After II

Someone told me not to publish any more posts regarding what I do after my exams, becoz it gets a bit boring. BUT here I am, once again, with a very long description of the very large amount of fun I had after my minors. My apologies to that someone.

First of all, my minors. They went ok ok, not good, not bad. Received a couple papers already, and got above average marks in both of them, so I'm happy. Now, what happened after those minors:

I'll begin by telling you guys what I did that day, followed by lots of things I did over the weekend. So our post minor celebrations bgan with a nice round of teaching in the slum area, becoz we hadn't been able to go there for 1 full week becoz of our exams. After the teaching endd, we decided to catch a movie in the evening - NAMASTE LONDON. The movie was superb, a complete entertainer, we were laughing all over the place! We then had dinner, and then started singing songs. We were having so much fun singing that we decided to WALK back to IIT from chanakya. So we were looking like a group of drunkards walking and singing in the middle of the road in the middle of the night! We finally reached IIT at 1 am, all tired, but determined to have more and more fun. We then played the usual games: Dumb Charades, Cheap Dumb Charades, Chain... what not! Fortunately IIT was off the following day, so we ended up having fun till 5:30 am. Finally I banged the door at my place and woke up my dad at 6 in the morning to let me in, and slept throughout the day.... Life rocks!


Now- What I did over the weekend...
My sister's boards ended on the 28th, and we all ( me n my family ) decided to spend the weekend at Rishikesh.. So I found myself at the Nizamuddin railway station on friday night, and I suddenly realised that I had absolutely no idea where rishikesh is! My mother glared at me, but at the same time informed me that our destination was in Uttaranchal. The night was spent sleeping in our nice comfortable train (ouch!). We reached Haridwar at 4:30 in the morning, Rishikesh took another hour's drive,and we checked in and slept for another couple of ours.
9 o clock: RIVER RAFTING TIME!!!! There were 7 of us in the raft- my family, two fellows from bangalore, and our guide. After receiving the usual safety instructions, we all jumped in and were ready to begin our 16 km ( 2 hours) long rafting. 8 rapids awaited us, and I cant describe how thrilling it was to face each one of them. I even took a jump from the jumping point! The whole experience left us all extremely happy and my mom a little shaken ;-) All in all, completely brilliant!



The evening was spent walking across the Ram Jhoola and Laksman Jhoola and also viewing a beautiful Aarti of Shivji..



Next morning: Wildlife Safari!The drive to the national park was amazing, passing an excellent hydro-power plant! Now this national park is supposed to be home to atleast 550 Asian elephants... So we were all hoping to get to say hello to a few of them atleast. However, not even one of them had the courtesy to show themselves and welcome their guests in that 40km long safari. Those huge huge huge idiotic fellows managed to hide themselves amazingly well. All we saw were deer, horned deer, nil gai, lots of peacocks, and lots and lots of birds. The only elephantish thing we saw was enormous amounts of elephant shit. That's it. It was a sunday, so probably they had a holiday. Still, they should have informed beforehand.


We had our lunch at an extremely beautiful, exotic, classy, (expensive ;-) ) Ananda resorts. This place was filled with foreigners, who probably had very stressful lives indeed, and had come here to relax and soothe their mind and body (what crap!). They were all wearing kurtas, and the resort people probably forgot to tell them that kurta and pyjama go together.. So we had a sizeable number of firangis all around wearing just kurtas, and no pyjamas!!! It was just tooooo funny!

After that we caught our train back to Delhi, and I reached home with a horrible feeling of returning back to the stupid lectures and pracs and filework and what not! Well, that's how my weekend was spent at rishikesh. I'd love to go there and do some river rafting again, and have already started persuading my friends. Lets see what happens. Hope you enjoyed this post.

PS: To everyone who have encouraged me and my friends in the last post, thanks a ton. We really appreciate it, and the kids are waiting for you guys as well! :-)

Writing Arbit

It has been a long long time since my last post. I dont even completely remember what all has happened during all these days, though I'll try my best and exercise my brain and try and write it all. Please remember, I've just given my first exam in MINOR II half an hour back, and I am very drowsy , so kindly forgive me for my blunt grammar and typing which you guys will inevitably notice!

