The ME Pages

Chapter 1: the pumping Adrenaline

2008-11-27T01:45:00.001+01:00

And there was I in Berlin roaming on the streets. I never expected to be so tired...for this was not much of a relaxation trip in any case, I was on a mission; missionGRE. Work and practice in the night with the sweet friends around, more of a moral support id says but then again, I know it helped a lot. In the present state of chaos that ruled inside me, this seemed like a nice way to get away from the regularity of life. Get off to Berlin, enjoy a day off campus (yet again) and move on to greater things in life. If not anything, this sure was a retreat for the wandering mind, a rest I’d say.

As I was sitting in this Indian restaurant, a novel thought and this idea to write my thoughts down came up. Quite strange as id say considering I normally don’t make a diary nor am I a writer for the verbal brain. But this time things were different.

This morning didn’t quite have a beginning. It started when I started packing (if that’s what you call putting together my stationary, netbook and random exam admission tickets). It was not now that I realized that I don’t particularly know much about the test center nor am I sure why I don’t have a printed admission ticket in sight. A fanatic search resulted in the shelves of my now lonely room. And yea I figured the mystery in the end. There was no admission ticket; it was a computer based exam! J

Schoenebeck train station, yea that one where I always have my last minutes running, just to make sure I don’t miss the train. And today I couldn’t quite afford to, it was the first and only chance to make it to the train for Berlin (via Hamburg that is). And there I go through the corridors of the friend’s apartment, just to get that silent smile and the soft wishes for the leaving moment.

I leave. Yes I run for the last minutes to the train station, but I make it quite well in time. In fact the train and I arrived quite with each other’s company. Quite an unpleasant sight but still a relief nonetheless...!

A Rollo (Turkish dish) at the Bremen station and there I go for Hamburg. I didn’t quite realize until later in the train, how sleepy I was. And yes all the plans to then study or even goof around on the netbook faded as I fell for the might of my sleep. But well this was not one of those days when Germany lived up to this punctuality. The train decided to delay my plans to reach Hamburg and quite effortlessly arrived late by 20 minutes. Whoa !! But my train to Berlin was in 15 minutes. What now! I wished and prayed (or maybe not) that the train to Berlin also gets delayed.

Seems like Germans do understand these train transit issues and realized my plight. The train to Berlin was still there when I came. While I tried to figure if it was my train at all, I still decided to get onboard nevertheless. The train started!! Oopsie !

But wait it was the right train. Phew ! Yes, it was the train I was meant to be on. And yes the train waited patiently as I came all the way from Bremen late as ever (not my fault this time). I studied a bit, snacked the rest bit and soon found myself sleeping again. This old lady joined me in my small cabin (yea it was the european fancy train with small cabins inside, it was the EuroCity trains). As she stared in amazement, I slept and slept nice. Woke up once in a while to find her as still as ever. Sometimes I wonder what makes them so still; the lack of energy to move or the lack of interest to bother.

Nonetheless, ofcourse this train happens to be late too. Why do I care, I am after all on my way to Berlin. But wait, the train goes further, all the way up to Wein (Vienna). Well but doesn’t that mean I have to ensure I get off at Berlin or ill be hmmm screwed ! YUPS. And so I realized and slept.

850 AM and I wake up. A small peek through the hardly open eyes and I notice it’s past the time I was to be at Berlin. WHATTTTTT !! No ways. Well well look around, panic a bit, stay calm to not freak out the lady (she was still just as old and just as still). The train stops, station: Berlin Spandau . I look in the schedule and guess what, Berlin Hbf (main station which I am to go to) is next. What a sigh of relief.

I get off at the next stop happy and coldJ. As I put on my gazillion winter accessories I realize how smart it was of me to bring all this along. Berlin was just as cold as I expected it to be. The hauptbahnhof was quite fancy though. Multistoried, made of glass and trains came at multiple levels; above your head and below you.

I still had quite some time so I decided to follow up with Berlin a bit. I go outside on the cold but silent walk. A peaceful one and quite an entertainment I must admit. I walk and soon enough find me at the gates of the Bundestag, the seat of German Parliament. And to my best interest that this trip has been so far, the entrance was open to non registered guests too, and that too for free. Of course I go inside.

Amazing the building was I may admit, glass panels overlooking the entire parliament and its proceedings. A walk through the dramatic and majestic German history was just the highlight of the visit inside. Oh did I forget to mention that we were all strip searched on our way inside.. well..:)

On my way out, I realize that the line I waited in for about 20 minute and cursed the authorities was now about 2 hours long. WOW. Really, I got it easy for what it was : One of the most popular tourist spots in Berlin. Hehehe a happy feel in the chilling air made its way down to the heart. It was nice.

And well on the way back now, I find this place, Bolliwood as they call it (yes with an i). Indian food for cheap prices, well just amazing I may say.

All that could now go well is the GRE. Looking forward to it I may say.. or am I ??

Let it be ...

2008-10-28T04:43:00.004+01:00

Amidst the crowd out here I stand,
A crowd as silent as all
a duty a function I perform
Just as silent as all

The screeching silence that spoke aloud
Was heard some miles away
But not it was a thing they knew
On which they'd have a say..

The lone, alone who wanted to be,
Had a task to now complete
Hardly understood , rarely questioned
A self he just had to beat

A self that longed and longed for long
As i now understand,
As lost, confused in the search with hope
As i now understand

That quest was not a hunt outside
But a raging storm within,
The kinds that rip and break and tear
But makes not no noise at all
Those words that stayed, within that mind
That never found a fitting line
A line to say just what they meant
And what this quest was for..

For what was longed was just so straight
Just so simply straight
A presence, a thought, a touch, a feel
Was Just so simply straight !

But No straight it wasn't, that simple truth
As that he now accepts
For complications he thought ..would die down
could just not let it be...
would just not let him live his life,
would just not let it be !!!

~SM

The Awesome Gift

2008-07-26T00:54:00.007+02:00

A super awesome superb gift sent by a sweet friend all the way from India.. this is sooooooo awesome.. love you loads :) :)

p.s.If you cant see the images, click on the link.

Hail The Krishna Temple

2008-07-24T14:08:00.008+02:00

This is a picture from one of the Open Air Bhajan sessions of the Iskcon Krishna Temple, Munich. And then we wonder why these temples are full of foreigners dancing around. I was myself quite surprised at the low percentage of Indians (if at all) who are present at such festive celebrations. Aparently the Krishna Temple here (Iskcon) does quite a lot of things on a rather big level. Well what can i say, all is what you see :p. If you want more... speak out ! else "hare krishna hare krishna,krishna krishna,hare hare"

Its Been A While

2008-07-14T03:47:00.009+02:00

Its been a while since i last wrote. I guess the memories were now getting too strong to let anything pass by unnoticed. Things were different, times were different, people were different and well in the end I was different too. It was finally the beginning of the change i had long feared was coming near.

