But now I’ve decided to write regularly on this blog. This sudden idea of resuming this blog can be well accredited to Mr. Amitabh Bachchan ! Yes, only after reading his blog did I realize that I can convey my thoughts on a much better platform and in a much expansive way rather than cringing up my brilliant ideas into just 140 characters ! At first I wondered what would I write ?! In fact, only after I began writing did I realize that how fluidly thoughts start flowing in your mind once you start pressing those keys on the keyboard..!

A lot has changed in the last two and a half years, i.e, since my last blog post..

Then I was a school student, now I’m in Second Year of my college life pursuing Honors in Bachelor of Commerce along with Company Secretaryship.. Then I had lots of time to waste, now I hardly get time to even hang around with friends.. 5-6 hours of tuition a day preceded by a workout session in the morning leaves me too exhausted to do anything else in the evenings.. Add to it the various tensions of the Indian Share Market where I have invested a small amount..

Friends have changed.. Some have gone abroad but are in contact, some are in the city and are yet out of contact.. Some new ones turned up, some old ones backed down.. But this is what life is all about – Change.. Even I have changed, both physically and mentally. Now I appreciate small things in life, understand the importance of patience, thank God for his blessings and for whatever he has endowed upon me.. There are so many people all around the world who strive and desire for a life like our’s and for this I am thankful to my parents for providing me such a comfortable life.. Although my temper is something which I need to control and upon which I am already working..

Finally got a car, all thanks to Dad, who got me a Honda City i-Vtec (a damn good car and even better in white ! ), but I’m not quite able to feel the luxury since there’s no parking space near my tuitions and thus, all the travelling is still done via Auto rickshaws, Metro trains, Shuttle cabs and other modes of public transport.. Moreover, with fuel prices rising faster than Dubai’s skyscrapers, my car usually gets to rest in the garage.. Also got my room renovated and now I get to enjoy my privacy in a much better way..

During all this time, I also fell for a girl.. We went around for a while but then things didn’t happen as I had planned and the love story ended without even beginning..! That’s what happens when you fall in ‘love’..

I am now a fan of ghazals, thanks to Jagjit Singh, who unfortunately passed away a few months back.. Even as I am typing this post, Jagjit ji’s songs are playing in the background, currently ‘Gham Ka Khazaana’, beautiful track explaining the pain in hearts of two separated lovers..

I think that’ll be all for the day. Looking forward to another day of exhaustion. Till then, take care all of you.

Good Night, Ciao

P.S: my ‘live updates’ are posted on twitter. You can find me by the name @ankit_j

Since childhood i was attracted to water n always wanted to swim like a shark or a dolphin. Inorder to fulfil this dream of mine, i joined swimming classes wen i was in 3rd standard.. At the beginning it was fun as we were trained in a smaller pool where the water was up to our thigh level.. Then one day we were taken to the bigger pool which is 20 feet deep !! I was hardly 4 feet tall then.. This turned out to be a nightmare for me as i drowned in my first attempt itself ! :-0 This wasn’t good for my confidence as i was very scared now n swore never to swim ever again..

However, this year wen i got in the 12th standard, i decided to take a chance n fulfil my swiming ambitions. I took admission in the same pool n learned all the techniques sincerely.. However, glancing at the beautiful gals swimming on the other side was inevitable

Then i went to the big pool n taking Bajrangbali’s name i dived with all my courage.. It was wonderful !! I swam smoothly n was declared a swimmer in that month itself !

Now i’m a regular swimmer n love my water experiences..! (although i wish they’d reduce the amount of chlorine in the water )

Moral: Darr ke aage Jeet hai (Victory lies ahead of Fear) !!

Twitter is very fast becoming the new talk of the town.. after spending approximately a year as a Tweep, i finally got a chance to meet fellow Tweeps from my city, Kolkata.. The tweetup was scheduled to take place on 21st June, 2009 at McDonalds, Park Street from 4 pm onwards.. on my way to the venue i missed a train n sweated like a dog.. the weather was absolutely non-cooperative, but then how can you stop a teenage boy from reaching his destination !!