I have been doing a lot of thinking over the past few months. I had sort of made a list in my mind, a list of all those things which matter in my life. Then I realised that my list absolutely sucked. Then I made a new list, and I am happy with its contents now. And I realised ( with a little help from Mr. Narayan Murthy ) that it is high time that we all should do something to make a difference. I expressed this thought to quite a few friends of mine, and, barring a few, everyone agreed! The consequence : We, an ordinary group of college going teenagers, have started teaching little kids in slum areas. And this is probably the most satisfying thing I have done in my life, and I am sure my fellow 'teachers' agree. Why am I writing all this? Because my friends and I need your help, your support. If anybody who reads this post wishes to join us, please do so. I'm sure we all can take out couple of hours every week, right? The satisfaction one gets by teaching those little kids is undescribable!!!

I have been unbelievably happy during the past few days... There are two reasons: The first one is mentioned above. I can't write the second one, but lets just say that I can see the ' thing no.1' of my list of '25 things I wish to do' about to come true. Life is bliss... And I hope it remains this way for quite a while
:-)

Nothing much else has happened. My sister is giving her board exams, so home has a 'study' atmosphere right now. I watched Honeymoon Travels and Nishabd back to back, and both of them were quite good, especially Nishabd. IIT is going great, fun is increasing exponentially, and we are all planning what to do after Minor II. I also thing that India will still win the world cup, and I hate all those people who started criticising the team after their loss to Bangladesh, after all, everyone has a bad day..Dont you ever?
I thing I've written enough crap, and now I must begin to cram why welding and metal forming have made my life so heavenly ( start studying for ManPro )... So i'll take your leave. And you better comment ;-)

Two Things I Did This Weekend

The following post is divided into two parts. Both the parts are equally important. Better read both of them. By the way, they're about the rocking time I had at the NSIT fest!

PART 1: The Jump

It was a usual friday. Stupid workshop. Lots of work. Life sucked. Then we decided to go to the NSIT fest. Primarily, for bungee jumping. So five of us fitted ourselves in an auto ( it was quite comfortable indeed ). We approached NSIT. Something was visible from distance. A huge crane ( or platform, whatever). We were supposed to jump from that height. Shit!!! I mean, everyone's seen bungee jumping, but it really hits you when you realise you have to jump from that height. Now, only three of us wanted to go ahead with it. So we went to the registration counter ( a guy sitting on a chair ), and to our disappointment, found out that only one more jump could take place that day, as it was getting really dark. So I was given the opportunity to jump. Now I know that all modern safety precautions are used and blah blah blah, but jumping from that height is quite freaky, and I got all ' what if I die ' thoughts storming thru my mind. So I quickly told my friends my will and my goodbye messages, and it seemed a scene straight out of KHNH ( xcept that I was going to bungee jump instead of having a heart failure ). Right, so I was all strapped (tightly) and padded up and taken up that crane ( or platform, I dont know and I dont care). The view was simply gorgeous, though I didn't have my specks on so everything was a blur (still quite beautiful). The instructor was a good guy, who thought I was really scared or something ( I wasn't, obviously), and tried to calm me by asking me all these questions about my college ( I really love it when people ask me about this ;-) ) and my place and what not. Right, so we've reached maximum height, the crane ( or the platform, come on u guys!) is now still, the wind is blowing, distant cheers of my fantastic four friends can be heard, and the moment arrives. I am asked to bend forward, more more more more... 3..2..1... whooooosh!!!!!!! I go head first right towards the ground. It was the best feeling in the world! After all, I was flying ....for 3 seconds!!!! And then I find myself oscillating in mid air, which was again, very thrilling indeed. Upside down at that height was undescribable. I am pulled down, my pads and straps are removed, and I rejoin my friends. They all welcome and cheer, make sure I'm fine, and Palka actually gets scared that I might've become a real 'bhoot'! We find nothing else to do there, so we all head back to IIT. My friends, in the end, got pretty bored, but for me, it was one super(man)ish experience.

PS: Everyone must must try out bungee jumping atleast once in their lives.

And now...

PART 2: The Concert

It was not a usual sunday, because my parents woke up to find me studying early morning ( which was extremely difficult, because I was up messagin till 3 am the previous night, yet extremely necessary, as I had a stupid 25 marks lab test the next day). Anyways, I was studying in a hurry, because we were all planning to attend the Kailash Kher concert at NSIT the same night. So after almost finishing my course, I joined my friends and we all again headed to NSIT again. As usual, the concert started very late. We waited and we waited and we waited. It was a very weird fest, there was nothing else to do, there weren't even any food stalls! Anyways, after 2 years ( or hours ), they finally let us in. And then began one of the most rocking concerts ever. Ok, I've attended about 3 or 4 rock shows, KK and Raghav's concerts, but none of them even compared to this. We simply loved it. Kailash Kher started with mangal mangal, and we danced to that also!!! Everybody was singing ( or shouting ) on top of their lungs, and Kailash Kher sang each and every of his superhits. Chak de phattey, teri deewani, dhol vajada, rang deeni, tauba tauba, allah ke bande... the list went on! Finally he concluded with another dose of Chak de phattey and teri deewani, with amazing fireworks going off in the sky, just like the later's video! We all were exhausted by the end of it all, and our throats had started to hurt really bad! We headed back to IIT in batches, as it was very difficult to find autos there. Somehow, we, for some time, all forgot that we had a lab test the next day, and instead of stupid formulas, had nice tunes going thru our heads!

