Engineering life

I dont even know who made this video and which college this is, but I just came across this video on orkut and am completely in love with it. Mr. Sharma, I am a fan

hehehehehe enjoy

 

At long last another tag game!

Yippee..I have been tagged.. again… by kaps a.k.a moonriver (again )

Its a game of eights.

EIGHT THINGS I AM PASSIONATE ABOUT

1. Doggies
2. Foooood!!!
3. Music
4. Good stuff to read
5. My future
6. My views about relationships ( oooo i like using that word )
7. My Blog
8. World Peace !! ( m serious…the world is going to the dogs…Indians who have seen/read the news the last two days will know what I am talking about)

EIGHT THINGS I WANT TO DO BEFORE I DIE

1. See that everyone around me is happy with me. (tough one, i know)
2. Learn to box
3. Learn to Bar-tend
4. Skate properly on good roads.
5. Punch each and every person who ever gave me even the slightest amount of pain
6. Amass the best music and book collection I can
7. Learn Malayalam and Japanese/Chinese fluently
8. Send the ones I love on a world tour. (i know i am giving typical answers…but i mean all of it)

EIGHT THINGS I OFTEN SAY

1. Doggieee!!!!
2. Bussss!! (When m waiting for a bus to come at the college gate with a heavy bag on my shoulders)
3. Sheeesh
4. ooopsy!
5. Life balances itself (thats a new one i just started saying )
6. Baluuuuu (when i see a cute baby)
7. Yikes and eeks ( tie )
8. hehehehehe (snort snort) hehehehe

EIGHT BOOKS I’VE READ RECENTLY

1. 11 minutes (just finished)
2. Shantaram (awesome…reading)
3. 3 mistakes of my life (reading)
4. Blue Dahlia
5. The Valkyries
6. A Thousand Splendid Suns
7. Witch of Portobello
8. The Romance of Tata Steel

EIGHT SONGS I COULD LISTEN TO, OVER AND OVER

(these are subject to change)

1. Abhi nahi aana - Sona Mohapatra
2. Its only love - Sheryl Crow
3. Always on your side - Sheryl Crow
4. Girl from Ipenema - Frank Sinatra
5. Burn - Deep Purple
6. Somebody to love - Nelly Furtado
7. Bombay theme music - A. R. Rehman
8. You’re the inspiration - Chicago

EIGHT THINGS THAT ATTRACT ME TO MY BEST FRIENDS

1. They are always there for me if I feel the need to call on them
2. They listen to the utter rubbish I reel out..all the senseless talk included
3. They make me happy no matter what..even if I am rolling on the floor begging them to stop
4. They don’t gossip
5. They know when to hold my hand and when to be harsh
6. All the nice moments we have shared and crazy things we have done
7. They need me as much I need them
8. Aur kya reasons sochu yaar……. just am glad i know people who let me be me

EIGHT PEOPLE TO TAG

m gonna break this rule maybe… and i have to mention PAB here…miss reading ur blog gal..where r u???

ok… i tag ithink,nishi, pinksocks, akshar, delta1(if he wants to do this one ), raji, maverick (if he can find the time :P) and PAB…i don’t care when she does it, but she has to do this tag

 

The various expressions of adhi :)

This post is dedicated to Adhiraj, one of my closest friends. I had told him I would write something about him about 6 months ago, and here it is finally. Adhi is one person who is capable of bringing a million expressions on his face without even making an effort! Most of them add comic relief to some tense situations and the others are enough to keep me laughing for hours. So three cheers for adhi and his humorous company!

In the bus, wishing people would stop taking photos

This is how an Engineering student looks while performing utterly boring pracs

Did anyone just say lets play games on my Playstation 3?

Please dont make me walk on the beach!

Say cheeeese!!

Thats him in Higher Secondary

Now thats a nice pic!

Heres what his orkut testimonial that I wrote says:

I’ve known adhi for abt 3 yrs now.. and he is a very nice person to know..
HOBBIES: bugging others(especially girls), teasing, irritating
making others laugh… he can make me laugh for abt 2 continuous hours..
playing video games..
F1, football
ASSETS: a face that has the funniest expressions
his CAR!!!
ability to imitate teachers
his “logical” mind
well.. adhi is a very loyal(he he), caring friend, who is always good company..

Many thanks to our common friends who provided some rare photos.

 

What does it take to grow up?

Have left the teen ages behind a long time ago,
But the kid in me never seems to take leave
Got a job in the offing a year from now,
But still too lazy to go and get a PAN card done

With the world of females craving to straighten their hair,
I seem to be the only one in love with curls
Watching every girl I know trying to look like a woman,
And all I want to do is be the girl with the snorting laugh

So happy one moment, so lonely and sad the next moment,
Are these the famous pangs of adolescence?
Nah, I think they are over-rated, these typical excuses
Maybe this is what it takes to grow up.

