Disclaimer: Firstly this is personal opinion, I just thought it's high time we spent some time in retrospection on the current state of affairs in India. Bharath here implies INDIA ;)
On a serious note, whats happening in India? Secular India... We are the engineers of our country, but how is the knowledge put into use, making bombs using ammonium nitrate, hacking into accnts and sending mails, sending mails from fake accounts. Shame on us. We see movies like rang de basanti... we see the news with blood splattered bodies lying around crying for help, we VOW to bring about change in our country, we talk ILL about our politicians, frankly what else do we do? n yes we write essays on our vision for INDIA... even if it's purely for the credit;).
Extremism exists in all religions. Tolerance has gone down too low. Atrocities against christians, recent ones being in Orissa, has been on the rise. The hindu-muslim riots can be traced back to our independence. We blame Jinnah and Pakistanies blame Ghandiji/Nehru.
The recent bomb blasts in Delhi with IM claiming responsibility for it is THE final straw. The most depressing fact is that these terror attacks have their origin from Indian soil, the devil is within our country itself. B'lore,Hyderabad, Jaipur and now Delhi. Mumbai and karnataka on red alert... frankly is it time to declare emergency rule here? like during the time of Indira Gandhi, clean up the dirty politics and bring the terrorists to court.
Monday, September 15, 2008
Saturday, August 16, 2008
Boring sem ahead??
How true is the fact that anything done in excess turns out to be an addiction... from the beginning of this month I've been sleeping so late into the night...or rather the wee hours of morning after watching movies on the LAN...and now we supposedly have "high speed " net... so chatting has become another favourite pasttime. I just wanted a break from the "NITC" life. So I hibernated into the virtual world for almost 2 weeks. Probably created a record by watching 6 movies in one day.Now comes the "BANG" -->reality... just a year left..quit the virtual world and come into terms with reality. I love this place and I'm sure I'll miss it.So I've taken a decision ...Want to actually talk(as in vocally ;) ) to all my batchmates(lets start with classmates first) and get to atleast know all of them by their name.Rather far fetched eh?
It's rather grim that most of us do not even know many of our own batchmates.Maybe we ought to have some 4th yr party. How many of us have actually spoken to all our classmates...even if it's just a word? Some of us have quit trying... thinking that it's no use.. so get stuck with the same gang in class or another gang outside class.I've decided to actually go ahead and break the ice(in case it exists) with my classmates. Easier said than done.. but It's worth the effort.If we never live atleast the last year of our college life enjoying every part of it,then we'll only regret it later. Guess we'll have some exciting stuff this year..now that we have elections :) ...after a gap of one year ..
It's rather grim that most of us do not even know many of our own batchmates.Maybe we ought to have some 4th yr party. How many of us have actually spoken to all our classmates...even if it's just a word? Some of us have quit trying... thinking that it's no use.. so get stuck with the same gang in class or another gang outside class.I've decided to actually go ahead and break the ice(in case it exists) with my classmates. Easier said than done.. but It's worth the effort.If we never live atleast the last year of our college life enjoying every part of it,then we'll only regret it later. Guess we'll have some exciting stuff this year..now that we have elections :) ...after a gap of one year ..
Monday, June 16, 2008
The Best Alternative…
I have wanted to write testimonials for quite a few people, but the idea of logging to orkut and firing off testimonials rather puts me off, apart from the fact that I would hav innumerable friend requests to accept/reject and umpteen scraps to reply to…nah I’m not blowing my trumpet. It’s just that orkut’s blocked in Abu Dhabi …where I had spent my vacs for a month.
So here goes:
Gayo : I’ve promised her to write a testi for quite some time :D.
My 1st year roommate, so full of energy and enthusiasm. A great friend and a mobile phone addict (each call duration is in hours…never minutes..Neethix n me always wonder where she gets so much topics to talk on!!). Well known for her laughter. She has reached the limit of answering phone calls with her laugh, chucking the traditional “hello”. A great food lover, anyone gets anything from home, Gayo’s always there :D. She’s too good that way…she’ll eat almost anything. A good listener and an impulsive person. Short tempered at times…
Jamz: A very understanding friend, who’s always been there thru’ thick and thin(however chiche it sounds…). Given thoughtful advice and encouragement. Can’t write more…she’s just such a sweet friend.
