Ooops...

Ooops. An era seems to have passed. 6 days and 6 nights. Most often sleepless. Most often clueless. So here I am. I don’t feel like having fought a great battle. But yeah there is this feeling…Thank God I survived thru’ it. The ordeal isn’t over yet. How can I forget all the assessments of my stupid answers, that I’ll be receiving very soon!!!

50 marks- and how much do I score!!! Who will score more than me and who less??? How well I’ll improve upon my last performance??? Which subject I’m gonna give more attention and which the least??? Such should be the line of thought of my dear friends, cutting across all branches, all years of engineering…right here, right now!!!

Before that, of course the usual relaxed, chilled out attitude of a Mid Sem being over. The Yippee’s, the Hurray’s, the Ohhh’s that so characterized you, me and them…they were a great sight, especially after that horrible deadly silence that had palled over the entire college during the past week. Ehhh…Those are gone. I like it this way.

Should I go on living in the past or look forward at the future!!! I don’t know. But I know for sure, I will stop having nightmarish dreams. I’ll stop dreaming MTP questions the night before ASE paper. I’ll stop feeling nervous about a worthless shit of a paper that’s for some stupid reason is considered to be 50 marksworth. And of all things, I’ll stop studying for a while, which has the potential of extending till the next set of exams come, bigger in magnitude, better in quality, nothing you have ever faced before!!! Yeah the End Sems.

We all see a thousand posters, notices everyday adorning our hostel walls, notice boards and what not. Those little pieces of paper, are often wow, celebrating some great interesting event, function…and of course appealing our hearts straight out, not to miss the opportunities and be a part of it. How nice!!!

Now imagine this. It’s November ’08. The classes have been over for a week now. The End Sems are what we are waiting for, with bated breath. As if that was not enough, you have posters all over the college, you have pamphlets in your rooms. What do they say, Who was it sent by? Yeah…they would be from your institute, respective departments, the teachers. Inviting.

“ Welcome friends. Come and enjoy. It’s pure fun out here!

Remember the Mid Sems?

Well, this time it jus’ got bigger and better and got more!

Here we present you the End Sems!”

I bid adieu. With a lot happening all over the world, mostly bad, it’s really sad. It’s like 20 years hence, we’ll remember our NITK days, when the present spate of horrible events are mentioned in passing, in the newspapers, in the political, social discussions. For us it would be a mix of the bad that happened to the world and the life we lived at NITK as 5sBT’s!!!

i DuNnO CiViL

All things said about BDD, Bunking, Blogging, Branch Freshers…is this the week of “BBBB”ing in Civil, on Civil, of Civil???

When GB Shaw said ‘Those who can’t, they teach’, and that was aeons ago, he surely laid down a truth for the whole eternity. I like that. It says so much about us as well. Ain’t we like ‘We can, so we engineer’. Too constricted a view! Too un-holy an attitude! Fine, but I stand by it!

Here’s my contradiction.

I don’t know, or perhaps I don’t want to know why am I engineering. I am pursuing civil, but do I ever feel like the engineer-to-be, the-technocrat-to-be?

Both viewpoints rule my mind.

I heard a lot, I saw a lot, I wondered a lot and even I dreamed a lot. That was yesterday.

What about today then…Well I C-Evil a lot. I can’t help it…satire, pessimism, criticism. That sums it up.

Hey, all this, why on earth? Why do I need to soul search a lot…these days? Introspecting, Ruminating, Clarifying…what else and what not!

Remembering the past few days, highlight of which was the freshers party definitely. As and when, I for the matter got to know the different layers, the different shades, the different differences…we all have. 5sBTs, as we are, so we are. Each part, each thing, each aspect of the freshers party…we handled the way we wanted it to be. I am so full of admiration, for all of us…and for myself as well. Self-congratulatory, does it seem so! But then as I said ‘As we are, so we are’!!!

If I stuff my BDD assignment in the cupboard and indulge in everything else, I am happy, I am satisfied. In fact I am at peace. It shows in my face, it just glows. Try checking out with yourself.

Logically, I’m for what I feel, not what I think. But challenges are such, they need the mind to work and the heart to rest. This I fail to do sometimes an end up messing up just everything. Like I do with my days and nights…I love lazing around, I feel for it. But that’s insanity, you can’t!

“You just canna sleep and sit…

You hafta run and fall…

You gotto rise and run…

Under the blazing sun…

Under the starry sky…

Under the moonless night…

Under the raining clouds…”

Musings, as these, never cease to stop.

May be generalizing too much on life and ignoring civil was not my idea here. Here I ask you to bear with me. That gives me the freedom to climb up a TV tower and shout ‘i DuNnO CiViL’.

Blogs apart

Chalo a lot has been said and written about the inactivity on the blog front.
venky dear dear, its difficult to come up with something to put up..
U have seen me struggle with my write ups too..
it happens that some ppl have nothing to share
or they don wanna share or are just shy to share...
or perhaps not share on the public domain..
U know it yourself how busy we have been over
the past week with freshers and
not to mention paper loads of bullshit.
So it is but naturale tat ppl have shrunk into their own worlds 2 work
and 2 rest.

