Which room is Mine?

Its a new semester, and being in third year was a different feeling altogether. The excitement could not be scarred even a trifle despite the neck-breaking cab journey to Pilani.

So, we were to reside in Krishna Bhawan for the year. Few days into the semester all of us greeted each other near VK (the hostel in second year) with a grin on the face. Each of us got so used to being in VK that we always headed towards it after a class in the institute. Some of us even went till our old rooms and came back shaking our heads seeing somebody else inside.

Looks like it would take a few days to adjust :)

Open close

I stood in front of a mirror thinking about what would be

I close my eyes and I open them,

I could see dreams come true,

Not just good but the bad ones too:

"You will be okay"

Deep breath and I try to look back

I close my eyes and I open them,

I see the memories I treasure,

Desparately search for me but:

"Others were more important"

I was close to tears

I close my eyes and I open them,

I see not the blotchy reflection,

Nor the endless journey ahead but:

"I see me"

Cheers to a summer that taught me a few principles:

• develop infinite patience (future)
• to always share and care (past)
• never to give up (present)

I close my eyes and I open them,

I see things as if

I am seeing them for the first time.

Maintaining friendship with girls

Note: This is stuff being written in 2014, but stuff which I always followed right from the beginning of my back-friendship with school friends. Although the title says girls--because these thoughts struck me only when I became part of a group that also had girls--it applies to every friend.

• never talk about another girl or guy to them
• • unless you are discussing something bad :D
• don't tell everything you feel, wait for the right time esp. the good things. Something like using weapons in times of crisis.
• when you feel like buying them something, don't sit with that thought; go ahead and implement that. 
• don't plan anything, it will fail: listen to your heart and mind. 
• don't hide misunderstandings for long, you will end up hurting her. 
• how she feels is how you feel she feels, if you listen closely enough

Stupidity

Five things you will hate doing

1. Telling a campus senior that you are working at a small company when you meet him on the way to PS-I
2. Showing the middle finger when you want to suggest the word Sensex in a game of dumb sharats
3. Getting down from the bus at a stop earlier than yours and then walking all the way to the next one lest people would laugh if you got back in
4. Drinking Espresso just because you come to a place you call office when you actually hate its taste
   
5. Explaining colleagues a topic you have just read from the net when they already know it well
6. Putting up unrelated stuff in the title link :)
   

Was I rude, was I not?

I've received three ( still counting ) phone calls since morning from IDEA customer care center. College students refer to it as ICCC -> I triple C. All three callers were female. ( Fe, for short )

CALL 1 : ( 9948007356 )

Fe: Hello sir, this is from IDEA customer care.
Me: Yes please
Fe: Sir, since you are a  trusted customer who have been with us for long; we are giving you a free sim card sir. 

Me: We already have two add-on cards. Don't need any more, thank you!

Fe: Blah blah blah blah 

Me: No thanks

Fe: Blah blah 

Me: Bah 

Fe: Blah

Me: Bye

Five minutes later 

CALL 2 : ( 9948007362 ) 

Fe: Hello sir, this is from IDEA customer care.

Me: I have an extra sim card, do you want one? 

Fe: Yes sir, I have an extra sim card, do you want one? 

Me: Grrr. Who's this speaking? Your name please

Fe: ( something like ) Nafees

Me: Where are you talking from? 

Fe: ( in a low voice ) Karkhana

Me: Where exactly? 

Fe: Sir, IDEA main office. 

Me: What place did you say? 

Fe: Panjagutta ( in a even lower voice ) 

Me: Hmm 

Fe: Sir, why are you asking all this?

Me: I just received a call from the same office. If you are really concerned about serving trusted customers you would've known the fact that... wlah wlah wlah wlah 

Fe: Sorry sir, please don't be angry. 

Me: I am not. 

Fe: Your voice sounds like that. Sorry sir, we will not disturb you again. 

