Tuesday, December 20, 2005

Al Green's playing on repeat.I can't sleep.I tossed and turned for half an hour.Good for digestion perhaps.College starts tomorrow.I had my dose of 'The results might come tonight' thus leading me to message the entire student population of S.R.M Deemed University asking them when the 'bloody results' were expected.According to a few sources, they clearly remember our results coming the night before college reopened.One of my classmates asked 'Why are you so anticipated?' . I did not correct him in the usual Queen Elizabethian way I usually do, fearing he wouldn't inform me if they actually came.

I feel like a kid in school.I used to hate the first day of vacations.With a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach on the car ride to school,I would cringe as we passed through the big blue gates of Church Park.The teacher would walk in with a huge stack of answer papers and drop the heavy load with a loud Thud! and my brain would temporarily stop working.There were times when some would walk in empty handed leading us to believe she had a wonderful holiday and hadn't finished corrections.Our joy would be shortlived as she would point out to the nerdiest girl in the first row and ask her to bring the papers from her desk.I hate getting papers in a random order.Roll Number wise atleast lets you count the number of papers you were away from getting yours.

I never liked girls who went up and pointed out totalling mistakes which alloted them extra marks.Too much honesty isn't really a good thing.There were the girls who cried when they got 99.The modest ones who hid their 100.The ones with 60 who would try to convince us they would have have got that 100 had they 'completed' the paper.The ones who scraped through and celebrated..like me.

I wonder how I'm going to wake up.Where my Id card is.Whether my salwars will have a layer of dust on them.How am I going to keep myself occupied on the bus?When are my results?Who will my teachers be?

I'm entering my sixth semester.I feel old.It feels like yesterday when I was the confused Computer Science student from St Josephs who took up Biotechnology at S.R.M.A big change.A new start.A better life...