Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities, truth isn't.-- by Mark Twain

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So what does one do when they are hitting one roadblock after another on their presentation which is in its crudest form which is to be presented in 2 days and all you can think of is to get more sleep????? One generally takes a day off, or catches a movie or read a book to relax. Well, I chose to do all three!
1st the movie: Fahrenheit 9/11 Okay, so it’s not your usual popcorn stuff, and definitely not a “fun” movie, but its definitely humorous, dark humor if you’ll have it. Basically it’s all about US after 9/11 till the Iraq war uncensored. It’s not even a movie in the conventional sense, more of a documentary very well made (Michael Moore is god, after Steven Spielberg, of course!). But, according to me it’s the best 15 bucks I remember ever spending (My college happened to screen it for subsidized rates, DVD was pirated of course!). My favorite part was when Moore actually goes around reading the Patriot Act (was passed after 9/11) on a loud speaker to all the senators outside the Capitol. Wait, there was also this whole well researched thing about how Bush’s family and Osama’s family are actually business partners (no kidding!). Nope, it’s not boring, & definitely not if you have been following the Iraq war or 9/11. Obviously it would make more sense to you if you are a regular reader of newspaper apart from the comic strips, that is, :D .If you happen to get your hands on the DVD, do see it, god knows when it will release in India! I guarantee that the way you look at US and its policies or the way it’s being portrayed by the media US will change. I thought my hatred for Bush couldn’t go higher, but after seeing this movie, it’s become 10 times worse.
Okay, okay, I won’t bore you further with “politics”. Hmmmmm, what next….. oh, yeah, I went to Raigad to meet some tribal kids, part of social work I’ve taken up.(surprised? shocked ?). Anyway, it was such a beautiful day, very cloudy, rainy kinda weather, you get the point! Hopefully it didn’t rain (do I have to explain again?), but there was this heavenly breeze blowing, and once we hit the highway, I was in heaven. Who wouldn’t be when all you could see was lush greener draping over mounds of dirt (okay, okay, hills). After having to get up at 5 in the morning (*shudders*) that day I was questioning my sanity while waiting at the station (we actually went by sumo, but met up at the station) for my friends to show up, but taking in the view and the much needed fresh air, it was well worth it! It took a good 4 hours to reach the ashram where the girls were studying. Since by the time we reached there, we were already hoarse airing our lungs, (my friends will kick me, if they ever read this, okay so I admit it, I was the one doing the airing, rest were just “singing”) I wondered how we are going to teach them. The view of the ashram was so amazing (no, I do get out, but the place has a totally different charm in monsoons!!!!:D, read me out, this is the last of the “views”), it was nestled at the base of hillocks, so all you could see in every direction was hills, and no other settlements for miles (I later realized, that one of the villages was actually 2 mins away, but it was located just beyond the hillock, on the other side). Now for a view like this, I could get up at 5 daily! Anyway, we had pleasant time with kids (my part mainly consisted of handing out the goodies we’d brought and giving them big grins since they spoke & understood only marathi, and I don’t know how to speak marathi). Even though I reached home at 10 that night thoroughly tired and had to drag my butt to college the next day, I was never sorry for a minute.
What about the book? Well, on the eve of the presentation, the main presentation already burned on the CD, I reached home relaxed leaving the movie part to be handled by somebody else (looking at my blog, what makes you think that I can handle the movie editor, the works et al?). So, pretty happy with myself, I gave myself a break, started a book ultimately forgetting that the presentation needs to be presented too! The book? Five Point Someone by Chetan Bhagat. I can’t possibly give a review of this book. Why? It has no fixed story line! Now is that a bad thing? Nu-uh! Remember I forgot my presentation? Basically it’s about these three guys who get into IIT and their daily capers and adventures, or should I say mis-adventures. Does it give you an insight to life in IIT? Nope, not really (anybody has any other views?). Does it tell you about IITians? Maybe, maybe not, they are just bunch of regular guys who sometimes have too weird ideas (isn’t that allowed in fiction?) who can be found in any college you name undoubtedly including IIT (again, other views most welcome). So, what exactly is the charm here? How about one-liners like this:
“There are times when you just wish that the dinosaurs weren’t extinct and one would come by and swallow you”- or something like that, take or put one or two words.
So, what finally happened to the presentation? The movie part we had so carefully planned for and slogged for never worked. We had planned to make them pee in their chairs, managed to give them only the chills, but all in all it was pretty well received. Maybe I’ll write a post on it one of these days……

Brunch on this=Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough by GB Shaw

Me being optimistic!!!!! Chew on this: "Time Flies like an arrow. Fruit Flies like a banana "- By Groucho Marx

