My Passion

I don t know whether the title of this post is apt or not, may be I should say " The Dream 'Unpursued' "

I always postponed writing this post blaming it on time. Today, I felt, "There is never a wrong time"..........


In my life I had different ambitions at different points of time, till my 8 th grade I wanted to be a scientist or an architect, then in 9 th a doctor, in 10 th an engineer. At present doing B.Tech in Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering at IITMadras, I believe I am pursuing my "architect" and "engineer" dream.

There is a little(a very little) chance at present to pursue my cherished "scientist" dream of inventing or discovering something.

A few days back I saw a notice about a lecture by "Dr. MS Swaminathan", a celebrated agricultural scientist and the father of Green Revolution in India.Seeing his name I recollected my school days when our biology teacher lectured about his contributions to the field of Agriculture.He was one of my inspirations from then. I rejoiced when I heard that he is coming here for a lecture. Later that night when we were discussing some thing some of my friends asked who "MS Swaminathan" is. This question stunned me. Then I felt pity. I don't know whom I pitied, Is it my friends, who asked me the question, for being so ignorant?(No, I don't think so. Cause many asked this question. I don't think it is their mistake not hearing the name of an eminent scientist). May be I pitied MS Swaminathan himself for not being known to some of the bright minds of the country. May be I pitied myself knowing that one of my role model is a person who is not so famous even after being called as the "Father of Green Revolution in India" and also as one of the most influential Asians of the century. Anyways I will talk about this in more detail later if possible.

Coming back to my dreams I always had this dream of becoming a lawyer, which I never revealed to anyone. I never even tried to pursue it. For me it is a profession in which one can actually stand up to his own ideals and even express his awe in front of anyone.
Where you can be the twilight in the desert, a ray of hope in the darkness. I always had a feeling that this is one of the noblest professions. May be one of the few professions where you get the chance to change the system. Where your voice will be heard. Where people value your opinion.

Recently, I had a feeling that may be I should have studied law. This feeling may be from watching some characters like Gregory Peck as Atticus finch in "To kill a mocking bird",Kevin Costner as Jim Garrison in "JFK", Joe Pesci in "My cousin Vinny", Richard Gere in "Primal Fear", Tom Cruise in "A few Good Men" etc. Not to mention many characters especially James Spader and Willian Shatner in "Boston Legal". May be it is just a feeling from those scenes and dialogues.
Here I mention one of those hundreds

Primal Fear:

I am your attorney which means I am your mother, your father, your teacher and your priest by Richard Gerry to Edward Norton

LET MY COUNTRY AWAKE

Where the mind is without fear
and the head is held high;

Where knowledge is free;

Where the world has not been broken up into fragments
by narrow domestic walls;

Where the words come out from the depth of truth;

Where tireless striving stretches its arms
towards perfection;

Where the clear stream of reason has not lost
its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;

Where the mind is led forward by thee
into ever-widening thought and action --

Into that heaven of freedom, my Father,
let my country awake.

Rabindranath Tagore

25 things to do before you are 25.

1. Fall in Love.  

2. Ride a bicycle.  

3. Swim.  

4. Kiss someone.  

5. Drive a motorcycle.  

6. Have a night out with your friends Ò just talking.  

7. Try alcohol (and realize that getting drunk is just not worth it.)  

8. Learn to play a musical instrument Ò at least try÷  

9. Play your favorite game for a whole day.  

10. Read ÏThe GodfatherÓ and ÏLove StoryÓ.  

11. Learn to cook.  

12. Skydive.  

13. Watch the sunrise.  

14. Resist ÏtryingÓ smokingÒyou will thank yourself for the rest of your life.  

15. Go to a rock show.  

16. Trek Ò Climb a mountain.  

17. Smell a Rose.  

18. Shave your head or grow your hair extra long.  

19. Write a poem/song.  

20. Drench yourself in the rain.  

21. Eat the cheapest meal you can find.  

22. Gate-crash into a party.  

23. Go regularly to the gym for at least three months.  

24. Learn your favourite song by heart.  

25. Walk a mile  alone.  

 

No Title

Its been long that i blogged..there are many reasons for that..i am a bit busy these days in other words keeping myself busy..When i wanna write i don t have time and when i have time i don t have mood.
But today i determined to blog.
First i really dunno what i am writing about.
I just wanna scribble something about anything or anything about something(Lets just say i wanna write and i don't care what i am writing about)
Today i completed reading "Freakonomics" by Lewitt and Dubner which really is romp of a read as said.
Then started reading "Blink" by Malcom Gladwell. By reading just the introduction i have a feeling that i did a very good thing buying the book.
The book is just marvelous.
Lately i have been listening to lot of radio - 93.5 Red FM-bhajaathe raho 98.5-Radio mirchi and some times to 104.8-specially for ladies :P etc.
More to come................

