merry christmas

a poem i love:

samasya jeet yaa haar kee nahin,
samasya sirf janne kee hai.

naa hum krodh jante hai na kaam
naa bhog jante hai naa moksh
naa arjan jaante hain naa arpan..

humne naa kabhi pyaar kiya
naa swayam ko kabhi uss kabil banaya..

yahi agyaan hamari parajay hai..

janna hee jeetna hai
jeetna hee jeena hai
aur jeena hee usse pana hai..

andhere mein rassi saanp se dikhtee hai
kuch bhagte hain, kuch ladne kee taiyaari karte hain..

jo kareeb jaate hain, wahi sach jaan paate hain..

karna kuch nahin hai, sirf kareeb jana hai..

[the problem is not of success or failure. the problem is only of what we know.

neither we know anger, nor strength. neither "bhoga" nor "moksha".

we never loved anyone nor made us such that others could love us. this ignorance is our defeat. when you know something, you win and this winning is called life.

in darkness, even a rope seems like a snake. some people fight some run away from it. those who fight, come to know the truth.

so, the only thing to do is to fight, to go near "it" and let go all your fears! ]


Merry Christmas to all and lovely wishes for the upcoming new year!

-aseem shakuntal

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Name is Bond, James BOND!

Days have passed… that too many when I saw the recent bond movie “Casino Royale”.

Wow!! Like every other bond fan, I too was disappointed. I do agree that the movie was somewhat like a common-man-could-do movie, but then, bond is not a common man.

No Gadgets, no cars… nothing!! As the movie started, my expectation graph for the rest of the movie became very high, especially after having watched the first five minutes of the movie, but then, the graph fell down like anything.

When do you expect bond falling in love? When do you expect dialogs like “Look into my eyes…” in a bond movie?? This is deep shit.

Hey hey…

I still believe that the hindi movie “Badshah” had more gadgets than the “Casino Royale” and that “Badshah” was a better movie comparatively.

Anyways, I just came up with this post as I had nothing to share just now with this world other than the fact that I want to fall in love again.

Anyways is such a beautiful word… just like “it”.

-Aseem Shakuntal

feelings...

This is a small world after all… And in this small but big world, man is the only animal who hides his feelings.

Yes, man is the only animal who encapsulates whatever is going inside him. I don’t know why, but everyone does this.

I do this sometimes. You do it sometimes. Everyone does it some time or the other. But we still do…

Do you know why??? If yes, do let me know.

-aseem

the terrific five..

there are some we meet in passing and forget as soon as they go. There are some we remember often, for they are so nice to know..

From Left to Right :- Me, Nimika, Shruti, Parul and Lokesh at the Lumbini Park, Hussainsagar, Hyderabad 

people..

there are two types of people in this world..

guess what are the types..

Heal Me!!

Heal Me…

I am getting sick…

Something is eating me up…

Heal Me… I am sick…

Heal me…

Something is eating my weekends…

Change it…

It is my work that is eating me up…

That is making me sick…

So, heal me… and kill my boss!!!!!!


Hey hey hey!!

-Aseem Shakuntal

no title

I am not begging you to love me.
I am not really even asking you.
But isn’t it alright if I cherish that hope in my heart?

If I dream of just holding your hand…
It will hurt me, not you.

I will try to keep my eyes from shining, when they see you.
And I promise I will try not to smile a special smile when you say hello.

But please, don’t ask me not to love you…


One of my very dear friends sent me these lines. And I was really touched with them. Not because I had sometime gone through this phase, but because I can feel him passing through this phase.

He will recover from this so called illness that the world nominates as love, but then, he will not be the same as he was. When he fell in love, even then he was not the one that he used to be, but he had become more sensitive, more good and more lovable.

He is one of the good things that can happen to anyone in a lifetime of four years… and I am happy that that good thing happened to me.

-Aseem Shakuntal

Project Engineer
Wipro Technologies
HDC, Hyderabad

ask GOD!

Ask GOD to give you what you want. Help him to justify your wants by the way that you live and then having given him your prayer, have the faith and courage to rely on his power to do the thing that is right in his eyes..

-not my lines

Aseem

attendance..

just came here for attendance..

i m ill these days..

