Huh. The trip to bangalore went off decently, but not very satisfying. Fell sick most of the time, just bought books, met up with a few friends, went to school, discussed a lota stuff with uncle ranging from stock markets to autism, and of course leered at a few VIT chicks on the way back in Brindavan Exp. The next sem just a couple of days away. Its gonna be a real hard time I guess. For guys I haven't already bugged, here's the news- We have 26 credits next sem, the most amongst all branches in any year. Whats worse, 5 four credit PMTs..get that..! 5 four credits..dammit..!
Any sane guy here will sympathise with me, understanding what that amounts to. Anyways, I hope I reach a near concrete decision 'bout my next career moves the end of next sem. Saarang's up, though I am no coord, am sure most of the week will be wasted. And I sincerely hope I play some baski that I left in the third sem, thanks to all the movies on the comp. Aah, reminds me, now that I've put a 9 with a comp in my room, i can rest in peace about the usage of it..oooh..was really worried if my dad would just get on me. And I sincerely do pray that our project work carries on, so that we don't have to keep seeing the prof's face with a spasm of guilt everytime.
Hopefully, 2006 brings in more cheers, luck, and happiness than ever, perhaps with no looking back.
God, keep all safe, hale and hearty..!
And happy new year to all...!
12/29/2005
12/14/2005
Looking forward...
I am all excited.
It is the place which sheltered me for seven years.
It is the place which made me realise what I was.
It is the place where I started pursuing my dreams.
It is the place which showed me how abstruse life could get.
It is the place where I first experienced what love was.
It is the place which taught me what an inspiration and a role model could do.
It is the place which taught me to distinguish the right from the wrong.
It is the place where I made friends of a lifetime.
It is the place where I earned respect and love simultaneously.
It is the place which had an eclectic combo of fun and distress.
It is the place which shall remain in my heart forever.
Yes..! I am going to Bangalore..!
It is the place which sheltered me for seven years.
It is the place which made me realise what I was.
It is the place where I started pursuing my dreams.
It is the place which showed me how abstruse life could get.
It is the place where I first experienced what love was.
It is the place which taught me what an inspiration and a role model could do.
It is the place which taught me to distinguish the right from the wrong.
It is the place where I made friends of a lifetime.
It is the place where I earned respect and love simultaneously.
It is the place which had an eclectic combo of fun and distress.
It is the place which shall remain in my heart forever.
Yes..! I am going to Bangalore..!
12/09/2005
Humor
I just had to put this.
In the Gates-Narayana Murthy jugalbandi, a few days back, this was how the conversation began.
Mike handed to Murthy.
Murthy : 1...2...3... (Mimicking mike testing)
Passes the mike to Gates.
Gates : 1 billion..2 billion..3 billion..
Uproar.
12/04/2005
Herd mentality
Its high time I write sense in this blog, apart from going through rounds and rounds about meself.. Anyways, this post is on something I've started hating the most, ( next only to bittergourd)..
HERD MENTALITY
Nothing could possibly surpass this ubiquitous behaviour which people so easily develop as they grow up. After being a witness to this, rather, being in the thick of it, I would say this is possibly as irritating as it could get. What's worse, the system at IIT whole heartedly supports it.
Some 5 guys take statistics..70 others follow.. ( I fell a prey to this too..)
Some guy goes does a project..10 others follow.
Some guy takes a book from the lib..15 others xerox it. (Though the book has crap..)
Some guy has started preparing for CAT.. 20 others follow.
Some guy listens to Marlyn Manson..5 others (Who can't say ' Hi. How are you?' ) download all his songs, start listening to it, headbanging like a pack of jerks..
Some guy joins an IT company..100000 others follow.
I mean, what the fuck..? I, for one, find this despicable, atrocious, repugnant..what not..
This just exposes one of the greatest weak points in oneself- Lack of self confidence, Lack of Independent thinking. When God has been kind enough to allocate 150 pounds of grey and white matter, why can't you make use of it, atleast to find out what YOU want, and what YOU like...?
No, I don't want you to use your head for quantum physics, or string theory, for heaven's sake..! Atleast for figuring out what you like...and not following any tom, dick and harry for everything they do..After all, if a person cannot find for himself what he wants, how can he climb the ladder of success, let alone reaching the zenith..Oops, I just made a logical error. This person does not even have a ladder of success to climb, all he has is a ladder which others climb. Independent thinking is a quality which I feel archly lacks in students(at least here..). The whole of philosophy(I've done a 3 credit course on it last sem..!) aims at identifying yourself, who you are, what you can do.. And the last thing it can possibly aim at is to copy others. I, till very recently too, had this habit of taking what others say, for granted, presupposing its validity. I was one amongst the thousands..
