Bintu Breaks His Silence at Monday, August 28, 2006

Yes people, believe it or not Binoy has finally written a post.....
Apparently he too is so bored now-a-days that he had to do this to prevent an outburst ( I guess even he was tempted to bang his head on the table like Joe). Plus the poor thing has other issues to deal with, such as being called 20 different names (Take that for MPD Woscar), or being termed as 'Cute Little Bintu' or having tonnes of sisters but no girl (sniff sniff. As ure praaji I promise to fix that sooner than later but Dont look my girl!)
So This is the part where I shut up and Bintu takes over.............
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Well this is my very first post and what prompted me into doing this, you ask?
I just wanted to get it out of my system and paazi inspired me to do so in this way....
Newyz here goes
P.S.-this is my very first post and i may suck at this, so pardon me my offences praaji.

Hmm...So everybody seems to be pissed these days. I really wonder why?
our fun group doesnt seem to fun anymore. As of now all that we do is rush to college-attend lectures-munch on our tiffins in da canteen-rush back fer lectures-and at the end of the day catch the earliest train bck home.
WOW!! so much fun indeed! Well to a bunch of geeks it sure is.
Back in junior college we used to have a helluva time, but after joinin senior college ,and droppin da junior college tag, we seem to have dropped da FUN tag too.
In other words,

Gone are the days when we used to waste pointless time in da canteen
Gone are the days when we used to hangout at CCD,
Gone are the days when we used to play confession,
Gone are the days when we used to actually go for good movies together,
Gone are the days when we used to hangout at the beach or at crossroads,
Gone are the days when we used to share our personal experiences together and actually helped out each other,
Simply gone are those days....
I used to keep thinking tht once in senior coll we all could have one helluva time since we'd have the whole afternoon to ourselves.
But that somehow doesnt seem to be happening. WHY!!??

Was this wat all of us were looking forward to in senior college?
Is this how things are going to be from now on?
Is this the same group I used to know?
Can i possibly come up with another question?
I really hope we all get bck to our old selves. I miss the old us...the "us" tht we used to be a yr bck.

Hopin sumthin happens soon,
Peacing out now,
S|_@Y@

Red Alert: Address these issues ASAP! at Sunday, August 27, 2006

So well Im bored. Ive been bored for most of the week, except for the parts where I was with Vel and the parts when I had people to talk to etc etc. But.....for a major part of the week , I was almost tempted to quote Haley Joel Osment and say, "I see dead people!". Most of the time, everyone around me was asleep. Now if my self esteem was low I'd assume that it I was so boring that people around me had no option but to conk off, but as you know Im a self embellishing wise ass! So Im gonna go ahead and throw a tantrum about you guys (You know who you are, if you dont read on, Ill mention you!!).
Okay here's my bunch of complaints.

Agenda no. 1 -----> You guys are too boring in the trains.

Yes the heading says it all but I have to elaborate on it. First of all you guys go too early. Okay maybe some of you have a 7.30 lecture, but every damn day?? Aite, lets excuse that for a sec mebbe you guys do have early lectures everyday of the week. But even if I join you guys for it, its almost like travelling alone, with the added effort of trying to wake people up to strike up a conversation of some sort. Not to mention, I have to either sacrifice either one or both shoulders to sleepy heads and for the rest of the journey, make sure that the heads dont fall down or backwards and hit the wall behind! Plus the odd, "Dude hold my specs" "Hold my bag", "Sit on the fourth seat" excreta excreta. Now I dont mind all that, but if you guys are gonna be as much fun as kindergarten toddlers at nap time, I WILL BE BORED!!! Well chalo, I can excuse that in the morning, I dont like waking up early myself...what about the afternoons, we all get together, wait for everyone to leave, so that we can all have a fun time, but after Dadar or something passes and the hair-plucking and tickling subsides, everyone goes into hibernation mode. Someone will whip out their fones and start playing a game on their fone, or someone else will take that fone and break their high score, or mebbe someone will take out an I-pod (ahem), or someone takes my discman and dozes off!!
If awake, people are either
A) Depressed.
B) Pissed off.
C) Tired.
D) Engaged in a hush hush conversation with the person beside them.
E) None of the above but still not any fun to be around.
OR
F) Youre the only one awake! (In other words...ME!)

Now Im not saying, I never fall asleep in the train, but lets be honest folks, last years train rides were a lot more fun than this years.... so somebody better fix that!

Agenda no. 2 ---> No fun in the canteen.

Believe it or not, the only time we now spend in the canteen is to eat each others dabbas, no more idling around (no siree). You either have to be in class, or in the library, or in some department, or the chapel, or in the students council meeting! (that wud be me and vandana).
But even if we do have some free time, guess what people do........SLEEP!!
In the effin canteen!! HOW RUDE!!(like henrika wud say).
Or it gets so boring that they put their music players, or fones on and cut themselves off from the world outside...
So in other words, our canteen time has turned into a train ride, without a train :| :|

Agenda no. 3 ---> Lets do something other than going home after the lectures!!

Okay now so far (that is two whole months of attending), we have gone for not 3, not 2, not even 1 measly movie together. Pirates of the Carribean II came and went, and took Jack sparrow with it and we never managed to go for it! When we eventually did try to go for it, it was out of the theatres. Plus everyone wanted to go for a movie on believe it or not....a monday or a tuesday :|, Look up the words "weekend" and "saturday" people!! So as it stands now, i think about 3-4 us went for one movie in two months and that movie was........KANK!! Wow I cud almost wish for Harry potter Part V (then again maybe not!).
And what the hell is up people leaving college right after the lectures,

Redramatization of an average college day conversation:
"today im gonna finish at 1 o' clock so im going home at 1.30, if ure leaving at quarter to two, you will make me terribly late so I cant wait for you, even though the difference between you and me reaching home wud be abt 5 minutes!!"

