Jul 27, 2008

SE- DAY 1

I woke. My mind tells me to check the clock. Its 6.55. I have an alarm at 7.00. Lets sleep till 7 . I try and when I think its 7.00, its only 6.56. Totally bored to sleep, I wake up. Its 21st July, 2008. Thoughts start creeping in. Its first day of SE. SE dammit SE. I am a senior now. I won't have common syllabus . We might have a better lot of professors - Yippeeeeee. I won't have the same classroom - :(. "TRRRRRRIIIINNNNNNNNNNG" - 7'o clock alarm. Press Quit. Why does the alarm have to ring when something that makes you sad crosses your mind?

Fast forward directly to SPCE-SPIT Quadrangle. 8.45 am.

I can see Rishkul sitting. Kaushik is also here along with Shrey and Shreyansh. And there is Mark. I wave to everyone. Shake hands with everyone. All SE's now. I ask Rishkul - " Room kaunsa hai?" Room 304. 3rd floor - shit,climb 3 floors daily. Booooorrrriiinnng. First is the Maths lecture by some professor names Gajabiye. True to SP traditions of nothing starting on time, so did our SE class. Lecture canceled. We head to the Gymkhana. All of FE, not a single day was spent at the Gymkhana. Here we were spending our 1st lecture in the Gymkhana. All was fun till we got a call from one of our classmates saying the next lecture had begun. We head towards the classroom with anxiety as to how the new professor will be. Before I could have entered the room, she had already started her subject :(. Me, Kaushik and Suresh sat on the same bench which was made for only two of us. Last bench it was, so everything justified. Lecture over. Next professor in - Prof. Bhagat. A very very cool professor whose teaching is better than any professor I have come across in SP till now. He took class for 1.15 hrs of his 2 hours and left us to one horrible professor whom I wouldn't like to name. He was trying to exceed the 30 minute slot that we managed to fit in for him. That was it. The 30 minute lecture almost felt like a 3-4 hours lecture and he wanted to exceed it. We asked him to stop with shouts of "Sirrrrrrrrr....Sirrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr". He said something and left the class but who cared. He left and that was the end of day 1 at college.

I don't remember my journey back home and what happened after that. But college was a bit boring that day. There was excitement of meeting all friends after a long time but that was the 1st one hour. Once back to normal, the first day was boring. Nothing changed about the lectures. the same boring ones. No change whatsoever. Neither our attitude changed nor the professors. Neither we cared what the thought us, nor they cared what we understood. We had our lunch the same way that we used to have in FE - eating more from others boxes than your own. Everything was actually the same - except for change in our year: FE to SE. What was the biggg fuss about first day of SE when nothing had changed.

Ohh! I forgot. Room 304 from Room 8!

Jul 21, 2008

BEST OF COORG

Here is a collection of some photos from Coorg- the Scotland of India. It is the best place that I have ever been to. I managed to get some good snap shots of that place. Here are some of them.
THE HAUNTED TREE
This photo came out this way due to fog. Visibility must have been 10-20 meters at the most up there at TALACAUVERY - the place where CAUVERY starts. It is located at the border of Karnataka and Kerela. The place is almost always covered with dense fog or cloud - whatever it may be. I feel this as the best photo taken at Coorg. RGV could use this photo for his film as a horror image.


Took me two shots to get a clear photo of this caterpillar. Saw it one the way to a cliff at TALACAUVERY. Once I spotted it, I knew I needed to get a photo.



Thats how the HAUNTED TREE really looks like without the fog cover. Just for comparison.




A monkey at Nagarolai for you. Clicked at the right time to get his face at that particular angle. They just can't sit without motion. Something like humans. Have to be on the move.
Look at those commanding thorns. What grace these deers move with. Wonderful, just wonderful! Had to get my camera inside their territory (enclosure) to get a picture of these awesome creatures.

Frankly, I don't remember taking this photo at all. Just saw this when I was looking at and deciding which photos to upload. This photo was taken at the Tibetian monestry at Khousalnagar.


The Tibetian temple. Look at the idols. Awesome, just awesome. The Tibetian people have spent around 50 crores on this temple. From where do they get this money from - aid. And they cry they want more rights in India.


Doesn't it look like a typical hindi film bungalow. It isn't! Its my friend - Appachu's native house. I happened to take this photo and everyone was surprised how I got this angle. The house looks completely different from what it looks like normally. Not suggesting that my photo makes it look like a hindi film bunglow. The bunglow is great in its own way. The road leading to the bunglow and the trees besides the pathway make this photo look completely out of the box. I just loved the bunglow and this photo as well.

Hope you people like these pictures. There might be some stop to my posting photos. I won't be going out of town to click photos for at least the next 2 months. I'll post on current issues till then. Waiting for your comments. Need them desperately. Want to decide if I should post photos or not.