The happenings all this while

With due apologies to all those who visited my blog in anticipation of some peaceful silence and tranquility, far from the busy lanes of other blogs, where new posts come dashing down the street day in and day out. My post will finally break the long silence I have been keeping.

Coming to the point of why I am not blogging. I was at the hostel where i had no access to the net, at home I was too busy doing other things and there was absolutely no time for the blog.

In one word - Lethargy.

Anyways, moving ahead - All this while I have been trying to do interesting things. Hostel Life continues to grow more vivid with Counter Strike, Table Tennis and Sleep all vying for my attention. I hope I have kept all of them happy.

Innovision 08, my college's Technical fest came and went. I went back to organising Enigmata. It attracted 1.5 lakh page hits and 1072 registrations within 10 days and so was a big success. I also organised a quiz which saw good participation ( 90 teams - of 3 members each registered)

This time round, Innovision was well organised and had a host of great innovations - a Defence Exhibition , with Bofors Guns, tanks, jeeps, earth movers, floating bridge carriers and state-of-the-art radars and conferencing systems- the Exhibition was a huge success and AFAIK, the first one of its kind in a college fest. The fest also saw Parasailing, Paintball Wars and other Adventure Sports.

I'll be making a trip to IIT Kanpur for Antaragni. This is my first out-station trip for quizzing; and understandably I am pretty excited about it. Hopefully the experience will be a good one.

Not much more happening. Classes have sunk into oblivion. Practicals are non-existent. End sems loom like dark clouds, and as Kevin Spacey says in 'American Beauty' " I am feeling great. "

Books - Read John Banville's 'The Sea', Salman Rushdie's "The Enchantress of Florence" and currently reading Robert M. Pirsig's "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". The Sea was a decent novel, with good , almost lyrical imagery. Salman Rushdie, for a change, was a bit light on the vocabulary, choosing to give the really heavy words a skip to tell a fairly engaging story. The Book turns out to be mediocre, no flashes of genius, but nothing too bad.

Zen and the Art of motorcycle Maintenance promises to be a great read. Expect a post on it soon.