Its been almost about a month that i last contributed to this section and for reasons hard to know , its getting rather difficult to manage . I would , however, try my best to stay in touch and keep you all posted with new happenings.
It was an eventful day today and couldnt have asked for a better climax.Heading out towards the country-side was indeed so mesmerising that it has stocked me up with the energy to sustain the cheer for very many days to come. I cant help but wonder about how life has its uncanny way to get you things that you always wanted and whats strange is that when you have it , you stare at life in dis-belief . The larger-than-life picture that the Yash Chopra & Karan Johar painted in the minds of a common Indian will never be forgotten for they sparked a desire in me to live a life thats so close to serenity and nature. Todays trip towards the country-side reminded me of how much my heart and mind was indebted to Indian cinema for having created greater aspirations . The vast and never ending planes of Scotland would instantly have your mind recap the images of ShahRukh Khan driving swankiest of cars chasing elegant actresses.The shades of green and brown.The pine trees,the meadows and the rivers. Wow ! These hold joy thats much more than and beyond just their visual beauty ! I call it visual Orgasm !!
The climax was again a typical Bollywood inspired one - Bang,Action,Boom and satisfying end after a gruelling session ! Yes. I cooked my first dinner today. I know it sounds frivulous to most of you but it was quite an experience for me. You know eat-on-bed routines of your mothers affection can sometime mislead you to luxuries but whats more satisfying is the whole act of feeding yourself what you have made !! I made for myself Paneer ki Sabji (or thats what i like to call it !) and Parantha and chawal and they tasted better than the best of cuisines i ever tasted. The bottomline being - You enjoy everything but when you do things you enjoy them a little more and this little is the latent that has you cross the threshold of the abstract intercept between Joy and satisfaction.
Iam happy.
Well, I have been in constant touch with most of you and for the rest , Iam looking forward to hearing soon and often from you ! Its been months and the nostalgia has faded (or is fading !
). New life has begun and it certainly is exciting. It was nice to hear the diversity of pursuits among most of us From Business to Biochemistry to Brewing to MBA to Corporate career and what not. We certainly are going places and whats most exciting is that all of these are far away from each other !! Nice ! You know sometimes i sit down at night and remember those days of Seemab crying or Anita screaming or Merryn flying high on crumbling wings ! Well, those were the days and we will never get it back. 606 and its benches have left an indelible mark in my mind and these are one of those that are cherished !
Love you all
Friday, September 18, 2009
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Bit more.
The day is finally visible on the horizon. The fear of living away from domicile has started to creep in and all the things that excited me to set off flying into distant lands today look weaker with cause. Every inanimate object demands from me a sense of attachment and nostalgia and almost every visible entity seems to be strong enough to evoke a deep-felt gratitude to this country that has made life so easily liveable and equally enjoyable!!
Iam sitting on my bed at this moment with a mixed tide of emotions and thoughts crowding the dimensional spaces of mind.Iam proud as at last there is connectivity in this little place which was almost insignificant a few years back. Today every kid here talks of ipods,fancy phones and mobile softwares.Although this must be one of the countable-on-hand connections but still there has been a beginning and the change is loudly evident in every facet of rural indian lifestyle.Be it mobile phones or internet or DTH or luxury cars - they speak and certainly loud enough.
Then there is the whole fear of living away from all of this commotion for almost 2 years starting sept 7th.Would i live in juvenile excitements of foreign land or would i succumb to adoloscent nostalgia of home-sickness and make my stay miserable? Iam sure of the former but the fear of the latter haunts nevertheless.
Then a more recent and temporary happiness is for all the guys who are coming down to my place for a brief stay. They are expected by tommorow night and we are looking to travel around Ooty,Bandipur and every distance we can cover in this little time. This trip is particularly saddening as it awakens old memories - memories of all those who would have never missed this trip had they the chance. Man how fast time flies by and how many tricks it does. Time is almost like an optical illusion, only much more real and unlike an illusion !! I know my thoughts are oxymoron-ish but well thats what i feel and is pretty much the truth.15 days from today at this time i hope i will be writing the same blog but from a new place among new people ,high on something new and with some new dope on my life.
But it is really dissapointing and discouraging to find such a sparse readership and almost no response to the blog and the posts. I hope these (dis)feelings will never be strong enough to have me stop writing as i honestly want conversations to go on and on for years and never stop.Imaging 5 years down the line this blog will be like a priceless memoir of all the the little things that we want to know about our college days.I just love this whole connectivity revolution brought in by the social media. It makes the world look finite enough to be thought about.
Just ended a conversation with Sumedh and Akshat and we were planning what ll we would do once they are here tommorow around this time !! Elaborate and exquisite plans on !
Ok. Now i must take your leave as there are many businesses unfinished that are craving for some worthy attention. Lot of things to wind up before i leave and many more things to initiate. I think life is meant to remain busy forever and ever. You will spend all the time wondering why do we remain so occupied !!
Cheers !!
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Lalitha speaks
So, since this is my first entry here, let me start off by saying that these past 2 months have been a rollercoaster ride of sorts. The first few days after the exams were done, things were confusing. Where do I go from here? How is life going to be without college? Honestly, college wasn't my something i liked. Infact i dreaded coming to class everyday. The prospect of having to sit through 3 theory hours and then 3 practical hours again was too much to handle. Lunch break was the only solace. Our saving grace. But somehow, as the years moved on, we all started to get to know each other better, and before we knew it, class was fun, be it for the back benchers like us, who started off sitting in the corner listenin to music, or for the front benchers who ended up joining in with our chaos by the end of it. Everythin from making teachers cry, to copying during tests,to being reprimanded for not doing our records, it was all part of our college experience. Something we can never go back to again. Right now, I am doing my MSc in regenerative medicine at Manipal Instutute of Regerative Medicine. There are exactly 13 students in my class. Its a whole new feel altogether. I hadn't really thought about Jain for a long time until i entered my new classroom. The same anticipation hit me. I was anxious to see my new classmates. A brand new start. It reminded me of my first day at Jain, how frigging lost I was. As scared as I was, i knew that the next 2 years in my new college wouldn't be bad! Infact, it'd be awesome! I had survived 3 years in Jain, and had fun while i was at it!! It gave me hope :) I really miss the 80+ strong crowd of our old class, and how much ruckus we created those 3 years. It'll never be the same again. But we havta move on, and make new memories. :)I know that most of us are either doing our masters or working. I can't believe that we were fresh outta school when we joined Jain! 17-18 year olds, lost, and confused. Look at us now! It makes me smile. :)Anyhoo, I shall sign off now. I shall continue blogging here as frequently as possible. Thank you Chirag, for keeping this blog alive! Hats off to you!All the very best guys!! *Group hug*Cheers! Lalitha
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Life must go on....
Its been almost 60 days since most of us last saw each other and the memories are still fresh - saddest part being Iam getting used to this kind of life now. There are times in life when you so much want something and with passing time your wanting slowly gets decadent and eventually remains to be just a silly desire which no longer holds any relevance. At precisely these moments , one is forced to question the genuineness and purity of their feelings. The answer is - Time - something that can ellicit the most powerful emotions and convert it to mere "memories".
