Sorry for keeping you waiting for the next entry in my blog (I hope enough of you WERE actually waiting). I have been quite a busy chap with the end-sems and the holz thereafter.. Of course the holz can’t be wasted for trivial stuff like blogging. I have to sit around and do nothing which is much more important 'cause I almost never get to do it. ;)
So ya, I have been putting off. Here's what happened in the last month or so.
Well, NCC was almost exactly as I expected. The instructors gave us physical training with breaks from 0600 – 1800. Of course, there were a thousand and one complaints from the 400 odd guys who camped there but I would say the camp went quite smoothly. One big disappointment was that they didn’t give us shooting training after all the promises. It was one of the only things I was looking forward to… Even so, it was good that I got selected to be the leader of my flight (a group of 30 odd air cadets) and later on, into the Guard of Honor (supposedly the best marchers – YO!). The Guard of Honor guy made us train real hard because we were the ones, the chief guest (some military guy, ‘course) and it soon got nicknames like “g**nd of honor” and the “guard of honor without the honor”. The second name was because we never got the guns that we were supposed to hold when the guy came… So it was a big bummer when he announced it after all the training… I swear I would seriously have kicked his ass if he was our age!!! Anyway, it made us realize the importance of all the facilities we are getting! Most of the guys in the camp were complaining about why they had to go through the camp! There actually was a session on the need for NCC camp in IIT Kharagpur! I mean, why debate it when you are already in the camp!!! If you are about to embark on it and if something IS going to be done about it, THEN its fine. ;)
I liked the food there though. It was prepared by a cook in the camp itself… bathing was in open air which made us realize why gals weren’t there. Toilet was actually half a kilometer away. So if you wanted to use it and not wait for it, you had to go at 0530 in the freezing cold with cold water. The best part was washing our hands in the cold water. It went numb every time I tried. Without fail!
But it was all worth it 'cause the feeling we got after the camp was over was just priceless!! I remembered the saying our yes+ course teacher told us... "Without experiencing sadness, no one can experience the joy of happiness!" We wouldn't know what hit us!!!
Then came the much awaited holidays!!! YEEEAAAHOOO!!! Some guys booked their tickets for an hour after they were released!! Was fun to watch them running and packing stuff up!! I went two days later to Kolkata and then to Abu Dhabi via Dubai using Emirates Airlines. The flight was great. When i first came across individual screens for each passenger, I was shocked that they provide them!! It was on the first flight to Bangalore that I first saw it. I wanted to make my brother jealous and went and told him the first thing I got there. (CRAP!) That's when I learnt that it was getting quite common.
The holidays were good. I got to see my parents and bro (of course) and a few friends. Raunaq (an 80-kg giant and a friend) suddenly about 10 - 15 kg after spending just a few months at hostel!! Then as in all holidays, I got to spend all the time playing and watching movies. I didn't spend as much time e-socializing as I normally would if I was in college. The worst habit I got out of the vacation was a game called ... wait for it... Pokemon. Ya, the child game. Anyone remember it being a hit about a decade back? I donno why. I just couldn't stop playing the dumb game!!! Then of course, mom and dad wouldn’t leave me without new clothes. Got a new mob (nokia 6700 - ya guys, be jealous) and an exchange for my old lappy.
But the holz were soon over... Back to the best t-school in the country (yo kgp - it was voted for the third consecutive time). Back to staying up till 3 in the night watching movies. Back to goofing around! At least that's what I thought. Turns out kgp had different plans for me. I will be staying awake till 3 but only because I got selected in an interview at last!! (Volunteer and Decoration team member of the socio-cultural fest of IIT Kharagpur) YEEESSS!!! So now, no time to goof around with half an hr of studies everyday, 10 - 3 of deco team work, yes+ work and eating and sleeping! Actually I am just coming back from the initial briefing for deco team. Starting tomorrow, I am really busy guys!! So chow for now! Take Care!
