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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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 !!!

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 !

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Cheers!!

C

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)

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)

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.

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