“Canst drink the waters of the crisped spring?
O sweet content!
Swimm’st thou in wealth, yet sink’st in thine own tears?
O punishment! ”     T.Dekker

Why If Cupid is the roman god of Love and erotic beauty,often represented as a beautiful boy with wings carryings a bow and two set of arrows (gold headed for love and lead headed for hatred)

then how is that Cupdity means desire especially for money and possesions?

So I searched for the story ……..

Once upon a time there was a king with three daughters. They were all beautiful, but by far the most beautiful was the youngest, Psyche. She was so beautiful that people began to neglect the worship of Venus, the goddess of love and beauty. Venus was very jealous, and asked her son Cupid (the boy with the arrows) to make Psyche fall in love with a horrible monster. When he saw how beautiful she was, Cupid dropped the arrow meant for her and pricked himself, and fell in love with her.

Despite her great beauty no-one wanted to marry Psyche. Her parents consulted an oracle, and were told that she was destined to marry a monster, and they were to take her to the top of a mountain and leave her there. The west wind took her and wafted her away to a palace, where she was waited on by invisible servants. When night came her new husband visited her, and told her that he would always visit her by night and she must never try to see him.

Although her invisible husband was kind and gentle with her, and the invisible servants attended to her every desire, Psyche grew homesick. She persuaded her husband to allow her sisters to visit her. When they saw how she lived they became very jealous and talked Psyche into peeking at her husband, saying that he was a monster who was fattening her up to be eaten and that her only chance of safety was to kill him. Psyche took a lamp and a knife, but when she saw her beautiful husband, Cupid, she was so surprised she dripped some hot wax onto his shoulder, waking him. He took in the situation at a glance and immediately left Psyche and the magnificent palace she had been living in disappeared in a puff of smoke.

Psyche roamed about looking for her husband, and eventually in desperation approached his mother, Venus. Still angry, the goddess set various tasks for Psyche, all of which she passed, with a bit of help from ants and river gods. At last Cupid found out what was going on, and he persuaded Jupiter to order Venus to stop her persecution of Psyche. Then they were married and lived happily ever after – and it really was ever after since Psyche was made a goddess.

For those of you  who still want to know the answer…..Hehahaha

Cupido was a proper name alongside of cupido, a common noun, but when we deal with deities, the line between proper and common names is conventional. Pagan gods are personified qualities. For instance, Old Icelandic hnoss meant “treasure, woman’s ornament,” and there was a goddess called Hnoss. The great 13th-century Icelandic scholar Snorri Strurluson says: “She is so lovely that whatever is beautiful and valuable is called ‘treasure’ from her name.” Surprisingly, a man of Snorri’s intellect believed that the divine name had been coined first and the common name derived from it, though it is obvious that the order of events was reverse. In our editions, proper names are spelled with capital letters. In Antiquity and the Middle Ages, this rule did not exist, but, regardless of spelling, we understand that Hnoss is the personification of hnoss. Likewise, Cupido “Cupid” is personified desire. Latin cupidus meant “eagerly desirous” and cupiditas, an abstract noun, meant “desire,” all from the verb cupere. Cupidity narrowed its meaning and came to designate “inordinate desire for gain.” Such changes regularly occur in the history of words. We also recognize the root of cupere in concupiscence “lust.” One can wish, and wish strongly, for many things.

Oh my god that’s too oily

The biggest disease is staying alive knowing that one day you have to die

Stay out of bad company

I should have brought a second hand car; a new car is just for vanity….

Dude, start depositing 5000 bugs every month for your Childs IIT coaching

What must be they thinking of me?

Be serious

Concentrate

Meditation is the way to soothe your soul

Etiquette

If you have a smiling face I don’t want that in my class

Idle mind is devils workshop

Things will always remain the same

 Huh!!!!! How come you don’t have a goal in your life?

I am saving for that special day for that special someone

Oh no! I can’t forgive you….

