At first impression you seemed to be strict well versed stereotyped English Gentleman, seemed a bit strict. Got known from others you were the Fly man. At that time I could not have spelled Drosophila. In class I was at first could not understand your lectures.
It was really low ebb time for me personally. I was lost, I had no goals. I did not know what is research? Why I was at IISER Kolkata? Frankly speaking I had lost all the motivations what I had gained in my school. I was just freaking out. No desire, no aim, just roaming around as a young rascal. I was not doing well in class. never able to generate any project idea. always thought what we had read was not enough to generate any so called "crazy" idea.
Slowly got involved with you through you in Fly lab, found that you were soft spoken. What I liked most was that you were ready to listen any thing. My friends went to you and talked to you you listened to them, they got motivated to do project with you.
One day I also went to you with Abhiket, I told you all my frustrations and apprehensions , you listened all and encouraged me.
Slowly after some interactive seasons I got encouraged and I got motivated that it was not all end but just new begining. You told me to do project under me as I was too vunerable to think in Project. Project idea was to find effect of nutrition value female fly. I could have ever thought that with these flies you can do such kind of project. It helped me to break my view that all research work was not flashy, all research work was simple ball game but you have to have right tools to test them. I had no interest in biology earlier. Though in school I was member of Life science Hobby Class as most of my friends were in this Hobby class. At this point of time Dr. Swadhin sir encouraged me to join his Lab synthesizing Nanoparticles and utilizing it as catalyst in C-C coupling reactions. I was enjoynig both the Labs.
Though at certain times found it was waste of time and energy cooking food for flies. Through the project I gained patience. You were ready to help me in understanding each and every time. I can remember one morning I was having trouble handling Carbon Dioxide cylinder, when I called you, you came rushing from your me.
You encouraged to learn Research articles. Earlier I feared to read them, as they all seemed to be of high level and of no use. You also sent me articles whose link i sent to you. You thought how handling Drosophila will help understanding Human conditions. It was all fancy for me.
though i have not taken biology as my major, but now I am learning the art of research from your point of view. I can now search papers of my choice quite well now, which I could not have dream of doing a year back.
The way you encouraged me to present the project presentation was quite amazing. Earlier I was focusing on setting background with beautiful templates only. You though you can co-relate your subject matter with any artifact, you encouraged to present presentation as a star war theme, I liked it. you taught me how to write point wise in presentation. Though I did not got very good marks in that presentations, I cannot blame to you for that. But from there after I am able to co-relate my presentations with simple life experiences like I dream pt to present my experience in Nanoparticles as joy one child gets by playing Snakes & ladder. I have now learnt to design and imbibe two different ideas into a quite beautiful project which i am sure will be able to project in Near future.
Working with you set the ball rolling for me which carved a nice niche for me to think me about my Projects in Nanoparticles under Swadhin Sir and made me stick to the field even in all reactions I failed. Thank you sir, ( I know that you are not leaving the institute for fearing to pay bill for taking out for luncheon" just joking..) Hope to work under you in near future with Nanoparticles Fluorescence tagging with drosophila.
Monday, December 15, 2008
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Charm Of Re-search
I had never thought I would be pursuing science as my career. I enrolled myself at Indian Institute of Science Research Kolkata as I did not wanted to go in engineering line as lot of my relatives were pursuing career in it. I wanted to do something difference, it does not mean that I had love for science. I never understood what it was? Beforehand I never realized what make scientist so different? I feared that all brainy people are scientist. But being here for now almost five semesters I have realized that scientist are not always only brainy people. Like in any field they need nevertheless the talent imbibed with hard work and luck. They have to also follow some attiquetes which are being followed by generations of scientist. you can not invent anything every time. You should be hard working and if your perseverance pays, you have a distinction.
Scientist are different from Software techies as Techies have to follow certain algorithm and make some changes in it to make it better. Techies working in the MNC's are producing anything new. What they are doing its that they are wasting their talent for handsome money. Science is never taken seriously in India as people want security, this is high risk job, not only with pay but sometimes safety. We are too lazy too follow anything. Inculcating new thing is very hard so we prefer to follow easy paths. Thus we are becoming mere puppets in hand of some MNCs'.
