Is this not love...

She had told him

To go away

Before he could

Fall in the net.

She told him

That's life's journey

Would be long

Cumbersome

Fatal,

That what in future

Could not come true-

It's better not to pursue.

Still his crazy heart

Led on to believe

That whats not meant to be

Can still be reality.

He came forward

Etching the way

For professing love

And reliving bygone days.

She felt his heart

Crying in pain.

He knew she would

Never admit the same.

He promised never to

Profess love for her again.

Yet that she remains happy

He would pray again and again....

Back where I Belong

My heart speaks after a long time. What I had missed all these months was- letting my creativity loose on my blog. No. Summer internship, quizzes, classes, mid-terms, end-terms, events, projects- can't make me lose myself. So better late than never- Now am bak at it. Back with a vengeance. I hereby redeem my soul...............

Restless in the day,

Sleepless in the night,

Reckless in what I do,

Helpless in how to proceed,

I knock the doors of my heart,

In search of an answer.

My heart responds with a tear,

Yet it says not to fear,

That everything will be fine.

That penning poetry would bring me cheer,

And get back my life's shimmer,

My soul's shine.....

I love JLTs

I love JLTs. U find all sorts of ppl there. One who is there solely for the music. One who is there solely for the free beer. One who is there for the music and dance. One for the music and drinks. One for the music, drinks and dance. (Left out a few combinations that dont make sense....duh!)

Yet, ALL are there for having FUN- their version of it!

One who thinks that it's impossible to start shaking a leg without a few drinks warming the belly. Anoder who is a natural- not a drop of the flowing beer to dance till morning. One who closes her eyes and dances- in a trance. One wid eyes wide open to watch other people dance. One who watches other ppl who are watching other ppl dance..(confused huh? But that's how it is!). One who is head banging at every possible chance. One who wants clicks with the chicks on the dance floor. Anoder who simply enjoys being there from the sidelines with a drink in hand. One who announces for the dancing circle to become bigger and make space for him- unconscious reaction due to the drinks making him slightly lose control. Anoder who has completely lost control- is soon carried back to room. And anoder who knows he is fast losing control- he holds the walls and slides away from the nite.

One who talks by going close to anoder's ears on the pretext of loud volume. And one who shouts above the music to talk to anoder. One who makes his love proposal heard with the DJ's mike. Anoder who sings loudly as well while dancing- gets a sore throat the next day. And anoder who lip-syncs the songs while dancing to save the sore-throat torture. One who dances with every group. One who is limited to just a single group. One who begs for a chance to dance with a chick and the chick flees coz of the intensity of drunken smell. One whom many dudettes want to dance with inspite of him being intensely drunk. One who lights a cigarette and multi-shares it and leaves out puffs like a mini-chimney. One who stays away from the chimney yet dances in the fire of exhileration with the awesome beats.

One who is simply a dancing mirror image of another all through-out. And one who originates the next funky step for the dancing circle. There's yet anoder originator- who starts the train chain which travels through and around the dance floor.

One who dances but still is busy watching other ppl's dance. One who forgets about other ppl dancing and simply dances in the elixir of the moment. One who looks at the time and then leaves- brush karne ka time, (max) soney ka time, khaney ka time, padhney ka time vagera vagera maybe fixed for this person...or maybe simply to avoid sleep deprivation for the next day's activities. One who goes off for a drunken date- perfect time. One who goes on dancing till the wee morning hours till the 'Gemini' & 'Sutta' songs come on. One who joins in the mornin after coupla hours of sleep.

One who holds a glass of punch just to be seen as 'in'. One who has not even tasted punch since inception and does not feel 'not in'. One who raises the steam with the moves. One who raises the energy level with the sheer choreographic and energetic grooves. One who needs to be pulled to the floor by friends. One who can't stop the body from dancing when the music begins. One who is taken to heaven by the drinks. One who is grounded even when drunk.

