Mom....

Read these lines in a newspaper, and realized it was so true....

You moved to another city
She understood
You were too busy to call everyday
She didn't mind
When she cried,she cried alone
When you cried, she cried with you
When you said 'Ma, this is important',
she prayed for you.

Thanks mom, Love you.

The Soldier...

Here is a very touching poem about a soldier and his thoughts...of how the country and the countrymen have forgotten his contribution to the country...(btw I haven't written this poem...)

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How you play with us, did you ever see?
At Seven, I had decided what I wanted to be;
I would serve you to the end,
All these boundaries I would defend.
Now you make me look like a fool,
When at Seventeen and just out of school;
Went to the place where they made "men out of boys"
Lived a tough life …sacrificed a few joys…
In those days, I would see my 'civilian' friends,
Living a life with the fashion trends;
Enjoying their so called "College Days"
While I sweated and bled in the sun and haze…
But I never thought twice about what where or why
All I knew was when the time came,
I'd be ready to do or die.
At 21 and with my commission in hand,
Under the glory of the parade and the band,
I took the oath to protect you over land, air or sea,
And make the supreme sacrifice when the need came to be.
I stood there with a sense of recognition,
But on that day I never had the premonition, that when the time came to give me my due,
You'd just say," What is so great that you do?

"Long back you promised a well to do life;
And when I'm away, take care of my wife.
You came and saw the hardships I live through,
And I saw you make a note or two,
And I hoped you would realise the worth of me;
but now I know you'll never be able to see,
Because you only see the glorified life of mine,
Did you see the place where death looms all the time?
Did you meet the man standing guard in the snow?
The name of his newborn he does not know...
Did you meet the man whose father breathed his last?
While the sailor patrolled our seas so vast?

You still know I'll not be the one to raise my voice
I will stand tall and protect you in Punjab Himachal and Thois.
But that's just me you have in the sun and rain,
For now at Twenty Four, you make me think again;
About the decision I made,
Seven years back;
Should I have chosen another life, some other track?
Will I tell my son to follow my lead?
Will I tell my son, you'll get all that you need?
This is the country you will serve
This country will give you all that you deserve?

I heard you tell the world "India is shining"
I told my men, that's a reason for us to be smiling
This is the India you and I will defend!
But tell me how long will you be able to pretend?
You go on promise all that you may,
But it's the souls of your own men you betray.

Did you read how some of our eminent citizens
Write about me and ridicule my very existence?
I ask you to please come and see what I do,
Come and have a look at what I go through
Live my life just for a day
Maybe you'll have something else to say?
I will still risk my life without a sigh
To keep your flag flying high
but today I ask myself a question or two…

Oh India …. Why do I still serve you?
"
-Anonymous

Whose Road is it Anyway??

Recently I read in the papers how people are not willing to help others involved in serious road accidents...n it bought back an old memory....

This happened when i was in 2nd or 3rd standard...n we lived in Arjun Vihar near Dhaula Kuan in Delhi....We used to go for walks on the main road just outside the place…It was a busy road and our favorite past time used to be counting the numbers of cars n bikes passing through each light....At one point there was a huge crater in the middle of the (extremely well paved..) road and people on two wheelers used to realize at the very last moment and swerved out of the way....One of them on a scooter (and luckily wearing a helmet...which wasn't compulsory on Delhi roads at that time..) wasn't that lucky on that particular night when we were walking...n took the crater at high speed and bumped and fell down a short distance away. With a head injury...the guy was badly hit... Dad somehow managed to bring him and his scooter to the footpath in the middle of traffic n then tried to flag down a car to take him to a hospital which wasn't very far away...but none of the drivers stopped…afraid of being caught up in some police case...because if you bring a guy to the hospital the first question people ask is "Why did you bring him here?? Must have been your car that hit him?? Etc..."

After some time dad managed to finally flag down an army vehicle...but even those guys weren't very keen to help...After Dad told them that he too was from the Air Force, they finally took Dad n the guy to the hospital...Dad somehow got his phone no. from his wallet and called up his family. Soon they got to the hospital n then Dad came back home....His relatives came to our place a couple of days later and took his scooter which Dad had kept at our place after he took the guy to the hospital....
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We didn't have courage to call up his family & ask later about his condition, as the doctors had told us that he was in a pretty bad shape, with a critical head injury.
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After about 6 months or so a man came to our house and Dad opened the door...his first words were "Do you recognize me sir?? I am the same guy whose life you had saved last month..." He told us that he had got 97 stitches on his head…We were elated to know that he was fit & fine now.



