Little Bits Of Life

Well, sometime last week there were a series of bans that I read about  and while I was caught up in an inevitable task of giving sessionals :P I wondered why can't we really ban the way we are evaluated. So after discussing it at length ( for the Nth time) with my people about the pros and cons of the system and how it can not be changed *that* easily and that I was actually wasting my time for no good, I was told to stop nagging and concentrate on what I can!! Since banning things is the 'new in' these days ( it seems so) here's a list of few things I suppose, deserve a ban (random stuff I could think of) :D - 1. YouTube adds picture yourself reading the boring, dull slides and pdf's. How can you keep yourself awake and glued to it? Select a playlist and shoot. But there's a little problem with it. It doesn't play the song first. Rather you get to hear, “i don't care if cables were people or if your hair are pokey or life is well traveled...” ...

It has been quite sometime since  I've posted something on the blog. A self conscious decis io n of being regular , I could not keep up with, ugh! Blogger tells me my last post was 2 nd August, t hat’s roughly 5 months : O I had my training sem. so I got to enjoy a decent time at home. And in these months I've met so many people- my age, seniors, super seniors; learnt, heard, did so much of new stuff that I actually ended up enjoying it :D Has anything considerably changed in this time? On a minuscule scale, NO, B UT (yes, the inevitable one) I feel I 've become more aware of the person that I see myself as. H ow I am to describe what I feel? “It feels like everything's been decided in advance that I'm following a path somebody else has already mapped out for me. It doesn't matter how much I think things over, how much effort I put into it. In fact, the harder I try, the more I lose my sense of who I am. It's like my identity's an orbit that I...

Friendship doesn't happen in a day. For me friendship is many small things and perhaps it should be this way. Friendship so far has all been about sharing tiffins, morning assembly, recess games, collecting notebooks at last, drawing margins, blackboards, paper balls, land line calls, pushing, running in corridors, window seats, reading longer stanza/para, canteen, random talks, school bus, long walks, copying and telling, pen fights, labs, manuals and files, name-place-animal-thing, bingo, mangoes and oranges, cards, bands, key-rings, side wise glances, winks, silent smiles, notes, assignments, novels, quizzes, prizes, deep/intellectual discussions, late night studies, for the love of TV series, plays, art-exhibitions, charts and models, mimicking, ridiculing, birthday treats, last minute gifts, texting, random chats, mails, pictures, trips and ...     As i sit and recall, a school bus passes in fr...

Well summer vacations are here and for the very first time(since I joined college) I feel I'm home after long. Not that I have not been home but I don't remember myself doing absolutely nothing. I've been questioned so many times these days ' what are you doing? whats on your side?' and I realized I'm probably doing nothing. I've erratic sleeping patterns, gorge on food whenever and Read – yes! I've and endless list of ' to read'. I was earlier segregating my text books to be given to juniors when I recalled summer vacations was so much fun during school time. We were given holiday homework ( you just can't escape it) but it was something I liked doing. Now that I have nothing to do, I feel equally happy and satisfied somehow! I've all the time to sit and think of nothing, plan for nothing and worry for nothing at all. How long has it been since I had felt this way?! I go out in evening and water plants; see their shades of green and bro...

Yayy!! another semester is about to end. I'm just one short of giving my final exams, phew! I've had such an insane and inhumane date sheet this time, 5 papers back to back within a span of 20 hours each. And the worst part, I've a 5 day break for my last exam XD. So my routine was pretty much about study, food and sleep( in that order). This was not particularly new to me because we are used to such stuff but the intensity was too much this time. And whatever happened to my resolution of ' I shall study this thoroughly for end sem. has been put to rest. How can you even possibly imagine to use your brain and look for some logic and reasoning for the poor last and second last subjects!! May they vanish away in peace -_- Apart from that, it has been such an eventful sem. I met loads of new people and enjoyed their company a lot, probably because of the same interests and likes (the foremost reason we got close). These very people brought a s...

The 2014 elections would be critical for India. They are being described as a 'youthquake', with an unprecedented share of first-time voters coming forward to exercise their democratic right. Around 12 crore 1 st   time voters are enrolled for the same. I was reading this very interesting letter by Shashi Tharoor “Engaging Youngistan: Shashi Tharoor's letter to first-time voters” and was myself quite intrigued by the fact that average age of our population is a young 28, and half our countrymen are below the age of 25, while 66% are under 35! Hence these elections, are not merely about casting votes. They are our way of shaping our nation's future.  As a young adult, I too am not particularly 'politically' interested, who has what to offer, what's on their agenda, their welfare schemes, political manifestos and stuff. Speeches are an exception though, they either turn out to be good or you get to watch spoofs (which - well are really hilarious :D)  So wh...

“Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story” Happiness! It is all really there. All we need to do is look for it, feel it, appreciate it and be thankful for. Over the past few days things have taken me by surprise, by the randomness in which they have been occurring. A trip to Jim Corbett happened, whereas I was at one point so convinced that it would not be happening from my side. And I'm glad that I finally went not because that was to be my first college trip but just for the shear fact that I saw a place so beautiful and captivating, open to tourists yet the ambiance, wilderness still there. I could feel the rush of scenery, everything from the mountains, trees, river, stones, wind, clouds, shades of green and blue, journey, friends, adventure sports, laughter, games, food... Then and there, happy I was. And then there are days which you are grateful for that they happened. They bring about a change in your...

I’m just a few pages into “My Name is Red” and it got me wondering when the last time I had posted a letter? It has been ages, probably I was in 6th class when we were told to send letters and telegrams to our relatives as a part of school activity. And I was so intrigued and fascinated with it that I decided to send one to my school friend too who happened to stay just a few kilometers away from my house! And even more interesting at that time was to get her reply back, describing what she did when she returned back from school, had for lunch and so on…        A letter doesn't only communicate by words; you could actually get a vague idea by the manner in which the words are scribbled. A gentle and an eloquent handwriting for instance would suggest that much thought has been given as to what is being penned down. And a clumsy or over writing/cutting would be suggestive of written in haste.         Even more, in the book its shown that...

I still can't bring myself to think that this was the last odd sem. I have had together with my friends, staying in hostel. The 7 th  sem. would be for 6 months training and we would all be definitely far apart. And how would the days turn out to be then, from practically being in each others company nearly 24x7 to being all by ourselves! Odd semesters, I'v realized tend to end somehow way more sooner than the even semesters probably because we have a lot of days off in between due to festive season. A regular 45 days of teaching followed by mid sessionals, fests, a mini autumn break, 20-25 days of working college and then the inevitable lab quizzes, evaluations, end sessionals and the next thing you would be doing is packing your bags and heading off to homes. As the session began, I thought that this semester would pass out pretty smoothly, the work load and the credits were less than any other semester but I did get that wrong! Most of my subjects this sem. were totally ba...

Now that diwali is over, amidst all the hustle-bustle, I'v been recalling diwali's celebrated so far. I'v never been a cracker person. Ever since I was a kid when we used to celebrate diwali at my paternal grandparents house; filled full with relatives and cousins; I would light chakris from a distance by a phuljhari attached to long end of a stick. And even now I just enjoy only those crackers that end up bursting in the sky! What I'v always loved about any festival especially diwali is the 'get-together' besides yummy food. Every one of us would sit circling the table; eating, talking, laughing endlessly!  But over the years, everybody has drifted and migrated to cities so far that we now hardly get time to catch up with each other on times like these when once a family dinner was a ritual (not that we didn't have it this time, but the number of 'us' were definitely less). And in a house that was once filled with such lively and spirited people, ...