technically this blog of mine should hav been d continuation if d earlier one but i felt d sequel could wait a bit longer n one should deal wid d present rather dan diggin d past..most of d times d past stinks(its lik u remember d stinkin part mostly....) n its d present which persudes u to move 4ward in ur life...!!
Tamil Nadu has been ever hotter....d wild hot weather gives one shivers literally...guess its only dis state in dis contienent wich is biasedly affected by d green house effects..(dunno much about wat it is but ya..it raises d environmental temp..)..moreover d geographical location too mak it a very humid places makin u sweat at every occasion(even if u r tryin to sleep..)..trust me even tryin to sleep takes a lot of energy in dis extremety...anyways wen summer is concerned m quite allergic n i make it a ponit to attain respite from it somehow....!! dis led me to make a trip to a hill station recently...its popularly known as 'queen of hill stations'...i mean its Kodaikanal...
Finallly after a week of yes n nos...persuasion n agreements v decided to make a move....quite daring one considerin d fact dat v were a bunch of just four n takin in to account d per head costs one would incur dis sounded way costlier...but d thot of welcome respite was always dere so v stood to our commitments n left for kodai on 27th april...4 guys n just 3 bags...i was made to carry d heaviest one....d backpack...despite of my protests ppl felt i was physically stronger dan oders....i really doubt dat..!! things started on bright note for us wen v got a lift from a luxury car on our way from my coll to trichy bus stand...v reached dindigual from where u were told to get our next bus from by 1 am in night...finally again v got another lift till kodaikanal..though d person charged us wid Rs. 50 per head but it sounded cheaper if u think about d comfort v had in d vehicle....however our myths were comin to an end..d very exit from d cozy vehicle at 0400 hrs in d mornin at 2500 meters above sea level brought a chill through our spines...our first priority..take a shelter as soon as possible n crash off on d bed....generally m quite sceptical wen its concerned wid takin a hotel room....lookin for all necessities at a considerable price...though negotiations do take place later on...:)...but was in not a positions to standby my stringent principles n took d room wid out any negotiations....d next 4 hrs went lik a gust of wind...was d 1st one to get up..i splashed my face with water widout realising its freezin nature...wat happened next was somethin disastrous...;)....was shiverin wid cold n promised myself not to step into water for d next 24 hrs....but guess promises r made to b broken....seein my frens takin bath in dis ice-cold water i too thot of givin it a try after a mamothic thinkin over it....i tried hard not to scream out but could'nt help it wen d gap between d water n my skin was completed in nanoseconds....soon we dressed up n stepped out...1st plan to take d breakfast...v realised how cheap d place was wen d breakfast incurred 45 bucks each....damn..!!! entire budget looked out of realms....
had heard a lot from ppl about cycle rides in kodai...we went to look for d same....our joy seemed no bounds wen v found one....i was d one most exited n made a round around the infamous kodaikanal lake..before one laughs at my kiddish nature of going on a cycle ride lemme get to facts..the diameter of the lake is alomost 2kms and its compromised of ups and downs...a mere circle of the lake would take almost 40-45 mins and leads to a staggering loss to almost 400-450 kcalories....Now m feeling good... :)
Well i guess i should wind up dis story here itself....actually dis story was saved in drafts since more than a year and it today i.e. 30th may,09 that i did hav a walk through it....the story seemed rather interesting with the flavour of college life added to it and it made quite nostalgic....hope it revives memories of all the other 3 guys too who accompanied for dis trip...damn it....i forgot to mention an interesting happening in the trip or rather at the end of the trip..while our way bak to college we had a dauntning task of takin a bus early in the morning from kodaikanal....we hurried in to bus stand to take the bus...i and another infamous friend of mine tried to take a shot at peeing at a public place (the bus stand) as we were disgusted by the thought of holding onto this nature's call for the next 3 hrs of bus journey and it might lead to severe discomfort to the co passengers....just wen we tried to relieve ourselves on a display board saying DO NOT PEE(obvoiusly in Tamil which we did not know and it was certainly not intentional) , a police man with his lathi came cgarging at us shouting in hindi.."tum log ke pass dimaag nahi hai kya " listening to known words in an alien territory made us turn our heads...and den v realised we were messed up....the mere sight of police man charging at us shut down my entire mechanism of peeing process and the pant zipped in the next few nano seconds.....finding no other way out my friend tried to reason it by admitting the genuine reason....like a naive ye told the lathiwala 'agar yaha nahi karte to pant me ho jaata'(had we not pissed of here we would hav pissed off in pant itself)..i couldn't stop but laugh for the entire next 3 hrs of bus journey at dis genuinity of the guy....eventually the series of mistakes continued when we took a bus to salem and reached our college in almost 10 hrs wen the normal buses take 7-8 hrs...
But it was lifetime journey and ya had hell lot of fun....took bags or technically speaking bytes full of snaps....still have them in my orkut album...i really miss those days...:)

