One of those days...

It was one of those days,
When only the crappiness stays,
No matter how hard you try,
The darkness never leaves the sky,

Everything just looks so mean,
Devils seem to be so keen,
Not one single thing goes right,
And you just want all to go out of the sight.

But every night has a dawn,
You just witness it as a pawn,
As good things start to come your way,
Embrace it all, if you may,
Why it comes so late, everyone wonders,
Well..you enjoy the peace, only when it thunders.

I'm loving it

Oh boy.....i'm totally in love with my life after this weekend.....It seems like i haven't relaxed this much since ages.....it feels awesome.

Although, over the weekend, i still had to put in like 10 hours of community service due to that dumb "Noise violation" ticket but still....the relaxation has been nothing less than awesome....i was craving for this.

Subah 11 baje uthne ka.....kuch khane pine ka....fir masti se 2-4 tv shows dekhne ka....ek movie dekhne ka...shaam ko jhakaas si coffee bana k pine ka....or fir friends k sath daaru pine ka plan banane ka....and of course executing the plan in the night.....life is good.

Arre haan yaar....who said ki job ki tension khatam ho gayi hai.....it is still there....but i just dont want to regret later that i passed my last days in college by thinking only about my future...not fair huh......of course that is on top priority...but that is not the only thing on my mind right now.

Anyways....its now just 3 more weeks before this amazing college life ends for me....As great as this life may sound in my last blog post, i'm not going back to college for sure.....bas ho gaya yaar....or nai padh sakta ab mai....apni 26 saal ki life me 21 saal to padhne me hi nikaal diye....or kya ab bachhe ki jaan loge.

And another awesome thing about this weekend...the temperature....cant tell you how great it feels to finally get rid of those multi layered super-fluffy jackets. it almost had become a habbit for me to check temperature on my computer to decide on what to wear before going out of the house....what crap man....India me to khidki se bahar dekho to mast pata lag jata tha kitni thand hai....kya hoga is desh ka.

Well i know that this and probably next weekend would be the last ones for me to enjoy before i get busy again with my finals but i know it won't be that much of a big deal now. I'm so ready for this semester and this degree to be over. :)

Cheers,
Tarun

It's over

All right people....let's resume this shit....the crappy time is over......phewww.....what hell days....way too much of things to handle.....won't bore you with all that....the good thing is....it's all over.

So i plan to finish up my MBA in a month now....damn excited about it except for the fact that i don't know where am i going next....scares me sometimes but i'm sure there would be something good waiting....just a little bit of patience is what is all needed here.

Seems like just a couple of weeks ago when i came to US to pursue my MBA in the fall of '07. One semester went after other, learned a lot about this country, people, places....and yeah...learned a lot in school too. :)

It was good fun....made some real good friends, had a great time.....living the school life again is not something many people achieve.....i'm proud to have done it....and glad to have survived it.....lol.

It is hardly a month away now....when i'll be going out of the school and into the world again...i'm surely gonna miss this place. No matter how much i abuse my classes, professors, i'm sure i'm gonna miss all the shit. :)

What was the most toughest part....guess it......those who know me can surely tell....yes....that's what it is....the food.....damn did i miss all the spicy delhi food.....wo shaami kebab, wo butter chicken, wo roomali roti, wo aloo k parathe, wo chhole bhature, wo gol gappe....i can just go on and on and on on this list....well as they say....the way to a man's heart is through his stomach.....i'd say that i was born to put a stamp on this statement. :)
well.....i don't really know whether after the next two months, i'll still miss them....but this was something i missed the most in US....of course after mom and dad :)

It feels good to be here.....almost on the verge of finishing a second degree in my life....took me 26 years though.....man....am i lazy? :)

All good things come at a price and i think i've paid my share too.....again....screw it...not gonna bore you. but whatever.....i need to see what lies ahead of me now.....for now....it's a little time to relax :)

Cheers everyone...where's my LII tea? :)

Summer of 2008

Ok....this time, it has been really long since i last wrote. You can expect these delays now that my semester has begun.....too much finance....all around.

This one's just a flashback on how i spent this summer. Don't get bored....the best part is in the end.

May 6, 2008 - Spring semester ends. Internship to start from May 12. Nothing much to do....relaxing.

May 12, 2008 - Internship begins. Everyday to Roanoke, a little boring journey though, but i developed the habit of sleeping over time....so i had another extra hour of sleep everyday. There wasn't a single day when i did not sprint to catch the bus....coz i never used to get up in time...never ever :)
ok...until mid Aug, this went on like this until my internship ended. Nothing much interesting to talk about....except for the amazing eating places that i explored during lunch everyday....good ones....bad ones...terrible ones and then....the heavens. So if anyone of you visits Roanoke, call me up to know where to find what.

Aug 4, 2008 - My boring summer takes a turn on this date. International Student Orientation begins. New students start coming in and we organized 5000 different events for them....man...that was an experience....games, movies, food, trips....too much fun for three weeks. My favorite part....picking up students from the airport....why??? When i used to reach the airport, i used to see these new students sitting together with tonnes of luggage, waiting for someone to come and take them to a place where they can just go and crash.....Totally jetlagged, tired...i can bet these guys would've never looked more innocent than this in their entire lives. And then when they see me (or anyone who's come to pick them up), a ray of hope strikes through their faces and they become as bright as the sun coming out of the darkest clouds in the sky....feels so good to see them excited.

