What do you wish you could do more every day?
Puneet Saxena
What is one word that describes you?
- When I was a friend of Brijgopal and Rakesh, I used to see Puneet as a carefree young boy in our class.
- Rakesh left the group and Puneet joined it.
- We used to roam around carefree. Unit tests in Maria Mata Convent School Chhatarpur were both a blessing and a curse. I had scored three marks out of twenty five, he had scored zero. Miss Anuja Rathore punished us both with a bamboo stick on palms of our hands.
- Puneet moved on when I joined Kuldeep Shukla to help improve my scores on unit tests.
- Puneet was well built, athletic and later developed fondness for memorizing entire songs like “Aati kyaa khandaala.” Had amazing memory which he seldom employed to memorize lessons.
- We used to play a rugby like tournament during breaks. Teams were fond of having Puneet on their sides because such players ensured victory. The game was a superhit.
- I was trying to develop a martial arts school which was obviously super flop because we had to wash our school dress, not just Rugby but also fights between giants like Avadhesh and Puneet used to render our shirts torn. We were not well respected at our homes.
- He never liked his nick name given to him by our maths teacher “Punnee-laal Parathe Waale” as he frequently used to bring paraathe in his tiffin.
- There was an author named Padumlaal Punnalaal Bakshi in our syllabus, therefore some of our classmates used to annoy him with such names.
- When we met decades afterwards during COVID years: he again insisted on how annoyed he was with such nicknames. His actual nickname was Robbie.
- He used to fervently tell about how he used to burn RGPV copies when review requests used to come. He wasn’t fond of making money. He said he loved his friends but he wasn’t fond of listening to advise. He had a big ego and he was an achiever too.
- I still remember how he came to my house once after school bells with other friends to collect a notebook. Notebook belonged to a girl. The notebooks were cross distributed by our maths teacher who wanted to promote Mohabattein in a monastery.
- Puneet, along with Avadhesh and Abhishek ( Rajpoot) ensured that I wasn’t focussing on studies. They used to create nuisances all the times.
- When Puneet met me during COVID we discussed eschatology. His house was one of the first few houses in that colony when we used to play during childhood. He showcased some strange device in 2021-22 to me, some hidden project he was working on. Needless to say the project was way ahead of my understanding of technology at that time.
- Yesterday I heard that Puneet is no more.
I think it’s a trap and I might be paranoid, only thing is: it’s a trap and I am not paranoid.
What was the best compliment you’ve received?
I can tell you about compliments I gave. There are absolutely no compliments which can save your life, your day or your future.
All epics are full of those though. Actually it’s swear words people use as compliments these days.
I give myself compliments, in order to motivate myself, it’s done by comparing myself with myself in space and time ( to quote Samuel Taylor Coleridge.)
The best achievement was clearing Peter Schmies Word Classification Test after so many trials and tribulations.
Now I am struggling to clear this test on United Nations World Food Program Website called Free Rice. It’s an archive of archaic words at level fifth and fourth.
If I clear this test: I might be able to flawlessly score everyday. Flawlessly score at least 2060 everyday. This would be an achievement enough to save myself from embarassing teenagers I come across everyday who throw temper tantrums to register themselves instead of actually doing anything meaningful for community or themselves.
Neither of them
You’re going on a cross-country trip. Airplane, train, bus, car, or bike?
None of them are safe for me.
I, Me, Myself!
Who is the most confident person you know?
- Appearances can be deceptive.
- All of them fail.
Open Book Free Rice Vocabulary Test Level 5th

- About 7 errors.
- When level 5th is exhausted I should try level 4th.
- I was quite confident with levels 1, 2 and 3 until January.
- After doing Peter Schmies Word Classification Test I started using notebook and pen to overcome difficulties posed by smartphone hacking etc which renders revision almost impossible for archaic words.
- I project completion of level 5th before March.
- Let’s see.
UNWFP Free Rice Vocabulary Test database level 4th and 5th
What strategies do you use to cope with negative feelings?

- In order to score 4190, I must have answered more than 550 questions.
Am I Superstitious?
Are you superstitious?
Permissions!
What is your middle name? Does it carry any special meaning/significance?
- After having bought eight platform tickets I was finally recognised by Railway Station Chhatarpur authorities.
- They advised me to not click pictures or use ATVM machine unless I was actually travelling to some place.
- In other words: loitering or wasting time or spreading litter at this Railway Station is not allowed.
- I went to the panel room located at platform where panel incharge was absent. I was advised to meet them on Monday.
- If the panel incharge allows me to study: I might continue to buy platform tickets else:
- I might completely give up buying platform tickets.
- This might be the concluding post about Chhatarpur Railway Station.
- There were many middle names: Prakash and Kumar were two of them and third was Prasaad.
- Prakaash means light.
- Kumar means young.
- Prasaad means grace.
- Do these names carry any special significance? Yes and no.
Two Days Ago!
Time to come back to palace was supposed to be within ten o’clock.
When I reach at about 10: 15 PM I see people who are awake and discussing things with eachother.
Where’s the catch?
The alarm was to reach within 10.
The gatekeeper said: come about two hours before midnight so that sleep isn’t disturbed for everyone.
Now: everyone is happy. Shop where I work has an excuse to reduce the payment for he has time to argue but no time to consider that my breaks didn’t amount to more than two hours in total in the 12:30 to 9:30 shift.
It’s mostly people chilling out between 6 to 12 or even later.
If I insisted on staying or struggling to save money some people would have been happier. Schedenfreude and Defenestration.
Learning
How to master UNWFP Free Rice Vocabulary Test database Level 4 and 5 effectively.
UNWFP Free Rice Vocabulary Test Level 4th and 5th Words
How has a failure, or apparent failure, set you up for later success?
- Guttate: spotted by drops
- Acciaccatura: appogiatura: hemisemidemiquaver: discordant note ( related words in European music)
- Detort: twist words
- Titivate: spruce up
- Shend: reproach
- Sparling: smelt
- Jow: strike
- Dissepiment: tissue wall
- Aposteme: abscesses
- Spivvery: mischief
- Didder: move trembling
- Chirk: cheer
- Squinch: tower support
- Pratincole: shore bird
- Napa: soft leather
- Abatic: unable to walk
- Skelp: slap
- Carmalum: microscopy stain
- Apolaustic: pleasure seeking
- Blague: boasting
- Boniface: innkeeper( innisfree?)
- Asynchronism: not at the same time.
- Guerdon: reward
- Stope: slope with steps.
- Spatterdock: water lily
- Rallentando: deacceleration gradual
- Balustrade:????
- Paralogism: fallacy
- Anlage: foundation
- Alvine: intenstine like
- Saury: small fish like
- Aduncous: hooking inwards
- Gloriole: halo
- Bagasse: pulp
- Spelk: splinter
- Sternpost: rear beam of post
- Coutchouc
- Floc: fluffy
- Flagitious: wicked
- Sufflate: inflate
- Agnate: related to father
- Spruik: