Tuesday, January 31, 2006

Finally got a break

Huh! After waiting for so many days got some time to do some creative work of testing my writing skills (never mind,me juz kidding). Neways after a taking long breakkkkkk from blogspot i am back (me dedicates this comeback to our very own Sharma sir whose slow net connections never alloowed me to do nething useful on the net). Well though i have started writing this article i am still undecided what to write ... like i have many thoughts pouring in rite now but not getting the exct words ..sud i write abt getting drunk everyday or me taking resolution of not taking marijuana nemore in my life or sud i mention my meeting with doc. Shit what a crap...rather i sud stop over here itself but never mind as i believe"whatever it mite be,things once started sud continue until and unless stopped forcibly".
Hey just some moments ago i was reading the recent article posted by Gol and i think he have written all kind of shit over there ... what does he mean by freedom, he sud rather define the meaning .. everyone has done their own of enjoying what they think and its never a stupid idea (read imbecile) of getting mixed up wid drunkards and the doped. Well just one question i wud like to ask u in this context .. tell me frankly gol haven't u enjoyed those stays wid us during our stay at KGP.. wasn't it the real fun ... come on u may think us cowards who don't wanna face the harsh realities of the world but that's not true even to its minimum extent... we all have different ways of taking or rather accepting things as they come .. we are just partying our last days of the college and mind u i am not getting nostalgic...wadever le's make it the end of the topic .
One more thing i dunno when i wud be able to make it again over here so rather then thinking of my next post lemme write something more but hey i am running short of issues and ideas . Sud i write abt how gud the week went how often i sat on net doing nothing. very recently i had gone thru an article where 5 IITians formed a political partyto serve the nation. And it was like an hot issue.. some said Mani Rathnam's "YUVA" emulated and some said they are too patriots, and even i agree to that to some extent but then a lil hush wind starts blowing in mind which starts question abt their real intentions. Come on are they really patriotic, i mean is serving the nation their only motive ... and i dont blame my mind for questioning their intentions. If they really are so gud thinking abt the country than why did they did enggineering, and there are many more ways of serving the nation then forming a political party . Though sometimes even I Question my ownself for my patriotic feelings and for me preparing for the IAS exams so that one day i will be able to serve the nation .But knows who,only the time will have it's last laugh,that i wudn't change wid time and wudn't change my mind of engulfing money rather then seving my country .
One more thing this week I had watched the much awaited movie Rang De Basanti which invoked (read induced :D) some kind of contrasting feelings in me . Many of friends have filled their blogs wid articles on this movie and the patriotic sentiments involved but i don't agree. I think they were too careless to care for the country and they were too selfish to think of the injustice done wid pilots flying the MIGs. Now this is no crap to drag attention but someone pls tell me ... aren't they selfish and careless...wud have they done the same things they did if some other pilot had been killed in a MIG crash, the answer is certainly HELL NO cos even before madhavan's crash there were many pilots who had met with the same fate and destiny but they even mite haven't heard of it or mite have agreed but when it happened wid their dear friend it was all a different story .So now don't u guys think that the story was weak and involved protaganists were selfish . Enuf of writing for now, let's switch on to some other tasks . Ne comments on this article or on my views regarding RDB are most welcome.

Wednesday, January 25, 2006

A Dream called FIGHTCLUB...

“Sometimes some things come with a loud bang and bring about a change that stays even after they have made a silent exit. Although their achievements don't give an exact picture of what they had been, when they fade out they are obviously missed"

