Take 1!!....the silver jubilee

At last i am finally writing out the first few lines of my first blog....i dont know if i will see it through to its end but at least its a start :) --- firstly a few lines bout meself--well i kind of started this blog account in the 3rd yr of college thats bout 3 yrs back with the truly good intentions of becommin a passionate blogger :P, i always feel i have lots to say..but it has taken me a good 3 years to just write down the very first lines---that itself should give some sort of idea of yours truly---in bengali theres a perfect word for that--"ladh"...i dont know if i got the pronounciation right in english...i gss it means someone taking it easy... and a procrastinator par excellence yessir thats me :) .... i dont know if procrastination is supposed to be that bad after all procrastinators are supposed to have good time management skills, and you know you get some good exercise what with all the hurrying and rushing in those last few minutes that you had judiciously allocated for any job :P....

Now what set me to finally writing this blog was that recently i crossed a landmark in time...i completed a quarter century of life on the planet....and i decided to gift meself my own blog on the day..but as it happened as usual i am completing this blog 7 days later...nway lets get down to business..25 yrs is a long time and i was trying to think of some of the more important phases during the period---

durgapur - an industrial city in west bengal and the one of the best places to grow up :) ....there were lots of open spaces and greenery....those were the days before computer / video games and our leisure hours were spent completely out in the open...football in summer, cricket in winter....and some other things which cropped up intermediately...

xaviers dgp - a wonderful school with yet more wonderful teachers, huge grounds and exciting jungles... 11 years and some of the happiest moments of my life were spent there....a "quiet" transformation took place there...one of the wildest and naughtiest in kindergarten passed out in class 10 as a quiet & shy guy almost always considered the best candidate for the conduct and application prize!! :P nway xaviers was real fun and the only worry in those days being the terminal exams...

dav - though me and all my batchmates were constantly cursing the daylights out of this goddamned place when we were there --- on looking back i realized that i had had a jolly good time over there.. for the first time the rules back home were slackened a bit and i got more independence....the first taste of booze and smoke....bunking classes in school and hiding from the principal when he was hunting down class bunkers with a stick!! :P ...pretty happy times except for the fact that all of us had got busy preparing for all sorts of entrance exams and had started thinking about the future and careers..

rec-dgp - 1 year at rec - this period i will probably remember for the rest of my life for the "interaction period" with the dear seniors ;) ... terrifying days and terrifying nights..we were all frightened at the time but the effects of the slaps and sessions have long healed by now and have left behind some fond memories...

iit kgp - i discovered the art of being at "peasssssssssh".... spent 4 years of my life at "peassshhh"....always managed to get a decent grade, did not bother to plan anything for the future - played my heart out in football ( i discovered that i was actually quite a good dribbler, it was only my lungs which betrayed me in football and came in the way of football glory :P)....anyway i had quite a nice time in kgp..never worried about the future (it was only after the first few days of placements that i started worrying)....good friends, food,booze......nd of course love :) !!

love - in the slam books which we used to fill up vehemently before leaving school i used to describe love as "a feeling which when you feel you feel you have never felt it before"---the credits for this line go to my good friend mayukh i think..but being too lazy to think of anything else i felt it was quite apt and adopted it ;D....well i realized its aptness in the 2003 december holidays in the first year of kgp....i met a girl at a marriage ceremony in dgp...not for the first time but after a space of almost 15 years....we used to go to kindergarten together...nd i felt something i had never felt before :) and we discovered later that the feeling had been mutual :D!! theres something stranger about my l... story..maybe a some kind of telepathic connection but the fact is one day i was actually sitting down and thinking of D... (and never in the last 15 years had i ever thought on those lines) thinking in the sense wondering what happended to her,where she is now etc etc...and would you believe it, i still find it very strange, the very next day i meet D... and she looked as cute as ever!! :) well cupid got busy at the moment and he has been busy ever since with us generously giving us his dosage/pricks of cupid arrows and the magic has continued... i guess thats the most important event in my life so far, we have lots and lots of plans and i just cant wait to get started on them :)

bpcl & mumbai - this started off pretty unpleasantly, and i hated it in the beginning, working in bpcl, the mumbai climate, crowds, the typical mumbai smell-theres a definite smell thats characteristic of mumbai for the uninitiated...but after 2 years i must say i have got used to them...in fact i have grown to really like mumbai..it is quite similar to kolkata in some aspects but a lot more developed...but mumbai has a buzz of its own i must say...as for bpcl i must say though i am not particularly fond of this kind of field job it has been a good experience definitely...as one my managers once said if you can manage things well in a psu you can manage things well almost anywhere...and i am still learning....

....well thats it i guess...a big load off my shoulders..i have finally managed to write my first blog!!! :D WHIPPPPEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!! congratulations to me :P!! if anyones reading this....sorry to have bored you with my life but its my blog and i can do pretty much anything that i want here!! thats the beauty of a blog i guess.....since "the rubicon has been crossed", the first blog that is, i will try to put up a few more blogs in the future....lets hope for the best...adios!!