Study

I'm just gonna post one line posts from now on till t1

Late Night Studies

I just started studying for t1 seriously and let me say this that the amount i study in the four to five hours that i study on holidays in the day time is nearly half of what i study during the night from 1 am to 3 am!!!
No, i don't drink coffee or tea or any such thing, just some music and my headphones to keep me up.

Tired

Last five nights i have slept very little [a cumulative time of 21 hours in 5 days] So i think the next post will be when i am refreshed and i dont see that happening till the end of the T1 exams in 2 weeks!!!

Attending a marriage

I'm sure all of you must have attended marriages many times. The next time you go, just see if any of the following things happen to you :

Most of the times you end up speaking to people you think you know, but learn later that they weren't who you thought they were.

Some people seem to be interested only in the food, they are the ones you see hanging around near the serving area all the time.

The most dangerous question ever in life is when some unknown face comes and says - Pehchana mujhe? And the look they have on their faces tells you that you need a miracle to remember their names/relationship with you. You can, of course, take the hard road and say, "Pehchana par yaad nahi aarehey ho!" and break their hearts. Or you can try your luck and say, "Haan haan, bilkul pehchana" and then just pray that they don't say, "Batao main kaun hoon?"

There will always be someone or the other staring at you when you're eating.

The video camera will always be on you just when you drop food on yourself.

The cameraman will always click the photo when your eyes are shut.

The cameraman will make you look hideous.

Every old aunty will pull your cheeks just like they did when you were a kid, only, now you're nineteen and going to college, instead of being 6 and going to school.

Small kids will find the worst time to start playing tag, or worse will start yelling at the top of their voices right next to your ear.


You will feel relieved when you're leaving the marriage hall.

All along the watchtower

The following post has nothing in common with Jimi Hendrix's song "All along the watchtower"! If that doesn't dissuade you from reading on, then read on...

If you have ever read an authentic book on war, then you'll know that in WWII and until the 71 war, the basic combat used to be soldier to soldier, man to man, bayonet to bayonet. But if you have read about such stuff, then you'll also know that whenever an enemy trench is attacked, the attacking army has to make a run-for-it to the enemy trench lines. During the course of which they are open to enemy fire. Also, as unbelievable as it may sound, it is the man who runs the fastest and straightest, who reaches the trench safely, at times, completely untouched by the hundreds of random bullets that are fired.

So what does this have to do with anything? Well, its an interesting comparison to an end sem examination. And i mean, the examination, as in, the time that students start writing the paper. How so? Well its simple, before the paper begins, everybody knows that the task is difficult, for some, it is impossible; the others however are busy planning their course of action.

The paper starts... everyone starts running, gun in hand... students start writing stuff with a pen in hand.
Case 1: A very difficult paper, with question that have never been seen before... enemy trenches well planned, bullets coming from directions that weren't accounted for in the plan.
Good students stick to the task and start writing... Determined soldiers keep their heads down and start running.

Unprepared students start reading other questions and realise that its of no use, they submit their answer sheets and leave... The weak hearted soldier is the first to go down after just one bullet.

Mid-way students put on their thinking caps and start writing semi-correct answers... The determind but unskilled soldier gets a bullet wound, staggers but carries on.

Basic point is that every exam can be viewed as a battle and we're all soldiers and its those who were vigilant on the watchtower all sem, who have a better and at times glorious time when the results are out, and the others just bite the bullet first and then bite the dust!!!

P.S. If you're wondering what kind of a whacko post this one is... then i wont blame you cause after writing it even i dont know what weird brain-wave caused me to type the whole damn thing, but if it is any consolation then let me tell you this tit-bit of a fact, that, the song All Along the watch tower was created by the greatest guitarist ever Jimi Hendrix and the song is listed as the #5 Best guitar Solo in History!!!

