Priorities and Reversals !

Its pretty strange that, when I was facing a time-crunch experienced never before in my life, I had a nagging desire to post something creative here.
I thought of half a dozen topics on which I could scribe and the world would benefit from my posts and accompanied time squandaring !

& yet at a time I am free and unfettered, I find it impossible to get myself to write anything more than 500 words long at a time.

This post marks another of my failed 'I-will-post-about-xyz-today' resolutions !

Of Honour and redemption ..

Read this mail I sent today -

hey,
just was reading through some of my archives , and came across this mail!
Well, Sem 5 just abt to end, & I am proud to say that in this mind
boggling nerve-unnerving semester, I havent copied a bit :D !
[as in not that not doing a bad deed, wud count for much, just that
resisting the temptations happens to a qualifying benchmark for
maintaing self-honour ]

It reminded me of If by Rudyard Kipling -
'If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs ..'

Rest is fine,

Lets see what turns arnd !
Shantanu

ps - Clearly, I didnt make a good first impression ! Phew !

On Sat, 5 Feb 2005, some-ta wrote:

> Hi Shantanu,
> I remember you did attempt lab2. However while checking for
> cogging, I found that 2 ppl dzz and d08 have submitted
> the same files.
> Did you allow someone to copy from you / vice versa?
> There are some 7-8 cases we caught. I guess this will go off as a warning.
> But I'd suggest that you avoid this in future.
>
>
> bye
> same-ta

As is happens, its not as much as lauding oneself for not commiting a crime, but rather redeeming oneself after shitting hard on one's own and family name !
[To those who wonder what I am crowing about, there arent more than 150 in our batch of about 550, who can claim this claim. Sad but true.]

Crazy ...

Crazy day, Crazy week, Crazy fortnight !

Nothing special, nothing ordinary !

So much to say, so less said !

Abstract thoughts max!