Between the tough placement season going on in IIT and all my dear friends busy with that , I flung to a far part of India, Guwahati to attend a conference meant for the students and by the students. More than just an academic trip, it was much more than that. A chance to interact with different people yet so similar in many respects (afterall all iitians are) and also some senior grads from Germany. The first part was the lecture we were supposed to deliver, mine dealt with blood flow simulation on a cell processor designed by IBM. So it was all interdisciplinary and a very new thing for me and above all beyond my routine acads. The most amazing aspect of this technology that in order to speed up simulations , special cell processor have been derived from playstations employed by youngsters to speed up gaming power( and they have eventually turned out to be more powerful than supercomputers of this age). Hence it was all very interesting and I cracked the lecture. Then comes Guwahati and particularly Assam, a very different state from where I live that is the far eastern part of India. The culture, its ethnicity is all very different and we witnessed all that when we went around visiting two temples. The place that is IIT Guwahati is undoubtedly the most beautiful of all iits. The place has every inch of what is called the scenic beauty. The academy also arranged cruise trips for us which was another thrill to step out from conference rooms and detailed technical discussions. The experience provided us everything from learning ( yeah I mean it :D) to a holiday. Such kind of conference is the first of it’s kind where students that is young undergrads deliver lectures and profs listen. The people i.e. mainly the co-iitians of host iit were amazing( hats off the hospitality we received). Above all went good and ended good.

On a bright sunny day I started staring on the ground where the sunshine was spreading its glitter. I continued staring at that serene glow, so bright yet so soothing; an amazing peace was there, something I wanted for a while since so many days. Life is really amazing, brings its treasures in forms you can’t even imagine sometimes.

A tryst with the self

The road of life stands in front
Stands long, sometimes dark, at other times bright

I am all by myself, walking on it
The people I have, around me a lot

Some who love me, care for me
Some who want to get rid of me

Some whom I love, and smile due to them
Some whom I have lost, and regret at life due to them

But at the bottom line it’s definitely a lonely road
I have seen heights of friendship, love, pain, hatred

Past is now both sour and beautiful
Present is where I am and future is a struggle

My heart cries, aches, longs for things that I have lost
But my mind is struggling to get rid of the things that have ceased to exist

I was blessed to have to have all I possess today and also what I have left over
A belief is more firm today than it was ever

That whatever happens ,happens for some good and due to all we deserve.

Recently I read the book “Who moved my cheese?”. An overall nice book with an amazing effort to touch the most complex side of life with an amazing simplicity………the ability to see changes, to deal with them , to adapt to them and to move in life seeing them occurring. Changes occur in everybody’s life and they are bound to occur else we might become extinct if life was always to be the same routine, monotonic. We have to learn to welcome any change with a smile if it is beautiful and with courage to face it if it comes with a sour note. We become aware of our hidden perspectives only when something occurs against our will. One must move ahead keeping his/her basic values and ethics intact. It’s always better to adapt rather than just quitting everything if it goes on a wrong track. Every change can be turned to a smile, depends on only how we face it.