Lessons Learnt

• It's a heart-warming feeling to pay for your friends from your pocket. ( I know what you cheapskates are thinking. Don't even think of mooching it off)
  
  
• The best feeling in the world is not happiness or love but that of relieving yourself when you can't control it for another minute.
  

• If you cut short a conversation with a cute girl and turn towards your friend, you are stupid. Friends are supposed to watch your back not the girl in the black dress.
  

• Men do cry out of happiness. I saw one
  

• If you lose one glass from a Rs. 2600 shades, go look for it. God is not that cruel.
  
  
• There are times when it's better to push your friend in front to face the fire, specially when it's coming from your own father.
  
  
• Birds love to shit on a new car.
  
  
• It's scary to switch off the headlights of your car while going uphill at 4 in the morning. But that's precisely what makes it memorable.
  
  
• A Mallu shakes like a banana leaf in a chilly breeze. (Even a half Mallu)
  
  
• IITians take hours to find a pond but add a 'y' to it and they will find it in a jiffy.
  
  
• Every pond doesn't have fish in it.
  
  
• It's the company that makes the tea great.
  
  
• It's a bad bad idea to ride a bike in Bangalore after staying awake for over 26 hours.
  
  
• It's time to grow up. College life ain't coming back.

This comes from the day I spent with friends who came visiting to Bangalore.

PS: 2 guys were missed. One is in Guwahati and the other is plain stupid.

- Nikhil Kamath, a batchmate of mine, is no more. He left for heavenly abode yesterday. A quizzer, multiple times 10 pointer and tt captain, he was a true genius, moving on to IIM-A from IIT-M. More than his intellectual prowess, he will be missed for the goodness of his heart. For people who knew him, he was the nicest of guys and humble too. May his soul rest in peace.

Random Thoughts

RT 1: To the best of my knowledge, the only death which is celebrated by any religion is Ravana's while there is at least one death in every religion that is mourned. A life lost in any case is sad. So my fellow bloggers, please avoid expressing your contempt towards the irrationally widespread grief, or on any other aspect, related to YSR's death.

RT 2: The new Tata Docomo has a tarriff rate of 1p/sec and the demand for it suggests that a good chunk of the market will eventually will eventually land up in Tata's network. If people are charged for every second they talk, will that make them talk less? I certainly hope so.

RT 3: When in Bangalore, the best way to reach your destination, on a self-driven vehicle is to keep asking the auto-drivers about the route. They always help, sometimes even pull their vehicle to a just to explain it clearly.This is a note of gratitude towards the auto-drivers in Bangalore, without who I would be lost many times over. Hail the auto drivers.

RT 4: It rainsalmost everyday in Bangalore and I forget my helmet on the bike with the same frequency. Hope someone develops a water-proof helmet which is comfortable to wear too.