thou shall live ..................

well recounting the events which occured to me at kolkata,i was way too excited to land up in my favourite city again,the exams were a good excuse.....i cud give anything to go over thr,and with exams being thr i got a sponsored holiday each time,however,this time for a change i had few of my mates with me........3 others to be precise and needless to say with me being so well acquainted with the city and its complexities,i was looked upon as a mentor and as a guardian by them who they thought would help them to achieve their primary purpose of appearing in the exam successfully while at the same time look after their recreation.......in short i had to show them why i revered kolkata show much and wat was so special abt it.
The initial part of the journey was fun filled with gossips abt the 3rd person,revealing secrets abt others and everything that men do wen nothing else is thr to do.........ie the feministic side of their persona overcomes them........having reached howrah,we searched for a few hotels but by normal conservative kolkatan standards,these were way too expensive,my friends taking my kolkatan experience into consideration lent me a patient ear and decided to take refuge in a cheaper place although it was in a far off place.i soon got them into the groove and we went window shopping to one of the most glamorous places in kolkata where all the PYT's(Pretty Young Things) were on display and obviously my friends couldn't stop drooling and take their eyes off these special creatures.........We soon got carried away and decided to frequent more such places even though one of our friend warned us that we have an exam to give the next day,we ignored him and carried on with our merry making..soon enough we went back,repenting the fact that time machine wasn't invented,or else we would have moved time a little backwards and experienced more of the eye candy stuff......................having had a good night sleep,we got all set to reach the exam centre on time,me again assuring them that i have an idea of the place and we would comfortably reach on time,but soon enough all my confidence was thrown out of the window when we didnt get a single bus that would take us to our destination.....and to add to our woes we couldn't catch hold of a single policeman who would tell us the way out...............though it may seem strange but the fact is that kolkata is such a strange and weird place that if u r stuck up somewhere only the policemen can help you out of the maize because the local people whether knowingly or unknowingly tend to misguide you most of the time...........after a lot of thought and brooding we boarded oneof the buses but soon enough we got to know from a local person that we have boarded the wrong bus and the place which we were supposed to go called "Poddapukur",there were four such "Poddapukur's" and so we had to find out which poddapukur we wanted to go,......soon enough one of my friends got furious and started shouting,abusing and blamed me for the entire episode and added that i had done more harm than good to them.........i too didnt replied back and waited for him to cool down and looked for a solution to this impending problem or else we would have to board a taxi and all their admiration,confidence in me would go down the drain,in short my stature and repu in their eyes would be jeopardised...............juz when we were guided by a localite,i got a breath of fresh air when i managed to see a policeman at a distance,instantly without thinking anything i ran straight towards him,knowing it very well that it was a last opportunity for me to salvage my lost pride......bt as soon as i was crossing the four-lane road an almost monstrous bus was crossing the road from the other side at neckbreak speed..........this is one more unique feature of kolkata,buses over here are huge and they drive like crazy because most of the time they are interrupted by signals or jams............my entire attention was on the policeman and i was oblivious of the speeding bus...........soon i heard my friend whom i was at loggerheads with some moments back scream at me to move out quickly,soon enough i realized that i had to do something or else i wud be steam rolled very soon.........soon out of nowhere i jumped and just got saved by inches,i thanked my lucky stars because i swear death was staring at me big time........i soon reached the policeman safely and enquired from him and as usual he guided us correctly and told us which bus to board and which "Poddapukur" are we exactly looking for.................life in a short while turned full circle when the friends who were swearing at me soon started patting my back and were glad that i was safe and sound and said that i was indeed right in my opinion of the policeman,they r indeed the most sole trustworthy people of the lot....soon we landed up at the centre half an hour before time and were glad to meet a few of our friends..................so finally it was a happy ending of sorts with my pride restored although my mind kept on going back to the almost fatal accident....................maybe the almighty wants me to propagate the charm of this place for a little while longer...........

facing upto the music!

