Kshitij was confused. He normally liked to watch the sunset, he liked the pastels it generated because he knew that he would be around for the crisp new day which it would give birth to. Every sunset marked the culmination of another day in Kshitij's life but today he was looking elsewhere. He was confused because he had just finished having a conversation with his nine year old son Anmol. He had asked Anmol, quite playfully, what his ambition in life was. As a nine year old, Kshitij had expected him to come up with answers like a soldier or a pilot or any other heroic pursuit seeking to find expression within a child's mind. Kshitij remembered fondly that when he had been asked the same question , he had shouted out "Superman!" with a proud grin on his face. But Anmol's answer was different, "Investment Banker" Kshitij was surprised more than anything else. He stared at the setting sun and thought about his days as a nine year old, when dreams were utopian yet simple.
He smiled as he thought of how his late Uncle Kapoor would have been extremely surprised and maybe even a little aggrieved at Anmol's reply. Uncle Kapoor had once said "When you are five you want to be like your father, when you are ten you want to be a superhero, when you are fifteen you want to be a soldier, doctor, scientist et al. By the time you are twenty, you do not know what to do with your life and when you are forty you want to be five year old again." Uncle Kapoor was not around but his words still brought a smile on Kshitij's face.
He sighed and switched on the television. Even here his confusions were multiplied. A grim faced news-reader informed him that a certain section of the crowd had jeered at Sachin Tendulkar as he was walking back to the pavilion. He was utterly perplexed. Wasn't Tendulkar supposed to be the messiah of Indian cricket? Wasn't he supposed to be the flaming symbol of exuberant greatness? He remembered a time when he had a fist fight with one of his classmates just because the latter had said that Gavaskar was not good on the on-side. He wondered about the fickle mindedness of the people around him. Uncle Kapoor had once said, "Legends never fade away. They just reinvent themselves from time to time. You just have to wait." Yes, Uncle Kapoor still made sense.
He switched the television off and decided to check his mails. Here again his brows furrowed. He read about his cousin Ashwin who was a fourth year mechanical engineering student in 'one of those obscure colleges in Bangalore'. Ashwin had been offered a job by one of the software companies which he had readily accepted. Kshitij was surprised. What did mechanical engineering students have to do with software consultancy? How can a student who has toiled hard for four years, studying subjects like fluid mechanics, work in a software firm doing the 'donkey work' for MNCs? Uncle Kapoor had once said, "Engineers are the creators of the nation." Kshitij was not sure about the prospects of creation of a nation in Ashwin's career.
Kshitij felt thirsty. He walked to the kitchen to fetch himself a glass of water. There he found his nine year old talking to his mother animatedly about 'Rang De Basanti'. Anmol was telling his mother how nice he had felt when he heard Aamir Khan narrating 'sarfaroshi ki tamanna...' "Did Aamir Khan write those lines himself? Aamir Khan is a true national hero. First he defeats the haughty British in Lagaan, then he shoots corrupt politicians and now he comes back to show how the educational system needs to be revamped. He should be given the Bharat Ratna. What does sarfaroshi mean Mom?" asked Anmol excitedly. Kshitij just smiled and nodded his head. He remembered that as a child he had a photograph of Subash Chandra Bose on his desk. He used to have long discussions with his father about the repercussions if India had gained independence the Bose way. Back then celebrating heroics was more cerebral than today where icons are selected out of the reel life. "True heroes are those who appeal to your sense and question your sensibilities," Uncle Kapoor used to say. Kshitij sighed and thought about today's times when excuses like 15th August, 26th January or an occasional movie like "Rang De Basanti" are needed to feel patriotic.
Kshitij looked at the watch and realized that it was time to take his son for his cricket coaching at the academy. His mind instantly jogged back to his childhood cricketing days. They called themselves the "Cheerful Chums". Some of them could play and some could not; but they still had a lot of fun. They played with whichever ball they could lay their hands on. They played anywhere and over any distance. And they got together to read a book about Gary Sobers whom Uncle Kapoor called the 'greatest cricketer in the world.' ever since he had read it, Kshitij had wished that he were left handed. Now his son talks to him about his thigh pad before putting ball to bat, he puts all his gear on and does a shadow practice in front of the mirror. "Why do you need all those gloves and and pads before you learn to bat?" Uncle Kapoor would have asked. But the boy went to an academy and the coach had insisted that he buy these. He had almost been talked into buying an expensive helmet.
