A Rebel Without a Clue

where were you hiding, Mister??

2009-12-22T10:39:00.000-08:00

I know that would be the first question on your minds as I havent updated my (beloved?) blog for quite some time. Well i wasn't hiding anywhere , i couldn't update my blog at nitk because it was technologically hit. Pretty badly hit, mind you. My block didn't have internet for most of the sem. we did get it back later( when we weren't thatfree anymore and much closer to the exams).The problem wasnt much actually but like every other government institution the effort and the material required to fix the problem was lacking. It was pretty pathetic from the college's point of view.link Makes me wonder, what were these guys smoking when they gave gave this award.

i found myself a new IDOL. Jack *fucking*BAuer. What a fucking god amongst men.This man is immortal and can never die no matter what. Kiefer sutherland's portrayal of jack bauer is quite simply marvellous and 24 is the best series i have seen in my life. I dont think anything will get better. Well i am such a big fan of Sutherland now that i plan to get an identical tattoo like his - a chain armband(please dont mistake me for an obssessed teenage girl, I am not!!!!!!). Since i am getting so excited over a show it only means that nothing much goes on in my life(all fingers are pointed to the demon that is engineering). Whereever i am , studies seems to be staring at me from all four sides. I mean study that language, code this, code that, internship. There seems to be so many things which i must necessarily do to stay alive in this world of cut throat competition.Not very cool.

This is just adding to the infinite thoughts that are already filling up my head... Was the alien sex scene in Avatar disturbing or hot(I see you)? why does that feel more realistic than me and scarlett johansson ever happening?am I team edward or team Jacob?? will boriello score more goals than the Number of STD's he has had?? oh and finally

RIP the very beautiful Brittany Murphy.Such a tragic loss...

Thats all folks

2009-07-18T23:22:00.000-07:00

The holidays, they have finally come to a close. The three months of holidays seemed like eternity . I have done nothing special though. Just honed my laziness skills and more importantly doing one thing which i always want to do in college -> be alone , relax and day dream. But I did plan my holidays too ( lame, i know ).

1) There were quite a few shows i wanted to watch. after finishing Himym, the big bang theory, two and a half men , scrubs , wonder years, all i can say is DONE. Am a happy man.

2) There were plenty of movies i wanted to watch. Ranging from drama, comdies with insanely sick humour, thriller, and even silly romantic comedies. i have atleast watched 100 movies and all were excellent , so a pat on the back for me and good movies make me feel good.DONE

3) learn the friedrich method for solving rubik's cube. Completely pointless since the end result is always the same but nevertheless DONE

4) dont slouch of and become a couch potato . Well after watching fight club and getting inspired by brad pitt's god like physique i hit the gym hard. i kinda liked workin out and the feeling of strength( Some guys are gonna get it while arm wrestling this sem B-) ) So DONE

5) Read a fantastic Novel . YEAH RIGHT!!! . Still not able to finish LOTR even though i started out 6 yrs ago. A worthy tribute to JRR tolkien , i am. well 4/5 is not that bad.

The holidays had some speed bumps as well. I discovered that even though ppl are afraid of aids and cancer nobody pays attention to throat ulcers even though its fuckin deadly. i wasnt able to drink water , let alone eat food. my life was a horrible hell for 2 weeks and i don wanna deal with this shit again. I wanted to evade a visit to my best buddies from the world of medicine - dermatologists. All was going according to plan until i had to visit one for clearing a mark which was getting hard to get rid of created by my spectacles. Drat and double drat!!! The whole internet world is like a herd of sheep and everyone just follows the trend. I am just another sheep , so i joined twitter when everyone else is tweeting. All though it doesnt seem like a big deal i still continue to use it. John mayer and ashton kutcher are excellent tweeters but my college friends with their rare tweets are a disgrace( sorry fellas :D). Anyway another random fact to conclude with- i bought another pair of running shoes so that i dont have to use my expensive Fila basketball shoes :proud:( side note- how cheap can i get? buying a shoe and not using it. whats the point anyway? i cant seem to explain it to myself but somehow in my own small world it all makes sense). Bye for now and everyone remember to vaccinate ur dogs :P. Peace out.

Farewell Paolo....

2009-06-02T02:26:00.000-07:00

This month is an emotional one for milan fans like me because our hero Paolo Maldini hangs up his legendary boots after 25 years of service unrivalled in terms of loyalty and sheer class of the performances. Maldini is the perfect example for a one club man as he has completed a long journey from the youth academy to this match in that one jersey giving his heart and soul in every match he played .In his distinguished career he has won everything possible at Milan . Seven scudetti, Five champions league titles,5 Uefa super cups,1 coppa italia, 2 intercontinental cups and 1 FIFA club world cup. Sadly he had no luck with the italian national team ending up on the losing side even after great tournaments .

