dear blog
i have been roaming around the country for the past few weeks. i met many people. actually, this was the first time in my life that i enjoyed meeting 'new' people. the atmosphere there is such that one can approach and talk to anyone.
at IITR i was surprised with myself that i had talked to 60 different people (excluding the seniors,profs) in a span of two days! we had formed a group of 9 people. together we used to roam around the whole campus. we had been given maps of the campus. so we needn't ask anyone for directions. we moved as if we owned the campus. the interesting thing about large campusses is that people don't know everybody. so we even went on to play badminton and squash in their courts! we even went inside the library. its another issue that we just sat on the couch there... who would want to study in the presence of such cozy couches!
the next campus-in-line-to-roam-around was SIBM,pune. after IITR, it looked like a concrete jungle(not even a jungle.. a group of bushes maybe..) in the middle of a desert! it is one hour far away from pune in a village whose name even the autowallah won't understand in one take. no autowallah will go there ever.... that's my prediction for the next 10 yrs! that village is like a university in a nutshell. all the possible, thinkable areas of specialization can be found there. that too, in a single building!! MBA is somewhat respectable there, for it has three buildings to itself and a common auditorium very near to it. on reaching there i just could not figure out the reason so much hype is given to it. You are in pune, yet you are not in pune! who would want to be there, i wondered aloud! so, along with me, i demotivated two other people. they were demotivated to such an extent that one guy just kept mum in his gd and the other girl told in her pi that her hobby was to scream at teachers(she even cooked up some examples!) i did not try any of the above stuff, still, my GT went horriblly bad.
its good that i had to go to pune. atleast i could meet old friends!i have just come back from my vacation to the reality of attendance short.
i have to go for another gd/pi. now its in delhi. i will tel you about the second leg of my vacation after that.
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Happiest New Year!
dear blog
happy new year!
let me tell you how i welcomed 2009...
i was in nagpur at that time. Two of my friends were there too. They were Mr Recently-Committed-'RC' and Abbs. we had planned to go "somewhere" on eve of 2009. and nobody knew where!
we first met up in a multiplex-cum-mall. It was the same one in which we had seen ghajini just a day ago. now too, i was the last one to reach the place.there, my friends had already occupied a table at a very 'strategic' place. although i was half an hour late, they didn't feel bored-thanks to the location of the table. that day, Nick had also come. he was a school friend of RC. so i reach there half an hour later than the decided time, at 8:30 pm , expecting to hear a lot of things from them. instead i found them enjoying themselves just looking at people in the mall.
we had two bikes between us. so from there, we went to CCD. That CCD was stranded. so we decided to go to another CCD, about 5 Kms from there. We spent about half an hour there. Meanwhile, Abbs tried his best to get us a cheap entry "somewhere". The whole time he boastfully conveyed that the DJ at a hotel's party was his next door neighbour! he also claimed that the bouncer at another party used to be his classmate! so, we were pretty sure that we would have a destination soon.
then Abbs realised that he needed more cash for the night. so we went in search of an ATM. Nagpur's markets are quite cluttered. ATMs are quite hard to locate. while Abbs and nick filled up their pockets, me and RC took Abbs's bike for a ride. that night, the roads were very deserted that night. seemingly all nagpurians were in some party or the other. Only we were on the road.
while waiting for the neighbour-cum-DJ to call back, we stopped by a pav-bhaji shop and ate it very slowly. we took 45 minutes to eat half a plate pav-bhaji each! It was already 9:30 pm. RC had to go home because many relatives were at his place. so he too was expected there. later, he also confessed it was his dog's walk-time. so he also had to take his dog out for a walk! and people say that only dogs are faithful!
nick stayed near RC's house and had also come on his bike. So both of them had to leave. now, at 9:45 pm, only me and Abbs were left. We had one common feeling- that we have to rock that night. he tried to call his 'contacts' one last time. as expected, they didn't pick up. so we decided to go to a fun park-just 10 Kms on the outskirts of nagpur. our budget was Rs 300 each. but the tickets there were of Rs 1200 'only' . so we came back to nagpur. we went to a Hotel after that. There the entry fee was affordable-Rs 500 for two people. but it was strictly for couples. we even looked around for any 'single' girls to strike a deal, but didn't find anyone in the next five minutes.
so we were on the bike again. we thought that we would spend the last minutes of 2008 on a bike. just then, passing by a farmhouse, we heard loud music. it sounded like a good party. we stopped there. its entry fees was Rs 300. we waited for some time outside its gate. meanwhile a person agreed to sell us the tickets for Rs 100 each. Thrilled, we bought them. atlast, we were going to a party!
