Exam Luck

One of my friends has this habit of wearing the same shirt everyday for all the days of an exam. Whether it is the quarterly or the annual, we are sure he will wear the same full sleeves day after day. The shirt is too worn out, totally faded. But all these don’t stop him from trusting his old shirt. Never ever he went for exam without his good old shirt!

This make me think why I have no such beliefs or "superstitions" myself….may be if I have something my grades wouldn’t be this abysmal. Anyway, all the shirts and t-shirts I wear to college are kind of worn out already, and things other than clothes are of interest to me (no..no..what you are thinking is wrong!) – so I guess I have this same-object luck all the time.

Thinking about it, I feel that nearly everyone have at least one exam-superstition. One of my engineering friend didn’t cut his hair during the semester exam and didn't even shave, while another friend didn’t take bath through out the exams. This was kind of awkward for all of us as he used to sweat a lot!! :-) I am used to skipping bath too (during exams to be specific) but that is purely because I think I can use that 15 minutes for reading couple of more pages. Now, I am used to open the text book (rather say photo copies) only the day before the exam (during engineering we had one whole month of preparation leave), so you see I need all the time that I could get for at least passing the exam. Not all the papers are tough, but there are some prime candidates for me, to skip bath, during the exam days.

During the exams, I have noticed God becoming an important entity in all students’ lives. My mom used to tell me during my school days, to pray before going to the exams, but most of the times her sound advice didn’t penetrate my numb skull as my mind was full of some formulae or some text which I absorbed (mugged up!) in the last minute! I tried continuing this habit of praying to God during graduation and PG also but eventually it faded away. My level of talking usually goes down during exams (ya, down than the normal ;-)) – Aha…may be this is my exam-superstition, if you can call it one – "to talk less", as I am afraid if I talk about other things, I will lose the thread of what I learnt for the next exam.

Superstitions used to vary a lot; from "I will eat only one vada-pav in the morning of the exam" to "I will come only by the 7.30 bus" to "I will make use of only this cello pen for all the exams" to "I will wear the same slipper/dress everyday"; there are too many to count here. Luckily, my friends’ circle was (and is) made of so many varied characters, I have a nice exposure to this wonderful world of exam superstitions. Some people have couple of weird habits too – "bringing a peacock feather and keeping it out near the paper during the exam" - beats it all! "Tying a knot in the corner of the hand-kerchief at the start of the exam and untying it only after the exam" is an intriguing one too.

I am pretty sure these habits die hard. Only a small percentage of people who used to have these beliefs during their school days grow out of them. These habits are carried forward in to the corporate world too.

Maybe we'll find it out in a couple of weeks.

Btw whts ur superstition???

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Main server hacked........SOS

One more exam is over...

No need to say how it was...

poor, hopeless, pathetic, miserable, worst... and all the synonyms of that.

Actually from sometime there has been some problem with my main server. It is not responding properly. It has become too slow. It is permanently gone to DDRM mode. Don't know whether it is memory problem or something else.

I think someone has hacked my server, intentionally or unintentionally. And due to this all my work has came to a standstill.

And so during this exam I tried to use proxy server. Well this helped me to complete some of my tasks... but still connecting to proxy wasn't that helpful.

I am trying to get out of it. But the problem seems to be much more complex. Maybe I need to

format the system, for which I need to erase some of the precious things, which I don't want to do. And I don't know whether rebooting is going to help or not. Lets see what more can be done. I think I will have to meet the hacker sooner or later.

Now, again about the exam- Beautiful?.... ya it was. And this has made me much more scared. Scared of the future.

Scared of nightmares.

Scared of DDRM mode.

Will have to do something before the next exam.

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Finally, the summer's over... college has reopened... and we all are back together ( actually we were together during summer's also - except for some of them ).

Time for a new beginning... mainly for juniors.

And time for a new continuation for us.

JUNE - the month which I'll never forget. Maybe one of the best till now. It is the month in which I have accomplished a lot many things, the things which I have only dreamed of. It is the month in which i have fulfilled some of my resolutions.

Intermission over - Now time to culminate

It has been more than two months that I got time to come here. And the excuse, lets say.... again let it be exams and all ;-)

Finally 1st year of PGP is over. I am at home, but just for two days. Now its time for summer internship, which is starting from 15th. So, going back to ahmedabad tomorrow.

This summer is going to be a very important time for me, maybe a decisive factor. There are lots of things to do, lots of matter to solve. Hope not to mess up everything, as I have already messed up my life a little. Well, not a little but much more than that.

