A Trip to a Theme Park.

Ah.Theme Parks.

These two syllables have been synonymous with adventure, fun, frolic and above all, a place where you are detached from all that mess at home and at school. (Yeah right.)

Enter one and you'll be welcomed with massive statues of characters, usually with water sprouting from a body hole, trying to look inviting instead of creepy, and failing miserably.

Get in, and you'll be greeted with a tired and bored accountant whose "welcome to *theme park*" sounds much more like "I'm bored and I really want a life away from you bozos, who come and pay 300 bucks for a swim." (A specialty of Indian Theme Parks). 

Get your tickets and go to the lockers. Another one of those unenthusiastic guys meets you and gives you the keys for a locker. Go to the locker room and you find that even the mere thought of your bag, filled to the brim with clothes, creams and towels,no doubt, fitting into that hole of a locker, is laughable.                      

Finally, drenched with the perspiration covering your body after stuffing that bag into the locker, you find that that one of your mates has forgotten to put his watch in. Argh.

After all that bickering and backering, you go to the rides.Yay! (Let me quote myself again :Yeah right.)

Enter the pools and and the sight of  dead flies and dried leaves give you a glimpse of the "fun" you are going to have.

And if that doesn't force you to leave the pool, the sight of a tiny-tot peeing into the pool definitely will.Yikes!

Ohk, lets forget about that for now.

Alright, Land Rides! They look fun!

Lets go to bumper cars now.You sit in the car, press the accelerator.

"I'll bang that guy with the car."

Screeeech.

"Sorry, sir. Time Over"

Next : Merry-go Round: You  get in all excited, get out and you come out feeling like Kumbakaran, looking for a bed to sleep after all that boredom.

These are few of the "spectacular", "mind-blowing" and "exciting" rides, as mentioned in all those adverts.

Oh, and did I mention the amazingly unabashed prices of food items?

Each food item costs quadruple times the MRP !

Finally, you come out, with both your pockets and heads empty. Go home and take a nap.

Wasn't that a fun trip to a Theme Park?

If I Were A Millionaire.

Hiya,

If I Were A Millionaire

This is a question that has always fascinated me during my Frequent Trips to the World where Katrina Kaif was my Girlfriend (screw you, Salman!) during particularly dreary classes.


Hm.


If I were a millionaire, the first thing I would do (and I am sure that you are secretly agreeing with me on this)
is to get myself a huge house, a bunch of cars and what-not.


But, on a serious note, the next thing I would do is to strive towards reducing Illiteracy in India.


Illiteracy is a issue that is of particular significance to me because I feel that I would be cleaning the streets of No-Where Land had it not been for the education that has been given to me.


I feel that a person is nothing without knowledge. He/She is as incomplete as Maggi without the Taste-maker (You can eat it, but it ain't gonna taste good). Knowledge is the root of any Homo sapien if he/she does not want to find him/herself at the bottom of the social ladder, lunging for height.
But further than that, Literacy is necessary if a person wants to break that vicious cycle of poverty.


(Illiteracy--->No job--->Poverty--->No money for education--->Illiteracy)


In the near-future of the Internet and super-fast information access anytime, anywhere, I ,personally, can't find India anywhere in the race of world super powers without enough literate, intelligent Indians, unbound by any sort of superstitions which hinder our economic, politic and financial growth enormously today.


Only with the growth of literacy can we expect ourselves to head north-ward in the various fields of our lives.


I know that the government is taking various steps for increasing literacy, but only if we provide world-class, free education to the youth of India, can we expect India to be on top of the world in the fast-approaching future.


Hoping for a well-educated India tomorrow,
SoBan.

Life And Death.

Hiya,


Today is a holiday at our school as one of our elderly teachers has died.Thinking about this just makes me wonder about life and death.Pardon me if I get a bit philosophical here.


