J for.......

      Loser??? Useless??? Defeatist???? What nonsense…….. my name is Joyshurjo which means ‘victorious sun’ or ‘the sun which has achieved victory’………sounds strong, doesn’t it?? When the name is so strong, can the person bearing the name be anything different??……..I am still trying to figure out why my grandmother has named me so…what qualities has she seen in me to put such a heavy tag around my neck? (Neither I have any victory to my name till date and nor I have that glow to spread light in everyone’s lives) I am never sure of anything (every person I have come across has told me that I look confused)….in fact I am not even sure what I should say when I am asked my name (seriously!!!)..should I say ‘Jaysurya’(for others to be able to pronounce it easily) or should I say ‘Joyshurjo’(which is what my name is in Bengali)…….so, a person who gets addled when asked for his name,can he be sure of anything else??? Isn't it unfair that others expect confidence in me??
      But I can say one thing with surety that I am the black sheep in my family……….I pity my parents who might have thought that the family’s qualities would get brushed off on me but I have successfully managed to brush them off me….(my skin pigment is ‘naya Apex Ultima: bahari deewaron pe dhul ko tikne na de’).
     I stand last (almost) in my 70 odd strong class….well that’s consistency since I stood 70th in the mah-engg cet as well……..the 9 pointers feel that I am……err…(well actually they are unaware of my presence)……well, my pals sometimes refer to me as ‘baal ki dukaan’ (they say that I am hairy, very hairy)…..but my body hair actually adds only 200 gm to my weight (oops……..I forgot to add one more zero to the right).....my classmates are apprehensive about my temper (my message to them ‘please don’t tamper with my temper’…afterall tampering is never appreciated be it ‘ball tampering’ or ’evidence tampering’ or ’file tampering’)……my parents dote on me (I don’t exactly know what doting means but my pals say that they have doting parents; so I think that even I have doting parents)…….if I ask for a fancy meal then I am told to get used to plain meals as that’s what I would be able to get in future……my pillow was cut in halves to make a comfortable sleeping mattress for the pup my brother had brought home a couple of months back (is this doting???).
      My technical knowledge is as good as Rabindranath Tagore’s command over Hindi…….. …infact I don’t even have the nuisance value that a certain Mamta Bannerjee enjoys (don’t rub your eyes when you read that she has devoted followers…..although whether they understand or not what she says is a big question……whether even she understands what she says is an even bigger question…….but they all love her….and as we all know love is blind; in this case deaf)…well talking about deafness……it can be both good and bad……..in MB’s case it is good for her…….however when I speak my words fall on deaf ears which is not so good.
      Philosophers say that when you feel angst you should look at people who are in a worse state than the one you are in……..eg: when you feel that you don’t have much money to enjoy life then you should look at the roadside beggar(that’s common perception…….nowadays there are a few millionaire,multi-millionaire beggars as well….so choose your beggar properly)……so when my peers feel down and out they look at me and realize that they are far better off(in fact on top of the world)……so,I guess a few suicides get averted.
     Well,well,well………what do I have here!!!!!!………do I have a situation where I am worthy enough????......Guys……I think I do…….so,I am not worthless after all……now I feel good.

K for 'Hondya'

    
His name is Ketan.He is however known by his nickname 'Hondya' (courtesy to the 'thick' layer of hair all over his body like Anil Kapoor).
He is a sincere and industrious student who takes every piece of work seriously.And as you would have guessed by now he does accomplish every task assigned to him more than successfully.He stood 20th in the merit list in the SSC exams.He had a very good score in the HSC exams as well.He is successful at whatever he does. He is one of the few 9 pointers in our class. He is awarded the JRD Tata scholarship every year.But he is not proud of these feats (atleast he doesnt show his pride).
     If you need some info regarding anything then he is the right person. Its not that he knows everything but whatever info he has, you can rest assured that it is authentic (unless he says otherwise). If you need any advice or idea about something then you can approach him.He will tell you what he thinks to be right and will give the reasons for him to think so He is quiet by nature but occasionally cracks good jokes.And above all……..he doesn’t lose his temper.He is a perfect example of the saying ‘anger is the acid which does more harm to the vessel in which it is kept than in which it is poured’.
    
