B L A C K day !

There are some days in our lives when feelings of nationalism, unity in diversity, feelings to pay our respects to the country arise...one such situation was described well in RDB... In my standard 8th and 9th, I had become quite popular due to a certain essay, and later an elocution I had given on the same topic - 50 years of India's independence. I still remember a couple of lines from it. What I have been realizing in the bygone years is that I was speaking it out to deaf ears - zombies who cant understand - 'people'who dont want to break from the shackles of being pinned down first by the British, and now by sluggishness and lack of movement. Lack of movement - lack of the desire to move ahead and speak out what one really wants...speak out that whats goin on is not democracy after all..

Our thinking has most certainly acquired rust through the times - we see hundreds of things happening rite in front of our eyes, yet we dont do anything, dont move a muscle...one of my roommates gave me a good excuse for it today 'Who has the time to...' lets not complete it...dont most of us mention the same thing? Whats shaking the country at present is mainly the needs of the students, whose cries arent being heard...the decision for 49.75 percent reservation for seats in educational institutions as well as a mojority of the private sector (including companies, and even schools) is being taken forward by the Central government, and no one seems to be able to do somethin...who stands up - the people affected the most...the students from medical colleges to be the max...and what do they get in return - water bombs, tear gas...words of appreciation??

TOI mentioned May 19th to be a national 'black' day...in opposition to these reservations. As I walked out of da place where i stay today morning, I felt a sense of relief in doin at least some small thing for the country...which is at present in da hands of some bewakoofs...relieved to see that at least some of my fellow countrymen did get the message and wore a black attire to some extent...a bit cross when i saw dat people had forgotten about it, or the message had not properly been delivered across, mind u, inspite of being published in TOI Bangalore Edition...

I do not exactly know how the response was from the people from other companies, but as per one of my colleagues here, 'We could do the best to express ourselves...we cant do nethin if the others just cant or dont want to do it'... True, but expression is necessary. How closely the situation matches disaster is known only to the people who have fire within them...those who are closely fighting the people formulating these laws. The others stay in the shadows, provide comments, but use English as a powerful tool in order to express their feelings - not physical, but expressed well. 'Scholarships, not reservations', 'Why reservations in the first place', 'Give it to THEM instead of plain vanilla reservations'...such messages are across all media...and yeah they have provoked da youth to a considerable extent...

What I am searching for, though, are revolutionaries - an Azaad, an Ashfaqulla, a Singh, and so on of their kind, who will one of these days go ahead and do the needful... the country needs blood...let it be of those guys who make such 'bakwaas' laws...!

Old times ... Old friends !

Der is somethin I havent yet mentioned in my blog - bout the team outing - in fact 2 of them, which happened in successive weeks - da only thing mentionable about them being my first experience with go-karting and bowling (I know if a go-kart maniac is readin this he wud be shocked)...

Pics of da team outings:















Howeva nuthin else mentionable in the same, as compared to da holiday which was yet to come - this holiday to my native place seemed even more important as I had missed another planned holidat in mid-April. And of course, this time da holiday was more about meetin da 'bichdey-huey' dost along with good time with the family. And so it was...

I guess da travelogue posted by my friend Kiran on his blog will be more informative, and will give a detailed explanation of da entire trip (ahem - he is a travel freak...knows all da road names, town names etc etc like nethin!)...To be more specific, he enjoyed his time on Saturday with me, and on Sunday wid his Ponda friends, so well - for da latter- I guess it wud be best to refer his write-up...






Saturday - we reached quite late, thanx to my dear friends love for Kadamba Transport, after a nite infested wid cockroaches and a punctured tyre...Was famished coz I hadnt had a proper dinner too...Kiran (for those who dont know, is my pal who had come to visit Goa where he had lived for a long time) had to leave soon to settle some rent agreement with a tenant for his own flat...so da aftnoon was more about lunch (fish of course - most non-veg Goans die for dat!)...and also mangoes...Kiran was back by lunch...

We left early in da evening...bought a new Nokia cell for mom, and den proceeded to meet all da friends at Miramar... Surprisingly a huge crowd had gathered there...realized soon dat almost evryone was down (or 'up') at Goa for this short holiday - so it was a great time to meet...met all da Goa Engineering guys first...a huge number...of course among them my school pal Sumegh, and later joined by Rohan...also met Deepa after 3 months...she had left Blore in Jan end...

dats Kiran for u...




da GEC gang...




Deepa dear...




dats me and my pal Sumegh over there...




Rohan - still da same...




Sarvesh with his new bike...




Wat do u think - a Mushti reunion...




dedicated to da old bhel-puri guy for havin always made some awesome bhel...




n finally this is dedicated to Kiran - a la Sunset...




Baatein bahut hui..snaps were clicked...then it was the traditional move-on to the bhelpuri waalaas...(there isnt a single place in Blore where u will get such awesome bhel-puri...so come to Goa and enjoy)...along who Shashank, Sarvesh, and another school pal Lessica whom we met there,we formed a school meet as well...so dat was even more fun...

Had some errands to run with Kiran later, after which we sat down at Rohan's house and had a small chat before we departed...later we went to Gauri's house (another school pal)...Kiran was meetin these people after hell of a long time (YEARS in fact!)...so it was a great reunion for him...waited for some time there and were back home then...

Day 2 - Sunday...lazy day...and even lazier coz we were in Goa...Kiran left early morning for Ponda to meet his friends there...I went out with dad to withdraw some money and for some other errands...come afternoon, a heavy lunch...(seriously yumm!)...and I was enjoyin drivin on da way to Margao...had to meet Uma and Mangirish after almost a year at Uma's place...after reachin there got stuck on da way, and had to call for Mang to show the way ahead to her place...

Had a great time there...a nice talk over sherbet and other eatables...Mang seemed da same, though Uma looked like she had put on some weight...(know she will kill me for mentioning this here)...we spoke a lot...Mang had to leave in between to Pune for some exam on Tuesday...so the remaining talk was with Uma and her parents...we knew we wudnt meet soon after this, so we spoke our hearts out!!

dats Uma and Mang...miss da great times we have had togetha!



Guess dat was all about friends for da trip...had a lazy last day to add to evrythin, and a nice trip back to blore - wid a maniac driver - no one's eva brot me faster than him at ne time!!

Sumhow took time from my schedule these days to write this...gettin back to work now...