Sat 03-01-2010
16:34 hrs
Hello again..I dunno what’s got into me..for I am writing a lot these days. If only, I would have written so much during my semesters, I wouldn’t have landed up into a supple..
Well forget it..it’s a different story, to be told later.
Coming to the first day..why does it always happen that we remember our first day of anything very clearly. Be it, the first day of school..first day out with friends..first day of college..first day of job..and many other first days..!!
Well again..my first day of my college life..the life where I just screwed around..!
I got into NIT Durgapur..Electrical Engineering branch..purely by luck..or to say it the way I see it now..maybe..by purely bad luck. I had appeared for my 12th from Nagpur, Maharashtra. So in according to the rule’s then, I had to go for my counseling in VNIT Nagpur. As I entered the NIT in Nagpur, I was astonished. It is such a beautiful college. It’s main gate itself was very imposing. It felt as if I am in different world when I entered. I could already feel knowledge flowing into me..[:D]..lozz..
So..it was a very good college..my counseling preferences and orders and choices were already decided by my dad..and I had very little sat in it. After all, he is the one who is going to pay my fees and expenses..!! So, when at the choice locking counter..as I say it..my dad asked me to put NIT Durgapur Electrical as the first choice and then the rest, and the person behind that counter did the same. It was 8th of July 2007..the beginning of my miseries.
As CCB does it..it puts it..the result on the website on the net before the actual time to check it whether it is correct or not (they want no mistakes..many lives depend upon on it..!). So they put results over the net in the night around 11p.m. My younger brother who is too stubborn kept on pressing reload tab and finally he got my result out. I had got into NIT Durgapur Electrical Engineering.
Everybody was happy..me too..
I was happy for the fact that college would be as good as Nagpur for it was NIT too..and it would open door of opportunities for me and what not all…!
We left for Durgapur..the next day..on 9th July. We reached Calcutta and stayed at some guest house of some company there..and we went to Durgapur next morning. We took a cab to NIT after reaching Durgapur station.
All my hopes of seeing good college were washed..by a flood..leaving no traces of any hope at all..!
It was a rickety..rusting..old gate..with old withered and patched road beyond it. The road side..covered with weeds and wild grass. The playground..it was almost covered with almost 3 foot high wild grass.
I knew..I was screwed for the next four year of my college life.
The academic building..it was as old as the oldest building in my living memory..of course not as old as the broken forts..! We got into that same building for admission procedure and the moment I stepped into it..I saw cob webs all over the place.
I told about my feeling to my dad..he replied..” Don’t worry beta..it’s a government university..it is supposed to be like this..!” And then he began..as always..a never ending lecture..over the state of the college in his days..!!
We were there before time for admission..almost by 2 hours..thanks to dad for all that hurry and anger over getting late..arrggghhhh….!
Then ay dad asked me to take a walk in the hostels area and around the campus. I was in no mood..firstly..my dreams of a good college were just now shattered and secondly it was too hot and humid outside. Still my dad was persistent and when I saw his glaring eyes looking towards me..all the heat outside was gone..! I went. We took a long walk to see old hostels with leaking drain pipes and withered and broken plaster and algae covered walls..ahh..it was enough..it couldn’t take it anymore..I checked the time..we were now late..for the admission. We rushed back to the admission hall..did the with the admission procedure. I was ready to go..but my dad wasn’t. he took me the library and then we went to the hostels were 1st years were supposed to stay.
Hall 9..it had a long tongue twisting name..which I can’t remember..! We entered this one..it was in better condition then the other hostels(I later learned it was constructed recently). I stood in the porch area..while my dad went to inspect the hall. I was waiting there and waiting for him to return..but soon I heard some voices..I figured out..one was resembled my dad’s..! Soon after I was certain..it was my dad’s..! I thought he got into another argument with someone. He has been getting into a lot of arguments lately. Sometimes with shop keeper, sometimes with police men, sometimes with some office clerk..for that matter anybody he can argue with..!
I went inside to check out. I could see him nowhere. I saw a room open..I went in. I saw my dad sitting with some guy who was covered in towel and a vest, sitting casually. My dad introduced me to him saying he is my senior. I didn’t like him..for the way he was sitting..the way he was talking to my dad. I wanted to say “Man you are sitting in front of my dad..you need to give him respect. Whatever he is..he is, after all my dad.”