Life is sure one amazing journey that unravels just as much as we want it to.

On my side this desire seemed to be a bit too much and by natural laws, this excess was intoxicating. With this slow steady realization that comes along, I finally accepted defeat into my own fortress among my own men. Against whom you ask ? and well i'd say against my own self, a self that won, the one whose triumphant victory rang bells heard across the senses. With it came the verdict, a sudden unforced merger of the unsatisfiable self with the self that sought no answers.

A happy coalition, life was harmonious again. A harmony contained in its own ideosyncratic symphony. A harmony contained in its own exquisite mirage that sought to defy all metaphysical existentialities.

Life has lessons, a lot of them that it teaches us as and when it deems appropriate. But in its masterminded act of such enormous prowess, it requires our great help. All the sudden jerks that come on the way to our own destination, on our own path, in our own vehicle are NOT a result of someone else's misdoing, but rather a schematic (sometimes abrupt) termination of our own decisive actions.

We learn, sometimes hard, sometimes bad, and quite too often sad, to never want it again, to never want to even want it again. But then as sharply careful as we are, we still fall down in our own little traps and pitfalls. It is more than often that we ignore lessons we learn from our own life. Not because we want to ignore it, but because we wish we could change it. Because we wish our fantasized reality would become real and real enough to disregard the lessons learnt in the past. But the shattering truth breaks apart all fantasies and shows the reality of this life ablaze.

Not tears not smiles nor talks or walks would comfort a soul that disturbed. Time failed pretty short of any remarkable achievement either.

For it is known quite clear and known quite wide,
that the chaos was much in the self,
the disturbance that was thus created
was not at all inside.
was not on the edge
and not even outside...

it was in the things sought off,
it was in the life once dreamt,
it was in the hands that missed,
it was in the cheeks that failed...

it was in the eyes
to one hidden to all..

When one feels for the feeling that is felt within, one knows whats up,though one knows what not too... In one of the sharp realities of its own time, one realizes the misfortune of the many and the cause of the none, as if logic failed itself in an un-understandable manner. A search began that would see no end, and a quest began that would have no stop ...

Relinquishing the ties which tied the bonds before was now a newer better stronger soul that vowed to make drastic changes. To the world, to the self and to the all that came by ..

a promise was thus then made ... . . . . .

Lessons Learnt : ctd ..

2008-07-09T17:40:00.001+02:00

Part 2 (updated 8 july)

As i keep learning :)...

Have a legitimate excuse or reason or justification for every path you take which is different from ones taken before
It can be really exhaustive
Drinks and refreshments always help.
Take occasional breaks every now and then (if not for your body then for the pour mind)
Smiling never hurts.
and Good Weather always helps.
waking up in the morning is always tough
always check the date of the article you are reading
Learn to appreciate people who appreciate you. If you cant, then don't expect the same from people you appreciate

Courtesy and special thanks to : Google Notebooks for being with me every moment and capturing every one of these.

My Tech Wishes

2008-07-07T23:57:00.007+02:00

I guess its not too bad to make a wishlist after all. While talking to a friend today i realised that there are some tech things ive been wanting to get for quite some time. And then there are these other things i've been wanting to get for not quite much time but quite badly. Both combined, there are a lot of things I want to have(:D). And well its better if i write them down so that i can keep track of what all came in and whats left :). So well yea :

A Brand New External HDD with networking support so that i have access to atleast 500 Gbs (atleast, though anything more than that would start hurting my bank account quite heavily) of personal data anywhere in the world :p wirelessly ( p.s. the world in most cases refers to my room and my apartment where i roam freely , though it may be applied to the commonly known definition also). But then my sweet dear 250 gb External doesn't have a buyer. I guess the time has gone when people valued real quality products. Its all fancy now and no one wants to buy such a novel piece of modern storage technology. But ill wait, i'm sure there is someone out there, who would appreciate and name a price. And then it would finally part ways with me ( sad sad)
A Nice new Iphone 3g or a HTC Touch for my basic needs (:D). Well as i lately realised i need email access, multimedia entertainment, on to go wifi and web calling support with video/audio features and some gaming enhancements quite all the time. Being a rather rigorous user of Nokia E65 i can fairly well say , i do qualify as a techie with enough brains to handle a wifi phone and further make good use out of it. Dont you too , think that I deserve one of these upgrades now. Though its another thing that i simply love my E65 for the wonderful companion and friend its been to me. It gave me all i wanted or could ever ask (of a mobile that is). It gave me internet at high wlan speeds (thanks to my router, you rock!!) , amazing multimedia, great email office support, and awesome sip based voip functionality ( to call all of you from the mobile directly via my online calling account without touching the laptop). It was(and is) my first business class model with a wide range of office suite products and has a superb elegant and stylish sliding front panel ( sometimes you just love making those fancy pick-up-the-call-and-disconnect glides with the sliding phones). Its just that I think there is more that I could make good use of . After all utilization of modern day resources for optimization of personal efficiency is a legitimate and valid excuse for the emegence of such thoughts.
A new 4 gb flash drive for fast file switches and transfers. Its always frustrating to wait for long while your movies (uhh.. i mean documents) gets copied to the flash drive, only so that you can take it someplace with you. And well with my aging flash drive that has now started coughing pretty badly (love you!), I should start making contingency plans. For all there could be, a new 4 gb u3 (or even non u3) fast upload usb flash drive would give a good company to the old mate . Last days are meant to be memorable and i dont want it to get lonely in those days you know :) .

Those are my techno needs as of now. As much as i'd love to have more, i do realise one cant get everything . Satisfaction brings with it a contending peace and happiness to the soul within. And for the sake of that contended soul and the happy self, id rather be practical and just ask for these. Maybe after I get these .. i can start thinking tech again !

I guess i need to post this...

2008-07-03T03:12:00.002+02:00

Well i thought it was getting extremely important for me to post this important update here :

I have officially gone insane ( :p ) . Seems that I have finally gone nuts and crazy and wacked out as people believed me to be :) . Summer sure is a weird time to be ...

Pacman

2008-06-24T17:23:00.001+02:00

A Visual Retreat - Part 3 : Jachne-e-Munich

2008-06-22T15:42:00.002+02:00

Jashne-e-Munich

50 photos
Location: Munich, Germany

Created June 29, 2008

An album to say the ongoing saga of my Munich encounter.. the story.. the visit.. the work.. the rest.. and the stupid stuff in between :) Its all thats been happening around now :)

A Visual Retreat - Part II : Checkout 2008

2008-06-20T14:43:00.004+02:00

Checkout 2008

37 photos
Location: College III A 102 , Bremen, Germany

Created June 9, 2008

As once again the year ended, was i left with the daaunting task of clearing my room and leaving it in the looks and shape it came to me. The massive checkout .. for the room was massive itself.. shown in bits in pics...

