BIRDS FEVER!!!!

Long time, I haven’t been in touch with you guys… Sorry guys, for being a bit late in updating my blog :( :(… If required I will do sit ups to make you feel happy :P… Hmmm, the topic seems to be quite interesting, right?? Well, anyone would think that I might be talking about “BIRD FLU”… Hey hey, sorry people, I am not the medical officer, nor I wish to :P :P :D… Well, I am talking of every people who have really undergone through this in these recent times, doesn’t matter the person eats chicken or not, no matter he is veggie or non-veggie, :P… This fever is the “ANGRY BIRDS” fever… Yeah, the most popular game worldwide which has captured the eyes of everyone…

Didn’t know that physics can be also so interesting at times… Practically, I thought why we are reading projectile motion and what we have to do solving problems on it every time in the 11th Standard… I was just thinking when I would seriously use these equations to solve practically :P :D… I would seriously thank the Rovio Company for giving such a wonderful game, which has become an addiction for a million of users and hence ranked as the number 1 game on site too… I am just loving it… Can’t stop thinking about it… Honestly speaking, I also feel like playing at this moment now, while writing this blog…

Someone introduced me to this game, don’t remember who, but else I think so one of my M.Sc. friends probably… So, he had installed the Angry Birds game on his lappy and told me about the basics of the game… First time, I have ever realized that the birds were so angry as the big fat evil pigs have taken their eggs :P :P… And that too, the birds didn’t have any wings… Ha ha ha!!! Funny multi-coloured birds and the green pigs making annoying sounds… Hmm, but the fun wasn’t there as it was when competing with others and proving yourself the best… Finally, the facebook combination with Rovio was the awesome one, as the best game in the best networking site would really create wonders… So, I started the game and started sending requests to all my friends to play this game and prove your superiority… Getting a 3 star in each level was the ultimate aim where one has to break down all the structures in which the pigs are placed in one or at the most two strikes depending upon the level of difficulty, and if you are unable to do it, then the pigs would be laughing at you, making your mockery… Ample of chances and one has to show how good he is... Sometimes, I was also that crazy that I used to get 3 star just after getting up from the bed in the morning, and hitting the structure while I was brushing my teeth :D :D :D… But, when my mates in IIT came to know about this game, it was a bit difficult as they were also at par with me, but still I am in the top lists among them where I have got 521/525 stars… Don’t believe!! Check my FB account for the updates on Angry Birds :D… Reaching these many stars was really very difficult… The funniest part was when we used to declare milestones in FB and brag about it in the hostel as to who first reached that… One of my friends here, also used to brag me at each level when he used to score more than me in each level :P… Guess, he is reading this blog post too… But, I have beaten him in some levels and got 3 stars in them too… I then also guided some of my close friends as to how to play the game, and they are also in a better position now in my list (Hmmm!!! Good Teacher though :P :P)… But the fun was not that much until the weekly tournament arrived on FB, where there is a fight to be in the top position among your friends in 4 special levels, where you have to score as much as possible, and increase your score where no one would be able to reach near you… Too tough a challenge, but you need to accept it, to prove you are the best as the rewards are indeed lavishing…

But all I am waiting for is the other versions of Angry Birds, especially Angry Birds space, which is indeed much better than the other seasons and has many many levels counting in it… This is the game which I was waiting for a long period of time… For all those who have not played this game yet, I urge you to play this game… I guarantee you, you cannot even leave your seat until it is done, it is much better an addiction than alcohol also :P :P… Thanks guys!! And especially thanks Rovio!!!

Signing off

Shaan…

BIRTHDAY BUMPS!!!

The time of the year, which is one of the special times for a person, Birthday time!!! The birthday is generally the sweetest part of the human’s life… Sharing chocolates, cutting cakes only is now an old school business… Welcome, to the new enjoyment, where cakes are just smeared and what a person gets on that day are the BIRTHDAY BUMPS!!! Ouch!!! It really really hurts… This is the first time of my life I have been staying in a Hostel life at IIT Delhi… I get to sense here what is the severity of the birthday bumps!!! Happiest day??? HA HA HA!!! The new generation scenario would make you remember this day forever… You would just pray how to get out of this day quickly…

I got to know about what is Birthday Bumps when I started my Engineering career, when one of my friends’ birthday had just arrived… OMG!!! They beat him so badly giving him the special kicks of birthday; the pain was there on his back till 2 days… I realized what can happen when someone beats like that, heaviest kicks, you have to hold your butts while walking, and the thugs on your back would even make you feel something is burning at your back… That day you cannot stop anyone, no comments, nothing… It’s your birthday; you can simply just go into that flow… Remembering mine also makes me remember the pain… 2^nd of March of every year, the time of even semesters in Engineering, and when the semester had just started, and all are free from the tensions of exams, I feel like shivering the moment I mention the date… In my B.tech career, I used to have such thrashings that day, the moment I remember the thug on my back where 6-7 people would be just hitting it ruthlessly, since, I was very heavy, no one could lift me up, to give a good solid kick on the butts… So, the only thing they could do is to slap as hard as they can on my back… When a sudden blow of 6-7 people come at a time, you don’t understand at what position you would be, and your back also… Since there was no provision to bring cakes, the only thing one could do was to give a treat in the nearest canteen… That is the Loot day of the person!!! Doesn’t matter wherever you hide, they would find and then drag you up to the canteen to have a bill of at least 400 bucks… Without the treat, there is no rescue… :D :D :D… That always continued for 2-3 days, and you don’t keep an account of who is eating, even I had extracted a treat two times from a friend on his birthday and he still doesn’t know about it… Funny and interesting, all the four years of my life… The only thing I could give is my special thug of my hand… Whoever has got it, must be smiling and seeking an opportunity for revenge and payback… :D :D :D… Whomsoever I have hit has got a finger print on his back for the next half an hour or so…

