A Year Ago...

I faintly remember... One year ago on this very same day, I had the most tension free and reviving day of my life... One year ago exactly today ( or maybe yesterday, not 100% sure about the date) I had finished giving my first and thankfully last 10th board exam... Still remember the first day of the exams... Seeing everyone gathered outside the school in wait for the exams to start. The anxiety, excitement and mixed emotions which cannot be described were evident on mostly everyones face (no matter how good a student the person was)...

I'm guessing  that our last paper was practical science ( or science mcq)... The excitement of giving the exams had severely been lost by now... Given the time that these exams go on for, its hard to keep the anxiousness on for the whole month... Most people (including me) were more interested on the plans after the exam... The exam started at around 10:30... After an agitated one half hour the sound of the bell was like music to waiting ears... The halls were filled with shrieks and screams of all the students... The sound of freedom...

Everyone was rushing outside to get their bags and there were others like me who walked slow and wanted to enjoy every bit of this "freedom" that we were experiencing (and of course stay away from the rampage of the crowd)... Little did we know that this freedom was short lived and that a dreadful monster, namely the first year junior college (or the 11th standard for my cbse friends) was soon to approach. Though thats a different story altogether... 

So there I was with my friends ready to go and have a great time... Had enough money in my pocket for a great time which was given to me by my parents who were generous and understanding enough to my needs (Disclaimer: The following are the sole thoughts of the parents and have no relation whatsoever with the thought of the writer of the following blog)... The day was one that I fully enjoyed with my friends... No problems of anyone going home early to mind some chores or homework or studies... This was the life... I reached home late at around 9:00, only to be greeted with questions which parents can't do without asking... How was the exam? Did you check your answers? and so on... But I had no problem in answering them, cause nothing could bring me down today....

Little did I know that god had plans to balance this super fun day by giving me many days of less or virtually no fun :P... Just when I thought that I had faced the worst, I found out that my classes were soon to start, ... But thats life... There are good and bad days... The good ones make you happy and the bad ones, stronger, and thats what makes it so special....:)

A New Year Resolution???

The New Year has started and it feels great...A new year to look forward to. Many a things to aim for and accomplish... Ah!!! Who am I kidding? It just feels like any other normal day of the week. Nothing special to do. A mixture of feelings including boredom, laziness and restlessness are surrounding me and making my head go haywire... So here I am writing about something that has always made me think about how we humans think and work...

All of us have heard of the various promises that people make to themselves during the start of the year or as we popularly know them as New Year resolutions...I'd like to steal a line from Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" which I relate with the New Year. Its goes like:-"What is new year (it's actually Christmas for those of you who didn't know)  but a time to pay bills, a time to find yourself a year older, but not a penny richer." And so it is, except for a lucky few no one seems to go any far ahead in following the New Year spirit...The big corporate companies, being the corporate mosquitoes that they are, use their minds to cash in on our little glitches by advertising and giving us hope that these so called problems in us can be eliminated... May it be quitting smoking with the help of nicotine gum or getting fit or slim by going to a gym... According to me these problems are best tackled by the person himself / herself (didn't wanna be sexist)...These are just a few ads I could think of cause I have a dire need for both of them... I gotta get fit and really need to give up smoking, its ruining my life, and my lungs (cough cough...).

Another one of my favorite new year resolutions is the one made by students (including me)...What is the one thing that some students wanna do but only a very tiny fraction are able to do?? I think you might have guessed it by now (that is if your mind isn't wandering to dirty thoughts), every student has at least once made a resolution to study more, seriously or jokingly (mostly jokingly)... But yeah we all go through that phase where we are unsatisfied with what we have and desire for more...Let it be more marks, knowledge or any materialistic stuff... We all have wanted something’s we couldn't get... Just realize it, nobody's perfect...

That brings me to my New Year resolution, about which I have started having second thoughts ... I have made a New Year resolution to start studying and do my homework... Though many of my friends (and even some senseless asses who aren't my friends and whom I don't wanna mention) think that I study a lot, the scene is totally opposite of what really goes on... If you are in my class you will get to know that I have become totally useless... My homework is never complete and studying is quite far of as well... I keep myself optimistic but everyone knows that it’s only partially helpful...I hope I stick to studying or at least completing my homework... Wait a minute, that's what I said a week ago, now that I remember it was the same thing that I said a month ago as well and even the month before that one... I think you get my point. No matter how much I try I can never seem to build up the motivation, desire or determination to study... But I'm sure that I am not alone on this. Leaving a few great souls the same must be going on with you as well... So that's my point. What’s the use of taking New Year resolutions??? If you couldn't do it the whole year, what magic will help you start doing it in the New Year? Resolutions are just a thing invented by humans for the satisfaction of their mind...You know you won't stick to it but deep down there's always a hope that this time will be the one in which you stick to your resolution and make your life better... But I'm cool with it because you can't realize your dreams until you have them... Right... So, for you to achieve your dreams you first have to sleep and have them first, correct me if I'm wrong...: P

