New Name to my Blog

I thought of changing the name of my blog. Normally I dont like justifying my actions as most of the time I dont have any justification :) But this time I can come up with atleast one justification. This Decision/action was triggerred by this post on the Sun written by someone named AC , which I thought resembles quite closely to me. I can come up with other justifications too like my name is a synonym of Sun in Hindi but wont go into the details :)

Story around Money Constraint

Hostel life is always full of constraints. These could include time, money, books and other resources. The constraints are normally overcome by a very important process called borrowing and copying. Borrowing works for most of the constraints but for the time factor. For time constraints we used a lot of topo (copying assignments) and multiprocessing. Multiprocessing means doing many things at the same time. This is normally done when you are attending classes. While attending the class, the students will catch on their sleep, topo tutorials, read newspapers to increase their GK, catch up on their hobbies of reading novels. But thanks to some of the great souls who would always be serious in their studies and always do the tutorials before time so that lesser mortals like us can copy them. Most of the students lived on the mercy of such generous souls to overcome their time constraint in completing the assignements. Now lot about constraints in the engineering college, lets come back to the story which involves a very common constraint called money.
Sometime during the four years of engineering, two students Sindhu and Shanku wanted to eat something in canteen. They were having Rs 10 total and decided to have two paranthas, but a single parantha would cost Rs 6. So with the constraints of Rs 10 what were the options?
Eat something else.
Have one parantha and share it.
Borrow Rs two from someone.

But our Mr Sindhu had a great idea. He told shanku that he would ask canteen caretaker the price of the parantha and then start arguing on it. He would tell him that the Alpahar(another canteen) charges only Rs 5 for a parantha and how come you can charge Rs 6. (Actual price for parantha in Alpahar was also Rs 6). Then after sometime Shanku would enter the scene and sindhu would ask him to clarify the prices and he would say Rs 5 and would get his support to bargain further and it would look as an outsider's support and would have more impact and it may work. Both agreed for the plan
So Sindhu saab went to the canteen. The dialogue starts.
Sindhu: how much for a Parantha?
Caretaker: Rs 6
Sindhu: What? I always take parantha for Rs 5 in alpahar. How come you are charging more?
CT: no there also it is Rs 6.
S: No way.. I eat there almost daily.
CT: No. not true. I know the prices.

The argument goes on ten minutes and a bit heated too. So, time for the entry of Mr. Shanku. Shanku listens to conversation for sometime.
Sindhu: (after sometime) accha lets do one thing. We will ask Shanku. Accha shanku bata yaar alpahar mein parantha kitne ka aata hai? (how much does a parantha cost in alpahar) Isnt it Rs 5??
Caretaker also looking at Shanku
Shanku says to Caretaker (with a big smile) : Yaar, mein to Chhe rupaye mein hi khata hoon, pata nahi ye kiski baat kar raha hai… (I take it only for Rs 6. I dont know which shop this guy is talking )

I call this a harmless backstabbing... Hostel life is full of such incidents which really add spice to the life... Also reminds me of DCH in which aamir khan did something similar to Saif... :)

Shuklaji's Final Year Frustation!!!

When students get into graduation, their age is the best for getting into romantic interests. But in engineering colleges the ratio of boys to girls is terrible. So very few daring ones get a female company. Many boys coming from very conservative family who have talked to girls throughout their lives find it much more frustrating. So this story is about one of our Shuklaji and Guptaji during final semester( Names have been changed to keep the identities secret J)

Shuklaji coming from a small city had not interacted much with girls. He was having some fantasies of getting some girls during the four years of studies. So now he is in final year. Almost four years have passed. Nothing has happened. Final semester. Lot of free time. This resulted in his animal instincts coming to the fore. He has controlled it for long period. But not now. Almost graduate now. Why should he?? He is adult couple of years back.
Guptaji is a close friend of Shuklaji. He knows about Shuklaji’s frustrations. He has many times told shuklaji a lot of stories about his adventures with girls, which included with in Roorkee. He has also told shuklaji about a jugaad near Sapna talkies(around 2.5 km from Hostel) whom he personally knows.
So our Shuklaji comes to our Guptaji for help.
Shuklaji: You promise you wont tell anyone. You will keep it yourself
Guptaji: kya shuklaji? Aapne kaisee baat kar di? Nahi kabhi nahi. Tell me whats the problem
Shuklaji : Yaar, bas bahut ho gaya. Ab Aur Sehen nahi hota. Tum apni jugaad batao. I want to meet her.
Guptaji is a bit shocked. What to do??
Guptaji: Arre nahi shuklaji. That wont be good for you. Aap wahan mat jaaeeye…
Par apne Shuklaji kahan manne wale the. At last guptaji agreed to help.
GUPtaji: Ok Shuklaji, Do one thing, arrange a bicycle ( in Roorkee people riding bicycle rather than bikes at our times) We both can ride on it. And Get some money too

