A sleep of 8 hours isn't quite sufficient. I wake up at 7.00 A.M and Rosa (my junior) comes crying "Akka! Please help!", with a pitiable face and a fat ugly book of electronics. Poor girl! She is from civil engineering and is struggling with an interdepartmental course on Basic Electronics and has a lab test and Viva today. Our professors, as usual, taught the entire electronics course from diodes to Integrated circuits in 3 months. Did they forget the definition of "Basic" or just ignored it?? She asks (or rather shouts at) me "Why the hell should I know what is inside a chip?". Huh..Its okay Sweetie, I understand your agony. Three years of mundane life in Electrical Engineering has squeezed out the last ounce of interest on engineering from me. She asks me a few doubts and I tried to clear some so that she can at least confront the professor with confidence. After a few minutes of repenting my choice of electrical engineering, I unwillingly got out of my bed and made up my mind to go to college.
Somehow, I didn't feel like attending classes. But the lack of campus, an important part of college life (or can you say life?), left me with no other choice but sitting in the class room. After three hours of lectures,I got a nice treat in Dominos for no reason and these are a few times when I get reassured there is still life here. There was a little part of me dying to bunk and it did not let my soul rest in peace in the class room. So, I got back to hostel and dozed off for a while.
Suddenly, the cot starts vibrating! Wait, am I just dreaming or is it a quake?.. Ohhk, Let me sleep for some time and sort it out later. Yeah, I know! Heights of Laziness!! My flat mate comes and tries to pull me out of my bed but in vain. I mumble, "Dear Earth, its not everyday that I bunk lectures and peacefully doze. So, please stop your quacking and quaking .. Peace maar!". But the tremors wouldn't stop.. This is when I open my lappy and start venting out my frustaapa in words.
As I write this, there is a discussion going on in the flat about Tsunami alerts and earth quakes in several places. Thank God, I am not in Indonesia..What with my love for peaceful sleep and regular earthquakes shaking my cot every now and then??? I remember my professor telling sometime back about earthquake prediction techniques and also my sarcastic comment, "And now he wants to prophesy too!". But that is actually a good idea! With accurate prediction methods, not only will the lives of millions be saved, my invaluable sleep too would be unperturbed...
Sigh!!
And now the topic of discussion shifts from tremors to tests. God! Why do they need to test our ability of last minute mugging every two months??? Two weeks for the disastrous semester to end and I am still waiting for the night before exams. I now need a question paper prediction device too! :P
And now the topic of discussion shifts from tremors to tests. God! Why do they need to test our ability of last minute mugging every two months??? Two weeks for the disastrous semester to end and I am still waiting for the night before exams. I now need a question paper prediction device too! :P
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