They too want it coloured!!

 

                                      Here, I am speaking as a member of Aarambh (www.aarambhiitkgp.com ), IIT Kharagpur and thats because it helped me to get this kind of experience! We had a drawing competition for Children from Deesha Seema School, which is a residential school but hardly has facilities required and the kids need someone to provide them  with stationary and give them opportunity to showcase their talents. They were all fascinated by little things like colours we gave them and pencils as well (!!) ‘coz they got one per person which is rare to happen in their world. They all were eager to put their imagination on paper and the way they did it, made me realize that the imagination is wonderful gift mankind has and although they have lack of many things and limited access to the world, they don’t lack imagination.  They too dream of a large house, sporty car and beautiful backyard for their future!! It was very disturbing to come out of that drawing sheet and realize the reality which tells that very few of them will actually be in sound economic condition in future if their education system and limited access to the world remains same. I felt extremely helpless. All these colourful drawings on paper, which were a direct reflection of their dreams and thoughts, will they be able to colour them actually in LIFE? There was a girl, she knew me because she was in my group for a museum visit which we had for them few days before this competition and was in standard one. The competition was only for class 4^th and above. She was quite till elder kids were drawing, but later when they started colouring, she kept telling me that she too wanted to draw and colour! I tried my best to explain that she was small and we will give her a chance when we come next time. She was in no mood to understand, she told me she cannot wait! She knows that it will take a lot of time and she really feels like using those new colourful crayons!! I could not help giving her a page from notebook (we had limited sheets) and she did not care that her paper was not same as others. In few seconds there was a group of children telling us how they also wanted to draw and colour. It was possible and very easy for us to allow them realize their imagination and dreams on paper but as we all know its not that easy in real life. We need full society to make each one realize his/her dreams. The whole experience told us that they too dream like us. Some dream even bigger than we do!! Yeah! They too want a colourful and happening life! They have not seen the world and have no idea where they stand. We are the ones who know it and as a society, we are the ones who can help it! Help them guys in every way you can. I never went so close to life of needy people…not even kids. Had only heard and just knew. This was first time I could read what they are thinking and this is all I felt. Get into their life and it will make a way better for them.  So, when possible go with all colours you have and fill their colour box….’coz they are capable of and have right to – colour their life!! 

P.S: bahut tempo me and feel ke sath likha hai... so excuse me for grammatical errors.

Dedicated to all kgp friends -

This is dedicated to all my kgp friends on account of friendship day.....friends who make life here so beautiful...:) Thank you !! And here goes the poem -

Life is not all straight… but you make it almost right,
Mornings are always lazy… your company makes them energetic and bright

At all times mess food is highly unpalatable…
but a small talk over table makes it eatable

Put so many alarms and yet need each other to wake us up,
need each others motivation even for a bath;
ping each other within 5 mins of saying real 'bye' to ask a virtual 'wassup?'
always their there for each other standing 'hath in hath!!' (no rhyming word found for bath :P)

For early morning lectures and all 'm too lazy
but when you sit besides, it makes things easy

'Load' uploads homesickness… you come and unload the' load' itself
 Temper is few times sky high… you bring me back to myself

Sometimes, I need company and someone to talk
you come along and 2.2 we walk

You get bored and hungry just when I do
and then together to veggies/eggies we move!!

Thanks for being great friends in every way
Wish you a very happy friendship day!!

Here comes next JEE..in no time.

 'Fly in the plane of AMBITION & Land in the airport of SUCCESS...Luck is ur's, wish is mine...May ur future always SHINE..Best of luck for THE exam.'

'On tides high we try to sail, smtyms win smtyms fail; toiling @ nyts, praying for flights; now's the time…give JEE the bestest way, everything else keep at bay. Best of Luck!!'

