Master Blaster ! Take a Bow

The little man has done it once again. This guy keeps on surprising me with his energy and never dying ability to cross one milestone after the another. Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar ! Take a bow. I was fortunate enough to watch his magnificent 200 from scratch till end. I had no plans to do so as mostly I take a catnap in the noons. But this time I decided to catch the initial part of the match since India was batting and what followed was an absolute treat for the Indian fans. Post India's innings I checked twitter and found that Sachin as well as Tendulkar were the top 2 trends there. Last time I had seen him rocking twitter after the match against Australia when he had hit that superb 175 runs. That day will be one of the saddest days of my life when Sachin would decide to hang his boots. But till then, I wish, he continues to play the way he has been playing for past 45 odd days.

I haven't yet decided what to do now when my exams are over. Tuesday evening was spent with the friends while the yesterday was consumed by the cricket match. Today's morning was, as the routine is, was devoted to article writing. February doesn't have many days left and I need to prepare a strategy very soon.

P.S. Times of India's Banglore and Mumbai edition reported that CAT result might be out today. Just 4 hours left in the day and yet there is no confirmation from the IIMs. God bless those students who put their optimum efforts in the exam. I pray to the almighty to give some sanity to IIMs and Prometric and let the results be out tonight itself.

I Wonder......

The last 48 hours were pretty tiring. I couldn't sleep properly on the nights of 20th and 21st. The bus journey at night is not at all a good option. Even if I had booked a sleeping coach, the situation wouldn't have altered a lot since the bus stopped so many times making it difficult to keep your eyes closed for more than 45-50 minutes.

The CET paper was my final MBA entrance exam and I was most relaxed during it. There was no pressure on me and for most of the time I solved the paper according to the strategy I had planned 134 attempts out of 200 might not look good for an OMS student but considering that I hardly did any preparation, these attempts look decent.

The 3-4 hours period after the exam and before we boarded the bus were very boring for me. My classmate Gaurav Sharma had gone to his cousin's house and I spent some of the time at a mall sitauted at 22 godown. Malls are not the happening place for me anymore. I am quite surprsied how the charm of malls have faded away so soon? Just roamed around a bit, spent sometime in planet M and finally went to the food court to eat. Food court looked decent and I had bhel poori there. Post eating I decided to spend the time by strolling. Once outside, I extended my strolling plans and decided to go to sindhi camp, the place where I had to catch the bus, on foot.

While walking I was yet again mulling at the kind of life I wanted for myself in future. Whenever I visit the malls these days and watch the affluent, fashion possessed people around I begin to wonder at the artificiality of life there. Is life all about eating at expensive cafe and restaurants or buying the weird but latest trendy outfits from branded showrooms or just try to show how much cool and metrosexual are you? We enjoyed these things a lot during our college days but now I see myself getting repelled by the same. While walking on the raod I saw a group of rikshaw pullers, with no roof at their heads, preparing their dinner. Their meal consisted of bajre ki roti and jaggery (gud) and they were happily chatting. It was in sharp contrast to what I had seen at the mall where people were devouring pizza worth Rs. 200 and yet couldn't satiate their appetite. What kind of world are we living in? We do not pay for the ingredients and efforts put in cooking a dish but for the brand name, services offered (?) and the taxes.

 I wonder......

This week

I was supposed to be tensed this week. The week's account should have opened with the declaration of the results of CAT. Then my Tauji and taiji's Golden anniversary would have followed it and in between I would have had put my rest energy into the preparation of CET, my last MBA entrance exam. Instead, I have spent this week literally doing nothing.

An unexpected long conversation with Simy on facebook on monday made me rethink over my plans again. I would share all the important points of our conversation in some other post because I am still in the thought process and need time to come out with new plans. On the other hand CAT continues to test our patience. It seems like we are waiting for our university results. I had appeared in this paper on 4th of December and even in the 3rd week of February CAT's status quo is unclear. It seems that the results will be announced in the next week only. I am not too worried but little curious about how I fared. So, in the next week I will be getting two results - CAT and MAT.

I am not doing any preparation for CET. I couldn't concentrate on its preparation for last 2 days due to obvious reasons but then, to be honest, after monday I didn't feel like studying anything. So, yet again, I will be appearing in a MBA entrance exam without any preparation.

God bless me !

How to begin......

Blogging is not new for me and as far as I can remember, this one is my 'nth' blog (Engineering guys, especially those from communication engineering would understand my fascination with the word 'nth' .) I approached blogging in a no. of ways. My very first blog was a mixture of no. of elements. that included my poetry, my thoughts on some random topics, a peek into my college life etc. I didn't share anything from my day to day life there. In my 2nd blog too I experimented with a 9 part story and a couple of other posts. My last blog was solely devoted to my creative writing and finally we come to my latest blog 'I Scribble'.

Why did I refrain from writing about the general ups and downs of my life, about the people around me and, of course, about me. The primary reason was my prolonged period of failures ( which is yet to get over ). Who wants to write about failurs and debacles? People do write but only after getting successful. Recalling the horrors of failures after getting success is a part of celebration of success. I haven't got that kind of success yet. In fact, I am yet to get 'any success'. But still, I feel that there is lot to share from my life with others. The failures do not stop you from enjoying the first rain of the season, or having a non stop laughter session with your friends or to appreciate the beauty of something. Failures do make the individuals to crouch, to incarcerate themselves into a self-made cocoon. I have been through all this. But then I realized that the world doesn't stops with me. It continues to function in the same manner. Why should I then miss out on all the precious moments that life throws at me? Why should I cease the contacts with my acquaintances just because I have failed? There is a dignity in failure too and I am not ashamed of my failures anymore.

So I am here with 'I scribble' - a place where I wish to discover myself through my own writings. Anyone who wishes to know me through my scribbles is also welcome here.