Bad Choice

What is wrong with Ms. Padukone? After her show with the cleavage drama she’s back with the pseudo-women empowerment stint. Somebody please tell her to first go home, finish schooling and then come back, seems sh's drunk the entire time. It also seems she lacks basic sense in everything. Maybe she’s become too attention seeker. No doubt, her films aren’t doing well. But what was that, literally? My Choice? Really!

Would opening your bra strap makes you empower? Would having sex pre or post marriage empower you? If that does, then I am sorry, you need to take some medication.  One need to know first, who actually needs empowerment in this country? Not those women who are in dilemma to have sex or not, but those who are crushed to have an opinion in a joint family or those who don’t have a say if their family wants her to abort the girl child and only have a boy child. It’s those people. I am sure there are lot bigger issues than thinking of loving someone or lusting forever. I used to dislike Sonakshi Sinha earlier, but damn, at least she has better mind than you. Learn from her, it’s never too late.

Unfortunately, there are still people especially women, who felt so empowered watching that video for reasons unknown to me. Just imagine, if men stop acting when you say you hate their beer belly or you want to have a gold jewelry, what if they also start having sex post-marital saying it is his choice, or what would you say to a man who refuses to marry because you had a consensual sex with him with a thought that he would marry, but now he has made his CHOICE, and now you file a rape case against him? Would you give him the same privilege? No! I am sure NO! Why, because there are so many pseudo- feminist existing in this country who will cry every time for equality and women empowerment but when it comes to having real equality among beings, they shudder!

Being a woman, I also seek empowerment for all those who needs it, like Sonakshi said: we are living a luxurious life; it should go to the deep ends of the society. But, I am also pretty clear that empowerment doesn't mean that you are above the rest.  It means you are equal with everyone else. In this case, Men & Women. Not only the video was hostile, but also sadly ineffective. I do understand that Ms. Padukone must have had good intentions before doing this video, but she should shape her thoughts prior and consult at least ten people before publishing her thoughts.

Let the equality and empowerment prevail!
Hope no one is suppressed and everyone has right to love their life freely.

Daejeon, South Korea!

I am so happyyy!!!   

Finally I ' m back after an exhilarating trip to Daejeon, South Korea. It took few months to finalize everything and give it a Go! Usually if your trip is official, in my case academic, you have to do many formalities like applying for funding to different Govt.agencies, booking everything, fixing up your accommodation and etc. Thankfully, I got it all done on time. The only thing remaining till my day of departure was my poster which was not complete :P Usually if its an academic tour, it eventually turns out to be a recreational one because you don't have a check on you to attend all the sessions and prepare a report or something. This is funny but I just got reminded of the two great people who came from Reliance Industries from India, and how for them it was mandatory to attend all the sessions during the conference as they had to prepare some descriptive report or something. I on the other hand had all the freedom to utilize my time elsewhere and I left no stone unturned.  After I landed in Delhi from kolkata, i had an eleven hours of halt at Delhi so it was great time to be at home and start the further journey from there. It was little cold, colder than Bengal in Delhi and as my senior told me it was much colder in Korea, so I had to take along with me warm clothes. Like every time, as I do all the things at eleventh hour, I did this too running here and there.  Please don't blame me for being a Procrastinator. You know what, I love doing it this way, it gives me adrenaline rush. So 12:30 am I had my flight to Seoul. I reached easily and it was pretty good time for me as it was not my first international journey, so I was pretty much okay with everything. 

Upon reaching Seoul, I had to take this Bus to Daejeon. It took almost 2.5 hrs for me to reach Govt.Complex stop where my senior came to pick me up. I was so happy to see him as he was the only one who arranged everything for me there and my trip turned out to be just amazing. I give all credits to him. So from there, he took me to his flat where we had dinner and had long talks after which he dropped me to my hotel. The hotel had everything for me so I was perfect in there. The next day conference started and it was good. Met some great scientist whose research articles I read or refer everytime and seeing them in front of my eyes was one great moment. For that  matter, my senior is also my one inspiration as I have read all his papers and he doesn't even know I have a older of his initials in my desktop where I have saved all his publications and refer to them every time I need to. The conference was great, I was the junior most there and therefore enjoyed all the care and support from everyone ;P We went from the conference to see places and clicked so many pics. I met Prof. Pramod K Wangikar from IIT Bombay and we went out, he is such a cool prof. So different yet he is doing amazing research. He was just one youngster among us and we never felt as he is some orthodox prof. Listening to Michael Borowitzka, John Benemann, Yusuf Chisti and other great scientists in front of you, whom you follow religiously is like  dream come true. 

Koreans are humble people, very helping and so cultured. 

And the Korean Girls!!!! My god. They are so pretty, though they use make up but they take care of their health, are fitness freak and intelligent. I then visited my seniors institute KAIST where he is the post doc, the labs were sooooo good. I wish I work somewhere like this sometime. They use LED based air-lift reactors for algal growth and use SIGMA chemicals only. Isn't it obvious? hmm.. 

It was so cold there, I had to wear layers of clothes but for nice pictures, I dont mind shedding few :D

The Best Best thing was I got the Best Poster Award among hundreds of other people, so this is also one of the reason to be super happy. The last day we went out totally, did shopping, lunch in an Indian restaurant called Bukhara and again shopping, and so many other things. All in all, I had one amazing time there. 

I don't like to dress up!

