Gulmohur

The gulmohur rises high into the horizon
Its orange pales the evening sky
Its leaves fight to and fro against the wind
It brews a storm in the heavens.

Its symphony is a violent sound
It speaks of previous battles
With the sun and the moon
Whose radiance scathes its very roots

And yet the incident stillness is almost palpable
Its mystifying riddle holds a promise
Or will the gulmohur importune the ‘world’
Another day with its endless battle

hold on

How much vintage magic can you recreate with early morning abba? With a novel carrying you from rainy vespers to peaceful mornings? With brett lee posters and old curtains? With harry potter? Who am I kidding? Times are changing and fast. Do I pine for the days gone by? Youth, loss and yearning for redemption. Is it my story? Is it the story of every stranger on the pavement? Is it the sigh of the dying man at what could have been but sadly never was?
It isn’t my story. I am 16 not 76. I don’t want to be that moribund man and yet I am fooling myself with the frivolities of past. With the conviction that everything is same, something that sometimes deep down even I don’t believe myself. Am I trying to be what I was and what I can be, eventually to really just confront who I am? Have I grown out of these things? And yet I delight in them more and more with each passing day. ”The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.” I guess Pascal understood it better than me. And that’s that.

ps:happy diwali. hope you guys have a great time.

You know how there's always this one book everyone keeps talking about. You obviously haven't read it. And you just don't understand all the hype about it. UNTIL......................You read it yourself.

That's exactly what happened to me. Wherever I went, whoever I met everyone just talked about this one book. Most of the time I was scared to admit I hadn't read it (Actually I still can't believe I have the gutts to make it public). Well in the beginning I couldn't help it. I always thought it was like an over-hyped book or something. Like the time I read the god of small things and was thoroughly disappointed. So I stayed off it. Then one day when I was browsing the bookstore I found it thinking what the hell. I bought it.

And I'm happy to inform you I never looked back.

I think you should have guessed which book I'm talking about by now. The big one. The HUGE one.
THE GODFATHER.

What I loved about the book, is the utter believability. Unlike most of the Mafia movies and books. This book is completely believable. And his characters though totally enigmatic seem human and possible. The book is basically about The godfather or Don Vito Corleone. A silican Mafia head, he's the good honest maybe a lil wacko powerhouse of new York. Never before has someone been called god and a criminal in the same breath.

quoting page 213, book III, Chapter 14
"But great men are not born great, they grow great and so it was with Vito Corleone..............It did not happen in a day, it did not happen in year, but by the start of the great depression, Vito Corleone became the Godfather, the Don, Don Corleone."

Completely in love with these lines. Mario Puzo has done the most brilliant job with this book. All his books have an amazing mix of reality with fiction but this one is mind-blowing. He's created one of those books which will live forever. Unlike a Da Vinci code or Harry Potter which you eventually get bored of. This is timeless. And most of it is completely logic. As Tom Hanks said in 'You've got Mail', most of our everyday problems can be solved from this book. It has logic you can't argue with. And most importantly it has a spell-binding narrative which won't let you put the book down. Everything from relationships to hard core business is tackled here. And it practically forbids you to make your own judgements. Obviously it is violent and graphics not suitable for all ages (ahem ahem) but then this isn't something written by Musharraf that every word has to be scrutinized for moral values. And also very unlike Musharrafs book/novel you sometimes cant believe its not real life.

Enjoy it one step at a time. And if you think its good the first time you read it. You wont believe how good it is the next time. And for all those people still living in the dark who haven't read it yet. (clears throat) "Let there be light!"

OH GOD.... will you just go get the damn book. LOL

shubhs who kneels down in prayer for the soul of the don

The controversial delegate of USA

Before I start my discription of Inmun I'd like to say DPSMUN ROCKS!!!!! Its a personal statement I don't know if everyone feels that (most people in my committee did though). But I believe DPSMUN kicks Inmun's ass anyday... Moving on ... lol

We did get BEST DELEGATION... Or in better words We were the NO 1 DELEGATION! Owing to the fact every single delegate from our school were their committees top 3 contenders for best delegate.. But of course due to politics and a whole lot of shit (will mention later) we only got 2 best delegates. Here's a MUAH and whoopee to Anku dearest and Aanya.. Keep rocking guys..

