How Often...

How often does it happen that you really start liking somebody? I mean after all that looks-good, talks-good stuff. When u start loving everything and anything she does, from how she caresses her silky hair and how she smiles hitting directly on your heart to even how she opens a door or dries her hands after a wash. You start believing that there is no grander way to do things. You wish you could be with that better half of you all the time. Just look at those sweet lips whose movement is so perfect, it generates the most pleasing sound in the universe, all the time, those eyes in which you see the universe, and in a much pleasant way, those earrings blessed with their position, so close to her face and that lovely sweet pendant that does nothing more than make you adore her so very much. You feel so sublime when that smile of hers greets you.  Her beauty surpasses everything god’s ever created. You can’t take your gaze off her no matter how hard you try. The world comes to a halt when you are with her. You turn colorblind and the whole world blurs out. You can keep listening to her for days together, and not say a thing, because that disturbs her voice. You like it when she hums, and love it when she sings. All you want to do is be with her, do nothing, just be with her. There is something about her company that you dread separation. You envy her shadow, wishing you could be so near to her all the time. You don’t need to find time to miss her, you miss her all the time. And the only thing you know of is she and just she. Feels like she completes you, all that you ever wanted, and you stop wishing for anything more. You can forsake anything and everything for her. All you want to see is her happy. And when you are not with her, you start seeing her in every other person you come across, you just wish she were by your side, or maybe called you on your phone. Every second without her feels like an hour.  And nothing pains more than the separation.

How often has it happened to you?

Me, u ask??? Once..

~~ S i D ~~ 

The POINTless POINTS !

“Hurray, I’m off for POINTS training, it’s gonna be fun”, was the very first thing I said when I had my movement letter in hand. For the non-DRDians, POINTS(acronym for POst Induction Training School) is supposed to be a 5-month long “enlightenment” course for the inglorious ignorant nerds that join this premiere institute of science and technology and research as scientists, or atleast so are they called. The future could-be/would-be pioneers of defence tactics and strategies are supposed to be trained here with classroom lectures detailing various aspects of defence research being handled (or made stagnant) by the organization. Scientists are supposed to learn about ships, missiles, fighters, weapons, explosives and radars, and then use it @ work. Sounds techie, geeky and top classified data? Remember I said “supposedly” ?

Getting back to reality, POINTS is best defined as “5 months of sarkari paid vacations”. It is aptly termed as the most fun-filled part of being in DRDO. Five months of no-tension, no-responsibility life with full and sufficient pay! We B-Techers like to call it the 9^th semester. It all seems like college continued; wake up just 5 minutes before class, continue the sleep during the lectures, comment on lecturers and subsequently run after them for their notes, bunk after lunch and make professional proxy groups. Has been more than 20 working days now, and not a day has been completely lectured in and not a single class has started on time. Fortunately they end before time! They name a 50-paged copy-paste report as a group task and a slightly larger, generally unrelated, congregation of technical terms, borrowed from a previous such object, as a project. With studies seemingly the least important aspect of POINTS, we are stuck with no option but to rote movies and series on our blessed personal idiot boxes that come these days in so nice packages. 

The course, “POINT School”, continues for a period of 5 months, over which the Govt. of India spends slightly less than 1.8 lakhs per student. With a strength of aound 200, this amounts to 3.6 crores, which is but a huge amount. The system definitely needs a revamp and a complete inside-out survey. Maybe that’s why, this batch of ours is the last in the history of POINTS. After all, why wouldn’t the Govt. want to save money!! Lolz

      

          Love,

                   ~~ S i D ~~

Group A Class 1 Technical Gazetted Officer

           Now, blissfully ignorant

*composed sometime around the first days of June, 2010. the scenario changed a lot later.

*this are solely the author's personal views and the data may not be correct and relevant