You are walking slowly on a black road glistening with rain. At regular intervals yellow light from the tall streetlamps falls on the road making it shine. A light drizzle touches your skin...amorously. The earphone plugged to your ears is belting out..."So Yesterday-m just a bird thats already flown away'".
Suddenly you want to turn your face upwards and close your eyes and let the rain kiss your face gently. Suddenly you want to outstretch your arms and lose yourself. Suddenly you want to mingle your tears with the drops of rain running down you face.Suddenly you want to erase the past and look forward to a new beginning. Suddenly you feel your dignity and self respect bloom like an immortal flower. Suddenly it feels like love---Madly in love with ur own self.
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!
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.
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.
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.
Jun 21, 2008
INDIANESS
I was at my school reunioun and the DJ was playing lousy and sad tracks. Some English numbers were being played and no one wanted to dance. There was a request counter and one guy requested for nashik dhol. The crowd of 50-60 who were present there wen t wild. At that moment, I just thought about it "How Indian we are?".
Needless to say, Indianness comes to us from within. It is in our culture and how much every we try, we will always cling on to it. You can see us practicing it in every part of our life. Most part of it is good but somethings ought to change.
Indianness as one can say is the real Indian feeling that we get. Its all about overloading passengers in a car and traveling to having roadside stuff and feel and know that it is better than 5-STAR stuff. Its all about bribing people to not waiting in queves. Though the former thing can be more associated with, the latter people will complain is due to unavoidable circumstances and deny that it is Indianness. But yes, it is! Tough this form of Indianness has come up in the last 20-30 years, lets hope it doesnt continue like the other forms of Indianness over a century. Every Indian craves for this Indianness. I'm sure that Sachin Tendulkar after having more than 500 crores in his bank account misses the Shivaji Park vada pav competitions he had with Vinod Kambli.
Lets talk about us, the normal middle class Indians. Some cases where our Indianness is seen. This is something that separates us from the entire world. This is our identity. This is where our heart dwells. This is something 90% Indians, may it be in US or in India will always do. When an Indian family buys a car, the car has to go to the temple first. Then it can see the face of the house where its going to stay for years to come. Every year on dussera, it doesnt matter if you are a Hindu or a Christian or a Muslim, u pray to you machine. Whatever machine you associate your business with. These are some of the religious things that we as Indians do. We don't care a damn when we dance during ganesh festival that anyone would observe us. We just don't care. In fact, we feel left out if we see someone dancing on the streets during the ganpati festival.
Now about our habits. No matter where we eat, for us roadside stuff is the best food that we have every tasted. We enjoy the vada pav more than Mcdonalds burger, tough the latter is hygienic. We enjoy the nashik dhol more than rock songs which are referred to as trendy in front of Indian counterparts. We enjoy the 'ghati' dance more than the soothing and slow ball dance. And in the ball dance we get to come close to our lover. We all want to sit in a mercedes and we enjoy it but the fun of sitting on the first tier of a double decker bus right in front is different. Recently, while standing just round the corner of a road, I observed a vendor carrying gulab jamun on a hand cart. Heaps of gulab jamun. I instantly wanted to grab a bite of it, however unhygienic it might have been but only to realize later that i had my exams round the corner as well.
Why does an Indian mind differ from others in such cases? I have absolutely no idea but it has something to do with our culture and our traditions. We have inherited somethings and we can never loose them. We as the present generation have a job cut out. We need to see to it that such tings don't change and India and Indians remain the same as they are. Some things have to change but not the ones I have mentioned above.
JAI HIND
(See here again, v haven't used Jai India but persisted with our old things. I have goosebumps all over my body when I say these words. )
Needless to say, Indianness comes to us from within. It is in our culture and how much every we try, we will always cling on to it. You can see us practicing it in every part of our life. Most part of it is good but somethings ought to change.
