proxy of the semester

dear blog

what a wonderful day it was! First, i got up at the right time to attend AK 47's class. In the next class, i did, perhaps, the most daring act of my life!

It all happenned like this.. My friend- T0 (pronounced 'Tee knot') and I walked up to the microDARDonics class 15, minutes after the time, confident that the teacher would let us come in. We entered to find only about 20 people ,in a batch of 60,attending the class. Just as we sat down on the last bench, we complied all the data. The data was the roll numbers for which we had to call out proxy attendances. We divided them equally amongst ourselves. So, i had to answer the roll call four times.

During the lecture, we got two more requests from our friend from Agra, to call out some of 'his' proxies, to reduce his burden. He was originally sent by his 'Board' with a mission to to call out 8 proxies, apart from his own! We agreed to call out two of his proxies. So, each of us had five roll numbers to call.

At that time, my lecture notebook looked something like this-

microDARDonics
15.2.08

05409
05422
054XX
054XX
05XXX

(the actual roll nos have been censored on public demand!)

the numbers on the page were the rolls numbers for which i had to say 'Yes Sir' or whatever i liked. In the rest of the lecture, we discussed many other important issues like organising the mass bunk for the practical class that day, the design of some pages of SRIJAN, the state of our college 10 years from now, US presidential elections and the effect of global warming on Hamirpur.
still, when the lecture seemed nowhere near its end, we started playing tic-tac-toe.

finally, after 11 games of tic-tac-toe, the teacher stopped teaching and picked up his attendance register. We pulled up our socks and got ready for our jobs. Things went on smoothly till the roll number 440.

It was then that the teacher realised that there were too few people in the class and too many on the attendance sheet. So, he cancelled the whole attendance and started taking our attendance again. but this time, he didn't go roll number wise! He went seat wise. He asked every person his roll number and then marked him present in his register. this way, he had planned to cover the entire class, minus the proxies.

I was sitting on the last bench of the fourth row. so, my turn came after a lot of time. just as i had answered my roll call, an idea stuck me. i noticed that the teacher took about five seconds to search for a roll number on his register and mark him present. during this time, he just looked at his register. so, i wondered if i could quickly move to second bench of the fifth row in five seconds, to call out a proxy. also, he being a new teacher doesn't recognise me. luckily, i was wearing a huge pullover at that time. in one 'five seconds' i took my pullover off and kept it on the bench. in the next 'five seconds', i reset my hair and straigtened my T shirt. in the next 'five seconds', i quietly moved to the second bench and sat with one of my classmates started cursing me in 'Full Spirit'. It was then that my 'new neighbours' realised what i was upto! someone told me to go back. some other guy told me that i will be dead meat if i get caught, which, according to them, i was sure to get. somebody else told me that the teacher would recognise me for sure. some other said that i will get a suppli. even the girls sitting near me started whispering. probably they were telling me to back off. at that time, i heard a voice- loud and clear- 'You can do it! Go Go Go..' that voice came from my mind! that voice was louder than all the wispers around me. hearing that voice, i told everybody to shut up and act normal, which they thankfully did.

Then, when my turn came again, the teacher asked me my roll number, in full pain(!). i could not believe it. i thought that he was asking the one sitting behind me. then he asked me again. Probably the changed colour of my clothes( grey pullover to brown shirt) fooled him. anyway, i utterred 'four twenty two' , in full confidence with a serious face. he stared at me for one full second. that was the longest second of my life. i thought that he had recognised me. then, my heart leaped up when he marked 'my' attendance and moved on to the next one.

Soon the attendance was over and the teacher left the room. I felt like a hero! the whole class hailed me! those who were cursing me earlier now gave me high fives! even the girls were smiling at me, when i changed back into the pullover. even long after the class, people, including the topper, hailed me all the way back to the hostel. even i don't know where i got the guts from at that time! everybody was full of praise for me.

today, only one proxy was called. and i did that!

later in the evening, anybody, from any branch, whom i met had heard of my heroic deed. it feels great. people even said that it was the 'proxy of the semester'! i'm on top of the world!

this day will be fresh in my mind forever...

introspection

engineer toh i will become.. but what next?

i have become so careless. i just play(that too only on the PC),eat and sleep. i just don't think about my future.. what am i gonnna do in life? i just enjoy the small , petty things in life like eating, sleeping, partying. i just don't think about the larger goal. actually, i have not yet decided about any larger goal.i know that i have a sharp mind. but that was just His gift to me. i have not made any use of it. i just waste it day after day , passing time, copying assignments, playing the same old games, watching movies. God, please make me realise that time is precious. Please guide me toward my destiny. pls make me realise what i have to do,achieve on this planet. everybody has already got their trainings fixed. i have not even thought about it seriously. i just couldn't take time out of CS,AOE. i have to improve. that has to happen very soon. otherwise, i will go down. and would also take those people who believe on me, down with me. i just can't let that happen. life is precious.

i have all kinds of luxuries with me because my dad is a great man. i have not done anything to deserve that. i just waste his hard earned money on patties,samosas and maggi.my dad wakes up everyday at 5 am. i sleep at that time everyday, after finishing two movies. where is all this taking me?


what should i do? everybody around me is busy. but i just sit idle, watching them work hard, but still feel nothing. no tingling sensation wakes me up from my deep slumber in life.

see i'm going to sleep even nw. btw, i haven't even touched any book for weeks. this is bad. why the hell am i taking my life so lightly? why am i not geting serious about my life?

my mind, please realise that life is precious.

EST

my dear blog

today, i discovered that i have become a standard....
well, my story has a week long history. last week, it was my record that i was five minutes late to every class, be it in encountering lectures by AK 47 ,BJ 51 or Entertaining, attractive(Phile..) practicals! it is another story that some cruel teachers don't give me attendance... So, a saying has been developed, based on peoples' experience..

IF YOU MEET ENDLEY ON THE WAY, THEN YOU ARE ABSENT!

so, whenever somebody sees me approaching him, on the way to a class, he starts running!! Or, when somebody comes 5 min late to a class he comes on EST(Endley Standard Time).

This happenned even today. I got up one full hour before the class, but still reached class exactly at EST! By the way, classes are interesting nowadays. Its just today that in PAIN-in-the-neck's class, the 'senate' of our class passed the resolution to bunk today's tutorial and practical classes to watch the T20 match. (Its another story that India played pathetically.)

But as my roomie tells me, our mid-sem exams are approaching at neckbreaking speed. So i'm off to study Control Systems now.. my dear blog, see you at 08:00 pm EST tomorrow!

PS: I don't care if AK 47 visits my blog, because if he does so, he might only write one of the popular sayings of my blog on the blackboard the next day!