Notes to myself..

1. All the good ones are taken, cling to whatever you have!
2. Ignorance is bliss – try not to find out, not to know and lie down lazy
3. Beware of spontaneous human combustion
4. Stop incentivizing yourself for all the small things you accomplish
5. Follow your month-long time table for at least a day
6. Watching Seinfeld 8 times a day will not get you anywhere, Also in the end you will have no episodes left! Looks like it’s a road to perdition Think and stop right now..
7. You are a MSc chemie + 7 pointer and not Mark Shuttleworth
8. Mouli is still to treat you.
9. Get the tubelight fixed and hence create a mentally stimulating environment
10. Ask yourself, is it Tuesday yet? If no, find when is it coming? After Monday? If yes, do what you were supposed to do, do what everyone does on Tuesdays!
11. Dude, above all you should stop blogging and prepare for placements, else you will blog your entire life…Stop this here at once and get back to important things.

MH03-AA-1447

This is one interesting encounter with a rickshaw-waala(henceforth mentioned as RW). It’s long so read at peace, it is long but nice!

Near vikhroli station: Like always no rickshaw agreed for a ride to IITB. It was almost 15 minutes and I was tired of stopping them and seeing their face turn into some weird shape and without even uttering a word keep moving as if I was asking for a free ride. Then from nowhere a rickshaw arrives and he agrees. I was delighted, relaxed and titillated. Moments after settling in, I asked him -

ZM: Aap iit ke andar tak chaloge naa?
RW: IIT??!! (confused) mujhe lagaa yahan vikhroli mein kahin!
ZM: (WTF!)
RW: mera kya. ek aur bhaada mil gaya hai, chal lete hai warna mujhe yeh saamaan kahin pahoochaana tha, lekin ab yahaan rakhna pad raha hai.. khair abhi 8 hee bajey hai, baad mein chala jaaunga
ZM: (normal human courtesy dikhaate hue) arey toh saamaan yahaan peeche rakh do, koi dikkat nahi..
RW: nahi nahi – yeh bahut zaroori hai! koie leke chala gaya toh – maa ke haath ka khaana hai – UP se aaya hai – kandivli jaake laana padaa – Kandivli tak jaana pada 250 types ka bhaada laga aur aate waqt ek ko kam paiso mein vikhroli lete aaya – kya karoon jaana toh tha hee – maa ke haath khaana jo hai – ab jo yahaan milta hai woh wahaan nahi milta and jo wahaan milta hai woh yahaan kabhi nahi mil sakta..!!
ZM: haan itna toh banta hai (Initially, I was like why is he talking to me…I never asked him anything but then the heaviness and sincerity with which he said made a difference. It got me into thinking! Taking a right turn heading towards HN. There I had it, the road was filled with insane numbers, there I was all-alone, amidst the traffic or not?! Somewhere, I knew this journey wont be boring :p
RW: I prefer staying behind a BEST bus in such a traffic – it’s spacious you see :p
ZW: hmmm…
(He said some more things about day-to-day traffic, blah blah..)
(By now, I was sure that this RW was a loquacious guy with an opinion on almost all things around, mostly logical!)

[I had nothing to say or do so casually peeped out and I saw 2 girls 1 boy (:p) seated in the adjacent rick, one of the two was talking on phone and the other two I think was the couple(yes it is not what you are thinking :p). The two started making out mildly :p and I accidentally saw them, not like i wanted to see what was going. It was stupidly weird. Realising I saw them, they started staring at me and hugged each other, still looking at me. I immediately shifted to the other side of the rick and said...]

