my alarm clock beeped and i looked out for the time shown by it.it said 5.30 in the morning. i didn't know who had set that alarm time in my clock.
no need to feel sorry 4 me. i was already awake.i had not slept yet.another nightout herein. i had returned late after having a very amusing birthday treat of one of my friends and thereafter got involved in a sort of discussion with my other frnds who have accompanied me to my room.my frnds left for their respective rooms after the so called discussion was over.i was thinking of writing a post on my blog and so i started with it.i didn't notice how the time got spent untill i was startled by the alarm.normally one finds it really difficult 2 remain awake after 3am.
it was morning already when i looked out of my room's window.i was not feeling sleepy.but i was feeling hungry.as such i decided to visit our own Ravida ka jhoops,the multi cuisine restaurant of NIT Durgapur.but it was not opened yet.it was a bit early.
i had nothing to do but to wait 4 some more time.just then an idea struck my mind.i decided to have a morning walk.thus, i moved out of my room and was welcomed by a wonderful breeze.i had never xperienced it like that. i moved on, out of my hostel and started walking with nobody accompanying me.it was just another morning in NIT-D but something was different.i had never heed on the beauty of morning in the campus.i did have a number of nightouts b4 but never did i decide to have a stroll.i had a round of the campus njoying the cool breeze and witnessing the dawn and reached jhoops.i had already observed the smoke coming out of burning of cowdung cakes and coal which Ravida uses in the chulhas.
i reached the jhoops and was received by a greeting,"Morning ".it was Ravida ,already preparing tea. some of the guards were also there.they come there daily 4 their bed tea or first tea i must say.preparations for the day were going on in the adjoining jhoops too.
i gave a smile in reply and asked for a cup of tea.i ordered something to eat.i found prashanto coming from the side gandhi morh on his bicycle that was looking no less than a load carrier.every part of bicycle use for carrying something or the other.the tea had been prepared in the meantime.i noticed Ravida offering some of the tea to God of fire before giving it to anybody else.prashanto took out some of the aggarbattis ,lit them up and started worshiping.then he moved out of the jhoops and started worshiping in a particular direction.he was offering prayer to the Sun God.
just then i came to know where was east direction with respect to our campus. i wonder how many of NITDians know 4m which direction of the college,the sun rises.
u'll definitely meet some stray dogs and loads of mosquitoes if u go that early to jhoops.so don't forget to cover ur body or u'll get eaten and bitten by mosquitoes.
i was having my cup of tea when i saw one of my classmates coming.i was used 2 nigthouts as he prefered the silence of the night for his coding and research work.he was another one who didnt know where the east direction was.i saw some going 4 a jog .some were running with bags on their shoulders to catch a bus and some more returning back 2 college.everyday ppl leave and return to college irrespective of a working day or a holiday.
the weather was brilliant and charming,so it added to the pleasure of having a nightout.every sip of tea giving u some energy.i njoyed it a lot. i finished with my eating stuff and started feeling sleepy now.
mind u ,don't get used to nightouts.they can be harmful to ur health.so just have them for fun and occasionally only.
those who haven't tried it out, have a nightout once and observe the beauty of an NITD morning.
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
CHATTING VS CONVERSATION
LAN wire gets welded 2 ur computer and there u r,connected with the whole world.within 14.1 inches of screen u can see whole universe and with few mouse clicks and hits on keyboard, u can command it.thats the power of internet.
b4 the operating system gets completely logged on, one needs to signing into orkut,ymsngr,gtalk,etc,etc nwdays.forget all other tasks 4 which most ppl lyk us buy a computer, studies of course. i beg ur pardon 4 mentioning studies but its the main excuse of buying a computer.the actual reason being net and entertainment.
social networking thats what ppl call it.it is very nice that u get in touch with ur distant friends or have not met u 4 long,what abt roommates xchanging scraps just to increase their number.the new competition, the number game of scraps , friends and fans with no end and no prize to compete 4.
i wonder whether these kind of stuffs serve the real purpose of friendship and relations.i feel that social networking only serves networking.the feeling of being social is gradually leaking out.