The Silent Dove

2008-06-17T22:05:00.001+02:00

One of My Favorite Pictures :

A Visual Retreat - Part 1 : A Stopover at Finland

2008-06-15T17:12:00.006+02:00

A Stopover at Finland

60 photos
Location: Helsinki,Finland

Created December 23, 2007

Well on my way back to Germany, here i was at Helsinki for a day to spare. Off to the city, I discovered its not that dead a place after all.. :)

A Visual Retreat

2008-06-15T16:37:00.001+02:00

And so i thought, that the best way to start once again is to cover the time that was lost.. what better ways to do that than with a gallery of pictures. From now on, will there be a new gallery of pictures every several days. A gallery that would not be of things that happened recently, but would rather include pictures of relatively distant past ( not in any chronological order but rather by preferential randomization). A gallery of memories from the last year and several things that passed along with it.

In a hope that the series of albums would fill the gap this blog saw over time.

N'joy

Lessons Learnt : A Beginning...

2008-06-15T12:02:00.000+02:00

Working in the open (or so as I may call) has its own advantages and benefits. While one shrugs away from such experiences mostly due to a visible dominant fear, it is one wonderful thing that should be mandatory for all. Working my internship, i realized that the place and the work have so much to teach us. Not basics of life that I think we need to be taught again anyways, but basic of work and peer communication that we would otherwise ignore. Finally for once again were these things stressed as I realized how important they were in real life. And so as the thought progressed, the idea of a unified list of Lessons Learnt Emerged. For all they are, they are not repetitions of any holy sermon nor are they tips for modern living. They are rather the basic of self-understanding and understanding of the things around.

The list will be updated as and when things get added ( or even removed for that matter).Here they are :

Sometimes you cant make things work out your way, at those times you you have to adapt to the environment
Not all things are the way you have been used to, rather most things are NOT the way you have been used to
Share A smile and it would do wonders
Dont jump over the initial expectation in the first few days, take your time and start moderate to first get a firm grip and them rock
Take the first few days to understand everything around you and the environment and meld into how things work before starting off in full force
Be sure you understand what you are supposed to do. And be sure to have no doubts in this regard
Maintain a list of open unanswered (to be asked) questions and ask them whenever possible
Do NOT reinvent the wheel. If you want to do something first look whether it has been done already and if possible use the knowledge mankind has gathered over time
Work is meant to be fun.. so if you don't enjoy doing it, dont do it
If your stuck on the same thing for too long, chances are that you overlooked something extremely stupid.
(CS)I Learnt how to use debugger much more efficiently and how i wasted time before and otherwise trying to look fro my mistakes

Dawn Arose For The Time Again

2008-06-13T02:24:00.004+02:00

And well just when you thought this was to end,
Came the life once again
For the beauty this is , and memory this was,
It came to life once again...

Apologies, loads of them and loads and loads and loads more. I do as id aptly say deserve a good round of punishment even as I write this. But keeping those for the posts to come, Id like to say that yes Im back on the blogger world. Once again to spread the morning news, to bore you to death with my stories aplenty or once again to get you to shout for the stupidity i show inadvertently. :)

March 2007 to June 2008 ... a journey that i now wish to cover this night. Hope to make something good out of it :)

...

Me Mahself

2007-03-10T05:05:00.000+01:00

Maybe you like to see me..

2006-11-16T04:01:00.000+01:00

Who else than me myself.. some set of recent pics...:)

Ankur

The weirder weirdness

2006-10-29T03:46:00.001+01:00

Its so weird that 3 hours ago it was 2 am and now its 4 am.. all credits to the wonder of the daylight saving time tht we have an extra hour now . The daylight saving time ended today at 3am when all the clocks in Germany were put back by 1 hour to 2 am.. It had started by putting ahead the clock an hour in april and now getting back to normal .
This means i am back to 4hours 30 minutes time difference with india and not the 3.5 hrs diff i used to have a day ago.. Its weird and yet funny.. but all i know is that i can sleep an extra hour tomorrow morning coz when my body says its 1130 am it wud be only 1030 am . .which is too early to wake-up. Its a standard practice followed by many European countries to increase the work time in accordance with the change or shift of daylight sun timings. The same is followed in America too and thus it wud change as well by an hour.

Today was( i mean yesterday was) Halloween , a spooky day of weird celebration. The univevrsity wore its scary outfit as children from far off places in the locality came over to get a trickortreat delight in front of our rooms. . It cudnt have been more enjoyable and just when we all thought it was getting amazing, it grew wonderful. It was time for the Halloween party at H3 . The clock ticked 1 and we were running off in our nasty scary masked costumes to the party. needless to say i was looking scarier than i usually do . everyone dressed in costumes ranging from the dracula of romania to the vampires.. females wore the witchly outfits and showed quite wittingly that they hold the greator share of nasty spookiness:p

Alas i am now back to my room at 4 and go back to some assignments and midterm studying tht i have coming up from monday again, Gosh thats damn hectic yet so so so intriguing in itself.. its a pleasure to be working endless yet a pain to see ur own self struggling to keeep the standards.

Oh yea i forgot, my room looks much better from today also . In a way that one hour i gained helped me transfor my room to a room back again . New bedsheet , vacuum cleaning , laundry and organising stuff.. whoa lots of work:p:p but the effort was worth it. A few of my own pics from todays party may be seen at the following links. while a pleathora of other pics await and wud be visible soon .. ( if u r on facebook than probably u wud have seen all of them already )

http://photos.yahoo.com/ankurthebest

Loads of other stuff coming here soon.. especially a breifing on how we celebrated diwali here with complete pics...

Ankur

Thats a nice me:)

2006-10-19T02:45:00.000+02:00

Freimarkt Bremen .. wonderful time

2006-10-14T20:19:00.000+02:00

be sure to checkc out the pics .

http://iubremen.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2020387&id=210100748&l=57bd2

its a wonderful time of the main city .. Freimarkt Bremen, its hugee, its big , its nice an well loads of fun
people, lights, breeze, screams everywhere around.

And yaaaa the opening ceremony where we went , had like 1 hr of sole fireworks which was really stellar and cool..

The rides here are rightly to be classified as Scary and cool, not to mention the all star roller coaster and everything ..

Check out the pics for more insight or search for the Freimarkt ( pronounced in english as Fry-Markt)

Ankur

Association and Dissociation

2006-10-07T14:48:00.000+02:00

Finally a realisation thats purely unique and truly true ;-

In mathematical notations it wud be said as

d/dx ( Association) = Dissociation when d2/dx2 <0

Therefor never try to attain the maxima of this curve coz when u do u start the journey in the next curve called Dissociation.

