life.....

ohk its been a long time since ive posted... i know u all must have been dying to read another of my posts..(who am i kidding)... so to all those hopeless creatures out there who have nothing good to do over the next 5 min.... heres a reading passage... yeah just time urself coz ur not gonna find anything really interesting out here...

the past 2 months have been very eventful... lots of sad moments... a few happy moments... but they have been moments i will remember for the rest of my life.... especially yesterdays incident....

four years ago... hundreds of energetic and excited youngsters descended on the stage called MJCET... with hopes,aspirations,desires of their own... excited about the coming 4 years... wanting to do lots of things in their life... engg me ye karinge, wo karinge etc etc... 4 years on... its all over... we are done with our engg... the feeling is yet to sink i but yeah.. we have to start believing it... as for the dreams... well u can ask urself if u have got all u wanted.... 

                                                my engg life has been a mixed bag... we got the one thing i craved for.. freedom... freedom to make my decisions and also claim responsibility for the consequences.. freedom to attend (rather bunk) classes... to hang around, talk about anything under the sun or moon..  to dream and to reach those dreams... to help each other in times of need... to celebrate ur friends birthdays and bash them on other days... to reducing the number of days u study for an exam from 3days in 1st year to hardly a day now.. to celebrate each others happiness and be with them in their time of need... alas the ride is about to end.. we have reached the stations... almost atleast...i think it couldve been better but overall im satisfied with what ive got... in a month or so we will have our convocations.. and there we will be... again the hundreds descending on the stage for the convocation... for one last time... the transition to adulthood being completed... we will be ushered into a world full of reponsiibilities and all....

but then who cares about the world... i mean what is going around the world??/

show throwing is fast becoming an art... and urs truly is becoming quite an expert at it and im teaching it too... i can now throw a show at a fly from 25 metres ofcourse if it doesnt move that is... infat now the politicians are working out to improve  their flexibility... y else do u think LK Advani was lifting weights at the gym... they are joining a special course on how to evade a shoe... or in india... a sandle or chappal or eggs or cowdung... whatever.... their classes are being taken by.... u guessed it... me.... u knw its quite a business... u teach the public how to throw shoes... u teach  the politicians how to evade them.... infact now im trying to get a tie up with a shoe manufacturing company to get a designer "throw shoe".... these will not come in a pair... buy one shoe only... save on the other one....  by the way... i was highly impressed with chidambaram's reaction after the incident... shows what a dignified man he is.....

                                               the past few days were eventful.... we had a class farewell which ummmm.. was overall good... especially the last part... but yeah the most important thing the day did was brought us together with everyone ready to open his/her mind up about every1.. that was the one time i saw that a more united class could have made these 4 years even more memorable... a lot of people cribbed about groups in the class.. i think we still have a lifetime ahead where we can stay in touch...   and the groupism part brings me to the college farewell and the highly talked about (but in my view non-existent) rivalry between ece-a and b... i apologise to people who have been hurt by my speech dat day.. it was in good humour...

                                                speaking about the college farewell... it wasnt the dull stuff i expected it to be.... was fun actually... nice to see the lecturers on the receiving end for once... after all they have done to us.... people came up with some really funny speeches... especially jatin...   

                                                now we have the exams and im doing what a typical engg student does.... anything but studies.... the one thing i guess we have learnt from engg is that life shouldnt be confined to those books... i keep thinking about what i can do on the last exam... i mean how will i be reacting... this might be the last time i face all my classmates... theres so much to be done... i wanted to apologise to all of them if ive ever hurt them..... speaking about apologising... i think a lot of people were hurt by waamers speech on that farewell... the funniest part was that he had told us that given an opportunity to speak, he would want to apologise to every1... especially the girls... well if he was apologising, then it must have been in a coded language coz i thought he was doing qute  the opposite.....

                                                 and before i end this torture... the last and most memorable incidentt of my college life... maybe even the whole of my life... yesterdays incident.... we were on our way to cbit when we got into an accident with a truck.... that was the moment i again realised that all the work ive done in my life... all the studies and all... could have been taken away in that one instant... i  dont want to give a full description of the incident... i think faheems blog has alrready done that... but the intebsity of the crash was such that people looking at the wrecked car would easily have assumed there wouldve been casualties... and we lived... without a scratch... literally... the next 3 hours in the exam hall was a torture in itself... ur mind wanders... u think that instead of being hear u couldve easily been in a hospital or worse... dead... but it was god's mercy that saved us... and yasir's bravery and quick thinking.... the guy took the whole impact on his side... he could easily have swerved on the other side and i wouldve been the victim... and his first words after getting out... "aap log sab theek hai na?"... that tells a lot about him... yasir, i know u wont read this... but its because of u that we are all alive and well.... i dont think i wouldve had the guts to do what u did? thanks for saving us....

