Sometimes in life dont you feel you could do without all the complexities and materialistic things that encompasses our lives and just live peacefully forever and for always in a small hut .
Guess that's again the easy way out of life and its traumas and its perks as they say:
"WITH GREAT POWER SOMES GREAT RESPONSIBILITY!!!".... or did spiderman say that???
Monday 19 May 2008
Saturday 10 May 2008
SLOWLY SINKING IN..!
This was a long overdue post so do not relate to it...n undz its not a copy of ur idea , Harsh gt part of it as a forward, ask him for proof..! (LOL)
Yesterday was hostel night, (which was definitely AWESOME!!!!) the last hostel night of which we were a part, now its all gone from now onwards it will only be "The HOSTEL NITE we had ....",moving on....
So much has changed since the last hostel night, then I was a silly little girl babbling around whatever i wanted whenever I wanted to. Now I'm a matured girl babbling on whatever i want, whenever i want,....1 year ago i was straight and now...(keep thinking, you either already now it or you never will)...LOL..
On a more serious note 1 more HOSTEL NITE means one lesser year in BIT. I seriously have no clue where all the moments dwindled away. All I could remember are glimpses of me coming down to Ranchi with my parents to finalise my admission procedures, our seniors badinaging us, dollling out the dress code, escaping to town in salwar kameezes and changing in Capitol Hill's washroom, and stil not buying anything to eat from there.I have to say though, everytime we headed towards capitol hill to change I (or should I say "we") thought they are definitely not opening the doors this time..
The mad parties we had, the trend set by Rhea and soon culminated to all rave parties in the hostel. The night outs with friends, the moments when time stood still-yes my beloved friends you know what I'm talking about-VIVAs, EXAM rooms, PERFORMANCES etc. etc. etc. all equally tormenting.
But nonetheless memories worth treasuring.
If I could assign an award for the time-stood-still moments,the few TIME STOOD STILL nominees for the award would be:
1. As you all know physics lab used to get us marked on a scale of 10,and well believe it or not MG was the champ. I dont know how he did it but he got -5 yes!!! thats a negative sign he got negative 5.BELIEVE IT OR NOT!!!
2. AT's pre-planned excuse for not being able to answer viva questions.."Sir,mere doon-o kutte marr gayye aaj.abhi dafna ke aa raha hoon.meri mummy ka bhi tabiyat kharab ho gaya unki seva kartte karte,poore ghar ka bojh mere pe hai...."and it went on, my memory fails to remember the entire conversation.
3.My friends actually got these questions asked not during viva but after class.
One day her sandal got torn and she wasn't being able to walk properly and the professor asked her to wait downstairs.Later when he met her he told her" Aaap-ki sandal toot gayyi hai,app-ko lift de deta hoon hostel tukk.", she somehow managed to wriggle out of the extremely tempting offer.
4. During a viva:"kaunse hostel se ho..bitotsav mein dance kiyya tha na..achha naach lete ho!.."
what the hell!!!
5.During viva my friends explainning the concept of filtration by giving an example of strainning tes, my HOD "chayye banan-i aati hai aapko...chann lete ho??"
6.My Hod again, a guy's collar bone got broken and has some stitiches also so our HOD asks him how's filtration relevant in your accident.We are all bummed out as to what is he asking, then he says"Aap ka sirf RBC nikkla tha bleeding ke time pe our ohir ,mesh form honne ke baad serum nikla tha.This is a primary example of FILTRATION..!!!" WHO & WHY did anybody appoint this guy..!
7. During our Physics-I class,YB was being teased too much by SK so she started punching him, the professor saw and said "The guy in the red T-Shirt and the girl after him get out of the class.!
8. I used to be despised by A.Keshri of Com-Sci Department and he had taken my case N number of times, atarting form crossing over guys who were sleeping in class and coming over to my desk to see what i was scribbling on my desk, to making me individually run programs of c which i sucked at and matching my program list with the programs on my comp.You name it and he has done it.Anyway, so it was finally performance i had armoured myself for this and i go in ready to brace for impact, he seez my file hes lik "only52 programs?!!!",im lik"sir, i'd ran out of index paper thats why else i have65 programs on the comp u can check if u want".He said it wont be considered.HM had done only35 progs and he was damn proud of him.
Then during the performance HM inspite of having C++ in +2 level no idea how to run the program and i told him and his program was bugged and didn't run. My program ran and was completely debugged.
End result:HM-A+, me- B
HOW???!!!!!!