Shuklaji puts some effort and gets a bicycle and some cash. Shuklaji is riding it with our Guptaji having a free ride. Afterall its Shuklaji’s work. 2.5 km of ride with another person is quite tiring. But our Shuklaji is not tired at all. He is too excited to get a jugaad. A bit nervous too. But our Guptaji is helping him by saying nothing to worry about. That jugaad is very accommodative.
When they reach Sapna talkies, our Guptaji gets down of the bicycle and starts looking out for the jugaad.
Guptaji advises his buddy to buy one kg of sweets for her as it wont look good if you go there without anything. From next time onwards it wont be needed… But for the first time its better. Ok. Lets do one thing, you give me the bicycle, I will just locate the jugaad and come back. Meanwhile you get the sweets.

SHuklaji gets some sweets from a nearby shop and starts waiting for Guptaji.
15 minutes gone.
20 minutes gone. Guptaji kahan gaye?? Not yet back?? Feeling a bit tension. Those were the days when you didn’t have mobile that you can locate a person using the same.
Shuklaji, now in two minds. What should he do?? Should he search for his friend? But he has told him to wait there. What if he comes back and doesn’t find him. After waiting for another 5 minutes, he decided to look out for him. He looks around the place for Guptaji. He is not be seen anywhere.
Now he is cursing Guptaji. Sala MC/BC kahan marr gaya. Cycle bhi le gaya.

He decides that he will go back to hostel and hit Gupta. What to do with packet of sweet? Take back to hostel and eat. I will tell that some relative has just given it to him.

So Shuklaji highly disappointed takes steps very slowly back to hostel. It took him half an hour reach the campus. When he reaches near hostel, a couple of dozen people standing and waiting.

One person at the gate of the hostel: Arrey Shuklaji, kahan se aa rahe ho?? Arrey ye mithai ka dibba kis ke liye laa rahe ho?? (With A very big smile)
Shuklaji: Arre yaar kahin se nahi? Kahin nahi.. Ek relative ke yahan gaya tha. Wahin se mithai lekar aaya hoon.
Achha shuklaji, Sapna talkies mein kab se aapke rishtedaar rehne lage???
Around 25 batchmates standing nearby laugh out loudly…
Shuklaji now gets the trap and shouts
MC, batao woh BC Gupta kahan hai????

Within an hour everyone in the campus was talking about it.. :) Shuklaji had a torrid time for next few days. Our dearest Guptaji went underground for few days without a trace.

90% disciplined

First year of engineering college. You are just out of school. Still not mentally out of school's disciplined environment. Fears of Ragging. Best time to make NCC mandatory for every first year student. Thats what was done there in the college. You were supposed to attend NCC twice a week. You would be given an NCC uniform. You were supposed to wear it during during your training. If you lose something then pay for it. Obviously not many of us liked being forced to do that.
But there was some silver linings too. You would get sweets, snacks everytime you attend NCC. Good enough for first year students. Then you would also get some money for washing ur uniform which was a bonus as dobhi used to charge us a monthly rate.
So everyone was attending their NCC training sessions as it used to carry some marks. Now came the Independence day. For the ID celebrations, there were special preparations, which meant extra sessions of NCC.
During the same period something else happened in University. Some profs' Strike or something. I dont remember exactly what. So classes were stopped for couple. Along came Rakshabandan. We, the First year students, were very very home sick. Any excuse to go home was good enough. So more than 2/3rd ran back home. But there were few unfortunates who could go back home. Now, these guys were pushed to attend the NCC classes. Most of the students were feeling cheated. They demanded punishment for all the guys who were at home. Teachers obeyed. When we came back, we came to know that 10 marks have been deducted from Disciplinary marks(YES, THERE WERE MARKS FOR DISCIPLINE. FULL 100 Marks EVERY YEAR) for the Mass Bunk. Top students from different colleges. Their marks getting deducted. That too for discipline. A letter sent to parents about the misconduct. Wow!!!
The Reaction! Shocks. Lots of emotions. Why should our marks be deducted? These students could have been awarded extra marks in NCC. Kind of boycott for the culprits. All the students(whose marks were deducted) went to Prof's house to apologize. Think of around 150 people raiding a prof's house. He actually got a bit scared seeing the Sheer numbers. Students begging for pardon. Requesting him NOT to deduct marks. Some even touching his feet. But to no use.
Dissappointed everyone went back.
End result: Most of us passed the first year being only 90% disciplined :) . It didnt end there. It also resulted in shortening the summer vacation by 10 days. Actually terrified by such an action, almost everyone from the batch attended NCC camp at Dugadda for 10 days which most of the students were planning to bunk.

Flashback to my graduation days...

