21 days 4 exams..

Well this time I am having one of the longest exam schedule which for some reason has been extended twice. This is how our endsems which were supposed to end on 28th of may will now be ending on 4th june :-


16th may:- We get the admit cards in which the exams are scheduled on dates 17, 19, 22, 28.
As always this datesheet was a big letdown. There is some invisible power guiding the university of Raj officials to have less gaps for harder exmas and in plenty for the easiest ones. This time also there was just a single holiday for ACA (one of the toughest courses in this sem) which was scheduled for 19th and 5 day break for elective subject's paper (to be held on 28). Neways we thought xams would be over by 28th and then we would be free birds but this was not meant to be.

18th may:- I was just having a look at the newsapaper in the liitle time which my prep for ACA allowed when i across a university notification. It said that the exam which was sheduled on 22 will now be held on 31st of may. Still i consoled myself by thinking that it's just a matter of 3 more days and after 31st we will hold a nice party to celebrate completion of 8th sem. But even this was not to happen. We have to come to terms with one more shock. Even three grueling years of BE( grueling in the sense that we did everything except studies which are to be done just a couple of days before exams) in which we have come across a lot of such unexpected notices hadn't prepared us for what was to come after couple of days.

22th may:- I was again reading the newspaper and this time i had lot of time for it as next exam was on 28th. Again i came across a university notification. I looked at it only to find my worst fears come true; the exam has been shifted one more time and now will be held on 4th june. Now this is what you call a complete mess.

Now we all know about law of free exapansion of gases. Analogous to it is the law of free exapansion of exam syllabus:-
The exam syllabus tends to fill the complete time availabale it for completion.
So at the end of day it does not matter whether you study for 4-5 days or just 1 day, ultimately you will be able to cover the syallbus nd will score same marks (+/- 2%) . So this long break between exam are not meant for studying rather they tend to take away that intensity required for completing the syllabus. And yes one more thing where ever i mention complete syllabus it means only that much syllabus which will allow you to attempt the full quota of 5 questions from total of 8 questions. After all why study more when you know only just 2 and a half questions would ensure that you will pass the exam and the extra questions you do are a bonus. :D

As of now it's only 29th of may and i have to somehow pass a few days before i start studying. But wait..who knows I may again find a notice in the paper telling about further extension.
In the end, one thing is sure, these exams have become memorable for me, but all for the wrong reasons :(

update 1: It is already 2nd of june. I was studying for the exam which was to be held on 4th when there was a sms alert on my cell. I just checked it out to find (yes you must have guessed) that the exam which was to be held on 4th has been postponed and no new date has been given by the unversity. This time the reason is this reservation issue taken up by gujjars in rajasthan (more about the issue in next post). Was just wondering I will be able to take this last exam of BE in this coming month. Still there are 28 days to go. For the time being I am just keeping my fingers crossed.

update 2: Finally we have got the date of our last exam. It's 14th of june. Hopin that exams do get over this time.

update 3: The exams did get over by 14th...and the title of the post stands changed as 29 days 4 exams.

Recovered my first blog..

This blog isn't my first attempt at blogging. I had started a blog about an year ago.I had started it thinking i'll be able to keep posting on that blog. But it was just one post and then the end of it. Somewhere down the line i forgot the username and the password and started with this new blog.
But then that blog was in my own name so i wanted to recover it any cost. It was on older version of blogger. I tried to recover many a times but without username password every attempt at recovery was a failure. I had also forgotten the e-mail account from which i had confirmed my registration. So it also proved to be a bottleneck in my attempts at its recovery. Tried getting password assistance by entering all the email id's i could remember but still no success.
Finally i thought other way round. And this time i knew it would work...was the master stroke.
I posted a comment on my own blog....and voila!! it worked. I checked all the e-mail id's and in one of them found a message telling me about the comment. Once i got to know the e-mail id used for registration, the rest was just a cakewalk.

But now theres one more problem...what should i do with the older blog.
Lets c...

prayers are answered...

finally m back to a bit of blogging...after a long long time..
in between some quite uneventful things happened which kept me a bit occupied...

My granma suffered a massive stroke brain hemorrhage in later part of feb....it came to us a bolt from the blue. Never in my thoughts i have felt that s'thin of this sort can happen with us. She was admitted in hospital for about 15 days and has her right side fully paralysed.

She has been the nicest human being i've ever come across. Never said ill of any body, spent the maximum part of day in praying to her goapal jee. Very softspoken kind hearted. Then why why on this earth destiny was so cruel to her.
This incident has made me think a lot about life...i mean...u never now what will happen in the next moment. There she was on the fateful day having tea at about 5:00 in the morning and then it all started..the cup fell from her hands..her right part started becoming motionless and by the time she was rushed to hospital a lot of damage has been done.. was treated by some of the best neurophysicians at agra..Apollo nd sir gangaram doctors were also consulted but all in vain..
I feel like that all this was anlogous to the movie city of angels in which the doctor feels that she can't do anything to save a patient. Its all destiny that plays its part and she's just a medium for that. If a patient has to go it will no matter how hard u try..Same was the case here...the doctors couldn't do much. Just stabilized her position but the damage that has been done can't be reverted..

Now for a few days all this made me think a lot. Such a devout person had to undergo such pain and suffering, made me think why it happened, why god had to do this..

But i think slowly i have started finding answers:- what ever will happen will surely happen. Prayin to god will just give u courage and strength to face difficulties. People say that whatever we get is the result of our deeds in past births...but i don't know whether to believe it or not. Afterall nobody knows his past life.
I think that if something is bound to happen, it will happen, whatever may be the cause; whether u call it result of your deeds in previous birth or just keep it simple that it was meant to be like this only. But praying to god will keep ur hopes alive, u won't get tired by struggling, you will start finding ways to cope up with everythin, above all you won't lose faith.

I felt it myself. The past few months were extremely tough for us. Besides my granma's illness there were a lot of other issues which by themselves could have a lot of adverse effect on our lives. But it was all god's grace that we could keep our cool in these adverse circumstances and come out unscathed . So maybe it was all meant to be a learning for us. In between i have read the complete bhagvada geeta to my grandma. It has been a completely sublime experience for me. Though couldn't get it completely but was still very satisfying. If u are reading this blog and haven't read the bhagvad geeta then just give it a try.
Even now my granma is bed ridden. The various pipes and monitoring instruments have been removed but still she can't stand without support. We all are trying our best and one day m sure she was start walking as before. Afterall she means a lot to me.

This makes me remember a poem..i dunno the poet but here it goes:-

I asked for Strength.........
And God gave me Difficulties to make strong.

I asked for Wisdom.........
And God gave me Problems to solve.

I asked for Prosperity.........
And God gave me Brain and Brawn to work.

I asked for Courage.........
And God gave me Danger to overcome.

I asked for Love.........
And God gave me Troubled people to help.

I asked for Favours.........
And God gave me Opportunities.

I received nothing I wanted
I received everything I needed
My Prayer has been answered