It is not normal for me to put in two posts on the same date...even though the time difference is a bit on the higher side, but as I said in the previous post, there are days when things just keep hapenning.

This time it was the re-arrival of the pop (our LAN messenger). Now things will go more towards normal as we have the divine pop to provide some sort of excitement in our otherwise dull lives.

Thank you God for listening to our prayers...we can get back some semblance of normalcy in our lives now.

Some days life is so dull. As if their was nothing in this entire world that could shake the laziness away from you. Then suddenly one day in between will change the entire idea....in my case I would put it at 2 days actually. This entire term had started on a very lazy note. Absolutely no classes and the entire weather ensured that we did not feel the need to get out of our beds....let alone do some useful work. The last two days changed the entire thing.

In the end it feels as if some hidden force had just been gathering strength to strike at the right time. This time it had to be my girlfriend...actually it was me only...I am just blaming her (after all I can take those liberties on my blog ;-)) Yesterday I suddenly came to realize that I had (I thought) not told my beloved (her name is Megha btw) about my blog. Just one of those things which suddenly strike you and I could not believe what will happen to me when she finds out. Daring that I am, I decided to find out my fate and the next time I mailed to her, I sent her the link to my blog.

I came to know almost instantly that lightning takes a lot of time to strike. She took less. The next moment I knew, she had inundated me with "How could you's"...well had I known the answer, I would have told her but that is not the case....even I dont know. It has taken two days for me to get back into her good books again (hopefully) and this time I intend to be more carefull. You dont want to lost the faith of the one person who means so much to you, right...

So the next time you are getting bored...just 'forget' to tell something to your girlfriend / boyfriend (I dont think the latter will work though...it is the girl's who have the knack of scolding properly)

All the best people.

The following are the lyrics of the song "Am I true to myself" by Lobo. How true can simple songs sometimes be? I guess this actually takes care of the self-actualization stage that we keep talking about in our management day and night. We would have reached this stage if we can actually look into the mirror and see a very satisfied person, a person who has been true to everyone, a person who is happy with all that he has and all that he has been able to achieve for himself and for people around him. Can we actually make these things come true for ourselves? Ever?

Take care and have a safe journey towards self-actualization....

Today I looked down in the water
I saw a face look back at me
It hit me like a bolt of lightning
I may not like what I see.

Am I true to myself
Do I believe in what I do
Am I playing a role
Do I want to be like you
Or am I what I hate in others
Only seeing things my way
That's what I'm gonna ask myself today.

Do I really like my brothers
Do I like my hair so long
Do I try to think of others
Can I believe what's in my song

Do I think of all men equal
Or pretend I just don't see
Have I looked for good in others
Or just laughed and let them be.

Someone tell me how much can it rain in one place. Delhi has started getting rain from the last 2 days as I came to know through my family. Here in Bhubaneswar if I find the sky clear and no water falling from heaven to completely soak me within 15 seconds flat, then it will seem different. So much has it rained since the last 10 days or so (non-stop, unlimited, beating down on the roofs) that the recent Mumbai floods would definitely have got a lot less (this makes me want to praise the dranage system of Bhubaneswar though I feel it is more because of the elevated land area that has resulted in this beautiful drainage).

The pros of these rains is the wonderful water that is always present for you to take a bath in. We can always go to the bathroom to do that but bathing in the rain has a different sensation which only people who have VOLUNTARILY taken a bath in the rain will be able to explain. Another huge advantage is that I actually sit inside my room all the time and that is really essential right now with a business plan, Kurukshetra presentation, project appraisal and company analysis to be done in the next one week.

The con is definitely the difficulty with which clothes dry up. They take more time to dry than start smelling due to the dampness. I thought I had left this clothes problem in the navy but it seems to keep occuring again and again. "History repeats itself" so they say.

Not that I never think about people in distress but this time my heart seriously goes to the people in the drought affected areas. Cant someone give some of this rain to them?

Exams are over. Actually it has been two days since they finished. I was too lazy to get up from my bed to write a post to let anyone who cared to know about this. Actually anyone who would care to know about my exams being over already knows that they are over.

My learning from the last two days:
1. Come what may, I cannot sleep for more than 11 hours at a stretch (Yes, I AM doing an MBA)
2. If you sleep for long hours, you actually feel more sleepy during the day. So you have to sleep more and that makes you even more sleepy.
3. You feel more hungry when you sleep than when you go out and play football!!! Yeah...even I could not believe this could be true untill it hapenned to me.

Its been two days since the pop stopped working on campus. It was a real relief intially with Kartikeya (K-virus) and now even Bivas and Maloy coming up with thr versions of Stick Cricket and Pingu and all the other games....and that also always during exams....but now the absence of pop is getting on to me. You feel so cut off with nothing to do. No pops just popping out of anywhere and u getting to do all sort of things....quizzing, revising syllabii, teasing ppl etc etc etc...

And that actually made me start feeling about the time when we will leave the place. Probably ximbians.com will be helpful since we still will be able to have a virtual pop where we can interact and chat but what if we do not get time? Rumpelstiltzkin, Don, Eminence, Webmaniac, Dragon, King Arthur, Scarface, Cupid, Critter, Narcissist, Scorpion... and of course the ppl with thr actual names...Safi, Maloy, Venky and roll nos as well (U104008 is the top of the mind here)....is it going to be the same? I actually see two juniors calling themselves Hawk and Eagle...wether intentional or not....I liked it ;)..these are synonyms of my name after all so i can say they are inspired by me...he he he (God save them)

The 14 14 14 14 (War cry of AOE) from Arthur which makes us run to start AOE......(6) (sign of the devil on pop) from Don which i started patenting for myself......demands for songs or movies, assignments or project reports of seniors, calls for meetings or fixing of dates....I am sure we cant have all this anywhere else.

I hope my work makes me so busy that I forget all about it and get on with my life. I hope that the same does not happen with my frnds and we all stay together. I hope i stop being so senti sooner than later since i have an exam to give tomorrow and 4 more over the next 2 days...