Loss Again

Hello dear AM&M readers. Hope you are not having a bad time as me.

I am writing this post with a heavy heart as I inform you that I have managed to lose a 4 day old Samsung Galaxy S2. This experience of loss is not a new one for me as I had previously lost a Nokia N91 and my wallet a couple of times about which you can read in the following post – My Experience In The Theory Of Substantial Loss (The post was written a long time back so pardon the casual writing).
I had hopped-up on the Android bandwagon only a couple of months back when I had finally departed with my 3 year old Nokia N97 for an LG Optimus 3D. However, recently I had exchanged the Optimus 3D for a Samsung Galaxy S2 as the former had started lagging a bit and the S2 is still quite a solid phone. Having bought the S2 during the Durga Puja festival, I hadn’t done much with it except clicking thousands of pictures of the vibrant festive City of Joy. The unfortunate event happened on 25th of October as someone pick-pocketed my phone while I had been busy seeing off my mom and little sister on Howrah Station as they were leaving for Shirdi. After the initial despair and numbness, I lodged a complaint in the nearby police station and got my SIM card blocked. There’s almost negligible chance of getting it back now. I am considering buying another phone but I had exhausted all my savings in buying the Optimus 3D and so budget is quite restrained. With a burden on my heart I resort to my most strong belief – “Whatever happens in life, happens for the good”.
Maybe I’ll end up buying a better handset, but only time will tell whether the loss caused me more good than bad.
That’ll be all for now and the conclusion is – Stay cautious, stay safe.

Holi

A blog post after a month ! I hope all the AM&M readers have had a happy and colorful Holi !

Holi- so many memories attached with this festival of colors ! It has been one of my favorite festivals during childhood !! All those delicacies, Thandai, color balloons, pichkaaris, fun with friends and cousins, smothering people’s faces with dense colors and what not !!! Holi meant pure fun ! It was that time of the year for which we waited the whole other 364 days and it was every bit worth it ! But since the past few years some or the other events clashed with this occasion, namely Exams.. In 2008 it was my Secondary boards exams, in 2009 it was the 11th standard finals, in 2010 it was the Higher Secondary board exams..! But never did I fail to enjoy this festival !

Holi in West Bengal is celebrated on 2 days.. The Bengali celebrate it on the day of Holika-Dahan and we celebrate it the day after.. This year however, there was a bit of confusion.. Holika Dahan and Holi were to be celebrated on the same day ! It is important to bring to notice that Holi is the only Hindu festival where we can feast upon meat and other non-vegetarian dishes.. But Holi was taking place on Thursday and Hindus usually avoid non-veg on this day of the week.. Frankly, there is no Holi without chicken or mutton !  (Sorry Vegetarians and other animal lovers).

Anyways, I hadn’t planned much for Holi this year and had rather decided to stay away from those colors which are nowadays heavily mixed with various skin-burning chemicals ! Moreover, it was my cousin’s wedding a couple of days later and so I decided to stay holed-up at home.. All my friends went to celebrate at various places.. On the first day of Holi things were pretty boring.. Mom had cooked up some veg dishes, we played some loud Bhojpuri holi tracks, downed a few glasses of Thandai followed by usual daily routine.. My locality is such that the atmosphere is the same on the day of curfew as well as on a festival.. It is one of those areas where people like to stay in peace (sometimes it feels like some zombie land).. Fellow people from Kolkata’s Salt Lake area  would agree with me.. No relatives came as all my folks were celebrating it on the next day..

The second day also started pretty the same way.. Lots of dishes were being cooked up, some more Holi tracks (this time mostly Bollywood) and more Thandai.. The cars were kept under covers.. We called up all our relatives at our home but it was strictly to be a non-color Holi.. Only abir was allowed.. All the cousins arrived, we had a great time together, lots of dance moves, jokes, laughs etc.. At night when everybody was about to leave, we started our Holi with abir ! Soon we all were looking like multicolored ghosts and aliens with hues of red, pink, yellow, green, orange, purple and blue upon us !! The whole white marbled floor had turned into pink though most of us had stayed in the garage after the color play.. All in all, we had loads of fun !