But the case in IIT is totally different, where there are many muscular people to hold you up, and people with the past four years of experience in their B.tech life have known the technique of hitting the right kicks at the right spot which not only made the sweet sound of the contact, but the pain that was there also really sweet :D :D :D… My room partner is also one of them in these matters in giving a real good kick and solid thug… Initially, I was just held up by my feet and no one to hold me at the back, which resulted in the first thug at my back… So, when anyone would hug, and would generally pat you on that paining portion, and you have to just control the pain thinking “Your turn is also coming, Buddy!!!”… Oh God!!! Some even thrashed the back with slippers, where each would give three shots at your back and you would be feeling that serious burning condition, and there would be a queue of 7-8 people hitting with the slippers… And then the face of the birthday chap would be smeared, that provided a good make up for me too on the day before leaving for Bhubaneswar cause of the vacation given…

Now, what to say, these people are just waiting eagerly for my treat as my vacations are over… :( :( :(… Just assured them to give them after the coming minor exams…

HAIL BPUT!!!

Is there nothing Rajnikanth can’t do?? Believe me there is one in this world… Make him read in the worst University I have ever read… BPUT… Even he would be frustrated to stay in the world of BPUT… I know how much pain one has to go through the slaughters of the BPUT, to be an “Engineer”… I wish our college hadn’t been under this university… Wish it had been an autonomous college as the college was a brand by its name, having good professors in Odisha… But we students had to suffer to be in the chains beholden by BPUT… Even God would cry to see the torture we have to face in this world…

A University with at least 130 colleges, Gosh!!! How can one handle that…? Even if you don’t score a mark even in the OJEE exam, there is a guaranteed seat in any college affiliated under this university… WOW!!! Even after that there would be some seats remaining in vacancy, which is filled up after 5 rounds of counseling procedure… The BPUT counselors even become desperate to fill up the seats but not enough students for entry… I think so at last they would sell seats at every house for future planning… :D :D :D… No matter how many counseling BPUT makes, the seats are yet to remain vacant… The colleges grow like mushrooms each year, and pouring up more colleges than expected which grows each year… Even some names are amazing enough- “Einstein Institute of Technology”, “Vivekananda Institute of Technology”… I don’t know how many Einsteins or idol Vivekanandas these colleges would produce… But the fact is that every year a new mushroom would emerge and they add up to BPUT network… They get certificates and then move on…

The most hapless situation in this University is the time for semester exams… As soon as the exam arrives there would be a gang of members who boast to represent the students, don’t know which good-for-nothing college they belong to, would sit out for a strike for postponing the exams and it would be postponing repeatedly until they are satisfied… They would be going on stopping the buses of different colleges and there will be an array of buses stopping at the Fire Station Chowk in Bhubaneswar… :D :D :D… Some guys out of the bus of the XYZ college (I don’t know the name) would be then sitting outside the bus to see what happens… So for this strike, I had to ask my fellow mates in the hostel as the bus would be going in which direction to college, as whatever happens, our college won’t stop running as it is the authority, and I would go there for my pick up… Well, this would go on when the students are finally satisfied with the shifting of the exams to a proper date which suited them… It’s really pathetic!!! As the University does not declares at what point of the year the exams are going to be scheduled nor the date at which the results would be published… The exams are so kept on shifting that finally it would be starting from the mid December to mid January and in summers would end at June… A semester exam going on for a month… One of my friends also once said in Gmail… “IN BPUT XMAS=XAMS”… I seriously liked this post my friend had posted, we couldn’t celebrate the last days of the year when all our friends did (who are non-BPUTs), nor we had enough time for our summers as the next semester would be commencing exactly after a month… Oh! If anyone ever stays in this world would really suffer very much…

The most terrifying moment is at the time of results… First of all, we never knew when the results would be declared and secondly when the copies would be corrected in time… The hall in which correction is being done was pretty interesting… As mentioned earlier, our college is the authority, as the whole organization is solely dependent on us… Now here is the scenario in the checking room… Two ladies seated opposite to each other, chit chatting with each other while correcting the copies, they give only few glances at the answer sheets… :D :D :D… A young lady talking with someone (her boyfriend probably), if she keeps on smiling while talking, she carefully checks the paper and gives the marks correctly, otherwise…, you people can better understand… :D :D :D… A young gentleman, seated opposite to other young lady, where the lady would be correcting carefully, while he would be just sharing some glances with the paper and the lady and the ticking the pen continuously… :D :D :D… Has anyone seen such pathetic condition in the checking room…? We would be just seeing through the window pane clean and clear, but couldn’t say and comment in that restricted area… Now, after this, guys and gals say what results you can expect to be…

Since, we didn’t know when the results would be out, only rumors that it will be declared this week, and weeks pass by… And when there are no more other rumors, suddenly, one would scream out, the results are out… Now describing the scenario in the checking room, I would practically say that one would take the name of the God thousand times and still his hand would tremble to type his registration number on the internet… Even I practically read the ‘Hanuman Chalisa’ before opening the website… Why we had to?? First of all, when the results are declared the site won’t open at all at least for an hour, due to trafficking (What a Website)… Secondly, there were some people who got backlog in papers which you might have screwed up a bit and some news about very little percentage of people had passed that paper… Once, the webpage didn’t open at all for me… I had to check it in the midnight at 2; otherwise I wouldn't be able to sleep…

