Here are the universities I've shortlisted and the rounds in which I'd be applying to them .
R1
1.University of California-Irvine
2.University of Texas (A&M)
3.Penn State
4.Michigan State
R2
1.University of California(Davis)
2.Boston University/University of Maryland(Smith)
LED ZEPPLEIN -a band which has inspired a generation of Guitarists!!A band whose frontman & guitarist Jimmy Page is worshipped as a GOD!! For all the fans of this legendary band ,here's a news which will pull the rug under their feet.The big news is that band is coming back!!Yes!! It's reuniting for Concerts!! My joy knew no bounds when I read this news.Though I,by any chance, wont have any luck of attending it's live shows but the news has already left my spirit drenched with some it's classics!!
To it's 20 million fans across the world diz news would definitely be something like a dream coming true!!Who could have imagined that one day people will again get to see their hereos performing classics like "Stairway to Heaven", "Black Dog", "Kashmir" !!LIVE!!
Taking about "Stairway to Heaven", I think this is a song which which is just unmatched in English music .No wonder time & again it is voted as the best song in English Music.Personally,I m too a die-hard fan of this legendary song although not of all the songs of the band!! But "Stairway.."is in aleague apart of it's own!!It's like u start floating in an another world da moment u put on this song. It's like losing ur senses!It's so hypnotizing!!I simply feel dat my spirit has really left my body while listening to Jimmy Page's voice.
No song can drive me as hysterical & mad as this song espcially the lines below...
"There's a feeling I get
When I look to the west
and my spirit is crying for leaving..
In my thoughts I have seen
Rings of smoke through the trees
And the voices of those who stand looking
And it makes me wonder
...If there's a bustle in your hedgerow
Don't be alarmed now
It's just a spring clean for the May queen
Yes there are two paths you can go by
But in the long run
There's still time to change the road you're on
And it makes me wonder".
God! Why isn't LED ZEP coming to India?? Why ? Why ? Why?
Friends!! I m active on my blog again!!. Sorry!! for not posting anything new from quite a long time.I think u guys would have become sick of seeing the same old post dangling here for da last 3 months .Due to a lil busy schedule here & above all because of Blogger being banned in da office I was unable to post anyhting new!!
Now ,Keep visiting regularly ...COZ I'M BACK!!
Hi ppl,
I hope all of u would be enjoying life to the t.
Here's one letter which will give u a peep into the life which u all will also start very soon.
Well, it's been 20 days that I have been here .The experience so far has been better than what I had expected. The only tiring work has been the Flat dealing.Now I realise why do people say that relocation is a big problem . God now I know how difficult it is to get a gud flat within ur budget & then how much a Herculean task it is to arrange everything on your own- right from buying a gas cylinder to keeping a maid for ur work u ve to deal with each & every small or big problem on ur own. To not make this a long article here's some things I really liked about this place & company
The Things I like about this pl
>First & foremost, this is NCR.Yea guys,-the land u used to talk about-the land of hot chicks.Eye-candies are here, there & everywhere.But warning if u are tired & want to relax urself with a dose of eye-tonics don't go to a mall u ll return back even more frustrated on seeing hot hot chicks wasting their time with champu guys.
> New Employee Celebration program: What a welcome it was.Just marvellous!!We were given the kind of welcome the Indian cricket squad gets when it returns victorious.Each one of us was greeted with a bouquets from the HR team were given in Radisson Hotel( wowie!a 7 star hotel) & after that we were led to a conference room.Believe me guys, it was just surreal.No I was not flabbergasted on seeing a 5 star hotel as I had been to a few in the past but what delighted us were the arrangemets.It Was exactly like the kind of arrangements u see in Celebrity nights or like the one u see in Conclaves & the best part was the food.Unlike the 5 star food xperience which I had in the past which was downright horrible,the food was sumptuous.(Bakra halaal karne se pehle use mota karne kaa tradition follow kiya jaa raha hai.)
>Lemme get a lil serious now.After all I am supposed to a professional.U know me better I can no way mend my ways & wild habits but yea professionalism is followed to a T here.Earlier, I used to think all this much hyped word is a mere is just another gud word which like most of the words is limited to mgmt books only .But no, here professionalism is in each & every work.Whether it be reporting exactly on time or taking care of it's employees the company actually cares for its employees.
>No load absolutely. No tension. Contrary to our batcmates who r are slogging their asses off in other companies till 7 in the office, these days I come back before 5 o clock.Free internet the whole day. Blessing in disguise when the lectures gets boring-don't give a damn about what the lecturer is blabbering about ,just start bugging people on gtalk. This is my favourite timepass these days apart from playing billiards & table tennis & finally I'll start going to the gym .
The things I miss-
Well I ve already listed a couple of things I like about this place but frankly speaking now after slogging my ass off in get all the things done for a flat I realise there's nothing better on this earth than ur home. So guys ,especially whose joining seems a zillion years away enjoy & savour ur stay at home .Believe me u r living a far better life at home !!
