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3/27/09

How I passed 60 minutes in an incredibly boring class

Date: 26th Mar, 09
Location: Undisclosed

-Came to class 10 minutes late.
-Drew a black patch on my notebook for 5 minutes.
-Smiled like a retarded child at all other insane batch mates of mine.
-Watched a cricket match being played in cell phone of the person sitting right next to me.
-Two minutes have passed writing this stuff.
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(Sat cluelessly for a few seconds)
-Drew a location map of people sitting in the class. Somewhat looked like this-
Srvn........... Pappu ...........Kittu
GChat........... Lka Shlbh ........... -
Pondy ........... Brjsh Bhpth ........... -
Baniya ........... Afro Rjsh ........... -
Rshb ........... Mn Tkl ........... -
[Almirah]...........Mkl Me ...........-

-Rotated my eyes a few times to exercise them.
-Told the person sitting beside me (Mkl) to hit a six (as I told you, he was playing cricket on his cell phone). He got caught and lost the game.
-Finally hit a six. Then hit two more.
-By this time 15 more minutes have gone.
-15 more still to go.
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-Yay!! 10 more to go now.
-What are people doing?
Srvn: No need to say. (Sticking out his owl eyes on the board with his ears receiving nothing but the jargon of lecture.)

Pondy: This guy is different. So you can easily imagine what he might have been doing. (He was making something on the paper, then stared into the blank for a few seconds, ogled at the professor and started jotting something down. The cycle continued.)

Baniya: Was in his usual deadpan composure. (Utterly bored, leaned his body against the wall. Then after a gap of a few minutes, touched and moved his hand over whatever he could on the body of the person sitting in front of him-Pondy. The sight looked comical when Baniya was at one point of time seen pulling Pondy's hair with Pondy having a blank look on his face.)

Rshb: Scribbling something. Travails of tolerating such a class were evident on his face.

Mkl: Still playing cricket. (At one point of time, asked for my cell phone, found a new game and got his ass kicked sore. He had also tried playing another game before, but finally resorted to cricket.)

Tkl: Just sitting, seeing here and there.

Mn: Was reading something, of course unrelated to the lecture and the whole course. (This guy exudes a scholarly look from his mannerisms and actions.)

Rjsh: Pretending to sleep.

Afro: Was showing an utterly bored look.

Brjsh, Bhpth: Pretending to listen to the professor (See their locations).

GChat, Lka, Shlbh, Pappu, Kittu: Listening

-Class is just about to be over. I am excited.

[The class got over after two minutes. Mkl read this, smiled and said 'Awesome'.]

3/3/09

A gem from a Hindi poem

अक्सर आकाश गंगा की
सुनसान किरणों पर खड़े होकर
जब मैंने अथाह शून्य में
अनंत प्रदीप्त सूर्यों को
कोहरे की गुफाओं में
पंख टूटे जुगनुओ की तरह
रेंगते देखा है
तो मैं भयभीत होकर
लौट आई हूँ |
-धर्मवीर भारती