Kadi Sadi Gali Bhul Ke Vi Aya Karo...

Well, I am not talking about the movie or the album from which the song comes from...

I am moving to the 6th floor in a few days @ office while my closest friends on the floor stay back... The only positive of my new seat is the lesser value of acceleration due to gravity :\ . I guess its kind of rhetorical to say that I am not looking forward to the new seat considering that I enjoy going to the office because of the really great neighbours Rishi and Sugandha who make the day interesting ;)

Apni to history hi kharab hai...yaa to doston ka floor ya building change ho hi jaati hai :|

So I will be soon singing this song for my friends- Divya, Manu, Mohsin, Rishi, Sugandha, Sanjeev and Gourav :)

LOMA 290: Cleared

So, after a lot of FB updates and a bit of studying too..cleared my LOMA 290 exam today :)

So that makes me an FLMI Level I certified in Insurance in the US o.O

Happy V-day :)

Last year V-day status:
"I'm single by choice. Not my choice."


This year :
‎"Jahaan itne valentine nikal gaye, wahaan ek aur jod do...
Mathematical induction lagaao aur aagey ki ummeed bhi chhod do."
- via Abhay Murarka

Delhi Roads :\

On yet another weekday, travelling towards home on roads that don't just require you to have a license...you need a 360 degree vision to look out for idiots who overtake from the left, the person ahead who suddenly breaks hard and decides to take a turn or the guy behind you who has suddenly realized that he is late getting to a meeting and overtaking you like a maniac will get him there on time..

Oh..and the bikers can zip from any direction and you have to stop to let them go...after all they did buy the road when they purchased their bikes...

And if you thought that with blueline buses gone, your problems are over...think again...as government seems to have given jobs as DTC drivers to people driving bluelines..

To a city where 1 pipe burst can cause a traffic jam over 3 flyovers and 1 underpass and about 4-5 km long..

Welcome to Delhi D(hell)i...

Delay by chance

Date : 7th January

Time : 9:00 PM

Vishal calls me and tell me that he will be in Delhi to catch a train to Guwahati ( on the way to Shillong..). His expected time of arrival in Delhi 10:00 AM on 8th January ( by train on a winter morning ;) ). As fate had it..I was on-call on 7th night till 3:30 AM :(

Date: 8th January

Time :11 AM

Friendship is deadly...makes you do crazy things like running towards a metro station on one of the coldest days of the season in Delhi, catching the metro by running down the stairs and just managing to enter the compartment just so to save 10-15 minutes...

Vishal's train is late by about an hour...and well so was I...

Anyways while I was still in the Metro, I got a call from Meet to say that he was with Vishal and they were waiting for me...

Managed to get to the Railway station without any further adventures. And as always, it is gr8 to catch up with Meet and Vishal, talking about the good old days, swapping stories about the rest of the group ( special mention about Abhay Murarka - bhai, you better explain the stories I have been hearing about you!!)

AND then came the announcement - "Guwahati se jaane wali 12423 Guwahati-Delhi Rajdhani Exp 7 ghante ki deri se chal rahi hai. Guwahati ko jaane wali 12424 Delhi-Guwahati Rajdhani Exp apne nirdharit samay 2:30 baje ki jagah shaam to 8:50 par chalegi" :D :D

We then hauled all their luggage to the cloak room..spent an hour in the line as most of the trains were late, some by up to 37 hours.

Next Stop : CP

The scene was as if there was no heavy winter in Delhi. Most girls roaming about seemed to be straight out of some fashion week's winter collection.. ( Not that I am complaining...however after looking at them, we were feeling over dressed with 2 sweaters and a jacket :P )

Spent the afternoon walking in the inner circle, met Meet's roommate and his friends for lunch at Haldirams, then we met another of Meet's friend afterwards. Meet then had to leave for Noida so it was me and Vishal again.

We decided to walk back to the station as there was still a lot of time before his train left and the best conversations happen while walking. :)

Read Vishal's take on the same topic at http://biliex.blogspot.com/2011/01/lucky-delay.html

PS: Meet..pics bhej de bhai :)

Right to Education

And so why am I suddenly talking about the RTE today???


Well, my cab driver today was a talkative fellow who was apologetic because he was late, he was late because he had to purchase forms for nursery admission for his son whom he wants to get admitted to a private school and not to a Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) School.

After talking to him, I realized how important the RTE is for a country like India, in fact I was very happy that the UPA Government has implemented the RTE, but as I read online, it was simply the sad old story that repeats itself everywhere in India...scheme to bana di, but implementation bhool gaye...

I know the implementation of RTE is a long term project, but shouldn't it have at least started now?

According to what I read; It has been 8 months since the act came into force on 1st April 2010, but private schools openly flout the guidelines of RTE by conducting screening tests for students and interviews for parents and Government schools...well they don't have the number of teachers required...and even where they have the manpower, the teachers are simply not interested.

And how and why would they be. From what I could find on the net, the average starting salary for a government teacher in a city is around 8,000-10,000 while it is even less for smaller towns. How can you expect a person who is earning such a petty amount to be interested in teaching...?

Well, I hope, there is some turnaround soon, so that even a 5 year old son of a cab driver can dream of becoming a doctor or engineer.


For more info on RTE : http://right-to-education-india.blogspot.com/

Polo

No it isn't about the mint with the hole :P, it's about the sport.

Yesterday, we had gone to Race course for swimming and there we chanced upon a game of polo underway. The smart horses and the talented riders..it was gr8 watching the game.

Anyways the games got me remembering about our horse riding @ Bidar and hence this post goes out to all the friends, the horse riding and the football matches during and after the riding. :)

This post goes out to Angad, Manu, Anurag and Krish. Remembering you guys.