:((

Engineer Aseem Shakuntal

There are many things in life which do not come exactly as they should. I mean to say that sometimes, something happens and then, you are sure of its result and start celebrating.

Things like…

Your wife becomes pregnant and you know that you’ve become a daddy now, but then surety of this sure thing is not one hundred percent sure. I don’t want to be the pessimistic weasel out here, but I just said that once your wife gets pregnant does not mean that you are a daddy now…

Hey!! I did not tell you to think on second thoughts. I meant that something just might happen, something unwanting which would lead to some other thing unwanting and finally, you are not a daddy anymore. I hope you understand what crap I wrote above.

In fact I could not find a better example than this. But yes, I can site some more I guess. But I won’t.

Let me come straight to the point why I wrote the above “CRAP”.

Well well well…

Now I am no more Aseem Shakuntal. Now, I am an engineer, officially and this official thing would be more official once I get my degree in my hands in my convocation. Well, the convocation is a distant thing at this time I guess.

It was may the 24th, when I had my final presentations and then I started merry making that now I was an engineer. But the results were not out. It was today that my results are out and that now, I am “Er. Aseem Shakuntal”.

So, now could you follow why I wrote the above crap of that daddy thing? Well… these days I am on vacations, enjoying priceless moments I am spending with my family. But I must confess a few things as well…

• I am missing my college like hell.


• My college days were so nice!


• Those good ‘ol days…


• I am missing my friends.


• I am missing my student life coz I am no more a student now.

Hey, but I contradicted myself here. It was sometime back that I myself wrote that at the University of Life, admission is open to all and that all of us are students. But, here I am talking about something different. Something that has a special place in our heart… our college… my college… my alma mater…

And yes I am missing it badly. And I am glad to say that those college days were the best days of my life.

After all, they not only taught me many things at this University of life, but I am happy that I have earned a few good life long friends here, that I fell into love, that I cherish every moment I spent here. Some sweet, some sour, some bitter, some better!

But that’s what life is… isn’t it?

That is what life is, “ZINDAGI”

ANYWAYS.. the poem

It was just kind of like a nostalgic feeling…
With every one of us grooming, for the “big day” that is coming…

But there is something that can’t stop me from thinking
Oh yeah! My funny, stupid-et-all times college days are ending!

From Classes to canteen, from lectures to mass bunks
Every moment of “it”…

And now, I can’t breathe…
Coz the memories are so breathtaking!

the Hostel…
it was so fun-filled

Anyways, I would miss the fun that remained.

my Friends…
it was so caring

Anyways, I won’t try to find such friends again!

our Classroom…
gosh! It was so boring

Anyways, I would love to be back into it again!

the insti-roof-top, the library, the staircases, the lift…
I just wish to be an integral part of it.

the life…
it was so smooth

Anyways, It had to be hectic some day!

the love…
it stamped indelibly in my heart

Anyways, I won’t fall for it again!

It all was simply so good!

Anyways, I realize that nothing in this world remains…

Heading for the big day!!!
“It” coming to an end…

Hey!
Did you see the emotions topple?
Did you see the eyes getting wet?
Did your heart beat like it never did?
Did you feel like little nostalgic?

Well, I did!

Heading for this big day…
I learnt a grammar lesson

I found the present tense, and the past… perfect!

I wasn’t what I used to be.
“It” wasn’t what “it” used to be.

Anyways…

One can’t live in past.
It is just that I am little nostalgic, about the best days of my life…

Anyways…



-aseem shakuntal

(in love with the word anyways… which has a special capability to “kind of” restore the things back to what they were not, but what they could tend to be in future… )

GooD LucK!

Now that you stand guard.. all i wish is good luck for your future..

-aseem

Happy Birthday!

On this day of yours, may you not wait for anything…

that’s coz the world will come down to your knees to wish you!!



HAPPY BIRTHDAY

TO A

CUTE LITTLE SISTER

Although late, but i send you a most sincere wish!

http://delettantish.blogspot.com/

ANYWAYS...

May 24, 2006

The last official day at college ended… and now I am an Engineer!

