Manas Garg Speaks

Of course it cannot be of either.. None of them exist!

But we do. And there is no mystery about us. We’re humans after all!

But don’t you think that friends can be more mysterious than strangers?

“when you really want something to happen, the whole universe conspires so that your wish comes true”
-The Alchemist

Sometimes you get this itch to complete things that have been pending for a very long time. Like for the last couple of days, I’ve had this killing thirst to finish reading The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Galaxy. I started reading this a couple of years back (well, yeah) but had to abandon for some reason I don’t remember.

So there I was sitting in my office on a Friday evening. What better way to mark the end of the weekdays than to get H2G2 from a bookstore and make the best of a weekend?!

I went to Walden book store - pretty nice. Sadly, They were out of stock.

I din’t lose heart - No Sir! I went straight to the City Center mall where they have the best book store in town - Crosswords. I made a dash to the fiction section and was amazed to find myself amidst huge racks of sci-fi. It did not take even a minute - I found the Douglas Adams shelf right in front of me. My heart leapt. I could already hear the drumming in my ears. I could easily see The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Life the Universe and Everything, So Long and Thanks for All the Fish and even Mostly Harmless!!

Later, the man at the counter told me that the Hitchhiker’s Guide to Galaxy is not expected to be in stock for the next 10 days.

Alchemist! Are You listening?

(This post will make sense to you only if you were in NIT Trichy during 2006-07 or know me pretty well)

What is it about Spider that I’ve been trying to prove? Our supremacy? Intellect? Or plain addiction to work?

I don’t really know.. Never thought in these terms when we worked. It was a real morale booster to think about changing the ‘image’ of the group in the minds of the campus junta, and once that had been done, the next idea to motivate ourselves was ‘work harder than anyone else’ or to be the ‘best’.

But all this was only internal. Only to motivate ourselves. Why we do all this is still not clear to me. Maybe we just love working.. and want to create a breed that loves to work too..

Or maybe its the recognition. When people stop us in the middle of the road and say “Hey! you’re in spider right? I saw your photo.. you guys have done awesome work for 1st years!” It feels nice.

No. I don’t think any of these are real reasons.

Here it is: I feel immensely satisfied with myself when I go to bed late at night dead tired from working in our lab. I feel that the day was worth it.

I’ve loved working for Spider and I hope I’ll never stop.

“You say it best
When you say nothing at all”Someone dedicated this song to me long back. Words were not as important then. SMS was Rs 4 per message, and internet access Rs 30 per hour. Silence was the most beautiful way of expressing yourself. And apparently, I used it effectively.

“Its only words, and words are all I have
To take your heart away”

SMS became free and internet access cheap. But silence became difficult and expensive to express.

I was communicating silence and they, 1700 miles away, thought it was a network problem.

I’m new to this thing.. The Blog stuff.. Most of the people with blogs I know have them in a horrible horrible state.. So lets see if I can do any better.. Lets see if the excitement lives!

Adios!