             Wow!! What a feeling on reading these smses. They are still in inbox… they are there just b'coz they were sent to me just before THE (12^th April '09) day. When went back to them to send sms to few friends who will give JEE this year and remembered those JEE days. The ones before JEE. Great days they were. I learned maximum about science (this has to be there), about life, determination-dedication and hard work. And also to dream in real sense. To dream a dream that is realistic (not a fantasy), can be achieved but needs many things in return, and the desire to live it makes you do everything for it. Sacrifice everything you can. In those two years, everything that came our way, was ultimately related to JEE and IIT by us somehow. Even the songs I liked listening to in 12^th were mostly motivating songs like - ‘Chak de India’, ‘ashaye khile dil ki’, ‘kandho se milte hai kandhe’… and few songs which I liked for their music and lyrics were also related to that feeling and Yogic zone experience of preparation days. While listening to them now, get that feeling….wow! It's great!  Every night before sleeping, used to see the picture of IITB in front of my eyes (yeah…IITB but let me tell you I'm happy in kgp too… J don't know how it would have been in Bombay but it does not even matter now). Whenever went online, by default visited sites of IITs and JEE preparation institutes. Nothing came over IIT-JEE preparation unless and until that thing was really very important.  Life revolved around IIT and JEE. Any damn thing related to IIT, any news…even bad news (like reservation for teachers), seemed to motivate to study. The reasons mainly being - motivation was overflowing from within and second-the news was never on pages except first/second…, whole world seemed to care what is happening with IITs. I miss those days… that yogic zone, that level of motivation, that strong desire to achieve something and real uncertainty of clearing JEE but in mind very clear that you ….chilling nah?..... Wish that there was a time machine which would take us into past without changing realities and without taking any of our today's time. 

I thank everyone who made those two years of my life so interesting and ultimately secured and happening life now.

Now, again this year, lacks of students are going to appear for so called toughest exam on earth and few will clear it and get passport to explore what they dreamed of 'IITs' and also miss their JEE preparation days. Whatever, Best of luck to them all and also will tell what my sir always used to say - ‘Dekho bachho, tension mat lena, Jitna ata hai, aaram se karke ana. JEE nikal lete ho… badiya hai. Nahi nikalte ho… aur bhi bhadiya hai.’

Jao. Jang jit ke aao. BEST OF LUCK!!  or better take,  BEST OF EVERYTHING!! YO!!

Dedicated to B-16

Yesterday was our hall day and in the morning when we were just thinking how to decorate the room, felt the sence of belongingness towards the room and ended up deciding to dedicate something to my room as dedicating something gives you the feeling of giving back something to somebody, being really grateful to thing/person for being there for you. So, wrote a poem for my room and here it goes - 




On coming to kgp,
had tempo to enter my hall;
but room at first site,
was 'phenolic' and too small;
                                  then learned it was for two,
                                  meaning I had to share;
                                  exsistance of room itself seemed great,
                                  to expect 'OK' things one should not dare;
life then started at kgp,
lectures, cycle, tempo and fundae invented;
room earned the sence of belonging,
to change it or 'do something' we no more intend;
                                   Its not always well arranged,
                                   our small but cozy den;
                                   we lay in load and peace here,
                                   enjoy cold, sun and rain;
Sometimes sad, sometimes happy,
we fight, we cry, we laugh;
we now know - yes, its 'phenolic', its small,
but however it is, its homely enough.

                                    
P.S.: phenolic means it smelled of phenol the day we arrived and it gave a very bad first impression. 

Crazy kgp

I just realized that how crazy all are at kgp!! And one of the place is our room.. i bet you and your friends, ultimately end up talking/doing all crazy things and facing out of the world behavior of your friend. Okay... so here are few daily happening crazy things between me and my rommie.

Okay. So, I come from the classes and if she, generally, is already in the room, there are two possibilities - One is either she is studying or Two, she is chatting online. The first one is better as I get some of 'her' to talk with me otherwise whole of 'her' is in the virtual world which does not include real 'me' in it and needs me to ping her...and by virtue of our LAN divider, according to her it is just alright to ask that from me. Consider the situation when she is in virtual world and I enter the room-

me:         Hi!!

Aakriti:   Hi. (no emotions. nothing. A dry, hard hi.)

me:         Do you know what happened today?

Aakriti:    .......

me:         Listen na...

Aakriti:   ........

me:        Aakriti!!!

Aakriti:  Haan? What?  (Yo!! I manage to get this 'haan?' and 'what?' from her for real 'me'!)


me:       Today naa, ....blah blah....

Aakriti:   ........

me:       What do you think?

Aakriti:  hmm?

(ya..let me tell you i am proud of her for she managed to say one little 'hmm' and simultaneously typing with the great speed....I pity her key-board)

me:       (I repeat things in short)

Aakriti:  hmm..

me:       What hmm...hmm.... say something...something other than 'hmm'

Aakriti:  haan ya... what were you saying?

(what the hell?? does she expect me repeat the whole thing third time?....Aakriti, answer!!)



This was about her craziness about virtual world. Okay, now If I don't tell you about how frustrate her sometimes, she will kill me...ofcourse...vitually..!! Still let me take safer side and confess. So, here I tell-

Sometimes when we are talking to each other (which happens rarely) I ask her questions like -

me:       Aakriti, which is your fav. number?