He returned to the sunset. At least the sun does not assume the garb of modernity. He thought about his times, the innocent times when emotions, ambitions and aspirations were real and devoid of all the mundane attributes of materialism. He thought about the times when a man could choose his dreams rather than buying them.
Kshitij switched off his sunset, called out to his son and talked to him about peaked caps, sandwiches in the canteen, shirts that puff up in the evening breeze, colours during Holi, animated conversations on the way back from school, stylized radio commentary and a lot of fun. His son asked him about television rights, cartoon network, Mc Donald's, ambush marketing, sting operations, branded shoes.....and he smiled. He looked up at the photograph of Uncle Kapoor. He too, was smiling.
59 comments :
*****When you are five you want to be like your father, when you are ten you want to be a superhero, when you are fifteen you want to be a soldier, doctor, scientist et al. By the time you are twenty, you do not know what to do with your life and when you are forty you want to be five year old again*****
This is so true and touching Isha. Though even I wish it were to stay valid for today's generation too.
Sadly, we've killed childhood with ambitions.
@ The Bald Guy - And I thought this doesn't hold true for you!!! I mean, I actually could imagine you shaking your head in disapproval while reading these very lines, when I was writing them!! Lol.
I kinda got the inspiration for writing this one from your post "Give me some sunshine, give me some rain."
So, Thank you. :) :)
This made such a fantastic read and an indication of how innocence has faded with time over generations.
How a child carries 10 kilos of books on his back all of which he needs to mug up to score high, how gadgets have become more important that the sport and just how simple things in life have been left behind in the race of star performers.
Thumbs up to you !! :)
@ Shivani - Thank you! And thumbs up to YOU for summing it all up so precisely.
:)
It does hold true for me too Isha di.
Why do I call you Isha di? Hein?
Anyways, those lines were really touching. And we have indeed killed childhood. It's not fair. Being a school going kid isn't what it used to be.
@ The Bald Guy - Good to know that. It really is. :)
Company's influence? ;)
Tell me bout it!! I have cousins as young as 6 going for coaching classes!! Such is the pressure to perform!! They have to be tops at studies, ECA, make time for friends and family, deal with peer presure, cope with the unrealistic air-brushed world....where do they get the tiem to ENJOY??
I swear I'm not letting my kids even hear of anyhting called internet, computer, cut-offs, size zero et al till they turn 10 at least, even if it means raising them in a remote village with no electricity.
I think I knew Uncle Kapoor. Went by a different name with me, though. :)
Brought back a lot of memories; made me miss those innocent times. Made me miss my Uncle Kapoor too, but one of his lines made me realize that there are very few things in life which are constant and unshakable.
Cheers...
hahahaha
after Aamir Khan , next revolutionary is U!!
sahi tha waise..
some lines were great like wen u r 40 u want 2 b 5..
lekin aapke uncle Kapoor was quite mysterious!!
Just one question - why at all we have to grow up *makes a cute innocent face* :)
cheers,
amit
The Indian Education System must change. Students as young as 15 commit suicide because they could not justify their parent's expectations of scoring 99% and topping the charts or they were 2 marks behind the cut off list of the college his parents wanted him to go to.
Every child has a different caliber and the parent's must recognise and respect it.
One of best posts of yours after "Hear Silence". Yes, it is...
It seemed like a memoir to be actually. Though the lead was male, his feelings were so mushy about his childhood.
At times, you have written beautiful quotes and they literally are.. I just wondered the other day like what does it take to write something so touching that a dialogue ends up like a quote.
I must say this posts has few and one is pointed out by the Bald Guy.
The beauty was when the comparison come between what uncle Kapoor used to say and the reality in between the lines.
Yes i agree that the generations that are coming after us are loosing the innocence that their childhood was suppose to have.
While reading i kind of expected this post not to have an abrupt ending and what can I say when the very last line brought a smile on my lips..
Refreshing post to put forward actually :)
Cheers
Mahesh
Backward, Time backward...
Make me a child just for tonight.
let ur kids use the internet. i m sure they d love u even more if they read the posts.
um...i read ur comments as u myt have guessed. uh...got tempted. apologies.
anyways i thoroughly loved the post. it was simple. calm as i really needed.
i was looking all morning for one post to you know sober me down into normalcy. lots been happening lately. thanks. thanks for writing this.
and as for engineers, me being one i can clarify that ashwin, wasnt in for mechanical. he could have done electrical or civil or even computers and joined the same firm.
finally to 90 in a hundred all that matters is the tag and the money.
ps: engineers dont create a nation. an idea coming from anyone does. and the idea is what u call engineering.
sorry for the lecture.