Later on, in my 5^th semester, after the great Vani Vihar massacre in Bhubaneswar, where the students who were creating the strike, were ruthlessly beaten up by the police, matters went on to settle very little in the organization… But still, it is not yet completely organized as it needs to be improvised as it is still an organization run by the students, not by the authority… BPUT needs to understand it very soon and inculcate it, otherwise it would be the end… But at my time, I always said “HAIL BPUT!!!”…

A TISKET, A TASKET, LUNCH AND FUN IN A BASKET!!!

What is that place which comes to your mind describing moments of fun & frolic, where there is no pressure and there is your own rule of things and a lot to enjoy the whole time with your friends and you wish that to happen all the time with you??? School…. No…. College…. No…. IT’S PICNIC…. Fun time, all the time… Where there is no barrier, no bondage, and you become your own self…. Where there is a huge pot of fun and smiles on everyone’s face…. No one to stop, no strict rules as in college or school, all it matters is just you…

Family picnic was always there, where I would be with all the family members and all those people who were residents nearby used to go… When I was a kid I enjoyed that kind of picnic as there would be a bunch of kids of my age and we would be playing all day until there would be a call for the lunch, but I had never experienced a picnic with a huge group of friends then… Well, in my school days I didn’t go to any picnic, but as said earlier, the Senior Secondary level were the best days of my school, which was the first time ever I went to a picnic party, where I enjoyed the company of being in a group of 11^th class batch… Yeah of course, the 11-B section was much more mischievous than the 11-A class as cited by many teachers… HA HA HA!!! :P :P… What an experience it was!!! Superb!!! I really can’t ever forget the first ever picnic in my life with friends… Fun moments would really make it hard to describe as it would be like printing a book of thousand pages :D :D :D :D… All that was the enjoyment for the whole one day, which is encrypted in your life playing Cricket, Badminton and many more, the whole day without the fear of anyone… Well, on that day three of us who had gone for the picnic were interviewed by the tutor the next day on the tuition classes for bunking the class on that day in front of the whole class of 70 students… Whatever it may be, we all, who had been to that place, enjoyed the picnic a lot…

Then I came to my college life… Where my friends were like one of the gems of my life… The more I describe about these electrical engineering friends, wouldn’t be enough for me… To understand and to be understood, the first picnic was organized with my college friends… What can u say about this fun and frolic… Rolling onto the beaches and playing flying discs was a separate fun :D :D :D… We even had a teacher with us to escort with us in the 1^st year of my college… That teacher was too friendly, so we choose him to go with us… The guys from the hostel had forgotten to bring a bat, and we played cricket with a coconut branch with him considering that as the bat… HA HA HA!!! :D :D :D… Oh god!! What a fun it was… I was enjoying every moment of it… The best part was that we came to know each other, and was really a pleasure being with them… As mentioned earlier, they were GEMS in my life… Fun was there all the time and we made a guy eat more than expected :D :D :D… Well, on that day also, I was amazed and shocked by the breaking news I had on that day… One of the girls, said me that she wants to make me her brother and the whole bus was alive with the screaming of the students… I couldn’t, at first, really understand, what is she saying in front of all my friends :D :D :D :D… Then, I realized what she is telling to me… It’s my pleasure to have such a sweet, cuddly sis like her… I owe her for tying ‘rakhi’ on every occasion… Well, something that satisfied and was happiest to me was having a new sis on board of my life journey… Who wouldn’t like to have a sis like her??? :D :D :D… She is really sweet, and whatever a bro-sis relation can be like, she is the one…

I went on to my second picnic when I was in my 3^rd year of engineering, which was a complete boys’ picnic as the girls were not ready to come… I had fever on the day before the picnic… But still, I managed to go with the friends as they are always the fun parcel of my life, which explodes with the crackers of fun all the time… Well, I couldn’t enjoy the picnic because of two reasons, 1) I was still ill and couldn’t enjoy the most like I used to do in other picnics, and 2) There were no girls coming to the picnic that time… Well, from anyone of them I could overcome was fine, but having both being at a time was not at all OK… But, I stood up to the best I could to enjoy the most with my friends…

Then came my last picnic in the final years… Many of us were placed in the most reputed companies in India… No matter, that was the picnic which we enjoyed the most… The sorrowful moment was it was our last picnic together in college life as we would be departing from each other after some months of college… It was a mixed blend of both happiness and sorrow at the same time… The whole branch of electrical was going to the final picnic at the banks of the river Mahanadi… Oh god!! No one would be able to sit on their seats :D :D :D… Dancing all the time in the bus and then having photo sessions was always there… Even Dumb charades was also a time to hang out with all the fun and laughter going on… Some guys used to give names out of their mind and boast them to have come on SET MAX channel at midnight :D :D :D… Laughter was there, and you could feel your jaws paining all the time… All the moments we spend were out of this world and are hard to make them explain… Didn't ever imgine that I would ever get such a classy group of people in my life…

Its all for you guys, that I got a reason to smile and laugh, even if it was the loudest of all :D… I feel myself privileged to have FRIENDS like you…

SUMMER TRAININGS-A FUN PLACE MORE THAN LEARNING!!!!

