Rookies day out !

Indian Institute Of Technology, the Mt.Everest for those in pursuit of greatness… And two aimless fellows…

I got down from my Uncle’s car and waited near the entrance of IIT, Madras- a place which has proved to be a heaven for some and elusive to most other aspirants.
I stood rethinking whether or not I should enter the premises. IIT Dept of Management Sciences quiz event, 25 grand at stake and a top official from Tata hosting the grand finale, so a big event, but felt I was the biggest misfit in there. Govind, my team mate, equally hopeless about the quiz arrived finally. We waited for the Eco-friendly bus that goes around the college in loops the whole day. And during our ten minute wait for the bus, two guys from some B-School got down from an auto, paid their overpriced fare and walked past us.

I gave a smile to Govind, he reciprocated.
~ still not too late to leave~

But we dint chicken out, and we were hoping to get atleast one question right in the whole competition to just induce some confidence so that we come here again !
The bus had inadequate space and I had to bear with my hunchback like posture all through the journey.

~being a six footer sometimes sux~

An IITian offered to guide us to the quiz rendezvous and on the way, he asked us if we were IITians !

~ Dude, I never wrote JEE all my life ~

He lead us into the wrong building, apologized and he finally found his way to where we were supposed to go, some auditorium.
We were the youngest of the lot in the arena, as no first year will be so stupid to be present in a national event. All the quiz teams, which had flown in from all parts of the nation were ready and eager for the curtain raiser, with their final magazine current affairs revision and had rough sheets other than those provided by the organizers.

~ Shit, We dint even have a pen with us ! ~
Govind borrowed one from the event manager.
And the show began. We guessed some 15 out of 25 questions put forth. And got just 10 right.
We went over to the seniors from my college, heads down. He queried if we got atleast 3 questions right. Ten we replied and got a big pat, but little did we know the essence of the pat...
Presuming that all the other teams would’ve got 20+ right, we silently bolted out of the arena and headed for CCD within the campus proximities.

One pm – Me and Govind hoggin at some cakes and sandwiches, and also drinking ( soft) to our Successful Mission, having got more than one question right. And we checked our mobiles to find that we had missed calls from two numbers which were in a CUG. Strange. I called up a number to find some geek telling me that our team had qualified for the finals. I replied, who is playing this bloody joke? The voice urged us to be there at 1.20 !
And so we had got TEN questions right, not 'just' ten questions !
WE QUALIFIED !!! IIT MBA QUIZ FINAL, defeating all the stalwarts from B-Schools...PHEW!!

We indulged in a suprise merriment at ccd and ordered more stuff. And after paying the bill, one look at the watch left Govind bewildered. 1.40 pm !!!
We ran like mad to the auditorium. Just in time for the quiz.
~ thankfully the quiz master was late as ever ! ~

Subadesh Kanna and Govind of SSNCE, the quiz master announced, as we took our seats on stage and while floating in euphoria.
And no blank sheets with us! I walked over to the organizers and got one.
The stage set for a grand finale...

~ Now, wheres the pen? ~

I borrowed it again from the organizer cheekily.
The quiz kicked off. After two hours of utter bewilderment, with momentary nuances in our attitude, the quiz was finally over. The scorecard read 65,50,37,25 and then meekly in the end, it read SSNCE Govind and Subadesh - 15 !
A T-Shirt and a certificate is not all that we got, but some gasps from the winners on knowing that we were first years and first timers to the competition.

Call it an underdog's day or a nohoper's moment of greatness or an overdose of serendipity but nothing can take the two hours of unalloyed glory from us !

And this is just the beginning...

The new BIBLE BABBLE

The humid wind blows against me in the cold November rain on a dark sabbath (as one of the 10 commandments is ” Remember the Sabbath and keep it holy”), immediately after I sacrificed my mane …

Oh God, please raise me thy right hand and count me among thy saints and satisfy all my endearing prayers...

1.My College's system administrator’s firewall software realizes that Charlens Dickens is not an 'unsuitable' site

2. For the good of Tamil Cinema, Vijay relinquishes his desire of acting and joins Prabhu Deva’s team as a dance assistant’s tea supplier’s apprentice.

