Thursday, 29 October 2009

A little thing called “A”

Does your name start with A?? Then there are 1000 wrong things about it!! What do you say?

Many times...no.....Mostly...in my school and college times, I got annoyed for having a name that starts with A. Be it for allotting a roll number in school/college, assignments et al, my name will be in the top - at least among the top 3. During class lecturers when some questions are triggered towards students for which no one responds, or there are no volunteers, the usual phenomenon is to start from the alphabetical order. When there is anything new tried out, it is started from Alphabetical order..It’s easy for people to say “ok lets start in the Alphabetical order”..huh...Why so??

In my college, one of our lecturers wanted each one to prepare a concept in management and present it to the class on daily basis. As usual, it started with the name order, and I was the first. I did not take the assignment seriously as most of my other classmates did. Went on and presented some effortless junk, just for the namesake. The lecturer started shouting at me and then addressed the whole class for being irresponsible like THIS. Trust me! Her shout awakened every single soul in my class to prepare the assignment dutifully from next day onwards(Now stop questioning more about that embarrassing thing to me!!!)

When there are any presentations to be made, we are the victim again. They do not choose people on random. Same alphabetical order follows and when 10 students finish their presentation, time is gone...and the rest of the presentations are either postponed to some unknown date, or the lecturers take a universal view that 10 presentations are enough to know the performance of the whole class!! And the culprits (I mean the lecturers here) can easily remember the first few names than the latter names. Gosh!!

And in school times, when your friends are still preparing for the practical exams strenuously, you are the one to finish them first. I remember many such practicals which I finish in the first batch, and my friends in the second batch keep asking me for the questions, about the teacher invigilating, and all silly questions that come to their mind.

Nevertheless, I do see some advantages of having names starting with A....like...you get to experience everything first and most importantly finish them first, people come and ask you for tips and advices, you can feel relaxed while your friends are having tough time studying,
It’s easy to look for your name in a list of 1000 names (it’s almost in the first few 10 especially while seeing your results in notice board). Lastly, names starting with A always add a lot of grace and charm to the name itself...for instance - my name ;) lol
well..ahem....excuse me...

Tuesday, 27 October 2009

Unpredictable Life...

Sometimes I feel life is so volatile, and it leaves me thousands of questions unanswered.  So much of unpredicted things happen around you that you struggle to accept them. Moments of unsympathetic and crude realities flow through your life.  You say yourself , “Why me! Why only I get into all troubles and pains?? Why there is no luck in my life? It is not so easy to console oneself and move on with life with constant grief, unless you prepare your mind to do so. But life will still move on.  And I wonder how time changes and how we change with time and accustom to life. The thing which looks utterly important looks totally stupid a few years later. Strange laws of nature are they….

I believe in the Law of Equilibrium. So, there should be a proper balance that strikes between happiness and sorrow. People have their own pains, grief, regrets, and challenges at any given point of time. There can never be a single person on earth who might not have any pain during his lifetime.

Wednesday, 21 October 2009

Regularly Irregular

Its void. Know I've been so irregular to the blogs in the last few months...No...its not bcoz of a writer's block....neither did I lose any interest. Its just I was busy with other things....with few minor and major changes in my life for the past few months.....Now getting back to the mode, I am all set to write...