Memoirs

Of the infinitely many sweet memories of the time spent at IIT Bombay, which are the ones I would love to talk about to my friends, relatives and probably even strangers...??

Let me make an attempt at listing down some the things which are very close to my heart.
1) IIT Kanpur Trip -- Summer, 07
2) Lakeside -- All five years, alone as well as with many awesome people like Ritu, Madhu, Chandrika-gang,Aditi, Lux, Fav5-gang
3) Aero-India 2009 and the 6days trip to Bangalore
4) Udaan -- Trips, Meetings, The treat
5) ISMP
6) Inter hostel Hockey in Sophei GC, we lost.
7) Lukkha in 4th year at KResit Canteen
8) Controls Courses by Prof. Bhat
9) Words of Wisdom by Prof. Prabhu in freshei Intro.
10) My work as a PT Nom of 04 Batch
11) Lukkha with C2R batchies
12) Discussions C2R Sopheis, individually
13) TAgiri for AE152
14) The Night of Big Fight, The Night of Disappointment, The Night of Big Treat, The Night I Quit..... Satellitel Team
15) EKF for Satellite Control
16) Non-Linear Dynamics (only course in which I got a CC :D)
17) IISc Internship at IISc with Raka and Samir
18) The day I ditched R.Paper and Prof. Padhi(the asshole)
19) The Lunch at Shakti when the idea clicked
20) Our Bachelor's Party at Fuelz and all the Senti..
21) 11th April, 2008
22) Pankhudi and Junta
23) The Valfi season 2008
24) Those Poems... ahhh.. The Language of Silence
25) The Evening at Prof.Pant's place with aero-junta
26) Aero-Rocks night with Dudi and Gang...
27) Samy, Modi, Chopu, Tiger, Bhandari, JD
28) First Semester Endsems ( used to wake up at 2:00 a.m.)
29) MoodI Competitions, 2004, 2005
30) MoodI with MNNIT Gang 2006, with Pallavi, Madhu and Richa
31) Nightouts with Pai and Bhaiya; with Bahiya, Modi and Sarovar
32) Leopold Night
33) Shankar Ehsan Loy, Kay Kay, Shaan, Pandit Hariprasad, Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhat, Pandit Ronu Majumdar, Staccato, Livewire 2005 concert and many more..
34) Popular Nite, MI 2006
35) Talk by Alwin Sadanah
36) "Great Indian Pit-stop" panel debate
37) Party at 'Velocity'
38) MoodI's Most Wanted, MI 2006--Modi Cracked it!, MI 2007-- Me in 4th Round!
39) Harihareshwar Trip with wing junta --> Nighout at the beach(Thanks to Chintu Matka for this), Beer with Solanki, Bird Watching, Kokani Fish and prwans.
40) Taj Trip -- with Talli, Mandar, Ritu, Nimmy
41) Midsem Mugging with Mandar and Goel --> Structures Midsem, Structures Lab, Structures Assign by Zoom
42) Hostel Sophei Trek to Peb fort with Awesome seniors.
43) Infinitely many Dreams about her
44) Madhu cracked the "dream-job"
and many many more..

Thanks to all the people for all the beautiful time...

Mallesh

Dilemma of a simple soul

Rushing through the waters knee deep,
I see only the distant end’s green,
I kick and jump, no matter what,
Like in the dense marsh, I am caught.
Also a strange fear catches me similarly,
Is that entire green, do I want it really.


No dearth of muscle, no fear of failure,
Impedes me better, than my own self.
A paradox between a vision and a want,
Arising from character and personality.
I suffer the wrath from one to the other.


A simple soul, should I bear anymore?
Or just get myself to ramble and roll.


Mallesh
Dedicated to: My Own prison -- Creed

The blood-bathed drunkard

His head was hurt and there was blood over his entire face. His clothes were soaked in blood. He was not able to walk. Three of his friends/colleagues were helping him walk along. Everyone turned around to look at him and pitied.

Loss of dignity, more than the accident or the blood from it bothered me the most. What would he say when his kid asks him, "Daddy how did this happen?". How would some of his friends and juniors feel when they see him so helpless? Will he able to look into his mother's in eyes in such a state?

Booze... Say aye or say nay? ...
Its a personal choice, true, but not all effects from it are different for different individuals

First Autographs

Aviation day celebration at Nehru Science Centre, Worli --> was given a 1 hour slot in the morning 3 hrs slot for IIT Bombay --> showed a ppt of some awesome avaition pics with some trivia and GK on Aircrafts ---> this was followed by paper plane making workshop --> Kids just loved it!!


The day was going all fine and it felt like a good Udaan visit. The only difference being, there were kids from about 40-45 different schools. I have been to three Udaan visits before and was also there for the Aeroventure- summer camp for school kids, at IITB. Four of us, from four different batches and all of us good friends; Me(5th year), Saptarshi(4th year), Manas(3rd year) and Chandrika(2nd year). Two School girls walked to us and started demanding our autographs. The remaining three gave it with any hestitation, but I was stumped!

"Please give me your autograph"
"hey... I am also a student just like you guys, why would you want my autographs?"
"because you are an Aerospace Engg. Please......"
"hmm... but..."
"Common... pleasee..."
"Okay, but on one condition"
"kya?"
"you should also give me your autographs"
"arre.. what great thing have we done.."
"Now, I want to keep your autographs too because who knows you will also become Aero Engg. someday"
"Alright"

After this breif exchange, I signed an autograph first time ever in my life. After a long time, it felt like ..
"aaii saala, abhi abhi, hua yakeen... ke baat hai... mujhme kahin.... "

:)

P.S.
Additions: Mallesh's day out - Today
Subtractions: First Autographs

The begining of Spirals

It starts as a dot and as the time passes by it grows, into some shape, but I see it as a spiral. Many a spirals may end so short as to be hardly noticeable. But there are ones which will actually make your mundane the most coveted one. Call the dot an idea, and its growth and death are easy to guess. How simplistic! Ditch it!

Marquez in his "Living to tell the tale", at one point becomes desperate to recollect somethings and regrets having not written about it at that point of time in life. I think, many a simple things which feel awesome at this point of time can be forgotten, which I am strongly unwilling to and determined not to play Marquez with them, atleast for the time being. That is what gets me to blog it.

As my exploits for the year 2009 unfold, I promise you some .... hmm... well.. I don't know as of now... say some novel experiences....

Coming up next...
1) First Autographs
2) The blood-bathed drunkard
3) Random Lecture of an unknown student
4) Car vs Craft
5) Its not about running (:P)
6) A mid-winters evening's dream
7) Plagiarism

These and many other dots will be seen here till the time I passout,(say mid-June) from IITB that is; when I shall stop blogging, to start spiralling around them.... (and you thought I shall ditch my very first spiral (the concept of spiral for a blog) so easily :P)

Cheers,
Mallesh