“Engineer Aseem Shakuntal”, placed at Wipro Technologies and trying to reach the stars and excel in whatever I do.

It was since evening that I got pretty much sentimental, four years flashing up and down my eyes.

Wrote a poem today… after a looong time… ANYWAYS, will write that poem here in some other post at some later time.

I love the word “it”. It has been not one or just two posts on the word “it”, which can be anything… from love to life to my career field… IT!! Hey hey!!

Well to be very frank, it was while talking to a very sweet friend, that I loved one more word “ANYWAYS”

No worry whatever happens, this word has the capability to heal the things or perhaps bring the things back in motion, well, not in the exact fashion as they were, but yes, “it” does restore a few things…

I still wish if there was a system restore in life… I told it long back to someone. But that someone dint want “it”!

ANYWAYS, I have a message for that sweet friend of mine, hey buddy, thanks for being there with me… that too when there were only a few people besides me. Thanks a ton, thanks a lot!!

And moreover, as far as that tiny little gift is concerned, come on, frankly speaking, I rather don’t want to… or let me just say that I don’t want to carry forward my “acquaintances” from IIIT-C to any other place. Let them be here only. Not at some place different from “it”. Coz in that case, “it” will loose its importance. Moreover, I would curb my contacts now and I guess I would be available only to a few. In fact, I don’t want myself to… forget it… I am not going to make this place a place for personal messaging.

Do come back after sometime, you will find that I have done the homework you gave me.

ANYWAYS, we had to part sometime, its me who is taking the lead in re union… but with only a few, and I am glad to say that you are one of them!

-aseem shakuntal

IIIT-C RAWCKS!!

Indian Institue of Information Technology – Calcutta

It rawks.. isnt it?

Now that we have only a few days left at this divine institute, I mean, now that we (2002-2006 batch) are abt to complete our degree, due some more weeks, I, Aseem Shakuntal, a non inert being at IIIT-CALCUTTA would like to disturb its tranquility by remembering the good ol' times!

Those four funny, sleepy, tense, stupid at all golden years of our life..

I am sure a big bunch of memories come to our mind and leave a broad smile on our faces.

0800 hrs, Sep 23, 2002:

Every one waiting for his breakfast. Why? We had to go to college! I remember I was sitting besides Shashank with Bhatia on my right.

Hello, I am Aseem. Hi, I am Shashank!

And he became the first person I met @ IIIT-C

After our b'fast, everyone of us left for college, where in we had a tryst with SK DUTTA, who welcomed us at IIIT and then, raggin sessions.

Who can forget the special sessions at the GN-5 or the "GYAN NAGAR"

Dheere dheere semester exams aa gaye. I still remember when the HARAMI BODO came to me and asked to teach him "C". Phir kya tha, main gaya uske room mein, kuch der padhai hui, aur phir saare BODO ne mujhe bahut peeta tha.. kyu??? KHALEE FOKAT MASTEE!

Mera room, ROOM NO 1 @ NANDI VILLA, the un-announced dharamshala of hostel which housed me, prateek and salman along with FAIZA, ADDY, RISHI, SUKRIT, DUTTA, UJJWAL, ASHISH, PAKESH anytime round the clock! Woh raat bhar ek doosre ke room mein pade rehna, Rishi ka BODO log se maar khana, mere room mein phir poora paani gira dena, halla, antakshari..

meri aur amba kee larai, aur usme dutta ka pit jana!

ha ha ha!

WoW..

those were the days..

Phir AQ-5, Megacity Flyover pe raat bhar ghumna, choron ko pakarne ke liye raat bhar ek hee pose mein baithe rehna, Harish ka poore CK market mein famous ho jana for the movie "BODY of EVIDENCE" by MADONNA, roj raat ko FINGERTIPS jana, 10 rupay kee coffee peena, aur ghanto waha AC mein baithna!

INSTI ke samne waale road pe raat mein baithna! Five Point Someone mein toh insti ke roof pe VODKA kee baat kahee gayee hai, lekin hum logon ne insti ke samne waale road pe chai peete hue jitnee mastee kee hoge uske kya kehne!

Phir hamara FEST, the ALGORHYTHM 2004.. kitna maraye the hum log! aur phir uska successful completion!

