This is a song that I've recently fell in love with. Its by an artist called Enya (may it be)...
It's basically an iteration of the Lord if the Rings (part 1) soundtrack (maybe thats the reason why I love it so much..)
May it be an evening star
Shines down upon you
May it be when darkness falls
Your heart will be true
You walk a lonely road
Oh! How far you are from home
Mornië utúlië (Darkness has come)
Believe and you will find your way
Mornië alantië (Darkness has fallen)
A promise lives within you now
May it be the shadow's call
Will fly away
May it be your journey on
To light the day
When the night is overcome
You may rise to find the sun
Mornië utúlië (Darkness has come)
Believe and you will find your way
Mornië alantië (Darkness has fallen)
A promise lives within you now
A promise lives within you now
Hostel Woes
To say that we live in a 3 star hotel based in Ahmedabad city would not be entirely false. I mean, where else do you get rooms with customized thermostats for your ACs, small refrigerators, a toaster, a microwave, a study desk, a chair, a bed (very… very cozy), quilt, pillow, a small bedside table, and a 24 hr hot water running bathroom?
Sounds awesome isn’t it? Well, as a matter of fact it is all hunky-dory from the outside. But what lies inside is a little disheartening. Firstly the lighting inside the room is quite low, typically like a hotel. There are 2 chandeliers with 3 bulbs in each but are facing upwards instead of facing downwards.
You certainly can enjoy all the serenity and low lighting around you for a day or two at the max. Afterwards you need some light. Some real light for that matter. And the room remains closed all day so natural air circulation is out of question as well.
I believe, we Indians, at least I for that matter are not accustomed to closed and controlled environments. The weather in
It has been a long time since I walked in real sunlight. The rooms are temperature controlled, buses are air tight and again temperature controlled. The entire SPJCM campus is… again temperature controlled.
You have no feeling of what the whether outside is. Your fingers are not accustomed to the flowers in the garden. Your feet don’t touch the dry sand outside the building at all. True, your feet remain clean; true, you wont ever catch cold despite the cold weather outside; true, you wont ever need to bear the grime and the smell of the sewage under you. There wont be any potholes, no power cuts, nothing that would disturb your mind even the slightest.
But what’s also true is that by removing all the things that would make life uncomfortable, life itself has become quite uncomfortable, quite numb.
There are however few things that almost blows away all the deadened feeling. One, your laptop; it becomes your constant companion. Believe me, if there’s one that you need to buy cautiously is your laptop. Make sure you’ve got the right specifications. It’ll be with you for an entire year.
An iPod is an added advantage.
But the activity that beats them all is multiplayer gaming…! You’ve got more than 20 laptops on one floor, you’ve got wireless network. What else do you need? Just load up Counter Strike and you’re on shooting the lives out of your room-mates.
And yes, it’s also seriously addictive. Just within a week of discovering multiplayer gaming we over played one day only to realize that we hardly had 4 hours left to sleep…! It happens. But I guess that’s the fun of an MBA life. And it has just begun.
I guess that’s it. It’s really nice to have facilities in a hostel. It helps you concentrate on more important stuff, namely studies. Only, with all the controlled environments around you, you’ll have to make an effort so that you’re in touch with nature and your surroundings. I guess that’s the most important thing to have a sound mind and body.
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