What lies behind that mysterious curtain of fear that is death?
Reincarnation?
Heaven?
Hell?
I don't know.
But I've learnt something from this:


Savour every moment you have, every second, every minute.
Who knows, you might be reading this for the last time.
What if all this is just a big fat joke played by God? We'll all have ourselves to blame then.


Never take yourself seriously.You are NOT the only one with all the problems in the world.
Live each moment like it were your last.


And Lastly, have a positive approach towards life!

Smile!

And the results are...

Hiya,


Received my results today! I've got 6th rank!

Our class is THE most competitive class I've ever seen. Ranks go down by single marks.


It's somewhat like a drama, you know...


It has Conspiracy: "Hey, if you cut one mark and if I get two, we'll have the same rank!!"


Back-stabbing: "Why did you get one mark more than me! Now I've fallen back by one rank!"


and Curses: "Shit, the bastard is five marks ahead of me."


Sometimes, Things get pretty ugly.


"Sir,you HAVE to put marks here."


 "Go to your place.I've already checked yours."


"No,Sir,Look again."


"I SAID GET BACK TO YOUR PLACE!"


"No,Sir...No,sir..put,sir..."


*slap*


"..........."


*returns back to his place*


Being in this tangled mess of a class for almost 12 years , I have witnessed such memorable events quite often. Now its downright boring to hear phrases like


(teacher scolds the boy, talking right in front of her)


"Ma'am,I didn't talk,Ma'am." Points at the the guy next to him."THIS one only...THIS one only."




Anyways,


Have my annuals in the coming weeks. The old 9th books seem like unused & ancient scriptures, the contents of which I barely remember. Feeling really lazy to take them out and read again. But as they say, "A guys gotta do what the guys gotta do."


Ciao.

Mick,The Clown

I was walking down a road,feeling sick;

Then I met a man named Mick;

When asked, he told his surname was Hick,

And his age was twenty-six.

I asked him,"What are you doing in town?"

He replied, saying that he was a clown,

I looked at him with a slight frown,

"You dont look like one,I bet a Pound."

He asked me what was my illness,

I said it was a sudden chillness,

I caught wandering in the wilderness,

And  I was fraught with helplessness.

He looked at me and said this:

"Listen to me,don't scowl and hiss,"

"Go to the public and take a piss,"

"The illness will go and you will be in bliss."

 

Surprised, I exclaimed: "Are you mad?"

And pat came the reply: "yes, a tad!"

I was shocked, at the nerve he had,

But I went on, a smarter lad.

It's time to fight back.

Mother Earth says,


Life has made me row a boat,
Life has made me a scapegoat,
Life has destroyed all my roads,
It's time to fight back,It's time to fight back.

Life has come and gone,leaving me dead;
Made me sleep in my bed,
But now I know in my heart of lead,
That It's time to fight back,It's time to fight back.

Gone were the days of love,in yonder,

"Now what's left " I wonder,

People tired,who sit and ponder,

It's time to fight back,It's time to fight back.

So many bullets,guns and fire,

People burnt in funeral pyres, 

Thieves,gangsters, terrorists and liars,

It's time to fight back,It's time to fight back.

PS:just a random poem composed about a month ago.

Lets begin.

Hiya,

Today I received all my pre-annual papers.The frantic-ness of the class was UNBELIEVABLE.

"Hey, I've lost 110 marks,what about you?"  "Oh damn.You are racing me by 3 marks."

"racing"???

One of the most indigenous usages of English,I think that this word was created in our school as a substitute for the word "beating".

Anyways,

 I had quite satisfactory results.Except the odd-culprit: CHEMISTRY.

A paltry 18 on 25.

I'm humiliated.I want to shrink to the size of a dried-up raisin.This subject has turned the tables for all those whom I had been "racing".

But the "official" marks would be out tomorrow. So we'll have a concrete answer then.Considering that some papers were strictly corrected(read physics and chemistry) I am quite happy with the 86% I've got.

Bahbye.