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.......
Thursday, December 25, 2008
Thursday, December 4, 2008
A Walk To Remember !
Well I kept this title because it wasa 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 l know we won't ever admit it in real world . Of course we are men and we don't cry , rite?
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.
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.
Monday, December 1, 2008
You wouldn't have been reading this if.......
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".
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".
Friday, November 21, 2008
Guys will be Guys!
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!.
Saturday, November 15, 2008
Get Busy Living or Get Busy Dying
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 .
True, very true. It was hope that unlocked the gates of freedom for Andy and Red.
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.
Monday, November 10, 2008
Kickoff....
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
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"
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