B+ (A nonsensical poem)

"The woods are lovely, dark and deep
The woods are lovely, dark and deep

But I have promises to keep

And miles to go before I sleep"

These were the lines written by my friend on facebook

My blood group is B+ and so is my outlook

One of my senior asked me to go crazy

I guess, this try proves that I am not lazy

I know this poem sounds very absurd

But mind you, I am not a Surd (SARDAR)

You will suggest me not to try

Writing poems or you will kill me and eat me deep fry

P.S : I wrote this poem a long time back (around 5 months), but did not have the guts to post it on blog. But yesterday, a thought came to my mind that a certain character can be built from embarrassing yourself endlessly. Ya its true, at a point of time I felt very embarrassed to post this poem. Even now, I know I should not dare to write "I hope you like it" because its not worth it. It is indeed a nonsensical poem with an equally absurd title.


The poem does not carry any sense, the first 4 lines are from Narender's laptop's wallpaper, and he was the one who put them on his facebook wall and that was the day I started writing this poem. My blood group is AB+, but since one's outlook can not be AB+, so I had to go with B+. The next 2 lines talks of a senior, who asked me to go crazy, as in to do something innovative on blog other than regular articles, this senior is our Vijay Sir (Blaze). Then comes Surd and the last two lines, as they sound and appear, its nothing but just a forceful and repeated attempt to rhyme.


It is your interest that makes things easy for you and one's flawlessness at something can make it look easy for others too. Like, take programming for example, once you get to see the source code of a problem, it seems so simple but its difficult to see the pain that goes in making that classic piece of code. Similarly, poetry also seems simple, but believe me its not. It is meant only for some, Zainul Hassan Khan and Prince Mishra are two of them whose poems can make you cry like a rainstorm and some can make you laugh like anything. I remember Zainul's comment on my poem, I wonder if I am in love had it not been my blog but some facebook like thing where you could like the comments too, I bet there would have been a more likes on Zainul's comment rather than my poem. So, finally with with sheer happiness and a proud feeling, I am posting this poem, not actually a poem but more of an article with a pessimist attitude regarding writing poems.


In the end, a very well said quote by Douglas Engelbart : "The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment that he can tolerate".

I wonder if I am in Love

When can you confirm, that you are in love

When you see her face in your book

Or when you repeatedly check facebook

When you fall in love with the sound of her voice

Or when she seems to be the ultimate choice

When you smile remembering the good old days

Or when you think, you are left with nothing to chase

When you have to gather courage to say the "word"

Or when talking to her, you forget the world

When you start sharing everything with her

Or when you forget to call your brother but not her

When an extrovert guy starts feeling shy

Or when slightest idea of her parting away can make you cry

When you take care of everything you speak

Or when you can’t find anything more sweet

When she talks to you in a shy-low voice
Or when she ignores her friends for you, by choice

Or when you turn into a poet, the most daunting task

Someone rightly said about poem, it’s the feel that brings line

And probably today I set them fine

I wonder if these are the symptoms

I wonder if I am in love?
I wonder if I am in love?

Before I Graduate

One sided love, silent mode mobiles, bus stand comedies, gatherings at BABA, walk on the MG road (AIT) to catch a glimpse of 'her', those embarrassing defeats in lan games, night long Aakriti practices, crossing fence, the height of water tank, bribing Rodrigues, sleep on roof after cut outs, canteen foods, escape from lectures, birthday treats, last minute preparation, night long bakar sessions, random plans to trip to Lonavala Khandala Lavassa Singhad, wait for the torrents of the new episode, feel of being an Indian when people go crazy in world cup matches in Raman Theatre, group studies when a single book is split into 6 pieces unit-wise, taking away attendance registers from teacher's drawer to increase your friend's attendace to save him from fine, taking 2 hours to sip that 500 ml packet of milk in front of the girls' volley court, overnight study for next day exam, late submissions, term work problem, waiting for 14^th February, crazy trips in search of food at 2 in the morning, standing in a queue in front of registrar office for forms, shortage of pocket money and attendance, will all become things of past.

The college experience flies by so fast that we’re often stuck standing in line for graduation wondering where the past four years went. One vaguely remembers meeting his best friend when he held your back after your first daru party and you kinda remember that all-nighter you pulled to get 3 term papers done in one night. And the rest is all a blur of arbit parties, walks of shame, and begging your friends for money.

Before one realises it, he’s out in the real world, working a real job alongside real people, wondering what happened to no-class Saturday and OMR at Mayur and I know very well that it ain’t fun.

It gets pretty easy to get caught up in it all and unfortunately we forget to be young and crazy. That’s why, with only a little time to go until we hit the pass out parade, I’ve put together the ultimate list of everything that a fun-loving and fearless man, should accomplish before he or she graduates.

1. Do an illegal drug :- You spin my head right round, right round. When you go down, when you go down down !

2. Confront a fear :- Doesn’t matter if it’s a fear of heights or a fear of ragging, figure out a way to face it head on just once.

3. Apologize to someone you were mean to in school or college :- A quick Facebook message apology will brighten his/her day. You have seen my doing so, believe me it feels good.

4. Make a real girl friend who is really just a friend :- Let me be clear, it should be like as you don’t want to ever see her naked and she doesn’t ever want to see you naked. No points if you’re related.

5. Get a job :- Something very essential. To unplaced friends, I want to you to be positive. You weren't hired doesn't mean that you weren't qualified. It was not your loss, it was their loss, that they missed you. It's impossible to know why exactly employers choose one candidate over another.

