A mountain to climb

India has been set a target of 499 to win the first test match in this Border-Gavaskar series. Will INDIA win or will it just go 'down under' (pun intended)

When India was 120-3 in the first innings I thought we were in control. It was just a bad day for us. But full credit to the aussie pace attack who gave nothing to the Indians.

After a tiring day Ponting gave his bowlers 8 overs to snap up a few wickets but 'the wall' was patient. In my view wining this test match is a far-fetched possibility. Now it depends which part of the phrase is read by the Indian team; 'far-fetched' or 'possibility'.

I am an optimist and I still think that Ponting has committed a mistake my declaring a bit early. If I were in his place I would have declared at 600 because 600 becomes too far-fetched and it could have been a killer blow to the confidence of the Indian bowlers. That confidence is important in a long series like this.

Considering that the pitch is opening up. Its slow and the odd ball is keep low, we cant be over optimistic too. Australia needs only ten balls to keep low. And India need a lot of Boundaries and more importantly the singles, doubles and even triples on a huge ground like the MCG.
Lets see what happens tomorrow

CLICK

I woke up and I was in a glassy world. I found myself trapped in a glassy film around me. I could not see anything but distorted images of my own face. One sound was echoing inside that bubble. It was pricking my mind. The pain was unbearable for me. That voice kept coming back. It was choking me. The words "WHAT DO I WANT TO BE?" were drilling through my mind. CLICK!! The bubble bursts and you are in broad daylight. I woke up to realize that it was just a bad dream.
This happens to a lot of youngsters. You dream that you are falling or you are trapped and there is no one in this entire universe who can save you. Leave alone saving, you cant even see anybody else in your dream.

I too have such nightmares. But the fact remains, WHAT THE HELL DO I FINALLY WANT TO BECOME? I myself have not arrived at an answer for this question. I don't know what I finally want to become in life. As soon as I watch a detective movie or a spy thriller or a bond movie, I want to be a secret service agent. When I watch an army movie or an action flick I want to become an army man, one who lays down his life for the nation. When I read about big business deals or about successful businessmen, I want to be a big-shot investor, an entrepreneur or something like that. After watching a few 'extreme engineering' episodes I dream of becoming a great scientist/engineer. Whenever I decide on doing a thing something else lures me. I still have not found the perfect thing for me. I hope to find it soon.

I guess, Life's like that. But on close examination of these options we can find a common thread that connects all these different types of careers or life paths. And that common thread is HAPPINESS. Finally we want to be happy. Even if I don't crack CAT this year or I fail in a subject or two ( believe me, failing in engg exams is very difficult) or I sit idle for the next six months; the most important thing is to be HAPPY.
Anything in this life will be useless if I am not happy with it. Although neither have I seen the happiest moment nor have I found out the thing that gives me the most amount of happiness. But for the sake of it I have realized that the most essential part of living is being HAPPY. Hence it is my "New Year Resolution is to be HAPPY".
One might experience it anywhere anytime. I experienced this click moment when I was travelling in a bus. Gautam Buddha experienced it under a tree (his level of enlightenment was obviously higher ;-) )but there will be a sudden feeling of weightlessness and bliss once u do that.
Anyways MERRY CHRISTMAS.

Eight men, a watchman and a chicken in GOA

As soon as the exams were over we set out for our dream journey.. A small vacation in goa with college friends was a dream that i had been cherishing for long.. finally it was gonna turn true..

the train journey was full of fun.. i must say that the restrooms in the southindian station are really clean.!! with stop overs at Erode and Mangalore we finally reached MARGAO.