This is actually an article written by a Neha Dharia, some female in my college. Since I don’t have anything to post this week, enjoy this HILARIOUS article.
The “significant” stages of college love.
Stage 1- Zygotic : Girl fancies boy from across the foyer(a popular hangout in my college),flirts uncontrollably, goes out of her way to spend time with him and drops very unsubtle hints about her new found attraction for him. Her friends do their bit by giggling every time boy passes, causing him to wonder if he has something stuck between his teeth. A week later when all these attempts seem to have bombed in Girl’s face, her friend convinces her biology lab partner to tell his sister’s friend’s senior’s ex-boyfriend’s chuddy buddy’s 4th cousin who just happens to be boy’s best friend to ask Girl out. At this point best friend of Boy takes a huge hammer, hits Boy on the head and tells Boy to ask Girl out. This stage usually takes a week but could take longer depending on the stupidity level of the concerned Boy.
Stage 2-Infancy: Boy still getting over the initial shock that someone could actually like him, suddenly finds himself saddled with a girlfriend. The first date will probably take place at your local Barista or Café Coffee Day-and here Boy will try and break the ice by cracking a thoroughly inappropriate joke which would have made matters pretty awkward if it wasn’t for Boy’s and Girl’s respective best friend to change the topic. Have you ever heard of a couple going on their first date alone?? What an absurd concept!!!After ten meetings, they finally go alone… I really wonder what the hell happens there because the next day they arrive in college only to proclaim that they are in love….this ends stage 2.
Stage 3-Maturation: This is possibly the most painful stage for Boy’s and Girl’s friends as they are put through the toughest test for friendship. Soppy songs, midnight calls, mushy gifts and odd names like cuddly wuddly poopsie doo are the order of the day. It almost seems as if this stage would never end, but IT DOES.
Stage 4- Extinction: Stage three declines slowly mainly due to change of interest and the realization that they are diametrically opposite personalities. The so-caleed “lowe” nears extinction and is completely wiped out by sighting of a new hottie in the foyer. The breakup occurs but of course the are still friends…..friends who avoid each other in the corridors, but friends nevertheless. Girl starts cycle all over again, while Boy waits for another girl to start dropping unsubtle hints.
N.B. These stages are not water tight compartments and do tend to flow into each other, but not all couples follw these stages- there are exceptions to everything.

I am ALIVE! Yup, am still part of this god-forsaken planet!
This bulletin was issued especially for the benefit of those who had started thinking otherwise!

Ya, Ya i know I am fully aware that I am not funny, and sometimes manage to hurt people in the effort to be!My sincere apologies to all those who got hurt because of my big mouth!
Anyway, realized a few days back that I've been blogging for about 1 year and few months now! Duh! happy realization? I guess I should be thankful that it struck me at all! ?Considering my posts which are still amatuerish most of the time, and my list of fellow bloggers is quite dismal,its pretty hard to believe. *Sigh*, never mind! So here something for you- If you are a regular on my blog( ur poor tastes never fail to amaze me!), thanks for wasting your precious time on my blog. If ur mew to this blog, come again in few days, I can bore you even further, trust me, I still have to reach that saturation point! As for the oldies, you know the usual routine, don't you?Whaaaaaaaat? u don't? And u have the nerve to call urself an oldie???? Ok, ok,lemme refamiliarize u:
Step1: First, u bug me endlessly for a new post- this works once in 3 blue moons ,maybe,if I m in a very good mood....
Step2: u plead me for a new post- this works next to never
Step3: u beg me for a new post- this rarely works
Step4: u finally give up all hopes , and are in the process of abandoning my blog!- i finally get the point, and oblige you!
Important Note- You can never ever skip steps in order to achieve success!

T came home on Tuesday, logged on to the net and opened his blog and started having a panic attack. His wife M was shocked to find her husband hysterical when she entered the room. She immediately rushed him to the nearest Blogging Expert & was diagnosed to be suffering from an acute case of Blogger’s Syndrome. Apparently, this was triggered when his 7yr. old son had accidentally deleted his blog.
A recent survey among bloggers has shown alarming increase in the rates of a mysterious condition for which the scientists have coined the term called “Blogger’s Syndrome”. In an exclusive interview to Blogger’s Weekly, Dr. So-full-of-something, BBS (Bachelor of blogging sciences) said “ Daily I encounter more and more cases suffering from this syndrome. If we are not careful, soon we may have a pandemic on our hands.” This magazine has decided to do an article to spread awareness about it. So here goes:

What is BS?
Blogger’s Syndrome is a term given to a set of problems seen in people who blog like excessive obsession with their blogs, varying from the mindless need to check out their blogs and other fellow blogger’s posts many times in a day, returning other’s comments, to anxiety when one doesn’t post something within 2-3 days. A person suffering from this “disease” shows severe withdrawal symptoms when he/she is not able to blog for even a week.

