Welcome 2011

Time has passed by so quickly. It's been eons since I updated this blog. It's not that I was busy, but rather I did not have the urge or passion to write. I know the title of this blog post seems quite absurd, "Welcome 2011", but don't you think that its never too late to welcome anything that you expect to turn fruitful for you.

The year 2010 was an eventful one with its own share of ups and downs. The past year redefined my life for all the right reasons. In my college life, I faced a lot of challenges that nearly threatened to make me give up and quit. I made a lot of mistakes which I never would have imagined. As they say, “When things go wrong, they do so at the most inopportune moment”. Guess I have to get used to the fact that I will make mistakes on and off.

On the positive side, 2010 gave me many reasons to smile. I got through all of my backlogs when it was least expected. I happened to get one of the most lucrative offers offered by IT industry in AIT. Then of course, there was this girl, who could not resist falling in love with me, or you could call it other way round too. I succeeded in many, and failed in some. As they say, “Behind every successful man there are many unsuccessful years”. And in fact, 2009 wasn't good at all. The best part of 2010 came when I realized that I had grown old, old enough to realize my mistakes and learn from them. Bye bye 2010. Thanks for the good and not so good memories. I cherish them all.

2011 has started with a bang. I got my job offer, for which I would like to thank Bhuvanesh Yadav [Helped me to get through the first obstacle], Nikant Ahlawat [kept me alarmed], Prince Mishra [my mentor], Chetan Sood [iska naam arbit hai], Krishna [helping me go techie], Raju & Shekhu [for providing me this opportunity] and all others whose names have been missed out.

On the personal end, I had made up my mind for a new bike, but finally time constraint put by Sapient and Bajaj both, hindered me from buying one. It would have been the sexiest among sexy, Bajaj Avenger 220 cc and that too Midnight Black. I would have preffered to call it KAALIYA. Hope whenever KAALIYA comes, it helps me reach the road to prosperity.

Life at College is just going ok. Looking forward to a great year ahead, second half of which will be spent at Sapient with some of the most awesome people from college. God! Pray that I get increment in my salary this year and that too twice, plus I clear my CAT with 100 percentile [more importantly 100 percentiles in all three sections], and get some 10 to 12 girlfriends more by the end of this year. Bas itna sa khwab hai.

To add to my college concerns, I need to get a passport and a pan card and among them the most important being to clean up the mess i made up with my first semester exams and perform well in the coming exam, so as to get at least 60% in final year. Pray that I study well.

I've got an interesting year ahead of me. Although I am not sure what is in store, I am confident that this year will see me reach some very important milestones in life. Til then, See ya. :)

Why is KASAB still alive?

I can never forget that fateful day two years ago on 26/11/2008. I was staying at a calm and peaceful place AIT. I was busy making my future bright in an engineering college, when these bastards were busy planning the bloodiest massacre in Indian history. I heard something from somewhere, and I immediately ran to my server, paused torrents, stopped CC Proxy and sat down to watch the live dance of death. It was shocking. All of my flank mates had their eyes fixed on the screen. We couldn't believe our eyes and ears. Is it a nightmare? It can't be true. Some of us were hooked onto the news channels and internet news sites for days together. Others didn’t, not because they weren’t worried, but because they had no idea that it would continue for 72 hours.

I can't explain the hatred I developed for Kasab and whoever the masterminds of the Mumbai attacks might be. For the first time in my life I wanted someone to suffer... someone to be brutally tortured. Little did I know that today, two years from then, I would still be wanting him to be punished. Kasab - why is he the one to survive the 26/11 attacks?  The person (no, he can't be a human) who walked peacefully after mercilessly killing many is still at peace!!! Why are we not setting an example by punishing him severely? Why are we not sending a strong message to all the terrorists out in the world - DON'T MESS WITH OUR NATION OR ELSE...

Recently TOI reported, “I’m reaping what I sowed : Kasab”. People don’t believe it to be his words, and doubt it to be TOI’s, another one of their many crappy articles. Kasab should be made familiar with the fact that, death is probably the easiest way for him to escape the materialistic world. I wish he be fed to our dogs, the people associated with “Nithari Killings” I mean the culprits, the pure non-vegetarians. I am not boasting of  "Nithari killings" culprits, but I am trying to tell the world that we Indians’ have a wide range of personalities here in our country. We can provide you with the fastest Indian (Milkha Singh) and slowest Indian (Suresh Kalmadi) too. But we keep our dogs in kennel and don’t let them stray around like Pakistanis. He doesn’t have an idea of the hatred that people have in them for him, and it multiplies day after day. It is better if he hangs himself, or he is hanged as soon as possible.

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?