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