Just another nightout - or was it ? :)

So this one's big - it's huge! Ok you may or may not agree but I am excited about it..no m more than excited about it..people who have been around know if excited is still the right word :P (my friends have been chatting among themselves asking if I am any better or still hyperactive :P ).
It's obvious..it's so obvious!! :)

Allow me to take you into flashback :)

Thursday: May 05 2011y
Morning and afternoon
I ususally do not have a class/office on Thursday but I had an appointment at the international student center at 10, for some paperwork, so had to wake up early. After the appointment I decided to stay back for our team meeting scheduled at 2.

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Well we, the four of us, Me, pal, durgu and mike - we decided to take part in the facebook hackathon - a university wide competition for building cool applications :) This is what this meeting was for.
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The meeting didn't go toooooo well (for me).No more details. I was not happy.

Evening:
I worked on the idea. Thought about all that was discussed in the meeting and realized we had a lot of disjoint ideas that when connected well could form an awesome idea. And i wrote an email to my team. We all agreed. We had our idea. I was convinced. So were the other team mates.

Night:
No details. I was not happy.

Friday morning:
I went to my office to work.Worked for some time. I was feeling slightly better than the previous night.I then took off for where the competition was organised.


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Friday was the hackathon day. It was to start at 5 in the evening.
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Evening:
What happened beginning Friday evening till Saturday evening was just magical. We had an idea, a good team, awesome plan of execution and an achievable task! I knew I was enjoying every bit of it! The awesome mix of songs being played out loud, geeks around, everyone coding, thinking, unlimited brilliant food, drinks available, hourly raffle (not that i won even a single:( )..i mean if I were to define an ideal atmosphere to live, it's this..what these fb guys gave us at the hackathon!

We won the second prize for our app. As you (yes you reader) must have noticed, this is not a very well organized post as far as details pertaining to specail moments is considered, well that is because i'm too tired/sleepy even right now! But I knew i had to publish this post - this is important! And I need to do this right now because I still have that awesome feeling of victory inside me..it may just go weak when the week starts tomorrow..so even if this is not the most awesome post ever- i don't care.. because I know m writing what m feeling right now!

This hackathon could probably have been just another nightout- staying up all night to do a task -but it turns out this wasn't just another night out. Things changed after that. This reminds me of my very first post on this blog :)

"Khwab hai to mujhko na jaga"
(Don't wake me up if this is a dream)

I'll write a mature version of this post soon :P

The new breed

Like any other kid/human/observer, I always believed (yes! i do NOT anymore) that there are 2 kinds of people, GOOD and BAD. while the fancy stories I read as a kid tried to teach me that BADs would have some sort of horns on their heads ( mostly red) , i realized that it was only fake as i grew up.
And yes the fact holds true for the Good category too. And this is just my belief. I am not saying that Good Bad doesn't exist..No! it does! but certainly not in an absolute fashion..maybe it never did, and all that we read in our kindergartens was mere fake. what does exist, anyways i believe, is this Human class..this new breed with each member of it having their own idiosyncrasies and also some characteristics relatively more common and hence making it more of a "Type of people" thing..it's this new breed i am talking of here. Every individual has his priorities set. Things appear different only for people we know real close simply because we know them real close..because we are acquainted to the way their minds work. There are neither heroes nor villains in this real life. It's just the matter of faith, of trust. you either trust the other person or you don't. and even when you dislike something in a person you really trust , it just doesn't bother you ..it just doesn't matter. If we talk in terms of A and B, yes every A who holds B dear, chooses to ignore somethings or many..and every B knows about it. The fact doesn't change if we consider the situation from B to A. It's all about the choices we make while maintaining that trust and everything is good..'cause where there exists no faith, nothing else could either!
And when they compare the old times with the new, the today with the yesteryears, one thing no one ever forgets to mention is the ease in life deteriorating with time moving on towards a tough world. And i say really?? is it the competition? is it the struggle to survive?? is it all really that huge?? well i think it's Only the tendency to lose this Trust in our fellows, and everything else is sheer aftermath!

And I am back

I clearly, very distinctly remember this one: I was probably working on something, sitting in my room, at my home in India somewhere about one year back. And for some reason, I started reading a senior's blog who was doing his MS in US back then. I had just started getting my applications results and I still didn't know which school I was finally going to enter few months later. Anyways, I was reading his blog and (obviously) started thinking about "I could be writing my next post sitting in US".

I am writing this post sitting in my room and I am in US today. And this is that next post. I think it is important to mention here that this feeling is NOT just about being in "US" or doing "MS". It has a lot more to do with a lot of things other than all this."
Anyone who has ever seen a dream turning into reality would know what I mean.

I am back. Stay tuned!

:)