7.00 am: My brand new mobile phone starts humming the soothing yet alarming tune which pries open my eyelids like a crowbar breaks through a door. Like every normal day I reset the alarm and prepare for a comforting 30 minute nap.
7.30 am: The cellular symphony is resumed and I try to forget my stupid dream (in the usual one I always dream that Lewis Hamilton and Barack Obama are long lost cousins....because I hate them both equally). I finish off the daily necessities at a leisurely pace (the greatest advantage of staying close to college).
8.30 am: I leave for the bus stop; an arduous trek for someone who is bored of seeing the same set of people waiting for school buses or washing cars or delivering milk, enroute to the bus stop. Every stride feels like Armstrong's famous 'Giant Step for mankind'(the word 'mankind' may be replaced by 'attendance') .
9.00 am: Serious pondering over whether to attend the first lecture or not in the college quadrangle. Usually majority is sought on 'Yes'. On the other occasions we tend to land up in huge trouble. Some professors offer incentives like १ के साथ ४ lectures का attendance free.
10.30 am: A compulsory visit to the canteen for Medu Vada or Misal Pav.
11.00 am: Still contemplating whether to attend the next lecture.
1:00 pm: Heaving a sigh of relief on passing through half of the working day without much trouble. I enjoy the most exciting part of a college working day during the lunch break: the Quiz Club!
2.00 pm: Another Himalayan Trek to the 3rd floor for some droning by professors.
2.05 pm: Already yawning. Either playing games on my phone or reading a newspaper or chatting about any miscellaneous topic( topic depends on the person sharing the bench with you!)
2.15 pm: Obviously, still yawning! Concentrative skills are focussed on the attendance sheet.
2.23 pm: What's the problem with the 4th dimension, time? Or has my clock frozen? It's showing the same time for the last several hours!
2.30 pm: The Electronics Class leaves early! Lucky chaps.....Oh! I take my words back.....The guys leaving the adjacent classroom are probably sad because their professor has left them early. They always have that craving for more.
2.45 pm: 15 minutes to freedom!!! I feel compassion for the poor Tibetans who are devoid of freedom!...........Beijing is autocratic! Down with Professor Hu.......umm..... Rathod.....nah! Jintao......sorry....Ma'am! Free Tibet! Free Students!
2.51 pm: Notebooks start shutting across the classroom. The timing is precise but the effect is nil. The professor is oblivious to the proceedings because the first benchers boycott the Book Bandh Movement.
2.59 pm: We wish you a Merry Christmas! We wish you..........
3.00 pm: Hallelujah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
3.10 pm: On my way to the bus stop. Plans are being chalked out regarding the lectures to be attended in order to make it past the dreaded blacklist cutoff.
This has been the routine for my class for the past several weeks. I can't complain because we get a generous two day weekend unlike many other colleges. But a 5-day repetition of the same aforementioned exercises qualifies to be labelled as monotony! Yawn! I sat for a 3-5 pm double lecture today! Waiting for the mini-vacation (a 5 day weekend), a rare instance but not a mirage! I have got to make certain changes in my routine!!! Doesn't it appear too 'hectic'??? No time for letting our hair down! We work so hard for a weekend!
Tuesday 18 March 2008
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