Friday, April 29, 2011

Dhoni Went Bald So Are Few More ( & going to be !!)

India have won the cricket world cup that remained dream for 28 years ( and before 1983 too!). Coming straight to the point without wasting my time ( & yours, of course), Dhoni the Indian skipper went bald getting his head shaved. He disclosed the secret of getting bald after winning the dream cup. He had 'promised to God' that he would go bald if India win the world cup.
Inspired by him many youngsters (may be his fans only!) are going bald by getting theirs heads shaved these days. Last Sunday I was looking for some nice pics in Delhi Times, I started with the page three and reached to the front page flipping pages and checking out the second last page. Finally I got a good news.
The news was like 'While Pantaloons Femina Miss India International 2011 Ankita Shoray is busy in posing for the photographs, in Delhi, her bro Aman Shoray doesn't want to pose for a single one. Taking inspiration from Dhoni, he'd promised to God that he'd go bald if his sister won the pageant and he has done it.
Yes, Ankita, the Delhite girl has won the crown of Pantaloons Femina Miss India International 2011.
Few cool dudes of my college are also going bald after getting their results 'all clear'. Well, Dhoni and Aman Shoray had disclosed their secrets but my college mates still want their secret of head shaving to remain secrets.

[ A similar story of a kid (true and real, of course!) ]

6 years ago there was a kid in a village. Like other kids he used to go to school for studying, of course. It's better to call him a teenager as he had entered to class 10th. His name was Chandu.  He was the most notorious kid of his school. He was a law breaking kid, so was habitual to get entertained the varieties of punishments in return. Most of his class mates never dared to utter even a single word in front of him. He was always involved in fighting with his school mates, outsiders and sometimes with teachers too! He had a best friend too! Unlike him, his best friend Nandu was very serious kinda teenager. His dad was always after him and his studies. He always used to thrash his kid like hell because he was getting tired of being called in his kid's school every second week.
Getting fu*ked up by such of his frustrating and irritating state he was thinking deeply lying in his bed. He was thinking about his studies for the first time in his life. After some time, he got out of his bed and closed the door of his room looking here and there whether any one is looking towards his room or not. He failed to unlock the door, as the lock was broken from inside. He came closer to of one the walls of his room shutting the door tightly. He started looking towards the wall focusing his eyes on the two big photos that were hanging on the wall. Yes, the two photos were of big and huge Hanumanji and Balaji. He then joined his palms closing eyes (opening one or both for few microseconds to check whether anyone was looking at him).

"God, I'm going to work really very hard. I'm studying whole night in front of both of you. I know you're keeping your eyes on me when whole world is sleeping and I'm studying even after midnight. Please help me in getting 95% marks in 10th class board examination. Nothing is hidden from you. You know about my school, the worst that keeps me punishing all the time. I want to score 95% marks and slap this mark sheet on the face of my school's principal and that bastard, Rajiv Sir, the discipline in charge, who thrashes my palms, hands, legs, ass and whole body whenever he catches me for my faults. I want to show that bitch, head girl of my class who never fails to write my name at the top on black board in the list of class disturbing elements. I'll never tease girls and would try treat all of them as my sisters except one, Anamika, whom I love the most. I love you god. Please help me, please help me. I promise you, I'd come to your place Tirupati Balaji and get my head shaved there. Please help me." Chandu prayed (and abused few people too!) was over now. He opened his eyes moving his eyes checking everywhere and got no was there except him in the room. He then touched the feet of gods (in pics, of course!). He turned back to return to his study table.
'What the f**k,' he uttered.
'When did you come here?' he asked. Yes, his dad was standing behind his wicked kid listening to his prayer.
'I've heard everything and don't use bad language in front of me, at least,' his dad said taking seat on the bed that was standing next to the study table.
'You are working really very hard. I can see you studying whole night when we all sleep. You can score as much as you want.' convinced his dad. His dad continued with his boring motivational and moral lessons.

[After few months]

After waiting for few month the result was about to be announced. Chandu, the kid turning to be a guy woke up early in the morning. He took shower and then bowed down his head to lords' pics that were hanging on the wall of his study room. He left his place touching feet of the god. He reached a nearby cyber cafe.
'Bhaiya, when are you going to open it?' he asked the cafe guy as he was waiting for him standing in front of the cyber cafe.
'Hey, kid, what happened to you?' the cafe guy asked.
'You've come so early to watch bad things,' he continued.
'What bad things?' Chandu asked surprisingly.
'Don't fool me, you kids come here to watch bad things only everyday,' the cafe guy said unlocking a big lock hanging on the big shutter of his cafe.
'Nope, I've to check my result,' Chandu said helping the cafe guy in rising the heavy shutter up.
Both entered into the cafe. The cafe guy switched the lights and fan on.
'What's your roll number?' the cafe guy asked opening CBSE site.


