A Common Random Story

Almost all have suffered upsets, dissapointments, things not going the way they were supposed to go etc etc. i have had my share of the above and more and i know there are ppl out there who have more riding on them than i can possibly imagine or wish to replicate. But when the world turns against you, the going gets tough and that is probably when accustations and critisism start flying in your direction. but dont let your head drop low, rise aginst the tide and fight it. These things are shown in a simple story of a donkey(as always) and a farmer(again as always)........

The story goes as this... One day a farmer's donkey fell down into a well. The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do. Finally, he decided the animal was old, and the well needed to be covered up anyway; it just wasn't worth it to retrieve the donkey.

He invited all his neighbours to come over and help him. They all grabbed a shovel and began to shovel dirt into the well. At first, the donkey realized what was happening and cried horribly. Then, to everyone's amazement he quieted down.

A few shovel loads later, the farmer finally looked down the well. He was astonished at what he saw. With each shovel of dirt that hit his back, the donkey was doing something amazing. He would shake it off and take a step up.

As the farmer's neighbours continued to shovel dirt on top of the animal, he would shake it off and take a step up. Pretty soon, everyone was amazed as the donkey stepped up over the edge of the well and happily trotted off!

Moral: Life is going to shovel dirt(snd stones) on you, all kinds of dirt. The trick to getting out of the well is to shake it off and take a step up. Each of our troubles is a steppingstone. We can get out of the deepest wells just by not stopping, never giving up! Shake it off and take a step up. If a donkey can do it, we being the superior humans can do much better.. cant we ??????


Happiness keeps you Sweet,
Trials keep you Strong,
Sorrow keeps you Human,
Failure keeps you humble
Success keeps you glowing,
but only Faith & Attitude Keeps you going...

Time to Bid Goodbye.....

The dusk has slowly started creeping up on the 4 years of college life and it has been a wonderful journey through the 4 years... as i said in the previous post it was all masti, maaza and mistakes.. As i ride into the dusk i think about how it has been a roller coaster ride which has had its own ups and downs... the pitfalls and the top of the tree moments and what not.. the arguments, the misunderstandings, the exam tensions, the friends, the fun, the cut classes, everything..well just about everything....

Now i recollect how i have spent the 4 years in college, a place which has given me more than what i could have asked for, some of which i had to grab to make it mine. And the friends i got, and there were many. This post is totally dedicated to them and them only. Well i'll not take each and everyone by name as that will take me an eternity to get this post done.. so i'll take them as groups(there is no priority here.. i'm just taking one at a time)... so here goes

The first group will be my dear classmates.. they were someone who i would meet every morning and then see them probably during lunch and at most certainly after the end of class time :) That the amount of time i have spent in class during most sems.. :D .. well they are special to me cos they are "my classmates" and some of them i just cant forget in a hurry.. Thank you guys for supporting me whenever i needed you most...

The juniors(thats a hella lot of ppl)... guys and gals u are the future of this college and hopefully when i come back to the college maybe 2-3 years later the college may have completely transformed.. i have complete faith in u guys and hopefully u will get the right support for the ppl u need.. i have spent more time with u guys that i have done with my own batch and i have seen gr8 potential in u.. hopefully u will use that to good effect... just stay UNITED!!!

IEEE... the most memories that i have are with the IEEE gang... a fun loving, self proclaimed cream of the crop students who seem as if they are technically sound but in fact dont even know how a transformer works.. :P .. but u guys are so so so efficient that u can make a brass chain seem like a gold chain.. make something out of nothing i mean... ROCK ON ppl.. i know we are not gonna lose touch soon.. but u guys have a special place in my heart :)

Team ADVAY.. U guys rock.. not for the fact that u made something that this college will remember, u guys rock for the passion that u have inside u. The desire to do something different for whatthe trend is adn the attitude of "WE CAN & WE WILL". Keep doing better things and maybe u can totally change the face of the college :)

Teachers.. well they are someone who have been good to me, well atleast when the end of sem comes. Even if i have never been in class i always end up with more attendance that the ppl sitting in class, all thanks to the teachers. Some have been good, some rather rude and many more neutral, but i know it was all for my good :)

College Council.. i have found some gems in the council and i hope u guys can take up the initiatives and contribute a lot more than u have been currently doing. carry on the good work

i guess the post is too long now itself... but if i have missed out anyone my apologies for that.
i say goodbye just yet cos 'll be here for some more time and i'll be meeting most of the ppl i mentioned above. But then i wont be a student anymore. i'll be more of a rank outsider and i hope ppl will remember me even if i'm not gonna meet them everyday!!!

now what lies ahead of me is a road to nowhere!!! Traversing this wont be easy. i need all your wishes to get through to where i want to reach :)

Self Centered?? ya.. Really??!!

My college days are finally coming to an end. 4 blissful years or musti, maaza and mistakes ;). I had thought that i had done every possible thing that any one would want to do in college(ya except going the wrong way) and had heard everything that i could possbily hear, both good and bad. Then one day.. i heard it 4 times that day.. ppl said that i was self centered. One would have been ok, if 2 had said i would have said that it could have been a bug affecting ppl, but 4.. well thats too much.This post is decidated to those to feel that 'm Self Centered(maybe putting up this post itself proves that 'm self centered.. ok so be it)

Self centeredness defines it self as being egoistic, limited to or caring only about yourself and your own needs
OK i accpet it.. 'm self centered.. anything else??? now buzz off..
I'm self centered cos (well atleast to my knowledge)

• I care for my friends and wont let anything happen to them.
• I care about who i mix with and dont go with every tom, dick and harry.
• I care about what i ask others to do and give them the work according to their potential.
• I try new things and dont go the same ol way of doing it.
• I want my ideas to be implemted cos it will be taken by due consideration with ppl more intelligent that the ones pointing fingers.
  