Well on a personal note Maldini was one of the primary reasons i chose Milan as my club .He had a whole aura around him which makes just take notice. His sliding tackle for me was more joyous to watch then any flashy attacking move. He made defending an art form which so few can claim to have mastered .I dont think i Can blindly call him the best player ever because there are so many aspects to deciding that and a decsion must be reached without thinking like a fan. But i can most certainly call him 'my favourite player' because of the player that he is and what he has done for the club .Watching Milan without him will be unthinkable but i have to move on and so do so many Rossoneri. Maldini is not just not a mere player , he is an extraordinary leader and i know that there wont be anyone ever who will wear the armband like Paolo Maldini has.. farewell Paolo , you may retire from the game but never from our hearts

GRAZIE IL '3' CAPITANO

his last moments on the field

Like No other....Kat dennings

2009-05-18T00:59:00.001-07:00

A very big day in my personal world. After 5 or6 long years , Scarlett Johansson is no longer on the top of my Hottest females on earth/crush list . Yes , the queen has finally been displaced by someone called Kat Dennings( I thought this would never happen , but it has happened).

Now Kat isn't "conventionally" pretty as people would put it. But i find her whole look (kinda gothish) freakin gorgeous. Now that shouldnt be enough to displace Queen Scarlett isnt it? perfectly yes. Kat Though not as good as an actor as scarlett , is pretty good herself. She is making her mark now and has been good in some of the films i have seen( Charlie Bartlett, Nick and norah's infinite playlist). Getting to the point, Now I absolutely hate the young hollywood bimbos like paris hilton, Lindsay Lohan, Miley Cyrus etc etc. I dont know whats more pissing off - the cheesy "Thats's Hot" one liner /Numerous sex tapes of hilton, Lindsay's constant flirtations with death/drugs all to get a little attention or Miley cyrus's recent bag of controversies. All in all I dont like it and feel these dumb, lifeless actresses should be sent to Mars so that we get only important news in the papers not an article which says lindsay is staright/lesbian/bi now. Okay what is so fantastic about Kat is that she is the complete opposite of young hollywood actresses. Down to earth, A personality of pure gold and she is a totally hilarious. The fact that she continues to write her blog which she started as a teenager even after becoming famous is fantastic. I like it when celebs try to keep in touch with their fans who make them who they are today. *clap clap clap *. Kat also has a vlog on youtube( now who would do something like that!!!). Now if you browse through the videos you'll find an individual who is a totally wackjob :d (I like ) and downright hilarious . A fantastic sense of humour makes a woman 100 times more beautiful than she already is and boy does kat dennings seem FUN which is the reason she has become the apple of my eye.

Ps- i still love u Queen Scarlett. You are the apple of my other eye :D :D :D

A New Passion

2009-04-26T03:45:00.000-07:00

This thing on the left is the new love of my life, a Rubik's cube. Rubik's cube - a puzzle made in the 70's by erno rubik quickly rose to be the puzzle everyone wanted to solve. Its poularity skyrocketed after its invention and now everyone has seen or atleast heard of rubik's cube. I am one of those people who are totally addicted to this wonderful , wonderful thing . I first heard of the cube sometime back but obviously i couldnt solve it and i quietly forgot about it with sudoku occupying my mind. This sem sometime in Jan there was a rubik's cube workshop held in my college . As was the case with every workshop i decided to ditch this too preferring to lie on my arse enjoying yet another nap. But people returned with an algorithm sheet and suddenly everyone started solving it and quickly it became a craze in the coll. I looked around as people started solving it quicker and quicker without breaking a sweat . Srini was even doing it in the class. It was then I thought "Man i NEED to solve the cube" . As soon as I went back to blore for a mini break i sat in front of the comp looking at video tutorials and surprisingly i found it bloody easy to solve. But then even though i can comfortably solve it i keep doing it again and again for hours together even though i know the end result is always the same. Doing it faster is the main aim now and now i can do it within 2 minutes( not that good but i am trying hard to get it within 1 ). So i will leave u with two ppl who can really teach YOU how to solve the cube. Try it, its simple.

1) http://www.youtube.com/user/badmephisto

Search for the videos in his page. he teaches u the fridrich method

2)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsQIoPyfQzM&feature=fvst

part 1 from pogobat(dan brown). part 2 and 3 in related videos . this is the simpler way to solve and he really explains it well.

To prove i ain't bluffing here is a video of me solving the cube in 1 min 33 or 34 secs. Excuse the weird facial expressions i can't think without making those. lol.

Is it really over???

2009-04-19T03:43:00.000-07:00

I am having a hard time convincing myself that I am through with my first year of engineering. It only feels like yesterday when i came for counselling and received a shock when i found out that coll starts very early because of supposed water problems in the summer. we got very good proof of this later. Right after incident i woke up late and when i went to brush my teeth i got a rude shock . No water at all!!!So i thought i would go to the next block and manage and i thought this water problem would end in a day or two like always. I was never more wrong in my life!!!. While iitians are worried about what components to use to make their next robot, we nitkians are wondering where will take our next crap. Yes roaming around the campus looking for a block with water is certainly tiresome and it does make a strong impact. the word hygiene got deleted from our dictionary. Skipping bath became common and washing clothes was a luxury .I also noticed that people stopped playing as a bath was necessary due to the heavy sweat output and who wants to have extra bath???? A protest was made but nobody cared about it. The water problem was soon forgotten when room allotment began where i saw politics being played better than bjp- congress. Every party wanted a good room for themselves and there was a lot of arguments as to who gets what .Finally a mutual consensus and people took rooms where they were told to. This was just a teaser to NITK politics. The real thing was the election for class representatives and head of union/engi/inci for next year. Boy, was this scary politics. Like real life two big alliances were formed , promises were made, backstabbing was also present , each alliance tried to play their right cards and the most shrewd guy won in the end. I was just happy my cr is venkat, a good friend of mine who has good qualities to be a cr. As month ended studies piled up and i forced myself to slog . End sems were like as usual a blurry week with no sleep . i am happy that is over and i have 3 months of hols to look forward to.

