i am really feeling like shit.i thought i was quite good at table tennis.i got a pretty rough reality check....i lost the singles and the doubles....both first round exits.i just need to improve,its as simple as that.i was circumspect and i thought of the after effects than concentrating and playing my natural game....i messed up with the smashes and just tried to keep the ball in rather than dictating terms and going for winners....which i would countlessly do in practise.in short,i lacked match temperament.i'll have to improve my game.
i played my second full field football match....this semester and i was feeling confident and good under the bars.i only conceded an own goal.i registered for FIFA 07 in our tech fest....i'm undefeated in hostel but they say the NIT's are something out of the book.lets see..........
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Saturday, February 13, 2010
MY NAME IS KHAN.
i am disgusted.....absolutely mega pissed off.i just wrote down my post for an hour and it has not been autosaved.techniocal glitches sala.anyway,so my post will become shorter.i watched MY NAME IS KHAN today and it was below my expectations.shahrukh acted like shahrukh and there was nothing extraordinary about it.the message was pretty plain and simple and it has been enacted before.it's unfair to compare this movie with 3 idiots as they have completely different story lines,but entertainment wise 3 idiots ramks much higher than this latest shahrukh khan flick.shahrukh kajol reunion was the spark in the movie and i think it was okay.i watched the second day second show and it did not have me rewinding the scenes time and again as 3 idiots did.however,i feel the movie made a perfect timing with the pot boiling over india australia rascist issues.....though i speak as a layman.these things perhaps don't affect bureaucratic and political relationships between nations.however i have a couple of friends who have dealt with these anti-muslim issues in life and maybe that has had me probing....however life recent has taught me not to probe much.
tomorrow is Valentine's day.curse the saint,really.i'm going back home for a day on a day when people of my age usually spend more time away from home.i just wish there had been a day when couples would stay inside and all single people would have a blast outside and really rejoice being single.bull's crap.........thats the first expression that occured to me.
our college has suddenly become lively..we just concluded our e week.it had a lot of activities.i auditioned the roadies part and it was fun.we also organised a small scale gaming competition which was a success of sorts.cricket tournament just got over while my wait for the football tournament continues.............we are also having near daily lan sessions in hostel.our group has also started designing posters for our fest.i had a near 3 hour table tennis practise one day and i haven't lost touch.we should have full field football matches tuesday onwards so i can really do some goalkeeping now.also we are planning to go to the ethical hacking workshop in ISM,dhanbad.hacking sure sounds fancy and it would be an interesting venture ahead....it's a busy schedule ahead....and i really need to open my text today....it's useless pre deciding in hostel but aal izz well i guess!!!!
tomorrow is Valentine's day.curse the saint,really.i'm going back home for a day on a day when people of my age usually spend more time away from home.i just wish there had been a day when couples would stay inside and all single people would have a blast outside and really rejoice being single.bull's crap.........thats the first expression that occured to me.
our college has suddenly become lively..we just concluded our e week.it had a lot of activities.i auditioned the roadies part and it was fun.we also organised a small scale gaming competition which was a success of sorts.cricket tournament just got over while my wait for the football tournament continues.............we are also having near daily lan sessions in hostel.our group has also started designing posters for our fest.i had a near 3 hour table tennis practise one day and i haven't lost touch.we should have full field football matches tuesday onwards so i can really do some goalkeeping now.also we are planning to go to the ethical hacking workshop in ISM,dhanbad.hacking sure sounds fancy and it would be an interesting venture ahead....it's a busy schedule ahead....and i really need to open my text today....it's useless pre deciding in hostel but aal izz well i guess!!!!
Monday, February 1, 2010
Youth today are a selfish and confused lot....or are they?
"Every noble action is selfish. Some selfish actions are nobler than others. But they are all selfish. And as such there can be no action purely noble anyway. Even the nobility in God's great philosophical intentions is bounded by his vanity"..............
I came across this quote once i was in school....and it has stuck with me ever since.last week i happened to attend my first humanities class this semester.it was about group discussion.our teacher gave us the various topics such as pollution,impact of western culture and so on.ultimately a rather un-unanimous decision was taken and the here was the topic....."Youth today are a selfish and confused lot"......quite inexplicably pollution wasn't chosen because they thought it was 'common'....anyway......
My initial reaction was ......."you are dead right,lady........"....but then as i thought more deeply i flip sided.....as this is where i speak freely....i would like to point out that i hate comparisons....today is today and yesterday was yesterday....the word 'Generation gap'...to me is a misnomer.but still if i had to voice an opinion,..i would say an emphatic no.youth today definately aren't confused.to my peers, who contradict...i ask a simple question..."are you confused and selfish too then?".....if you are...then you must not be speaking.youth today are clever,more than our adults or others think.youth today are more of a bunch of do gooders than a group of self -obsessed knuckleheads.