Back to Nandi with some of us missing.. din bhar cricket!

Yaad hai, FAIZA ke room mein jo humne waal painting kee the!

Poori IIIT ko uss painting mien yaad kiya gaya tha..

Oye faiza, yaad hai? ROTI, MUKKHAN aur MIXTURE??

Ashish, DAL aur GLUCON-D..

Anandam waali bhaujee..

Prateek, woh khargosh jaise ankhon waali.. yaad hai tujhe?

Kabhi kabhi hee college jana.. MALLIK SIR ke OS aur SAD ke class mein mera, faiza aur ujjwal ka last bench pe baith kar R-WORLD pe gana sunna.. aur jab sir aaye toh phir minix ka source code padhne ka natak karna... CHUMKI MAM ke lab classes.. LOPA mam se dar ke rehna.. REHMAN SIR ke class mein no tension, always PROXY.. LAB mein din bhar NETIYANA.. DIRECTOR MAM ke classes mein bhi masti karna.. MUHURI SIR ke networking KOUNCEPTS.. RAJU SIR ke JAVA classes, MITHUN sir ka WEB DESIGN!!

How we made fun of everything.. that divine DIGHA TRIP

yaar, ye din yaad rahenge..

hai naa..

At last, but not the leat, kuch aur likhna chahunga, about our ALMA MATER, the IIIT-C, in words of that under performer..

the first thing about leaving IIIT would be that I don’t have to attend those boring lectures anymore and no more classes! ahh.. That’s a good thing. But the bad thing is that I won’t be able to see my friends’ with the very start of my day, everyday!

I will miss my hostel.

I will have a new set of responsibilities but God, I will miss those days, coz yes, I may leave IIIT, but in a way, my soul still stays here..

Maybe in the hostel corridors of Nandi Villa or AQ-5 or the Book Board Building and every crazy thing that I did here.. whatever!! but to cherish!!

-Aseem Shakuntal

(an engineer, and an engineer by heart!)

death..

4 saal se saath the…
4 din pahile tak saath mein the…
mann nahin maan raha kee woh ab nahin hai…
aisa lag raha hai kee wo natak kar rahee thee…

(We were together since last four years; we were together four days before… my heart doesn’t allow me to believe that now she is not between us… it seems like she was acting dead on the stage of life…)

--Lines of a friend.

Death, it is the only certain thing in this world. Not even life, not even happiness, not even sorrow… nothing is constant. All come and go past everyone’s life.

In fact, life is a sine wave. On the graph, you find happiness, sorrow, grief, liveliness and many other things. What I mean to say is that these things come and go by everyone’s life and they do come for more than once atleast, in everyone’s life.

But it is death, which once comes, it comes. Nothing returns then. Life, love, friendship, sorrow, pain… nothing returns… nothing!!

-Aseem Shakuntal

anubhav - guru

Life is a game of chess. You lose out pawns on the way to win over the enemy king.

These are not my lines, but lines from testimonial of a legend, to whom I call my “GURU”, and yes, he is…

THE ONE!! Anubhav Kushwaha!

Here goes the testimonial: -

So I am the first guy to write a testimonial for Anubhav "Prabhu" Khuswaha.Well, if there was a guy whom I would love to emulate, it has to be Anubhav. His sincerity, his deication and a steely resolve are few of his qualities that make him a face in the crowd. Humble and unassuming, you might pass him off to be a commoner,but take my word for it he is the "ONE". Buddy,I hope u remember our sojourn on foot from Bypass road to the hostel and then having neat whisky with marie biscuits as a chaknaa. I remember the line u said n apply it in my life - " Life is a game of chess. u lose out pawns on the way to win over the enemy king."God bless you dear, although going by ur fan following, I m sure u r abundantly blesses in one area ;)

(exact replica of the testimonial at ORKUT)

I just wanted to share with the world that the person I call my guru, is great! He has been a constant source of inspiration right since the day I joined the Indian Institute of Information Technology. He still is…

I just wish if I would be even a little like him…

Dedicated, sincere, cool and above all, simple!!

-Aseem Shakuntal

come back soon..