@ Iddy - We all have Uncle Kapoors in our life. He can be anyone - mom, dad, sibling, distant cousin, anyone. :)
And yet those very few things are the ones worth living for, isn't it? ;)
@ Vikas - Lol. That's what my Dad tells me too. Lol.
Some things are supposed to be mysterious my friend. :)
Thank you. :)
Cheers
@ HRA - We DON'T!!! That's the entire point!!!
Let's all just resolve to never let go of whatever little innocence is left in us!!
Cheers
@ Shivani - Well said. but easier said than done.
Since we - the youth of today, will be the parents of tomorrow, I think we should really try and make a conscious effort not to let our kids fall into the trap of the rat race.
Cheers
@ Mahesh - Yeah, time to do away with the myth that guys can't be sentimental, eh? :P
Thank you so much. You are very kind. :)
That's (the smile on your face) the best thing I could have hoped to achieve with this piece of writing, really. :)
Cheers
@ Anwesa - Let the night go on, forever....
Cheers
@ Raj - Awwww!! That's such a sweet thing to say! :)
Arre it's ok!! It's not my personal mail that you read. ;)
Glad that it could be of help to you. Hope all's well. :)
Sad, but true. That's all that matters now. Not that it shouldn't really. It does to me too, but that being the only criteria to do what you do is what irks me.
I think that we can classify the working class into two broad categories - managers and engineers. While managers are the ones responsible for doing things and managing processes more efficiently, engineers are the ones on whom lies the responsibility to CREATE something new. Engineers and entrepreneurs are the innovators of a society. Of course managers too can be innovators. Exceptions are always there. But they cannot create a nation, they can only run (manage) it.
P.S. ISE kehte hain lecture. :D
not even close.
lectures last hours and leave you gasping for breath.
urs barely lasted for two minutes. it did take my breath away though. :)
lol. just kidding.
thanks.
there is this frnd of mine. was actually. and she says, there are two types of people in the world, driven by emotion and driven by ambition.
i think she is wrong, there are those driven by money as well. and that doesn't come in ambition. or does it?
this is one heck of a read honey. you do take long to make come backs and i love the grand entrance every time :)
appreciate your efforts and uniqueness always :)
and yes i have lost my innocence and i regret every minute of it!
True. AND lectures are BORING. AND useless. AND...oh well, you get the drift, don't you? ;)
Ok wait. Why is it assumed that ambitious people have no emotions??? They are just ambitious, not heartless for God's sake!
Hmmm, so I think there are two types of people in this world - those driven by emotion and those driven by money. Those driven by ambition can come in either category.
not true. i could site you an example.
for those driven by ambition, work comes before family. why else are nannies necessary? if the child cuming from ur own womb, isnt enuf to make u stay at home for a while, what is?
they can say anything they want...i m doing this for him n all dat but r they really?
think think. and get bck with sumthin. i m waiting .
:)
uh...surprising. i m actually thinking ryt now 2. when i was sure i cunt. great. thanks.
@ AD - This is not a comeback. I have been posting regularly. You haven't been around lately. :)
Thank you so much. You flatter me. :)
Don't let go of whatever is left there now. :)
Cheers
@Raj
True, most parents leave their child to nannies to follow their ambitions but not all of them.
Many parents have to do this so they can earn to secure the child's future :)
@ Raj - I'll try to keep myself in this position and answer.
I consider myself ambitious, above average that is. Now I fully understand that to fulfill the expectations that I have of myself will require a more than considerable amount of my "life" from me. And for that I think I'll postpone the idea of starting my own family. Because when I do that, eventually, I would like to give my whole to them too.
And let's just suppose that things don't go the way as planned, and a family happens before I'm able to reach the zenith of my career, then too I don't think I'll compromise on either.
Being a good mother does not mean sticking to your kid's side 24X7. It means spending quality time with him/her. The weekends would be for kids, with no work and the same would hold true for weeknights. when it's work, it's work, when it's not, it's not. After the kids are back from school and by the time they are done with the afternoon nap, the ambitious lady will be there for her kids. Cos they too are a part of her and a part of her ambition in life. So ambition does not mean devoid of emotion. Not for me at least.
shivani. i hope to death that u r right. i really do.
isha. can i use ur name? cuz then v r frnds 2.
um...touchy. quality time waala concept...but sometimes, ur job demands u wrk from home 2. or longs hours. or both. and u cant refuse ur boss either. :(
lets chat. proper waali. frnds bane?
