I was so pissed off with the courses and the work load that I began wondering how cool it would be if I were in a different age, to be precise, in an ancient age. It would be cool to be an early man, I thought. No work to do, no tensions in life, the only thing u look forward to is having something to eat whenever u r hungry. So much peaceful: pluck a fruit or kill an animal and eat it off. But the picture got all shady when I realised that I cud be a prey to other animals too. I wudn't live peacefully coz I wud have to be beware of animals eating me off in the dark. I wud have to take care of my sleeping place, away from insects, mosquitoes, etc. So it wudnt have so much of mental peace as I had thought. Hmmph… the only thing that wud be interesting in the early life wud be seeing women naked any time u want (hmmm… I feel so much better now).

Then I thought of the medival ages… prolly bcome a king or a person having the most peaceful life in that era. After eliminating the king, minister, etc etc as the choices I thought a pandits life wud b kewl: go to houses, do some pooja, eat good food at all places, have good respect from everyone, sleep peacefully after heavy meals. Wow! Tensions wud b taking care of the family n stuff. But that’s okie… not as much tension for the age I’m in… but then I wondered the childhood wud be sooooooo PAINFUL. Learn all those shlokas n stuff in Sanskrit and recite it perfectly whenever any pooja’s to be done. I had taken part in some Sanskrit shloka recital competitions, and these were the toughest competitions ever. I was hardly ever able to learn those shlokas. Once, I was able to recite only 6/50 shlokas. Nope, even the medival age wudn’t be good for me. Childhood, the best part of one’s life, wud b a great waste….

Then it dawned to me: why do I want to choose the most peaceful personality possible? Why don’t I want to be the King who manages everything from his family to the entire kingdom? Why I am looking for the easiest path?

Overheard my roommate saying: "Why do newspapers all over say Lara has beaten Hayden? Why's there so much rivalry between Lara Dutta and Diana Hayden?"

He understood wat the statement meant when he checked the detailed cricket report on rediff.

OMG!

Life's been a bitch lately: screwing me in all ways possible. I've been so darn busy with my courses and research work that I have forgotten how my room here looked like. Now my room's all messed up with my new poster lying on the carpet and a bunch of reports and bills lying on it. My jeans and a couple of t-shirts have found some space on the floor (on the carpet of course) and my laptop sleeps whereever it finds space. Had it not been for the carpet, my room would have been worse than the IIT-room.

Lots of things have happened in the past 20 days (other than studying, of course): Narsi had come during a busy week (which I hadn't expected to be soooooo damn busy)and we had gone to Tampa for to meet some civil friends. Had gone to the Universal Studio's Islands of Adventure on a free ticket. Had Ron's B'day party at Olive Garden and later went for bowling. Wasted the last 3 days lying on my bed and watching TV all the time. Saw matchstick men (awesome!), freaky friday (good fun), notting hill (okie-dokie) and missamma (good one for being a gult movie).

Am back to the regular schedule again. Had missed some classes while finishing up assignments and am listening to them online. Will update with some other stuff soon... abt Narsi mostly....