I'm the Blue-faced one

But the main ‘fun’ began after everyone left.. It was soon discovered that someone had mixed water-based color in the abir, and as we bathed a stream of deep-red ran down the body !! By the time we slept we had all sorts of creams on the face, old clothes on the body and old bed-sheets on the beds.. The next day was even more lovely.. It appeared that my skin had got rashes due to all that toxic color and it was stinging like cactus-thorns ! After a visit to a doctor and an aloe-vera treatment I sat with cheeks which looked as if they had been punched the life out of them !! And moreover, it was my cousin’s wedding !! As I reached the wedding venue people assumed that I either had a bike-accident or had a fight with someone !! I had to explain everyone one-by-one the reason for those blackened cheekbones..

Although it was a day to remember but in it’s own way..

As I conclude this post, all that I would like to advise is: Beware of Colors

Educational Attyachaar !

The weather is quite wonderful, and I hope all the AM&M readers have had a good day.

This post describes the pain and sufferings of fellow students who have sacrificed themselves to professional courses..

Education – What does this word mean ? Is it the broadening of mindset of people ? Or is it just about mugging up theories ? Or is it just about getting a Degree ? I think it would be unwise for me to tread upon the field of ‘defining’ words which people much more experienced and intelligent than me have failed at.

I, a person like any other, am a victim of this dilapidated system of ‘selling’ degrees.

Sometimes it seems like I didn’t chose the correct paths towards my goals. For example, signing up for the Company Secretaryship (CS) course. As stupid as it may sound, I went ahead with this decision just because I had too much time to spare ! On one of those ‘vella’ days, when I was killing time with a few friends, me and a couple of my friends (namely Deepak and Vikas, both brothers) suddenly decided to do CS ! Most of the people I knew had registered themselves for Chartered Accountancy (CA) like a herd of cattle, but I had decided pretty earlier that at NO COST will I be getting into that torturous CA course. (Yeah, many morons had suggested that CS was an easy course which it obviously ISN’T).

College was never much of a tension as I am in one of those colleges where co-curricular activities are given more importance and attendance is not at all required ! Rather, we go to college only when we have some exam, which are insignificant (infact, I have one tomorrow too !). The only ones that matter are the University Exams. And I manage to get pretty good scores at them too !

So we went ahead with the idea and got ourselves enrolled (read ‘entrapped’) at the Institute for Company Secretaries of India – ICSI. Things went pretty smooth at first. We only had to get tuitions for the Law subject and the Foundation Exam passed like a cool breeze of air. All of us (me and my friends) passed with flying scores and we couldn’t have been more satisfied. But who knew that ahead of the ‘cool breeze’, a Thunder Storm was waiting for us !

All thoughts of leisure vanished as we came to know that we had to get ourselves registered for the Executive stage of the course for the very next day, and that tuitions were to begin from the coming week itself !! Imagine the mental harassment !! Not being contempt with the already hectic schedule, I decided to get to know about the Stock Market first hand, which only added up to the heap of tensions..

However, tuitions began.. We had expected atleast to see a few pretty faces (c’mon, we all expect to meet pretty girls at tuitions ! ) but things turned out pretty opposite, so we had to contemplate with just our books, tuition professor, ever-questioning students, and boredom.. I still often find myself falling asleep on my books and actually starting to dream ! And I am not the only one experiencing this . Although things have much improved and we really enjoy our Law and Tax classes (Thanks to Amit Bachhawat for Law) whereas the Cost class continues to be as boring as before.. (A detailed post on our Tuition Classes will be coming up soon on this blog).

