It wasn't a very fun departure from what has been home for 21 years. Delhi. Never had left it for a very long time, never been too far away to lose touch with the very earthiness of the place. Was used to people looking at one suspiciously and mentally characterizing one as thinks-he/she-is-too-good-for-the-rest-of-us-crass-Delhiites if one was ( Read more... )

I know I don't post for ages at a time, and the next post that comes along tends to be effin' HUGE. So... here's the deal. I'm probably not going to be able to find enough time to post as regularly as I would like to for the better part of whatever remains of this year.  But that's also not going to mean LOOOONG posts whenever I do write. It's ( Read more... )

 Bon jour!
It was one of the best birthdays I've had in recent times... didn't go to college, so didn't get to meet quite a few people I'd have liked to meet, but that apart, talked to many old friends over the phone, ran into some on cyberspace, and had a generally fun time. A rather eventless 20th birthday, as it were.
This weekend was Moksha, and ( Read more... )

How does it happen that a single person ends up having the power to send you into throes of amazement and awe at certain times as well as to repulse you at certain other times, both with equal intensity?!

In other stuff, budday in two days!!!

Well, well, well. Life has taken a complete vicious circle - temperature guy has been promoted to bearable now (hovering perilously close to amusingly witty), my English has gone bonkers (you know I'm going nuts when I start saying 'I speaked-no-spoked-no-spake-no... - I wonder what the past tense form of speak is - better English earlier') and we ( Read more... )

So... we finally arrive at the much anticipated fourth semester. Contrary to usual practice, I'm not going to end up writing about each of our teachers this time. Or at least not name them. Mostly because the ones I would write most scathingly about are also the ones most likely to google their names every time they're online... What do I say? Ego ( Read more... )

Hey!

First, I'd like to take this opportunity to actually end up wishing Gautam what is essentially a very belated happy birthday. Awfully sorry, but was swamped with work this past week and couldn't come online at all. So have a great year... and best of luck with all the debating stuff you're involved with.

As far as college is concerned.... the ( Read more... )

Failing miserably in electronics, barely passing in the next three, and probably passing convincingly in math (thank god!). And so ends a worry-worn week. And vodafone, enough with the effin' publicity already. We all know you have enough money to buy all the airtime in the world. And I'm sick of the damn pug changing kennels!

So I didn't post when I said I would. Or ever after that. Big deal. Go sue me.

Thursday the 23th of August was... Remarkable? Anything but. Effin' optimists that we are, we went to NK on the dot at the completion of one hour. And he met us with a dour "Haan, maine un (lab assistant) se poochha tha, nahin ho paayega. Workstations nahin hain." Not ( Read more... )

Hey!

So I was supposed to be posting this Tuesday, except my internet decided to go all crazy and hang itself. Eh... bloody technology.

Anyway, quite a few people here at NSIT are driving me nuts showing off their oh-so-new skills in a language they like to call French. I have absolutely no blasted idea what they are actually speaking - it's like ( Read more... )