From last 10 months I have been assisting Shuvankar Santra, JRF under Dr. Swadhin Mondal in a chemistry project working on Palladium Nanoparticles using it as catalyst in Suzuki Reaction. We have been not able to get any positive result in the experiment. But the whole charm or feeling is like that of a child gets while playing snakes and ladders.
When we first came to IISER we had no idea what was our mission. Due to sudden transform from High School to College and also the peer pressure of new subjects we slowly become reluctant to study. The whole concept was new and we had no clue what was going on? everything was happening so fast. I was sleeping in class due to lack in interest. In the first 2 years when we were asked to submit own idea for project, I always failed to do so. Beacause I always assumed that we had read nothing new to give any idea. I thought my idea should be like that nobody had ever worked on it. At that time I had no idea of meaning of the word Research.i wanted to know what was and how was research happening in each field even I did not had idea of what the word meant. In third year I chose Chemistry as my major.
Last december Dr. Swadhin told me to go through nanoscience. It was a new goal for me to learn about it. I googled it and read " Engines of Creation" by Eric Drexler .
"Coal and diamonds, sand and computer chips, cancer and healthy tissue: throughout history, variations in the arrangement of atoms have distinguished the cheap from the cherished, the diseased from the healthy. Arranged one way, atoms make up soil, air, and water arranged another, they make up ripe strawberries. Arranged one way, they make up homes and fresh air; arranged another, they make up ash and smoke."
We failed to synthesise Suzuki product though seldom we got Ullmann product the advantage with Suzuki product was that it was assymetric and handling phenylboronic acid was easy and mild conditions were required. While working i learnt to handle Rotavapor, Slenck line, Sonication, water line, working out in hood made my life tough at first but I knew these would come handy in coming years. These failures were like snakes. But everyday i learnt something knew whether it was from Soumyajit bhaiya telling me how to check colorless solute flowing in column or by Arup bhaiya telling me how to not waste any chemicals and use everything efficiently. Tamal Da was ready to help in tell how to do work ups.
Most important was the fact I learnt quite a bit what was research? It was not always to invent something new. most of the inventions are by serendipity. I learnt how to use Scifinder, Scopus and Sciencedirect , all these things were like ladders. How to use keywords to search something? How to read a research article?
Whole idea broke my hibernation. Now Ranjan whole was too studious and moron in school is back but this time hopefully different. It is quite showing in performance at class. I know I have quite a few goals. Yes the field of Nanochemistry excites me. But beforehand I need to have experience in core chemistry. That's my near goal which I am looking forward to do in Summer 2009.
Scientist are different from Software techies as Techies have to follow certain algorithm and make some changes in it to make it better. Techies working in the MNC's are producing anything new. What they are doing its that they are wasting their talent for handsome money. Science is never taken seriously in India as people want security, this is high risk job, not only with pay but sometimes safety. We are too lazy too follow anything. Inculcating new thing is very hard so we prefer to follow easy paths. Thus we are becoming mere puppets in hand of some MNCs'.
From last 10 months I have been assisting Shuvankar Santra, JRF under Dr. Swadhin Mondal in a chemistry project working on Palladium Nanoparticles using it as catalyst in Suzuki Reaction. We have been not able to get any positive result in the experiment. But the whole charm or feeling is like that of a child gets while playing snakes and ladders.
When we first came to IISER we had no idea what was our mission. Due to sudden transform from High School to College and also the peer pressure of new subjects we slowly become reluctant to study. The whole concept was new and we had no clue what was going on? everything was happening so fast. I was sleeping in class due to lack in interest. In the first 2 years when we were asked to submit own idea for project, I always failed to do so. Beacause I always assumed that we had read nothing new to give any idea. I thought my idea should be like that nobody had ever worked on it. At that time I had no idea of meaning of the word Research.i wanted to know what was and how was research happening in each field even I did not had idea of what the word meant. In third year I chose Chemistry as my major.
Last december Dr. Swadhin told me to go through nanoscience. It was a new goal for me to learn about it. I googled it and read " Engines of Creation" by Eric Drexler .
