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It was the 3^rd day of my summer training here in Steel Authority of India limited and things have really started to get better and serious from today. t has been pretty uneventful so far. Well that is not counting the experience gained over the past two months, the things I have learnt, the grub I have had to survive upon Yada yada... 

As my application was rejected by the authority I was pretty relaxed that my holidays are going to be real fun and work free. But thanks to my dad, who made it a dream for me. As an ex-employee he pulled it off all over again and made an 4^th semester student continue his training with other 6^th semester guys.

The first 2days were very boring and it very well gave a view of slow running public sectors. What could be quite easily done in a couple of hours, they made us to stay there from 10 to 5 in the evening. After 2days of safety lectures we’re finally allowed to go inside the Steel Plant today. We were provided with a map of the whole area, a security pass, an attendance and schedule sheet and most importantly a helmet. Speaking of us, we’re 8 boys from different colleges, all belonging to “E&TC” branch. We started off at 10. As per schedule our first sector was Wheel and Axle Plant, where railway wheels were made, and I came to know that this is the only place in India where this is made. It also turned out to be the place where my grandpa was in charge during his job. But it wasn’t good news, as we walked for straight 1hour to get to that place. Remember why my father always said that you can’t see the whole place in a single day. After 3 hours of seeing things around how they work we’d to come all the way back. Despite of the tiredness, I was very happy and I enjoyed it a lot.

I hope the next 2 weeks goes well. And I’m pretty sure that I’ll get to see lot more interesting things from tomorrow. .And so on. But that’s the best part; as long as I have something to enjoy, I will have something to blog about too.

TTYL

a new start

Hello everyone.

Even as I write the above line if wonder if there is even anyone left who reads the author-forsaken blog of mine.

Did I tell you, I’m in a relationship? No. Did I tell you I am enduring Bhubaneswar heat for my summer training? No. Did I tell you I have written horrible 4th semester papers, making all my nightmares come true. No. Did I tell you I lost my lucky Nokia 3230 phone? No. Seems like there is a lot of catching up to be done.

Speaking of Bhubaneswar where I am currently staying, and will continue to for another 20 days I can say a few things I have observed so far here during summers. One, you should always carry water and an umbrella to save yourself from getting killed by the sun. Two, always check your food and drink for vermin, insects and the linke before eating. Three, you can take a bath anytime you want.

Talking about exams, I was quite confident this time regarding my semester exams, as I studied a bit more, rather a lot more than my past 3 semesters. Had good marks in my internals as well. But the second paper of this semester<< DEC paper>>  made it all clear for me that I wasn’t prepared that well. Maybe the confidence was just due to my girlfriend who sits infront of me, and everything changed from the second day as the seating plan was changing daily. I hope to clear all my papers this time. As i lost my phone during my exams, it could probably help me to produce some excuse if anything goes wrong. [:P]

Surely, I want a new start in everything I wish to do good in. And some I don’t really want to continue, like playing Counter Strike whole night. Some things I’ve already started, and some are yet to be. I’m sure I can pull all this up. Just need that start. I’m gonna change..

Having said all that I might also add I spend most of my waking hours playing games and chatting. And hopefully for the next few months as well. When I am not doing that I do some activities for attempting to successfully complete my training on VLSI and embedded systems.

Think that's a long enough post after 3 whole months. Now where is that publish button.

Later.

Up on Cloud No. 9

The show was over at around 10:30 pm and we started getting back. We were literally limping and it was hard for us even to walk. We managed to walk out of the venue and booked an auto for us to the station. When we reached we decided to eat something, as we didn’t have anything. To our distress it was 11:30 at night and almost all food courts near the station were closed down. Finally we managed to get into a restaurant cum bar. Had the famous hyderabadi chicken biryani with a full bottle of Budweiser.

After we’re done, we came to the station. We’d our train at 8 am in the morning and we planned to stay in the waiting room. But we’re not allowed to enter the waiting room. We’d to stay at the platform all night. Next day, the train was on time and we got onto our berth and went for a much needed sleep. We woke up around 2 in the afternoon and discussed about the concert and went back to sleep again. At 5 in the evening we came to know about the results of 3^rd semester which was declared then only. Everything was going on well including the results as both of us passed in all subjects. We’re happy thinking about the exam days. We’re back to our monastery at 5 in the morning. Finished off the electromagnetic theory assignment and attended the classes from 9:30.

 

This post has been written in three small parts (though they aren’t small). Please read the bottom two posts first. thank you.

Those were the best days of my life…

From 2 o’ clock in the afternoon till 5 we’re sitting outside the gates for being in the first row of the crowd. In sometime people started gathering around. Some were talking about how he performed in pune. Some talked about how the delhi concert was cancelled. Around 5 the gates were opened, and people started forming lines in 4 columns for the security check. While checking me, he said that I couldn’t take my camera in. I was sent out of the que. I put my camera inside my bag and joined a diff line. And this security wanted to check my bag as well. He let me through despite noticing the cam inside my bag. Guess I was lucky.

As expected we two got in the first row which was around 50 yards from the stage. The DJ was playing his songs and it was really feeling great at that time when each beat coming from those sound towers entered our ears. In no time a whole crowd was there, waiting like us for the legend. 40 feet sound towers, full LED wall made it perfect for the BRYAN ADAMS LIVE IN CONCERT. It was scheduled to start at 7 but somehow got delayed and we couldn’t wait any longer. Each muscle in my legs were begging mercy, guess they were not made to stand for 5 long hours. The time between 7 and 8 was really awful, both the wait and the music. People started cursing the DJ. :P

At last we got to see him. It was Around 20:15 hours when the concert began. He came and started singing.  All of a sudden there was no more pain in our legs, it was as if we’re just complaining because he was late. After 2 songs he said,”hi!! I’m Bryan Adams” . The whole crowd went crazy with his smoky voice when he sung his all time hits, “”summer of ‘69, here i am, heaven, everything i do, let’s make a night, 18 till i die””.

