Talking about exams, Anataragni and the winters.

I fail to understand as to what could have kept me away from my blog for so long and that is one thing that's really on my mind at the moment. 

There are plenty of things that I would like to talk about here and the fact that I was away for a some period of time makes that necessary. Talking about exams, they are probably the last thing on earth that I bother about in college, other "activities" never leave me any spare time if you could imagine them (hint: think gtalk!):D. The internals this time were just a passe and never really got the nerves breaking in my body. Diwali got the better of them and the outcome was an "outstanding" performance in the so called exams. This diwali is by far the most cherished diwali in my life where instead of the usual company of family and friends we sat through endless night outs and fighting with Transmission line parameters (thanks Asheesh for the syllabus!), Induction machines and Functional dependencies. The guys got together and had the time of our lives with no shortage of booze(never mind the exams!), sweets or crackers. 

Finishing with exams we were thrown straight into the battle field of Antaragni at IIT-Kanpur. Battling the best creative talents and not to mention the amazing beauty(!!) on show there has always attracted me there. Forget the competition, we had "bird watching" on our minds most of the time and coming back I suffer from what I call the "why didn't I take IIT-JEE more seriously syndrome"!!. The 1st day its fair share of accommodation problem and settling issues, but we were lucky as we got the best place there and the entire floor of the building was occupied by us. The infrastructure there drew collective awe from us all and we were like, where do these guys get the money from and isn't it enough just to have two tennis courts instead of a lavish six!! The rock band-"Jaded Sun" from Ireland(can you believe that!!) blew the crowd apart with its stunning performance and the guitaring was what left me speechless. The fest ended with an encore but not before I had made some "contacts" there(more on them later) and left the place with memories to cherish forever!!

The battle was won but the war continues with our trip to ISM Dhanbad this weekend for the Calcio Cup tournament and that is one thing that I've been looking forward for a while now. 

And I almost forgot the winters here. First day back from Antaragni, and I almost froze to death in my room with no cover(some FB quiz predicted that would die a cold death!), I've all reasons to fear the winters from now on. 

The Almighty will be back soon.

Regards ~

Dilli Bhraman...Nehru Cup and lots more!

Hi people!

Getting back after a long time here, the last post was on Aug 14th! Blame it on the exams and partly on my laziness!

The weekend couldn't have been any better than it actually was, infact I am very tempted to call it my best weekend in college ever! Delhi came out of the blue for me. It was thursday and the exams had just finished a couple of hours earlier and the feeling of emptiness was sinking in that life would be so blank without exams, LOL! Thanks to GOOGLE TALK that we all like to use and are infact so obsessed with it, GT pinged me and asked me if I wanted to join them to a trip to Delhi for the Nehru Cup. I was like WTF! Ofcourse I would love to do that. I started making enquiries about the possible train options that one could take to Delhi, we were anyways going to travel by general class with no reservation that such things could be considered as a privilege! The next day we started after the usual dose of boring lectures and mind bugging practicals at 2230 from Allahabad(I must tell you that I was so glad that I was getting out of this crappy place that even if it hadn't been Delhi but Cherrapunji then also I would have jumped at the idea!). The train journey turned out to be more painful than we had ever imagined with all our minds collectively put together! We were sleeping on the floor with newspapers as bedsheets and people staring at us as if we belonged to some other solar system!

Delhi in the morning looked as if it had been waiting for us all this while. To say that the weather was just fabulous would be an understatement! We had to put shop at Noida so after much asking and being pushed around we took a bus to BHEL township in Noida. I must tell you one thing that girls in Delhi are so hot that I never wanted to leave that place anytime soon(never actually!). Started out for the India-Syria last league match in the evening from there but before that we went to the Great India Places mall in Noida and we all fell for the same girl in "red ", as we called her. She was damn hot!

Cut to the Ambedkar Stadium in Delhi for the game and I couldn't help but wonder, why had the best seats in the stadium been priced the lowest? I gotta say that we bought the most expensive tickets(50 bucks!!!) and ended up watching the game all standing up! India was pathetic that day and saying that is an understatement, we all felt atleast once that our college team could beat them. Abhishek Yadav, the striker was in the Peter Crouch mould but Crouchy does use his legs sometimes even though it may be by mistake but this man had no sense of where his legs where!

On sunday we all woke up late just like the way we do in hostels and had a sumptuous breakfast at the mess with all hot chicks(trainee engineers) in BHEL surrounding us! How I wish that we had co-ed hostels here! Getting to Connaught Place for some purchasing would be a good idea and with this very wrong notion we ended up breaking our legs crooked with all the mindless and fruitless walking. We headed to Kashmere Gate to look for one proper shop in the entire city selling good jerseys. There's a place called Monastery there and that is the place to be in if you're looking for good quality jerseys at really low prices. We ended up making friendship with a good number of "chinki" girls in the shops.

