The Lovely Bones

I was listening to our very own James Blunt the other day (yes you may pass snide remarks , "Blunt ??..what happened to Metal bro ?"). Some of his songs are pretty good I think and apart from the one major hit he had , I really liked this -

James Blunt - Too Late . If you read the lyrics , you"ll understand the story or well scenario behind the song. A few days back , I was looping this song and it was actually amazing outside with the wind blowing and a little rain in the air. It was the perfect time for a solemn mood. So I ended up writing this sad poem , about a little regret and moving ahead with life. I later realized how my poem was subconsciously affected by this song .

So here goes...

THE LOVELY BONES

Sometimes I think about the past,
About the actors my story had cast,
About things that went wrong ,
And if I could change my song ?.

Maybe say the things I didn't say,
Shout when I just sat and prayed,
Or laugh when I decided to cry,
And Run rather than just keep walking by.


I see around and I am all alone,
There is just a lovely sky and some lovely bones,
These bones are of my past,
Of things unsaid and things that last.


While I sit in this graveyard all alone,
I dig a grave to bury all these bones,
For I know that being haunted is a choice,
And I have made mine with a determined voice.


One by One I pick them up,
I put one in and lift another in a cup,
The grave starts to fill with bones of my past,
Of Things I said and things that don't last.


I cover with mud the seeds I sowed,
And it starts to rain before it snows,
I put some flowers on the top,
Make sure it settles down before the weather knocks.


I move out with a slow pace,
I buried my bones with a haunting grace,
For the past needs to be forgotten and I need to move,
Away from those bones and this lovely moon.

-

Abhishek

Second Chances

In school we were always told that "First Impressions are the last impressions" and if you had to make an impact on someone you should always come across as confident , look your best and so on and so forth.

As I grew up , maybe the effect it subconsciously had on me was that I was too quick to judge people. Maybe if a guy would dress in a slightly non-conventional manner I would brush him off as "artsy , liberal" types and someone who wasn't worth my time. If there was a girl that was not so called "attractive" in the conventional sense again at first glance I would not pay much attention to her. Little did I know that everyone has something different to themselves , everyone has a story and only if we give people a chance that we get to see the world from someone else's eyes.

As school went on , I realized my own awkwardness . I was not really unpopular but I wasn't lets say the most attractive (to put it mildly) , I wasn't conforming to the "norms" high school would want (being geeky isn't exactly a norm). As school was about to end I began to realize that whatever the stereotypes maybe the popular kid , the geek , the liberal artsies , the dancers , the singers....the bottom line was it was okay to be whoever and whatever you wanted and no matter how your views and opinions differed it was cool to just hangout and see what the "other" side thought like.


As college started , I decided to give people for once "Second Chances" hoping that some would give me "Second Chances" too. And those few who did , eventually became really good friends because trust me my first impression can be very bad :). I now make it an effort to talk to the "plane jane" (they turn out to be the ones who actually can have intelligent conversation) or the lanky guy standing alone (mostly because I can relate to him), once in a while I also jump into (not literally) the pretty girls giggling in a corner (often to come back without a smile on my face ). But even though it doesn't workout all the time , people may turnout to be exactly what you didn't want them to be but its cool because again life is about experiencing whats new or whats different . If sometimes people don't really appeal to me in the first go , I try not to write them off..because life in my opinion is about Second Impressions and not the First.

My College Mates - Part 1

Current flavor in town is this movie called "Pyaar Ka Panchnaama" (click on the link that song was playing in my head for 2 hours ). While I haven't seen it every other guy in college is raving about it and says I HAVE to watch it. I don't know whether I will watch it but what I will do is make this post about some of my BRO's in college and some awesome times spent with them. So here goes an incomplete list of some awesome people I met in college and the times I spent with them -

1. Aakash Gaangil

This guy has been around me for the entire 4 years while I have been in college. And while people outside know him as an awesome coder and a very *ahem* "cultured and civilized" person, only a few others like me and some other people on this list have seen his "true colors". From Dancing on a TT Table to scolding all waiters in GOA who didn't give him a cold beer , this guy has an INNER DRAGON inside him :D When in his element he doesn't give a fuck and just shreds everyone apart. 'Rita' as we call him loves to eat chicken and if he stayed a couple of months more in college..KFC @ Dwarka would have put his photo on their buckets instead of the Colonel.

Fun Fact : Me and Gaangil are founders of the "Luxury Gang" a select clique of people who believe in spending luxuriously on all college trips and outings. Unfortunately in our army of two we are touted as spoilt brats and have to come back to our real "undergraduate looking for money" roots.


