with someone, how the college fest was, or the new hot girl that someone had spotted (lol), but I don't remember how it came up but it hit us suddenly that in another eight to ten months our college life will be over! Trust me when I say this, there was literally a moment's silence as if we were mourning!
Lot of things started to come back to me. People say that college life is one of the best part of your life and to think that it was going to get over was something big. I still remember the day my class twelfth board results had come. I was still deciding that time which college to join. The whole idea about finally going to college was very exciting and I was looking forward to enter a life which everyone has spoken very highly of. I am pretty sure that towards the end of our high school all of us have thought about college life and it has always brought nice good images to us. We have always looked forward to it. Though we have been really sad about the fact that we were leaving school; but still all of us have looked forward to see what college holds in store for us.
I still very clearly remember the first day of my college life. I had just left my parents in Udupi and along with another friend of mine was taking a rickshaw back to Manipal when we got a call from another friend warning us that seniors were looking out for freshers and ragging them (which turned out to be a false warning). The call did scare us and I remember getting out of the rick and just running away! Those initial days when we kept asking each other names cause we were still trying to remember them, or getting lost in place as small as Manipal, still discovering something new everyday, those times when we shouted out of frustration cause we had not been given our laptop yet, still trying to find our drinking buddies! It all seems like yesterday!
Its really hard to believe that time flew by so fast. There we were, all new faces, wondering how the place is going to be, how people are going to be, will be manage surviving here; and now we have almost reached the end of our course and I can't even believe that in another year we won't be here. We saw people going from very happy state to sad state; we became a family; shared our happiness and sadness; saw our friends really excited about a girl/guy to those bad break-ups; someone scoring A+ to people getting F; we saw buildings coming up; we saw the entire face of the campus changing and am sure all of us at one point or other cursed this place for being really boring or monotonous or sad. Now, today I want to ask everyone, each and everyone of you if you disagree with me when I say that these have been one of the best three years of our lives! Did anyone of you realize how time just passed by? We cursed the administration for making it so hectic for us; one sessional after the other, then those assignments and lab exams, now all we can think of is, we din't even realize and it all just went by!
While there is a part of me which is really excited to enter the 'real' world out there, the world that exists on the other side of those college gates, and to experience first hand various things; there is a very big part of me which asks me if I really want this to be over? The various changes, so many of them that we will have to adapt ourselves to, do we really want all that? Changes which are going to be really hard! People who really matter to you, who you really care for, they will go, trying to make a place for themselves. I am in dilemma, should I be happy that finally I will be graduating (hopefully) and will be earning; getting my chance to conquer the world, to make a place for myself out there or should I be sad cause none of this is ever going to come back. Life is never going to be so simple and relaxed! It will always be a race from here if it wasn't already!
Time flies by and those of us who adapt to the changes around us manage to survive and the rest of us just perish. I just hope that while adapting to these changes I don't change, I don't lose my identity and I don't lose the people who matter so much to me. I am lost, I am confused, I don't know what to do, I don't know where to go. All I can do is hope that everyone, each and everyone of you, make a place for yourself out there and we are still together and I still have you and am sure with you by my side, rest of my life will also be like my college life.
Good luck to all of you!!! Cheers!!!
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Friday, January 8, 2010
Bottled Up!!
"Tears are words the heart can't express"
I have been caught crying many a times and most of these times I have heard people say, "be a man, don't cry"; what I still don't understand is what's ones sex got to do with ones feelings? Men are expected not to cry and keep their emotions and feelings bottled up inside; and we tend to try our level best to do that. However when words are not enough; when it becomes to much for us to keep it to us anymore; it all comes out in form of tears.
We have been told since time immemorial that we will portray our selves as weak if we cry and that its not manly enough to cry; but what I don't understand is that how can the entire male specie be expected to turn emotionless. Well wait, before you start hurling abuses at me let me amend my previous sentence a little; the male specie is expected to keep his emotions bottled up inside only when it will portray him as a weak person (read make him cry), otherwise he is expected to show full emotions,feelings and understanding.
I am sure most of us have come across circumstances when we feel the urge, the need to cry. Its supposed to be one of the best ways to let out your emotions. Its scientifically proven that after you cry, you feel more relaxed. Metaphorically speaking you feel a big load off your chest.
You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you cannot close your heart to the things you don't want to feel. Emotions are such a big part of ones life that its almost impossible to be emotionless. A person without emotions is as good as a dead person. Emotions like any other thing have two sides to it. A happy one and a sad one. How can someone be expected to show the happy side whereas keep the sad one just bottled inside?
Is it fair to ask a person to laugh along with you, to make you laugh and to show it when he is happy but at the same time if he becomes sad he must not as much as tell someone that he is sad? Is it possible to ask a person to show love but at the same time not show hatred? Is it possible to ask a person to care but not feel bad? Is it possible to ask a person to be cheerful but never be miserable, to be happy but never sad? I think this is as impossible as tossing a coin and hoping that you always get heads.
