Nostalgia

It was triggered by my friend's blog who wrote about his trip to goa sometime back. It reminded me of such a similarly memorable and adventurous trip to Shimla. I remembered that once I had captured that in an email and had shared with my friends. That's where it started. I was looking at my past mails and I realized I was a pretty good writer (atleast compared to what I'm now!!). Do let me know what you think of the pieces I've written.


A Friend (On Friendship day)
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We are distant
yet so near
Thanks for showing
all that care

In things that we do
and don't share
You have always been
more than fair

Your generous gesture
in time of need
Raise my spirits
it certainly did!!

Friends like you are
hard to come by
Thanks for being that
friend of mine.

Next is a mail to my friend that I wrote in my college days. Can't believe how lonely was I back then!!! Looking back, I'm more amused than sorry about this - the reason I'm reproducing it here.

Here are few questions I'd like answered about the optimizing problem.

a. What is the exact problem definition? Am I given a set of hydrofoils
and I have to select the best one among them? Or is it that the program
starts with few shapes and learns to generate a (the best???) hydro foil?

b...

Well I'm not fine. I'm very upset. Save you, I've been receiving mails
from my friends only far and in between. It's making me sick. You know the
feeling when you are just not able to express what's happening in your
life and with you. You are just not able to talk. There is this friend (my
best friend) who talks to me only when we meet!! The rest of the year
when he is in college, he literally vanishes in the air. And he remains
out of touch. Then there is another who writes to me only when he needs
me. And there is this one who became my friend only recently. As long as
we were together, I thought he needed me only as badly as I needed
him. But now I realise that it's not true. He doesn't have time (I don't
know what he's busy in) to write me a line! And the rest are similar.

For the past few days, I'm experiencing a low. Even movies don't excite or
amuse. I watched 5 movies in 3 days; but it's of no help. I can't
concentrate on studies. May be because I've stopped working on the things
that interest me ( eg the GA problem or the computers). But what to do? I
wanted to get immersed into books to run away from all these. But I can't
borrow books from CL because they have lost my library card!!

Don't know whether to laugh or cry over all these. I'd to give vent to my
feelings. That's why I'm telling all these to you. I'm feeling lost and
lonely....

Can't write more. Bye.