2. Akshay Rastogi

I guess while we call him just by his last name in the hostel -> "RASTOGI"...I always wanted to call him DON. Because everyone knows..."YOU DON"T MESS WITH RASTOGI". Some of the funnest times I have had have the Rastogi Element involved in them including last night when he was driving the car at 2 AM in the night at RAJGHAT and all of us were shouting "Anna Hazare, Anna Hazare...". Some of the broken glasses and bottles in the hostel are literally screaming Alshay Rastogi the morning after but thats okay...cause this bro always is fair and stands up for his friends. He is also the pioneer of the two day treat..in which he split my CMU treat over two days. The result was 3 of us got a 2-day hangover...1 of us almost had a life threatening allergic reaction.

FUN FACT : Rastogi has a cool cloth shop in Daryaganj...and most of us go for our clothing requirements to him :D. His favorite beat is Astronomia


3. Shrey Walia aka "BIG BROTHER"

Vijay Mallya was wrong. He is NOT the "King of Good Times". Its our very own Shrey Walia aka BIG BROTHER. I remember once I entered the hostel to see a classic HANGOVER MOMENT and all the walls of the hostel were white and there were fire extinguishers lying all around. And there I see Shrey with a non-chalance on his face saying "They are just fire extinguishers bro, NO BIG DEAL !! ". After our farewell the morning after a few of us were hanging at Rajouri Garden an saw an actual car crashing into a wall. Walia brother and me were wearing our farewell suits and Brother went one step further by putting on his Rayban shades. After we made sure people were okay, we went on till I noticed that BIG BROTHER was missing. Then I notice BIG BROTHER still at the site of the accident acting as if hes an FBI agent investigating a case. He wasn't drunk ...but that raises more questions than answers about the behavior :D Walia also is a big Salman Khan fan and a couple of weeks back astounded everyone with his awesome dance on this song. This was followed by a complete SALMAN KHAN tribute. Big Brother rocked it that time :)

FUN FACT : Big Brother was MARKETING HEAD of MOKSHA 2010-11. He raised the OOMPH!! factor of our college fest :D. His favorite dialogue is "Beautiful !!!!!" :)



4. Piyush Maheshwari


I dont want to make this post about placement and salary etc but I just want to say "AMAZON @ 15 lakhs BITCHES". Yes thats my homeboy "Maheshwari" or as we fondly call him "Pussy" (dont get wrong ideas). He wont admit it but he is a fellow geek too...his loves include #Maths #Coding #Algorithms and documentaries on scientists gone mad like this.

Some of the best times reminiscing about life , the universe and BIG BROTHER have been spent with "Maheshwari" and co at our Hi-Mirchee where we always order Honey Chilli Potato , Drums of Heaven and Paneer Tikka followed by BROTHER and MAHESHWARI going for vodka shots in which both of them use truck loads of salt. Me and Maheshwari have decided to use BIG BROTHER's awesomeness and role it into some merchandise and a trilogy of 3 movies titled Big Brother : The Beginning , Big Brother and the case of Rohit the Imaginary Friend (inside joke) and the final movie titled Big Brother "The Love Saga " . I guess both of us are "set for life" :D


FUN FACT : Maheshwari only likes orange stuff in his life. Mirinda , Fanta and last night at 2..he still ordered Orange Bar :D



5. Mahesh Chandra Sharma aka MC aka SEAL

Our very own MC is renowned for his awesome coding . But not many people the "real" MC , the one who sold someone water in an ALL OUT bottle for 10 Rupees :D :D In all "seriousness" though SEAL is the funnest person to hang out with . If you can see his expressions in the AN Shukla Toothbrush video my friends made , you would know what I am talking about. There was also the time when MC didn't know that his winter training viva is on the same day , so he woke up and made the report in 2 hours and gave the viva :).
MC also fulfilled his hidden love for water when he literally used to splash around like a baby at all the beaches in Goa. I mean as soon as we reached the beach ..MC would run like John Abraham running towards Bipasha and just splash around in water :)

On our last morning in hostel, we drove MC crazy as 4 of us (me , MC , doks and gaangil) were simultaneously and "miraculously" lying on his bed because his cooler is awesome. MC was trying to reserve his train tickets back home ( while abusing us constantly ) but unfortunately due to some server problem he must have tried at least 28 times and failed. Once he got close but Google Captcha gave up on him and when he refreshed the page all seats got filled. MC then went on to abuse those 48 "Gahrwali idiots" who decided to book tickets before him :D .

FUN FACT : Me and MC share the same taste in so called "lame" ( we love them no matter what the world says) Hindi songs like this one that he has been listening to for 2 days since I reminded him of it


Like I said this is an incomplete post , in the next such post I will cover Hitesh aka Harry , "Jain" , MC , Harsha , Doks and a few others.

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Personal Update : It is the best of times, it is the worst of times. Here is something that helps.

More digression next time.