Sibling Rivalry Goa vs Pilani

I know its an endless debate. I know the whole 'Goa vs Pilani' routine has been done to death already. But I've got this issue raging on inside my head for a couple of days now and I've got to get it out of my system. So here are my two cents.

Let me state the facts first. Facts that I, and for that matter, 95% of all the people in BITS Goa agree with.
1) Pilani is a 50 year old college
2) Pilani is, right now, a better college than Goa.
3) Pilani has its own wonderfull traditions and blah blah
4) We (BITS Goa) have the 11 o'clock hostel rule, which sucks more than a prostitute on cocaine ever can.
5) We are completely aware of ALL the above mentioned facts and do NOT need to be told of them again and again.

So now I get down to what irks me the most. THe perception of BITS Goa, that people hold. I know that ideally, one shouldn't give a crap as to what people think and all that jazz, but well...it becomes difficult to take all the shit after a while. We've got people writing on the forums that I chose 'Mata Harikrishna College' over BITS Goa, because of 'the place' (read: goa). :| 'The place' it seems. Its ironic isn't it? One would think that Goa, being such a bad bad place, would be on the 'please-do-not-go-there-unless-you-plan-to-sell-your-children-to-the-pimps' list of all the governments. But surprise surprise! It ISN'T. It's a bloody major tourist destination.

So why are parents actually afraid of sending their kids to our college?! Seriously, arn't they aware that their kids are somewhere in the top 10,000 of the country's best? And in India, where 3-4 lakh ppl compete for the best engineering seats, that qualifies them as Super NErds! Do they then, think that those very same nerds, whose sexual fantasies are limited to Irodov coming and solving physics problems in their dreams, nerds who get orgasmic at the sight of HC Verma (The Book :|) , will reach Goa and take up smoking pot as soon as their planes touches the Panjim airport tarmac?? 18 years of the so called moral values that have been zabardasti forced into the kids' heads, will all be brainwashed away because of the 'place' ? You have GOT to be kidding me. It sounds like a case of parents being insecure about their own parenting abilities rather than their ward being a dumass.

Not that the students are any smarter. Its a matter of YOUR career dammit. Don't join NIT Bhopal because your paanwalah said it was good. For that matter, don't join BITS Goa because I say its good. Read up on the colleges. Use the internet once in a while for things not related to porn. Talk to people. Talk to seniors. Get their feedback. Take everything in from everybody and then base your decision on what YOU know. Not what your chacha knows. For once, fuck what everyone else says. Do what you think is right. I chose Goa over Pilani. Maybe its a good decision, maybe its not. But that I'll know only after my 5 years. I took a faisla and I stuck to it. I'd suggest you do the same too.

Now, I move on to the next part of the post, which basically concerns BITS Pilani. I've been going through a couple of blogs that belong to the pilani people and the orkut community that they run. What struck me immediately was, how condescending their attitude towards us was. I mean, of all the people out there, you'd atleast expect the Pilani guys to support us. But they are pretty much like the rest of the know-it-all idiots who strut around twiddling their thumbs to make themselves feel busy and important.
Lemme list some of the things that I've read. 'You can never be BITS Pilani' they say. One guy said '...first thing that they should learn is that students at BITS-Pilani at least, do not give a damn about comparisions....we know what we are and what status we enjoy..'. Another smart alec went 'everyone should try to create that unique culture,rather than wasting time on comparing.'

First things first. We DO NOT want to be BITS Pilani. We'd like to someday become as good a college as Pilani is, but we certainly dont want to be them! If I'd wanted that, I would have painted my nipples white and walked around wearing pink satin panties.
Status?STATUS? Have you ever stood next to an IITian? People would cut off their legs and take them home as souvenirs if they could. THAT is status. So thats not status that you're enjoying.Its a case of mistaken identity at best. :|
Create a unique culture? Heck we have a unique culture! We'r lying dead drunk on the beaches every other sunday. That sounds like culture to me!

For more such crap read this :http://trikha.blogspot.com/2008/06/bits-herald-stop-comparing.html . Its amazing how the guy has taken two-three lines completely out of context and then gone on to blame and curse BITS Goa for everything short of the Influenza pandemic of 1918. Don't forget to read the two awesome anonymous comments at the bottom,.

EDIT: I just rememberd that I've added 'cross eyed homosexual monsters' in the tags but havn't written anything about them. So here goes :
Jayant Rajan.