But before moving on to further details let me give u a small introduction to the Gang of Goa.
1)Arya Ketan aka churi, chacha churi- the mastermind behind the goa trip.. spotting him is very easy just search for a man with the shower cap.
2)Akshay chandrasekhar aka Vaazz, pappu- he is one tambi boy who has a liking for "lehman rice"
3)Yatish Mishra aka tang, mamaji- he is the kans mama of the kalyug
4)Krishnendu Bhattacharjee aka nandu, gendushree, mota nandu, Kristofaar- He is responsible for the changing centre of mass of goa.
5)Onkar Inamdar aka Chom, chicken- he is our family's pet.. people like to keep dogs cats and parrots as pets but he our family cannot live without this faithful chicken (read as cannot live without raping this loudmouth chicken). A small caveat- this chicken can shit in any place on the earth.
6)Guru Chu*^/@ aka mehul Kumar- he is our watchman. he wakes us up early in the moring and gets his fair share for doing that.
7)Vibhu Kapoor aka dadaji- He can never keep his mouth shut and always barks about his young times.
8)Kosstub aka dost- he is always behind his friend('s ass). He is one man who at the beginning of the trip was very sympathetic towards chicken and guru but by the end of the trip he was leading the ass-ass-ination.
9)Deepak V aka bong- he is dadaji's life saver after dadaji was found upside down in deep sea.. (i wonder what dadaji was trying to do..
10)Shreyas Nair aka nair- no intro needed..right?

Some of the most interesting points of the goa trip-

#when some of us were jumping in the sea water and others were playing football, guru, the self proclaimed king of goalkeepers, was spotted saying this- BEY DEKHTE HAIN WOH BAAT AB RAHI KI NAHI... lol
#Another comic instance was on the last day of our trip we all were supposed to go for a trek in the nearby area. Everyone slept late and no one was physically capable to walk outta the bed.. Guru, our loyal watchman, was trying to wake us up but genduji was in no mood.. he condition was - AGAR GURU SABSE APNE CHUCHE DABWAYEGA TO MEIN UTHOONGA
#While parasailing everyone had a lotta fun except the parasailer.. why?? because his engine almost burned out during nandu's turn.. in the first jerk everyone was supposed to go up but nandu was flying horizontally not vertically..
#during the banana ride which was the best of all the rides, our dear dadaji fell upside down into the water. then we just heard shouts of BACHAO BACHAO.. KOI MUJHE BACHAO.. MAIN DOOB RAHA HOON
#In the same banana ride when i fell off the boat i was confident that i would float but my dear mama thought that i was the boat and he kept pushing me down. luckily he realized that something was wrong else you would not be reading this blog
#on the kolva beach chom was buried in the sand and we all stood on him. ab jab chom frust karega to hum woh pic dekhkar khush ho jayenge. haha chutiya chicken


(p.s- i cannot remember many incidents but will be posting em asap)

Ahmedabad Jinx

My ahmedabad jinx continues..
When ankit was here we went to some place by car and arya had to pay a fine for breaking the signal.. he was very sad.. he said "life mein pehli baar fine de raha hoon".. sobs.. then i said "this was not the first and will not be the last time you are gonna pay a fine.

But again yesterday when he was dropping me off the traffic police caugth him.. Is baar 100 ka fatka fir se.. though 2nd time galti nahi thi par he was very frustrated.. then i said "aaj second time fine de raha hai nahi??"

Moral- "jamta nahi hai rang jab milte hain teen yaar mein, gadi aur ahmedabad". This was the fifth time out of the 8 times that i have travelled, that i am invovled in a traffic panga.. :(

The Ticket

Today I found out why e-booking is a real boon to the youngsters and the fast-track livers like many of us. (No offense intended to people who enjoy standing in long queues and experiencing the mix bag of “paseene ki badboo”)

I was sitting in my office during the lunch break and suddenly I was reminded that I was about to leave Ahmedabad and I had not booked my tickets. So I decided to check out the availability of the tickets. I also remember that the last time I tried e-booking it did not work as my debit card was not listed on the railway website. But now I had a credit card. So why stand in the long queues. Moreover I have noticed that stink is an integral part of the ticket booking process. Either you have to bear the stink by standing behind a tall guy’s armpits or over a short guy’s oily hair. Anyways I thought why not utilize this opportunity and try e-booking. I worked really well. Apart from the ticket I just had to pay an extra charge of Rs.10. Economical too. Then I thought why not book the ticket for my itinerary from Chennai to Trichy on the tenth of July.