I feel if a man cries, he doesn't become less manly. Only a man who is totally comfortable with himself and is courageous enough can cry in front of others. There is nothing wrong in letting go of your emotions in what ever way possible. So all I want to say is that next time you see a guy crying don't say, "Be a man!" or "Guys don't cry! or "You are such a sissy!"; just try to understand that there can be a very deep reason for him to cry; that maybe you should talk to him instead of making fun of him; that maybe all he needs right now is a hug or an ear to hear him, cause you never know the little actions you do can make or break a man. Remember no one other than yourself is going to love you for what you are; people love you for how you make them feel.
I have been caught crying many a times and most of these times I have heard people say, "be a man, don't cry"; what I still don't understand is what's ones sex got to do with ones feelings? Men are expected not to cry and keep their emotions and feelings bottled up inside; and we tend to try our level best to do that. However when words are not enough; when it becomes to much for us to keep it to us anymore; it all comes out in form of tears.
We have been told since time immemorial that we will portray our selves as weak if we cry and that its not manly enough to cry; but what I don't understand is that how can the entire male specie be expected to turn emotionless. Well wait, before you start hurling abuses at me let me amend my previous sentence a little; the male specie is expected to keep his emotions bottled up inside only when it will portray him as a weak person (read make him cry), otherwise he is expected to show full emotions,feelings and understanding.
I am sure most of us have come across circumstances when we feel the urge, the need to cry. Its supposed to be one of the best ways to let out your emotions. Its scientifically proven that after you cry, you feel more relaxed. Metaphorically speaking you feel a big load off your chest.
You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you cannot close your heart to the things you don't want to feel. Emotions are such a big part of ones life that its almost impossible to be emotionless. A person without emotions is as good as a dead person. Emotions like any other thing have two sides to it. A happy one and a sad one. How can someone be expected to show the happy side whereas keep the sad one just bottled inside?
Is it fair to ask a person to laugh along with you, to make you laugh and to show it when he is happy but at the same time if he becomes sad he must not as much as tell someone that he is sad? Is it possible to ask a person to show love but at the same time not show hatred? Is it possible to ask a person to care but not feel bad? Is it possible to ask a person to be cheerful but never be miserable, to be happy but never sad? I think this is as impossible as tossing a coin and hoping that you always get heads.
I feel if a man cries, he doesn't become less manly. Only a man who is totally comfortable with himself and is courageous enough can cry in front of others. There is nothing wrong in letting go of your emotions in what ever way possible. So all I want to say is that next time you see a guy crying don't say, "Be a man!" or "Guys don't cry! or "You are such a sissy!"; just try to understand that there can be a very deep reason for him to cry; that maybe you should talk to him instead of making fun of him; that maybe all he needs right now is a hug or an ear to hear him, cause you never know the little actions you do can make or break a man. Remember no one other than yourself is going to love you for what you are; people love you for how you make them feel.
My first encounter with working lifestyle
Till now I was living in a very well guarded world. My boarding school in Ajmer was like a fort; I was not allowed to go out neither could someone just come in, so my interaction with the outside world was very limited. Then came my high school in Delhi. It was a place with relaxed rules. I could go in and come out, we had day scholars, we had people from different backgrounds; so my interaction with the outer world increased. Finally came my college. College as we all know, places almost no restriction on you. It is assumed that you are now mature enough to decide what you want, to distinguish right from wrong. Here I chose my set of friends. My life was again going very smoothly. My parents kept meeting my demands for money and I never faced any difficulty as such.
It was towards the end of my fifth semester that the thought, "Life is not a bed of roses", rang a bell. I started to wonder that for me till now life has been more or less 'bed of roses', with only minor hiccups here and there. It is then that I decided I need to experience first hand how life outside the protected walls of my college is going to be. How it is going to be after I am forced out of my comfort zone.
So armed with 126 credits (thats what you get for clearing every subject in your course even if you don't understand a word of it) I went looking for a place which would be kind enough to offer me training. In time of recession, when people are finding it hard to retain their jobs, finding a place willing to offer training was surely a tough task. Here also I was again saved the hard work as a place was found through 'contacts'.
So we(me along with two of my friends) reached Mumbai, all set to experience the working culture, thinking about how I will manage when I have no support! The experience started right from the time we got down at Andheri Railway station. Looking for a place to stay was not only very confusing but a big hole in pocket too. Finally we found a place and decided to stay over there for a night.
The next day we were supposed to go to the head office of the company. The ride in the local Mumbai train is a experience in itself. When I saw the building which housed the office, I was awestruck! It was so huge and beautiful. Excitement took over me. The person I was supposed to meet was very helpful (contradictory to my belief that no one treats college students seeking training nicely)!
My training was to start from the next day. I was supposed to go to Vashi which is very far from where I was staying. Again the local Mumbai train came to our rescue. I admire the person who gave the concept of local train. It would have been so difficult without it!