[to be cont....]

Thursday, April 21, 2011

The Crow, The Frog & The Well

Chapter : 2

The crow started asking her to roam  with him as the well seemed boring place to meet daily. After million of requests the lady frog said ‘yes’. But the problem was that she didn’t have feathers so she couldn’t fly like the crow.
After discussing the same thing for some days, the crow's brain clicked and asked the lady frog to sit on his back as he could handle her weight.
'But........,' the lady frog started.
'No if, no but.' Let me weigh you,' the crow said hanging her in the air holding her hands.
'Ohhh....,' the crow uttered.
'What happened?' the frog asked.
'Nothing, you are as light at feather,' the crow said smiling.
'Don't lie, I've become a little bit fatter.' The lady frog smiled looking towards her each part of her body scanning the fats hanging around her belly and other body parts, as if crow was lying about her weight.
Yes, the dude crow lied. He was cool and expert in lying, so he made her believe that her figure was zero size, beautiful and light of course. On the other hand they had become best friends so no one of them could refuse to each other's request.
The lady frog jumped smiling on the back of the crow and the crow was all set to fly opening his feathers vibrating them frequently.
'Enjoy the ride, Honey,' the voice reached the lady frog's ear and she started looking downwards as the crow was about to take off. She saw a young lady frog, who was one of the frogs that were staring continuously at the lady frog and the crow, as if both of them were going to do the world's worst thing by flying in the air. The old crows, who never forgot to raise their eyebrows were also standing and watching the lady frog and her best friend.

'Love you, bye,' she said to the single well wisher (the another young lady frog!) waving her hand  sitting on the back of the crow, who had already started his flight taking off the boundary wall of the well. The lady frog started looking here and there sitting there on the natural plane. she started looking downward bending her head down but pulled it back as most of the things (on the earth, of course!) were looking very small and tiny. Her place and the frogs of her community were no more visible now. She had never seen the fields, villages, towns, rivers, lakes, trees with so many jumping monkeys and mountains before. She was feeling amazing.  Up in the sky, she was feeling very free. There were no old frogs to raise their black turned into white eyebrows. There were no lady frogs who always wanted to throw her down off the head lady position. She was simply very happy there.

'Hey, how are you feeling ?' the crow asked the lady frog bending his head back moving his eye balls to see his best friend.
'Are you duffer?' she shouted forcing his head pushing it forwards.
'You would kill me for sure,' she continued.
'Okay, I won't turn back,' the crow said taking a sharp turn accelerating his feathers pacing his speed to maximum.
'What the f*@k is this,' the lady crow shouted grabbing the crow's back tightly when he was taking sharp turns to enjoy his feathers. (Might be he would have been trying to impress the lady frog by showing his flights!) After enjoying some fun with his feathers, he rested his feathers and came down to a mountain top and asked the lady frog to get down off his back.
'Nope, I'm not. I wanna fly more,' she said holding his back and feathers' root tightly.
'But,' the crow started.
'What but? You've told no, 'no but, no if in friendship. Start flying,' she ordered  banging his head quickly. The crow started the flight spreading his feathers again off the mountain.

The lady frog was heavy enough so the crow wanted to take rest haulting his flight for some time, but the lady frog was enjoying the most adventurous and wonderful ride and wanted to continue it happily so he could not refuse her. After all they were the best friends.
'Hey, look at the lake,' the lady fog said pointing his index finger towards a lake in the middle of the wheat fields. Well, the crow was showing everything on the earth and above it to the lady frog but now scene was seeming to be changed! The crow stopped moving his feathers up and down, to and fro taking a turn heading downward towards the earth keeping his feathers opened and calm.
'You might be hungry and thirsty,' she asked the crow.
'Yup, I'm dying to have something as mouses in my stomach are jumping recklessly, as your heavy weight and my extra flight made me burn my all calories in this ride.
'Shut up, I'm not heavy, huh,' the lady frog said jumping into the lake opening her hands and legs and started swimming in the cold water in the sunny weather. The crow looked at her and smiled thinking 'she is happier now'. He started looking for some food walking entering into the wheat field.

