TAKE A BREAK : HAVE A LAZY DAY

“What is your plan today” asked my friend on a phone call. “ Nothing” I answered . “ what do you mean nothing “ he asked again with some force in his voice as he definitely wanted to make some plan for today. “ Well nothing simply meant nothing,  I am going to  be a lazy dog lying on my bed for the whole day while watching some movies” I said. “ Ok so how about I come to your place and bring some more collection of movies and we enjoy the movies while eating pizzas and drinking some pepsi” He gave me another offer, and this was an offer I could not refuse as it suited my lazy day  perfectly. And I told him to come over while I started dialing the number of Dominoes and went into my imagination.

            We live such a hectic life, everything has to be on time and  as per the given schedule,  what we will be doing the whole day is decided by the clock that is hanging on the wall and not by our freewill. We work, study ,go to gym, go party , we hang out with friends,   and what not. But in  this fast paced life we miss the most important aspect of it, that is giving some time for yourself, some selfish time just for you and no one else except if you want someone to join. If we keep going with this way, there would definately come a point at which our brain and body would give up, and we will loose in the race of life for which we are working so hard so  just giving some peace to your mind , some idle time once in a while so that it can prepare itself to cope with the pressures of day to day life once again. Having  a light hobby like reading usually helps.

            So basically after a week of weak of Studying, workying, gyming, partying, going out, going around, just  reward your mind and body with a dull , lazy day. Just sleep, read a novel, read a newspaper, watch few movies, spend some time with family after all they are the reason you work so hard for, and if you dont give time to them what is the point of all the hard work, play cards with them or enjoy some classic board games such as Ludo , chess or snakes and ladders etc.  It is these small things that save you from going crazy due to the massive workload and expectations of the world. Its important to be hardworking and dedicated to your goals but don’t let these goals drive you insane and don’t let these goals dictate every second of your life against your own wishes and desires.  So to sum it up , give yourself a lazy day and you would be amazed  how fresh you could feel after that,  and then focus on your life yet again with a fresh mind. Its your life and you should dictate your life, don’t let your life dictate you , and I hope my pizza comes soon .

-catch you later

-guy with headphones.

BEING A FOOTBALL FAN IN INDIA

“ So you wanna stay awake the whole night to watch the world cup” asked my friend with a confused expression which was on his face as if to say “ are you stupid or something”. This was definitely not the first time  I had to face that expression, I had came across this expression countless times and it was never easy to explain people why Me and countless others are  going to sit through the night for this festival of football.  India for some reason never accepted football  like many other nations, most of the people in India follow cricket and cricket players are treated like gods.  It  has never been easy to be a football fan in India, wether it was discussing it with your friends, or  explaining your mom why you had to stay awake till 1 ‘o’clock at night to watch a Barcelona game, when you were young.  As Spanish league timings were not so generous to us for a long time until the recent years where it has been switched to a time people can actually watch without compromising your sleep.

                        As I grew up very few people knew much about football, the players, the leagues and the matches, English premier League was the prime league which everyone used to watch as it came on a very watchable time in India, so most kids who did support football supported Manchester United. Liga BBVa or Spanish league was aloof to people until recently when Barcelona and spain started dominating the football game  in almost every competition.  It was and still is luxury to have friends or people around with whom you can discuss football with. And  now since football has started to grow roots in India with  I league which was recently won by  FC bangaluru and  awaited start of india super league many people have finally started to drift towards football. But this sudden slow and hopefully eventual drift towards football has given rise to many people who claim to be football fans and are the most loudest , and yet barely know a thing or two about football. Do not worry as these people will be easy to distinguish as the only thing they would do is call bad names to other football players and call bad names to rival football clubs. On a website while having discussions it was always embarrassing to see one of these making a complete fool out of themselves.

