say it with a flower...

my balcony friend!!!

here is a squirrel (my friend from today!), which often visits my balcony... this morning, it was fighting with its enemy making big sounds... whenever i see this one jumping from one branch to other branch, swinging its tail in its own elegant way, it is interesting to watch how active it is... after all, it is just a squirrel... but, to me, it seems like a philosopher reminding me how to live life happily... :-) i tried to capture it closely, but no luck...

Man, Woman and Child...

Finally, i have finished reading Man, woman and child... a touching story by ERICH SEGAL in his usual and charming style of depicting human relations highly filled with emotions and sentiments... the MAN in the story Bob is happily married with two kids... one fine day he comes to know about a child born to another lady with whom he had a brief affair some ten years ago, who is dead and the kid is left with nobody to take care of him... the story goes on how the MAN and his wife (WOMAN), and the boy (CHILD) go through the emotional crisis to their family... the way the author projected the innocence and perceptiveness of the child is too good... a good novel worth reading... though i have the movie (hindi) version of the same story MASOOM earlier, i liked this book version of the story very much... in fact, the ending of both versions are quite different... particularly, i liked the way the CHILD bids farewell to the MAN's family and decides to live in the way his mother wished!!! hats off to ERICH SEGAL...

snapshots from hell... #2

here is a feast for the eyes with some of the snapshots from the same hell... but, beautiful and marvelous!!!

A place to reach great heights...

Chemistry Department

One of the peaceful locations...

The main building...

A blissful morning...

Even monkeys are addicted to our coffee...

Mathematics Department...

A road we feel proud to walk on...

Green everywhere...

A crane... enjoying its solitude!!!

PS: these are only few of the beautiful locations... and i am not the owner of these photos either... will upload some more nice locations soon after i get a camera of my own ;-)

Past...

life is going superfast these days with loads of work to finish... and interesting too!!! there is lot of fun and satisfaction in lying on the bed after a day long work... but, what happened to me these days??? struggling at least three to four hours to get sleep after going to bed!!! the reels from the PAST are reemerging from those buried neurons... making me uneasy, unhappy, and uncomfortable!!! if i look back at those sweet memories, i become sad... if i look back at those times of insecurity, i become sadder!!! tired of trying out few things like jogging, watering, aerobics, evening walk etc... and couldn't switch off the PAST... am i guilty? or am i feeling discontent about present life? or do i really lack guts to live in reality? am i not honest? or is it just insomnia that attacked me? friends say it is time to get married!!! is it really so? how can i invite anybody into my life with so much of stupidity and uncertainty? what the hell is this? why am i so confused? i wish i get 'short term memory loss'!!!

snapshots from hell... #1

from the day one we started staying in this institute, we are constantly been encountered with all sorts of shocks and difficulties, which made us call this place as a hell... life is always uncertain here (of course, it is everywhere... but, the degree of uncertainty is very high here), keeping us always in a state of worry and loneliness... a few snapshots from this hell...

being the premier institute, the cream people from all corners of the country enter here with lot of expectations and dreams to achieve... but, more than ninety percent of people lose their confidence/interest in academics just in few months after joining... reasons are yet to be explored!!!

the usual period for a student to finish his phd is four years... but god knows when he will get the degree!!! here too, the reasons are many... bad choice of problem... poor relations with the faculty... or even ill-fate!!! a student who was doing active research for last five years, has lost all his data in a fire accident recently... how valuable is a period of five years in anybody's life? that too in twenties!!!

the key things/findings of the defined problem will be known when the student is about to finish his coursework/research... what next? to explore more or just get off from the place? the choice is often difficult!!! even after successfully cracking the defined problem, the researcher himself will be in confusion to answer the question "why did i do all this?"...

coming to the settlement of life after research... many companies come with specific requirement!!! at the end of the day, everything ends up in playing game with luck... the question "why am i not getting selected?" keeps eating the brain until getting into one or the other lowsy job... by then, the remaining interest/confidence in life dies off!!!

but, at the end of the day, people from this institute are THE best... life is still beautiful and colorful for these students... because, the most difficult stages have been crossed here already!!! this is only one side of the coin... will write about the other half soon!!!