Sailing High

First drops of water

2006-06-02T02:42:00.000-07:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } First drops of water, originally uploaded by Shutterbird. haha..I dared to take shots in the rains in Goa and now I feel worried. Should take my camera for the check up once. Meanwhile let me know what you feel about the

Sunset at IIT

2006-06-01T09:18:00.000-07:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Sunset at IIT, originally uploaded by Shutterbird. One of the first nice photos (or atleast as people told me so!) that I could shoot using my new D50 SLR camera. The first step towards more serious photography. All the

This brand does not have a name just like that

2006-05-23T07:23:00.000-07:00

..and I realized it just a while before.I am talking about Nikon and their world famous series of digital cameras. I own a Nikon D50 which is an entry level SLR camera brought into market a year earlier. Minutes back, I came from a tiring photo shooting with anti-reservation students protesting outside MB. (Detour: it is another story; I would cover some other time)Excited to see the pics, I was

Laureus

2006-05-22T22:37:00.001-07:00

Good news:Federer wins the "best player" and Nadal wins "the best newcomer". Federer said later, "Him winning the Newcomer and me winning the big one, that's a great sign for tennis."Valentino Rozzi, finally, an award that describes his experiences with Laureus. “Spirit of the sports award" He has missed on the award for last 2-3 years straight For unaware souls Kapil Dev was one of the jury

The new reasons for reservations

2006-05-20T02:26:00.000-07:00

As expressed by a fellow mate:1) “The society in which they live (the OBC families) have a kind of tradition and culture (along with rigid mindsets) which do not allow them to strive to move up the social strata. But reservations would change this. There will be an incentive because there will be more obvious opportunities.”Keeping the important point in mind that the said group is not being

Everyone is talking about reservations...

2006-05-20T02:19:00.000-07:00

and the same arguments/issues/motives are spelled out by the observers. But lately I have come across few interesting articles which are worth a read. They do a more objective, comprehensive and rational analysis of the subject at hand.Worth a read.

Let the art speak

2006-05-16T01:58:00.000-07:00

A year since I stopped blogging. Sometimes I was lazy but more often dumbfounded, flabbergasted and lately stupefied.Simply inexplicable I am. So I decide to move on to another form of blogging. From words to pictures. I have found time in photography and whoa! I have the means to express myself again. A picture is worth thousand words. I got my substitution.So anyone who is on this blog, reading

First Stage AA :)

2005-07-22T07:21:00.000-07:00

Well, no one would believe it. So many admonished me., fudged curses of CC, BC...everything to extol me to do at least something in a week prior to the report submission... to mask the shameless idle, one and a half month.I understood it all, like always, but never acted. for action requires much more than just brain response. U need to work with other body parts. the hands, the legs ..But then I

No more "worldly" stuff

2005-07-22T06:36:00.000-07:00

just realized that I am being a lil too much philosophical..not good for my brains..heart either..so let's put up a permanent full stop to this (damn)"world" series. If u noticed rightly, my last few blogs are all about the world and me :DDisgusting??? eh?? Even I think so?PS: who said cut the crap?

I vs The World

2005-07-21T06:07:00.000-07:00

Strangely unusual ...or call it a sort of self-introspection, but off-late, I think a lot about self, and try to gauge myself on the parameters that can be broadly termed as "goodness.”; the myriad incidents and turns in the past one and a half year being the propeller. I have seen changing features of the same faces, startling behaviors in the ordinary conditions and varying expressions totally

Player in form

2005-07-18T01:03:00.000-07:00

Why the Sensex could touch 8000Neither soaring oil prices nor a faltering monsoon has been able to stop the Sensex in its run. India was the best performer in the region in the April-June quarter, outperforming the MSCI Asia-Pac index by 9 per cent. Having raced past the 7000 mark, the Sensex seems to be looking for its next milestone. There could be some stumbling blocks along the way, but given

same world but different..

