Day 415: 6th Nov, 2010

Body clock's all messed up. Last night (or should I say morning), I slept pretty late and today again, with great difficulty, I managed to wake up at 12:00 noon, just in time for the 12.30 SDM class! 

All second year students seem to have evaporated into thin air. Pretty low attendance in the class too; every one seems to have gone back to their hometown for Diwali. Once I was through with the sole class of the day, I came back to my room with mostly nothing to do. Even my corridor is super empty as yesterday Kisaan also left for his home. So back to seeking entertainment on the LAN. After ages, got back to watching HIMYM. And after aeons, found one good episode - S06,Ep04. Followed those 4 episodes with a movie - Good Will Hunting. Actually Taklya Fresher suggested that movie to me over lunch. And when I started watching it, I realised it's a movie I wanted to see since long, but didn't know the name! Providence :D

The pcommers have started getting the retirement pangs :D . They now seem to have a problem of plenty (too much of time on their hands!) . So even while I was just watching the last part of the movie, GoraTam called me and made up plans for "Action Replay" @ PVR. The movie reviews are pretty OK, but in my opinion, the movie is easily worth once-watch.

Argghhhh... 5am now!! Sleep finally attacks me!! Got to do something to break this cycle! :-|

Day 414: 5th Nov, 2010 - Happy Diwali! :)

Had I been home, today I would have woken up at around 5.30 / 6 am, taken a nice oil bath after some initial smear by my grand-mom, got ready in 20 minutes and then burst crackers. But here, when you go to sleep only at 4.30 am, what would you expect! Consequently (discounting the phone call from home), I woke up only at around 12 noon :-p

For Diwali celebrations, few of us section B people (+ MMR + Gora Tam) who were still on campus, made plans to go out for dinner. And guess where we went - The Taj! :-) Had some awesome dinner over some nice conversation!

Plus, today happened to be a Friday, with two releases. To avoid the crime of missing both the movies even though it was a holiday, we quickly finalised + mobilized ourselves to reach WAVE just in time to catch the 11.30 pm show of Golmal -3. I liked it quite a lot! :D . Some really funny moments here and there. "upar wale ki umar bhi aapse bass do teen din zyada hogi". And the sidekick's AWESOME spellings! ROFL! :D

Came back to campus at around 2.45 am. Along with the cold, fog has begin to set in. Visibility while driving has thus become much less, making driving more safe/simple for the likes of Praveen, me who don't care too much for visibility anyways :-p . Anyways, some FB updates + a couple of short videos about boxing later, I am now super sleepy! 4.30 am - Time to tuck myself into the quilt. Good night  & Happy Diwali! :-)

Day 413: 4th Nov, 2010 - What we have all been waiting for!

Slept relatively early, but still managed to wake up only at around 10:10. Luckily we didn't have the early morning proj fin class. Read my way through the BE class, to follow it up with an INDEX meet at 12:00 noon! I think that's a first, never had a meeting in day time :D

I got too much exhortations from Kisaan on the necessity to go out and enjoy on Diwali eve rather than attend a class. (Did I really need it?). And anyways, my "shopping" was pending. Consequently, I bunked EPA and we instead went to the newly opened Phoenix Mall. It's definitely a disappointment especially in comparison to the publicity it did - much smaller than Sahara and Fun mall. Even the stores didn't have much variety. Ate a little in the food-court (paneer takatak - first time heard that name, so ordered, OK-OK stuff) and then left for FUN mall. But Kisaan brilliantly managed to be sure of the route and within 15 minutes lose his way. And so we somehow ended up going to Sahara mall - that place is definitely so much better. All the stores had a far better variety of stuff. Eventually however, I ended up buying one shirt, while Kisaan impulsively ended up shopping for a sweatjacket, a pair of shoes and a jeans :D . Ended the stint with a super Baskin Robbins ice-cream :D

Came back to my room and saw that our subcomm creative stud had finished the teaser video for INDEX 2010. And tell you what - it's just AWESOME!! :D

Also at,
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=454108805964

Just some time back, I suddenly saw the "Crazy Taxi" facebook application. And for some strange reason, threw myself a challenge that I would beat everyone else on my friend list :-| . After 40min, I now emerge victorious and as the highest scorer amongst my friends! \m/ Will sleep peacefully now!

And technically, it's 4 am, and Diwali now ;-) Happy Diwali! :)

Day 412: 3rd Nov, 2010

Almost forgot that classes are also a part of life :D . Was mighty bored to drag myself back to the routine of attending classes. And that too starting with one at 8.45 am. But kya karein.