The farmhouse had a grand entrance. We were convinced that it would be a good party. at 11 pm,we entered walking briskly. what we saw next, made us laugh for the next two hours. It makes us laugh even now. It was the sight of the party. It was just a lawn. there was a stage, where the 'DJ' sat. there were two speakers on each side of the stage. loud music was being played. there were about 80-100 people. But there were no girls!!! the only one, whom everybody seemed to be ogling at, was with the DJ on the stage! as soon as we realised this, we started laughing out loud. we looked around again- there were no girls! it was a totally male party! Abbs even rolled on the grass, laughing. laughing, we started to beat each other. It was really a funny moment.
well, once inside and dancing, we decided to stay there itself. already it was 11:30 pm. we laughed and danced our time to midnight. The DJ was playing good songs. That was a consolation. soon it was midnight. the DJ welcomed 2009 by releasing balloons. that added to the fun in the situation. we couldn't control our laughter. it was all unexpected. we had expected to go to a hi class party, where the DJ welcomes the new year by a display of fireworks. we just laughed and laughed the whole time at what we got!
well, the good thing was that we welcomed the new year looking at the sky, laughing our hearts out! That's quite a positive start for a year!
happy new year!
let me tell you how i welcomed 2009...
i was in nagpur at that time. Two of my friends were there too. They were Mr Recently-Committed-'RC' and Abbs. we had planned to go "somewhere" on eve of 2009. and nobody knew where!
we first met up in a multiplex-cum-mall. It was the same one in which we had seen ghajini just a day ago. now too, i was the last one to reach the place.there, my friends had already occupied a table at a very 'strategic' place. although i was half an hour late, they didn't feel bored-thanks to the location of the table. that day, Nick had also come. he was a school friend of RC. so i reach there half an hour later than the decided time, at 8:30 pm , expecting to hear a lot of things from them. instead i found them enjoying themselves just looking at people in the mall.
we had two bikes between us. so from there, we went to CCD. That CCD was stranded. so we decided to go to another CCD, about 5 Kms from there. We spent about half an hour there. Meanwhile, Abbs tried his best to get us a cheap entry "somewhere". The whole time he boastfully conveyed that the DJ at a hotel's party was his next door neighbour! he also claimed that the bouncer at another party used to be his classmate! so, we were pretty sure that we would have a destination soon.
then Abbs realised that he needed more cash for the night. so we went in search of an ATM. Nagpur's markets are quite cluttered. ATMs are quite hard to locate. while Abbs and nick filled up their pockets, me and RC took Abbs's bike for a ride. that night, the roads were very deserted that night. seemingly all nagpurians were in some party or the other. Only we were on the road.
while waiting for the neighbour-cum-DJ to call back, we stopped by a pav-bhaji shop and ate it very slowly. we took 45 minutes to eat half a plate pav-bhaji each! It was already 9:30 pm. RC had to go home because many relatives were at his place. so he too was expected there. later, he also confessed it was his dog's walk-time. so he also had to take his dog out for a walk! and people say that only dogs are faithful!
nick stayed near RC's house and had also come on his bike. So both of them had to leave. now, at 9:45 pm, only me and Abbs were left. We had one common feeling- that we have to rock that night. he tried to call his 'contacts' one last time. as expected, they didn't pick up. so we decided to go to a fun park-just 10 Kms on the outskirts of nagpur. our budget was Rs 300 each. but the tickets there were of Rs 1200 'only' . so we came back to nagpur. we went to a Hotel after that. There the entry fee was affordable-Rs 500 for two people. but it was strictly for couples. we even looked around for any 'single' girls to strike a deal, but didn't find anyone in the next five minutes.
so we were on the bike again. we thought that we would spend the last minutes of 2008 on a bike. just then, passing by a farmhouse, we heard loud music. it sounded like a good party. we stopped there. its entry fees was Rs 300. we waited for some time outside its gate. meanwhile a person agreed to sell us the tickets for Rs 100 each. Thrilled, we bought them. atlast, we were going to a party!
The farmhouse had a grand entrance. We were convinced that it would be a good party. at 11 pm,we entered walking briskly. what we saw next, made us laugh for the next two hours. It makes us laugh even now. It was the sight of the party. It was just a lawn. there was a stage, where the 'DJ' sat. there were two speakers on each side of the stage. loud music was being played. there were about 80-100 people. But there were no girls!!! the only one, whom everybody seemed to be ogling at, was with the DJ on the stage! as soon as we realised this, we started laughing out loud. we looked around again- there were no girls! it was a totally male party! Abbs even rolled on the grass, laughing. laughing, we started to beat each other. It was really a funny moment.
well, once inside and dancing, we decided to stay there itself. already it was 11:30 pm. we laughed and danced our time to midnight. The DJ was playing good songs. That was a consolation. soon it was midnight. the DJ welcomed 2009 by releasing balloons. that added to the fun in the situation. we couldn't control our laughter. it was all unexpected. we had expected to go to a hi class party, where the DJ welcomes the new year by a display of fireworks. we just laughed and laughed the whole time at what we got!
well, the good thing was that we welcomed the new year looking at the sky, laughing our hearts out! That's quite a positive start for a year!