The next morning, three of us woke up with numb right ears, but all of us with big smiles... God bless Kailash Kher!

After

I just received another paper. This time, manufacturing processes. Those who have read five-point someone, this is the ManPro referred in the book. Again, I didnt do as well as i expected, but then who cares about this stupid subject, in which all you have to do is mug and vomit. But after receiving these two papers, I've suddenly concluded that my minors basically sucked, and did not go 'reasonably ok', as i've mentioned before. But then, this post is not about my minor marks in my minor exams, but about what my friends and i did after the minors!

Now, somehow everyone in my group is feeling stagnated and stuffed up. We just cant take anymore studies, knowledge, education, watever... So preparing for minors was like a very hard fought battle, and we all decided to celebrate the end of these minors by having a 'night-out'. Our party began in the usual style- catching the latest movie, which in this case was VVC's return to direction Eklavya. I found the movie ok, but all my friends, and the ENTIRE theatre hated it. Come to think of it, the movie was stupid and senseless. The only rocking part of the movie was when Boman Irani removed his wig to reveal a very ugly bald!!! It was just too funny. Another good part about the movie was that we were watching it in the front stall, and had loads of fun hearing the 'classy' comments of the very 'sophisticated' group of people sitiing all around us. Anyways, after this wonderful experience we had dinner at Nirula's and then went back to the Insti. We took out our speakers, connected the ipod, and then began 2 hours of crazy salsa!!! I had so much fun teaching ( and watching ) these guys, especially the real couples, who were shy to death. At about 1:30 am, the salsa had to stop, because guard sahib threw us out. Well, we were on the roads, but the speakers were battery operated, so we started there only ( this time normal wild dance, no salsa ). We went on and on till the speakers started sounding nauseous. We saw our watches- 2:30am. The night had just started yaar. And then began what we hadn't done in years- Hide-n-Seek!!!! For one full hour, we relived our childhood. It was an unforgettable hour of stupidity and craziness and running away from wild barking dogs ( IIT has to do something bout this problem, though. There are just too many of them now ). 3:30 am, first signs of sleep showing on our faces. But we didnt stop, it was supposed to be a full night-out after all! So we went to Nescafe, had some coffee and maggi, and started with the ever so classic and ever so boring - Dumb Charades. For 2 straight hours, silliest and the most difficult movies were enacted and guessed in the weirdest possible ways. I was actually titled 'dhokebaaz' for siding with both teams simultaneously. By 5:30 am, our faces appeared like drunkards, and we all decided to get some sleep, as we were all determined to attend the early morning lectures ( which only a couple of people managed, by the way )!

Fun has definitely not stopped since. I have caught up with quite a few movies:
United 93: Awesome, awesome, awesome.
Music and Lyrics: Very romantic, but Hugh Grant is looking terribly old.
Mr. and Mrs. Iyer: Well, lets just say I feel like murdering A for forcing me to watch this.

Well, this is what has happened after the minors. We plan to go to the NSIT festtonight, but lets see whether that works out. Anyways, I have a class now, so please dont mind any spelling mistakes, as I've written this post in super speed. Mega speed actually. Anyways, comment!

Feels Like Home

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, bloggers and non-bloggers, fellow humans, i'm finally writing again... The reason I had not posted for so long was because minors were going on and i was going crazy. The exams went reasonably ok, though i have just received my organic chemistry paper, and lets just say, I'll dump it in an organic pit and let the carbon in the paper decay till eternity. But now i'm having fun ( the details of which will be provided soon ;-) ), and through this post I want to tell you a little bit about why I'm having so much of it!

