A walk through ‘Viman Walk’

So Viman walk...its something every person living in viman nagar, Pune would know about. Firstly lemme introduce Viman Nagar to you its a small town kind of area almost on the outskirts of Pune it not exrtemly isolated from the city. Its where the symbiosis BBA, Design and Mass com. Undergrad colleges are and of course symbiosis school , though the symbiosis campus is not all that big its still is the best and the most technologically equipped. From what we come to hear from the localaities of viman nagar the real estate prices have gone up really high since symbiosis came up here and the prices of rickshaws also did go up. On one hand some residents curse us students because of whom viman nagar is turning into one of the most expensive places in Pune on the other many of them are really happy as before symbiosis viman nagar was one of the most undeveloped areas in Pune. Five departmental stores have come up since the establishment of symbiosis here.
Okay so lets go back to Viman walk. As I was saying its something everyone in symbiosis Viman nagar campus knows bout. Every evening two of any of us goes ou for viman walk...it starts when we’hv crossed (that is if u r walking away from the NGH) Konark campus, the two shops near konark have ice creams which usually is our dessert before dinner , then there is the small juice shop followed by Himalaya momos, which is the only momos stall in VN and then comes CCD where people just usually go and sit to chill out and some like my very good friend Kanu just order water and yeah of course the corpo bank atm...almost everytime u go out u gotta make a stop der coz u are usually out of money ...or maybe to put it in the right way I am usually out of cash...so moving on then comes London girls the one only all cosmetics shop in viman nagar with all the international brands right next which there is the ice cream parlour they moving ahead there is chopsticks , wrap around you can’t leave out this place coz it has the most amazing ice tea and just for 20 bucks its really amazing, roll house, shri Krishna, Dai wong the amazing but reasonable Chinese restaurant ...its my personal favourite ...specially the spring rolls there are really amazing, oh I forgot Punjabi Dhaba ..where have of viman nagar eats dinner and yeah of course the Kulfi wale bahiya near datt mandir... flavours where you get all kinds of toasts and chat and for shopping now you don’t have to go outa viman nagar ......
But the best thing about viman nagar is the small town effect... anytime of the evening you go out for a walk after every 5 mins you meet someone familiar, anywhere you go you find people from the college be it at the roadside Dosa stall or at Chang’s the other Chinese restaurant in Viman Nagar and new restaurants keep coming up. You don’t have to think twice if you have to go out for dinner just call up a couple of people and the plan is made ...no problem of transport or parents...i guess what everyone living here loves is the freedom...even if you dnt stop at any of these places you just take a walk just for the heck of it , its always fun and according to my friend the best way to fix a bad mood...she always forces me to take a walk with her whenever I am not my usual self..and yeah we don’t carry more than 20 bucks...coz then u will end up spending all of it ...and then you say “its so funny , I cant seem to realise where all of my money went” . Every small thing about this small town is amazing in a totally different way
As I am writing this blog ...i wonder will it still feel the same...so cozy ..so familiar... after two three years ...will the wind that would pass by still give the comfort it gives me now...will it be the same walking down these roads again ...knowing that so much has changed and also knowing that you were not there to witness the changes knowing that now there new occupants in the places (flats/hostelrooms) you once occupied... that thought still kinda scares me, leaving VN will be the toughest for everyone....coz after all its our town...we symbians are at every corner of this amazing town , and its ours atleast for the next year and a half we still have here...but its just a matter of time before everybody familiar go out on their own paths leaving behind just memories oo some of the most amazing days .... From the entrance of viman nagar through the airport road to the symbiosis new girls hostel to datt mandir to ganpati chawk , from shri Krishna to the more store its all a part of symbiosis ...you go anywhere in viman nagar...you’ll find symbiosis there...COZ its our small town...

Sleepless in SYMBI ???????????