This one year has been great for me. I initially took time to adjust and didnt like my class s1 much as they raped me in relative grading but all that they changed in the second sem as i got to know them better . Now i dont care if they screw me in relative grading because they are my friends and i would like them anyways. I really feel the unity of this class was fantastic and kudos to the cr giri for doing just that. I would have to say though i would miss being in s1 dozing in class all the time, bearing the weirdiest teachers u'll find on the face of he earth, putting proxies, getting proxies, copying in all surprise tests . Next year as we separate into our own branches i am happy that i got many of my s1 friends in 3rd block 2nd floor ( Sadly not all :( ). So i am sure i'll be having a blast next year. Second year, I await thee.....

Beyond Expression....!

2009-03-19T03:12:00.000-07:00

The month of february is usually the most awaited month in college. We have our two main fests Engineer and a cultural fest Incident. Seniors kept talking about it the whole of last sem and the hype was building and we couldnt wait for the month of feb to start. Feb begun on a slightly sad note as we had the small matter of mid sem exams but we crossed that hurdle and we were ready to have a blast. It didnt exactly work out that way though. First up was Engineer and that is Boring like hell. It was all about geeky robotics stuff and boring seminars by boring people for students who dont want to be bored . So you can imagine how engi panned out for me. Since engi was dead boring i was looking at inci to add some spark into my life and oh Boy it didnt disappoint!!!! Incident was amazing .There were a lot of events in which even i could be interested in participating( quizzes mostly and yes nothing involving robotics :P).
One of the best part of inci was the basketball events . There was a regular basketball tournament plus the extra 3 point shootout and dunk competititon. Obvs Nitk was the most favoured team( not in the girls event , mind you. MCC girls were heavily favoured there for very obvious reasons, so much so that people decided to go to the western musicals a bit late because of the MCC vs BMSCE match). The 3 point out shootout was won by nikhilesh of NITK but what was surprising for me and really really really impressive was when the captain of the MCC team finished second beating tons of guys . Women are catching up with men i tell, its a bad sign :P. In the regular tournament there was a lot of drama as well. two matches i rememeber vividly was the semis and the finals. THe semi between josephs and jain was pure class. Josephs leading 57-55 with 3 secs to go and what happens next is unbeleievable. The no 7 of jain just chucks the ball from little over the halfway line and the ball just goes in drawing gasps and shocks all around . He rightfully received a standing ovation after that.Jain scripted a dream story with a surprise victory over a strong and grossly underperforming nitk. During this time girls from bangalore colleges who were all over the campus made many nitkians have second thoughts about joining this college. The night shows were obviously were people had a blast. Be it the eastern musical, western , fashion show, DJ nite and the concert by ganjawalla attendance was great and it was a big hit. a band called evergreen performed at western musicals and i really thought they were good. They played two covers of maiden well especially "burn".
But the marquee events , what people are still talking about were the fashion show and the concert by ganjawala . The fashion show was really not a fashion show in the typical sense because people go to a fashion show to look at clothes but 500+ nitk eyes were only fixed on women from ramaiah and manipal modelling the clothes lol. Much to the shock of everyone around it was the boys team with their amazing costumes who win it and i think it was the right decision even though i dont want to beleive it :P. Dj nite was sad! Even though nikhil chinappa came, I discovered that techno is very very monotonous and doesnt have much range. Are electric and techno the same and could anyone spot the difference????? And everyone said kunal ganjawala concert was reallly good ( I didnt attend though because i wasnt well which has been the case this whole semester :( ) .As for me i participated in lit events , mostly all quizzes and all though i didnt do that well since my quizzing standards have drastically dropped from what it was once i do promise to return next year hopefully as a better quizzer. Incident was amazing . It stayed true to its tagline as we were rightfully left "beyond expression". Can't wait for next year!!

Stay Away from me...

2009-02-08T00:44:00.000-08:00

No its not you of course , its that darned fella exams..... We all hate it but we have to learn to live with it. Exam times are the times you always dread where your life becomes hell for a week. You are sad before the exam and still not releived after it because its always on your mind that you are one step closer to a bigger exam. And the education cycle continues. Me? I keep thinking of ways to live a normal life during the exam time as i dont like to over-burden myself(but i end up doing so 10 times out of ten).

*The best way to combat an exam is to study continuosly so that very less is left at the end. I realized the importance of this last sem as i got fucked trying to fit everything in my cranium at the end. So i decided that this semester would be different. Fast forward to one week before the mid sem exam and i was making a study plan as to how to fit everything-in again. You guessed it right. I didnt even look at the books til then...lol

*The plan is near perfect. The execution on the other hand is pathetic
Plan-: 1) come back from previous exam. start of at 2
2) 2- 4:45- Study physics( which is day after) so that the burden becomes less
3) start Mech which is the next day. first up , 5:00 to 7:30 - Refrigeration and air conditioning
4)Dinner and then 8:00 to 9:00-: Steam
5) 9:00 to 9:45 - Ic engines
6) 9:45 to 10:30 - power transmission and we are done ! foolproof plan. i should be an architect. Bath, and then do some other subject

Execution-: - doze off till 4:30 , at 12 i have finished just refrigeration and steam . I stink- someone drag me to the bathroom.