well trying to break free from the self imposed exile,i return to the arena nd d only place where i get to review my inner self..................nd since being different is the "in" thing right nw,so i will try to showcase a lighter aspect of my life..............one which cud be narrated publicly coz most of the other funny incidents which i have gone thru can only be shared among guys...........u all no y...........after all "men are from mars and women from venus" .....................and if both the sexes are treated alike it can create havoc in one's life and cud easily tumble the prevalent social order.................so narrating a chapter of my life which i found to be funny in ways more than one........................it happened way back in march..............when after toiling hard for a year and a half preparing for the coveted CAT............ i cud barely manage to get a call from one lesser known institute called LIBA and that too i applied for it juz to get a feel of the interview process.........................needless to say i wasnt too gung ho abt the opportunity nd didnt take it seriously nt that i wud have cracked it had i been serious....................bt i was more optimistic that than realistic at that particular point of time that i cud into a A+ institute in d future much better than LIBA............so treating it like a holiday,i trodded off to kolkata...............kolkata,being one of my fav cities,was a welcome respite from the uncluttered,unsophisticated and unglamorous life of bbsr..............so i reached my interview centre with an uncluttered and pleasant state of mind...........on reaching thr i found one of my collmates and one of my senior also thr.................so the milieu wasnt too unfamiliar...........after a brief conversation with my acquaintances i headed straight off into the gd room...........................topic of discussion was "is it necessary to follow the rat race of life to achieve success"......................as usual there was lot of chaos and i cud enter the discussion only once or twice..............preferring to look at the eye candies instead...................and as a last hope to impress the panel members and salvage my pride invited a few of my hopeless and awestruck colleagues to enter into the melee.........................so gd was done and dusted...................it was nw time for the pi session.............and my turn was after an hour or so............so i was juz chatting with my collmate...........in the meanwhile out of nowhere,a sweet little thing came and sat beside me..............i juz cudnt believe my luck and instead of focussing on d ensuing pi,i initiated a conversation with d new guest...................nd believe me einstein was rite wen he stated the theory of relativity in layman's term as "Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute,and it seems like an hour.Sit with a pretty girl for an hour and it seems like a second.".......................i cud feel the theory coming to life...............and within seconds(in the new frame of reference) i was called for the ordeal...................unaware i went away hurriedly completing last min formalities..................the interview started with a few hr questions juz to break the ice..................however none of it was reqd,coz i was already super cool...................the topic of discussion then veered towards my and most of the other guy's passion ie. cricket...........i shot back even before the questions got completed and even gave certain extraneous information just to prove hw much a genius i m................like he asked me abt my fav. player............i gave a cliched answer...........sachin...........then he asked me abt his last hundred.............i told him abt his knock of 160 unbeaten odd runs against the kiwis.................then seeing my enthu.............he asked against which particular bowler he scored maximum of his runs...........i immediately replied back Tim Southee with a wide grin on my face...........then he asked how much did he score against vettori.............i continuing in d same vein said that vettori was missing from the match as his wife was about to conceive................that was it i thought they r sure to take me in ,nt that i wud over the moon bt atleast a favourable result over here was one way to prove my mettle.............bt life is nt that simple as it seems.....................obviously impressed by my cricketing knowledge,they asked whether i had the same amount of interest in general knowledge.....................i was in a fix wat to say coz as matter of fact i was very poor in gk and that too is an understatement coz the only thing which excited me in a morning newspaper was cricketing news,bollywood gossips and pics of sexy babes in skimpy clothes.............my efforts in gk in both IIFT and SNAP resulted in negatives scores 2.............................bt i was optimistic that perhaps by a wave of some magic wand i wud be able to tide over my weakness..........and to keep up my impression i said a very faint "YES"......................and that was the turning point if u can call it so..........else for me what followed was no less than a catastophe........................like he asked who is the telecommunication minister................as usual i didn't had a clue................then changing his stance from one of admiration to that of displeasure he rebuked me that as a telecommunication engineer this is the least u should know.................i quietly put up my hands wondering what else is in store.................he then asked me my views abt the ongoing events in singur which i was hardly aware of.....................explain the ethical principles of TATA group as i was from a place which is governed and maintained by the TATA STEEL......................i cud mumble up a few lines...................then he asked me about the interim budget and who presented it..................i recalled that as far as my knowledge goes Mr P Chidambram had been the finance minister but after 26/11 he was shifted to the home ministry and PM Manmohan Singh handled the finance ministry position till the new elections were held...................so going by logic he must have presented the budget...............so with gr8 conviction i said PM Manmohan Singh....................bt the interviewer asked that wasn't the PM not well and in ICU for a heart implant surgery at that particular point of time.................to which i replied no he got ill after presenting the budget as if he acquired a stroke after forsighting the repercussions............the person on the other side gave me a blank look and i cud nt gauge the accuracy of my guess at that moment.............he then wrapped up the interview with a few more questions rearding the industry minister,hw to get over recession bla bla of which i answered only a selected few...................when i came out i was aware how much i had spilled up a gr8 start and wanted to thrash the person who famously said that"well begun is half done"..................it certainly wasn't the case with me..............thats for sure.........wen i chatted with my friends they told me that the answer i gave regarding the interim budget was absurd to say the least coz the fact was that interim budget was presented by pranab mukherjee and the PM was indeed sick at that time...............i realized my stupidity although nt for the first time and wanted to leave on a happy note by chattin for the last time with that pretty young thing ..............bt was even denied that and told to leave the place immediately....................i wondered hw cruel life can be and the place which reverbrated a joie de vivre in me was stinking and wanted to leave the place and the city immediately...............i was nt disappointment abt the imminent outcome bt was disheartened by the sudden change in the state of affairs....................someone once correctly said "Good Things come in small packages"..........................

