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…

A BOY TO A POET TO A COMMITTED LOVER!!!

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

-Robert Frost

WELL, FROM THE ABOVE QUOTE, I WOULD RATHER SAY THAT MY LOVE SICKNESS IS RATHER MORE PROMINENT THAN ANYTHING :D… HERE IS SOMETHING WHAT HAPPENED WHEN I WAS IN COMMITMENT WITH THE SWEETEST GIRL EVER IN MY LIFE… WRITING POEMS WAS NOT AS EASY AS HANGING OUT WITH YOUR FRIENDS IN YOUR PASS TIME… ALL I HAVE TO DO WAS AN ATTEMPT TO START A POEM WHICH CAN BE LIKED BY ATLEAST A FEW BEFORE I COULD CERTAINLY HAVE A POET IN ME… SOMEBODY SAID THAT POETS ARE TRUE LOVERS OF ANYTHING AND PRAISE THEM TO THE BEST WAY THEY CAN… COME ON!!! CAN’T BE THERE ANYONE WHO CAN’T WRITE A POEM WITHOUT LOVING ANYONE :/… THE ONE I CAN’T IMAGINE WENT ON TO MY LIFE… WELL, WHEN I FIRST STARTED WAS WHEN THERE WAS A MAGAZINE TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE COLLEGE… WHY DON’T I GIVE A TRY THEN… LET’S THINK, THEN I STARTED TO THINK AND CREATED MY FIRST POEM “THE HIDDEN BEAUTY OF MUSIC”… WELL THE POEM WAS WELL LIKED BY MANY AND WAS PUBLISHED IN THE MAGAZINE… THEN I THOUGHT, WAS THERE A POET INSIDE ME, OR MAYBE THE LOVE OF SOMETHING INDUCED ME TO WRITE SOMETHING… AND SO MY JOURNEY BEGAN INTO THE NEW WORLD, WHO KNOWS WHAT WAS NEXT FOR ME… I WAS THEN INTERESTED TO WRITE MANY POEMS FURTHER, WHICH INCLUDED POEMS LIKE “SUFFERINGS OF LIFE”, “LEADING TO THE SOLITARY DEATH”,”THE LADY OF MY DREAMS” AND “THE WINTER DREAMS”… IT ALL DEPENDED ON MY MOOD WHERE I PLACED MYSELF… BUT WHILE WRITING THE POEM”THE LADY OF MY DREAMS” I IMAGINED A GIRL AND WROTE ALL THE QUALITIES WHAT I SAW IN HER IN MY POEM… HA HA HA!!! SOMEONE IN THE MIDST SAID THAT “THIS HAPPENS ONLY IN DREAMS, DON’T WORRY YOU CAN’T GET THAT IN REALITY”, AND THE WHOLE AUDIENCE BURSTED INTO LAUGHTER… BUT BEFORE LEAVING, I ASSURED THEM THAT I WILL GET THAT LADY, AND YOU PEOPLE WILL ALSO SEE THAT… THE POET HAD ALREADY PREDICTED ABOUT HIS FUTURE WELL BEFORE THERE WAS ANY ONE IN THIS WORLD… THIS DETERMINATION WAS ALMOST THERE IN MY HEART, I NEVER LET IT GO… THIS WAS WHEN I WAS IN MY 1^ST YEAR OF MY GRADUATION WHEN THE POET HAS BARELY STARTED TO EVOLVE…