    Ok.Now its time for some fun.
    Now that you know he is hairy,do you know that he has got a scary amount of hair on his back too??? It actually peeps out from underneath his T shirt sometimes.He has got a slight paunch (when I say slight it actually means more than slight).He keeps a moustache which actually makes him look twice as old as he is.(ie in the 40s).Infact once during his schooldays he was asked by a conductor about the number of times he has failed in school (mind it that he stood first from 5th to 9th).He tries to lose weight but the poor fellow only manages to gain some.He makes a hand gesture which is unique to him when he speaks enthusistically.He claims that he doesn’t view adult content although he has set a related site as his homepage.
But how does he interact with me??? An excerpt from our conversation
I: ketan,do you have this book? (book on some technical sub)
K: yes i do
I: so do you mind giving it to me for a few days?
K: why do you need it? What will you do with it?
I: (flummoxed)(what can a person do with a book apart from reading it) I need to study from it.
K: (burst out laughing)
I: what happened? What made you laugh so much?
K: nothing…….i could never imagine you reading a book………so when you said that you would read it i thought it was the biggest joke I have ever heard.

This is one of the many times he has humiliated me. He believes that I am an ill-informed, almost illiterate, useless, insignificant loser. (For any more of such adjectives you can ask him). And as I have said he is a person who puts his thoughts into action and so he ill-treats me accordingly. He treats people of his calibre very well, very politely.
    But I still like him.I still admire him.And there is no law which states that admiration has to be mutual. I am waiting for that day to arrive when he realizes that every person should be treated with equal respect be he a winner or a loser.

Life at VJTI

Well...................hhmmmm..................errrr.................................there is no such thing at VJTI.(without considering my friend circle)

Midsem Muddle

     It was a pleasant sunday evening and I was going about doing my pretty usual stuff (ie. doing nothing) when I suddenly realized that I had a midsem exam to appear for on Monday.And in order to appear for any exam you are supposed to know the time table of that exam.So,I rang up Ketan.He told me that the first paper might have got rescheduled to 11:30. (Rescheduled??? What was its scheduled time in the first place????) I got to know that it was supposed to start at 9:30.
     I didnt know how to react to this piece of news.If the paper got delayed then I would get some time to study for that subject which I was yet to start.However,that would reduce the time I would get for the second paper.Anyway,as it stood I would be able to write atleast one paper well instead of messing up both of them.
     Then Alok called me up to tell me the same piece of news with an added twist.He told me that Rohit had posted on orkut that the exam would start on Tuesday.I called up Sanjay to check the validity of the news and he told me the same thing but also mentioned that it was not from any reliable source.In other words,I should be in college by 9:30 or come late at my own risk.
     I started off next morning for college and reached by 9:10. (All the while I was hoping that the exam would start at 11:30) But it was hope against all hope.When I reached college I saw that students were running helter-skelter(which I realized later that they were trying to find their arranged classroom).Then came the jolt........exam would start at 9:30. Responsible people like the Comptroller of Exam told students that it would start at 11:30 but......................
    I was done with only 6 pages of chapter 2 and had to even look at the heading of chapter 3. (and yes,one more thing;chapter 1 wasnt there......this is for people who would start thinking that I was through with one chapter and started off with the next).
    Then I came to know that quite a few students didnt make it to the exam(actually they didnt want to). So,the college authorities had to arrange for a re-exam on friday.There were some adamant students who insisted that they take the exam that day itself.And so they did.
    The midsem exam has become a farce.This is not only my view but also has been concurred by some authority in the Comps department.(A few comps guys went to that person to tell him that they had missed the paper and would like it to be rearranged.The person initially refused.But on pestering he blurted out " arre midsem hi to hai,nahi diya to bhi chalta hai")
     I am not at all blaming him for making this kind of a statement.Infact he is the 'one' for me as he has been brutally honest.If only we had such people in the exam dept then we would have been saved from such harassment. (actually i am just exaggerating a bit; harassment??? what kind of harassment???  midsem or not,my time table doesnt change.I dont care a damn about it. Infact 'midsem' for me means 'less duration of college',so more fun)