have been waiting a long time to review my favorite book..here goes!
a seemingly harmless book that claims to guide people about what not to do at an IIT,it starts to punch you hard as you start reading it..the story is so similar to your own lifestyle that you'll be saying,'hey that's me in there!'..that's because,be it IIT or BITS,our lives are an amalgamation of shit like ManPro and elixir like vodka..maybe we haven't boozed on the insti roofs and maybe we haven't fucked profs' daughter's on their beds,but in essence its all the same..the concepts of C2D are a very advanced manifestation of what happens widely,that is copying assignments and stuff like that..basically the book covers the life of an average student who is trapped in the net that they call education in esteemed instituitions..
chetan bhagat has portrayed effectively the dilemma that every student undergoes,in the character of alok..whether to ghot day long in pursuit of a good CG or to enjoy..ryan,on the other hand shows us the futility of theoretical education when he succeds in making it big with a 5.01..hari,is the perennially indecisive character who goes by whatever ryan thinks is right..
the rosy image of college life that the celluloid world puts forward,the place where people are at perfect enjoyment,finding their love and blah blah,is at complete opposites with the stark reality that engineering colleges mete out..it is nothing better than going four more years through that grinding machine that is so misappropriately named education..it appears illogical when we look back and see that we have toiled hard for two years just for this shit..do you call those colleges the premier educational instituitions of the country where they screw with your heads in such a way that you don't stay the way you are? well i guess we can't help it coz its the way things are in this country..but this is one book that can open the eyes of all the people who think that they can play with our future and get away with it..hope it knocks some sense into them..meanwhile i'm gonna return to just being an alok for the time being..
Monday, January 2, 2006
Sunday, January 1, 2006
coming back to life...
could have named this post 'redefining the limits of boredom-II' but i didn't..guess i chose to be optimistic,ha! just back from a 7-day tour of mumbai with a few extra pounds on me..it's inevitable if eating and sleeping are the only activities you choose to pursue! so here i am now,back with my PC saving me the ignominy of calling myself bored..
i guess i am missing a lot of things out here..mostly the carefree lifestyle i got so used to out there in BITS,and ya,my friends who were as cool as they could possibly get..so now,its just looking forward to jumping on to that train back 'home',with or without my luggage,for that's all i care about now! ...........gussing the rosy future and coming back to the present and the recent past,my mumbai tour was not a complete waste of time and money..coz it's mumbai after all!! got a glimpse of hema malini and esha deol,the first thing after i landed and the trend continued..not in the names i mean,but in terms of quality..ohhh,they were gorgeous maaan ,my in-built rating machine went berserk! i felt like an over-lenient teacher,indulging in meting out full marks by the lots..perhaps the only thing i will remember of my tour ;-)..that was the better part,here goes the story of pain..the mini bar of our room was filled with 5 small bottles of antiquity,smirnoff,green label,8pm,blue riband etc. and 2 large kingfisher's lager beer..imagine my plight everyday,opening the fridge and staring at the sealed bottles with no means to steal the contents without my dad's knowledge! i guess it's a disadvantage if your dad's a non-alcoholic..my luck's baaad ;-( ...
anyways my new policy of optimism does not permit such unhappy musings..so i guess i've gotta guss it..don't think i can follow the policy for long,'cause i'm inherently pessimistic..but it's worth a try,aint it? hoping for a cool CG,keeping my fingers crossed...adieu..
i guess i am missing a lot of things out here..mostly the carefree lifestyle i got so used to out there in BITS,and ya,my friends who were as cool as they could possibly get..so now,its just looking forward to jumping on to that train back 'home',with or without my luggage,for that's all i care about now! ...........gussing the rosy future and coming back to the present and the recent past,my mumbai tour was not a complete waste of time and money..coz it's mumbai after all!! got a glimpse of hema malini and esha deol,the first thing after i landed and the trend continued..not in the names i mean,but in terms of quality..ohhh,they were gorgeous maaan ,my in-built rating machine went berserk! i felt like an over-lenient teacher,indulging in meting out full marks by the lots..perhaps the only thing i will remember of my tour ;-)..that was the better part,here goes the story of pain..the mini bar of our room was filled with 5 small bottles of antiquity,smirnoff,green label,8pm,blue riband etc. and 2 large kingfisher's lager beer..imagine my plight everyday,opening the fridge and staring at the sealed bottles with no means to steal the contents without my dad's knowledge! i guess it's a disadvantage if your dad's a non-alcoholic..my luck's baaad ;-( ...
anyways my new policy of optimism does not permit such unhappy musings..so i guess i've gotta guss it..don't think i can follow the policy for long,'cause i'm inherently pessimistic..but it's worth a try,aint it? hoping for a cool CG,keeping my fingers crossed...adieu..
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