Ankur

Random pics from haywire land

2006-10-04T06:04:00.001+02:00

Some random pictures which are worth a watch ...the best ones lie in the end..

http://iubremen.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2020222&id=210100748&l=b431a

Ankur

The Other Side of Life beyond Academics

2006-09-25T20:55:00.000+02:00

A week of activities had passed and finally I would like to touch down upon the thing people ask me often. What all besides studying do you do there:

Pool:
Probably every day anytime from evening to late night (call it early morning though technically). I must say I have improved a lot in the game and well seeing some of the really professional players in here I must say there is a lot to learn further.

Table Tennis :
Not so often but well I do play it every now and then when I am not playing pool in the common room or not on the couch talking with people. Basically if you don’t feel sleepy and go to the common room finding the pool table already occupied at the dead of the night then TT is the option too.

Tennis:
Tried my hands on this all new Indian sensation a couple of times and man wow I am really, really bad at it. Though still reasonably fair enough yet I play poor enough to let the opponent win easy while I struggle to get the balls correctly to him/her to do that.

Debating Society:
An obvious passion from the school days, and a continuation here, debating is going to be with me forever. Though the debating here is the internationally popular BPS (British parliamentary style) debating which is absolutely different from the one we do there back in India, yet its as much fun as that and I love it already. Having debated some times in it , I may say there is a long way to go in there further . Who knows if I turn out to be good in this style I may end up at the World championship in the coming years too!

The Public Relations Club :
As the name suggests the club has to do with all the public relations stuff in with students here and also posters and presentations and company visits and tours and student interaction and loads. Though still in a immature phase, its growing and well i being here have a tremendous potential to carry forward something really nice.

The Pulse of the world:
IUB’s official campus news service and well therefore a place to vent out my passion for journalism and reporting that I have had from years now. Seemingly I would be writing in much and also plan to do other interesting stuff with this reputed and recognized activity of passion for writing.

The student Government:
Yes I am, standing for it and well for the Academic Integrity Committee ( it works with the administration to reform policies and deal with the student court and cases of academic breach of code of integrity ). It’s a highly responsible position and well the committee only has 3 student-members chosen over the entire university and not any specific year student-group. Lets c what happens and if I get instated into this position of honor.

Oh and the on-campus part-time job that I am still looking for would probably start next month as I have a couple of interview calls already (after multiple apps ofcourse :p ). So, well that would also be another part of my life here at IUB.

The other day I was awake till 145 am when I suddenly remember I had to make the logo for the PR club as we didn’t have one till yet. And so there I was on photoshop drawing, editing, coloring and modifying stuff. Its really a very tideous job to make a Logo for an entity and well you have to think of everything, color, symbols, meanings, look, attraction, complexity, future and all. And after much effort and some hours of photoshop I created the logo that now officially represents the Public Relations Club of IUB.And yes nothing was copied and everything was purely made and done by self.

These basically are the permanent set of things that I have to do throughout except the studies and other occasional stuff and thus also bear with them a weekly responsibility. They are in the true sense of the word ALL AMAZING and personally enriching.

And ofcourse yet I do have loads of free time every night when I rather sleep and waste them off …

But you cant help ,.sometimes you just have to …..sleep

Ankur

A Wonderful Sunday

2006-09-25T20:17:00.000+02:00

Its been quite some time since I last write here and the only reason and justification to the extreme positive side I can give for it is “Procrastination and laziness”. I knew I was lazy but I didn’t know that I was this lazy. Even after doing stuff for hours in a day I didn’t spare some free time for writing this small (yup!) piece of information about my life here. I know people would feel like spanking me for not updating but then that’s why I am doing so now. And well for the sake of my own satisfaction I choose to call this hour a worthy time pass for all this free time I have now after bunking the CPS tutorial .

I wouldn’t start from that last week where I left coz then I may end up with a thesis writing till 4 AM when I finally stop not because I don’t have anything more to write but as I want to study BCCB for the quiz and test at 815 AM. In case you wonder anything about the heavenly phenomenon called Sleeping, ill tell you how heavenly it is slowly as I move on with life of 24hr days and nights of 0 hr sleeps .

The last Sunday was among the first full days of my proper stay in Germany like a true native of the place. Reason, I was with the host family at their monthly meet and gala get together. Both Thomas and Zunny’s entire family was there as I was picked up to go to Thomas’s parents house. A fun Sunday-time when all family members meet and eat and talk and play and talk and eat and play and talk and talk. Yes talking was the major part of that day’s activity. It was my first day in the proper German culture and people and I spent like 6 hours with them ( I know it was 6 hourssss but it was funnnnn). We played Kneippe which is basically a dice game with al the members as we also simultaneously chatted along in the garden with drinks, chips, chocolates and colas. The game in one word was “Fantastic” and its crazy to see how excited everyone gets just to win the game. And we played and played and played while discussing Indian currency cities, Germany, people, culture, studies, students, everything.

And I guess I am yet to tell you that the twist in the tale was that in that garden that sunny (rare!!) day only 3 out of 10 people knew how to speak English and thus the major part of our talks were in GERMAN… man though I spoke once for every 15 lines they spoke as for obvious reasons (that I have only started learning the language about 3 months ago and it takes atleast 3-4 years to be comfortable with the language) but yet we all expressed each other totally.

“”Language if at all anything, is a convenience of similar expression, but the medium of expression of emotions and feelings still is the beating heart and discerning mind that lives within””

As we transcended geographical and lingual barriers to have a wonderful time together we also realized how intrinsically similar human thoughts are.

If that wasn’t enough for the fun of it, I moved on to have a dinner with Thomas and Zunny at their house where they cooked while I helped them cook Mexican Delicious food..

Yummmmmmmmyyyyyyyyy…
And then their at their house, we talked and talked and talked again. Though this time it being me Zunny and Kristin the talks were in English and I spoke 10 while they spoke 1 sentence:p.

All tired and worked out I was, still thinking of the near to end weekend Sunday and the upcoming hectic Monday, I came back at night. As Kristin dropped me in the university, that glimmering smile on the face was evidently out of sheer happiness and I smiled through.

Oh I didn’t introduce Kristine to you. Kristine is Zunny’s friend and overall a Very nice person. She had come over to pick me at the airport when I arrived too and has been in interaction ever since. She came I to join us at dinner and let us have a even better time later.

There came the tired, Ankur in the university ready to start over the week when he gets a call to come to the conference room for a game of pool.. oh man how cruel the world can be? Only when you are damn tired do you get to have the best things to do. And thus there I was playing pool at 1 AM enjoying through as I still talked and talked.

We had some coke and well finally after some little studying and homework at 4AM went to sleep at 430 Am... (Well had to coz we had classes from 9 that day)

That was the wonderful last Sunday I had, a memorable time indeed that I would love to have again.