an account of my college life : part 1

I remember it quite well...still hav d vivid memories of my dad utterin a phrase rite before i was to be admitted to an engg. coll....he said "college me hi to knowledge milta hai (in coll u get d knowledge...)....dad bein elder to me , guess dis phrase came in from his coll life experience....perplexed n partially palled by enterin a whole new arena i din giv it a thot..however, 4 yrs after i feel goosebumps wen i recollect my experience at coll...a mixed bunch of happy moments to times wen felt totally disgusted n low....times of celebration to times wen found noone closeby....dis blog of mine goes to my 4 yrs at coll....guess dealin wid 4 yrs in a go in a single blog would make it long n probaly unreadable too....so 'll be dealin wid 2 yrs at a time....its d 1st 2 yrs n d last 2 yrs dat did had a prominent difference....somethin which made me completely different from wat i was at d start of d coll..so here's my happiest days....!!!
M very sorry but wen dates r concerned m totally forgetful....i made my way to tanjore in tamil nadu after spedin 2 days(man...it was my 1st time n i was really left high n dry at d end of s journey....) in train....somehow reached trichy around noon...at temperatures soarin as high as 38-39 degrees n heavy luggages our crusade was partially marred....v(me n my dad) decided to hav our lunch at some small near d station as v were dead tired....n hello...!!! v were greeted by alien parathas...( neither similar in shape n nor in taste...yuk..!!! it tasted awful..)..reached coll n completed d formalities...i was alloted my hostel room wid two hyderabadi guys...met a guys parent n d 1st thing he adviced me wen he heard of my native place was to live wid peace n harmony..guess dere's somethin to do wid originating from Bihar....u earn urself a tagline of bein rude,arrogant,destructive u a trouble maker...however dat advice did'nt deter me n i did return back to find my room locked...however sorted out things out n did came to know about my roomies....still remember dat it took 15 mins to break d ice....v had some common treaties...d best thing...d whole of my wing(west) was occupied wid Biharis....so dat 'hum gaurav hai" accent was quite common....roomies were ultra cool...had a gr8 time wid dem in d 1st yr....perhaps d wing was awesome n included all branch toppers...n now somethin which even i had been tryin to forget wid time....i did emerge as d top scorer in my section in 1st sem..plz..it was not a tremendous effort...guess my frens din put enough of effort...lol....
anyways d sgpa which i earned myself in 1st sem got in kind of trouble....lecturers always had high expectation n i kept on ruining dem off...made some gr8 frens in dat yr....owais , vivek....our trilogy was quite famous n v did go to college n come back togethr...another female , megha who went on to become my sis was d topper at d end of the year.....d whole of 1st yr was awesome except a few occasions....got linked up wid a thinnest girl i had ever seen...:) just kiddin...but really it had to do nothin n still rumours kept pourin in...but dats part of college life...u pull oders leg n should be ready for d same...more dan my notorious nature i was known as studious guy wid high notch sgpa's...it was dis marks which earned me a place in d merit list d followin yr....henceforth i never commited dis mistake(seriously it was...!!!) again n d studious guy known was all set to be buried in history book reborn as someone more flambouyant, friendly n i guess featurefull too....:)