I was expected to reach office by 10:00 AM and by the time I reached it was already 11:30 AM. On my first day at office I was late by an hour and a half! So you see things didn't exactly started as planned. To be honest I was little scared cause I didn't know what to expect. After waiting for sometime our department head came to us. He was a very helpful person. During the entire course of training he never made us feel as if we were trainees and took really good care of us. We were treated very nicely.
Everyone in office seemed to be busy with their own work. A few of them I guess where even surprised to see three undergraduate students walking in the office. All my fears vanished soon. The next few days were decent enough. Other than the fact that we had to travel more than three hours everyday, everything else went fine.
The entire experience taught me few things. They are :
It was towards the end of my fifth semester that the thought, "Life is not a bed of roses", rang a bell. I started to wonder that for me till now life has been more or less 'bed of roses', with only minor hiccups here and there. It is then that I decided I need to experience first hand how life outside the protected walls of my college is going to be. How it is going to be after I am forced out of my comfort zone.
So armed with 126 credits (thats what you get for clearing every subject in your course even if you don't understand a word of it) I went looking for a place which would be kind enough to offer me training. In time of recession, when people are finding it hard to retain their jobs, finding a place willing to offer training was surely a tough task. Here also I was again saved the hard work as a place was found through 'contacts'.
So we(me along with two of my friends) reached Mumbai, all set to experience the working culture, thinking about how I will manage when I have no support! The experience started right from the time we got down at Andheri Railway station. Looking for a place to stay was not only very confusing but a big hole in pocket too. Finally we found a place and decided to stay over there for a night.
The next day we were supposed to go to the head office of the company. The ride in the local Mumbai train is a experience in itself. When I saw the building which housed the office, I was awestruck! It was so huge and beautiful. Excitement took over me. The person I was supposed to meet was very helpful (contradictory to my belief that no one treats college students seeking training nicely)!
My training was to start from the next day. I was supposed to go to Vashi which is very far from where I was staying. Again the local Mumbai train came to our rescue. I admire the person who gave the concept of local train. It would have been so difficult without it!
I was expected to reach office by 10:00 AM and by the time I reached it was already 11:30 AM. On my first day at office I was late by an hour and a half! So you see things didn't exactly started as planned. To be honest I was little scared cause I didn't know what to expect. After waiting for sometime our department head came to us. He was a very helpful person. During the entire course of training he never made us feel as if we were trainees and took really good care of us. We were treated very nicely.
Everyone in office seemed to be busy with their own work. A few of them I guess where even surprised to see three undergraduate students walking in the office. All my fears vanished soon. The next few days were decent enough. Other than the fact that we had to travel more than three hours everyday, everything else went fine.
The entire experience taught me few things. They are :
- Once you go out of college, life is not easy. I saw people working there. They probably reached home late and slept cause they have to wake up again next day cause they can't afford to be late.
- Discipline is a must. You should be disciplined in whatever you do
- If you are good to people, they will be good to you
So friends I would like to say one thing, don't get scared. Go out and have fun. Its not an easy world out there but its not that scary also. Remember who you are and don't get lost in the crowd.
Cheers!!
Friday, August 7, 2009
..Going towards the sea bed..
"Two roads lead into the woods, and I took the one less travelled by.. And thats what made all the difference!!!"
One of the most interesting part of life is that it manages to surprise you at every corner. Just when you think that you have everything figured out, you are confronted with somethingor the other. Well it won't be right on my part to complain about it cause this is one aspect of life that ensures that we encounter something different from normal or which puts us out of our comfort zone and tests us. It ensures that life does'nt become monotonous. Just when you think you have it all figured out, it throws a surprise at you!
The ship which I took to sail in the sea of life was yet to hit any rough patch and the journey seemed to be going on pretty smooth. There were those minor hiccups but nothing big enough that my ship could'nt handle. What more could I have possibly asked for?
One morning I woke up and went to the 'deck'. The sun was shinning bright. It was what we call the perfect sailing weather. I was sitting there and enjoying the sea and my wine. I could'nt have asked for anything more. And just then I heard a deafening noise! I was thrown out of my chair. The force was very large. She had hit an iceberg!
A perfect day has just turned into a nightmare. The hit was big and there seemed no way to save her. I could hear the captain saying, "Abandon Ship" but how could I just leave her? We have sailed through the toughest days together, we have sailed through all the rough patches and come out of it strong; and now there she was, bleeding, making her way to the sea bed.
The captain came to me and asked me to get into the boat so that we could leave immediately but I could'nt do that. How could I just leave her? I finally decided to stay aboard. She had been there for me when I needed her, through all my tough times, through the worst phase of my life and she had hardly disappointed me. Now it was my turn.
Life is like a see saw. One moment you could be at the highest point and the other you could hit bottom. The only thing we should remember is that we should never give up. We should stay positive and have faith. If something is bound to happen, it will happen. However the least we could do is to make sure that we don't do something that even destiny decides to change its road; and ofcourse we should not be afraid to take hard decisions cause at times these hard decisions help us in the long run. Every day is a learning experience. I have had some wonderful times and I guess I should be strong enough to accept that I have made loads of mistakes. Some of which I really regret; but then I guess this is life. We can't really do anything about things of past. We just have to deal with it. Though I hope that one day I will be able to correct all my mistakes. I am still a kid who is learning with every passing day; afterall life is all about learning, is'nt it??