My Creativity has gone to its all time low…

This not the way I am…

May be that I am not my usual self these days…

I don’t know… rather, I don’t want to know…

Will come back soon to fulfill my thirst of writing…

I know I will come back… very soon…

Adios…

Aseem Shakuntal

sometimes.. being nostalgic is good!!

college life coming to a still..

and will end soon!

itz me..

I, me and myself...

a comp freak, a coffee freak, a net addict, an organism, an indian, a homo-sapien, a rather intelligent homo-sapien, a cell-fone addict, a food lover, "frantic" at times, quite energetic.. and lots more..

wait.. for some time.. [:D]

i am..

i am..

the power to challenge the impossible..

the power to beat the world's best..

the power to see it as a starting point..

the power to leave space for ideas that havent been thought as yet..

the power to let your imagination fill them..

èn massé..

Versatility meets brilliance..

And again, the future is calling..

Capture this moment, coz, I DONT WANNA MISS A THING..

phases...

There are basically four different types of phases in life…

The first one is that in which all the stars are in our favour and each one of them keep a constant eye on us, helping us from time to time… enabling the supernatural feeling of being cared.

The second one being the one in which there is a partial set of stars that play a kinky kind of role and are mostly not helpful… these kinky kind of stars only “throw” their light at us.

The third one, I need not tell is that phase in which none of them even sparkle, forget the point of keeping a constant look from time to time.

The fourth one, the last, but not the least one is the phase that is popularly known as the “none of these” phase.

These days, I find myself in the “none of these” phase of my life. This phase is very different to handle. That’s coz at some fronts, all stars are in your favour and at some fronts not all of them are in your favour.

And there are fronts when all of them disobey our expectations.

Expectation…
This word is a noun, dictionary meaning being…
1 expecting or anticipation.
2 thing expected.
3 (foll. by of) probability of an event.
4 (in pl.) one's prospects of inheritance.

I do not understand why we expect something in life or from life… I think it is our expectations that lead to 30 percent of the friction that is present in life.

Actually, the height of expectations is inversely proportional to the amount of happiness one has in life.

Lesser the expectation, higher is the amount of life… at least you do not freak upon someone if he/she does not standby your expectations. And when you don’t freak, you are happy.

See, how every thing is interconnected.

That’s life… an unconditional interconnection of so many things… so many idiotic things… so many damn things… but that’s life.

And I love “it”.

-aseem shakuntal

excerpts..

I want to listen to some music…

For me, R.D. Burman was the true musical genius of the last century.

It’s funny how songs bring back memory. Listen to a tune and then faces, moments, smells, come flooding back.

Like first love.

You can spend a lifetime with a person. But at the end of life, you realize that you didn’t know that person, that you never knew that person. But all we did was live with the perception of that person, a perception that we created in our minds.

And on the other hand you meet a person for a few minutes and there is something about that person that you have liked instantly. Its like you have always known that person.

--not my lines.

Excerpts from a movie, viz. Mumbai Matinee

Aseem Shakuntal

every morning..

Every morning I run for my heart.
Fitness for a smarter life…
And my lungs need oxygen.
My brain needs inspiration.

My intuition is my jogging track.
Every morning, I run for my mind.

-Aseem Shakuntal

i am back..

Hello People...
I am back...
And am perfectly fit and fine...
Still under little medication, but it is so nice to be back!

GOD, I missed so many things!

And to cope up with them I will have to do so many things…

But that’s the way it is. And again, I remind you all, it is my favorite word.

Whatever it is… Love, Life, Health or any other damn thing… I am into it…

Everything here lasts. How to live forever?

Thanks to my life, I have a platform to air my opinions…

-Aseem Shakuntal

hi..

hi friends,

i am ill.. so kinda unable to come up for i dont know untill when.. going home as i need special care..

just for records, you can reach me at (+91)9831560240 / (+91)9934251501 / (+91)6272240116

anyways, i am perfectly fine with my body.. it is something called pharyngitis that is bugging me down and because of which i am having a swolen throat etc etc...

but the big thing is that I just came up to wish you all a very very happy new year.. although it is a little late, but mind it.. it is the most sincere new year wish..

regards,

aseem shakuntal