Finally...........

I have never been so much pained.
Oh God! What a pain! 5 exams(end sem) in 5 days. I couldn t even recollect the last time i had written 5 exams in a row.After 5 straight night outs you couldn't even sleep and your eyes burn. Any how now that my end sems are over, I am free.
Before i leave for my vacation i have 3 days, during which i am trying to be more productive than ever.(Productive here mean sleeping eating movies).

We planned a trip to pondy which got canceled by the way.So,now I am sitting in room watching movies,sitcoms,serials,russel peters comedy shows,playing wolf and forgot to mention chatting.

Will be back.Happy holidays every one.

cheers
Rohaan

Some quotes

I am personally a big fan of quotes, sayings, dialogues etc. I usually have a huge collection of them.Sometimes i find them inspiring, sometimes interesting,sometimes encouraging, sometimes funny..........
But while formatting my comp I lost many of them.
Here i am posting a few quotes I have



"Two little mice fell into a bucket of cream the first mouse quickly gave up and drowned.the second mouse wouldn't quit,he struggled so hard that eventually he churned that cream into butter and crawled out, and I am the second mouse"
Thanks to
"Catch me if you can"

"Its better to want something you don t have than to have something you don t want"

"you never really knew a man until you stood
in his shoes and walked around in them."

"who can question the way of gods they create lovely girls and turn them into wives"

"love is about finding courage that you didn't even know it was inside there"

"I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early."


"Love is an ugly, terrible business
practiced by fools.It will trample your heart
and leave you bleeding on the floor.
And what does it really
get you in the end?
Nothing but a few incredible memories
that you can't ever shake."

"Where the mind is without fear
and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by domestic walls;
Where worlds come out from depth of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is led forward by three into ever-widening thought and action into that heaven of freedom ,
my father,let my country awake."
By
Ravindranath Tagore(Geethanjali)

"The only thing that i am scared of is tomorrow and i don t live for tomorrow. I don t look farther"

"All it takes for evil to succeed is for good people to say its all business"


"If all else fails and you think you have lost,still pretend you have won"


"Success isn't the same when it is accompanied by the failure of a friend"


"Hope springs a kernel.Hope springs eternity."



Some quotes by Fidel Castro

"I began the revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again I would do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have a faith and plan of action."

"A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between future and past."

Will be back with more.......love rohaan

Sometimes......

The marvelous night..
It started as a regular night but it turned into an amazing night.
The words,"You will never know the next second of your life" are really true.
One second you are so jobless thinking about the serial you are going to watch tonight and the next second you are on your way to some thing else.
It all started........
I am on my way to room from narmad hostel night at 2230., i suddenly saw Ronak infront of me.


Ronak:chal be..lets go!!
Me:Where?
Ronak:Even i dunno..lets go
Me:What the hell!! tell me where?


We walked to Taramani and on my way I found out that Charles(a French exchange student had some plans) and now we are going to meet him and some other people in taramani.
When we reached there Charles and his friends Max(German),Piyush,Ray(French) are all waiting for us.
We asked them where we are headed..but no one knew except Charles..he replied lets takea walk on the beach till dawn..We felt it interesting..and he said we will also find some turtles on the beach.
We started..took an auto..Got down some where on ECR road..walked towards the sea.
There we met other people (unknown people).We introduced ourselves..
We are totally 25 ..we started walking along the beach around 0045.. we discussed many things from the advertising to green house effect from puzzles to movies, many topics ..the flow of words, the flow of thoughts..we even forgot that many of us never met before.
The weather is amazing the feel is unexplainable,the feel of the cold breeze passing through our ears is marvelous,the sound of the sea,the beauty of the night,the reflection of the moon in the water,the running crabs,the dim lights,the stars in the sky every thing is awesome(I felt "did i just experience the word awesome").
We walked till besent nagar beach..and we found 37 hatchlings(baby turtles) on the beach, very small and cute turtles..we caught them and left them into the sea..we sat there for a while..then said good bye to one another at 6'o clock in the morning and parted our ways.
We headed to IIT discussing about the marvelous night that we spent on the beach walking,talking,watching.