I don't JLT (just like that) love JLTs- I love them coz it's human xtasy at its peak. it's xperiencing the whole gamut of high-spirited humanity. It's the elixir of life @ XIMB...:)

Tata Crucible Quiz 2010 :: Campus Edition at Bhubaneswar

170 teams. 6 finalists. Nail biting finish. The Crown Hotel was the venue for a grand round of Tata Crucible Campus Round quiz. DRIEMS (an engg collg) came 1^st and a team from Utkal University came 2^nd. Excellent answers cracked by the teams. The 20-20 match started with the prelims round and the 20 prelims qns were:

1. Which international food company in India uses the original Coat of Arms of its founding family as its company logo which consists of a bird feeding its children in a nest?

2. Calvin Klein is owned by which international company?

3. Pic shown of founder of Biocon. Identify.

4. Which famous businessman has been ranked as the Businessman of the Century by Fortune magazine?

5. Which is the only railway station to be named after a business group?

6. Logo of company showing a red cheetah.

7. Carol Davidson designed the logo for $35. Which company’s logo?

8. Which city is known as the diamond capital of India?

9. Showed pic of the book ‘The Monk who sold his Ferrari’. Who wrote it?

10. Showed pic of the ‘Walk while you talk’ campaign. Which company?

11. Showed pic of a number of products together- Revive, Parachute Jasmine etc. Which company makes these products?

12. What’s the name of business newspaper from Hindustan Times Group?

13. Which company was known as Racal Telecom in 1984? (Clu: UK based company)

14. Pic shown of Yahoo’s CEO. Identify.

15. The movie ‘Howdy Chicago’ achieved what unique first in 1921? (Clu: It was the first to be screened at a particular place)

16. Visual shown of ‘the lady in sparkling white’. Which brand?

17. Which gadget is made by the Canadian company, Research in Motion?

18. It was called ‘Pinwheel’ when it was introduced in Dec 1, 1977 and owned by QUBE channel. What’s this kids channel now known as?

19. Which is the largest prescribed drug in India which comes in flavours of mint, mix fruit and orange? (Clu: Choices given: Saradon, Digene, Hajmola)

20. Played music- Dhan te nan. Who was the producer?

Answers:

1. Nestle

2. Van Heusen ( We got this wrong- wrote Tomy Hilfiger.:( )

3. Kiran Mazumdar Shaw

4. Henry Ford

5. Tatanagar

6. Puma

7. Nike

8. Surat

9. Robin Sharma

10. Idea Cellular

11. Marico

12. Mint (Got this wrong. We wrote Business Standard, which is actually by the Telegraph group)

13. Vodafone (Could it be so obvious?! So we wrote Ericsson- wrong agen!)

14. Carol Bartz (Oops! We knew she’s CEO of Yahoo bt didn’t kno her name!)

15. 1^st movie to be screened on an aircraft ( Got this wrong too!)

16. Nirma. J

17. Blackberry

18. Nickelodeon

19. Digene (Whoops! We had written Saradon!)

20. Ronie Screwvala (UTV)

With 14/20, we qualified for the Wildcard Round. +1 for 3 teams in our Wildcard Round, so we had a tie breaker & couldn’t make it. However, we got amazing goody bags!! Thanks Tata Crucible & Pickbrain! For an amazing round of quiz at Bhubaneswar.

She...

She is a flower. So delicate that she’s even scared of the dew touching her. She thinks she’ll be torn apart by ravenous human beings. But actually, her own feelings are doing the same to her, leaving shreds of herself in front of her.

Silently she despises herself. For not being one with the crowd. For not doing things like they do. Locking herself in her room, while the others scream and squeal outside, she feels like an outsider to herself. She is lost, burdened by her emotional baggage, ravaged by her own soul. She wants to break free, and fly away to a place where complicacies don’t complicate, where respect holds respect, where politics don’t politicise every damn thing. A sad reality- how straight-forwardness is not liked by the fake people in this world. How she is gifted loneliness by the fake people, who only flock with their own kind. She can’t fake anything. She is truth, she is life, and she is a river flowing along her own course. She is looking for herself in the coal, while she is herself turning into a priceless diamond under the pressure and heat of the forest. The forest of ravenous, insensitive, selfish and political human beings.

She just needs someone to observe her from outside, someone who is not blind to differentiate the diamond from within the coal.

Guess what? She just found that person.