7th April 2006

So here's how stuff stands at this moment, and the run up to it.

I am one of those dolts who'd live but not learn. This applies to every aspect of my life...girls, sports, resolutions i've made for myself.... but especially runs true during exam time. It's a ritual I go thru every year for the past 7 years of my education...to vow that I'd do better during the next sem, to take note of the 1 month mark before exams and make the study schedule..

Then another schedule 2 weeks before exam, that factors in all my unfinished submissions, and the unstarted studies.
Then the schedule making stops, while the scram for submissions go on. A little breather after submissions...and its then the weekend before exams. Bada boom...another one hits the dust.

Hence...this time too...exams went strictly okay. The last few exams are the electives, and I finished mine off yesterday evening. There are a few of my classmates writing their electives right now, and some who're preparing for theirs later today. But I am done.

The sweet joys of being the dude who gets to decide the exam schedule for his batch. I've been getting hate mail from some quarters for this, but yeah...balls to u. You got an extra day to study, na.

* me sooo evil.

Came back to the laptop at 6 pm...watched this movie called Jarhead (fucking brilliant one) and then the tiredness finally catches up. Hit the bed at 8 pm (never happened before), slept through dinner, midnight snack and whisky parties in assorted rooms, and woke up now...9 am. 13 hours of sleep.

I woke up mostly because of the rumbling in my stomach, and then found several song requests on IP...the instant messenger software we use on campus. People had finished their whisky, but they were still high....and wanted to keep rocking, never mind the incident sunlight. I oblige as many requests as I can, then pay heed to my own whisky cravings....

But the bastards finished the booze. So here I am...Friday morning, convincng people that it's not illegal / sinful / wrong or even wierd to go whisky hunting at 9 am. I even offer the incentive of using my 6 champagne glass set. Balls to breakfast, or the hateful glares of my classmates still studying for their last papers today.

Sigh. Tonight we party. Ashish, dudo...get urself here asap.

Currently listening

Led Zeppelin - Black Dog (Acoustic Version)

Da dum dadum dadum dadayee

Found this on a dude's gmail messagebox.

Sex isnt the answer. Sex is the question.... Yes is the answer.

Amen brother.

This might have happened to you...this situation where u're upto your neck in studies / work / whatever...u still havent gotten anywhere...and ur time ends in 2 days....aka exams from monday, and not a single subject done.

I mean sure...one fights it out...has cups of coffee, goes thru past papers looking for patterns, struggles thru problems and ppts, discusses problems and theories and what not...we engineers are nerds of habit. But there reaches this point when stuff gets so hopelessly loaded, people go mad. I mean, mad...:)

A friend of mine googles for speeches by Luther King and Churchill throughout the day, for no real reason. Another proposes methods to screw the happiness of our profs through civic unrest on campus...and studiously backs them up with reasons like greater interests of the batch and bla bla. We hunt for little video clips that amuse and offend. Today's raging favorite being one on football bloopers, with the song "Always look at the bright side of life" voiced over.

NGC should do a feature on campus now....young male adults spotted walking around with telephone poles up their butt...grinning in despair and sleep deprivation. They could title it "Bumboo lag gaya" since this is how the resident species define this recurring condition of theirs.

I actually boogied tonight to this Kannada song from the 70's...when that dude who was kidnapped by Veerapan was in the prime of his youth and belting out songs & pseudo dancing on a sheer mirrored floor. Priceless video..i shall carry it wherever i go.

Come the 7th of April....that's me in the pic.