                                    Discussing about the game after the match, trying to dribble with multiple step overs like Ronaldo, Scoring like a certain player, and playing a lot of FIFA are prime staples of Football fans here. Everyone likes to make predictions of matches, analyse players , tactics , formations etc. The feel of dismay when your team looses and you avoid talking to people around you as they don’t know why you are so pissed off.  And walking into the class with your rival team supporters who just lost yesterday with a huge grin on your face, The constant reminder of score lines of lost matches are very common ,Its Fun but also frustrating when you are on the receiving end of it. That huge pain you would feel in your chest as your team miss a goal,  and the curse words coming out as soon as your team concedes one goal. These are just few things that every football fan experiences.  Tough it was hard it was never a wrong time to be a football fan in India…. Or a matter of fact anywhere else in this world, its game that binds nations together, shows  you don’t always need to shed blood to fight wars,   and I hope someday football in India will get the same respect that cricket is given right now….

                                    Every fan starts watching football from a particular match, or a particular day that forever stays engraved in his mind…. Mine started back in world cup 2002 where I sat with my dad to watch the Brasil Germany final. I still remember what my dad said to me while watching, “ This is Oliver Kahn he has hardly conceded a goal through out the tournament” and he pointed at the screen, well irony aside as Germany were beaten 2-0 . That was the day I first opened up to this beautiful game, and followed 2 years later to Barcelona as Ronaldinho was playing there. I hope more people open up to this beautiful game. 

COMPLETE YOUR SYLLABUS

                                           

                       

......"Did you complete your syllabus" asked my dad as he opened my room door to check if i was studying or wasting my time in front of my laptop. " I am still doing it, tough its a long way to go " i answered being as honest as i could, he shook his head in disbelief and closed the room, i had an internal tomorrow and the fact that it was 8 in the evening he didnt really like my answer.Honestly neither did i... it was stressful and i really wished i had studied earlier and with more focus maybe i would not be flipping out like i was.These words " complete your syllabus" sometimes as a question and sometimes as an order, but these words have been ringing around in my ears for years and years. And i often wondered why did no one ever ask me what my subject was about , after all my subject was supposed to give me information about it and someday i was going to use this subject to make a name for myself, that subject was one day going to be my identity when i would grow up. But why was the fact that wether or not i learnt something about my subject or my field ever important, why was finishing of my syllabus to most important task in hand.As long as i finished my syllabus and got good marks it did not matter what i had actually learnt about it... that is what has been taught to me.. taught to everyone as far as i have known. The one true thing that ever mattered was, completig your syllabus.

I came out of the examination hall, holding my question paper, it was a mind bogglnig question set, and most of us were dissapointed.My friends all looked shocked due to the question paper that was put in.  Well we were responsible for our poor performance but only partially, We were never taught how to tackle such logical questions in our such a prestegious university.We were always taught definations and how to example them through a program(i am an MCA student).

