Sweet 70 after 6 years

49,54,55,56....there I was some years back, trying to figure out why the results of engg so unpredictable. Those were my percentages, somehow managed a 1st class in my final year, god knows how! Naturally you end up expecting less when your history is so glorious. I was trying to finish of my rotis in my tiffin, when I heard one of my classmates screaming at top of her voice "hey guys sach me results laga hai". When I looked up, entire class vanished in thin air, except for few bhukkads like me who chose to relish their lunch before the big bang. Then after a big burp, I went down and made my way through the crowd to check my result. As they say, old habit die late, I was searching for 'P' and 'F', but to my surprise they had given percentages and to my shock I Scored 70.60%. It was a magic figure that I touched after 6 years..last being in my 12th. I know it might have been a pretty boring read for you, but I am too happy to snatch that opportunity from you. Finally, being an idiot paid off...so bhaiyya aal izz well :)

Fekology!

Phew...finally the marathon is over. 11 alien subjects, 2 papers each day..that was something! It is not as if I haven't experienced this before, my engg days were terrible..you get an ocean to swim in few days before the actual exam, you just go on swimming till you reach the golden figure - 40/100. Some guy had joked about Anil Kumble raising his bat once he reaches 40..yep he is a "so-called engineer" too! 40 is all what I and most others aimed for..you just swim without realising why the hell are you swimming for??! That was the biggest mistake I had did during my engg days. I didn't want to be a bad engineer, so I thought of doing MBA. At least I get a chance to be a Good Manager. (Inshallah!) But then it was a deja vu for me when I tried mugging up my Managerial Economics thing. I stopped for a second and thot , "Hell! Not again..can compromise with marks but not with learning". People tipped the more the pages the more you get marks, I thought of risking that too! I will Do It On my terms - thats what 3 idiots is all about and I was relieved to see 'Rancho' seconding my belief, when I saw that flick with my engg mates! This is my last chance to learn while earning a degree and I will do it on my terms...if thats what idiot stands for, then I am proud to be an IDIOT!

Where do I start?

Thats one of the best questions to ask yourself when you have exams ahead of you and loads of fun that you did behind you, while others were busy noting down things during the lecture so that you can give great business to the xerox waala just around the corner of your college...believe me thats "the place" you can hear the back-benchers (...ahem...am one of them!)..talking serious stuff about studies..that is the place of ultimate revelation..you suddenly feel you are enlightened..get to know the-god-knows-why- such-a- name (s) of subjects..the books or notes to be xeroxed...and above all, how badly you have screwed yourself. Life is full of excitement when you are a last minute slogger like me! I have faced this slogfest time and again during my engineering days when I used to repeatedly pledge that I will start studying regularly from next sem which never arrived. This time things are bit complicated...from Fluid Mechanics, Thermal Engg to Accounts, Economics..lifes changing for sure..! Only one hope, after clearing the wierdest subjects in engg....this too should not be a hassle..well thats just a baseless confidence that a B.E. degree can give you..lets see what happens when I actually bite the dust. Keep watching this space for more!

I dint light the candle...

....Why should I? Those chaps didnt die for our solidarity. They never cared to be posthmously honoured. They never wanted us to wear white to express our anger, our care, our protest or whatever s**t we wanted to express to do our "nano" bit for the country. Crap! who needs all this??? Someone does..some people have their cash registers ringing throught the entire week ,forget the infamous day, throwing what they call, " the rememberance" , "the memory" to us who really dont want to watch it all again but have to, as it is everywhere: in all the News Channels, in the papers, on the streets. The very Media, as we all know, were more than obliged to telecast, "live from the battlefield", the entire chilling episode which was deliberately designed to be "Television-Friendly". It is a sad irony that they have the audacity or utter shamelessness to express their 'grief' bringing a bunch of good-for-nothing experts who have nothing better to do, than to tell us something which we already know. And all those innocent souls who light candles to express their empathy, wear white T-shirt having some pretty cool lines to flaunt - if you really want to do something, go join the Army, they are anyways short of People!

Piggy Sneeze

Aaaaacchhhhoooo!... this was one of my usual sneeze from a regular Cold that i catch periodically. But this wasnt the same for the others sharing my personal space with bodies touching almost end to end in a packed local train to college. They gave me a very victimising look as if i have killed someone. Cummon it was just a sneeze not even a dreaded fart after eating vadapav garnished with Garlic chutney! Well as the wisemen say, times change it all. This very innocent Sneeze has been looked upon like a criminal in a country where people dont mind eating crap near the gutters on the road with loads of sweat and and couple of drops of Nose droplets. They can tolerate all the spits on the local train, showers of sweat sprinkled by fellow passengers and even drink water coming straight out of a municipal tap. They are not bothered about Malaria, TB etc etc. But their hands are quick enough to take out the even dirtier handkerchieves and useless masks to protect them selves from the so called Life threatening Swine Flu! Even i felt out of place when i dint use my handkerchief and started using it. But then hello i am educated not for no reason..checked couple of sites and read it on newspaper and got the facts right. The hanky is in the right place now..well for the cold..yeah its slowly giving up. I hope Mumbaikars become aware or else i am not sure about the Flu but yeah the panic will surely kill them. Lastly I would like to share an SMS that was sent to me by a college buddy...

"900 ppl affected by Swine Flu and everyone wears a mask
20 Million have AIDS and still no one ready to wear a condom!"

Wake up India!