I still feel people are not willing to help others because they are too busy...n that stopping to help someone would disrupt their tight schedules of getting to office or home or whatever...and also the fact that the Police and people at hospitals look at you suspiciously and think that you have ulterior motives if you help someone...Though this is changing with the coming in of Ambulance services...sometimes they cannot reach on time...n u might be the only chance the person has...of surviving…so don't just drive on…when you see a serious accident....try to help so that a good deed is passed on...

"Because sometimes you need to be the change you want to see in the world"


Anyway on a more happy note...its Father's Day....Happy Father's day to you Dad....love you...

Reservation...

A lot has been said about reservations and both its pro and cons have been given in huge details...n well as a student( who incidentally are at the receiving end in the whole "How much reservation?" fiasco) I am definitely NOT in favor of having reservation for backward classes.

Most of the institutes take up students on basis of an admission test, n if a student is qualified enough, he gets through, n most of the institutes including BITS Pilani for that matter give scholarship to quite a large number of people who are not financially well off, so it doesn't make sense to first have reservation and then give scholarships to students. The place where politicians should try to enforce reservations is in schools so that the huge numbers of students who cannot afford to go to schools can get the opportunities to excel.Also increasing the percentage of people who cannot pay the fees indirectly screws the rest of the students who have pay higher fee to keep the institute running...whats the sense in that???

But, unfortunately, a politician refuses to see logic, he is more interested in votes..( n seriously how many educated people ever go to vote in elections...).

On a lighter side, I had a few days ago posted abt the creative poets in our campus, here's another thought provoking poem by Dr BR Natarajan(Dean Nattu) about reservations:

Future Shock for India

Wisdomless Politicians
Meritless Admissions

Meaningless Curriculums
Substance less Examinations

Faculty less Departments
Student less Colleges

VC less Universities
Knowledgeless Society

Developmentless Nation
Into that hell of gloomdom

My Father,
Let my country go to Sleep
Let my country go to Sleep...

Is this where we are heading???

btw Compre starts frm Thursday..gt to start studying now..
bbye till the end of compre...

Jogging...

yoyo..finally woke up early in the morning and went for a jog....

It was so calm and quiet...and there was an awesome breeze flowing...so all in all it was awesome..planning to do this everyday...

n I hope we get a relief frm the heat at Goa....its all cloudy today with dark clouds..lets hope it rains...and to quote this line frm somebody's Gtalk status msg-"Barsoo re Meghaa..."

Chalo...I am now off to wake up everbody so early on a sunday morning for the Awesome Chole bhature breakfast in Atish mess...

cyao

Nearly there...

Well, its nearly the end...PS 2 forms for the first sem 2008-2009 are now out.. :(


n its a good week for me..After the gud marks, the lab exam for Analog has been postponed to next week and so has the Communication System lab exam..though we still have a quiz on Thursday....


Am planning to go jogging tomorrow morning and am trying to become regular but I never feel like leaving m bed in the morning :(

So am going to sleep early so that I can try to wake up early....


Good nite...

Kahani abhi baaki hai...

Well, today was the end of our last serious t2( Test2 or the 2nd internals)...as the last year at BITS is for electives and a six months training, so we'll I am gonna miss u T2 :P

However the misery of the toughest sem for the toughest branches( EEE n Eni if you guys couldn't realize that out yet ) is not over yet...With us getting a checked copy of Analog Electronics papers tomm morning( wtf we just gave the exam on saturday..)...the dates for the final lab exam are out...n I am in the first batch :(

And after that is the Communication lab exam..

n then just a couple of weeks for all the nostalgic we can be...some of us are gonna be attending our last few classes together, eating in the mess together for the last few times... cause some of will be moving out for PS2..n will come back in the 8th sem when we'll be out...so its adieu time... :(

So guys its down to 35 days or 840 hours or 50,400 seconds (or simply its too less a time) to have fun n enjoy n talk and spend with all the people who have been a cushion for all the bumps and kicks life has given you these 3 yrs...
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This post is for Nimit, Abhay, Meet, Bapu,Alekh bhai, Sagar, Goyal,chillu, Shokee, Choos and all the guys( n gals ;) ) who are going for PS in the first sem and all to all those who have to bear with me for on more sem [ :) ]... the people who have made the times at campus memorable...because everything we do together becomes a memory... ;)


Here is a toast to our friendship....and to the great times we've shared together...

Thanks a lot for just being there...