Internet ke side-effects!

Well, I've got to say this: Verdana Small Bold (the font I've been using for my last few post) is so awesome and cute, although I've kinda grown fed up of it. Anyway, being to college after some intermittent holiday has been fun, seriously. You see, too many holidays can so get to your nerves (too much of a good thing, I guess.. :P). Anyway, it was a nice repose to get to the college and-what do you call "dum karna" in English??-do that to my classmates and a couple of lecturers. Anyway, feels good to be listening to "Viva La Gloria (Little Girl)" as I fire away my thoughts through my fingers on the black keyboard (man! wasn't there too much information in that sentence?). So, what is this all about? Hmm...by now, if you have been reading this blog for sometime now (yeah, right, I assume people all around me are job-less) know that I have this incorrigible habit of thinking about things that usually don't concern me (although they interest me immensely... ;)) and rubbing your noses into my thoughts. So, what got me thinking was -  is the Internet really a boon?? Well, feels some hypocrisy here? I do too, I hate hypocrites but then, one needs to face the truth and of course, everything has its pros and cons. So, anyway, for my eulogy on the Internet, click here.


So, here comes the dirge. Yes, it is more of a mourning than it is a tirade because the things make me more sad than angry. Well, I have no idea where to start this. Well, right from the start of my experience with the Internet, there was one looming demon that hasn't seen any end, even today (as far as I know, that is). That is the abuse of the Internet as a communication medium. I've regularly heard stories about people (mark this notation: people) who cause emotional, monetary and/or security troubles to others. This includes but is not limited to people who send spoof mails about bombs (I don't even know if it is allowed to say the word in a blog :P) or other epidemics or any other personal issues (it is very comforting though, that spam filters of your mail servers keep them away from you) and of course, good riddance. Anyway, somehow, fake profiles on Orkut or some silly e-mails aren't what entice me into this post. It is a bit more personal and close to the heart. It is about the way the Internet has affected some of our lives. This gives me the scary visions of "The Matrix" where machines (computers in this case) control the lives of humans. I'll do that in a new paragraph though :P.


So, everyone goes gung-ho about all the benefits of Orkut, Facebook, Communities  (online of course...). I do too, hell, I still do, but it needs to be kept in mind that, there are limitations to any advancement. Well, first, let me make this very clear, I derive this post from experiences and personalities of various friends of mine and you may comment on the effects on me in the comments section if I haven't dealt with them. If the people whom I refer to (not by name, of course, that shall never happen on this blog, Insha Allah) are reading this post, please don't mind...actually, mind. Then try to change the things about you, but no hard feelings. What are friends for? :P


So, the 2nd paragraph from where I said i'd be starting :P. Anyway, first, the waste of time, the biggest side effect of Internet. Although one might argue that, Internet is meant to time spend on, I beg to differ. Yes, it isn't waste of time if you are trying to study. Yes, it isn't waste of time if you are discussing something important with your friends. Yes, it isn't waste of time if you are talking to family and the most cheesiest of all: it isn't waste of time if you are blogging :P. But, coming to the other side of it. Everything else other than the things I mentioned above is virtually waste of time, unless you consider something that's good for you (like Adam Smith says, and I paraphrase, what's good for you is good for the group you are in...). Try to change the world, yes, but don't do it at the cost of your feeling good. So, that was about wasting time. (in retrospect, this seems a bit rich coming from someone who is online 24x7 on Facebook, nevertheless true...)


Then, online communities and chat. I'm all for them, but the same rules as above apply. Well, I know some people who literally live in those communities. If something new happens in a sporting event they like, there is like this big fuss about getting online and discussing that with the "comm buddies". And, stop living ion communities. C'mon guys, we can be deeper than that, try to do something constructive than filling up community spaces, what say?? And then don't get me started on this chat culture (sounds a bit oldie, but still...). Hell, I've people say "lol" instead of actually laughing out loud at jokes. When they read something funny on the chat, they no longer smile, the reflex is the same morose expression followed by the reflex action of the fingers reaching for colon (:) and close parentheses ()). That's something that freaks me out, if it's funny, laugh, damn it! Then there is "OMG" for surprise and some other obscene stuff for other things, and all with the same morose expression while typing (although the recipient doesn't see that...)