                                            

                                                        khair moving on... its been a great time spent in college and i hope each and everyone of us has a great career... i hope we have a great journey in life... and we meet each other throughout this journey so that w have exciting tales to share.... till then... be happy.... and drive safely..... 

@ ahmed... sorry im lifting this one but i just had to do it

to all my batchmates... this is what i have to say

Students of different kinds
Students with different minds
Yet they share one similarity
They're tied together; friends in unity

Thanks so much for the funny moments
For when I'm lonely, they're wonderful ailments
Never will I forget these memories
Precious times; precious goodies

This batch shall be united forever
In the same boat; having fun together

Now it's time to go different ways
Time to spend our last few days
Laughing at the funny jokes
Recoiling from the harmless pokes

It's so hard to say goodbye
Let's just imagine it's a time to fly
Promise me you'll stay in my heart,
It's so sad when we're apart

Who will give those funny jokes?
Who will lighten our mopes?
Who can make the teacher laugh?
The teacher who is known to be rough?

Who can make field trips so fun?
Who can reduce our boredom to none?
Who will make learning bearable?
My new class?
No, that's horrible!

to all the students of final years,

lets all hold back on our tears.

I am going to miss you guys
So let's all say,
our final goodbyes. 

and while parting from each other,

lets promise to stay together.

note: if u have read till here... plzz leave a comment... will definitely appreciate it 

  

yawwwnnn

ok so to the millions and millions out there who dont have nything substantial to do.. heres another one of u jobless idle fella cmng out with a blog...
if u r wondering y it took so long to come out with this one, then id like to take ur autograph coz u r one of the sole survivors of that very rare and almost extinct sub-set of homosapiens who actually keep a check on what i write... well frankly speaking i can actually say that i have had 2 iim interviews in this duration but id b lying if id put that down as a reason for not updating my blog... the thing is that 4 years of engg pampers u so much that u become way to lazy to actually think of writing nythng...
ny after my last post i had attended two boot camps and on 13 feb i had my iim-indore interview... which lasted just 8-10 min... now some other guys had their interviews going uptil 30min so i dont know what to make of it.. nyways i will save u the agony of going thru the details of the interview.. in simple words they screwed me in sports//// in sports? man, that was my strong area....
chalo nyways after this interview i resolved to work harder.. which usually meant bunking colg and watching movies at home...
there was an interesting incident that had taken place in the meanwhile... i had gone to a friends place at night to take a few textbooks and there we discussed a lot of topics including ghosts... my friends gave such horryfying descriptions of man and ghost encounters that i have stopped roaming around after 12 at night... its interesting that we fear something that we have only heard about and not encountered but then i might give the same justification to believe in god... nyways i had been to bangalore in the last two days for my iim-a interview and i was very impressed by the city.. its leagues ahead of hyd in cleanliness, infrastructure, culture and.... u can take a guess as to where i was going... ny way if ny one of u has a lot of time to kill then u can probably read my iim-a interview and give me ur feedbaack... the link is http://www.pagalguy.com/forum/cat-and-related-discussion/37584-2009-2011-iima-pgp-essay-3.html plz do give ur feedback.... chalo i gotta go... slept only 8 hours in past 2 days and have to watch man utd vs inter milan at 1230 am... so gotta catch on some sleep... cya.... and yeah just in case u want to listen to some good songs i can recommend two that i liked... now these arent that recent so u might have already heard but just in case u havent then do listen to
the way u look tonight by elton john and careless whisper by george michael..... and just watched luck by chance... nice movie... c it if u havent... chalo im tired and ur bored.... cya..

3 mistakes of my life

to err is human and to forgive divine... but sometimes u err and there is no one to forgive u. these are errors that effect only you... i am touseef, final year engg and these are the mistakes of my life....


