Love aaj kal

First of all, Happy New Year... It's surprising that I haven't had a chance to blog this new year until now... It has got to do with me being lazy rather busy!! Anyways...

Love aaj Kal... I have seen this movie, liked it, but let's not talk abt that here...

Now some of the stuff I write here might hurt some people, but my intention was to present the facts rather than judge people.. I perfectly know that I shouldn't judge, given that I am neither in their situation, nor I am mature enough to tell whats right and whats wrong.. The thing which may seem right to me may be wrong to others and vice-versa.. I believe in "Live and Let Live", so its their life, and let them do whatever they want to , because ultimately everyone seeks happiness.

Inspite of this, if anyone has any qualms with me writing the stuff here on the net, please let me know, I can delete this post :)

Love#1

Guy likes the gal, gal doesn't know it, guy waits for the signals, but the gal doesn't give any, the saga continues....

Love#2

Guy likes the gal, gal likes the guy, but gal's parent's don't encourage love marriage, gal keeps quiet and marries some other guy, guy marries some other gal, life moves on....

Love#3

Guy and gal love each other, problem is they are from different caste, parents of both sides don't agree, both leave their parents to be together, happily ever after? (now that's a ?)

Love#4

Guy1 likes gal1, gal2 likes Guy2, but Guy1 marries gal2, Guy1 loves Gal2 now!!

Love#5

Guy likes gal, parents agree, they marry

Love#6

Guy1 and gal1 like each other, but gal1 marries guy2, Guy1 likes gal2 now, they get married

Love#7

Guy and gal like each other, but they are just waiting for the other to propose or might be afraid, the end may be tragic

Love#8

Guy likes gal, gal also likes the guy, but either of them might not have the "feelings" to take it to the next level

Love#9

Guy likes a gal, gal likes guy's fren, guy remains silent for his fren's sake, the story ends

An outside person like me might feel, for example in Love#1 why is the guy so dumb and waiting for the signals. Also, some of the mini-stories I mentioned had involvement of parents too..We complain that parents don't understand us, while parents complain that we don't understand them.. Who is correct nobody knows!! I can probably say why can't we forget someone we love and marry according to the wish of our parents? Or I can question the parents, why don't they allow their children whom they have given everything they asked for until then, to marry the person of their choice.

As I said its easier said than done, and since I can't be in their shoes (atleast now), I can't feel their pain and agony...Everybody have their own reasons!!! What can we do? If we are their frens, help them.. If we are someone completely unrelated to them, wish them luck..

Don't know why I turned so philosophical. It's 2010.. Keep rocking!!

Cheers!

A perfect date

Don't know why, but I have been feeling nostalgic about BITS, Pilani for the last few days. Its been roughly 2.5 years since I left the campus, and I haven't even got a glimpse of a safer, secure, carefree, relishing lifestyle anywhere else. True that I have achieved some financial freedom but other than that I have missed probably everything else that made BITS, a special place to live..

After my PhD, when I go back to India, I want to visit BITS, not for the 25 yrs silver jubilee meet but much before that..

And here is how I plan to spend a day at BITS...

Bus ride from Delhi to Pilani had always been a pain during my college days, but I would like to have a nice bus ride enjoying the beautiful scenic views on the way

Enter the BITS campus and check in at V-Fast.

Breakfast at VK Reidi; menu: jamun with rapdi and sam chat; followed by which I would go to FD-III to visit the labs where I would see guys dressed in white aprons toiling hard with the chemicals and apparatus!!! I would find an empty class room and sit for a while reminding myselves of the innumerable classes I attended. I would then go to Vyas 150, the hostel room in which I spent my first year at BITS. I don't want to miss the TT room and the common room. Sight of friends pulling each others legs, loud noises from the rooms of people watching movies or playing PC games would surely bring back the memories of my past.

My lunch would be at RPA Mess with dal and chapati, the items which I despised in the past. And obviously ek ande ka rice wouldn't hurt!!! Then, I would like to visit the library which had been my home during the exams. I am especially interested to sit on my special corner seat in the library. I would then go to the Lecture Theatre Complex which has big, air conditioned class rooms. Although I had bitter experiences with my CP-II class at LTC, I would like to hang out there for a while.

After a brief stay at LTC, my next destination would be IPC. Then, I would head directly to the sky lawns for a cup of hot coffee and a veg pattie. Sky lawns is the favorite hang out place for pharma students especially after the hectic afternoon labs. After spending some quality time in the lawns, enjoying the gentle breeze, I would walk to the C-Lawns. C-lawns is indeed one the special places for me on the campus with memories of cricket matches won and lost.

I would then go to ShivGanga for a stroll along the small pond and offer my prayers at the Hanuman temple located at the corner. I would then attend the evening aarthi at Saraswathi temple. I would also like to spend some time enjoying the view of the clock tower sitting on the temple steps and the lawns in front. I would then straightly walk to Gulabji ki Reidi infront of the Vyas Bhawan for some casual talk with him. He was my only non-student friend at BITS. BITS Auditorium is one place which I definitely don't want to miss, and it would be more fun if some movie is being screened. Again, this was one place where I had maximum fun with my friends. I would also love to visit the Institute Canteen.

Nutan would be my next destination where familiar scenes of shopkeepers selling fruits, pani puri, cycle shop would greet me. Then, I would go to the C'not place to enjoy my dinner. The dishes would be: Dosa and curd Rice from Annapurna, Butter Naan and Dum Aloo from Green Field, Chicken Hot Pot Rice from Noble's. I would also like to enjoy a glass of milk shake sitting on the wall looking at the other students in C'not thinking about my good old days when I was a student. Grabbing a popcorn or a pack of ground nuts on my way back from c'not, my next stop would be at ANC. I would make sure to have enough space in my stomach to fit in a delicious fried maggi and a Nescafe Hot Chocolate. This was one place which I commonly visited at uncommon hours during my Bitsian life. Although I might have some notes to pay for the bill, I would like to pay with coins, counting them infront of the counter :)

My day would end with a gentle walk on the roads in the night, sitting under the Gandhi statue, relishing the times gone by and cherishing the sweet moments..

Truly looking forward to this, the perfect date.....

Obsessed

Yes, I am.. I am obsessed with internet..

Don't know whether there is a medical term associated with my strange disease, but here is the problem:

Whenever my laptop is running, I have this strange habit in which my fingers without the consent of my mind, involuntarily type in Times of India, Gmail, Orkut, Cricinfo, UMN-email, facebook one after the another. This happens atleast 5-6 times a day.The frequency of this strange happening increases if I don't have any work to do.

I have experienced similar happenings in the past with gtalk, when I signed in involuntarily in gtalk to be surprised by a ping from one of the frens leaving me wondering when I signed in? Guess what, i haven't checked the option "sign in automatically"!!!

Internet is definitely one of the best inventions by man but unfortunately, are we becoming the slaves? Looks like, me for sure!!!