Indianness as one can say is the real Indian feeling that we get. Its all about overloading passengers in a car and traveling to having roadside stuff and feel and know that it is better than 5-STAR stuff. Its all about bribing people to not waiting in queves. Though the former thing can be more associated with, the latter people will complain is due to unavoidable circumstances and deny that it is Indianness. But yes, it is! Tough this form of Indianness has come up in the last 20-30 years, lets hope it doesnt continue like the other forms of Indianness over a century. Every Indian craves for this Indianness. I'm sure that Sachin Tendulkar after having more than 500 crores in his bank account misses the Shivaji Park vada pav competitions he had with Vinod Kambli.
Lets talk about us, the normal middle class Indians. Some cases where our Indianness is seen. This is something that separates us from the entire world. This is our identity. This is where our heart dwells. This is something 90% Indians, may it be in US or in India will always do. When an Indian family buys a car, the car has to go to the temple first. Then it can see the face of the house where its going to stay for years to come. Every year on dussera, it doesnt matter if you are a Hindu or a Christian or a Muslim, u pray to you machine. Whatever machine you associate your business with. These are some of the religious things that we as Indians do. We don't care a damn when we dance during ganesh festival that anyone would observe us. We just don't care. In fact, we feel left out if we see someone dancing on the streets during the ganpati festival.
Now about our habits. No matter where we eat, for us roadside stuff is the best food that we have every tasted. We enjoy the vada pav more than Mcdonalds burger, tough the latter is hygienic. We enjoy the nashik dhol more than rock songs which are referred to as trendy in front of Indian counterparts. We enjoy the 'ghati' dance more than the soothing and slow ball dance. And in the ball dance we get to come close to our lover. We all want to sit in a mercedes and we enjoy it but the fun of sitting on the first tier of a double decker bus right in front is different. Recently, while standing just round the corner of a road, I observed a vendor carrying gulab jamun on a hand cart. Heaps of gulab jamun. I instantly wanted to grab a bite of it, however unhygienic it might have been but only to realize later that i had my exams round the corner as well.
Why does an Indian mind differ from others in such cases? I have absolutely no idea but it has something to do with our culture and our traditions. We have inherited somethings and we can never loose them. We as the present generation have a job cut out. We need to see to it that such tings don't change and India and Indians remain the same as they are. Some things have to change but not the ones I have mentioned above.
JAI HIND
(See here again, v haven't used Jai India but persisted with our old things. I have goosebumps all over my body when I say these words. )
Jun 20, 2008
BACK TO BLOGGING
Kirti, Rishkul and Siddharth have somehow got me back to blogging. But I can't write blogs as they can write because:-
1. I can't think of any topic.
2. I can't express properly in words.
3. I manage to write half an article and then I get bored.
4. I make hell of a lot grammatical mistakes and then keep pondering over it, if it is right or wrong.
5. No one reads my blog.
6. Comments are rare to find.
7. I can write about current affairs, but no one wants to read it.
- News channel provide them with enough information.
8. Writing about current affairs is nothing but gossiping.
- People have newspapers at home to know about current affairs.
9. I cammit a lot of speling mistakes.
(Here, I did it purposely)
10. I like photography more than blogging.
The above 10 reasons seem perfect for any MU exam. Give 10 reasons why you don't want to blog. :P And the answer is just about perfect. That's what you need to crack a MU engg exam. You need to have the 'fekofying' skills. I have done that for a month now and I have had enough of it. I don't want to add such stuff in my blogs.
That is the reason, instead of writing article here, I will post some of my photographs I managed to take with my Kodak C663 digital camera in automatic mode. I still have to learn the manual functions. All pictures were taken during the SEM II exams. You just can't manage to keep me away from the camera.
I was forced to take this photo by my mother. I was busy studying CP-II when it started pouring and my mother wanted me to take the photo. I did it against my will and this just turned out to be a fantastic picture. Fantastic by my standards and mind, not by professional photography level.
This is one of the best pictures that I must have taken. I was in my garden studying chemistry and there I spotted this butterfly flying to find nectar from one of the flowers. I observed it till it found its flower. I rushed in, grabbed my camera and took 5-10 snaps of this fly, of which one of them is here.
