Moodi/Bombay - When living every moment was living the dream itself

Hey Friends,

                                Finally after a long break, I am back again to blogging. The reason for this long break was lack of interesting topics to write about and my most memorable “Moodi/Bombay” trip.  So after, coming back home I knew it I had to write on this topic because the experience was something like living the dream itself.

All the planning started a month back and booked the train tickets to Mumbai for “Mood Indigo”. After all the preparations, I and my 2 friends started off unknowingly that this trip is going to be remembered for a very long time. The “on paper” stuff that is at our respective homes, we informed that we were going to “moodi” but we only knew what the plans were and to our surprise the trip didn’t go as per our plans.

We decided that we will go to IIT for 2-3 hours or so, but on the 1^st day when we entered the IIT premises and saw their long list of events, we knew this is going to be fun. We were totally lost in the aura of IIT and after seeing the campus, we concluded that why it was the best college in the country. The organizers had turned the whole IIT into a mini theme park. We had been provided with a map, yes a ”map” for the college campus and we concluded that the campus was bigger than the city in which our college was located :-P. There were some adventure activities like paintball, rappelling etc. Some talent activities like dancing singing, on the spot dancing etc. We roamed around and took the feel of it.

The most memorable event was the “fashion show” (boys point of view ;-)), which was sponsored by the famous company “vogue” and the fashion show simply took my breath away, I and my friends didn’t know how to whistle still the fingers went into our respective mouths if by chance we could whistle ;-)                 There were stalls, there were different student bands as well as the foreign bands playing jazz music and all the classy stuff and on the other side there was an upcoming Indian singer who was standing on the top of a stall, singing and playing his guitar on the tunes of Hindi songs and people were literally sitting on the road to listen to him. The most eye catchy thing in IIT was the crowd, the crowd was really sporty and good and the crowd was literally “eye catchy” more so if you are a guy …;-)

The next day we went to do some shopping stuff, but ended the day on an awesome note. As soon as the clock struck 5, we left all over activities, we knew where we had to be, took an auto and rushed to Juhu beach to catch the sunset on the last day of our trip and oh boy what a sight it was! Three of us were sitting on the beach observing the sun going into the silent sea and I turned on some music on my cell phone and my playlist coincidentally played really soothing and awesome songs, and with that three of us went into the water for a long walk and as soon as the water touched our feat, suddenly it felt as if we had rolled back the years and we were tiny little kids going to school and we were silent observing the sun setting down into the silent sea and three of us were totally lost in nostalgia and you feel the magic of nature, these are the moments that bring natural smiles on our faces, because it is not your head that is bringing out that smile, it is your heart that brings a smile on your face and that smile is always real and natural as it is the smile which your own nostalgia has brought out and with that natural smile our trip with a even more stronger bond of friendship came to an end.

This time my article may not be that philosophical or may not be that funny, as it is related to my trip, but the main aim of writing this topic is to relive that large amount of hidden memories in our hearts which brings a large natural smile on our faces. I will end this article on this question

“When was the last time that you had this natural smile..??”

With Love & Regards,

Purvil Kamdar

Life in DDU,Nadiad Part - I, The Bus adventure

Hey Friends,

                              So finally after mass bunks and holidays, the college is back on track with 4^th semester (for DDU people of course).  The feeling of going back to college after a 40 day break was something avoidable. So this time, I decided to write something on the college life and to be more precise my bus ride from Ahmedabad-Nadiad and of course vice versa.

“Purvil, bus aayi gayi kya chu..?? Bas aayij gayo chu ubhi rakh bus. (or) java de bus haji nikdo ghar thi keshavbaug thi pakdi lais” My 90% of the days starts with this conversation with my friends waiting on my bus stop. We have often seen in movies or experienced in our daily life that while going out of town with family/friends in a bus, is always an awesome experience, but going in a bus daily to some other town and that too for college, is something at once looks somewhat frightening, but in reality it is not, it is the best part of the day.

The topic of this article is based on my observations in the bus ride. The bus ride is really funny and the bus is a place where there are no seniors nor there any juniors all are friends. We have a group of people discussing about their day in the college and all the incidents taking place, some funny and some bad. There are a group of people sleeping and dreaming and it is really funny to see the way some of them sleeping with their mouth open, while some with very weird snores. There are some who are constantly gambling or playing cards and you can hear them shout in joy as well as in agony.