Thursday, April 23, 2009
...!!!!!.....
I closed my eyes, the time had come. The inevitable was here and there was nothing I could do about it.
At times like these, your entire life flashed back right in front of your eyes. You tend to see all the good and bad that you have done throughout your life; the opportunities that we missed and the ones that we grabbed; the betrayals, the happy times, the pain, the agony, times when we laughed our heart out, times when everything seemed to be so good and we thought we will always be happy. People who have mattered to us thoroughout also cross our mind; and more interestingly we also think of people who we have hated and maybe at one point wanted to kill. But none of it matters now.
All I can hear is a cry coming from a distance; it keeps calling out to me and it keeps getting louder as time passes. I dont think its possible for me not to notice it and to turn away from it. I am standing here all alone near the window of my small room. Staring at the sky filled with shinning stars. The river flows at some distance, I can hear the sound of forest; but these beauties of nature, which are supposed to make me feel at peace don't seem to be helping.
I am feeling more and more lonely. There is no one other than the bird sitting on my window to listen to my miseries.
I made my self one more drink, the finest scotch and four cubes of ice. I could feel it warming my throat and running down it.
I had so many friends, so many loved ones; where have they all vanished? Why does it feel as if i am a ghost living between people who can't see me? Why did they all leave? Leaving me behind, all by my self! I guess that is how it is supposed to be. I guess that is what you call 'destiny'!
I picked up my phone and punched in the only number that i could recall, the only person that i had spoken to in ages. The call lasted for just fifteen seconds, the worst fifteen seconds of my life without doubt.
It only made the cry louder and my shivering hands stoped to tremble as I put the barrel to my head and pulled the trigger.....
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
!!! The past.. the present and the future..!!!
As time passes, we move on with our lives. Change is the only constant that remains with us throughout! We get more and more involved in our doings and we tend to forget our past, things associated with our past. The only thing that we care about as we move on is future. So much we are into securing our future that we often stop living in present! Its only when time passes and misery strikes us that we realise what we have missed upon!
Its not bad to think about our future but in doing so we shall not forget about our past and our present. Its our past that has made us what we are today. We could have been a totally different person if we had a different past. The events that take place in our lives shape us into the kind of person we are today.
Today the world has become a rat race, and we are just another rat in it. Trying to race and defeat our fellow rats. Well, competition is not a bad thing but unfair competition is. The motive of a competition should not be to harm others but to learn something new.
When we leave school and go into college, we forget the friends we had at school. We hardly care to keep in touch with them, or maybe we do keep in touch with the handful! The people around whom our lives' once revolved are not even cared for now! Ofcourse if we bump into them in a mall or theater we will exchange a pleasent smile or maybe cellphone numbers but thats the end of it. We never even care to call them or message them! We meet new people. They become the centre of our lives. This is only the law of nature. There is nothing wrong with it. We should meet new people, go new places after all life is all about changes otherwise it will be very monotonous.
The only thing that we should keep in our mind while we are out there enjoying ourselves is that yesterday someone was there for us when we needed them and we should not forget that.
Its always good to be in touch with your past. There is no happiness like meeting an old friend after a long time, or talking about your childhood days! Even in saddest of our moods if we meet someone who has known us for long, just talkin to him about old days brings a smile to our face, tears to our eyes!
Its rightly said, "Yesterday is a cancelled cheque; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have - so spend it wisely.", but remember one thing that if we didn't have this cancelled cheque to our name, we couldn't have afforded the promissory note today! So as we go on with our lives, take out sometime to think about what we have left behind! There is no happiness as hearing from an old friend! Go ahead, the world is at your feet. Grab all the opportunities that you can, the world is out there waiting for you to rule it but when you are at it don't forget anything that helped you in being in such a position that your are today.
Well to sum it all up, its always good and necessary to take out sometime and think about what all we have achieved and what all we have left behind.
Its not bad to think about our future but in doing so we shall not forget about our past and our present. Its our past that has made us what we are today. We could have been a totally different person if we had a different past. The events that take place in our lives shape us into the kind of person we are today.
Today the world has become a rat race, and we are just another rat in it. Trying to race and defeat our fellow rats. Well, competition is not a bad thing but unfair competition is. The motive of a competition should not be to harm others but to learn something new.
When we leave school and go into college, we forget the friends we had at school. We hardly care to keep in touch with them, or maybe we do keep in touch with the handful! The people around whom our lives' once revolved are not even cared for now! Ofcourse if we bump into them in a mall or theater we will exchange a pleasent smile or maybe cellphone numbers but thats the end of it. We never even care to call them or message them! We meet new people. They become the centre of our lives. This is only the law of nature. There is nothing wrong with it. We should meet new people, go new places after all life is all about changes otherwise it will be very monotonous.
The only thing that we should keep in our mind while we are out there enjoying ourselves is that yesterday someone was there for us when we needed them and we should not forget that.
