Life is opening up…

Its been almost 130 days since I started writing here..
So far..I’ve published 91 articles (excluding this one..)..

I try to write as emotionlessly as possible….
I base all the articles that are posted on this blog on newspaper reports and not on poetry overflowing with emotions..
But, I can’t help it at times..
And I post after a long, long break.. its been almost a month since I last posted here..

And, at the time of writing of this post, I’m only half awake.. so any thing that should not be here will be removed later on when I wake up tomorrow and realize what I’ve written…

(1) College .. The biggest topic we’ve had in years… The old batch is gone.. replaced by a new batch..
St Pauls (and some other schools that I don’t remember ..{cough} ) are far away.. New friends, new books.. and as far as I can see.. kind of an another chance.. a change in my lifestyle..

(2) Old Friends .. are old friends are old friends are old friends are old friends and almost all of them are Paulians..

(3) The really old friends .. are really faraway and some don’t know that I exist..

(4) Agra .. is the same old city that I love and hate and love and its all great.. 

(5) Emotions ..  “I love waving at them as they pass me by..!” ..

(6) Blogging .. for me and some of my pals was a stroke of shear genius..

(7) Exams .. I have them for lunch every ten days or so.. And I hate the appetizers.. 

(8) The Diwali Holidays .. are the best holidays of the year.. though I think that the semester-end holidays are gonna replace them as the best of the year..

(9) My Dog .. is alright.

(10) Gambling .. I didn’t gamble.. Its all part of the festivities..And I’ve been lucky..

(11) I’ll add more stuff to this list.. Soon.

The previous 6 weeks in photographs…

I post after a long, long time.. But here are the photos, gentlemen…

During the 'Vishal Devi Jagran' at Hindustan College..

Hitchhiking is fun at times....while not so at some other times...

At some 'khokha' in Vrindavan..

Rohit and Shashank..

Green. White. Blue.

A Walking Student.

Protests against 'the' new rule (N.P.T.Y) issued by U.P.T.U on the 22nd of September...

Fresher’s ( ‘Welcome’ ) Party over… hopefully no sneaking around one’s own class from Monday… Hopefully.

The Fresher’s Welcome Party is over. Finally. Although we were supposed to check in at 8 am today in the college but a good samaritan (and a friend) from 4th year advised us not to do so and reach college at 10 am instead..
But even that wasn’t good enough.. since we were butchered for about half an hour by our seniors before they finally let us go when the teachers came in to check on us… 

The guy who told us to show up late at college told us so at about 7.10 am ,but by then we were already standing at the bus stop.. Too late to turn back.. or so we thought before we headed to Akbar’s tomb at Sikandra to spend two hours there.. I had a faint sense of ‘deja-vu’ as I entered the main monument at Sikandra.. I had been to Sikandra many, many years ago..8 years, I think…But, it was beautiful..and calm..and luckily the weather was great too.. Here are some snaps:

 

The weather was awesome... for some time..

 

Deepak and Rohit..

 The time (7.30 am) meant that the whole place was deserted..

Just another day at the office..

 We didn’t sit through the entire function… what we did, instead, was sit through half of the time, grabbed something to eat and made a silent exit… I couldn’t snap the photos of all the happenings on the stage since I was seated faraway from it and I decided that no snaps were better than blurry snaps…

Here’s a photo snapped before we made our getaway..

Snapped near the Mechanics lab...

Now that the Freshers’ party is over, we can, finally, slip to canteen without worrying that someone will wish us ‘Good Afternoon Sir’ with his head way down and that we’ll recieve a trashing if word gets out…

Monday.Monday.Monday. 🙂

Some more pics at my Flickr photostream..

Life these days…

I don’t have much time to blog these days…but here are some photos, nonetheless… Life these days.. Thats what the post title says..

College. Starts. Soon. Freaking out. Starts. Now.

Man..they graduated a long, long time ago.. in 1899

Thats right..Most of the colleges in U.P.T.U. are starting tomorrow..
That means that our holidays..the sweet, sweet holidays are over, people..OVER.
Why did they have to start so soon?
Some of my pals who are gonna attend some colleges in the South still have about a month to go!..A month.
My timetable’s all messed up.. Its gonna take some time for me to settle down into college-mode.
Especially since it has been a month and a half since I read something..
Plus some of my apocalyptic nut’ pals are telling me that we’ve got class tests from the 12th of the next month.. That is so freakin’ insane that its almost funny.. Almost.

