Half a day....

Hi, its been some time, was planning to finish the cell phone story as it happened, but I will do it later, in my next blog I guess, but as of now I have it in front of me on the comp table with its occasional (and sometimes annoying!) blinking light….well, I’m remembering what I did today,………ah, I wasn’t well today, got up with a headache and some uneasiness in my stomach, followed the usual routine getting ready to go to college, had breakfast and some pill for headache, and that’s when I had nausea, stood in front of the sink, contemplating if I should just help myself  get it out or try and hold it back hoping the feeling will subside, ….I chose and gave in, ….breakfast was all over the sink. It wasn’t so bad, just felt weak after that, glad to hear my father ask me to take some rest for a while, a few classes will have to be “missed”, I sit and calculate if my attendance requirements will fall below the thin red line (85% of classes conducted, I imagine it as more of a high wall to be scaled), no they won’t, not in the first two classes today, spend time again contemplating if I can finish installing Linux in this small window of time (I love installing Linux (weird!!) and I just got a new edition) , I guess not, I have tea (I know tea is good and it would make me feel much better today and it did!, but drinking 4-6 cups a day is debatable), ok finally I get ready for college and leave, driving fast, not wanting to be late, reach and climb down the stairs and see our class teacher waiting for another class to get over, with a big smile she greats me, asks if I was revising (reasoning that was why I was late), no, hears my story and says I could leave the next class if I wanted to, she just confirms what a nice person she is (one of the very few you just cant help but give a lot respect to coz they treat you with so much) it’s a weird situation of someone being very nice ( and in a higher position ) and someone else being very polite and a little insecure (in a lower position). Have you felt it or observed it? I’m bad at making conversation, just answer her questions and leave to drink water. Next class there’s some sort of a seminar on PC hardware (aaah, I know all that stuff), attend most of it and leave, can’t take it anymore (the feeling in my stomach, not the hardware), (Oh yeah, it’s Guns N Roses – Knocking on Heaven’s Door on Winamp now as I type this, I love it!!!)……..let me pause while I enjoy the song, awesome guitaring, courtesy SLASH……I queue it for another listening…..song’s paused too and I go get another half cup of tea…..awesome guitaring…….second time…..wowowoyyyeeeeaaaahhhh!!, slight stomach ache now, so I shall continue, I come home, questioning glances by my mom while she stands at the door listening to some door to door sales man, no we’re not interested in whatever it is you’re selling, its alright, not interested, well I don’t care if its free, thank you. (‘November rain’ now) hmmm, lemme pause once again (music gets to me ...…always….!!) …….perhaps the ruler in this editor should have been some sort of moving timeline then you’d have understood this write up better. Back to writing, nothing much happened for the rest of the day, I just go to sleep, get up and have soup (testing if it’s alright on my now delicate stomach), I find out the syllabus for a subject and plan on starting to study it …..And here I am after a considerable stretch of time (didn’t study there) writing to post this up on my blog …….and then go to sleep I guess….(yawn)…..oh a title for this blog, “hmmm wait cant think of anything…..no, no that’s not the title”…..ok, hmmm……its “Half a day….”, how’s that….?


Further postings expected:
On everything about Pink Floyd and me.
     On my theories about the existence (non!) of God.
     On music and me.
     And lots of miscellaneous other stuff.
     Yeah, about aliens, astronomy and the universe.
     I guess I needn’t say more, the above one includes everything.

* a little point I forgot to include, I’ve got internals on Monday, 3 mandatory, 2 optional, 2 (3 if I skip the optionals) days holidays to study up, you know, it’s a little scary, because what if I screw up, and it sits on my head in the background all the while restricting all that I do that does not conform to the supposed behavior for a student before his/her exams/tests/whatever and right now I’m getting a feeling and its …bad……

Cell phone seizures and VTU bans....

what the hell???
i mean seriously...they took away my cell phone...!!!
i'm really pissed that i had to give it to them...and give in to their arrogant attitude...

it was a boring tuesday afternoon on the 25th of oct, i was sitting there lost in thoughts, in the C class that we were having, not bothered in the least to listen coz i knew that stuff already...
and then there was someone at the door, an unknown face, seemed like a part of the faculty, i didnt care, our lecturer ran up to him, spoke a few words, nodded and got back to teaching...
a couple of minutes later about 3 or 4 people enter the classroom. we stood up giving them all due respect. one of them walked right up to the front and started talking before he reached, "all those having mobile phones please hand it over otherwise we will have to take it forcibly if found when we check your belongings...". we sat down gradually as he waved his hand. my hand involuntarily went to my pocket and felt my cell phone. i was the last one to sit. not before i looked back to see one of them standing in the back looking at me with my hand in my pocket. the panic button was pressed in my head...my heartbeat accelerated, "oh my god, what do i do? i'm gonna have to give it!". sitting a couple of benches ahead of the last in the corner left me a little vulnerable to view. there wasn't much time to think, time raced while he walked between the rows and i barely heard him moan something about the college possibly being put in the newspapers for its students being notorious in carrying cellphones despite the ban by VTU...blah blah.
i pulled out my cell and held it in my hand, i'm gonna have to let go of it...damn. what was worse was the possibility of being insulted in class when i would have to hand it over...he walked up the rows, scanning, as he reached my row, he saw my cell placed on the table, took it and handed me a sheet of paper, i wrote my name, model and number of the cell. wow, my hand was spastic, i struggled to write clearly...took forever to remember that i had a sony ericsson. i handed over the sheet as a few eyes from around the class looked at me...he gave it to a couple of guys behind me. good to know i would have company. poor whoever! his cell was a good one. then i hear him mumble more about us not needing to bother about getting back those cellphones. then they were gone. i felt like Neo in The Matrix: me at my desk, a cell phone (at the center of things), some people looking for me and my brain racing for solutions.
it took some time for me to realize that the class was continuing...some friends asked if i would get it back, some others said i would.

it was only in the break that i realized i just had another of my panic attacks. oh damn... over a stupid cell phone!. of course they will give it back. they better. i got to know from a senior that i would have to pay a fine to get it back.

its only later that i realize, i'm not gonna be getting it for some time, 4 days hols as rains lash Bangalore, and then a whole week of holidays for Diwali. did somebody wish me a happy diwali?