Me: Its alright. Bye :)

I felt very awkward, because that was the first time ever I lost my cool over the phone. ( and possibly for no reason ). Poor girl, she must have been so annoyed. I was halfway through calling her back and saying sorry when... 

CALL 3 : ( 9948007361 ) 

Me: Hello

Fe: Hello sir, this is from IDEA customer care.

Me: Yeah? 

Fe: Sir, since you are a  trusted customer who have been with us for long; we can give you a free sim card sir. 

Me: ( GRRR ) We do not require one thank you.

Fe: Are you sure sir? We are giveing it for free!

Me: ( Resisting temptation to shout ) Oh wow! But we do not need it as of now. I will call you whenever I am in need of one. 

Fe: Ok sir. Thankyou very much! Have a nice day! 

Me: Thanks. Bye!

So, basically after that call I didn't even think for a second I would call back to apologize Ms. Nafees ( or whoever it was ). It was a first showering-sarcasm-over-the-phone and it was funny :D. I have learnt one thing though. 

Being rude doesn't fetch anything : neither peace of mind nor an extra sim card.

And thanks to IDEA, I have my first post of the summer :)

Last night reflections

Today will be my last night in VISHWAKARMA BHAWAN. A huge hostel with a great mess, its a place every BITSian would want to be some or the other time during their stay. I know that each day now till August, I will be waking up to think what breakfast / which shake ( juice)  would be selling for lunch in the mess. 

Second year has been a great one

Every year in our lives we come across new experiences and it strengthens our mental outlook, enhances our maturity and adds to our understanding of the world. The fact about my second year is that it has done all this but the HARD WAY. Absolutely no complaints though. For I may forget the pain or whatever but I will never let go of the lessons: 

• Not all people around you are your friends. Everybody thinks for their own purposes, about their own grades, about their own life and they are ready to pull you down if you are ahead. 
• Girls are an intelligent lot, perhaps even more than the (male) 10-pointers. They think a lot before saying anything and get pissed off at the slightest insult. Never mess around with them, neither on the phone nor while chatting.
• Everybody wants a share of everything. They all (at times, including me) want to enter into every field they can. For example, I know of 9-pointers who want to show their mettle by 1) being a part of every sport: cricket, football, swimming( whether playing / viewing! )     2) watching every movie, every series, etc that is available on LAN                                        3) Finally they want to be a part of poilitics as well. 

Silly though they may sound its worth knowing that such things happen and that care needs to be exercised. And it explains why people say that we tend to become less careless as time passes by :). The reason is that there are many a pit holes that we discover in our path and we need to cross them carefully. 

It doesn't feel as though I'm a second yearite. For one thing, I still do not know what is the (best)  way to study. That is because with each passing semester I've kept changing my way of study and many a times, fortunately, it has lead to better performance. I do not know how much time it would take for an established method of study to come into picture. 

Can anyine tell me who is or what an ideal second yearite should possess? 

How I feel

I feel hurt, broken and unpleasantly sure that the future could be the same. But despite all injured feelings I feel good. I feel stronger, mature. And I will work to forget these hard-learned lessons of second year. Ironical? Well, yes. These (moral/immortal) lessons that all of us keep learning from time to time are not for telling future generations. They are for own selves.

Such things should never come in the thought process again. What I mean is, the next semester I will not do anything that will make me realize the same lesson again! A new lesson would be welcome but the same mistakes I shall not repeat. 

As for any tensions or frustrations, I have learnt to look at them as opportunities to know thyself

My BITS Day

This day holds a lot of challenge every year. As a brief overview of what I mean here's what happened when : 

DATE	EXAM / TEST
May 11th, 2007	BITSAT
May 11th, 2008	WORKSHOP
May 11th, 2009	DISCRETE STRUCTURES FOR COMPUTER SCIENCE

It felt very strange as I was writing WORKSHOP exam: that only last year I was writing BITSAT and now an exam in BITS. This year also, I felt no less strange. I am just wondering now about May 11th, 2010 : NEXT IS WHAT?