WELL, I AM BACK AGAIN… LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING ABOUT MY COLLEGE DAYS AT C.E.T., BHUBANESWAR… SUMMERS ARRIVE AND WE STUDENTS WOULD BE SUBMITTING FORMS IN THE ELECTRICAL COMPANIES TO PURSUE OUR “SUMMER TRAINING”… FOR EVERY COMPANY, THERE WOULD BE EVERYONE GIVING FORMS TO THE COLLEGE FOR TRAINING, AND THE WHOLE T&P CELL WOULD BE OVERLOADED WITH FORMS :D :D :D… IN MY TENURE OF 4 YEARS, I DID TWO SUMMER TRAININGS (FOR NAME SAKE) IN TWO COMPANIES, OPTCL (ORISSA POWER TRANSMISSION CORPORATION LTD.), AND THE OTHER ONE WHO IS THE FATHER OF THIS, NTPC/TTPS (NATIONAL THERMAL POWER CORPORATION/ TALCHER THERMAL POWER STATION)… LET ME TALK ABOUT THE INCIDENTS ABOUT THESE TWO PLACES…

LET’S START WITH MY FIRST TRAINING, AT OPTCL, WHERE WE DID IN THE MONTH OF JUNE, 2009… THREE OF US, WERE ENTITLED THERE FOR TRAINING, TO THE SAKE OF A FRIEND WHO HAD CONTACTS IN THE COMPANY… BEING THE FIRST ONE, WE WERE TOO EXCITED AS IT WAS OUR FIRST EVER TRAINING, GOING OBEDIENTLY TO THE PLACE WELL BEFORE THE TIME, BUT AT FIRST COULDN’T FIND WHERE EXACTLY WAS THIS LOCATED, AS WE WERE WANDERING ALL AROUND TO FIND THAT SPOT, ASKING PASSER-BY WHERE IS THAT PLACE, WITH THAT ‘HAAN’ TYPE, AND HE WOULD SAY SOME OTHER DIRECTION EVEN THOUGH HE MIGHT HAVE SEEN THAT PLACE ALL THE TIME HE IS PASSING BY THAT ROAD :D :D :D… FINALLY SOMEHOW, WE FOUND THAT GRID, AND ON THE NEXT DAY READY TO GO TO THE PLACE FOR TRAINING…. THE FIRST THING THAT WE DID WAS TO MEET THE TRAINING PERSON, WHO HAD TO TRAIN US… WELL, YOU PEOPLE HAVE HEARD OF ‘CHAIN SMOKER’, HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF “CHAIN ‘PAAN’ CHEWER”??? :D :D :D… WELL, SO WAS A PERSON WAS HE… HAVING A BULKY FIGURE, WITH A ONE BIG PACK, AND JUST CHEWING BETEL (PAAN) ALL THE TIME, BEFORE THE ONE GETS COMPLETED, HE POPS ON ANOTHER ONE :D :D :D… WELL WHEN HE TALKS, IT SPITTED OUT SOME AMOUNT OF BETEL ONTO THE FLOOR… SO WHILE TALKING, WE USED TO STAND ATLEAST TWO HANDS AWAY FROM HIM SO THAT HE DOESN'T SPIT IT OUT ON US :D :D :D… ON THE FIRST DAY, HE ASKED US TO DO WHAT IS CALLED THE “GRID DIAGRAM”… WE DIDN'T UNDERSTAND FROM WHAT POINT TO START AND END, AS WE WERE JUST DRAWING THE WHOLE DIAGRAM IN ROUGH FOR ALMOST HALF-AN- HOUR OR SO… FINALLY WE HAD COMPLETED OUR GRID DIAGRAM THEN, BUT COULDN'T UNDERSTAND ANYTHING OUT OF IT… THE MOST FUNNIEST WAS WE USED TO BUNK A HELL LOT OF CLASSES, AND AFTER THAT WHEN WE AGAIN CAME, HE USED TO AGAIN SAY THE SAME THING REPEATEDLY… THE PERSON WHO WAS GIVING THAT TRAINING ALSO SAID “WHY YOU PEOPLE ARE COMING EVERYDAY??? JUST COME WHEN YOU FEEL THAT THERE IS SOMETHING HERE, OTHERWISE GO AND SLEEP IN YOUR HOMES”… WELL, MOST OF US ALSO WENT ON FOR A TRIP IN THE MEANWHILE, TO SOME PLACES OF THEIR RELATIVES AND, AT LAST, GOT A CERTIFICATE PRINTED WITH THE LOGO OF THE COMPANY…