6. Figure out what kind of drink you actually like :- Guys, life is beyond Mayur. You should be so mature and adult that you can tell your date, why you prefer one over another.

7. Take a road trip with friends :-The destination doesn’t matter. Nothing brings friends closer than an endless road trip.

8. Try an exotic food you can’t pronounce :- I don't have an explanation as to why did I include this in the list. But recently I had gone to a restaurant, “Marakkese”, and this name made me include this in the list. Please comment below in case you know of any such exotic dish.

9. See a band show :- I am not talking of usual band performances that almost every AITian must have seen. I am talking here for something big, some known band.

10. Go 24 hours media-free :- Try this, the most difficult thing to do. That means turn off your cell phone and shut down your computer. With the exception of getting tagged in photos of nude children, that you can’t de-tag right away because one of your friends has done it, you won’t miss anything.

11. Run for a cause :- You’ll have an awesome time and feel really, really good about yourself. Do it, after a 12 hour nap, of course.

12. Learn to manage your own money:- It will make that transition into real life and make it smoother.

13. Take your parents out, probably for a nice dinner, because they deserve it.

14. Start a blog about your life and update it regularly :- Sure it seems self-centred now, but you’ll be grateful ten years from now when you can reflect on your life when you were really living it up.

15. Learn to drive :- This is the easiest in the list, I guess and most of us already have already accomplished it.

16. Donate blood :- There were only 15 in the list, but this was suggested by one my my close friends. AITans very well know the reason, but its a humble appeal to all reading this blog post, donate but do not get caught in any awkward posing photograph, but in case you get caught, please do not let your friends analyse the photograph, and if they do so, please stop them from editing it and make some weird marks on it. Till now it was acceptable, you still are safe, but please stop that daring guy from uploading it on some social networking site, because my dear friend after a while you are about to get hurt very bad. For those who don't know what I am talking about, that is a long story, could eat up the whole blog post. But dear readers, If you think donating is scary, imagine being the person who needs it during a blood shortage.

I myself can boast of completing 11 of them, eagerly waiting for my first salary, to take parents out for a dinner. Haven’t run a marathon yet, going media-free seems impossible and there are some others in the list too, yet incomplete. I would love, if people respond by sending their scores.

P.S :: Dear readers please feel free to add to the list, I know many things are left that one should accomplish at least once before graduating. Comment below and I would add it to the list, if it is worth it. This blog post seems incomplete and yes it is. But sincere thanks to all those who contributed to this post. Many were approached, but few turned up for help. If Sood can help, so can 'you'. :P

Thank you...

The Latest Addiction: Farmville

Now is an era, where people prefer to give away healthy gifts rather than chocolates and bouquets. So yesterday I received one too, and it was one of my favorite fruit, apple. But, to my surprise, it wasn't "an apple", or say "two apples" or three but it was an apple tree. Something more startling is that, it was sent to me, from a place 250 kms from here. Don't be surprised, this tree was sent to me on Facebook, amid pool of friends and through one of the most used application "Farmville". To accept the gift, I had to visit his farm and i was awestruck to see a big farm with a tractor, sheep, a cow, berries, house, mill etc on his farm. There are other friends too who are busy applying their managerial abilities and are well settled with their own private restaurants. Yet again, its a virtual thing I am talking about, "Cafe World". But lets talk of Farmville for now.

The game seems to have mesmerized people from all walks of life. There has been an astronomical increase in the number of Farmville users. Every night for the last two weeks, my flank mate, has set his alarm for 3:30 a.m., when he will wake up, roll over and harvest his blueberries. "I keep my laptop next to my bed," he explained to me. "The first thing I do when I wake up in the morning is harvest, then I harvest again at 10 in the morning, then again in mid-afternoon, then in the evening, and then again right before going to bed."
Though I have an account on facebook, yet I don't love Farmville, the reason being that you are bombarded with numerous of invitations to join, be a neighbor or demands to give someone a tree. One person formed the group I Hate Farmville and its good to see that their are, though small number, people who hate it.

Do you send messages to your facebook friends asking them to help you out with fertilizers or by sending a cow? Bizarre! Yes, but true. Welcome to the world of FarmVille. I am very unlucky because most of my friends are into Farmville and hence every time I open my account and I can see my homepage clogged with updates about raspberries, fertilizer requests and cattle status updates!

I don’t find it worth spending 2 hours a day as a waste of time. People anyway spend lots of time tweeting or on facebook, so what is the problem if they spend some time growing raspberries and gifting cattle. Both tweeting and growing cattle are equally unproductive in my opinion. Now, if you believe that the whole social networking thing is a waste of time, it’s up to you alone to decide whether Farmville is a waste of time or not.

So, what is the whole point of Farmville? What is it that makes Farmville so interesting that so many people use it? They play this game for the only reason that they make virtual money to decorate their farm in an absurd attempt to make it bigger than their neighbours’ farms. The whole point here is that people like to do things in a virtual world that they can never do in the real world. That’s why games like Counter Strike; World of Warcraft etc are so popular, where you can do whatever you want unrestricted. This feeling of living a life that can be better, more fun or even better organized than their real life fuels this urge to come back again and again to these virtual worlds. Farmville is nothing but a unique way to while away your time in today’s networked world with the added satisfaction of watching your crops and cattle grow. Finally, a farm in Farmville reminds me of the old Onida tagline ‘neighbour’s envy, owner’s pride.’