The Same Plate.

How on earth do they do it ? I for one could never ever do any such thing. Its so gross. And whats more they are doing it all the time. Also this is not just specific to say a one or two. All of them do it. Not that there are many of them here. Its an Engineering college after all. That too at Allahabad. But whatever their number is, the entire bunch of them do it. Is it something like, you are not in a relationship if you dont do it ? Or comeon we are in a relationship we should be doing this..Or Or lets show the world that we are in a relationship. Lets do this.

Whatever be the pretext, I think its completely unhygeinic. Whatsmore it also puts you under so much pressure. The order comes and then you have to share it and then you go i have to eat this fast otherwise there would be nothing left! Why after being in love has one to eat his/her food on a shared plate that too in the college canteen? This is something i would never understand.

Concentration..

Ah that elusive thing ..this concentration . Why oh why dont i seem to have even an ounce of this miraclous elixiir. The most oft repeated cliche in books like "a hundred thousand ways to success" (God are their really so many ways ..i seem to have so much difficulty in finding even one..!!) is ,"concentration is vital for doing well in any given situation".And obviously it is true. But the problem really is, why in the world is it so rare and uncommon and a dodgy little virtue ? They say one can always develop it.Oh really ? and how ?? Ah there are so many techniques . Like ?? Well to mention one look, continuously at a pen( or whatever) for 10 minutes without thinking anything. WHAT ?? without thinking anything ? for 10 whole minutes..!! You kidding me ?? At any given time i have atleast two threads of thought in my head , and that too when i am doing something worthwhile(which is very rare i confess..). At other times my head is filled with all kinds of xyz thoughts.

This is most pronounced when i am actually trying not to think of anything else.Let me give the wary reader an example. Doing TSD (time speed distance..duh..!!) problems . (In brackets are my thoughts) Ram starts to walk towards his office at 6:30 (office hmm..cool wonder why it is called an office..oh comeon back to the question) and reaches 5 minutes late ( the crusades video i saw was so interesting man, wonder why Saladin didnt attack Richard at juffa ? ..aaargh back to the question) If he starts at 6:25 and doubles his speed (that fella jeremy brett is ideal for sherlock holmes not that our dear old dracky cudnt do it ..but accent will be a real problem..ah that wallpaper with Mr Simpson saying No Problemo was such a laugh ..hehe..ooh what was the question again ??) Ram starts to walk towards his ( God i am reading this again now..have to work on my concentration ..wonder why is it so elusive..)office at 6:30 and reaches 5 minutes late (concentarate.. concentrate.. concentrate...) if he starts at 6:25 (concentarate.. concentrate.. concentrate...) and douybles his speed ,(concentarate.. concentrate.. concentrate...) he reaches at 7:10 ( ah not able to conecntrate..tch tch ..furget it..lets go and write a blog) . Finally i close the book and am here blogging.

God save me..

Speed Reading - Day 1

Good Reading speed seems to be , in all most everyone's opinion , the surest way of cracking the VA section in the much talked about CAT exam. After days of procastrination yours truly finally , and this is largely due to the spanking new "CL packet -2" which has just arrived, decided to test waters in this territory. Now here i must tell the amused reader that i always thought myself to be a "decent enough" reader. I have been reading books since maybe the 3rd standard. A self proclaimed authority on enid blyton,sidney sheldon , jeff archer and the likes, i started "How to master the art of Reading Comprehension" with a smug smile. Ah, i thought to myself such books are for the naive souls who havent touched a novel in their wasted lives and enlightened beings such as myself, who have been having books as their best friends since childhood, need only to read them as leisure. Or so i thought. What started as a casual leisurely go at a "diagnostic test" of a given RC became a nightmare.Read the following para in under a minute and answer the questions , it said.Hah..i thought, such a teeny tiny para and a whole minute ..i might get the pop corn as well. Anyways started reading the para , nicely written i wondered, some greek mythology stuff, a lot of unpronouncable names and a few realtions like this guy killed that guy and all. Ok fine , finished reading it, checked the stop watch..shucks 1 min 27 secs. My goodness ..!! thats well past the stipulated time but anyways lets hit the questions i thought.After scratching my head for a whole minute with the questions , i got only 6 out of 10 correct. But the inner "avid reader" tag inside me was refusing to relent. No maybe this was one of those out of the blue, much below the median , unreflecting of your true position, performances .Lets try the next one I said to myself. The next passage was from zoology.Ah finally some science ..science is good. Come on have to reedeem myself in this one. Started reading it ,but whats this ..so many numbers , like x number of species of this and y number of species of that are known. Good God..!! somehow i finish the passage and check the time 1 min 38 seconds. Talk about improvement i had in fact deterioted and that too in one of my interest areas.What the world is coming to ? My poor heart exclaimed.No probs , the optimist in me shouted out ,lets hit the questions.Finally after attempting the 10 odd questions and checking the scores only 7 correct. So RC section is all togther a different ball game then.Atleast i can find solace in fact that i have identified the problem early and the only way to go from here is up..!!Loads of reading coming up for me in the coming weeks and all the fixation ,enlarging eye span ,skimming and so on, techniques are going to find a regular user..any good reads anyone ?