Neethix:This is for my testimonial which she accidentally removed from orkut…or so she says ;)… Lots have changed since the last testi i wrote for her. My adjacent floor mate who’s one of the coolest girls I’ve met. Someone who has been there during “troubled times”… Well,I guess this is a bit too cryptic, but can’t mention more about it. A brilliant girl who’s given me a rather flattering testimonial in orkut :D.
Paro: An all rounder… a phodu in nitc lingo…a very friendly girl with a great social network….mind u it’s WAN not LAN(okay PJ…).Impulsive by nature. Might lose temper at times ;). Fun to b around with.
Meenu: Well, Meenu is one person who there’s no words to describe.. the most methodical person I’ve ever met. A very practical girl who’s been a great counselor… stopping me from taking impulsive decisions which might hav been catastrophic .
You can easily identify her room… it’s got lot’s of post-it scraps stuck on her door with everyone asking her to wake them up…she’s a good alarm ;)
Loads of people to write about…the list continues on…Nami, V. Kavi, Kavi Mohan, Neethu.
Ps: 3rd year girls note: This time Nami would surely have to jump from the parapet. She’ll surely get the best actress award one day …
So here goes:
Gayo : I’ve promised her to write a testi for quite some time :D.
My 1st year roommate, so full of energy and enthusiasm. A great friend and a mobile phone addict (each call duration is in hours…never minutes..Neethix n me always wonder where she gets so much topics to talk on!!). Well known for her laughter. She has reached the limit of answering phone calls with her laugh, chucking the traditional “hello”. A great food lover, anyone gets anything from home, Gayo’s always there :D. She’s too good that way…she’ll eat almost anything. A good listener and an impulsive person. Short tempered at times…
Jamz: A very understanding friend, who’s always been there thru’ thick and thin(however chiche it sounds…). Given thoughtful advice and encouragement. Can’t write more…she’s just such a sweet friend.
Neethix:This is for my testimonial which she accidentally removed from orkut…or so she says ;)… Lots have changed since the last testi i wrote for her. My adjacent floor mate who’s one of the coolest girls I’ve met. Someone who has been there during “troubled times”… Well,I guess this is a bit too cryptic, but can’t mention more about it. A brilliant girl who’s given me a rather flattering testimonial in orkut :D.
Paro: An all rounder… a phodu in nitc lingo…a very friendly girl with a great social network….mind u it’s WAN not LAN(okay PJ…).Impulsive by nature. Might lose temper at times ;). Fun to b around with.
Meenu: Well, Meenu is one person who there’s no words to describe.. the most methodical person I’ve ever met. A very practical girl who’s been a great counselor… stopping me from taking impulsive decisions which might hav been catastrophic .
You can easily identify her room… it’s got lot’s of post-it scraps stuck on her door with everyone asking her to wake them up…she’s a good alarm ;)
Loads of people to write about…the list continues on…Nami, V. Kavi, Kavi Mohan, Neethu.
Ps: 3rd year girls note: This time Nami would surely have to jump from the parapet. She’ll surely get the best actress award one day …
Saturday, April 26, 2008
Another sem over,we are final years!!
We have finally come to the end of a "long" sem at NITC...s6 Btech..long and hectic.Our seniors are leaving and we are goin 2 be the 4th yrs...a.k.a the "jobless" 4th yrs..wonder how it's going to be,coz until now we had all revved up days,in the sense loads of work,labs and submissions.Everyday there was something or the other...next sem we have just one lab.
Tis sem was different in a variety of ways:
Firstly,this sem was a pretty long one in the sense...many activities got postponed...due to unfortunate circumstances...had loadz of holidays too...due to all this.
Secondly there was a start to new things,some startling revelations,some really sad events, so many new couples ;) and many more.
Thirdly,in Lh, we managed to convince the authorities to renovate the Basketball court...now it's cemented and has a ring,though I must confess that the court is being used for many other activities other than basketball...
