CHAPTER-4

A DAY

2 weeks out of college, and I finally get it! There ARE 24hrs in a day after all! That is 1440 minutes i.e. 86400 seconds! So, hows it going guys?

Do you get kicked out of your house too at 7o clock in the morning(to go for swimming! What a PAIN!!), and then again in the evening (to go out and "play" something!), or made to sleep at 1o clock (who in the hell SLEEPs at 1!!). Or maybe, its just a lil' better than my dear buddies who have already started with the "slogging in the naukri" part, or is it guys?

All this does remind me of the IIT life.. of course it sucked, it sucked like hell, but it was hmm.. "different". Take the 1 day before the convo.. reach Guwahati at 5 in the morning, and get to talk to 2 people at the bus-stop who you haven't even given a glance all these 4 years (and still don't know their names! No offence, both of you! :P). Get to your dear dear homely room and the next-door-neighbour starts with his crappy (and masala) stories!

Ah, forgot your cell in the neighbour's room, no worries.. lets jump over the balconies.. oh shitt!! A wasp-hive on your window.. and get stung by 15 wasps together! So, go and sit in the convo-rehearsal with lil' bumps all over your body hurting like hell! Yups, you got it! Next comes the hospital then.. go in like a He-Man with wings and the doc tells you to get 2 shots! Oh my frigging God, NO shots!! NO WAY!! In comes the nurse and what does she say? "Take off your pants"! What the hell! And lets leave the next few moments that passed in peace in the interest of the young people who might open this blog by mistake!

Have a peaceful (and a painful, in the bumps, both of them!) nap in the noon and get ready for the awesome (and the last at IITG) soccer session in the evening.. nothing can go wrong now, can it? But, it can!! Go and get a nice lil' kick in the ankle and you need painkillers now! On the brighter side, you were already having them coz of the sweet wasps!! Sweet Wasps!

And after the awesome Admin canteen dinner, a movie, few soaps, and the 2nd dose of the neighbour's crappy (AND masala, of course) stories, Ah sigh.. finally its sleep time. The time? 4o clock! Now, thats called NIGHT for us!

Now.. THIS is what I call a DAY!! So, what have you been upto?

CHAPTER-3

NEVER to DO list- Part I

2 and a half months to go, so this ones going to get edited real fast!! Ah, This could probably go on for ever!! And so here we go:

(1) Never get totally drunk!
Because you talk crap (aka mushy-mushy!), you land in the loo while looking for your room and you wanna jump off the 1st floor just for the fun of it!!

P.S.: For all my bros and sis, I never drink, never! Totally against my "principles"! And, WHY THE HELL are you reading my blog anyway! Shoo away!!

(2) No jokes about anyone behind their back.
Because then they kick you and you cant find 2 new players to make a crappy CS team!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Sainik1/J3HaaD
Ah WHAT THE HELL!

(3) Never talk to a girl on a friends phone.
Because he might put it in record-mode and your audio "Aaja, aaja ,come for me Naaa!" might become the highest 1st week grosser ever in IITG history!

(4) NEVER wear an all-whiter to a bash!!
Yea, you could do that and go win the so-coveted STYLE Dud Award!!

P.S.: By sheer "coincidence", a perfect set of those types are available at 259, Kapili, IIT Guwahati! Totally FREE!

(5) Same goes for translucent Kurtas (which were buried at an "undisclosed secret location" soon after), Multi-colored clothes (declared missing soon after!), Chyawanprash ads (every comp in IITG will be searched and the pics hunted down and deleted till the last one!) and hmm.. probably anything I EVER "try"!!

(4) No entering a room without knocking!
I'm sorry but no "because"s here! The Pappu-gate has left all those deep scars! I forever wish we had knocked! (lol lol lol)

To be continued very very soon..

CHAPTER 2

The Dilemma Dilemna

It all started with an old guy giving some presentation about his company ( guess it was ITC or Reliance ). 10 min after the it starts comes the 3rd slide with the BIG dilemma ( or is it dilemna? :P ) in it.

And NO, my dear people, its not what you think! The dilemma aint the job nor its the research, but but but the "Dilemma"! I so clearly remember that the 1st thing I blurted out was, "WoW! How can someone make such a silly spelling mistake in such a presentation!"

And here starts the REAL story! With a bet! Actually 2 of them! 100 bucks each! Who cares about the job presentation when there is spare cash around!! :) Long story short, we have a team of 2 ( fR33z3 with a friend ) against 10 odd guys! And of course, he loses!