But what if I dont want to? Do I have a choice?
What if I have seen the world of the adults,
And I loath it already, the profanity
What if I detest it already

Call it running away from responsibilities if you may,
Or even call me a coward for hating this thing called destiny
For I have been there in that world of selfish individuals
When push comes to shove, there are no families and friends, only individuals

So here I am, stuck in a trap, desperate
To come out of this cocoon, and yet unwilling
Decisions and responsibilities, no longer just big words
So tell me then, what does it take to grow up?

 

Just to prove I did something creative these holidays

It took me a combined three hours. Special thanks to my nano (not tata, but apple) for helping me remain patient enough

 

Another tag (yippee!!)

I was tagged by KAPS (blog)

This one is fun! The rule is that females have to list out 10 things that they hate about men, and the males have to do that about females. I dont want this to get into a debate please. Its for fun! Keep it that way.

Here goes….10 things I hate about men:

1. Their attraction to violent games and movies. (especially Kung Fu..I hope u read this Adhi )
2. Unclean men, picking their noses when I sit next to them in public buses.
3. Idiots who approach two girls sitting quietly on the beach and say Hello, aap kahaa ke rehne waale hai?? Hume aapse friendship karnee hai( You duffer!! Don’t come to Goa again if you think resident Goan girls are part of the tourism package)
4.  Guys who wear wigs ( sorry for borrowing this point KAPS, but I totally agree with you, bald is beautiful )
5. Men who think love and commitment are two different things. ( I love you …Doesn’t mean I want to spend the rest of my life with you, when I say I love you, I am not proposing to you….bull shit!!)
6. Men who think anyone can be Abhishek Bacchan. You guys look horrible in the stupid hair-bands.
7. Men who get offended when females on bikes over-take them on highways.
8. Rude and irritating men (especially bus conductors) who think they make all the rules.
9. Men who are obsessed with collecting gadgets and gizmos. (its nice to have an interest, but when it becomes the only topic you know to discuss properly, it gets boring)
10. Men who get offended by all the above points and will take it personally, even when they know no1 is out to offend them.

Now the part where I give others the opportunity to bash the opposite sex

Here we go… I tag maverick, akshar, nishi, siddhi, delta1 and not to forget, my all time favourite for tag games…PAB. Enjoy!

 

TRPs

I watched MTV Roadies Season 4 with a lot of interest. I hated Bani for all her gimmicks. But is that not what got the attention of all the young people watching the show? Was that not the very reason I kept watching. To watch in hope that she will be kicked out? On the other hand, the other half of the youth was watching to root for her, hoping she would win. The point here is we were all watching. The point is they got a lot of TRP. (You can see what TRP actually is here )

Whether I like to admit it or not, I was hooked to the show, and so I will be to the 5th season too. It is shocking, yes, horrifying, yes, but it is entertaining. The politics and scandalous behaviour, are of course only one part of the show, the tasks and the locations are on the other hand wonderful. And I guess the team behind the show will be working very hard to make it more and more interesting. Ultimately how much of these self proclaimed reality shows is real is very much uncertain…(we have the Rakhee Sawant fiasco with nach baliye to prove that)  which only helps in the rumour mills and suspense building, which in turn again increases the TRP. No wonder one the of the contestants wrote on her form… Whether it is negative of positive, I like attention and I can make sure your TRP stays high if I get chosen…. surprisingly, she was not chosen.

What disturbs me is the kind of India these people portray.
Q. If you could cheat on your girlfriend/boyfriend and knew for sure you would not get caught, would you do it?
Q. If sleeping with your boss could get you promotion, would you do it?

That is outrageous! How many of Indian youth sitting at home watching the show even have a girlfriend/boyfriend? Why give the impression that it is a cool thing to indulge in infidelity or sex? And some nuts out there auditioning will actually say yes to the above questions, hoping that their answers have enough attitude to get them selected. Maybe the questions are there just to pick out who these nuts are and see if they are interesting enough to be on the show. Who knows? But it is horrifying all the same. But horrifying enough to keep me watching!! But the problem is maybe I think about it and laugh later, but there are many out there who idolize Bani. The same Bani, who by the end of the show was screaming out for her shrink. (thats a psychiatrist, for those who didnt know)

My mother gets angry too, she asks me why I have to watch shows that have to insert a beep every five minutes to what the contestants or sometimes even the judges are saying. My answer is…I really like the tasks, and the dynamic politics is interesting. What is it in saas  bahu sagas that interests aunties and grannys (not to mention quite a few uncles and grandpas)?? I would never understand. Similarly the elders would not understand whyI get horrified with the show and yet keep watching. At the end of the day it is about entertainment, TRPs and fame. Everyone is happy. Well almost everyone!