Now starting

The Controversial delegation of USA

Yup it was controversies all along.... In every bloody committee! The crisis fell on USA too..
Starting with my committee: Humanitarian, social and cultural committee. The first day was quite boring.
The topic was totally ridiculous "the use of geosciences to make earth a healthier wealthier safer planet" Even my chair later admitted that it was a useless topic. How can you debate on it??
Anyways wasn't put on the speakers list.. Spoke a couple of times in a moderated caucus. The moderated caucus too was extremely boring. There was no debate just some rubbish going on. But the Resolution part was exciting. Me, Japan, Paraguay,Russia and France totally ran the show. We made a resolution together. Crazily went around collecting people. Everything was going along perfect. We had about 60 co sponsors. That is we already had majority of the house. But ofcourse controversy and conspiracies never leave me. Just before we were going to give in our resolution me Japan and Paraguay had a major fight about the main sponsor. In the End I became the main sponsor much to the fury of Paraguay. Who immediately threatened to leave. But Russia and Japan supported me so I remained the main sponsor but on our next agenda Paraguay left our camp. A fact that really didn't bother me.

Now comes the exciting part. The second agenda! This was when I became really famous or may I say infamous? I already knew I was going to be in trouble since our topic was "biotechnology" a field in which the US is the big bad wolf. And boy was I right. My speech went off well. But then came the moderated caucus. And all hell broke loose. Suddenly every delegate in the committee started attacking me. US did this US did that.. What does the delegate have to say what does the delegate have to comment.. I was able to handle the first few questions pretty well. Actually I think I had an answer to everything.. I did mess up a bit though. But my chair suddenly tells me "delegate what's the reason for your double standards?" I was totally furious. I wrote her a chit immediately and my vice chair and co vice chair took me out.. He basically told me I had been acting very conceited. To which I replied after all I was USA.. and they were jumping on me like a pack of wolves! After that he said it was alright and I could go back. So that ended the first day. Not the best in my mind.

The second day was alotttt better. Me having the upper hand through most of it. My resolution got passed! yippee. Then caucuses were boring.. The third agenda was kind of boring too.. passed a couple of comments etc. But then came the moderated caucus, and the certain delegate of Paraguay again tried but this time I got up and shut her and France up immediately. Even the executive board supported me.. (which was fun btw) Then came the crisis which was amazing, ofcourse it was on US. Something about China invading some islands US attacking the Chinese troops Japan helping out. Boy did me and Japan dominate. We accepted no criticism.. And the way we attacked the Chinese delegate.. Poor guy later wrote me a sorry letter....

the third day was soo boring.. Full of chaos. This is why I said DPSMUN is better.. someone lost our resolution papers. Then the plenary wasn't following the proper MUN rules. We kept waiting for some guest speaker who never arrived. We did practically nothing. The Deputy sec gen who was and I am not afraid to say this a complete ASS. Because of his own stupidity (since they were running out of time) and tension he kicked me and Swati out of the Assembly. We both were so infuriated coz we weren't even talking. We immediately went and started screaming at him. He apologized repeatedly.. But we stalked off. (which again was fun).. ass complete ass.

As the award ceremony approached each one of us (from the US delegation) was assured to be one the top three contenders for best delegate in their committees by their executive board. I had a lengthy discussion with my vice chair and co vice chair. (who btw were totally rocking) Both of them assured me.. I was one of the strongest contenders, along with Japan. Japan and USA were the clear favorites for best delegates and delegation in almost all committees. So when we only got best delegation and just 2 best delegate awards, (Japan getting nothing) you can imagine how shocked we all were.

It included Vipuls name being crossed out by Madam Pinto herself. Mine Swati, Sanjana and Hemantika not getting it coz we got best delegation. In my committee the weirdest people got it. Who I've never heard speaking for more than 10 minutes. It was pathetic. Truly Pathetic. Our executive boards were extremely sweet about it though. Some of mine came and found me, kept telling me it was shocking.

What really annoyed me, was that CHINA got best delegation. The same china whose delegates we practically crushed.. Whose delegate wrote me a sorry letter. If that was the state then why did they get it someone might ask. Because sweetie China was represented by Ryan Faridabad. The host school. The guy didn't even know how to speak properly.

Okay this has been a very looong post. So I'm going to end now. Just want to say something.. I think DPS Noida (Japan) totally should have won. They so deserved the best delegation. They were just amazing. And if my vice chair or co vice chair or my chair is reading this You guys were amazing!!! Please keep in touch. especially the co vice-chair ,thanks for all the advice (we really did annoy you)... And again to my fellow delegation.. Love you all.. Had an amazing time.. We all were excellent.. surely the best delegation there. Everyone knew we were going to win. And we did. So MUAH! (we btw were also told that we were perfect american politicians.. i was called an obnoxious and concieted american citizen which i think is another way of saying a complete american bitch)

Blabbered by an infuriated and hyper
shubhi
aka the controversial delegate of USA