2005-06-26T16:18:00.000-07:00

As Saturday drew close, I could not hide my happiness on going back to Mumbai, to IIT. People could gauge it in my smile, in the eyes. ..In the whiff of excitement that enveloped me..I was ofcourse very happy..had never missed IIT, friends so badly. In four years, I have forgotten to leave alone. This pained me so much. Cutting short my agonizing experieneces, as I was in local train to Kanjur

back to my world

2005-06-24T05:35:00.000-07:00

Tomorrow, I will be taking train back to Mumbai.. from one world into another. from a stranger world into known world..ya two parallel worlds are running together. We all know about this other world. this other world, we all will be inhabiting soon after we graduate, but yet this world is so far but so near. So near. for we know all about it. read so much about it in papers. Prepare to enter it

Thanks IIT

2005-06-15T07:36:00.000-07:00

Today while I was with several other interns at a meeting with the Lead HR Manager, I could not stop thinking that I was not an ordinary intern. No, I was not caught up in some reverie. The body language of people around said it all. The experience was new to me. Never before did I feet so. Never before I had been in a company where IITans are less than the rest of the living species JI did not

right intuitions

2005-06-06T08:46:00.000-07:00

I would not want to forget this ..hardly happen to me. This "hard" occasion was today, neverthless. The last three days were pretty usual-rather a little dull than usual. Sunday was again a disaster. But all along< i had this strange sense of feeling that something good or exciting is coming my way. Though I may be partly wrong with those adjecties as I describe the events that followed today,

Best u can get

2005-06-06T07:48:00.000-07:00

For all the book lovers, here is a complation of best books not to be missed upon. (Some of them are noble prize winners for literature)1)SAUL BELLOW -The Adventures of Augie March 2) MARGARET ATWOOD-The Handmaid's Tale , The Blind Assassin3)GUNTER GRASS -The Tin Drum4) GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ -100 Years of Solitude , Innocent Erendira , Other Stories (1979)5) DORIS LESSING -The Golden Notebook6)

Glowing pages

2005-06-06T07:38:00.000-07:00

It all started with a tinge of curiosity for 5.sumone. A book on IITians caught my fancy for obvious reasons. Never did I knew that it will transport me to entralling word of literature.My first rserious novel, as I would like to call it, did not give me any literary pleasure but somehow did rekindle my interest in seeing the world from eyes of the greates observers, philosphers, leaders and

Kajra re.

2005-06-03T08:57:00.000-07:00

I have not seen Bunty aur Babli nor had any intentions to go for it untill I saw this song "Kajra re" featuring Aishwarya Rai.Hardly a one minute promo featuring Ash for just few sec bowled me over..oomph! what a sensual light dance and powerful expressions.I'l see the movie her. Current mood: naughtCurrent music: Kajra re..(aur kya)

Rediscovering myself

2005-06-03T08:41:00.000-07:00

Two years of IIT preparation takes real person out of you. U may have heard of it so many times. I never realized it untill now when I have begun to rediscover myself.I really do not know what took it so long. But ya after 4 years of IIT life-of all the fun and frolic, of all the idle hours of gossips and aimless wandering, of all the pursuit of conquering untravelled peaks, I am back to my

A great weak pases by with a superb sunday evening!

2005-05-22T09:24:00.000-07:00

Hi!Through this mail, I hope to answer all the queries that you have in your mind and apprehensions, if any, about my state of mind and my plansSO you know all till Tuesday. Wednesday was when my this week really took off.Wednesday was a normal working day. Infact all thhe days that followed were pretty normal in terms of amount of work I had to put in. But nite is about which you would like to

Strange, isn't it?

2005-05-21T04:52:00.000-07:00

..that the whole world, (I am sure atleast 95%) wants co-existenece in peace, harmony and love but, the spending on developing arms and deterrants ranks amongst higest and priorities of every nation.I found it quite paradoxical. It cannot be that the governments of nations can continue such programs on high scale, without the go-ahead and affirmation from the people of their states. But the

a moment of height and it`s again dry!

2005-05-17T06:35:00.000-07:00

Yesterday (monday) was a very diiferent day for me. On this day, I did something that I do very rarely-working hard. I was highly motivated on Monday morning (unlike more common monday morning blues). I think it was becasue of two reasons, a good sunday evening. I had a visit around city, good dinner and a nice overall time. That's what has refreshened me. I can feel how important post-work life

of life, ambitions and so problems..

