Impromptu #4 - Another Random Post

Seemingly a lot of my recent writings have been random thoughts with little substance to think about and this is another post to add to that lot. Probably something that isn’t all that surprising considering I have my final exams for the sem coming up. My last few days have been sort of morose, the last minute rush of assignments, the farewells for the seniors and for good or for bad, the Diary of Anne Frank keeping me up at night are seemingly taking their toll.

My time on the laptop has also shot up recently, not just because of my assignments but because of a game that I’ve recently started playing. DOTA 2. This game is fabulously crafted with 104 ‘hero’s’ each of whom has a unique background and skill set with none of them being under or overpowered,  An amazing feat in and of itself. Add to this, heart stopping graphics and absorbing music and the end result is a game capable of stealing days of a person’s life before they realize it. The gameplay is challenging and has a steep learning curve, add contrary to expectations; this causes the excitement to build up rather than wane. My friend ends up spending well over 5 hours a day playing this before he calls it a day.  

An amazing game, and one I wish I had not started.

Bidding farewell to our seniors during the first two years felt sad, with a little emotion creeping in for the fact that I won’t be meeting them again for a while but this year, it was different. I don’t claim that I get very emotional nor that im very stoic at farewells but this time, the seniors were just an year senior to us and ones whom we knew extremely well. Besides that, there was an overpowering feeling of a grim reaper standing behind my ear whispering ‘You’re time is coming soon’, not in terms of mortality but a feeling close to it, that our time in the womb of this college might be at end and I sunk into nostalgic thoughts of what I achieved here, and what I wish I had done differently, what I learnt, my PS this summer and what I really ought to be doing instead of playing DOTA.

Impromptu #3 - Routine

Here I am, once again caught up in the humdrum of life, going to classes, giving presentations, writing quizzes every other day, working on inconsequential projects as a part of our courses, losing myself in the company of friends, reading random articles on the net. Stuck in the calm between storms, falling into a routine is something that is never immediately realized.

Falling into a routine does have its advantages, the comfortable life with no real thinking and no real effort is something that I can easily get used to partly because of my laziness. It gives me time to think and reflect back to what I want to do.  It also lets me spend all my time achieving none of it.

It’s this that kicks me back to action, when I realize that I’ve done nothing of what I wanted to achieve and that this routine is simply cheating me out of my time that I break out of it and get back to writing, reading papers and analyzing options and this is when I feel most alive but it always raises one question.

Why do I do what I do?

Impromptu #2

5 days , 4 places.

Sounds pretty good , doesnt it? and its good while it lasts. But when these places each have a different weather pattern and you travel through them that quickly, there are two major problems that you realize later.

1) You never really did see all of any of the places and didn't do justice to visiting them and staying there.

2)You end up sick, really sick , because of the difference in climate , especially when the temperature difference is large.

But at the end of it, its still a time that will be remembered, if not for the joy of exploration, atleast for the photographic opportunities presented by going to so many places in the short time. The challenge? Keeping your camera batteries charged!!!
Do check out the pics i clicked in the photo-fiesta page

                                         

Temple Of thought

An incredible album by poets of the fall has me hooked on for a while. Its their recent masterpiece and i only found one song i didn't like ( and yeah, its a song i've not been able to listen to at all, strangely enough its called The Happy Song ) There's three songs that i really love in this album ( not to say the others are bad, but these rock! ). Try them out!

               

Impromptu #1

I think this blog has gotten a lil bit too serious and has far too little of randomness, so, i'm going to start a series of posts labelled impromptu which will contain random, unorganized thoughts posted as they cross my mind. Hopefully, this will let me cover a wider range of my thoughts and opinions while keeping the blog uncluttered.

#1

This number, i'd like to call the number of madness. Atleast in Hyderabad where i live, it is.

The simple reason being everyone craves for that number being applied to them. Any other seems like too much of an insult to bear. I really wonder why. I agree, striving for perfection is good, but aiming at the stars while forgetting about the ground that you're walking on isn't. The best example for this would be a look at school's in Hyderabad. The parents' want only their child to be ranked as number 1 and refuse to accept that there can only be one first ranker in a class of 30, talk about forgetting reality. Anyway, I guess this just goes to show how much people crave power and just how much power a simple number holds in public perception of a person. The difference between 1 and 2 is no longer 1, atleast not when it comes to perception of these ranks.

PS - I thought id keep my private life out of this blog entirely, but some things are far too important  to keep out. 

My Brother got married recently, and an amazing time i had, That's the reason why there was such a long gap since my previous post. I'll get back to regular posting now. Cya folks around!