This is the story of a dream team that treaded a path that was about to change a lot of things around. It was a stop-gap operation when I formed FIGHTCLUB with my to-be quizzing teammate. A name heavily inspired from the Brad Pitt-Edward Norton's 1999 starrer and having no connection to upcoming hindi flick (in fact we are planning a mass agitation against them for spoiling our hard earned recognition), was destined to stick to our names and bring us instant fame. We had initially formed the team in the early phases of our 3rd year at college for a local Biz Quiz event. Our morale was highly boosted when we made it to the finals only to fall at the hands of one of our most highly regarded nemesis. The success on debut made us stick to the team and participate in a quiz that was supposed to be our first step towards stardom. It was an in-house quiz at our college and we were pitted against the most feared and supposedly best team in the college and the entire city, PURPLE HAZE. For me this fight was not just any other fight because I had once been a part of that team and managed to bag 4th position finishes at previous editions of our college annual fest quiz before I broke up with the team. So it was an occasion for me to re-establish myself without their help and for my partner to sound his entry into the arena and for both of us to ensure that in the quizzing community there was life and hope outside PURPLE HAZE. Although we just made it to the final round, it was down to the ultimate quizzing showdown in the finals. We narrowly won the game amidst some major distractions from people who had to do nothing with quizzing (that meant we never got the prize money nor the recognition for winning the event). This quiz made us a force to reckon with and also brought to limelight a faction that was constantly putting internet facilities and the close-knit companionship to great use through hostel quizzing. Then came the quiz that made FIGHTCLUB an overnight celebrity. The time was the annual intra-fest and on cards was the Entertainment Quiz. The event saw a good performance by us in the prelims and a performance of lifetime (thanks GOD for that good coordination and retention) in the finals that helped us win it by a big margin. The support we got throughout the game and laurels we won after it made us heed to the responsibility we had on our hands. The performance had such an impact on the audience that in spite our 2nd position finish in the General quiz, the next day and irrespective of the past achievements of PURPLE HAZE (they had a bad outing in both the quizzes), we were crowned the CHAMPS of quizzing. FIGHTCLUB followed it up with a 3rd place finish in the inter collegiate Biz Quiz (no comments about this Satyam employee hosted misadventure) and a hard earned victory in the inter collegiate Tech Quiz (without my partner but the same name though modified FIGHTCLUB - THE REPLACEMENTS). In fact although the latter one had no audience to remark about it and had no original FIGHTCLUB magic with my partner missing, the game was probably the most challenging of my career with our team winning via tie-breaker on the 7th break. The charm and attention that FIGHTCLUB and PURPLE HAZE had brought to the field along with the efforts of other teams like DEQUEL and GFN, led to numerous others leaping out into the forefront of quizzing and finally our college had its own official Quiz Society - QUTOPIA. It was a new dawn for quizzing but the time was changing for FIGHTCLUB.

While PURPLE HAZE had been disappointing on the home turf, they had an amazing record in events outside the college. On the other hand FIGHTCLUB were CHAMPS at the home turf but heavy losers outside. This, till date, remained one of the major under doings of FIGHTCLUB. Though they made it to the finals of many quizzes, they always returned empty handed. Probably unlucky I suppose... Another major flaw lied in the fact that they participated in very few quizzes and this lack of exposure to the real time challenges hampered their performances. I feel FIGHTCLUB unlike other quizzing teams let things like their personal differences, personal problems etc. distract them from the target. While I succumbed to my personal problems and started moving away from all public attention I was receiving, my partner had other things to do which prevented him from focusing on quizzing. The bewitching FIGHTCLUB was now half dead. Whatever we might have achieved, there are of course some regrets like not having a better away record, unable to win Mary Bucknell Trophy etc. But the biggest regret is of not being able to shed off our mutual ego (both FIGHTCLUB and PURPLE HAZE wanted to outshine each other and never shook hands on professional scale though they remained good friends on the personal front) and form a joint four membered team comprising of FIGHTCLUB and PURPLE HAZE for outside college events like MBT and MasterMind India. This, perhaps, would have been one of the toughest teams around to beat.

I am not saying that without FIGHTCLUB the quizzing fraternity would have been a dull showdown nor am I saying that without FIGHTCLUB there would not have been any quiz group in the college but what I mean to say is that even though due to various reasons FIGHTCLUB is vanishing into the oblivion, with the founders passing out from the college and moving on to join different companies the future of the team is uncertain, people are going to miss it. Even if they don't I will surely miss the Dream called FIGHTCLUB ... HAIL QUIZZING... HAIL FIGHTCLUB.