While there are some “characters”, as we term a breed of some special kind of people. These characters are like shouting and talking at top of their voices as in no one is seeing and when you look, everyone is observing him/her. There are a lot of people gossiping and that is the best part, the gossiping level and intensity is so high that even though, their headphones are playing music, they are least interested in turning it off because their full attention is on the gossiping stuff. There are people who act as if they are least bothered about the people around them and constantly chatting on their phone and you can see the person sitting next to him trying to have a look at his/her cell phones and trying to find out what is happening in their “personal” lives.

The first two seats are reserved for the faculties. Some of the faculties are really good while some are bitchy kind of faculties who don’t like the noise in the bus and always complaining about it or something else and as usual the students have a mouthful of compliments to give to them. Sometimes the bus even has some technical failure, and the bus takes a break in the middle of the express way and you have those awesome photography sessions which are nothing less than magical moments. Some of the corner seats are reserved for the “only friends” tagged people, who are not afraid to express their emotions in public and to be diplomatically correct, I won’t go into detail in this topic….;-)

The bus ride is something that is truly magical, we don’t know its importance right now, but once it is not a part of our life, we will definitely miss it. The main aim of writing this topic is people have many questions as in don’t you get tired and blah blah travelling for 4 hrs a day and answer is no, in no words we can make them understand that, the bus ride is many times more fun than the college itself and most of the times this ride brings the kid hiding inside us, while playing games like damsharads and antakshri.  The emotions are shared, the frustration of the college is shared, the happiness is shared among every one, the birthdays are shared and almost everything and each and every feeling is shared. I will complete my post by this line:-

“The up-down as we mention it, the up-down ride of the bus is nothing but the up-down ride of happiness”

With Love & Regards,

Purvil Kamdar

Past... Present.... Future ....

Hey Friends,

                          Finally back to blogging, the semester end exams proved too huge a hurdle to pass through. But finally out of the so called “exam” period and the feeling is second to none. Once during my exams, I was going through all the old and new stuff and a crazy but a true idea struck me and it was how easily we forget things.

I still remember the day when I got my ipod touch, I was so excited to use it and explore the new features in them and my whole day passed in finding what’s new in it. But now after a big time interval, I find it lying in one of the corners of my room and hardly charged. Isn’t it funny that all the new things do catch our attention in the beginning? But after some interval of time, we lose interest in it. It isn’t rocket science , it is simply human nature.

The funny thing out of it is we do the same things with people in our life as we do with our gadgets or newly bought things. Initially the new things or new people or new friends or new “group” are the most happening things in our life and we feel that we are having the best time of our lives. But why after some interval of time we simply lose interest in them?

 If we sit and start remembering the people we termed as friends in our life and which are no longer in contact, right from the school days, the list is never ending. Why does the so called the new people in our life, replace the old people and just when you think, that these are the people to make your life a better place to live, there comes the entry of the terms “ego”, “self – respect”, “attitude” the friend circle just breaks down and you are lonely once again. At the end of the day when we analyze our life, we have hardly one or two friends out of that place.

We will sit and go through all the photographs and we will cry, and will think that time has just passed away and the terms “we are” are replaced by “we used to be”, we still remember each and every funny incident that took place but we will never try to contact that person and say hey I remembered you. At that time our ego or so called self respect obstructs us. That is why we always say memories are memories and memories won’t come back, but do we know the reason why …?? The reason is that when memories were created, we were curious to know the people, who they are, what are they like, etc and in the process of finding that we create magic moments and once we know them, we will go back to our comfort zone and memories will remain memories and they will never come back because the relation is not the same.

But the friendship that goes through all these patches and still remains the same, is the life-long friendship, but the fact is there must be hardly one or two such kind of friends. Just try and figure out how many lifelong friends have we made..?? We will hardly have one or two names, all the other number of people we termed as friends, were not literally friends, they were just the people we loved to talk to or we were in need of at one point of time and these are the people, when they leave, they leave us with the memories and vice versa.

With this edition of my blog, I just wanted to prove that how greedy a human can be ! Just remember the “past” friends, live with the “present” lives because no matter what we decide the next day they will be included in your “past” friends and the future will have its own “future” friends. I will end this article on this note

“If you have read this article and if this article has managed to touch your heart, then I am sure while going through this article you would have remembered each and every friend you had in your life”

Note:-“For this article I won’t be posting any pictures in between, because the pictures that suit this article are in your computer inside the “friends” subfolder under “pics” folder.”

When I thought of writing this article, my aim of blogging seemed to have fulfilled. Everyone can write philosophies, it’s no big deal but with every article I post, my try is that with each article I try to reach reader’s heart because how different everyone’s lives may be but the incidents happening are the same and that is my try that with every article I write I try to think that way that each and every one of u reading the articles can say “hey that is exactly what had happened and that is exactly what I felt”

With Love & Regards,

Purvil Kamdar