WELL, THEN STARTED MY HUNT FOR THAT PERFECT GIRL IN MY LIFE, SINCE MY ASSURANCE WAS THERE AS A CHALLENGE TO MY FRIENDS… LONG BEFORE, I FOUND THE PERFECT GIRL, I WAS IN LOVE WITH ANOTHER GIRL, BUT COULDN’T HAVE THE COURAGE TO SAY HER :(, MAY BE I WAS TOO SHY OR I WAS TOO AFRAID TO TELL HER, CAUSE I THOUGHT WHAT SHE WOULD THINK ABOUT ME, BUT MY LOVE FOR HER NEVER DECREASED… THEN I THOUGHT THAT THIS WAS NOT THE RIGHT GIRL FOR ME EVER… IT WAS PROBABLY IN THE LAST YEAR WHEN I MET MY SOULMATE!!! :) … YOU MAY SAY A COINCIDENCE OR A GOOD LUCK SENT BY THE GOD FOR ME… BUT IT TOOK ME A LONG TIME TO REALIZE THAT… IN THE STARTING DAYS SHE ASKED ME WHETHER I COULD TEACH HER BENGALI OR NOT… WITHOUT ANY HESITATION I COMPLIED WITH HER… DIDN’T KNOW HOW CAN BE FATE BE SO LUCKY IN MY CASE… I TAUGHT HER CITING CERTAIN EXAMPLES SO THAT SHE CAN LEARN BETTER AND FASTER… BUT SUDDENLY, I FELT LIKE SHE WAS TAKING OVER THE ONE WHOM I USED TO LOVE EARLIER, AND HEALED ME BETTER AS I NEEDED A COMPANION WHO CAN BE WITH ME AND WHO CAN UNDERSTAND ME BETTER… UNNOTICINGLY, I started to feel an essence of LOVE WITH HER… EVEN IF I CAN’T TALK TO HER FOR ONE DAY ALSO WOULD MAKE ME FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE… I FOUND MY LOVE IN HER… BUT AGAIN THE SAME OLD ME CAN’T GET THE COURAGE AGAIN TO TELL HER WHAT SHE MEANT FOR ME NOW!!! EVERY NOW AND THEN, I WOULD SEND HER SOME LYRICS OF LOVE SONGS, BUT SHE TOLD ME TO WRITE A SONG FOR HER ONLY… DID SHE FEEL THE SAME FOR ME??? :/… LATER IN THIS DIWALI, WHEN I RETURNED BACK FROM BHUBANESWAR FOUND that she had TEMPORARILY WITHDRAWN HER ACCOUNT FROM FB… ALAS!!! I HAD MY POEM READY FOR HER TO GIVE A SURPRISE ESPECIALLY PACKED FOR HER… BUT HOW TO GIVE HER??? I HAD NO IDEA… MY HEART BEAT STOPPED… I TEXTED HER UP TO TELL “WHY DID YOU DO THIS TO ME, YOU KNOW I WILL BE BACK TO SEE YOU ONLY???”… SHE REPLIED “YOU DO LOVE ME A LOT, ain't it???”… I HAD NO WORDS TO SPEAK MUCH MORE THAN A HUMBLE “YES” TO HER… THAT IS THE WAY I FOUND THIS SO SWEET GIRL IN MY LIFE… TILL DATE I HAVE COMPOSED 3 POEMS FOR HER OF WHICH ONE OF THEM IS IN BENGALI… OF COURSE, I WOULD SAY IT TO YOU PEOPLE ONE DAY OR THE OTHER, THE POEM IS STILL WITH MY BELOVED, WHO HAS GIVEN ME MUCH MORE THAN I HAVE EXPECTED… A CHARM IN MY LIFE HAS COME BACK… THE GIRL AS I HAVE ALWAYS DESIRED, HAVE GOT IN MY LIFE… I HAVE FULFILLED THE CHALLENGE, BUDDIES!!! MORE THAN THAT, I LOVE THE GIRL THE MOST… GOD HAS REALLY BESTOWED UPON ME THE BIGGEST HAPPINESS IN THIS WORLD TO PRESERVE IT FOR THE REST OF MY LIFETIME…

CARE FOR A FIFA MATCH???

THIS IS DEDICATED TO ALL MY FRIENDS WHO ARE THE TRUE FANS OF EA SPORTS FIFA,

“WHAT A HIT SON!!! WHAT A HIT!!!”, “SUPERB BREAKAWAY!!! AND IT’S ONE-ON-ONE, AND WHAT A GOAL!!!”, “I HAVEN’T SEEN ANYONE SCORING 8 TIMES IN A MATCH!!!”

JUST PUT THE VOLUME ON WHEN YOU ARE AT YOUR BEST, YOU WOULD BE JUST ADDICTED TO THESE WORDS WHILE PLAYING THE FOOTBALL FEVER-FIFA…

WELL, TO REMEMBER THE COLLEGE DAYS WOULD BE TOO LONG TO DESCRIBE MOMENTS SPENT WITH THEM… WELL A REVOLUTION CAME WHEN THERE WAS A CRAZE FOR THE FOOTBALL FANS PLAYING FIFA ON THEIR PC AND COMPETE WITH OTHER PLAYERS TO PROVE THEIR SUPERIORITY…