Plus, due to college, I’m gonna have to cut down on my blogging and my Twittering.. 

And I’ll have to cut down on College Humor.. During these holidays, I watched each and every one of the videos on that site.. Each and every one.. Man.. That was fun.

In fact, here’s a list of the videos I enjoyed the most.. Have fun.. And watch each and everyone of them (Believe me.)..If you don’t have enough time to view all of them (which you should..), then play the ones in bold.. :

1. Guy stuck in Class
2. My Bloody Valentine
3. New Guy
4. Phone Call
5. Nut Tappers
6. Office Tour
7. Superheroes
8. Pledge of Allegiance
9. Collage Humor
10. Pee Chain
11. Bizarro Office
12. Phone fight
13. Overgrown guy girlfriend
14. Cool English teacher
15. Honest College Ad
16. Internet Commentator Funeral
17. Bless you
18. Amir’s Audition
19. Streeter Bombs
20. Streeter’s Big Date 
21. Awkward Rap

I posted some great videos on this blog earlier (‘Anti Drug Dog’ and ‘He’s right behind me..’)..Check them out if you haven’t already..they’re great..

Have fun in college’

How did we really spend the holidays?

I still remember the date.. It was April 29 (or was it April 27?).. Yeah.. That is when we finished off the last of the much dreaded ‘competitive exams’ , the A.I.E.E.E. exam.. But, lets not go into that.. 

It was time for partying and partying we did.. We went to the Taj two times, the Taj Nature Walk three times, and Sadar every two days.. I calculated that, on an average, I was out of my home for about 7 hours daily.. But, that is not a big deal.. After all, it was our right to spend every waking moment on blackjack and softdrinks.. 

There were quite a few farewells, and some birthdays in between.. 

Then, there was the usual scooter-trash roaming around, lots and lots of photographs..
Some tension regarding the admission to colleges/coaching classes.. Stuff like that..

And yeah, we did go to some trashy movies now and then..

But, my question is, what is it that we really did?

Okay, we did all of the things written above and some of us started blogging but where’s the crazy stuff in there? What is it that was unusual? 

I don’t know the answer.. I wrote this post for the sake of writing a post..

But, you know, one of the many wild, wild ideas in my brain as to how we could’ve spent these holidays is, we could’ve shot some videos.. like the ones they have on College Humor (Click here to view them..).. These are fun videos.. We could’ve shot them effortlessly.. Like I told you, these are wild, wild ideas..

Then, there’s this site called Revision3, another great site for some neat entertainment..

Not many people know this, but College Humor was started by two high school pals, studying in different colleges, to stay in touch with each other and exchange some real great stuff..

Like I told you, these are wild, wild ideas..In fact, I’ve got some more of them which I’ll post soon..

College’s gonna start real soon..  :p .. I don’t know if I’m happy about that or really depressed about that.. I haven’t figured that out but now that they’re over, I can’t wait for the next holiday season..

He’s right behind me..isn’t he?

Vodpod videos no longer available.
College Humor’s an awesome site.. My favourites are Amir, Dan, and Sarah.. We’ve got all three of them and more here (a rare appearance of the camera guy) in this great video..

This video is best enjoyed when viewed without pauses.. but the video will load in pieces..So it would be better if you clicked on the pause button as soon as the video started playing.. Let the entire video load and then play it so you can enjoy it without interruptions…

“I’m Dan…aren’t I ?”

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bor. ing (adjective) – causing or marked by boredom

With college still far away ( Its starting on the 18th, or so I hear ) , I’m getting bored to sleep over and over again…

Sorry for not writing in such a long time, I’ll try to change that now..

I was busy doing some work, enhancing this page, starting my own file server, learning all about ftp, and a lot more of that technical, geeky stuff…

This is why I drink….This..is..why..I..drink.

“Man’s best friend; teenager’s worst nightmare..”
Watch this video. And then.. watch it again. Its good.