Mummy it’s a small scratch, give it some time to heal…  No son, we don’t have time for time

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Is baar nahin
Is baar jab woh choti si bachchi mere paas apni kharonch le kar aayegi
Main usey phoo phoo kar nahin behlaoonga
Panapney doonga uski tees ko

Is baar nahin
Is baar jab main chehron par dard likha dekhoonga
Nahin gaoonga geet peeda bhula dene wale
Dard ko risney doonga,utarney doonga andar gehrey
Is baar nahin

Is baar main na marham lagaoonga
Na hi uthaoonga rui ke phahey
Aur na hi kahoonga ki tum aankein band karlo,gardan udhar kar lo main dawa lagata hoon
Dekhney doonga sabko hum sabko khuley nangey ghaav

Is baar nahin
Is baar jab uljhaney dekhoonga,chatpatahat dekhoonga
Nahin daudoonga uljhee door lapetney
Uljhaney doonga jab tak ulajh sake
Is baar nahin
Is baar karm ka hawala de kar nahin uthaoonga auzaar
Nahin karoonga phir se ek nayee shuruaat
Nahin banoonga misaal ek karmyogi ki
Nahin aaney doonga zindagi ko aasani se patri par
Utarney doonga usey keechad main,tedhey medhey raston pe
Nahin sookhney doonga deewaron par laga khoon
Halka nahin padney doonga uska rang
Is baar nahin banney doonga usey itna laachaar
Ki paan ki peek aur khoon ka fark hi khatm ho jaye

Is baar nahin
Is baar ghawon ko dekhna hai
Gaur se
Thoda  lambe  wakt  tak
Kuch  faisley
Aur uskey baad hausley
Kahin toh shuruat karni hi hogi
Is baar yahi tay kiya hai

… Prasoon Joshi

There are times in a person’s life when he wants to destroy universes. Universes which gave him a sense of thrill, which made him giggle in his bed before falling asleep, things which though appeared in his dreams yet never in the way he desired, things for which he spent hours and days contemplating and rehearsing the various conversations and situations which could ‘possibly’ take place.

One of the most difficult things to ask of a human being is to choose between two equally desirable things: Mother or wife, career or children, Dream or love. It mostly turns out to be a case in which there is a biased symbiosis with one side getting more than the other.

One group of people destroys universes to achieve their goals. This helps them to channelize their energies towards one thing. These people work in the grief of a loss and come out triumphant.  Yet, they know in future to taste the sweetness of their achievements; the spoils of their journeys have to be used to resurrect the universes they have destroyed. They want to think they have made sacrifices to achieve their success but their spleens know that these sacrifices have been the impetus for their success.

The other group of people is like the alchemists. They achieve their energies from the universes, not by destroying them but by being invisible yet always loving them. They transform these energies into their tools for success. For, they understand that success once achieved will taste sweet only if it is destroyed for these universes.

The question is whether we choose destruction to be the soil for success or like the lemon crusher to get the juice of its fruits ……….

Education is the passing on of knowledge and experience of the elder generations to the younger generations. Initially, it is through teachers and professors but later on it’s a process of continuous self learning throughout your life. With the population explosion and economic recession creating an immense shortage of jobs, the industrial requirements have drastically increased. Not only are they looking for skilled workers but also people with soft skills. This puts the current education system under test. How does it train its students in a way to meet the industry standards without putting too much stress on them?

The answer lies in analyzing the current system of education. We will find it has become too much object oriented .This has made the classes boring, repetitive and very mechanical. There is no development of personality.

Education should be equally devoted to enriching the personal life of students and to training them to be productive workers. These two facets are very much interlinked and interdependent. Productivity depends not only on knowledge but also on the personality of the person. Definitely, education doesn’t stop at school but personality development occurs only in the early stages of life. It is extremely difficult to mould someone after that.

Thus, the question of prime importance is what are the qualities of a productive worker?

Firstly, he should have a thorough knowledge of the basic principles and theories. This helps in solving problems from their fundamentals without any assumptions. Secondly, familiarity with the technical terms, machinery, soft wares and latest happenings and technologies is very essential. This will help him to diffuse into the company’s affairs smoothly. Thirdly, he should have a desire to learn and be efficient in it. This is where college education comes into account. The aim of college is not to get the students a job but to help them build their career.     College life makes students supple enough to absorb anything efficiently and quickly in future endeavors.