But well, Iam happy that iam over everything that i believed was like an emotional speed breaker. None of us, i would like to believe, like being weighed down by such feelings and stay in the past forever. Life has been good and going on a track that looks extremely promising and convincingly with expectations. Sometimes you dont believe happenings in life simply because you choose not to . I always love to say "Chase is better than the catch". The anticipation of something good to happen or some incrdulous dream to materialize is , i observe, often more joyous than the joy of living it. Perhaps the secret of life is all about wanting . This consistent wanting in life sets new agendas and flagposts for buying an occasional bout of happiness !! I have always been thinking of moving to a distant land,amidst a new culture, people and live a life that so intriguing. Now iam closer to it than i was say a year ago but iam not happy anymore , rather not excited as i used to be. What is it with life that when you get what you wish , you begin to despise it. Same is with people,relationships and everything else that you can think of !!
Look, with nothing much of "wordly" thngs to do,man often resorts to the gratification of the philosophical outlook to life. But it certainly is exciting. Whats more exciting is to hear what has been happening of people you spent three years with .
Shilpa is all set to get married. We met the couple a few days back and they looked amazing together , extremely happy and "in anticipation" !!.
Facebook also happened to inform me that Sadia Masood is married. How interesting !!
Sumedh & Akshat are hunting for a job and Ankita and Pep have enrolled themselves into s diploma course at JNC. Aman and cheryl are awaiting their documents to file their visa and Bhavya is all excited to fly to Edinburgh. I have already booked my flight and iam moving out on September 7th . Abel is already wearied of the extended monotony of Biotechnology and a sizeable chunk of people have joined Jain college again for their postgraduation. While there are some who are clueless of what to do , there are the others already brimming with academic excitements. It surely is a very differing and contrasting set of events happening with our lives.
Well, i have always tried to be regular in writing but other writing commitments leave me with almost no time even to have a healthy sleep and added to that are the shopping fits that i occasionally get. Oh !! I have been doing a lot of it now and oxford bookstore is something thats having me pass off my extra worthless time which i spend in reading some interesting litreture over some interesting brew of tea !
Wats happening with you ? I thought this platform would serve a noble purpose but its purpose seems to have been over-estimated ! I hope people will write in and share their lives and stay connected . life is too short to waste time on drifting apart you see :-)
Cheers !!
But well, Iam happy that iam over everything that i believed was like an emotional speed breaker. None of us, i would like to believe, like being weighed down by such feelings and stay in the past forever. Life has been good and going on a track that looks extremely promising and convincingly with expectations. Sometimes you dont believe happenings in life simply because you choose not to . I always love to say "Chase is better than the catch". The anticipation of something good to happen or some incrdulous dream to materialize is , i observe, often more joyous than the joy of living it. Perhaps the secret of life is all about wanting . This consistent wanting in life sets new agendas and flagposts for buying an occasional bout of happiness !! I have always been thinking of moving to a distant land,amidst a new culture, people and live a life that so intriguing. Now iam closer to it than i was say a year ago but iam not happy anymore , rather not excited as i used to be. What is it with life that when you get what you wish , you begin to despise it. Same is with people,relationships and everything else that you can think of !!
Look, with nothing much of "wordly" thngs to do,man often resorts to the gratification of the philosophical outlook to life. But it certainly is exciting. Whats more exciting is to hear what has been happening of people you spent three years with .
Shilpa is all set to get married. We met the couple a few days back and they looked amazing together , extremely happy and "in anticipation" !!.
Facebook also happened to inform me that Sadia Masood is married. How interesting !!
Sumedh & Akshat are hunting for a job and Ankita and Pep have enrolled themselves into s diploma course at JNC. Aman and cheryl are awaiting their documents to file their visa and Bhavya is all excited to fly to Edinburgh. I have already booked my flight and iam moving out on September 7th . Abel is already wearied of the extended monotony of Biotechnology and a sizeable chunk of people have joined Jain college again for their postgraduation. While there are some who are clueless of what to do , there are the others already brimming with academic excitements. It surely is a very differing and contrasting set of events happening with our lives.
Well, i have always tried to be regular in writing but other writing commitments leave me with almost no time even to have a healthy sleep and added to that are the shopping fits that i occasionally get. Oh !! I have been doing a lot of it now and oxford bookstore is something thats having me pass off my extra worthless time which i spend in reading some interesting litreture over some interesting brew of tea !
Wats happening with you ? I thought this platform would serve a noble purpose but its purpose seems to have been over-estimated ! I hope people will write in and share their lives and stay connected . life is too short to waste time on drifting apart you see :-)
Cheers !!
Friday, July 10, 2009
Baked
Relationships,in life, thrive on certain underlying "taken-for-granted"ness. This gets us rid of the psychological veil that engineers every movement and words to "look better". But with friends, you dont have to be someone else to keep them happy and impressed. Its you and all about being yourself.
Its interesting to see how we evolve with every relationship in life and how these bondings change to something different with passing time and widening distance and we realise their importance only when we feel any bit lack of it. How ironic ! But well, thats life.
The week has been good with usual coffee and conversations and not to mention the personal affairs of visa and other processes. Java City is probably bored os seeing me but what can i do i have no other place to go and not many people to meet.Whenever i cross Jaynagar or even Bannerghatta road , i cant help but think of those beautiful days when you never worried about whom-to-go-withs of any meet-ups . Yes, i had taken every one and every relationship for granted that i had never bothered to even think what is a life devoid of all these people.Punit's house still beckons me . It has seen all of us in all states of mind - Happy at just having done away with another semester, anxious with an incomplete project to be submitted tommorow, lost in the worst of trips and sometimes just doing nothing , staring at the wall for hours together sipping on lemon tea with cigarettes ! I cant help thinking of all these things . I mean how will you feel when you are ripped off something so precious .
Well, Aashish and myself were in for a good treat when we just bumped into "bakwaas" at Garuda . We had booked ourselves on the premier show of "Morning Walk" at Inox (Guess what ??!! We walked out within 15 minutes of its start :o) But this time meeting her was different from all these years. I suddenly felt the new-ness that we felt during the first few days of college. The phase of getting-to-know . I could no longer feel the take-for-grantedness with her . Ys she was still a very dear friend but something had come in between . Some formality is creeping in and it is so creepy to see that. I only hope that come what may, the closeness remains forever and even if we meet after many years , we will not have to display a formal gesture to make people feel comfortable.
Love
Chirag
Its interesting to see how we evolve with every relationship in life and how these bondings change to something different with passing time and widening distance and we realise their importance only when we feel any bit lack of it. How ironic ! But well, thats life.