A QUESTION THAT I WOULD LIKE TO ASK

...how many of you think that the education that you are recieving in your perticular university or collegge sufficient for you to get a good grip on that subject. The answer is none.. out of a 1000 maybe 1 or 2 would respond in yes and maybe 4-5 universities would actually care if the student is recieving any foothold on that subject and i am not talking about the average dead end universities which are here for the mare purpose of running a bussiness i am talking about universities which have reputations sky rocketing the dream universities where children dream of going . Very rarely would a university come who would around that would actually care for education.Even in the university i study whose fame has been sky rocketing as of late due to being awarded the first position in India is no different. For that we need quality time for self study, becasue in the end its the self study that actually makes a difference , but guess what you cannot do that. Either you will have a very teidious schedule with addition of assighnments , or you will have some or the other exam breathing down your neck after every month or two month so well you have to say screw your self study better get ready for the exam up ahead and complete its syllabus or we will fail.We are students not computers , having a schedule which contains of classes and labs from 9 to 5 with teachers disinterested in teaching you anything, instead racing ahead to 'complete your syllabus', with empty lab sessions is not going to work for any student. all this results into nothing but mental stress and depression in students as they barealy are coping up with tough and tedious schedule, and also complete their syllabus and when you finally start to get a understand something in the huge mess of long schedules, continues exams, crazy teachers and the shortage of time, whe we finally start getting an idea of who things work your 4 month semester is finished and your subjects change.
I WOULD LIKE TO ASK OUR EDUCATION SYSTEM
 Is it possible humanly, mentally, or physically to study 5+ subjects in 4 months, with exams almost 2 months out of 4, with tedious schedule, with teachers who do not want to teach anything and no  hardly any amount of self study. If there is i would really like to know how. Maybe one way would be to lock yourself inside a room with books 24X7 and have no life. But i guess a wise man said all work and no play makes jack a dull boy. Very honestly that kind of attitude towards study will definately get him good marks in his subject but also rip him off his creativity his ability to think differently as a cost. This education system of ours causes students to go into depressions which later turns them into alchoholics and drug abusers to get rid of the tention that surrounds them 24X7. And then their are some universities which further add to this stress and depression by adding even more higher standards of performing simply yo add towards the prestige of the respected university example, having 50 % for passing marks. Or having to increase your percentile every semester or else fine or year backs or reappears.

Our education system has never taught us to be innovative, how to be constructive, we are always taught how to play it safe, how to get a good job, how to follow good instuctions, no matter what stream you follow no matter which deemed university you are in you are taught only one thing and that is how to be a sheep in the flock of millions and having noting new to add to this world. We are never allowed the time or enouragement to innovate or be creative in our subject rather we are told how to finish your syllabus and how to get a job and lets be honest when you get a job the comany that has hired you sees you potential and then makes you go through a course of their own before you can actually join that is because the companies are wise enough to know that our education is not worthy or up to standards. And for the people who claim how come some students get better marks than others, well guess what , there is no system checking of exam sheets has always been a mysterious phenomena where even if you know your set of questions and answer them correctly you can still get less marks that the fellow student who has written the same answer or copied it of you . And even tough you know nothing about the set of question you have recieved you can magically get good marks, and lets not forget what this pressure of performing good in our syllabus exams do to students , the pressure turns them into cheaters, who use unfair ways of attaining better marks in the exams because if you dont  your percentile will suffer and you wont be able to match the high standards set by your unversity. And when someone fails they turn to corruption in which students pay large sum of money to a mysterious person who would have connections around the univerties and they make you pass. Lets wait for a second and applaud our education system which has taught us the followig things so far
1) learning your subject is not important
2)creativity is for stupid people
3)innovaion wont get you a safe job
4) having a life is not important
5)how to be a sheep in the flock
6)a reason why you should lean towards alchohol and drugs
7) how corruption is your friend  or ally
Then someday to bussiness men would be sitting in their riverside home, in big beautiful lawns , sipping tea from expensive china and pretending to show concern by saying " o dear our country is so corrupt". Well what else do people expect we are  taught at a very young age that corruption has way around our pointless education system. That its more important to have better links or contacts then an actualy knowledge or understanding of your subject these seeds are planted at a very young age and these  seeds grow into corruption.

every student at some point of his life realises he is in deadend and cant to anything about it as he or she have their fathers hard earned money poured into these universities.
I too am stuyding in a reputated university , in my department atleast i see teachers who dont care about our subject or our deucation all they care about is completing their syllabus, Teachers would come in with these slide show presentations rather than explain something from start.. expalin something with these slide shows.. which is basically definations and not logics, then if they do not wan to do a perticular chapter they will hand out those complete chapters as assighnemnts. our lab sessions go empty there is no teacher and we are told nothing as to what we have to do, we sit idly in our lab sessions and try to do something for our own benifit , if we would try to comeup with something original it would be discouraged as it is not in our syllabus,  if we use that idle time for our other subjects it is discouraged by teachers, but we are also not told what to do in our lab sessions why is it that the one class where we are actually supposed to learn something about your subject there is no subject teacher!! rather a random teacher which could care less as to what we do, you can never cover back something in the class that you have missed or are not clear about.. as some new examinatino would be coming to haunt us soon enough, and again its just 4 months long + final exams in the end before you start understanding something for your own good your subjects will change so good luck try to have efficienncy in any subject.

