My first post after a long time. First i thought this blog would be about quizzing and stuff. You see i was so obsessed with quizzing in my school days, even though i sucked at it (Still the same) but then as days go by people change. The same is the case with me. So in this moment i decided about what this post would be about. Is it gonna be about why there is a change in the topic or about why there was a delay in writing a new post (Its been 4 years!!!)?
Frankly i have no idea. I guess i m more of having different thoughts in 1 second kinda guy. Pardon my english.( Its gonna get uglier than the above said lines). Well i have decided. Its gonna be about why i left quizzing or rather lost interest in quizzing?
You see to explain that first i m gonna have to explain as to why i liked quizzing in the first place. I can recall only this instance. Basically i think this was the main reason. I was studying in a mokka school called S.R.D.F.V.V (google it!!!) where we used to stand in the blazing sun for prayer. The only part about that was the students were allowed to do something called assembly program. Every week one Class can present their assembly program and they were different themes for different days and we have to listen to all the crap they say. This one week these students of class X-E after all the usual stuff started asking random questions and if you know the answer u can go to the stage and answer. Well one of my close friend( whom i thought was close but not. Good i just got another topic to write about but that's gonna be a new post for some other day) answered it and slowly he started getting the recognition. Well you know the mentality of these dumb students (was one of them). If one class started doing something new then another one has to copy the concept but should try to add masala and present it in a different way. Ok lets not diverge anymore. Anyway they started asking these questions and i really liked some of them. Even though i didn't know the answers for any of those.. yep not even one question.. (Well now you know why i suck) bt still i liked that recognition hoping some day even i would improve and started following those questions and reading a lot. One thing which i did was answering those questions in the reader's digest which they kept in the library.
Then when i was in 8th standard, i badly wanted to participate in the Hindu Young world quiz. Even though i was not the smartest in my school i just thought maybe i would get lucky. So i started preparing for it. Fortunately that was the time when i had just got internet in my home.. so started reading random things from yahoo. But then 2 days before the quiz.. my social science teacher called me and told that you can't participate cause you are not smart enough to attend the quiz. (Well that's so sad. Don't worry this is the beginning of sadness.) So there started my obsession for quizzing. When some people tell you that you are not smart enough to attend something which you really really love.. you get obsessed ( That's just my opinion!!)
Anyway things went on like this for another 2 years... i was never given a chance to prove myself in that school and maybe that really craved my feeling for participating in a quiz. Maybe i was dumb in that school. You see the whole school was like that. Their definition of school culturals is totally different from a normal persons thinking so lets move on.
I got admission into a school which was in a proper city.( Another one for a post) You see this was a very small school with just 60 students for 11th std. So getting into something was not that difficult. Till the end of 11th std i really didn't do anything. There were 2 screws: one tight, one loose who started this quiz club kinda thing in our school where in students from all classes can come and ask their questions and there was one teacher who would monitor this. This was started after we all went for a quiz where in these 2 screws won and where selected for the finals in Jamshedpur. So after coming back from that quiz those guys started this thing. And that's the beginning of a beautiful friendship. I was given opportunity to prove that i had some potential. I was recognized. For the first time, i was respected. (Even though it was in a strange way). I was allowed to participate in other schools culturals. I was encouraged even though they knew i was nobody.. they didn't care. I attended all the quizzes and went for quiz club meetings. Gradually i improved and became a decent quizzer. Me and the tight screw used to attend the QFI meetings which used to happen in the PS school every alternate weekends. Enough about that.( Time for the twist).
Then fate intervened. I got admission into a different university, one which the screws didnt get. Even though i didnt wanna take this university.. i was made to take it. I thought it was for a greater good. Slowly the contact got reduced. It was strong for the first 2 years. The loose screw kinda lost interest in quizzing because the tight screw diverted his attention to some serious quizzing (I m just gonna say it. He ditched the loose screw and found out another tight screw.) But then the tight screw still kept on encouraging me to go on and participate in quizzes which i did till my third year. I had my fair share of quizzes in college. Thanks to my continuous participation in inter-College level quizzes. But then i still didn't improve to his level. He had tremendous exposure and slowly i started hanging out with the loose screw. I dunno whether that had any effect but he started ignoring me.( Again My opinion) so i lost interest in everything. I became a nobody again. (Classic example of how people change eh?)
Anyway i still congratulate the tight screw for his success. I will always be proud to say that he was my schoolmate and a friend who believed in me when i didn't believe myself.( Argh! When did this post become about him?) So that's the reason why i lost interest in quizzing. Other stuff started happening. I now enjoy the company of the loose screw. That's gonna be another post.
