| time to pull socks -exams :( |
29/06/200
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doing nothing much, but trying to put myself in one place to study, as exams
are fast approaching and i am noway prepared even a single bit, not even the
projects.... this months been very very quiet, after a freaky May, hope i get
myself together for the exams starting in July.... its feeling the exams for
previous sem happened just the other day, oh, how fast time flies. b4 u catch
ur breath after the exams, theres the next sem which will be short somewhat,
being an odd sem. and theres this last 8th sem, which is unofficially the end
of engg days (assuming i pass all the exams, touchwood!!!). oh, how quickly
time flies...
btw, heres this poem i penned one of these days... Your
judge is you
| badly need a holiday |
24/06/2002
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hows this....... some 15 day looong holiday, far away, where no phone line, no postoffice,nothing to pester, lots of food, and importantly nothing to do..... when is it possible?? i doubt in near future. lets see....
should have won Bowling today, leading comfortably, but jai, pappu and monish succeeded in
distracting me by their devious means, for my last 2 shots, that i came second, trailing by just
1 point. btw, it always helps, playing marbles in childhood. this looks well, pretty simple. in
marbles, u have to take into account the slopes, stones, and sand pits, rebound factor and what not...... and this looks pretty simple!!! even "lagori" is more tough...
scoldings from some neighbourhood aunty. we hit ball to window of their
house. they told not to play. okie, matters closed. but their silly son
started playing and the ball came to my cousins house. heres the chance
to take revenge we thought. we didnt do anything but told him that he wont
have his ball. dont know what he told his mom, she came screaming into
the road... ESCAPE!!! but she somewhat pursued us over compound walls and
bushes... we could have hit back at her, but who cares, it was nice fun
with all her ramifications...
got a new comp (but the monitors old). the timings bad, long overdue but
finally done. hope raghu, madhu and darshan (my project-mates) wont be
cross with me for me being elusive. but yaar, these have been heady days
for me... jai today morn at last set right monish's modem (given to me
long time back but lying idle cos of lack of configuration skills!!!)...
wrote 2 poems these days.... Invaders
and Bouncing
back...
and when i saw Abdul Kalam's (answer to India's hero-search) panacea
for all ills that all should be "good human beings" on TV, couldnt help
remembering apurv's (class' only bodybuilder) thesis on "good human being"
subject sometime back!!
yaar, who isnt a good humanbeing.... each has his/her own compulsions,
reasons, selfish motives or just funseeking mindset... unless our works
doesnt hurt others.... hope i am not boring anyone...
| Raghu's engagement |
16/06/2002
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just came from my fren Raghu's engagement. my stomach is almost bursting...
this guy promised me a 50paisa CoffeeBite toffee some 4 years ago for a
favour when he used to come to us to play cricket. But he never gave me
my CoffeeBite though.... all the boys (each has his own tale to tell) in
the road didnt have their breakfast today to eat maximum.... to extract
most from him!!!!! we ate so much that the waiters in Pai Viceroy put 2
servings of everything, even without asking us, soon after they realised
our intent!!
went for swimming after a long time (maybe 3 months) with nagu, dabha,
aibu and Thean Singh. feeling sooo tired now....
its jai's b'day today and a party
at a dhaba..... at cornerhouse, it was one of the tastiest ice cream i
ever had, but the boys barged on it, leaving me high and dry!! of what
was left, Teddy poured some cream into it making it unpalatable... boohoo,
anyway theres always another day at cornerhouse.
it was sharath's b'day yesterday, so naturally a party at dhaba. but
missed out on another late-night party because of internals the next
day.
my aunt called me up in the dead of the night. why?? because BRAHMAKAMALAM
has bloomed and its auspicious to have a look at it. ok, for starters,
there is this flower called brahmakamalam (flower of Lord Brahma), which
blooms only once in a year. it blooms only for 1 night... it starts to
bloom at around 9pm and reaches its peak at 12 and starts to droop again
at 2am. it is the most beautiful flower i have seen, and its smell... wonderful.
okie, some 27 flowers had bloomed. thats a pretty big big number. what
a sight. each flower the size of a coconut, white in colour. the number
seems to be increasing in my aunt's terrace. More flowers than the last
3 occasions i saw them. will post a pic of it soon. is teddy
(scanner) listening?
i dont know, but sleep seems to have overcome me... and i feel like sleeping
all over again... when will those days come.. when u have nothing to do
but just sleep, sleep and sleep (get up in the middle and have food and
again sleep!!!) ....
wrote poem Soul
speaks. the critics have been quite good. check out this poem
from Tagore
great day... gave party to coll gang for my Wipro job to teddy, reddy,
jai, jaggu, meese, ajay, satchi, sandeep, rama, madhu, ramu, anmol and
moni at Imperial. as for me, i ate all chicken for the next 3 weeks!!!
then to cornerhouse and then to Cue Club...
had a little chat with my uncle in the night... hes a great guy, and
i mean it. dont expect a high funda man, but a mild soft-spoken broadminded
retired person who has seen everything in life. been a brat in non-descript
Kolar before he served in second highest position in entire BEML for long
time. could have made crores annually from all the tenders but never made
a paisa in black. he has his name to look up to in his last stage of life...
and its heartening to see how much pride he has about himself.
personally, till now, thankfully i can look up to my journey with
pride, never a blemish on my values, as i define them. hope this carries
on as i love to be in my uncle's shoes 40 years down the line.
| hospitals and hospitals |
7/06/2002
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2 of my neighbours were unwell, a fren of mine, pratibha, got operated...
so been going round hospitals past 2 days.
and its good to see Jaggu, my coll fren, becoming professional in approach,
lot of maturity in his talk these days....
if u observe papers, theres so much fuss about SSLC ranks. ranks in SSLC
is of no use, except for creating mindless competition. school is the only
place wherein one can do what one is interested in.... when one comes to
coll, there is this inevitable daily grind... and most of individuality
is lost, learning is just for self-enhancement in career forcing sidelining
of self-interests.
according to me, to make better ppl, schools the best place. but these
days, kids are simply rotting in front of books, learning the same old
thing, many times over (i think getting the concept right is more than
sufficient).... why cant there be grades in schools instead of percentages?