"Coal and diamonds, sand and computer chips, cancer and healthy tissue: throughout history, variations in the arrangement of atoms have distinguished the cheap from the cherished, the diseased from the healthy. Arranged one way, atoms make up soil, air, and water arranged another, they make up ripe strawberries. Arranged one way, they make up homes and fresh air; arranged another, they make up ash and smoke."
Eric Drexler
— Engines of Creation, p. 3, 1983
It was fantasizing experience for me it was the point I started playing snakes and ladders. I told sir that I wanted to plunge in this field. That's how I started working with Santra da. First I had experience with synthesising Gold Nanoparticles and performing Ullmann coupling with it. it was completely raw experience. Playing with nanoparticle does not meant that you have to work in vacuum chambers with space suit as we would have imagined. It was working under slenck line. I continued my work under him in summer, this time woking with palladium nanoparticles. Nanoparticles were used only to give more active sites in carbon carbon coupling reaction attributed to their large surface area to volume ratio.— Engines of Creation, p. 3, 1983
We failed to synthesise Suzuki product though seldom we got Ullmann product the advantage with Suzuki product was that it was assymetric and handling phenylboronic acid was easy and mild conditions were required. While working i learnt to handle Rotavapor, Slenck line, Sonication, water line, working out in hood made my life tough at first but I knew these would come handy in coming years. These failures were like snakes. But everyday i learnt something knew whether it was from Soumyajit bhaiya telling me how to check colorless solute flowing in column or by Arup bhaiya telling me how to not waste any chemicals and use everything efficiently. Tamal Da was ready to help in tell how to do work ups.Most important was the fact I learnt quite a bit what was research? It was not always to invent something new. most of the inventions are by serendipity. I learnt how to use Scifinder, Scopus and Sciencedirect , all these things were like ladders. How to use keywords to search something? How to read a research article?
Whole idea broke my hibernation. Now Ranjan whole was too studious and moron in school is back but this time hopefully different. It is quite showing in performance at class. I know I have quite a few goals. Yes the field of Nanochemistry excites me. But beforehand I need to have experience in core chemistry. That's my near goal which I am looking forward to do in Summer 2009.
Saturday, November 29, 2008
Mumbai Massacre and Counting
Yes we all are quite familiar with what happened in Mumbai in last few days. TV channels showed it as if it was very popular soap with very high TRP loathed with advertisements. They let us hear the sound of bullets and showed NSG commandos as heroes. If I am not wrong due to fact they showed the each activity of the Commandos even they showed the part of Taj being flooded with lights might have given clue to the mastermind terrorist and be reason of so many causalities. Is it freedom of press? They don't have even time to show any program on Shree VP Singh who died 27Th. When we were kids if a former prime minister or former president was killed all the programs on DD were suspended and we heard only sound of sarangi for 3 days. Thanks to these lot of channels we do not have to go through such days again.
Well I am here not to write these things. Coming to main topic again. We all are mere puppets in hands of extremism. I quite agree with my friend Sambit about our insecurity these days. Last time we were in a mall watching " The Dark Knight". After coming out I found out that I had 10 misscalls from my elder brother. When enquired he told me about blast in a mall at Delhi. He was quite worried about me and told me not to go out in mall quite often. Now if those secured Five star hotels are not safe then how safe is our common house not without a security guard or metal detector.
Fact is not that this is religious zealot or vandalism, this is just to create fear and let us feel insecure and go under so called extremist for our protection. But what they do? They brainwash our mind they sow the seed of hatred thus they overcome our feelings and compel us to do harm. Extremist cannot let anything to be safe and feeling which we can feel secure. How often we hear that 21 year old extermist who was Doctor or engineer arrested or killed? Sometimes I feel they must have also their dreams to conquer the world but coming in contact in extremist they are brainwashed and compelled to move in wrong direction thus ending their golden dream.The target is generally common man excepting Taj massacre where they are of xyz religion. The terrorist in general seldom inquire about their religion. It is Id cards or clues of terrorist show that they are of xyz community. This is misinterpreted as if they where targeting anti-xyz, thus hatred spread.Does they do not have feeling? I am sure they love their mother, sister or friend. Might be some incidents which misdirected them. Once you slip on a slippery track more chances is that you will fall. In start it all seems absolutely perfect, before you could realize anything you cannot return back.