NEXT WAS THAT OF THE NTPC/TTPS, WHERE THEY CALLED US FOR TRAINING AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 6^TH SEMESTER EXAM… SO THERE WAS A SPECIAL REQUEST SENT TO THE COMPANY TO SHIFT OUR SCHEDULE TO THE NEXT MONTH, AND SO THEY AGREED… TWO OF US OUT OF THE THREE, WHO JOINED FOR OPTCL, ALONG WITH THREE OTHERS, WERE CALLED FOR TRAINING… THESE GROUP OF 5 PEOPLE WERE THERE AT THE PLACE 5 DAYS AFTER THE EXAM :D :D :D… IT TOOK US A WHOLE ONE DAY TO GET THE GATE PASS FOR ENTRY, THE SERVER WAS DOWN, AND IT WAS TOO HOT IN THAT SCORCHING HEAT OF THE PLACE… IT HAD TWO TIMINGS FOR THE TRAINING, WE CHOOSED TO DO IN THE MORNING HALF, AND TAKE GOOD AMOUNT OF NAP IN THE AFTERNOON HALF… A GUY FROM US GOT A NAME IN THIS PLACE, “THERMAL CHOWK”… THE REASON WE CALL HIM, AS IT HAPPENED TO HIM ON THAT PLACE, ALL THE MISHAPPENINGS (HAADSA) ON ONE DAY… WE STAYED IN A LODGE WHICH WAS 5 KMS AWAY FROM THE PLANT… SO HAD TO DO SHUNTING EVERYDAY, BY ANY MEANS OF CONVENIENCE AS IT WAS A COMPLETE REMOTE AREA… ONE DAY, IT HAPPENED THAT WE HAD GOT SOME GUEST HOUSE WITHIN THE PLANT ITSELF… SO I AND THIS FRIEND OF MINE WENT ON TO THE PLACE TO CHECK IT OUT… AFTER TRAVELLING 5 KMS FROM THE LODGE, WE WENT TO OUR FRIEND’S RESIDENCE WHICH WAS A STONE THROW DISTANCE AWAY FROM THE STOP “THERMAL CHOWK”, AS HE KNEW WHERE TO GO THEN… HERE STARTED THE SERIES OF MISHAPPENINGS OR”HAADSA” WITH THIS GUY… ON OUR WAY TO HIS HOME, HE CAME IN BETWEEN A BULL AND A COW, WHERE THE BULL WAS JUST RUNNING OUT FROM A DISTANCE TOWARDS THE COW, AND HE WAS JUST IN BETWEEN THE TWO SPECIES :D :D :D :D… HE ALMOST GOT ESCAPED FROM BEING HURT… THEN, WE WENT ON TO THE PLANT TO SEE THAT PLACE, AND ON OUR WAY BACK, SAW A LOADED TRAIN ALMOST RUNNING AT BULLOCK CART SPEED… I AND THAT FRIEND OF US MANAGED TO RUN TO THE OTHER WAY OF THE RAILWAY CROSSING, AND WAITED FOR THIS GUY, AS HE WAITED FOR THAT TRAIN TO CLEAR OFF THE CROSSING… HERE COMES THE SECOND HAADSA, THE TRAIN STOPPED IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CROSSING AS IT HAD TO UNLOAD COAL AT THE PLANT… HA! HA! HA! COULDN’T STOP LAUGHING!!! AS HE HAD TO MOVE ALONG THE REST HALF OF THAT ANACONDA SHAPED TRAIN TO MEET US :D :D :D… WHEN WE MET, WE COULDN’T STOP LAUGHING EVEN THEN ALSO :)… THIS WAS TOO MUCH FOR THAT GUY :)… NOW HE DECIDED TO MOVE AHEAD AND CATCH AN AUTO FOR US… FORTUNATELY, AN AUTO STOOD THERE, AND HE CREATED HIS THIRD AND FINAL HAADSA… STANDING ON THE THERMAL CHOWK, INSTEAD OF ASKING HIM WHETHER HE WOULD GO TO THE DESTINATION PLACE, HE UTTERED “WOULD YOU GO TO THE THERMAL CHOWK???”… THE AUTO DRIVER LOOKED SURPRISED AND ANNOYED, AND THEN REPLIED WITH A SMILE,”NO SIR, BECAUSE THIS IS THERMAL CHOWK”… WE COULDN’T STOP LAUGHING; OUR LAUGHTER BECAME MUCH MORE LOUDER… FROM THAT DAY ONWARDS, WE USED TO ADDRESS HIM AS “THERMAL CHOWK”, AND ALWAYS LAUGH REMEMBERING THAT MOMENTS…

IN BOTH THE TRAININGS, WE USED TO DO A HELL LOT OF FUN AND FROLIC RATHER THAN GAINING SOMETHING ABOUT THE TEACHINGS FROM THE TRAINING THERE… AS STUDIES AND TEACHINGS WOULD BE THERE, NO DOUBT, BUT THOSE ARE HARDLY REMEMBERED, THE MOST YOU REMEMBER IS THE BEST TIMES YOU HAVE SPENT WITH AND CHERISHED WITH YOUR FRIENDS, WHICH MAKE YOU LAUGH ALL THE TIME REMEBERING THOSE PRECIOUS MOMENTS…

SENIOR SECONDARY-THOSE WERE THE BEST DAYS OF MY SCHOOL!!!!! :) :) :)

MY SCHOOL LIFE WASN'T THAT MUCH HAPPENING AND INTERESTING WHEN I CAME TO THE SENIOR SECONDARY LEVEL AT D.A.V. PUBLIC SCHOOL, UNIT-8, BHUBANESWAR… THE AIR, THE SURROUNDINGS OF MY SCHOOL WASN’T SO REFRESHING WHEN I CAME BACK AGAIN IN 11^TH… YET I HAVE GOT MANY ACHIEVEMENTS IN MY SECONDARY LEVEL AT SCHOOL, LISTING FROM THE CLASS 8^TH, I FOUND A CHARM IN THE SENIOR SECONDARY LEVEL, BECAUSE THE FRIENDS I HAD GOT WERE “THE BEST” EVER IN MY SCHOOL LIFE…

