a visit to btp guide

the above images capture mota's trip to his btp guide.. the first time this semester! observe the agony turn into ecstasy. his worst fears were left unconfirmed when guide didnt nail him the way he expected but instead sweetly told him how capable mota is and how much good work mota can do!

free loaders

last night we had an interesting experience with dinner....

on occasion of holi, the mess was closed. so me, arijit and chaube had no option bu to go outside to eat. having already eaten out several times during the week each of us shared a common concern: severe cash crunch.

to save money, we started by setting off for dinner by foot. walking thru the lakeside gate we finally made our way to HN. at HN we were once again at loss as to how to minimize the cost of our meal. we decided to wander about galleria looking for the cheapest joint to hit upon.

on reaching galleria, we found the entire place was swarming with iitians, most of whom we personally knew. that was it..... no need any more for us to order food! we geezed parathas from 4 different ppl, chopsuey and fried rice from another group, ice cream bites from several ppl stepping outside baskin etc..

in the process we also met rathi on a date who had momentarily stepped outside of mocha for a phone call... miserly fellow refused to lend us 50 bucks inspite of seeing our pitiful state.

nonetheless, courtesy some wingies, hostel sophies, department mates, hostel bathcmates, mi co-cgs etc.. we managed to have a good meal in bits and pieces.

nice drawing ...

revealing expressions

just look at the shy expression... and you know his (ex?)-babe has called.

whats new in my life...

1. a bundle of crisp 2 Rs bank notes thatt catch a hell lot of attention at shack.
2. a CBZ in exchange for my car. petrol economy rocks.
3. back to linux after 3 months. feel so much at home again. ftp server etc all up and working.
4. finally seriously picking up btp work...

everyone is talking abt the match yesterday... i saw it too. its stupid when you think abt it but matches like these start making you believe in miracles and all :P

undone

somethings cant be undone... try as hard as u might.

sometimes u make mistakes.... real gross and terrible ones. u can try as much to remedy it but u never can undo it.

its ok....

XX :(

Mondays 11.30 , Tuesdays 9.30 and Thursday 10.30.

Please wake me up for these lectures... If I miss a single more class in Digital Comm. System I am gonna get an XX in the course. Even if I attend all of them, I dunno what will happen.

desktop songs

recently i found an old cd lying in my room, full of mp3s i used to listen to in my third sem. i have filled my desktop with a bunch of such songs... most of them are pop numbers. a few of them have been picked by arijit too.

here is a list of some of these songs... try them out if u are bored or nostalgic :)

Cranberries - Promises, Animal Instinct
Steps - Tragedy
Black Eyed Peas - Shut Up
Baltimora - Tarzanboy
Al Green - Ain't no sunshine
Queen - We are the champions
Gala - Freed from desire
Enigma - Sadeness
N' Sync - Tearin up my heart
Goo Goo Dolls - Iris
Robbie Williams - Supreme
Limp Bizkit - Hate Me (MI2 theme)
Seal - Kiss from a rose
TLC- No scrubs
Ugly Kid Joe - Cats in the cradle

boathouse

went to boathouse this evening to enjoy the peace and breeze with mota and kshitij. we spent a lot time looking at the complex shapes formed by the clouds. took camera along..

nice pleasurable trip abruptly interrupted by the new mi ocs.

i am gonna get an XX i think and my btp is yet to kick off.. god help me pass out on time :P

imagine

... a day when u wake up, go to class in morning, have good lunch in mess, read novel all afternoon, play in the evening, do btp, go out for dinner with close friends, come back, gossip for a while, read, again and go to sleep. no fears, no mood swings, no drama, no regrets.

sounds trivial right? and yet so far fetched.......

a solution

last november i had posted the following lines... they strike me as significant once again.

a lot of things around you really don't have any viable solutions. is there any point in trying so hard to seek solutions? isn't it easier to just live with them without bothering?

where do u draw the line between being cautious and overreacting?

how about trying to live and enjoy the present with no baggage from the past and no fears of the future? is that being happy or is it being reckless?

- 29th November 2005

sometimes you are faced with a sticky situation that you really cant get out of. one way or the other, you cannot find a happy way around it. its a lose - lose situation. its times like this when you really wish u cud just vanish. now if only that were a viable solution....

strawberries

i spent a whole weekend eating delicious strawberries, playing cricket with a pokemon ball and an empty pepsi 2 ltr bottle, losing at uno and clicking photos.

running off to mahabaleshwar last weekend was a cool thing to do indeed. it takes 5 hours to get there by car. its best to leave arnd 4 am and ascend the ghats at sunrise. the spectacular view of the mountains and valleys are unforgettable. the hill station is full of strawberry gardens scattered on the hill side. i have never tasted bigger or sweeter strawberries than on this trip.

if u get bored of mahabaleshwar, its lake and points; u can always drive off to panchgani. around 20 km away, this hill station is popular for boarding schools and a flat expanse of land called table plateau on the top of a hill.

i hope to visit atleast a few other nearby places in the two months before passing out of iit.

the return

why did i stop blogging?

* ran out of ideas
* lost enthu
* no comp access

why do i intend to resume?

* comp started working
* nothing better to do