There are a lot of things in BIT which doesnt make sense and perhaps never will, but the bonds you build the memories you gather are worth cherishing forever and for always. Something which seems like without which your life would never really be complete, I'm not saying they are all happy memories they were building blocks to a new, matured and improved YOU.
Guess thats what we were all here for.
Now we've been there and done that.!!!
Yesterday was hostel night, (which was definitely AWESOME!!!!) the last hostel night of which we were a part, now its all gone from now onwards it will only be "The HOSTEL NITE we had ....",moving on....
So much has changed since the last hostel night, then I was a silly little girl babbling around whatever i wanted whenever I wanted to. Now I'm a matured girl babbling on whatever i want, whenever i want,....1 year ago i was straight and now...(keep thinking, you either already now it or you never will)...LOL..
On a more serious note 1 more HOSTEL NITE means one lesser year in BIT. I seriously have no clue where all the moments dwindled away. All I could remember are glimpses of me coming down to Ranchi with my parents to finalise my admission procedures, our seniors badinaging us, dollling out the dress code, escaping to town in salwar kameezes and changing in Capitol Hill's washroom, and stil not buying anything to eat from there.I have to say though, everytime we headed towards capitol hill to change I (or should I say "we") thought they are definitely not opening the doors this time..
The mad parties we had, the trend set by Rhea and soon culminated to all rave parties in the hostel. The night outs with friends, the moments when time stood still-yes my beloved friends you know what I'm talking about-VIVAs, EXAM rooms, PERFORMANCES etc. etc. etc. all equally tormenting.
But nonetheless memories worth treasuring.
If I could assign an award for the time-stood-still moments,the few TIME STOOD STILL nominees for the award would be:
1. As you all know physics lab used to get us marked on a scale of 10,and well believe it or not MG was the champ. I dont know how he did it but he got -5 yes!!! thats a negative sign he got negative 5.BELIEVE IT OR NOT!!!
2. AT's pre-planned excuse for not being able to answer viva questions.."Sir,mere doon-o kutte marr gayye aaj.abhi dafna ke aa raha hoon.meri mummy ka bhi tabiyat kharab ho gaya unki seva kartte karte,poore ghar ka bojh mere pe hai...."and it went on, my memory fails to remember the entire conversation.
3.My friends actually got these questions asked not during viva but after class.
One day her sandal got torn and she wasn't being able to walk properly and the professor asked her to wait downstairs.Later when he met her he told her" Aaap-ki sandal toot gayyi hai,app-ko lift de deta hoon hostel tukk.", she somehow managed to wriggle out of the extremely tempting offer.
4. During a viva:"kaunse hostel se ho..bitotsav mein dance kiyya tha na..achha naach lete ho!.."
what the hell!!!
5.During viva my friends explainning the concept of filtration by giving an example of strainning tes, my HOD "chayye banan-i aati hai aapko...chann lete ho??"
6.My Hod again, a guy's collar bone got broken and has some stitiches also so our HOD asks him how's filtration relevant in your accident.We are all bummed out as to what is he asking, then he says"Aap ka sirf RBC nikkla tha bleeding ke time pe our ohir ,mesh form honne ke baad serum nikla tha.This is a primary example of FILTRATION..!!!" WHO & WHY did anybody appoint this guy..!
7. During our Physics-I class,YB was being teased too much by SK so she started punching him, the professor saw and said "The guy in the red T-Shirt and the girl after him get out of the class.!
8. I used to be despised by A.Keshri of Com-Sci Department and he had taken my case N number of times, atarting form crossing over guys who were sleeping in class and coming over to my desk to see what i was scribbling on my desk, to making me individually run programs of c which i sucked at and matching my program list with the programs on my comp.You name it and he has done it.Anyway, so it was finally performance i had armoured myself for this and i go in ready to brace for impact, he seez my file hes lik "only52 programs?!!!",im lik"sir, i'd ran out of index paper thats why else i have65 programs on the comp u can check if u want".He said it wont be considered.HM had done only35 progs and he was damn proud of him.
Then during the performance HM inspite of having C++ in +2 level no idea how to run the program and i told him and his program was bugged and didn't run. My program ran and was completely debugged.
End result:HM-A+, me- B
HOW???!!!!!!
There are a lot of things in BIT which doesnt make sense and perhaps never will, but the bonds you build the memories you gather are worth cherishing forever and for always. Something which seems like without which your life would never really be complete, I'm not saying they are all happy memories they were building blocks to a new, matured and improved YOU.
Guess thats what we were all here for.
Now we've been there and done that.!!!