3. Bakshi wins the Bharat Ratna award for excellence in the field of education. Chitode and Godse (if they really exist!) can settle with Padma Shris.

4. Ponting gives up cricket (and the chase of bettering the endangered thala Sachin’s Test Record) coz his kid is scared to pee alone in the night.

5. Sports section in The Hindu occupies the first 4 pages (or lease it out to Playboy n Hustle). Definitely, there are more takers for news about the stirring P***C wars than the sordid political wars!

6. Government enacts a law on stifling repeatedly re telecasted reprisal of news reports on India’s news channels… Deepika’s sensational photo shoots can be exempted.

7. MJ’s fortune is bequeathed to the Government, with which the homeless American children can be taken care of. After all, MJ loves children ;)

8. Anna University conducts a lottery based mark awarding system for students. With peons and random nincompoopish staff correcting our papers and arbitrarily awarding marks, why take the intemperate route and conduct exams?

9. A family with 4 teenage daughters moves into the nearby plot. After all, one of the Great Commandments is “Love Thy neighbor”.

Amen.

Jinx lifted !!!

A glorious pleasant Friday evening at Sydney...
A cut through the covers, and the SCG crowd rose to their feet and applauded.
The master back in business with a boisterous bang.
Indian triclours shining with pride in the crowd as its favourite son scores a ton.

Ricky...Who??

The God of Hundreds smiling at Sachin.Bhajji (determined after a rift with Roy) gives a high five to Sachin.
The whole nation upbeat with the Master's ton, morale of Indians hikes.A thousand cameras clicking at once.
TV viewers glued, with a gleeful smile, to the television to see their hero make it to triple figures after quite a while.
All news channels and sportscenter, start preparing headlines for their primetime shows.
A vociferous exclamation of joy by a bookmaker, as Sachin's ton won him millions and a doleful gambler who had lost the same n sulking, yet managing a smile !
The paparrazi clicking away the nextday's cover story picture.
Students (inc me) leaping in joy as they see the sms announcing his ton.
Office goers trying hard to supress their smile while talking to their manager, who is beaming goofishly with joy.
Sunil, Ravi, Harsha and the whole commentary team cheerfully continue their work.
The Indian camp in the dressing room at their feet, realising that after all, Sachin is the lynchpin of the team.
Soothsayers and felonious josiar crooks announcing that the fifth star is behind the sixth one and hence good fortune for Sachin.
Arjun Tendulkar has another chance to flaunt to his school mates about his Dad's heroics.
Finally, prayers answered, poojas and araadhanas have effected his innings.
Sachin looks up into the sky and gives a smile at the smiling god.
HE couldnt have scripted a better story...
19 years and running, 38 centuries and counting...

Australian supporters and cricketers,too frustrated by the Indian innings, but can they cant stop the cheeky smile in their lips, like the one reading this right now!

Such is the impact of Sachin, brings on you an invlountary smile...

Sachin....great...in every sense of the word !

GF n EA

Why would it be exciting if girlfriends were like video games...

Gaming consoles and PCs cannot yell / retort.

Absolute control, the guy has on whether to dump the game or continue with it (or go for a different one;) ).

Games wait till you feel like playing.

You can just turn off the gaming console when you are pissed with it. Or change the difficulty level settings when things aren't going your way.

Any game is not going to hate you for playing a different one - no fears of commitment, though addiction is likely.

No strings(wires) attached, literally with wireless controllers.

When things aren't going fine, you can always start all over again or return to some saved checkpoint!

You are with the game everyday... At your own place, in your own room, right under your mom’s nose.

Games get better and better with newer versions every year ( like angelina 08, angelina 09*!) !!! *vellakaari(foreign) name, to avoid any resemblance.

50 posts, and I still haven’t dealt on a serious topic - well, we criticize about illogical masala cinema but still, Singh is King is grossing in millions. Neither have I presented my views on current affairs – what are newspapers and news channels for?.
To all the readers who’ve wasted their time on the products of my wasted time, keep wasting your time often this way!
Thanks for fuelling me, right from the time when I was trying to find my footing in blogosphere to this moment…

2008 - Mundane to miraculous ...

2008, the 57 events that I expect or atleast dream about...
Even numbered points are almost improbable ;)

1. Australian cricekt team realizes the existence of failure
   
2. The Fab Four ( Sachin,Dada,Dravid and Lax) live upto the expectations
   
3. BCCI works unbiased and doesnt involve politics in Cricket
   
4. Sharukh Khan rejects atleast one endorsement offer and watches cricket matches at home
   
5. Kalaignar TV does some some show originally
   
6. Shilpa Shetty is kissed by Arnold or Rooney
   
7. The deserving C.Ronaldo bags FIFA world player of the year
   
8. Expecting atleast 2-3 hindi movies with only ONE hero in it
   
9. When atleast one Indian football player(or anyother sport other than Cric and Sania) gets an endorsement!
   
10. Sania should(nt) shrink her dress even more
    
11. Harris scores original music
    
12. Maldini retires
    
13. Someone explains me why golf is so popular !!
    
14. Dhoom3 shouldnt be directed
    
15. Amitabh stars in less than 50% of the no. of Hindi movies the whole year
    
16. Bheema should be released finally
    
17. Vijay doesnt do a remake!
    
18. AR does more Tamil albums
    
19. Narain enters F1 and gets to the podium atleast once
    
20. Ponting averages less than 45
    
21. England soccer team doesnt sack another coach
    
22. Sehwag sheds some weight and god knows why why he s in the squad
    
23. Pak coach Geoff Lawson manages to be alive when the year ends
    
24. Beckham popularises soccer in USA rather than scouting for a good Hollywood script
    
25. Venkatesh (telugu star) starts a party
    
26. Mani Ratnam gives a hit after a loooong time
    
27. Dollar equivalent goes below 35
    
28. Rajini Kanth announces his 'last' movie and means it
    
29. USA withdraws its troops from Iraq
    
30. International squash or football matches in India draw crowds ( with priced tickets ! )
    
31. Board Exams should end without any confusion over entrance exams
    
32. Osama Bin laden is captured, but he is so audacious that he released his picture in 2007!
    
33. Reservation policy shouldnt be implicated in IITs and imagine a cricket team or a movie with such a policy !
34. Kabaddi,Carrom and chess should be included in Olympics
    
35. Shane Warne or Steve Waugh act in some Bollywood movie
    
36. Jadeja talks of a comeback
    
37. Some friend of you doesnt have an orkut account
    
38. An indigenous tamilian stars as a heroine opposite an established actor
    
39. Asafa Powell isnt charged with indulging in drugs, following suit Jones and Gatlin
    
40. Someone ignorant of INdian cinema believes that Vijay Kanth is a hero
    
41. Roman Abrahomovich goes bankrupt
    
42. North Indians chicks acting in Tamil movies,talk other than those 3 words - konjam konjam therium in Tamil
    
43. Majority of NRI ( non returning Indians ) return to India
    
44. Shahid and kareena, Simbhu and nayantara ( now that shes ravishingly good), Salman and Katrina, paes and Mahesh rejoin, as magazines are running aout of ssips
    
45. Reliance doesnt invlove in manufacturing of Electronic goods ( atheyavuthu vittu vainga! )
    
46. Reliance,Aditya Birla and Tata bequeath half their property to the Indian Govt.
    
47. Vijay Mallya turns his attention towards Indian football, as he owns East Bengal club, rather than kingfisher calendar hotties
    
48. MJ opens a new SCHOOL ( you know why! ) and some git enrolls his son there!
    
49. Pakistan stops worrying about Kashmir when their own land is going out of control
    
50. No. of new Engg colleges constructed should be less than five.
    
51. Federer fails to win all the four Grand Slams ( yup, am a sampras fan)
    
52. IPL invites Kapil Dev for the opening ceremony
    
53. No email between Kirsten and Dhoni should be leaked
    
54. JK writes "HArry Potter returns", after being pressurized the same way as Doyle
    
55. Students see life beyond the IT industry
    
56. OMR should be fully constructed
    

And the last one

57. Hindu collaborates with Playboy ;)