And I moved on to the week ready to take in the weirdest things to come ahead in for me…yes I was waiting…

Ankur

The Passing Times....

2006-09-17T03:13:00.000+02:00

I guess it was time I updated this page and gave it, the due developments. In terms of what I have been doing, I must have to say LOADS...

My weeks schedule had like classes every now and then, club meetings, official formalities and all. But from now on I will choose to not play my “I-am-busy-trumpet” anymore and refrain from discussing my schedule. For its clear and concisely proven that IUB life has three basic ingredients:

Lack of time
Loads of work, and
The struggle to succeed

Well one weird thing that happens every now and then is when you actually remember you have those 815 classes and wake up at 7 all right, put off the alarm clock in that raised confidence of “I am awake” type, and go back to the self promised 15 mins nap only to wake up at 810. Hey and that clock just got those curses for no apparent reason while u jumped off the bed and cleaned ur face to run to the lectures.

Oh and ofcourse sometimes the clock is even more unlucky when you accidently wake up at 910 after the short 15 min nap and cant attend that lecture anymore.

Sometime this happens with out other commitments too, all of a sudden I see my calendar at 2 pm after lunch to find that 210 meeting in conference room and wonder when did this happen. Just when I am about to rush back to the meeting, bang ding dong goes my messenger

XXX: Hey Ankur, You there... Urgent work man... And gawdd save me that time when I struggle to pace up and wrap in 5 minutes and run faster than light presumably.

Some crucial decisions also were in the making as I saw that prioritizing was already an important element. I finally boiled down to the three clubs of my choice:

Debating society
Public Relations
Pulse of the world: IUB official news house

Oh and yes I forgot to add, I had my first dance lessons in the ballroom ( yeah no shocks please, I am learning ballroom dancing no matter how oxymoronic that may sound ). Ballroom dancing is fun, really and well an art nevertheless which I need to figure out soon or be dead..

As I jingle and mingle in this air, somehow creepily comes in the first set of homework’s and quizzes, only to leave all of us weirdly surprised at the whole concept of regular work and labor. It seems that when they say you need to be regular in studies and work consistently to remain, they, for a change really mean regular. Assignments due every now and then, slides to go through in order to understand what are we actually learning and well of course pre-reads to read before you go to the class, all guarantee without fail that you will study every time. But its fun also sometimes when you find regular studying is not about studying regularly but regularly learning something new the other way round.

Oh and tomorrow I have another trip out with my host family at their place where we meet up for a coffee in the evening then have a nice game they play every month and then talk for good time and in short have fun. The irony and glamour both in the game tomorrow would be that a first time me as a non German player and speaker would play that.

And after all finally I did have my bank account with full details, gosh its really not that long but it sure was some waiting for it.

The fun is that I was stuck with a 500 euros note for 3 days as noone would bother to give a change FOR 500 EUROS.. Coz that’s too high of cash to keep with them anyways. Yet ofcourse I managed to finally break through.

Parents and people back home have been really off on me due to my irregularity of talks while friends complained once again over my lack of mutual online time yet perpetual online continuous messages. And yet again I wonder…. It’s me all right so things can’t be normal. Can they?

I am seeking the answer to this and some many unheard unsaid questions that are now within, some really deep and profound while some superficially on top, yet al points of great concern over my life in general and current state in remote particularity.

So till I find an answer I expect al of you to keep helping me always and getting that family support as always too.

Ankur

My Day Today!!!

2006-09-13T02:19:00.000+02:00

i thought i will tell you all my schedule for today to give a glimpse of somewhat weird days i have sometimes which as i know would get normal afterwards..

Wake up in the morning and skip the lunch ( lunch from 7-9AM)

815 - 930 AM : BCCB lecture

945 - 1100 AM : Computational Science and Mathematics Lecture

1115-1230 AM : Another of those stupid lectures

100 -130PM i have my lunch

215 - 330 PM General Computer Science Lecture

345 -515 PM Economics class ( i wnt volutarily to see the course and select for my home school elective)

540 PM Back in room

620 -7 PM Dinner ( had to make myself some sandwiches in the maker and well struggle to find normal delicious stuff)

715-830 PM German A2 level

845 - 10 PM Again German A 2 continous 2 classes back to back..

1015 PM back to room

1030- 1130 PM Homeworks and assignments ( only some as of now which is bound to increase)

1130Pm -1229 AM Studied some slides and of class that i missed previous days

1230 PM - 130 AM some chilling off and a light drink of coke and some friends talk

130-230 AM i am online and well doing some important emails and regular online stuff

3 AM : finally i am asleep . Its early today as i didnt have time to think about anything else at all.. so no big timeposting or anything..

In case u feel weird with those classes till 10 PM in the evening dont worry we also are feeling equally weird but well getting used to it.

Also in case u feel the schedule today was damn hectic then "Bingo" You are right again coz i feel the same too:p.... but cant help.. sometimes schedules can be such also. Not to mention the morning breakfasts we skip just to mantain a longer night and also get proper rest and be able to get back to class (more than often we would mis our morning clas or end up running down as we woke at 8 for the 815 class)

Thats what it is to be on to urself and study with a hectic schedule sometimes...

so the next ime anyone thinks going abroad and studying is to take the easy way round.. think again and u will wonder why u said that..

Ankur

The First Days a reread...

2006-09-12T12:02:00.000+02:00

I absolutely forgot tht this blog was a sudden start and thus didnt have the information about the time of my arrival and well also my views about germany...

keeepin in mind the wonderful moments and replies and all that i recieved on my first set of mass email i did.. i will now post here the letter i sent to all my friends.. though general but it quite nicely captures my first views of Me in this new place and the new place in general..

its very weirdly written for it was written when i didnt have my laptop and was hurrying for something to start in an hour. SO well in between went mu crazy sef to the IRC and wrote out this piece ..

believe me it was so soothing to be finally touching down on internet that day after about quite many days( 3:p) of nonactivity..its absolutely in the same form as i sent to all the friends so well no change of error also..
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Hello to all the friends and family...

i know this is damn rude from my part but the restriction and refrainis pulling me over to do this..i have reached germany and well ns mustsay that the place is awesome... damn beautiful and cool..
my landline phone number is 0049-421-2005824though i wud expect to be in the rooms at round in the night time frommy local time of 830PM or later(Indian time 12 AM)... but its stillpleasure hearing from you guys... and gals ofcourse..

a general request .. before calling me in for the landlinbe numberwhich i wud ask u to give me a missed call on my mobile number onroaming that is 919831709211 which i am carrying from india so that iknw i am expecting a call in the landline and have to be in the roomsoon...and dont worry that call wont be charged when u give that misedcall.. or u can always message me on the old mobile number for fewmore days (919831709211).. all messages sent to this number wud betreated as local for u senders.. well though its no gurantee that amesage reaches me though most of the time it does,, yet some problemshave been there lately..

as of now i am in the libraty and where there is so much ofrestriction on the internet use that it seems that almost there isnothing available online...but the days and time are awesome.. gr8plce.. wonderful ppl.. nice atmost`phere .. cool weather( coldactually at arnd 16 degrees and windy and rainy also)

ill get my laptop on the 29th that is tomorrow and after that wud beback in full swing on the internet with all tha available time i wudhave...till then i cant check in to the messengers or orkut but butcan read ur scraps and all email sand evreytrhing..

so a matter of only 1 day..

the University is fabulous and fantastic...damn beautiful..

well illbe showing u all the pics really soon and tellling u more abt it..i am very not happy on the fact that i am not being able to contct uppl but am looking forward to resuming all my online acitivities soonwith a decrese in intensity ofcourse..

looking forward to meeting and seeing all of oyu soon and ofcoursekeep talking..

