Sree

Disclaimer : Unusually high dose of masala and imagination added. KRRRINGGGGGG... The alarm echoed all over the four corners of H11 hostel. "Kaun gadha phone kar raha hai itni subah".  Neha picked up the phone. "Neha, this is Tarun here. Come to KV grounds at 7 am." "Acha it was you. Don't worry Tarun, I will be there at 7 sharp" True to her word she reached the ground at sharp 7 am. As usual, everyone except the lazybones Sree, had reached the grounds. "C'mon my boys, aaj ye match hamko jeetna hi hai. Woh Sree ka bachha abhi tak aaya nahi kya.Osko do thapad doonga. Aane do osko." After 10 minutes or so, Sree somehow managed to reach the ground after which the match started. Day-7 : Semi finals between Ultimate Warriors and " The Strikers " Toss was won by "The Strikers" and they chose to bowl first. For Ultimate Warriors, Tarun the owner came out for batting along with Uday. Tarun started bl...

Day 5 - as usual had to cut short my sleep and get by at 6:30 am to "report" at the ground for our "practise" match against Scorpions. It was a practise match because we have already qualified for the semis. We had taken a decision the previous day that we will stick to the following strategy - " Play our worst game, make the other teams think that we can easily be pushed over and thus make them over confident during the semi final match ". Though others will find it very hard to stick to the game plan, it will be a cake walk for me since it comes naturally to me. But finally we did manage to execute the script to perfection. Here's how. After winning the toss, we elected to ball. Sagar, though he struggled to stick to our team plan, he did manage to put up a credible performance and managed to give away 15 odd runs, though the team expected him to give atleast 20 runs away. Uday came in next and did his part well. The opponents were well in sigh...

Aha what a match....what a godgiri match!!!It was one of the most mind boggling matches ever played in the history of 7-over international matches. Read on to find out how history was made today. Our today's match was against Dark Knights, one of the favourites to win KPL. They won the toss and elected to bat. We made a bowling change and asked Tarun to open the bowling. And it worked!!!He bowled a good line and length and gave away only 9 runs. Sagar was the next bowler. He was not at his best today and after he was done with his over the score read 2 overs 19 runs. Uday came in next and wrested the initiative back with a tight over. Sagar came in to bowl his second over. Sagar sensed danger. "Kya fart hei!!!Koi runs hi nehi bana raha hei ye Fart Knights waale. Agar chase karne ke liye runs hi nehi hei tho BCCK* ko mere batting skills ke baare mei kaise patha chalega" BCCK * - B oard for C ontrolling students from playing C ricket in K resit By the end of Saga...

After a great first day yesterday, Ultimate Warriors found their match today - Powai Panthers,who were licking their wounds after getting mauled yesterday by Dark Knights, came right back into the tournament with this win. As for the Ultimate Warriors, we had a point to prove - that winning is not everything, we also know how to lose a match. When you are on a winning streak, it gets so boring after a while. So a good change for us I guess. The match started at around 7:30 am. Both the teams were in high spirits. Maate was looking unusually energetic today. Wonder whether it had anything to do with the sudden and mysterious disappearance of about a dozen Aloo parathas in H11 yesterday night. We won the toss and elected to bat. As we were getting ready for the ultimate destruction of our opponents bowling, Tarun suddenly realised one thing - Sagar has not yet reached the ground. "Idiot he must still be sleeping. Someone call him up. Meanwhile me and Kiran will open the inning...

It's KPL season folks. For the uninitiated, Kresit Premier League (KPL), the baap of IPL, is organised and played by the CSE Mtech students. It was started by our seniors last year and we are continuing the tradition this year with much more vigour. This year the prize money for the winning team is KPL $3500. There are 5 teams with one girl in each team. Special rules were made to make sure girls contributed equally to the win(or loss) of the team. Auctions were conducted and a cost was fixed for each player. The starting price of each player was Rs.10. The costliest player in the auction was Kiran TVS with Rs.265 -  narrowly overtaking my cost of Rs.40. More details of KPL can be found here . All the teams have been practising vigorously for the past few days. Keeping in mind the big expectations that my team had in me due to the heavy cost they had to pay to buy me out, I wanted to give my best too. So I spent 2 days googling on how to hold a cricket bat properly and also on ho...

In IITB we have a very noble initiative called Abyasika , whose purpose is to improve the educational standards of the nearby slum children. Though the initiative has been going on for years, I came to know about this only during my 2nd year in IITB. Now it's been around 8 months since I started going for this, though I sincerely wish I could have joined this from my 1st year. Everyday a batch of volunteers go to the slums near IITB, and help the children with their homework, clarify the doubts that they might have which, I guess, either they are afraid to ask the teachers or may not have understood when it was taught in their class. It is not at all easy to make a small kid understand what something means, especially kids in the age group of 11-13. These children go to the nearby govt aided public schools where the quality of the teachers are one of the lowest. The  level of education of a kid in these schools is much below the equivalent education level of his or her counterp...

Out of the many courses that a CS student in IITB can choose, the one that stands out is CS*** (let's keep this a suspense). This is a course that is tailor made for those students who wants to spent their academic semester on anything but academics. Obviously I too have credited this course. Now the natural question that anyone will ask is why is this course so attractive for lazy bones like me? Well, for that, one first needs to understand IITB :- "It is not the IITB that one learns from books and parents" "It is the IITB of boys who have to fight with 1000 other guys to win over 50 odd girls" "It is the IITB of students who have taken a pledge to start their assignment work only when one day is left for it's submission" "It is the IITB of Boroles and Kashyaps whose technical conversation makes you wish you were dead" "It is the IITB of students who burn the midnight oil only to get screwed up in the exam the next day...