AFTER I SCORED A 90.4% IN 10^TH BOARD EXAM, I HAD A LOT OF OPTIONS OPEN TO WHICH COLLEGE I SHOULD GO TO PURSUE MY SENIOR SECONDARY STUDIES… MOST OF MY FRIENDS WHO WERE IN THE 90% ABOVE LIST WERE GOING TO CONTINUE THEIR EDUCATION IN THE MOST RECOMMENDED COLLEGE IN BHUBANESWAR, B.J.B. JUNIOR COLLEGE, I DID APPLY IN THAT COLLEGE TOO HAVING FILLED UP MY FORM FOR THE COLLEGE… A 90% ABOVE STUDENT CAN GET INTO THIS INSTITUTION QUITE EASILY… BUT THERE WAS SOMETHING A SENSE OF ATTACHMENT TOWARDS MY SCHOOL EVEN THOUGH I DIDN’T ENJOY THE BEST OF IT IN PREVIOUS YEARS… LATER ON, I FOUND THAT THE COMPETITION TO GET INTO B.J.B. COLLEGE WAS A BIT DIFFICULT AS MY NAME DIDN’T APPEAR IN THE FIRST LIST OF SELECTION IN WHICH I MISSED THE LIST BY 2 MARKS… THREE DAYS AFTER THAT, I GOT MY NAME IN THE LIST OF THE D.A.V. PUBLIC SCHOOL, WHERE I WAS SELECTED IN THE LIST OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AS MY 4^TH OPTIONAL… GOD!!! I WAS JUST HAPPY ENOUGH TO HAVE ESCAPED FROM THE WORST PERFORMANCE SUBJECTS 1) SOCIAL SCIENCE AND 2) BIOLOGY :)… EVEN THOUGH I SCORED A 94 IN BOTH THE SUBJECTS, I WAS HAPPY THAT I DUMPED ALL THAT IN MY 10^TH BOARD EXAM ITSELF AS I COULDN'T MUG UP :D :D :D… NOW WHAT WAS I LEFT WITH IS A LIST OF ALL THE SUBJECTS THAT WERE MY FAVOURITES… SIGH!!... THE SURPRISING THING WAS THAT I GOT MY CALL LETTER FROM THE B.J.B. COLLEGE ON THE DAY OF MY ADMISSION IN D.A.V. :D :D :D… THEN AFTER, A FELICITATION PARTY WAS ORGANISED IN MY SCHOOL FOR THE 90% ABOVE STUDENTS IN THE SCHOOL, I WAS ALSO ONE AMONG THEM… THAT DAY I MADE A DREAM THAT, I HAVE NEVER BEEN IN THE RANK HOLDERS OF MY SCHOOL, WHY CAN’T I BE ONE AMONG THEM??? THEN I THOUGHT TO HAVE AN IMPRESSION CREATED AMONG THE TEACHERS ABOUT MY PERFORMANCE IN THE SCHOOL, WHICH LED TO MY FIRST TIME POSITION IN THE RANK HOLDERS OF THE SCHOOL, I WAS EXCITED ABOUT IT, AND MOVED AHEAD TO SECURE MY RANK OF A SCHOOL TOPPER IN 11^TH WITH THE MOST TOUGHEST PAPER EVER SET… THAT WAS STARTING TO ALL THE IMPRESSION AMONG THE TEACHERS ABOUT ME…

WELL, WHEN I JOINED THE SCHOOL I MADE UP MY MIND TO HAVE MANY NEW FRIENDS BESIDES THE OLD FRIENDS WHO WERE THERE WITH ME… BUT WHO KNEW, THESE WERE THE BEST PALS I EVER HAD… THEY WERE SOMETHING WHICH I HAD THOUGHT OF, HOW THEY SHOULD BE AND I REALLY ENJOYED THEIR COMPANY EVEN… I BEGAN TO ENJOY MY SECTION, STARTED GOSSIPING AND PLAYING GAMES WITH THEM… WE HAD ALSO A COMBINATION OF RUGBY IN BASKETBALL, WHERE THERE WAS A BRUTAL PLAY WHERE YOU HAD TO KICK ALL THE GUYS TO PUT THE BALL IN THE BASKET :D :D :D… TOO GOOD A GAME THEN… WHATEVER IT MIGHT BE, WE ENJOYED THE GAME VERY MUCH… WELL, ONE OF THEM PROVED TO BE A VERY GOOD FRIEND OF MINE WHO WAS ALSO IN THE LIST OF THE RANKERS OF MY SECTION… TILL DATE, WE HAVE SHARED EVERY THOUGHT WE HAVE AND ALSO ARE STILL IN CONTACT… WE HAD DONE OUR FINAL PROJECTS COMBINEDLY IN COMPUTER SCIENCE (WHERE WE MADE A CALENDER OF ANY YEAR), IN PHYSICS (WHERE WE MADE THE EFFECT OF ELECTRO-MAGNETIC FIELD), IN CHEMISTRY (WHERE WE FOUND THE AMOUNT OF CARBOHYDRATE CONTENT IN FOOD SUBSTANCES)… THE PHYSICS PROJECT WAS A MASSACRE AS THE COPPER WIRE WASN’T CONDUCTING TOO MUCH, AND WE STROKED THE WIRE WHICH CREATED RIPPLES TO FOOL THE EXTERNAL ABOUT OUR RESULT :D :D :D… HA HA HA!!! VERY FUNNY THEN… BUT I ALWAYS REMEMBER HIS FRIENDSHIP FOR HAVING HELPED ME WHEN I WASN'T SCORING THAT GOOD IN COMPUTER SCIENCE, AS IT WAS A COMPLETELY NEW SUBJECT FOR ME…