* You always waste time in useless things like chatting and gossip(yes this happens in a boys hostel, a lot actually) but when it comes to doing the important things in life u have second thoughts. why? because in that 5 minutes we could revise what we studied. Smart, aren't we? For example When i wake up on the morning of an exam i always look lazily at my toothbrush thinking" Do i really have to????, i can revise in that time". Forcibly , with a little help from anurag who always try to keep the room sane while me and Manoj act like spoilt brats, I inspire myself to brush my teeth. After multiple cavaties i have improved myself to brushing twice a day. wohoooooo!!!!!. What brushing is for me is bathing for manoj. His theory is " If you have bath at midnight , isnt it a bath for thursday and friday".Hitting two birds with one stone as the yanks put it. He didnt get an IITjEE EMl for nothing you know. But credit to him, this time he has had bath on all three days of the mid sem. So kudos to our room. 25 rocks!!!!

* As the fed-ex was getting derailed i had begun to lose interest in Tennis from the beginning of last yr. Add the fact that Juju( Justine Henin) retired tennis took a big backseat. But the day before Math my interest in tennis was revived and i Had to watch that match. To my pleasant surprise the tv room was full. No one wanted to study, haha.

*At the end of it all , you always come out saying, " Shit , that was bad i could have scored better if i prepared regularly. I will change myself... blah blah blah...". After a piss poor physics exam i am saying the same thing. I will study physics every week from now on. I will leave no stone unturned. But wait let Feb get over first . we have two big college fests, you see. :P :P Here we go again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The beautiful game is still beautiful....

2009-02-06T10:00:00.000-08:00

Thanks to this man, Ricardo Izecson dos santos leite known to the whole world as 'Kaka'

A very long overdue post but i wanted to write a good one for this guy so i thought of writing when i was really free.Times have changed in football . Money is everything now and the more you invest seems the more you gain. Guys from nowhere with a bucketfull of cash own a football club which according to me takes some shine of a football club. So when some abu dhabi company with their oil soaked money took over ManC , people raised their eyebrows because Manc went from being the 'other' team in Manchester( After Wigan obviously :P) to the richest club in the world. Their transfer kitty was 3 or 4 times more than the average big club and this meant trouble. No player was out of their reach and suddenly names flew in. Berbatov, Villa, ronaldo , Cesc and much to my horror my beloved Ricky Kaka , the Saviour of milan in 90% of their matches. At hostel i dont have a system or laptop(yet ) so the frequency of me coming online has drastically reduced. I hadnt been in touch with transfer rumours or anything sort of milan news for a few days and suddenly out of nowhere my friend Rajath texts me that City had an enormous 120 million pound bid for Kaka and 120 million is 120 million so Milan couldnt refuse and they accepted the bid . ManC was ready to double kaka's wages and all in all kaka would be covered in money . In the real world none of us would pass up an oppportunity to increase our salary by a few folds and rightly so because lets face it no matter what people say money is very important in life. And so the days went by, goal.com was eating my head with reports that the deal was nearly done and the move was said to be a sure one.For one moment my rock solid faith in kaka seemed to be breaking. But wait did anyone ask kaka what he wanted???? Well kaka gave a response which touched me and most of my fellow rossoneri

The chest beating and the jersey display truly established his love and loyalty to the club. I should be ashamed in doubting his loyalty to the club for even a moment. I should be beleiving in Kaka rather than useless websites spinning stories to make a quick buck. I am convinced he will remain in this club for a long time and i hope he gets the armband very soon. Kaka made me a very proud fan and kept intact the reason why i fell in love this club . Milan is special where the players club ant the fans share a unique bond signified by the legend, god- maldini himself and now Kaka moved up a notch in my books. Thank you ricky, I love you man!

The Wonder Years..