The dilemma problem seriously got to me after that. I went through at least 5 text dictionaries and ( I guess, at least ) 15 online dictionaries, leaving aside the a night of googling of "dilemma"s, "dilemna"s, "dilemma dilemna"s ( which gave me exactly 43,300 results! ), etc etc etc. Until last night, I could have sworn on a on a jug of cold coffee ( my "precious"! :P ) that there is exactly one ‘n’ and one ‘m’.

And, the story gets more interesting. If you check this out http://www.kingmarketing.ca/weblogs/ajkandy/archives/2005/02/instal_a_spell.html, you’ll see that its still a riddle (I suppose I could have said dilemna but resisted :P ) today . There’s this group of us that either grew up in an alternative universe or are part of some cosmic spelling experiment who learned the “one n, one m” spelling. And mind you, these people include authors, media columnists and crossword puzzle creators, etc etc!!!

If ur too lazy to go through the link, a few of them:

• “Ha! My daughter found dilemma spelled dilemna in a book today! Abigail Adams: Witness to a Revolution by Natalie Bober, published by Simon Pulse.”

• “Neither regional nor generational, I think. I’m 65 and live in the UK. Both my daughter, now living in Canada and educated in England, and I myself - grew up to spell it dilemna. We were both horrified to find we’d apparently been spelling it wrong all our lives. I’d have bet really serious money on my spelling.”

• "Hello, spelling fans. I fixed “dilemna” over at Design Observer. Mortifying. I’ve been spelling it that way for almost 40 years. Like the guy says in Spellbound when his kid brother is eliminated, “I still think he spelled it right!”"

• “Here I am, doing a crossword puzzle that won’t complete without me ‘mispelling’ dilemna.”

And probably the best ones..

• “I have found my people!I just discovered this posting/thread through a Google search on“dilemna dilemma”, incredulous after losing a bet with my partner.For what it’s worth, she and I are both 38 and didn’t start school until 1972; she learned to spell it with an MM in Iowa, and I learned to spell it with an MN (I swear!) in Massachusetts.”

• "I am a 12 year old girl from England, and I have always been taught to spell it as ‘dilemna’, not ‘dilemma’. I think that dilemma just looks too…clutterish.”

And then, can CNN be wrong??














And the bet? Well to be fair, I paid 100 bucks to one of them. And the rest? Solve my dilemna and the monnies all yours!

CHAPTER 1

Who is fR33z3??

This comes after a lot of waiting and to be frank, I'm not still sure that anyone will ever want to read all the flimsy stuff I'm going to write in the future. (Yes, the future! So, better bookmark this page! :P). So, whats this all about? 1st of all, this is NOT my story! This is the story of an individual, a someone who has seen a lot, and yet has a lot to see in life, but he wants someone (and that would be me!) to write his story!!

And, why is he starting with all this now?? Hmm.. because hes got loads of stories which he gotta tell everyone!! lolzz.. Of course, he got his exams after 3 days, he got CATs and GMATs and XATs, he got thesis work and he got Counter-Strike to play, people to chat with and a long loooong life to think about, but aahh.. who cares!

So, where do we start from.. ah, probably the title of the post!! "Who is fR33z3??" Now, some people know him by this name, some call him iceman, a few others "lol",a few more maybe by his real name, a new one is "chimpu" and of course, how did I miss the "****"!! He has been known by tens of other names in his previous life, but lets leave that for now!

So, "Who is fR33z3??" Ya, hes a thin, a REALLY thin fellow (the pic's for "special effects"! Fell for it, eh! :P) who loves laughing (ya, you are gonna see him laughing ALL the time!!), who loves making others laugh if they're good to him. But, hes a real nasty brat who'll get back at anyone who ever makes that laugh go from his face! Of course, hes this thin, ya REALLY thin and weak guy, who can't go on beating up bad guys, so hes of course got his "ways"!! He loves listening to stories and spreading them around, some of them might of course be rumours, but he doesn't care!! Hes got loads of acquaintances, ya LOADS of acquaintances, but a few, ya VERY few good friends! Hes got loads of problems and loads of secrets too. But hey thats not chapter 1, right!!

And finally, the headline.. "http://thenitereporter.blogspot.com/". Which crazy guy has such a crazy link to his blog! When the world goes to bed, when the lights switch off, "The + nite + reporter" rises !! Hes an insomniac and he loves to be one! So, if you're ever in a sulky mood alone in the middle of the night with absolutely nothing to do, you know who to "report" to! :P

Guess, the poor writer that I am, I better end it here.. on a simple note..
" This blog may noT be thE BesT, BuT it SuReLy will N0T be Like ThE ReST!!"

Keep visiting fellas! ALOHA!!