Now almost everyone of my friends know that I had a rocking time during the first couple of months of college. They also know that after that issues came up with my college friends, things were said, complications became complicated ten fold, and I was, to say the least, unhappy ( for quite a while ). But then, I found new friends in college, people who were like me, and those people are very very special to me now. So in this blog, I'll go on and on about them only. Read on if you want to. Shut your screen if you dont. I wont mind, as I wont find out ;-)

This sounds stupid, but I'd like to introduce you all to my friends in IIT- people because of whom, IIT finally feels like home...

Shaurya: My best friend in college, this guy is probably the only one in our group who knows what he's doing! He is all fun and masti when college is relaxed, and very serious when F seems inevitable... He has always been there when I needed support :-) And as far as I can remember, he has not attended a single morning lecture in 2007.

Ritika: She is the 'monica' of our group ( come on people, if you don't watch friends then you're just sad. Go lock yourself somewhere). anyways, Ritika is strict, organised, disciplined, strict.... I get scolded by her atleast once everyday ;-) But then, she's probably the most selfless person I've ever seen. She manages our studies along with hers, makes sure we're all updated with our work, and goes out of her way to teach us when we all sweat and panic.

Aashish: This guy is thinner than me ( yipeee, somebody actually exists!). He is one of the nicest persons i've ever met, and yes, the lone supporter of my dream. He is a very simple guy indeed, attends all lectures, feels guilty even at the thought of having fun in the middle of exams, finishes homework, has gluestick in his pencil box!!!! But, to say the least, he's a great guy!

Mehak: i feel that she's the 'bacchi' of our group. She is probably the most innocent girl I have ever met. Sincere and hardworking, she has topped the same bloody organic paper! We all tease her every now and then, but obviously we mean none of it. By the way, she's a pretty great dancer as well!

Palka: She, for some very strange reason, calls me a 'bhoot' ! We, on the other hand call her PFP ( Palka from Patiala ). She's an amazing person, brings life and soul to the group, and is horribly scared of the dark and ghosts. And yes, she's a beautiful singer, and an even better friend to one and all!

Arushi: My IIT-salsa partner ( please dont kill me, miss A - my salsa commitment towards you still remains unaltered ), she's a wonderful dancer, and an amzaing person. I would have failed all my physics vivas had she not been there. Must mention, she's a pro in hide-n-seek.

Vani: She's probably the 'rockstar' of the group. Hip and happening, Vani is probably what an IITian should ideally be. She's a great person to hang out with, and makes sure that she has all the fun she possibly can. One day, she might become a superb salsa dancer ( that is, if she stops breaking my finger every now and then )

Nidhi: I dont know why, but somehow we call her 'psycho', though she shows no signs of insanity or madness.

Sidak: All i have to say that this guy will do something great one day! and yes, his uncle is super rich and mega nice ;-)

This is my nice little family in IIT. To all the girls in the group, lets start going out more frequently, this is a golden period of our lives. Guys, get those feet moving in salsa, you suck compared to the girls. Cutting the crap, I love you guys a lot, and hope we remain best friends for life... blah blah ;-)

False Alarm(s)

Those who have a decent idea of the 'mal'functioning of IIT-D know how regularly we are tested by exams. Second semester started hardly a month back and I am already staring at tough times ahead, with minor exams I starting on Feb 13 ( Idiotic bastards! deliberately choosing this week of this month ). Anyways, those who have a decent idea of my functioning know how irregularly I study, and avoid books till water is about 36 feet above my head. So as usual, this thursday afternoon, I found myself bunking EEL-102 ( Introduction to Electrical Engineering ), popularly known as batti (bulb)... Now, the whole of Friday and Saturday morning afternoon evening went by quite peacefully ( lots of phone, lots of TV, zero padhai.... Bliss!!! ), and then SATURDAY NIGHT 10:30 PM my super amazing friends Mr.S and Miss R tell me that there is a QUIZ ( test ) in batti on MONDAY! They somehow completely forgot to tell me this over the past couple of days! Sunday was kind of a blur then, mostly spent staring very carefully and trying to make some sense of fresh pages of a book never opened by me before. Basically, it was a horrible day, and i somehow managed to get something about circuits into my head.

MONDAY , 8 AM : I enter class, sit in class, take out my book, last minute revision, prof comes, starts teaching, no sign of quiz, continues teaching, goes on teaching, end of class, no quiz! And the most amazing part was that nobody seemed to care, or in other words, nobody expected a quiz. Naturally, S and R have to xplain, and here's what they have to say:
" When someone asked in the previous class whether there was a quiz that day ( thursday ), Sir said there wasn't. So we assumed there's gonna be a quiz today" !!! I am still wondering what on earth went wrong in their heads...