After gathering some food from the lake and the field, they were about to start their lunch together (for the first time, of course!) on the half wet bank of the lake under nice shining sun.
'Hey, look at them,' some unknown voices started entering into their ears as they took the first byte of their lunch.
Yes, some frogs and fishes were noticing their moves standing still in the lake water near its bank.
'Hey, come on guys,' the crow called them to join the lunch.
'Nope, you'll eat me up,' one small fish said looking at them and the food leaking her lips with her tongue.
'Nope, I won't,' the crow said sipping the colorful drink.
'Don't talk to him. He is an extra black crow. He seems to be very clever and rude to me. No need to go near him,' One lady fish said holding the hand of the smallest fish tightly as the small fish was gazing at the food continuously.


[to be cont....]

Sunday, April 17, 2011

The Crow, The Frog & The Well

Once upon a time there was a crow (in a forest of course). He used to leave his place (tree of course) in the morning in search of food and fun. He loved teasing the stray dogs because some dogs always disrupted his foods. He was a free and stud kind of crow so he used to roam through out the world. His daily work was to roam here and there to get some food and looking for some lady crows to ease his eyes and master brain (cleaver and wicked one!).
Time went on, he was a happy crow and dude of course so a lady crow felt in love with him and things went lovely for him. One day he was plying with some other crow kids and some monkeys jumping from one branch to the other branches of the tree. Suddenly a devastating earthquake came along with a huge tsunami and storm. He flew towards the tree where his mom dad lived, just to save them because they were old enough and couldn’t fly. He was late as the ugly storm takes over the trees. As he was a stud crow, he tried his level best to rescue his parents but finally failed. He got stuck in a tree branch when he was flying towards the sky through the shortest way and felt down. He got hit by the tree’s branch and its leaves and felt down. He saw the other crows, monkeys, and some other birds prisoned in between the branches of that heavy tree.
Well, he was a cleaver, dude and overconfident crow so he tried really very hard to come out just before the arrival of the tsunami that was about to wash his away. He finally came out but he was  late and had to pay the cost to fight against the natural disaster. He started flying high in the sky but he found no one was there. I mean the birds were not visible to him there. He flew higher and higher with his  half broken and bleeding feathers and placed his feet on the top of a mountain that was sitting away from his forest.
Time went on but he started feeling like hell without his family and girlfriend, of course. He used to cry washing away his sorrow with the tears trickling down his cheeks daily at night so that other birds couldn’t see him crying because he never cried. With the passage of time he had learnt to live without his family and girlfriend and got new feathers meanwhile.
[After few months!]
It was the month of mid June and he wanted to enjoy his new feathers and started flying high in the sky away form the mountain top crossing the nearby towns, cities, villages and fields. After few hours of his flight he started feeling thirsty as his throat was drying and forcing him to have some water. He looked downward and flew towards a lake. He became sad after getting the lake dry. Yes, he flew enough and reached in a dreary desert. He started roaming here and there looking for few drops of water. As he was a cool and confident crow he kept searching waters. Finally, he saw a well in the middle of the village on the outskirt of that desert. He flew down and sat on the boundary of the well to check whether there was water inside it or it was dry like the lake. The crow started dancing suddenly after hearing some voice of the frogs. Yes, the voice of the frogs that was coming out of the well was proving that the well was not dry.
After seeing a crow dancing and singing madly, some stud frogs came out to see  why the hell was the crow dancing and singing so loudly disrupting their peaceful atmosphere.
‘Hey, what happened to you?’ one of them asked the crow.
‘Nothing,’ the crow answered stopping his feet.
‘Then why are you dancing like mad?’ the head lady frog asked.
‘Actually……..,’ the crow started.
‘Fu*k off, you assh*le,’ one of the stud frogs shouted pointing his eyes towards the crow.
‘Shut up,’ the cute head lady frog said to the stud frog.
‘So, you were looking for nothing and started singing and dancing madly here, right?’ the sweet and sensible head lady frog said to the crow, who was looking here and there recklessly.
‘Actually, I was looking for water and I roamed a lot to get it and finally got it here so…,’ the crow answered.
‘Hmmm,’ the frogs uttered nodding their heads.
‘Okay, enjoy the water,’ the head lady frog said.
The crow started flying inside the well to have much awaited water but he failed as the well seemed deep enough to him. He tried twice but got hit by one of the walls of the well and started falling down but he tried hard and flew out of the well. The frogs started laughing at him.
‘Hey, may I help you?’ one old frog asked the crow.
‘No, thanks, you are old enough. I’ll get it by own,’ the crow answered setting his feathers tight to fly into the well again. He tried and failed for the third time too.
‘Hey, may I help you please?’ the head lady frog asked, who got impressed by his attempts and confidence. The crow started thinking for some time and answered ‘yes’. The head lady frog went into the well and brought a bucket full of water along with some food items. The hungry and thirsty crow finished water and food within few minutes. After finishing everything they both started chitchatting for some time and the other frogs had already left for the well. As the head lady frog was already impressed by the crow and the crow on the other hand was alone in this world and got a good friend. I mean they became good friends.
They started meeting everyday and chitchatting time got increased. She was happy with the new friend and their friendship got concrete with the passage of time.The crow started visit the well daily and the head lady frog had started gaining attention of the eyes of the rest of the frogs. The old frogs started raising their eyebrows whenever they saw them together sitting at the boundary of the well. As her friendship was not acceptable in her community so she was removed from the head lady position by the rest frogs.
The crow started asking her to roam  with him as the well seemed boring place to meet daily. After million of requests the lady frog said ‘yes’. But the problem was that she didn’t have feathers so she couldn’t fly like the crow.
[to be cont....]