Anyways I talked to him. He asked me my state of eligibility. I told him I am from Maharashtra. He told me you will be known as “Matthu” in this college. And that “Matthu” are the one who are ragged the most in this college. There was it..the final nail..in the coffin of my dreams..! Well..I heard all the crap he wanted me to listen to. And I listened..intently!
We, finally went to the station..discussing the college. We went back to Calcutta and then to home..me pondering over my recently broken dreams..and worried about the ragging and the life at college.
Guys..what I want to say is that..college is a stepping stone towards a more professional life. It has to make a good impression or else you will just not want to be a part of it. As always said..you need to be a part of something if you want to excel in it. Hope you guys..get the college of your dreams..;)
Take care..
Later..:)
Sunday, January 3, 2010
Friday, January 1, 2010
Life..as I see it…
[Sat-02-01-2010]
[02:29 hrs]
I really dunno why m I writing this up, at this time of the night..maybe because you think about it all when you are alone. The time when the person is truly alone is when everybody else around them is busy with their own..ahh..forget the philosophy.
Well..it so happened this night that everybody else around me is sleeping and I am the only night owl who is still up..watching a movie..so basically this all came to me when I was watching this movie.
Guys..I am not a preacher or a philosopher or something..m just plain engineering student. Guys..life..life holds a lot more meaning to it, than what we understand out of it. It is meaning full for everybody in there own perspective. You see, life is pretty short..but still the moments that we conjure out of it..lives forever.
Life is too precious to waste it over anger and hatred and racism. Why do we need to hate people of certain kind? Some of their kind, did a wrong to us but why do we blame their entire kind for him being like that??
I have seen my death..just minutes away from me. And I have seen death of one of my very close friend.
Guys..reading this..trust me..life is too precious and short and most of all uncertain. It is not to be wasted..not one bit. The every moment life gives you, is your chance to make it into something..a memory..such a memory that every time you close your eyes you live that moment again and smile again.
Guys..friends..live every moment to its max..don’t waste any of it.
“F0rGiVEinG aND f0RgeTtiNG, iS aLL It TakEs…”
Maybe what all I wrote above is just due to I watched a movie..but you think and let your thoughts flow from the simplest of the things occurring near you..
BTW..the movie I was watching is CRASH..do watch it..;)
Take care..
Later..:)
[02:29 hrs]
I really dunno why m I writing this up, at this time of the night..maybe because you think about it all when you are alone. The time when the person is truly alone is when everybody else around them is busy with their own..ahh..forget the philosophy.
Well..it so happened this night that everybody else around me is sleeping and I am the only night owl who is still up..watching a movie..so basically this all came to me when I was watching this movie.
Guys..I am not a preacher or a philosopher or something..m just plain engineering student. Guys..life..life holds a lot more meaning to it, than what we understand out of it. It is meaning full for everybody in there own perspective. You see, life is pretty short..but still the moments that we conjure out of it..lives forever.
Life is too precious to waste it over anger and hatred and racism. Why do we need to hate people of certain kind? Some of their kind, did a wrong to us but why do we blame their entire kind for him being like that??
I have seen my death..just minutes away from me. And I have seen death of one of my very close friend.
Guys..reading this..trust me..life is too precious and short and most of all uncertain. It is not to be wasted..not one bit. The every moment life gives you, is your chance to make it into something..a memory..such a memory that every time you close your eyes you live that moment again and smile again.
Guys..friends..live every moment to its max..don’t waste any of it.
“F0rGiVEinG aND f0RgeTtiNG, iS aLL It TakEs…”
Maybe what all I wrote above is just due to I watched a movie..but you think and let your thoughts flow from the simplest of the things occurring near you..
BTW..the movie I was watching is CRASH..do watch it..;)
Take care..
Later..:)
“Friends”..as I put them…
Hello friends a very happy new year to you all..i hope everybody who is reading this enjoyed their new year with their “friends” as I did!
“Friends”..the most important part of a person’s life..n I guess everybody is gonna agree to that..if they don’t they must be kicked out species from some alien planet..!
