OK, it just HAD to happen. I mean, if something becomes part of your life, no wait, becomes FULLY your life for five days, you just have to crap about it on this otherwise useless piece of webspace. Jeez man, visit any IITians blogsite and it's all Saarang, Saarang, Saarang! I've always been the rebel (I AM, really. See, I got 486 in my boards and got into this institution and am generally following the 'optimum path'... how rebellious is THAT!) and decided I'll NOT write about Saarang. And so now I'm writing about NOT writing about Saarang. And hence I'm writing about Saarang anyway. Man! Nothing ever goes the way I want it to!
Everyone knows Saarang by Day. But hey, I'm the man who slept at 5:30 on two nights and didn't sleep at all one night! I caught the sunrise of 29th January, 2006, folks, and it's NOT because I woke up early! So anyway, not sleeping and not eating and drinking loads of soft drinks and then not sleeping again can put your system slightly out of sync. As in you'll feel like vomiting all the time, but there's nothing in your stomach, so you can't vomit. And your stomach has this constant pain, but you don't know why, because as has already been established, there's nothing in your stomach. Wait... Except for the gas from all the soft drinks. Oh! So THAT'S it??? OK, NOW I know...
Not sleeping is this wonderful thing. You can feel very drunk when you don't sleep, and I got 5 people concluding independently that I was drunk on one of the days when I was actually just lacking some 30 hours of sleep. But yeah, that's the closest I can ever get to being high, being the 'rebel' I am. Another thing about sleeplessness is that you fall asleep in a micro-second when you hit the bed next time. It's a bleeding painful thing, to be in bed and not get sleep. That's when you start reviewing your life or current situation or the day ahead and you feel very down. On the other hand, lose some sleep and you can feel high for that time and also sleep off instantly without getting into angsty reviews of your hopeless life.
ALSO, you can walk around zombie-like all day with your head down and your mind switched off. THAT is a very helpful thing, especially at Saarang. It helps you to forget about the title of this post and walk above all the mindless flirtations of all the lowly mortals who strive incessantly to grab the attention of the fairer sex. In other words, it lets you forget that you are this give-up guy who can't get a girl all his life. So might as well do the "these grapes are sour" thing instead of accepting the inevitable.
Last, but not the very least, We, The Newsletter Team of Saarang 2006, are very happy that The Hindu noticed our very dedicated work towards improving the general excitement level at Saarang and decided to honour us by putting us on Page 2 of their daily publication (THAT or because they WERE the Newsletter Sponsors and we religiously mentioned that in every issue!). We also realise why they have people who do day-shifts and people who do night-shifts. We'd also like to tell them that there are a few things the Newsletter Team created in their long nights of mostly sitting around before eventualy beginning work at around 4...
The Newsletter Anthem :"Eef you come today..." (Rajkumar and Band)
The Newsletter Addition to Lingo: Khunntrrie Maxxx
The Newsletter Revelation :There actually IS a band called Repertoire Dogs!
The Quote that didn't come up : During WM, one of the participants goes, "this is my own composition by me..."
Goodbye Saarang... Hello boring old life.
Monday, January 30, 2006
Thursday, January 19, 2006
Friday, January 06, 2006
No Man's Land.
Oh wow, New Year's here and I'm yet to post anything. Well, I don't believe in reminiscing about the past year or making resolutions which I will break-down with about as much regularity as the MTC buses in my city, so nothing along those lines. Apart from that, it's been a dull, drab year so far. Till today...
I've also wanted to see how long it takes for me to type a post. So I'm gonna check that... in a different way. So, I'll see how many songs I run through on my iTunes before I complete this post, starting with...
High Hopes - Pink Floyd
Have you ever been to a place where you KNOW you've made a mistake in going there, the moment you enter it? It's a scary feeling man, you want to get out of that place as quick as you can but without making yourself look like the biggest fool in the world after the President of a certain country which starts with U.S and ends with A. So, now that you're in there, you try to mix with the crowd, most of whom are "veterans" in that place and are gulping in amounts you wouldn't have believed was humanly possible! And it's not like everyone's of the same kind, there's quite a heady "cocktail" of people in there. You feel so insecure, childish, lost, totally unsure of what to do next, what the procedure would be to get yourself one of "those".
City of Blinding Lights - U2
It's not like I've never wanted to go there. On the contrary, I've ALWAYS wanted to. But most of the times, all the things just failed to come together. So I wouldn't be able to go and remained a "good boy". But today, it was just so unplanned, so unexpected. A friend just said he was going over there and asked me if I was coming too. I don't know what came over me at that moment, but I nodded yes. And Bang, before I knew it, there I was- the place I had always wanted to come to but had "conveniently" got some excuse to keep away from.