Aakriti: fav. number? aaa....okay.... its 'y' i guess

She manages to give me an answer but then my next question comes -

me:       Why this number? Don't you think it should be 'x' 'coz ...blah blah...(according to her I give the bad bad reason of which only I can think of) and that you are doing partiality towards this little 'x'?

yeah..I accuse her of making that some non-living 'x' feel bad. (oh, 'm sorry for that dear)

me:       okay fine. forget the number. Tell me which is your fav. month?

Aakriti:  month?...oh...okay...what kind of a Question is this? I mean...

me:        say what you think at this moment... i tell you that is the month...your fav. month!

Aakriti:  okay...in that case it is December.

me:        okay. nice. :) why? (she keeps wondering what is 'nice' in that? .....and I too 'm wondering why I said nice that time...)

Aakriti:   why!??!!... C'mon now... I am not answering this. You and your crazy questions... no... I am not answering.

me:         tell na...

Aakriti:   I mean, there is no specific reason for that. You said say the month I was thinking about. I said it. Thats it.

me:        hmm...you know what?

Aakriti:  What?

me:       Even my fav. month is December and this is the only fav. thing of which I don't know the reason 'why?'. But I like Dec. for sure.
(oh, now I realize that how much frustration does this thing create. I confess that I really talk non-sense sometimes.... I'll try my best not to ask her such questions....even when I think of my answers to them).


And now i will tell you how both of us talk crazy things together-

I was taking my brush out and she she gave her brush to keep it back. Then suddenly she says

Aakriti:  How opposite we are! You took it out and I asked to keep mine in!  (oh! ya... opposite.. as if this thing is worth noticing and is one of the criteria for deciding 'people are opposite or similar')

when I came back, I put my brush back and.....

me:       You see, we are not at all opposite.... just that there is a time lag between our similarity... (this thing made her hallu and I enjoyed!!)

These were general things that our talk with each other comprises of. I know there are more crazy people out there and you people are free to write your rommie's or friend's crazy things as comments.
And my dear rommie, you are free to comment anything on this....


PS: I have used chat language..a lot of it in my post. I like to write that way!! If you mind, please don't stop reading my blog. Just try and bear with it...

The last line came true....I miss you.....

This is the poem I wrote when in N.K.V.S. (name of my school) when in 8th. It was real sad that we were shifting to pune and I had to change my school too. So, I wrote it for all my friends and the last line turns true.. I miss you all now and so I'm posting it here... So, here it goes only for you - 


When I needed
you stood there
                        When to be heard
                         you listened there
When wanted to know
you told it
                       When was wrong
                       you scolded a bit
When had to laugh
laughing in grass we lay
                      When was sad
                       you did all to make my day
When wanted to go
you came along
                        When wanted to sit
                        you sat besides for long
You are the flower
with the morning dew
                       When I will go to pune
                       I will miss you...                        

Wingingdreams...?? why this n wats this?

Hi.. welcome to my blog. I always wanted to start my blog with first post related to IIT ann now specially IITkgp.. but this doesn't seem a good idea at this time...for 2 reasons- 1: I have something else to say and 2: I have nothing apt to tell/say about IITkgp at the moment.. and my blog name...why is it wingingdreams?? and those who know me..you must be knowing that I name many things as 'wingingdreams'.. and I know you will like to know 'why?' So, let me tell.. or better say let me make you like this 'wingingdreams' and bring you the feel of it...
So, here goes my first post...

You can wing their dreams…

He dared to dream

And believed in it too

But had many things to worry about..

His family, his brother

Whom he had dreamed of teaching

Yeah…this was his dream

Sounded senseless to many

Sounded least important to his family

But he knew,

His bro’s life…no..not like his

He will teach him and one day

Brother will earn living for family

He strived hard, tried everything

Tried in government schools

But could see no future there

Tried in private school

But had no fat pocket

So had to turn back

At last found one

School fees ate all salary

But that was fine

Unfortunately he failed to realize

Going to school was just not enough

He needed books

But had empty pocket

His brother learned nothing

His dream was still as far as it was few years ago…

Money went, dream still a dream

Brother’s life became like his

Nothing went correct and nobody helped

They lived as they could

Few years later

He fell ill

Was helpless and life incomplete..

Alas… he died…unhappy, unsatisfied with life,

But his dream didn’t

It is still alive.. in eyes of many such brothers

Who need you

They cannot do it on their own

Help them in any way you can

Take a step. Go. They are waiting…