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Just a blink...


And another year passes by in the blink of an eye...



What an year it has been. I had never imagined that it would turn out to be so happening! There I was at the start of the year bored and unhappy with my life as a 12th grader and here I am at the end of the year- a first year B.Arch student at NIT Hamirpur! I had never anticipated I would land up here! Traveled north, south, east, and west of India, to finally settle in the north for the next five years! :D

At the start of the year I was in the normal teen phase-bored with studies, not interested in anything but chatting with friends, slouch the entire time, watch anything and everything that was showing on the television, listen to music till the crack of the dawn, and what not! Then there was this study phase-the entire month of March! And I did some serious studying that time-I really did. April and May was a busy phase too with filling forms for various colleges, arguing with my dad about my choices... I even went to Mumbai to give the separate exam for architectural colleges in Mumbai, but I didn't get into one...

at high school


 I was disappointed, depressed, angry at myself and my parents, confused, and almost at a breaking point every time I had a conversation with my dad. I felt that all they were doing was discouraging me at a point when I needed them the most, I felt alone and left out... That's when I started writing a blog... It was in June, I started reading and writing a lot to pass time. I thought I should make the best of this time developing a new hobby or something, so I joined swimming classes. And it helped, it was very refreshing! So I started having a daily routine that wasn't too boring. I used to get up and go swimming, come back and take a bath, a good breakfast, read newspaper as always and sit down to read a good book till lunch. After lunch I would usually go and surf the net, I was searching for good architectural blogs that time and researched about the new developments in the field I have chosen, and I did find a lot of stuff! I would sketch or do some creative thing later on, listen to music and finally sleep with a frown after checking the status of my admission...

My dad decided to go for spotrounds as that was the one scope left for getting a good college and we headed to Raipur. Most of my friends already had a college in hand and I had nowhere to go... I actually did have one college but I really didn't want to go there, I thought that dropping for an year was better than going to that college!


After a week or so, when I was just checking my admission status and expecting to see the same result, the happy news came in. I couldn't believe it at first! I reloaded the page again and again until I was certain and this was no joke! I jumped with joy when I found out that I was allotted a seat in NIT Hamirpur! And on August 7th I was on my way to Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh to start a new phase of my life-College! :)

college! :)

I visited so many places! Celebrated Dusshera with my cousins in Jaipur, Diwali at my friends' place in Mandi, and then the sketching trip to Shimla(unfortunately we couldn't stay till Christmas).

the train journey to Jaipur was fun...



Beautiful Mandi, situated on both sides of the river Beas.
P.C Google images(couldn't get a good click of my own)

                                   
Himachal Pradesh(aka The land of the Himalayas) is a beauty that words fall short for. You can't capture those scenic mountains in any high tech camera but preserve it in your mind...
The past 4 months have transformed my life, and taught me a lot. Specially the last 2 months. My thought process became more matured, I started understanding people, and realized that some people are not always what they seem to be, I learned to stand up for myself, take failures as mistakes and learn from them, and always be open minded. I learned to enjoy the little moments of life that pass by unnoticed, and realized the value of time...

on the sketching trip to Shimla :)

And now I'm back home, thinking how fast time has flown by, in just a blink of an eye...
Happy new year 2014! :)

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