The pyaas for self
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Watched October yesterday. Have been in stars since then. Being an amateur astronomer cum rocket boy myself, it sure had an impact on me. The watching was so nostalgic, taking me to the lane I had long back traversed and forgotten. I felt like a veteran.
I had made my first rocket in my summer holidays of 7th or 8th, it was a small cylinder of about 25cms which never took off. It ended in a glorious blast and the fire spread so wuickly to its ignition that i burnt my hands badly. There never came a second rocket...
But the astronomy wont die in me, so I went on with my calculations, my projects and my most relished project made by self, the Galileo telescope. I had made an equation to find the distance of moon by my own calculations. The best map of the sky was Cassiopeia-Ursa Major-Orion and Pole Star combo. And finding Milky Way was just too easy this way. Those were the days.. the days of finding a moving star and coming to know that I had seen a satellite !! It felt like a little discovery of sorts, and was followed by sleepless nights under the night sky.
Ah.... I guess i have left that guy with creative passion somewhere on the way, feels like I have accpeted the beaten path and the people who follow it. People never stopped laughing at me and neither did I stop from returning the favour; but seems like the beat and the MBA has made a sheep outta me.
Sometimes things so trivial like movies gets you outta the slumber...
I had made my first rocket in my summer holidays of 7th or 8th, it was a small cylinder of about 25cms which never took off. It ended in a glorious blast and the fire spread so wuickly to its ignition that i burnt my hands badly. There never came a second rocket...
But the astronomy wont die in me, so I went on with my calculations, my projects and my most relished project made by self, the Galileo telescope. I had made an equation to find the distance of moon by my own calculations. The best map of the sky was Cassiopeia-Ursa Major-Orion and Pole Star combo. And finding Milky Way was just too easy this way. Those were the days.. the days of finding a moving star and coming to know that I had seen a satellite !! It felt like a little discovery of sorts, and was followed by sleepless nights under the night sky.Ah.... I guess i have left that guy with creative passion somewhere on the way, feels like I have accpeted the beaten path and the people who follow it. People never stopped laughing at me and neither did I stop from returning the favour; but seems like the beat and the MBA has made a sheep outta me.
Sometimes things so trivial like movies gets you outta the slumber...
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