Fourthly,normally at the end of the sem,when the end sems are over...everyone tends to be in a happy mood...but this time...all my friends and me...all of us were feeling very wierd and sad.Reasons being different ranged from seniors leaving to we being 4th yrs(leaving within a year).
Fifthly, we went on a trip to bangalore.
The best part is even in 4th year we are staying in the same hostel.I love this place...have been in this hostel since second year.As I have mentioned in one of my earlier posts...none of have any intentions of shifting to the new hostel...it's like dungeons,though the rooms are more spacious.The current first years are shifting there.
Finally, I hate to admit this, but I'll miss this sem,I know many of my friends will disagree on this point,but I can't help it. There are many reasons like I had my many "firsts" in this sem and I loved it.
This sem was pretty fast too,very fast with not many instructional days. One more year in this college and we are leaving...it's hard to imagine. I still remember my first day at college, me sitting with thanu.I remember my first year days with my dear "roomies",gayo n divya.Since there was absolutely no change in the classrooms...always stuck in the main block,there are no memories of the DB.
Before I get too emotional thinking about past stuff, I'm signing out :)
cheers
Anna
Tis sem was different in a variety of ways:
Firstly,this sem was a pretty long one in the sense...many activities got postponed...due to unfortunate circumstances...had loadz of holidays too...due to all this.
Secondly there was a start to new things,some startling revelations,some really sad events, so many new couples ;) and many more.
Thirdly,in Lh, we managed to convince the authorities to renovate the Basketball court...now it's cemented and has a ring,though I must confess that the court is being used for many other activities other than basketball...
Fourthly,normally at the end of the sem,when the end sems are over...everyone tends to be in a happy mood...but this time...all my friends and me...all of us were feeling very wierd and sad.Reasons being different ranged from seniors leaving to we being 4th yrs(leaving within a year).
Fifthly, we went on a trip to bangalore.
The best part is even in 4th year we are staying in the same hostel.I love this place...have been in this hostel since second year.As I have mentioned in one of my earlier posts...none of have any intentions of shifting to the new hostel...it's like dungeons,though the rooms are more spacious.The current first years are shifting there.
Finally, I hate to admit this, but I'll miss this sem,I know many of my friends will disagree on this point,but I can't help it. There are many reasons like I had my many "firsts" in this sem and I loved it.
This sem was pretty fast too,very fast with not many instructional days. One more year in this college and we are leaving...it's hard to imagine. I still remember my first day at college, me sitting with thanu.I remember my first year days with my dear "roomies",gayo n divya.Since there was absolutely no change in the classrooms...always stuck in the main block,there are no memories of the DB.
Before I get too emotional thinking about past stuff, I'm signing out :)
cheers
Anna
Tuesday, April 01, 2008
The First Day of the last month in the third year of college life
Maybe it's better in simple terms: April Fools Day!
Today was a day when most of the ppl did not miss a single chance which they got to fool their friends.Yesterday night itself one of my friends.."A " send a message to many of our classmates stating that she has no balance n they had to call immediately coz it was URGENT. The fact that she is one of the girls who would not play such pranks made literally every single person called back!.. and the fact that I had dozed off pretty early yest night had saved me my last 1 re (no free calls :(... when they called.. she just laughed n wished "Happy Birthday"...The best part was the reaction from few of our guy classmates. One guy actually said that today was not his birthday ...DUH! another guy started shouting at poor A. Another incident that took place... the first years actually sealed all their classroom doors' keyholes with cement!! What an ingenious idea. Though there was some commotion initially, their classes was shifted to DB. I'm not quite sure if it was an April fools prank. Anyways we did not have first hour coz of that.(one of our classes happen to be in their complex ..ELHC). Many more pranks played by many ppl .. but these were high in the list. One of my school friends birthday happens to be today and coincidently everyone calls her Viddi (her name is Vidhu).Some birthdays are never forgotten. :)
