School worshipping

That’s how a friend of mine puts it. School worshipping. Schools will always have worshipping alums but what used to beat me is what separated a generic Jimmy Jones school, from schools with a devoted alumni network, say St. Xaviers or Don Bosco. what arouses that kind of worship?  Now after 3 months of work, 6 months of planning and 5 years of dreaming and anticipation, I know the answer to the riddle.

Come January 1, 2009, things will change. It will be a whole new era for the Durgapur St. Peterians. Most people call me a modest person but I am goddamned proud to proclaim I am  the one who planned, coordinated and worked together with like minded people to bring on the most sweeping positive change that has ever occured to St. Peter’s (formerly Benachity High) School, Durgapur, the oldest and the best school in the region.

It’s something that will go down in the history books, something that people will remember us by. The t-shirt below is a memento to everything we have worked for in the past few months.

If I die tomorrow I will die a happy man.

Premonitions

I suffer from APS. Acute Premonition Syndrome. I see all those middle aged men every other day in streets, in movies, reminiscing with their school and college buddies about college chicks, highs school crushes, all the what should’ve beens and what ifs and I get the blues of APS. I guess it’s inevitable. Sometimes I think it’s better not to have any memory of the past. It’s better that way. Otherwise, it’s too much blues. Blues blues blues. The weight is just too much.  Then the thought that in 10 years I’m going to be 31 (and I might not live that long who knows?) makes me sit in my chair and plan all the things I’ve daydreamed about. Believe me, without proper planning daydreams remain just that, daydreams.

Meanwhile, my good friend Abhi bagged a really meaty job (besides the one he already nabbed, which he’s now ditching) in his engineering campus selections bout. And by meaty I mean he got the highest pay packet in his campus, and probably the highest of all our mutual friends. I’m happy for him. He was always a mr. smartypants.

In fact every guy from my school batch, except for those doing an MBA/Masters, has a job offer to boot, even guys who weren’t exactly “brains” and even the supposedly hopeless average joes/janes have decent paypackets to stuff their pockets. Good God! India is shining indeed.

Signal Patterns

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Regret. Rather the fear of regret, and premonitions. Lately, premonitions has so changed the way I act and think.

Self backslapping

It never fails to amaze me how proficient I’ve become at weaving lies. Sometimes it’s scary. I should consider a career in acting. The ability of distancing the self from conscience while distorting the truth to people you know, love, admire, even despise requires significant acting chops. I’m naturally good at being a doppelgänger. Putting on someone else’ skin, pretending not being myself comes naturally to me.

It’s a gift. And a double-edged sword. I’ve already been bruised few times. Must be careful.

On the other hand, I absolutely dig digging this song. Keane are the best thing to come from East Sussex since, oh well, Wulfnoth Cild.

(PS: Yes i know it’s an anime video, but amateur anime music videos, I dig you guys too. You guys make the songs feel alive.)