Around 11 days back, The Tribune carried an article titled “Has PTU become dysfunctional?”.

Any past or present student would agree with each and every word of the article. It’s sad, that a university established in the year 1997 (that’s 12 years now!) does not run any courses in its campus! That’s because the campus was shifted from one place to the other and the buildings have been constructed recently. It has an annual revenue of 300 crore which we could attribute to the thousands of re-evaluation and re-appear forms that are submitted each semester due to a fraudulent and faulty paper checking system.

If you clear the exam after re-evaluation, the university does not even bother to return your money. Results of the previous semester are declared a week before the exams for the current session are due. As far as I know, the university does not even have a vice chancellor.

I still fail to understand why the government does not take any action against this university. I am a student of PTU myself and it is because of this careless attitude of the PTU authorities that the top companies or educational institutions are not even willing to look at profiles of candidates passing out from here.

It is a mess students like myself have chosen themselves to get into and its better we rectify it by working hard and getting out of this rut.

Before I go, I shall leave you with a screenshot of the official Punjab Technical University website (http://ptu.ac.in/). This is a university which grants degrees to thousands and thousands of engineers, MCA’s, BCA’s and they can’t even do a decent enough job themselves.

Screenshot taken on August 20th, 2009.

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I won’t be teaching you something new or radical. It is just an explanation of what I did to stay happy when I was surrounded by strangers. Strangers here does not just refer to unknown people but also people with absurd thought processes which you cannot seem to relate to no matter how hard you may try.

Around a week back, my feed reader alerted me of a new comment on my blog. The comment was from a reader karen on a very old post on this blog :

how is collegge life now and you? im a collegge student for almost two years now, and i seem to have a problem where im not happy with my friends, but i try to stay happy and sometimes faking it to other people and just dont want to show that im upset you know.

As I sat there reading those few lines, I could completely empathize with the person. Around 2 years back, when I entered college, I was face-to-face with a very similar situation. Even though my college is jus 16KMS from my house, it used to feel as if I was on another planet altogether. I tried to befriend different people, spent time with them and judged them. But the more I stayed with them, the more I felt suffocated. I felt lonely – all alone in the middle of nowhere. The only time I felt happy was when I skipped college (my attendance must have been below 40%). The atmosphere in college was pathetic. It did not seem like a place to study and it sure was no place to enjoy or freak out. I always knew that films showed the half truth but my college life was far from what I had imagined. Looking at my sisters getting nostalgic when talking about their own college days, I felt even more depressed.

Then this realisation dawned upon me. There was no point in cribbing. There was no point in just brooding over the fact that I could not find even a single person who was like-minded. If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em! Or atleast pretend that you have. That is what I did. I let them be. I opened up my head to their thoughts. These thoughts and views really did not matter to me. My brain was on auto-pilot. It filtered out what it thought was a bit sensible and discarded the rest. This way, I had no load to carry. I had nothing to worry about. I was completely detached.

I did not need friends. I did not want friends. I already had loads of ‘em. I wanted company. I wanted to hear somebody blabber something for those 8 hours I was in college. It broke the monotony, it provided me relief and best of all I had no problems with the people that surrounded me. I realized that there was no point trying to fight a losing battle. There was no point trying to find that one needle in this haystack. Just pretend that you always had it. Or you didn’t need it at all!!

I followed this philosophy. I went to college, passed my time, had pure fun without worrying about anything else. Even though sometimes I did not really relish it, my brain just discarded that thought. I quit worrying and cribbing. I stopped thinking about my past and where I was currently. I stopped comparing. I stopped keeping a count of my gains and losses. I just let them be. This way, I welcomed everybody with open arms and by the time I knew it, I had an army of people to keep me company. I shed the prejudice that I had and in the process I gained relief. I gained company. I gained mental peace. I gained satisfaction. I gained friends (yup, friends and not just company). I gained happiness.

Now, I’m actually happy when I go to college. Had I not taken that step to welcome everybody, I’d still be cribbing and ranting here on this blog. But now the situation is different. Now, I’m not seeking company. Rather I’m enjoying the time that I spend in college.

The only way to overcome difficult situations, the only way to feel wanted when you’re alone, the only way to stay happy when you’re not, the only way to feel at home when you’re in the middle of nowhere, is to just change the way you think.

