Something entirely wierd and Random

Err...I've been expecting that this moment might come sometime...but I didn't expect that I would be the person to trigger this strange occurrence...

Happy Birthday to me...Happy Birthday to MEEE!!!!

Happy birthday to Moi! I'm now seventeen! My folks have gone to Pune, and I've ended up all alone at home all day today...Because I had classes in the morning...seems like a pretty Lonely birthday...

*phone rings*
Hey Ace! Thanks, oh wait a sec, I got another call
*click*
Dodo! nice to hear from ya, Thanks man, no I don't have any plans, I'm stuck at ...oh hold on, another call...
*click*
Oh, Hi Kushal...
*click*
Oh Hey Akshay...
*click*
Sid...
*click*
A.B...Along with a whole buncha people from school..
*click*
Darshan...
*click*

Whoa...All of a sudden...I feel a lot less lonely...
Happy Republic Day to all o y'all! And thanks for exceeding my expectations with the pretty huge number of hits so far!

Those Three letters...

Read this Dilbert strip on HT last week...


Kinda reminds me of a Professor of mine...from my classes...

I'm sure you've noticed, most successful people are annoying as hell...
And this professor is no exception...He got some high rank in the IIT-JEE and got into the Mumbai IIT, after which he started teaching, ONE YEAR after he finished his own exam...he started his own damn coaching classes, and now works as a professor part time...

He tried to 'encourage' us to work harder by talking about the perks of being an IITian...his speech was something like this


Sir:-Ahem...now...anyone here on Orkut, facebook, Hikut, Chirkut, Friendster, or BigAdda?

Class:- *uneasy silence*

Sir:- I'd advise you to stop doing such timepass right now...look...let me tell you...I have all the compilations Of Calvin and Hobbes, Peanuts, Garfield, Pearls Before Swine, Doonesbury,Asterix and Tintin...


Me:- *thinking*Okay...assuming that's true, since the cost of one C&H book is 700 bucks, and the number of em will be around 10, he just put down 7 grand on ONE SEVENTH of his Comic Book collection...approximately...


Prof:- *Continues* I also have a PS2, a PS3 and an Xbox 360...several suppliers and developers have approached me to be part of their beta testing teams, when I was living in the UK, and on more than a few occasions. And so I've been given a copy of a game sometimes several weeks beforehand...I'm currently playing Gears Of War, Burnout Paradise and Assassin's Creed...

I've watched Alvin and the Chipmunks thrice, and Taare Zameen Par 5 times already, twice before it actually released, and all this is because of those three letters that are part of my Resume...'I I T'...

If I wasn't an IITian, I'd probably be working for an IITian who'd call me up at 11pm to say 'Hey dude, could you do this work too?'

So thats why you have to work hard for the next two years...

He was trying to encourage us...all he did was piss us the hell off...that old fart gets to play Assassin's friggin Creed while we slog our rears off...!

More funny Dilbert Strips now...these are on Asok the IITian...

Online Personality Splitter...

I was talking to a friend of mine the other day, and she told me that she had just read my blog, and said something pretty interesting...

Her exact words were, 'Why don't you act the way you do on your blog, all the time...?'

Which brings up a lot of things...
The stuff I put up here is my own opinion. but it normally stays like a little voice in my head, making observations about crap around me...Now that I blog, the only thing that's changed is that I give vent to all that, online...

Normally stuff like that stays in a persons mind, only coming out during conversations with like minded persons...known as 'Bitching sessions', in colloquial terms...

But the Internet has changed all that...now people whine about their jobs, their friends, their boss, their college life...blah...

Why do I bring this up? I was informed about an NDTV special feature on Indian bloggers, and whether Blogging in general is good or bad...I cannot understand where the dispute stems from...

Some say it's bad because it consists of inane, banal 'Water cooler conversations' which people write...

I say, if it's inane and banal, that just means it's better than your average K-serial, which nobody seems to have a problem with...

Some say it's bad because people write (quote) 'Titillating accounts of their romantic escapades' (unquote)

I say, the only people who visit such places are those who haven't realized the disgusting vastness of internet porn, where your every sick fantasy can be fulfilled...from children to senior citizens...eew...

But people barely ever whine about that, Ignoring the fact that there are about 5 porn sites for every 'Titillating' blog in existence...

Some say that people who write about their lives and the people around them end up damaging other people's reputations...(I take some deep offense at this line considering that this is MY category..)

Ahem?? If bloggers, who write for a very limited audience end up 'Tarnishing images and messing with reputations' then what about gossip columnists in national daily newspapers who make every unverified rumor into Page 3 propaganda? What about the Bombay Times and crap magazines like 'Stardust' and 'Glamor ' which are rags so deeply steeped in nonsense that the fact that they have a million strong subscriber base is justification enough even for the existence of blogs like these...

Point is, that this citizen journalism thing stems from the Internet as a catalyst itself...there's something about Web 2.0 that makes you want to give your opinion about things and listen to opinions too...
And the reason is Anonymity!!!
You don't know who the person yelling at *Fill in the blank with a thing you hate* is, and nobody knows you either!

Imagine for example, if the director of Area 51 cracked under the pressure of keeping top secret stuff so top secret, and finally acknowledges the existence of Aliens...nobody can hold that against him, because no-one knows it's him in the first place...