“Friends”..they teach us how to live, how to cry how to laugh, how to be strong and face the cruel world out there with the brave heart. They help us to come over our daily grieves, heartbreaks and the most difficult of our problems.
Friends”..I have earned a very few in my life. It doesn’t matter how many “friends” we have..coz one “friend” is all is needed to make life a better place to live in.
People often mistake friends in a very small aspect..they often consider them, whom they meet every day, whom they wish good day everyday as their friends. People whom we talk to everyday…they may not be our “friends”. They may not be there in the hour of need.
“Friends”..they hold a very important place in our lives. They are there when we need them even before we think we need them. They are the one who will take all our problems on themselves before passing it onto us. They will be there besides us when we are sick, holding our hand, sitting on the chair next to us and sleeping with their head on our bed..! They will be there when we didn’t pass in our university exams..drinking with us and taking all the crap that we say after we get drunk. They will be lending us money when they themselves won’t be able to pay there dues after lending us that amount. They will be there in our break-ups and console us and then laugh at us over it saying..”I told you so..!”..(
bloody suckers…!) . They will help us clean our room, cursing us, when our parents are going to visit us in a few hours. And you owe them a treat to make them go for a bath because your parents are visiting you! They are always there with us no matter how long we haven’t spoken to each other. The day you eill remember them, they will come for you.
You can make a lot of friends..but you have to earn “Friends”. They make life a lot easier to deal with. Without them life is a bitch and with them it’s a simple walk down the road.
They understand everything even before you say anything. They sense the cause of your trouble before you can figure it out. They never cause grief..
“when you walk in the rain, a friend is the one who can tell the difference between our tears and drops of rain”
There is one more..!!
“A good friend is the one who bails you out of the jail,
A true friend is one who is in the same lock-up and says..
“It was fun dude. Let’s try that once again..?!!”
I got few such friends..I hope you also get few of them..
Take care..
Later..:)
P.S.: This blog, I have written in totally inebriated state..it may be hazardous to your brains and grammar and English..!
“Friends”..the most important part of a person’s life..n I guess everybody is gonna agree to that..if they don’t they must be kicked out species from some alien planet..!
“Friends”..they teach us how to live, how to cry how to laugh, how to be strong and face the cruel world out there with the brave heart. They help us to come over our daily grieves, heartbreaks and the most difficult of our problems.
Friends”..I have earned a very few in my life. It doesn’t matter how many “friends” we have..coz one “friend” is all is needed to make life a better place to live in.
People often mistake friends in a very small aspect..they often consider them, whom they meet every day, whom they wish good day everyday as their friends. People whom we talk to everyday…they may not be our “friends”. They may not be there in the hour of need.
“Friends”..they hold a very important place in our lives. They are there when we need them even before we think we need them. They are the one who will take all our problems on themselves before passing it onto us. They will be there besides us when we are sick, holding our hand, sitting on the chair next to us and sleeping with their head on our bed..! They will be there when we didn’t pass in our university exams..drinking with us and taking all the crap that we say after we get drunk. They will be lending us money when they themselves won’t be able to pay there dues after lending us that amount. They will be there in our break-ups and console us and then laugh at us over it saying..”I told you so..!”..(
bloody suckers…!) . They will help us clean our room, cursing us, when our parents are going to visit us in a few hours. And you owe them a treat to make them go for a bath because your parents are visiting you! They are always there with us no matter how long we haven’t spoken to each other. The day you eill remember them, they will come for you.
You can make a lot of friends..but you have to earn “Friends”. They make life a lot easier to deal with. Without them life is a bitch and with them it’s a simple walk down the road.
They understand everything even before you say anything. They sense the cause of your trouble before you can figure it out. They never cause grief..
“when you walk in the rain, a friend is the one who can tell the difference between our tears and drops of rain”
There is one more..!!
“A good friend is the one who bails you out of the jail,
A true friend is one who is in the same lock-up and says..
“It was fun dude. Let’s try that once again..?!!”
I got few such friends..I hope you also get few of them..
Take care..
Later..:)
P.S.: This blog, I have written in totally inebriated state..it may be hazardous to your brains and grammar and English..!
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