On Movies 2

The title is just to conform to the previous article I wrote on movies. That one I wrote was when I saw "The Shawshank Redemption". I loved the movie so much that I couldn't help writing about it. I particularly adore the movies that celebrate human existance and human spirit.

Today I again saw one such movie "The Green Mile". This movie in spite of having a different approach drives home the same point, it also celebrates the human spirit and our core values. The dialogues are truely outstanding and continously put you thinking.

This summer I've been watching a lot of movies. "Saw" and "SawII" were genuine thrillers. Then "Forrest Gump" was a treat to watch with Tom Hanks at his best. "Cast Away" again was refreshingly new and different movie. Some others I've simply watched and forgotten.

Let's see what's next in the Queue!

A bit Unfair

I don't exactly know why I'm writing this. There doesn't seems to be a definite reason or purpose, neither is there any tendency of mine to jot down something that's worth remembering. But I still want to say this.

Life's a bit unfair. "Fairness", as we generally know it is the quality associated with unbiased and logical outlook towards all. The feeling that there will be nothing but merit and validated reason between your aspirations and what you actually achieve. But the society doesn't allows it to come out so simple. There always are tides in the ocean which are unpredictable and just come and alter things.

May be it's all a way of life, and the things I've been trying to comprehend within the periphery of standardized interpretations aren't so straight in their actual realities.
I don't really know what to make out of all this.

A Funny and Chaotic Day!(21.06.2006)

Again slept through whole of the day. My biological clock simply refuses to comply with Indian time, can't help it. The sole reason I woke up at 4:30 pm was resource centre's issue/return timings. I had to get book(s) on Nanotechnology issued for Harsh along with returning the two books I had earlier issued. Had a tough time selecting texts on Nanotech as I had no idea regarding the same. Anyway google was at rescue and I searched for introductory texts on Nanotechnology. Whatever texts seemed suitable and were in the library, i got issued.

In the evening, I headed for lab(sole reason it being airconditioned). The hostel rooms in the 2nd floor are like baking kilns till late night. In the lab I started reading Lee Iococca's biography which was pending from a long time. The first chapter was about Iococca's family background and how he was raised in US. How his parents migrated from Italy, settled in America, made some fortune but were struck hard by The Great Depression and how they again revived. The entire account is awesome. The authoritative storytelling of Iococca makes it impressive and a prologue for the further story. Will read the further part later.

As I had skipped meal at night, so by the time of returning from lab I was pretty hungry. So I quickly headed for the food court and munched AlooParathas with Cold coffee. Almost at the same time Hemant SMSed to be online. He is currently working on two projects in Jodhpur MCN. First one is to develop a software meant for counterfeiting Handset piracy. Second one is to implement a database management system along with a working frontend. This surely wasn't enough to keep him busy and hence he joined a call centre training course for improving fluency in spoken english. Where he everyday learns a hell lot of new phrases and throws them as questions on me in the evening when I'm online. "Carrot and Stick policy","Water falling on a Slope","Ivory Tower","Ball of Fire","Lukman", and lots of others I've simply forgotten. (Courtesy!My Superb Memory.:).

After I got rid of Hemant's phrases, a new episode cropped up. I forged a bet on the money I had collected in form of coins in a box. FYI I have a box in which I put all my coins, whatever is in my pocket at the end of day.( NO! I'm not doing any Numismatical Reasearch!). My bet was that they'll definetly sum up to an amount greater than or equal to 500. While Nitin, Kapil, Ankur and Anand were adamant that they were less. I made Pathak the refree so that counting would be done honestly. I almost won the bet, but when the counting was about to finish Ankur mixed the counted and uncounted coins. Pathak got frustrated and stopped counting. It was all messed up, but I still hope I'll get my Dessert.

Then I started serfing; that regular stupid sequence of Rediff, Orkut, Hinduatan Times, Google, WorldCup and all. Then I accidentally got directed to Pabari's blog. He's damn good at writing. I started feeling an Inferiority Complex as I progressed through his blog. This guy knows a hell lot! My entire spirit went to doldrums...

Anyway I gotta live with it, and also have to find a way to award myself with some consolation for mediocrity!). BooHooo...