@ Raj - Course you can!
Agreed. There are times when such situations cannot be avoided. But then how often does this happen really?
And again it's not the amount of time spent as I mentioned earlier. Cliched but true. There really is no point staying at home with your kids when you are in a room watching T.V., one kid's on the phone and the other busy on his laptop/desktop, is there?
I thought we are friends already! But here's my id, just in case, bondgal_rulz@yahoo.co.in
Cheers
i thought v were frnds 2. but ladkiyon ka pata nahin hota. poochna padta hai. not that it isnt worth the trouble. :)
@ Raj - Mere blog pe ladkiyon ko badnaam - ing!!!!
*whacks*
ZOMG i was about to write a post along the lines of this !
*glares*
but you wrote it way better than i could have...it was so goddamn beautiful re !!
*bows before isha*
P.S btw i already decided a few years back i am definitely gonna live in a small town with a small job a few years down the line and live life at my own pace.
*recoils in pain*
poor misunderstood soul "i was just saying kyunki this way, m actually trying 2 make u feel special by asking...par ulta ho gaya. "
*tears*
*moaning*
*loling* u fell for it. :P
@ Weirdo Guy - Jaani, hum vo hain jo logon ke dimag se idea, mooh se baat aur sir se baal chura lete hain. Muhahahahahahaha.
Awwww!!! Thenkew. :) *takes a small bow*
Really???? Awesome!!! Your kids my kids can be friends then and then we won't even have to worry about peer pressure!!!
@ Raj - Did not. :P
Amazing post.. a true eye opener. It is so true and I see it all around, cousins, nieces, nephews, they are all losing their precious days in computer games or coaching classes. And I so feel like telling them how they are gonna regret and miss these days after a few years. Sadly parents play such a huge role in all this. They are so busy in trying to bring their kid to the end of the race and the child doesnt even get a chance to enjoy the ride, let alone chose the path for himself. I think ever parent should think of his or her own childhood and aspirations before they push their children into this rat race.
Lovely post..
Fantastic way of telling a true and meaningful story about life.
you had really really done justice to it.
I agree with the bald guy on his statement "we've killed childhood with ambitions"
@ The West wind - Precisely. It's the over enthusiastic parents who are responsible for robbing their kids of their innocence.
Thank you so much. :)
Cheers
@ Sorcerer - Thanks a lot! :)
Hmmmm, so Baldie and you are the culprits haan? :P
Lol No Isha di, I didn't kill childhood.
Don't whack me! Poor me is already too whacked out!
@ The Bald Guy - Your partner in crime has confessed already.
You shall be punished by all those whose childhood you killed.
You shalt carry a 5 kg bag to work everyday. You shalt attain 100% in whatever it is that you underatke. No one, and mind you, no one should be ahead of you. You shalt also excel at painting, cricket, football, singing and dancing.
That should be enough for this lifetime. :D
*evil laughter*
glad you didn't. at least this way you would know when i was saying something i didn't mean.
so we can definitely be friends.
@ Raj - For the nth time, we are ALREADY friends!!
Geez!!
"live ur own time" -bob dylan
modernity is relative...to uncle kapoor...to khistij..to to-be-investment-banker
we r killin childhood early!! maybe we need more adults!!
i love uncle kapoor!! luvd it!!
Arre...wah!!
What a post!
Whattt aaaaa post!
The day's not far when the first cry from a newly born child will be
"doooooo.uaaaa.actar.aaaaaaa..."
"engi.uaaaa..ner.aaaa"
"Ban.uaaaaaa.ker.."
*bamboozled*
Aisa bhi hoga!
:o
:s
Ok so since I AM in the IT sector, let me clarify for once and for all, ANYONE who has a BE/BTech degree can come write codes. (which ofc doesnt mean that everyone is a good coder :P... simply that the concepts are very easy to learn and this is one place that will ALWAYS need more people)
Next, I dont know how many will agree with me, but since I spend every weekend teaching kids, I have seen the gradual shift in the mentality of the parents. Atleast the kids that I see around me here. I have seen parents letting their kids choose what they want to do, and I sure as hell didnt have that choice when I was growing up.
The comments on the post have gt me started because I dont wholly agree. :P No matter what a child does in life, they HAVE to go through the basic 10+2 years of education. The suicides that happen DO NOT happen (atleast a large chunk of them) because they are forced to do something they DONT like. They happen because they arent doing well. As a teacher, who also happens to a young enough, the kids confide in me, and I have never seen as much energy as what goes on in a kids mind. They are not mature, and they think a LOT. When a parent says "You have to finish your homework" they hear "You are not allowed to play" Get the drift?