Just like everyone else, graduation years were among the best years of my life. Entered Roorkee university when I just crossed my sweet sixteenth birthday, with the hope of bright future, the fear of unknown and carrying the weight of my parents' and my own expectations. Out in the open world for the first time from a protected environment. But there I found my best friends who helped me in every situations. Still in touch with few. Lost touch with few. Still trying to contact them. There were few incidents, which occurred to me, to some of my batchmates, to my whole batch.
Let me try to list them:
90% disciplined
Cricket Contests
Electrical Engg Experiments/Accidents/Incidents
Some Ragging incidents
Bakar Sessions
Shuklaji's final year frustration
A story around money constraints

Electricity Bill

I saw something very interesting at my house when I came back after a week’s vacation from Kerala. Let me give you a prologue to the story.
I am sharing my accomodation with 3 other friends. Most of the activities are divided among us. Payment of electricity bill is normally my responsibility. When I was in Kerala for the vacation, I received a call from my flatmate asking me about the bill. He told me that there is a bill of more 3000…He asked me when was the last payment made. It was 4 months back… which meant that our house was in the danger getting disconnected from the electric power supply by BESCOM. But my friend said he will take care of it. So I forgot about it totally until I reached home and when I saw what you can see in the photo:) And I couldn’t stop laughing :) I immediately took a picture of it… I think nothing can better describe a place where 4 bachelors are staying :)

"You are a born Winner"

Shiv Khera says "You can win". I say "You are a born winner" :) For that matter everyone is a born winner. I will give you the reason too

OK!!! who is winner?? Someone who has beaten several others in his field to reach at top. So will you call yourself winner if you know that you have beaten more than a million???? Take example of CAT.. toughest Entrance exam.. There to qualify you have to beat 150K people... So definitely people will call them winner..

Now lets come back to " YOU".... Why are you a born winner?? SIMPLE FUNDA... Do you know out of how many sperms, you were the one to fertilize and to get born hehehe? Millions.. :) .. So if you can beat more a million to get borned, so definitely you should be called a born winner :-) :-) HENCE I SAY EVERYONE IS A BORN WINNER....

So lets get serious... Look at the probability.... 1 in millions... WoW.... Lets try to compare it with some other statistics... 1 in millions is equivalent to be chosen as PM/Presidents of many countries.. 1 in millions is the chance of finding a diamond among stones... So you are that diamond... You were lucky enough to get borned... As they say in Hindu Mythology... after some lakhs of yonis.. you are given a chance to be born as a human.. :) :)so dont waste this chance...This life :) .... Consider yourself winner by the fact that you are born as a human after beating some millions of sperms :) :)

Even now if you dont consider yourself as a winner... Then you are definitely a loser... NOooo!!! I cant contradict myself.. I should coin another term for this category of people... :) I will call them "They are still a Born winner who wants to be a BIG loser" Aha..

Some Kerala pics

Some of the pics from my recent Kerala trip are posted here. You may have to login to Yahoo! for viewing these pictures.

Civil Union of Sir Elton John

After this union... a question coming in...
Q) What is the favourite hindi song of Elton John?
A) Aadmi hoon, Aadmi se pyaar karta hoon :)

Another forwarded chain letter :)

I recieved this forward. Too good.. Worth a read.. Love the second last
statement :)

Dear Friends,

I wanted to thank all my friends and family who have forwarded chain letters to me in 2004 & 2005.Because of your kindness:

>>> I stopped drinking Coca Cola after I found out that it's good for removing toilet stains.

>>> I stopped going to the movies for fear of sitting on a needle infected with AIDS.

>>> I smell like a wet dog since I stopped using deodorants because they cause cancer.

>>> I don't leave my car in the parking lot or any other place and sometimes I even have to walk about 7 blocks for fear that someone will drug me with a perfume sample and try to rob me.

>>> I also stopped answering the phone for fear that they may ask me to dial a stupid number and then I get a phone bill from hell with calls toUganda, Singapore and Tokyo.

>>> I also stopped drinking anything out of a can for fear that I will get sick from the rat faeces and urine.

>>> When I go to parties, I don't look at any girl, no matter how hot she is, for fear that she will take me to a hotel, drug me then take my kidneys and leave me taking a nap in a bathtub full of ice.

>>> I also donated all my savings to the Amy Bruce account. A sick girl that was about to die in the hospital about 7,000 times. (Poor girl! she'sbeen 7 since 1993...).

>>> I went bankrupt from bounced checks that I made expecting the $15,000 that Microsoft and AOL were supposed to send me when I participated in their special e-mail program would arrive soon.

>>> My free Nokia phone never arrived and neither did the free passes for a paid vacation to Disneyland.

>>> Still open to help some from Bulgaria who wants to use my account to transfer is uncle property of some hundred millions $.

>>> Made some Hundred wishes before forwarding those Ganesh Vandana, Tirupathi Balaji pics etc.. now most of those 'Wishes' are already married (orgoing to be married) - (to someone else!) :-(

>>> IMPORTANT NOTE:If you do not send this e-mail to at least 1246 people in the next 10 seconds, a bird will SH** on your head today at 6:30pm..