think big

It’s said “Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars.” Our group has followed this universal law each and every time, even when it didn’t want to.

We were thinking of going on a trip to Cal or Chandipur or Deegha or Kolaghat. We only ended up in Rakhalgaria in midst of rain and were encountered by a snake which put an end to the trip then and there only.

We were thinking of going to Darjeeling or some place but we didn’t even make it to Cal with the whole group even once.

We dreamt of being showered with treats after some in our group got some fabulous jobs and had IIM calls. The treats are still nowhere in the vicinity.

We thought of having a great BPlan. It never even made to the initial draft.

We dreamt of winning loads of money during Kshitij. We didn't even meet during the fest.

Then we planned of enjoying the last SF together. Few weren't there during the fest and who stayed were just lazy to go out.

A trip to Trivandrum was being planned initially with 6-7 people. Now there are only 2 trying desperately to make the trip happen.

Finally we thought of having a final year treat but they busted the plan by saying they still didn’t have a salary and started to ask us for a treat (how mean!!!!!).

Now we are planning for a final get-together at TP. Hopefully we won’t end up meeting at Harry’s or Chillies.

But yeah we didn't end up with nothing. We had a great trip to 90 deg without any plan and then to GolB on cycles..........We did manage to have a treat at PD in GolB...........We spilled water over the table in LS and shouted at the top of our voices...............We went to Billoos and made the place seem full when the only ones out there were our group and 1 or 2 other groups of people and the restaurant workers..................We finally managed to have the b'day treat at Garden Inn last year despite having so many fights over it.............went for a dinner on the last day of SF...................played DumbC in Kshitij arena........We did meet after Kshitij for the Fireworks and went for dinner though none of us ordered a meal that day...........We still get small treats at Sup-Dup and Chillies........We go out on walks at nights with the group in Insti and have made it to few prohibited roof tops..........and finally we did manage to get our group T-shirts printed.

Maybe we didn't end up getting bigger trips or treats or anything else but we sure had our own share of fun with these small things.

"If you reach for the stars, you might not quite get one, but you won’t end up with a handful of mud, either."

aadatein

"Miss Lucy kehti hain ki aadatein agar waqt par nahi badli jayein to jarurat ban jaati hain" ---------DDLJ

there's a friend who used to get up at 2p.m. and missed all his classes. now also he misses all his classes, the only difference being he now gets up at 4-5p.m.

another friend used to just leave to take care of some errands while talking and you will be left staring at the chat window. now you don't need to stare at the window........coz he isn't there online ever.

whenever we went out for dinners or lunches, she didn't order much and said, "maine jyada kuch order nahi kiya hai, tumhare mein se bas chota sa tukda loongi." her tukda still stays there with her habit being induced into her friends.

for treats and all, we always were late coz of our "few" friends starting to get ready just few mins before we had to leave or coz some of them would be watching a series or doing some other work. now we just tell them the meeting time is 7 which actually is 8.

when we met for some meals, she always used to spill something. she still does it and other friends try to fill her space when she is not present.

in our regular get-togethers, when we had these two particular friends present, they just kept talking without letting anybody else speak. they still do it and when we don't listen they just increase their volume to let others also listen to them.

there was one laurel-hardy pair in our group which has now changed, but their love's still the same. then they used to hug each-other whenever they needed to show their affection, now the new pair just punch each-other to show their affection :D

she has always been prone to accidents injuring herself. her habit of getting into accidents continues, just the periphery of her accident prone zone has increased to every possible place in kgp.

Habits never change......they just become your lives.........and others' too

respite from heat

it had been a bad day for me........taking into account both the increasing mercury level which gets on my head and also the stomach absurd.......heat already made it impossible to eat to much and the stomach absurd turned the problem into a real havoc :(

and trying to get away from these things i ended up spending the day sleeping. but finally hunger took over and i had to get up for lunch. had decided to visit the department today......but just a look of what lay outside for me if i went to department made me succumb to laziness......the scorching heat and the tiredness......i couldn't afford to go out. and so spent the other half of the day reading comics.

it was snacks time when the wind started blowing hard. and soon heavy downpour started. the water was coming in despite my closing the windows. many of us went out and felt the splash of the water on our bodies. it was a bliss. and when the rain stopped......the cold wind which blew afterwards made us forget it was summer.

the color of the sky had changed.......it was such a beautiful sight that even the fact that it wouldn't last for long made us forget the heat and the temperature and all.

ek choti si kahani

baat thi donon ki zubaan par
kehna chahte they dono......
par keh na paye.........
baat zubaan par hi atak kar reh gayi
aur yeh kahani......
shuru hone se pehle hi khatam ho gayi

thanks a lot

today was the final year treat. sort of a ritual which we had been paying right from our first year of stay here in kgp. the same old treat.........on roof top.......the same lights........same food....everything felt same except that this time there were our own friends.....our own batchmates giving us this final year thing.

we did all the things together........went to mess together, bhated, cribbed, bitched, shared jokes, cried, laughed etc etc............the hostel was our home and these friends - our family. and now some of these family members of our BIG family are going to leave this place. and it hasn't sunk in yet.

we have just 30 odd days more with them and it still hasn't sunk in that the faces i am so used to seeing won't be there after these 30 days. that the people i just took granted for to be in my life forever won't be there with me. i won't be able to just go and have a chat with them. it's sort of a sickly feeling and it didn't sink in yet till.........that moment.

she read out the scroll for me..........just the usual stuff......nothing new that i don't know about myself or that others don't know about me. and then i went to collect it and hugged her and then went to another friend and hugged her and she hugged me back tightly.........and started crying.....i could feel those warm drops on my back and felt

"why is she crying?? she's here and i am here too.....i'll here and she'll be here too..........nah..........she is going away.........i won't see her........nah..........how can this happen.........."

later after the party was over i went over to her and hugged her and cried.

thanks dear for being always there whether or not i acknowledged it. thanks a lot for everything :)

overheard

went to a junior's room who is seemingly harmless except when she opens her mouth. she told me about this conversation she had with a friend of hers.

Mr. P ji : hey did u take the notes from chittu??
AF: who's chittu?? haven't heard about him ever.
Mr. P ji : Chitresh. don't you know him??
AF: ohh yeah i do know him. but why do you people call him chittu?? does he write too many chitthi (letters)??
Mr. P ji : nopes. he passes chits during exams.
AF: thankfully his name's not shitresh :P