Morning chocolate!

What will you call a morning when you eat a chocolate then chocolate cake and again chocolate that too early in the morning? Correct! A " Chocolate morning".. And then your mood gets elevated by the presence of serotonin.... "Morning mood elevation"!!.. No dear I haven't set up a chocolate factory . But I ate a lot of chocolate in the morning..it was a chocolate breakfast for me.. ..In the Morning session Rajesh gave a kind of analysis about our performance as well as he told us to find the heart of the story. "heart"??.. It can be something where the whole story takes a U-turn or where the story really becomes mushy for the audience..We were lost in finding this heart of the story ..All of a sudden we came to know that it is suchitra's birthday and this time we didn't had to be satisfied with a dry birthday song that too without music..But instead she had brought a cake... A chocolate cake...Now the question came up how to cut this delicate cake ..As someone had forgot to bring a knife.. Forgetting all the etiquette the solution came on the spot when phani gave the suggestion of cutting the cake with his old scale... I remember it is the same old scale which I have seen in phani's hand whenever he writes his practical records or when he has to write any assignment....Suddenly phani's great scale is in the hands of minisha and she is trying her best to cut the cake but instead the scale is struggling as if it had got trapped in a marshy pond..It sinks slowly then rises up.. then with difficulty it sinks again and then rises again.. the struggle of sinking and rising up again continues till the cake is compelled to get divided into uneven parts... Now the scale is fully covered with chocolate as if it was a chocolate stirrer in a chocolate factory..As a kid I always wanted to lick and lick these kind of stirrers............suman also had brought a box of chocolates and she distributed it among us..My childhood dream came true because in one hand I was having a chocolate cake and in other I had a simple chocolate.. so i finished the simple one first to keep my excitement and temptation alive for some moments..like eating the red side of an apple in the end....it melted in my mouth because its melting point was little bit below my body temperature!..Someone else gave me another chocolate but it was small so I won't talk about it because it was not important in front of the big ones....but the biggest thing happened in the morning when Rajesh said that he liked my writing..I felt like that kid ..shy and happy..because someone praised his work ....It was a big chocolate of encouragement! -------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sir Naresh said"Life is not easy...you can't expect someone to come to your home and offer you a job"

Suicide seminar!

