I am idle right now. Mid term papers got over yesterday; ate like a lousy animal @ KFC; went to theatre; strains of music and liqueur flowed through the night; had a photo session today - formals n all; represented my hostel in TT league matches(ask not the result!); attended a focus group discussion for a marketing research project; updated my to-do-list; and I'm idle finally.
We got over with our mid-term papers yesterday. As one with scant regard for academics but a notoriously stiff head, I did fairly well. Tried to keep silly mistakes to the minimum (though not zero: and they can be crucial). I had vowed to go on a full-on mugging spree here; and I did so. I mugged a lot, But then you can't compete with certain species of muggers at all. Such as people with photographic memories and extremely mechanical precision in answering examination question papers. (My previous post relates to them). And I decided I wouldn't lower myself enough to trade off an extra wikipedia read with a silly glance at last-year-question-paper-shit. Even though that might compromise a grade here or there.
But anyways, I'm loving it all. Love the new subjects out here. Love the profs, love the people I associate with. And I'm particularly excited about learning how to make solid presentations. Given four already in a span of a month, which included one where I spoke my entire slides without looking at the PPT at all. It was beautiful. I speak first, and the point drops on the slide later.
Let us see how do things shape up here. I went and watched a film yesterday. Usually I am not film-friendly. I sleep through them most of the time. To me they're more like 125 rupee sleeping passes in an air-conditioned enclosure with crying kids in one corner, boring old women in another, and lots of flashy lights shining on a big silver screen. But this one managed to keep me awake for quite some time. It was called Love-aajkal. Was on contemporary love affairs. And I liked the theme. To a certain extent, I thought it relates to all of us -- somewhat. Go watch it, and you'll know why I said so.
You know what's the best thing that has happened to me in all my life? It is the cumulative summation of all events that has landed me precisely at my current space-time-emotion co-ordinates. Things could have been better, no doubt. But then they could as well have been much worse! Guess what guys, its the same with all of us. Take cues. Smile today, for tomorrow may be worse.
Pictures we took after the photo session -
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