All of a sudden now I was a big fan of the e-booking system. I also started cursing the normal ticket booking system. But then again I thought why not give it a last chance. May be there will be something more joyful about normal ticket purchase. Off I went, to the Gandhigram railway station which was near my office. As soon as I arrived at the station I thought may be I had made a wrong decision earlier.

It was a battlefield. Even after reaching the station people were running towards counter window; some were even without an application form. I am a typical Piscean, undecisive in small matters. So I spent about half a minute thinking which counter to join. The last time I stood in front of a counter for half an hour only to realize that it was not a reservation counter but only an enquiry counter. The instance before that I had waited for an extra half and hour as it was the sahib log’s lunch time. I was expecting some action to take place in the reservation centre which usually happens. (mostly for cutting lines and jumping forward). I was not disappointed as a SLAB had just walked in.

And yes, I hate SLABS. (SLABS stands for scrappy/shitty little aunties and behenjis/ bithches). They have an attitude of the nawabs and rajahs of the bygone era. They think the others are just jobless and simply standing in the queue for passing off time. They just walk into the reservation centre and directly head for the counter. Mostly they will be accompanied by small children and their husbands will be waiting outside the centre hoping that their spouses will do the job. I had studied such SLABS. The have a few standard tricks.
1) Public seduction- They will walk in and state that she had been here before there are some minor changes which she has to make and utmost will take only 2 second. They will also catch the hand the hand of the person while talking so that the man’s attention is strayed but only till she says the golden words “bhaiyaji”. Mostly this works and the man standing in the queue starts boasting about his humanity and helping nature to everyone else in the centre.
2) Exhibiting superiority- For women who are not blessed with beauty there is a second method. These women walk into the counter and just give their ticket to the counter attendant. When questioned they don’t answer and give looks as if it is not necessary to answer to such questions. And no one dares to question her further.
3) Abla nari nautanki- Some women come in and ask they man standing second in the queue to book tickets for her. If the man refuses they start crying or just shout out loudly. Both may result in the man being hospitalized for a few weeks. So the poor guy has to do the job.

So anyways in this station a SLAB just walked in and started arguing with the attendant who rightly refused to make her ticket. And after a ten minute long argument, during which the whole line had been stalled, there was a surprise ending. The woman was thrown out. And as per my “theory of SLABs” her husband was standing outside. It was one of the few moments in life when you could actually see “SATYA MEVA JAYATE”. The woman made a comeback then she came again and argued again. But this time, for a different reason. She said she was cheated as the attendant had paid back only 100 bucks but she thought she had to be given 200 bucks. But this time again we discovered that she was wrong. According to her, 500-400=200.
Conclusion- SLABS may be weak at mathematics.

The action was not over we had a fight in one the most unexpected places- the senior citizen queue. Two uncles started a verbatim with a third person who allegedly cut the line. But the third guy who had a real loud voice started shouting back that he had just gone ahead to check out an information board the railway guys had surprisingly kept inside the counter. The best part was that all the three oldies were holding their chests while shouting. For a moment I thought that someone amongst them might surely die today. The last hurdle before achieving victory in this war was that the guy standing just ahead of me was a travel agent. He had some 9 forms and since he knew the attendant they first started chatting for a few minutes before the attendant started making tickets. That guy alone took 15 minutes.

