This Summer adds itself to my 'list of firsts' as I am spending it productively for the first time in my life. No more whiling away time with all day naps or watching boring programs in a set top box - less cable connection and sinking into the deapths of vettiness all the while desparetely searching for anything that is not boring to do. Well, its been so good so far, with an interesting assignment and a no time for vetti jobs period.Just into week 2 of my stint, I have discoverd a lot more about work life...
1. I am completely physically drained out by each evening even though I couldn't think of any considerable input I had made for the day.
2. The long forgotten pain of waking up at 8 am every morning is an absolute torture.
3.Friday nites ,especially is simply a magic symbolysing the beginning of the short term freedom, a period of absolute bliss
4.My college life is now joined to the list of my happiest days of life.
5. A job with facing comps all day brings about a reformation so great that I have quit fiddeling with my comp in my free time or even watching movies and rediscovered the magic of books.
6. Lying in bed with a book bcomes one of the rare pleasures I treat myself to whenver I can.
No wonder people become staid after they join in the work mill.It feels like travelling on a never ending stretch of a land extending far into space and time until we lose all our strength to go forward anymore. I guess watching my dad come back from work everyday for the past 18 years with the same expression on his face popped this thought into me..Nevertheless, I believe its upto us to turn our own career moor into a colourful scenary with mountains and waterfalls to explore every day. After all, its better to do nothing than to do something you don't love brilliantly well. Hence my new goal : become an undercover tech investigator. Well, what's life, if u don't risk it and relish every moment by living on the edge!
Sunday, May 18, 2008
Thursday, May 1, 2008
The wall with the view
"Good Morning" greets the soft streams of yellow,
To the gentle breeze, fresh with mist.
Next begins the song of the tiny blue birds,
Welcoming the dawn with their dainty true words.
As I wake up with my heart full of pleasure,
To the magnificent magic of the morning sounds,
From my usual seat on the high terrece wall, I view,
Enraptured at the sight of the rising red king.
A huge sigh escapes from a longing soul,
The picture snaps shut with the elevator knoll,
Turning back from the CL balcony, burdened with quests,
Of solving innumerable tests..
My heart yearns for the wall with the view,
I console myself with poems of long lost loves in lieu.
To the gentle breeze, fresh with mist.
Next begins the song of the tiny blue birds,
Welcoming the dawn with their dainty true words.
As I wake up with my heart full of pleasure,
To the magnificent magic of the morning sounds,
From my usual seat on the high terrece wall, I view,
Enraptured at the sight of the rising red king.
A huge sigh escapes from a longing soul,
The picture snaps shut with the elevator knoll,
Turning back from the CL balcony, burdened with quests,
Of solving innumerable tests..
My heart yearns for the wall with the view,
I console myself with poems of long lost loves in lieu.
The art of mugging
After spendind 2 yrs at the kingdom of mugging, I have successfully picked up a few tips on how to mug at last min fr the xams.. For those who are not familiar with the term mugging, it is tenting in the library 27/7 before the finals , robotically studying an alien subject with a tiny hope of passing the xam. Its a very challenging and complicated process that is highly taxing but makes one learn that there are some things in life that can only be left freee.. To xplain further, this is how it goes:
1. waste time choosing the " best " place to study which usually means goin around entire campus with a 4 kg back pack before suffereing from a back ache and settling down at a random useless place.
2. place issue over. 1 hr gone.. too tired to delve into studies now..so, open laptop - check mails ---> check orkut , facebook --->look at latest gossips, friends' albums etc.. 2 hrs productively spent. (at the worst case, some with a creative bent even write blogs about mugging then..)
3. BREAK OVER! come the studyings...open lecture notes, books reluctantly, stare stupidly at it for half hour, verify portions, stare stupidly for some more time and realise u ve become a dumb ass .noooooooooooooooooo.
4. open the gtalk (the one place where the entire cohort hangs around) and bitch about the subject, xams, NUS, singapore, life to evry online character.
5. become too much stressed ..u r freaking out..need a break desparately..open youtube, watch any videos- good, bad, ugly..still not satisfied ..move to sitcoms to peak at just one episode, another one, one more.. a season..goes on for 2 hrs b4 u realise u ve wasted 6 hrs altogether..
6. get even more stressed out. open lecture notes with a new vigour . " I gotto fight it..win..pass the subject somehow or the other"... mug, mug, mug..mug like crazy ..
7. look at past year probs to practice..just alien figures. turn all notes upside down to find if the prob is in or out of syllabus..no clue. look at other papers, realise its even worse.
8. accept the inevitable fact that u r doomed. go back to watching sitcoms till u fall asleep on top of the laptop. sleeeeeeeeep. beautiful sleeeeeep
repeat the same the next day till u go for the xam..do it pathetic. run to the nearest temple that weekend n start bribing God.
1. waste time choosing the " best " place to study which usually means goin around entire campus with a 4 kg back pack before suffereing from a back ache and settling down at a random useless place.
2. place issue over. 1 hr gone.. too tired to delve into studies now..so, open laptop - check mails ---> check orkut , facebook --->look at latest gossips, friends' albums etc.. 2 hrs productively spent. (at the worst case, some with a creative bent even write blogs about mugging then..)
3. BREAK OVER! come the studyings...open lecture notes, books reluctantly, stare stupidly at it for half hour, verify portions, stare stupidly for some more time and realise u ve become a dumb ass .noooooooooooooooooo.
4. open the gtalk (the one place where the entire cohort hangs around) and bitch about the subject, xams, NUS, singapore, life to evry online character.
5. become too much stressed ..u r freaking out..need a break desparately..open youtube, watch any videos- good, bad, ugly..still not satisfied ..move to sitcoms to peak at just one episode, another one, one more.. a season..goes on for 2 hrs b4 u realise u ve wasted 6 hrs altogether..
6. get even more stressed out. open lecture notes with a new vigour . " I gotto fight it..win..pass the subject somehow or the other"... mug, mug, mug..mug like crazy ..
7. look at past year probs to practice..just alien figures. turn all notes upside down to find if the prob is in or out of syllabus..no clue. look at other papers, realise its even worse.
8. accept the inevitable fact that u r doomed. go back to watching sitcoms till u fall asleep on top of the laptop. sleeeeeeeeep. beautiful sleeeeeep
repeat the same the next day till u go for the xam..do it pathetic. run to the nearest temple that weekend n start bribing God.
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