This is our education system, these are the collegges for which we word so hard to get into give so many enterance examinations, spend so many sleepless nights for just to get into them and realise that you are stuck in a dead end education system, where no one cares about what you learn as long as you pay your fees with courss and schedules that are nothing but frustrating at very best. Not to mention you also have a rat race for life in which if you do not beat every comrade of yours you wont get into good places.  So what do you all think about your education system in India do comment
-catch you later
-guy with headphones

FEELING OF NOSTALGIA...part 2(INFOMATHS)

....i walked down the round about of sector 34, with a box of sweets in my hands, as i had never gone infomaths since i took admission in PU.i came across the first market of the sector that was adjacent to the left of the state library. Tough the infomaths was in sector 35 there were still a lot of memories about 34. being the sector closest to 35 it was unavoidable to not come here at times. the very first thing i set my eyes on was Krishna Chaat shop, all of us would come here whenever we wanted to eat amazing goal gappeys, have a bite at the delecious tikki or any of the chat items they had and also just to the side of it was the a small trolly of american corns which we would love.  but i wasnt heding to this place... i was heading to infomaths...

   For people whom i am writing this require no introduction to infomaths , they know what it was and spent a  lot of time there but for anyone who didnt, well infomaths was the coaching institution in chadigarh for MCA. The fact that we spend so much time here made it like a second home.WE were always there or in the sector around it , attending classes, bunking classes, eating, having fun.. hanging out... it was unavoidable to not be in infomaths or setor 35 as it was so instilled in our minds that ... this is the most important year for us and we have to give it our all.And because i had so many memories there i just had to visit all the spots that we liked once again.

............On my way i took a detour and went walking streight towards my left instead of forward.. NO i hadnt forgotten my way... i just had to visit few more spots before i make it to  the final destination
.....and there it was... standing high as ever PICCADILY SQUARE.. ocasisonally there was just one multiplex in chandigarh that was centra mall which was ...well a bit far away for comfort but piccadily square was right there in the heart of chandigarh and hence easily accessible to all. It was a rule made by my friend Tarun...as he would say" ek maheene me ek movie to dekhni hai kam se kam" a.k.a. atleast one movie per month is a must:". And we would follow that rule with all our heart.And it was almost a tradition we had to follow.. that after a movie we would mostly go to eat  pizza in dominoes. and right behind was a small photocopy and graphics shop... where  a cheap photocopy was available so if we had notes in huge bulk we would go there and get a good deal on it.The dominoes was mostly crowded it was very rare you could find a seat on the get go . after a brief  look to the old places i went back to the place i had to initially go

.. i crossed the lights of sector 35.i hurried past the main market, tough i wanted to visit mc donalds for a quick snack... but i though maybe later..mc d and gopals were two of the places we visited  a hell lot during our time in sector 35 they were the most popular food joints and affordable too. mostly we used to get breaks in between classes at infomaths so we would all go for a quick bite over there and ocasionally enjoy aanchal choking over her ice tea. After i came to the first turn i realised there was still time left for me ...so i hurried to gopal ji confectionery yes this was different this was not the gopal you are thinking about it was different place...it was a small confectionary which had a good habbit of dishing out good food, the hot dogs, the plate of raajma chawal, or the pizza pattie it was all great to eat and pretty affordble too, so it made gopal ji an important spot for us as we would just sit there on bikes and activas...eat some great food and hang out. after a quick hot dog... i started walking towards the last 5 miutes of journey before i reach the destination,, why 5 minutes because in India we have a habbit of measuring distances with time and not kms or meters.