On a sticky wicket...................

well sorry folks................well 1 wise person once said that promises are meant to be broken........and i embody that phrase completely..........after swearing and committing to all my dear netizens that i will be more regular,i fail repeatedly to stick to my words...........bt hope is the light which guides everything in this world,so me too hoping against hope that i be a man of my words some day..................well the past week has been quite frustrating to say the least,with me writhing in despair,agony,distress and many other emotions which i am unable to put into words(again pardon me for my limited vocab,trying to improve on this front since time immemorial),after the BSNL JTO results were announced...............although i had the least of expectations as i appeared for the exam without much of preps and didnt care to check the solutions too .........as most of the questions were answered in a impromptuous state...................bt ever since the advent of Einstein's theory of Relativity,everything in this horizon be it man,material or money has been measured relatively................and so it happened the same way this time around too...............like many of the previous PSU's, this upset,which was nothing new for me ,wud have been swept under the carpet nonchalantly had it not been for the achievements of my illustrious compatriots who rose to the ocassion like the phoenix from the ashes and did the unthinkable,umimagined et al................really my situation worsened when i came to know that 16 of my peers had cleared the exam hands down............nt bcoz i was jealous of them or secretly prayed for their demise and my wishes were overturned instead.............believe me i m not so malevolent................bt the thing which my parents kept on harping about for days on was that if so many cud do that y not u............they exemplied einstein's relativity theory to the T...........checked the credentials of each of them and chided me for being negligent in studies and ruining one's future and things which i dont remember and dont want to recollect............basically i was forced to keep up a stiff upper lip and to eat humble pie at the end of the day.............finally as they say time is the best healer and really time came to my rescue big time although not for the first time.............or i wud have been a skeleton in the closet for the family............finally i decided that i may be destined for better things in the future..............bt i hope those better things come soon or else my and my parent's patient will run out.............really it is said that wise men learn from other's people mistakes and average people from their own and although i try to be clever bt i end up being average or foolish most of the time...........here too i personify the omnipresent fraility of man......................well enough of philos.............i m yet to write a funny post and many friends have reminded me that my posts do not match with my personality..................hope to write that too soon.............well i sign off with these words................"Now is the winter of our discontent and that is inevitable to end,the only thing that can follow is the spring"

encounters of the known kind..............