Yes. It is true. Unlike all the other girls who just look for opportunity to dress up their best and go out or something, I on the contrary finds it as a complete burden. I'm not saying that I am correct and  there's something wrong with others (may be its vice-versa :P ), I absolutely salute them for this skill, how gracefully they dress by matching make up, earrings, shoes etc. It suits to the occasion and gives a whole festive feel. I dont know why but if I have to dress up for either some party, festival or some occasion, I feel a huge pressure on my shoulders. I do have lots (believe me, lots of) clothes, shoes, make-up everything, but given a choice I would love to go in my shorts, pajamas or a simple plain jeans and a tee. This Diwali, when all the other girls were wearing sarees and etc. I was happily bursting crackers in my jeans in the hall :D 

And yeah, this Diwali was super fun with my hall mates and our illumination celebration!!! 

Down the memory lane...

So, after spending a week long vacation at my home in Delhi, I have returned to kgp on 8th. As always, the next one week is gonna be real dull and filled with homesickness and of course my efficiency for work will touch the bottom. Alas, I have no option. So, a day later we have our fortnight lab presentation. Thank heavens, I had already carried out an experiment for determining the boundary conditions of CO2 studies with my algae. I can present this data in the ppt. Friday evening from 5:45, it (ppt) started and went up to 9 pm. Ok, we have some latest movies put up in Netaji Auditorium every Friday and this Friday it was Bang Bang. I wanted to watch it but every time it happens so that all the good movies are showcased on the same Friday with my presentation. I sure missed it but I am planning to watch it on Sunday. [Sunday they have a student show at 9 am..yeah am :( but still I will go]

Its always good to download any movie from the internal LAN DC++ of our institute but watching a movie with your friends at Netaji is super fun. Not for the theater experience, since it is just a auditorium with not a hifi sound system..but the overall experience is always good every time I watch a movie there. I remember watching a crappy movie called "LUCK" once during my M.Tech..it was such a horrible movie but all the comments of fellow students made it an out-of-the-blue experience. So I simply go there for a good laugh. Anyways! I know I have absolutely deviated from my thought that I started this post with.

Down the memory lane..yes..its a Saturday afternoon, I am in my room with a hot cup of tea and outside its drizzling. The weather is pleasant and mood is relaxing. I have tons of work but I will not do any. Because this whole set up makes me memorize all the beautiful times that I had..meeting so many people with their distinct personalities. All of them have taught me something or other. I am thankful for all my enemies,friends and well wishers. But what I have realized is that everyone is selfish in one way or other (including myself). Obviously, you want good for you and your family so being a little selfish will not do any harm. It's good actually. But after I heard the news of Kailash Satyarthi getting the Noble Peace Prize 2014, it really knocked me down with a feather.

Some people have dreams and they pursue it. I am so glad to know that there still are people in this world who think of others before them. This is inspiring and motivating. I didn't know about him before he got the Nobel. Definitely this is not a good thing. He is someone who is not as young as the 17 yr old Malala, but he started the crusade against Child servitude from 1980. Giving up a lucrative career (He was an Electrical Engineer) for a cause like this is not an easy task. He must be driven with great enthusiasm. His perseverance, patience and persistence have got him the most prestigious Nobel Prize after three decades.   Congratulations!

Hypocrisy

This is height! You want to titillate men while shaking your booty and flaunting your breasts but when they really admire your assets and talk about it, you find it insulting. Either in your real life you never wear low cut dress or show your cleavage , else don't go all concerned and fighting for women spirit all over the media. If you talk about equality, that starts right there where you started. First being a calender girl, then shooting in two-piece in movies like cocktail and doing innumerable photo shoots for magazine covers, you please don't talk about feminism and then do all this publicity gimmicks right scheduled at the launch of your new movie Finding Fanny. Finding Fanny? (Oh God, yes!)

The Maintenance Secy

Why would you touch the two red knobs at the rear side of water cooler? As a logical person, while taking water, you would press the button to fill your bottle and one your are done, you would switch it off and go to your room. What I don't understand is why you have to touch those two red knobs and tell the world they have problem in them? Similarly, one guy reports his cycle bell is missing from the cycle stand and other suggests him (while aptly cursing the committee that they wont help in this regard) to put up wireless CCTV camera to catch the thieves.  Also, one guy wrote in order to rectify a water problem that existed some time back in our hall, that he has written an email to CM of the state Ms.Mamta banerjee since this is an "international" issue. The list have so many other interesting cases to tell but I would stop..

We are mature, we are educated and we are sane. Then, why does it take so much to talk sense. I have realized, some people always have complaints for you no matter how much and hard you try to help them. Being a Maintenance secretary of our hall for 2013-14, I think I have learnt a lot about people psyche's and totally understand how it is to be at a responsible and authoritative place. Let me tell you, it is not at all easy so now I relate myself whenever I see people mindlessly blaming the govt. or actors or administration. It is very, very easy to comfortably sit in your room and throw an email vomiting your problems but how to solve it is a real game. You will have no idea what it is to play in mud until your hands are dirty.  In this whole year, I am sure many would have talked ill about me on the back, some think that I haven't done anything substantial but  believe me when I hear appreciation from some real genuine people that I was good and brought a change, everything else doesn't matter. And then it feels that you can not make everyone happy, for your own happiness you have to be real, genuine, true and little selfish.

That's me!

I am mad, I am impatient, am not haughty but yes I am proud of myself, have a little ego, short-tempered, immature but I am playful, funny,have a good heart, adventurous and not boring, loves my work, ambitious, a bit conservative. You can be on either side of this but I know my side. And trust me I am narcissists on this. I love myself. I think I am lot better than many other people in my thoughts, understanding,personality, habits, mannerism and style. Therefore I am proud of myself. Though I do not much believe in sun signs but if you describe an Aries person, that is what I am. I might not reveal my emotions but I would expect you to understand me, I don't know how but you got to do it. This doesn't mean I am egoistic as I won't take the first step to start but once it has been taken I am IN totally. 

 :)