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I took these screenshots a few weeks back from one of my college labs. We were asked to run some SQL queries on our systems when I saw the Nod32 icon in the taskbar. I was surprised that my college was using it and had it on all the systems in the lab.

Just out of curiosity, I went to the control panel of the software to see if the software was licensed or not. To my utter surprise, it was a cracked version.  It used the Nod32FiX by nSane if I’m not wrong. Check out the screenshots.

After a few more days snooping around in the college labs, I found that many of the PCs in my college labs have the same cracked version of Nod32 installed. Since the students are not allowed administrative access, it is most definitely the work of the college authorities. Students had given feedback that all the systems were infested with worms that further infect their USB sticks when copy the stuff they’ve made. So this is the remedy the college has come up with. Bravo!

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I flunked in three exams in the first sem. I cleared all of them. Only one remains which is a mass repeat. Will hopefully clear that exam as well.
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I’m passing M1.

M1 = Maths 1

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And I thought Shadi Se Pehle and Zindagi Rocks were stupid movies…!!

This flick, Dhoom 2, is one shitty flick. I’m so exhausted after watching this that I can’t even think what to write about it. Fake stunts, fake characters, super fake story… I mean, what were they thinking when they made this movie?! The only thing worth looking at – Hrithik Roshan. No, I’m not gay!! The ladies in the movie sucked. Plain and simple.

And this is how we felt… at 8.15 PM, sitting inside a local bus, cold and tired… and totally bored.

If you go watch this movie, you are Doomed (yes, doom, not dhoom). And those who actually liked the movie, well… congratulations… you guys have enormous patience and mental strength.

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I was in demand yesterday!! Khanna messaged me and told me that he wanted to see me as soon as I got down from my college bus. A little later, Abhit messaged me and told me that he was coming over to my place, around the same Khanna wanted to see me, as he wanted to pick up his stuff and his money . And then, while I was returning from college, Sonia messaged me and asked me to get down at 35 and meet her. I was like what the…?!!?! Everybody wants to meet me today only?

I told her to wait and that I would come after meeting Abhit and Ankit. I got down from my bus and rushed towards my house. On the way, I saw Anjum. He stopped me and wanted to tell me something!!! I talked for like 30 seconds and then pushed forward. I reached my place, threw my books and began searching for Abhit’s stuff. Khanna was in sector 34 so it was fine now. Suddenly, Sunnel called up and told me that the guy who’s teaching us Maths wants to see us a little early around 6.30PM. I managed to convince Sunnel to convince the man. He did.

Abhit came and so did Anjum. Anjum bugged me a lot . Kamina… sometimes he ran off with the keys to Abhit’s bike and sometimes he started talking LOUDLY!! The plan was that Abhit and I would go to CCD – 35 where we would meet Sonia who was sitting there with two other friends. We set off. On the way, Sonia messaged me that she was leaving. I called her up and she told me that she was getting bored with the guy sitting with them and was going back but since I had started from my place, she would stay back. We reached sector 35 where Abhit suddenly told me that he didn’t want to meet Sonia . I convinced him and he agreed. We went inside CCD, where we met Sonia and her two friends. Aastha and the guy (sorry dude, I forgot your name) left (the guy was leaving so Aastha went to see him off). So now it was just Me, Abhit an Sonia. Suddenly Sonia asked Abhit if he was the same guy who refers to her as “bhabhi” on my blog. Abhit was so surprised and shocked that he couldn’t speak!! ROTFLMAO!!! Maybe he thought she didn’t read my blog. Abhit went outside to find his bike keys then. He returned and told me that he was gonna leave now . Hahahah… he seemed a little embarrassed. Now I know Abhit, you won’t agree but you were!! Abhit said bye to both of us and just as he was about to exit, Sonia requested him not to call her “bhabhi”. Abhit replied, “I’m sorry, I won’t” and left. So Abhit apologized… and I didn’t have to do a thing to make him stop! Lets see what he does now… I’m waiting for you to reply dude!!!