You can give your opinion without fear! Free speech is finally discovered! and so if something happens, be prepared to get an opinion about it...lots and lots of opinions from people who you've never met but who probably make more sense than the people you have met...that's why Anonymity shouldn't be considered a screen to hide behind, it's a weapon, which kinda splits your personality and brings out that dark, angry side of you and your opinions...
Where nobody can hurt you for saying the truth!

If this scares you, realize that a dark side is part of everybody, and that all the internet has done is given people to vent their feelings...The guy whose blog you're reading could be just about anybody...
And maybe the guy you see walking by is the guy who criticizes George Bush online every night,

And maybe a soldier in Afghanistan is writing poetry, between his patrol shifts, about the futility of War...

And maybe the Guy you see in college, looking like any average joe, with messy hair and thick glasses is just another nerdy student trying to get his 105...
Or he could just be me...

Tired...

Last few days have been hectic...
The things I've said and the things I've heard,
I'd describe it all along the lines of...


Wake up!
Get ready, your exam starts any minute now!
Run,Run,Run!
Revise Revise Revise!!

Get to College!
Revise Revise Revise Some more!
Whaddya mean Alkynes is part of the Chemistry portion!??
The Chem exam is in another 3.5 minutes!
What's the point of even studying now??
Let's just count down the minutes...
2.5...
1.5...
0.5...
Oh Hell, what's that German guy's rule again?
Satzyeff?
Markownikoff??
It's got a lotta 'f's in it, thats all I remember...
Oh crap, there goes the bell,
Best Of luck!

*one hour later*
Awesome paper!!
You didn't think so?
No, I didn't get that one...
Not so awesome anymore...still pretty good...
Don't tell me, I don't wanna hear more of your answers...
We still have Math to study for!! D'oh!!

Whats the whole Permutation-Combination Shindig again?

And then get back home...
How was the Paper?
Good? not Great? you always say Good and then it goes Ok...and what about math?
Math was Ok? that means it went bad!...
Arrgh! -_-*

Don't you have class tonight?
D'oh!
Do a crapload of homework!
Get to class early to finish up!
Prof. ends up 15 minutes late...
So class ends half an hour late...
go Home
Eat, Sleep
Lather, Rinse, repeat...

Feel tired at a whole new level...not the 'I gotta sit down and catch my breath' kinda tired...more like the ;Oh crap, I'm standing and sleeping and there's drool collecting in my mouth and nothing collecting in my brain and it feels like my mind is a racecar doing 90 mph with it's tyres removed or like I'm powered by a half dead Triple-A pencil battery that's three years past it's expiry date...

And you people whine about no updates...
gits...-_-

What is a Somaiyaite?

I Found this draft post today. I'd written it out six months ago. At The time, it felt unnecessarily vitriolic, and I shelved it. Coming across it again today, I conclude that getting vitriol out of my system is the whole point of this blog, and so I'm going to post it.

What is a Somaiyaite?

Simple question? in one sense, maybe...a person who goes to Somaiya College is a Somaiyaite...

But when you put it into context...you must say it's quite inaccurate...I probably paint quite a dismal picture of my ex college and the people in it...there ARE good people there as well, no matter how hard it is to find them and no matter how few of them there may be...

But what a Somaiyaite really is, is a general term, a Metaphor, for 'Unthinking Conformer to Society'
...People who follow the crowd like their life depends on it, who stare at Logic full in the face and choose to ignore it completely...who think 'current affairs' begins and ends with some shitty actress's shitty life, and are scandalized at the slightest hint that others don't give a fuck because other people have lives of their own...

People who think only what others tell them to, resulting in shallow crap like-'Chicks dig the cell phones!', 'Wear them low rise jeans, everyone wants to see your ass-crack', 'Paint your Car Lemon Green, and slap some senseless decals on them'.

So you don't have to be from Somaiya to be a Somaiyaite. Most of us probably know a few who fit this description. I just know that It's been months since I've left the place, but I will always be an Unwilling Somaiyaite.

And Thats why I'm yet to change my Blog Title. Cause when I think about it, it still holds true.

New Years Eve Throwdown, New Years Day Letdown

Just so I can get it out of the way,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

I'm sure most of you went partying...and if you are in a situation that is anything like mine...you probably didn't enjoy it much...

But the right to Par-Tay is one that not everyone is treated to...I for one had to fight for it, along with the people in my (stupid, stupid) class...

Because last week they handed in a schedule that said 'Thermodynamics lecture from 6:00 to 10:00 on 31st December...'

And we said 'WTF???"

And they said something about 'Attending class and sacrificing will prove your 'solidarity' and whatnot'

And we said 'Screw you, we don't need to...'
Or words to that effect...

Eventually , we Threw down...they Threw Down...and we finally got them to 'Maybe Reconsider' their decision...


And they gave us a new schedule the next day, which said that we don't have class on New Years Eve...

But we have a goddamn PCM Combined TEST on New Years Day...
( Assholes )

And in the End, I, like many others, ended up thinking about going out with friends, only to have the decision vetoed by my folks and my ass carted off to A party that I didn't like, surrounded by people I didn't know, Listening to music that I didn't like (It was from the wrong decade...no, wait...the wrong century...), Wearing formal crap that I hate to wear and look like a clown in, and Eating the kick-ass food because I didn't have much else to do...

Nice Party...=_=...NOT...

2008 started out pretty crappy for me...but things can only get better, right?...(well they'd better get better...)
More to come...sooner or later

P.S.-No resolutions, no changes, I'm still the same and so is my blog...the new year didn't really change me that much, but it sure changed your blog, Dylan!