In the end I realized that I could have made the tickets sitting in my air-conditioned office and spending just 238 bucks. Instead I spent 270 bucks in all and I wasted a good 80 minutes. From now on it’s a total no for railway reservation centers.
“LONG LIVE E-TICKETING”

Ahmedabad - a slow Mumbai

Since the past few weeks this thing has been lingering in my mind. I always wanted to find out whether Ahmedabad is really as great as Mumbai. Well frankly speaking 'yes' and 'no' (may be a few more "no's" than yes')
As far as shopping malls, food outlets, lifestyle etc go ahmedabad is as good as Mumbai. But the fast food in Ahmedabad is really slow. I had to wait for 20 minutes even when there was no other customer. The cook will first exercise as if he has to climb Mt.Everest and then he will talk to his friend on the phone, light the gas.. The whole process is so so so slow. But the point is the food taste's as good as it does in any other city. This is where Mumbai scores over others; TIME. I have to face a lot of criticism from friends who say that Mumbaikars like me don't have emotions, they can't socialize etc. But I can't help it. I have never done it. I have always preferred watching a movie or reading a book rather than hanging out. Although I do hangout but thats once in a while.

Another area where Mumbai scores over Ahmedabad is social security. People in Ahmedabad are more concerned about Hindu-Muslim fights. Suppose a fight or a riot breaks out in India, inevitably it will spread to the old city area of Ahmedabad. I still remember the gujrat government keeping thousands of blackcats and RAF jawans when the Hindu's had a "rally for their Gods" and they purposely wanted to go through the sensitive areas. Similarly the Muslims prefer to sacrifice a cow rather than a goat cause it will hurt the Hindu's more..
Kya chaat hai baap?? Shanti se baitho na!! Every shop in Ahmedabad will be filled with hockey stick not because the sport is picking up (lol) but for security reasons..

Ahmedabad also scores over Mumbai in a few aspects like helping people but I think because they enjoy life more and have time at their disposal. Anyways I have concluded that Ahmedabad is a small and slow version of Mumbai.

Indianess

I read this book by Khuswant Singh, We Indians. It had this artcle about the britishers and why they were able to defeat the Indians so easily. He said according to him Britishers gave us the tag of Indians. Before that we never had the feeling of unity. Indians were not called Indians. They were punjabi's, gujrati's, keralites. No one recognized themselves by the country but by the place they belonged to or the kind of work they did.
I fully agree to him and I would like to see to going a step futher. Why tag the people according to the nation, religion, caste etc? I think WE ARE ALL HUMANS FIRST THEN WE ARE INDIANS OR AMERICANS OR ...


(The views may be different for different people. The above mentioned are my personal views.
What the f@#k if you don't like it, I can't help it!!! :D )

Pulp fiction week!!

The last ten days have been terrific..
On the back of a decent performance in the sems I arrived happily at mumbai. I am happy that I wont fail in Bala's subject :) The days in mumbai were gr8. Actually I had no time to sit alone. I was out of home for almost twelve hours a day.

The trip to Karnavati- You might be thinking where the hell is Karnavati. But I found out lately that Karnavati was the original name of Ahmedabad before the Nizam changed it to Ahmedabad. The journey was weird. There was one guy in the bogie who looked at me as if I was a criminal listed on the India's most wanted! I finally manged to breath without tension once that man got down at surat. I got down at ahmedabad and the weirdness continued. The auto that I hired was being driven by a sardarji. At one time thought this would be my last journey as he would frequently bend-aside to sneeze and more often than not a truck would be coming right on us. Phew!! finally I reached my destination. The best part is that Didi was also there!!

The Ahmedabad movie festival- the next there days were spent in
a) watching a lot of movies
b) eating a lot
c) window shopping
the movies that we saw were all so good that it was really difficult to say which was the best but overall it would be a tough call between "the last king of scotland" and "the pursuit of happyness". "Apocalypto" and "Little miss sunshine" were also not far behind. All were equally good.

MOTT MACDONALD- The work at mott macdonald is pretty tiring. We, the 10 new trainees, have to work from 9 to 6. The atmosphere is great. The greenery there is also good ;)
The place is fully air-conditioned, may be little to cold for my liking!
I will start working on my project from day after tomorrow.