finally i reached the street where infomaths was supposed to be and just as i took the first turn over there i saw the parking that had been the closest place to my heart the longtitudnal parking with trees.. where i would normally b waiting to see a black access(mostly) , an activa, an eterno , or a black pulsar with two helmets hanging .  the infomath group wasnt very big .. but it was short and sweet with the added elements of spicy. But it was always FUN wether it was hearing Aanchal say " I ROOOOCCkkk", the comedic elements of  Tarun and Rohan which was so sharp you had to watch out to what you were saying ... or there was a joke or taunt coming your way., or bazzarness and sweetness of shivani nd ramneek, annoying the hell out of siddarth or watching ankit be ... well ankit.This was the little parking lot where we all would hangout and talk for ours after the classes or meet up before planning to go somewhere...it also had a guy who would squeese out fresh sugar cane juice  tough i couldnt find him there... i then turned towards the building and saw the  BIG BOARD OF NAMES and always wondered if our names would be displayed there someday an then started climbing up the stairs.

as i climbed up the stairs i saw another huge list of achievers of the current year, and started searching the names i wanted to see and luckily found them all to be there it read  Rohan, Tarun,Siddarth,Sanyam,Shivani,Roma, and all the other names that i had expected to see and felt proud that we did what we were trying to do for a whole year.. i went up the stair while a football came down and hit my head. I looked up there was Eddy he was mam and sir's son.. he was glad to see me as he expected me to bring my laptop with me so that he could play games .. unfortunately i didn't so i promised to bring it next time that i came. There was Amar waiting on the door shocked to see me after so much time he was a worker there , who always had a great smile ... and was very helpful also went in and met Monika maam the receptionist there... she is a very likable personality .. almost everyone in the coaching was fond of her very likable nature. And then i went in sir and maams room... i sat down.. and had a looong conversation with them, discussed all the old times, sir scolding us at so many occasions, various students, various exams, and so many things... that all i could remember.It felt great to be back at this place..and see all the familiar faces....ya we may not have liked them during the time we were studying, some were scared of the scolding and some were just pissed off due to the burden but in the end, i guess it was because of those things that today we all have came into good universities to pursue of ur studies. In the end i got up thanked sir and maam for the memries and the help they had given us through out the year. And went down back towards my house but there was one last place i had to go ..

as i glanced back for a last look i saw the blank doorway .. of which me and shivani were used to be scared off when were late because we knew there was a scolding waiting for us on the other side of the door , from Grover sir. I smiled and went down back to the street. I hurried to the smaller part of the market for one last thing as i remembered that was the place where we all would come and eat momos, it was a pet spot and it was almost a daily ruitine... untill shivanis doctor forbid her from having any more tough we all would still eat there just to tease her  .. and i just wanted to end it like it always did , by a small plate of momos... i came to the spot where we used to eat momos and there was no one.. i thought maybe u cant have everything in a day.... then i asked a person sitting next by where is the stand of momos that used to sit here.. he pointed me out to the new location and i rushed there... got a plate of momos.. asked the bhaiya to pose for the camera...ate some momos.. and headed back home... and in the way also took snaps of mc donalds and gopal ... and then quietly walked back to home with headphones playing yet again " let her go"