2009-01-13T01:05:00.000-08:00

I am always happy to say I got to spend two years at Kendriya Vidyalaya, Malleswaram(KVM). My regret is that I got to spend only two years at kvm :( . I tell you this place is like no other and i hardly noticed as time flew by and suddenly we were 18 and leaving school. On thing in KVM was that there was always fun to have . I dont think we were ever bored in class. Our class had a bunch of vivid, lively characters - each one poles apart from one another. Together we combined and made this place an amazing circus... sorry I mean school. When I first came to class and looked around the place was freaking empty. Only the new arrivals like Arunesh and Kishore were around. Then 2-3 minutes before the bell , they all came . Some came in groups and some alone but they arrived - the students who did their 10th in kvm and decided to continue their higher secondary over here itself.During class all i had to do was take one glance to look through a person. Naveen , Pranjal, Bharath seemed like the cool guys whom everyone wanted to hang out with . You could know that because around 5 others tried to sit in the same bench as them . They all fit in. Dont ask me how! this was the last bench . As my eyes moved forward to the first benches i identified the nerds. Prasad, Anirudha, Sreepada, Sumanth, Ramnarayan etc .Ignore and move on. Enter the god of teaching Raveendran. Now this man was a class apart. In his two years of teaching chemistry, I can positively assure we learnt nothing. Even when the man tried his best to impart knowledge we did our best to block all chemistry from entering our head. But boy was his class a joy or what. He used to spend 25 mins in attendance and class teacher work not to forget he always made attempts to tame naveen , bharat , shashwath ,pranjal and the rest of the last bench gang. His short term memory made it even better. He used to change our places every day and we used to immediately change it back.He wouldnt notice and then next day after another prank places would be changed and it went on and on...... lol. His classes used to start when the bell rang and he used to always borrow time from the next class. He was tooooo funny and always remain my favourite teacher. The best part of kvm were my classmates. I tell you , those guys knew how to live. they made every momoent worth rememebering for the rest of our lives. I made plenty of good friends here and adjusting as a new student is no problem at all here. There were plenty of funny moments. Kallu coming late to class every single day of the year and giving the same 'ol excuse of " I couldnt get the bus", Prajwal scaring the shit out of harshal with his boooooo, Siddharth Vinod getting the formula of sodium chloride wrong(wtf?), tug of war using preetam mohanty's hands, Mohanty's retaliation after the tug of war where he lifted chairs and desks and threatened to throw it at me and naveen, Games period, bunking classes and playing games, Bindulakshmi(math teacher) accusing prajwal and prasad of gay activities in class --- looool, Akshit getting booed by small kids when he did a creed song on stage, Anything stupid Pranjal could pull of in class... I could go on and on . But these two years are very close to my heart. I am not going to forget it for sure and i thing it is aptly titled "the wonder years ".I am a proud alumni of this school and if i havent said it enough I love this place. I think i am really fortunate to have quite a few of these amazing friends i made in school join me in college @ NITK. In these four years of engineering we will all surely dive in to the swimming pool of fun. THAT I can assure you.

What If....??

2008-12-30T02:58:00.000-08:00

This post is really weird and not very good but I have to write something different so here it is .....

The Guys from Goa in my college inspired this blog post. Srinivas or Yashank ( The two goans of our class)can be the poster child for " the ideal student campaign " if there were any. Studious, well behaved and damn decent guys. Just like we were " in 6th or 7th ". Yes ,we all remember how damn decent we were in primary school, don't we?. We'll what I think is who we are now is a result of where we have grown up, the culture , the environment which has moulded us. Meet the average Bangalorean teenager - " overflowing usage of da's, A vocabulary where the word fuck is more important than the articles a, an or the , a distinct curiosity and interest in anything related to babes and porn ". This is how most of the bangies are and this is how I am too. How?? Basically the course of plan is simple. Everyone is "Mr goody two shoes" before high school but after that the tendency to discover new people , imbibe new stuff from them takes a big hike. In Bangalore there is a tendency for teenagers to try to be cool and fit-in in a popular crowd. So when all the cool kids of VNS, Bishop cotton's etc etc think "fuck", "bitch" is important in their vocabulary , you make a note of it. When everyone around you, friends, Seniors and just anyone you meet considers it an important part of their vocab , you not wanting to be left out are willing to give a shot. Couple it with the unofficial sex-education you receive in your school (trust me , there is always someone in every school to give you this , lol) and then you have your first steps to the cooler life you dreamed of and suddenly you are just like the others and you are loving it !. And you know what? these are only the baby steps.... Coming to the point , its obvious that there was a different environment in goa where these guys were growing up. Maybe they had a certain group for themselves and were able to avoid all this keeping their individuality intact. Now imagine u shifted to one of their schools in 8 th and were in their friends circle. This is a completely different growing environment to the one you had in blore. Would you have been the same person?dunno about you but I definitely think not. . Now i think my life is pretty kickass but I do wonder what could have been if i had been in a different environment and would have loved it? Would I say " my life is kickass " ? Maybe , maybe not..... something to always ponder about .

A Herculean Task

2008-12-25T00:38:00.000-08:00

Studying. Yes , the original purpose of coming to NITK is the epitome for herculean task( Can you believe it guys , our parents think that their boys have gone to receive education . hahhaha. what they don't know won't hurt them ;) ). OK , Physics cycle has started ,more than 10 days have gone by but hey this is supposed to be the chilled out cycle, not a pain in the arse like The chem cycle( the eg sheets have still been preserved for a nice little burning later ). But the guys in my class have already started romancing with their books and as usual I seem to be losing the plot in the class. Not even 1 word of electronics has gone into my head and dont even talk about physics (* yawn *, zzzzzzz... *snore* ). The plan was to start a little 'light' studying on Saturday( 20/12/08). Simple enough, you would think. But then .....

Lets recount the events of that day . Lets start off with Friday Night because owing to our late sleeping habits we face everday's early hours . Naveen to everyone " chal , chinky(yashasvi) ke room mein movie dekhte hain". We watch Road Trip till 12:30 in the night(saturday morning technically :D) . It was a great movie and all of us had a good time . I come back to my room and see a novel " Midnight's Children" on my table. I found this novel difficult and slow moving until that point but when i picked it up that time, it just became too fucking interesting . And in no time it was 2:30 and i decided to call it a day.