Good TV shows: A Fundamental Right

Are you one of the millions of young people who have only 1 TV set at home??? Do you have to watch CNN-IBN and NDTV for more than 3 hrs in a day??? Do you wake up in the morning n hear the news, come home in the evening and hear...the same news stories and again hear the same news while eating dinner??? Have you borne the torture of seeing two back to back news bulletins, it goes without saying that the bulletins were identical with no new stories??? Do you have to switch over to news instead of watching Monday Night Comedy on Star World???

If the answer to any of the above questions is yes, then welcome to the club. If it helps then here's a fact that no news channel will give you, its a result of a poll taken by some anonymous group of cool people:
Do News Channels Suck?
90% Yes [All voters were between 16 and 30 yrs of age]
5% No [All voters were people who've featured on one of the myriad Audience shows of News channels or were standing behind some news reporter during a live report]
5% Cant Say [These are the fortunate or maybe not so fortunate people who have TV but no cable, who have only seen DD News so far. They are fortunate coz they haven't been exposed to NDTV/CNN-IBN/Times Now or worse Aaj Tak/Star News.]


That does it for the news channels, now for the second part. Brain killing shows like Big Boss/Indian Idol [who the hell chose the losers who claim to be Indian Idols] The judges of Indian Idol should take a cue from MTV's Roadies' Judges. I mean they really turn on the heat during the initial qualifying rounds. Then comes the turn of some channels which were awesome about 4 years ago, before Pokemon happened. I used to watch this show called Power Zone on Cartoon Network when i was small. It was really interesting and at the same time it wasn't dumb or stupid. Shows like the ones they show on Pogo and CN nowadays are like, meant for retards or something. Pokemon might be interesting for children, but its just a lil' too Chinese. I heard this "child psychologist" saying that the shows on Pogo like the one with some clay Penguin, are really good for "mental development" of children. My friends and people of my generation, are all doing well and aren't exactly violent, as the psychologist claimed, that children who see Tom n Jerry have violent tendencies. That's a load of bulls***t!

Can the days of Mastermind India ever come back... i dont know, but we can decide ourselves.

First Real Post

Hey people...2006 has gone by, a year that has been good to some and not too good for some. But now that the year has almost ended, lets take a look at what happened.

I entered Second Year, enjoyed the first semester a lot.
Sachin Tendulkar's retirement was debated more than any other topic.
Greg Chappell was first hailed and then nailed for his coaching abilities.
Prince came out of the well...[i hope u still remember who Prince was]
Reservation brought the country's youth to the streets.
I fell asleep during 3 practicals and 7 lectures.
I woke up in time for attendance.
Sachin scored 142* from 130-odd balls... the news channels hailed him again, "The Return of the King" read one news headline that time...
India lost that match by the Duckworth Lewis Method... another century by the Little Master put to waste.
Krrish/RDB/Lage Raho/Dhoom 2/Don/KANK became the biggest hits of the year.
A lot of Pakistani music got success in India, how do we forget the fact that Indian music is still banned in Pakistan...anyways, Atif Aslam/Jal was the only thing that could be heard as much as Himesh on the Radio and TV.
India got squashed in South Africa in the ODI series and lost their 4th consecutive match. Saurav was back in the team.
Sachin's form was again being debated!
I got a decent result in the first sem and that opened the flood gates for enjoying the holidays.
One very important fact, i finished my exams on 12 Dec and the results were out on 16th!!! That in itself is a record!!!
If the saas-bahu serials weren't enough, then came the reality shows like Big Boss [I haven't seen a single episode, and thus have retained my sanity!], Sa Re Ga Ma Li'l Champs, Nach Baliye 2 etc. The Great Indian Laughter Champions 2 had to recall Raju Srivastav for literally every episode, obviously the current champs are not good enough!!!
A few good things happened on TV, e.g. we got a very good broadcasting team for the India vs South Africa series, sans Mandira Bedi and Charu Sharma and the gang...the only real loss being "Sir" Geoffrey Boycott.
Sreesanth really kicked Andre Nel's **s... India won the test Saurav scored a 50, everybody was happy.
So all in all 2006 was a mixed bag.