AT LAST IT'S OVER

Caught up with the vivas, this is the first time i couldnt find time to reflect on my passion.....ya thats FORMULA 1.

The last week will remain etched in every formula 1 fans memory for as long as the love for the sport prevails. The reason being a very obvious one , the retirement of the most successful driver EVER, MICHAEL SCHUMACHER.

Well to start with i guess i always hated Michael Schumacher, not because i loved Mika Hakkinen and Kimi Raikkonen, but just because it was boring to support the already successful guy, so its better to support an underdog, fighting to establish supremacy.

Also i have time and again argued that Michaels successs was a lot coz of his luck. He has been extremely lucky at times, if formula 1 fans remember the occassions, there have been plenty when the hand of GOD literraly dropped victory in Michaels lap:)

But since the last few races when real bad luck has doged schumi , when he least needed it, i have strted thnking is it really true that we pay for our bad deeds here itself on this earth. The dialog from jhankaar beats keeps ringing into my ears "duniya gol hai aur har paap ka double role hai".

Well that being the lighter side of the whole matter, but technically speaking i dont thnk we remember ferrari blowing an engine since 2001, ferrari facing fuel pressure problems ever since i have strted watching formula 1, ferrari's tyre bursting with just a slight contact(even that still remains a controversy whether it was actually a contact with fisichela). Can anyone really imagine ferrari technical director saying that it was difficult to turn MICHAEL's car in time.

All these thngs dont seem normal at such a time when the best team in the world is running for its lost glory to a 20 smthng kid, fresh on the calender. I really cudnt believe my eyes when i saw ferrari's engine blowing off, the greatest shock of my life. Normally i feel extremely happy when thngs go wrong with ferrari or michael, dunno why but i just feel happy that others are making their mark.

But this day was exceptional, i felt actually sad, dejected and really filled with emotions unable to say in words, all the past years were like standing and staring in front, all the good days, all the clean sweeps made by michael were looking like they were being done not by michael, not by ferrari, but by some divine intervention. And today HE decided to pay back to michael, suddenly the 1500 men slogging for years day in and out were mere spectators when HE decided to intervene to deliver DIVINE JUSTICE.

Same was the experience when i saw the last race, brazil, it was again as if it was payback time for michael. the newspapers next day said ' THE FLAWED GENIUS'. I really felt sad that more than 10 years of exceptional success has earned michael this title ' the flawed genius'.

This made me realise how cynical we have grown in our attitude, all we cud see of him was his 2 mistakes made, maybe some others as well, not so significant. Why cudnt we write about the way he raced despite his brother just gng through a 350 km/hr accident directly into a wall, lying unmoved in his car on the US race track. He still raced. i dont thnk it will be easy for any human to do that. Why cant we remember that he raced when his mother was counting her last breaths in a hospital, he could have easily asked ferrari to go with a sub driver.

There have been many examples where he has shown sportsman ship that is difficult to find. But we dont care to remember and respect them, and this we includes me as well. Be it michael schumacher or anyone else, dont we have the same attitude towards everythng.

At the end of it all i was convinced that there exists GOD, and maybe it was schumi to his fans, for me it was his spirit which reflected GOD, at times it wavered, but at the end it was intact.

The most touching words to read of that day were after race when schumi hugged his father his father said " at last its over ". thats all one can say after being there and done that, its over.

I hope we see another schumacher in the making in the next few years, coz without him i guess we wont enjoy formula one as we did with him

As Sunny Makkar hopefully says
For the face of aggression whose machine always let down his performance, on the last few laps this season he drove wheel to wheel with GOD himself. There was a momentary contact and the legacy was passed. Go Kimi, scuderia ferrari and 2007 awaits you.

The end of the penultimate ERA

Today was a very boring day by the normal RAIT standards. Well i guess the reason was that we finished 4 submissions and a project presentation in 2 hours flat.

A big scar on the RAIT lab ass club(i am sure there exists one.......where they discuss how to make others lives like a piston inside an engine)

The day started with my project presentation.......a managable affair and was easier than i expected, except some stupid questions........but thats normal in rait.

The first time i regretted doing something with a bit of perfection and standard was today. I took my synopsis prints on a coloured page in coloured text(one page for 15 bucks!!!) and the rest of the pages on royal executive bond paper(ya ......laugh.......i know i am a fool).

And at the end i realised my project guide was interested the most in the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT page. Nothing else in the synopsis mattered as much as the that page, infact he didnt even took the trouble to at least look at the diagram and the small technical part i included. Just the certificate and acknowledgement part was all that mattered. And this page was full of self praises by a inferiority complex struck HOD who is trying to acknowledge her efforts in alloting the PG's a week before the presentation, which should have been done 2 months ago.

Looking at this lady, i feel i have a very bright future, i can bet on anythng that i will be dng much better than her, will be much happier and sober in my behaviour and ofcourse i will not have the unmatched quality to utter crap with such confidence. Phd in WCOM comes really easy these days it seems, u just have to keep uttering crap abt the morality(which is away from her by miles) and the customer satisfaction that shud be maintained by the service provider. The commercial and philosophical part of a wireless network is much more important than the techniques, this is what i could infer from her teachings.
All the lectures i survived and managed to stay awake in her class, i could draw only one conclusion at the end, she was discussing how frustrated she is with her cell phone and her unfortunate service provider. How she wished we all were swapped with the HUTCH guys, whom she wished to just torcher to death by her unmatched capacity to utter crap.