@niveditta: See you in the evening today

@Pankaj And rahul: I so so so so so much wanna say how much happy iwas at reading ur cards and messages and all..

@Shubha; Believe me the world is a wonderful place if friends are near
chinkoo cme to go but well to remind u of all fun.. im so so happy foryou and ur precious time..also tumhara eclairs are still with me...

@Nisit: Well man nice talking to you. wud tell u more soon ..its awonderful place.. right as imagined and loads of helpful ppl

@ankit bhandari: So nice of u to scrap that message... yea well ab toi have to study real hard.. the course load is going to be killing..its all only the orientation week that is so much of fun,...waise wellwe had wonderful games and all yesterday.. ask nk abt it..

@Payel: Hey sweet lady.. ill have a talk soon.. i am fine here andmissing u too.. ur messages are so so so much heartly happy to read ..well keep sending in messages coz there local for you and free forme.. and there is so much of fun in them.. and please dont think tooomuch,,, u am here only..

@ Diya: hey i am in germany now. no more meetings but statesmanremains like forever in memories.. i came to the statesman hgouse thelast day beforei lefty and waited for 30 minutes coz someone told megopali di is there and wud come soon frm the meeting. but she didnt..i so much wanted to say her a thanks for all the stuff b4 going.. cudu plzzz do it for me..

@shikhar: hey man.. gr8 place.. gr8 time and gr8 fun.. with you illtalk on yahoo later as we both have loads to talk and discuss about..

@Richa ji: Hieeee.. well ur messages aajkal seem to be so so sodifferent.. seems like we two are entering a new phase ofrelationship.. i sense a strange feeling in ur messages and theyseemingly are damn sweet.. believe me i love reading ur messages...

@ Princess : I want to talk to you ASAP .. plz contact me on the phonevia sms or something. .. well u knw my landline number now so u cancall me at ur local time of about 330PM or later ( my time wud be1130pm ot later then)",1]

@Prashant : hello.. its very damn heartening to read ur well wishes..looking forward to talking and chatting with you soon and knowing moreabt the stuff in kolkata... man no updates on kolkata aajkal toh..heheeh well u enjoy and take care also..pass this email to keshav andall ppl plz coz yaha only gmail hain. and i dunt have their email inthis..

@ keshav: well hie man.. i am in germany.. u must knw by now.. its acool place. whats up with you ppl.. and hows life..ati and ritesh kohi bolna frm my part..

@Gattani: Hiee.. well tumhaare saath to yahoo hie help karega.. somuch to say and so little time abhi.. well wud talk to you soon.. hopetrichy is fine and awesome.. also wishes to atishay...@aditi: hey keep rocking and studying and being the cool wonder..

@ Stuti J: the guarding angel it seems has calmed down. hehe .. butanywas best of luck with all ur admissions stuff.. i am yet to seeewhy u once called urself evil:p

@Shruti A: hey.. hi.. cudnt talk or write back back to you.. well justfew more days and ill be back.. waise that phone call last day wasreally nice of you..

@vidushi.. : hey .. how are you doing. .hows Upenn.. tell me abt itsome days baad mein and ill tell u abt mine..i can FULLY understand ursituation right now which shud be amess between all these stuff..

i am so so so apologetic to write such a common email .. but i cantwrite one to each and cant acess orkut also ..

so well bear for a fewmore days..

Hope you have a nice Day !!
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and dont be shocked or even pleasantly surprised at thias writing coz yes even i knw its really bosh and weirdy kind.. hehe

as of pictures.. the first set of pictures are already here with the links to see properly..
i am uploading a second set of nice pics that i got frm another student here.. solely campus pics..the pics go here...

http://iubremen.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2020010&id=210100748&l=8e9c5

ve fun
N'joy

Ankur

Lappy.. Lappy

2006-09-11T22:09:00.000+02:00

Well i forgot to tell about my laptop, the one machine that does it all for me.. so here is a post completely dedicated to my laptop and its configuration...

Designed for Durability The Latitude D was designed and built with the rigors of the road in mind. Every Latitude notebook is stress-tested in extreme conditions to be sure that it can withstand the physical challenges it will meet in the course of any business day. These shock and fatigue tests, along with the D'smagnesium-alloy internal frame, steel hinges and patented Dell Strike ZoneTM technology, mean that you get a notebook that is designed to last, no matter how bumpy the road gets.

• Intel Mobility The Latitude D is equipped with the latest Intel® mobile technology: an available dual-core Intel® CoreTM Duo processor and Intel® PRO/Wireless 3945 Wi-Fi® mini-card.

Technical Details:
• Intel® Core Duo Processor T2300E(1,66Ghz – 667Mhz FSB with 2MB L2 Cache)
• 1024 Mb RAM• Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 (Up to 224MB shared) ®
• 15” SXGA+ (1400x1050) TFT color display
• 60GB SATA HDD• 8xDVD+/-RW Media Bay Drive
• 10/100 Ethernet LAN on Motherboard + internal 56Kbps V.92 Modem
• Internal MiniPCI Wireless card (Intel PRO Wireless 3945 WLAN (802.11a/b/g))
• Ports: Serial, Bluetooth, docking connector, 4 USB, VGA, headphone/speaker out, infrared port, RJ-11, RJ-45, AC power
• US Keyboard Layout
• Nylon Large Carry Case
• Microsoft Windows XP Professional English
• Microsoft Office Professional English
• Network cableIncluded Services:
• 3 Years NBD (Next Business Day On-Site Vendor Support)
• 3 Years Complete Care Multi Cover
• Business Support

Well its a very very gud laptop at a very reasonable price which is much less than the market price due to the special University Discounts we get..

No doubts this get a majority of my time everyday though the work done on this machine has become much more meaningful..