.. lets see age kya hota hai ;)

MOTT MACDONALD

Amongst all these events I forgot that I had to get myself a project or an internship somewhere. I tried at a lot of places nothing seemed to click. Finally I sent my CV to Mott macdonald, a consultancy firm. After 2 telephonic interviews I was selected. Only formalities are left. The best part of this is that the project will be in Ahmedabad and it would be a managerial internship.

Everything this year is turning out to be good from exams to work to interns to sport to life. I hope this continues till NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2007.... ;) . I need this ladyluck till March 2008.

Ecell farewell

Ecell farewell
It was monday, 26th March 2007. It was scheduled to be the farewell of the final years of the Ecell. It was great that all the final years had turned up. The venue was RAMYAS roof-top. The programme started with me giving a senti speech followed by a energetic speech by Arya. Then we gave away the mementos to the final years and listened to their senti words.
Then Sharath announced the names of the next year's office bearers. Palash was named the overall co-ordinator. Harish was named the treasurer. Arya was named the vice-president and man who will receive bumps after everything, the president, would be yours truly.
Then everyone except me, Akshay and Amol boozed. Then was the annex session on the emerald terrace.
In all an eventful night.

birthday- before and after

RUBY CUP

Round robin
We were really tensed on whether we would qualify for the next round of RUBY cup. Our final match was against Zircon malgadi. We had to win by a margin of atleast 15 runs. I was looking in good touch but one full toss and my over-confidence resulted into my wicket. Due to some responsible batting by the rest of the team members and a burst at the last we reached 80 runs. Now our job was to restrict them to less than 65. The first over was excellent. They were 7 for 2. But then diasater struck. Anil bowled a real bad over conceding 20 runs of 4 balls and he also got himself out of the match by bowling two beamers. We had lost almost all hope but then some magnificient bowling by Nandu, Biru and Akshay restricted them to 57. We were so happy. We were into the next round.

Knock-out stage
We were pumped up but our next match was against EMERALD CHIRICKS. Supposed to be one of the best teams. We had a bad day on the field. We conceded 80 runs and we struggled to score even 50 runs. All in all it was a bad match for us. We were out of the tournament.
That was the end of the cup for us but 3 of our third year teams managed to get to the finals.
Finally GARNET GURU's won the RUBY CUP.


BIRTHDAY BLUES & BUMPS

I knew I would be kicked real badly and I was too. My ass was totally numb. The whole night I could not sleep properly as I was lying on my stomach. The bumps were OK but India lost their match against Bangladesh. This was the worst possible start to the world cup.
India did well against Bermuda but again lost to Srilanka. It did not deserve a seat in the next round. Anyways all is over. Lets focus on the future.

Cup Confusion

The league rounds of Ruby Cup are midway and clearly our group is the most open of all the groups. In our group all four teams now have an equal chance of qualifying. Till yesterday emerald topguns, pearl jam and we had won one match and lost one match. Our net runrates were almost the same. We had a slight advantage as our net run rate was marginally higher.
Yesterday there was a major turnaround in the event. Emerald topguns had successfully chased 94 runs in 9 overs. Thus they not only gained the winning points but also improved their net runrate phenominally. Tonight there is another match between pearl jam and zircon malgadi. If malgadi win then our route will be clear else we will not only have to win but also do it convincingly.
In other matches the nri team lost badly to sandiyars but full marks to them for their excellent team spirit!!
I will be back with more details of our confused group tonight.

The odd spectacle :(

Since the past few days I have been suffering from headaches and eyepain. I also could not read the board or the ppt's properly. I am one of those who bear all the pains and will always have an excuse ready for it. In class I thought that that was the best view I had. But yesterday morning in the class Mithun gave me his glasses and asked me try it and see the difference. It was remarable. It was almost like switching n a tubelight or a bulb for me. At that moment I said to myself, "enough is enough". I decided to get my eyes checked up asap.
In the evening I went to the clinic and after a series of manual as well as computer tests the doctor concluded that I had to wear glasses. I had -0.5 in the right eye and -0.75 in the left eye. I took the prescription and went to an optician. Since I was new to this field I selected a frame and glass that I thought were best suited to my needs. They made the spectacle within half an hour and then I was off to the circus stage.
when I returned to the hostel everyone was laughing out as if they had just seen a joker. My friends said that I looked like an innocent serial killer or like the reporter gangadhar vidhydhar etc in shaktiman. Shucckkes man. I really look horrible. But everyone will get used to it. atleast thats what I am hoping!!