Another very interesting thing happened in the same class. Midway through the lecture, when sir was telling us about something called 'complete response' of some stupid circuit, a very loud cry interrupted the proceedings. Nobody had a clue where the sound came from, but yes, definitely from the other side of the window. It was a very shrieky cry, almost as if a girl was wailing. 5 minutes later, the cry was heard again. And again, and again! Obviously, nobody was studying, the whole thing was just too funny. Now sir got irritated ( he couldn't bear the fact that a stupid cry was getting more attention than his heavenly circuits!), and he shouted:
" Whats all this fuss about, huh? Why are you so bothered by that sound? Its just the building fire alarm!"
WHAT???? thats what half the class shouted. Everyone was shocked and 'alarmed'. There's fire in the building, and we were on the 7th floor, and this man is teaching away to glory!And he kept on teaching. None of us had the guts to say a word. We sat there , silent, while the alarm sounded twice or thrice more during the lecture.... We never found out why the alarm went off in the morning, and guessed there might have been a minor mishap in one of the labs. But we were still quite surprised with whatever happened, and whatever could have happened... What if..?

25+1 Things I Wish To Do Before I Die

Thank you so much siddharth for tagging me, because i've pulled all my little hair thinking of a suitable topic to write my next blog on, and couldn't manage to come up with a single idea. And yes, I am very excited to present my list of things i would love to do before I cant do them.

ALL READERS PLEASE NOTE :

* I HAVE A HELL LOT OF MONEY BEFORE WRITING THIS POST. INFACT, I CAN PROBABLY PRINT MONEY!
* EXCEPT FOR THE VERY FIRST POINT, NOTHING ELSE IS IN THE ORDER OF PRIORITY. I AM WRITING THIS LIST AS THE POINTS ARE STRIKING MY HEAD.
* I AM NOT EXACTLY IN A JOLLY MOOD RIGHT NOW, WHICH WILL PROBABLY BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE VIOLENT NATURE OF ONE OR TWO OF MY POINTS. MY APOLOGIES...

So here's my rather stupid, crazy, thoughtful, iditotic, creative, dreamy, weird and impossible list of 25+1 things ( please, do read the whole list):

1. The first thing i would want to do is very private, so i'll not mention it here. why am i writing this? Just to make it clear that there is something i want to do more than anything else in this world, and definitely more than the below mentioned 25 things. Ah! forget it, and enjoy points 2-26!
2. Become the prime minister of India.
3. Become invisible and do bad bad stuff! ( Oye, don't think too much you sick freak )
4. Get married ( I'm serious, i mean i'm definitely getting married before dying )
5. Meet Shahrukh Khan, preferably on KBC!
6. Spend a lot of money gambling in Vegas.
7. Grow wings and fly.
8. Play cricket for India...
9. Dance like HR and Katie ( Salsa ). A good friend of mine assures this is possible. Liar ;-)
10. Break every piece of lab equipment , break every window and door, break all but one professors' teeth of IIT-D.
11. Meet Sachin Tendulkar as well, and assure him that he is the greatest cricketer ever to be born on earth...
12. Study Islam and learn Urdu. ( I'm just very fascinated by the way Muslims worship )
13. Be the supreme court judge.
14. Fight like Neo of the matrix.
15. Go to outer space and realise how inconsequential and small things are.
16. Somehow, revive Einstein for a few days!!!
17. Grow great hair ( like Jessie of Full House, or our very own SRK )
18. Record my own album and force everyone to listen to it.
19. Get my phone recharged to like Rs. 1 crore or something ( basically never give a damn about balance before calling )
20. Have the ability to control weather. ( I get majorly pissed when plans get changed due to rain, and sometimes angry and violent when cricket matches are affected because of the same )
21. Play the lead in a big budget bollywood movie, opposite Kareena or Aishwarya.
22. Write my own book, and win the booker for it or something like that!
23. Visit Europe, in particular Paris.
24. Drive at more than 100 kmph ( I know its pretty much possible, but my mother never lets me do it! )
25. Know atleast a few days beforehand that mere paas waqt bahut kam hai. ( arey bhai, sabko jaadu ki jhappi de doonga na ). But i seriously hope that this happens after a looooong time!
26. Know whether God exists, and figure out what the hell are we doing here! ( Purpose of life and all that rubbish...)

Ok so this is my list. Hope you enjoyed it. Hope you dont think i'm psycho. Hope you think about a few things atleast. Hope you aren't sleeping!
Main aapke comments ka intezaar kar rahaa hoon!