THE MOST INTERESTING IN THE SCHOOL LIFE WERE THE LAB ASSISTANTS OF PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY, WHO ACTED LIKE DEMI-GODS FOR US… IF THERE WAS ANY PROBLEM, WE WOULD ALWAYS ASK HIM FOR THE HELP TO SORT IT OUT… ONE TIME I WAS TOO CONFIDENT TO HOLD THE TEST TUBE WITHOUT ANY TEST TUBE HOLDER, AND THE REACTION WAS EXOTHERMIC THAT BURNT MY SKIN AS THE SOLUTION SPITTED OUT… THERE AFTER, I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING WITHOUT TEST TUBES… AS HE WAS TOO FRIENDLY WITH US, HE EVEN HELPED US TO GET OUR RESULTS DONE… THE FUNNIEST PART WAS IN THE BOARD EXAM, WHEN WE USED TO ASK WHAT WAS THE SALT GIVEN TO US AND SHOW RESULTS FOR THE SAME… TRYING A NUMBER OF TESTS WAS A HEADACHE THEN, THEN WE USED TO PLEAD HIM WHAT WAS OUR SALT FORMULA AND HE WOULD WRITE IN HIS HAND TO SHOW US SECRETLY AND THEN SKIPPING A NUMBER OF TESTS RESULTED IN THE CORRECT OUTPUT OF RESULT; WE ALWAYS THANK HIM FOR THE SAME… SINCE, I WAS POPULAR AMONG THE TEACHERS, IN THE BOARD EXAM OF LAB, WE ASKED WHETHER THE READING OF THE BURETTE WAS CORRECT OR NOT, AND SHE WOULD SAY THIS SHOULD BE THE READING… GOING BACK AGAIN TO WEIGH THE COMPOUND AGAIN WAS VERY DIFFICULT… THE BEST PART WAS TO SET THE READING TO THAT LEVEL AND PUTTING THE REST AMOUNT FROM THE BEAKER TO OBTAIN THAT LIGHT PINK COLOUR IN THE CONICAL FLASK AND THEN TELL THAT THIS WAS THE READING :D :D :D… TOO HAPPY THEN, AS THIS LEADED TO FURTHER CALCULATION… AT THE BACK OF THE DESK WE USED TO BREAK A NUMBER OF TEST TUBES FOR FUN AND KEEP IT INSIDE THE DESK SO THAT NO ONE KNOWS :D :D :D… LOVE THOSE MOMENTS… IN THE PHYSICS LAB, WE GOT OUR RESULTS CORRECTLY SINCE WE REMEMBERED ALL THE OBSERVATIONS OF THE 10 EXPERIMENTS WE HAD (THE SAME THING I DID IN 11^TH TOO, WHERE I GOT THE TUNING FORK EXPERIMENT)…

BESIDES THE ACADEMIC CAREER, I WAS TOO MUCH EMOTIONALLY CONNECTED WITH THE BUDDIES OF MY BATCH… EVERY TIME THEY INSPIRED ME TO GO HIGHER, AND BE THE BEST AMONG THE BEST ALWAYS… AT THE TIME OF FAREWELL, I WAS BROKEN TO TEARS, AS THIS WAS THE BEST BATCH EVER, WHO REALLY MADE ME LAUGH A BIT MORE THAN EXPECTED ALL THE TIME… I REALLY NEVER ENJOYED SOMEONE’S FRIENDSHIP, SOMEONE’S WELL WISHES TOO MUCH WHICH TOUCHED MY HEART, WHICH I DIDN'T FEEL AT THE TIME OF MY FAREWELL AT 10^TH… THIS WAS A REALIZATION OF PERFECT BATCH FOR ME AND I ALWAYS CHERISH TO BE IN TOUCH WITH THEM ALWAYS :) :) :)…

PEN FIGHTING- A FAVOURITE PASS TIME

HEY BUDDIES,

ITS BACK TO THE OLD DAYS IN SCHOOL AND COLLEGE AGAIN… AN OLD GAME WE USED TO PLAY TO SPEND OUR TIME… WHEREVER THERE WAS A TABLE (BATTLEFIELD), EVERYBODY HAD THEIR PENS (WEAPONS) READY TO PLAY THE COMBAT… “PEN FIGHTING” :D :D :D… WHEREVER WE PEOPLE WERE, IT DOESN’T MATTER MUCH, AS THERE WAS AMPLE OF TIME FOR THE TEACHER TO COME, EVERYBODY WAS WILLING TO PLAY… AND IF THE TEACHER IS A GOOD ONE, WE COULD EVEN REQUEST HIM TO LET THE GAME COMPLETE… FUN, FROLIC WAS ALWAYS THERE WHILE PLAYING…