Its always good to be in touch with your past. There is no happiness like meeting an old friend after a long time, or talking about your childhood days! Even in saddest of our moods if we meet someone who has known us for long, just talkin to him about old days brings a smile to our face, tears to our eyes!
Its rightly said, "Yesterday is a cancelled cheque; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have - so spend it wisely.", but remember one thing that if we didn't have this cancelled cheque to our name, we couldn't have afforded the promissory note today! So as we go on with our lives, take out sometime to think about what we have left behind! There is no happiness as hearing from an old friend! Go ahead, the world is at your feet. Grab all the opportunities that you can, the world is out there waiting for you to rule it but when you are at it don't forget anything that helped you in being in such a position that your are today.
Well to sum it all up, its always good and necessary to take out sometime and think about what all we have achieved and what all we have left behind.
Monday, January 26, 2009
...A long weekend...
weekends in manipal can get borin... really boring at times.. and the weekend just went by was a long one.. with practically no class to attend on saturday..d weekend started on friday it self:).. and it continued all d way 2 today.. it being a holiday on account of republic day..was it repulblic day 2day?!sorry 2 say bt i dnt remember any1 wishin any1 or i didnt evn c a flag bein hoisted!!:(.. wel none d less its an excuse for us to get a day off so all of us are very happy??:)..ok comin bak 2 weekends.. most of d weekends are those typical kinds.. vry monotonous.. party on saturday nite or go 2 sm bar gt drunk.. and den spnd sunday tryin 2 wash away d hangover of previous nite!!i thought this tym its gonna be no different maybe evn more borin!!aftr all how much can 1 enjoy drinkin??!:s.. most of d ppl had gone off to goa or sm other place.. so v decided 2 stick around in manipal!!.. who wants 2 go 2 goa and c all familiar faces frm manipal??!!;-).. wel d party started saturday nite.. a typical one i mst say.. goin 2 new deetee wid frnds.. gettin drunk.. bt it was fun cause firstly aftr long time all of us were out 2gethr!! nd secondly alcohol s always fun:D:p.. so quiet a few of us gt sloshed.. and had 2 b carried bak.. music was nice nd evn we who had clue abt d 'D' of dance saw ourselves swayin 2 d sounds!!or maybe noise!!.. sunday mornin.. again nothin different.. wakin at ease.. and wonderin wat 2 do!! thanks 2 bollywood which is famous 4 makin n number of movies.. v had one dis weekend which v culd watch!!i must say it was a tough job to wake up all d lazy asses who were snorin away 2 glory!!and den convencin few others 2 go 4 it.. a plan was finally made and v set out on bikes 4 d theater;-) [yes v r in coll nw and v have bikes 2 go on.. dats d bst part;-)].. d line 4 d tickets were long bt who cares!!..so v finally got in aftr waitin 4 sometime..d movie was supposed 2 b a horror one bt thanx 2 us.. v turned it into a comedy 1.. bt ya i mst agree dat v did gt scared in parts!!.. nw dat r weekend had started and v were in d partyin mood there was no point lettin it slip off!! so a dinner plan was made and 2 our delite a frnd agreed 2 treat us!! let me tell u there is nothin like free food and booze!!v ended up goin 2 new deetee again!!only this tym v didnt hav 2 pay 4 anythin;-)..as d 'dinner' progressed.. quiet a few of us lost control of their senses!!.. wel there s nothin like a drunk guy who u cant control.. its like d bull had gone mad and is on d run!!.. anyways.. it was fun.. aftral its only at times dat v gt 2 b lik dis!!i dnt no if it was d alcohol or wat .. v decided 2 hit d disc aftr dat!!d 1st onw v went 2 was empty!!went 2 d 2nd 1..by this tym few were vry high nd had 2 b taken bk 2 blk.. rest of us went in.. wel wat hapnd inside i wuld rather prefer nt 2 write here!!
2day mrnin all of us woke up relaxed.. last day of wat had been so far a long weekend!!no plans as such.. and den all of a sudden it hit few of us dat y nt go 2 turtle bay!! jobless ppl dat v r.. v started convincin evry1.. it was nt an easy task i mst say.. bt den evry1 did agree.. few more bikes were arranged and v set off for d beach!! it was a journey of arnd 50kms!!d bike ride was fun. all of us were pumped up.. clickin pics on r way.. signin.. overtakin each other.. few of us loosin r tshirt on d way;-).. aftr d long bt i must say by far d bst ride of my life v reached turtle bay.. d beach is awesome.. vry clean.. as soon as v reached v jumped into d sea.. hittin each other wid d ball.. sand.. playin arnd..jumpin as if v hav jst won a lottery!!
