Gone To Texas!

A HUGE, overwhelming, awe inspiring welcome thrown by UT yesterday! :)

The usual rigmarole with beckoning speeches, welcoming Profs, preachy DEANs was followed, embellished with encouraging quotations, assurances of greatness and promises of a brilliant future!! (Much like an IIT orientation :D)


But what was new was the festivity, the overflowing pride, cheering, friendly rivalry between different colleges! colours..lights...music...huge Cowboy Hats!




There was orange flowing everywhere, proud Longhorns hooking their horns :)......beautiful cheerleaders and their bright pom poms onto their entire dance routine!



A gargantuan band, Bharatnatyam performance, acapella songs, choir groups, electric guitars, country to rock music!


Banners, on field war cries, flags, horns :D, and the UT tower resplendent in orange and the Texan flag flown from its top!Despite my being a MaTka now :p.... huge music fests, college crowd, competitions, youth, screaming is still very much a part of my life!!



And for all my misgivings, UT seems a nice place :)

To Austin!

Well am here for 11 days now..so that deserves a note!
Austin is a pretty place.....green and clean!
Posh, organised, pretty much like the rest of US I guess, people are welcoming and helpful!
But it doesn't feel like a foreign land, only due to the masses of desis - 'that's what we call ourselves :P' everywhere! Nor is it very unfamiliar or difficult to settle in! People either love Indians or ARE Indians. :D
It is much more comfortable and familiar but much less beautiful than Europe!...Or is it that 3 months in Switzerland have simply elevated my tastes ??!
Yet! It's not home :) So I really don't know what to say!

Somehow I'm finding the non-IITians better company than the IITians :P :P

The Indian guys are simply as desperate as ever! ..trying to catch glimpses of the gorgeous women that fill this place :D

The americans are obese (I fit in! :D )....warm....have a great sense of humour and waste too much!

UT is a nice Univ..there's the famed tower shown above and a wonderful fountain on campus...a host of activities..barbeques....sports...... but needless to say I am missing IIT, my hostel, my friends, my running around all over campus poking finger in every pie! :)

Back to IIT...

Came to Hostel yesterday! Was wonderful to see everyone, and got as warm a welcome as can be!

Everyone here is so different...their views differ so much..and yet staying together for 4 years has rubbed onto all. Who would think we would all gel together so well? WOuld care for one another? look forward to seeing each other?

And yet ...we do!

So......Back to IIT...to hostel food..cack sessions...LAN!...lukkha...I am already sitting on net doing abs. nothing :D

What If?

Scared of one's own thoughts one hardly dreams. What if one were wrong or worse what if one were right? The brilliance of reality is that it puts a question mark on its own existance. What if what you bank up on exists only in the realms of your own imagination?

I marvel at the power of the mind, that which creates a world of its own, a world we believe in, a world which might actually be far from the truth.

Sometimes I wonder, if life was a tiny naughty elf, merry and youthful, playing pranks on us, dashing behind lush bushes, giggling away. And us the fools, taking all of it so seriously. What if all this is yet another meaningless joke? All your joy and your pain, a fleeting whim of a harmless fictional character?

What if bonds were fragile, affections passing fancies, relationships flimsy, friendships a convenient mechanism of symbiosis? People say time heals, you get over, forget people and places, you move on. Why do then people claim bonds lasting eternity and believe in them? These claims of unbreakable affections, these promises of keeping in touch, will they last? Let us see!

Soul Search

It's that time of my life when there are grave decisions to be made, the meaning of life, of one's place in life has to be construed/created and at best understood.
It's amazing how much lies in your own hands and yet how much is indeterminable.