Agenda no. 4 ----> Our blogs have gone extinct....(but theres still hope for dinosaurs).

Okay, last time I checked, Christine was the only one who blogged. Her blog is called Contagious Joy, and well its depressing. So well yeah its contagious, still hoping and praying about the joy part to kick in somewhere. Oscar's website, has well nothing on it.
And even when I take the time out to blog, you guys sound like bloody politicians, in other words the response to each post is....NO COMMENTS!!

Agenda No. 5 ----> No more pranks.

A recent study has shown that ever since sam left college, the number of pranks that we play on each other as well as other people has reduced to an all time low! The only thing that comes close to a 'prank' right now is "Kkahani storry kkii". So thats another thing we need to look into.
Plus we have no many good sad jokes anymore. The sad part seems to be dominant these days.
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In short if you guys dont wanna read another long winding post like this, SNAP OUT OF IT!!!!

So Here I Am Again... at Saturday, August 19, 2006

Let me begin by apologizing for not having blogged for all this while. The stat on blogger said I hadn't logged into make a post since July or something, I'm really sorry for that, I miss writing here and its not that hard to put up a post atleast once a week. Even Christine manages that with her back-breaking schedule...So I promise to atleast try to blog here more often.
Another thing I'd like to say is that, I still prefer blogger over wordpress, so if Im gonna blog its gonna be here, Oscar can do the transfer part....

Well where do I begin?
College started like a month ago with full flow and its a whole lot of fun. Unfortunately it takes up most of my time and after a day of waking up early, attending all the lectures, goin to ceto's etc, I do allow myself to be lazy and do pretty much nothing. I'm really sorry for that, I've totally cut myself off activities I enjoy the most, like going out with Velina, hanging out with the guys in IC, and of course...writing. Trust me I miss all of that, just that no one seems to have the time for it anymore and Im partly to blame too.
Though it is my third year in Wilson's, its a totally new world this year. No longer can I come to college and sit in the canteen or in and around the college without doing anything. Now there are people Im answerable to, classes that I HAVE TO attend (not like I didnt have to earlier, but attendance is too damn strict this year so cant afford to miss even the most monotonous lectures). Trust me, Im having fun in college. I love my subjects (except for FC which is Kkkhraap). Philo class brings out the thinkers in me and Oscar and Nalwalla Ma'am has taken note of that. Psychology as always never ceases to amuse (though the professor may bore a lot). We had our first lecture by Prof. Randeria and all I can say is that I have immense respect for the man. His energy levels can put some of our younger Professors to shame, his teaching is par excellence and the best thing about him is that he is very very organised and never in a foul mood. I really dont know how he manages to do that, but I have never seen him shouting at students in college. Perhaps our office staff should take a cue from him. Cant wait for more lectures by him...
In other news, I was selected for the student council as the Class representative of FYBA and now I feel like I can speak up and be heard and bring about a change for the better with the help of all my friends. Vandana is the new G.Sec of the Student's Council and I am really psyched for her. I think that with the right kind of support from the staff and the students we can bring about a much needed change in college. The rebel in me is starting to take the role of a reformer and I hope that through my efforts I can give back to college a small part of what it has given me.
Theres so many great things I've gained this year. I met new friends, I got closer to my old buddies, Im actually enjoying attending most of the lectures and not having to worry about being on the black-list and facing a pissed off teacher is so much of a relief. So far we havent had a tiff with any of our Professors (except for that incident with Mrs.Vadke, but then again she started that not me) and though going by the book may be boring at times, not having to worry about controversy gives you a whole lot of freedom as well. Im glad that so far this year the college has not been oppressive as far as rules go, I truly believe that this is the way to go because quite frankly, you cant try to discipline college students like school kids, you must treat them as grown ups (irrespective of whether they are matured or not). Thats the only way they will eventually mature, I mean how long are they gonna keep a watch on us, somewhere down the line we will have our freedom which we will be accountable for, might as well start in college which is a training ground for the real world. My spiritual growth is something that has helped me calm to a great extent. Im really glad that I made that trip to Vaishno Devi, I certainly came back a different person. I know that all of us still dont agree as far as faith goes, but the heartening fact is that all of us have strong faith in God. What our interpretation of God is maybe different, but any path that leads to God is good, and Im sure no one can deny that all of us have matured for the better at least a little bit. Thank God for that!
Im really thankful to God for each and every little thing: I am thankful that I have you guys as friends, though we may have our tiffs we do make it a point to apologize and I really appreciate that, I thank God for Velina, she is a friend, a partner, a confidant and so much more... and though we may seem like 'distant cousins' (ahem), its just coz I dont discuss my relationship with her that openly. But, I really do love her and so does she and we're really happy together. Only if we could meet a bit more often. Im really happy that the situation at home is cool, last year was one of the toughest testing times we saw as a family and Im glad we rose and overcame that. Its great to see my bro (who at one point lived by his own standards) as a responsible,settled guy. His fiancee is really good person and I cant wait till she becomes a part of our family.
I know that college life and the PUKAR project are leaving very little time for other things, but give us sometime and you'll see the fruits of our efforts. Im sure that all that attending will benefit us one way or the other. So even though theres so many things that I cant do now theres tonnes of things that Im thankful for...
Thank God and Thank each and everyone mentioned in this post,
You make it all worth it at the end of the day...
Pazz