I P University & It’s Loopholes (may be not!)

Well the result has been decleared and most of us are all clear as this semester was not very tough. As always, it started with the flashing of datesheet on the IPU official website and students started studying like mads because no one wants to give any chance to get a back and sit sad in the darkness.
All of us were eligible so we got a seat each in this university. No one is bad student (in my opinion!). After announcement of the date sheet, the days pass very fast and papers come at hand. The exams start and most us attempt 75 marks’ questions out of 75 marks. Only few leave some questions who struggle with their pace of writing.
After writing exams, we get few holidays and new semester starts with the new weather, new season and of course new atmosphere. Nayi Sarak market gets filled with the books and students start rushing there to get all new books. Few guys and girls try to fall in new relationships during this time because there is not any extra pressure of exams.
After three months from this time the results on non technical departments start getting put on the IPU website. The heartbeats of the technical and non-technical students start pacing up and their brains start entering into an unstable state. After some hoax news of result out and tremendous stress counting days (where each day seems really very hard to pass!), the result of the various engineering departments start coming on the official website of our university. Students (web wizards, better call!), who always keep checking sites start texting and calling their college and non college mates to check their result as soon as result is decleared. Facebook accounts get filled with the status updates like ‘ I’m all clear, thank god, I got 80% or so, Thanks to Sai Baba who helped in clearing all the papers’ etc etc. Few people update their status like ‘I worked really very hard but got 1 back or so’.
Delhi fills with joy and cheerfulness with the opening of the hundred of beer (& wine) bottles along with the soft drinks’ bottles. Because guys like me are okay with the cold drinks and ice creams. Number of attendance start increasing in the city malls to celebrate all clear parties. Few love to enjoy shopping with their parents, as if they would have promised to buy jeans, t-shirts, foot wears and more dresses (I don’t know much about girls’ dresses, so..!) if their kids get no backs in their result. Some propose to their opposite sexes people to be their girlfriends / boyfriends after getting good marks. Old couples start dating everyday to renew their love. How can I forget to mention my story here. I start waiting for Tanya standing outside her college for roaming and eating with her at our favorite outlets in South Delhi. Few unlucky people start drinking wines and puffing cigarette puffing and freeing the news of getting backs with the smoke of the cigarettes out in the air. Unfortunately I’ve quit smoking.
Pawan is a stud guy of my group. I can’t dare to call him a ‘nerd’ because guys in my group love to be called studs only. Like other engineering nerds they hide the number of hours they give on their study tables but never fail to share the stuff like – which is the best porn site and who has the best cleavage in the college and outside. Anyways, he works really very hard focusing on each and every word coming out of the lecturers’ mouth in the class. He goes for tutions also to get the left uncleared problems cleared. Tutors teach really well as they take handsome amount to clear all the doubts. Despite depositing around 70,000 bucks’ cheque as one year fee to their colleges of IP University every year, students love to spend more on the subjects so that they won’t get any back paper in any semester. Well, Pawan is a rich guy and he can pay for any number of tutions.
Let me come to the point. Students don’t leave any stone unturned to get good marks in the exams. Despite writing exams nicely attempting all the questions, they live in a fearful and trauma state of getting back (by mistake!) in any subject.
Yes, this fear comes in their mind from IP University’s marking system. ‘The checkers check our answer sheets as if they have old enimosity with us,’ people say it, generally. Maximum students (good, average, better) get 35 to 50 marks out of 75 marks in the external exams. Thanks to the colleges that give 20+ marks out 25 to all of their students in the internals. After getting 20+ marks in the internals there is least chance of getting any back. Unfortunately, few people get backs even if they score 25 out of 25 marks in the internals.
After getting backs the rechecking forms including 230 bucks as rechecking forms’ fee start getting deposited in the respective colleges. ‘The rechecking forms are useless.’ Most of us say it. Only few out of  hunderds get their marks altered. I’ve been studying in this university for the last three years and I never understood the marking system in its exams. I always get surprised and shocked when nerds like Pawan get a back in any paper. I never understood the rechecking form system (including 230 bucks as rechecking forms’ fee!) of IP University where only few out of hundreds get their marks increased (or decreased!). My classmates always say that ‘in rechecking no one gets his/her marks increased so it’s useless’. Not even a single students of our university say good about it’s rechecking system.
I want to ask the respected and reputed IP University [ Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi] exam system that :
1. Are we such bad students who can’t score 30 to 35 marks out of 75 marks in the externals?
2. Are the rechecking forms really useless?
3. Is our marking system so real and true that left students with back paper to study the same subject and get it cleared or get the back again by the next year?
Well, there are million of questions start coming in the mind when you get any back after working hard really very hard and honestly. IPU conducts it’s entrance test and students are selected on the basis of their talents except few like Tanya (my sweetheart friend!) who get a seat by paying lacs, what is called a management seat here.
The disadvantages of getting backs are countless. Its affects range from training, internship and placement in good companies to suicide (that means end of one’s life just for not getting a engineering degree!). Students start doubting their talents too.
But I love the way time is going on in this university that is full of surprises and shocks, I don’t know why. :-)
Life becomes no lesser than hell when you start taking everything very serious and there is lack of surprises. Let the time play it’s role. Enjoy each day of your college life because it’s not going to come again in this life. Guys and girls who are still single, fall in love with their respective ‘opposite sex’. Love is the most wonderful thing in this world....

