A week of blogging, at and by cIVIL bUFFS !!! Now that’s news…
A week of new experiences!
A week of unprecedented rain and power cuts!
A week of thunderbolts, thunderclaps, thunderstorms and a thunderstruck group of 57 civilbuffs giving away thunderous applause!
A week of every worthwhile thing…in fact!
I remember, just the last Tuesday. It must have been a day like no other. What else could explain the sudden spurt in activity on my part and start what nobody at least in my world of friends and acquaintances had never done! Neither did I know the ABCs of blogging nor did I know what the blog would be about!
But there was one small thing that I felt for sure, that feeling of something great about to happen, the intuitive heady feeling of otherworldliness. If such thoughts and ideas crop up in the mind then why wait?
Start, I was for sure. But who would care to take time out and immerse himself in what I think, in what I feel, in what I say, yes who would! The immediate people that I am close to, with whom I am spending a very important part of time in a very crucial junction of my life came to my mind. Who else than the batch of 57 5sBTs of Civil Engineering, NITK! Voila! The Eureka moment in my life had arrived. Why not hook these otherwise busybodies in my venture. Sure. I decided to make them my co-bloggers, I will make them my partners, giving them a share of the pie and surely that’s what I did.
The blogging juggernaut will roll on, the theme of the blog would be what unites us in the class, yes Civil Engineering. The contribution would be by any number of my branchmates. The life that they live, the classes that they attend, the opinions that make them what they are, the brassed off talks of their gurus…surely these would be the hot topics. With all these ideas cropping up in my mind, my brain was surely working faster than Chacha Chaudhary,the affable old man from the world of Pran’s comics in the 90’s,whose brain sometimes worked faster than a computer. Not to forget the era that we are talking about, when the world was ruled by Celeron computer processors. Anyways with our generation awaiting the QuadCore processor anytime soon, and my mind working at the proverbial faster than the computer speed, I must have been a crazy sight to watch.
With my first nightout of the semester, I bore the fruits of my labour, finally, my first post being “i LivE CiviL”. The world had not yet felt the effect, but once it did it was earth-shattering, or simply wowed. Now before the junta felt restless I had invited almost all my branchmates, to co-author the blog, to be a cIVIL bUFF. And they responded, in a manner like never before. If I say I was moved to tears, I wouldn’t be saying something far from the truth. Actually I was laughing out my lungs, my heart beating at the fastest rate of my life, and my brain working faster than a computer!
The start was never a single handed effort, the prelude to, the inspiration for it was the infectious enthusiasm shown by Abhisek, Nahata, Omkar, Pavan and Rakesh. With the blog running at a healthy rate, members joining in and churning out brilliant, witty and erudite posts I couldn’t ask for more. What I keep hoping though is for more and even more, a desire that I’m able to fulfill by throwing the Stop Spectating-Start Posting stares on my fellow civil buffs!!!!!
At the moment cIVIL bUFFS has been critically acclaimed by friends and acquaintances. When asked to read, they simply can’t stop gushing out their niceties and wows. Even more is to follow, even more acclaim, even more recognition and even more standing ovations.
