February | 2008 | The Stranger

New room-mates

February 25, 2008 7 comments

These are the new entrants to my room! Special thanks to Amit Deshwal aka Konsti.

The exam season! One good thing about this is the 11 o’ clock coffee. The coffee shop closed by 11:30 pm and by 11, students from almost all the hostels come here for the 5 buck Nescafe. Of course I can have it whenever, whichever night I wish. But it’s kind of routine during exams. A very much needed break for half an hour. Enjoying coffee in the partially lit area, conversing about anything. Sometimes, I move a few feet to sit in the lawns of Himalaya (our mess).

Today, as I stepped out for the coffee, I felt the weather unusually cold. Winter is not yet mild in North, but this is Chennai! I felt the temperature rising during the last few days, enough to make me feel drowsy throughout the day. But tonight was different. It was chilly.

There was some disturbing event in the institute today. Hoping these things never repeat.

In dino…

February 17, 2008 1 comment

This song is suddenly appealing very much to me:

In dino, dil mera, mujhse hai keh raha
Tu khaab saja, tu ji le jara
Hai tujhe bhi izaazat, karle tu bhi muhabbat
Hai tujhe bhi izaazat, karle tu bhi muhabbat

Berang si hai badi zindagi kuchh rang to bharoon
Main apani tanahaayi ke waaste ab kuchh toh karoon
Berang si hai badi zindagi kuchh rang to bharoon
Main apani tanahaayi ke waaste ab kuchh toh karoon
Jab mile thodi fursat
Jab mile thodi fursat
Khud se karle muhabbat
Hai tujhe bhi izaazat, karle tu bhi muhabbat

Usako chhupaakar main sabse kabhi le chaloon kahin door
Aankhon ke pyaalon kse pita rahoon usake chehre ka noor
Usako chhupaakar main sabse kabhi le chaloon kahin door
Aankhon ke pyaalon kse pita rahoon usake chehre ka noor
Iss jamaane se chupakar
Iss jamaane se chupakar
Poori kar loon main hasrat
Hai tujhe bhi izaazat, karle tu bhi muhabbat
Hai tujhe bhi izaazat, karle tu bhi muhabbat

In dino, dil mera, mujhse hai keh raha
Tu khaab saja, tu ji le jara
Hai tujhe bhi izaazat, karle tu bhi muhabbat
Hai tujhe bhi izaazat, karle tu bhi muhabbat

Global Warming affects our Mess

February 16, 2008 5 comments

Now, this thing called Global Warming has affected our mess! Notice the vanishing ‘Him’?

😛

Hari Puttar

February 16, 2008 3 comments

Imagine Harry Potter films being made in Bollywood. What would Harry say to Ron before his marriage to Ginny?

“Kyon na hum is dosti ko rishtedari me badal lein?”

😛

Genesis

February 14, 2008 2 comments

Concept: Me, Shruti
Design: Me
Additional Inputs: Vatsap

If you think you can develop a Business Plan and prepare an Executive Summary before 25th Feb, do register for Genesis. Organized by IIT Madras and ASES India, it has grown to be Asia’s largest social entrepreneurship business plan competition in a very short period. The competition starts with Workshops and Panel Discussions on 23rd and 24th Feb. Don’t miss it!

Love!

February 12, 2008 6 comments

Suddenly, there are many posts and shared posts about love. I thought I should also write one!

I love Neha
I love Payal
I love Deepti
I love another Neha
I love yet another Neha
I love Maya
I love Shalini
I love Rani
I love fart!

😀

Free Bus Service??!

February 11, 2008 Leave a comment

“Insti provides free bus service from Monday.”

What?? That’s what I asked the person bearing the status message. He said it’s true.

IITM has bus service from hostels to main gate and also to class rooms in the mornings. Those who don’t have cycles (It’s not a matter of can’t afford; every newcomer has one. But as we get older, we take pride in abandoning it 🙂 ) avail this facility, and the ticket costs one rupee. But free bus service? All I know is that this morning, I didn’t board the bus because I didn’t have a coin to pay and there was no one familiar in the bus who could have lent me. Believe me, my department is not close 😦

Misery

February 10, 2008 1 comment

Day after tomorrow, my exams begin. No worries, as has been the case for some time now. But I don’t want to debate that.

This is about something totally unrelated. It has been haunting me since long. I don’t feel like doing anything. I remember when I advised someone how to deal some situation. And he replied he didn’t want to come out of the situation. Someone else wrote some lines about me in the past, saying my advice was very must sought for. Another one recently enquired about the nature of my poems. A distant friend called today for my help regarding something. A closer friend said something concerning my help.

All these thing are disturbing. There are times when everything that goes around hits you at the softest spot.

Some time ago, a friend said that he felt like crying. Reason? Nothing in particular. I knew perfectly well that this was not at all abnormal, for many people (We had discussed and concluded earlier that thinking about suicide too is not abnormal). Had it been the past of me, I would have advised him against that, and would have repented later. I know that sometimes we must let ourselves free. And the fact that I know this is, in a way, a soft spot.

A friend was slightly depressed last week. Tonight is going to make up for that. Like the black stone of Taj Mahal, I think I can help.

Status Messages – II

February 6, 2008 1 comment

Yes ladies and gentlemen, it’s that time of the year again (At any given time, there is atleast one person in my list who has the status message containing the words: “It’s that time of the year again”).

Sale doctor ka bhi kidney nikal lo …tadpao

Don’t play games with a Girl who can play better!!!!!!!!!!

Donald Rumsfeld briefed President Bush this morning. He told Bush that three Brazilian soldiers were killed in Iraq today. The color ran from Bush’s face, and he was visibly shaken. Bush composed himself and asked Rumsfeld, “Just exactly how many is a brazillion?”