This society has ill traditions. This doesn't mean everything is wrong. My dear its perception which let you think whether it is right or wrong. Make your thoughts clear before it is too late follow your own path.
Believe Believe Believe
Well I am here not to write these things. Coming to main topic again. We all are mere puppets in hands of extremism. I quite agree with my friend Sambit about our insecurity these days. Last time we were in a mall watching " The Dark Knight". After coming out I found out that I had 10 misscalls from my elder brother. When enquired he told me about blast in a mall at Delhi. He was quite worried about me and told me not to go out in mall quite often. Now if those secured Five star hotels are not safe then how safe is our common house not without a security guard or metal detector.
Fact is not that this is religious zealot or vandalism, this is just to create fear and let us feel insecure and go under so called extremist for our protection. But what they do? They brainwash our mind they sow the seed of hatred thus they overcome our feelings and compel us to do harm. Extremist cannot let anything to be safe and feeling which we can feel secure. How often we hear that 21 year old extermist who was Doctor or engineer arrested or killed? Sometimes I feel they must have also their dreams to conquer the world but coming in contact in extremist they are brainwashed and compelled to move in wrong direction thus ending their golden dream.The target is generally common man excepting Taj massacre where they are of xyz religion. The terrorist in general seldom inquire about their religion. It is Id cards or clues of terrorist show that they are of xyz community. This is misinterpreted as if they where targeting anti-xyz, thus hatred spread.Does they do not have feeling? I am sure they love their mother, sister or friend. Might be some incidents which misdirected them. Once you slip on a slippery track more chances is that you will fall. In start it all seems absolutely perfect, before you could realize anything you cannot return back.
This society has ill traditions. This doesn't mean everything is wrong. My dear its perception which let you think whether it is right or wrong. Make your thoughts clear before it is too late follow your own path.
Believe Believe Believe
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
High Five of This Summer!!
One more vacation gone. Yes its time to recollect Hi5 of Summer..
Learning art of Research ( No No its Re-search):
Research is art, its not always discovering new avenues but its redefining the things in better way and more interactive manner. It was for the first time I was in more or less advanced lab, working out with nanoparticles. Even after working for 6 weeks I failed to get positive result yet i loved working there.
Cozy days at Chakradharpur:
Often I heard that you live in Chakrampur( or what?), silly village. Where you did not have regular power, no pukka roads.?
Yes, its a silly village where there is no power, no proper roads, muddy and haunting houses. But my dear this was place where I found locals who where poor yet they were the most happy persons on this planet. They had no lust for gold. They were not jealous, they were helping. Even in hot sunny days you would not feel the heat. It is surrounded by the hills known as Jalebia. What happened I was not able to watch Olympics due to load shedding?I watched the most scenic beauties. These were the most mesmerizing moments. I watched small tornado forming. I watched farmers ploughing their field, sewing seeds and singing folk songs. I saw migratory birds, I watched hills as if they were snow topped. Birds flying above me in evening gave me raw feeling. I saw small school children queued up and praying Lord. For a while I was again at my school and praying. It was wonderful to witness hailstorms just cramping us in hours and creating havoc. Due to them power was out for couple of days. But it allowed me to think in my loneliness, to share my parents feelings, also listened to my sister's ideas about her future studies. Together we watched lot of movies and shared lot of stories. Also center of our conversation was Big Brother's job. Initially in vacation Bhaiya was with us but had to leave to join training, afterwards we had short conversations on mobile.
Photography:
Planning:
This is part I am good at. Yes in the earlier half of summer I was busy planning projects for rest of my MS course. earlier as was bad at submitting project proposals. Actually Professors had to give me their own ideas. Now I had lot of my own ideas when I realised what research meant. I planned about minors. Each time I called my friends I told them about my palns. some where about the day i had to return to college and start my project. Selecting the date to return. I planned to bring a bicycle but eventually was not allowed to bring it. I planned where we should go in vacation, yes I planned to visit mystic kathmandu. Actually I wanted to buy real rudraksha so I wanted to go there. i will tell about rudraksha another day. I told them how we are going to study?
