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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ok I simply do not know how to express myself !!!
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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...

Engineer kya hai????

Another Saturday afternoon n as i sat writing (yet another) Communication report..n wondering wat my life has become...this poem came in as a PM on DC...n its sort of relevant to what I was thinking..

This poem ain't mine, cause I am no poet..this one has been composed by DC nick StiFFler...guys pls pay attention to the lyrics...

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ENGINEER KYA HAI???? ek sawaal jisne meri zindagi badal di



Engineer woh hain

jo aksar fasta hai
interviews ke sawaal me
badi companiyon ke jal me
boss aur client ke bawaal me

engineer woh hai

jo pak gaya hai
meetings ki jhelai me
submissions ki gehraai me
teamwork ki chataai me

engineer woh hai

jo laga rahta hai
sechdule ko fislane me
targets ko khiskane me
roz naye naye bahane banaane me

engineer woh hai

jo lunch time me breakfast leta hai
dinner time me lunch karta hai
aur
commutation ke waqt soya karta hai

engineer woh hai

jo paagal hai
chai aur samose ke pyaar mey
birdwatching ke wichaar mey

engineer woh hai

jo khoya hai
reminders ke jawab me
na milne wale hisab me
behtar bhavisya ke khwab me

engineer woh hai

jise intezaar hai
weekend night par dhoom machane ka
boss ke chhuti par jane ka
increment ki khabar aane ka

engineer woh hai

jo sochta hai
kaash padhai par dhyaan diya hota
kaash teacher se panga na liya hota
kaash ishq na kiya hota

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Awesome poem man...keep it up...

Holi hai....

Well had Holika Dehen today...n Vishal n Uday were running the whole day trying to arrange wood n kerosene n sweets etc...

Time of burning the fire- 7 PM

6:30 PM : It starts raining all of a sudden..n suddenly it looks as if the hard work has been spoilt...

7:05 PM : Suddenly the power goes off ( nt too unusual in our campus...)

7:10 PM : Me n Abhay take the colours( from the 5 kg bags( taking the colour out without lights n any knife or blade required another Engineering skill-we used a pen to tear a hole in the bag ;) ) )and finally managed to extract enough colour to be used as tikka ( bt believe me, we used it for everything except the tikka) and matches to light the fire...
btw its still raining...

7:24 PM : We decide to light the fire, some 12 of us in the open...all ready to make the fire burn against all odds...

7:28 PM : We try to light the fire...n IT starts burning on the first try ( sweet success... :) )

7: 35 PM : The crowd starts arriving, most of them not quite ready to come out in the rain( it was still drizzling...) bt we had enough crowd to start with tikka n Holi....sang songs too...

9: 00 PM : After enjoying Holi, the rain and the warm fire....its time to take a bath....

waise the starting has been good..Lets hope the colour fight tomm rocks too... ;)

anyways Here's wishing u a Happy and Safe colorful Holi....