It was September 11 a day which led to chain of events which are continuing till today.... ok coming back to present ...Our college conducted a suicide prevention seminar on September11 ..After passing the prelims thankfully our team reached to the finals where we had to compete with other teams ....Since 9/11 event took place on this day I already had planned to make a presentation on "Suicide attacks" ..My second topic dealt with the "Farmer suicides" in India...We were a team of three with some support from vish also.. After doing some research and some stenography. I was ready with my stuff..We started to make the presentation one day before the final presentation..dep did the typing plus she had collected some really good stuff...I was satisfied with romal also because he can do anything even at the last moment .. and I was quite happy , very optimistic...Next day every thing was fine...Though I was sick but thanks to Dr.Brother's tele- medicine I was feeling better and was prepared for the seminar......The timing for seminar is 3pm... "Still one hour left" I was thinking....No sign of dep and romal...."Here they come"..They were fine tuning the presentation from the morning..Everything was going perfectly alright..romal had some work at choir so he would meet us at 3pm..We go to the media lab to check our stuff..Some people are already working on a computer.. We find other lonely computer..Switch it on..We insert the pen drive..It is not detecting anything..."What"...My heart starts to thump.."Hey lets check the other computer" I said..We request the other people to let us use their comp for few minutes..Without any protest the sweet girls let us use it...Now insert the pen drive..."Yes our stuff is there'...I am relieved....Every slide is running smoothly...Now comes our video from the movie"pulp fiction" "click" I can only see Uma Thurman in a still pose "click again" she is still a statue "click click'..."Wait why the hell is it not working"..We haven't added it properly ...At home it works because it catches the path....dep is tensed..
"It is 2:15 we can go back home and download the video".. i said..me,dep&vish started to run..Reaching to downstairs , jogging around 25 steps on the ground zero..dep realizes that her house key is missing....."I think we have left it in the media lab"..After some jogging again..I am back with the key and we jog again....This time hired the auto without asking the auto driver to use the meter ...I am sweating so are the others....Gushing wind that came into the moving auto-rickshaw brought some relief.. We reach to dep's place...Download the video painfully again..Come back again in the same auto and he charges us mercilessly...After some "bakwaas"I chucked the idea of fight.. i checked the watch..the minute hand is on twelve and the hour hand is on three.."THREE my God... Presentation"...i was feeling the same that Cinderella must had felt at the clocks first stroke of midnight!!..ok calm down I need to settle down....foosh... dep and vish obsessively go to other class to download something again (which unfortunately we couldn't show due to time limit).. Me and romal reach to the assembly hall..The seminar has already started..We are number 3 ..Thankfully...'dep and vish also enter after some time.. I tell dep and etall to remain calm now and be relaxed.. Now every one is quite relaxed..Here comes our turn...All the best" I said..dep gives the introduction..I talk about 'suicide attacks'and all that what who and combat. blah blah blah...Next is romal who also does his job perfectly..He talks about unintentional suicides.. "pulp fiction video".. and some oohs and essss from the audience.. its my turn again... I start with the images of the farmer widows..." "India being a country of 1.1 billion population..Agriculture supporting 600million....Suicides due to heavy debts in ,AP, Up,Maharastra,Kerala,Karnataka... in Vidarbha one suicide per day....fake seeds"..bla blah blah balh Prevention..we are running out of time i accept that i took more time...romal's turn again..as he starts to talk .. ..the light goes off...oh we couldn't show our calvin and hobbes slides and other important slides.. judges decide next team should do the presentation.. as our time was already UP!. at the end i became a bit mellow. and it is not necessary that things will always work at the right time ...at the right place.... .. Results were announced..we bagged the third prize...because we were not bookish..because we didn't not use heavy terms like cognitive blal blah blah..we were simple where our focus was not on depression..but the social conditions that lead to an extreme step of committing suicide. like outrage,Poverty,helplessness,despair,lonelyness etc.... but i am satisfied because we were different from others ..our research was not from heavy books.. ..I swear our presentation was exciting. I wish we could had shown all the slides to the audience and judges ..They would had surely liked it...Maybe the judges main focus was prevention measures only in technical terms and were not interested in finding the root cause.. Anyway I am happy even though we couldn't show everything but we gave our best in preparing our stuff...
"Ah" it is still raining outside.. after such a hot and humid climate..i took a rain-shower before i came here to type...the rain was cold...i felt rejunivated... the cool breeze is playing with the rain sending it here and there..like the corn grains are scattered to pigeons.Bangalore is again looking fresh and cool!

Played back to teachers!

World is a stage and we all are the actors said Mr Shakespeare long back ago ..It came to reality this evening when we presented life on a small stage for the teachers.. Where they shared their real life incidents and we brought their feeling to life on the stage!!It started with some fluid sculpture or you can say small trailers of different moods and feelings from the audience!!.Then it shifted to story section where suddenly turning from young man to a mother was a challenging job ..Unfortunately the switch didn't work .. .And left a kind of unsatisfying thoughts... The story was quite complex..The beliefs of this mother completely changes when she sees her own child in a school and this inturn creates a kind of revolution in her life and she chooses the profession which she disliked before!!! It was nicely done ..The kiddy stuff was cute and humorous... The mother part was presented in emotions and not speech....Maybe mother player should have wrapped this black cloth around the eyes and during that time the mother-player should have expressed all the dislikes about certain profession and when the cloth would had been removed then she should had seen her own kid and lo the rise of a revolution in her life....Simple as a plum.. the funniest and most hilarious was the "Conflict part" where the audience shared their conflicts..like whether i should buy a bicycle or a car.. bicycle will save fuel..butcar is faster and can be used for long drive....The audience burst into laughter!! followed by a thunderous applause..Anyway the whole performance was magical ..It looked as if Genii had come and done some magic to all players.. I swear it was magical performance!! i didn't had expected that .. JK sir burst out into tears when he described his 'realization of responsibilities' towards his family. ... A story was presented in relation to his experience ..Followed by a fluid sculpture where i waved the flag of victory and shouted"Bravo Bravo Bravo"!!! Followed by an applause from the teachers!! Padma kumar said"i had come to watch professionals but after watching this i am stunned"