Anyway, I've spent like, a loot of time on this post, gotta eat too, right? Anyway, try and think of ways the Internet is spoiling your life, and do tell me!!


Bye!!

Yeah, right and...

Hey, it's me again, plain, you see again (Courtesy: "Voices" by Cheap Trick). Anyway, I liked this part of the song ever since I first saw (heard, rather) it on HIMYM. So, getting to the point. It was a great experience for me recently, from about a couple of days, to know the power of one emotion that I never tried before. Sarcasm. Well, I've always viewed sarcasm as insecurity on the part of a person. But now, after experiencing it myself, I certainly would differ mostly because, I happen to now for a fact that, I, of all people I know, am not insecure (Damn, I can't seem to help being so conceited...).

Well, change of seasons has certainly brought out something very different in me. I'd like to explore the reasons for this change in my persona. Well, my - erm, adjectives fail me, imagine an appropriate adjective here :P - psyche has seen so many things recently that have made me see things from an altogether different perspective, most of them are TV Series. Anyway, I'd like to share my view about sarcasm itself. Well, it seems to me after this little amount of experience that, it is irony and almost nothing else that engenders sarcasm. And man, have I had my part of irony in the past few days...Well, how it works is: let us say A is something I wanna do or want to happen, and B is the exact opposite of that. Then, there is C which is a condition that is essential for the occurrence of A and D is the opposite of C. Well, now, what usually happens with me is, C prevails for up until the last possible moment for it to take a total 180 and turn into a friggin' D. Then, all my plans for A get dampened and I end up doing either nothing or B, as a hail-mary pass. Well, there is a reason why I'm putting it in such an abstract way. It happens virtually all the time and I'm very pissed off at it. I'd implore (I don't know a word that conveys the same meaning in a weaker sense...) you to look at your own life and see if things fit into this pattern.

Now, for the reasons for me to embrace this persona of incorrigible sarcasm : Most of the comedians (like Chandler of FRIENDS, Barney of HIMYM, Charles of Two and a half Men, Russell Peters) use this as a tool to make people laugh and I thought, what the hell, let me give it a try too. Then there was Dr. House, MD of the TV Series of the same name to entice me headlong into this endeavor. Anyway, it is fun because I'm now killing!! My jokes aren't anymore things only i think are funny. So, go ahead and try out this tried and tested method to kill (figurative, totally...) people with your jokes just by being quick on the wits...

P.S.: And as for the title, that's a great way to start a sarcastic joke, and yeah, to start a blog post too... :P

BTW, beware of me, these days, I just crack me up too... :)

Things I'd have hated to miss - Part IV a.k.a. Google Inc.

Hmmm...Feels good to be back on my fingers, trying to make another of my posts pass...Well, I'll start by telling you why I started this series of posts: It all started with my Writer's Block...I was unable to write anything for like a couple of months after my last semester examinations (come to think of it, I didn't even write much in the examinations ;)). The major reason was, no topics (somehow, even in the exams...). So, after a month or so of my college reopening, I decided to do something about this - this was my "thing", you see. I figured, the best way to do this is to write about things I am very very conversant with, and viola what better than things I like, things I am thankful for...Anyway, some of these things are trivial, some are personal, some need to be told and some are simply weird :). One more thing: I just love the feeling when people tell me voluntarily about my blog (whether positive or negative things, I don't mind, really...). It gives the pleasure of getting through to people and helping them in understanding me better :). Thank You (I ain't being subservient, but you guys deserve it... :)). So, anyways, what is this post about? Don't worry; I don't expect you guys to know the topic... :P Read On!