*Sunlight in my eyes* , * some noises* its 9:00 am in the morning , my roomate Mayank is getting ready to go the CCC to watch porn. I let him be and go back to sleep. 10:00 am- i make another attempt at waking up, but darn it i find it difficult to get my big ass of the bed.

10:40- Ladies and gentlemen, i am awake . *clap*, *clap*, *clap*.

I spend some time messaging and at 11:00 am i am off to do my morning rituals. During this time I gather important statistics , the envy of every mathematician . Only 1 in 4 people consider flushing necessary. Sad, I know ! . 11:30- I decide to orkut and spend One and a half to 2 hours on the net . Since its a bit late for the mess for hot food I decide to eat @ Punjabi dhabi and owing to their snail like pace in service (even when you are the only customer) its 2:20 to 2:30 by the time i return to the room. Ok now i can get to studies ,right?? no way in hell. I see "midnights children " on my table. Didn't this book get good last night ?? yes of course, i'll read for some time. Before u know it, its 5:30 in the evening and Sai teja is at my door . Gym time . After fucking with our thigh muscles in the gym(thanks to the painful side situps which bring tears to my eyes.* sniff *) , we play a good game of basket ball later and its 8:00 by the time i return to the room (after dinner of course), A mountain of clothes wait to be washed and i need to have a bath because at that moment even a skunk would be disgusted with my smell. But out of nowhere my friend from Megahlaya- Biplab visits my room . This was the first time i met him this sem . Biplab is a guy with a colourful personality. u gotta meet him to know how awesome he is. Time flies by like a hawk as i reminisce memories with Bippuu and it is 9:30 in the night. The clothes havent magically gone and washed themselves and i still stink . The washing of the clothes is postponed to sunday morning( It actually happened on Sunday night though, lol) but the much needed bath happens and at 10:00 pm - i am as fresh as a daisy . After a little chit-chatting with naveen, ani, mathur and the rest of the gang(the best pastime) i go back to Midnights's children which has become Imba by now!!( Salman rushdie should be paying me for this kind of marketing , hehe). I sleep thinking" I couldnt study today, too bad, but its allright. Tomorrow is Sunday, its a Holiday . I can study tomorrow . Yes, I will !!!!"

Update- since i am posting this on Thursday i can give u an update. The studying didnt actually start until Tuesday -10:00 pm . who would have predicted that?? lol. At 10:30 My roommate Anurag found me asleep with the book in hand . Oh well.......

Back Where I belong!

2008-12-10T22:08:00.000-08:00

After 1 month I returned to my instituition . I had a nice time in my holidays and after watching a hell lot of movies i was very attached to my chair and computer ( much akin to gollum's to the ring of power , " my precious " :d). Keeping aside the fact that my grades weren't anything to take note of in my first sem i would be lying if I said I didn't love every minute I spent here in NITK. But returning after a month of good food, good movies, fast internet connection was a problem for me and i was wondering If i could love staying here in Surathkal like before. Well I have been here for 3 days now and the answer is a BIG "yes" . It felt amazing to be back with so many of my friends . There is nothing like spending hours together recollecting good memories of the past. This place is really " awesomeness personified" and it hardly takes any time to adjust . Being in the less hectic physics cycle is great . Although the subjects and teachers are so boring that I would prefer watching paint dry than attend classes , still the amount of fun that can be had always compensates for it.

With a Big grin on my face I can say I am back where I belong and it sure feels goooddd!!!

A Walk To Remember !

2008-12-04T01:16:00.000-08:00

Well I kept this title because it was a movie of the same title which made want to write. Well , a million dollar question- How many guys get their eyes moist while watching these sad-ending chick flicks ?? On the internet , mainly in forums with anonymous or pseudo names many guys do admit that these movies do move them a lot and a little tears can't be helped but We all know we won't ever admit it in real world . Of course we are men and we don't cry , right?

With me , honestly I can't help the tears fall back if the movies are that sad . Generally movies are ment to be enjoyed which is the sole purpose why me and most other people watch it as there is no better way to spend 2 hrs. So basically I am getting cheated with the sad movies because I am not a happy man after watching it. Why, why , why do you need a sad ending??? This is fiction FFS, you are supposed to have control over the story line unlike in real life. Why can't we always have a happily ever after? When I was 14 or 15 I saw the the notebook and goddamn it , it was moving . I thought getting your eyes moist is only a phase but i was wrong . It continues ,be it A bridge to terabithia or a walk to remember . But as a lover Of movies , you have to admit these kind of movies have a storyline which has quality written all over it. I guess we do need such movies to make us realise that life is not always a bed of roses.

You wouldn't have been reading this if.......

2008-12-01T09:03:00.000-08:00

Well last week was a terrible one where we had to witness the ghastly terrorist attack on Mumbai. Most of us wonder as to how a fellow human being can act like this killing so many innocent lives. Well stop wondering folks. They aren't human beings in the first place for you to give them this consideration . The are obviously lacking the basic emotion which defines a human being "Humanity". I don't know the exact statistics but i think atleast 150 lives were taken away. Some brave officers lost their lives fighting for the cause. I salute them.They have my highest respect . My condolences to the bereaved families but it obviously means nothing because if there is such a thing called priceless in this world , it is the price of a life. I did watch a few survivors narrating their near death experience to the viewers. These people need all the moral support they can get . Its not easy to put this incident behind them and say lets just move on. Life will never be the same again no matter how much you try to put up a brave face to it.