Don know where to start from or wat to blog in....writin is one of my freakish instintictive passions but the very thought of sitting in front of comp screen n scribbling some lines gives me jitters....offlate my pseudoself has been d dominant one....d lazy part of mine has emerged yet again n i find extreme ease at sleepin n bein glued to IPL matches rather dan takin pains of writin a blog....guess it was one of my frens who asked about my blogs not bein updated dat i realized dat ppl do giv a flip to my 'not so sensible' blogs....its a ubiquitous law of nature dat anythin(either good or bad) may b liked by varied section of ppl invariably....wonder how offbeat movies too earn profits...d reason is dere's a section pf ppl who see it too...irrespectiv of d fact dat dey r who's who of d filmmaker....watever dis is not wat i gonna write about(talkin about profits n losses of busted movies).....
its been 4 days since my final yr proj review got over...sorry no excitements bcuz it was a complete flop show...not on my part but d review was worse dan d internal reviews v had....damn it...!!! for all d hard work v laid for 4 months d response v get its decent enough....everythin goes unnoticed n v become d 'bakras' yet again.....:)...but its somethin v hav used to....anyways d past few days or rather week as been as melodramatic as possible....last to last monday our juniors in a bid to show how good dey were bid us adieu( gav farewell in real sense....)...d last yr farewell being a flipper me n my frens were quite sceptical of goin in for it....but v had all decided to dress up in kurtas...n ya v looked good...entire group clad in kurtas...it was a valient attempt by d junoirs given d fact dat d seniors or rather me n my batchmates made evry attempt to hoot at top of our voices....girls were whistled at evrytime dey made an appearance.....d 1 hr show was followed by flashes of digi cams....cams fashioned in every other hand...it looked more lik a media dominated occasion where evry pose or movement was digitally caved it....ya i 4got v were given a memento to mark d occasion....however d day was marked my me loosin 100 bucks.....:(..though i lost it i had no regrets as such given d fact dat i had a rather good day...n how can i 4get this....!!! d spl thing about dis nite was all my female batchmates turnin up in saree.....man...dey all looked awesome....never before deir feminine part had come out so well....!!..d girls whom v saw from distance looked all set to be independent beauties ready to make a mark in dis cut throat competative world....:)
phase 2 of d dramatic week....last wednesday was my,infact all my fren's last day at coll....d tradition of scribblin lines on each others shirts was well known to me...so i got in a very old shirt...i don even remember wen by dad got it for me....idea was very clear,to preserve d scribbled shirt...had to meet a busy fren who offlate was not able to spare time for her obligation of meetin me...it happened again n i met 1 hr later as scheduled n it lasted for around 10 mins at max....ppl went on scribblin anythin n everythin on d shirt...guess i had to pay price for things of my past as my shirt was earmarked by guys with a prominent name written all over...:)...d day ended wid an old section get togethr where ppl were literally screwed.....life's a gr8 fun, n joke until dat joke happens over u....in d later case it becomes rather embarrasing....dats wat happened in d get together.....ppl were made to stand on a podium n answer queries from d audience wid cameras clickin all over....d quest of ppl made few shiver while many secrets were unearthed...d most shockin incident....i bein asked for a photograph by a girl....man...i was taken aback... :)
anyways d day ended on a happy note as i met all my frens...it was a fruitful 4 yrs at coll where i was made to learn all lessons....i never ever thot in my wildest dreams dat i would say this....but guess m gonna miss my college n most prominently my frens which were my treasure hunt infact.....!!!!!!!!!!!

High on d spirits...!!!

11 months n few days henceforth......m back.....high on alcohol n if ppl r to belive me certainly high on my spirits too....contrary to popular belief dat ppl spate out filth n tend to be hyper vulgar when high on alcohol,ifeel just the opposite....
Me n my room partners r not regular drunkyards n few pegs of any brand of whisky makes us get out of this fake world conscious yet trying to prove its mettle by doing things which would make it popular but not self-popular....just 2 pegs were enough for me to get to the realism.....boozing n enjoying is one thing but getting into converstaion after dat is just the other.....ppl tend to speak nothing but truth n reality...n i who's not so vocal try to pen it down...i laid this extra effort just to remind myself what exactly i am when m faking it out to the world.....faking just to make sure dat m pa r with them...no matter even if dat means accepting certain degraded values of the society which according to recent n populist ppl's terms r latest trends.....trends which v need to follow to move on in live.....
two hours after the alcohol started numbing the central nervous system i went into conversation with a friend....though not in particular but he pointed my shortcomings.....damn...!! i to realize it n feel i have gone a long way....long way in accepting the modern theories,tryin to be hip-hoff,trackin things which would make me feel prodigy....but certaily m faking it all up....3 yrs in coll i agree i have disregarded a lot things...my injustices to ppl have been a regular phenomenon....just trying to prove m right no matter even if it means lying to some close frens n breaking promises with ppl....d gaurav which came in the college with a decent attitude,big dreams n a natural frair seems to have lost in the race of life.....ya i have geared up if its concerned with being notorious n trying to ruin ppl's happiness but d karizma i has certainly lack-lustered....m yet not sure why exactly i couldn't help myself.....
Offlate my compromises with life had feel very regular....no matter wat happens i feel its destined....the hunger within has certaily cooled down....nowadays ppl regard me as a filth on the road....m over-looked n avoided my many....ppl who loved talking to me sometimes back feel stuck up in my company.....f*** i feel d same....
My getting accustomed to this latest trend is not something new....most of the ppl fall in the same trap....though its not too late n the litmus test the life is subjecting me through is yet to be over......but it all depends on me....at 12:5 am n certainly high on whisky my tottering these lines seems to be my call of conscoius but its the new day tomorrow which'll tell me where i lead to.....will i adhere to the correct path or stick to the place where ppl find themselves stuck with me....its a big question but certainly the concious of mine will lead me the right way...hope...!!! it ends the right way n i get my rights rite.....!!!!