Google Inc. Well, find me a person (I'm confining myself to Youngistaan... :)) who isn't familiar with this name and I'll show you an oldie :), no offense to any of the older guys reading my blog (of whom I'm sure, there are very very few to none... :)). So, why am I thankful to Google? Tell me who isn't? (a bit presumptuous on my part, but reasonably true...) So, I'd hate to imagine what the internet would be like if Larry hadn't met Sergey (Larry Page and Sergey Brin are the founders of Google...). I'll tell you how it'd be...We'd have been cluttered with Search Engines that did everything but search, because of all the ads that crept into search results and most of the services that Google Inc. offers for no charge would burn a big hole into our pockets, like Blogger, GMail, Picasa Web Albums, Chrome, Chrome OS, GTalk, Analytics, Adsense. This is just the list of Google services that I use, and I shudder to think of other services which I have no idea how to use. So, anyway, I'd rather narrate why Google is important for my personal development...


Well, first things first, Google was my first tryst with the Web (this was something like 8-10 years back, like I say in my current FB status, "I am still trying to figure out the exact moment my life got so messed up", ;)). So, anyway, Google was just the Search Engine back then, may be even AdSense and AdWords, but I had no way to know about them back then and I used Google for assignments and time-pass :). So, then came along GMail. Well, there are so many awesome things about this and I wonder why people stick to the clichéd Yahoo mail. Anyway, if you are still using your Yahoo mail account, I request you to try GMail (not superficially, try the Labs features...) and tell me how good it is. Anyways, Gmail ROCKS!! Had Google not purchased Orkut (the site), I doubt we'd ever have heard of it and have platform to meet up friends and stay connected. Same goes for Blogger. Before Google took over Blogger, all the services that are free now were charged (not too much though). Google Groups: I needn't say much, as most of us are familiar with this. I'm sure you've noticed that, these are in the order I first used them...Then came along Google Docs and Google Calender, Google AdSense and what not. I love the browser too...It's so simple to use and so beautiful to look at :). Coming soon is the Google Chrome OS for Netbooks which I'll surely use if someone gifts me a good Netbook for my coming birthday :).


Well, I hate doing this, but it is very inspiring, the story of Google (or should I call it the rise and rise of Google?). I suggest you read the book "The Google Story". It's totally awe-inspiring and simply superb (I've run out of superlatives to describe this Corporation..).


Anyway, any doubts?? Simply Google it!! (I might sound like one of my last semester's lecturers, but he got at least this part right!! ;))


www.google.com (for those who haven't been there yet...)

Things I'd have hated to miss - Part III

Back again! So, time to tell you about two of (and probably the only ones apart from...nothing else actually, everything that influences me can be traced back to either of these...) the most influential things in my life. Well, these are the things that made me, literally. Let me dive right into it!


BOOKS: Well, I was introduced to books by a friend (he was more like this snob at that time, not now though, we are on great terms...). In retrospect, it seems crystal clear to me that, it was pretty much an issue of peer pressure (just a decent term for envy!). He was all high-nosed (if you're reading this, USB, try and ignore it, that's what I felt about you back then :P) about all the books he'd read (although I didn't believe him half the time, 'til that time, in VIII class, he probably had just read Harry Potter...). Anyway, there it all began...I started reading too...Harry Potter first, of course. And let me tell you, it is totally awesome - reading. It gives something to do for your mind to do, and no, I don't read mechanically, I try to get to all connotations of the book. Anyway, there isn't much to tell about books as such, I'd like to name some of my most favorite books of all time and suggest you to read them once, at least.

