Just this once more....

'Just this once more.....more specifically 'just this one exam more' It's what I said to one of my friends not 2 days ago (in one of those phases of non-stop grumbling that we regularly fall into)n pat came the reply-'kab se yahi sun rahen hain yaar'.That got me thinking ...he'd hit the nail on the head I realised.Afterall how many times have I heard it....how many times am I likely to hear it again.

Back when I was in 10th, all I heard was 'jus this one exam' , n then 11th -12th...imagine the fun you'll have -girls- parties the whole gamut.That did'nt exactly turn out as planned, don't get me wrong I had a lotta fun in school,just ...........that expectations were'nt met-my classmates'll know what I mean:).

Then came the competitives...the IIT-JEE's n the AIEEE's....n once more the promise came "just this once more",once more n you're set for life....afterall beyond these competitves lay COLLEGE...n all the images that that one word brought along with it(mostly conjured up due to repetitve watching of the American Pie series).Now college has been fun...a lot of fun....just that again...expectation's were'nt met.We've had to work hard.....none of the easy going, no padai world that I'd imagined for myself.And ofcourse with college  came the term exams....every 6 months being subjected to torture(definetly not part of the college dream by the way).But then you put up with it, coz u know, do well up untill the 3rd year n then you get a cushy placement , so i did that.And well all i can say is the less said about placements the better...

N now again i'm back in square one.....futher studies.....CAT to be more specific.n once more the line is pulled outta the bag."just this once more",n thenI'm set right...15-20 lacs a year, lot's of travelling,Spanish ladies,Greek yatchs  and what not....right???I dont think so....

Even assuming I get through( :) ), I doubt the IIM"s or any decent management college for that matter let's you lounge about all day sipping coffee.And I'm also pretty sure that this isn't going to be the last protracted period of studies and/or hard work required of me.It's gonna be another 2 years of working my socks off.....n after that...I dont know.Something else that'll involve me working my socks off....

So the next time I hear "just this once more"...well.......... yea right buddy

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"The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again."

The Wheel of Time.

Malazan

Kallor said: 'I walked this land when the T'lan Imass were but children. I have commanded armies a hundred thousand strong. I have spread the fire of my wrath across entire continents, and sat alone upon tall thrones. Do you grasp the meaning of this?' 
'Yes,' said Caladan Brood, 'you never learn.'" 
— Steven Erikson

--Malazan:Book of the Fallen

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"The things you're scared of ,are usually the one's that are actually worth doing."

-Chasing Liberty.

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"Kill all my demons.......and all my angels might die too."

-Transsiberian.

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"The human heart has hidden treasures,

  in secret kept , in silence sealed.

  The thoughts,the hopes,the dreams, the pleasures,

 whose charms are broken if revealed ."

-Jane Eyre.

It's happened again..

I'm writing this just minutes after having seen the report on the blasts in Delhi.

I don't intend to offer a solution or propose steps that the government ought to take, it's not my place to do so and I’m sure there are better minds than mine working on it.....does'nt seem to be working though...nonetheless, these are simply my views nothing else.

The memories of the tragedy's in B'lore and Surat and Ahemdabad haven’t yet faded and another disaster has struck. It’s almost as if the forces behind these acts began to think 'It's getting a little quiet. Time to stir it up again’. It’s almost as if they choose when and where to strike ,of course it does help that we're blessed with one of the most incompetent police forces around(I mean you'd think that after 20 yrs of having gone through the same thing year after year AND the whole punjab debacle behind them , they'd have learnt something, if nothing else just out of sheer practise!!)but then that's a story for another time.

The immediate course of action follows a very fixed pattern. All the so called tier 1 and tier 2 cities go on high alert , the history sheeter's are rounded up , the DIG's claim that they're doing all they can ,The Prime Minister appeals for calm while praising the 'Spirit' of the people(it would seem every city in India has great 'Spirit' , after all, all of them have been attacked!!), the Opposition calls for immediate action (but not before they've denounced the government and made their own case for the top job) ,George Bush calls it an 'Intolerable act of terrorism'(If its so intolerable how the hell do we go about tolerating it every single time????)  and of course the Icing on the cake ....our beloved neighbor’s  issue a statement that says they 'condemn' the blasts and express their 'solidarity' with the people of India. The amazing thing of course is that very often this little 'statement' gets released before our own PM's statement........it's seems they care deeply about us. 

The course of action that follows the immediate course of action too follows a fixed pattern......the cities drop their high alert status(it seems a general assumption that terrorists like to carry out their tasks only in the 4-5 days succeeding the blast and hence no extra security is needed beyond that period....)The news channel's drop it down from being headlines to being telecast somewhere between weather and sports. The police breathe a sigh of relief , they've now gone back from the pro-active state that the media attention forced onto them to the reactive state that they usually exist in .The politicians choose to forget about it...the Government does it coz of course it's a failure on their part...the rest forget coz in some twisted incomprehendable way it affects their vote bank  .The people slowly forget about it  coz ofcourse India's playing Australia or Sri Lanka or someone and SRK's new movie is gonna release next week(Dont agree with me??Try naming the main accused in the Surat blasts .............didn’t get it???dont worry , we're all in the same boat.) This ofcourse continues until the next blast happens....then we're back to square one.

Something needs be done , of that i'm sure....what though ,i don't  know  and i'm not gonna loose sleep over it either.

That is ofcourse assuming that something IS done .

 

P.S. NDTV 24X7 tickr , 9:11 p.m--"20 killed in Delhi serial Blasts.PM appeals for calm ."..It begins..