wat.....???? try again......!!!!

Ever since people in my coll hav been bitten by this ever advanced n lucrativ yet so unappealing wi-fi bug a msg is a common scenario on computer screens for most number of times.....the msg proudly says TRY AGAIN.....though the effort dat may come in to clicking d button of the mouse on dis revered tab may not be calories-consuming but yeah takes a hell lot of patience out of me waitin for my desired web page to finally opening in...Even dis blogspot site took 600 long seconds to open n nearly tested my long withstandin patience....
I was wondering how dis mysterious word would havr made its way from research labs to d computer screens of v tech savvy ppl....however i still hav vivid pictures of the hindi version of 'try again' on age old doordarshan programs...though i was a kid then barely understandin the plight ppl might hav to undergo seein this msg on screen...with my age d occurance of this mgs coming n making a slam on my life became more common.....i still remember d 1999 world cup which was promoted widely by its sponsors......being a ardent n obvoius fan in a cricket crazy nation i kept a track of all the events leadin to the world cup.....A major sponsor of the world cup den launched a scheme then which offfered ppl a chance to make their way to england for the world cup( ya...!! ur rite...all expenses paid...)..one was supposed to collect certain amount of the product wrappers n exchange it with a scratch card wich wud ultimately decide ur million dollar or penniless fortune.....m a big optimist..no matter how low d probablity of my successes r , i stand by it....however as the odds mights hav turned out i was welcomed by a msg saying 'TRY AGAIN"....though all my dreams shattered but dat was my 1st genuine rendezvous wid this ultra popular n money-mobilizing slogan for all d commercial vendors( i prefer calling these callous industries 'vendors'....it suits d best)....
Ever since i have encountered this phrase a no. of times.....right from web pages to the results of certain entrance exams....though some exams r quite apologetic n do feel n say sorry for ur failure but s msg sayin try again feels a hard slap on one's face makin spoof of all the efforts dat may have been laid in preparing for the exams....i have suffered it quite a no of times....most of the times i felt sorry for my computer which time n again displayed the msg sayin 'sorry u could'nt make it'....
But offlate in college TRY AGAIN or RE-DO( a shorter,harsher n simpler version) has been pretty common occurance....recollecting all such happenings n writin it down may be a bit difficult as m very sure by then my sleep would also welcome with a statement sayin 'try again' wen i get to bed....so here's in short...
The most credited subject of b.tech curriculam is the final yr project....i ( i mean v) have been very sincere wid our project leavin no stones unturned at every step....ever since we acknowledged d fact that our project would take a lot out of us we decided to be ultra careful...hard work has been our prority n v had been workin in labs for almost 5-6 hours a day...n 6 days a week....however fate had some tryin things stored in for us when a culture which v prepared after a week long work was declared contaminated by our project guide....it felt like shit wen ur hard work is thrown off the records....that time too the words Try Again kept revolving my mind....i felt a sense of urgency n showed a positive spirit to my sir sayin v'll try again....it was later dat i realised dat i made dat statement just to get relieved to d work v might had to do then....d week starts again tomorro n 'll get to work once again....more dan work the phrase 'TRY AGAIN' 'll be makin rounds in my mind...m not sure wat it really means...is it a statement meant to console others after one's non performance or is it an assurance of perfection in the next attemp....with the way things r goin around us( certainly after being bugged by SASTRA's wi-fi,i mean it only...)...i doubt if it means either of the above......understandin its meaning is certainly at discretion of the readors or we listeners.....!!!

A request !!!!!

