BENJAMIN JONES GOES SWIMMING

BENJAMIN JONES GOES SWIMMING

Benjamin Jones in confident tones
told his wife, "On the fourth of July
I think I'll compete in the free-for-all meet.
I bet I can win, if I try."

But his wife said "My word! How very absurd!
You haven't gone swimming for years.
With others so fast, you're sure to be last,
And I'll blush to the tip of my ears."

Well, the Fourth quickly came, and waiting acclaim
Were wonderful swimmers galore,
Each poised in his place for the start of the race,
While spectators crowded the shore.

The contest began, and Bengy, poor man,
Was passed on the left and the right.
His pace was so slow that a crab saw his toe
And thought it would venture a bite.

Ben noticed the crab as it started to grab
And--perhaps the result can be guessed:
The thought of his toe in the claw of his foe
Made him swim like a swimmer possessed!

And the crowd on the shore sent up a great roar
As Ben took the lead in the dash,
While his wife on the dock recieved such a shock
She fell in the lake with a splash.
                         

                                          By Aileen Fisher

Sitting Idle

April14,2011
A few months back my friend in the other sem said said that her sem's a bliss. Bliss!
I would go green looking at her happy sleeping face. Where I would burn midnight oil to complete my Civil Journal, assignments and Mech ED sheets, she would stretch lazily all over the cot or flip through one or the other novel.She would say she enjoyed the computer practical that day, when I would struggle to get readings out of the Physics Lab instruments.Trying hard to rote learn the brass alloys in Chemistry I would sometimes catch her playing with Logic Gates.
Heart of hearts, I decided the other sem is indeed a bliss. I was ready to get rid of the first sem, to do away with the Beams and Cables, the Sludge and Scales , Chaining and Leveling...
...those things were so GOOD!
Now, all through the sem2 , after indulging in some half  a dozen novels and gaining kilos, it feels pathetic.
FCP offers the dull computer history and BMS has its boilers( and if that's not enough, the extra baggage of boiler accessories). English (haha, now that's something  that does make me laugh) . ET has always been a problem as circuits are my nightmares and Maths now could be aptly called a saga( never ending Mathematical Models and sleep inductively long power series).I lie on my bed, finding hard to kill time, just a fortnight ahead of exams. Weather acts as a villain too. I can see my friend busied up in those delightful ISOMETRIC VIEWS of Mech ED and her classmates rushing hither-thither , calculating Reduced Levels by the Rise And Fall Method and trying to draw the lovely ellipses in CURVE TRACING in my all time favorite Civil ED.
I yawn, I moan, I facebook, I blog, I sleep, I sleep somemore, my radio complains, [ now she's yelling at me at some error of e^mx in some bloody differential equation!!!!]
Yeah, did someone say this sem's a bliss??
P.S. :now she's asking integration of some hell as easy function  and still busy , while I'm still as idle and still as sure that I would get sleepy as soon as I open my BMS book, and would loose sleep as soon as I draw the curtains.
P.P.S: yeah! BMS book comes into picture as tomorrow is BMS class test!! (Bliss??!!??)     

Music, SVNITcanteen, Grammy

International Congress Of Environment Research 2011 at NIT SURAT..... brought not only environment-enthusiasts from various nations.... but also Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt- the inventor of Mohan Veena.

The Grammy Award (1994) winning maestro from Jaipur enchanted the audience comprising music and environment lovers with his Raag Malhaar and then generating echoes of his native birds -- the peacocks.

Vibrations of his shoulders, fast moves of his fingers, the soft movement of one palm and the aggressive use of the other one on the strings and the jugalbandi with Tabla...
the audience couldn't stop from joining in.

Listeners could be heard reciting "Padharo maare des" along with Panditji .

He then entertained the gathering with his Grammy award winning number... the mix of sounds of guitar and veena in turns ,coupled with his smiles and finger clicks added to the magic.

To quote the audience: "KYA BAAT HAI"..."WAAH WAAH"