Inorder to reach tuition, we usually take Auto-rickshaws (we often have to fight wars to get on one from Phoolbagan, other students would agree) and the drivers drive as if they were on some Formula 1 track ! Many of them have got seriously *rocking* music systems installed (\m/) but continue to play the most boring heart-broken soup songs from the 80s and 90s.. Sometimes we also take shuttles which is like a shared cab.. After that, we get brain-licked right from 10 a.m – 5 p.m (sometimes, for longer hours).. Lunch has become a thing of the past. Coming back home, I usually sleep off the tiredness, so I am also very much depraved of my once fabulous social life..

One of the many specialities of professional course tuitions are that they are never off (except on Saraswati Puja and other such rare lucky occasions) ! If there’s a flood, we have to swim to it. If there’s a storm, we have to ‘fly’ to it. If there’s an earthquake, still doesn’t matter. For heaven’s sake, they kept classes even on Republic Day !!!! Traitors !!!! Be it the scorching summers, rainy monsoons or chilling winters, we are always running on the street from one tuition to another..

College Exams are only 3 months away (Yes, contrary to all myths, we HAVE to study our asses off for college exams) and CS exams only a month after that. Adding more terror to the situation is the fact that we will be having Mathematics (my nemesis since birth) in our Second Year university exam too !! I had been given false hopes that we have to suffer mathematics only for one year in college (may those people rot in hell). We haven’t even started with our revisions and I am pretty much sure that at present condition, I won’t be able to solve even the most basic Accountancy sum. But then, amidst all this ‘bhaagam-bhag’ where do we get time to revise ?! All hopes rest on that Almighty God (as always). Moreover, CS results are being highly regulated since the past couple of years, so it’s not really going to be a cake walk for us. CS students usually passed easily before but now there are lesser students passing in CS than CA ! Once again, a KLPD (hope you all know the meaning).

But things are about to get better as we have pledged to pour our hearts into revisions (hopefully) and pay full attention in coming classes. (P.S : some really pretty girls have turned up in tuitions too )

So, if you ever think that the life of a professional course student is easy or lacks hardships and struggles, slap yourself !

Meanwhile, I heartily congratulate my friends who have succeeded to CA Finals passing the IPCC exam (though the results were quite generous). I congratulate them on the success of their hard work and sincerity and wish them all the best for future !

My Experience in the Theory of Substantial Loss

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..

Twist in celebration Tale

T . A . L . E
What a bright morning!!!:-) Now i realize that how beautiful the morning after the exams is!!! However, i cudn’t enjoy a long sleep coz the regularly getting up at early times has habituated me of the same… So, as stated in my earlier post, this post is bout the happenings at WOW.. 7 of us, me,somo,rajesh,piyush,jay,raunak and the spoilsport dipanjan went to WOW.. we reached there at morning and stayed till eve.. during this we had a blast, swimming, dancing, drowning and much more.. We spent most of our time in the wave pool where the best part was drowning Jay!! There were lots of bevies and we enjoyed that too!! When i went on the slide with Rajesh sitting at my back, his heavy weight provided such a great velocity that for once i thought that i’ll be thrown out!! Like in City Center, here too we met a lot of frnds.. The most irritating issue was the presence of two french girls.. it wasn’t the girls who were irritating but the behaviour of people( rather loafers ) towards them.. everyone was staring at them as if they were a rare species about to extinct!! :-\ We also played water polo and had a great time.. :-;
T . W . I . S . T
After a tiring day at WOW we decided to enjoy some of the rides at Nicco Park. However, we decided to use the wet-o-wild’s band in the dry park too.. it was a BIG mistake.. we made some polka dots on our yellow bands to make it look real.. another BIG mistake!! We went on a ride to experiment our efficiency..our BIGGEST mistake.. we successfully got on the ride but soon the officer came to us and asked us to sit in a room.. Reason??? He had caught our fraud!!! Raunak was nearly fainting wid fear.. it was a big Bamboo( pronounce Bum-Boo ).. now many officials came and started shouting that ” aera korechhe, aera korechhe, niye chalo, niye chalo” he said that we’ll b handed to the Police!!! Some of my phattu frnds were on the verge of tears.. we were then taken to higher officials and after a lot of makkhan-malai and maska, they allowed us to leave but only after we had to shell out a large sum..( salute to corruption )
A bad endin indeed

