Day 79: 7th Sep, 2009

My mom would often remark in the kitchen and wish that she had three hands. Slightly extrapolating that a little further, I wish I had a zillion minds and a zillion hands and a zillion laptops to finish the gazillion number of tasks that are staring at me.

It is kinda 8th Sep now.. 06.30 in the morning. The alarm is ringing. Usually used to wake a person up. Giving quite the opposite signal right now. Am going to sleep. Good nite. Rather, good morning.

Day 78: 6th Sep, 2009

There is complete chaos, what with all the submissions, quizzes, assignments, projects, etc. My friend Sumantra had this wonderful gtalk status - "Complete Madness:learning marketing in ITC, excel in BIO and ECO, maths in MANAC, operations in maths, philosophy and BIO in OM" :D And mind you, I haven't even included anything about studying for the end terms next week!

In the midst of all this, had a three hour INDEX meet in the afternoon to evening. It was a good productive meet. Had snacks at the mess and went to my room.

Then I did something only I am capable of doing. Just ignored this truckload of stuff that was pending (I have 2 quizzes tomorrow - OM, QAM), took my ipod shuffle and went for a walk around the campus! Spent around an hour listening to music. Came to my room and chatted for around another couple of hours. Went to the night mess with a couple of friends. (The mess was EMPTY! :O:O) Back to my room and I am finally thinking of opening the book. How many pages will I turn before I doze off? Will know tomorrow!

Day 77: 5th Sep, 2009

It's hel(L). It's hectic! I had this whole list of things to do when I started the day:

-Work on the CV proofs (for all you people who aspire to get in here, please make sure you have proofs for ANYTHING that you are going to put down on your CV. Really strict about that)

-Modify the CV

-MANAC project. Read/analyse the balance sheet

-Start studying atleast one chapter in atleast one subject of the multiple quizzes lined up on Monday and Tuesday

But I was so tied up with other things that came up that I couldn't do even one of these things :(

Had this ITC project submission before 5 pm. A couple of team mates of mine had done a good amount of work on it. Thankfully. My job was to collate the final info, check for any errors, reformat some stuff, take prints and submit. That took up afternoon.

Simultaneously had a BIO meet. Was present there physically only :-$ . But saala ... in return they assigned me with the toughest part of the BIO project submission - some multivariate analysis on the data collected!

Today the junior core of INDEX had its first outing :) . Went to the city to check out this ground and make some observations and stuff. Then went to eat - the non veg junta went to Dastar Khwan and we, the veggies, went to this place Royal Cafe. Boy!.. was blown away with this Lucknow food thing. Finally I saw why it called the Nawabon ka Shaher. We started off only ordering masala papad and some veg seekh kabab as the starter and 1/2 soup. Simultaneously ordered this basket chaat. And when they came... mannnn... what quantity! The masala papad was papad in the form of a cone, with all the masala stuffed inside. The basket chaat was again super tasty. I was really glad to eat some good chaat outside Bombay! And the soup... their half itself was easily double the quantity of a normal full soup I have had anywhere else! Needless to say, our tummies were full there itself! :D Never got around having proper khana.

Day 76: 4th Sep, 2009

Slept off yesterday after all that tp. So, bunked the lectures today to study for the Eco test. As usual, studied a little; and majorly ended up reading a lot of xkcd (check it out! nice dry and sarcastic humor based comic strip) and Calvin and Hobbes. Wondered if I had read anything at all when I saw the quiz paper, but then, never mind.

Got our ITC marks. I have not done well as expected. But the marking gave a STRONG indication that the current pattern of assessment needs a MAJOR revamp. Guys who have been using a lot of excel and are pretty proficient with it haven't really scored as much as they should have.

Played some pool. Gave a practice apti test....... Got a little delayed there. Tried working a little bit on the ITC assignment. Where can I get there though? Might just do good by not interfering. Had a meet after that. ABS Vanki didn't show up his a-s-s. Guessing Friday night fever.

Thought of going back to the lib to work on the ITC project. Laughed at myself inside my head. Back at my room :D.

Day 75: 3rd Sep, 2009

We had this super fun thing in our BIO session today. Simple funda - the class was divided into teams of three. Each team had one leader, one follower and one observer. The follower had to be blindfolded and the leader had to give proper instructions and guide the follower through some obstacles, while the observer ensured that rules were followed and made some other key observations. No big deal.

I got to play the blindfolded fellow. My closed eyes helped me see things in a new perspectives. I was totally dependent on the instructions that I received. Did a pretty good job of clearing the obstacles placed. After completing the task, I opened my blindfold to check what exactly I had done... and I saw that it was a 1 minute task with open eyes that took me around 30 minutes with my eyes closed. Thanked God.

Also had a MANAC test. First time after after 2 months that I gave a decent performance in this subject. **self applause .. (you are free to join in :p) ** Had plans to study for the Eco quiz tomorrow. But before that went to Gupta for some timepass. And ended up sitting there for around a good couple of hours :D . Nothing that gives more happiness than joyfully chatting and whiling away time when you know you are neck deep in quizzes, assignments, submissions and you haven't even started anything :D

Day 74: 2nd Sep, 2009

They say, as you sow, so you shall reap. Quite the opposite happened. Yesterday, we made the mistake of forgetting Sankar's bday. But today, we celebrated it with a cake and he had to bear an extra round of kicks :D

Today's OM lecture (which I bunked) was apparently full of CP, with Kaushik majorly doing all the redirection work. All random people throwing in random points and walking away with a few brownie points at the end of the lec.

Back to those late night blogs btw. It is 04:45 hours now. MANAC quiz tomorrow. Trying to put things together. Point is, you feel you have understoof stuff, but then when you try to solve something by yourself and construct a cash flow or something, bamm!.. :-S

Got the timetable for next term. We have 2 classes on Saturday as well :-( . AND an extra fin subject. That should be fun! :-p

Update: it is almost 6 and still stuck in the lib!! It is raining since the last 2 hours, can't go out with the laptop and all! :(

Day 73: 1st Sep, 2009

Usually we always hear about the 'icing on the cake'. Yesterday, encountered a new thing - 'icecream on the cake' :D . What happened is we majorly bungled up and (shamefully) forgot about this guy's birthday. Not to be outdone, Praveen comes up with this radical idea of putting together sandwiches in a special arrangement and topping the centre with an ice cream :D . Looked cool though.

Had a poll today on the section tee. Finally final now!