Couple of things i want to clarify. Some of the things which i said maybe true. Others i made up. The facts may not be accurate but the whole jist of story is true.
Have a nice day. God Bless
Frankly i have no idea. I guess i m more of having different thoughts in 1 second kinda guy. Pardon my english.( Its gonna get uglier than the above said lines). Well i have decided. Its gonna be about why i left quizzing or rather lost interest in quizzing?
You see to explain that first i m gonna have to explain as to why i liked quizzing in the first place. I can recall only this instance. Basically i think this was the main reason. I was studying in a mokka school called S.R.D.F.V.V (google it!!!) where we used to stand in the blazing sun for prayer. The only part about that was the students were allowed to do something called assembly program. Every week one Class can present their assembly program and they were different themes for different days and we have to listen to all the crap they say. This one week these students of class X-E after all the usual stuff started asking random questions and if you know the answer u can go to the stage and answer. Well one of my close friend( whom i thought was close but not. Good i just got another topic to write about but that's gonna be a new post for some other day) answered it and slowly he started getting the recognition. Well you know the mentality of these dumb students (was one of them). If one class started doing something new then another one has to copy the concept but should try to add masala and present it in a different way. Ok lets not diverge anymore. Anyway they started asking these questions and i really liked some of them. Even though i didn't know the answers for any of those.. yep not even one question.. (Well now you know why i suck) bt still i liked that recognition hoping some day even i would improve and started following those questions and reading a lot. One thing which i did was answering those questions in the reader's digest which they kept in the library.
Then when i was in 8th standard, i badly wanted to participate in the Hindu Young world quiz. Even though i was not the smartest in my school i just thought maybe i would get lucky. So i started preparing for it. Fortunately that was the time when i had just got internet in my home.. so started reading random things from yahoo. But then 2 days before the quiz.. my social science teacher called me and told that you can't participate cause you are not smart enough to attend the quiz. (Well that's so sad. Don't worry this is the beginning of sadness.) So there started my obsession for quizzing. When some people tell you that you are not smart enough to attend something which you really really love.. you get obsessed ( That's just my opinion!!)
Anyway things went on like this for another 2 years... i was never given a chance to prove myself in that school and maybe that really craved my feeling for participating in a quiz. Maybe i was dumb in that school. You see the whole school was like that. Their definition of school culturals is totally different from a normal persons thinking so lets move on.
I got admission into a school which was in a proper city.( Another one for a post) You see this was a very small school with just 60 students for 11th std. So getting into something was not that difficult. Till the end of 11th std i really didn't do anything. There were 2 screws: one tight, one loose who started this quiz club kinda thing in our school where in students from all classes can come and ask their questions and there was one teacher who would monitor this. This was started after we all went for a quiz where in these 2 screws won and where selected for the finals in Jamshedpur. So after coming back from that quiz those guys started this thing. And that's the beginning of a beautiful friendship. I was given opportunity to prove that i had some potential. I was recognized. For the first time, i was respected. (Even though it was in a strange way). I was allowed to participate in other schools culturals. I was encouraged even though they knew i was nobody.. they didn't care. I attended all the quizzes and went for quiz club meetings. Gradually i improved and became a decent quizzer. Me and the tight screw used to attend the QFI meetings which used to happen in the PS school every alternate weekends. Enough about that.( Time for the twist).
Then fate intervened. I got admission into a different university, one which the screws didnt get. Even though i didnt wanna take this university.. i was made to take it. I thought it was for a greater good. Slowly the contact got reduced. It was strong for the first 2 years. The loose screw kinda lost interest in quizzing because the tight screw diverted his attention to some serious quizzing (I m just gonna say it. He ditched the loose screw and found out another tight screw.) But then the tight screw still kept on encouraging me to go on and participate in quizzes which i did till my third year. I had my fair share of quizzes in college. Thanks to my continuous participation in inter-College level quizzes. But then i still didn't improve to his level. He had tremendous exposure and slowly i started hanging out with the loose screw. I dunno whether that had any effect but he started ignoring me.( Again My opinion) so i lost interest in everything. I became a nobody again. (Classic example of how people change eh?)
Anyway i still congratulate the tight screw for his success. I will always be proud to say that he was my schoolmate and a friend who believed in me when i didn't believe myself.( Argh! When did this post become about him?) So that's the reason why i lost interest in quizzing. Other stuff started happening. I now enjoy the company of the loose screw. That's gonna be another post.
Couple of things i want to clarify. Some of the things which i said maybe true. Others i made up. The facts may not be accurate but the whole jist of story is true.
Have a nice day. God Bless
_/\_ good start. But too much issues you re gonna have to deal with. You ended it just when it was getting interesting. Expecting a longer post! Please to write more saar!
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