hello folks..........well,me returning to the blogging arena after a long hiatus(i m sorry if i have overused the word,but my vocab is too limited u no,thats y i didnt fare that well in CAT last yr,well lets c if this new venture of mine can help me in my endeavour this yr around)................well u no ever since i resumed writing,i wannna be as regular as possible bcoz trust me it gives u a gr8 peace of mind at the end of d day wen u r able to speak ur mind out................also it isn't college life when one is always surrounded by a slew of friends with whom u can talk abt ur past,present and future coz u will get plenty of tym and opportunity to do that........at home its a tad bit different.......u only get to meet and talk to ur friends ocassionally.....bt trust me at times during holi or deepawali it can be as chaotic as can be imagined at home 2..............a few of my friends reminded me of wat i had stated in a couple of posts back,that of starting with a bang and ending up with a whimper...... this yr i had pledged that i am going to celebrate each festival at home like a true theist and so after janmasthmi,durga pooja,deepawali,it was the turn of chath this tym around which in de facto is the mother of all festivals for us..............so i immersed myself in the ensuing festivity full on enjoying small things like lighting up a lamp,filling up home made diyas,assisting mom and aunt in food preparations etc etc. and bowing before the human deity several tyms over juz wishing that some good luck come over for me and my equally frustrated friends..........well in the meanwhile i managed to catch hold of a few of the new indian novels(by indian novels i mean novels written by indians by heart and not by birth)..........these were "Keep off the Grass" by an IIMB grad,"Joker in the pack" by another IIMB grad and the most famous of the above troika "2 States:The story of my marriage" by the oh-so famous Chetan Bhagat,a very famous IITD/IIMA grad.................well one conclusion u can draw out from the authors above that the indian novel segment is very heavily dominated by ex-IITians and ex-IIMians................well we cant be too much surprised coz so much of money is at stake,y will some printing press or publisher put his bet and hard earned money on a rookie from a wannabe background..........like in every segment of the market here too brand speaks and u very well no the brand value of an IIT or an IIM,especially in these recessionary times,so the reader is drawn towards the brand name of the novelist and not that of the novel,and more often than not readers,especially students have a gala tym going thru these novels coz they dnt take an eternity to complete,are similar to bollywood flicks in that r full of masala stuffs like action,love,romance,suspense,emotions and most important of them all have a happy ending which is what most of us crave for coz our life is so much imperfect that we seek perfection in everything that we see around us.................well to the guys who may be interested in going thru these new journos especially the last one,i must say that is definitely a compelling read and chetan bhagat has penned down his life in the IIM's per se and according to me not written too much fictional and over the top stuffs like he accentuated in his last two ventures and believe me when one writes his own story honestly,the results are magnificent for one can then relate and identify with the characters easily.............so folks go for it............it will surely cheer u up if only for a day or two........................well the immediate thought that came in my mind when i went thru 50 pages of this book was that wat a life chetan bhagat had had................if clearing IIT and IIMA was not enough,he also full on affairs+sexual encounters with gorgeous babes,stuffs which dreams are made of..............well wat a life man!i wish i cud get such a life in every birth of mine................bt perhaps every1 is not so lucky and talented as him..................so guys hope u too like the book like me...................u definitely will.............i too wanna complete it as soon as possible...........well hopefully i will be more regular from now on....................coz u no there a few ing's i wanna do everyday like jogging,reading,blogging nd others that i wish to do in future like kissing,hugging,fondling(i think i shud stop at that 1 or else my blog will be reported for abuse very soon)..............................happy dreaming,singing,whining,jostling,moaning(thats it i can't think of any more of these words)...........................