The final was held in an electric atmosphere and the crowd was all behind India and Bhutia was the darling of the crowds. The 1st minute itself could have produced a dream start for India hadn't the Syrian goalie dived full length to avert a certain goal. India was attacking all the time and the Syrians were happy to sit back and soak up the pressure before mounting any attacks of their own. Chance after chance went abegging as neither team could put the damn ball in the nylons. Even after 90 mins of goalless action there wasn't any sign of either team finding a goal when up stepped Renedy Singh a La-Ronaldo style freekick was buried in the net from no less than 35 yards out. The crowd went berserk and clothing was flung onto the turf but one final twist was still remaining when Syria scored with last kick of the game in the 120th min. It was upto the penalty shootout and you never know what's lined up with next kick and there did India find its "Keeper of Faith" in Subrata to hand India a remarkable win that completes a hattrick of titles for India under Bob Houghton and the trust just got stronger!

Getting back to Allahabad was so painful that we all hoped that this dream would never end.

More to follow on the next post of The Almighty!

P.S: This post was written late at night with me under some serious hallucination so the mistakes should not to be taken seriously!

P.S: Pardon me for a such a boring post but I am completely out of my mind at the moment.

English Premier League...Season Preview!!

Finally the EPL season starts from tomorrow and trust me I have never ever waited so much for a season to begin. This season could be the season when Wayne Rooney finally emerges from Ronaldo's shadow, it could also be the season when Liverpool's two decade long wait for a league title ends, it could be the season when Chelsea win the title again(they wouldn't like to wait another half a century for another title!!) or this could turn out to be another season when Arsene Wenger says that "this Arsenal side has got character and we don't need to buy big names". God somebody help the "Professor"!! In between the circus of these "big four" somebody by the name of Manchester City could spring a surprise. You never know!

Let's get started!!

When the season came to end the Spanish Media led by the Madristas faithful Marca set the rumour mills rolling again with the story- "Ronaldo to Real Madrid??". In the end Ferguson finally relented and approved the signing of Ronaldo to Real Madrid- the same club whom he had branded as a "mob" the same time last season and declared "he wouldn't sell a virus to them!". Phew! But more was to come with the signing of Antonio Valencia and the shock of the transfer season Michael Owen(he must have been pleasantly shocked to!). United are still looking for a big name signing but it seems highly unlikely that the search is gonna end in this period. Real Madrid have shamefully gone after every player who can kick a ball. You name the player and they have the price ready! Not far behind them have been Manchester City,bankrolled by the seemingly bottomless pockets of Arab wealth. They signed Roque Santa Cruz, Emmanuel Adebayor, Gareth Barry, Kolo Toure and the Old Trafford boy Carlos Tevez with each of them going on record to make everyone feel it was not the money but their ambition which brought them here. Please!! We watch football too!! Liverpool had their own share of transfer circus with Xabi Alonso handing in a transfer request to move to Madrid(again!!). Benitez did all he could but in the end they had to sign Aquilani from Roma to replace Alonso. Now Benitez says that Aquilani has a better final ball than Alonso! This man is a joke!! Chelsea probabaly did the best thing that they are ever gonna do i.e. they brought Ancelotti to Stamford Bridge. The double UCL winner with AC Milan has gotta be playing at Santiago Bernabeau cometh the end of the season for us to see him at Stamford Bridge next season! Arsenal have their youths to be playing this season. Arsene should consider himself lucky if they qualify for UCL this season(all Arsenal fans are coming to kill me!!). In Kolo Toure they lost the last of the "Invincibles" of the remarkable 2003-2004. There are other clubs too such as Aston Villa out to prove that last season was not a flash in the pan(they've already begun the work though by winning the Peace Cup beating the likes of Real Madrid and Juventus). Tottenham always flatter to deceive, lets see if Harry can bring a turnaround.

Now for the predictions. Manchester United to be the Champions(I may be biased here!). Birmingham to be the bottom team(Wolves will provide them some competition though!).

With World Cup 2010 looming and English football being seemingly less attractive to a number of big players who don't get their throats hoarse singing the praises of La Furia Roja, this season is the most important one. Fasten your seat belts and get ready to soak in the fun because no matter who wins in the end but this season is gonna be one hell of a thriller!!

Geting started!!

Hi people!! Its been one hell of a challenge for me to get started with a blog of my own. The idea was there but it was all locked up like the files of the Indian Judiciary:P. The credit infact goes to a lot of people for getting me started(an understatement!!!), my laziness being the single biggest reason for me not having wholly embraced the blogging mania!! I can hardly finish my assignments on time forget blogging(unaffordable luxury!!).

I just hope that I am able to do justice to this blog and not leave it unfinished as I do to most of my things!

Loads of love!