WELL, CLASSES WERE ALMOST BECOMING SECONDARY WHEN IT CAME TO 4^TH YEAR… BUNKING CLASSES WAS A USUAL incident THEN… I HAD JUST STARTED TO LEARN THE SKILLS OF PLAYING FIFA 08 WHEN MY FRIEND GAVE THE INSTALLATION FILES OF THE GAME IN HIS 4 GB I-BALL PEN DRIVE WHEN THERE WAS HARDLY ANY DAYS LEFT FOR THE 6^TH SEMESTER EXAMS… WELL, I HAD THAT CRAZE TO PLAY AND HAVE THE SKILLS INCORPORATED IN ME TO THE BEST I CAN TO DEFEAT THE PLAYERS J… WELL I THEN STARTED TO PLAY THE GAME WHEN I NEEDED TO STUDY FOR THE EXAM… BUT WHO CARES, JUST I WAS TOO MUCH ADDICTED TO THE GAME THAT I HAD TO MAKE EXCUSES OF PLAYING OVERNIGHT IN THE NAME OF STUDIES :D… BUT ALL I LOVED WAS PLAYING THAT GAME MORE THAN THE BOOKS AS IT MADE ME MUCH MORE ENTHUSIASTIC AS I WAS ACCOMPLISHING SOME CHALLENGES AND BRAGGING ABOUT IT TO MY FRIEND, THAT I EVEN SCORED THE HIGHEST ACHIEVEMENT OF 22-0 :P… BUT AT LAST I MANAGED MY EXAMS WELL AND GOOD…

WELL PLAYING WITH COMPUTER AND PLAYING WITH FRIENDS IS TOTALLY A HELL-AND-HEAVEN DIFFERENCE… I WAS PROBABLY IN THE LAST OF THE LISTS TO LEARN THIS GAME AND TO HANDLE THE TACTICS OF THE GAME L… I FELT LIKE AN AMATEUR IN FRONT OF THE GROUP OF PROFESSIONAL PLAYERS WHO KNEW BETTER THAN WHAT I USED TO KNOW… WE USED TO CONNECT THROUGH THE INTERNET CONNECTION AND HAVE A COMBAT THEN… TO START IT OFF, I PLAYED WITH THE GUY WHO GAVE ME THE SET UP FOR THE GAME (WELL, HE HAS BEEN PRACTIZING 2 MONTHS EARLIER THAN I KNEW HOW TO PASS A BALL TO A PLAYER)… WELL, I HAD THE MOST DISASTROUS STARTS; WELL THE STATISTICS WERE INDEED LAUGHABLE, 0-1, 0-2, 0-2… I COULDN’T EVEN REACH TO HIS GOAL POST EVEN… WELL I DIDN’T GIVE UP, STARTED TO PRACTICE AGAIN SEARCHING FOR THE WEAKEST POINT OF MY OPPONENT… I THEN LEARNT SOME FEW TACTICS WHICH ANOTHER FRIEND OF MINE WAS DOING SO (HE WAS LEARNING THAT MUCH BEFORE), BUT GAVE A CONDITION OF NOT TELLING TO ANYONE, AND SO I CROSSED MY HEART J… ONE DAY, IN THE HOLIDAYS I CALLED UP MY FRIEND AND TOLD HIM TO PLAY… WELL AGAIN ANOTHER SCENARIO 0-3… MY MOM WAS WATCHING MY PLAY… SHE SUDDENLY LAUGHED AND SAID “U LOST AGAIN J J J!!!”… THIS WAS TOO MUCH!!! I CALLED HIM UP ONCE AGAIN, AND TOLD HIM TO RECONNECT AGAIN, AND FINALLY MADE A DEFEAT OF A HUGE MARGIN OF 6-0 AGAINST HIM… HE WAS COMPLETELY AWKED OUT!!! AS IF THE BIGGEST CRICKETER WAS OUT ON THE FIRST BALL AND HE COULDN’T BELIEVE IT!!! WELL SUDDENLY A CALL CAME FROM HIM AND HE ASKED WHAT HAPPENED TO ME… I GAVE HIM THE POST STORY OF THE PREVIOUS MATCH, AS HE HAD BEEN DEFEATED BY A LARGE MARGIN EVER… THEN IT WENT ON ALONG WITH ANOTHER STORY OF 3-1… I WAS CHARGED TO MY FULLEST!!! BUT I WAS TOTALLY UNAWARE OF THE BIG FISH WHO HAD TOLD ME ABOUT THE SPECIAL TRICKS AND HAD PROMISED NOT TO TELL ANYONE… EVEN THOUGH I APPLIED THE TRICKS ON HIM, HE KNEW THE BETTER OPTIONS TO FACE THOSE TACTICS… TILL DATE, I AM SEEKING A WIN AGAINST HIM…

IN THE FINAL DAYS OF COLLEGE, WE FINALLY GOT AN OPPORTUNITY TO INCLUDE THE FIFA COMPETITION IN THE COLLEGE TECHFEST, WHERE I HAD BEEN PUT INTO THE QUARTER FINAL ROUND PHASE AS THE ORGANIZER WAS A GOOD FRIEND OF MINE… BUT THE FIFA INCLUDED FIFA 09, WHERE IF YOU KICK FROM THE MID-FIELD ALSO WOULD END UP AT THE BACK OF THE NET… :D… TOO FUNNY A GAME THEN TO PLAY IN FIFA 09!!!