ZM: yaar yeh rickshaw waaleaate kyun nahi IIT – bhaada toh milta hai traffic hua toh bhi (just to forget what just happened)
RW: Arey mazaa nahi aata yaar chalaane mein–lagta hai galaa ghot ke chala rahey hai, gaadi ki ********* jaati hai — haath dard karne lag jaate hai and stuff (He kept on blabbering).
(Then he said something I will never forget–)
RW: Apne haath hee dekh lo, kitne tight banaye hai -
ZM: kya??
RW: arey apne haath, fir aankh lelo, peecha ka ang lelo, naak, kaan, dimaag – sab tight rehta hai….infact kamar ke neeche ka bhi dekh lo sab tight rehta hai (I was not sure, where he was going and what he wanted to say!!!) Kuch bhi lelo, sab tight banaya hai – bas yeh kamar ke upar ka 6×6 inch ka area loose banaya hai uparwaale ne. Yeh tight karte karte zindagi bitaa dete hai hum. Subah tight karo – shaam ko fir loose and shaam ko tight karo, subah fir loose – chalte rehta hai and ek din hum mar jaate hai wahin jo loose pet leke aaye the wahin leke chale jaate hai baaki sab yahin reh jaata hai!

ZM: (Arrived at the IIT main gate, I said…) “Student”
RW: kya bola aapne?
ZM: “student”
RW: accha “student” bolo toh kisi ko bhi andar aane de dete hai kya?
ZM: haan aisa hee samjho..(mild laughter)
RW: aapko yahaan admission kaise mila? merit list mein aaye honge!
ZM: nahi ek entrance exam hota hai, usme select hoke (and stuff..!)
RW: toh job toh lag hee jaati hogi??
ZM: nahi aaj kal market down hai thoda…(and uttered something disinterestedly)
RW: (Then he saw a girl and suddenly interrupted me) yahaan bhi reservation hota hai?
ZM: nahi nahi, hota hai lekin ladkiyon ke liye nahi hota (kaash hota :p)
RW: aapki shaadi ho gayi kya?
ZM: arey nahi yaar…abhi toh padh raha hoon..abhi kahaan.

I reached Hostel 3 gate. The meter read 50Rs. which was slightly higher than the normal but that was because of the traffic mainly but overall I was glad and refreshed by this discussion. I thought I will definitely blog about this guy.

So I ran back after entering the hostel to maybe ask him his name for the title of this post, but the rick had left and all i could see was MH03-AA-1447. So be it.

Freedom

When someone commits a crime(official one), he is undoubtedly incarcerated. Why imprisonment? I mean there could be “n” number of other things that could be done. But since the ancient times, the Romans, the Greeks, the Hebrews, the Persians, the Egyptians, etc. most civilizations believed in physical involuntary confinement. Over the years, this basic ground idea of punishment hasn’t quite changed except for the rules guiding them.

People discovered it long ago, that freedom is one thing everyone craves for and if that be taken away, there is nothing left but misery. Prison constraints physical movement which will definitely stop many more movements, your thinking will shrink, your outlook will shrink, you will be unaware of too much, etc. There are many ways in which ones freedom is destroyed, prison being the blatant choice(for me).

On the other hand one has to work for fixed hours per day, do regular stuff, cook food, attend lectures, complete excel sheets, etc. What if any of these is against your will? At this very point of time, I would want to get out and go away for a month do things according to my whims and fancies, but I cannot(I would rather some day down the line). Don’t you think this is imprisonment but milder? Well, when there is this person who has the freedom to do what he wants, what if he chooses to do nothing to chooses to disregard freedom?

yahaan ke hum sikander..

the incorrect publicity, the sine wave, the adorable pebble, the return of the king, the good end – beginning of it all, the hoping ant, the fear of something, the obscure tribulation, the day dreamer, the late realization, the confused dissembler, the selfish humans, the city of gold, the deep desire, the closed book, the concerned siblings, the excessive emotions, the lovable rogue, the consecutive loss, the white font group, the hardcore analysis, the anticipated squander, the optimistic investment, the new venture, the truth seeker, the curious need, the reprehensible comprehension, the return to innocence, the lonely wanderer, the thirsty ideas, the logic behind, the fortune teller, the unexpected words, the energy barrier, the accomplished dream, the optimistic pessimist, the marvelous creativity, the winning amateurs, the clean connect, the jealous lover, the stupid misunderstandings, the smiling perfectionist, the avid helper, the sincere past, the fanatic group, the blurred destiny, the speaking eyes, the hard worker, the fixed paragraph, the unconventional wisdom, the logical superstitions, the prime numbers, the serious urge, the sincere request.

yahaan ke hum sikander…

My 2008 top 13 list :)

Here is the list of 13 official and mentionable important things that happened to me or witnessed by me in the year 2008 that made a difference!