Books:
In reference books I read Morrision Boyd and J D Lee very little. No dear I am in this section not going to describe about chemistry, definitely not. This summer I read about two contrasting characters. One was Bertram Wooster, a young English man who had a charismatic character but always kept distance from girls. girls were fond of him. Jeeves witty character saved him always from troubles. I read P G Wodehouse's " Thank You Jeeves" and "Joy in the morning". Wooster was always full of Woosterian attitude which always created troubles, thanks to god Jeeves was always there to save his master. This first time I liked a non-fiction novel. Before this I was always fond of adventurous novels. At first I was hard for me continue reading more than 2 pages but sooner i was engrossed in the book. Anurag mathur's Inscrutable Americans was the second kind of novel I read this summer. Gopal was lead character. He was a small town Indian and went to America for a course in chemistry. He always thought that A
mericans were after him to learn their family secret about hair oil. He was a mama's boy and at first tried to be away from girls. Sooner his mate Randy acquainted him about American girls and aroused his Lust. He was able to resist all his temptations somehow, But found love in a very unusual place as predicted by his Land Lady.
In all it was wonderful, rather to say conscious summer
In a nutshell:
A)Books I read:
Thank You Jeeves
Inscrutable Americans
Joy in the morning
B)Music i heard:
Roxette
Madonna
KK
Sunidhi
Rock On
lucky ali
Bachna Ae hasino
Rock On
Jaane Tu Ya....
C) Tv Shows
With my stars:
Heroes session 1,2 9
Friends session 1,2 9
Russel Peters 8
Nat Geo most amazing moments 8
Prison Break session 1,2,3 9
Byomkesh Bakshi 8
D)Summer Flicks with my stars:
Singh is Kinng 6
Bachna Ae Hasino 6.5
Jaane Tu ...Jaane Naa 7.5+.5 for Inox
Summer Delights:
This summers My stars to Restaurants :
Baskin Rubbin 4.5
Bar B Q 3.5
Sweet and Sour 2
Bhaj Hari Mnna 3.5 ( for simplicity) But deducting .5 for simple food and high price---3
Grub Grabs 3.5
Abcos 3.5
Eats ant treats 3
Kfc 3
Ajad Hind 2( for rolls)
Learning art of Research ( No No its Re-search):
Research is art, its not always discovering new avenues but its redefining the things in better way and more interactive manner. It was for the first time I was in more or less advanced lab, working out with nanoparticles. Even after working for 6 weeks I failed to get positive result yet i loved working there.
Cozy days at Chakradharpur:
Often I heard that you live in Chakrampur( or what?), silly village. Where you did not have regular power, no pukka roads.?
Yes, its a silly village where there is no power, no proper roads, muddy and haunting houses. But my dear this was place where I found locals who where poor yet they were the most happy persons on this planet. They had no lust for gold. They were not jealous, they were helping. Even in hot sunny days you would not feel the heat. It is surrounded by the hills known as Jalebia. What happened I was not able to watch Olympics due to load shedding?I watched the most scenic beauties. These were the most mesmerizing moments. I watched small tornado forming. I watched farmers ploughing their field, sewing seeds and singing folk songs. I saw migratory birds, I watched hills as if they were snow topped. Birds flying above me in evening gave me raw feeling. I saw small school children queued up and praying Lord. For a while I was again at my school and praying. It was wonderful to witness hailstorms just cramping us in hours and creating havoc. Due to them power was out for couple of days. But it allowed me to think in my loneliness, to share my parents feelings, also listened to my sister's ideas about her future studies. Together we watched lot of movies and shared lot of stories. Also center of our conversation was Big Brother's job. Initially in vacation Bhaiya was with us but had to leave to join training, afterwards we had short conversations on mobile.
