Flyover

the college magazine released this year. frankly, disgusting stuff. no offence intended, but terrible magazine… way too much of 2k6 in there– complete exclusion of 2k5. every effort to exclude 2k7. a bit of 2k8. 90% 2k6. its not a batch magazine, its a college magazine; all the articles along similar lines… frustrated cynical youth, making absurd generalisations out of a few facts; fixed poll results; bad choice of pictures.

and despite my personal disliking for the 2k6 batch, i had expected them to bring out the best magazine in the history of gmch… honestly.

when i first entered college, i had one thing in mind… to make the most out of it. college presented me with a million opportunities, and i grabbed them. i did every co-curricular, participated in every damn thing, got involved in all sorts of committees etc. last year i had decided that after the following year, i’ll back out from everything (i have started doing that), and focus on my academics.

1st prof was mildly co-curricularly charged… i made a lot of friends… but something happened in 2nd prof… i got into way too many things, and made a lot of enemies. and it was pretty weird. for eg: there’s this guy dinesh, who told his family that i khaofied money we got from college for pulse (untrue, btw). his sister-in-law subsequently told her colleague, who is my mom’s cousin, and who told us. weird, right? then there were people who blamed me for a lot of mismanagement, in which i was hardly involved. avinav, as i told before, lobbyied against me in a fairly sick manner in plexus elections. anuj generally crapped me. but whatever, end result- way too much hatred for me… it bothers me, very occasionally, just a little. especially coz, lately, it has been more obvious than ever before. i have never had so many enemies before.

slightly shocking.

since kyntaji (the bassist) graduated, we were in a bit of a fix… but now one of our surgery profs, robin kaushik, has stepped in… but it’s going to be really weird with him… for one, he was an hour late today, and then he went stomping away, while saying a lot of stuff abt regularity etc., coz our drummer had loosies and couldnt turn up.

but i have heard he is a cool chap, and maybe once we get started, the gap wouldnt be that bad.

saw a really complicated case of anemia and jaundice in the medicine ward today… while taking the history, we got to know that the patient had suffered emotional trauma a few years back coz his sister had expired, and on asking the cause, we were told that her in-laws had killed her. i just felt so… weird after hearing that… i mean… to think that such things can happen to someone you meet.

was thinking… this is exactly why i had chosen medicine, kind of. its a different matter that when i had chosen it i had had no other choice… but regardless, the extent to which this stream brings you in contact with people. its amazing.

i am 4th from right

me and itika

this one is really blurred but anyway… L to R: ankur, aayush, itika, me, aditi, anuj

march past

oath taking

batch photo… am in the second row from bottom

some pics during the high jump event:

before the relay, holding the baton

running in the relay race… i am in the left corner of the pic.

before the tug of war

i think this one was for volleyball

at around 1 a.m., the day of my lower limb grandstage, mum had a major anaphylactic reaction (widespread allergic rxn) coz of a medicine the dentist had recommended to her for a dental problem, and her whole body was swollen, and the situation would have been fatal had she not had the presence of mind to consume an avil at around 4 a.m. when she started finding it difficult to breathe and speak. and imagine, she did not tell either dad, thinking he needed to sleep for his office work the following morning) or me (when i was studying in the adjacent room having woken up at 2.30), thinking that i was already stressed out abt the stage. in the morning then, the dentist gave her a glucocorticoids’ injection (which is an immunosuppressant, and can be life saving in such situations), and put her on a 3-days course of avil. she is perfectly alright now.

then in the morning, the iim results got out while i was taking the theory paper, and tipsy made it to iim-k, which is like… AMAZING news, and made us all soooo very happy… its a beautiful place as he keeps on telling us, having the best campus in india, and an avg domestic salary of 14.83 lakhs, and blah blah… as he keeps on going on and on abt it.

me and ankur have again started studying together in the lib, and we intend not to get a supple, which is very very likely going by our present academic states. and today, i went to the lib for the first time in a pony thanx to all the heat, and absolutely every single friend of mine laughed, but laughed in a nice way, and besides comfort is most important, so who cares. and tomorrow is another stupid cme of the radio deptt., and thanks to gujju, we are again to sing, which is sooooo damn irritating at this point of time… but she just refuses to understand our hints.

all this heat these days, and our dependence on air conditioners makes me so so scared abt global warming.

k… bbye, gn. the reason why i did not blog yesterday is that tipu was so excited yesterday that he did not leave the net.

sitting in the it centre right now, near the b-block canteen. just had a plate of kadi chawal, followed by a plate of maggi, and will have milk or juice in a short while, and then will have to go to gujju’s office, for some stupid cme singing. sigh! my grand stage prep is going at a bad pace, and all i really want to do is sleep, but well… and for the first time in my life, i find myself unable to blog abt the stuff i really want to blog about.

track events tomorrow and the day after… and i am quite nervous… have always been very nervous abt races and stuff… they get so tiring, and then there is always the fear what if i get the urge to give up… which i will, as always… and which i’ll have to fight as always. i’ll try to remember 2 things:
1. use your height to your best advantage
2. do or die

none of us was in a mood to study, naturally, and so anuj got up and gave a sort of lecture on urbanization, and then we were all interrupting him, and having a lot of fun… and then suddenly he was like, “mam lets have kalyani continue it further… she has done some good research on urbanization.” (for everybody’s info, i have done no such thing.)… so i was called forward (though i denied having done any such thing… it was all nice and funny, and jolly, and the teacher was unable to hear my voice and i sportily complied)… and again people started having fun, and itika’s voice was very conspicuous, so i said, “me and itika co-authored the research paper… we would both like to speak on it.” then itika was called forward… and i said a couple of lines abt evolution of cities and fossa dixitalis ( )… and then the teacher was like: “so tell me more about your research.”. and we both started off that it wasn’t a proper paper… just a “little” article on evolution of urban areas, needs, co-relation with socio-biology, changing pressures, evolutionary, ecological analogies, changing face of medicine, requirements etc… and so on and so forth. and in the end she was like: “get this paper in the next class… i would have the hod read it.”

guess would just write something abt it now… not a very difficult topic…