Its an amazing time here...the feeling in the air here is so great that everyone here in symbi is going bonkers.....Its that time of the year again--- The Semester exams are here. Today while studying for my Exam tomorrow...it really amused how its so hard to compelete half a chapter in a day , while a day before the exams you are able to complete more than five chapters in a day...maybe your brain starts working faster and maybe its so crazed up that you ignore half the chapter and sometimes half the portion..... I WONDER. And then i see people going out the night before the exams .... some people like me prefer to go shopping .... some go for a movie and others like nerds sit and study in the hostel.... I WONDER...and still get below average marks...I wonder what do they study??????? Why cant people just chilll!!!!...i mean sitting the whole day in the same room ...your ass stuck to that same plastic chair....dont you get bored?????? but then again some people think that by just sitting and staring at the book they'll learn so much...who are they kidding... and they'll sit up tilll 4 am and still study ....you need sleep ...food..people forget all that....i laugh at people like these....but the worst part is ....these are the kind people who sometimes get amazing marks and better placements and better college offers....get high paid jobs in some private comapny..but then again they have to slog their asses everyday to get the work done their and they are back to being the kind who work all the time.....hahaha....I dont wanna be like that....so I prefer to go shopping and sit and write blogs and read fashion magazines, watch movies....and study half a day and go to sleep early...tomorrow is another day....we'll fight it if its scary ....embrace it if its beautiful....but toady is just today....we enjoy it the way it is....we dont run away from it if we cant take it .....we face it with head held high........

Like its said dont let go of your today for tomorrow...coz like i said...tomorrow is just another day..

Ok yeah i know you think i have gone crazy coz of the exam pressure.....well guess wat you are damn right...so i am gonna stop here before i frustrate myself

birthday falling

Ok so how do feel organising your best friend’s birthday? How do you go about it? What all do u have to take in for this? The answer is standing for hours outside the office, falling everyday for consecutive days, once in front of college ,second infront of the hostel guards, third off the bed. So here it goes this is where it all started.
5th feb 2008
DAY 1: Had to talk to the boyfriend to ask him if he could come to the hostel at midnight of my best friend’s birthday , for this I had to ask permission from the campus administrator ,was waiting for another friend outside the faculty room with the boyfriend when suddenly the best friend comes down the staircase and sees just the two of us standing there din't know what to do had chocolate sandwich in my hand and my stomach had gone crazy the night before , blamed the sandwich on the boyfriend though the effort went to waste simply and still waiting for the other friend to come out of the faculty room, after few minutes she did.
Me and the other friend said goodbye to the best friend and gave some sign to the boyfriend to come to the campus administrators office , the two of us out of the college building into administrator's building closely followed by the boyfriend leaving the best friend with some other friends. Walking into the SID building we were so excited only to not find the administrator there, we came out, the boyfriend went to the parking lot, me and the other friend were walking when someone shouted from the first floor of our building and i saw one friend walking in the building, the other friend stopped to talk to the guys on the first floor and I ran after the friend I saw walk in... running I went and slipped on the entrance steps of my college building with the teacher everyone hates standing next to where lay embarrassed.
My other friend stopped talking to the guys on the first floor and came running towards me while the teacher was trying to help me up,(which was trust me the worst thing ever) I said i'll manage and my other friend finally reached where i lay embarrassed and I refused her help too, too embarrassed to think what’s next, i boldly walk into the building and told my friends exactly what happened and they all start laughing, and we went for some guest lecture. Later after the lecture the boyfriend, the other friend and I went to the administrator wait for 20 minutes and take the permission for the boyfriend to come into the hostel at midnight.

6th feb 2008
DAY 2: Me and the other friend went and got gift for the bestfriend. The boyfriend called and said that he will get the cake to the hostel at 9:30 to the hostel. At 9:30 i sit in the mess and wait for the boyfriend to get the cake , I wait for his call. My best friend in the other friend's room. All of a sudden the other friend comes running to me and tells me to go and get the cake from the boyfriend who was standing at the gate, I run as fast as i can but when i reach the complain desk i slip again and fall on my right knee, the stupid girl standing next to me , staring at me and the lady guard who is even more stupid , staring at me speechless, again i get up all embarrassed but thankfully this time the teacher was not there , i get up not able to walk with the pain so piercing but somehow i manage to reach the gate but i find no one there , i turn back towards the mess struggling to walk somehow reach the mess, my friends see me and start laughing and i tell them the whole story and they are still laughing nobody understands my pain.


So much the pain i go to sleep and wait for the clock to strike 12 so that we can suprise the best friend. the other friend calls me up at 11:45 and and i get up wish my best friend at 12 and take her donw to suprise her with the best gift the boyfriend, and she was suprised when she saw him and i was the happiest ,forgot about my knee was which still was sore. After the celebrations ,went back to the room and slept of didn't care about the pain.