The week has been good with usual coffee and conversations and not to mention the personal affairs of visa and other processes. Java City is probably bored os seeing me but what can i do i have no other place to go and not many people to meet.Whenever i cross Jaynagar or even Bannerghatta road , i cant help but think of those beautiful days when you never worried about whom-to-go-withs of any meet-ups . Yes, i had taken every one and every relationship for granted that i had never bothered to even think what is a life devoid of all these people.Punit's house still beckons me . It has seen all of us in all states of mind - Happy at just having done away with another semester, anxious with an incomplete project to be submitted tommorow, lost in the worst of trips and sometimes just doing nothing , staring at the wall for hours together sipping on lemon tea with cigarettes ! I cant help thinking of all these things . I mean how will you feel when you are ripped off something so precious .
Well, Aashish and myself were in for a good treat when we just bumped into "bakwaas" at Garuda . We had booked ourselves on the premier show of "Morning Walk" at Inox (Guess what ??!! We walked out within 15 minutes of its start :o) But this time meeting her was different from all these years. I suddenly felt the new-ness that we felt during the first few days of college. The phase of getting-to-know . I could no longer feel the take-for-grantedness with her . Ys she was still a very dear friend but something had come in between . Some formality is creeping in and it is so creepy to see that. I only hope that come what may, the closeness remains forever and even if we meet after many years , we will not have to display a formal gesture to make people feel comfortable.
Love
Chirag
Sunday, July 5, 2009
Mr.Sumedha speaks
Finally the day we dreaded has cum ….all the bgbians hve left on d quest of life ….all d sad goodbyes r done ……the tears hve cum n gone n ts d “aww!! I miss u phase of life”…..well gone r those days of chai n sutta n bike rides….those silly lil arguments …..small lil gossips ….runnin arnd fr diagrams to b drawn ….those long hours of classes n practs ……….well those 3 wndrful years of coll n SBMJC r dne …….sigh
Ths has been by far the best days of my life ……..i hve learnt so much frm the city n frm the ppl n t ….ya I knw I may hve cribd abt d place n al bt hey wat d heck I miss evry thng abt the city………n most importantly my frnds wid out whom I jus cant do…….n as a person I hve grwn …I came nto d city as an eagr 18 yr old n I leave as a mature( I hope lol) 21 yr old ….
Wel as of nw am bck hme n Mumbai ….n d hunt fr d job hs begun J…n sittin at hme jus intensifies d whole feelin of bein detacthd….memories run arnd me lik a well edited sad film wit d rite choice of songs…mind jus keeps playin these games again n again as a auto wala plays himeshs trcks n mumbai s rickshaws….lol
Well nys I jus wouldn do justice to our memories f I had to jot dwn every1 of thm …….so I shall leave here ….waitin to read ur articles ……..
Cheers n lots of lovee
su/sumedh/sumadesh /sumedhas
Ths has been by far the best days of my life ……..i hve learnt so much frm the city n frm the ppl n t ….ya I knw I may hve cribd abt d place n al bt hey wat d heck I miss evry thng abt the city………n most importantly my frnds wid out whom I jus cant do…….n as a person I hve grwn …I came nto d city as an eagr 18 yr old n I leave as a mature( I hope lol) 21 yr old ….
Wel as of nw am bck hme n Mumbai ….n d hunt fr d job hs begun J…n sittin at hme jus intensifies d whole feelin of bein detacthd….memories run arnd me lik a well edited sad film wit d rite choice of songs…mind jus keeps playin these games again n again as a auto wala plays himeshs trcks n mumbai s rickshaws….lol
Well nys I jus wouldn do justice to our memories f I had to jot dwn every1 of thm …….so I shall leave here ….waitin to read ur articles ……..
Cheers n lots of lovee
su/sumedh/sumadesh /sumedhas
Special series - Start
Now that iam doing unjust with something i startd with so much passion, heres another attempt to rekindle the spark that is to remain for a very very long time now.
Life's going at a rather slow and torturous pace off-late. There is nothing much to do and added to that are the nostalgic moments and the regret of not being able to afford even a friend for a cup of coffee. Also i have been shuttling between mysore and bangalore trying to get my visa papers and other legalities in place. Iam also looking to start a very ambitious project despite being very poor on time. I think few things in life just need a start and it goes on automatically. This project aims at documenting the scene of rural education in india and also doing some sessions for these kids whose potential often go unexploited !! Any of you interested can get in touch and all you ideas and inputs are always welcome.
Anyways, i was talking of a special series that begins from tommorow. I would invite people, one by one, to write us all an article sharing their heart for the blog. Iam trying to contact as many people as possible but if i cant reach you just understand that it is because i dont know how to !!! So please feel free to mail me your writing and i shall post it .
Hoping atleast this would be a success
Stay tuned
Love - Loads & loads
Life's going at a rather slow and torturous pace off-late. There is nothing much to do and added to that are the nostalgic moments and the regret of not being able to afford even a friend for a cup of coffee. Also i have been shuttling between mysore and bangalore trying to get my visa papers and other legalities in place. Iam also looking to start a very ambitious project despite being very poor on time. I think few things in life just need a start and it goes on automatically. This project aims at documenting the scene of rural education in india and also doing some sessions for these kids whose potential often go unexploited !! Any of you interested can get in touch and all you ideas and inputs are always welcome.
Anyways, i was talking of a special series that begins from tommorow. I would invite people, one by one, to write us all an article sharing their heart for the blog. Iam trying to contact as many people as possible but if i cant reach you just understand that it is because i dont know how to !!! So please feel free to mail me your writing and i shall post it .
Hoping atleast this would be a success
Stay tuned
Love - Loads & loads
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Back again
Phew !!
Iam still trying to understand what kept me away for so long but well its time to make a move now.cribbing and pondering is postponed for later !!
All the milestone-events are done with. I was thinking i will post something new once our exams begin , never happened, then i thought every exam would be followed by a post, never happened.
Its been more than a fortnight now since we last saw each-other. Its been over two weeks now that iam sleeping with no clear intent of waking up early next morning or rather i dont even have a good reason to wake up. over 15 days since i have cribbed about anything worthwile in life. I slowly feel the college construct disintegrating. Most of the ones i used to fall back upon to go out for coffee or a movie arent with me anymore and i now realise that i had just taken their presence for granted which is why it hurts me even more. Rather disturbs. You had always expected this day but never anticipated its feeling.
Now that i realise there are no more 10:00 AM movie sessions or the evening shots of expresso . No more of record writing, and life is all yours . 3 years we have been waiting for this day to come and now that it has come everyone is asking for an extension. Postpone it for some more time - please god !!
Too Late !!
I have been thinking of engaging myself in a social experiment trying to understand the connectivity revolution that everyone of us seems to be gripped in. Iam getting off-mbile phone for a month . During this period i would not be using my cellphone(s) nor mobile internet connectivity. The experiment would begin soon.
