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 !!

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

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 !!