Today was a day when most of the ppl did not miss a single chance which they got to fool their friends.Yesterday night itself one of my friends.."A " send a message to many of our classmates stating that she has no balance n they had to call immediately coz it was URGENT. The fact that she is one of the girls who would not play such pranks made literally every single person called back!.. and the fact that I had dozed off pretty early yest night had saved me my last 1 re (no free calls :(... when they called.. she just laughed n wished "Happy Birthday"...The best part was the reaction from few of our guy classmates. One guy actually said that today was not his birthday ...DUH! another guy started shouting at poor A. Another incident that took place... the first years actually sealed all their classroom doors' keyholes with cement!! What an ingenious idea. Though there was some commotion initially, their classes was shifted to DB. I'm not quite sure if it was an April fools prank. Anyways we did not have first hour coz of that.(one of our classes happen to be in their complex ..ELHC). Many more pranks played by many ppl .. but these were high in the list. One of my school friends birthday happens to be today and coincidently everyone calls her Viddi (her name is Vidhu).Some birthdays are never forgotten. :)
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Ragam 08...My Muse,My Canvas
Ragam's back again this time...Today was the inauguration and performance by a band Raghu Dixit...mostly hindi pop. Tomorrow is the much awaited choreo nite.. that's one show i don't wan to miss! friday night is the Pro Show by Karthik (tamil singer) and finally on sat is the "creme de la creme" (read it as Fashion Show for the uninitiated). I guess this time Ragam is quite a low key affair considering the current scenario in our college. The accident of the Joint Convenor of Ragam was quite unfortunate.I guess our OAT(open air theatre) would be jam packed for the choreo nite. The last time when we had the pro show by Shaan, people were sitting on top of the walls of the OAT and wherever they could stand! That show was one of the best things that happened in NITC.
Chal then
Cya @ NITC during Ragam 08
After all it's all about U
For details check out the site ragam.org.in
Signing off
anna
Chal then
Cya @ NITC during Ragam 08
After all it's all about U
For details check out the site ragam.org.in
Signing off
anna
Saturday, March 08, 2008
Changes...
“Nothing in this world is constant or forever except Change...”
Just the other day I was having a serious discussion with my friend about the changes in all our lives at the end of 3 yrs of our college life...There are so many changes and four years is a pretty long period in this college,but how fast it has gone none of us can grasp. Starting with 1st yr E batch , 2nd yr and 3rd yr comp sci has gone so fast...all that is left is memories. All of us have changed ..some for the better and some for the worse but nobody is the same.Most of us have done stuff we would have never done in school and would never do after we leave college. Many things had been first time for many people...
Initially when we started bunking class....we would feel guilty.. but later there's not even the guilt...classes have been bunked for reasons ranging from lab work to catching on sleep to plain laziness.
All the whacky stuff that we did in our 1st year for sangam, debutante, adrenaline ... some things make us laugh even now.. where as somethings make us turn red with embarassment.
I cannot imagine how “well” comp sci had performed for the ADZAP in 1st yr...n loadz of other events where we do wacky stuff...reaching the limit of our creativity. In LH we have this “ 300's “ group ...that's the ppl who stay in the 3rd floor of 3rd yr block in LH. One crazy gang of people.. who have many things in common other than being on the 3rd floor... we tend 2 be extremely creative duriing exam times (read as “hyperactive”) ...celebrate “FP” days (facepack days where v have photo shoots) and solve ABC puzzles(somethin to do with people being A B and C.. n guess them.. from our colg.. n mostly from our yr...it leads to startling relevations ;)...) and loadz of other similar stuff just 2 days before the exams. Once celebrating an inmate's b'day .. one of the 300's ..Supi ran with the whole cake and the rest of the 300's running behind her.. it was 12:15 and the rest of the hostel was quiet... soon the gaurds came running thinking that some robber had crept into LH...what they saw made them mad...they cursed and went back... :) One crazy gang of ppl.. n i'll miss evyrone of them.. we were thinkin what wud have happened if we hadn't ended up taking rooms in the top floor in the 2nd yr... (we have single rooms) ...being in any other floor and with any other set of ppl wud never be the same...never the same fun... ervy single one.. nami , supi, viddi , anita , shane , meenu , paro , neethiks , gayo , jamz , krishna , kavi , cini , sheba , nematho , neethu , ria , reshmi , reeni ...hope i have included every 300. Always before the exams every single 300 would have to discuss ervythin under the sun except for studies...which comes as part of the discussion somewhere. While every other floor would be quiet only the 3rd floor would have ppl talking and laughing...ofcourse by 9 the talks die down since the next day would be the sessionals. A rumour about exams getting postponed would be enough to start a celebration...I remember when the college had an epidemic of chicken pox.. the day before the exams someone said that exams are postponed..n ervy1 started celebrating...the next day came to know that the 1st yrs and 2nd yrs have leave for 2 weeks and we have the sessionals the next day!! Even this time before the 2nd sessionals someone said something about sports day.. n there was a huge uproar...which was later never spoken about.
