A brief pause

This post was originally supposed to be made at 10 P.M. on Saturday, 12th May, 2007 but my "hopes" of rounding of the sem with this blog were set to nought by the crappiness of blogger. Never mind, as the cliche goes -"Better late than never". Chill !!!

Half an hour....Yes that's the precisely the amount of time remaining before the curtains fall on the most epochal semester of my life!!! Well, this blog's been written in a jiffy, so pardon any grammatical, typographical and of course, as there are always bound to be, emotional errors!!!

Well, my last post in March was a pretty discursive one, and I had rambled on for numerous pages, to discuss about the "phenomenal month" at length. Little did I know, that the phenomenal month was only one of the chapters in the roller-coaster thriller bestseller that this sem has been!

A semester of many firsts, perhaps that would be an apt term for it - the first bunk of a practical lab (and also the second and the third :) - OS Lab, I am sorry for having done full injustice to you!!!), the first bunk of so many lectures and tutorials, the first time my attendance fell short of that magical 75 % mark (Indian Novels..thou art the greatest elective), the first time I assumed a responsibility as huge as being the Organizing Secretary for the departmental chapter pf Cognizance, the first time I went on a paid vacation (courtesy Google), the first time I went to Bangalore, the first time I went to a pub, the first time I gave my mid-terms with poor preparations and my end-sems with pathetic ones, the first time I missed a quiz (OS...my nemesis again), the first time I got the taste of surfing the net while sitting in the comfort of my room, the first time I blogged :) :) :), the first time someone so close got married (my brother), the first time I met with so many of my relatives (in living memory, that is), the first...... and the list goes on. ( some of the items are not suitable for public viewing :D:D:D ).

It was also the sem of many chapos, with so many chapos happening all around me, no bad mess day (as if there existed something like a "good" mess day !!! :) :) ), was spared by us as an opportunity to wander off to our new favourite hangout, which coincidentally shares its name with my mortal self.

More significantly, it was the sem where I experienced the highest highs and the lowest lows. I received bouquets and brickbats alike, but that's a part of the bargain when you choose to live a life that I do. People made me feel bad about myself, people made me realize that no matter what you do, your gestures would never be counted as anything worthwhile. However, whatever you don't do will be used as a weapon to lacerate and lambast you in full measure. Never mind, its all in the game. No offences intended!!!

It was also the semester where I learnt some of my biggest lessons and in perhaps, some of the wierdest ways. I got screwed so many times during this semester, but each time, I came out a better man, if not the winning man. The Vista Launch event where I started to feel that the whole universe was conspiring against me, forms a case in point.

It was the semester where I gave my tests, quizzes and end-sems with the least possible sincerity and the minimum possible preparation (by my standards). Lets see what the results are. For once, my fingers are too busy to be crossed. There are better things in life to look forward to!!!

It was the sem where some very strange things happened, things that put me in delirious euphoria at some instants and into an abyss of depression during others. That thing is now a truth of life and I have to come to terms with it!!!

Above all, it was the semester that taught me "life"!!! I will never be able to forget this semester which made me realize that I "can" do things. As I sign off to leave for home in a couple of minutes, I'll bow down before the deity of time and seek her blessings for the onset of a brand new phase of my life, a phase which will mould my future years. May God and Time be with me! Amen!!!

3-2, you rocked, and so did I !!!