1. Techfest 2008, successfully organized (web and gaming zone, the experience was just amazing..will always cherish the TF memories)
2. Intern @ Chaupaati – Good exposure, fundae and awesome people – Zishaan, Gera, Kashyap, Rane, etc.
3. Trip to Goa (8-12th December) – 1st official bike accident (my parents do not know about it, so if u happen to meet them STFU ) but was a good trip! Also cheers to Tanna.
4. Hit my lowest spi ever in 7th sem!
5. The cute girl in pink top(in Mood indigo) and Ensiferrum(Finnish Death Metal Band live @ MI)
6. Came across perl! (during my intern)
7. Working @ TRI – good level of work, learning and responsibility!!
8. Discovered ‘gym’ in late July – thanks to Mouli
9. Started Webvulture blog to share my daily technical encounters
10. MSc Chemistry Seminar on beating the diffraction limit of light Actually liked the entire field of research and how great the technique NSOM is// and also the Eco project
11. Ankit Goyal got placed :O (Also Extremely happy for Gudi, Ramdas and Akhil – great jobs and all other placed junta)
12. One night at “The Orchid” playing poker and amazing food
13. Witnessed the greatest of economic recession, thanks to USA

Seriously people, go make your own 2008, 2009 lists. Helps you know yourself!

Contact me if you would want to know more about any of these especially 4,6 and 10 Why would you!!

Wannabee #2

The second one Quite interesting.

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MY ATTITUDE TELLS ME THAT……..
1.Never argue with a fool. People might not know the difference.
2.It’s good to be clever, but not to show it.
3.A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally.
4.I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution.
5.I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.
6.Attitude also warned me-” Sacrifice your time for people to
know you “.
7.In your life, problems may start from Haywards 2000 or Haywards 5000, but you must take it as a Royal Challenge. Otherwise people will call you Old Monk & stick a Black Label on you. But you must fight like Napoleon, live like Bagpiper, walk like Johny Walker, work till 8 PM & think like Directors Special, then your life will be Imperial Blue. If you do all the things, you’ll be an Aristocrat & there will be good value for your Signature’s.!
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Is it diwali? Will we not want to read this amazing write-up even if he did not welcome us? Whats the language used? What the barcode doing there if its a barcode? Yeah sure this profile is original. Are there people who would sued on copying this marvelous orkut profile, oh err, i forgot there are other wannabees! Surely this will be most probably copied. Who is the legend? Who has tasted all brands? Who is mostly steve jobs or bill gates? Who is dangerous? Who is not a fool? Who is he?

Wannabees #1

Some findings from the internet. Inspired from rahul dash’s blog, I went on in a search of internet newbies/wannabees. Everyone is an spirant and hence everyone’s a wannabee but some have been the elitist in this community. No more words for them>> just some encounters The first one…

I dΘηт αяgμє I jμšт яμlє! I dΘηт ƒΘllΘш тнє яμlєš,I jμšт мαkє тнє яμlєš! I тєℓℓ Θтнєяš шнαт тΘ dΘ,ηΘвΘ∂y тєℓℓš MEH шнαт тнє нєll m šμρρΘšє∂ тΘ dΘ !!

му яυℓєz…

яυℓє ησ 1: ι αм αℓωαуz яут.
яυℓє ησ 2: ιƒ ι αм ωяσηg…ѕєє яυℓє # 1

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Most of them cannot type readable English. Generally its is a mix of greek, german, alienist(marcist or neptunist), japanese and barbarian characters and symbols which will take hours to write in and days to understand by the not-like-them-crowd.

One thing common in this breed of people is that they think their this way of writing is cool and portrays they are just great, they are the napolean, shahrukh khan and angelina jolie at the same time…etc.. and the opposite sex will fall for them and thats true – “Every wannabee eventually meets other equally alike wannabee opposite sex counterparts and will have kids together!” huh…sorry if that hurt, are you a wannabee?