• I'm obcessed with the work i do and try to be a perfectionist.
• I live a dream each and every day(some of them are nightmares).
• I'm true to myself.
• I care about a thousand things that the ones pointing fingers dont care about.
• I'm responsible for all my actions and will take it on the chin if needed.
  
• I dont give a DAMN what others think about me!!!

Happy with that??? Have a gr8 time :)

ADVAY

hmmm this post in on demand!!! but on second thoughts the post i wanted to write most eagerly.. :)

I would love to start with the famous line by Martin Luther King, Jr. " I have a dream". Well actually i had a dream, a dream which i dreamt of since my second year in college. A dream that each and every student and probably teachers to have dreamt sometime or the other. The dream of holding a College level fest( for teachers it would have most preferably been a tech fest).

Though it would not have been fair to say that this was the first attempt at a college fest, but certainly this was the first one that actually took off. The previous 2 attempts flattered at the very start. So lets say we were 3rd time lucky :) So it was a landmark event in the history of the college and the days 19-21st of FEB will be marked in golden letters.

ADVAY, which means unique,(national level Techno-Cultural and mangement fiesta) marked a turn in the college life for the students as it was an event for the students, by the students and from the students. Its success, though expected, made many heads turn as the scale of the event was far more than that expected(well u can think 'm hyping it, but anyone in Team Advay will tell u the same). A revolution had well and truly begun.

Team ADVAY has worked day and night for making the event and all of us are proud to be associated with such an event. Leave alone the accolades that came by, leave alone the praise, leave alone the recognition, the satisfaction all of us got by conducting such an event was worth more than anything that we could possibly receive. Even if that meant we had to do Watchman(yeah, u heard right, spend the day in the security cabin) duty on the days of the fest. The time we spent for the fest has helped us build new bonds, new relations, new understandings and most importantly new belief and new attitude. An attitude which says that WE CAN and WE WILL.

and with the fest now behind us, we are trying to scale new heights again. Lets hope for the best.

On my behalf i thank Team ADVAY and every single person who has contributed for the event. Hope the next one is magnitudes better than the current one.Its difficult to start something, its even more difficult to continue it(well i say so :D )

Let the Revolution Continue!!!!

Sometimes I Wish

Sometimes i wish, not to be in love
don't wanna get committed, wanna fly like free dove.

Sometimes i wish, not to get married
don't wanna be in a relationship, that i can't carry.

Sometimes i wish, not to flirt
what if others got serious, then they might get hurt.

Sometimes i wish, not to be nice
but my heart says, that isn't wise.

Sometimes i wish, not to worry
but when situation gets tough, mind stops working in a hurry.

Sometimes i wish, not to loose control
i should practice meditation, calmness should be my goal.

Sometimes i wish, not to play with emotions
but that i do unconsciously, now i'll take more caution.

Sometimes i wish, not to feel down
people love smiling faces, not the one which is frown.

Sometimes i wish, not to work too hard
but then i change my mind, because its gonna give me later on great reward.

Sometimes i wish, not to study
but then nothing else will help secure a career, buddy.

Sometimes i wish, not to eat
but i need energy to do work, else i'll get weak.

Sometimes i wish, not to pray
but to feel attached to the Almighty, this is the only way.

Sometimes i wish, not to weep
that's not a solution, i just need to breathe deep.

Sometimes i wish, not to cry
forget that damned past, at least one should try.

Sometimes i wish, not to play in the rain
but that I do, just to hide my tears and pain.

Sometimes i wish, not to hide my tears
but thats gonna hurt, which my heart fears.

Sometimes i wish, i could forget my haunting past
one should remember good things, only sweet memories are meant to be last.

Sometimes i wish, to slit my wrist with a knife
but there are other people too who love me so much, then why to end up my life.

Sometimes i wish, i wish to be alone
but the very next moment, such thoughts are gone.

Sometimes i wish, i wouldn't have wished
but without wishing, even this poem couldn't have finished.

Quiet a Long Time!!

Hello Blog!!

how are you? well seems like a long time since i sent you anything ain't it!! The last post date seems like ages away(20/09/2008) . But dont think that i have forgotten you. You are sort of a mirror of me where i can reflect my thoughts. So how can i forget you?

By the way HAPPY NEW YEAR to you!!!!

Well i can write about what all has kept me busy the last few months(5 months to be exact), but maybe in the coming posts i'll do just that. But for now 'll tell you that i was plain busy with college activities, projects and not to forget studies. I have also been to places that have left a lasting memory inside me and have met lot of ppl some of whom i'm in contact with regularly.

During the past few months i have got to understand people better and found ppl who i think can stand by me when i'm are in trouble or struck in a fix, an entity which i thought was almost extinct. I had fixed perception about a few people, but since i kept an open mind many of them proved me wrong and 'm happy about that. :)

Well i only have few more days left in my college. So dont mind if my next few posts are nostalgic enough to make you table wet :P.

i promise to send more posts to you and hope you were not angry with me for letting you sit idle and gather moss. But don't worry you will be shining once again :)

Regards,
ASP