Aug 6, 2008 - All good things come to you at the same time. Sid comes back to US and my drinking desires, that died with the empty streets of downtown blacksburg during the entire summer, re-emerge from the ashes. One of my best buddies, and of course, a big piyakkad...just like me. Since the day he arrived, we have been drinking pretty much every night till now....he was vella but i had my internship and orientation time constraints....still...the drinking hokies prevail. Doesnt matter if i come back at 12 or 1 in the night, we still used to drink. In all these parties, the guests kept on changing but the two of us are always there. We cook, we drink, and then those who don't drink, they eat what we cooked....Around 3.00am in the mornings, all the atif aslams in us come out. Starting from wo lamhe....going upto bakhuda....all songs in a row... in the most authentic versions, straight from the drunk hearts. :)

Now that the fall semester has begun and as we fall to our professor's mercy, i'm pretty sure that these fun nights are not gonna last long....but the weekends would still be rockking....First friday today.....SHARKEYS!!!....our favorite pub, i'm so excited.

All right guys, this is it for this summer. I'll come back again as soon as i find time.

Keep writing,
Tarun

Blog Update!!!

Check out Aman's comments on the "Goa Trip" post.....i like it when people praise me and i dont hesitate at all to brag...hehehe.

Great comments buddy. You surely added to the great experience. Thanks.

Animesh bhaiya....aap bhi kuch likh do.

Trying to put things together

I need to setup the furniture in my new room....i need to move the desk to that corner...but i see a lot of boxes with tonnes of stuff in that corner, i need to move them first to somewhere else, but why move it if i have to unpack them, take things out of those and put it in the closet...but some boxes have books and other stuff that need to go on my desk, how would i put it unless i put the desk in its right place first?

I need to buy some stuff like a shower curtain, need to clean up a bit, finish up leasing paperwork, i go to office, have some good amount of school work too, friends drag me into the pre-semester parties too in the nights, etc etc etc.....

ok...don't get mad at me. these are just the glimpses of how disoriented and unorganized my life has been in the last 4-5 days....

A lot of things, still inside the boxes...i'd term those as "missing" until i find them. :)
Things are surely better than what they were on the first day i moved, when it took me good time to locate some pretty important stuff e.g. my underwears. :)

Am i enjoying my life right now? I don't know. Coz i just dont even have the time to think about it. It had been long since i wrote something here. Couldnt find anything more interesting in my life than what's going on right now.

There have been some people who have been shouting at me over the phone about me not being able to find time for them. All i would say to them is i'm sor....yeah right...abhi bolta hun sorry.....in your dreams. :)

So what is it that is making things so messy....is it too much work, or am i too lazy to do it, am i not meant for all this, too many things at the same time, what is it? Are you looking for an answer here....how stupid can you be. If i knew it, to problem solve na kar deta.

The next question would be, how do i get over this and how long is it going to take? Simple.....karm kiye jao baalak, fal ki chinta mat karo.

This by far is looking to me as the weirdest post on this blog...and i'm pretty sure that you'll agree to me too. See....i get you all kinds of things....fun, mysteries, tragedies, relationships...list is just endless.

Believe me...i'll surely come up with something better next time. :)

Keep writing,
Tarun

Moving Day !!!!

Bad day....seriously...a real bad one....The reason why it was bad was coz i had to move my stuff to a new aprtment. It's only this day that really makes you realize how much stupid stuff u have that you actually do not need. You so much feel like getting rid of such things at that very moment but you dont....you know why....it's difficult to accept the fact that you bought something totally useless for urself....right??

I tell u all the apartments in the world should be furnished. Koi chakkar hi nai moving ka. You leave your old furniture, and you get new at the new place. Once a person decides to move, he should donate his clothes and all other personal belongings too and buy new ones at the new place. To ye sab dhone ka bhi syapa khatam.

Another pain in the wrong area....Packing!!! Oh God....why do things have to be so delicate and fragile...no matter how hard you try, you'll still manage to break at least some of those. Trivia for you...One thing that my Dad always says whenever we move to a new place....when you pack stuff, you actually find a lot of things that you lost long ago and couldn't find anywhere. However, once you unpack and get settled, you lose many other things than what you actually found when you were packing. So true.

By the way, Unpacking...another big pain. initially i used to have trouble in figuring out which item is in which box. So i started labelling the boxes. Now, i find trouble in figuring out where the required box is. And you know what. The box that you are actually looking for will always somehow manage to be the one hidden right beneath the rest 99 boxes....i tell u these boxes just know how to play with us. They are living things...believe me....they just have pure fun at our misery. You'll find every other damn thing but the one you are actually looking for. And the worst part is, you'll see through all this other stuff on your way to find what you are looking for, and when you actually look for any of these other things sometime later, you won't find it....try the hell u can and you won't. i can bet whatever u want me to on that.

Or leased apartments k syape alag, you've got to make sure that the apartment is in good condition, or else be prepared to shell out some good amount of money from your pocket.

So all in all, the entire moving process tortures you, plays with you, teases you, makes fun of you, makes you realize that you are good for nothing, tells you that you need to go to gym, the list is just endless.

Hope you too have had this experience at some point in your life. Moving is fun...isn't it???

Cheers,
Tarun