But now I am not. Unless I am totally convinced, I strongly disagree to it, be it a statement from HOD of a dept, or my branch topper..Coming back, I was reading a book called ' 50 companies that changed the world'. Was very much an ordinary book, but the stark points to note were the lives of the founders. NOT ONE person did the same thing as his peers. Not a single guy got AIR 100 in JEE, not a single guy presented a paper in UG, not a single guy got a C.G of 10, nor did anyone pass out from a B school and join an Investment Bank to get money..
THEY DID WHAT THEY LIKED..WITH PASSSION..LOVE..
Reminds me of an article I had read long back in Business India,(IMF chief or someone had written, I don't remember..)
' Having taught students of the likes of Harward, MIT, and IIMs, I can say that the level of Indian students is nowhere lesser than the others. BUT, there is one crucial difference.
'Indian students have never failed an exam,
Indian students have never lost a job.'
Of course he said it figuratively, but this just goes to show where we are. We need for ourselves such Principal protection, that we fail to go out of the way, and just follow the safe path as others always do..The total output might be way higher if each one of us do what we like, pursue our interests..But I know.. All this is being heard, read by a stoned world, which carries along the way its always been..for eternity..huh..
HERD MENTALITY
Nothing could possibly surpass this ubiquitous behaviour which people so easily develop as they grow up. After being a witness to this, rather, being in the thick of it, I would say this is possibly as irritating as it could get. What's worse, the system at IIT whole heartedly supports it.
Some 5 guys take statistics..70 others follow.. ( I fell a prey to this too..)
Some guy goes does a project..10 others follow.
Some guy takes a book from the lib..15 others xerox it. (Though the book has crap..)
Some guy has started preparing for CAT.. 20 others follow.
Some guy listens to Marlyn Manson..5 others (Who can't say ' Hi. How are you?' ) download all his songs, start listening to it, headbanging like a pack of jerks..
Some guy joins an IT company..100000 others follow.
I mean, what the fuck..? I, for one, find this despicable, atrocious, repugnant..what not..
This just exposes one of the greatest weak points in oneself- Lack of self confidence, Lack of Independent thinking. When God has been kind enough to allocate 150 pounds of grey and white matter, why can't you make use of it, atleast to find out what YOU want, and what YOU like...?
No, I don't want you to use your head for quantum physics, or string theory, for heaven's sake..! Atleast for figuring out what you like...and not following any tom, dick and harry for everything they do..After all, if a person cannot find for himself what he wants, how can he climb the ladder of success, let alone reaching the zenith..Oops, I just made a logical error. This person does not even have a ladder of success to climb, all he has is a ladder which others climb. Independent thinking is a quality which I feel archly lacks in students(at least here..). The whole of philosophy(I've done a 3 credit course on it last sem..!) aims at identifying yourself, who you are, what you can do.. And the last thing it can possibly aim at is to copy others. I, till very recently too, had this habit of taking what others say, for granted, presupposing its validity. I was one amongst the thousands..
But now I am not. Unless I am totally convinced, I strongly disagree to it, be it a statement from HOD of a dept, or my branch topper..Coming back, I was reading a book called ' 50 companies that changed the world'. Was very much an ordinary book, but the stark points to note were the lives of the founders. NOT ONE person did the same thing as his peers. Not a single guy got AIR 100 in JEE, not a single guy presented a paper in UG, not a single guy got a C.G of 10, nor did anyone pass out from a B school and join an Investment Bank to get money..
THEY DID WHAT THEY LIKED..WITH PASSSION..LOVE..
Reminds me of an article I had read long back in Business India,(IMF chief or someone had written, I don't remember..)
' Having taught students of the likes of Harward, MIT, and IIMs, I can say that the level of Indian students is nowhere lesser than the others. BUT, there is one crucial difference.
'Indian students have never failed an exam,
Indian students have never lost a job.'
Of course he said it figuratively, but this just goes to show where we are. We need for ourselves such Principal protection, that we fail to go out of the way, and just follow the safe path as others always do..The total output might be way higher if each one of us do what we like, pursue our interests..But I know.. All this is being heard, read by a stoned world, which carries along the way its always been..for eternity..huh..
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