A trip to remember

Hey all, I am back to test my writing skills after giving a break of so many days. First i wud like to thank shyamal aka champ for wasting his valuable time and energy to post in my blog. Neways u ppl mite be wondering wat trip i am talking abt. Well this was one of the most loveliest trip i had have ever made. The trip was to IIT- KGP tp attend the spring fest.
We went straight away on 19th after our exams were done. The time we reached there it was already 12.30 but thanks to those IIT ppl that they were doing registration 24X7 which meant we were able to register at dat time only. I didn' t had an Icard so registered with the name of Sandi. Hope he never knows abt it. That day we were too tried to passed out easily.
The day started wid Vihung waking me up at 9.00. He was staying at his friend's room . He called me there in to have a shot or two of grass joints. Well i had been there to have one or two puffs but we completed two complete raw ciggs. Now that was one thing i wud say awesome. I was completely passed out . When i returned back all were waiting excepting Gol who was nowhere to be seen. Well after that we roamed all around in the IIT campus . It was feeling gud. In the nite i went wid Raja and got 4 pudiyas out of which me,nak and nishant along wid nepalis and vihung got doped .That day we had around 24 ciggs which we blew in less than an hour. The same story continued for another 2 days and finally the day came when mrutyunjaya arrived at the scene and we all started leg pulling him. Though at sometimes i feel bad abt it but still i can't help it. After all we all are here for another 3 months or so. We returned on 22nd nite after getting doped again . It was all fun out there but i will remember this trip for some more reasons as like:- me not having a single drop of alcohol, ameet uttering LORDs after passing out while doping, the long walks with friends at the campus during the night times, niteout till 4.00 beside the main road,setting in ganja mehfil of arnd 20 ppl, the rock group Hobus, Shankar Mahadevan nite and students waving their cell phones in dark in a rhythm,Getting doped daily at nites and me getting broke financially midway.
Well the times have passed and when I think of tmrw i think of the assholic freaking time table we had got and abt the morning sun which i will be seeing after so many months or years? Neways it's already 1.50 and me feeling sleepy. After all i have taken two resolution during this trip ... to reduce my drinking habits and to have 75% attendence. Let's see what happens. he he wud i be able to change the trend and can attend classes in the morning . In this race against time and will of mine ,time will be the judge and will be the contender too .

Adios

Tuesday, January 17, 2006

The New Kid on the Block

" And when the door opened, a ray of light entered the room. Only time would tell whether it was the beginning of an era of brightness or the last rays of light for an impending darkness waited around the corner. "

Surprised to find me here!!! I just got inducted into this team and I am really honoured to get this chance. Though I have my own blog, writing for someone else is definitely something I wanted a taste of. Let me give you a brief interpretation of this blog name. I am no one to give a verdict on the validity of the name but the implications are visible. Everything in this world is pre-planned. Our plans are just a part of this grand plan. However we might try to change the flow or whatever change we might inflict are obviously part of it. Sounds too much philosophical... Well life's intricacies have their basis in philosophy. So for more of philosophy, life's wisdom and the mysteries of this world, this space is something you wouldn't trade for anything.