Resolutions.

So that time of the year has come when one reflects back on how swiftly did one break the resolutions one so zealously drafted and swore to abide by on new years.Allthough i had promised myself it'd be different this time along but i think there is some, no i know there is some invisible, all potent, omnipresent force which is hell bent on making us break our resloutions.

Invisible,omnipresent,allpotent werent these adjectives reserved for our old friend up there? Some one with the name of God who has helped us, wretched poor souls on countless occasions.So is our own loving God bent on forcing us not to keep our resolutions..!! NAh..it would be too naive even to think this as even plausible.The adjectives in question may even point to that infamous idiot called "satan" but seriously you didnt think our lives would be so important that these special beings would conspire for such trivial matters.

Ok so its nothing external then.Years come and go and unfailingly most of us break our new year resolutions .Some do it on the evenings these resolutions are made while some are considerate enough to let them live at least as long as the poor mayfly.Did you know mayfly has a lifespan of 24 hrs.God just 24 hrs how does it do all the stuff in just a day.!! and humans say life is too short..bah..anyway thats a different issue.

What leads us to break our resolutions then.Is it our weak will power or now that we are used to breaking them we are actually waiting for taking the leap.Its become such a cliche "Oh my resolutions arent going to last even a week..hehe ".Its become party talk and ,some may even like to believe Page 3 stuff..Why is page 3 so important by the way?

Anyways , let me give myself another chance this year at keeping my resolutions ..Amen.

confusion

Dont we really love user manuals ..!! Guidelines , clear premises on what to do next . How wonderful would our lives be if that was the case for issues in our lives as well. What confusing times , what dilemmas exist in our seemingly mundane world.Doubts , hesitation ,second thoughts clearly human mind was not well programmed for these buggy thoughts.Why then does our mind take the liberty to indulge itself in such luxuries which leaves us rest less to say the least.

People . How diverse do they come.Such interests, such strange likes , such laughter . It leaves one's mind flabbergatsed. One probes , ponders , often thinks one's wits out but again the need for that divine user manual is extreme. Total anarchy prevails in the thinking department of our top storeys.

Age. Is all this just a play of how old one is . One would surely like to think otherwise. But again such times have come before and maybe they will keep coming. So its all our years palying games then . No , its something more.I will figure out what sooner than later.

But coming out of these dilemmas is easy . Like that night. Yes one just needs to "talk to one self" and all the answers come pouring out. Its all within they say , they werent completely lying then.

cheers..!! :)

Coffee, Preity and Saif

God i used to like that show ..!!

and this one especially had such high profile guests coming ..i expected it to be really nice.Not to mention that at one time i really liked the female guest in the show.