Reaching half an hour late, i found @ePandu right in front.. @nimbus3000 @shrabasti @theevilp @hussulinux @aritra_m were already present their.. I’m better known as @ankit_j in the twitter world..
Seating ourselves in a convenient place we shot into a round of introductions.. one interesting fact was that we all used our twitter handles to introduce ourselves rather than our names!! Tweetup is a wonderful concept, it not only allows us to expand our social base but also helps us meet a variety of people.. #koltweetup had a superb variety of members from Chennai, Pune, New Delhi n Kolkata ofcourse.. the Tweeps were no less varying, we had Tweeps from schools, colleges, BPOs, entrepreneurs n many more !! Meeting this completely unknown group of people was an amazing experience.. @arjunghosh@theevilp @nimbus3000 bought in some french fries to munch on.. @nambuj arrived later followed by @CreativeWolf .. then came in @sahaanirban n @bassyc .. @GauravSaha made his appearance felt through a phone call..   i learned a lot of interesting stuff n the topics seemed to be neverending.. Some photo clickings alongwid live tweeting added to our tweetup.. then as the group expanded, we went up to take up a larger space on the ground floor..
But the only disappointing factor was the presence of only one female @Shrabasti at the meetup , kudos to her for the spirit ! We also had some serious discussions regarding using Tweetups for some productive purpose n fun as well.. everyone enjoyed a lot n no one seemed to realize the passing time ! Some tweeps had to leave us early due to commitments but their presence meant a lot.. @subhr0 arrived pretty late with a friend but it is better late than never ! One of my friend arrived later too n got introduced to the fellow Tweople..
Then everybody exchanged phone numbers n addresses.. At about 7:30 we all shook hands n bid adieu to the first major tweetup in the City of Joy.. It was a superb experience n i’m really proud to be a part of it.. all the tweeps were such wonderful people and i’m luking frwrd to meeting them again!! As a conclusion i can say that #koltweetup was a big success n i’m confidant that we’ll be organising much bigger ones !! As @sahaanirban said in his blog “twitter is going to bring a revolution… a revolution of its sorts.. in uniting people, harvesting public awareness, bringing social awareness and knowledge sharing…”

Ciao

Here are some links to updates on #koltweetup :

Photobucket pics from the Kolkata Tweetup

Twitpic of Kolkata Tweetup

Twitter Handles of all Tweeps (mine is missing though)

@sahaanirban’s blogpost

@ePandu’s blogspost

@bassyc’s blogpost

Flickr pics of Kolkata Tweetup

Lost Companion

Hello friends.. a blog post after a long time..Well, from the last some months i’ve been losing a lot of things, the recent add-up being my Nokia N91 going missing It so happened that as the exams were nearing, i was going to a friend’s house for some productive group studies.. Due to a cut on my ankle i first decided to get some bandaids. It was on returning home from the med shop that i realized that my phone wasn’t in my pocket!! I searched the house hoping that i must hve left it back, but soon realized it was nowhere to be found.. I dialled through my other phone only to realize that it had been stolen or picked up by someone in case it had fallen.. However, it turned out that the guy was pretty smart coz he’d turned off the phone. I got the sim locked and reported in the nearby police station (the police’s non-cooperation pissed me off).. Later i went to Nokia Care for some suggestions but to no avail. They had even stopped blocking devices based on IMEI numbers since a year back.. There’s negligible chance of getting it back n i’m looking forward to buying a new one.. Recently, someone had picked my pocket in a fair named Subhaas Mela causinthan badg me a loss of around Rs.1800, mostly consisting foreign currency.. A few days back my school blazer went missing on school’s last day before vacations. Someone had most probably picked it up mistakenly and it had my Pierre Cardin pen attached to it too.. Thus, as a result, i’ve become much more cautious and hope i that these incidents do me more good rather than bad..

