The cursed RED


Thanks to some stupid, uneducated neanderthals, the moment that was meant to be red did indeed turn out to be red, but not the kind of red that fills up your heart with warmth and delight but instead, the kind that fills you with a cold emptiness, pain and terror.
And it's the kind of red that doesn't fade away with time, it's the kind that'll keep coming back to haunt you, and sometimes you want it to keep coming back to haunt you because...because I dunno...
because you feel so helpless maybe, for you know there is nothing you can do, and so many other things...
like because maybe you even feel guilty somewhere for thanking God over and over that you're okay and for the ones who're still okay and then wonder how selfish and shallow you must be to be glad about it and thank God when there are people for whom things will never be the same again, smiles that'll never light up the world again, voices that'll never be heard again..and all those dreams...oh let's not talk about them...


RIP the nine souls who deserved to walk out of that bakery with lovely smiles and memories of a lovely evening and be here with us today,alive just as much as we do

Red

The color of the moment is red; the color of speed and passion; the color of life; and ah yes, the color of love. The wide expanse of emotions the color red arouses in us is indescribable – intense and conflicting. Red also symbolizes anger and violence. Yet it’s about love, the silly teddy holding a silly red heart that says something silly.
And that tiny red hot Honda, speeding along the awesome drive by the sea. Or Ferrari, if that’s your style.
The red crowd screaming for Manchester United, and it still makes one think of David Beckham, it’s all about the color red, the color of passion; it’s about standing for what you believe in.
It's also about every man in the house when Shakira swings to 'Hips Don't Lie'! The color of dreams and fantasies
For the moment, the color of hopes and expectations, in a million hearts around the world...

Fall

Something very close to my heart had been missing from college this sem:
It was time for the trees along the Rajpath to go red. The slight hint that it is indeed winter in the northern hemisphere!



I think it usually happened by January here, atleast on the Rajpath!
But this time, it came only after I started missing it; when I thought maybe it wasn't happening this year (I know, impossible, but anything is possible here!) at the end of last week, I realised a few trees were finally getting a red tinge.
And today morning, was like my christmas present:
The Rajpath strewn with dry leaves :)




Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red,
Pestilence-stricken multitudes: O thou,
Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed

Sorry Ragam, this is one time when Rajpath looks better than when you come!

Jiggly Wiggly

Sitting in class the other day, I suddenly became very grossly aware of around fifty sets of toes peeping at each other below our seats. (ugh!!)
Calicut is a hot hot hot place, so close to the equator and the only air-conditioned places accessible to everyone on campus being the CC and the ATM(!!), except for the tricals and the mech dudes who gotta pack their pinkies two afternoons a week, most seem to prefer to have their's peeking at the world.
So in a boring boring class, when everything else in the world seemed more interesting than the fact that the world's first HVDC line was between Gotland and Sweden!, I realised everyone except me had jiggly wiggly tiny toes peeping out from the front end of their footwear. And since most people drastically lose their appetites after coming to college, after three years most toes were thin, long and sun-tanned; desperately in need of these:

and these:
Once again, can't blame them, I agree its too hot here, plus too painful I guess with the never ending classes in S6, eee but sometimes, it makes me feel like this:

From my very humble DSC-W35



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Feels like home..

Yesterday, 2:00 pm, Simulation Lab:
As I slipped into my seat among the rows and rows of PCs, an amazingly familiar feeling came rushing back to me.
It's been nearly three years since my last web-technology class at school, which would be the last time since I stepped into a software lab or something like that. Alright we do have the CC, but CC is different, it doesn't have the same feel.
There's so much I could say about my web-tech class, I guess a never loved a class more but well, most of whoever reads this will probably be from college so no point going on and on about it.
But well, something felt nice. Like home...

Valentine's Day

After a long time, like a long long time, I'm looking forward to a movie.
And even though I know I won't get to see it before I get home for summer, which will again be a little while, I love the trailer enough.
And this is it...