   All the above mentioned qualities will allow the student to survive in his job but to build a successful career he will require some soft skills. This is where the necessity of education to enrich the personal life of students becomes important. Discipline and punctuality are the fundamental qualities looked for in a productive worker. Time and stress management, human relationships, communication skills, group behaviorism and organizational capabilities are the keys to success. These qualities are not developed overnight. They are part of the individual’s character and personality. Student organized cultural and technical festivals, group projects, social activities, industrial visits; deadlines and sports activities are few of the activities which help develop these personality traits.

There needs to be further research on the vocational training of the students .This will help in developing better methods to inculcate the above mentioned personality traits . Yet, a lot remains desirable on the implementation front. There should be governing authorities to ensure that whatever is researched goes down to the ground levels of the education structure. Only then, a generation of highly productive employable workers can be achieved.

Semester exams were going on, chemistry and mechanics were left………

This had been quite an exciting four months. Pragyan , tech fest and stuff………….

Seemed like, I was starting to enjoy college life. Everything seemed exciting, except the syllabus.

At present, It appears to be a pretty silly and boring. At least, for we people who quite enthusiastically took up engineering…………..

There was a discussion going on about there (my friends) dates for the semester holidays.

Some have true girlfriends, most don’t or boast of their female friends as girlfriends.

I was none of the above types.

Well that doesn’t mean that I had no one to accompany me in the holidays!!!!!!!!!!

I hadn’t seen her but had cherished for someone like her for quite a long time now.

Even my parents and my sister like her. She will stay in our house for sometime now.

My family is very protective about her , my mom almost treats her like a kid; managing her daily household activities.

I was waiting eagerly to meet her, though we have talked a lot online.

We seemed to have forgotten the fact that we had exams next day.

Nothing like that.  Hari, my most intelligent roommate needn’t worry as 3 hours of flipping through pages was enough for him to reimburse every penny he has given as exam fees. This guy can go on writing for hours at a stretch. Vikas , pays attention in class. Fawaas, well he works like torrents. Breaking up the whole syllabus into immense no of pieces and downloading information in to his system.

As for me, my way of studying is to read through the whole text once. Then I make up my own answers. I have unlearned the art of mugging up.

My room, coral 11, is kind of room wherein everyone seems to peep in a while; might be, because it’s the first room in our wing or more importantly because we four roommates have quite a lot of friends. It was hari’s birthday the next day. As the clock struck 12 we began our celebrations, a song, chocolates, a gift (ganesha’s idol given by vivek) and then the best part giving bumps. Let me speak a bit more on the last word. When, it comes to giving bumps people whom we don’t even recognise come forward.

Celebrations over, we went back to our books. As the clock kept running one by one the three of them fell asleep. I had a long night, had to be after getting a c grade last sem. At 5:30 am I had done to the best of my abilities. I went out of my room to get some fresh air. I was taken aback no. of students who were loitering around in the corridor. Before, any wrong assumptions are made; they had woken up when I planned to sleep.

Well, chemistry exam was better than my expectations, I managed to get a B grade an improvement from last sems C.

I reached home some 3 to 4 days later on a Monday morning , my sister had left for her college.

Bad luck, I tried to break the ice with her. It was difficult as I was being a bit anxious. Ma, told to wait for your sister to introduce you to her. I waited………..  Though I was finding it difficult to control myself.

Let me, take the pleasure to introduce you to my new laptop, my date for these holidays………..

Recently, I was playing football in our building’s backyard. It’s a lovely place to play. Hard pitch, flood lights, usually I play in the late evenings with my building guys. I am a die-hard Manchester united FC fan. So, are the other people, I mean fans of various European football clubs, ranging from FC Barcelona to Bayern munich. We watch European football leagues, discuss about it, and try to bring in their style of playing in backyard fiesta. All of us are insuppressibly passionate about the game.    On a broader scale, this is story of almost every backyard of MUMBAI. This is a city where the feet’s are always moving.