Time To Depart

Today was our last day in secondary school(20th Dec,2007).. it was full of fun and masti but at the last moments, the atmosphere became a bit sentimental as it was the last time v students were together on a normal school day… the day was full of filling slam books..scribbling on each other’s shirts..sparkles..snow sprays..cracklers..photos..cameras..music..food..flirting..teasing..admitting mistakes..uncovering lies..pranks..wafers..drinks..and many many more….

the boys were perfectly frank in teasing the gals and so were the gals 4 the boys.. then v had some cake cutting by our claas teacher Anindita Sinha who is the best teacher and most good person at heart i’ve ever met.. v also played lots of sports and had the greatest blast in our school life..v students didn’t even mind putting glitters on the teachers as well… though some”extra discipline” loving teachers kept obstructing our golden times but v were not to budge.. my frnds Rajesh ,Aman ,Sam,Rahul secretly clicked pics of me writing on the girl’s shirts and exposed it to the class leaving me embarassed but i also got a bit of ‘tit for tat’ to them too.. there were also some awkward moments where the back side of the girl’s shirt was full and v had to write in the front!! don’t get jealous, read the whole blog… then there were also some other moments which cannot b discussed here.. most of the teachers were also very lenient to us today as well and the live spirits added to the zing!!

even with the preboards and boards exams coming up, these beautiful moments cudn’t b diminished as i cud never forget this best phase of my life..although wat i wud gravely miss is the decade of togetherness wid frnds… the source of daily meeting each other and criticising lessons.. those bunkings and frustrations..all these wud b really difficult to leave back in the path of life.. the most worse part is the time wen v rememeber the old days and question ourselves that will those moments ever come back???

Nature Attack

today the students of my class escaped frm being gravely hurt… it all went pretty well throughout the day but durin the last hours the whole school was waiuting outside our class to see wat had happened…

Our school is surrounded by big and tall tress and these r wat caused all the trouble… while i was in the teacher’s room .. suddenly a big bang was heard and when i reached my class , there was broken glass all around.. i came to know that one of the trees outside suddenly got uprooted and while collapsing , it got collided with the iron windows breaking then apart from hinges and creating noise as well as lots of glass everywhere.. anuyone sitting in the back benches  would hve got hurt really badly but luckily there were no injuries.. our neighbour class had also got some thrashing and even some big branches had got inside the class !!!  we also collected some wooden pieces as memoirs!!! i hope u must hve learnt that sitting in the backbench cud b really dangerous..

JUNK FOODS…. Ultimate KILLERS…

Now this is a really tragic story of mine and how my fav junk food betrayed me… well i’m quite a lover of the legendary CHINESE cuisine( as most of u r ) … but this lovable of mine is not as nice as it’s long stringy noodles appear to be…

It so happened that i was utterly hungry after spending a marathon 6 hours in my chemistry tutions(man!! it was horribly borin) and so i opted for havin something in my belly before i starved… i went straight no e nearby CHOWMEIN stall and ignoring it’s hygiene hupchup i gulped down a plate of the chowmein… now since i hadn’t taken in anythin since the morn the chow was a bad thing to start wid.. with this incident began the mysteries of acidity and Infection..

That night i vomited nearly a dozen times and was admitted in hospital… GOSH!!! it wasso painful… my stomach seemed that something was tearing it frm inside… yeah!! it was horrible indeed.. i was discharged after 3 days and my body seemed like punctured due to the many injections..if i ever find dat @#$#%@$ ## $^ $#%#$ $^ **#!@#% !###@$$ stall owner I’LL SUE HIM !!!!

I don’t know how these chinese r progressing !!
but i’ll notify everyone reading this post that whatever happens .. never eat anything frm a stall EVER !!!! however starvin u may be..