So, who all are susceptible to this?
Anybody and everybody who blogs. It can be a male, female, a 14 yr. old or a 50 yr. old. There is no distinct class as such which shows higher rate of cases.

There are 3 stages of BS. Stage A, B & C. People in the three different stages show very distinct symptoms apart from those stated above (see the definition of BS) :
Stage A: Testing the Waters
People in this stage are generally the bloggers who have recently started blogging.
# 1: Excessive worrying about the no. of comments and the no. of hits they receive per post.
# 2: Obsessing about the content of the post
# 3: Compulsive need to check out other’s blogs and increase traffic to their blog, and spending innumerable hours surfing thousands of blogs.

Stage B: Learning To Swim
These bloggers have established themselves in the blogging world, and not so concerned with the matter of their blogs as even some mindless drivel will get some traffic on their blog.
# 1: Acquainting themselves with their fellow bloggers via chatting.
# 2: Become choosy about the blogs they frequent.
# 3: Attending the blogger’s meets in their respective cities becomes an unavoidable ritual.

Stage C: Down Under
These bloggers are the veterans of blogging world, almost everybody know them by their blogging nickname. They are the ones who arrange the Blog Meets.
# 1: They have more friends via blogs than by more conventional methods.
# 2: They respond to their blogging name faster than the name which their parents gave them.
# 3: They introduce themselves by their nickname more frequently.
# 4: They have traveled more than 100 km., to meet their blog friends.
# 5: Their counter reads in the range of 5,000 and more.
# 6: It’s not unusual to find them managing more than 1 blog.
# 7: They rely to get all their reviews(books/movies/plces to hang out etc. etc.) from fellow bloggers rather than conventional methods.
# 8: The biggest indicator: they are actually reading this & nodding their heads and smiling!
These are just few of the symptoms which the experts have documented. They fear that this is the just the beginning of a long ,long battle. A handy tip?This mag would suggests having an active life apart from blog world, the rest is of course upto you readers.
Thus endeth my pathetic,pathetic effort to be funny!!!!!!

Ok, so I finally met someone (Suds) from the blogging world in person. He was on a whirlwind trip to bbay, and we decided to meet up yesterday at my college at around one in the afternoon. So, I am waiting for him to show up, roaming around with nothing to do, (all my friends were attending the lecs) for around 2& ½ hrs. (ya , u read it rite). By 3, I was so furious, was ready to murder him if & when I met him. Actually, he was supposed to call me on my cell (which according to me was working fine, ok, it was not fine, but still I was able to receive calls!!!), & from there we would have gone somewhere. Suddenly, my friend calls me saying that Sudhon is standing near the college & has been trying to reach me for like 1& ½ hrs (my cell wasn’t working earlier, so I gave him her no.). I go to the entrance & there’s nobody!!!! Irritated, I kept pacing back & forth between the 2 entrances, trying to contact my friend from my cell so that she can find out where he was standing. Finally, I gave up on my cell, rushed to the nearest PCO booth to call her. There, I see this tall fellow looking as lost and irritated as I was feeling, apparently trying to reach somebody also! Not very sure about my instincts, I tried to eavesdrop, (:D, in my defense, there was no phone was free, which I could use! ) & maybe I would hear my friend’s or my name in the conversation…….(me is sneaky & hopeless, I know), then I won’t have to go around asking whether their name was Sudhon. Anyway, he was speaking so softly, I couldn’t hear 3/4ths the stuff he said, then I heard it-“ummmmmm, I am near metro”. Pretty sure now, I just went ahead & asked whether his name was Sudhon. He nodded his head. I was like “finally”! First question I asked was: ”What exactly happened, where were you??” or something like that after he kept down the phone & my dear dear friend thoroughly verified that he had found out the right person. As it turns out, he was trying to reach me on my cell, but it never got connected. ( sheeeeeeesh, that was a real put downer! here I was ready to strangle the fellow, & he’s been patiently trying to reach me for 1& 1/2hrs in a city he knows nothing about, & hardly speaks the native language!). Strange, how weird stuff happens in life! Anyway, “all’s well that ends well” is one of my philosophies of life. So, I ended not killing him & spent a 2 pleasant hrs giving him a whirlwind tour of my college (he found it too small,, which it is!), and a brisk walk at marine drive. ( suds, I really don’t walk that fast!!! It was just that I really was really short on time!) . Maybe, we could have gone towards Colaba (where there are places to sit & talk) afterwards if we had met earlier.....

WHOOPSIt seems only half of the post got printed, neway, i can't remember wot else i had in dat post, so few updates:

First, yipeeeeeeeee, this german GP was so amazing, all thanks to Button,who pulled amazing laps, if he hadn't been penalised those 10 places, he wud have won on sunday, too bad, but neway he did come 2nd from 13th posn, that was sumthing! Hats off! neway, Alonso was also pretty remarkable!