You know you've had a good day when....

Its that day of the year again. I just turned 23. Thanks to some amazing friends I have made over time, my first birthday away from home was one of the best I've had. Not many people get to feel so special for more than 36 hours. Even away from home, I feel like everything is the way it always was. I had Kheer on my B'day the way my Mom makes it every year. My sis wished me at 12am. Got a lovely card from her. Had a black forest in and on my face. Yeah these days both prepositions (in/on) are accompanied with the mention of cake. It rained like it always did on my Birthday back home. Missed my family a lot though. Every year we go out to have a nice dinner. That plan has been postponed by a coupleof days when tai comes over. But enjoying it very much. I had a delicious lunch I love. I am relaxing beside my window pane as I see it rain. But the best thing about today is that I realized what a wonderful year I've had.
I did so many things that I've always wanted to do. Most of them don't get a mention over here. But in retrospect, it has been a truly rewarding experience. I am sitting in the United States. A dream nurtured for 7 years now. It has been a hell of a ride academically. I feel I've grown over the year.Ironic huh!!! Met so many different people. Lived on my own. Enjoyed studying for the first time ever. And I even got to go home to remind me what I have been missing too.
So it is really fulfilling to see that the seeds sown in the past are bearing fruits of labor. Knowing that the future holds much more in store, raises my spirits even more. A wave of positivity seems to be blowing through the wind, 'cause I can feel it take over me.
Now all I need is a pair of new jeans and shoes and I shall be ready for the next year with more zeal than ever.
Thank you all.

Cheers
X

Hope and Despair...

I believe that feeling of hope you experience is masking the underlying despair. Despair inflicted by being at the end of the rope, rooted in the feeling of failure. Keep in mind, you shall feel happy that you were able to squeeze out microscopic amounts of toothpaste, or chew out the last nanoliter of flavor from a gum you were chewing for the past 4 long hours. But the next day, when you try squeezing more, you shall not be greeted by the sweet reward. That gum you were chewing for the past 4 hours will make your mouth dry and leave you hungry. So at the cost of sounding pessimistic, although borderline pragmatic, I would say, spit out that gum while you are enjoying it. Get a new toothpaste while your teeth are still clean. Don't let hope show you fancy dreams of wonderland. Instead be ready for the worst and make necessary arrangements for the future.
That reminds me of the classic battle of hope and despair, Angels and Demons, Dan Brown.

Thought for the day

Think about it. There's always some more toothpaste in the tube. What happens when the end is encountered? when you wake up one morning, groggy, foul breathed and there is no more toothpaste in the tube? A dull realization dawns upon your embittered soul and the quest for a new tube begins. but the tube is given a last squeeze, a last try before all hope is given up. A parallel to life learned in the bathroom? Maybe..A dull metaphor spewed out of mid-afternoon laziness? Definitely.
But think about it.

You've been Served!!!

Whats the best that you could do on a lazy saturday afternoon in brightest of summer. It is definitely not a game of ball. An instant messenger, 2 friends, a similar outlook on life and wham! theres a blog for you.

Both of us Engineering nerds. Work hard. Party harder. We've had conversation on choicest of topics and thought they ought to be documented. So there goes the foreword for the book that follows.

As a gentleman in an Armani clad suit once quoted "Its gonna be LEGEN---WAITFORIT------DARY"!!!!

cheers
X