2005-05-15T09:33:00.000-07:00

It's a complex relations of title that has led me ultimately to Jamshedpur. However I was not destined to be at this place. But somehow bangalore and fun was not coming to me. OK..I have come to the place but again luck seems to betray me on all trivial fronts. No..nah do not think that I am complaining, just figure put these facts.* I stay in a flat, ALL ALONE. That's not all good, ok. It makes

Behaal Kaal

2005-05-01T13:59:00.000-07:00

watched Kaal. I not expert at films nor would like to shot down the film with my negative remarks.But would like to say that it was indeed a sensational script, if not very novel and fresh. It could have been done very neatly with proper casting and dash of suspense.I am afraid that the director did not knew, what he was making. A good plot wasted.watched Etenal Sunshine of Spotless Mind after

PT, DDP , placements, ..i m lost

2005-04-23T12:25:00.000-07:00

well well well..have found a PT..a nice one. Congrats to myself. Hope to do it. Hope to work on DDP in parallel from Bangalore itself and hope to rock in life.All the best to eveyone!

Valfi moments

2005-04-23T12:19:00.000-07:00

Certainly waited for them all the four years but when it actually came, there were no butterflies in the stomach as it used to be earlier. Looked like a pretty dumb and tiring affair for everyone. Sleepy heads all around you just becasue they ought to be there. Someone reading the profile like a lecture in the class and all else are too sleepy fighting out to stay away from the pleasnt dreamy

Don's profile

2005-04-23T12:08:00.000-07:00

Don Jaisa naam, vaise kaam aur vaise hi dil mein tamannaein aur ichaein. Hardly anyone would have known him as Akash Goyal but yes that is the real name of this widely acknowledged Don. Christening him as Don was something that happened very quickly…. as soon as he happened to enter IIT. In his initial days, he was reserved , talked very little

Gajju's profile

2005-04-23T12:05:00.000-07:00

Gajendra Jangid AKA Chhah Futaiya AKA Gajju Halwaii AKA Loveguru! Duniya hasino ka mela, mele mein yeh dil akela Ek dost dhoondtha hoon mein dosti ke liye Ek dost ki

the ground beneath me..

2005-04-14T13:44:00.000-07:00

..is nowhere I would expect it to be. I have always thought I was good at some things. All along my confidence has been really on upswing. But now even when I am sure that I have lived upto my expectations and gave a good shot, my confidence is dwindling.Somehow, I have missed something. Is that my perceptions about myself wrong or is it that people do not understand me? even if they do not

are u God, Shashi?

2005-04-10T17:37:00.000-07:00

Today was your's valfi, IIT was bidding farewell to man whose life has been so ironical. A person love by one and all in the institute, a person who can make you cheerful at any moment, a person who can never hurt anyone.Tell me how do you manage to smile always, through all odds?Teach me the way to live life.Whatever comes, I know that you are perhaps the only person who has shown me what is it

Harsh's Profile

2005-04-09T09:17:00.000-07:00

HARSHWARDHAN SINGH BAID….naam se agar aapko yeh lag raha hai ki koi bahut hi smart, handsome, suave aur dashing personality hai, to aap ek baar in sahab ko dekh le.. Just opposite of what his name would suggest, we present to you this Mr. dark, short, uncanny but yet very sweet apna Bhai aka Chotu aka thekedaar. <

I mean much more than I can express Sachin!

2005-04-08T15:54:00.000-07:00

Excerpts from my contribution to his valfi profile3) Sachin's enthu for MI was unmatchable. He was in MI to rule. Such was hispassion that he worked as coordinator for two years to get into the MIteam. I know him saying fondly, "I am into MI team not just to be here,but to make my MI happen. A MI that is my idea of this event, my dream" Werespect and admire you so much Sachin for your great

Is it really four years since..

2005-04-07T17:59:00.000-07:00

I came to IIT Bombay. How clearly I remember the very painful first week and wish to get out of this place as soon as possible.The first week may have appeared like an enitre year. But at the end of almost four years, I now feel that even the first week is yet to be over. Is that really true? Are the four years over and time to part with friends?True. The valfis have started and April 4th was the

Mar 28th, 2005

2005-03-30T11:22:00.001-08:00

1 year and 1 month was all that time duration elasped since i became OC, MI2004MI OC, my biggest success, so far. My biggest ambition. My biggest challenege.Only thing in life that made me feel "this is what it really is when pepole say.... getting more than what u deserve"God's geneorsity or not. whether I deserved it or not..I never asked again. I was sure that I will not myself even think of