Don't get frustrated no one is bloggin regularly..
the habit is yet to sink in,and given the hectic 5th sem,
it ain't gonna sink
too soon.

and now i might sound like a rule book...
but i feel its not right to take names
ppl will do wat they want
ppl will xpress wen de want
someone wrote 1 log on a chiken, but it sure is memorable;
the alchemist finds a philosophy a week;
Omi wil return soon to his bloggin streak;


its natural tat wen something special is up (eg. elections)
every one has opinions... and the blog opening co incided with it, giving a
mirage of rush of activity on the site..
wait on...Some day again something special will happen and
this will spring to life..
till then its for the one's (like me) who just can't shut up to voice over here..
and ya , dont compare us with psychos..
they are but pshychos
bleeding each other over a fresh(er) matter..

remember ;
be it rolling planes or cliff tops,
we are but forever the civil buffs.

cool..

IN OBLIVION..............

To begin with, hats off to 5SBT civilians for organising a mindblowing fresher party.Mr CR ,all kudos to you for having coordinated the program so well.The very essence of the program was to see civilians putting out their heart to make the party splendid enough(remember 5SBT civilians never believe in mother-in-law syndrome).
Well, am i here to just exaggerate n congratulate u people? Definitely not.As you can see, my title does nt suit the same.I am here to bring into ur notice the kind of recognition obtained for a blog which was started by a"psycho" for the "psychos".The very beginning of that blog says"inspired by the civil blog".Well i don think we have inspired them with anything otherthan the initial enthusiasm.It is very disheartening to see our blog turning up to be esoteric of late.
What happened Mr.Buff & u Mr.Dash?How did ur passion vanish so fast?Is it already the time for the requiem of our blog?You Mr Omi, is the elections the end of events for 5SBTS?And you Ms Shipu, cant anything other than MHP stories n Pinky thesis inspire u to have a go?
Or is it that we should go on to the path of confrontations for making our blog a big hit(as the psychos did).Gear up dear ones.Is it the end of our blog.My dear "alchemist in offing",is that all u intended? If so , lets have the requiem for the blog.......................................

i PhilosophizE CiviL

It's Tuesday again. Sorry for the prolonged absence.

The passion that defined those initial days, the enthusiasm that was just infectious has subsided, sorry to say that though. What has been happening in the mean time is worth taking note of, worth pondering over. In my case I had my share of infighting, the alter ego and me arguing, discussing ‘Why blog in the first place and create the need to meet online when the simple way around would be a face to face conversation? What urge is that I am trying to satisfy with this online forum? What could this be other than just a timepass?’ Questions that they are, their answers I don’t seem to get!

Wait! Don’t go away. I never can fathom the reason but that’s it. ‘Sunsets are surely intoxicating. They make you do away with muzzy, fuzzy thoughts and give you the eureka moments. It’s just that philosophy goes hand-in-hand with sunsets.’ So here I am with the sunset outside and my philosophy inside.

Rain and thunder ditched us at the last moment and BDD class happened much to our dismay. That was Wednesday. With the impending extra holiday on Friday, the atmosphere on Thursday was of excitement for the forthcoming weekend. It’s ideal for everyone of us and suits our style- this 4working-3off days week. I vouch for it and I’m sure I’ve staunch supporters.

Weekends never seem to give one the success of having spent even 10 minutes with books. I’m really an experienced person when it comes to dealing with the guilt pangs that attack just before Monday morning. ‘What if I had studied a bit, just a tiny bit? I could take the whole class by storm, I would be the perfect role model, the ideal student… and all that!’ But you definitely know, with experience one acquires nerves of steel, and in my case even more having dealt with them for so many weekends altogether!

Monday morning blues seems to be the most cliched expression of all time among students- they are bugged by it, they talk about it, they even swear by it and for good measure. That makes life interesting, ain’t it? In all probabilities I should surely be a party to that. That too when it comes to attending CT aka BT.

With all the crazy classroom antics, sticky lectures, useless assignments week past was more than okay. That’s something what I call Living Civil.

Untimely demise of Mr. Lab Assistant, Chemical Deptt. has been greatly disturbing. Offering my condolences here.

Yoo Hoo Civil Buffs !!!

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.

---Civil Buff

5sBT's - What lies ahead !!

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 ;) !)

well well.. a blog of our own!... how exciting!...

Hmm.. first post... how do I go about it?..

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 :)...


peace..

Why this blog was made in the first place???

Yeah...this is the question which would be boggling ur minds....well...i will say it was the brainchild of me and soumyajit.We were going through the blog of a friend of mine..when destiny struck..and the literary worm inside our brain got too bigger to be restrained there....so..with an exulted shout..we decided.."let the blog be born"..and i can proudly say...Zit has fathered it...in just a night...yeah...he is damn potent u can say....

Reasons and more reasons followed...apart from the "inspiration"...few are...
"lets do something man"...like we do nothing...come on..how will orkut and gtalk run without the hard and persistent work from us????..so we definitely do a lot for google already

another was.."this will help us to gel together"...now..if we didn't gel..then how did those mass-bunks...even on test days were possible????

another was..."i heard blogs really open up one's mind..it will make us really open minded"...to which i retorted.."if the mind opens too much..the brain will fall off...so..beware"

then what went to the release of the blog??????
the honest answer is.....like always...we have no idea...may be the inspiration was too much....or maybe..the same reason for which no one dropped the applied soil engineering elective..because everyone else was doing it...or because...we are frustrated of getting frustrated...so decided to do something...which will act as a salvation from frustration...these are a few reasons..which are true for me...well each one of the contributors will have their own....

With everything said and done....i believe this will be a wonderful platform for discussions...discussions and more discussions...spiced up with our ever rich criticism for everything...with the gossips..which we can brew like coffee..and the news we bake everyday like cakes...
so i hope blogging here really become a "tea-time" for everyone...
so that atleast we can say...."blogging is my cup of tea"..

Sayonara...
(Mr. Asano be remembered for a week atleast...)