Wednesday 7 May 2008
Act I, Scene II:Merchant of mallu-land...P.S. Belated Happy B'Day Godess
I have always had an insatiable love for the folks of mallu land, and my batch mates will be able to not only corelate but also laugh their hearts out about the same.
Anyway, so it was one of my Godesses birthday and someone commonly known as the pachyderm approached me asking me to write something specially crafted for her and relating to her life which comprised of being a Mallu, studying M.S.(yeah..you are right we are talking U.S. of A baby!) and being forced by her father to marry other mallu dorks or atleast consider the idea.
So what hit me next was the conversation that Portia and Nerissa had in ActI,Scene II in Merchant Of Venice and how she despised the prospect of being forced to marry someone according to the plan set by her father,supposedly fool proof and supposed to be the way she finds her perfect life partner.
It had too much of similarity for me not feeling that moment to be a "DEJA VU" moment, and a chill ran down my spine.
What followed next was me rushing back to my hostel (not exactly rushing, coming back at 6.30 which is sadly btw our in-time), downloading the dialogue and set off editing after sometime what comprosed was as follows.Since my dear godess is too overcrowded with late night works(I-MEAN-IT!) and has not got back to me about the same so here's to hoping when she finally sees my cry for her response to the same. Here-goes-nothing....!
ACT I,SCENE II: A room in GODESS'S house.
Enter GODDESS and ANGEL.
GODDESS
By my troth, ANGEL, my little body is weary of this great world.
ANGEL
You would be, sweet madam, if your miseries were in the same abundance as your good fortunes are: and yet, for aught I see, they are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing. It is no mean happiness therefore, to be seated in the mean lab: superfluity comes sooner by microbes, but competency lives longer.
GODDESS
Good sentences and well pronounced.
ANGEL
They would be better, if well followed.
GODDESS
If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches and autoclaving been fool proof. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty morons how PCR to be performed, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching. The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leapso'er a cold decree: such a hare is madness the youth, to skip o'er the meshes of good counsel the cripple. But this reasoning is not in the fashion to choose me a husband. O me, the word 'choose!' I may neither choose a mallu bloke whom I would nor refuse whom I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the whims of a MALLU father. Is it not hard,ANGEL, that I cannot choose a blockhead nor refuse none?
ANGEL
Your father is ever virtuous; and holy MALLUs for their daughters have good inspirations: therefore the lottery,that he hath devised in these three chests of gold, silver and lead, whereof who chooses his meaning chooses you, will, no doubt, never be chosen by any rightly but one who shall rightly love. But what warmth is there in your affection towards any of these princely suitors that are already come?
GODDESS
I pray thee, over-name them; and as thou namest them, I will describe them; and, according to my description, level at my affection.
ANGEL
First, there is the Thiruvaanthapuram-ian prince..
GODDESS
Ay, that's a colt indeed, for he doth nothing but talk of his rocketting device; and he makes it a great appropriation to his own good ORGANs, that he can show him himself. I am much afeard my lady his mother played false with a smith.
ANGEL
Then there is the County GOPINATH.
GODDESS
He doth nothing but frown, as who should say 'If you will not have me, choose:' he hears merry tales and smiles not: I fear he will prove the weeping philosopher AS THE LYRICIST OF AUDIOSLAVE when he grows old, being so full of unmannerly sadness in his youth. I had rather be married to a SHUKLA's-head with a bone in his mouth than to either of these. God defend me from these two!
ANGEL
How say you by the French lord, Monsieur Le KRISHNAN?
GODDESS
God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man.In truth, I know it is a sin to be a mocker: but,he! why, he hath a ORGAN better than theThiruvaanthapuram-ian 's, a better bad habit of frowning than the Count GOPINATH; he is every man in no man; if a throstle sing, he falls straight a capering: he will fence with his own shadow: if I should marry him, I should marry twenty husbands. If he would despise me I would forgive him, for if he love me to madness, I shall never requite him.
ANGEL
What say you, then, to PUSHPLAL, the young baron of KOCHI?
GODDESS
You know I say nothing to him, for he understands not me, nor I him: he hath neither ENGLISH, JHARKHANDI,nor MALAYALAM, and you will come into the court and swear that I have a poor pennyworth in the English.He is a proper man's picture, but, alas, who can converse with a dumb-show? How oddly he is suited!I think he bought his doublet in , his round house in KOTTAYAM, his bonnet in KASSUR and his behaviour everywhere.
ANGEL
What think you of the KASARGOD-ish lord, his neighbour?
