Would you be happier??

Heard this song after a long time today...and the lyrics are pretty good too.. :)

Would you be happier- The Corrs

Have you ever wonder where the story ends, and how it all began, I do (I do, I do, I do, I do)
Did you ever dream you were the movie star with popcorn in your hand, I did (I did, I did, I did)
Do you ever think you're someone else inside, when no one understands you are (you are)
And wanna disappear inside a dream but never wanna wake, wake uuuuuup
Then you stumble on tomorrow, and trip over today

(Chorus)
Would you be happier if you were someone together
Would the sun shine brighter if you played a bigger part
Would you be wonderful if it wasn't for the weather
You're gonna be just fine (gonna be just fine)

Are you not afraid to tell your story now, when everyone is done it's too late (too late, too late)
Was everything you've ever said or done not the way you planned, mistaaaake
So you promised that tomorrow, be different than today

(Chorus)
Would you be happier if you were someone together
Would the sun shine brighter if you played a bigger part
Would you be wonderful if it wasn't for the weather
You're gonna be just fine
I think you're gonna be just fine
You're gonna be just fine
So don't worry baby

You're racing for tomorrow, not finished with today

Would you be happier if you were someone together
Would the sun shine brighter if you played a bigger part
Would you be wonderful if it wasn't for the weather
I think you're gonna be just fine

Would we be happier if we were someone together
Would the sun shine brighter if we played a bigger part
Would we be wonderful if it wasn't for the weather
I think we're gonna be just fine
I think you're gonna be just fine

Don't worry baby
Gonna be just fine
Don't worry honey
Gonna be just fine
Don't worry baby
Gonna be just fiiiiine

Random thoughts

Just some random thoughts passing through my mind right now...

Thought #1
Just finished with a memorable trip to Lucknow... met Ankur and Shreya..and remembered those times @ BPGC. awesome lunch at Shreya's place and my first treat for becoming an engineer to both of them at Moti Mahal @ Sahara Ganj Lucknow. :)

Thought #2
Driving a two wheeler in Lucknow is SAFER than driving in Delhi. I always believed that traffic in Lucknow is a lot worse than Delhi, and it might be with no body following any traffic rules, but driving with Ankur on a two wheeler, I realized that drivers there were more tolerant than Delhi ones...

Thought #3
My cousin is giving his medical entrance exams these days and its common discussion about the very limited seats for general students, the donations for seats etc. Recently he had given the exam for MAHATMA GANDHI INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES, WARDHA.What was uncommon about the exam for this college was that there was a seperate paper for Gandhian thoughts apart from the normal PCB paper. AND, the PCB paper would only be evaluated if the candidate score over 40% or something in the paper about MK Gandhi, and all the people and places associated with him. Now my question is that if you don't know about MK Gandhi, are you NOT good enough to be a doctor????

Thought #4
All these surveys about Engineering colleges etc and the fuss being made about them. Don't we all know how these surveys are done?

Thought#5
Why does MTNL net pack up when you need it most...I have been sitting foe hours waiting for the net to get connected to be able to post this entry and this thought has been added as a result of my frustration.

Yesterday I booked a complaint with the MTNL call centre that my net was not working.
Today, the exchange guy called came and checked if the ADSL light was coming on. Since it was, but no sites were opening, he told me that he will tell another guy to checkup and change some settings. Till last edited, I am still waiting for that second guy to come.(but the net is working on it's own :|)

Thought#6
The weather has been cloudy but...When is it gonna rain??

Life will go on....

To quote Anurag’s status message that reads “And here we are...back at the fork way... (Hope the roads meet again)”

As I sit here today..it’s the same feeling that I had during the last few days on-campus. Everybody leaving for home and then for PS… nobody knew where life would lead us…kaun kahan hoga…kuchh nahi pata…

Exchanging permanent numbers so as not to loose contact…on the last few days, thinking how different it will be without the friends who supported me through thick and thin, in all those happy moments, and consoled me during those unhappy ones, leaving the small 10X10 room that had been my home for 3.5 years..my comfort zone, I had a feeling that life will not be the same again..