So maybe this issue isn't about how parents are 'forcing' kids to take up something they dont like, its about how the child has noone to turn too and say "I need some help here" The parents aren't all wrong when they admonish the child for getting a low score, because tried and tested forumla haina... thoda daat do, the child will chup chap se start studying. I have seen THAT change too, but that happens when a good teacher comes into the picture, and that is a different issue all together. :)
This discussion wont be complete without mentioning IIT, where most people assume that kids are forced to get in. TRUST ME, (I have a hell lot of people from there) they actually LIKE what they do. Anyone who gets a good JEE score will go over the moon, whether he was forced to take it up or not. The suicides happen there, because it is ten times as tough to survive than what it is to get in. Any engineer who has had to go through the relative pointer grading system can tell you that. And when you are a 5PS in a place like IIT, it sucks, and the easist way out -- let me go hang myself. Again, noone to talk to. Bottomline, its happening because they arent doing well, not because they are forced to do something they dont like.
At the same time, no denying that sometimes parents DO force kids to take up something they dont like. For example, Exhibit A. :D How many times have I sat in my engineering class, and looked around with the classic WTF expression and wondered wtf am i doing here?! It was because according to my parents Arts/Commerce are streams to be chosen if you score less than 80% in ur boards. Engineer zyada kamate hai. Simple Logic. Now THAT case is different. And again coming back to the present scenario, things ARE changing. Why, my neice wants to be a singer and the whole family is very enthusiastic about it. And Im so happy they are! :)
This discussion can go on forever :P So Ill stop at that - Things are changing, but dont expect the change to happen overnight. Its going to take some time for parents to realize that Engineers (and such) are actually seriously boring people :P :D
Luv,
Annie.
arrey i know. just that uh...forget it. its a long story and rather painful.
I wonder where innocence has been lost...these kids don't know what they are missing
@ Buckingfastard - Yeah, like most things, modernity too is relative.
And what good will that do??
Uncle Kapoor is a great person. :)
Glad that you liked it. :)
Cheers
@ Rhythm - ROFL!!!! I love it when you are funny! :) :)
Thanks for the appreciation. :)
Cheers
@ Annie - Is that reason enough for someone who has worked his ass off for four years in another sector to shift wagons? Isn't it just the same as an engineer doing an MBA to work in a frigging bank??
Picture this: My first day at MBA college. A teacher walks in and asks students why they are there, to pursue an MBA?? 50 out of a class of 60 were clueless as to exactly what they were doing there. Reason? Cos they had been shoved and pushed by their parents there.
Most (not all) parents want their kids to be either an engineer, doctor, lecturer or work in a bank. And that is a FACT.
Agreed that a major chunk of the suicides take place because the children get a low score. Now tell me, would you consider 80% a low score? The kids in 10+2 who get this score and commit suicide do.
About IIT, yes the suicides there too happen because of the inability to cope with the demands of the course. But ever spare a thought as to why students with such bright brains who cracked the JEE are not able to get through their semester exams? Maybe there is something very wrong with the methodology adopted there. Too much emphasis on bookish terminology rather than creating a conducive atmosphere for creation of new ideas. The education system along with the mind set of parents is at fault too.
I really don't see things changing. Now what I see that apart from not doing well in academics, suicides are being committed because a kid thinks that he/she is not a good enough dancer/singer as he/she was not able to clear the audition of some lame reality show.
The competition is at its peak. For admission to college, in schools, among friends, to look good. And that is taking its toll on the kids.
I guess things are very different in Mumbai where the students can easily get into colleges of their choice after 12th (or 10th). In Delhi, we have to compete with other Delhites, people from all over the country and international students too. It is then that we realize the importance of.01 percent. and it is then that most of us feel like losers even after scoring a 85% in the Boards.
@ Raj - Oops!! didn't mean to bring back any unpleasant memories! Sorry!
@ Pesto Sauce - Sadly, they don't.
Practically everyone does that -- shift focus. And almost every time the reason is the same - more money. I am yet to meet anyone who was passionate about his field irrespective of what it was paying him. Dont mistake me, I have met people who are passionate about their jobs, including me, but the money factor is ALWAYS important. Software pays. Management pays. Hence the rat race, hence the job shifting. And hence, I have come to believe it’s simply human nature. I will want to work anyplace that is paying me as max possible.