Zircon Zygotes

So now we are all set for the battle of the hostels, Ruby Cup.
As a part of the cricket team we have made our own new team. It has been named Zircon Zygotes. If you think thats funny then there are other team names like "gyara ghode maa ke l3&d@" The team consists of thirteen players.

1)Sandeep Patwa(c) - aka pattu,randi,doll,lesbus pattus. He is a useless player. He is the captain only cause he paid the entry fee for the tournament.
2)Birottam Dutta- aka Brittam bitta, biru, bru. He is one of our premier all rounders. No doubts he is the laziest player in the world.
3)Krishnendu Bhattacharjee- aka nandu, dodi, damodar, damo, dod shanker, the big ball. He is our opening bowler and a very good batsman too. He can literally roll down the opposition.
4)Akshay Chandrasekhar- aka pappu, pappus "gre"us. He is our main weapon. Our strike bowler. Our only hope. lol
5)Yatish Mishra- aka tang. He is also a good all-rounder. Actually he could become a very good commentator for ruby cup.
6)Maulik Kumar-aka mauls, mortein. He is a very destructive and an eye-popping bowler :)
7)Vasu Vineet Tewari- aka opulus heartthrobus, butla, tesu. He is a perfect example of "best things come in small packages"
8)Rajguru Sharma- aka Mehul Kumar, Guru, Dhakkan, Tubelight, oyyee, bey teri. Man he needs a starter. He is our wicket keeper cum waterboy cum ballboy.
9)Punit Rana- aka purana,punti, nachaniya, dhandewali. He is one the better batsmen and decent bowlers and best dancers.
10)Arya Ketan- aka malaysia, churi, chukesh, chur singh meena, chu-k. He is our only spinner. On his day he can be unplayable. He is officially our worst batsman.
11)Anil M.S- aka takla. He is another strike bowler and probably the fastest we have.
12)Hiren Makadia- aka macky, mota, basuuda. He is our official foreign player. He is our side screen too. :D. He is one of the slowest fast bowlers around here but his sportman spirit is unmatchable.
13)Shreyas Nair- aka dgr8one, nair, backus. I am the only hope that they have. Without me they will be doomed. I rate myself as a good batsman and an intelligent bowler. :)

As far as the non-playing staff is concerned we have:

Coach- Onkkar Inamdar aka Greg "chom"pal, chom, chicken, laupak, lekin lau- He is useless
"Ass" Coach- Piyush Mundhra aka mundhri pakoda, mudher bundar- He is even more useless.
Physio- Anchit Dhar aka haaalllaaaa. He will treat everyone with only love and no medicine and will make us eat the mess food too.
Cheer leaders- Dhruv Malhotra aka mallu, ch*(i^@ insaan. He is best in this business along with his room-mate Atul Chandrasekhar aka lota.


So this is our team and only future will say whether we win or lose but we will be the CHAMPIONS OF THE WORLD.

