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(Sometime before Manfest2007)

Today he finally decided that since the ground is occupied for some other purpose, he would make better use of the evening time. He started off towards the mess, talked to friends there, had snacks and then started wandering around. He found a partner who also wanted to walk around and then they decided to go for a walk around the institute.

Far away, a building was being constructed and they thought it would be a new hostel for the junior batch since there would be an increase in the intake of students from the following year. But it finally turns out to be an extension of the guest house. So, they finish a trip around the institute, but when they reach the starting point, they see some guys playing in a constrained place inside the ground. It looks like no barriers are going to stop these guys from playing.

After watching for some time, our man finally gets into the field and starts playing. One hour later, after having their customary fruit juices, the playing group start back to their respective hostels. Again the thought comes to our man, that he should make better use of his time. He says to himself, “ok. 5 minutes for bath and then I’ll start studying “. He goes to the bathroom, but to his dismay that the hot water is not coming through the solar water heater pipes. It looks like it got screwed once again, second time in 10 days. He goes to the adjacent hostel and takes bath and comes back. The whole ordeal took half an hour. Fine.

So he’ll start studying now. Hopefully.

There is a case on Burger King which he is supposed to prepare for the next class. He duly opens the lappy to get hooked to the net to get extra info from the net. But unfortunately, the case is not so famous and was no-where to be found. He indulges in some other time pass till it becomes time for dinner. Dinner takes another 45 minutes and he is back. The time now is around 10 PM and at least now, he wants to study. He opens DC to see if any case related info is there. But instead he finds that the movie “American Pie5: The Naked mile “which he had kept for download a few days back had been completely downloaded. So forgetting about the purpose of opening DC, he quickly opens the movie and starts watching it. Another 1.5 hours later, the movie gets over.

He starts feeling hungry. So now it’s time to go to the night mess. Once out his room, he feels the cold unbearable and dressed up in his winter gear, he starts climbing down the stairs. One of his hostel mates is totally drunk and he is being brought back to his room by two of his sober hostel mates. The guy has puked all over and he is saying to himself “Before I came here, I decided to attend all the classes without fail ... so don’t forget to wake me up in the morning “. The guy is out of sense but he still remembers his purpose. Strange, I am totally sober but not able to follow my purpose.

Elsewhere guys from another hostel seem to be celebrating someone’s birthday. The bumps giving ordeal seems to be over and now they are going on their customary celebrations in the mess. Slowly he joins them and goes to the mess. He has some biscuits, some bread and some tea and comes back. Now the time is 1.30 Am. Not able to do anything useful today, he starts writing a blog which he hasn’t done from the last twenty days.