Another Brick in the Wall - Pink Floyd
SO, as I already said, now that I was in there, I thought Why not? I just followed my friend blindly as he went straight to the table and spoke in the most cinematic conspirational whisper he could muster. Then he went through a back-door into an even bigger room which was filled with rows and rows and rows of our... um... subject of interest! I mean, I didn't KNOW there was so much variety in this world, and that there were so many people who KNEW about so much variety... God!
Lifting Shadows off a Dream - Dream Theater
By this time, I had had enough. I was totally convinced this was the wrong place for me to be in, and looked for ways to tell my friend that. He, however, had already got really..."elevated", shall we say, and I saw that there was no point speaking anything to him anymore. I just hurriedly worked my way past all those rows of tables and chairs and people sitting on them... well, as near sitting as they could manage and found the welcoming light of the red Exit sign. But it wasn't over yet. Just as I stepped out, there was this other friend who was just walking in and on seeing me, raised his eyebrows so high that I'm sure I saw them disappear into his hair. I hurriedly mumbled a "I didn't DO anything in there" and scurried out.
Zoo York - Paul Oakenfold
Lesson learnt. Don't go somewhere just because everyone else is. It becomes painfully obvious in about two and a half seconds that you don't belong there, and you stick out like a sore thumb. And when ESPNStar says Please don't try this at home or when any other organisation issues any warning of such sort, heed them! Don't make the same mistake I did and go to places you don't belong...
Yes, people. I went to The Central Library, IIT-Madras today...
Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve
So, takes me about six songs then...
I've also wanted to see how long it takes for me to type a post. So I'm gonna check that... in a different way. So, I'll see how many songs I run through on my iTunes before I complete this post, starting with...
High Hopes - Pink Floyd
Have you ever been to a place where you KNOW you've made a mistake in going there, the moment you enter it? It's a scary feeling man, you want to get out of that place as quick as you can but without making yourself look like the biggest fool in the world after the President of a certain country which starts with U.S and ends with A. So, now that you're in there, you try to mix with the crowd, most of whom are "veterans" in that place and are gulping in amounts you wouldn't have believed was humanly possible! And it's not like everyone's of the same kind, there's quite a heady "cocktail" of people in there. You feel so insecure, childish, lost, totally unsure of what to do next, what the procedure would be to get yourself one of "those".
City of Blinding Lights - U2
It's not like I've never wanted to go there. On the contrary, I've ALWAYS wanted to. But most of the times, all the things just failed to come together. So I wouldn't be able to go and remained a "good boy". But today, it was just so unplanned, so unexpected. A friend just said he was going over there and asked me if I was coming too. I don't know what came over me at that moment, but I nodded yes. And Bang, before I knew it, there I was- the place I had always wanted to come to but had "conveniently" got some excuse to keep away from.
Another Brick in the Wall - Pink Floyd
SO, as I already said, now that I was in there, I thought Why not? I just followed my friend blindly as he went straight to the table and spoke in the most cinematic conspirational whisper he could muster. Then he went through a back-door into an even bigger room which was filled with rows and rows and rows of our... um... subject of interest! I mean, I didn't KNOW there was so much variety in this world, and that there were so many people who KNEW about so much variety... God!
Lifting Shadows off a Dream - Dream Theater
By this time, I had had enough. I was totally convinced this was the wrong place for me to be in, and looked for ways to tell my friend that. He, however, had already got really..."elevated", shall we say, and I saw that there was no point speaking anything to him anymore. I just hurriedly worked my way past all those rows of tables and chairs and people sitting on them... well, as near sitting as they could manage and found the welcoming light of the red Exit sign. But it wasn't over yet. Just as I stepped out, there was this other friend who was just walking in and on seeing me, raised his eyebrows so high that I'm sure I saw them disappear into his hair. I hurriedly mumbled a "I didn't DO anything in there" and scurried out.
Zoo York - Paul Oakenfold
Lesson learnt. Don't go somewhere just because everyone else is. It becomes painfully obvious in about two and a half seconds that you don't belong there, and you stick out like a sore thumb. And when ESPNStar says Please don't try this at home or when any other organisation issues any warning of such sort, heed them! Don't make the same mistake I did and go to places you don't belong...
Yes, people. I went to The Central Library, IIT-Madras today...
Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve
So, takes me about six songs then...
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