Apart from this iam also travelling across the country starting from the 10th of July researching for my book and also shopping some peace of mind for myself. Being overly materialistic has taken its toll on me and now iam looking for solace and solitude. My travel project plan was supposed to be completely supported by social networking . I thought of couch-surfing at all the stations i visit but lack of time . Unable to accomplish that dream. Well, i would be very happy to meeet , stay or travel with any of you. Just let me know if you wish to taggle along in any way. Iam travelling through Delhi, Rishikesh,Haridwar, Kasol,Bhuntar, Dharamsala, Rajasthan, Mumbai and back. Do let me know if there is anything interesting around or in the place you stay. Ill try and include that in my itenary too.
Sorry for truncated and unstructured sentences. Was in a hurry !!
Let me know what we can do together. Iam available on my cellphone for a few more days and you can mail me whenever. Please mail me if you wish to speak regarding the trip. I wont be able to track the conversation on the blog.Looking forward to hearing from all of you !
I suggest everyone get on twitter and tweet whenver you can . Lets all follow eachother . That is the way we can stay connected. www.twitter.com is the link. Register yourself and follow your friends.
C.
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Friday, May 22, 2009
Study Group,Sumadesh B'day et al.
Hello everyone !!
Phew……!!
What a hectic time it has been. The past few weeks have been extremely demanding in terms of time and effort . I have been running pillar to post to get some legal issues sorted out and added to that were the interruptions of mundane hours of practical exams. I really don’t understand why don’t the syllabus framers arrive into the new century and let go of their outdated ideas. I haven’t still found a way to actually make use of all three hours in any of the practical exams in the past 3 years.
Lot of things have happened in the recent past – the latest being Su’s birthday !. Summy, Sumadesha just turned a year older this 18th and we had planned for a nice surprise ! But well when I plan something with all excitement , I tend to screw it up myself. While asking the rest of the gang of the plan for his birthday , I ended up forwarding the message to sumedh himself. Man I couldn’t stop cursing myself and couldn’t any more take others’ !!
As usual, we dropped into his place at midnight and smothered him with the richness of cold mousse !! The cake was sumptuous and I regret on having wasted on this 6 foot something monolith. I would have sufficed with half of his requirement !! :o) The bash wash just amazing and we had also made a small movie for him as a memoir. Not to say, he had confused tears in his eyes. They were wondering whether or not to pop down !
The next day Sumedh had called us all for dinner and we were hogging at Oye ! Amritsar. Now, this place has some fond memories of us. We have had wonderful outings at this restaurant. It was a tradition that whenever we went to this place with the full gang, we used to sit till the last guest walked out and then all the tables were our stage and we danced on the tunes that we wanted. All the waiters had a gala time being entertained by characters of all sorts. 18th was no less. We ran around the tables , made noise, sang birthday songs and again had a cake hitting session. Believe me the other gusts too had a wonderful time and we went around distributing cake to every other diner in the arena !!
Apart from this , life has been rather preoccupied with University admission process and tensions of the impending danger called exams.
Hey , I have an idea ! Lets do this
Why don’t we form groups and study together at any one f our places. This way we can stay together for the last few days and also STUDY !! Don’t worry, my sole aim is to actually learn something for the exams . I promise I wouldn’t speak, make fun or play around and so should you :o)
Let me know how we can take this forward
Cheers !!!
Phew……!!
What a hectic time it has been. The past few weeks have been extremely demanding in terms of time and effort . I have been running pillar to post to get some legal issues sorted out and added to that were the interruptions of mundane hours of practical exams. I really don’t understand why don’t the syllabus framers arrive into the new century and let go of their outdated ideas. I haven’t still found a way to actually make use of all three hours in any of the practical exams in the past 3 years.
Lot of things have happened in the recent past – the latest being Su’s birthday !. Summy, Sumadesha just turned a year older this 18th and we had planned for a nice surprise ! But well when I plan something with all excitement , I tend to screw it up myself. While asking the rest of the gang of the plan for his birthday , I ended up forwarding the message to sumedh himself. Man I couldn’t stop cursing myself and couldn’t any more take others’ !!
As usual, we dropped into his place at midnight and smothered him with the richness of cold mousse !! The cake was sumptuous and I regret on having wasted on this 6 foot something monolith. I would have sufficed with half of his requirement !! :o) The bash wash just amazing and we had also made a small movie for him as a memoir. Not to say, he had confused tears in his eyes. They were wondering whether or not to pop down !
The next day Sumedh had called us all for dinner and we were hogging at Oye ! Amritsar. Now, this place has some fond memories of us. We have had wonderful outings at this restaurant. It was a tradition that whenever we went to this place with the full gang, we used to sit till the last guest walked out and then all the tables were our stage and we danced on the tunes that we wanted. All the waiters had a gala time being entertained by characters of all sorts. 18th was no less. We ran around the tables , made noise, sang birthday songs and again had a cake hitting session. Believe me the other gusts too had a wonderful time and we went around distributing cake to every other diner in the arena !!
Apart from this , life has been rather preoccupied with University admission process and tensions of the impending danger called exams.
Hey , I have an idea ! Lets do this
Why don’t we form groups and study together at any one f our places. This way we can stay together for the last few days and also STUDY !! Don’t worry, my sole aim is to actually learn something for the exams . I promise I wouldn’t speak, make fun or play around and so should you :o)
Let me know how we can take this forward
Cheers !!!
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Going good but too tired!!
Yes, I understand it has been quite a while since any activity has been seen on the blog but well I have been living every single minute of the day to meet all commitments.
Life’s the nicest thing to be happening to me off-late !!
Well iam just back from a wonderful ride to Ranganathittu and the joyous city of Mysore. This city never stops to amaze me !!
The other day , punit and myself happened to meet Merin ma’am, Sarika, Sahana and Shalini in Jaynagar. It was nice . Those guys were out for shopping and we were out for a nice glass of soda to beat the heat !!
Rightnow, iam too tired to write anything more than what follows. Stay tuned !
IMPORTANT :
Please try to leave your comments on the latest post and not old ones. I get email notifications for every comment on the blog since aim the author but for a reader it will be difficult to track. So please try and stay with time !!
Cheers!!
C
Life’s the nicest thing to be happening to me off-late !!
Well iam just back from a wonderful ride to Ranganathittu and the joyous city of Mysore. This city never stops to amaze me !!
The other day , punit and myself happened to meet Merin ma’am, Sarika, Sahana and Shalini in Jaynagar. It was nice . Those guys were out for shopping and we were out for a nice glass of soda to beat the heat !!
Rightnow, iam too tired to write anything more than what follows. Stay tuned !
IMPORTANT :
Please try to leave your comments on the latest post and not old ones. I get email notifications for every comment on the blog since aim the author but for a reader it will be difficult to track. So please try and stay with time !!
Cheers!!
C
Friday, May 1, 2009
Lets Meet :o)
Before beginning,
Iam happy we have 29 followers now. It will be amazing if each one gets regular with comments and post and shares their ideas and feelings.
Apologies for the delay in this post. Have been very busy with various writing commitments .
A quick heads-up on whats happening with me .