WELL STILL IF I GET THAT OPPORTUNITY I WOULD DEFINITELY INSIST THEM TO PLAY AGAIN, AND WOULD TELL THEM, “CARE FOR A FIFA MATCH, BUDDY???”

BACK TO BLOGGING!!!!!!! :) :) :)

HEY FRIENDS,

I AM BACK AGAIN… WELL LET’S SAY A MEDIUM TO BE WELL-CONNECTED AGAIN… SINCE LAST FEW DAYS I AGAIN THOUGHT OF HAVING THE DESIRE FULFILLED WHICH I HAD STOPPED ALMOST FEW YEARS AGO, “BLOGGING”… WELL SOMEBODY TOLD ME IN MY COLLEGE DAYS THAT YOU SHOULD AGAIN CONTINUE YOUR WRITING… NOT A BIG DEAL… BUT DIDN'T THINK TO CONTINUE AGAIN NOW AT THIS POINT OF TIME… WELL THEN I DECIDED NO IF’S, NO BUT’S… IT’S MUCH BETTER THAN BEING LETHARGIC AGAIN… THIS TIME I HAVE DECIDED TO EDIT THE CONTEXT OF MORE LIKE “BLOGGING” TO MORE OF A “MEMOIRE”… ALL THE SWEET, BITTER AND ALL THOSE EXTREMELY HAPPIEST MOMENTS WHICH HAS HAPPENED MAYBE IN YOUR LIFE AND IN MINE TOO… MAY BE IT WOULD MAKE US LAUGH, CRY OR INDUCE US AGAIN TO THRASH THE ONE WHICH COULDN'T HAVE BEEN DONE… :D :D… JOKES APART… BUT I THINK SO THE MORE WE REMEMBER THOSE MOMENTS WE FEEL LIKE RELIVING IT AGAIN GOING BACK TO THOSE OLD DAYS AND HOPING THAT LET IT BE AGAIN ”KASH YEH DIN FIR SE AA JATE, TO MAZAA AA JATA”… YEAH, I ALSO SOMETIMES HOPE THAT THE TIME MACHINE SHOULD BE THERE AT EVERY HOUSE SO THAT DESIRES GET FULFILLED :D… MAY BE ONE DAY OR THE OTHER WE WILL BE TOGETHER, IF NOT TODAY, IT WILL BE TOMORROW, IF NOT, THEN SOMEDAY OR THE OTHER, WE WILL AGAIN MEET AND THEN TELL “AREY TU, KITNE DINO KE BAAD, KAHAN THA BE, AAJ TU MERE GHAR CHALEGA, CHAL AAJ TO TREAT BANTA HE BOSS”… YEAH, OF COURSE, TREAT IS INDEED OBLIGATORY…

WELL I AM ALSO WAITING FOR ALL THOSE MOMENTS WHICH WE WOULD START GOSSIPING ALL THE MOMENT WHICH WOULD TAKE THE WHOLE DAY AND STILL WON’T BE ABLE TO COMPLETE YOUR TALKS, OR IF THERE IS A CALL FROM THE FRIEND AT A VERY DISTANT PLACE, WOULD RAISE UP YOUR PHONE BILLS :D :D… WELL I THINK LOSING SOMETHING FOR THE SAKE OF A CARED ONE IS INVALUABLE… MAYBE IT’S SOME PENNIES OR SOME THOUSANDS OF RUPEES… THE MOMENT YOU HAVE SPEND WILL COST MUCH MORE THAN WHAT YOU HAVE GOT TO GET BACK A CARED ONE BACK AGAIN… WELL I WOULD SAY THAT IT’S A KIND OF ATTEMPT BY ME TO MAKE U REMEMBER ALL THE MOMENTS BETWEEN YOU AND ME, SO THAT YOU WON’T FEEL LONELY, AND WOULD CHERISH FOR THE NEXT TIME WHEN WE WOULD SURELY MEET MAY BE AS PER THE SCHEDULE OR MAY BE ACCIDENTALLY…