So I'd like to end my blog now, hope you liked reading it... I know that some of you might disagree with what I think, but these are just my views about the topic... And if you really disagree go and write your own blog because you'll read only my view point in this one...: P

P.S- I really want to apologize for not updating my blog for over a month... Just couldn't come up with anything worth writing about...

P.P.S- I don't smoke, that was just a joke...

The Pain of Loss...

The day still fresh in my mind as if it were only a few weeks back (which it was or else I would have forgotten by now)... Just a usual day as always, had just finished my classes and was waiting there with a few friends as I soon had to go to college to submit my English assignment, which the teacher had asked for a week before the actual submission date... Hardly do I complete them on time, let alone a week beforehand... However I managed to write both the family tree and the letter for submission. It's not a problem as I know that I won't be writing any letters in the future so why not enjoy it while it lasts... :)

So I headed for college having about half an hour in hand...  Met a few friends on the way and was waiting outside in the hallway chatting with them only to find out that the Ssc board has a totally different format for writing of letters ( "Oh crap"; I thought in my mind)... All that effort gone to waste... It is only five minutes before the start of the lecture that we are informed that the teacher has conveniently postponed the taking of the assignments on the actual date of submission... I mean come on let there be at least some form of organized functioning...Is the frustration of students really your main aim...:P

Angry I left the college, not having the mood or the patience to attend the other lectures. Also convincing a few others to give me company... So we headed outside, addressing the professor with quite a few harsh adjectives (by which I mean abuses)... I reached the bus stop and by now I was alone as all my friends had left for the station... I was a bit hesitant to leave, as I knew that all the buses would be crowded at this time... I was almost ready to catch a rick when I saw a bus to my destination on its way to the bus stop... It was fairly crowded... Well you really can't expect to always go in empty bus in a place like Mumbai...I boarded the bus not knowing what was in store for me inside...

I climbed into the crowded bus with quite some difficulty... Ironically the bag which is supposed to help me was becoming a nuisance in this overfilled vehicle of mayhem and added to my misery... Then as I got a decent place to stand, on came the conductor asking for the fare... I reached into my pocket and found something amiss... My cell phone... It wasn't there, in any of my pockets... I searched frantically. It was surely misplaced in the bus as I had felt it in my pocket as I came in... I asked a fellow passenger to lend me his phone and called mine hoping for it to ring... But my worst fear was confirmed, the cell was switched off even though I remember the battery being half full when I was in college...

I knew what to do and got down a few stops early to go to the nearby Vodafone store to deactivate my SIM... After a half hour ordeal at the store I was preparing for my next... Confronting my parents... I reached home, half sad for my loss and half confused about what to say... Surprisingly my parents took it really well. I mean they were smart enough to deduce that scolding me would have made matters worse. The incident had me shaken for a few days and the saddest part was that I now had all my contact numbers lost... No one to call, to know when the next class was or when the next submission date for assignments was. I no longer had the courage to climb into a crowded bus...

But time heals all wounds (by this I mean three days)... I was by now ready to travel in filled buses again and prepared to face the Mumbai crowd with my trusted bag. The experience was one that made me learn to be more careful, so I guess I'm happy that it happened (unlike my father of course who now had to spend for a new phone)... So as they say you win some and you lose some... As in this case I lost some I take that as a positive sign that I will surely win some in the future...:P

P.S.- I know this is a bit more serious compared to my last two posts but it was something fluttering in my mind for quite some time and I had to take it out...

Your Eyes Tell it ALL....

Hey there... First of all I'd like to apologize for not updating my blog for so long... The classes were too much to take and my stupid Hsc exams just got over ( I term them stupid cause they actually are)... Well actually thats a lie, with my Facebook account deleted and my new attitude towards attending college lectures( by which I mean not attending them at all) I get a lot of time. But my laziness and the lack of a nice topic prevented me from updating, until a few days back when something interesting happened with me, worth writing of course.. So here I go with the ongoings...

