rain

I hate rain. Everything is wet, soggy and unpleasant. Now, on top of that, we are having a cyclone. Yippee.... 150 km/hr. The clothes I washed last week still havent dried and now are probably lying on the lawn somewhere. ugh.

You can probably tell that I'm in a pissy mood. Not everything is bad.

The new term has started. I have 5 visiting profs this time. So most of my week is free and my weekends are all booked. It's weird. I had 1 class on friday, 3 on saturday, 2 on sunday, and none today. Cool.

The wind is howling outside, my curtains are pretty much all the time on the same plane as the fan and there is suddenly a lot of sand in my room. I saw a few good men last night. Jack Nicholsen has all the good lines in the movie.

I have 2 more projects from last term to finish. One will get over today, dunno when we have to finish the other.

I bitched about my project management midterm here once. Last week, I wrote the endterm exam. The paper was for 2 hours. As usual I was done in about an hour and fifteen and when I was leaving the prof stopped me and said that he "Enjoyed reading my midterm paper very much, it was very well written". UH? Cool. I thought I had done terribly. Sometiimes, it's nice when you are proved wrong. Sometimes.

I haven't written a lot this week because there have been a lot of power cuts here AND I have been sleeping all the time. Actually, the only time I don't sleep if I'm in my room is if there is a power cut.

I saw bits of Mortal Kombat before going to sleep last night. I had forgotten what an absolutely awful movie it is.

I read Tom Clancy's Executive Orders and Rainbow Six last week. They seem very hollywood friendly. Maybe Clancy wanted all his books to be made into movies. But after Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger, he should have learnt that they only take decent books and make them into terrible movies. I wonder if the Jack Reacher books will ever see Tinsletown? Who can play Jack Reacher? He has to be, according to the books, 6 ft 4 inches tall, broad as a barn door, fists like hammers, hair like sand, super smart, all knowing and with a tortured family history. What was Lee Child thinking?! They make amusing books though.

I have to get back to work. And I have to clean my room. It looks like the cyclone was in here too. Keep in touch.

Exams

I feel so bored during exams.

Today, I had 2. The first was ok. Lots of sums, not much time spent thinking. Just wrote. I didn't have a calculator and ended doing arithmetic in the margins. First time since school. No wait. I did it for CAT and all that crap. I still remember my tables. And I finished almost an hour ahead of time.

The second was a pain. I got bored midway and consequently made a lot of silly mistakes. I drew a instead of b and figured it out only as I was going to give the paper in; then I had to draw b and got totally confused. I still finished 45 minutes ahead of time.

Why to people write so much and for so long? I can't sit for longer than an hour and a half for an exam. I either know the answers or I don't. If I do, I write fast and if I don't, I write some (ir)relevant bullshit and leave. Why sit around and torture yourself?

2 more exams tomorrow. I don't have to study for one and I don't know what to study for the other. All in all, no studying. Yippee! I wonder what movie I can watch today. I saw a bit of Wedding Crashers last week and got very bored. How are Must Love Dogs and Sky High? Never heard of them, but copied them from someone on the lan. Hope the print is good.

wonder..

Have you ever wondered if perhaps God is a mad scientist and life, the universe and everything as we know it is an experiment gone terribly wrong and the reason why He can't make it right is because He is in a padded cell in a straightjacket...

The real question is - Who put him there?

PS. oops straitjacket. thnx shri.

phood

The Sister sent me a large parcel. I got it yesterday. It was wet, so I sorta freaked and ran with it to my room and opened it. Phew. It was wet only on the outside. I had 3 minutes to get to class.

Anyway, after the classes were over and done with (2 presentations! One in a sari!! To be honest, I didn't make any of the presentations; I was just sitting, and one of my group made the prez, but I was wearing a sari, whose blouse I almost forgot to iron and I answered questions after the presentations), I went back to my room and checked out the box. It was all add-water-and-boil Pasta and bread sticks and stuff. With great trepidation, I tried out the pasta. The instructions said, boil in water for 10 mins and then let it stay for 5 mins. Boil in water?? All I have is a 500ml kettle. So I boiled the water, put the pasta and the boiling water in a bowl and covered it. 5 minutes later, it was ready. It was a little rubbery, and I had put too much water and I should have added the masala thingy after draining the water, but whatever. It was good.

All the other packets need milk added to it... Wonder how that's going to turn out? How much of a mess am I going to make?

Stick around. One of these days, I'll feel hungry at night and I'll do it, and I'll let you know.

More coming up in The Adventures of Meera And Her Kettle.

Now I will go bathe and then have lunch. Cya later.

PS. Thnx Tar. The LOTR will follow shortly. I swear.

so...

have 1 mid term tomorrow and many many end terms next week. i think i have already said that.

I saw bits of usual suspects today.

I have nothing to say.

Really.

This rarely happens.

I have to study.

I have mouth ulcers. Zytee tastes awful. When I told my friend that, she said that I wasnt supposed to eat it. Big help!

Vish, I had fried rice too. Only, it was ugh.

Bye now, Have to study.

Will I or won't I?