Dear Freshers,

Now, that you freshers have joined college, you need to know the fundamental differences.

1. Don’t think about ragging, no one cares to rag you, lot of effort, no fun.

2.If you have ever watched Ekta Kapoor’s daily soaps showing colleges and likes, no, no one sings here in red duppatta and silver heels in the mid of nowhere. You’d be stoned to death.

3. The excuses you gave in schools about traffic and stuff, turn real here but the teachers don’t buy it. Yes, it’s like a god-like thing punishing you for your deeds. Uh Anyway,

4. Generally, there’s no mutual respect between the student body and teaching staff. Except that the students feign respect for faculties, faculties don’t even bother doin’ that.

5. Forget Robert Frost, don’t go the unconventional way, follow the masses. Either way, your life is screwed.

6. You can never make it to 9:15 lecture even if you start at night. Stop trying.

7. Unlike in school where in a protective environment, teachers keep kicking your asses to get the work done. Here, no one cares, you don’t do it, you’re done.

8. Teachers come and go, only yours and theirs, incompetence remains constant.

9. Don’t ever get de-barred in Behavioural Sciences. Don't let the lady, some 2 years older to you, flaunting bad grammar and f***ed-up pronunciation, tell you what life is about. Figure it out yourself. Trust me she’s equally screwed or prolly more.

10. Learn to be a hypocrite. Yeah.

11. Pretend you’re passionate about Sciences and technology and how it changes lives and makes things simpler and stuff even if you don’t give a shit.

12. Don’t tell people you’re an engineering under-graduate, they’d tell you to repair their light-bulbs, only to add to your frustration.

13. Tell people your engineering drawing sheet holder is a missile launcher and if touched, may explode. 78% buy that, true story.

14. There would be infinitely many incidents in your life when you would want to reply a long long speech/lecture/personal philosophy of a lecturer with ‘whatever’ or ‘shut up’ or ‘dude, get a life’ ,but dear kids, hold on there. Take, how-to-be-a-fake-listener classes from miss So**m Su*****i, instead.

15. Think stupid, act foolish, play cool. That’s the key.

16. Vivas.. well I’d rather write another post for that.

That said, college is fun. All the best ! Remember, life after death, sucks.

Itne armaano ki bankar kabr, khadi hai zindagi

When the most sacred things in life turn ugly, when the light at the end of the tunnel turns out to be a train coming your way, when all you're left with, is nothing.What do you do? It's like the big crunch, as if all the laws of  physics and science are defied by one such truth.As if everything has ended and even if it has not, it doesn't matter.When nothing matters.When that one question haunts you till the time you depart.When you know the dark is an inevitable truth, a truth you wish to escape. When ignorance isn't bliss, when running away is a pain.The moment when there's no land beneath you and no sky above.What do you do? When the words can neither stay within, nor can they come out. When the pain keeps coming back to you over and over.The moment when you wish, there was a god.An ideal god, who knows it all. The moment when you want to get back to your 3 year old self and wish to begin it all over again.When there's a war within and peace around, the peace which ain't comforting. When you wish you could shout and break that silence. That moment when you can't pretend anymore.When the pain doesn't let you live and the laws of nature doesn't let you die.You wish you had the answers, you wish..
You wish..killing wasn't a crime.You wish..

The Bollywood thingy

Last weekend I risked my life again when I decided to watch another bollywood movie after Shaitaan.Long back after watching Rab ne bana di jodi, I had lost hopes in humanity and wanted to die.True story.Watched Zindagi dobaara na milegi something,I don't like the name, too long and complex sentence structure , the movie wasn't bad though.Was good in parts and boring. The scenes move at Ekta Kapoor's daily soaps' pace or  probably slower. You can go home,cook sambar rice and come back only to find the scene is still on.Seriously.But, well F*** that, it's okay.I don't understand what makes people laugh so much? I mean, the masses were laughing their asses off at I don't know what.If at all, the dialogues were funny, they can at most make you smile, but screw that.The most awesomest thing on earth happened, the shayari/kavitas of Javed Akhtar.I am so in love.It balanced out everything.It left me in awe. That's a trick you know, there's a threshold above which the viewers switch to emotion high, after that give them any shit, any non-sense, they'd accept that with open arms, give them a Ram Gopal Verma ki movie, and they'd call it beautiful.They seldom analyse,that's the best trick in the business.No, really.I appretiate the intelligent direction. When you make a business, you must know your audiences' weaknesses, I mean , Taare zameen par left people over-whelmed and in tears and what not , I liked the research and the content and I could feel the extra drama they'd  desperately put in to make the masses cry and make them cross the threshold. And it so magically worked. But well, who cares. Jo beet gayi so baat gayi. Btw, andaaz apna apna, Shivaji-the boss, Doodh ka karz , Taikhana , many many many nameless movies that I've seen are class apart. If you haven't watched 'em, dear readers, you haven't lived your life. More on these, later !
p.s. Go watch zindagi milegi etc and call it awesome.