Photography:
It was this summer I got chance to capture using Nikon D40 X dslr. It was a amazing experience. Suddenly I was a photographer capturing beautiful images, I had never imagined before. Daily evening I was capturing images of sky. The sky was colorful. Then I remembered in my child hood at my school I used to paint the sky with all colors but never realized I would saw as such.
Even Papaji was angry several times at why i was capturing photos anytime. He thought that if I captured more images the reel would be full quickly. But I had to make him understand it was digital. Most amazing pictures I captured was that of large camouflaging beetles and raindrops on leaves.Planning:
This is part I am good at. Yes in the earlier half of summer I was busy planning projects for rest of my MS course. earlier as was bad at submitting project proposals. Actually Professors had to give me their own ideas. Now I had lot of my own ideas when I realised what research meant. I planned about minors. Each time I called my friends I told them about my palns. some where about the day i had to return to college and start my project. Selecting the date to return. I planned to bring a bicycle but eventually was not allowed to bring it. I planned where we should go in vacation, yes I planned to visit mystic kathmandu. Actually I wanted to buy real rudraksha so I wanted to go there. i will tell about rudraksha another day. I told them how we are going to study?
Books:
In reference books I read Morrision Boyd and J D Lee very little. No dear I am in this section not going to describe about chemistry, definitely not. This summer I read about two contrasting characters. One was Bertram Wooster, a young English man who had a charismatic character but always kept distance from girls. girls were fond of him. Jeeves witty character saved him always from troubles. I read P G Wodehouse's " Thank You Jeeves" and "Joy in the morning". Wooster was always full of Woosterian attitude which always created troubles, thanks to god Jeeves was always there to save his master. This first time I liked a non-fiction novel. Before this I was always fond of adventurous novels. At first I was hard for me continue reading more than 2 pages but sooner i was engrossed in the book. Anurag mathur's Inscrutable Americans was the second kind of novel I read this summer. Gopal was lead character. He was a small town Indian and went to America for a course in chemistry. He always thought that A
mericans were after him to learn their family secret about hair oil. He was a mama's boy and at first tried to be away from girls. Sooner his mate Randy acquainted him about American girls and aroused his Lust. He was able to resist all his temptations somehow, But found love in a very unusual place as predicted by his Land Lady.In all it was wonderful, rather to say conscious summer
In a nutshell:
A)Books I read:
Thank You Jeeves
Inscrutable Americans
Joy in the morning
B)Music i heard:
Roxette
Madonna
KK
Sunidhi
Rock On
lucky ali
Bachna Ae hasino
Rock On
Jaane Tu Ya....
C) Tv Shows
With my stars:
Heroes session 1,2 9
Friends session 1,2 9
Russel Peters 8
Nat Geo most amazing moments 8
Prison Break session 1,2,3 9
Byomkesh Bakshi 8
D)Summer Flicks with my stars:
Singh is Kinng 6
Bachna Ae Hasino 6.5
Jaane Tu ...Jaane Naa 7.5+.5 for Inox
Summer Delights:
This summers My stars to Restaurants :
Baskin Rubbin 4.5
Bar B Q 3.5
Sweet and Sour 2
Bhaj Hari Mnna 3.5 ( for simplicity) But deducting .5 for simple food and high price---3
Grub Grabs 3.5
Abcos 3.5
Eats ant treats 3
Kfc 3
Ajad Hind 2( for rolls)
Monday, September 15, 2008
But I have to read!!
" You have a Organic Chemistry test on Tuesday, it will be one hour long." Words echoed for last few days. Weekend passed doing assignments of quantum chemistry and watching Dark Knight in Forum and watching few episodes season one of "How I met your Mother". On Sunday Night I slept early at 11:00 p.m. after finishing quantum homework anyhow. Before sleeping I promised myself that I will read it in morning.
Today I woke up at 8:15 am. Seems that I was a bit tired playing table tennis a lot last day. Now it was the time had to be prepared to go college. As usually some promises are made to be broken, I had no time to read Organics. I packed my Organics notebook though I had no class for this subject thinking I might read it in college. Thanks to Bradraj, he told me wrong method to do a problem in assignment and in all free time I had to redo the problem.