1. The Catcher in the Rye: Well, if you don't like to be yourself, don't ever lay hands on this book. I love it because of its awesome informal tone and because I can totally relate to the character Holden Caulfield. You know what, I don't want to spoil it for any of you, just go ahead and read it! Munaf's rating: ****3/4 (out of 5).
2. Michael Crichton's books: Well, I began with The Jurassic Park and became a die-hard fan of this guy. For more info about Late Mr. Crichton, check out this.
3. Swami and Friends: Being Indian never felt better. This R K Narayan classic has all the things you'd look for in any book. Set in the imaginary town of Malgudi, it describes the life and times of Swami, the hero of his own imagination. It's a great book for starters. If you never felt the urge to read books, I'd suggest you start with this. Excellent vocabulary used and beautiful sentences. Munaf's Rating: *****.
4. Books by Robin Cook and John Grisham: Well, this awesome duo is probably a whole new definition to professional writers. Dr. Cook is a medical doctor and Mr. Grisham is a Lawyer and they write these books in their own fields of expertise. Well, anyway, I love reading their books especially because of the excruciating detail of their technical topics.
5. Harry Potter series: I can't believe I forgot to mention this before now, but I'm a BIG fan of Ms. Rowling. Anyway, the imagination that goes into this book is just post-human. Well, anyway, my favorite books in this series in the order from most to least are 6,7,4,2,1,3,5. Munaf's rating: **** out of 5.
6. The Lord of the Rings series: You must've seen the movie series, but believe me, the books are a looot more awesome than the movies series. The excellent descriptions by Mr. Tolkein and the (adjectives fail me...) characters are just out of this world!! Munaf's rating: *****. P.S.: Don't read this unless you have loads of time to waste, I read this in my Intermediate and wasted a lot of time, affected my acads a lot...
7. The Motor-cycle Diaries: This awesome book by Che Guevara describes his journey through Latin America though disease and poverty and to his journey to greatness as a revolutionary. Munaf's Rating: ****1/2.
8. And of course, there are several books I have read which are very interesting more because they weren't suggested to me by anyone. Contact me personally for this very long list, or leave a comment, I'll get back to you :).

MUSIC: Well, music here refers mainly to English music. I've been listening to regular Telugu and Hindi music for a long time, but the intro I got to English music was simply awesome (I am using this word more than necessary, don't you think? :P). Anyway, Rock, my favorite genre of music, is such a remarkable way to vent your feelings about anything, really. Anyway, you can't explain in words what music does to you (I mean, neither can I... :P), so, I would like to list my favorite artists and why I like them...

• Linkin Park: Well, definitely top of my list! Right from Super Xero to Minutes to Midnight, there's this innate beauty and pain in the lyrics that gives me the goosebumps every time I listen to these songs. It is simply awesome how they fuse mainstream Rock and Rapcore into one package! Chester and Mike, two of the best vocalists of Modern bands, keep you in the high mood all the time you listen to these songs. I don't wanna degrade any songs by mentioning some as the best ones...Rating: ****1/2.
• Air Supply: Well, kinda old, but this Australian duo blows my mind with beautiful, meaningful lyrics (something I forgot to mention about Linkin Park...). Be it "All out of Love" or "Lost in Love", it is simply exhilarating to be listening to these guys and taking in the lyrics...Rating: ****
•  Michael Learns to Rock: a.k.a. MLTR, is one of the best soft-rock band I've ever heard. The lyrics are simply incredible and give me the goosebumps (I'm using this a little too much too, ain't I? :P). Anyway, best picks, "25 Minutes", "Lonely Satellite", "Walk With Me", "Love Will Never Lie" and lots more...
• Nickelback: Stumbled on this band while I was looking for songs on LimeWire...First song I heard by them, "If Everyone Cared" was simply swell. The texture of the lead vocalist's voice is so awesome that it keeps you awake to listen to these songs. Best Picks: "If Everyone Cared", "Photograph", "How You Remind Me" and more...
• OneRepublic: Just one word: Lyrics!! Best Picks: "Apologize", "Mercy", "Someone to save you" and almost every song has lyrics to die for...