Parents do want their kids to become Engineers or Doctors or Bankers, for the same reason -- "Tumhara future set hoga". At the same time I have seen children go through the process, and THEN when they realize this is not it (usually when they fail a class), then it dawns that it wasn’t meant for them (Most not all). How many kids actually stand up and tell their parents that I DONT want to become an engineer (or whatever else) the day they see those entrance forms? If even after that the parents force the children, then it is completely their fault and no one is denying that.
About the system, oh boy, don’t even get me started. Every engineer on the block knows he/she learnt nothing in college. Relative grading itself is a very wrong system -- Even in a class like IIT, full of the brightest minds, there will be a topper and there will be a five point someone, never mind that the five point someone could very well be scoring 75%, all thanks to the grading system. And some kids just can’t handle that, considering they landed in that engineering seat, leaving behind scores of other students. Leaving aside IIT's, I haven’t heard of any engineering college that actually has proper faculty. There are a million things wrong in the system, and it can’t be changed by any one person. People complain, no one ever does anything. And then something like a suicide happens and the easiest reason available is targeted -- a movie comes out on academic pressure , blame the fellow who made that difficult -- Someone puts an example of parental pressure, go blaming the parents. It’s a result of a lot of things, and sometimes we all just miss the point.
Talking about suicides, whatever the reason, it all boils down to the same thing -- They don’t have anyone to talk to. It’s very easy to stray at that age. It’s very easy to believe some things, and act upon something on impulse rather than thoroughly thinking it through. And when there is no one around to listen, it is the easiest way out.
Things aren’t very different here too, the difference just being that here we have a lot of colleges that are good enough, hence more number of seats to fill. Maybe that is why, I can see things changing here, and it will just take time for things to change there.
Competition is everywhere. Survival of the fittest rem? And it is always going to be there. In some ways it is again a part of human nature. So since we are clear that whether we like it or not, it is going to be there, shouldn’t we be doing something about it, like teaching kids to take it in the right way, how to tackle it, rather than blaming everything on competition when something goes wrong?
Again the discussion can go on forever, simply because there a lot of things those need to be spoken about or changed. And yet again, all that can’t happen in a day. Even if I have managed to change one parents mindset about their child’s future, or a child’s mindset about the expectations he has of himself/ others/ life, then I think I would have done my part.
And there is a difference between feeling like a loser and actually being one. :)
Luv,
Annie.
poignant. you amaze me. truly.
:P
no sorries.
not with me.
thats rule no. 1.
ratofy it. :D
no thankus either.
and well, memories are never unpleasant. its just the nostalgia that makes it a little sad. :P
ANNIE. :)
Any engineer who has had to go through the relative pointer grading system can tell you that. And when you are a 5PS in a place like IIT, it sucks, and the easist way out -- let me go hang myself.
i swear. and i have 2 5s.(yeah i m proud of it ) :P
u r ryt abbt the turning 4 help part. the thing is, classmates have their own crap to handle n d rest cant help.
isha. (mahn. u got a lovely name...isshhaaa :P)
yeah. true. the term is bookish. and in the first class of the semester all u learn r the names of the books available in the library and those u have 2 buy. tsk tsk...engineering sucks. big time. especially when u r in mechanical. they wont spare u afternoons either. its when the teachers r dying or dead that we get a day off. serious.
and as for the practicals, even when u r going crazy, the practicals are a fixed set of touch n goos. for eg, u d be given one long rod with varying cross sections n stuff n then u have 2 replicate that. thats all. u do the work but not the thinking. nothing new. and if u do buck up to try something, well have ur backside ready, the professors are very much interested in it.
ps; talk abt lectures. :P
Hey there..i thoroughly enjoyed the post. It was beautifully written.
I am one of the last commentors , so will not add my opinion on the issue , dont want to eat up more of ur comment space..
Do keep writing , you are very good!
@ Annie - Abe!! You have!! And you even went guitar shopping with him. :P
And whose fault is it that the kids/students just don't have the heart/balls to stand up to those two people who have withered away their life in the dream of their son/daughter becoming something that they truly wish?
"And there is a difference between feeling like a loser and actually being one. :)"
^^^^ PRECISELY MY POINT. The system makes even above average people feel like they're losers. And who knows, some might even end up becoming just that because they were made to feel so.
Cheers
@ T-Rex - Thanks!!! :) :) :)
@ Raj - Rules!!! *makes a face* :P
No lectures this time. :P :D
@ Gymnast - Thank you!!!
Your gesture is appreciated, much. ;)
Cheers
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