FTW

A good few days into my life sans social networking, I find myself finding a lot more time for a whole load of things that were otherwise impossible given my tight schedule filled with immensely long failbook, mafia wars and poker sessions.

Given all the time I’ve had, I’ve managed to sleep better, pay attention to journal-work (one more semester to go) and also throw in the usual fun activity here and there.  3 days have elapsed and I’ve already managed an awesome CS-ta (supposed to be a take on the word siesta), a fun dinner with Sumit and Rashmi where they so gracefully allowed me to drink considering I’m still 20 and they’re both legal yet do not drink(?) and finally a game of bowling in the course of which I actually upstaged Headhunter and Godzilla.  Life is making up for my previous lack of win.

The formal start of my final semester in college coincided with the start of the inter-college football season.  With all the new blood coming in, I find myself benched a lot more than before and when I look at it from solely a personal point of view, I find it frustrating yet challenging to work harder and try and make the best of the time I spend on the pitch.  But when I look at it from a broader perspective, I remember how in my first year, we’d just formed the college football team.  How we’d gone around playing as many tournaments as we could and tried to not get beat too bad and also causing a few upsets on the way.  Today, when I see how far our team has come, considering I’m the only remaining dinosaur from the first ever DMCE football side, I feel happy that we’re not push-overs anymore and go into matches not as under-dogs but on an equal footing with most colleges.  I shall go out this year, proud at what we’ve achieved and also at what we’re definitely going to.

Football is the only thing that can get me emotional.  So, this apart, considering the sudden surge of win in my life, I hope it gets transferred to my team and my game.  I am sick of being a perennial silver medallist.  Want to lay my hands on some gold.

To continued win, write, game and social not-working.

Edit March 7th, 2010: After this post, the Explorer went on to play and score a penalty in a shootout which saw his college win their first EVER football tournament.  Win was created that fateful day.

The Explorer’s exodus

After a couple of years of blogging, in the course of which, I learnt the ropes of the  concept of Weblogs, started off on my own as an amateur blogger and managed to build up a respectable count of posts.  2 years on, much has  changed.  But I still am an amateur and still learning each and every day.

Starting off on Blogger, I was used to a minimal level of facilities provided by the application.  As I progressed, though my progress was quite delayed on the time-blog continuum, I learnt the use of several utilities and widgets that were very handy in composing posts and analyzing blog patterns.  This is where the switch to WordPress came into the picture.  Wordpress offers bloggers like myself several facilities and utilities that make blogging a more enjoyable process.

Here, I shall continue to unleash ab imo pectore, ad infinitum, as I have always done.  Loyal followers, if there be any, join me.  I stay in the game, I write, you read, I score.

Change is good.  Change is strong enough to get a black man into the White House.  Change is here.

To continued write, randomness and facility.