There.Done.

You try and you try till you fail. And then you try again.

Call back the national guard, take down the 'Missing' posters and withdraw the 'gumshuda' advertisements from Doordarshan.Cuz I'm back. And I'm a man with a mission. So I ain't going nowhere now.

Enough of the hero talk. 'So where the hell were you? ', you ask..Nowhere really. Thing is, after analyzing my first two blog posts, I realized I couldn't blog for nuts. That prompted me to take a breif hiatus from this unrewarding profession. But then, a couple of days ago, I was going through random blogs and I realized, heck, there are crappier people than me maroing crappier posts. So I picked up a pen, scratched my ass and the rest as they say, is history. The pen was declared radioactive, the pen company went bust and started making frying pans. And oh, I'm here and I've actually got things to write about.

So between the last time I wrote and now, not a lot has really happened. The compre's got over.Mine went horrible, thank you. Sridhar cursed a million people a couple of hundred million times. And Jayant wrote another billion blog posts.Oh and he managed to update his status on Facebook a hundred trillion times, while he was writing those billion blog posts. A really talented guy, I tell you. A very excting life he leads. He'll wear a red pant and facebook will go 'Jayant Rajan is wearing red pants'. Then a little later he'll get bored of the red pants and facebook will go 'Jayant Rajan has taken off red pants and worn bright yellow pants'. In between, he'll manage to fight one eyed gundas while riding on tractors and wearing a pink jumpsuit. Thats Jayant for you. Always living on the edge.

Anywhoo, I digress. Shouldn't do that. Especially since the 1 or 2 readers I have, have the attention span of a horseradish. So as I was saying, compres got over, came home, went for my brother's graduation to IITK, realized how sad all we non-IITians are, came back and went on an awesome 10 day trip to Shimla and a couple of other places.. Read Shantaram on that trip and did a LOT of introspection. Introspection made me realize how messed up I am. So no more introspection. Will only read Noddy from now on. \m/

In between I also managed to have a quiet birthday. Yes, my birthday, if you didnt notice :|. I got calls from exactly 2 people.two.TWO! You know how small a number 2 is? 'Two" is like the number of times in an year, Jayant takes a bath.' Two' is the number of testicles Sigtia has + 1. You get the drift.. :X. Not that I'm big on birthdays anyways. Birthdays are a time for the rich and popular to show how rich and popular they are, while the socially dead give imaginary names to the inanimate objects lying around, sing happy budday to themselves and proceed to feel offended when their new found 'friends' inexplicably refuse to eat the dinner laid down for them.

Apart from the aforementioned things, the holidays have been pretty eventless. Had planned to do lots of 'courses' n all but eventually realized that it was very important that I prioritize what I wanted to do. Unfortunately, 'Sleep' occupied the first five positions in the list.The rest dont' matter. :D

There you go. A brief update about what all's happened that you should know about. As I said earlier, I've now got topics to write about. And write I will. But after another brief hiatus.

So I join the bandwagon..

I've been thinking about starting a blog for a while and today I finally got past the ultimate hurdle - coming up with a URL.Believe me,it was NOT as trivial a task as it sounds.It took the 5 of us(Me, Nikunj, Jayant, Sigtia and Anuj-who's contribution was limited to coming into the room every 5 minutes and giving us a smile that alternated between Thats-such-a-gay-title and I-think-I'm-gay) an hour of brainstorming and 3 packets of maggi to come up with -Theorangepapertowel. And as to the significance of this name, well, I think I'll leave that to a later post.

So why the blog?To tell you the truth, I really don't know.Maybe its because as Sridhar said, every third idiot around has a blog(which basically implies that Jayant has a blog since his size makes it absolutely blasphemous to call him anything less than '3 people'.And off course, he's an idiot.) Or maybe its because this will be a perfect place to vent out all my feelings, which generally fluctuate between frustrated and very frustrated.Although sometimes, and I can't lay enough stress on the 'sometimes', I do feel happy. Like the time a guy in my corridor(Lets call him Mr P) went to poop and realized after sitting down that there was no water.Priceless.

Anyways, this is pretty much it.My very first blog post!yay!This makes me want to run around outside in circles screaming "Eureka Eureka",but I'm half naked, and I don't think the sight of my stomach wobbling around would please my rather sensitive neighbours.So I'll give it a pass.For now.