KONICHIVA!! Heya .. Sorry guys that’s the only share of Japanese I seem to be familiar with... n my hopes of learning it too this sem al seem to have gone down the drains as the college authorities considered only mech n trical guys eligible enuf 4 it by keeping the classes on thurs noon .. the time v guys ll be quite busy sleepin our hearts out in the class of our very own Japanese ambassador !! guess u guys know who .. ?? But guess his good ol frien Mr. Asano gave our ears some good workout by forcing us to hear frequencies much lower than wat we had to deal wit last sem in SD !! :) Newys b4 I get quite a lot monotonous let me get out of my Japanese hangover .. !! Ok …. First of al .. gr8 work chotu n dash .. gr8 idea to start up our own blog ! It sure will get ppl involved n also help lazy bugs like me to come out of my hibernation n write up something .. ( It took a lot of persuation from dash to get me started) hehe :) Newys .. so 5th sems up in full swing n so r the rains today .. !! wel im a guy who likes such a weather n I guess the reason is stated in the lines above !! yeah .. it’s a gr8 time to sleep .. !! n I had a share of it in the classes today .. n even the BOOORIN CT test !! Lot of busy days r comin ahead 4 us I guess wit al the so called “MTP ASSIGNMENTs” which do nothing but enhance our skills of writin durin other classes n writin fast too ! They also nourish our beloved CR Mishra’s “communicating n convincing skills” to postpone the date of submissions almost everytime .. ;) Not to 4get the few tests lined up .. like the most anticipated n the one im sure al of us r awatitin to get a taste of, an “Open Book” test, n then some stupid MTP test n the most dangerous of them all !! The freshly arrived “ANNOUNCED SURPRISE TEST” in the most interstin sub of the sem !! hehe :P Guess ive tested ur patience enuf by makin u read all the crap above ! my first ever blog !! So buckle up guys 4 a gr8 week ahead .. Hope the “WHO LL STUDY 4 THE STUPID TEST MAN !!” thoughts with constant hints of the relative gradin system prevail in our minds .. hehe J SAYONARA ( Wohoo !! im learnin ;) !)
4 all u unlucky ones 2 miss out today's morning herald[due 2 d aftereffects of late night honeymoon wit CTBT [concrete technology/boring technology] here is d headline
BOLLYWOOD SUCKS!!!!! 5SBTCLASS: In an exclusive talk wit 5sBts, Pinky ma'm has given a controversial statement that can really turn d things upside down in d coming days at d Indian Stock Xchange .According to her Bollywood, which is d greatest testimonial of Indian culture, really sucks!!!! The coming days ll show wat impact dis statement can hav on indian economy as well as foriegn xchange.The exclusive interview turned out 2 b a truely enlightning one wit ppl comin to know y India din develop so much since independence.The reason is Bollywood.However she said dat d present scenario can b dealt with if ppl embrace Hollywood n import Australian movie prints.Experts frm 5sBT hav refused to comment upon dis other than producing a ooooooooooohhhhh sound.V do hope dat comin days ll enlighten us wit more Pinky thesis oriented at d devt of our nation.
Come to think of it... this isn't really a good time to be sitting online blogging... what with pinky's" assignment and "MHP's" killer test awaiting us... add to that the fact that I have no clue about either...
So.. why am I here you ask? well for one, there's our great "CivilBuff" giving me angry stares everytime he sees me cuz apparently he hates silent spectators... and secondly, blogging is way cooler than all the 'Bogue compounds' put together... :p
so...here goes..
First off.. Buff, my boy... you are a genius... (you too Mr. Dash)... This blog is probably the best thing that's happened to our class... no wait... the second best thing.. the first best thing obviously being the sliding of ashwini, purohit, birla and others... (oh, if only aslam had decided to leave with them... the world would have been such a nice place)... sigh...
Seriously.. Soumya... I bow to thee... keep those hilarious posts coming... just make sure no one leaks our URL to MHP or pinky... :)
Ok...
On to more serious things... since we're still in election hangover... I was just wondering... is our system really the best college/university election system? I mean,.. is there any point in first, second and third year CR's electing final year representatives?? How are union elections held in other colleges?
In NIT Trichy, from what i've heard, the system is pretty different.. there, anyone can contest any post and all her/his batchmates can vote.
Say, union presi.. which is a final year post,... any final year student can contest the election... and similarly, all the students of the FINAL YEAR batch can vote... not just one person from every class... and not first years and second years who hardly know any final years...
CR's (or 'Class Reps' as they're known there) are there just to co-ordinate between teachers and students... thats it...
Sounds better than our system to me... what do you ppl think? Share your views... who knows?.. maybe by the time we leave this place we'll have a better system in place :)...
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