Seriously, I miss u guys very much & although I remain quite busy these days but not a day passes by when I don't remember u guys & not a day passes by when I don't miss the gachness with which we lived in our great college .
& the last thing straight from the heart:As u know me very well, I get along with people very easily & I find friends & no wonder I've found a lot of new friends here who all are pretty gud but believe me I can say that I don't & probably won't get guys like u in my life .I know I may get better places,better people but I won't get great friends like u.Maybe u'll feel like I'm getting a sentimental but hey no!I can say that no matter how much money I may earn or no matter how lavishly I may live but i can say that I lived life Kingsize only once-dat was in NIT,Jamshedpur. The beautiful season of friendship lasted a short 4 years in the college.
I can say that "I felt true friendship with u guys-Dion,Sam,Rathi,Pragna,Bomber,Gandhi, Shubham,Wasu, Krish & many, many more & I'm sure I won't be able to get such a life & such great guys back."
With love
-Manvender aka ur beloved Meminem
Finally, I’m out with a new post. I’m down with fever from the time I’ve left the college & even nostalgic & all the memories of the four years of college life keep flashing through my mind now & then. I wish if I could relive all those moments again.
Well, Before going to this college I’d never seen such a variety of people & never expected that such kinda people actually exist.Sounds weird ,naa? I guess ours was the batch with greatest variation. With Mr. Hero-Anoop Tiwari, Vipul on one side of the spectrum to Gandhi & Meerut on the other.Well,leave these people we ourselves had our own strange ways, weird perceptions & were full of our idiosyncrasies. I thought Dion has already given a farewell post on Rathz's blog so le's give something different.So,Here I'm with some of my big-time idiosyncrasies as well as some eccentric ways of some of the good friends I had there!!
I must confess that I had a lot of prejudices when I landed up in our gr8 college.
I was not only prejudiced but a bit rigid in my thinking.So the first few months was the metamorphosis period for me.
My fight with the STD booth waala was something that had ,at that time, become the talk-of-the-town & I guess it was the starting point of “The Rajput” crappy legends u all had woven around me but the truth is I was damn scared after thrashing that guy. Thankfully, the mattered cooled down only when I had to say “Sorry” to that guy( against my pride & to my utter embarrassment) .Some of my other stupid things for which I became known were my famous plate & spoon which I took to the mess religiously for the first 2 months.Sounds weird & stupid.doesn’t it?.It maks me laugh now.Again my two weird bamboo sticks(for mosquito net) were something everyone used to intentionally play with to piss me off.My list can keep on going but i've to give some much desired space to my friends to.(Knocked!!)
Well, the times we had in 211 were the times that’ll I’ll remember as the “Best days of my life” .It was the room which gave me my best pals -Dion & Sam. Dion –cool, talented, just into everything but hey wait!! u people don’t know him as well as I do bcoz I got the privilege to be his roomie.This dude is a bag full of eccentrities. Fan,lights, windows –he hadn’t spared even a single thing in the room about which he didn’t argue with us. His most crappy habit which used to bug the rest of his unforgiven roomies i.e. Sam, Atri & me- was switching on the fan on cold, chilly winter nights to leave the rest of us shivering like hell!! Not to mention his closing all the room windows in hot freaking summers nights which used to piss us off big-time & his strange explanations for this were something which used to make me feel like hanging myself (or rather him!!) & how can we forget his famous copyrighted dialogue -“I don’t mind doing this but the thing is…”(with a weird & wacky reason filling up the blank). So that was about Dion & his strange ways. About Samik- though gifted with a lot of grey cells yet posterboy of procrastination & laziness who used to fall asleep every now & then .No wonder he flunked an exam(quite unexected from a brainy guy like him!!) bcoz he hadn’t studied even a word before the xam-thanx to his sleeping habit!!
Sometimes, I wonder that inspite of being like three different directions how did we converge on our beautiful road of friendship!! Maybe our case is the same as is the case with Rathz & Chaki (aka Kaka)-two regular visitors of our room .Rathz always bubbling with some or the others of his wacky ideas ,who used to do everything according to his time-table & Chaki (with ever raised eyebrows signifying his permanent Load)who used to laugh at his own silly & humourous tales(while others used to find his tales far from funny & used to laugh at the mere silliness of his tales & jokes) ,who after giving speeches that he won’t cheat in the xam used to get up at 4 am to prepare chutkas.Well, Chaki I hope u are not doing it in Accenture.You’ll spoil our college’s already spoilt name if u get caught there!! Well these were two roomies. How they stuck together & remained good friends is still a mystery but hey wait..were these the two weird friendship stories..No, the strangest story is that of Rudra & Bora.