To humanize is amazing!

Totally bored to death, I thought of accompanying my friend Tilak to HN CCD and get some fresh air. While in the midst of our discussion it started raining heavily. We completed our drinks and payed our bills(yes, Tilak still owes some 75 bucks to me ).
Then we realized that I was the only one carrying umbrella..huh…And after joining every penny in our pockets the sum total was Rs. 12.50/- which was surely not enough to pay the rickshaw fare(in case you dint know )
“So lets wait!” I exclaimed. Luckily the rains slowed down quite a bit and the drizzly drops were bearable. So we set out on foot to our destination, our respective hostels.

I was quite exhausted and we dint have much to talk about after the long talk at CCD. After 5 minutes or so it had completely stopped raining but we still experienced some drops falling on us because of the tree leaves shedding water droplets. Tilak suddenly, with a very matured, serious and interrogative look said – “If now(just after rains stopped) we walk under trees we are sure to experience tiny constant water drops but under the open sky we won’t. This case is perfectly opposite to the case when its raining! When its raining you tend to walk under a tree for obvious reasons – to not wet yourselves completely.”

Trying to grasp, i paused for a minute and was totally amazed at his thoughts. Then he asked me to humanize this fact. As in he wanted me to come up with some humanly example related to this. I came up with this example rather analogy –

“The open sky is like the entire world, the trees are like our ‘many friends’ and the rains are the problems and troubles we face all the time during our life. When in trouble we try to approach our friends. Our friends try to help us like trees do by stopping the rain flow to a great extent. But if it is raining heavily and our troubles are too much our regular ‘many friends’ may not be in a position to help us. On the contrary, there exist very close friends; here analogous to us carrying an umbrella. No matter how bad the rains are our umbrella will always be with us and protect us to the maximum extent from the rains. Such are some very close friends. And when it has just stopped raining your troubles end but there is still some minute disturbances from your many friends who might remind you of some bad times and try to consolidate you by reminding Seriously, bad times reminder is exactly analogous to every big drop falling from the trees after rains! Do ponder for a while…”

Tilak listened carefully to my analogy and then said, “I feel it would be better if I used a windsheeter instead of an umbrella.” “All hail Mr. Tilak!”

On being 21…

One day suddenly out of the blue, you turn 21. Well no panicking, this happens in most of the cases! Whats so important about the number 21? – actually nothing much. If you look at it in a non-human, non-social way then its like any other year birthday. But there are some things that add spice to this 21st birthday. Coming back to the normal human, social mode the major reason for this is the government. As a social animal, you belong to this society and hence believe in the government and other social animals. 21 marks the year, when you are technically and legally freed from not doing some stuff.

On being 21, you get to vote yeah well you can vote since you were 18 but yeah its not like you are disallowed to do it at 21 years of age :P. Also you can “legally” drink, can get married if you are in India and a lot more unknown things locally evident like may be a place where you shall be allowed only if you are 21(yeah legally and yeah there are places ) etc..etc. But its not about what you can do, but what you want to do; it always was this way.

Nothing changes naturally, automatically at the tick of a clock going from 11:59:59 to 12:00:00 but what changes is ones approach towards his/her life but only if one feels what it means to be 21. It marks the dawn of a new responsible citizen, responsible Indian(in my case), responsible person(regarding whatever you do). It is the beginning of the “possibly” most happening 10 years in ones life.

You were trained all these 21 years to do something, to achieve something, to learn something, to win something but now its show time!

Awesomness or Attractiveness!

Somethings, some stuff and some people are just awesome and/or attractive. But how do we pay for such stuff. The answer is “NO” you cannot pay for it.Forget it, because you just cannot pay for it. Awesome things are priceless. But vice versa is not true. Its not about free stuff being awesome but about awesome things being priceless and hence free because to know it is awesome you have to experience it and to experience it, it should be free !

“There is no charge for pure awesomeness or attractiveness“. Kung-Fu Panda