Times are changing!!!

Hello all,

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let me first start of by apologizing for not updating my blog for a very very long time...
to those few people who do read my blog I'm sorry :)


Now i know it's been an eventful time..the scams...the radia tapes...the Cancun climate talks...wiki-leaks...and i'm sorry i wasn't really reflecting upon them...
well here's my take....people around me where discussing all these and i am truly amazed with the amount of conviction and mud slinging that they were doing...

Someone told me that India is at it's all time low in the list of most corrupt nations..if fact it fell a few places over the previous year...
well if you ask me it's not such a big deal..i mean lets look at it this way

Never before were the scams or scandals revealed so frequently in the public domain...This means that Someone Somewhere is finally standing up against it!!!!


never before have the whistle blowers  been such active in their work..so if more such scams do get revealed in the coming days then i'll only say that the vigilante are doing their job.. :)
by this i'm in noway justifying what is happening but hey at least someone is getting those skeletons out of the cup boards after all....

Also same goes with all this Wiki leaks issues...why go after Julian assange...i'm sure his rights are being violated right this moment... it also forces me to think is it really wrong to question and demand an explanation in a democracy????


i guess i really need to read by rights again...maybe i missed a [*] conditions apply :P


P.S. : i would also  like to apologize for not updating my other blog
www.being-vinit.blogspot.com....
well all i can say is that i'm really not getting the time, also after getting a few suggestions from a friend [apparently she reads :)] i'm actually goin through a big change for that particular blog...promise to update that soon as well  :)

HOSTEL LIFE:: pilot episode::( A mini Series)

Now that i'm about to end yet another chapter of my life...my hostel life that is...i can safely and accurately write about my hostel life...it's different from the regular stuff that one reads about hosteler...our hostel was one of a kind in the country for any UG course. i say this because i have friends who too are hostelers but none are as privileged as i am. :)

Well the reason i say this is because the first 1 n 1/2 floors of our hostel are for the girls and the rest 4n 1/2 floors are for us boys..also what makes it special is the fact that unlike regular hostels that have people from the same course or study..like an engineering hostel will only have engineers but here at my hostel we have a cosmopolitan atmosphere so to say as we have students in their junior college( that's the XI and XII), people pursuing Arts, Science and Commerce, the engineers of course, even people from polytechnic, management students to name a few...boy was our founder way ahead of his time when he thought about such a hostel...

Like everything in life there is also a flip side to this...the two sides  of the coin as we say....because of this diversity we have a kind of a social hierarchy in place...the engineers won't talk to the poly people...the poly people will do what they want as they are the majority...(after all it's called K.J.Somaiya Polytechnic Hostel).
thats leaves us the commerce and other courses student being seen as miscellaneous( Oh yes it's true thats what it says on our night attendance register).

it's lot of fun living in such a mixed up environment...We do have our share of some very stupid rules like it's against the rules to interact with girls..i'm like you should have thought about it when you planned it in the first place...kya faltoo giri hai yeh...anyhow this rule seems to have taken a beating... : P

Anyways we have competition in the form of the Management Hostel (meant for Management students). If they have all the good looking girls then we have the best food in the campus..so on and so forth...but whatever it may be campus life just rocks...saala ek dum baapness hain...

Also the fact that we are among the largest campus under the mumbai university helps....funny thing though there was no CCTV, no camera of any sorts in the entire campus until sometime back...there is so so much to write about my college, campus, hostel....that's the reason it's called a MINI SERIES...i'll be writing down every now and then....thats why this particular post is just a pilot to a whole bunch of others coming up....

*The reason why this post does not have any pic....well thats because i want the readers to read rather than just go through the post.*

  

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!

This last week i celebrated my birthday...on the 9th of October...and boy was it fun...an honest confession i'm still trying to get a hold on all that happened...starting off my brother gives me one of the most interesting gifts or gifts in general that he has given me till date. Then on i day a perfectly normal day...trust me it's a rarity with me..also an interesting thing two of my friends share the same birthday...it was fun to reply "SAME TO YOU" rather then the usual "thank you thank you..."

Birthday's are special for a reason...it's that one day of the year when no matter how good or bad or down right bad ass you are, people are still good to you...n thats a personal observation....my roomies n other hostel mates planned a surprise party at midnight...cake n all.....sahi tha...

in the morning after my college exam my friends bought me yet another cake..(the pic above is of the same). it was fun....the irony being there was more on my face n clothes n hair n where all, then what we ate in totality.

For the whole day i felt special...friends were calling...both new and old forgotten ones as well...and i think that's the beauty of birthdays...it just makes you feel special all over...i love birthdays...