WELL, I GOT TO KNOW ABOUT THIS GAME WHEN I WAS IN CLASS-7, WHEN A BUNCH OF 12 YEAR OLD GUYS AND GIRLS HUNG OUT ON A TABLE TO PLAY THE GAME… OH GOD!!! THEN SCREAMING OF EVERYONE ON “WHY DID U THROW MY PEN OUT OF THE TABLE” :( … YEAH, OF COURSE, TO BE THE WINNER YOU HAVE TO REMAIN ON THE TABLE DEEFEATING ALL OTHER PENS THROWING OUT OF THE TABLE… STUPID YET INTERESTING AS IT KILLED THE TIME, AND FOUND DIFFERENT KINDS OF TECHNIQUES TO THROW A PEN OUT… WELL NEVERTHELESS, IT BECAME A FAVOURITE PASS TIME… WHEN I STARTED TO PLAY THIS GAME, I WAS JUST WORRIED ABOUT MY PEN AS THE PENS WERE HITTED SO RUTHLESSLY SO THAT IT FLIES OF THE TABLE… WELL, I BROKE 2 OR 3 PENS IN THE PLAY TOO… BUT, I DIDN’T STOP PLAYING AS IT MADE ME EVEN MORE EAGER TO PLAY… SOMETIMES IT ALSO HAPPENED THAT WE USED TO PLAY THE GAME AT THE BACK OF THE BENCH TO AMUSE US, EVEN WHEN THERE WAS A TEACHER TEACHING IN FRONT OF US… WE DID GET CAUGHT OFTEN AND WERE PUNISHED TO KNEEL DOWN OUTSIDE THE CLASS… WELL WHOEVER KNOWS ABOUT THIS WOULD BE SMILING NOW!!! BUT SERIOUSLY, THOSE TIMES WERE QUITE GOOD AS THERE WAS AMPLE OF TIME AND COULDN’T FIND ANY PLAY TO KILL… BUT WHO KNOWS IT WAS EXTREMELY INTERESTING…

WHEN I WENT TO COLLEGE ALSO, I FOUND THAT THE CRAZE WAS STILL ON… OH GOD!!! I COULDN’T STOP MYSELF KEEPING MY WEAPON ON THE BATTLEFIELD!! :D :D… WELL, WE HAD QUITE INTERESTING GROUP OF PLAYERS, THE ONE WHO USED TO HAVE A PEN THAT ROTATES AT ALMOST THE SPEED OF A MOTOR, TWO GUYS WHO USED TO HAVE A 3 RUPEES PEN WHICH WAS LIGHTER THAN EVERY PENS WE HAD, THE ONE WHO CARRIED A PEN THAT ROTATED BUT WHEN IT HITTED, ACCORDING TO NEWTON’S THIRD LAW, IT GOT ITSELF OUT :D :D :D :D, WHEREAS THE PEN AGAIN RESTORED BACK THE SAME POSTION BEFORE IT WAS HITTED, WHILE I WAS HAVING A 5 RUPEES PEN, AS I HAD THE DISASTER OF MY PENS BREAKING ALL THE MOMENT… SO IT’S BETTER HAVE A MODERATE VALUED PEN FOR THIS COMBAT… SO THIS GROUP OF 6-7 GUYS USED TO HANG OUT FOR THE PLAY… WE HAD CLASS DURATION FROM MORNING 7 O’CLOCK TO AFTERNOON 1 O’CLOCK… EVEN IF THE COLLEGE BUSES WERE AVAILABLE AT 1 O’CLOCK, BUT ALWAYS STAYED UPTO 2 O’CLOCK TO BEGIN THE BATTLE… WE WERE SOMEWHAT WHAT WE CALLED A GROUP OF “EXPERIENCED PLAYERS” IN THIS CONTEXT :D :D :D… SO ANY OTHER PLAYER WHO WANTED TO COMPETE HAD TO GIVE A QUALIFICATION TEST BEFORE COMPETING WITH US :D :D :D… EVEN IF OUR CLASSES ENDED UP AT 12 O’CLOCK, WE USED TO HANG OUT FOR 2 HOURS EVEN… WE USED TO HAVE COMPETITION LIKE ONE-ON-ONE, TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP OR A FATAL FOUR-WAY :D :D :D… LIKEWISE, WE ALSO DEFINED STRATEGIES TO PLAY THE GAME… IF THE FIRST PLAYER OF A TEAM PLAYS A WRONG MOVE, THEN THE OTHER PLAYERS OF THEIR TEAM WOULD SAY, “GIVE THE BACK-UP TO THE PEN”, MEANS FORM A PROTECTION BEHIND THAT PEN SO THAT IT DOESN’T GET HITTED OUT… AS SAID EARLIER, WE ARE GROUP OF “EXPERIENCED” WE USED TO HAVE TACTICS TO HANDLE THIS… HIT IT WITH THE UTMOST POWER SO THAT EVERY PEN GOES OUT OF THE TABLE AND THE TEAM WINS… BUT THE HIGHEST SPINNING PEN WAS THE SUPERIOR OF ALL PENS… IF IN THE SPINNING CONDITION YOUR PENS GETS HITTED, IT’S A GUARANTEE THAT IT WOULD GET OUT OF THE TABLE… WE HAD TERMS LIKE BYPASS, SUBMISSION ETC… WE WERE ALSO THAT ADDICTED THAT WE USED TO PLAY PEN FIGHTS DURING THE INTERNAL EXAMS OF THE 1^ST YEAR, WHERE WE PLAYED BEFORE 15 MINUTES FOR THE EXAM TO MAKE US REFRESHED…

THIS WAS A REAL MEMORABLE ONE… MEMORABLE FOR MANY ALSO… IT ALWAYS MAKES ME LAUGH ALL THE TIME REMEMBERING IT… JUST WANT TO SAY MY FRIENDS THAT WE HAVE SHARED A GOOD MOMENT TOGETHER, AND GIVEN ME THE BEST TIMES EVEN IT WAS A PEN FIGHT MATCH…