George Bush has said, “One word sums up probably the responsibility of any Governor, and that one word is ‘to be prepared’ ”.
Well so much for him and his speeches.
Tell me what’s the relation between English, making a robot and mess food??
Well I hope I didn’t get you into any serious thinking but certainly you would be thinking about robots flying about after eating dinner with you. Well if not then continue reading.
Sherlock Holmes used to say (not to me but in the books), “Elementary, my dear Watson, Elementary!!”. I really loved his books. The way he solves that case of five orange pips is extraordinary… but I think we would better talk about it later.
I suppose most of us would have seen the movie TZP. One of characters that intrigued me was the English teacher. How beautifully and artistically he sang the poem explaining the grammar!!! I still have those words ringing in my ears. I immediately remembered my English madam in school. Wait a sec. Don’t think she was young or slim, hair locks open or moving about with a makeup or that she used to come with violins being played in the background. She was a Mrs. D’souza type and not a Miss Lily. She used to narrate the stories by herself and the words she used to use still remain Greek and Latin to most of us. She used to enter the class as a king does in his court, with strong winds blowing from all sides. We who would be tigers till then would suddenly turn into goats, each trying to hide him behind the other. Games would be played and lunch taken in her period. Well that would explain why my English has gone to the dogs. I also remember the lovely prof. in the serial ‘That’s so Raven’ where he used to spit while ‘ssspeeeaking’. The students used to wear masks to avoid his really fruitful lectures. But that’s a diff. affair. Eventually the result was my Teacher went out to get an award for her contribution by the CBSE and I got 76 marks in English in boards.
Jawaharlal Nehru once said-“The Measure of development of the country is how well its Technologically advanced.”.
Well I don’t need to tell what and where is ‘Drishti’ in our college. Over the years it has transformed itself into a leading association or I may say a place to commune on weirdest of ideas. One fine afternoon in the month of September I decided to pay my first visit there. I compared my feelings to the feelings of ‘Jack’ when he boards the Titanic. Actually i meant to take part in an event named Nexus. I, along with my friends worked there tirelessly for 10 days or so and eventually came about to make the bot. It was a very nice morning on the day of the competition, clear skies and perfect stage to have a ball as Richie benaud used to describe. Early in the morning we decided to test the bot and working of the lifting arm as well as give a makeup to the piece of art. Now the competition was to start at 8.30 am and we at 7.00 am realized that the arm wasn’t working properly. It struggled to lift itself and was vibrating half way. It was like choking and pleading us not to kill it. Eventually we had to mercy on it, not for the sake of its pleading but our position. The rest as they say is ‘Forgotten History’. That day would go down as one of the most important ones till now, not because we failed but we eventually laughed at the end at our inexperience. As someone had termed the Appolo13 mission as “A Successful failure” I felt even proud of it. But the titanic had sunk.
That day I saw which direction my country is heading with people like me.
Well I don’t need to tell what and where is ‘Drishti’ in our college. Over the years it has transformed itself into a leading association or I may say a place to commune on weirdest of ideas. One fine afternoon in the month of September I decided to pay my first visit there. I compared my feelings to the feelings of ‘Jack’ when he boards the Titanic. Actually i meant to take part in an event named Nexus. I, along with my friends worked there tirelessly for 10 days or so and eventually came about to make the bot. It was a very nice morning on the day of the competition, clear skies and perfect stage to have a ball as Richie benaud used to describe. Early in the morning we decided to test the bot and working of the lifting arm as well as give a makeup to the piece of art. Now the competition was to start at 8.30 am and we at 7.00 am realized that the arm wasn’t working properly. It struggled to lift itself and was vibrating half way. It was like choking and pleading us not to kill it. Eventually we had to mercy on it, not for the sake of its pleading but our position. The rest as they say is ‘Forgotten History’. That day would go down as one of the most important ones till now, not because we failed but we eventually laughed at the end at our inexperience. As someone had termed the Appolo13 mission as “A Successful failure” I felt even proud of it. But the titanic had sunk.
That day I saw which direction my country is heading with people like me.
There is a very nice PJ which goes on like this:
There is a YELLOW elephant. How would you kill it???
Simple…… You will kill it with a yellow elephant killing gun.
This would drain out any colour on your friends face. But if It doesn’t continue…..
How do kill a Blue Elephant?????
Choke it, strangle it ….. Its colour will change to yellow and now kill it with a yellow elephant gun.
But I think if you give the elephant our mess food and tell it to eat it will itself turn yellow. Yes, you most often don’t have that feeling which ‘Pooh’ used to have when he saw Honey. Most of the days you can’t differentiate the carrots from the tomatoes in the sabji but you will then feel cheated when you will come to know that neither of the two is in it. Its like telling Rakhi Sawant to keep quite!!! But I must confess I can’t forget the feasts I have had here. ‘The feeling Scooby Doo gets when he sees a Scooby snack!’ But those days come once week, that too if the chef is in good mood. So we have but no option other than accept the food.
But that still brings us back to the question. What’s the relation between the three? Well I wont give a direct answer but only say this much…
“College main Gaali aur Shaadi ke baad saali
Delhi main baarish aur jhaat pe kharish
Indian Sports aur state High courts
Apni Rajniti aur Mumbai as a city
Meri English ki taal, Robot ka haal aur
Mess ki dal ” ka koi bharosa nahin.
Posts
