Friday, September 23, 2005

When everything doesn't go right.

Today morning was not the best of all mornings. We had managed to get the bathroom door locked from inside and we had to use the other rest-room, which does not have a bath. I just dwiddled away some time in the office and then came back....... and after walking in the scorching sun , the only thing I could think of was I have to get a nap. After coming home and cooking for my turn, Niyanta and Nigel, the two under-grad freshmen who have joined this year came over. We all went over to my department where we had our grad tea. The feasting was on ice-creams and cakes. Soon after was the meeting for WICS, or women in Computer Science. I had three slices of pizza with coke. Then in the night we had a reception in the Arizona state museum for International Friends. The spread was awesome, with cookies, brownies, salads , dips, ........ but I was already too full to even think of another round.

Just sometime in the afternoon, I was telling myself how good life seemed. This seemed to be exactly what I had wanted to do always. The exchange of ideas, the freedom of expression, the teacher's love for what he was teaching ....and this automatically followed from his work in the area, the open debates and discussions and finding faults and criticising what we knew as facts, questioning the grounds, assumptions, validity , weaknesses..... it was a whole new experience, and something which I couldn't enjoy more.
:) It turned out in the afternoon that I got less for a slipshod assignment I had turned in. That was ofcourse enough to turn my smile to a frown. It doesn't matter but anyways.

The other thing I noticed was my english is totally going to the dogs. I am always out of proper expressions these days, searching for an appropriate word to phrase my thoughts in. When I re-read my last post , I realised how badly my english is decaying.
Thoughts for the day ....hmmm...... look at the flip side of the coin. :) and you'll find a reason to smile.

6 comments:

Sarit said...

Hey...

Thanks for the translation.:) It was great. I must admit, it's a beautiful poem. Also, thanks for letting me know that what I had sent you, wasn't the complete poem. I can't wait to read the entire poem.

But it still eludes me as to why the girl would leave someone who treats her like a goddess for someone who doesn't. Anyways, it's not that girls always make sense :p

Thanks again and btw, u've got a great blog...keep writing!

Anshuman said...

ah i know, the few seconds of the day, when the smile I have been flaunting takes a U-turn, coz of something going wrong ... then at the end of the day, I always felt - what a bright start, but why was a spoiler to come !?

Ofcourse the next day, I would realise that the li'l disaster the day before wasnt worth exchanging my smiles for a frown. It never is ...

Sarit said...

Thanks,

Your translation served it's purpose... and finally I was able to understand it better

http://sarit.blogspot.com/2005/10/shesher-kobita-last-poem.html

Alex said...

Hey...
No update since looong...wazz up?

Wondering Wanderer said...

hi preetha,

hit upon ur blog from saurabh srivastav's site.. he was my engg. college mate..
nice blog u have..

shubham

Anshuman said...

where are the updates ? I want updates whhooaaaahhh :-(((((