A funny thing though...it just struck me...why does everyone says "HAPPY BIRTHDAY"
it's not my BIRTH-DAY....RATHER i was born on this particular day...so rather then saying "happy birthday!!" ONE SHOULD SAY "HAPPY ANNIVERSARY" just like we say for rest of the other such happy occasions...makes sense doesn't it..

My take.

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I'm a management student so anything thats even slightly related to management grabs my attention.
i recently read a great piece on "The Social Network" the movie based on  mark zuckerberg (the founder of Facebook). In the movie it's being suggested that he copied the idea from fellow students...big deal!!!!

here's why....well according to me the idea alone in useless....
what makes it special is the execution of the idea.

got a great idea for a new website???know a sure way to improve community news??? have a tool in your mind that could revolutionize the web? GREAT. but, really, you've got nothing.
Until you do something to make your idea reality, your ideas are of no worth to anyone, save for your personal enterainment.
hey, it's fun to daydream about all that wonderful stuff you could do( and buy!)on that future day when your is idea is implemented and becomes a hit. but only fools live in daydreams.
In the real world, rewards goes to those who implement ideas.
so dream all you want. but never, ever stop with the dream. Apply the skills of an entrepreneur to test that dream-to determine whether it is feasible. Research the market, gather data and explore how you'd make your dream a reality.
If u can't see how your dream could be real after all that hard work, let it go. Dream up another idea, then test it.
But if you think your idea is feasible , then respect it - and yourself-enough to implement it.
Waiting for someone to write you a big cheque  shouldn't be your first step, either. Hoping for cash to fall from the sky isn't an execution plan. learn how to boot-strap your idea to reality. If it's a viable idea, and you've shown that it can draw an audience-the money to scale up will find you eventually.

Fear-- it's not always such a bad thing.

Anyone reading this will surely agree that they must have in the past or even today fear something or the other...but they'll also agree that people around them must have also told them to get over their fear...well i for one say that FEAR is GOOD...it keeps us safe...

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i've been in fear for something or the other or rather i'm still in fear of many things, but it got me thinking that fear is not how most or almost everyone would describe it....it's not like i have regarding dogs...fear could of failure..fear could also be of not being accepted..i've have a female friend who apparently can't study coz she has no fear for our up coming exams..strange as it may be to you i find a rationale in it as well...i've feared maths as a subject throughout my life...And i still do...am i ashamed of it ....hell no..in fact i like it. 


an old friend of mine texted me something very interesting she said "if it's all already palnned and will work according to "destiny"...then why should we pray"...then she went on to explain that may be god had written it out in our destiny that whatever we shall pray it would come true....i bought this topic up because many a times i hear people worshiping because they fear god....god is not someone to be feared..Do you fear your father. then why fear the almighty whose is father to us all....


another female friend fears that being seen in public with me would ruin my life because her friends don't have such high regards for me...well this one i gotta agree but it could be because of fear of being judged...


anyways what i'm saying is fear is not necessarily something to be worried of...it's something to be aware of and  work at it....

WE HAVE NOTHING TO FEAR BUT FEAR IT SELF!!!

The two faces of the coin!!

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Life will always keep you on your toes...on most occasions without even you knowing thats it's actually happening...

Here i was taking in the festivity around me...having a gala time with ganpati bappa...we are celebrating it here in my hostel as well. there is a air of happiness and  fun all around..ganpati bappa is said to be the one who helps in all our suffering plus ganeshotsav also marks the official start of the festival season here in india.. he is also known as Vign harta or the remover of all trouble...there is an ancient story that says lord Ganesh (son of lord shiva) was given a  Vardaan  or a blessing that before anyone prays to any god he shall be worshiped first. So no matter which god you are trying to invoke we always pray to ganpati bappa first. well this was as the title says the first face of the coin.

it was Sunday  n i was returning to my hostel from dinner...listening to my music player. now i get a lot of texts daily on my cell mostly news update or forwarded msgs from friends....so even on this occasion i got a couple of texts back to back but ignoring them as mere news updates i continued to listen to my music...When finally i decided to read them...i didn't think in my wildest dream what was in store for me.

My friends had texted me to inform about the sad demise of one of our friends...she had just this year joined a medical college for her MBBS. Sad as it was i couldn't react to it in a way that people would call as normal. I was stunned....these are the kind of news that i had grown to reading in papers...never had i imagined that it would happen to someone i knew. What  a waste of life....even in death i'm sure it wasn't peaceful for her as she drowned herself.

i spoke to a couple of friends and all were equally shocked and stunned. some even had tears in their eyes. but of all the things that i would have liked to change...i think i would most definitely would like to be given a chance to treat her better. we ever never more than just acquaintances or some common friends but somehow all that changed.