wen evry1 was tired enough.. v decided 2 go bak.. and as it was..v were feelin hungry 2!!.. d ride bak was full of lot of things.. few accidents avoided..runnin out of petrol!! hunger takin over us combined wid tiredness!.. finally v reached bak.. d only place at wuld giv us food at dat tym was hot n spicy.. so v went dere.. orders were placed.. i guess this was d largest single order dey mst hav evr taken!!! v culd sense dat frm d shock on their face!! evry dish was welcomed wid a loud cheer!!!it was lyk ur fav soccer team has jst scored a goal!!.. aftr stuffin ourselves upto neck d only thing dat v culd thnk off was r beds!! a heavy meal combined wid tiredness is a perfect mixture 4 an awesome sleep..
so here i m on my bed.. writtin this blog wen all my frnds are deep lost in their dreams.. only wakin 2 shoo away d annoyin mosquito!! i mst say dis was perhaps our best weekend here in manipal..!!! i wondere why we dont do anythin like this more often!! aftr all as tym passes by its only d memories dat remains and wen v c d pics v will remember d crazy assse dat v were!!!..
bas yaadein, yadeein reh jati hain!!! ..
2day mrnin all of us woke up relaxed.. last day of wat had been so far a long weekend!!no plans as such.. and den all of a sudden it hit few of us dat y nt go 2 turtle bay!! jobless ppl dat v r.. v started convincin evry1.. it was nt an easy task i mst say.. bt den evry1 did agree.. few more bikes were arranged and v set off for d beach!! it was a journey of arnd 50kms!!d bike ride was fun. all of us were pumped up.. clickin pics on r way.. signin.. overtakin each other.. few of us loosin r tshirt on d way;-).. aftr d long bt i must say by far d bst ride of my life v reached turtle bay.. d beach is awesome.. vry clean.. as soon as v reached v jumped into d sea.. hittin each other wid d ball.. sand.. playin arnd..jumpin as if v hav jst won a lottery!!
wen evry1 was tired enough.. v decided 2 go bak.. and as it was..v were feelin hungry 2!!.. d ride bak was full of lot of things.. few accidents avoided..runnin out of petrol!! hunger takin over us combined wid tiredness!.. finally v reached bak.. d only place at wuld giv us food at dat tym was hot n spicy.. so v went dere.. orders were placed.. i guess this was d largest single order dey mst hav evr taken!!! v culd sense dat frm d shock on their face!! evry dish was welcomed wid a loud cheer!!!it was lyk ur fav soccer team has jst scored a goal!!.. aftr stuffin ourselves upto neck d only thing dat v culd thnk off was r beds!! a heavy meal combined wid tiredness is a perfect mixture 4 an awesome sleep..
so here i m on my bed.. writtin this blog wen all my frnds are deep lost in their dreams.. only wakin 2 shoo away d annoyin mosquito!! i mst say dis was perhaps our best weekend here in manipal..!!! i wondere why we dont do anythin like this more often!! aftr all as tym passes by its only d memories dat remains and wen v c d pics v will remember d crazy assse dat v were!!!..
bas yaadein, yadeein reh jati hain!!! ..
Sunday, January 25, 2009
..wats it all abt??!!...
wel i remember d last time i wrote smthin on dis blog i was sm1 else!!! wel ppl dont change.. they nvr change.. its only d times dat changes..nd den v adapt or as few say change ourselves accordin 2 d circumstances.. most of the times wen things go wrong for us.. v blame it on time and circumstances!!! wel i guess dats all bullshit.. v shuld stand up and take responsibilty 4 r actions and stuff!!!...
nw if u evr care read dis u ll thnk wat d fck is wrong wid him??!! life is tough.. its unfair 2.. bt then it us who have 2 survive it and face it..nyways.. many a times things are nt as dey appear.. v think v r happy, others think u r happy bt its nt actually lik dat.. for those of u who no abt art of livin.. it says once u find true happiness, u can nvr b sad again!! cause true happiness s so strong dat nothin can take it away!!.. wel so i guess v r still 2 find 1!!!
i have also become a huge fan of murphy's law.. if anytgin can go wrong. it will go wrong at d worst possible time in d worst possible way.. just a few days bak i thought i had it all figured out and den d lighting struck!!!..wat have v made of ourselves?? gt up in d mrnin.. rush 2 classes.. reachin late 4 dem.. takin pride in takin teachers case. wel i wont say its nt fun;-).. den sleepin thru all d lectures!! relieved dat v hav half day.. probably takin a smoke goin bak 2 block and den snorin away 2 glory!!!.. then comes d evnin time.. rushin 2 d bars.. drownin ourselves in vodka.. nd den enjoyin d awesome high v get..!!! at d end of d day.. i pressume atleast sum of us.. stop 2 think.if only 4 a minute is this wat v truly want??oh ya i 4got.. in between dat hectic schedule of ours.. v also try 2 pick up and hit on girls;-).. atleast try 2..hehehe...
at times v try 2 figure out wat r priorities are?!. wat v actually want? bt v end up gettin more confused dan v already were!!..happiness 2 diff ppl have diff meanin.. wel 2 me it means being able 2 laugh and make ppl arnd u laugh.. wen v r bored.. its mostly wid ourselves dat v r bored..