-guy with headphones

FEELING OF NOSTALGIA....Part 1 College Life

...STOP!!!..id card... said the huge guard standing on the gate of college, "i am a graduate, i have came to collect my character certificate. He moved his head up and down in acknowledgement, and let me pass in, here i was back after soo much time, back into SD college, i wasnt confused as to where i had to go , neither did i feel bewildered or amazed to see the old college back, it was still pretty much how i expected it, the crowd was exactly what i expected,i avoided all the eye contact and went where my steps first took me, i did not thought about it nor did i plan it, by steps automatically took me to our beloved place... under the mango tree or UMT. This was something as if instilled into my DNA , whenever i would used to enter the collge that would be the first place i would visit before any class or any place else, i generally knew what to expect waiting for me there..... my mind would know as i would walk towards it all my friends siddarth, tarun , saurav, vishal, anuj, deepak, b.sc group, my juniors, the NCC group or some other friends that i would ocassionally see around to be always there... for some reasons, in  the subconcious of my mind i expected to find atleast some old faces  at UMT, as i reached there my vision got clearer and my steps slowed down....there it was UMT, blank , uneventful and filled with faces i had never seen before.... i was not used to seeing UMT being so uneventful..... as it was one of the places i always expected to b filled with amusement.and fun. there was always something going on, either making videos for sanyam and saurav,  just wrestling around each other, playing UNO or chess, or even people bringing out guitars and everybody singing together, or a cricket match.. or something  but i never for once saw UMT being so quiet and deserted. I sat there for a while , just to remember the feel of it.... it was a typical summer day..but  a bit too quiet for my taste, i thought maybe i should just do what i came here for, get my character certificate. I remebered Vishal was still in the college, i messaged him to come and stood by the fee counter for my application of character certificate. It was still the same college in which i had spent 3 years in still something felt missing from it. Vishal came, i submitted my application he asked me to come to him at 3 as only then would i recieve the application. I sat in UMT with vishal discussing the old days, and all the crazy things we all used to do . after a long chat it was time for Vishal to go as his exams were going on he had to study. After that i just sat alone in UMT thinking about memories a if they were playing right infront of my mind in full motion video. I felt an extreme desire to drink coffee which is one of my addictions... i stood up and went to the college canteen.
        Now the college canteen and the UMT were the two primary spots in the college it was a mere matter of preferance which one you wanted... if you liked more quiet and and just personal time with your friends you preffered UMT if you liked being in HUGE crowd and merry environment you preffered the college canteen, but one fact no one could deny was it ocasionally produced some really good food and shakes. The chairs were customiseable as you would feel, i had a walk there ,took my coffee, and stood there for a while just analysing the view... i could see the show offs, the happy couples, the freshers who were still confused and bewildered by the fact that they were in a college, and many other type of people you would expect to see and i remembered all the time that i had spent on this place.

By this point the nostalgia had started taking me over, and i was lost in memories, i walked in the open field of the college just around the UMT remembered the countless football matches or cricket matches..the field was quiet too... and i could feel it in the untouched hot summer wind that was blowing around...i made way to the basketball court...and remembered all the time i spent there.. so many classes that i bunked for this ...and when not playing it still made for a great spot to sit around and chat.. it was also one of the prime destinations for the shooting of Sanyam and Saurav.

i looked at my watch...and saw there was plenty of time left for my certificate to come..so i thought maybe i should visit the IT department once and meet the old teachers, it was yet another familiar place of which i didnt need any introduction or direction... by steps took me quickly to the top floor....as i entered the place i saw Monika maam locking the doors and about to exit... i greated maam with a goodmorning tough it was afternoon.. some habbit just dont go... and had a brief chat with her ...she told today was the september exams so there were no teachers to meet...as all had left.. still she talked for few minutes asking me where i was and how i was doing.And said that praveen sir and paramveer sir were still there if i wanted to meet them so i went in to meet them and had talked to them just as well. After i came out i just took few brief moments to roam around the facility we had.... enter an opened lab... and just remember the feel of it.

....I went down....took my character certificate... went out of the college from the same old unorganised parking lot i knew by this time had figured out what made me feel so alienated in this college today... despite spending last 3 years here

.... i plugged in my ear phones... and went walking towards the 32 sector market anyone spent time in this college would have by default spent a lotta time in this market.I went to the place we would all normally go for a quick lunch called Flames... i remember eating a lot of chana chawal there the food wasnt of the best quality but it was satisfying when you had so much to do and so little time for anything...and right behind it wa MTW where would go for ocassional chats , tikkis and other stuff... and just spend time there sitting on the chairs talking and stuff..also there were nukkar dhaba and some other eating places ... the  famous sweet stre called CANDIE and also a subway joing which i loved but most of my friends hated.

