westward...

i'm all set. my bags are packed and my sights are set. will be back in this seat 29 days later. the initial few days are spent in the village, ergo, blogging shall continue uninterrupted.

am probably on the longest journey of my life. incidentally the song thats playing on my computer right now shall cease to have much meaning for me by the time i'm back. U2 singing "Still haven't found what i'm looking for..."


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"nothing can capture my emotions now. they are free..."

how often have you woken up early on a late november morning and felt the chill creep in as you stepped out from under you quilt? well, I do that almost every morning because i know the five next steps shall take me to my balcony where the soft golden morning sun welcomes me. nothing beats that feeling.

i think i am lucky, i rarely have nightmares, unlike a lot of other people i know. yes, last night, i know what you told me was scary. but the optimism in me will never die. i guess thats why i'd never shirk from taking those five steps because i know the warm sun awaits me. and you...

coming back to life...

it has been time now. a long time since this page saw some activity.

5th sem over! finally! retrospection? yes. at times i tend to do that, and what i see looking back i am happy with. everything i did was memorable. a whole lot of sports, some soc-cult, coming face to face with destiny and almost killing off my blog.

i left the village day before yesterday and am here in town until wednesday. and then its back to the village for week long preparations for the biggest calendar event for every iit. inter iit sports meet. venue- iit roorkee.

at present its something i am really looking forward to. two weeks of unrestrained fun and some high sporting action. the fact that we get to go to roorkee, a beautiful place in its own right is a welcome bonus.

following that is a vacation off to the warmer locales of the west coast. all in all some december it shall be. fitting way to cap off the most significant year yet.

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i'm feeling very out of touch and hence shall let it be thus far only.

news

winter is very well on its way. a lot of people would call it pleasant but i find it chillier than my comfort level in the evenings. but all said and done, i still rate this time of the year as amongst the pleasantest times in the village.

on other fronts, ITC visited the campus for Summer Training interviews. one of the first glimpses of life after Kgp materializing for a lot of people. for me it shall be "westward ho!" at all costs.

last weekend witnessed the Nehru Dumb-C team comprising lancelot, S and acroyali come third at one of the most dramatic interhalls. rk getting disqualified owing to direct interaction with the judge in a moment of excitement. sn leading for four rounds and then failing to feature in the top 3 cause they messed up the last round.

football practices are on hold at present. am happy to announce that IIT Roorkee awaits our 15 member football team on the 10/11th of Dec. and yours truly shall be a part of the party. the disconcerting thought though is the temperatures during that time of the year in roorkee. hovering around 7-8 degrees centigrade, they definitely sound most uninviting to me.

end sems are well within view and its time to worry again. and maybe as a consequence maybe not, i shall announce my departure from the blog for quite a while now. but i surely hope to be back in full josh once december begins and i am stuck here with nothing else but inter IIT practices, a whole lotta novels and a treasure trove of movies on the lan.

so till then...

(in a moment of delusion i shall allow myself to believe that you will want me to eat up my words and then i shall assure you that i am one of the most fickle minded creatures)

incoherence...

he hurt. his mind said he shouldn't. but he just hurt, helplessly.

too much joy will kill you? just as sure as none at all?

he realised it was ridiculous but unvoidable.