grass is always greener on d other side..!! wen v look at sm1 we think dat person s so hpy.. nt knowin dat mayb he/she s as miserable as us!!!.. so there is only one thing we can do!!!...work hard and party harder!!! enjoy d icecream of life b4 it melts.. life is short so have ur deserts first.. anyways who likes d main course;-).. cheers!!!peace out.. pranav thakur signin off....
nw if u evr care read dis u ll thnk wat d fck is wrong wid him??!! life is tough.. its unfair 2.. bt then it us who have 2 survive it and face it..nyways.. many a times things are nt as dey appear.. v think v r happy, others think u r happy bt its nt actually lik dat.. for those of u who no abt art of livin.. it says once u find true happiness, u can nvr b sad again!! cause true happiness s so strong dat nothin can take it away!!.. wel so i guess v r still 2 find 1!!!
i have also become a huge fan of murphy's law.. if anytgin can go wrong. it will go wrong at d worst possible time in d worst possible way.. just a few days bak i thought i had it all figured out and den d lighting struck!!!..wat have v made of ourselves?? gt up in d mrnin.. rush 2 classes.. reachin late 4 dem.. takin pride in takin teachers case. wel i wont say its nt fun;-).. den sleepin thru all d lectures!! relieved dat v hav half day.. probably takin a smoke goin bak 2 block and den snorin away 2 glory!!!.. then comes d evnin time.. rushin 2 d bars.. drownin ourselves in vodka.. nd den enjoyin d awesome high v get..!!! at d end of d day.. i pressume atleast sum of us.. stop 2 think.if only 4 a minute is this wat v truly want??oh ya i 4got.. in between dat hectic schedule of ours.. v also try 2 pick up and hit on girls;-).. atleast try 2..hehehe...
at times v try 2 figure out wat r priorities are?!. wat v actually want? bt v end up gettin more confused dan v already were!!..happiness 2 diff ppl have diff meanin.. wel 2 me it means being able 2 laugh and make ppl arnd u laugh.. wen v r bored.. its mostly wid ourselves dat v r bored..
grass is always greener on d other side..!! wen v look at sm1 we think dat person s so hpy.. nt knowin dat mayb he/she s as miserable as us!!!.. so there is only one thing we can do!!!...work hard and party harder!!! enjoy d icecream of life b4 it melts.. life is short so have ur deserts first.. anyways who likes d main course;-).. cheers!!!peace out.. pranav thakur signin off....
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
The nicer someone is, the farther away (s)he is from you...Murphy's law...
It had been almost a year since I passed out from college and I had not managed to find a decent job yet. Finally after months of anxious wait I got a call from a company of my choice. I was to go for interview the next day at 9 AM. I had my dinner early and deviating from my normal plan (which often extends to early hours of the morning doing all sort of ‘things’) I went off to sleep making sure that I had set my alarm for 6 AM so that I could get up early and dress up (in my entire life I had never got up before 9!! And never dressed up decently!!!).
When I finally got up the next morning it was already 8:30 AM. My alarm clock had run out of life (battery) at the night!!! Murphy… He suddenly came to my mind. “Whatever can go wrong will go wrong, and at the worst possible time, in the worst possible way.” How true is this. What else could go wrong? After months of trying I had got this interview and missing it this way was really frustrating.
It also reminded me of an incident that took place just after my class 12th board exam. Me and my friend Apoorv had to catch a flight to Bangalore (at 6:30 in the morning) to give our exam. We had decided to wake up at 4 in the morning and leave at most by 5. The Delhi airport was one hour drive from my place. I woke up at 4 and turned off the alarm. I thought why not sleep for another five minutes and then get up. Before I could realise, five minutes turned into an hour. When I finally managed getting up at 5:30 I could not think of what to do!!!
Someone during one of the lectures in my college had mentioned Murphy’s Law. So now having realised that I have already missed my interview, I decided to put the blame on this law. I logged on to internet and started to browse through this law. What I came across was very interesting. At first hard to believe but when we compare with our life we find its very true. Its same like, “World is very unfair but I always wonder that why is it never unfair for my good or on my side??!!”
Murphy's law is an adage in Western culture that broadly states that things will go wrong in any given situation, if you give them a chance. "If there's more than one possible outcome of a job or task, and one of those outcomes will result in disaster or an undesirable consequence, then somebody will do it that way."
Now you can blame this law for you getting low grades or missing out on an opportunity or an experiment going wrong!!! It is like the law of life. We often experience that sometimes or in many cases a lot of times things go wrong when we least want it to go wrong! In fact scientists often consider Murphy’s Law when they have to launch a satellite or rocket. They actually consider everything that can go wrong and are already prepared with a solution!!! It is often quoted as “If you make something idiot proof…they will build a better idiot!!!”
Murphy law even supports us being singles (hee hee…finally a valid reason for all my ELIGIBLE single friends out there)..it says “Availability is a function of time. The minute you get interested is the minute they find someone else.”