I'm sure that if there's anything i would definitely miss in this college it would be the LH(ladies hostel for the uninitiated). Everything else comes after that. Our comp sci class has grown closer after the b'lore trip... unfortunately all were not there... but the trip would be a memorable one for quite a few.
About the trip in another post...
till then
adieu
Just the other day I was having a serious discussion with my friend about the changes in all our lives at the end of 3 yrs of our college life...There are so many changes and four years is a pretty long period in this college,but how fast it has gone none of us can grasp. Starting with 1st yr E batch , 2nd yr and 3rd yr comp sci has gone so fast...all that is left is memories. All of us have changed ..some for the better and some for the worse but nobody is the same.Most of us have done stuff we would have never done in school and would never do after we leave college. Many things had been first time for many people...
Initially when we started bunking class....we would feel guilty.. but later there's not even the guilt...classes have been bunked for reasons ranging from lab work to catching on sleep to plain laziness.
All the whacky stuff that we did in our 1st year for sangam, debutante, adrenaline ... some things make us laugh even now.. where as somethings make us turn red with embarassment.
I cannot imagine how “well” comp sci had performed for the ADZAP in 1st yr...n loadz of other events where we do wacky stuff...reaching the limit of our creativity. In LH we have this “ 300's “ group ...that's the ppl who stay in the 3rd floor of 3rd yr block in LH. One crazy gang of people.. who have many things in common other than being on the 3rd floor... we tend 2 be extremely creative duriing exam times (read as “hyperactive”) ...celebrate “FP” days (facepack days where v have photo shoots) and solve ABC puzzles(somethin to do with people being A B and C.. n guess them.. from our colg.. n mostly from our yr...it leads to startling relevations ;)...) and loadz of other similar stuff just 2 days before the exams. Once celebrating an inmate's b'day .. one of the 300's ..Supi ran with the whole cake and the rest of the 300's running behind her.. it was 12:15 and the rest of the hostel was quiet... soon the gaurds came running thinking that some robber had crept into LH...what they saw made them mad...they cursed and went back... :) One crazy gang of ppl.. n i'll miss evyrone of them.. we were thinkin what wud have happened if we hadn't ended up taking rooms in the top floor in the 2nd yr... (we have single rooms) ...being in any other floor and with any other set of ppl wud never be the same...never the same fun... ervy single one.. nami , supi, viddi , anita , shane , meenu , paro , neethiks , gayo , jamz , krishna , kavi , cini , sheba , nematho , neethu , ria , reshmi , reeni ...hope i have included every 300. Always before the exams every single 300 would have to discuss ervythin under the sun except for studies...which comes as part of the discussion somewhere. While every other floor would be quiet only the 3rd floor would have ppl talking and laughing...ofcourse by 9 the talks die down since the next day would be the sessionals. A rumour about exams getting postponed would be enough to start a celebration...I remember when the college had an epidemic of chicken pox.. the day before the exams someone said that exams are postponed..n ervy1 started celebrating...the next day came to know that the 1st yrs and 2nd yrs have leave for 2 weeks and we have the sessionals the next day!! Even this time before the 2nd sessionals someone said something about sports day.. n there was a huge uproar...which was later never spoken about.
I'm sure that if there's anything i would definitely miss in this college it would be the LH(ladies hostel for the uninitiated). Everything else comes after that. Our comp sci class has grown closer after the b'lore trip... unfortunately all were not there... but the trip would be a memorable one for quite a few.
About the trip in another post...
till then
adieu
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