We had an amazing get together at PEP’s place on the 30th . It was a dance-music Lunch party and pep was a perfect host indeed !! All of us danced our lives out and I have never been this active ever before in life !! As usual there was also a pep-bashing session. She has gotten immune to all such kinds of torture now . We are thinking of an inventive way of troubling her ! Here are some pictures of the noon. There is also a kick-ass video too.
THANKS PEP :o)
If any of you guys have been having such meeting sessions, please do mail me the details and a few pictures and I shall post them too.
This reminds of the grand plan that few of us were thinking of to end the session with. Why don’t all of us plan out outings of such sort?
Lets do this – whoever thinks of hosting people at their place , mail me the invitation and I will put it up on the blog and you can set the max number of people that you can accommodate. The interested individuals will SMS you and all can meet up . The expenses need not necessarily be borne by the host . It depends. The party can be a simple “chai” party or a lunch party or just a get-together session. No set rules for hosting , you may come up with your own plans.
Few of us guys also met up yesterday over a match of cricket, some ice candies and loads of lime juice!! It was fun. Man, I never have forced myself for such physical torture earlier and this was excruciating! Fielding in the hot sun and later batting and running between the wickets was certainly not my cup of tea but I still tried to sip this un-drinkable tea and I gave up after a good time in battle. I just cannot do this running , batting or bowling. I rather sit as a commentator !!
But believe me life is getting more and more interesting off-late and I loved the cricket session too .Thanks to Punit and Sumedh who kept tormenting my sleep till I actually woke up to join them ! We all enjoyed every bit of it. Iam sure if we can plan more sessions of this sort where all of us get together, it will truly be memorable !!
Let me know if any of you have any plans. Iam Game anytime !!
Cheers!!
C
PS : Reminder – Please let me know who has any footage of Mahesh-chirag-naagin dance in class. I just can t wait to see it !!! :o)
Iam happy we have 29 followers now. It will be amazing if each one gets regular with comments and post and shares their ideas and feelings.
Apologies for the delay in this post. Have been very busy with various writing commitments .
A quick heads-up on whats happening with me .
We had an amazing get together at PEP’s place on the 30th . It was a dance-music Lunch party and pep was a perfect host indeed !! All of us danced our lives out and I have never been this active ever before in life !! As usual there was also a pep-bashing session. She has gotten immune to all such kinds of torture now . We are thinking of an inventive way of troubling her ! Here are some pictures of the noon. There is also a kick-ass video too.
THANKS PEP :o)
If any of you guys have been having such meeting sessions, please do mail me the details and a few pictures and I shall post them too.
This reminds of the grand plan that few of us were thinking of to end the session with. Why don’t all of us plan out outings of such sort?
Lets do this – whoever thinks of hosting people at their place , mail me the invitation and I will put it up on the blog and you can set the max number of people that you can accommodate. The interested individuals will SMS you and all can meet up . The expenses need not necessarily be borne by the host . It depends. The party can be a simple “chai” party or a lunch party or just a get-together session. No set rules for hosting , you may come up with your own plans.
Few of us guys also met up yesterday over a match of cricket, some ice candies and loads of lime juice!! It was fun. Man, I never have forced myself for such physical torture earlier and this was excruciating! Fielding in the hot sun and later batting and running between the wickets was certainly not my cup of tea but I still tried to sip this un-drinkable tea and I gave up after a good time in battle. I just cannot do this running , batting or bowling. I rather sit as a commentator !!
But believe me life is getting more and more interesting off-late and I loved the cricket session too .Thanks to Punit and Sumedh who kept tormenting my sleep till I actually woke up to join them ! We all enjoyed every bit of it. Iam sure if we can plan more sessions of this sort where all of us get together, it will truly be memorable !!
Let me know if any of you have any plans. Iam Game anytime !!
Cheers!!
C
PS : Reminder – Please let me know who has any footage of Mahesh-chirag-naagin dance in class. I just can t wait to see it !!! :o)
Friday, April 24, 2009
Just Feel Better !!!
“I…. Have become, comfortably numb”
When life gets unbearable with monotony , PINK FLOYD can do wonders. Musical genius they are. Indeed.
Its for a hundredth (sans exaggeration) time that aim listening to this song in the past few days. I just cant get enough of it. Everytime I listen, I have something new to hear, something better to understand and something more melodious to hear. Syd Barret created a legend with his death !! Irony.
Anyways , whats up with life??!! Yes its been going “comfortably numb”, come to the college to sleep your way through the three hours, catch up for another round of wallet-ripping lunch , do a bit of the usual masti and get back home, eat sleep and do the same thing again!! But you know this is getting interesting considering the fact that this is getting to an end.
Now, I have a few resolutions to think of for the time to come
No more getting senti over the end of college.
Listen to good music as you can
Socialize with friends as much as you can even if it means you have to go broke
Talk to as many classmates and start make friends for life
There are many more to come. Actually I have been working on a rather serious list of 25 things I want to do in life before iam 25. It looks very exciting and interesting. I shall post the list as soon as I know of it !!
Coming to exams,
You know I have never been so blank and more important – I have never seen Deepa so blank in life and paper . I write my paper with blanks hoping to fill it with fodder from Deepa’s paper but interestingly Deepa seems to be getting “Chirag-ed”.She sleeps, talks, laughs,smiles and does everything possible apart from writing her paper and with this my last and perhaps the only hope of getting through goes to the dogs. Whats happening ?? World is changing
Deepa is Blank
Priyanka is sleeping
Srishti is completing her paper much before 3 hours & exciting – without her trademark additional sheets !!
Bhavya is smiling in the room
Vijeth is eating up additional sheets
I mean aim wondering where is the word headed to ? Whats happening. Conjugation ?
But well I have decided I don’t want to write atleast tommorow’s paper. Iam tired and rather tired of being tired and its time to tire of being tired and resort to a life of recluse – atleast from the monotony of Exams for a few days
Iam off for now. But will be back again morrow with new post .
As I end aim listening to Steven Tyler and the God of “Feel Good music” – Carlos Santana – Just Feel Better . Listen if you have time. It will take you on new high !!
“ I can't find my wayGod I need a changeAnd I'd do anything to just feel betterAny little thing that just feel betterI'm tired of holding onTo all the things I ought to leave behind, yeahIt's really getting old, andI think I need a little help this time! “
Cheers!
C
PS : If anyone has the Mahesh-chirag-jugalbandhi-naagin-dance-video. Please mail me . Please . Reward assured !! :o)
When life gets unbearable with monotony , PINK FLOYD can do wonders. Musical genius they are. Indeed.
Its for a hundredth (sans exaggeration) time that aim listening to this song in the past few days. I just cant get enough of it. Everytime I listen, I have something new to hear, something better to understand and something more melodious to hear. Syd Barret created a legend with his death !! Irony.
Anyways , whats up with life??!! Yes its been going “comfortably numb”, come to the college to sleep your way through the three hours, catch up for another round of wallet-ripping lunch , do a bit of the usual masti and get back home, eat sleep and do the same thing again!! But you know this is getting interesting considering the fact that this is getting to an end.
