The new life
the rain gods smiled. it has been pouring here incessantly fr last 3 days. the heat waves which used to burn us earlier hv been replaced by cool breeze now. the environ again seems very fresh n very green. The heavenly earthy smell wafting up the air, the pitter patter of the raindrops, the cool breeze tickling your face, the lush green faces of swaying trees, the first bath in the first rain …. Feels heavenly, doesn’t it? Come rain, and the earth regains its youth and beauty, with all the flora and fauna dancing away to glory, welcoming the respite from the scorching heat. .the only problem - the campus has become water logged. the football ground has turned into a big swimming pool. the drainage seems to be a issue here.
The registration is over n now i m formally a part of phenomenon called IIM Ahmedabad. the process went on smoothly. the formalities hv been completed n a 'huge' set of books hv been given to us... the classes r goin to start frm tomorrow....... the seniors hv promised tht next three months r goin to be toughest months of my life. they r goin to stretch my limits , take me to the edge of exhaustion, both emotional and physical. the deadlines r pretty tough n i wud hv to show good time management skills to survive. chalo now time to go fr sleep........ wish me luck guys.
sun, sun burning bright
the room has been set. the curtains now hang over the windows. took sum effort to clean it up n make it worth fr a human to stay comfortably. room is quite spacious n i hv the luxury of a balcony in the room. the food here in the mess is also decent, much better than the crap i had at nsit hostel. tuchhas say people generally put on sum weight provided u can manage time fr hving food...:). a lot of scary stories r doin rounds here n the tuchhas enjoy hving a sadistic smile on their faces while 'enthralling' us with those stories. after all they hv passed thru the same phase a year earlier in their life.
at present i m having a 'relaxed' kinda life here. just making frnds with the guys who hv been already here fr their prepratory courses. the atmosphere here is pretty cool, sumtimes reminding of the lull before the storm. the only problem which i am facing presently is heat.
i hv just come out of bathroom after taking a 3rd bath today. not tht i m tht kind of person who considers bathing to be a pretty useless activity. but it is really hot out here. if delhi is hot then this place is really a furnace. the temperatures hv been soaring n the room fan seems to be sending the flames of fire. the coolers r not allowed in the student rooms. so u wud see a lot of guys moving 'topless' in the dorm. people try out different tactics to beat the heat here. the 'air conditioned' library here is used fr 2 purposes - one fr extracting gyan frm the unending rows n columns of the books n other, more importantly, beating the heat. u can easily find a no of guys sleeping here with those thick books acting as a pillow. tuchhas say tht it takes sumtime to get acclimatised with this place. chalo lets hope i make it fast.
amit
What sumone's mom can teach him....
was thinking of how a mom can shape a number of attributes of a person.....
i think a number of us cud relate to examples mentioned in the incidents
This is how my mom taugh things to me...
"Things My Mom Taught Me"
My Mom taught me TO APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE."If you're going to kill each other, do it outside. I just finished cleaning!"
My Mom taught me about INDIVIDUALISM.
"I bet if all your friends jumped off a bridge, you would too!
My Mom taught me RELIGION.
"You better pray that stain will come out of the carpet."
My Mom taught me about BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION.
"Stop acting like your father!"
My Mom taught me about TIME TRAVEL.
"If you don't straighten up, I'mgoing to knock you into the middle of next week!"
My Mom taught me LOGIC.
"Because I said so, that's why."
My Mom taught me FORESIGHT.
"Make sure you wear clean underwear, incase you're in an accident."
My Mom taught me about HYPOCRISY.
"If I've told you once, I've toldyou a million times - Don't exaggerate!!!"
My Mom taught me IRONY.
"Keep crying and I'll *give* you somethingto cry about!"
My Mom taught me THE CIRCLE OF LIFE.
"I brought you into this world,and I can take you out."
My Mom taught me about the science of OSMOSIS.
"Shut your mouth and eat your supper!"
My Mom taught me about CONTORTIONISM.
"Will you *look* at the dirt on the back of your neck!"
My Mom taught me about ENVY.
"There are millions of less fortunatechildren in this world who don't have wonderful parents like you do!"
My Mom taught me about STAMINA.
"You'll sit there until all that spinach is finished."
My Mom taught me how to solve PHYSICS PROBLEMS.
"If I yelled because I saw a meteor coming toward you;
would you listen then?"
My Mom taught me about WEATHER.
"It looks like a tornado sweptthrough your room!"
Bye Bye Delhi
The day began on a very positive note. A no of friends from FSS ( formerly HSS) called up to inform me abt smthng they hv been waiting fr a year now - appraisals n salary hike. let me not disclose the figures but the hike hv been pretty substantial n all of them looked quite happy over this. fr last one yr most of them hv been cribbing abt money they hv been getting, but it has all changed now. i simply wonder how a salary hike can do wonders to the employee morale.... congratulations to all of them.
meanwhile i hv packed my bags to head fr my destination - IIM Ahmedabad. this packing thing took sum time. actually this is the first time i wud be staying away frm my family fr such a long duration of time. did my schooling here, got admitted to one of the premier engg colleges in india( yeah NSIT RULEZ ) , got a decent job in gurgaon... i never had to move away frm delhi. my world has been limited to delhi n ncr region...... so i never had to this packing thing . but now i was forced to do the same. another interesting thing was a lot of people giving plethora of advices.
' beta take 2 alarm clocks . in case if one goes bust, u still hv a backup'
' take ur own nail cutter. dont hv to run to the neighbours asking fr sharing this stuff'
' take this press with u. but dont try to use it,otherwise u wud burn ur clothes. u may become a fashion statement in ur college if u give it a try.....:) . '
a lot of gyan came fr washing cloths. from the type of detergent to right combination of detergent n water - the gyan included everything. i seem to hv become a more learned person now.
the journey was a peaceful affair....apart frm 2 small kids on the adjacent seat continously fighting n crying n their mother trying to pacify them. well its certainly difficult to manage young kids. no wonder a lot of govt compaigns say -' bachhe, do hi achhe'. but their antics kept me amused throughout the journey.