My Classes were over at 3:15 P.M. I thought I had enough time to read. I was so engaged in thinking in which order I would read that when Abhiket asked me if I had Rs. 200, Busy in my thoughts I gave him Rs. 2. As I entered Hostel Campus suddenly I forgot I had to read, My focus shifted to my Semester Project. A week ago I had two ideas, and was relaxed and I had ran out of time to submit a project proposal. But now as for one idea's prerequisites will take one semester to arrive. For continuing my summer project (second idea) I had to go to Haringhata, other campus, which I was not willing to go. I went to meet Prof. Mandal to tell him I had no will to go Haringhata in this busy semester to continue my projects on weekends to continue my project. Sir agreed and told I should look for another one. Getting some boost I started searching "science direct" and " pubs.acs" for 1 hour. My keywords for the search were " cell diffusion nanoparticle". i was looking for some papers that would tell me about recent studies made in field on cell biology about interaction of nanoparticles with cell membrane. I got papers over 30,000 but almost all papers required TEM, AFM etc p.s. high class instruments to study.
I was disappointed but it had consumed more 2 hours. I returned to my room, at this point of time I was tired, so for refreshment I thought to watch an episode of "How I met your Mother". It was 6:30 pm and was the time go out and buy milk. It was Ritesh's turn to buy milk. I called him but he was busy doing western blot in biology lab. I made up my mind to go and buy milk keeping in mind my Mom's words -" You should drink milk daily.". As I was half way down the road it started raining, It was the time to return. But I was not going to drink milk, which I should do. Here you cannot survive for long on mess food, you need supplement.I moved forward rather going backward. It started pouring heavily but I was amand on my decision. As I was very near to market, I realized it was monday and EC market remains close on Monday. Being frustated I moved back. It was too late as when I reached my room I was soaked. I was lamenting that I had not read, not had the milk and now soaked.
Now I took my umbrella and went out again in search of milk. I reached a milkman who daily sold milk in front of Labony main gate. I gave him Rs. 11 and told him to give milk packet He asked me which milk packet do you want ? 1. Rs 10. 50 for Mother Dairy or Rs. 11:50 for Amul Taaza. I told him MRP was 11for Amul Taaza and you were asking Rs. 11:50, why? He replied that yes, its true but I sell for 11:50. "Jaago Grahak Jaago" echoed. I took my money and went away. While returning I went to another shop, he was also asking more money. It was quite emotional for me that for milk I am wasting so much time and labor in rain, why should I pay more, even it was 50 paise. I called Ritesh again and told my story. He told he might try to bring milk, might be laughing. I felt little assured and returned. I was angry and forgot to study and again started watching the series. I was glued to my monitor for 1 and half hours until I finished the whole season.
Now it was time to go for supper. Ritesh told me that he had failed to bring milk packet.i knew it. After supper I watched one episode of second season and from then onwards I am writing this blog completely ignoring the fact that I had to study for the test. I knew that tomorrow the test was in the afternoon and still I would not able to study tonight as after writing the blog I was to sleep perhaps and early in mornong I had to go to lab as I had promised Shuvankar da to start a new reaction.
Usually I had completely failed to study for the tests. There was always some reason . Fact was that I had not study yet I was ready to face the test without studying . So here I was blaming myself again.
Today I woke up at 8:15 am. Seems that I was a bit tired playing table tennis a lot last day. Now it was the time had to be prepared to go college. As usually some promises are made to be broken, I had no time to read Organics. I packed my Organics notebook though I had no class for this subject thinking I might read it in college. Thanks to Bradraj, he told me wrong method to do a problem in assignment and in all free time I had to redo the problem.