Now, I have a few resolutions to think of for the time to come
No more getting senti over the end of college.
Listen to good music as you can
Socialize with friends as much as you can even if it means you have to go broke
Talk to as many classmates and start make friends for life
There are many more to come. Actually I have been working on a rather serious list of 25 things I want to do in life before iam 25. It looks very exciting and interesting. I shall post the list as soon as I know of it !!
Coming to exams,
You know I have never been so blank and more important – I have never seen Deepa so blank in life and paper . I write my paper with blanks hoping to fill it with fodder from Deepa’s paper but interestingly Deepa seems to be getting “Chirag-ed”.She sleeps, talks, laughs,smiles and does everything possible apart from writing her paper and with this my last and perhaps the only hope of getting through goes to the dogs. Whats happening ?? World is changing
Deepa is Blank
Priyanka is sleeping
Srishti is completing her paper much before 3 hours & exciting – without her trademark additional sheets !!
Bhavya is smiling in the room
Vijeth is eating up additional sheets
I mean aim wondering where is the word headed to ? Whats happening. Conjugation ?
But well I have decided I don’t want to write atleast tommorow’s paper. Iam tired and rather tired of being tired and its time to tire of being tired and resort to a life of recluse – atleast from the monotony of Exams for a few days
Iam off for now. But will be back again morrow with new post .
As I end aim listening to Steven Tyler and the God of “Feel Good music” – Carlos Santana – Just Feel Better . Listen if you have time. It will take you on new high !!
“ I can't find my wayGod I need a changeAnd I'd do anything to just feel betterAny little thing that just feel betterI'm tired of holding onTo all the things I ought to leave behind, yeahIt's really getting old, andI think I need a little help this time! “
Cheers!
C
PS : If anyone has the Mahesh-chirag-jugalbandhi-naagin-dance-video. Please mail me . Please . Reward assured !! :o)
Monday, April 20, 2009
What the F*** - Everyone got the hallticket!!!! AGAIN :o)
Exam blues !! A three hour crash course in insulting your own intelligence!!
Clonal propagation - have been hearing this word from Day 1 of my tryst with Biotechnology and when it came to writing about it something worth ten marks. I was groping for any bit of information that seemed to have any closest proximity to the title!!
Guess what !!?? I did not even know what are herbicides!! Yes, it was indeed a grand opening of the preparatory exams. I kept flirting with the questions for about 40 minutes and then when i realised it was enough i gave up, put my head down for a peaceful sleep. A few minutes into dreams , saliva almost dribbled down my mouth when in embarrastment i slurped it back in and woke up with disgust - both at myself and my pathetic state. But soon i found some fancy ways to pass time. Read neighbours question paper, kept staring at people. Oh yes! I had a muse for my entertainment today. Right opposite me in the other class was a gentle-man.Too gentle in all his actions, so gentle that it made me wonder about his "preferences".My neighbour , a rather easy-going art student, preferred to call him the "other kind". I dont know what he meant but whatever he did , it was surely worth a while of laugh. This kept me on for almost 2 hours.
Then came the most lovely moment. our hall tickets were to be issued and my heart refused to beat in anticipation of my dreaded state. Yes guys this is the moment which most of us wait anxiously for for all the six months of the semester. My to-worry-about list always had the first entry as "Hall ticket" and this was the longest living entry in my list ever. But when God screws you with boredom , at the end of the day he does brings home chocalates. The forms kept flowing in for almost all the BA guys and for BSc, my name was first in the list. My heart refused to beat again, now in joy. Do i believe this!! I have got the hall ticket!!! I can write my exams !! Iam liberated !! I feel ecstatic !! Want to jump right there (did a bit of that too!!!)
Aman,Patil, Pep and guess what even Anushree got the damned form!!! I felt happy , even better but then what the F***, they were clever . I slogged my a** to wake up in morning, cut short my usually-long-hour-potty-session, skipped breakfast,neared banging into slow riding women on road and ran my life to climb the six floors to get attendance . I did get !! Good . But what the F*** everyone got !! I always used to be on the other side before, never have the attendance but always have managed to procure a ticket for my self. I felt proud . Now i feel sheepish ! Yes i had realised something good but at a wrong time. How i wish now i could have bunked away to fanciful dreams ! I should have done that !!
But at the end of the day i was feeling amazing. I mean all my friends were with me on the last leg of our journey - the semester exams. I had always prayed that these people should get the hall ticket and thank me they did!! Anyways, it feels empowered now. I have my licence to a trouble free and no-tension college time now.I dont believe this again !! but i must. Reality is slapping me back to it.
This hall-ticket-drama has been a tradiotion from first semester. You know everytime i felt depressed worrying about my hall ticket i would decide, chirag whatver happens next sem i will attend regularly so that atleast one tension is kept away . But this plan is still crying to be cared about. Every semester same thing happened and same promises too!! Every semester i used to decide " Apun next sem se kya karenge malum, har record ko week-wise complete karte rahenge.Toh load kum ho jayega. Aur thoda padhayi bhi karlenge. Yaar din me just dedicate 2 hours na". Oh i felt confident and meticulously planned then but ha ha ha (you know why is this laugh).
Looking back you know all those moments of tension start to look like cherishable and can-be-talked-about memories. No we had never planned to do these things so that in future we can be proud of it . It just happened and now it feels amazing. All those days spent in writing records and completing them in a day or two,doing projects in class on the day of submission.now it feels great . And more so because now it will always remain a lovely past as we cannot experience this anymore. Man , nw i want to worry about my hall ticket!!!
Steve jobs rightly said "You can only connect the dots looking backward".
Today the dots are connecting to give a fine picture of a wonderful past , full of oddities , full of strange yet lovely memories full of naughty,worried episodes of stupid things. But now it feels righfully beautiful. With age somes grace indeed !!
But what the F*** , Every one got the hall ticket !!! :o)
PS : share your traumatic episodes of the hall-ticket worries.
Clonal propagation - have been hearing this word from Day 1 of my tryst with Biotechnology and when it came to writing about it something worth ten marks. I was groping for any bit of information that seemed to have any closest proximity to the title!!
Guess what !!?? I did not even know what are herbicides!! Yes, it was indeed a grand opening of the preparatory exams. I kept flirting with the questions for about 40 minutes and then when i realised it was enough i gave up, put my head down for a peaceful sleep. A few minutes into dreams , saliva almost dribbled down my mouth when in embarrastment i slurped it back in and woke up with disgust - both at myself and my pathetic state. But soon i found some fancy ways to pass time. Read neighbours question paper, kept staring at people. Oh yes! I had a muse for my entertainment today. Right opposite me in the other class was a gentle-man.Too gentle in all his actions, so gentle that it made me wonder about his "preferences".My neighbour , a rather easy-going art student, preferred to call him the "other kind". I dont know what he meant but whatever he did , it was surely worth a while of laugh. This kept me on for almost 2 hours.