the intern story

Yesterday our campus representative had told me about a company by the name of "kenna metal" that would be coming on 22nd on the campus for taking in interns. Initially I was mocking around with the name "kenna". I thought it was some local company like "anna metal".
Then I went to the class at 8.35 (as usual late !!) but since there was no power our prof let us free!! I was overjoyed. At that moment Rajdeep, our representative asked me to attend the ppt of kenna metal and just check out the company profile. And oh boy! it turned out to be a fortune 500 company with operations in 60 countries. Then I thought why not give it a try. Atleast it will be a good experience. My aim was set to go till the personal interview stage and then further if possible. I wanted a complimentary t-shirt at least ;)
The written test was a cakewalk for me. Infact I completed it before time and went away. As expected I cleared the written test with ease. Then came the gd. The topic was "should colas be banned or not." I am really bored with this subject. I mean why so much hype about such a small issue when there are better things to worry about. my stand was to educate the masses about its side effects and then finally leave the choice to them. I remained frank with my opinion. I logical thought that I had a 50-50 chance. The results were out by 2.00 p.m. I was through to the PI stage. I had accomplised my aim. I got through. I was one of the priveleged 4 who were seleted for the interview. Now it was a territory that I had not planned out for.
The interview was at 7.00 p.m. I went to the training and placement centre at 6.45 in a black shirt and a grey pant and no tie. It was a group interview and not an individual interview. They asked everyone to introduce themselves, tell why they think they should be selected and one good thing that they liked about the company. Everyone told the same story. But personally I was not satisfied with my performance. My biggest mistake was that I did not mention about my huge number of extra-curricular achievements thinking that they will read it in my CV. Infact they did not even take my CV. Moreover I did not relate my strengths to the company profile. Overall it was not convincing enough. As expected I was kicked out.

I was not dissappointed cause only I was to be blamed for this.
A few things that I learned from this experience are:
- May be sometimes you might have to hide your weakness to impress the company.
- Always relate your strenghts to the company's profile.
- Always have an out and out aim. Today my aim was to get to the PI not clear it. Maybe thats the reason that I was a little bit too comfortable at the PI :D

But I am happy that I did not lie like others to impress them. And moreover I got the complimentary T-shirt and a pen !! :D

Better luck next time!
Life's like that!

first few days in college

Doesn't feel like anything special. But I can't believe that we are in the sixth semester. The only pain in the ass is as usual "HI DA". But this semester we have a smaller pain by the name of NATTU. He was talking about "njoing the subject". I dont know how in hell can one can enjoy his teaching.
Today was a better day as I got lots of money that I was not expecting. First Kunal returning me Rs.500 and then Biru returning another 500. Accidently today the first thing I did was scratch my right palm instead of the usual thing ie my balls.. lol..
Work going on at a normal pace. Studies going on at a regular speed.
Pragyan is coming up and anyone can get more details about it at:
www.pragyan.org

Madness ends :)

The day was fine. The best thing that happened was that Rajendra Babu has stopped his harassment. The classes were as usual. I am up for too long now so I guess I will crash now. Tomorrow will come up with a detailed abstract of some sort. Its high time I give a wake-up call to my brain which is currently hibernating!!

Madness contd..

We were among the first few guys to be troubled by the mad warden but the story continues..
Today many more guys and infact many many innocent guys were harassed. Among them was Anchit Dhar; the simplest and purest soul I have ever seen. He was troubled only cause he had written his new number in the mess registration form. He was accused of trying to cheat the college by giving a bogus number. WAT THE FUCK IS THE PROBLEM WITH THIS GUY?? He is insane. The vice-president of the students association is now collecting signatures as a part of the petition to oust Rajendra Babu. He is gonna pay for this; I will make sure that he does!!

Inspirer

Just now received Ravi's scrap. He is one person who can get the most outta anyone. He is very good with his tongue. He speaks very less but it is god damn powerful. He has and always will keep inspiring me. The one statement that he said today and now has embossed into my mind is SHOW ME THE CHE SPIRIT IN YOU!!
That statement alone has propelled me to new confident high...

Finally college starts..

