Dear blog
i am not a studious guy. still most of my life revolves around classes. all the interesting moments in my life happen either in the class or on the way to it. well, i will describe the latter events later.
yesterday, it all began with MS walking into our classroom. she had every right to do it because it was her class! but i had thought that it was some different class and had brought a different notebook. i was in the third row (which is like the front row for me..), feeling uncomfortable sitting directly in view of MS. soon, MS began dictating MSwords. after a while, a person near me started humming tunes of a very senti song of Taare Zameen Par. a smile(it may be a grin..) appeared on my face. MS acknowledged my smile with a full-second-stare and moved on.
just then, i saw a very small bird fly past the windows towards the sky. there, it flew in small circles. after a minute or so, many other such birds joined it and together they flew past the "screen" many times. suddenly, i felt something fly past me, just missing my right ear. that was an MSpinpoint, using a piece of chalk. just then, something came to my mind. it was what MS had said in a class just the previous day. after hitting a guy with a piece of chalk, she had said "i have played kanche a lot. My aim is very good!" . but she had missed me this time. this made me smile a bit. this time she gave me a two-second-stare.
next, she wrote down the beginning part of a derivarion and asked the class to complete it. to my surprise, everyone in the class seemed to know what to do! everybody was writing something or the other in their notebooks. i was looking at everybody like a radar. so, as expected, MS caught me. she asked me what i was doing. i had no clue what we had to do or even what the topic was. i said "i don't know." then by her look, i thought that today, i would be fired by MS. but, she didn't fire me from the class. looking at the question, she asked me what does d/dx mean. i don't know what i was thinking at that time as i replied "Integration "! that infuriated her and i thought that now MS is going to crash on me. i was right. she started firing questions at me, which i answered, thanks to a friend in whispering range. that saved me.
when the class ended, she told me to come to her office. i went to MSoffice. she asked me what i kept on thinking in the class. i felt like saying "MSwindows", but said "minor project". that sounded convincing to her and she told me to leave and to pay attention the next time. i wondered why MS always wants us to pay something? can't we live free? i returned smiling, i had survived a deadly attack by MS.
Friday, September 5, 2008
Conscience calling...
dear blog
when you know that in the next five minutes, you can get five thousand rupees, will you try to get them? but when you also know that those would be at the cost of someone's career, would you still do it? what would you do if that someone is an honest,sincere, hardworking person? and what if you need the money badly?
my friends and i faced this dilemma today. we had just five minutes to decide whether to go for it or not. (mind you, I'm not talking of any kind of bribe). had we gone for it, there was a 0.1% chance of that person to land in deep trouble . at one side was my friend's conscience which wasn't allowing us to do it. at the other side was my mind, which was shouting- "this is the moment, seize it. we get the money, who cares about the rest?"
just at that moment that person, about whose future we were discussing, came out. he was ready to give us the money, ignorant of what awaited him if he did that. the paper which could have got us Rs 5k was in my hands. for a moment i felt like giving it to him and getting the money. but then i thought what if that 0.1% probable event occurs and he lands in trouble. i would then never be able to forgive myself. that guilty feeling then, would always accompany me wherever i go. so we told that person that we will come back him later. he might not have understood our actions at that moment, but when he does, he would thank us a lot.. but the only person whom he should thank at that moment is my friend- D , in whom we discovered a sea of conscience today.
dear Lord Ganapati
we did not do it the wrong way. now please help us out.
when you know that in the next five minutes, you can get five thousand rupees, will you try to get them? but when you also know that those would be at the cost of someone's career, would you still do it? what would you do if that someone is an honest,sincere, hardworking person? and what if you need the money badly?
my friends and i faced this dilemma today. we had just five minutes to decide whether to go for it or not. (mind you, I'm not talking of any kind of bribe). had we gone for it, there was a 0.1% chance of that person to land in deep trouble . at one side was my friend's conscience which wasn't allowing us to do it. at the other side was my mind, which was shouting- "this is the moment, seize it. we get the money, who cares about the rest?"
just at that moment that person, about whose future we were discussing, came out. he was ready to give us the money, ignorant of what awaited him if he did that. the paper which could have got us Rs 5k was in my hands. for a moment i felt like giving it to him and getting the money. but then i thought what if that 0.1% probable event occurs and he lands in trouble. i would then never be able to forgive myself. that guilty feeling then, would always accompany me wherever i go. so we told that person that we will come back him later. he might not have understood our actions at that moment, but when he does, he would thank us a lot.. but the only person whom he should thank at that moment is my friend- D , in whom we discovered a sea of conscience today.
dear Lord Ganapati
we did not do it the wrong way. now please help us out.
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