A sincere n a humble request to anyone n everyone who spares their precious time to go through my 'oh, what a blog' (m yet to get any negative comments for my blog )....Plz Plz plz people do put in ur comments for my blogs....m very sure dat m lacking at many bays n more dan anything else i would like to improve via my passion of writing....so all readors,especially critics r fully welcome.....plz do keep posting ur comments....
Love,
Gaurav

indeed....it was a visual treat....!!!!!

Holidays have been ever extremely boring for one who stays back in d hostel...When the entire genre of students are back to their homes ,staying back at hostel makes no sense but taking into consideration the distance n d traumatic journey one has to travel staying at hostel for a week long pongal holiday was quite logical.....
well...to start wid d daunting task of spending my hols ,i cramped my leg d very 1st day...god.....it was damn painful...like ur left leg hangin out wen ur right one is in motion....nuring my injury i had to stay away from cricket(at which m neither good at,but particiapation is wat all matters ppl...!!) fa a couple of weeks...was exploring how'll i keep a count of d endless days yet to come...
But i coped up sportingly...getting glued to d comp....made an optimum use of the coll's FREE wi-fi connectivty.....saw a hell lot of series...it was a gr8 week but it was only yesterday i.e d last day of holiday wen v hit d bull's eye...
One of my closest fren's parents had come to d college to fulfill their long withstanding dream of seein how d coll was....( i wonder y my parents don get these feelings....oh..its in genes...)...m happy my parents don't make it all d way to coll given d split up lives i lead....one gaurav at home n d opposite one at d coll...well,i n my other 2 frens were given an intro to Vivek's parents by him....v started wid making a round to the coll showcasing every positve aspect of d coll....Ya m right..SASTRA should hav asked to me market d coll...m best at it....:)..finally v decided to show dem our flat where v stick at most of d times....given d messed up condition of my renowned'oh,wat a mess' room, two guys rushed in to make sure noone there was indulged in some erotic stuff n throw d left over buds of the cig...but somehow they seemed to b impressed wid d rooms....i guess,dey were not faking it up....:)
Finally d plan was to visit d big temple at tanjore or thanjavur(watever)......its d breehadeshwara temple...one of temples listed in world's heritage site...d plan of goin to tanjore n moreover to d temple made me sick....somehow m allergic to d crowd at temples....given my passion for movin things , d still statues n d long queues drive me nuts....but i had no intention of making it known to Vivek's parents...dey had a 'bahut sidha ladka hai' impression about me.....
v were a group of six....ya i forgot to mention dat it was aunty who made us go...she was d only female member n i realised later how lazy v guys were....hats off to auntyji....!!! i n ranjan got in a bus which zoomed off n oders could'nt get it....so d trip started on a bad note....m not in dis stuff but still i felt....however v got down at d oder stop n waited for dem n went together to d temple.....
i was visiting d temple after a gap of 7 months n it was my 3rd one in 4 yrs...i said it was in my genes.....:)..wow....'look at dat'....was my call...b temple was flooded wid ppl....mostly girls...a few good lookin....i n uttam parted ways wid d rest of d group to do wat v like d most....sight seeing...v guys always fight but wen it comes to dis v r best buddies....given d crowd at the temple v din keep a track of d no' of hotties v really came across....dere were some gorgeous imported stuff(foreighners i meant)....v got a few of dem in our cameras n memories too....But d one i got dumbstruck eventfully happened to b from our coll...man...i felt a instant surge of blood rushin through my veins....though she was wid a guy(hopefully he was her bro...!!! i know its height of optimism...!!) but dat yellow suit n black dupatta got me crazy....unable to do a thing v sat down trackin her n helplessly lookin at her....it was obvious as it was my 1st crush in dis sem....don be shocked if i say i generally hav a crush on atlest 10-12 girls per sem...(it's not in my genes but my age...)v tried capturing her in camera but her well built bodyguard prevented me from doin so.....n man dere was dis huge crowd n i really had no plans of getting a PP(public pitai...!!!!)..v spend almost an hour foldin hands n beggin from god...!!!god..give me this...give me dat....i do too often....:)..an hour n a half later v were out of d revered temple....by dis time i forgot about d yellow chick i saw....ha ha ha....but indeed it was a great visual treat....much more i could hav asked for....
However wen i came back to my hostel i got haunted by d thoughts of d yellow suit chick again....more dan anythin else i desperetely needed to find her name....not bcoz i gonna talk to her but just to contain d man within me who's curious....!! guess 'll hav to follow d Sherlock Holmes pursuit n find her name....Watever m all set fa it....Hope it works out....:)