Sister genius :)

The campus looks like a dream. Assam known for its beauty and its monsoons is a photographer's dream come true. Look around and you either see some breathtaking instances of mother nature's aesthetic sense or pouring rains, the former as lovely as the latter. In the lap of the mountains and on the banks of the river Brahmaputra resides the lovely IIT Guwahati. The campus spans around 700 acres of endless beauty and sheer intelligence in design. You see loads of IITians rushing around on their 2 wheelers (bicycles i mean.. one ingenius rule inside the campus -> no motor bikes. One of the reasons why the campus air is so pure and unpolluted).
The guest house meant for the parents and ahem sisters(and oh yea brothers too) of the chosen few is located close to the entrance and offers some wonderful rooms(ac, tv, balcony and the like ;) ) along with some incredibly finger licking oh-i-ll-never-forget-this-dish sorta food. You get to see the most beautiful, really big cricket ground right from your room balcony making you marvel at those genius IITians who are great even at sports.
I always had thought that a place like IIT would be full of geeks with only libraries all around and people who have forgotten how to be normal. I was in for a huge shock. Once you see the campus and interact with a few IITians, you realize IITians are as normal as u or i, albeit smarter :).
I had an easier time interacting with an IITian coz coincidentally this particular IITian happens to be my kid sister. I used to wonder why in the world she needed to study so hard, slog for two years just to get into this place called IIT. Now, i realize how stupid my thoughts were, because now, i am the proud sister of a lovely IITian :). The kind of reactions and expressions you get when u say u r the sister of an IITian is something you should experience yourself ;).
Once i saw the campus, i suddenly felt that if anyone deserved to study here its these guys who have slogged and dared and finally achieved their goal.
So to all you unfortunate people out there who have not had the chance to visit any of the IITs my only advice to you is -- please get your kid sisters or brothers to start slogging for the next two years :P.
I dedicate this blog to all those dedicated, smart, perfectly normal IITians who have achieved their goal, and especially to my special IITian for making me so proud :)

She suddenly remembered the butterfly. She remembered the beautiful color and the intricate pattern on its wings. She thought with a smile how she and her friend ran all day behind it, just to catch it, and once they did it made them so happy that they just left it free.
She remembered the city fair, how she and all her friends used to wait for the school bell to ring and dash away to the fair. They used to play on all possible merry go rounds, even the one which just turns you upside down. She could still feel the adrenaline rush in her at the mere thought of it.
She could still feel the taste of the brinjal chutney her mother made that day. Mmm. tht was so awesome, her mom was the best cook. She had her maths exam that day and her mom had this weird superstition about brinjals being auspicious. She loved her mother. She wanted to get a gift for her this new year, which also happened to be her mother's birthday. She had even thought of arranging a small party, and inviting all her friends over.
She remembered her first cycle driving lessons, her dad being her instructor. She smiled slightly when she thought of how she fell down and her dad helped her up and consoled her, gave her confidence. She had always admired him, he was the world's best dad.
She wanted to go back home to all this. She wanted to lie on her mother's lap. She wanted to be warm in her dad's arms. She wanted to live and enjoy her life. She had prepared so well to win the painting competition at school. This wasn't fair. She was just 10 years old. She did not even know wht dying was, but there she was, lying on the road in a pool of blood. She saw her leg. It was bearly hanging on to her torso. She wondered how mom and dad would react if they saw this. She wondered which antiseptic from her mother's first aid kit would cure this.
She turned her head. She stopped wondering. Her mom with her eyes wide open lay dead. Her dad struggling with his crumpled hand, whining away in pain. She was helpless. She heard a couple of men speaking about how her dad was a negligent driver. She knew he wasn't. Nobody knew the truth. The actual culprits had fled, harmless. She wanted to go and hold her dad and take him home. She wanted to scream ...
She saw a van approaching. She saw them get 2 white clothes, one covered her mother, the other her "just dead" father. The 2 men lifted her and put her in the van. Her - "her leg". She wondered what would happen now. She wondered about the future. She could not handle the pain. She heard the men laugh over something. She suddenly seemed to have forgotten laughter.
The 3 rd white cloth was out. "It s too big for her body" laughed the men. She had always wanted to "die" on her mother's lap. The men would never know.

There are somethings in life which you cannot understand, which you cannot change(though you would badly want to).. I dont have to tell you about the feeling when you are forced to leave someone you don't want to.. When you are forced to go away from someone you suddenly started liking and are having a desire to know them better. Its unfair i know. Its frustrating to me when some such thing happens. I want to tell so much to that person.. but there is no time, i want to share so many things with that person .. but i have to go away.. I feel helpless.. I feel hurt..
I feel like staying back.. but this journey is something that you cannot cancel, cannot postpone. Its the journey i have to take. I know i sound confused.. That's because i am confused.
I feel so helpless.. I always felt i could do anything i wanted, i could achieve anything i wanted.. but i was wrong. Life is powerful.. very very powerful I t can make you rather force you to things you would never otherwise have done. "That's life". I usually love life and living but today there is a certain something against this life.... I just hope it does not last

Love,
Gargi

Hi,
Ever felt the need for someone who understands everything about you? Who knows you layer by layer, to whom your heart and your eyes would be sufficient to read your mind.. With whom words would look artificial, expressions would seem redundant??
Someone who accepts you as you are, loves you unconditionally, respects every thought, every emotion, converses with you only thro' eyes. Well, i definitely do.. Maybe that s what they call "Love".. the most basic, the most essential and the purest feeling mankind can ever experience. People may call love a waste of time, a useless pursuit.. but, frankly speaking can we exist at all without this feeling?
I am not speaking only about the love between 2 people.. love is boundary less.. it is beyond people beyond boundaries.. sometimes even beyond imagination. Love can be towards anything.. your wife, husband, girl frnd, dog, poetry, dance, nature just anything.. If you feel this is the thing which understands me fully, which allows me to express fully, which gives me complete undisputed freedom, then congratulations you have found that special something or someone that i was talking about..

For those of you who have found it .. congratulations.. and for those of you who did not.. i hope you do soon, coz life without love is like a lamp without oil. it just cant give out light.. just cant survive..

Lost in thoughts..
yours
gargi:)

Golden words

hi there....

these quotes and sayings below are the ones i have long admired and
appreciated .....just read them...give them a little thought and tell
me what you feel...and please do send me some of your fav sayings...!!


-- Believe nothing just because a so-called wise person said it.
Believe nothing just because a belief is generally held. Believe
nothing just because it is said in ancient books. Believe nothing just
because it is said to be of divine origin. Believe nothing just
because someone else believes it. Believe only what you yourself test
and judge to be true.


-- It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By
definition, there are already enough people to do that.

-- The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of
comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and
controversy

-- To repeat what others have said, requires education, to challenge it,
requires brains.

-- silence is the highest form of grace!!

-- Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

-- The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to
listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give
each other is our attention…. A loving silence often has far more
power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.


-- The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think,
than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us
to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other
men.

-- Real knowledge and wisdom din't come thro' books or teachers..They
come thro' struggle , effort, and thought!!