Day 143: 18th Nov, 2009

Got to sleep late even yesterday. As a result missed MANAC for the second consecutive time! Can't afford to miss more of it now!

Stayed back on campus today again, this time for the poster work. Really really bad vaastu on 1st floor CC, unproductive afternoon again!

Anyways, today we gave a treat to INDEX seniors for our summer placements. Went to barbeque nation. As I said some days back, the place is awesome and so is the food! :D

The journey back was legendary. 00.30 hours and the chilling Lucknow cold - and I rode back on a bike WITHOUT wearing a sweater, jacket, sweatshirt or any of the likes (H). Ain't that something!

Reached campus at around 1am. I had had an overdose of photoshop over the past 2 days (and nights!) and therefore took a break today. Thought I'll go to my room and get some early sleep. But guess what.. downloaded GBs of new data - The Centurions, HIMYM, TBBT :D . Finally started off with some series on campus - HIMYM - 5 episodes straight before I slept off at around 4 :p

Day 142: 17th Nov, 2009

I couldn't go to the city today as I was stuck up with some designing work for the INDEX'09 t-shirt. Nothing very productive came out unfortunately!

And the side effect of being on campus was that I was constantly being bombarded with requests to send mails here and there!

Slept a little in the evening in anticipation of the long night ahead :-p . Sat down again with Naveen and Vinay in the CC for work. This time went to the HEC lab on the ground floor. Better vastu there, got a new idea and executed it pretty quickly as well ! I liked this one... hoping it will be well-received :)

Day 141: 16th Nov, 2009

Slept super late yesterday, doing INDEX work. Consequently missed the first lecture of the second part of the semester. (MANAC 2 - Vipul).

Lot of INDEX work through the rest of the day. Ops took a lot of time for me (tracing LIU @ Jawahar Bhavan) and Riza. Hence couldn't manage to go to colleges. Lots and lots of walking. I really envy Riza though on his ability to sleep anywhere - the ass slept off even when I was standing and taking some printouts!

Today's meeting @ 11 was followed by some refinement work on the sweatshirt through the night. The funny part was when Naveen was trying to come up with something 'brick by brick' (literally!!) with some 42 layers and 3 hours and I did it in some 30 seconds :-p

Almost 6 even today. Hope I don't miss the first lec tomorrow as well !

Day 140: 15th Nov, 2009

Woo-hoo! After one and a half terms, finally I managed to finish solving one problem completely in MANAC. I mean, I am not even sure if it is right, but first time that I even managed to reach some end. (The fact that the question was straight out of a book definitely helped :-p ).

Immediately after midsems started with INDEX work. Left to the city immediately to take permission from the fire department. Saala the work got delayed by a day there. Will need to go again tomorrow.

Evening was very very free. Saw Blood Diamond (had been wanting to see that one since ages!). Pretty hard hitting movie. And some good acting.

Had a meeting @ 11. Realised the colossal amount of work lying ahead. Got to forget sleep for the next few days :-| . Starting ... NOW !

Day 139: 14th Nov, 2009

What a paper DWO was. It is already such a globe subject and the questions only amplified this nature of it. All about setting yourself some 5-6 arbitary keywords and reusing them again and again and again. Squeezed more out of those words than what a sugarcane machine can squeeze out of one sugarcane.

'My friend's' paper tomorrow - MANAC. MANAC 2 is such a wrong subject to be the last paper :-S. Even less mood to study. Played TT after lunch. Then slept. Then blogged. Finally took my books and went to Saurabh's room to study.

The highlight of course was when myself and Shreyas were studying in the mess. And then Shreyas the bond was explaining a whole group on how to solve a particular sum :-p . Sometimes, sum times change :-p

Day 138: 13th Nov, 2009

My sleep saga has no end. This phenomenon of unforced extra sleep is a sure fixture in atleast one paper. This time the opportunity cost involved eco. Slept off at 11pm and woke up straight at around 8.15am :-O . Thankfully for me, the respite was that it was one of the easier papers we saw this term. Not just in relative terms (which wasn't too difficult to achieve given the other papers) but also in absolute terms. Post exam analysis revealed that the ENTIRE paper was an EXACT COPY of last year's paper :-S . And then he cuts our marks for copying in assignments :-)

First time this semester that we spent time doing random tp. Afterall, DWO tomorrow. Although it has maximum syllabus, the very thought of going in its vicinity is sleep provoking :-S . We were treated to enlightening facts about RBI and Air India by Pills. The 'proud-of-being-an-AirIndia-frequent flyer' literally has the timetable of AI flights by heart :D . Not to undermine Riza's stories about Bangalore's uncovered under-bridges and the plight of the people when a train passes above :-p

Played some TT post dinner. Although at best an average player, I do take TT a little seriously in a weird sort of way when it comes to improving myself. My game has improved a little. Very little though. Lots more to achieve in terms of reduction of unforced errors.

Came to my room and finally was about to start studying when Dhamdhere called me to the mess. There I go again. DWO... so long...

Day 137: 12th Nov, 2009

I don't think the profs are setting papers for this mid-semester (trimester?). The script seems to be right out of a Quentin Tarantino movie! Bloody and gory, leaving behind a lot of dead bodies!

Had I even had an inkling of the type of FM paper that was to come, I so would not have put up the struggle(!!) I did yesterday. A random 100 mark paper, with 50 marks on a case! :-S . And the two formulae I learnt at the remedials didn't come at all :-( . And all this for a half-credit course! :-S Not even a chance to make up in the end terms (NOT complaining :D).

Economics tomorrow. Have kind of started going through the slides. Seems to make more sense than Eco-1. And has far fewer graphs :) :)