Day 339: 15th Aug, 2010

First things first,

Wish you all a very Happy Independence Day! :)

Managed to wake up well in time today to attend the flag hoisting ceremony. In fact, even managed to squeeze in my breakfast before the 9am event! :D . Pretty ironical, considering I miss my breakfast on most weekdays even though I have morning classes; but managed to have it on a Sunday.

The event was immediately followed by another irony, as 60 students (including yours truly) lost their freedom to a project submission. One of our group members took ill, so we had to patch up his part too. The even more difficult part was in finding somebody who had an active print account (most 2nd year students had exhausted their balance!). Then, as expected, caught a facchi who was kind enough to consent to an expense of 23 Rs. (yes, this is exactly why 2nd years don't have any balance - they get looted off by "smarter" classmates and "lesson-learnt" seniors).

As soon as I came back to my room, I somehow slipped into a nice loooong siesta. Remained dazed even as I went to have my dinner and stuff. That's the side-effect of a long sleep - keeps you in a stupor.

The only time I managed to come out of it was when we suddenly put some thought on getting our conB work done. Went to the night mess, from there to the CC. One useful tip: it pays to have a multi billionaire in your group ;-) . Thanks to the great Vanki, we took 160 printouts - 40 copies of a questionnaire, 4 pages each. Half the job done. The other half - getting them filled! ;-)

Anyways, that's for tomorrow. Getting back to my tryst with the Sleep Goddess for now. Can't even afford to miss Retail lecs anymore!

And yes... Jai Hind! :)

Day 56: 15th Aug, 2009

Happy Independence Day! :)

Normally there is this notion of 'Indian Standard Time'. But Independence day and Republic day are two days on which things happen as per schedule. Even in my colony, where typically the delay is at least an hour, flag hoisting is punctual. I wanted to attend the flag hoisting function which was to be held at 9.00 am sharp. Woke up at around 8.45 somehow. But in my miscalculation of time to indulge in essential morning activities, got delayed. Left my room only at 8.59. Ran (without even bolting the door) all the way but reached there only at 9.01 :-( . Anyways, was nice to see the Indian Tricolour fluttering :-) We had some cultural programmes lined up. But just as they were to start, the rains came in full force. We initially took refuge under a temporary plastic sheet that was put up, but soon realised the sheet had more pores than a sieve. So everyone had to rush inside the indoor badminton court. The programmes resumed after a break of around 15min. There were a couple of songs, a skit and a dance. They were nice.

But the problem with getting up so early on a holiday is you have a lot of time on you. Not to say that I don't have work (I actually have lots of work) but when I get so much time, I just have to spend it doing some random tp. I really wanted to go and watch Kaminey, but no plan was falling in place. Went back to my room and worked on some Index poster. That is something I liked to do - designing some random stuff. Experimented a little, but lots more than can be done.

In the evening, suddenly made up a plan to watch Kaminey! Five of us (Deshpande, Dhamdhere, Mishra, Ghate and myself) went for it. We ditched our bikes as it was raining quite a bit. Took an auto instead for FUN cinemas. The autodriver drove at a supersonic speed of around 5-10kmph. At one point, I was afraid that time should not run so fast that our paths would be retraced :-p . Anyways, reached in time for an 8.45 evening show. Found the movie OK. But the shaky camera movements really sucked. The to and fro conversations were real fun though :D . Came back, thought of resuming some poster designing stuff. Was called for the intersection skit. Enjoyed that. Worked from 3.30-6.30 on it and finally slept at around 7am.