Well, I'm getting past myself...I don't mean to bore you and so, I'll just list the artists..."Savage Garden", "Nirvana", "The Beatles", "Switchfoot","Sting", "Led Zeppelin", "Westlife", "Simple Plan", "Red Hot Chili Peppers", "Hoobastank", "Pink Floyd", "Queen", "Hinder", "Enrique Iglesias", "Breaking Benjamin", "Bryan Adams", "Bon Jovi", "Avril Lavigne", "3 Doors Down" and "Green Day". Now, you might have understood why I was not going to mention about each of them... :)

Anyways, it feels real good to be expressing myself so much!!

ROCK ON!!

P.S.: For my new phone number, click here (FB link : it will be my status for a couple of days, at least...) (there's no way in hell I'm gonna post my phone number open for spammers... :P).


P.P.S.: I forgot to add one of my most favorite authors in the Books column : Dan Brown. Writes AWESOME-ly!!

Way to go!!

Well, somehow, I have grown up. Assignments don't seem important, nor do may other things like exams and stuff. I don't even know why I feel that to be "growing up". Anyway, I was thinking about something today (well, a tiresome part of "growing up", no other job to do, right!). So, I got to the point where you go on thinking about why people behave the way they do. For me, it seems un-construable how people lead all their lives hating others. It is important to love. Not in the crass sense though, I mean the love you show to mankind. Well, here, I'd like to explain how my mind works. For me, whenever I meet or rather, get to know someone (however shortly) they start in this gray area (like the one between black and white...). Virtually none move onto the "black side". Somehow, I find myself inarticulate to explain this, but, I'll try my best...They say hate is the opposite of love, I beg to differ: Indifference is the opposite of love, although that isn't the gray area I was talking about. So, as I was saying, I don't hate people per se, but sometimes, I hate being around some people. It might seem pretty much the same thing and I'd love to explain this... I don't hate people for what they are, no, neither for what they do, neither for what their effect might be on me, no sir. Being around people, sometimes that makes me uncomfortable and/or some sort of ennui I cannot explain in words. It simply makes me not feel good. This is a totally different list of people on my mind (the others being those who I like and like being around, and those in the gray area, and the black area which is virtually empty). And the interesting pat: I do not hate the people as separate persons, just keep me away from them and I might even enjoy knowing them as humans. So, moving forward, as I come to know more about people, my mind decides (I hardly have a say in it, kind of an alter ego issue...) into what list to put the person into. So, roughly speaking, if I know a hundred people (hypothetically of course, I know over 200 from my college alone (just trying to prove I'm not anti-social :P)) around 55 would be in the gray area ie., they are just acquaintances, around 25 in the white area and around 20 in the don't-be-around list.

So, why am I telling you this? Let me get to it, I have seen people hating others for all their lifetimes, seen people abuse and degrade others because of really small reasons (don't even get me started on this, at any point of time...). I mostly hate to stay around from such people mostly because, you cannot talk reason into them, no one can. As Gandhi rightly says, "Be the change you want to see in the world", I'd like to start off by staring to know better of these people who cannot listen to reason. It is important to love, to like and to promote the universal message of peace. It is a need. A smile, a salaam, a wave, a hug, a hand-shake,whatever, why have we become so "sophisticated" to forget such basic human traits, to forget how much your attention can mean to some people?? Why do we hesitate to move forward when we meet someone new? Why do we judge people by being so narrow-minded? Why don't we try to be in the person's shoes before saying something bad or affecting about them? WHY????? Why have been brought up to doubt everyone? Why have we no trust in another person? No, I'm not asking you to trust everyone blindly, every person deserves some amount of trust and it is your duty to give it to them (sorry for being so hard, but I am pretty much toeing the line of my irritation because of seeing people around me hating most of the people around them...).