My registration is on 23rd. so till then i wud hv some time to explore this city, meet a lot of fachhas n tuchhas ( iim a lingo fr seniors) n hv a feel of the campus. i intend to buy a new PC here. wud be getting the new PC by the end of this month. so wud be dependent on computer centre of college fr net access.
So fr next 3 months- Bye Bye Delhi. Ahmedabad- here i come....
Fun n Food Village
another weekend passed in merry making. my last weekend in delhi ....... before moving on to Ahmedabad. went to fun n food village in gurgaon on saturday. apart frm the minor hurdle in the beginning , everything went on smoothly. n the minor hurdle was 'arranging' girls. before u start getting any wierd dreamz i wud put it straight. the stag (only boyz) entry wasnt allowed. n we had to request a no. of groups, hving a sufficient no of girls, to bail us out.... :).
anyways we did manage to get an entry. we had been expert in making these kind of 'unsolicited' entries. right frm the college dayz we did manage to break in a no of college fests when we did not hv entry passes fr the same - sometimes jumpin over the boundary walls of the college, sometimes posing as relatives of sum unknown student ' amit kumar'( amit is pretty common name in india.... :) ) n so on. we tried myriad tactics fr the same. i can go on writing on the same, but presently wud like to say only one thing- if the same kind of motivation wud hv been there fr acads, i wud hv certainly been in toppers of my college. if u need to know more abt these tactics just send me a mail with subject line containg ' Tips required fr breakin in'. n chances r pretty high tht u may hit a goldmine.
the water rides were fun. it was an excellent way of beating the scorching heat of delhi. splashing water all over like young kids..... shedding all inhibitions ...... lot of screaming n yelling. the best part was tht the place was not crowded but the 'crowd' was there :). it was unlimited masti all over.
these hv been my last few relaxing moments before IIM-Ahmedabad hits me with full force. n i seems to be making most of them. chalo i still hv another week to go before goin there . lets see wht r the surprises comin this week.....
The Life
June is supposed to be month of summer vacations......... a time when each student ought to be relaxing at home ........ in front of his/her coolers n fans ............ gulping down 'shikanjis' n 'neembu paani'...........trying to beat the suppressing heat of the summer. but goin by the newspapers this doesn't seem to be case with the delhities.
everyday i can see the pics of long queues of students in the scorching heat........ mind u - these queues r not fr movie tickets outside a pvr but fr getting admission forms fr different colleges under delhi university. there is a mad scramble fr limited no of seats . the cutoff percentages r soaring each yr. the students with percentages in higher 90s r worried abt getting a course of their choice in a college of their choice, those wud lower percentages r hopeful of making to any of the decent colleges...... everybdy seems pretty concerned. u can see this distress on the faces of their parents. the familiar question heard these dayz has been ' mere bete ka admission kahan hoga'.
fr people in the science stream - also goin on r the entrance exams of various institutes- iit,nsit,aieee,medical n so on. people hv put in a lot of effort over last 2 yrs or even more.....juggling with both - board exams on one hand n these entrance exams on the other.
life has become very fast n too competitive. u can see the small kids with those backbreaking bags . when it shud hv been the time fr playing with the neighbourhood kids in fields these kids r huddled together in a tution class... when they shud hv been sitting in the lap of their grandparents n listening the stories abt angels they r sitting on their study table -mugging fr a test scheduled a few days later..... when they shud hv been watching the antics of the birds in the sky they r reading abt animals getting extinct on the planet earth. getting up early fr the school, coming frm school only to go fr the tuition classes n then goin to their study desks - seems to hv become a laborious routine fr them. cant really blame the parents fr tht . the career life has taken a ascendence over the personal life. so people r ready to sacrifice today fr the pleasures of tomorrow.
sometimes the life's experiences can be described in 3 simple words - life moves on. the time which has passed is gone n cannot be retrieved. so rather than just thinking abt the big achievements u r goin to accomplish in future one shud savor the small light moments of today. it does help to be concerned abt ur future but this concern shud not be allowed to wipe out one's present. Life is not JUST about a few big moments , but ALSO about a million small ones.
Adjusting to Dial Up
well i m back to the same posn as i was a year earlier- on a dialup internet connection. one of the implicit advantage of being a s/w enggr is the availablity of a high speed net connectivity in the office. u r free to browse all day, googling on the wierdest things one can ever think of, checking fr mails every 5 minutes or so, reading other blogs, downloading all kinda softwares .......... the list goes on .
but now i m back on dialup again. the overall scene in delhi regarding the net has improved in last 1 yr. there r a no of service providers jostling amongst each other to provide the broadband connection n the prices hv also come tumbling down . but my cable wallah is not ready to provide the net thru cable service .. n i dont really blame him fr tht. the problem in my area is the poor penetration of computers . it doesnt seem profitable fr the cable wallah to provide this service here.
so i m now forced to make judicious use of the limited resources available to me . with a pathetic downloading speed n inflated telephone bills it doesnt make sense to be online fr a long time. it takes a hell lot of time to open even the normal sites like google n rediff. disconnections r also as frequent as smooches in a mallika sehrawat's movie. so wht i hv done now ?? the googling has been stopped, mail checking hv been reduced to once a day n the habit of reading other blogs has been discontinued. this transformation has been really painful. initially there was a lot of frustration but now it has started becoming the habit. anyone who has been on dialup can easily empathise with me.
chalo , its time to disconnect again.............