GODDESS
That he hath a neighbourly charity in him, for he borrowed a box of the ear of the MALLU bloke and swore he would pay him again when he was able: I think the mallu ass became his surety and sealed under for another.
ANGEL
How like you the young Mallu, the Duke of Belur's nephew?
GODDESS
Very vilely in the morning, when he is sober, and most vilely in the afternoon, when he is drunk: when he is best, he is a little worse than a man, and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast:and the worst fall that ever fell, I hope I shall make shift to go without him.
ANGEL
If he should offer to choose, and choose the right casket, you should refuse to perform your father's wish, if you should refuse to accept him.
GODDESS
Therefore, for fear of the worst, I pray thee, set a deep bowl of typical sambhar on the contrary casket,for if the devil be within and that temptation without, I know he will choose it. I will do anything, ANGEL, ere I'll be married to BACTERIAL CULTURE.
ANGEL
You need not fear, lady, the having any of these lords: they have acquainted me with their determinations; which is, indeed, to return to their home and to trouble you with no more suit, unless you may be won by some other sort than your father's imposition depending on the caskets.
GODDESS
If I live to be as old as Sibylla, I will die as chaste as Diana, unless I be obtained by the manner of my father's will. I am glad this parcel of wooer sare so reasonable, for there is not one among them but I dote on his very absence, and I pray God grant them a fair departure.
ANGEL
Do you not remember, lady, in your father's time, a Mallyalam, a scholar and a soldier, that came hither in company of the Great Virappan?
GODDESS
Yes, yes, it was; as I think, he was so called.
ANGEL
True, madam: he, of all the men that ever my foolish eyes looked upon, was the best deserving a fair lady.
GODDESS
I remember him well, and I remember him worthy of thy praise.
Enter a Serving-man
How now! what news?
PACHYDERM
The four strangers seek for you, madam, to take their leave: and there is a fore runner come from a fifth, the Thiruvaanthapuram-ian prince, who brings word the prince his master will be here to-night.
GODDESS
If I could bid the fifth welcome with so good a heart as I can bid the other four farewell, I should be glad of his approach: if he have the condition of a saint and the complexion of a devil, I had rather he should shrive me than wive me. Come,ANGEL. Sirrah, go before.Whiles we shut the gates upon one wooer, another knocks at the door.
Exeunt
HAPPY B'DAY GODDESS..NEVER HOLD BACK A DESIRE...!
Anyway, so it was one of my Godesses birthday and someone commonly known as the pachyderm approached me asking me to write something specially crafted for her and relating to her life which comprised of being a Mallu, studying M.S.(yeah..you are right we are talking U.S. of A baby!) and being forced by her father to marry other mallu dorks or atleast consider the idea.
So what hit me next was the conversation that Portia and Nerissa had in ActI,Scene II in Merchant Of Venice and how she despised the prospect of being forced to marry someone according to the plan set by her father,supposedly fool proof and supposed to be the way she finds her perfect life partner.
It had too much of similarity for me not feeling that moment to be a "DEJA VU" moment, and a chill ran down my spine.
What followed next was me rushing back to my hostel (not exactly rushing, coming back at 6.30 which is sadly btw our in-time), downloading the dialogue and set off editing after sometime what comprosed was as follows.Since my dear godess is too overcrowded with late night works(I-MEAN-IT!) and has not got back to me about the same so here's to hoping when she finally sees my cry for her response to the same. Here-goes-nothing....!
ACT I,SCENE II: A room in GODESS'S house.
Enter GODDESS and ANGEL.
GODDESS
By my troth, ANGEL, my little body is weary of this great world.
ANGEL
You would be, sweet madam, if your miseries were in the same abundance as your good fortunes are: and yet, for aught I see, they are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing. It is no mean happiness therefore, to be seated in the mean lab: superfluity comes sooner by microbes, but competency lives longer.
GODDESS
Good sentences and well pronounced.
ANGEL
They would be better, if well followed.
GODDESS
If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches and autoclaving been fool proof. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty morons how PCR to be performed, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching. The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leapso'er a cold decree: such a hare is madness the youth, to skip o'er the meshes of good counsel the cripple. But this reasoning is not in the fashion to choose me a husband. O me, the word 'choose!' I may neither choose a mallu bloke whom I would nor refuse whom I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the whims of a MALLU father. Is it not hard,ANGEL, that I cannot choose a blockhead nor refuse none?