this is my final sem in engineering and in 5 months i would be a professional in an alien world, out of this comfort zone that ive been in...
today when i look back at my life so far, i realize with deep despondency that it could have been much better and much more interesting had i taken a few decisions differently..
yesterday i was taking a psychometric test which is supposed to show you what ur strengths and weaknesses are and how you would improve on them.. i just couldnt believe that the result of a 20 minute test could explain to me things that i couldnt learn in my 20 year's life... but when i got down to note the mistakes of my life, i realize that the results of the test were apt, atleast in my case...
my analysis showed that i always took others opinion over mine.. and these decisions have altered the position that i am in...
the first mistake was after 10th standard when i took MPC... i remember it was nov 2002 at a party that my dad's friends reminded me that i was in 10th and was reaching the most important phase of my life i.e intermediate (funny these same words had been used for 10th and later on for my engg too). they asked me what i wanted to do and i casually replies 'CEC'.. the expression on their faces made me reflect on my sentence to affirm that i did not use anything untoward... 'but why cec, you are a good student?'... now what does being a good or a bad student have to do with choosing a stream... but when you are small and as naive as i was at that time, you take any advice coming your way especially if it is wrapped with a bit of flattery... 'you are a good student touseef, you should not take cec' these words kept ringing in my ears.. yeah im a good student and good students dont take cec... so what do the good students take? my uncle answered that for me.. we go 6 months ahead in time when my uncle calls me from india and tells me "congrats touseef, you have got an admission i narayana jr college in MPC stream".. ohhh so good students take admission in MPC... (at that time i thought they gave admission in narayana on merit) ok... thank god i have people who take these decisions for me... so we get into intermediate life where i study 6-8 hrs daily for abt 2 years and get a good rank in eamcet..
now my second mistake in life.. which stream to choose in engg? now where do the good students go? i didnt like my inter life so i dont consult the people i consulted before.. i ask my intermediate lecturers and pat comes the reply... "ofcourse you should take ECE touseef, thats what the toppers choose.."... so now i felt real proud... a month before counselling started, i had actually decided on the stream and college where i was going.. (college was it seems a foregone conclusion in my case).. now if this is not long term planning, then what is? i have a month ahead where all those lazy guys are still confused over what stream and college to choose and i now had a perfect vision in front of me.. i felt proud of myself... its another matter that the only thing i knew about ece was that it stood for electronics and communications engineering and the only thing about mj was its address... but then i earned this place through eamcet right.. i again pity those fellas who are going around listening to different opinions and more so i pitied those who decided a course because they had an interest in the subject... i mean how could you have an interest in the subject? what rubbish.. who are you to decide which stream is better? leave that to the experts like i did.. i go to my jr college and distribute sweets among my lecturers and thank them for guiding me... i go to the counselling center and at my turn the counsellor asked "which stream and college? to which i replied "mjcet, ece" then he gave me his advice and these are words that i will remember all my life... "listen son, i was in your position 20 yrs back and i chose mvsr, ece and trust me i repent it now.. had i chosen civil engg at that time, i wouldnt have had the time to sit here" and i was thinking why doesnt this old man just shut up and give me what i want.. he's just one man compared to the half dozen lecturers i asked for advice and the dozens of family and friends who had commended my 'intelligent' decision... so i finally end up in mjcet,ece... and b4 entering college i thought in ece we are taught latest wireless technologies, how to make cellphones etc...


the third and most crucial mistake that i have made so far and fortunately this is one i can still make up for is the way i have led my life so far... i have studied a lot in my inter life and in my engg life although i havent studied as much, i still havent managed or given due time to my friends... those that i have left behind in my school and jr college life and i fear i am doing the same now... yeah ofcourse i hang around a lot of ppl and have fun with them put i fear that like i had preferred studies over friends previously, i might be doing the same now....

when i look around at the kind of friend circle my brothers have, i feel that this is one place where i have definitely lacked.. perhaps good students dont deserve good friends... plz this is not to offend any of my friends, its just that i feel ive been lacking in this department.... perhaps its mostly i who is to blame and since i know this is the case, i believe the last few months of engg will be reserved solely for friends.. no studies, no more attending regularly... this time will be just to make new friends and strengthen old friendships... i hope everyone helps me in this one....

meanwhile the experts in my life have begun to congratulate me for getting placed and also that my engineering is coming to an end... they ask me what i am doing next... they want the 'good student' to go for an ms or join a company but arent satisfied when i say i want to do an mba... but now ive learned not to get swayed by these opinions... from now on, i will control what i do... just imagine, had i not made my first mistake, i might as well have completed my first year of mba... all the gyaan that i blindly listened to has effectively cost me a year... all those samaritans might be pleased to see that i have travelled the path that they have shown me, even though i am still as naive about ece as i was at the outset...

so here i am again... i am touseef, final year engg, never made the important decisions of my life, but from now i will be incharge of my life... i will make the decisions.. ofcourse i will listen to others and value the opinons but the final decision will be mine..... for good or for worse.....


dedications....
1) aamer, whose story is quite similar to mine and who has discussed this with me for 2 hrs...
2) all my other friends, i will try to value u guys even more than i have before...
3) my mom, who has always told me that a man is rich or poor not by his financial position but by the number of friends that he has...
4) the counsellor who advised me to take civil engg. sorry sir i heard to everyone else but you when it shud've been the other way round.. i now understand what you meant and i support your view.. and 20 years later when i tell the same, i hope my son/daughter listen to me and then use their discretion
5) to anyone who has cared to read this blog.. i hope you take charge of the decisions you make from now...
6) to anyone getting into junior college... listen to ur heart but at the same time, be reasonable...
7)to anyone getting into engg... do not go with the flow... civil is better than ece on any given day...