And yes, I hope now I'll get enough time to sit over here and write.

Alas! Beautiful Exam Days Are Over

How can exam days be beautiful? Well, for that you'll need to look through my eyes.

Today was the last paper of my mid-sem exam of this second semester, and finally I got time to write something.

It has been more than a month since the last time I wrote something here. And this time I am going to give the excuse of exams. About the exams... apart from being beautiful.... papers were OK, like the preparation which was also OK. Now at this juncture I am not at all feeling THAT feeling for the exam !!!

The exam started on 9th of this month i.e. february. And 7th was a special day for me, not in many sense but in just one sense. Putting this thing in that funny cocoon way, I will say that as I had already started tampering with the cocoon, soon I developed a crack and on that day I started taking my hand outside !!! Sounds funny isn't it.

Well, so what. So.... nothing. In simple words ...

I finally started living up the DREAM !!!

I started doing things which I always wanted to but never had the guts to do.

I became the change I wanted to see in myself.

Started tampering with the cocoon

Yesterday was the day when I finally took a step towards fulfilling one of my many resolutions. Like many people I am also very good at taking resolution but not at following them. Sometimes it takes weeks and even months when I see that I am doing what I have wanted to, decided to. This is that starting problem with me which I already said.

So, what happened yesterday? Nothing much, our PGP class just went on a picnic to Polo forest, a near-by camping spot. And what's so big about it? Others will say that it was one of their best picnic, they enjoyed a lot blah blah blah. Well it was my one of the best picnic or trip, taking into consideration that I cherish and remember all the trips :-)

Apparently there seems to be nothing much much big about this but it was the first time I voluntarily decided to tamper with my own cocoon and involuntarily did so.

I know my weaknesses and the day I joined PGDBM I decided to create a whole new image of myself compared to what it was during engineering.

Mainly because I do not wanted to repeat the same mistake I did in engineering.

But alas! I ended up being what I was, introvert, silent and low on self-confidence sort of person.

I think some qualities are imbibed in you which you cannot alter with ease.

Sometimes it takes a moment to change yourself while sometimes a lifetime.

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One one two double-o nine, can't find a better day to start this.

One one two double-o nine, can't find a better day to start this.

I used to write my personal daily diary during my engineering years but gradually it became an addiction... yes the addiction. I started spending whole night over it... inking my thoughts, my daily experiences... in such a way that it gradually started affecting my studies.

However the reason for which I started writing diary was the reason of my addiction and the reason why I stopped writing.

Now, at this juncture of my life when there are many other important things to do, I am resuming my one time passion of writing. I don't know why but something or someone inside me told me to do so, maybe to express myself to others, in which I am not so good.

And this time the diary and pen has been replaced by blog and keyboard. :-)

One of the many problems with me is the starting problem. Whether it be of starting a conversation with someone or of starting any work. I have delayed many things just waiting for right time to come, and trust me, right time never comes... you have to make the time right. I thought of starting my diary on some special date... I kept waiting and waiting... and finally I started one day and made that day special.

Its in your hand to make a day special.

Same is the case with this blog. I have created this blog long ago, may me around my b'day in May 2008, and it was almost fixed in my mind about what to do with it... but I was waiting for right moment. Moments came but I gave myself excuses of being busy with other important things (which were actually not that much important). And finally at the beginning of this year, when my mind was full with lot of thoughts and I was in my (some of the lowest) LOWS, I forced myself to at least make an initiation.

It has been a long time since I read my diary last time. I often read few pages of it. Sometimes I smile on what I had written while sometimes I get amazed by how I have written such a thing. I don't remember some of my best written pages, and I know that I won't be able to reproduce them. So, the next time whenever I'll go home I am going to get them here and will try to copy all my favs here.

"Here" - where? Oh, so I think my profile don't tell much about me. Beginning from the start... eh ... or starting from the beginning.... whatever.... in a nutshell - after doing my schooling from Vallabh Vidhyanagar I took admission in engineering in electronics and telecommunication stream at Jalgaon. After four years of that I worked in Saurashtra Cement Limited i.e. Hathi Cement at Ranavav, Porbandar, as an engineer in Instrumentation and control department for 15 months. And now I am doing PGDBM (studying again) from Som-Lalit institute of management studies (SLIMS), Ahmedabad.

So, I think thats enough for today. Hope my mind gives me that power of thinking from my heart which I had earlier and I find enough time to ink... type my thoughts.

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