ANGEL
Your father is ever virtuous; and holy MALLUs for their daughters have good inspirations: therefore the lottery,that he hath devised in these three chests of gold, silver and lead, whereof who chooses his meaning chooses you, will, no doubt, never be chosen by any rightly but one who shall rightly love. But what warmth is there in your affection towards any of these princely suitors that are already come?
GODDESS
I pray thee, over-name them; and as thou namest them, I will describe them; and, according to my description, level at my affection.
ANGEL
First, there is the Thiruvaanthapuram-ian prince..
GODDESS
Ay, that's a colt indeed, for he doth nothing but talk of his rocketting device; and he makes it a great appropriation to his own good ORGANs, that he can show him himself. I am much afeard my lady his mother played false with a smith.
ANGEL
Then there is the County GOPINATH.
GODDESS
He doth nothing but frown, as who should say 'If you will not have me, choose:' he hears merry tales and smiles not: I fear he will prove the weeping philosopher AS THE LYRICIST OF AUDIOSLAVE when he grows old, being so full of unmannerly sadness in his youth. I had rather be married to a SHUKLA's-head with a bone in his mouth than to either of these. God defend me from these two!
ANGEL
How say you by the French lord, Monsieur Le KRISHNAN?
GODDESS
God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man.In truth, I know it is a sin to be a mocker: but,he! why, he hath a ORGAN better than theThiruvaanthapuram-ian 's, a better bad habit of frowning than the Count GOPINATH; he is every man in no man; if a throstle sing, he falls straight a capering: he will fence with his own shadow: if I should marry him, I should marry twenty husbands. If he would despise me I would forgive him, for if he love me to madness, I shall never requite him.
ANGEL
What say you, then, to PUSHPLAL, the young baron of KOCHI?
GODDESS
You know I say nothing to him, for he understands not me, nor I him: he hath neither ENGLISH, JHARKHANDI,nor MALAYALAM, and you will come into the court and swear that I have a poor pennyworth in the English.He is a proper man's picture, but, alas, who can converse with a dumb-show? How oddly he is suited!I think he bought his doublet in , his round house in KOTTAYAM, his bonnet in KASSUR and his behaviour everywhere.
ANGEL
What think you of the KASARGOD-ish lord, his neighbour?
GODDESS
That he hath a neighbourly charity in him, for he borrowed a box of the ear of the MALLU bloke and swore he would pay him again when he was able: I think the mallu ass became his surety and sealed under for another.
ANGEL
How like you the young Mallu, the Duke of Belur's nephew?
GODDESS
Very vilely in the morning, when he is sober, and most vilely in the afternoon, when he is drunk: when he is best, he is a little worse than a man, and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast:and the worst fall that ever fell, I hope I shall make shift to go without him.
ANGEL
If he should offer to choose, and choose the right casket, you should refuse to perform your father's wish, if you should refuse to accept him.
GODDESS
Therefore, for fear of the worst, I pray thee, set a deep bowl of typical sambhar on the contrary casket,for if the devil be within and that temptation without, I know he will choose it. I will do anything, ANGEL, ere I'll be married to BACTERIAL CULTURE.
ANGEL
You need not fear, lady, the having any of these lords: they have acquainted me with their determinations; which is, indeed, to return to their home and to trouble you with no more suit, unless you may be won by some other sort than your father's imposition depending on the caskets.
GODDESS
If I live to be as old as Sibylla, I will die as chaste as Diana, unless I be obtained by the manner of my father's will. I am glad this parcel of wooer sare so reasonable, for there is not one among them but I dote on his very absence, and I pray God grant them a fair departure.
ANGEL
Do you not remember, lady, in your father's time, a Mallyalam, a scholar and a soldier, that came hither in company of the Great Virappan?
GODDESS
Yes, yes, it was; as I think, he was so called.
ANGEL
True, madam: he, of all the men that ever my foolish eyes looked upon, was the best deserving a fair lady.
GODDESS
I remember him well, and I remember him worthy of thy praise.
Enter a Serving-man
How now! what news?
PACHYDERM
The four strangers seek for you, madam, to take their leave: and there is a fore runner come from a fifth, the Thiruvaanthapuram-ian prince, who brings word the prince his master will be here to-night.
GODDESS
If I could bid the fifth welcome with so good a heart as I can bid the other four farewell, I should be glad of his approach: if he have the condition of a saint and the complexion of a devil, I had rather he should shrive me than wive me. Come,ANGEL. Sirrah, go before.Whiles we shut the gates upon one wooer, another knocks at the door.
Exeunt
HAPPY B'DAY GODDESS..NEVER HOLD BACK A DESIRE...!
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