So my friends…don’t worry just sit back and relax after all now you have something on which you can blame all your failures!!! And yes… one more thing you remember when someone told you that you have topped when you least expected to… or someone told you that the hottest babe of the campus is looking for you…remember my friend…”If its too good to be true…then it is too good to be true…”…
When I finally got up the next morning it was already 8:30 AM. My alarm clock had run out of life (battery) at the night!!! Murphy… He suddenly came to my mind. “Whatever can go wrong will go wrong, and at the worst possible time, in the worst possible way.” How true is this. What else could go wrong? After months of trying I had got this interview and missing it this way was really frustrating.
It also reminded me of an incident that took place just after my class 12th board exam. Me and my friend Apoorv had to catch a flight to Bangalore (at 6:30 in the morning) to give our exam. We had decided to wake up at 4 in the morning and leave at most by 5. The Delhi airport was one hour drive from my place. I woke up at 4 and turned off the alarm. I thought why not sleep for another five minutes and then get up. Before I could realise, five minutes turned into an hour. When I finally managed getting up at 5:30 I could not think of what to do!!!
Someone during one of the lectures in my college had mentioned Murphy’s Law. So now having realised that I have already missed my interview, I decided to put the blame on this law. I logged on to internet and started to browse through this law. What I came across was very interesting. At first hard to believe but when we compare with our life we find its very true. Its same like, “World is very unfair but I always wonder that why is it never unfair for my good or on my side??!!”
Murphy's law is an adage in Western culture that broadly states that things will go wrong in any given situation, if you give them a chance. "If there's more than one possible outcome of a job or task, and one of those outcomes will result in disaster or an undesirable consequence, then somebody will do it that way."
Now you can blame this law for you getting low grades or missing out on an opportunity or an experiment going wrong!!! It is like the law of life. We often experience that sometimes or in many cases a lot of times things go wrong when we least want it to go wrong! In fact scientists often consider Murphy’s Law when they have to launch a satellite or rocket. They actually consider everything that can go wrong and are already prepared with a solution!!! It is often quoted as “If you make something idiot proof…they will build a better idiot!!!”
Murphy law even supports us being singles (hee hee…finally a valid reason for all my ELIGIBLE single friends out there)..it says “Availability is a function of time. The minute you get interested is the minute they find someone else.”
So my friends…don’t worry just sit back and relax after all now you have something on which you can blame all your failures!!! And yes… one more thing you remember when someone told you that you have topped when you least expected to… or someone told you that the hottest babe of the campus is looking for you…remember my friend…”If its too good to be true…then it is too good to be true…”…
Thursday, January 3, 2008
My Journey Through Mayo.....
Well for all those who no me, no how much attached i am to Mayo...7 yrs in mayo were one of the best yrs of my life..i joined mayo in 1998 in class 4 (thats da junior most class)..junior school (class 4 to class 6) was a different place in itself..it was another part of mayo...v were mostly trying to cope up with the fact that v were all on our own...this was da time i made my new frnds sum of whom went on to become my really close pals..there were times we missed our homes badly...there were times we stood together to face all the difficulties..there were times we cried together..there were times when we fought 
together.... it was all fun as we were learin how to live together totally dependent on ourself and our friends.. and it was this time dat i understood d real meanin of friendship.. something which remains with me till date...three years passed like three days and then v entered da 'real mayo'..class 7 was fun..4 da first time all of us(my batch mates) were staying in 1 house...v had gr8 times.made sum more frnds and some foes too..!!it was in oman house that v understood da meaning of unity..v were still sumwhat protected frm the tradition of seniority and juniority...soon v went into class8..batch of 128 was divided into rougly group of 16 and sent to 8 different houses...most of my house mates were new to me!!though v had all lived under one
as time passed sadly our batch got divided into small 'groups'..this was the time i came to no abt da so called politics that exsisted in mayo..this was one of the sadest part..sum of us became rivals and though this levelled down a lot as time passed nd v againg began 2 live hapily still sum bad taste continued on till end of class 10 nd even now...i just wish that i could go back in time and change this one thing and that dis would hav never happened..i mad sum very gud frns..my best frnds...to say friends would be to under estimate i would like to say i found brothers at mayo...!!! my stay was one experience that i would never 4get...It made me wat i m toda
y...it taught me about life and is greatly responsible 4 my personality development..for all my success how little it may be rite now, after my parents if someone deserves d credits...its mayo..its my second home and my loyality 2wards mayo will always be same...i joined mayo as a kid and left it as a person who had learnt sum finer points of life..a all round developed person...!!! hope those gud moments culd come again... i m PROUD TO BE A MAYOITE!!!
y...it taught me about life and is greatly responsible 4 my personality development..for all my success how little it may be rite now, after my parents if someone deserves d credits...its mayo..its my second home and my loyality 2wards mayo will always be same...i joined mayo as a kid and left it as a person who had learnt sum finer points of life..a all round developed person...!!! hope those gud moments culd come again... i m PROUD TO BE A MAYOITE!!! 
GO MAYO....LONG LIVE MAYO...LONG LIVE THE MAYO SPIRIT.......Let There Be light....
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