Exams

Every time library goes round the clock it is like ringing the bells for exams. tan! tan! tan! Your time starts now. Run!
And then we keep running for life. (read as making ourselves study). Everybody running here and there. All chaos. All sorts of abnormal things begin to happen. To list a few:

• Kush starts studying.
• Sleep cycle? No such terms exists. Sleep when you want. Wake when you want.
• Suddenly mess food appears filthier than ever.
• Half of hostel is seen in mess just as it opens for dinner.
• Flood (of students) in library.
• Orkut/facebook logins increase drastically. And what we do then is well a known fact. Let's coin a term for it e-bird watching.

For many of us (those who are graduating this year) it is practically second last time we are witnessing this event. I guess they will miss these days too when we they start missing college days.

And btw this is the ;ast post of February... Let's what is the number for this month... The number is 11

Skyping...

Spent quite a lot of time on Skype. with mom on previous night and with sis today. It works very good with decent internet connectivity. All credits to laptop integrated dell webcam.
Now days are becoming hotter. There is so much excitement in the coming days. The mid sem exams - not so exciting in a usual sense but yes they effect your life to considerable degree. They start from 4th and end on 6th. Then starting from 9th is our much awaited tour of Darjeeling. This is practically first tour with friends. A group of 15 together and 1 week of fun i.e. 168 hours! This is called life dude. Or rather the bright side of the coin.
But before it the former part of excitement is not so electrifying. So I'll have to make up for it first.

Current favorite Beatles' song are...
The Inner light
Misery
I feel fine
Not a Second Time
This Boy
I Don't Wanna to Be a Soldier Mama
Gimme some truth
The ballad of John and Yoko
Love
and the evergreen Hey Jude...

Back from home

From the beginning of this year there was drought of weekend visit to home. It ended on 20th of this month. It was more than 50 days I was away. As soon as I reached home it was observed that I had grown frail. Spent hell lot of lazy and comforting 2 days at home. Enjoyed eating loads of stuffs like goats. Lots of food. Tasty and sometimes healthy too. Momma made sure of the later. When it was for breakfast she made sure that the glass was filled with milk up to the brink. Matar-paneer and home-made apple jam were no less than trip to heaven!!!

After multiple trips to heaven I was back to hell... no hostel... at 11pm.

Few observant friends tell me about my writing style. My sister somehow believes that what I write carries a critical meaning. One of my close friends said to me today: why don't you pursue Ph.D. in metaphysics. Why? He says: you will contribute to it significantly. Another friend once said something similar. To quote: "u sound horribly like one of the poets 4m d Metaphysical school of poetry".

To quote me "I write what I think. It may be wisdom, it may be crap but it's all the same to me. I can add it is meaningful for me."

Had a break

Ahh...
back to usual style of life after a six day break. Friday to Wednesday was like extended weekend. IORC 09 was better than 08 in terms of competition but the enthusiasm was not like last year. The excitement of first time was missing. But all in all good event. 20 people solving Rubik's cube sub-60 sec is good. Results are here. Till Sunday it was Techkriti.
Left for Mathura to attend a wedding. One of my friends invited us at his sister's wedding.
Back to Kanpur on Wednesday morning. Slept the whole day. Then life starts from 10 clock sociology lecture in L-16. All in all good break. I wonder why I had not taken such break every semester.
Leaving for home this weekend. This is the first time I'm visiting home in this semester. It has been nearly 2 months. So out for 2 more days. :)

Techkriti over...
Out for 2 days

Techkriti 09

Techkriti this year has started. Opening night is over. This time I can really see whats happening in Techkriti. Last year it had been only one thing that filled - IORC.

One thing I am looking forward is the panel discussion Energy 2020. From he panel discussions that I've attended so far I learned that they are not that informative. In the sense that they mostly tend to exhibit personal inclinations of the speakers rather than the real picture. But this panel have some doers than talkers. R.B.Grover (part of Kakodar-Grover duo) is supposed to do the most of the argumentative business of the 123 Agreement. Kakoder is said to have played directive role in the historic agreement. I have a feeling that the discussion is going to stick around 123 mainly - the after-development outcomes.

IORC is 2 day this time. It will be enlightened by the presence of Mr.John Louis and Bernett again. It seems better this time in terms of participation.

A walk in the rain

Everything was favorable. Indian team grabbed a sensational victory in T20 cricket match. It has rained in the evening. Rain just stopped. मिटटी की खुशबु was calling us. And 5 of us went out for a night stroll.
We reached till the new MBA school building via MT. It was sweet cold wind. Although cold is always cold there are some types of cold which bring warmth. Like something sweet touching you. Believe me it's not just poetic imagination. That cold was really sweet! Ahha feeling!

It was not long when it started raining.Just in front of CESE building we had to run to find some shade. Now running in the rain was that fun I cannot tell. All in the dark and under a bus stop in front of Gate-1 waiting not for bus but for the water to stop. It was pouring heavily. The shade was failing us. Every time I found a spot to settle a hole in the shade found me. Half of my back was wet.
With the help of watchful eyes of one of our friend we were able to steal a dry moment and run all the way up to SAC chauraha and then to hall 1 back into our rooms. Back to the same old business.

I think everyone should try such a walk at least once. It is worth giving a chance. Give walk a chance.

Why do you do what you do?

Actions of an individual, says Max Weber, are a result of three things:

1. Tradition (so called Society)
2. Affective (Emotional)
   
3. Rationalism (ones own thinking)
   

You cannot always boast for 'reasons' in your action. For those, like me, who always crave for rationale in things let me tell you that when there is apparently no reason for someone's there is still reason in it. And that is accredited to the first 2 factors.

For me the order of importance is reverse of what is listed.

What are the things that govern your action?

Bubba Gump Shrimp

Once while dinning I bit my lower lips (inside). The very next meal in afternoon it was bit again at the same place. Then it got hit by someones hand next day. Three hits in a row!

It was only when I started medication that it stopped getting worse. It gave me sore lips. Lips like Bubba had in Forest Gump.

Wonder. Sleep.

I was asleep. I wake now. I talk to mom on phone. Then I am not sure if am asleep or awake. I think. I wonder. Then again think. Then wonder more.
I wonder what would happen if we were made to never feel the pain. The disaster we would suffer. Then I sleep. Then I sing. Then I wonder. Wonder if ever any governing equations can be written for the feelings that arise in us. Can it be predicted given all boundary and initial conditions? Does it violate of follow the Causality? If anything like Hawkins' 'theory of everything' comes then will it include this thing?
No answer. Just wonder.Wonder and sleep. Wonder and sing. Slepp and sing. Oh sleep.

Hail Exams...

Exams in the corner. 4 mid-sems within 22 hours. and the last 1 on third day. Lets see how much space can I make for sleeping!

Btw yesterday was vasant panchami and everyone back home woke up early for Saraswati Puja. And when I woke up it was 23 missed calls in my cellphone! I was being called to get up for puja. But the sleeping giant I am. It took 24 rings of phone to break my slumber! [:P]

Current Mood: Oh, I believe in yesterday!