Recently I have developed quite an affinity for the show Lie To Me... The interesting story line surely makes it a must watch. I learned that even though the show is purely fictional the concept its based on can definitely be applied to real life. By this I mean the idea of catching lies by a person's facial expressions. To give you a better understanding I'll give you an actual example which I had to face...

My classes conduct regular tests about every month and they are quite a few on one's mind and capabilities... Last to last week was the last test given by me and I gave it expecting no more than the marks I was usually getting. My rank so far had been varying, not super high like top three and neither below the top fifteen.. Little did I know that this test was going to change the attitude of the friends around me... 

Then a few days later I came to class a bit earlier than usual, the first one to reach in fact... As I headed to the classroom I just glanced from the edge of my eyes that the results had been put up... I kept my bag in class and went to see the result. I was pleasantly shocked to see my name second on the list ( yaaaaayyyyyy I yelled in my mind ).I quietly went in and sat down on my seat not talking much lest be considered a show off. I sat down and waited for the sir to come, but was rather greeted with unpleasant looks from my fellow class mates... Well I'm no Cal Lightman (lead character of Lie To Me) but I surely know what a look of anger is like. I could clearly read on their faces of what they thought like "that ass, got more than ME in the test" or "bloody scholar I bet he must be studying all day" and I was like whoa if you hate me keep it to yourself, don't give me those looks. Only three people out of a class of 20 actually came up to me with a smile ( not exaggerating, the number was exactly three, i counted :P)...

I guess training for IIT does makes you kinda  insecure over the slightest of increase in competition. I'm surely over it by now and so are they... One thing I'm certain of is that their views about me will be back to normal as soon as they see my usual marks in the next test... Thats how life is, you have your ups and you have your downs. Sometimes everyone is with you and sometimes their all against you. But all one can do is enjoy the ups and not let the downs get to you... Enjoy everyones company or walk alone if you truly believe in the cause because of which people left you... They say that if good times don't last so do bad times... Enjoy your days and if things seem a really tough and you feel like quitting just remember that the sky is the darkest just before the sunrise. No matter how hard the difficulty is remember that its a sign of the joy waiting ahead for you...

So I said Hi and now I'd like to say Goodbye!!! Hope you had a good read. And I would really like to apologize again for not updating sooner. Will surely try to be more quicker next time... and yeah thanks for reading..:)

A start...I guess..

13th November 2010...Nothing special about this day for any normal person, except the 18 million who have their birthday today and me, as today is the day that I start my own blog. Well most people find blogs outdated, a thing of they past they say, but for me it is the only way I can connect with a hobby that is truly dear to me, writing English a habit that was lost as my school life ended. The only English I write these days is for answers in math and science, quite sad I guess......

 Oops overexcited about the blog I forgot to introduce myself. Well my name is Nishit and I'm a 16 year old college going student. I guess this should  have been a time when I concentrate on studies and help in building up my career rather than "wasting" my time writing a blog , but a guy should maintain a healthy hobby so here I start my first blog.

I'll start with my tenth standard life as it was quite important to me. It was only last year that I gave my first board exams. Tenth class was one of the greatest years of my life. It was in these ten years that I had made a few friends who were quite close and dear to me. Even though I had a whole year of fun and frolic the few months before the boards were some in which I had studied a whole lot. The exams were over in a pleasant month’s time and I was quite happy with how I had done. 

It was at the end of this month that another confused mind was born in this world...me... I had to choose my career path and it was to be done now. This sudden change took me by surprise my lenient parents were now adamant for an answer and many of my friends had already made up their mind. I didn't know what to do. How is this happening so fast? Am I really this old now were some questions that roamed my mind. As confused as I was I chose to move with the crowd and took science. The decision was a tough one because I had no idea of any of the three streams. It’s strange how people expect a student to make such tough decisions of his life without giving him any knowledge of the path ahead. I believe our education system is built that way.

The coming month was filled with the hectic schedule of my classes... I now had to study in one day what I used to study in 2-3 weeks. It was a really harsh period of my life but I'm still trying to get over it. Some days are great others, not so much. It sometimes does make me think twice, but life still is fantastic

I do not know if my decision is right or wrong something only time will tell. But I surely know that no matter what may come I will always try my level best to keep up with what I want and try to achieve the goal I have set in mind. Well as they say all good things come to an end, I just found out that bad things come to an end as well as I end my blog on this note. I hope you had a good read...until next time if there is one I hope...

PS- Please do comment if u read my blog...I'm new and really want to learn what people liked and what I should improve on...Thanks and have a great time.....