My Classes were over at 3:15 P.M. I thought I had enough time to read. I was so engaged in thinking in which order I would read that when Abhiket asked me if I had Rs. 200, Busy in my thoughts I gave him Rs. 2. As I entered Hostel Campus suddenly I forgot I had to read, My focus shifted to my Semester Project. A week ago I had two ideas, and was relaxed and I had ran out of time to submit a project proposal. But now as for one idea's prerequisites will take one semester to arrive. For continuing my summer project (second idea) I had to go to Haringhata, other campus, which I was not willing to go. I went to meet Prof. Mandal to tell him I had no will to go Haringhata in this busy semester to continue my projects on weekends to continue my project. Sir agreed and told I should look for another one. Getting some boost I started searching "science direct" and " pubs.acs" for 1 hour. My keywords for the search were " cell diffusion nanoparticle". i was looking for some papers that would tell me about recent studies made in field on cell biology about interaction of nanoparticles with cell membrane. I got papers over 30,000 but almost all papers required TEM, AFM etc p.s. high class instruments to study.
I was disappointed but it had consumed more 2 hours. I returned to my room, at this point of time I was tired, so for refreshment I thought to watch an episode of "How I met your Mother". It was 6:30 pm and was the time go out and buy milk. It was Ritesh's turn to buy milk. I called him but he was busy doing western blot in biology lab. I made up my mind to go and buy milk keeping in mind my Mom's words -" You should drink milk daily.". As I was half way down the road it started raining, It was the time to return. But I was not going to drink milk, which I should do. Here you cannot survive for long on mess food, you need supplement.I moved forward rather going backward. It started pouring heavily but I was amand on my decision. As I was very near to market, I realized it was monday and EC market remains close on Monday. Being frustated I moved back. It was too late as when I reached my room I was soaked. I was lamenting that I had not read, not had the milk and now soaked.
Now I took my umbrella and went out again in search of milk. I reached a milkman who daily sold milk in front of Labony main gate. I gave him Rs. 11 and told him to give milk packet He asked me which milk packet do you want ? 1. Rs 10. 50 for Mother Dairy or Rs. 11:50 for Amul Taaza. I told him MRP was 11for Amul Taaza and you were asking Rs. 11:50, why? He replied that yes, its true but I sell for 11:50. "Jaago Grahak Jaago" echoed. I took my money and went away. While returning I went to another shop, he was also asking more money. It was quite emotional for me that for milk I am wasting so much time and labor in rain, why should I pay more, even it was 50 paise. I called Ritesh again and told my story. He told he might try to bring milk, might be laughing. I felt little assured and returned. I was angry and forgot to study and again started watching the series. I was glued to my monitor for 1 and half hours until I finished the whole season.
Now it was time to go for supper. Ritesh told me that he had failed to bring milk packet.i knew it. After supper I watched one episode of second season and from then onwards I am writing this blog completely ignoring the fact that I had to study for the test. I knew that tomorrow the test was in the afternoon and still I would not able to study tonight as after writing the blog I was to sleep perhaps and early in mornong I had to go to lab as I had promised Shuvankar da to start a new reaction.
Usually I had completely failed to study for the tests. There was always some reason . Fact was that I had not study yet I was ready to face the test without studying . So here I was blaming myself again.
Saturday, June 7, 2008
The Slog Sweep
Fourth last ball of the match, Pakistan was on verge of scintillating victory.We almost lost it.But miraculously Misbah misqueued a slog sweep. It was end of all Pakistani hopes. Epitomized the joy of every cricket fan of India.It was best day of my life as a cricket fan.Twenty20 has epitomized the passion and engulfed the whole nation.And thus borne the Indian Premier League.What an entertainment was it for month and a half.TRP soared once again Cricket fans across India grilled to see suc fine performance.Certain instances such as hitting by Brandon Mccullum, six hit by Shane on 2nd last ball of match, Akhtar's introduction to league, Marsh's effortless Century in Semis, sensational hitting by jayasurya. Though we utterly disappointed by the bad performance by the players of Deccan Chargers and Royal Challengers Bangalore, the whole show was well organised. Nothing to say about the cheerleaders, politicians have enough spoken about them.It had a fitting final, Infact Chennai were sort of 5 runs to lift trophy.It was truly team effort by Rajasthan Royals to win the title, though it was surprising that the players do not turned up for victory ride in Jaipur. Shane Warne's deep involvement with the players and setting a standard, made the fellow players to follow the suite. Hope that this enigma will continue with more fervour next year.This blog is open for discussion.
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