The answer to all the above questions can only come from inside our hearts and I still emphasize that, it is important to love your fellows. I hope this post, more than any other reaches your heart and you act on it. Spread the love, because life is too short to be spending hating others. You're not gonna get out of it alive anyway, you might as well make others smile in the short time you have. I know this is probably not one of my best posts but, I tell you, it is straight from my heart, this was a long time coming. I just urge you to try to love everyone you meet, even if that's not how my mind works, I'm trying hard too...

Love y'all!!

Nightie Night!! :D

Three years, a CAT and one heck of an internal!!

Well, end of internals and here I am, back again, wasting my time without guilt!! Well, it has been a wonderful experience though, because of many event that took place during the internals. Well, it has been more like a discovering myself even more...Well, thing is, this internal marked my first bunk-of-an-internal. Well, it took 3 years, and the commencement of application forms for one of the most popular exam in the country. Well, it also made me realize what I really wanna do (not do, more like) and then about how good I was in some of the exams I didn't bunk...

So, the story...It all started with the sad demise of the CM of AP, Dr. YSR (please pay homage by staying silent for about a minute...). Well, it was also sad for another reason: our internals got postponed. We had all this plan lined up to bunk the first 2 classes today and get to the bank and get the application process over with. Well, anyway, our plans were dampened by the announcement of the postponement. Anyway, I wonder why we have become so...I can't find words...that we absolutely have  to write tests and have  to study for them. Well, I had to lose the test today. I just wanna change myself to be more...I still cant find the word, but it is the opposite of the previous one :P, and bunk more internals ahead! Well, anyway it is surprising and revolting (not so much, but a little..) that I haven't done this before (even this time, somehow, it was with the permission from the faculty member who gave the test, though he didn't promise much compensation...), it is fun, I tell you!! So, finally, it took me 4 years and a CAT to bunk one internal in all the time of my engineering life...

And the second part, I had this exam in the afternoon, it's called IAFM (Industrial Administration and Financial Management). Well, it is, to be frank, BORING!! So, I was all prepared to prepare for the test, although tired from the ordeal of standing in a queue for 2 hours on top of fasting (really draws the line). Anyway, i realized, this is not for me! Come on, do I really look like a guy who cares about how an industry is to be organized or whether I'd buy 10000 bags of wheat for my biscuit factory in installments. Anyway, I had fun with the paper. An example, I was asked the major definitions in Break-even Analysis and I literally defined break, even and analysis :). So, what I realized was, this kind of subjects are not, no, definitely not for people like me. Ironical really, because it happens on the same day as I apply to the entrance test for some of the best B-schools in the country.

Anyway, hope you all did well in your internals...CHEERS!!

P.S.: If you haven't applied for the CAT yet, please do read the application instructions thoroughly before starting and don't forget to mark SSC, HSC and Bachelor's degree in the educational qualifications column...ROCK ON!!

P.P.S.: Can someone please explain to me why my name is not on the shortage-of-attendance list? Not that I wanna be on it, but I should be on it technically... :P

Thanks to my readers!!

Well, with a couple of exams tomorrow, there seems to be no way I'm gonna leave the monitor-lit spaces of my computer chair :)! It's pretty common though, never been any serious for internals...Anyway, a bit away from my "series" of posts, I'd like to take a little time to thank all the readers of my blog (I dunno how many there are for sure, yet...). Anyway, yesterday was a great day for the blog!! Somehow, the 4-day stint at home made many people read my blog. I had no less than 7 people complimenting the blog and I tell you, it felt really awesome, because my word were reaching people and I was getting some real feedback...


Well, the important part, THANK YOU ALL!! Thank You for wasting your valuable time on this (I happen to understand that, many of you have more important things to do...). More importantly, thank you for letting me know of your feelings, it's a great boost...Um...I guess that's all, unless you want me to eulogize your magnanimity of compliments :P (just kidding, I loved being complimented).


Well, anyway, for all those who have an exam tomorrow, ALL THE BEST!!