 I went to the bus stop and just sat there waiting for my bus home... the song let you go by passenger started playing in my phone.. it had some beautiful lyrics saying

Well you only need the light when it's burning low

Only miss the sun when it starts to snow
Only know you love her when you let her go

there was the answer to my question i din know how much  i would miss my friends untill they all went away and in seperate ways...not the most perfect of bunch but a bunch that filled my life with much needed colour...and the reason why my college felt so alienated to me was because there were no friends with me there to cheer my mood up and to back me up in all the crazy thats  the reason everything felt so uneventful. 

i pulled out my phone scrolled my way through the contacts list to call mom.. "Mom i would be really late today, so dont wait and dont worry, bie". Then i got up from the bus stand and started walking towards sector 34, I was soaking in memories and there was one more place that I just had to visit before the day ended,  I scrolled down the contacts list and pulled out the number that read"infomaths -2"........(to be continued)

DARKEN THE CIRCLE

... I looked at the clock ticking at the top of the computer screen. Then I looked at middle of my screen and saw the question I was supposed to do , it was a mathematical question  and i had kept it for last as Maths has always been my mortal enemy. After struggling through some theorems and logic i got the answer and clicked on the answer that that i felt was right among the given four options. I again glanced at the clock there was less than a minute left. At this point i really did not  want any kind of pressure on my brain, I had done all i could and 1 more minute wont get me anywhere , i thought to myself. Kept the pencil down and looked at everyone in the classroom still with their heads buried under there computers still trying to get everything out of the last minute and squeeze out every last second from it. I thought maybe i should feel worried after seeing their dedication but then my laziness won the battle in my mind. I kept the pencil down took a huge sigh of relief and eased myself into my seat and watched the counter go from 10 to 9 to 8  just like a new years counter but there was no party and merry making after this count down ,after this countdown ends there would be broken dreams and eyes with tears. As i saw the countdown count itself to zero i thought to myself ..since when did this mad race start. because as far as i can remember i have always been competing in some or other kind of exam. there were all the BIT's all the NIT's the central universities the IIT's the AIEEE's , Matirc board examinations and class 12th board examinations or some other kind of examination that would always be breathing down my neck and i didnt only had to perform good. No sir, you had to beat every other student who was competing with you to that one last seat in the BIG college  or to the top rank.A mad rat race that leads upto even more competitive rat races.These enterance examinations are also followed by fake promises telling " you know son/ boy/kid  all you gotta do is  give it your all this year then its a whole life full of relaxation and enjoyment. And to be honest that period of promised fun and relaxation never really comes. Also our imaginations and dreams are plagued by movies.All we can see in these movies is how you get into a college and suddenly meet the love of your life, how their is no pressure of studying everybody seems their are big parties where everyone's dancing with similar choreographed steps and you become the superstar rockstar genius you always dreamt to become.  But that is not the case the truth is when you get into a school or college of you choice you have no time to party go out hand out date or fall in love rather you are handed a bundle of books and given a new shedule, and then someone comes along and says you know what  all you have to do is study hard this year or for these many years and forget everything else and then you will have all the time in the world to relax and enjoy. When i see a romantic scene on some Karan Johar movie the first thing in my mind is , seriously mate dont you have an exam to study or some project to give tomorrow that you are here holding hand with that cute girl in those beautifully constructed garden.  While i was into my imagination i realised the exam had came to an end. And everyone had started to get up and leave. And now was coming the part that i hated the most when everyone would discuss their examinations and compare the number of correct answers for some reasons this part of an examination always depressed me. I got up their was pretty girl sitting besides me and i asked her hey how many questions did you do correct and she replied 56 questions only and made a sad face.  I nodded generouslly and showed that i felt bad for her but secretly inside my mind i was smiling because i knew i had done better i had done 68 questions and felt maybe i would get into this college if only everyone attempted the same amount of questions as the cute girl, then i headed out of the examination center there were my friends Shivani and Aanchal.  .  Aanchal was yet to give her examination but shivani had given it in the same time slot as me and i asked her how many did you do . Smiling inside me hoping i had done more than her she replied with 86 . And for a second i was awestruck. But then i thought so what thats only one person and i should always hope good for my friends. Then another friend of mine Rohit came out and i asked him how many did you do and he replied with 82. At this point i realised the odds wernt really in my favour so i decided i am not gonna deoress myself any more by asking this question. This is also an age old tradition where everyone dscusses their marks and correct answers and i absolutely hate this part because i always get few wrong answers and it makes my mood go bad. When you are asking questions i believe people are divided into species
And the Catagoreis are:-
species 1==> The honest people, they would tell you exactly how many questions he did right or wrong with no drama attached whatsoever