Cricket, there’s no need for it to be proclaimed the national game, who cares about national games anyway; look at hockey it has now become a endangered sport,  surprisingly here football finds a greater love then anywhere else in this country.  Might be, Calcutta, some egoists will say is at the top. Might be, I don’t seem to agree to that, if so why do they never come out of their shells called Mohunbagan and East Bengal and instead of looking at their smaller interests at least try to spread the game all over the country. Why not the pundits, as they call themselves try to find young talent provide them coaching of international standards and try to make an Indian football pool; from where maybe after some years of diligent practice we might be able to represent ourselves in the world. Why do we always have satisfy ourselves that somewhere  in the 1950’s we qualified for the world cup ,then regret about being not allowed to play for a silly stupid reason, not agreeing to play in boots. I am sure there must be some controversy in there too.

Chuck that out…………………..

Returning back to my boulevard,

We were quite engrossed in our game. Suddenly Mr.Vaish our building secretary came for disrupting our game, that’s what I feel was his forced entry for, anyways he makes some 15 rounds on an approx around the building at around 8 pm, peak time of our match. We have to stop every time he takes a tortoisal walk especially around our pitch. Ironically, I always end up finding  a Hitler wherever I go, a person who hates me for playing. I remember, how in our last flat, the wife of the landlord used to trouble my mom for preventing me from playing in the backyards.  Mr.Vaish stops in the middle of the pitch orders every one of us to stand in a row as if we committed some crime. He tells “I want all of you to answer to my question, before you resume play”. He didn’t say the resuming stuff but that was destined, no matter what. “Tell me which football competition is going on at present”.

EPL over, champions league over, I bet he had no idea about La liga or Seria a, so there was no point saying them.

I thought it must some Mohunbagan or any other such club league. I have never seen them. HOW are we supposed to know, does it have any media coverage dude, I was about to    say. But, he had blurted out the answer by grinning like he has conquered Mt.Everest. SANTOSH TROPHY, hummm  read about it during my boarding school admission tests.

Ok, which TV channel broadcasts this competition, or has TOI ever written anything about it, pardon me if its in a secluded corner bullied by THE IPL. And even if it is shown does it look interesting, nope.  The stands are empty.

I read it somewhere, Think in your mind a thing you want to do, practise it again and again in your mind by looking at best artist of that thing, then try it out practically you will succeed . Quite, true and relevant. EPL is the best league in the world, best players play there; a lot can be learned by watching them play. So, what wrong are doing by Idolizing as in my case Manchester united and Paul scholes. Learning from them, is the only option left for us .Considering the fact that, there are rarely, any professional coaching available for young footballers in INDIA at Present.

YOUNG bro’s play football, love it, be passionate about it

spread your love maybe one day we will be recognized.

We can definitely be the best in the world one day.

“It’s very difficult to tell whether nature has been a kind mother or a cruel stepmother”

Let’s talk about the other group in the national institute of technology-The cool one, the smarties, loved, hated, popular, determined, fun-loving, rule breaking sporty group. They walk with a “Who cares………….chuck it dude” stamped on their chest. At times, it appears they seem to be asking everyone to notice ‘look I am cool, I

 Listen to western music; I am not for India my destination is California.

Chuck all that……….

They know to enjoy life, feel every moment and to make every moment a moment cherished. Rarely, do they study but they manage to come out with flying colours.

Secret………….

Studying with full concentration for whatever little time they open the book. Ironically, they are owl’s descendents, they could be found lurking around till the wee hours of the morning.

They are the people who make the class interesting.

Their small jokes, mischiefs make the boring lectures bearable. Not to mention the punishments, the pleadings, the grudge between them and the teachers.

A line about the teachers. Some f them are real sadists and hypocrates .They laugh at students failure, ask such questions as if their salary is directly proportional the number of questions unanswered.

According to “bujju community”,

Avril says it perfectly

“You are trying to cool,

You look like a fool to me.

Why the hell make the things so complicated!!!!!!!!!”

They burn their parents’ hard earned money, booze excessively and waste their precious years of gaining technical knowledge.

Don’t be mistaken that they are poor scorers; they do score well. But their minds are dustbins; pretty huge ones with a good erasing software. They dump loads of information into them and vomit it out in the examination papers. Generally, they are a bit rough, with a dilapidated language.

But, they are not to be blamed. It’s the curriculum of present educational system which forces challenge seeking students to turn this way.

I strongly believe when the challenge comes they will definitely rise to the fore-front.