Then came the most lovely moment. our hall tickets were to be issued and my heart refused to beat in anticipation of my dreaded state. Yes guys this is the moment which most of us wait anxiously for for all the six months of the semester. My to-worry-about list always had the first entry as "Hall ticket" and this was the longest living entry in my list ever. But when God screws you with boredom , at the end of the day he does brings home chocalates. The forms kept flowing in for almost all the BA guys and for BSc, my name was first in the list. My heart refused to beat again, now in joy. Do i believe this!! I have got the hall ticket!!! I can write my exams !! Iam liberated !! I feel ecstatic !! Want to jump right there (did a bit of that too!!!)
Aman,Patil, Pep and guess what even Anushree got the damned form!!! I felt happy , even better but then what the F***, they were clever . I slogged my a** to wake up in morning, cut short my usually-long-hour-potty-session, skipped breakfast,neared banging into slow riding women on road and ran my life to climb the six floors to get attendance . I did get !! Good . But what the F*** everyone got !! I always used to be on the other side before, never have the attendance but always have managed to procure a ticket for my self. I felt proud . Now i feel sheepish ! Yes i had realised something good but at a wrong time. How i wish now i could have bunked away to fanciful dreams ! I should have done that !!
But at the end of the day i was feeling amazing. I mean all my friends were with me on the last leg of our journey - the semester exams. I had always prayed that these people should get the hall ticket and thank me they did!! Anyways, it feels empowered now. I have my licence to a trouble free and no-tension college time now.I dont believe this again !! but i must. Reality is slapping me back to it.
This hall-ticket-drama has been a tradiotion from first semester. You know everytime i felt depressed worrying about my hall ticket i would decide, chirag whatver happens next sem i will attend regularly so that atleast one tension is kept away . But this plan is still crying to be cared about. Every semester same thing happened and same promises too!! Every semester i used to decide " Apun next sem se kya karenge malum, har record ko week-wise complete karte rahenge.Toh load kum ho jayega. Aur thoda padhayi bhi karlenge. Yaar din me just dedicate 2 hours na". Oh i felt confident and meticulously planned then but ha ha ha (you know why is this laugh).
Looking back you know all those moments of tension start to look like cherishable and can-be-talked-about memories. No we had never planned to do these things so that in future we can be proud of it . It just happened and now it feels amazing. All those days spent in writing records and completing them in a day or two,doing projects in class on the day of submission.now it feels great . And more so because now it will always remain a lovely past as we cannot experience this anymore. Man , nw i want to worry about my hall ticket!!!
Steve jobs rightly said "You can only connect the dots looking backward".
Today the dots are connecting to give a fine picture of a wonderful past , full of oddities , full of strange yet lovely memories full of naughty,worried episodes of stupid things. But now it feels righfully beautiful. With age somes grace indeed !!
But what the F*** , Every one got the hall ticket !!! :o)
PS : share your traumatic episodes of the hall-ticket worries.
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Littlu bit of a instruction !!
Hey ,
Its really Amazing to see you on this site but before you go down to explore the legend . Go through the following key. It is very important
You can follow the blog by clicking on follow tab towards the right side of the page.
Comments are of utmost importace as they keep the conversation in flow.So please do comment
If you are offended by any post or comment please do drop me a mail on chirag_360@yahoo.co.in . I shall ensure immediate action
If you feel like voicing an opinion or starting any post . Please mail me either the idea or the post on my ID and we will post it too
This project doesn’t end here. Aim looking to connect various forms of social networking with this blog. So Please be regular
Please avoid using offensive or provocative language and opinion
If you have any idea of how we can make this better. Shoot me a mail
Please be regular visitor. By following the blog you can ensure this as you will receive email notifications but please keep adding fuel to this fire
REMEMBER !! WE ARE ALL HERE TO HAVE FUN . Try and not take things very seriously . Its all in Good Humour. Do not hesitate in voicing your opinion . Your opinion does matter
Iam the author of the blog and therefore every post is my creation. Please let me know if the mention of your name or anything bothers you (in advance) so that I can restraint from using the same.
Ok. This is the gyaan for the Blog. The real content begins in the following posts.
Awaiting your enthusiastic participation
Lots of Love
Chirag Jain
Its really Amazing to see you on this site but before you go down to explore the legend . Go through the following key. It is very important
You can follow the blog by clicking on follow tab towards the right side of the page.
Comments are of utmost importace as they keep the conversation in flow.So please do comment
If you are offended by any post or comment please do drop me a mail on chirag_360@yahoo.co.in . I shall ensure immediate action
If you feel like voicing an opinion or starting any post . Please mail me either the idea or the post on my ID and we will post it too
This project doesn’t end here. Aim looking to connect various forms of social networking with this blog. So Please be regular
Please avoid using offensive or provocative language and opinion
If you have any idea of how we can make this better. Shoot me a mail
Please be regular visitor. By following the blog you can ensure this as you will receive email notifications but please keep adding fuel to this fire
REMEMBER !! WE ARE ALL HERE TO HAVE FUN . Try and not take things very seriously . Its all in Good Humour. Do not hesitate in voicing your opinion . Your opinion does matter
Iam the author of the blog and therefore every post is my creation. Please let me know if the mention of your name or anything bothers you (in advance) so that I can restraint from using the same.
Ok. This is the gyaan for the Blog. The real content begins in the following posts.
Awaiting your enthusiastic participation
Lots of Love
Chirag Jain
The Left,The Right, The Centre and The Back !!!!! Funny :o)
Its amazing to re-look into the past to understand dynamics of groupism in class. I remember barely within a few days of the start of the college “birds of the same feather flocked together”.
After rounds of intense refining and filtering, the great divide which was apparent became evident. The class was now either The Left or the Right or The centre. Wow!! This started to get interesting. Seats were reserved without any intimation. Specific places were meant for specific people or at least specific groups on a broader scale. If I ever dared to sit on “The Left” side of the class, I was to be prepared to confront the what-the-f***-is he-doing here stares and often giggles at my odd disposition. We were a stronger divide than India-Pak or Israel-Palestine. Similarly if someone from The Left were to try experiencing how it felt to be on “the other side of the world” (I have heard rumours that we were addressed this way!!! Funny!!) they had to go through the gruelling scrutiny .
Even more interesting were the sub divisions under these three categories.I don’t even know if even phone numbers were exchanged in between two groups. When I first came to class , I thought I would make friends with everyone but I was as much a victim of this divide as I was a part of it. We all contributed to it and we all suffered from it.
This was a rule now. Lunch box too would never dare trespass the borders !!
The centre was always an amiable lot. Wonderful people (not to say that the others were not) made it their territory. I remember fond interactions with Jayshree, Rajatha ,Sarika, Sitara, Deepa, Bhoomika and most of the rest. And ofcourse there was the “Back” gang with Bhavya,maddy,madri,prajwal,dark lord and everyone else.
Doesn’t it seem funny now how funny we used to be?
But The Friday (I love to call the last day in a rather filmy way) defied all conventions and broke all rules. I recollect with great joy clicking pictures hands-on-shoulder with Maheshwari , Jyothi, Shraddha nad many others. Believe me it felt wonderful.