i remember ,few days back,there was no internet connection available for few days .the complete scenario of the hostel changed.all had gossip sessions sharing themselves with each other which they rather do on gtalk or yahoo messenger.some got tym for playing cricket and TT.some started reading novels,some started preparing and some even thought of leaving 4 home.they had become frustrated and spent each second waiting 4 internet as if they would have been waiting 4 their soulmate whom they hadn't met 4 yrs.after regular intervals they opened the google homepage and got shattered when they saw "page cannot be displayed".
the warmth and xcitement of any relation whether u r friends, colleagues, classmates,collegemates, is receding its way out which was supposed to be there b4 the extensive use of chatting started.emotions being replaced by smileys of different kinds.pings and buzzes in place of hellos and hiyas.i find ppl not knowing each other when they meet in reality although they r there in each others friend list.they will give cold stares at each other (as if they r strangers 2 each other )when they pass by though their chat windows r full with ":)" nd "hehe" "haha" types of words,not 2 forget ..LOL.
lots of laughs or laugh out loud ,whatever it is. i wonder how much of haemoglobin they would have increased if they had really laughed out loud so much.
the time which ppl used to hang out with friends is now spent in xchanging scraps.ppl prefer typing 2000 lines pressing innuberably on a silly keyboard to convey a thing which they would have said in 2 minutes if they had opted for a simple conversation.
i don't know what 2 write more abt this thing. i m becoming perplexed.got this thing suddenly in my brain's contemplative part, so just retched it out in this post.
what i feel abt a conversation is that:
The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
one can never have a real feeling of conversation by sending instant msgs.
No body is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.
PREFER CONVERSATIONS OVER CHAT
b4 the operating system gets completely logged on, one needs to signing into orkut,ymsngr,gtalk,etc,etc nwdays.forget all other tasks 4 which most ppl lyk us buy a computer, studies of course. i beg ur pardon 4 mentioning studies but its the main excuse of buying a computer.the actual reason being net and entertainment.
social networking thats what ppl call it.it is very nice that u get in touch with ur distant friends or have not met u 4 long,what abt roommates xchanging scraps just to increase their number.the new competition, the number game of scraps , friends and fans with no end and no prize to compete 4.
i wonder whether these kind of stuffs serve the real purpose of friendship and relations.i feel that social networking only serves networking.the feeling of being social is gradually leaking out.
i remember ,few days back,there was no internet connection available for few days .the complete scenario of the hostel changed.all had gossip sessions sharing themselves with each other which they rather do on gtalk or yahoo messenger.some got tym for playing cricket and TT.some started reading novels,some started preparing and some even thought of leaving 4 home.they had become frustrated and spent each second waiting 4 internet as if they would have been waiting 4 their soulmate whom they hadn't met 4 yrs.after regular intervals they opened the google homepage and got shattered when they saw "page cannot be displayed".
the warmth and xcitement of any relation whether u r friends, colleagues, classmates,collegemates, is receding its way out which was supposed to be there b4 the extensive use of chatting started.emotions being replaced by smileys of different kinds.pings and buzzes in place of hellos and hiyas.i find ppl not knowing each other when they meet in reality although they r there in each others friend list.they will give cold stares at each other (as if they r strangers 2 each other )when they pass by though their chat windows r full with ":)" nd "hehe" "haha" types of words,not 2 forget ..LOL.
lots of laughs or laugh out loud ,whatever it is. i wonder how much of haemoglobin they would have increased if they had really laughed out loud so much.
the time which ppl used to hang out with friends is now spent in xchanging scraps.ppl prefer typing 2000 lines pressing innuberably on a silly keyboard to convey a thing which they would have said in 2 minutes if they had opted for a simple conversation.
i don't know what 2 write more abt this thing. i m becoming perplexed.got this thing suddenly in my brain's contemplative part, so just retched it out in this post.
what i feel abt a conversation is that:
The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
one can never have a real feeling of conversation by sending instant msgs.
No body is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.
PREFER CONVERSATIONS OVER CHAT
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