For as long as human hair has turned gray, elders have looked at their successors and frowned. "Children nowadays are tyrants," goes an old quotation widely attributed to Socrates. "They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." In 1855 a professor at Davidson College described college students as "indulged, petted, and uncontrolled at home … with an undisciplined mind, and an uncultivated heart, yet with exalted ideas of personal dignity, and a scowling contempt for lawful authority." Albert Einstein opined that while classrooms are many, "the number of young people who genuinely thirst after truth and justice is small."
i took the help of the internet to gather these opinions voiced by great people against youth.criticism of youth is inevitable,but so too is change.the world is changing,that too at a pretty fast rate.yes,there is a gadget today in every kids' pocket,but that is the world for you...the new world,the changing world...those who refuse to accept the changing youth,refuse to accept change....and the world would not wait for such people...."Survival of the fittest" is life's mantra now...nobody gives anybody an inch of space....and if the modern youth has to curb certain natural instincts to keep up then it should be understood...not branded as 'selfish and confused'.our ancestors did not have to cope with the kind of competition we have....infact,what is being unselfish?....i would like to know...doing a lot of social work?....or bubbling with patriotism?....i really don't know.nobody pulls up anybody and unless we prioritise things which meets our ends we may well end up starving to death.it's as simple as that...and if that is being selfish,so be it.i don't care.
right my friend shaswat interrupted me....and FIFA is a much more tempting option...haha...i believe i did not do complete justice to the topic....i could have put it better....but the very idea of calling my genre selfish and confused sounds ludicrous.....Manchester United toyed with Arsenal...these punctuations are a pain in the ass.....rooney and nani was fantastic...it was my first experience of following a match on match tracker and it was wierd but cool......anyway,i really need to sign off before shas showers his wild wrath over me...................
I came across this quote once i was in school....and it has stuck with me ever since.last week i happened to attend my first humanities class this semester.it was about group discussion.our teacher gave us the various topics such as pollution,impact of western culture and so on.ultimately a rather un-unanimous decision was taken and the here was the topic....."Youth today are a selfish and confused lot"......quite inexplicably pollution wasn't chosen because they thought it was 'common'....anyway......
My initial reaction was ......."you are dead right,lady........"....but then as i thought more deeply i flip sided.....as this is where i speak freely....i would like to point out that i hate comparisons....today is today and yesterday was yesterday....the word 'Generation gap'...to me is a misnomer.but still if i had to voice an opinion,..i would say an emphatic no.youth today definately aren't confused.to my peers, who contradict...i ask a simple question..."are you confused and selfish too then?".....if you are...then you must not be speaking.youth today are clever,more than our adults or others think.youth today are more of a bunch of do gooders than a group of self -obsessed knuckleheads.
For as long as human hair has turned gray, elders have looked at their successors and frowned. "Children nowadays are tyrants," goes an old quotation widely attributed to Socrates. "They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." In 1855 a professor at Davidson College described college students as "indulged, petted, and uncontrolled at home … with an undisciplined mind, and an uncultivated heart, yet with exalted ideas of personal dignity, and a scowling contempt for lawful authority." Albert Einstein opined that while classrooms are many, "the number of young people who genuinely thirst after truth and justice is small."
i took the help of the internet to gather these opinions voiced by great people against youth.criticism of youth is inevitable,but so too is change.the world is changing,that too at a pretty fast rate.yes,there is a gadget today in every kids' pocket,but that is the world for you...the new world,the changing world...those who refuse to accept the changing youth,refuse to accept change....and the world would not wait for such people...."Survival of the fittest" is life's mantra now...nobody gives anybody an inch of space....and if the modern youth has to curb certain natural instincts to keep up then it should be understood...not branded as 'selfish and confused'.our ancestors did not have to cope with the kind of competition we have....infact,what is being unselfish?....i would like to know...doing a lot of social work?....or bubbling with patriotism?....i really don't know.nobody pulls up anybody and unless we prioritise things which meets our ends we may well end up starving to death.it's as simple as that...and if that is being selfish,so be it.i don't care.
right my friend shaswat interrupted me....and FIFA is a much more tempting option...haha...i believe i did not do complete justice to the topic....i could have put it better....but the very idea of calling my genre selfish and confused sounds ludicrous.....Manchester United toyed with Arsenal...these punctuations are a pain in the ass.....rooney and nani was fantastic...it was my first experience of following a match on match tracker and it was wierd but cool......anyway,i really need to sign off before shas showers his wild wrath over me...................
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