Examination heroics!!

Date: 24.12.08

Time: 3.00 am

Scenario: I was studying feverishly for my last exam of the seventh semester…the syllabus was minuscule and the subject matter wasn’t troublesome…even after a study leave of good four days, my accrued know how of the subject was poor…I had to mug up things till the eleventh hour to be able to sit for the exam…

Conclusion: Either it seems that I seldom prefer to grasp things in a calm and composed atmosphere or the level of procrastination needs a serious check…

Usually the mood after semester exams is jovial…there are plenty of reasons to be…but this time it’s a bit tensed…though the impending result is not a concern…wo to jab aayega tab dekhi jayegi…the thing I m perturbed about is, where would my ever increasing levels of carelessness lead me unto…with each semester, the time frame allocated for the preparation stage is squeezing…this time it crossed all permissible limits...didn’t have a hint of diligence during the exams (“nhi aata hoga to bhi kya…kuch bhi likh aayenge, 30 to aa hi jayenge kisi tareh!”,sums up the attitude)…three and a half years into engineering have taught me the art of fatte bazi if not anything else (like say…you are being asked about a tree and u don’t have a clue…tie a goat to the tree and talk about the goat...lol!)...the way I would tackle the last semester really bugs me…kisi bhi improvement ka scope nhi bacha hai ab (farji engineers hi sahi but B.Tech 4 saal me to poori karni hi hai!)…its not a novel thing for an engineering student to study during the last few days before exams…but at least those few days are assumed to be utilized in an effective manner, to have a good understanding of the prescribed curriculum…here its an altogether different story…just a few days after the exam…the topics studied would revive a faint recollection and probably nothing else…

ye sab sochke to lagta hai...kari kyu engineering!!!

Jasu ben Jayanti lal Joshi ki Joint family!!

If you aren’t an active member of the TV viewing fraternity odds are that you could have misread the title as another of those examples of alliteration… On the other hand, a couch potato would vouch for the fact that its one of the trendy soaps on a popular channel…A host of such shows with wacky names and even wackier themes have cropped up…Though the number of serials have risen exponentially, the quality has dug deep…There used to be a period, very much in the recent past, when soaps provided wholesome entertainment sans the melodrama and the routine song-dance sequences of typical bollywood potboilers…their USP being a shade closer to reality…but that was very much of the past…in the present scenario they are simply mediocre…going overboard with literally everything…be it the depiction of emotions or the background score…the success of a particular format paves the way for scores of others to follow in…the most striking one being Kyunki saas bhi kabhi bahu thi which made the saas- bahu sagas a rage…then came the reality shows…giving everybody a chance to fame even if for a brief time, never mind the person deserves it or not…they are supposed to be spontaneous but everything appears far too scripted…the news channels aren’t left much behind where over dramatization is concerned…watching TV has become an ordeal task…keep on surfing till you might accidentally stumble upon something pleasant…To surmise(of course with utmost dejection!) the idiot box has ceased to provide company, the way it once used to.

Memories...

Human mind is arguably one of the most complex of all creations of nature…what exactly goes on in there is quite difficult to comprehend...we might claim to have a sound understanding of rocket science but the intricacies of the mind are hardly solved…the most fascinating part of the mind is the memory…a necessary evil indeed…needn’t say anything about the necessary part…that goes without saying…evil when it keeps on reminding you terrible things which you want to forget very badly…disappointments which keeps on growing with your age…indeed the worst part of life is that you have to live with disappointments all through…embarrassing moments, which you wish had never occurred in the first place…quite a few times I have felt that how would things be if we could just format our memories…acchi yaadein samhaal ke rakh do aur baaki nikal ke pheko bahar…infact that’s the one supernatural power I would like to possess the most…if that could happen…things would get a lot more pleasant I guess…