For the past week, 30-70% of my talktime with my mom goes into combating queries as to whether or not I have "bought anything for Diwali". Now, this "Diwali shopping" is a concept that I have not been able to understand fully; I am the kinds who would rather buy "as and when needed". But, mainly to have a simple answer to this question, I have been making plans to go and buy something since the last couple of days, but unfortunately some stumbling block comes up! Today some stupid submission required people to go to the city and meet some distributor and all, and I was left with no company to go even today! Tomorrow - for sure! (No other option :) .. :-p)

PS: Got a great new business idea \m/ :D

Day 411: 2nd Nov, 2010

Diwali's around! And supposedly, every Marwadi on this earth would somehow reach home that day. And to fulfil this prophecy, Pachpan went off to celebrate at home. Infact, yet another wingie, Chinki also left for his home! The good thing is that all of these people have to get some (a lot) :D of those Diwali sweets! :)

My room's under siege again :) . Don't really know how this phenomenon started :D . Our facchas - coding genius and creative genius, both came down and we got down to finishing quite a bit of some initial level work, for creatives as well as the website! Meanwhile, got the news that we have yet another project confirmed! Awesome! Had a small update meeting with the facchas tonight. Guess that will be a regular feature going forward!

The Summers process is more or less over now. And my batch PCommer friends are now ex-officio members :-) . That's what is meant by signing off in style!

Day 112: 18th Oct, 2009

I set a new benchmark today - woke up at 6.30 am on a lazy Sunday! No particular reason as such.. just woke up then and managed to stay awake.

Forgot to mention this funny thing that happened yesterday. RK woke up at 9.43 and rushed to make it to the 9.45 class. Only to find the door locked :D . That was when he realised it was Diwali! Also, the back part of my bike silencer just fell off :-| .. no clue how!

Sorry for the sudden flashback. Must be the BLUE after effect. Spent all the afternoon and evening with the form filling. The first ComPany required us to give an online test. Man! every question gave an infinitesimally small 45 sec to get the solution. Somehow wrote something. This was followed by another form where I had to condense answers. Boy! That's some task! It took me more than an hour to just shorten one answer to fit 500 characters! And 3 more such Qs to go..!

Of course, none of this meant a compromise on the weekend. So ordered pizzas for dinner. Entertainment in the corridors of power ;-)

Day 111: 17th Oct, 2009

Disclaimer: Nelson's number today. But don't think this post was made with me standing on one leg :-p

Firstly, a very Happy Diwali to all the readers of this blog! :)

Traditionally, at my home, Diwali would always start with all of us getting up early and taking an oil bath. And a customary smear of oil would first be applied by my grandmom. Hence, it was only befitting that my day began with a call from my grandmom early in the morning :)

Mithun Chakravarthy started dancing in the jungle. However, the initial velocity of a body thrown down is zero. At the end, Obama's foreign policy is quite unclear. If you could make any sense of the above three sentences, then you must watch BLUE. Unrelated scenes pop up after each other. And there is a mind blowing climax as well. Btw, even if you didn't make sense of the above sentences, you have a reason to watch BLUE. Only and only for Lara Dutta. Diwali phataka man! She is SO hot in the movie that half the water in the ocean evaporated.

Diwali came truly alive in the evening. The hostels were decorated with lights. All hostels had a Rangoli in front. Lots of diyas everywhere ! The entrance to the mess had so many diyas. The festival of lights in its full glory! We had a Puja in the mess and this was followed by a super-duper display of fireworks! :) :) ... Super stuff!

Day 110: 16th Oct, 2009

Today a path breaking phenomenon happened! The scene: MANAC 2 lecture. Against all natural inclination, I actually put my hand up and asked a doubt. To the great Mr. Mishra himself. And the return comment "it's good to see that people are taking interest in my course and asking difficult questions." :D

The mood on campus is all happy happy. Everyone's gtalk/facebook status is now 'Happy Diwali'. And the smiles are just bouncing off each other.

Some of us INDEX people went out for dinner to this place 'Chotte Nawab'. If you ever go there, you must try the paneer malai seekh starter... it's yum! We came back and went to the mess to have some tea. Vigi was still in the stud mode with jacket open, white t-shirt and a glass (of tea) in his hand. Suddenly Praveen pushed a helmet right on to Vigi and transformed his t-shirt into a TEA-shirt (credit to Swetha for the term) :D .. am not going to risk writing Vigi's reaction. He might just hack this blog and destroy it or worst case perhaps may he might hack me itself :p

Day 109: 15th Oct, 2009

The weather is now in focus. It has turned a little chilly here. But seniors love to say this is hardly anything in front of the freeze-to-death temperature that it will reach. I figure I might have to use more layers of clothing than the number of layers on my photoshop endeavours :-p. Will go to the city and stock up on some essentials this weekend !

One side effect of this phenomenon is the tendency to sleep. Everyone's average sleep has risen. And not just in classrooms but even outside.

Slept off at 10.30 yesterday. Thanks to that, I was allocated a ppt which coincidentally directly clashed with my postponed quiz. Obviously I couldn't go there. Which led to massive confusion. Luckily my ppt group has Saurabh Mishra. Awesome cooperative fellow. Poor guy finished his class at 1.45, ran to his room to change into formals and ran back for the ppt without having lunch. Awesome man, respect!

The beauty of Diwali has set in. Our mess and the nearby hostels have been beautifully done up with lights and stuff. It's looking really nice!