But phew..what a waste of time ..Karan Johar must certainly be much better a director than he is a talk show host ..why else would he be so successful. This show was certainly one of the worst i have seen lately on the idiot box. Half the time those three (karan, saif and preity ..duh..!!) were talking about some silly rumours ..c mon ppl who cares ..why not talk some sensible stuff ..and Preity ok so u r tired of being labelled "bubbly" ..eh ..will you stop overacting for God's sake. Dude she was such a turn off..!! Saif was the only one talking some sense but look and behold he dropped the atom bomb .. quoting saif :

" i am very paranoid (karan tries to intervene).. no no ..i am like this only ..i dont like working in any movie, bigger the movie(like KHNH) bigger the nightmare it is for me"

And we talk about enjoying what we do..get a life dude..

During the entire show the three continued friendly banter which was sooo boring to say the least .Does "talk show " just mean you show up wearing fancy clothes( no saif was not even doing this ..he had some ruddy old T -Shirt under his coat) and just talk as if you were gossiping in a restaurant and you think people would like to watch that for an hour..well i know we are very silly..but c mon not all of us are losers who have no lives of their own. And someone tell miss Zinta to stop laughing after every sentence its getting really annoying.

Finally towards the end of show ..the topic veered around to saif's nose and preity's Bum ..wow what a note to end the show on ..keep it up guys ..but do watch david letterman's show for once ..Karan you will certainly see the difference..

maaza

Seriously ..do they mix something in it ?? Is there a heavy but undetected amount of dope which pulls u like alizee ..? God knows one can never have enough of this beverage .Morning ,evening , night ..whatevr time it is ..its never "not" the right time to have a maaza.And if i find one soul who is satisfied by just having one , i ll name him the next Ronaldinho.

Wow, what effect the first gulp has on your personality ! From a wretched soul looking for meaning in life you are transformed suddenly into someone who is at ease, who is happy ,who is comfortable and who is looking into the future with nothing but hope.Just 250 mls of pure ellixir(the spelling may be wrong ..!!) if you ask me.But what makes it different from the plethora of beverages out there? Is it the fact that it contains fruit juice and not carbonated water(like coke etc) which makes it different ..? nah..i would any day trade a litre of real fruit juice for a glass of maaza. Maaza is different , its not fruit juice .Its life.

But like allmost all things this one too has a flip side, yes it finishes off too quickly. You had just started drinking it , realised it tastes like heaven ..took a few gulps and puff..!! its over ..finished ..the end..and you feel devastated ,like a child who has just lost her favorite toy.You feel sad..but
you havent learnt to say die in life have you ? so what do you do ?you cant buy a new one can you ? the 8 bucks spent have already been heavy on your student's pocket ..but offcourse you do something .. you struggle ..try to fish out that last drop of the "ellixir" out of that slim and small bottle ..You try and then try again and when finally convinced that theres nothing left ,you give up.Look at the bottle in despair and play with it for sometime .Dream about the heaven you were in moments ago with your maaza..Then you pull yourself get on with your work ..waiting for the next "Maaza break " and promising yourself that as soon as you get a job , you will finish an years supply in a single day..!! cheers..!!

looking away

all the time ..without fail whenevr i m travelling in train from college to home for vacations , or for any oder reason . they turn up, their eyes full of sorrow. looks envoking mercy , or trying their best to envoke mercy. sometimes alone sometimes carrying a baby, nursing a broken arm ..watevr.

and me trying my best to look away ..!! fighting my concience not to slip out that odd one ruppee coin i have in my pocket . after all i ask myself ..how many ??

to how many beggars will i keep giving these coins for they never seem to stop coming.

dont encourage beggary people say , but does reminding this always to urself when that wide eyed 8 year old having a tear or two (fake ..? ) says " bhiayya ek rupya de do.." helps u keep a clean conscience.even if u curb temporarily the urge to slip out "the coin" dusnt it make u feel sick to the stomach ?

okay , so wats the solution ..how can we the future of india ..help to eradicate this evil called beggary and extreme poverty ..after all what exactly can we do ?

first

Foraying into the world of blogging .I am happy for making a start.

Its a pretty cool thing to do , as i have never been able to push myself into writing a diary and am in front of my comp for almost the entire day ,maybe this'll help me to "self-reflect" , which i intended to do while writing a diary.

i dont know many of my frnds to be avid bloggers whoich i hope to be , so its going to be lonely at first i m sure , but sooner than later , it'll be ok.