Just Another Blog

I am back home for the mid semester break these days and enjoying every bit of it by indulging in what i describe as “Zilch”, except sleeping and sleeping and yes bit of both!!

A week back home , nothing eventful about it, but yes full of incidents worth mentioning from my perspective-

Big things come first. My first journey by “AEROPLANE”, from Delhi to Lucknow. It was just an hour flight of which I slept for almost half an hour, 15 minutes on eating those ninety rupees Veg-Sandwiches, which I only bought to celebrate my first air journey, 10 minutes in looking at the people around, air hostess especially, a tall fair young lady, hair tied in a bun and wearing a blue saree, magazines, seat-belts and last five minutes expressing my gratitude to Wright Brothers for such a magnificent invention.

My sister described me as one of the most hapless souls after I failed to get even a single buzz from some very peculiar type of female species existing on rediff bol, even after trying out umpteen ishhtylish nick-names from my dictionary.

I repeated a mistake which I committed long ago when I read Paulo Coelho’s By The River Piedra I Sat Down & Wept. I read another book of his, Eleven Minutes, knowing that I don’t belong to that esoteric group who understand this genre and yet again I slept for 2 hrs after reading it. My head felt so heavy as if Paulo Coelho himself hit me with a sledgehammer as a comeuppance for committing the crime of not only picking up his book but also reading it. Though I did not understand much of it but there is one thing that I understood “We can either be a victim of a situation or We can be an adventurer in search of a treasure that is unknown”. I think after reading this book I became a victim in search of a treasure that I later realized belongs to Master Coelho and his disciples only.

Queen Pankumari rules our house when it comes to Entertainment and TV. Women Empowerment and Emancipation is the motto everyday and NDTV Imagine, Colors, Sony, Star Plus are the tools to implement it.

“Slumdog Millionare’s” actress Frida Pinto in contention for the role of the next “Bond Girl” in the upcoming 007 movie, courtesy India TV. India TV further says “It would be a proud moment for India if Frida Pinto plays the role of the Bond Girl as none of the Indian actress’s in the past have been lucky enough to darn this coveted role”. INDIA TV ROCKS!!

Chelsea, Manchester United, Liverpool and Arsenal enter the quarterfinals in the Champions League, following them are Barcelona, Porto, Villarreal and Bayern Munich. Awaiting for some serious football action. FUDGE IS ON!!

Lastly, I got this new epithet of being diplomatic in my words. Circumlocutions are what I have been indicted with and Politics is what I have been suggested to seriously consider. To this I would say that I prefer being called a diplomat than to be called “Extremely Emotional”.

Leaving for R-land on 15^th. Cognizance from 20^th March. Some great FIFA action in store for the hallowed Ganga Gamers. ALL THE BEST!! (of course to myself only!)

Winds of Change...

The month of Cupid is actually about to get over and now i have began to write this post which i actually intended to post weeks before. This classy case of procrastination can only be attributed to my apathetic behaviour towards my very own brainchild , which i narcissistically referred to as the "Mavericks Space".

Almost 55 odd days have passed since i last wrote something, and finally it's today that i decided to break free from the fetters of laziness, climb up the ladder of craziness, put my thinking cap on, and overcome what a "sweet" friend of mine regarded to as the "Writer's Block". So from where should i start considering the gamut of details that i have inside this tiny brain of mine.

Lets start from the start.

January, marked the advent of a new year , engendering new hopes , people making resolutions which too often turn out to be too ephemeral, and the month which ultimately brought some halcyon moments for yours truly marking the end of a gruelling survey camp. Then came the registrations and as usual the same old classes in the hallowed Deparment which seems to be suffering from a bout of gerontocracy since 1847. I certainly regard January as the month of "novelty" for the degree of newness that it brings to each one of us in thoughts as well as in actions. While i speak of novelty in actions i do mean it and i have a classic example to justify my point. It was 31st January, and i was to visit the "sweet" friend of mine the next day and at the same time had to inform my mother about this stating that the sole reason for my visit was to meet my "sweet" friend. With gargantuan courage and copious optimism i called up my mommy and asked for the permission. I don't know what went through my mother's mind, was she impressed by my courage and positivity, or did she listen to me properly, or was she really moved by my veracity, but what came as a reply from her side was perfectly affirmative. I must confess that the conversation that i had with my mommy certainly introduced in me a new confidence and led to a manifold increase in my faith in the person whom i trust the most in this universe. So that was January infusing a new confidence in yours truly.

Came February, the month of Cupid and more recently the month of Bajrang dals and Shiv Senas. For yours truly it was the month of meeting my "sweet" friend, giving mid-semester exams, month of penitence, month of sponsorship's, month of some really good brain racking quizzes, and yes the month of Pokemon aka Pikachu. February began with an eventful morning when, i , after many a days witnessed the serene alpenglow, surpassing the beautiful-est of beauties. The ambience as well the whirlpool of thoughts inside bestowed me with a feeling of being in empyrean. The series of events that followed certainly made me feel better except the last one and perhaps the one before it. The next few days were the days of academics exemplifying the arrival of mid-term examination, a quarterly phenomenon coercing people in R-Land to actually put on their thinking caps. Midterm got over and came the sponsorship's and there started the vicious cycle of running after professors for details and contacts of the recession hit corporate world. Amidst all this career-defining events came the ever so familiar LitSec quizzes, organized by LitSec pepole, hosted by LitSec people, Participation from LitSec people apart from few hapless souls with supreme optimism, and finally Won by LitSec people. So that's how almost two thirds of february went past. The last few days gave me an opportunity to polish my "Head Shot" skills in CS under the name "Pokemon-Terror Ka Doosra Nam" and more recently "Pikachu-Pikaa Pikaa Pikaa".

So that's how things have been for the last two months. To end i hope that i get over my bout of procrastination and rejuvenate this Space for i believe that "It Is A Mavericks Space".