Psychedelic Slippers

m finally here!!! after a day of sleepy travel i reached IITK around 6 p.m. on 17th. i was travelling with my dad. i was super excited. everything was new(to me). we reached the hostel building after a couple of detours. a friendly girl at the help desk gave me my room keys. (like my first official hostel room :P) we checked up the room n then went to get all the other stuff. IITk is a self sufficient campus. Its probably made so knowing fully well how miserable the city outside is. I have been here for like 4 days now, n i haven't stepped out of the college gate. The Shopping Complex (aka ShopC) caters to most of your needs from a toothbrush to a bicycle (yeah cycles are aplenty here... u cant think of moving around in the campus without it...) We returned back to the hotel after dumping stuff in my room. It was round abt 1o.30 when we had the first sensible meal of the day. crashed into bed and voila instant sleep. next day we reached here around 10... back to shopC again. bought...

This has been well running for a year now.... My last year home, last month.... now it comes to last 10 days. one unplanned epoch gives way to another. i prefer life tat way.... unplanned, like getting lost on a long empty road with no destination. (ahh well if u dont knw the joy of gettin lost, u mus try some day, get down at some place n walk of in some random direction, to god knows wher!) there's this joy of the "something new"that lies ahead... i dunno where its all gonna end, i dont have a destination, i dont think about it... may be that s y this journey feels so AWESOME!

i finally took a long break from being bored. Ten days (well almost). i went to my native place, after like 6 months. it was after years tat i was staying for so long. i never stayed for more than 2-3 days at a stretch since i joined engineering and never spent time at such a leisurely pace. caught up with friends n family. spent lots o time with ma grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins. many things have changed, since my last long break there, but i was still a kid to everyone. i sat alone on the tiny steps in the kitchen, tat would once fit in all three of us(me, ma bro n cousin). the corridor between the hall n kitchen tat once seemed long, now got over in 2 steps. summer vacations in belgaum(my native place) would be most awaited. me, bro n cousin the eternal mates would wait impatiently for 2 months of fun. there wasn much of tv then, no pc so we d spend the whole day jumping around the house n coming up with new games. summer vacations had a tradition of an orchestra (tryin to chu...

i got my four wheeler license around 3 years back. But i wonder why i kept myself away from the wheel till around 2 months back. I had this road-fright. i always thought that every vehicle on the road was for the sole purpose of me colliding into it. having this cartoonist imagination, i always thought i would go flying out of the window when i hit the brake. so i would avoid using them. The car would inevitably stop when the speed dropped below 20. I hated to change gears. I thought the car would slide out of control if i pressed the clutch. and such were the hurdles that kept me away from the car all these days. well it began some time after my gate paper. i had nothing much to do at home, so i d call the driver in the afternoons, to practice driving. n then aft many many days, i can now claim that i can finally communicate with my car. its my new found high-- driving . u sit on the wheel, buckle up, breathe in, jus as u turn on the ignition, and then gear, n vroooommm... u can fee...

Last week been a long hectic week for me! i had all these interviews queued up n been travelling north-south. It began on 11th, i left fr mum in the afternoon. Me n dad. air travel all through, i guess ul already know my opinions about it. Got a window seat. Average indian still feels enthu abt window seats, immaterial what mode of transport. Air travel is now like any other mode of travel, indianised in every sense, airports have the same ruckus as a train platform, people huddle up around seats on flight to chat up, n manage to play cards across rows. some of them even bend over their neighbours to peep through the window, whiel the usual passengers while their time in magazines, novels o music.Its amusing to note that people travelling in bus, train etc display a much better dressing sense than those flyin by air. A large chunk of people are dressed like they are confused if they going to a disc or carnival. and some have this idea that if u are travelling to o from goa its a must t...

With the blanket of darkness spread over the sky As night walks time into valleys of mystic silence I feel you my love, standing guard The Last Prince of the Kingdom of Dark I read your words, in the blinking of stars your voice with the wind, that swooshes past me As i stand uncovered at the gates of your fortress an eternal wait, night after night contd... Posted via email from pixeljuice's posterous

after many days i open my treasure drawer today. there was lots of old stuff. i dinno i was still holding so much of stuff, even after i d cleaned my drawer like a year o more ago. more amazing was i cud still remember most of the things. i have stuff like movie tickets, wrappers. i was totally into buying gifts fr myself. and all tiny tiny memoirs of times like. :) pages from my tuition book, tags of clothes, wrappers, letters, cards, paper cuttings. i think it was the first time i ever showed them to anyone. there's nothing worth hiding in them, and i think for anyone else it will just be junk. but i still love holding on to those things. You look at something, and then travel back down memory lane, and drift into the memory-vortex :D i love getting lost, and when its not always possible to get physically lost , i find solace in these escapades back in time. its nice when you have someone around with whom you can travel to almost anywhere; to some random isolated church on a hi...