Friday, February 15, 2013

Illogical & Irrational



Wonder what my life has come to be
Disenchanted, I have accepted the reality
White at one end and tan at other
Fiddling it with my fingers, do I want to do this?

Flame is lit
The tip gets hold of the fire
Starts burning like the man seething in anger
Yet still and solid at its base

Desperate measures for survival
Victim of fire
Crimson tip embraced by the ashy fume
Burns all the way along with my desires

The moment I kissed it
My whole body shuddered in silence
Plagued am I by those memories
I want to forget but I am unable to

The End
Until that comes by, I have to breathe
Another sick stick of madness is lit
This time there will be no shuddering

Tuesday, February 05, 2013

Hate us or love us, but you just can’t ignore us…


The damn villain ogled at Tina, Rahul’s girlfriend. Rahul is seething with anger…..And Ramya is biting her finger in anticipation of what will happen next in the movie,which is being watched in the mobile-How will Rahul fight those goons???

With all due regard to intelligence and hard work, Vamsi has succeeded in cracking some goddamn tough problem!!! Oh boy, one must see that Grand Canyon like smile flowing on his countenance.

Mukesh bangs his head on the desk, completely exhausted and annoyed by mugging up those English words from the GRE guide book.

Sanya is at the verge of crying because her SMS chat with her current boyfriend ended up in a bitter altercation.

Meghna,Neelam and Reethima brooding over the fact that the beauty parlor lady didn't do the manicure/pedicure (whatever!!) properly.  They dress up well and maintain good looks and insinuate certain guys to ask them for a date; when they are asked for a date, they 
pretend to be surprised at the proposal and slap a “NO” as if they weren't interested in the first place!! I wonder how Shakespeare could say such an apt thing thousand years back then-“Outward appearance is inward deception”.

With all seriousness, totally oblivious of the surrounding, Johny is jotting down something on a paper. I ponder maybe it is some brain storming derivation or some code to hack a millionaire website. I tried peeping into his note. It wasn't any derivation or code. Hold on guys…He is penning down steps of a stratagem to overcome the next round in some computer game, which was his latest passion (addiction?)!!

There’s always a room for exception-those unholy creatures, the sticklers, who still bother to stick a damn nameplate in their note books, mug up everything that’s there in the syllabus, never share their notes and assignments with fallen angles like us. Let me not talk about them; it turns me off.

And last but not the least; I am here sitting in a corner, writing, rather scribbling, all of this.

Well, you must have guessed by now that we all are in a classroom, where all these rainbows of activities are taking place, along with the droning lecture.
Some of you must be wondering how we can take our studies/education so carelessly and what this hell of an attitude is. Well, the answer is simple. We are the upcoming Engineers. No matter to which stream we belong, all we have to do is get our namesake degree; thereby we are ensured of being hired for a job of minimum (please note, this is 'the' minimum) 20-30k odd by one of those poultry breeding companies(You might be knowing it by the name IT-Information Technology). You must be wondering- poultry breeding- IT? What's the catch here? Let me explain. Like chicken who warms up and lays egg in a poultry farm, engineers warm up the chairs and run/copy/paste some goddamn codes in any of those IT companies. Hope- I have justified my analogy.

Not all of us joined engineering for above mentioned so called job. But, yes I agree that majority do engineering for the above mentioned fact. Not all of us took up a particular stream/branch because it was selling like hot cake during counseling and was in demand. Soon into the engineering college, we get to know that we have 8 semesters and we have 7 to 8 papers in each semester!!! And, not to forget those internal exams, useless assignments and lab records. The moment you would have liked a particular subject and would like to explore more, you will realize there are 6 other subjects waiting for your attention and in no time, another semester comes knocking at your door.  Very soon, we realize we are supposed to be Jack of all trades, master of none. Running to keep up with the attendance, maintaining decent CGP with no backlogs, trying our best to respect those intellectually half-baked lecturers (well barring a few exceptions), generating interest in all the goddamn subjects and still trying to be an engineer, we end up chasing rainbows. Disillusioned, we give up trying to be an engineer and stay afloat to get a B.Tech degree for that will enable us to get one of those poultry breeding (IT) jobs.

That’s what we, 'Engineers'...no a better way to put it...we 'B.E./B.Tech holders', are. If you love us, you will love us more. If you hate us, you will end up hating us even more.