Monday, January 16, 2006

Another Year in this college passed

Phew!!! I never knew that three and half yrs have passed after stepping into this college(Though not exactly but 7 sems means that only). These three and half yrs were the real fun of my life and I gonna miss them till the last breathe of my life . These period passed in an instant like the total time elapsed during the blinking of an eye. This period showed me the real me, the real world and how beautiful it is. It gave me a whole new hope , a whole new group of friends like a new bunch of grapes in the hands of a monkey(though some are sweet and some are sour). I still remember the unfateful day( 11th sept,2002) when i stepped into the corridors of the KIIT degree boy's hostel. It was like whole new world waiting for me or rather thinking whether to take me in its fold or not. I still remember the day when the contstruction of the ground floor was going on and on that day i met this creature named GOLAK who seemed to be a lil kinda mad person and who happend to be my roomie for two yrs. I still remember the night outs in E block where we kept playing TT thru out the night and the reason for which our seniors abused us. I still remember the day when I sat for a spirit call in NAK's new room in F block which resembled like some horror movie suiting sets and the bet I placed wid sandi to go to the terrace at midnight hour. Those were the times when I met some persons whom I had never known but in the consequent times became my good friends. I still remember when we along wid our seniors sat for a strike demanding the rollback of notice for mess money, removal of entry time and computers in our time. Than came our unfateful sinedie when our seniors faught a losing battle wid our ultra seniors. That was a day to remember forever as I witnessed a battle of seniors. I still remember the night when Shaan and Sagarika performed live infront of us and in the consequent year that feat was emulated by Euphoria. That was a rocking night and i danced for 3 long hours ,until i had no power in my legs to continue. I still remember the picnic days and the days I bunked my periods to sit in KHATTI at nearby panshop or going to FAR PAVILLION or my one day journeys to berhampur. And the day when i got fail marks in my entire life time .
So if hadn't forgotten nething and remember each and everything bit by bit than how come so early have three years have passed .. i feel time is running way ahead of my thinking and my feelings or rather a lag behing and is not ready to admit that only few days,precisely 100 days of our enggineering career is left. Right now I wish that our course period be extended by another one yr or so. But I know also that that this feeling is going to change the very first minute when i step into the class of 8th sem and like all I will also wish that we complete our sessions as soon as possible.
Whatever it maybe as our days are numbered in this college and I have started reverse counting which today makes 99 days left,i am becoming nostalgic while most of my friends are getting ready to fit into the shoes of corporate world and I don't wish to leave this college or this hostel but alas that can never be possible. So I will miss all the fun ,all the masti ..those nightouts watching movies,playing solitaire, doing khattis ,leg pulling someone or doing group discussions. I will miss all this and I will miss all my friends.. there will be no one to call me SUSU or BOXER but I will be called by real name Mr. Susant K. Sabat which will be quite uncomfortable for me .

Before finishing I jus want to let all my friends know that I LOVE U all and U all will always me a part of my life . :((
ADIOS....Susu

Sunday, January 15, 2006

awakening from a deep slumber

hi all there,
I am back all alone after a log sleep ... rather from a vivid dream ... a unusual dream regarding abt ifs and buts of all the happenings of the last year,so it took some time to wake up and sum up in writings. The year began with too many lows and when i have lost hope of hearing or seeing ne gud than suddenly a hope of reprise araised in myself,i thot i could do nething i like ..u ppl just name it . So here is the summarization in brief ... first month i had all that fight wid the juniors which made me famous ..err ..rather notorious.. than came our campus interviews .Well as expected i did well in the written exams but fumbled in the interviews cos till than i was pretending to be someone who is too smart, too intelligent ... as if I was like all excepting my ownself...but when i realised it was too late and i had already missed the bus but than came a gud news of me getting a job in a rather small company(iGATE global solns).. and that small event came as a sweet B'day gift to me from my college. Than again a low during the trip to kolkata where i did my summer training but it was a nice roud trip and it was fun as well as learning . But all the hopes of having a chit chat with her was foiled so i was upset than too. The next few months passed in no time as if we were travelling in a time machine and came october and hopes rised again showing a new dawn.. rather a all new brand day .. this was the time when i came across all new friends and gettin away from some stark realities .. i avoided taking responsibilities. and i started enjoying life with all new enthusiasm. Soon october too passed and our schemes of lives too changed with me and my colleagues getting ready to step into final sem of the college. But as we say everything is destined , Some untoward events occured and we were denied our rights of holding the annual functio nand our progress to the final sem was stalled by another 2 months . And finally the month of december gave a new turn to my life ...i got incapacitated (laughing) for the first time in my whole life ... and my big B also got married to his beloved .. and thus the curtains were drawn up on the year 2005 which i celebrated on the beach of beleswar with a peg of vodka in one hand and a cigarette in another.
Thus the year started with lows and ended with some high notes. That was all how the year passed for me . So the dream of these thirteen days were like if that hadn't happened and what if it hadn't happened. So life is world of IF and BUT ,but right now i am keeping my mouth SHUT.

(There were some more serious things happened in my life but i wudn't be mentioning it over here ..rather i don't want to let the whole world know abt them)