Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday Tamm, God bless you

A rude awakening

Today morning as I was on my way to office, I boarded a rickshaw which was being driven by a person almost thrice my age. He was driving it slowly and every inch of the movement kept on making me feel pity and sadenned by the whole affair. After some distance I alighted from the rickshaw and paid him the money. He was so happy over his ‘bohni’. I did not have any change other than the money I gave else I would have paid him more.

What came as a shock is the disparity in the wealth distribution in the country and how the lack of education is affecting all. What also hit home was the point that we don’t call ourselves lucky over what we possess but just crib about it. Probably with a little bit of help and a little bit of compassion we can do something to make this world a better place to live in for everyone. I am still searching for the answer.

Back@home

After pushing from NIT Hamirpur, I had been on a whirlwind tour of meeting relatives. After 14 days of neglecting my mails finally after 2 days I finished most of my pending work. An interesting stuff which came across was when I went to my sister’s school Auxillium Convent School, Bandel near Kolkata to get her ISC marksheet’s photocopy attested, the school authorities asked Re 1 /- per copy to attest it. It was really surprising to find a school principal asking money to attest her stuedent’s marksheet or is the cost of her signature Re 1 /- ?

Its a bit difficult to unravel.

Goodbye NITH

Its time to say goodbye to National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur my alma mater and most of what I am today. I am leaving in 2-3 hours time and its time to bid everything goodbye.

Saraswati Puja

It might sound a bit late but then owing to the mid semester exams on 11th February, we had to do it today. Organising Puja for 1500 odd people in an University is a tough task specially when you have 30 organisers and a fruit mountain to distribute. The idol we got from Kolkata was too divine. Over 5 and a half feet it was worth the pain to carry it across 1500 kms. I spent a sleepless night yesterday making the pandal. It was fun playing with hay,sticks,mud. I realised how much fun it is being an Architect and a Civil Engineer especially to see your creation stand tall in front of you.

I have just returned to my room which I left yesterday evening. Preparations are on for tomorrow’s feast, Puri, Sabzi, Rasmalai, Gajar ka halwa. Yum heavenly but then alas the hard work that will go into serving the 1500 people is a bit of a damper. I can hardly keep awake now. Am off to sleep. Got to check my mails before that.