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Puneet Saxena

What is one word that describes you?

  1. When I was a friend of Brijgopal and Rakesh, I used to see Puneet as a carefree young boy in our class.
  2. Rakesh left the group and Puneet joined it.
  3. 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.
  4. Puneet moved on when I joined Kuldeep Shukla to help improve my scores on unit tests.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. There was an author named Padumlaal Punnalaal Bakshi in our syllabus, therefore some of our classmates used to annoy him with such names.
  10. When we met decades afterwards during COVID years: he again insisted on how annoyed he was with such nicknames. His actual nickname was Robbie.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. Puneet, along with Avadhesh and Abhishek ( Rajpoot) ensured that I wasn’t focussing on studies. They used to create nuisances all the times.
  14. 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.
  15. Yesterday I heard that Puneet is no more.
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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.

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Open Book Free Rice Vocabulary Test Level 5th

  1. About 7 errors.
  2. When level 5th is exhausted I should try level 4th.
  3. I was quite confident with levels 1, 2 and 3 until January.
  4. 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.
  5. I project completion of level 5th before March.
  6. Let’s see.
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Permissions!

What is your middle name? Does it carry any special meaning/significance?

  1. After having bought eight platform tickets I was finally recognised by Railway Station Chhatarpur authorities.
  2. They advised me to not click pictures or use ATVM machine unless I was actually travelling to some place.
  3. In other words: loitering or wasting time or spreading litter at this Railway Station is not allowed.
  4. I went to the panel room located at platform where panel incharge was absent. I was advised to meet them on Monday.
  5. If the panel incharge allows me to study: I might continue to buy platform tickets else:
  6. I might completely give up buying platform tickets.
  7. This might be the concluding post about Chhatarpur Railway Station.
  8. There were many middle names: Prakash and Kumar were two of them and third was Prasaad.
  9. Prakaash means light.
  10. Kumar means young.
  11. Prasaad means grace.
  12. Do these names carry any special significance? Yes and no.
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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.

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UNWFP Free Rice Vocabulary Test Level 4th and 5th Words

How has a failure, or apparent failure, set you up for later success?

  1. Guttate: spotted by drops
  2. Acciaccatura: appogiatura: hemisemidemiquaver: discordant note ( related words in European music)
  3. Detort: twist words
  4. Titivate: spruce up
  5. Shend: reproach
  6. Sparling: smelt
  7. Jow: strike
  8. Dissepiment: tissue wall
  9. Aposteme: abscesses
  10. Spivvery: mischief
  11. Didder: move trembling
  12. Chirk: cheer
  13. Squinch: tower support
  14. Pratincole: shore bird
  15. Napa: soft leather
  16. Abatic: unable to walk
  17. Skelp: slap
  18. Carmalum: microscopy stain
  19. Apolaustic: pleasure seeking
  20. Blague: boasting
  21. Boniface: innkeeper( innisfree?)
  22. Asynchronism: not at the same time.
  23. Guerdon: reward
  24. Stope: slope with steps.
  25. Spatterdock: water lily
  26. Rallentando: deacceleration gradual
  27. Balustrade:????
  28. Paralogism: fallacy
  29. Anlage: foundation
  30. Alvine: intenstine like
  31. Saury: small fish like
  32. Aduncous: hooking inwards
  33. Gloriole: halo
  34. Bagasse: pulp
  35. Spelk: splinter
  36. Sternpost: rear beam of post
  37. Coutchouc
  38. Floc: fluffy
  39. Flagitious: wicked
  40. Sufflate: inflate
  41. Agnate: related to father
  42. Spruik:
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Time to come back to palace:

  1. No time for sand mafia. Do as you please if you come via car. Do as you please if you pretend to attend a marriage every night. Or an emergency.
  2. No time limit if your name is on name plate.
  3. If you tell them that you’re gainfully employed: first find the police department selfie stick which wants you home before twelve
  4. Second: grandmother sleeps soundly, rest of the family is also enjoying sleep. Two young children in their twenties are roaming on their roof in the midnight as their dog barks but rest of the civilized society is so deeply asleep for seven to eight hours between eleven to eight o clock in the night that you are supposed to be within the palace of grandeur where masonic laws have miserably failed to provide any solace in form of civility, before eleven or even before ten.
  5. The same people will eat you alive for not being employed but now they’re focussed on being civil to let everyone sleep in time bar neighborhood kids who chat and roam after midnight on their roof. No rules or planning or advanced telling for jhun jhun Devi fond of wearing ornaments despite being almost retired from service. What kind of ghost ship are they steering and to where and why?
  6. I spent a long time figuring out if they actually had any discipline regarding checkin or checkout if it was really a place with those restrictions. There were none. Maybe kavi sammelan is over now and only means of taxation is by squirming anyone who is too tired by being honestly employed instead of sitting at door to collect taxes by spewing forth laws at random which are not applicable for tenants.
  7. Enough with this bullshit of random laws already. Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon for all purposes. Deus Ex Machina. Did they tell me about their trip to Baandaa? Did they tell me how they went to that place, why and when? Did they do so just because they were more mature than a forty years old? Why then do they allow someone only thirty years old to enter at random hours while hold me to answer random questions after a hard day at work?
  8. This is the justice system here of which these truthful people are extremely fond of and in appreciation for.