Joy!: December 2005

Saturday, December 31, 2005

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Thursday, December 29, 2005

STOP!!

I've had it. Enough of the exams. Enough studying.

Enough.

All of us (my friends and I) used to be a happy bunch of people. Now we're all...bleargh. There's no life left in us.

I hate it. Hate.

Seriously, I've had enough of the exams, enough studying, enough pretending to study. Enough of it all.

I think I'm going to stop studying. Take a look at the world and see if its still going round. Enjoy my last few days of the year.

Actually, I think not. Physics tomorrow. Have to go study.

Bleargh.

Ta.

Wednesday, December 14, 2005

Studying for Dummies

Its exam time, people!!

Having a tough time studying? Not knowing how to complete 300 years worth of studying in one night? Don't take tension!! I shall now teach you how!

Disclaimer : These instructions are solely for those people who have no intention whatsoever to pass. Follow at your own risk.

1. Don't worry.

2. Eat a lot.

3. Sit with books in front of you. Sleep with eyes open.

4. Sleep with eyes closed, preferably using book as pillow.

5. Take frequent and long breaks from the hard work.

6. Make frequent phone calls to friends and talk for long periods of time about how impossible it is to study 300 years worth of portions in one night. Then talk about random nonsense.

7. Paint nails.

8. Go out. Movie and meal works.

9. Did I say sleep?

10. Fail exam.

Sounds great ah?

Trust me, it is.

I've been spending large amounts of time trying to study for my exams, and then failing them. Then I realized this is a much more fun way to accomplish the same thing. I highly recommend it. :-D

If anyone has any better ideas (for passing), do let me know. Maybe there's some hope left.

Much love, dudes!

Friday, December 02, 2005

Looking all around me...

I had an interesting conversation with a friend of mine a few days ago about the world we live in, and what we see in it. Because every one of us lives in the same world as such, but what we see and percieve in the people and things around us is what makes us who we are.

So what do I see? What is MY world?

Right now, sitting in my room, I see my textbooks lying in the corner, the shruti box on the table next to me. I see a closet overflowing with clothes. In the next room, I can hear the maid (Valli) singing some old tamil song. My world right now.

In the afternoon, a friend had come home and the two of us spent the afternoon on the terrace up on the tank. Amazing weather, beautiful wind. Futile attempts to study organic chemistry. (My terrace, for those of you who don't know overlooks the backwaters of the Adyar River...the estuary that is. It's quite lovely.) We gave up after a while, and just sat (wishing for cyclone) and gazed out at the water, the wind, the crows. My world then.

What did I see? I saw beauty, I saw nature. I felt happy, at peace with the world. I saw children from the slum playing in the wind, contemplating the prospects of rain. I saw the grown-up people from the slum looking worriedly at the sky. And suddenly I felt confused, scared.

Its nice for people like me, sitting warm in their homes to appreciate the beauty of the rain. Personally, I LOVE getting wet in the rain. But would I like it if I was forced to? I doubt it.

Suddenly, in the same place that I had seen such beauty a few seconds before, I saw poverty. I didn't know what to think, to feel.