Ankur

The Weirdly Different Day

2006-09-11T02:54:00.000+02:00

I woke up warm afresh on the ringing alarm clock desperate to get back to sleep again. And surprisingly I was able to get back to sleep at 8 even after putting off those 3 sirens that commanded me off my sleep. Here I was sleeping again. But then finally I did wake up today, at 1130 though coz somehow something reminded me of the fact that today’s brunch was going to be only till 12 (which I later accidentally realized was until 1 pm).

A small piece of information for all of you: a Brunch is a Sunday breakfast and lunch combined together that is had between about 10-1 pm thereby substituting both breakfast and lunch. Its kinda supposed to be heavy and well kinda normal for german citizens.

So here I rushed through my brunch only to find it open till 1 pm. Thus the disappointed me who had just failed in his self proclaimed mission get-to-brunch-before-it-closes. All throughout the brunch we talked about clubs .. Investment club.. Debating society , ballroom dancing, Salsa, PR . The buzz word was all around. Ofcourse it would be as it was the Club Day at IUB, a day when each club has its own presentation and talk sessions at different places throughout campus, to show the students what’s they are all about .Quite fun though. After going through loads of interesting club presentations and discussion sessions I finally decided on pushing the stop-button. Quite a time it was with Public Relations Club telling their new strategy and prospective gains, The Debating Society with its model debate in the conference hall, The Tourist club with its upcoming outing plans, The Ballroom Dancing club where I had my first ballroom dancing lesson today (it was great and so much fun), the Student career services volunteers, the Model United Nations and loads loads more…After careful scrutiny of the options available and possible choices I am down to the fact that I AM STILL CONFUSED…so well I will decide soon coz I cant take more than 3-4 clubs ( for convenience’ sake nt due to any rule or something). But i was soo happy...

How strangely wonderful it is to see limitless possibilities around you if you care to look beyond the obvious that lies ahead.. Just climb over the wall in front and you will find the beauty of the real world waiting for you..

To top my daily dose of happiness with a twist in the tale kinda stuff, I also had an almost jam type session of Shayari with a really cool friend of mine (Md). We had like some real interesting shayari and almost a great deal of our talks went in the same shayaraana andaaz.. it was cool. An excerpt of our shayari (Some are from movies while some are self made on spot, oh and both of us equally had these in our conversations.. so a total shaayraana jashne-mehfil

kehte hain ishq mein neend udd jaati hain....
are koi humse bhi to pyaar kare....kambakht humein neend bahut aati hain....

shaayraana aaya bhi to aaya un filmo se jinme shaayri ki jhalak tak na mile
badi hee ajeeeb baat hain
par kambhakt phir bhi dil kehta hain aapki shaayri sun hee lu:)
kya karey is dil ke upar toh duneeya qurbaan..
aakhir dil hi toh humaari dhadkan ki jaan hain

duniya kehti hain ki itni dosti na karo
ki dosti dil pe savar ho jaaye
hum kehte hain ki aisi dosti karo
ki dushman ko bhi tumse pyaar ho jaaeye (L)

hum kabse apni jaan hatheli par liye ghoom rahe hain......
kambakht koi leta hi nahi

is jaan ko hatheli par se utha lo yaaaro..
ek hawa ka jhokaa ise uda na de..
ise toh sheeshe ke mahel mein rakh do..
taaki sheesha bhi sharm se sharma jaaye..

khush hain hum ke ye ijajat mil gayi..
nahin to gusaa aap aaj ho jaate
hum toh ruk na paate aaj.. par yeh waqt jaroor tham jaata

Such pleasant talks and well with even more so such a wonderful person makes it even better. That’s the joy of loving to be joyous, that’s the charm of the charming mind as that’s the life in the living soul.

That’s me, psycho, crazy and weirdly MAD…

Ankur

My new Comfy Couch..!!

2006-09-09T01:58:00.000+02:00

thats my comfy couch i just got a few days ago..!!! and at a VERY cheap price..

The Banging Difference

2006-09-08T16:43:00.000+02:00

That banging difference that many asked me over orkut, seems to be quite a stir among all. So let me clarify:

The change that has brought in itself a bang was very evidently, a part of my daily life always. But I myself, never knew it would come this way. With this sudden change of objects around me, there also came a wave of other things that were new. Things as in People, Food, Environment, weather and the very feel, simply everything was different. At this jucture of the changing life, I realized something.

I realized that the very basic virtue of our college lives rested upon two principle laws :

1.You have to Live on your own , and,
2.You hav to Be on your own

If understood correctly, these two laws define ourselves more than we'll be able to…

Thus goes the same for me. The once irresponsible guy from Planet Mars is turning human by the day. Learning to wake up early in the morning (with multiple alarms ofcourse) on ones own self is among the many demanding tasks that I accomplish everyday. Not to mention the numerous responsibilities that I need to take care of. The Physical space that defines my existance has changed and my life like a true devoted follower became different too. Days pass by as I see differences in the way I think. Visibly my outlook towards life has changed too.

People around me arent the same anymore too..Some changed the moment we parted off while some became ever more wonderful. And in that struggle of knowing who were who, I further changed somehow.

“The Intrinsic inner virtues remained the same while the exterior me changed to a new self”

As I look ahead I see a new phase of struggle. The struggle to succeed in the tasks I have chosen and in that struggle another struggle to yet be myself and not change to the other…

It is this struggle, that has come with a bang and this bang is what has made that banging difference…

Thats the reason i now go by the status Ankur Modi ~~The Banging difference~~

Ankur

Photos..

2006-09-08T16:06:00.000+02:00

I would be from now on posting all my photos on facebook most prolly.. and thus posting in the links here to be checked out.. hope all of you have fun browsing through...

well these are the first set of pics that were also uploaded on the page http://smartmind.netfirms.com

the updated link would be now..
http://iubremen.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2019925&id=210100748&l=ced05

Well more are to come and ill keep all of you updated.. so keep coming in for a look regularly.. coz its really nice to know that people care to think about you also...:)

Ankur

The D Day..or rather the B day!!

2006-09-07T01:57:00.000+02:00

I quite didn’t expect it to turn out this way but I guess destiny and well my dear near ones had this planned somehow through intuitive signaling…yet again I had that day come over to my life again only to remind me that hey you haven’t even lived yet and there is so much more to go, giving me that push ahead in life. That 4th September, which I call the Holy-day for me...: p.. Well in case you dunno why it is a holy day for me then well lemme tell you it’s my budday.

In this new sojourn at IUB, I new things would be different but this different was beyond even my so called weird imagination. I knew I had friends, family and loads of caring ppl around me but well maybe this was the day to rediscover all of them once again and start afresh….

As I had thought earlier the day started with my keeping a low profile and well making sure there is no hussle bussle on the birthday stuff at IUB and well quite expectedly it went that way with relatively calm day around . Even though the beauty of the day was somehow still in the upper excitement of my first day of classes yet the joy of turning 18 (ya that’s right I’m 18 now...) made merriness merrier.