Just imagine, a person having the only weapon in his personality, to keep uttering nonsensical and unrelated thngs, she can talk endlessly on anythng, which shud not be said at that instant, at that time, and to those ppl.

i really respect her for teaching me what not to do and be in life, without u i would have commited horrible mistakes in my life and wud have never realised that one day i will become 'YOU'. so thanks to her once again for this early caution.


Anyways am glad that finally an end to the penultimate round of useless submissions.......These are the times which make me happy that engg is finally coming to an end............but there are a lot more instances which leave me wishing that time moved slower than................perhaps a formula 1 car( c there i go, good i am back to normal)

Friends for LIFE

Junaid, Sunny,Me, Aarohan
at Chapora Fort, GOA

This post is dedicated to all my friends....

so here goes without wasting any time and space.....the order is not according to importance...just random

Aarohan singh: "Aarohan" with a double A, thats the way this guy introduces himself to a new person, considering the uncommon name he has. His name means progress and thats very true to his personality, has been rather slow but consistent.The only thing that u can remember abt him when u hear his name is his unpunctuality. Yes u have read it right, the first sentence and i am poinyting out his bad quality, many will brag abt how good he is, but inspite of all that he is a real pain in the ass when he is always late and uncertain till the last moment to do anythng. But once he is there u really frget that he has been here late and has screwed up so much bfore, his presence is just stimulating to frget all worries inlife and just live for the momnet. I have known him for the past 12 years i guess and never in my life have we fought over or even disagreed over any issue, will seem strange that no probs even in the adolecent years, well yes that has been the level of our compatibility. He is dng telecom engg now from thakur coll of engg at kandivli, has been the GS there and has changed a lot in the past 3 years of engg. The best thng has been that he has realised that the world is not as good as he tght it was which i always tried to tell him. Anyways i hope he lives the way he wants to

Sunny makkar: He has been my partner in every crime till date. He said it right, i was a nice guy untill i met him, he corruted my mind. He is completely devoid of emotions and what little he has, he always tries to supress them. I still dont know why. Extremely passionate(well thats an emotion he has to a little extent, which becomes extinct every few days) about cars. He says his dream is to be a formula1 engineer and then later buy a formula 1 team and has no other option but to do that in partnership with me. Big dreams. No idea whether he can fulfill them, but yes i am very certain that he can do what he wants when he wants only if he overcomes his laziness, intolerance and his short lived bursts of passion(they need to be long lived). He is currently doing mechanical engg from vjti, doing extremely good in subjects related to automobiles and has been the GS for the Techfest TECHNOVANZA.

Junaid Wangde: 'junior' has always been considered as the most matured among all of us since we know each other. I guess that was just the outer shell in front of elders, at heart he is as stupid as we 3 are. But he has this amazing qualtiy of taking everything in his stride and just moving forward. Never in the past six years have i seen him down and beaten, or maybe he has never shared that with us. But he is always wrking towards smthng. He was abt to leave to settle abroad which (fortunately or unfortunately) didnt work out. That was the time when we realised what a big support he was to all of us. He hardly stays in touch with all of us, although his college is just 5 min walk from my home. But theres always a feeling abt him that he is always there when u need him. And that is what i guess has kept us all together. He is currently doing his chemical engg from datta meghe coll of engg(he missed TSEC for this coll............try and beat that guys). We(me and sunny) plan to include him in our formula1 team as a lubricant engineer or something that a chemical engg can do(i know he wont join us).

This post is not over yet, for those of u who are really bored just dont follow up to the next post coz that will be a continuation of this. Profiles of lot more ppl cmng up later.

The Memory Remains

This post comes after a long time........ i guess owing to lot of happenings in my life and most of all my laziness to type.....but here i am after arnd a month ready to vent out all thats gng on in my mind or rather just writing abt thngs which are diff to discuss with anyone coz of lack of time and ...........oppurtunity.

To strt with i think the GOA trip steals the show hands down.............that place is just magical......just try finding one bad thng abt GOA.......i guess every RAITian will have to rack his brain like never bfore(of crse a very scarce practise in RAIT).Not just the beaches there are awesom, but the whole air i guess is stimulating to push urself to the max of everythng......fun, frnds, absolute raantigiri and of crse high speed police chases(some will know what i mean)

As this was the last trip in my student life(i just hope not), i was in a mood to have the max fun possible wit the most amazig ppl i have known for the past 3 years. All lthese guys have in a way shaped me to a different 'ME'. When such guys are arnd fun comes as a package which did this time as well. the trip had its ups and downs but all in all a great memory to cherish later with some phyical marks on my body as well(owing to my bike riding skills).

As the GOA trip was abt to end, i guess i experienced this for the frst time in my life, fear of losing smthng behind there.............what i am stil trying to fathom. Maybe it was the fear that i am losing a part of me in GOA, leavng back smthng i cannot hold onto, the more i try to hold onto the more it slips. The tght that such days are over, never again will we get to live these moments gave the trip a new meaning altogther. Sadly i realised this as the trip was ending and not when it begun.

Anyways whats more imp is that i atleast realised it, considering imp thngs often slip of my mind when they need to be considered. just cant do anythng though rather than just remembering the good times, waiting for the pics and vdos which my asshole frnds havent gvn me yet and falling in love with DIL CHAHTA HAI all over again for bng such real take on every aspect of life.