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Cough....High Fever....Syrup (not wine!) & The Result !

Well, I'm unwell these days. Extra dose of coke, pepsi and any known cold drink on this earth is about to kill me. I'm unable to jog, walk, sleep and of course study. Sometimes, the degree of my unwellness fires happiness into my head, only for the reason I can stay away from the course books for some time. Thanks to my antibody that doesn't let me fall ill.
Let me come to the point. Despite being so unwell I woke up very early in the morning to start, finish and revise the course of microprocessor to write my second term paper with a fear in my mind of getting my attendance short that always debarred me from writing the papers. Unlike my stud friends I get the time only in the morning of the paper day so I had to do it.
Thanks to my college management that allowed me to enter the exam hall. I wrote the paper and ran straight to Pitampura metro station. How can I skip any meet with Tanya (on weekdays only). Yes, she was waiting there at Pitampura metro station. After roaming for some time I returned to my place. I went to my sis's place to have lunch with a scaring mood as she always shouts at me showing sharp expressions just for disrupting her noon sleep.
I'm unwell, as I mentioned earlier and I love to have medicines especially syrup. According to doctor's suggestions I'd to have two spoons in morning and evening. I had two more full spoons of syrup increasing the dose twice thinking that I would be well as soon as possible if I'm having more dose of medicine. I try this stuff whenever I get unwell! I went into bed texting some messages to Tanya.
'Stud, result aa gya....,' the voice reached my ears and I opened my eyes.
'What the hell is this? Is it a dream,' I said to myself checking whether it was really a dream.
'We both are all clear and Tanya Bhabhi has topped with a whopping score of 84%,' the voice continued and forced me to run towards washroom to wash my face. As always Gyan had called me to give such bad news (good news for the first time!).
'Dude, check my result once again. Am I really all clear?' I asked opening my eyes clearly.
'Yeah, you are all clear and you have scored good marks this time,' he said.
'Fu*k the good marks, dude, come to my place. It's a party time, bye,' I said disconnecting the call.
'What the hell is this?' I asked myself looking towards the phone screen that contained 15 new messages with a yellow envelope picture on the screen. I started dialing Tanya's number leaving all the messages unread in the inbox.
'Hey, hi, congrats,' I said as she picked my call.
'I'm not talking to you,' she said.
'Why, what happened?' I asked.
'You got 84% and I'm all clear,' I contined.
'So what? I'm messaging you for the last half an hour and you are sleeping,' she continued entering in her real mood.
'Oh, I'm really very sorry, sweetheart,' I started.
'You've slept for 3 hours, you know,' she said. I checked the time and it was 5:45pm in my phone clock.
'But the result,' I uttered.
'What result...it was expected,' she said.
'And yeah, you're all clear. This was unexpected,' she added........


[Our conversation continued for the next forty minutes discussing the stuff we did during our examinations' days (including the dates even on the examination days!)....well, the days (four months ago) are better described in the blog books..GF..kisses & papers.]