And well kudos to the time difference that made my birthday a 40 hrs affair. As the clock ticked in 830 the phone rang and whoa I was band surprised by those words.

“Hey man Happy birthday, its 12 in India and well your now 18 here. I know its going to be a great day and so best wishes from us here..”

The smile on my face couldn’t have spoken more then. As I realized all of a sudden that I everyone whom I had ever called friends and well I mean everyone for whom I had even the remotest feeling about had this day in their mind. I dunno why but they choose to give this idiot some little bit of great happiness by the very remembrance. My room was flooded. Ya and my laptop and my mobile both were flooded towith phone calls and smses ofcourse. Those caring people , my lovely family members and everyone had something or the other in store for this so called weirdo on the weirder day. As I somehow managed to control the ecstatic happiness and smiling laughter on my face, these calls continued and wishes poured in. For a moment I felt like being the prince of the heavenly land and for a moment the feeling was likewise too. That’s the beauty of having a wonderful family and amazing friends around you. That’s the charm of being Lucky as I was today…!!

As much as I thought the calls and smses were over, equally much was I proved wrong. As the clock struck 12 here in my clock the flood was back here again. To my utter surprise most of these wonder-sweetsters who had already called wished again. It wasn’t for anything that they woke up at 330 am in the dead of the night just to wish me luck. It was for their lovely heart that pumped in the lovely vibe in their souls.
For hours I was managing or rather trying to manage calls from princesses, sweetus, Friends, crazy ppl, messages and smses..and even after being maddening it was wonderful. For ofcourse it was the B day. While I struggled to survive the multiple all-sided attack I was now a victim of , I realized somehow something was not right. Oh ! I remembered I had my first day of classes tomorrow and well the first class was bang early .But well WHO CARED.. So I simply choose to bunk it.

The feeling was overwhelmingly ecstatic and well joyous. The moment made me remember those happy moments back home when I would be wished at this moment with phone calls and my parents would come on to wish over exactly at 12 AM in the night. Though due to some o my stupidity the parents thing was a bit boggled but yet somehow ( I dunno where they get the ideas from ) , they all managed to send in their good wishes to me.

Aha well I woke up in the morning with the loud alarm. Hmm I wondered who set the alarm so early. It was an eery feeling of having slept just 30 mins ago. But then sleep deprivation has its own wackoness. As I looked at the clock i was taken by surprise to see that yes it really was only 30 mins that I had slept. But something was still ringing and well it turned out to be my landline. As my sleepish voice picked up the phone to say a boring halloooo.. The cheered voice wished a happy birthday again and well I lost my sleep for more. The whole night was full of calls from people I couldn’t imagine would even care to remember and from ones I though imperative it was to. Just to be sure I didn’t miss any , that phone lay besides me in the shelf near the bed throughout the night.

Finally it was morning after what seemed like already a heavenly day. My orkut account was on hyper action spree with wishes bursting around and well my smiling laughter defying limits of smilyness...

I had an awesome day of classes and well also a feel of what it was going to be like for the next few years. Somehow even after making it silent in the there throughout I had that smile floating on my eery looking cheeks that were weirdly dull due to little sleep last night.

The Day continued and those calls, smses also sprang in. The answering machine tried its level best to give those birthday wishes proper treatment too.

But wait the best part is yet to come, the surprise even I wasn’t aware of. Yes the surprise whose welcome notice lay in my gmail inbox. My host family had organized a surprise night out and a treat for me myself somewhere and planned something out which I would know in the evening. The notice just said these few lines…

“” Can we kidnap you at 7 Pm in the evening for a little surprise.. I hope we can”” and well I had no idea that the surprise would be like so remotely little and well largely wonderful…

Read on.. for the D night with my host family

The D Night and the Final Bell of Wishes..

2006-09-07T01:53:00.000+02:00

(The host family program is a special program at IUB where you are assigned a host family which resides in Bremen if u want to take one and who act as your local contacts and also gateways to now open German culture. The level of interaction and well fun with them is largely on to the student to maintain as all IUB does is assign them as per the preferences of the student and participating families. Mine was amazingly amazing. Yeah Zunny (26) and Thomas (32) and her friend and the entire other family is really one good set of awesome people. Its like more of a voluntary thing where you go out for dinners and over to their place and talk about Germany , India and well loads more and understand each other and well develop a life beyond the campus also)

The Clock struck 7 and well I got the call that said “ hey come over to the building door and open it coz we don’t have your transponders to open them.. “ I rushed through and well they were there. Imagine they had got for me a Delicious beautiful cake also that was supposed to be eaten later for the surprise awaited us further.

I was now thus officially kidnapped. With Zunny and Thomas I thus first went to zunny’s parents. A set of really cool and fun-to-be with people, we shared some talks (language is not the only means of communication, is it?).

Following that cakey mood I was taken to the vegesack fair where we had like some really awesome rides (really good ones that are not so common in Calcutta or India normally). They were fun. Did I mention we also had zunny’ sister come along, a perfect fun seeker and well jovial personality. We had the classical flavored bread and well ice-cream.

Then came the bang, as I was taken though after prior ascent to an Italian Restaurant. A wonderful dinner awaited us as we talked for hours about German and Indian cultures their differences and intrinsic similarities. As if that wasn’t enough we also raised a wine for my birthday and then went on to have some walk through the area. Dead tired and yet highly enthusiastic we were still smiling laughing and well having a blast. So well in short it was still a perfect time for a cola. Yay for that !.

Oh and finally I was back to my college and they were gone. Even a big cheery Thank you wouldn’t ever suffice to the wonder in the time I had got from them. My room had my roommate awaiting with that aww face as he said “ I am sooo …. Happy Birthday man..!!

I had to end the day and well the cake was still in front of me so well I called in some of my friends over to my room where we had the official cake ceremony and well I was coronated as a now adult mature kid:p

And ya with some more music and fun and more online offline messages all over the place, the day finally ended only to leave me gasp in amazement!

Dad, Mom and Sis, Princess that’s there, Schweetus , lovelies, crackos and all made this day a living memory for the rest of my life as I proudly proclaimed the day as the Best Birthday ever in the most subtle way possible!!!!

If you are already asleep after reading this then well please go to sleep coz well I know what sleep deprivation does to a desperate soul and well have full sympathy for you :p.. But I guess I couldn’t avoid that.

That’s me... Ankur Modi... the perfect weirdo...

Ankur

A New Beginning.... Forever Ahead

2006-08-20T22:39:00.000+02:00

yay! My First post.. and officially me returning to this world of blogging again :p..
As the sun rose , i
enter this space once again.. to spread a new exuberance this time. Let the new world
around me be visible to all my friends.. To share my world, my life , my partial
complete self , i am back ..Let the same concept still apply to all of us when I
say N'Joy

Ankur