Speaking about near death experience , I have had my own. All I can say is " You wouldnt have been reading this post if i hadn't got lucky". I guess it was August 2006 , I was in 11 th standard and didn't know any better . Let me jog you through the incident . I remember it very clearly even though i don't want to. It was a Saturday and school got over at the usual time. I made a mix up in the buses and consequently i got into a bus which would stop a bit away from my regular bus-stop. Ahhhh, but i am too impatient and too foolish . I made up my mind to get down at the signal . But while we came near the place ,the signal was in green so the bus moved on and took a turn. The driver reduced the speed so that some of us could get down at the turn . Maybe two or three guys got down before me and before i got my turn the bus started accelerating . But i was stubborn on this and like the numbskull I was I jumped off the running Bus . The next few seconds are a blank. My foot was in deep pain, there were numerous deep wounds on my hand. I dont know what really happened to my foot. Whether the bus itself ran over it or another car( I'm on the main road , remember). I limped my way to home. my parents took me to Bowring hospital . The pain had become worse and I was taken in a trolley to take an X-ray. It was then, while lying on the trolley , unable to walk I realised the magnitude of this incident. My thoughts were " What the fuck were you trying to pull off, you stupid clown? . Look what has happened to you ". I was very afraid at that moment. i feared permanent damage to my foot and ofcourse I was crying like a baby. The Doctors took an X-Ray and Thank God nothing major had happened. I had to put one of those plasters and take bed rest ,which i accepted in a heartbeat because i had initially feared worse. The thing is I got very very very lucky . Generally i read about people getting run over by a bus when they alight from a running one. I was lucky I didnt get run over by one and only my foot came in the way of whatever it was. Lets face it, my chances of survival would have been none had the unthinkable happened. As I write this I feel like thanking God for saving me and altering my fate. I loved canvas shoes and nearly wore them everyday to school but that day I changed my mind and decided to wear leather shoes( why?? Divine force?? maybe, maybe). Ofcourse they were a tremendous help. The leather exterior reduced the impact on my foot, hence it wasnt smashed to smithereens . Again very very very lucky. But Ofcourse this incident has changed my life. I can't fully put it behind me. I will always remember it. I am overly cautious on the road now and maybe sometimes scared to cross the road when the bus approaches or if there are too many vehicles on the streets. But yes, I am a much smarter, wiser, mature?( I dont think so but getting there :D) and I am pretty sure I won't be repeating this outrageously dumb and stupid stunt again . All I have to do is to look at my wrist and see that very prominent scar and say " Never again".

Guys will be Guys!

2008-11-21T03:42:00.000-08:00

I think I have already mentioned that I might cover a lot of "arbit" stuff here so this is one thing I found very interesting and it made me realise how all of us are all alike in behaviour. When generally people go to a new place or a new college in my case in a different city people are generally inquisitive regarding that place and once you return ,you are definitely going to get bombarded with questions . It was the same with me and i had to answer my fair share of questions. But one question was on the top of every body's list . My good friend Bhargav asked this to me like four times . This is when I sat up and took notice. Everyone else i spoke with had the same thing to ask first . No it wasn't "How are your studies going?", neither "How is the climate there, have you adjusted?" or "How is the food, are u missing your mum?". It was *Drum rolls* "How are the chicks in Nitk, Sushan?". A very good and easy question to ask I guess but very difficult and awkward to answer. At first I was pretty casual and did the "uhmmm... they are ok" routine but then it did get annoying at times and all i wanted to answer was " All the girls I have seen are doing okay. They all look healthy. Some of them suffer from cold but we have a good health care center here who supply free medicine , so they should be fine in just some time . There is nothing to worry here, folks". It is always the case with guys, I guess. The testosterone always beats the mind. I had a thought then not to succumb to the wills of testosterone (Who was i kidding? lol). One of my best friends or my best friend itself if you will, Sampath is right now in Bits - Dubai. So I got the opportunity to chat with him after like 3-4 months and guess what was the question I asked him. Yup, "How are the Dubai chicks ,da?". King Testosterone never loses a battle. We are all the same. I don't think we will change or are even planning to change anytime same. Always, Guys will be guys!.

Get Busy Living or Get Busy Dying

2008-11-15T03:16:00.000-08:00

People who know me know me as a man of many adjectives. I love using adjectives to describe anything i like. But a certain movie which goes by the name " The Shawshank Redemption" has left me speechless. Any adjective i can think of to describe this movie would be a gross understatement.

Perhaps this is the only way i can salute the movie.

TSR is based on a novel by Stephen King titled "Rita Hayworth and shawshank redemption" . The plot uses the very familiar "innocent man in prison" theme albeit with a lot of difference. Andy Dufresne( brilliantly played by Tim robbins) is a quiet banker who is wrongly convicted of the double murder of his wife and a pro golfer whom she was seeing behind his back.He is ordered to serve two consecutive life sentences in Maine's Shawshank prison beginning in 1947.Andy first learns of the darkside of Shawshank when another inmate is beaten to death by Captain Byron Hadley(Clancy Brown) who is a pawn in the hands of the twisted warden Samuel Norton(Bob Gunton).