 

It was about an hour when suddenly a security jumped in and tried seizing my camera. Warned me to hand him the battery or else he’s going to kick my ass out from there. While he was checking others with cameras I slipped out at the back and saved my battery while others had to give theirs. During this whole stuff I dropped my shades in the crowd and was damn lucky enough to find it after 5 mins without being crushed by someone’s feet. I came forward, back to my position after 15 mins and enjoyed the show. But there was someone even luckier than me, one fan was allowed to come up on stage and sing with Bryan Adams. At the end he asked everyone to put up their cell phones in the air, and he took a picture of that crowd. He finished off with two songs on his acoustic guitar. It was the only time I felt bad because i was running out of storage space on my card and couldn’t record it.

I’m ready to hold you…

I guess I learned that, if u want something or someone you’ve to go for it. Really, we should say YES! to life, YES is the new NO :P <<now much of movie dialogues>> . I am so excited that I feel I must blog about it too, having twittered and facebooked about it already.

“Kritansh”(annual tech fest of KIIT University) commenced on 14^th of feb with much hullabaloo but I was quite far away from these stuff as I knew that a much awaited and a much bigger event was in store for me.. As some friends around me were busy making cards and wrapping gifts for their inamorata [:P] , and  I enjoyed one more v-day being single.. New couples started forming in the campus.. heartbreaks and heartaches were the flavor of that day .anyways..the day passed and everything was ready for 15^th .. as it all started then only..

My roomie and me started off at around 12 in the afternoon… when we reached the station we came to know that our train was running late by an hour.. spending an hour at the station made us do all that what a bored brain can do.. clicking absurd pictures of rails, peanuts and even the water coolers. The train finally arrived and we’re off to witness something truly awesome… the journey was a bit tiring but we squeezed that tiredness out of our body only to experience the ultimate..

We reached Hyderabad around 11 am. a friend of ours was already there to receive us. Each time we called him informing about our whereabouts, a lady picked up the phone which we guessed as our friend’s mom. But it was his girlfriend, about whom we knew from the 1^st days of college.. it was nice meeting both of them. They booked an auto for us, speaking some local language we thought they were booking it at some lower rates..(Though it charged 230 rupees). J we reached the venue in an hour witnessing many things that we’d never seen before.. the city was like same as a contemporary city would be like.. but a PORSCHE and HARLEY DAVIDSON showroom made all the difference. Above all, a black ROLLS ROYCE PHANTOM was a thing you would rarely see on Indian roads. Once reached we walked straight to the ticket pick up points and got our passes.. my roomie stated them as the most beautiful thing made of paper…

As informed at the counter the gates were to open at 5 pm.. so we had around 4 hrs to check out that place. Clicked some random pics. And then we had our lunch, it was a Nepali restaurant ,the cuisine was a bit different, rather funny but I liked the food…surprisingly when I took out a large bill to pay the amount, he took his tip by his own and thanked me. then we sat under a tree, my friend smoked some ciggys and then we went back to the venue. Found our way to the silver entry gates and started waiting for them to open.

back with a bang!!!

First of all, millions of apologies for every unfortunate being who stumbled over my blog since the last post (though I know that there would hardly be any such unfortunates). Today I realized something, some things in life are not meant to be understood; they are just supposed to happen. Things both good as well as bad. Things good like 1p/sec calls and things bad like when you have no one to talk to when you really wish to talk.

Updates updates. Since I was missing for the last 2 months, no points guessing that a lot happened over these days. First of all, the boring stuff. Had the 3^rd semester exams in the very first week of the month, in which I am not sure how I fared, probably average.(thank the heavens for relative grading and my lab-mate who helped me selflessly during exams). In the third week I was back home and was enjoying some exquisite food. Bought myself a new guitar, an acoustic Granada one. What I learned first to play on it was “Happy Birthday”, which was really loved by my sis on 31^st of December. The first week of January was quite busy as I’d a lot of trips here and there. As that wasn’t enough for me I clubbed a trip to a nearby hangout with my friends and it was real fun. Now that I look back at those days, it makes me want to relive it all again. My ten day off campus stay proved to be refreshing, invigorating and of course, calming. Ah well, the holiday ended soon enough and I returned back to my monastery, loaded with gifts, thoughts, and marks, some temporary, others indelible.

Once back on campus, reality seized me by the collar, hissed angrily and said, pull up your socks kid. I realized my classmates have prepared study plans for at least 5 different subjects (which were supposed to add up to our semester marks) and had conveniently left me out alone. And so I spent the entire last week trying to figure out how to invade a single paper ( –_-** ), and of course attempting to look not very surprised when the faculty declared it was “D-day” for submission of some assignment of which I had no clue. Now that I was aware of how considerate my classmates were, I decided to take things slightly differently. I incorporated the ultimate technique of handling pressure of my own devise. “Fukitall”. In other words, I gave up and chilled out. >_> Heh.

The most interesting part of my KIIT Bhubaneswar sophomore year is about to come up sometime this month. It’s the hottest event that marks the beginning of the festivities on campus. And its called, “KRITANSH”. Stay tuned for blow by blow description of the days in the run up to the event. More next time.