If this wasn't enough ego-bruising ( a term Pabari used to describe his IIM Lucknow GDPI experience), I read Riddhi Kaul's blog as well from friends list in Pabari's blog. This one made me run with butterflies in my stomach, yearning for even a fraction of her skillful writing. She writes good as hell!(pun unintended). It's not just her english, but the elegance and style with which she puts up everything together. She's well read with excellent vocab and a witty sense of humour. Added to all this is her penchant for exploring fearlessly which I suppose is a unique thing. Some of her blogs are too good, espacially the recent ones. Her blog on "Paradoxical Human nature", regarding some difficult choices made me exercise all I possess to make good sense of it, and when I sorted out what the dillemma was; it was nothing less than Eureka.
Undoubtly one of the most sensible and intelligent blogs I've ever seen.

All this was indeed an experience worth remembering, so I considered it worth jotting down. The yearning is still there in my mind, but then every such experience proves the diverse richness we as individuals possess.

Damn! Feeling miserable again!

Fatehpur Activist Group

It's been about two months since we initiated this group to create a platform for those Fatehpurites who want to do something for their hometown.

Initially there were only a few of us, Vipul,Mr. Kamal Kumar Pandey, Homarjun who were actively involved. Now there is quite a rise in the number of members.
Homarjun Bhaiya took a further step adead and initiated the "Mass Book Donation Drive", in which we all have assumed active roles. If we pull through nicely, this initiative can be a anchor for the steps ahead and will create a good ground for the work ahead.

Initial need is to spread the word about this in an even manner which I'm trying to do my best motivating my other friends to do the same.

Texts I've been Reading

Summers prove to be quite beneficial in terms of the literary texts I read, as with the scorching heat nothing else suits better.While I was at home I read Feluda Stories by Satyajit Ray.(The House of Death).Though I don't normally read detective or thriller stories but the name of Satyajit Ray whose potrait in my mind as a legendary film-maker was entirely different forced me to do so. And I did liked it a lot.The unexpected twists in the stories always left me amused.One thing I relly liked about the book was author's knowledge of so many things.He was sort of an encyclopedia and always came up with new things in each story.

Next book I read was Lee Iococca's autobiography which appealed to me a lot. His life was an Odyssey full of events and experience.(not the kind of mythical Odyssey that Homer wrote once, but a real one that one can connect with in a pragmatic manner).The book, or let's say the man Lee Iococca impressed me a lot. Not only in the way he revived Chrysler, but also in his general outlook towards life.

After returning bach to the college, the first text that I laid my hands on was, "From Science to God" by Peter Russell. I actually read it accidentally when Abhishek got it issed from the library. I just started reading first few pages to know what the book was about. But the central debate in the book regarding Religion and Sciece
caught my attention and I decided to read the whole text. The "consciousness" as a bridge between religion and science was a really though-provoking idea and with the help of this awareness regarding consciousness, author glues religion and science.
The book also described Transcedental Meditation and how the author learned it in Rishikesh from Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.(Maharishi incidentally happens to be the founder of the school in which i studied till XII std.)

Along with some academic books,currently I'm reading "The Argumentative Indian" by Amartya Sen and it's quite thought provoking as well as relates one to the Indian identity and culture we are outcome of.I'm also reading a collection of essys by Italo Calvino titled "Why Should one read Classics".

I've planned to read some other texts as well. Some of the Ayn Rand's classics like "Atlas Shrugged".Will also try to read some more autobiographies.

Diary!!

It's been quite a gap since I blogged last time. The reason isn't that I have stopped writing or been extremely busy. The fact is that instead of typing a lot,I still prefer to write with a pen in hardpaper.

I have started writing my everyday diary from 12th May 2006, and by now it's accumutating into a quite a lot of text. I would have liked to post that in my blog here but digitising all that amount of text written with pen seems to me a herculean task, which I have no intention of doing unless i have something very interesting to say.

College in summer is not exactly teeming with it's regular energy levels, but still I'm trying to enjoy the emptyness and ambience as much as I can.
The two forthcoming semesters are real kickass ones and with the kind of gradesheet I'm having now, I'll have to do a lot of work to prevent myself from being in an awkward situation.
I've realised that things are getting complicated, last 4 sems were kind of "no worries" sems but now there's a lot to think about. Placements, pointer and a lot more things capable of giving you nightmares.

I've got some plans, see if i can get them working as i wish to...