The story is narrated by Ellis boyd "red" redding(Morgan Freeman) popular in the prison as "red", the self proclaimed entrepreneur or as he put it " the Sears and Roebuck" of shawshank prison, the man who could get you anything and everything .The first contact Andy makes with an inmate is Red, to whom he makes the unusual demand of a rock hammer.This was the beginning a fine friendship between Red and Andy which we see grow from strength to strength throughout the film. When the rock hammer arrives Red realises that its so small that digging a tunnel might take many many years using it. Andy uses the rock hammer for a hobby of his "rock carving", so Red quickly forgot about the tunnel angle.Andy here shows a steel like character as he quickly accepts the hardships that one undergoes in a prison. The dark aspects of prison life is shown when we see Andy getting raped by a bunch of homosexuals who called themselves " the sisters". Periodically Andy had to bear solitary confinement due to the evil nature of the warden.

Andy gets a new job in the prison as in charge of the library because of the outgoing lifer Brooks Hatlen who has served 50 years in Shawshank. An emotional , gut wrenching moment of the film is when the inmates read a letter sent from the outside from Brooks who is on the verge of committing suicide because he couldnt live without this place. Red calls it " instituitionilisation". Andy gets on the work of building a memorial library for Brooks in the prison. After continuosly pestering the officials for funds,Andy gets his way and his first major contribution to Shawshank in the form of this library begins. Andy's intelligence and know-how is quickly utilized by everyone including the warden Norton who capitalizes on Andy's skills and devises a program to put prison inmates to work for local construction projects, exploiting the prisoners' free labor for his own personal profit, with Andy acting behind the scenes as a money launderer.

Time passes by, Red's parole is always rejected and a new inmate Tommy(Gil Bellows) makes an appearance. Some information about the real killer of Andy's wife and her lover was passed on to him from Tommy . Andy pleads with Norton to look into the matter further and to help him get a new trial but the warden dismisses him, and sentences him to a month in solitary. Tommy is shot to death to prevent him from talking any further, and the situation for Andy looks very grim when he refuses to help Norton launder money. He spends another thirty days in the bowels of the prison, and we are left wondering if he will ever get out of Shawshank.

After this Andy reveals his plan of escaping to Red . Red learns of Andy's dream of starting a new life in Zihuatanejo a small island on the coast of the Pacific. Red thinks that this is a lavish dream knowing truly well that Shawshank's security system would be hard to breach. One morning they find out that Andy is missing in his cell. On probing further they find a tunnel in the wall. Then ,it hits Red. Andy did use the rock hammer for digging a tunnel. It took him 19 long years to make it but the reward was in front him. Andy had gone through the tunnel and escaped out through the drainage system( I was ready to puke here). Red rightly put it as " Crawled through half a mile of shit smelling foul". Andy escapes , withdraws all the money from the fake account the warden's money is hidden in, tells the truth about the warden to a local newspaper ultimately leading to the suicide of Samuel Norton. We see Andy driving away in a hot pair of wheels along the coast of Pacific ocean , where else but Zihuatanejo.

Red is finally given parole after he sends out what was to be one of the dialogues of the movie to the reviewer about rehabilitation in the prison. After the initial struggle in the outside world, Red decides to join his friend Andy . The last scene is a certain goosebump moment when Andy and Red embrace each other.

As a viewer I dont know how this movie failed to win an Oscar. I understand the tough competition from Forrest Gump and Pulp Fiction but clearly this movie is a notch above in more aspects than one. Firstly i have to commend the dialogue writer. Fantastic. top class. period.
The acting was some of the best I'll ever see .Both Freeman and Robbins suited the role to a 'T'. The message and the theme of storyline is like no other and how it brings out the tagline is exemplary .

"Fear can hold you prisoner, hope can set you free"

True, very true. It was hope that unlocked the gates of freedom for Andy and Red.

Kickoff....

2008-11-10T07:40:00.000-08:00

Aaaaarrrghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh......

Two power cuts already while i make attempts at kickstarting this blog . Is it a sign from up above saying" what are you heading in to, Sushan??". No matter what the omens say I'm doing this for sure and i hope to continue this blog for a long , long time..( anyone placing a bet i wont last two weeks??)

A warm welcome to all of you reading this blog. I'm Sushan from Bangalore currently doing my computer engineering at Nitk, Surathkal. I am taking a path less trodden by most guys my age-> writing a blog. Blog?? why??Well to be frank , i am really really really bored of just orkutting and downloading wallpapers of actresses and so i made this pretty instantaenous decision of writing a blog which is pretty much as intellectual and sophisticated i might get on the internet.

my emotions on starting the blog.....

This blog is not particularly about me , it could be about "anything under the sun". Anything that interests this curious mind of mine could feature. But be aware that this " the love of my life" will make recurring appearances

Thats Ac Milan football club for all who didnt know

Another passion of mine " Mclaren mercedes f1 " team, the silver arrows will be featured on continuosly

So folks thats the end of the first episode of . Stay tuned for more exciting episodes of " A Rebel without a clue"