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The gaming competition to be held at SIT was called off! Well we went there and waited for a good many hours and the games were slowly starting but then came the announcement that it’s cancelled! Crapola! Anyways, we made good use of the time eating in the canteens. They have a small but nice campus. The architecture of the main building was quite spectacular - spread in a circle with a central atrium with a lot of light coming through the translucent dome at the top. All Techno colleges have a similar architecture, I’m told. And we played carrom too! Their carrom board was sparkling new, our dilapidated hostel board a far cry from that! They have a fine basketball court with a neat gallery alongside for the audience. The computer lab room which was converted into the gaming room boasted of some 60 HP terminals with 19 inch displays. Most students except the final year people and some 3rd years wore uniforms. Vitamin G is in vogue and they were smoking it in open daylight in the nooks and corners of the campus. We came to know the reason why the event was cancelled. Apparently it had to do something with disputed semester results. The guys who were conducting the event were really polite though. They were really apologetic and returned entry fees to 2 of us who already paid up and played. One of them called us in the evening to inform that it is going to be held tomorrow again. But I don’t think I’ll be going. Can’t waste precious final year time!

I think I’ll resume my bad old habit of writing mails to my pals on every pretext… I mean I was mailin all of my friends since 2003.. Actually it’s good I hav come to realise. My revelation dawns after a walk down memory lane that is to say I opened up my yahoo inbox and read mails from the historic past… man it was a rly nice experience :)) I even blogged it.

All this social networks do provide temporary excitement and in a way are good to share with a lot of people. Nonetheless I want to be back to my mailing business like the good old days. Mails dont perish over time. They stay and make fantastic reading later.

It also boosts the harp of friendship.

Also I need to keep writing since my English is falling as is my hair

Well there is a gaming competition at SIT (Siliguri Institute of Technology) on 5th! I have participated in Rise of nations. In case you don’t know, well this one is pretty similar to Age of Empires. Only there you fought with elephants and horses but in RON you got nukes! I don’t have much practice really. Last I played this game was in July! Let me see if I can do much in a day!

Yeah from now on I need to keep the camera handy. To capture those shots that catch my fancy for I’m planning to restart my photography once again. Well since Orkut ebbed from glory there was no point in shooting for a while. Simply put, why capture photos if not upload! I had in fact distanced myself from social networks. Now with the rise of Facebook there is a change in stance. I have completely shunned Orkut for the last 2 years or so. FB is really the place to be and it is great fun to upload photos there!

শুভ দোলযাত্রা! Happy Holi! I am sure everybody made the best of the fest with absolute zest! After exchanging the niceties … let me tell you something interesting. Well well.. I took a walk down memory lane. Din’t have to work hard for that though. Just opened my Yahoo mailbox and read very old mails dating back to 2003. Those I wrote to my pals and they wrote back to me. Crazy kids we were! I had a great time laughing reading them Man those were days The internet was like new to us and Yahoo mail was the best mail service around (with it’s miniscule 4 MB limit)! It was like reading a diary. And it is a goldmine. My inbox.. I found. It’s rich with experiences and info I wanted to share with friends and whatever they shared back. Finer details of many small incidents. I totally forgot that one friend had actually got 8 in additional maths in Madhyamik but it’s there in those mails! Also, my mailbox has quite a few pics of girls a friend had befriended over net and shown to me I am quite overwhelmed by the mailbox memories rekindled. Since there were no social networks then people took mailing seriously. Or I did, at least. Also I had a different style then. While reading them, I did grow a tad nostalgic but not much. More importantly, when I read very old writings I get to know myself better. Also while reading them, at the back of my mind, i gave blogging about it a thought. So here I am blogging it!

I don’t like the North Bengal weather in general. In and around Siliguri I mean. I know everyone raves about the North Bengal weather. Only I can’t. I still like the Calcutta weather more I enjoy the North Bengal weather for like 15-20 days in a year. Out of which 5 will be during spring and another 5 in the autumn for sure. That’s that. Rain is too rainy. Summer is extra hot and winter is too chilly man!

I opened a restaurant. Feel free to hop in! It’s virtual! Hehe On Facebook! Yes… I did the unthinkable! This weekend I took the step into the FB gaming world. I ain’t playing Farmville though. I’m playing Restaurant Life where I am managing my own restaurant. Currently I serve pizzas, burgers, salads. Starting from a single table, my fledgling restaurant now boasts of some 4 tables! Another game I’m playing is Happy Aquarium where I’m raising 8 fish you see.