back to business…

oh yeah! am back to college to start yet another semester and another year….last with my friends…

feeling home sick like anything and there is zilch enthu of going to class tomorrow …

came back today only…room not set up till now….

I will get back to normal soon ..hopefully ! 

going home …yippeee!

Leaving from Bangalore tonight…Nostalgia hitting but then the excitement of being at home after sooo many days helps to forget it and look forward…….

though I am not very keen about the 2 days boring journey that is to be done…

will be back after a short break of one week or so….

bbye !
 

Emotions

Human emotions are so strange and intriguing. One moment it is something else and the other moment it can be another. It should be so interesting to find out that how it works and what causes them.

Well, not getting into the science of it, I was amazed by the changing nature of emotions yesterday. Only day before I was like dying to get out of this place. I would give anyone a lakh if one could free me from here.Every hour seemed like a day. And yesterday, when I was taking everyone’s leave, I felt so bad. I even started thinking that why do I have to go so early? It seemed to me that the days had fled like hours.

Such contrary emotions, within a day! Now the feeling of leaving has registered itself in me but still I am feeling bad yaar! This is not good. I am supposed to be totally happy . I have been here only for 2 months and this is the state. Imagine what will happen when I leave college? Its scary to even think of it. But time takes care of it all.

I am trying to make the best of whatever time I have now left with me.

Cheers !!

Photography

Photography is a beautiful thing. It makes things look even more beautiful than they are.  When you start doing some serious photography, you start looking at every object and human and animal to find a beauty in it. And I think that it makes you better as a person. You ignore the lose points and try to find angles which will make the subject look better. You tend to highlight the good aspects and hide the negative ones. You adjust your light and contrast to give it a better feel. You widen or narrow down the aperture to bring out the best. It is like creating a better model of the given specimen. It is like improving upon what God has already done.

Its very rightly said that its an art. Everyone cannot make a good photographer. A photographer has to be forgiving and optimistic. He has to forgive the shortcomings of the subject and look for the good traits. He has to find and sometimes create a beauty where little or none exists. And the one who does that is a real photographer. It is relatively easy to capture the things as they are. That is what normally all of us do but to enhance the beauty using a lens requires perception, keenness, judgement and talent.

I feel that a person who is good at heart and has a vision can only make a good photographer and this I think holds true for all art forms.

I have had a short tryst with photography with my COSINA SLR for the past six months or so and I have not done very well but the practice has led me to acquire an admiring eye for the world. I wish and hope to continue my journey and become not only a good photographer but imbibe the virtues that come with being one.:)

Below is the pic of my camera

Directions-magazine

It seems that the whole world is romancing these days with my new found love – Economics Or, it may just be that I found my love in everyone’s favorite a little late.

Yeah! I have found several blogs dedicated to it.  Anyway, to add to the sweet surprise of dicovery of the fame of it , there is a special issue on “Economics and Technology” of the magazine “Directions” which is taken out by the esteemed faculty at my alma mater .

Check out the online issue at : http://www.iitk.ac.in/directions/may2006/

It makes a very good read. Although it is strange that I found about the existence if this magazine only now. It is exciting to see the giants of technology writing away for the social knowledge.

Cheers!!

a poem …

I want to cry

but tears don’t come…

I want to fly

but fears overcome…

why for me ?

Its only rock and thorn …

why for me ?

Is the peace forever gone …

when will it be?

that I become a bird…

when will it be ?

that my prayers be heard…

I want to cry

but tears don’t come …

I want to fly

But my fears overcome…

P.S. : This is an impromptu poem so please excuse it….did not actually know what to write. The first line is although from the experience of the last night. I was trying to cry but seriously I could not. Other lines followed due to rhyming and other thoughts.

I dream of a Jeannie bcoz

I wish to disappear!!!!!

At this moment right now, to be wiped out from everyone’s memory!

Somebody give me the invisibility potion..

HELP!!!!!!!! 

Remembering names..

I hate it when people do not remember the names after the Introduction. I don’t know why but i hate it. It kind of shows that how least you are interested in it. May be you are but at least if you are being introduced you should divert you soo special attention for at least a second to hear the name and keep it in your head for a while. Sometimes I have been on the receiving end of this bad behaviour and I have felt quite bad about it .

Generally I remember the names quite well but yesterday I completely forgot the name of the person I had just been introduced to and was on the giving end of the bad behaviour. It sucked to ask again. It meant that I was doing exactly what I preach against and that’s very shameful. 

I hope I will learn not to divert my attentions during the introductions and will try to improve my memory ( the short term memory at least ).

BOOM!!!!!!!!!

And here goes another blast again.Mumbai is the world’s first city where a bomb blast has been repeated in a period of 13 years in a peacetime situation. What does it say? That those who blasted it knew that we can do nothing about it ! That we are so spineless and so easy a target?

It sucks!!! It sucks to be so weak. It sucks to be just writing and discussing about it and doing nothing. It sucks that we are so lame. It sucks that anybody can come and just blast a bomb anywhere. It sucks to think that my train might blow up by which I am travelling 3 days later. It sucks to think that we cannot do anything about it beforehand. We will only watch after it has happened.

What a bad time for the country. Rs. 260 crore lost in the failed launch of INSAT4C/GSLV after 12 successful launches by ISRO and that too on the day right after Agni failed and these bomb blasts in the local trains of Mumbai 13 years after the first ones .

I simply dont understand that what do these people get by blowing up public in general?.What??? What do they want?? To reduce the population of India??

I am very very off !!

My Godfather Blog! :)

Just like you need a Godfather to start in the right direction in the professional world, in the same manner , you need a Godfather in the blog world. More so in the latter case because of the extreme diversity and variety in the nature of the blogs. As it happened, i ventured into the blogosphere without any lead and found myself utterly lost between all types of things that people write. I started wasting my time reading all that was presented on the blog platter. I use the word “wasting” not because it was written badly or was useless but because it was of no serious interest to me however good that might have been. This process continued for about 6-7 months and I had not found the exact thing that I would cherish to read.

Then one fine day,(and that is today) I landed upon a site which I call my Godfather site. It gave me all the links that were the treasure that I have been hunting for. Yes, just like Eklavya had Dronacharya as his teacher when he was not even aware of it. Similarly, i have this person’s blog as my gateway to learning that he/she does not even know it. I have not blogrolled the site. Anyway, this is not of importance for anybody else.But i am happy that after a patience of 6 months , I finally got what I expected from the blog world. It rocks!!

I ain’t going anywhere leaving this space. I sometimes had doubts whether as to it was worth wasting time on a blog? And the answer is yes!! It is worth the time. So people I am here to stay fro quite a while venting out my thoughts whether anyone reads it or not. It feels good to be a blogger.