But then I came to ST..a new place, new environment, and the new faces…and quickly bonded with my PS mates...we became a good group..sitting and chatting during breakfast, then lunch and in between while taking a break. A special mention of Sanket, who was in the same group as me..just a cubicle away…we became break partners..calling each other whenever we wanted a break. Also Rishi and Krishna (aka Krishnamohan Radhakrishnan aka KiMo) also deserve a mention. They were also on the same floor and called on me and Sanket for breaks too.

Shashank Somanchi who was my mailing partner, we actually used the ST internal mail as a chat tool..ST ka 1/4th traffic to hamari mails se hi hota hoga… At exactly 4:45 PM nearly everyday, either one of us would mail the other asking whether we wanted to go to the cafeteria…99.9% of times the answer would have been yes, just to go and sit there to take a break…

The TR&D team- KP, Mayank (aka Mugga), Ritesh, Ranjot, Sudipt, Ankit (aka Ankita g - his ST mail username) who we generally met during lunch, exchanging incidents of the day, pulling Ankit’s leg (who is such a good sport that he never used to mind it) the table looked very similar to our dinner table at Goa..with all of us pulling Ankit’s leg.. (Read more about the friends at ST here)

And as I exchange mail id and phone numbers with the friends I made at PS…it’s the same old feelings again...

But this time I know..all my friends would always be there just a ping or phone call away anytime..

And that gives me the strength to go on…

PS: Heading to Lucknow tommorow :)
PPS: Will put up pics of PS as soon as Somanchi n KP send them across ;)

PPPS: AND finally I am now officially an Electrical and Electronics Engineer from BITS Pilani.

Nice One!!!

This joke is courtsey Reader Digest...

"On a soft drink vending machine, somone had attached a note saying- Diet Coke is not working...

Someone had scribbled below- Try DIETING and EXERCISE.."

I protest

Well, this post has been written because of the recent protests in three different places- Punjab, Khusrupur in Bihar and Melbourne Australia.

And while one can easily say that the protests were for different issues, one thing that was common in all three cases was that the protesters were Indians.

In one case, Indians students observed a peaceful protest against the recent racial attacks.

While in the other case protesters at Khusrupur were anything but peaceful. Around 200 protesters setting the station on fire and pulling up train tracks delaying dozens of trains.

And everybody knows about the Punjab issue too...a murder in Vienna...bus truck yahan jala diye...


So, why were the protests different??

Well, it has all to do with the reactions of the governments and government agencies. If the students in Australia or Sikhs in Vienna had dared destroying public property, they would have been made to pay or even put behind bars.

But in India, no mob has to ever think about the consequences. People are not afraid as they know they would not be made to pay for damages or even get arrested...That is a major reason that most protests in India turn violent even if they start as peaceful protests.

Also while people may argue that the Indian government knows that these people will not vote for them if they take action...while the Aussie government knows that the Indians there do not have voting rights...well that’s just the price of being second rate citizens in another country.(and apart from students...I do not know why any person would want to be a second rate citizen in some foreign country...yes, you'll have a high paying job, a nice house, be called an NRI..but still be an outsider in that country.)

And the result of the two protests is evident too...In Australia, the cops lathi charged the crowd and dispersed the crowds and ended the protest whereas in India, they mob got whatever demands they wanted. And though I am not saying that the cops should lathi charge innocent people, but then governments should not blindly give in to such blackmail too.

As in the case of Punjab protests, nobody protested or burnt public property in Vienna, but the mobs had a free run in Punjab and not one of them was arrested.

They say that a mob has no faces- but I say catch some protesters and make them pay the price..and from the next time, such people will never dare to damage public property.

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Added as postscript on June 8, 2009 10:15 AM, an hour before my final seminar for PS II.

A Times of India columnist also shared his view on similar lines a day after I wrote this entry. Check them out at http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/clicklit/entry/come-let-s-burn-a . Very well written article.

This Day..That Year..

On 1st June 2005- I gave my BITSAT...

...and since then...what a journey IT has been :D