I will be off to sleep in a few minutes but I dont wanna get up!! Cause from tomorrow onwards the same old tiring schedule will start again. This whole concept of compulsary attendance sucks. But I am as usual hopeful... Thats the max I can do :D
I am very happy that we dont have Bala and Raman this semester. Otherwise our classroom would have turned into a cemetery ;) By the way CAT results were announced today. A few seniors have scored amazingly well. I will happy to achieve what they have achieved. I have the passion now only time will tell whether I have the aptitude to be amongst the best. Again I am hopeful and in this case thats the least I can do :)

MING- THE MERCILESS

Today is the day that all my friends will start coming back to the hostel. Its a great feeling to be among the friends. Its a magical feeling to be here, I enjoy every moment of this.
One of my special friends is Onkar Inamdar. He is more commonly known as ChOM- Chicken Oriented Man. He got this name, obviously because of his physical structure which resembles that of a chicken. He is one guy who keeps on getting new names because of his antics. He was also named "gallous chomingo" by Hiren. His latest and by far the best name is "Ming- The Merciless".
Today Chom was expected to come back and he did too.. in style. A thin man,someone like gautam bhimani, carrying three heavy bags!! As soon as he came back there was a rush of energy among all of us. His stories about IIIT-Hyderabad and Nagpur are a comic relief. He is one person who lives life to the fullest.
I am always thankful for having such great friends.

The mad mess warden

Long ago in time of .. thats a crappy start.. let me come to point..

There is this guy called Rajendra Babu. He is an assistant professor in the architecture department of NIT-Trichy. Unfortunately he is the warden of our mess; the A-mess. He has some problem with the students. He is one of those conservative asses who want the students to be disciplined. Discipline is important but rule number one for an administrator is not to "%6 ck" around with his customers. Today was a bad day. The first thing in the morning that I had to do was visit him to submit arya's fine receipt. Luckily I met him just outside the hostel as he was there for administrative purposes. I said "Sir, good morning. Sir my friend Arya had violated mess rules so he had to pay a fine of Rs.500. Since his granny was ill; which obviously is false; he had gone to Ahmedabad. The deadline for submission is 5/01/07. So he asked me to submit the receipt." He, as expected, asked me to meet him the aftenoon. Sharp at twelve noon I was outside his office. I entered into his office and I repeated the whole story once again. He was uncertain about the deadline date but after verifying arya's details and then going through my background as if I am a criminal, he let me go.
But I had to face him again. This time for mess registration. I stood in the line for fifteen minutes only to go back and stand again!! The reason was that my departmental mess committee representative never attended a meeting. So my question is "How on earth am I wrong here?". If the representative doesnt attend the meetings, whats my fault. Am I supposed to push him and beat him up for that!! That would be insane. So I stood for another 45 minutes and finally I got my turn. Luckily he let me go this time. Vasu was also there. Even he was made to stand in the queue for the second time because he smokes and that his NITTmail- the intra college mailing facility was inactive. NITTmail is so boring and feature-less that no one uses it and moreover it charges us too. So obviously everyone will use Yahoo, Gmail, hotmail, rediffmail etc. The second time around Babu asked Vasu whether his father knew that he smokes. Vasu aptly replied, "YES!!". Then he told that he wanted to talk to Vasu's father. When Vasu removed his cell phone from his pocket and started dialling his father's number Babu was googled. He was caught in an odd position. His face was worth laughing at. Anyways I got my mess card and I have kept it safely as it was a war that I won because of my patience. I would love to have no more contact/problems/meetings with him.Thats the end of the story of my encounter with Rajendra Babu but he will continue harrassing us. But it wont last long!! The students are plotting and they are here for revenge By the way my results are out. I am happy that I got 7.35 out of 10. More than enough for me. Others might crib about their results while some might try to be too modest but I got what I expected

introduction..

I am Shreyas Nair. Originally I am from Kerala but born in Surat and brought up in Mumbai. Currently I am studying in National Institute of Technolgy Trichy; pursuing metallurgical and materials engg. I think I am very friendly and very very straight forward. I am pretty good at pulling anyone's legs!! I feel lazy to do very small things but I love working when I start doing it. I am a lazy workaholic.. :D I am tech-savvy & I love watching movies, tv, sports, shopping, travelling..