This is from my neighbors terrace. This actually didn't need photography skills at all, but the view was awesome and thus, the picture. This might look to be a place outside Mumbai, in some dense jungle. But this was taken in the Konkan of Mumbai, Kamgar Nagar in Kurla. You'll find about 500 coconut trees here. And more than 10,000 trees. I wanted to take an aerial snapshot of this place, tough this covers only 25% of the entire area, I like this picture.
What got me into photography? "I don't know", I would say. I remember quite well , the 8th standard picnic when for the 1st time I had got my hands on my camera. The normal roll operated camera. I took 36 photos and none had me posing in for the photo. That had made my parents quite angry and rightly so, I would say. It wasn't free developing those rolls as it is the case with digital camera these days. But, I would say, that was the time, when I got into photography.
I have loads of pictures more to come. I hope you people like it and comment sincerely on those. Criticism is welcome. In fact, I like criticism more than praises. Praises don't bring about a change in me, criticism does.
Enjoy these pictures. More, I will post.
Once again, thanks Sidd, Kirti and Rish-i-cool!!!!!
1. I can't think of any topic.
2. I can't express properly in words.
3. I manage to write half an article and then I get bored.
4. I make hell of a lot grammatical mistakes and then keep pondering over it, if it is right or wrong.
5. No one reads my blog.
6. Comments are rare to find.
7. I can write about current affairs, but no one wants to read it.
- News channel provide them with enough information.
8. Writing about current affairs is nothing but gossiping.
- People have newspapers at home to know about current affairs.
9. I cammit a lot of speling mistakes.
(Here, I did it purposely)
10. I like photography more than blogging.
The above 10 reasons seem perfect for any MU exam. Give 10 reasons why you don't want to blog. :P And the answer is just about perfect. That's what you need to crack a MU engg exam. You need to have the 'fekofying' skills. I have done that for a month now and I have had enough of it. I don't want to add such stuff in my blogs.
That is the reason, instead of writing article here, I will post some of my photographs I managed to take with my Kodak C663 digital camera in automatic mode. I still have to learn the manual functions. All pictures were taken during the SEM II exams. You just can't manage to keep me away from the camera.
I was forced to take this photo by my mother. I was busy studying CP-II when it started pouring and my mother wanted me to take the photo. I did it against my will and this just turned out to be a fantastic picture. Fantastic by my standards and mind, not by professional photography level.
This is one of the best pictures that I must have taken. I was in my garden studying chemistry and there I spotted this butterfly flying to find nectar from one of the flowers. I observed it till it found its flower. I rushed in, grabbed my camera and took 5-10 snaps of this fly, of which one of them is here.
This is from my neighbors terrace. This actually didn't need photography skills at all, but the view was awesome and thus, the picture. This might look to be a place outside Mumbai, in some dense jungle. But this was taken in the Konkan of Mumbai, Kamgar Nagar in Kurla. You'll find about 500 coconut trees here. And more than 10,000 trees. I wanted to take an aerial snapshot of this place, tough this covers only 25% of the entire area, I like this picture.
What got me into photography? "I don't know", I would say. I remember quite well , the 8th standard picnic when for the 1st time I had got my hands on my camera. The normal roll operated camera. I took 36 photos and none had me posing in for the photo. That had made my parents quite angry and rightly so, I would say. It wasn't free developing those rolls as it is the case with digital camera these days. But, I would say, that was the time, when I got into photography.
I have loads of pictures more to come. I hope you people like it and comment sincerely on those. Criticism is welcome. In fact, I like criticism more than praises. Praises don't bring about a change in me, criticism does.
Enjoy these pictures. More, I will post.
Once again, thanks Sidd, Kirti and Rish-i-cool!!!!!
Mar 3, 2008
The Santa Claus budget???
Recently we all saw the unveiling of the annual budget of 2008-2009...It was termed as the Santa Claus Budget. I don't know a lot about budget..............but I've heard a lot of praises for it this particular year.
So I'd really appreciate it if someone, anyone can tell me what this dream budget has done for the common man.
Further , with the very high levels of corruption in our country, can this money really reach the masses?
I'd really appreciate it, if someone really tells me what all this is about!
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