 

Playing parts

Ever got the feeling that you are this intsy-winsty spider in a huge web of life? Maybe it’s all about studying Engineering. I still have no idea what we “engineer”, most of the time we are learning useless stuff by-heart. A friend of mine used all the skills she had learned in her four year course of engineering and got placed in two of the top companies that come recruiting to our colleges. Everyone envied her for a while. The companies were so good that she had a tough time choosing which one to go with. In a casual chat with me, she said “You know what, all that we learn in these four years takes you only as far as getting you placed in a good company, or else helping you clear a entrance tests for further education. You will not really use what you learned in college. What you actually use is the training that the company gives you when you finally join them.” So all the four years are needed only to make sure you understand the 1 month of training?? Accepted, that the industry is ever evolving and they cannot possibly keep updating our syllabus, but then why the stress on completing journals and all the stupid file work? Files and journals give you 5 marks, attending 75% of the lectures gives you another 1 mark, 80% 2 marks and so on till above 95% gives you 5 marks. It is so pathetic, the way we are bribed to do something that doesn’t make sense all for the sake of discipline and keeping traditions. So this is one place where i feel I’m just playing my part..doing stuff just because I’m meant to..without asking why.

Another place where that happens is whenever I visit Mumbai. Just the sheer numbers astound you. The massive amount of crowds, the traffic, the pace of their life. I’m dazed me every time I see it. Everyone has something on their minds, everyone has somewhere to go, some job to do. Sometimes I feel even the speed with which people walk about on the streets is faster. Like in the movies when the camera suddenly zooms out of a scene…you suddenly get the bigger picture, suddenly you and your little complicated life are miniscule, infinitesimally small, negligible. I knowI’ve been saying that living in Goa had made me more capable of enjoying the small things in life. But ironically living in Mumbai teaches you some lessons too. The poverty, the competition, the striving to make ends meet that you see makes you value what you’ve got. And you start feeling like you are just one link in this fantastic maze.

Another time is when I’m traveling at night. When I’m traveling by bus or train and I can see the distant light of households passing by, I always try to imagine whats happening in each home. What food is being cooked, who all are sitting at the table to eat it, whether they are watching TV serials. This too makes me think about how each individual is playing their part.,doing what they have to do…not because they always wanted to do it, but because it’s a part of the maze..part of what you have to do to give your share back to the world, to get what you want back from it.

 

Define Love

Very cliche, I know, but most of us will have had this big question in our heads at a certain time in our lives. (or maybe the same question comes in different forms in different phases of life? ) Whatever it is, you think you know what you want from life, and you are ‘in control’ and along comes this question in an orkut community.. “define love”..and you say oh yes…i know what love is…”true love” as they show in the films…”real love” as you thought you had felt…and you start typing..and you suddenly feel at a loss to explain what you feel about love.

Sometimes you just go …bah!…it’s all crap…just a concept that doesn’t really take form…but then we do need someone in our lives don’t we? Someone to share everything with? Is it not love that bonds us then? Or is it the compelling necessity of companionship that brings us together. Being in love makes you dependent, it makes you vulnerable…is that true??

Of all the answers that were given to that question..one stood out, and was appreciated and applauded by many members of that community. In fact I made friends with that person just because I liked the answer so much. Not that it was a perfect answer..It is very hard to find the kind of love that she has described..and harder to make it work..but if you want an almost complete definition of love, here’s what Anindita Bhattacharya had to say:

To me love is:

U think about yourself, get to know yourself, build yourself up to be so strong that u are confident that u can handle your own life, that u don’t need anyone, that no one can hurt u without ur permission, that you are the master of your own life,

& then, u meet someone… who makes u want to surrender all of yourself, without hesitation, when you become ready to lay yourself totally open in front of him/her, all your vulnerabilities, your fears, your dreams, your weaknesses, your wishes and ambitions and principles, things that make you think and feel and wonder and laugh and cry, when the tiniest of his/her unhappiness zoom straight inside your heart, when you feel like bringing the whole world at his/her feet, just to make him/her happy, when you are ready to give him/her all the freedom and right over your life, comfortable in the knowing that the other person is so strong that he/she will honour you, the you that you’ve opened up, & will never take advantage of your openness… will care for you because he/she wants to, not because it’s supposed to be that way, when adjustment doesn’t feel like adjustment, when u willingly make yourself flexible for his/her sake, when the freedom between you makes your relationship stronger, when u both start feeling that u need each other, not because u lack something, but because of how much both of you enjoy being part of one another’s lives, & both of you want to practically take it forward,

That’s love for real.

And I agree with her to quite an extent. I’m not quite “learned” enough to “profess” anything, but yes, i feel love is learning to love yourself, knowing that you are strong enough to survive anything life throws at you, and then finding someone who you don’t mind being vulnerable with, because you trust him/her enough, and you are comfortable enough to shed all ego barriers.

 

:)

Mum grew it in her precious garden, i clicked the photo

phul