Probably for the first time in 3 years I shook hands with Srishti,Eishita,Ankita,Minal,Neha and many more. I felt ecstatic !! I still regret – how-i-wish things had been this way from Day1. What if we never bothered to draw lines and separate ourselves into stupid groups. What if we all felt the same way as we did on The Friday right from the first day. How would have been the life in college if ,when entering the class, we had the freedom of choosing which corner of the class to sit in!!
But leave aside regrets. Aim sure all of us are extremely happy that things ended on rather beautiful and sweet note which was not expected. Hugs went all around the class and photographs saw a healthy fusion of The Left , The Right,The Centre and The Back!!!!
This post is to recollect any memories of incidents/events/people/teachers who made this divide evident. The intention is to understand where it all started. How did you go on to belong to where you did in the class. Any funny rumours regarding class polarization politics or any other thing which you feel worth sharing.
Please note that your comment must never offend anyone. As I always say . It must all be in Good Humour .
PS : All of you who thought I never knew names of most of the people. Look here how many of them I know. I love them all .We all love eachother !!! :o)
After rounds of intense refining and filtering, the great divide which was apparent became evident. The class was now either The Left or the Right or The centre. Wow!! This started to get interesting. Seats were reserved without any intimation. Specific places were meant for specific people or at least specific groups on a broader scale. If I ever dared to sit on “The Left” side of the class, I was to be prepared to confront the what-the-f***-is he-doing here stares and often giggles at my odd disposition. We were a stronger divide than India-Pak or Israel-Palestine. Similarly if someone from The Left were to try experiencing how it felt to be on “the other side of the world” (I have heard rumours that we were addressed this way!!! Funny!!) they had to go through the gruelling scrutiny .
Even more interesting were the sub divisions under these three categories.I don’t even know if even phone numbers were exchanged in between two groups. When I first came to class , I thought I would make friends with everyone but I was as much a victim of this divide as I was a part of it. We all contributed to it and we all suffered from it.
This was a rule now. Lunch box too would never dare trespass the borders !!
The centre was always an amiable lot. Wonderful people (not to say that the others were not) made it their territory. I remember fond interactions with Jayshree, Rajatha ,Sarika, Sitara, Deepa, Bhoomika and most of the rest. And ofcourse there was the “Back” gang with Bhavya,maddy,madri,prajwal,dark lord and everyone else.
Doesn’t it seem funny now how funny we used to be?
But The Friday (I love to call the last day in a rather filmy way) defied all conventions and broke all rules. I recollect with great joy clicking pictures hands-on-shoulder with Maheshwari , Jyothi, Shraddha nad many others. Believe me it felt wonderful.
Probably for the first time in 3 years I shook hands with Srishti,Eishita,Ankita,Minal,Neha and many more. I felt ecstatic !! I still regret – how-i-wish things had been this way from Day1. What if we never bothered to draw lines and separate ourselves into stupid groups. What if we all felt the same way as we did on The Friday right from the first day. How would have been the life in college if ,when entering the class, we had the freedom of choosing which corner of the class to sit in!!
But leave aside regrets. Aim sure all of us are extremely happy that things ended on rather beautiful and sweet note which was not expected. Hugs went all around the class and photographs saw a healthy fusion of The Left , The Right,The Centre and The Back!!!!
This post is to recollect any memories of incidents/events/people/teachers who made this divide evident. The intention is to understand where it all started. How did you go on to belong to where you did in the class. Any funny rumours regarding class polarization politics or any other thing which you feel worth sharing.
Please note that your comment must never offend anyone. As I always say . It must all be in Good Humour .
PS : All of you who thought I never knew names of most of the people. Look here how many of them I know. I love them all .We all love eachother !!! :o)
Friday, April 17, 2009
The End or a new beginning??!!
The dearest of moments in life often come unannounced. They are less prepossessing and ofcourse never anticipated !!
Nostalgia is something that I have always been afraid of and till today haven’t found a dodge-route around it. It becomes quite difficult to digest the fact that what defined your life for the recent years would cease to exist and life again takes one of its characteristic turns to an uncharted destination. All that remain with you now are those moments that you had lived during those times and of-course the regret of how-i-wish-it-could-have-been-better.
But I could not have asked for anything better!!
All those people who you had never spoken to in the last three years suddenly bid you farewell with a warm and welcoming hug!! Class was more like a studio with talent exhibition and public display of emotions – for and from the people you least expected. Cameras were doing rounds across every smiling face, every tearful eye and every farewell hug. Memories and testimonials were being recorded in the most fanciful pages and designs.
But amidst this heterogenous pool of emotions was a very strong realisation which evoked the strongest nostalgia. No more dressing up for college . No more tension of submitting records. No more cribbing about extra-classes . No more of rushing through the morning to reach college on time for the first class. No more submissions-last-minute. No more irritating the teachers. No more chewing gum in the class. No more singing birthday songs. No more sharing Lunch. No more dreading the next complaint to the HOD . No more hiding in the last bench to write your project or to catch up with your sleep . No more of fun of hiding to text from your cellphone. No more imitating the teachers. No more ………….
The list is endless and yes I only regret – how I wish the time would have slowed down and given us enough chance to be together , to live some more , to be a child for some more time , to know some more people a bit more better !!!
All that remain now are those fond memories.
All of you , regardless of your “group”, please join together to create a memoir that we shall cherish for years to come. Believe me its getting hard now!!!
Nostalgia is something that I have always been afraid of and till today haven’t found a dodge-route around it. It becomes quite difficult to digest the fact that what defined your life for the recent years would cease to exist and life again takes one of its characteristic turns to an uncharted destination. All that remain with you now are those moments that you had lived during those times and of-course the regret of how-i-wish-it-could-have-been-better.
But I could not have asked for anything better!!
All those people who you had never spoken to in the last three years suddenly bid you farewell with a warm and welcoming hug!! Class was more like a studio with talent exhibition and public display of emotions – for and from the people you least expected. Cameras were doing rounds across every smiling face, every tearful eye and every farewell hug. Memories and testimonials were being recorded in the most fanciful pages and designs.
But amidst this heterogenous pool of emotions was a very strong realisation which evoked the strongest nostalgia. No more dressing up for college . No more tension of submitting records. No more cribbing about extra-classes . No more of rushing through the morning to reach college on time for the first class. No more submissions-last-minute. No more irritating the teachers. No more chewing gum in the class. No more singing birthday songs. No more sharing Lunch. No more dreading the next complaint to the HOD . No more hiding in the last bench to write your project or to catch up with your sleep . No more of fun of hiding to text from your cellphone. No more imitating the teachers. No more ………….
The list is endless and yes I only regret – how I wish the time would have slowed down and given us enough chance to be together , to live some more , to be a child for some more time , to know some more people a bit more better !!!
All that remain now are those fond memories.
All of you , regardless of your “group”, please join together to create a memoir that we shall cherish for years to come. Believe me its getting hard now!!!
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