This cpu, although still not very latest, but adequately workable, had pentium 4, 40 gb hdd n i replaced it’s 128 mb ram wid a new 512 mb ram…anyways, on strting it i realized dat it had windows 98…i installed windows xp in it but due to one or other silly mistakes evrytime, i cudn’t succeed till my 3rd attempt of installation…having done this, i went on to switch on the comp but still it had a Problem…it was showing various msgs of selecting a proper boot device…once again i opened up the whole cabinet n found dat there were 2 hard disks in it n one of them had some bad sectors…removing it, the machine finally strted…but still there was a Problem….the icons were all appearing mammothic n the resolution of the screen was not ready to go more than 640*480, it’s sound was missing n the hardwares were not working properly…then i realized of installin drivers(silly me)..i remembered dat i had kept the drivers in the drawyer but dat was missing too n so i went on to dwnld the latest drivers from net..but since the motherboard(from intel) was an old one, it took me quite a time to get hold of em…

Having installed the drivers, i peacefully went on to restrt the comp…SUCCESS!!!…it was running all smooth now….then i decided to install a dvd writer…i plugged it in properly n waited for windows to recognize it…nothing happened….once agin i opened evrything n after a lot of hush hush n mathapuchchi i found dat jumper of the existing cd rom n the new dvd rom were set to same…having solved dat too….i thought of givin the comp a final re-strt…i switched it off completely, waited five minute, n then switched it on again… BINGO!!!… the cpu strted n the welcome music cud b heard from the speaker too…but wat is this ?????!!!!!!!! the monitor was displaying nothing….WTF!!!!….bein frustrated, i landed two massive punches on the back of the monitor n nearly kicked the cpu…saala itna kuchh karne par bhi koi faayda nahi, ek aur jhamela paida ho gaya…then i checked n re-checked all the ports n cords…wat i found later, made me ashamed of myself…it was simply dat i was not pushing the monitor’s power button hard enough(bein an old monitor, it’s button neede to b pushed hard)…

The system srted n a smile spread across my face….i began installing the softwares…but a PROBLEM ONCE AGAIN!!!!…the softwares cudn’t b installed…reason???? the xp i installed didn’t have a fu#@ing service pack in it…i once again installed the xp wid sp 3…n finally due to God’s grace it strted working n is working pretty fine till now…My frnd Rajesh was vry helping in all these….Phew !!

4 jobs dat i hve had :

Well i’m a job-hating guy..i like to stay above others, not below them…so…no jobs yet or in future !!!

4 movies dat i can watch over n over again :

American pie(all parts:P), Sarkar, Chak de India!!, No Man’s Land n many more yaar !!! only 4 is like a drop in an ocean….my list of favs is nevr endin !

4 places i hve lived :

This is stupid!! Am i some refugee ??? only Kolkata till now…

4 TV shows i like :

There r vry few soaps i watch..i mostly like reality n all… like Roadies, Indian n American Idol, Fear Factor n FRIENDS…they r rocking !! B-)

4 places i want to visit :

This is interestin.. i wanna visit Space, North n South Pole n Mount Everest n Amazon forests !!!! other cities can b visited anytime yaar !!

4 people i’m Taggin :

Samaresh(Classmate)

While all others hve bin tagged…so….curtains down for this post..

YEAH !!! after my back-breakin labour n super-tiresome study-sessions, the results finally came out n i was really satisfied…. .. The results finally came out  20th May n eased me of a great burden…the 92% i got in my icse is really satisfactory for me although i had expected a bit more in maths n evs….however, nothing in a student’s life can be butter-smooth n here too v had a bit of suspense hanging over us wich was really nerve-contracting…

It so happened dat v were supposed to get our results on net at 3 pm… most of us were onl9 frm an hour earlier…however..nearly 15 mins before the deadline, a frnd of mine told dat the result is out… i jumped on my keyboard like a cheetah n entered the required info in the link given by him….my result was in front of me within seconds n i was floating in air seein dat i had fared pretty well !!! i immediately informed evrybody bout my ‘great’ result n told my frnds too…soon my frnds began tellin me dat their result is not yet out so how cud b mine out ??? i thought they must hve flawed but wen evryone strted tellin me the same, i got scared…my cherish fell as soon as it had rose n i got afraid dat it must hve bin some fake result n dat i was now bound to get a worse result…all my joy vanished n i was gripped in tension…

after a lot of hush n mush, evrybody’s result came out nearly an hour later than the fixed deadline, n i saw dat my result was the same…believe me..the relief was greater than having a massage after trekking….

Soon i was at the recieving end of congratulations from my many friends,relatives n neughbours…i am really happy of doin something worthy…

All my frnds had worked really hard n i wish them CONGRATULATIONS for their effort n good result !!!