The Departed soul according to my mother has it easy...she has left this world....the real suffering is to those who are left behind...her family her well-wishers...who now will have to live knowing that she's never coming back.

" may god give strength to her family in these difficult and tough times, and may her soul rest in peace"

hardly  the two faces to the same coin that anyone would want....but then  SUCH IS LIFE.

The "Venus" Man!!!

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All of us know the famous line which goes "Men are from mars and Women from Venus"

For obvious reasons it has always remained like that but I've always felt that I am an exception to this rule. To sound realistic I've always had a good run with the opposite sex.Always played "hitch" for my friends but never had it goin for myself...because I feel it's easier to analyze a situation if it's not directly affecting you or maybe our emotions or prejudices don't make us bias....anyways the point I'm trying to make is that this division between the two sexes is not necessarily true...

One of the basic problem with both the male and female kind is:: a) As per my findings the male will always aim for a girl who is way out of his reach..thus all his tries would be futile coz it's not just meant to be..the same effort for someone else could have borne desired results much before than expected
b) the female being the better thinker ( Yes i agree women think better...men depend more on his instincts to drive him) come up with the most unrealistic of events or lets say path that the said person must tread on if he wishes to win her heart.

these are my personal view and may not be applicable to a generalized public coz no two snow flakes are the same and it goes the same way for human beings.

Rain rain go away...!!!

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Ever since my doctor told my to stay clear of the rains.....the gods have been particularly kind to me. it rained continuously when i was with my parents for a short while back due to my illness. And even when i came back to my hostel it's still raining....

As it is I've never been really found of the monsoon season, add to that the fact that my campus is being dug up for some renovation and modernization work..it seems our Union Minister for HRD Mr. Kapil Sibal will be coming to visit our college campus for some opening ceremony or something...anyways all the digging has left behind mud and debris all over....and the rain is making it not at all easy for us...

the rains in Mumbai are particularly weird...once you have experienced it you start to question why our noble ministers want to transform Mumbai into Shanghai when it's already more like London....read it in the papers that this time the monsoon withdrawal is likely to be delayed :(

although it's been raining more than last year but still the BMC has enforced a water cut which directly translates into the fact that there is not even drinking water in our hostel....
the other big problem with the monsoons is the sudden increase in our friends from the insect kingdom....some  slimy others full of bad smell..

Anyways rains do have their own benefit especially in a place like Mumbai.....if it rains too much rest assured that the lectures will be called off leaving us to have more fun.....

hoping that the rains stop."give me some sunshine....enough with the rains"

it pays to speak in English!!!

It's strange but it's true...when the Britisher's finally left India for good..i think they  left partly because they were to an extent successful in making even the half naked fakir speak their tongue...And some 60 years later..We Indian came back like never before and now the world can't stop from needing our help(read outsourcing, proper grammar, cheap but skillful workforce ).

Anyways even in our day to day life i often come across strange  instances where the language in discussion made a helluva difference.

it may seem strange but recently i read somewhere that an actual research finding suggested just what i'm trying to say here....IT PAYS TO SPEAK IN ENGLISH.

Not that i have lost respect for my national language....it still has it's charm...but even that is going through a change. Hindi spoken in certain way seems more "cool" rather than how we actually used to talk.
Also the rise of HINGLISH (thats HINDI mixed with English for those still living in caves) is not easy to ignore.Don't trust me try this simple test..ask any friend to talk to you only in english for the next 1 hr, i bet he'll not be able to do that even if he studied in a convent all his life....now try the other way around ask him only to speak in Hindi and trust me the end result would be the same.

it's really funny yet fascinating to actually observe such changes.

looking for the sliver lining

Being bedridden for a month changed my perspective on a lot of things...........
i always felt the need to be in control..but this disease taught me that it's not always possible...imagine being butt-naked in a room full of strangers and asking your roomie to help you with it....i had that experience, which made me believe that life really is so insignificant when it came to living. i was on top of my game, having the time of my life until bang i the speed breakers really made it clear that god has different plans for me.

Another really important thing that i learned is that we are not the center of the universe that most of us assume our selfs to be. when i was bedridden for 1 month....the world didn't stop for me nor did it wait for me to get back up...truly survival of the fittest. things were as normal as if nothing had happened and here i was hoping that it'll all change once everyone knew that i was sick, on hindsight i feel like laughing at myself and thinking all that i thought.

one advice to all that i experienced first hand is "never give up, never give in"...no matter how difficult times may be just hold on a bit longer.... coz the night is the darkest just before dawn.