A comment from my Professor

Below is a comment from my professor who supervises me for a project. Such verbosity for a rebuke was a little over the board, but nevertheless I feel I should treasure it. So am blogging it down and hope to build more on this particular piece of blog, dedicating it to my supervisor Alvaro A. A. Fernandes. Will do one day for sure. :) but not now.

"your idea of doing the plan using a sophisticated tool may well be fine but is almost always, as in this case, an unnecessary complication with negative consequences for understandability. It would have been better to just have a simpler Gantt chart rather than these monstrosities that programs, such as you used, typically produce."

My Bucket List!!

This piece of blog, I would like to update as and when it hits me and when I nail it. This will be my bucket list. My list of things to do before I add myself to the fertility of this soil. I am just another human with just another list of wishes. So here I put them down.

I don’t know how many I would be able to complete or how silly it might seem in some years from now. But nevertheless this is where I let myself go. This is where I say, I have done it all. This is where I will say, I know I will rest in peace.

1. Buy a bullet, a leather jacket, a RayBan aviator and a canon SLR camera.

2. Travel to Himalayas and back in the bullet with my friends. Take as many pics as possible. Want to make an album for a life time.

3. Go around with my parents on a one month long world trip, followed by taking them to all those sacred places in India. Want to see them happy and laughing.

4. Bungee Jumping and Sky Diving are a must.

5. Trek to Agasthyarkoodam, Vayanadu, Manasarovar, (Will fill the list as and when I recollect them)

6. Places to see - Almost all visitable places in all states in India. US n UK already done. Left Africa(Madagascar if possible), Australia, Dubai, Egypt, Rome, Paris, Srilanka.

7. Have booze to the level of no prevalence of senses for one night.

8. Make something out of the group X5ive. It is a group of 9 good friends now. Want to make the group count for a good course, something that would help people who are not as fortunate as we are. Something that we would all be proud to be passing onto the next generation. A good will ambassador our group will be.

Will make the list bigger and bigger.. :)

RIP N73, Reality Check!!

Finally my mobile phone died on me. After all the torture it has been through for the past 4 years it had been with me, it decided to leave me for good. I used to carry it around with me all the time. But this time, I forgot to take it out of my pocket and suffocated it to death in soap water. Cruel me!!

It was my first phone, which I bought with my own earned money. My first own possession with my own money. It had come with me wherever I traveled, for the past 4 years. And it has played a role in my life, which is by no comparison, minuscule in nature. It helped me emote, talk, erase away distances, with a few fights, comfort, support and helped me stay close to family n friends. Its only when something passes away, that you tend to realize the real value of them. I guess this is one of those moments.

Now I know, if at all anyone reads this, would think that, how more silly can he get to write about the loss of his mobile phone. But I thought I should make a note of this time. This is the time when I felt how hard it is to lose something that you earned. Had I brought a new phone, when this was still alive I would have never thought in this way. I guess the same is with human relations also. If you are the one walking away, then I guess you would never know the loneliness and the vacuum you left behind. You have to be the person who is stranded in the middle of nowhere, when you believed the other person would be there for you forever even to the level of taking it for granted, that you feel alone. I guess I did that to many without even realizing it. And when the reality bites you, it bites you hard. It leaves you in a state where you cannot do anything about it, other than just watch the consequences of it, unfold in front of you. I only hope that it is true, when I say 'its never late'.

I started writing this piece of blog under the name RIP N73. But I guess that name would no longer suit, because it never occurred to me to write the previous paragraph, when I started on this particular entry. I guess I get too carried away at times :). But I guess a reality check is always the need of the hour, to keep yourself real!!!