P.S.: Yesterday was my first earning on AdSense.. Thanks for that too :)


P.P.S.: I appreciate all your feedback, but please try to give your feedback on the blog, on the blog...It makes me feel good :).

Things I'd have hated to miss - Part II

Let me start with how this (series of)post(s) came about...To be honest, this is just a thank-you gesture (a very long one at that...) to all the things in my life that define me and made me the way I am now. Well, somehow, I hope I've overcome my writer's block and hope to write like 5 post per week (even with my internals and project around...) and keep my writing skills alive...Well, so, here we go, coming in chronological order...next comes middle school and high school...all the events in the previous post occurred when I was under-10.(Man, this is turning out to be an autobiography.. :P) Well, third time I'm trying to complete his post...Fine, I'll do it!!!


Middle School: It was a great experience for me, my 6th and 7th classes. I lived in a small village named Podili (I was like, not gonna take any names in this series, but I figured , this is a place, it certainly won't mind :P). So, it was my first tryst with a small village. Take my word for it, it gets pretty crazy there, everyone literally knows everyone else (usually on first name basis...) and anything you do within a radius of around 10km from the borders gets broadcast so fast, you wouldn't believe it. There was this incident...At the end of some Unit Test or something, a friend of mine (no names here, you know who you are...) and I decided to be the daredevils and to go biking (regular usage of the term, on bicycles...) over some hill some 3 km from my school...In high spirits, we were shouting and drawing a lot of attention (can't say it wasn't wholly my fault :P) and bailed on the way and got back home (we did make it to about 2km). As it happens, the hill is supposed to be infested with bears and likes of other wild animals (a whole load of crap, if you ask me...) and one of the person whose attention we happened to catch was an acquaintance of our neighbor (by this, I mean, they were relatives at some level, another thing that got to my nerves...) and he came and sang to her, who in turn did that to my mom and the chain of screaming continued... Well, that was just one story, I have several better memories from there and I had a chance to meet all kinds of people (you can't believe the diversity there...) and had my greatness (CONCEITED!!) testified many a time...Best person I met - the Math teacher, I keep forgetting his name though although he'll remember me for a long time...And some friends there were pretty awesome, I still remember them.. :D.


High School: After about 7 years in a medium sized town (Kurnool) and 2 years in a village, I gotta say it was pretty overwhelming to come live in a city (no prizes for guessing, Hyderabad...). So, here I was, puny and full of DUF (Doubt, Uncertainty and Fear) and ignorant of the ways of a city (er, I've been to Mumbai and wouldn't dare calling Hyderabad a "big" city...) and lots of expectations and goals... :). Well, the school was pretty much brand name and I had no friends (well, believe me, it's easier that way, I hate to carry around burdens of my past with me wherever i go...). First things first, I studied 3 years in that school and it has been the biggest single inspiration for me, especially the principal... Even now, sometimes I'm thankful I was in that school under that principal although we used to pretty much hate him when at school ;P. Well, worth special mention here...The guy who made me the freak I am now...I said no names, and stand by it...he was this freak who intro-ed me to Harry Potter which I'd later outgrow and be a real bibliophile. then there's this group of friends who are all over India now who work as re con for me (just kidding...) (Clue: Search for community Eternal Buddies on Orkut...Believe me, we are all over the place...). Then, there's this friend of mine, who's so confused and sweet and I don't know the adjective form of this, but the noun is Ingénue, man, is she gonna have a hard time deciding what to do with me for mentioning her! :P.I love everything about my life at that school...About 2 years after getting out of school, I came to know I was pretty popular, had I known this during those times, I'd have had a greater time :D. Although, I should've guessed, I was a topic of speech for one of the teachers who spoke at our farewell (just in passing, I guess, he was praising our whole batch...) and the surprising part, he never taught me personally. So, there we go, I loved my school and the people I have met through it and shall love them forever!!


Well, finally ended another post (part of..)and sneak peek...Books and Music. I assure you, it's gonna be WILD!!


Adieu!!