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Now I present to you, My college on a bright sunny day… with a lil clouds scattered here and there…

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So after a nice Squirrel-ly day, it was time for college on Moday, November 13th, again. As usual, I woke up late and Tina was pissed. She refused to drop me at my bus stop and as it happens with many people, sometimes, my bloated ego comes in the way, and it did that day. Instead of pleading and begging, I stormed out of the house. I knew I would miss the bus. When I reached the stop, no one was there. I took and auto-rickshaw to the Bus Stand from where I took the local bus to my college. I missed the first lecture. Actually, I didn’t attend college that day… I was in and out of college… waste of time.

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I’ve always been amazed by the smoke trails jets leave behind when they fly. It looks amazing… like someone drawing a painting on a HUGE canvas…
Here are two pictures I clicked…

Friday, November 10, 2006 at Bhavan Vidyalaya. This was when the Indian Express journalist had come to click our photograph.

Wednesday, November 15, 2006 at CEC. This is a more recent one I clicked while I was soaking up the sun in my college.

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I had my last sessional today. I’m gonna pass it. So, we took the bus from our college to Sector 35. Yuganshu (Honey), Sunnel and I, we went to Oven Fresh. We had our breakfast there. Now we decided to walk towards the Bus Stand (sector 17). We were near the Radio Station roundabout, when we saw THIS…. a golden haired freak… err… man!!! Amazing… what people do to look beautiful. THE GUY LOOKS CRAZY!!! I sneaked up behind him and clicked this photograpgh. Cheap thing to do but I couldn’t control myself.

And yeah… he was wearing a RED shirt inside with some muffler. Looked somewhat like Mithun Chakraborty!!

Waise, I think I didn’t even need to explain the picture… it says more than a thousand words!!

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So Khanna came home today around 7.40 in the evening. Kehta, I have to go for a haircut so please accompany me. That I did. Raste mein Khanna tells me that Pallavi is free and that he wants to meet her. So he turned his car around, towards Panchkula. I’ll tell everything in short. Khanna and Pallavi indulged in mushy talks outside Wah Dilli.

He came back around 9 PM and Khanna then took me to Sector 10 because now he actually wanted a haircut. He came after 1 hour while I sat there listening to songs in his car. We returned to our own sector, picked up Anjum and went for Pan. I came back home around 10.30 PM. Dad was cool. So not a problem today.

And there was this Weightlifting competition in my college today. Students from various colleges participated. It was a treat to watch. I played basketball in college after a very long time. And I cleared E.D. …. yay!!!!

Tomorrow Abhit, I, Arjun and Pranshu are going to the lake… early morning. So I’m gonna hit the sack.

A stupid post… but I need to start again and get into the habit of writing once again… so please excuse me people. I’m sorry!!

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I became fair and handsome during the holidays I got after the 12th Board Exams. But now I’m back to my original kaala self.

I have no problems in having dark skin and I hate that advertisement for that stupid fairness cream for men. I mean its an absolute insult !!

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I dunno what but something is seriously bothering me. If I sit alone, I feel sad. There’s a slight urge to cry for no reason. Stupid of me… I know. But its been there for the last few days.

And I’m so tired. Slept for like 3 hours at night and went to college. No electricity, drenched in sweat. I didn’t even bunk a single class. Was super tired but still stayed put. While going towards the bs, it started raining… got wet again. Now I’m back… have to complete the pending ED work and some other assignments. Life is sick!!!

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Now I need to submit 4 ED sheets tomorrow. I haven’t completed even a single one. I am so so so tired today. Last night I slept at 2.30 AM chatting and trying to complete some of the pending work. Woke up at 6.30 AM.

Lord… take me away… I want out…!

Side-Effects : I have started studying. Damn… a dent on my image and reputation.

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So we bunked our final lecture (Chemistry) because its too much of a torture. I can’t understand what the stupid woman says. So it was better to leave. We decided to play basketball. Now most of the guys who bunked along with me didn’t know how to play basketball except for Rajbeer. After waiting for around 30 minutes, we finally got ourselves a ball.

We started playing. But just as I was about to jump and do what I do best (3 pointer), my jeans went dangerously south. I had to stop midway, throw the ball and pull up my pants. The floaters weren’t helping as well.

As it is I don’t run much but now I was made to simply stand. But after sometime I got bored and was like… to hell with the fallng jeans… lets play. So I played and surprisingly scored a “lot” of points. No need to laugh Abhit!!

Further, the guys in my college didn’t quite understand why I was wearing socks with floaters. But WTF… I like my style and I’ll continue to wear those dirty socks.

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