7th feb

DAY 3:
The Birthday... I get up late, the best friend and the other roommate already in college...my knee still hurting, I barely walking... but still went to college ..took an auto, the fucking auto guy charged 20 bucks for 1 meter , somehow I reach the college gate... the main gate was closed and I had no strength to go around to go through the Gym gate so I saw this low wall between the main gate and the parking exit...it was very low I could hop over it ...so like a fool I went to the wall , one leg on the other side of the wall and as I got my second leg to other side it got stuck on the wall somehow...I cant recall how...but I remember it clearly I fell on the same sore knee ...damn I thought it broke this time... sitting on the floor I started crying...at least I got into the college but it made no difference tears of pain just came out ... I just sat there everything went blank and the a friend of fine came from somewhere ...GOD BLESS HIM.. he picked me up and with his support I somehow walked up to the medical room ...where the stupid nurse put some creamy stuff on my knee and I went to class.
So we had to go for lunch for the birthday treat we all did ...it was so much fun and we all came back to the hostel I slept off... I was having this amazing dream I was running on water and it felt great when from somewhere an aircraft came and hit me on the stomach ... I opened my eyes realised I was on the floor and the it was the aircraft that pain was because I had hit the floor really hard and my head had banged on the chair.....
So now on my best friend’s birthday I had a sore knee, stomach ache and a bump on my head...still it felt great... cause I will always remember the look I saw on her face when she saw her boyfriend.... a surprise she could never had expected....and the pain yeah I’ll always remember that too...

wait

Sometimes i lay awake on my bed,

staring at your pictures,

wondering why is this happening to me.

I missed the last goodbye,

You are gone and wont ever come back.

Go! I say!

Go live your dream, reach for the stars

But remember , for one time and for all

Among the stars when you are, look down,

And you will find a small pebble,

Still looking at you with watery eyes.

Tears of joy, tears of sorrow ,

I can't say, but i know,

That these eyes have watered all these years

Waiting for you.

And I know someday,

We'll meet again, till that day

I'll be the pebblelooking up,

Waiting for my star,

To be the brightest among all

thinking beyond the desk job

Today as i was sitting in my hostel dinning hall watching another movie of a couple passionate about ice skating and their effort towards winning a competition made me realised what am i doing in my life, studying in an undergarduate b- school , then i'll do and MBA and geta job .........and then what just sa job in dome comapany and thats it.





today i think life is not supposed to be this way , atleast not mine , there is more to it than just school , college and job, it needs passion for somthing, i dont wanna be one of those sexy hotchiks who go out with the most amazing hunk in college (though i wont mind ) but the point here is there is so much more to life than most people think there is.





Anyways the most important point of me writing this blog is that passion is a very important aspect of anyone's life like pasion for music , games. i believe people who dont have passion for anything are like dull people, even worse and duller than the nerds



what if you are 37 years old , your son is a football freak and he wants to know your views about it , what will you say , something like



"good son I loved to watch the game , specially matches between arsenal and ManU"

and then your son says "cool dad lets go, please teach me how to play it "

you: No son I gotta work and all ,will tech you later

son: but dad please i wont to learn it and one day become a great international player

you: ok son how about joining football classes

son:cool dad

13 years down the line oyur son comes back homw with this amazingly heavy trophy, he gets for the footballer of the year award, and you are so happy with his joy you celebrate , and go back to your room look into the mirror and ask yourself , why did'nt i do something like this,and suddenly remember you hobbies and how you used to play the games you love when you were in your early teens and then you turned your back to them just because you had college and job , and since then you've been the same person on the mirror.


all this needs a change i dont wanna be that kind of a person, nor am i aiming at being some top level star but i definetly dont wanna be someone doing a job for 6 hours daily and have nothing else to look forward to

what went wrong ?why did it happen so fast? Its everlasting , but then why did it end so soon? I wish i could answer all this , I wish i could turn back time, but i cant , wats more there seems to be nothing that i can possibly do about it, so i just wait and wait for you to come back , i know its a very long wait , but then again its just a matter of time , someday we'll meet again and then though life won't be the same ,but its gonna be all the more a new adventure, i'll wait for that adventure forever , because with you its gonna be for a lifetime and now i have to say that its just a matter of time