Saturday, December 13, 2008
a lazy evening!
dear blog
i'm in delhi. Its six pm and quite dark outside. i'm sitting on a bed. two, probably three blankets are strewn over me. my little cousin- B2 is in the room too. His favourite time-pass is football. a football and a wall can keep him busy for hours at stretch!
looking at the ball, i remember the time we(my cousins and i) went to a mall in noida.
B2 wanted to buy a football. after many discussions, arguments, pleadings with his parents, he had finally convinced them that he really needed a branded football. so there we were in a noida mall, entering every adidas, nike, reebok showroom looking for balls.
i'm not so much involved in sports. my only stint with football was when i was the permanent goalkeeper of my colony team in Pune. it was in the mall that i realised how diversified a seemingly simple thing like a football can be! there were some balls for grass terrain and some for 'Indian' terrain. everything of a football can be varied, apart from ,of course,its spherical shape. some balls did not even have trademark hexagonal pieces! different brands also had different 'theme footballs'. they could be anything- a skull painted black ball, a bluish ball with a cool quote, ball of some particular club etc. however the ball which held my attention for the longest time was the one which was claimed to be the replica of the official ball for Euro Cup this year. I think it was at adidas. the ball was said to be specially designed for maximum swing! we all gathered around that ball and touched it in turns. it was a very soft ball. but it was too expensive to even think about buying. then we moved on to another showroom. there, right on entering, a ball caught B2's attention. it was a whitish ball with some red stripes. it was quite a decent ball. B2 bought it quickly.
he couldn't wait to play with it. so, he kept on dribbling it on the way out. it was a long way out from the 4th floor. he just went with his ball everywhere-lifts escalators, stairs... it was when we came out of the mall that his mom took kis ball away, irritated!
now one year has passed. still B2 is before me, playing with the same ball. although he has an exam on monday, he wont leave his ball now. he ahs closed the doors of the soundproof room. so, bhua thinks that he is studying!! just now he asked me what i was doing. when i told him that i'm writing about him, he has got a little self-conscious and is missing every shot, trying to make it perfect!
"way to go, Ronaldo!" i tell him. before he aims for my laptop next, let me post this thing.
i'm in delhi. Its six pm and quite dark outside. i'm sitting on a bed. two, probably three blankets are strewn over me. my little cousin- B2 is in the room too. His favourite time-pass is football. a football and a wall can keep him busy for hours at stretch!
looking at the ball, i remember the time we(my cousins and i) went to a mall in noida.
B2 wanted to buy a football. after many discussions, arguments, pleadings with his parents, he had finally convinced them that he really needed a branded football. so there we were in a noida mall, entering every adidas, nike, reebok showroom looking for balls.
i'm not so much involved in sports. my only stint with football was when i was the permanent goalkeeper of my colony team in Pune. it was in the mall that i realised how diversified a seemingly simple thing like a football can be! there were some balls for grass terrain and some for 'Indian' terrain. everything of a football can be varied, apart from ,of course,its spherical shape. some balls did not even have trademark hexagonal pieces! different brands also had different 'theme footballs'. they could be anything- a skull painted black ball, a bluish ball with a cool quote, ball of some particular club etc. however the ball which held my attention for the longest time was the one which was claimed to be the replica of the official ball for Euro Cup this year. I think it was at adidas. the ball was said to be specially designed for maximum swing! we all gathered around that ball and touched it in turns. it was a very soft ball. but it was too expensive to even think about buying. then we moved on to another showroom. there, right on entering, a ball caught B2's attention. it was a whitish ball with some red stripes. it was quite a decent ball. B2 bought it quickly.
he couldn't wait to play with it. so, he kept on dribbling it on the way out. it was a long way out from the 4th floor. he just went with his ball everywhere-lifts escalators, stairs... it was when we came out of the mall that his mom took kis ball away, irritated!
now one year has passed. still B2 is before me, playing with the same ball. although he has an exam on monday, he wont leave his ball now. he ahs closed the doors of the soundproof room. so, bhua thinks that he is studying!! just now he asked me what i was doing. when i told him that i'm writing about him, he has got a little self-conscious and is missing every shot, trying to make it perfect!
"way to go, Ronaldo!" i tell him. before he aims for my laptop next, let me post this thing.
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