species 2==>The cute girl, generally a very cute girl who would in the most cutest possible manner tell you how badly she did in the test and then will expect some sympathy from you

species 3==>The depressed, he or she would come out of their examination depressed like their whole world depended on it( which may be true based on how much pressure is put on students nowdays and how  our education system works) they will not talk to anyone about the exam , will sit on a lonely corner and make sad eyes to the question paper as if trying to say"what did i ever do to you , why are you so mean to me"

species 4==>The sarcastic one these are the people who you would like to punch directly in the face because they would be the one who would have answered the higest number of correct questions is  are probably gonna top the exam and then they come out of the exam and say " yaar i got only 98 correct out of 100" and then make sad faces as if they are trying to mock us right in our faces. And when you tell them how badly you have performed they will say " dude you are so gonna make it". ye I personally hate this catagory

species 5==> the Lier they would come out of the exam generally depressed looking and would say he has gotten lets say 40 questions out of 100 right. But when the result comes out their number of correct answers is around 80.

species 6==> Last but not the least you have the Thank god the hell's over type people they wont talk about the paper, wont let anyone discuss it , rather would say you " lets celebrate because the hell is finally over".
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I too meet these species in eveyone of my exams and this one was no exception. In the evening as we loaded ourselves back in to our taxi and i took the back seat of the innova and again went into my imagination. ya i seem to do that a lot and i am very careless because of it,but back to the topic i thought if this mad race ever end ever will we achieve the talked abuot myths of relaxation and fun and joy...... and i realised the answer was NO , no matter what you think , no matter what the adults say, no matter how many false promises people will make with you no matter how much misleading the movies can be the truth is "LIFE" is an enterance exam you have been competing since the day you were born, you were competing for someones effection , maybe for a toy, then you compete in sports then for grades then for schools and college seats and if you think this long chains is going to be over anytime soon  you are wrong my friend Most probably even after you get a job  , you with be competing for promotions with other companies , you would be giving enterance examinations for love .., or for something else, but these examinations will never end . The burden and stress will always be there no matter how much you try to shake it off. But that doesnt mean you will never enjoy your life because if you have an excellent group of friends that make your life crazy and fun and support you through it and family which will be there for you even when everyone abandons you , those people which after an exausting day you will come home to you will always be happy and content with your life. And just enjoy the "little little" things of life . Because generally in the long race of life the winner is the one who makes most out of the smallest things.
thats all for now folks.
-catch you guys later
-guywithheadphones

KONY 2012

Well guys, i think a lot of you would have seen this video ,but i still felt it is important to post this video once more as a duty. I felt really bad after watching this video and to be honest i am shocked that  something like this can still exist. I am about to post a video that has already been doing rounds on youtube, facebook and twitter, and i personally feel that people with some kind of intellect must watch this video to increase awareness about this topic. Ppl see the video and share it with more people make more people aware about it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4MnpzG5Sqc&feature=youtube_gdata_player

click on the link above ^,
and spread the awareness