Only God can answer how they stuck together in one room .Rudra( who used to be gifted by us with a nickname every other month ..longlasting being..”Sleeping Hollow”, ‘Crudralogic” ,” Aatma” “MP” etc.) being as lively as a piece of wood. Who doesn’t know that he actually sat one day for two long hours in the same position without flinching even a bit with a guitar in his hands?? Good God gifted this guy with an unusual aesthetic sense & great music skills otherwise only the Almighty knows how would he have passed his time..I guess Chess is something which Rudra should ve quitted now. After all, who can face the embarrassment of facing defeats after defeats from every tom-dick & harry & dat too when he used to have a “How to win Chess Games” book by his side the whole day.I don’t remember even a single time when I had seen Rudra studying. Perenially gatch n tension free. Just opposite to Rudra was his eccentric roommate Mr. Bora who used to pull his hair out by just seeing Rudra not studying even during the exams.We used to wonder how his 32 streamlined teeth used to come out the moment he used to see a senior. Even when no joke was being cracked or anything. Bors used to go insane laughing & laughing in front of seniors(n guess wat..coz of fear..;) ) & we used to go insane seeing him..
These were some of the weird rooms & some of their equally weird denizens..All these people have been wacky, strange & some like me even insane but wat bound all of us together was the thread of friendship-the friendship which was so beautiful that it fulfilled & enriched our lives & a friendship which can’t be described in words.
I miss u my beloved college. I miss u friends & I miss evry moment of the great time we had together in the college. Hope our friendship remains as strong as it was in the college.
All the Best!! Cheers!!
Indeed,time flies by very fast.It seems like ystday when I (alongwith Gandhi)was secretly putting up notices in all hostels in the darkness of nite urging "the students’ fraternity to stage a mass protest against the deplorable condition of electricity in the college”(This was one of the lines of the notice that I’d drafted) & how shit scared I was when after having a clash with the Power grid people the police came searching for the person who had instigated this drama & unfortunately, that person was me .I’d never expected that things will take this ugly turn. I remember on the day of the protest I alongwith a coupla other guys went to each & evry room in the down hostels calling people out to join us if they want a solution to this electricity problem.At 9 am ,in front of the AD building,all people from Down hostels were joined by our juniors from the up hostels as well as girls frm the GH(That was the first time when gals became a part of any dharna in this college).
As generally happens in such protests, the college administration bluntly asked students to go back but after realizing that their booming voice is falling on deaf ears ,those poor souls were forced to have a meeting wih our hall representatives. The meeting ended with usual tall promises from the college authorities.
The incidents which took place after that sometimes give me goose bumps.We all went to the power grid & there in anger some ppl severed their office telephone lines & that was enough to bring out the demons in the men & their families who lived in the small huts in the power grid area..The area turned into a battlefield where we were surrounded by tribal men & women with swords,pickets & daggers in their hands .That picture of a tribal women hurling out abuses at us & charging at us with pickets & swords in their hands still sends a shiver down my spine. I still remember the scared faces of Rudra,Samik, Rahul & Rathz,Wasu etc. running for their lives with me & hundreds of others .We all were like people who were trapped in a well with no scope of escape. While I was running to find a safe passage out, I was stunned to see a tribal woman with at least a 2 meter long picket in her hand right in front of me spitting out abuses & with an angry face like that of Maa Kaali & embery eyes .I was thinking jus one thing can leave me dead the very next moment-that is a strike from that woman on my head.That was the only time in my life till date when I felt that surely it’s gonna be my last day on the earth & was saying to God ”Bhagwaan, maine toh abhi tak es duniya main kuch dekha hi nahin hai..Plz mujhe bacha le”. Bhagwaanji listened to our prayers(I’m damn sure that everyone would be praying the same thing )
Somehow, when we came back from the battlefield unscathed & people were happy that they ve just had visions of death, my biggest tension started then.The police was already on the campus & was questioning people about who initiated this. When somebody told me that police is enquiring people about the instigators,believe me, my mind & my face went dead blank. God only knows what all hurricanes were rocking mind that day.I was thinking that ur bright past & a brighter future is gonna be washed away by today’s back-out .What if the police comes & arrests me or even takes me to the police station?What if they inform my parents about this?What will happen to my hard-earned reputation in the college?Everybody would be slepping soundly while I’d be doing the rounds of the police station.
The police didn’t come that evening.But that didn’t give me any relief. That fateful night ,I couldn’t get a wink of sleep.The whole time all my achievements were flasing thru my eyes in the darkness of my room.That was the first time when I woke up at 4 am in the morning..Prayed to God to save me..As they say God’s listens to all so he listened to me too..so next day again the police came but the director didn’t give them permission to talk to any student.The moment I heard this news I felt like a weight as heavy as the earth’s weight is being unburdened from my shoulders.I was feeling relieved.
All this is now a thing of past, but I still wonder is it not right to fight for ur rights?How long can u bear a careless & a corrupt authority?Was I right in instigating all this? What would ve happened if the Police had caught hold of me? There are many ifs & buts but I personally feel that we were not wrong in voicing our opinion thru a dharna but what happened after dharna was st which shouldn't ve happened.But no regrets!!All in all it was a great experience which we'll remember down the memory lane.
Cheers!!
THINK OVER IT:
“A person who keeps remaining oppressed is as big a criminal as the oppressor himself” -Gandhiji
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