hard fact of lyf.........gotta live with it

well continuing off with the latest pad and certainly a stress buster for me whr i get to connect with my inner self whose voice we often suppress.........well this tym i'm gonna strain ur minds a little bit more by emphasizing and highlighting the hypocritical nature of man(and that includes me,i m no saint)..............well first of all,all of u mite be aware that the world is expanding at the rate of knots but if u observe the world of man is shrinking day by day.........well this paradox can be observed very easily if u observe the people around u closely..............they mite pretend to be very friendly,caring,loving bt at ur back they mite not give a damn as to wat u do or how u shape up ur lyf.......some people being gullible enough get fooled and are drawn to their suggestions,views easily landing into nothing but a quagmire and by the time they realise their folly it mite be too late....................well,its nt said in a jiffy that the ladder of success is crowded at the bottom bt its the hard nd learned fact of life................coz people with the exception of a selected few often try to pull the person to bring him to his level...............so that uneasiness doesn't creep in his mind.............so coz of this hypocrisy of man,the world has become a smaller place whr u can trust only a selected few ................this is d precise reason y going against the grain is normally abhored at by none other than his close ones...........and eventually he considers himself to be an achilles' heel for the society where actually he shud be encouraged and commended.................there are very few people from the echleons of history who have not gone by the book and have broken the self imposed shackes and trust me most of them have beaten their peers and compatriots black and blue and really its chalk and cheese......big tym.......so folks dnt get bedazzled by the esoteric hypocrisy that is rampant everywhere...........juz choose ur path of action............decide ur plan of action.....................identify ur well wishers,ur soulmates.................nd juz waltz away without any inhibition................coz u no life is short and if u dont follow ur heart and work accordingly.................it can be bitter .........so not make it sweet............

freelance thinker.........

well encouraged by the response i got from my first blog after a long hiatus,i m continuing my new found passion..........bt i am prepared for d scenario wen i wud nt have a single comment on my best of blogs.......coz u no i have learnt this thing after spending 24 springs of my life that almost any new thing u do,it starts with a bang most of the tym,bt the most difficult part is to carry on that momentum or new found success in the future............and this is wat seperates the champions from the also-rans..............well i have been too a part of this also-ran diaspora in the past.........bt aftr going thru it all,i have resolved to be more resolute,firm and robust in d future................well to say that lyf has changed will be a gross understatement to say the least...................from being the apple of everyone's eyes to being a sorry sight for the family is surely hard to digest for me and for many of my friends...........bt 1 thing is 4 sure that having gone thru it all,we can't say that we haven't seen the worst part of lyf and we are all abreast to face future challenges.................so guys come wat may,we have to prove to the world that we don't deserve the treatment meted out to us and we have it in us to change the world around us..............forever on.............hope this article will cheer u all and make u realize ur true potential..........juz rewind ur lyf and u will get plenty of moments whr fame kissed ur legs........u were the toast of the town........a sight for sore eyes for many.........comeon all this cannot be fluke u no...............so basically u were the best and u can be the best in future too........so folks i guess all get me..............juz this line sums up my point "if music be the food of lyf,play on"...............

a reincarnation of sorts,dilemna of youth highlighted

hey folks,returning to the blogging sphere after a long hiatus.............which aptly proves that newton was right when he stated that a body at rest tends to remain at rest and a body at motion tends to remain in motion......is this due to people like us that newtom mite be squirming in his grave still...........well college life is over......and it wud not be too preposterous to say that the romantic period of lyf is over.........well guys chill...........i m nt going to write another depressing article that wud increase the frustration u all mite been feeling nw.........and by all i mean almost every1.......the one who hasnt been placed.......the one who gt thru the first or second company bt hasnt been called nw and the one who has joined bt is feeling the pangs of recession wen he is forced to work for double the time for half the salary...........bt as freshers do we have a option!thats the most imp ques which will be roaming in every1's mind............we have to do wat we r told coz we dnt have an option after spending a fortune on the obsolete technical education which gave no technical edge to us,nt to mention the impractical knowledge bestowed upon us by a money minting engineering coll,and its nt only my coll bt all engineering coll with the exceptions of iit's and a few nit's,belong to that category.so folks.........thru this blog i juz wanna express my pent up emotions.............that thr can be more ways for us..........hw is it poss that life can change so much in such a short instant...........lyk in coll recession was neither seen nor felt..........bt nw we know its impact..........so guys wake up b4 its too l8.........pull up ur socks.........and give ur shot at whatever u do..........and hv more than one options ready up ur sleeves incase one option doesnt work out..............and folks do tell me hw have u managed to comabt this menance uptil nw.........coz u no others can learn frm ur experience..........waiting for ur comments..............i hope u all like my return.........waiting to awaken nd entertain u like always............