Peculiarities and Perils

Time for yet another directionless post...

With not so special events happening today, let me just talk about some of the pecularities and perils that I am either directly related to, and some that I am not so directly related, and some that make no correspondance with me as well :-)

1. Convocation to passing out batch of IITB - Well, whats peculiar in that ??
   The dress - Jubba and Pyjama; not the all-famous black overcoat symbolizing the English way of convocating...
   
2. Snake men and snake women at Railway stations - When you approach near a moving crowd in a local railway station, you can hear a distinct "Ssssss" "Ssssssh" sound encroaching you....
    No reason to freak out - its one of the prominent signals used by hurrying passengers to alert you to move away gracefully, and prevent getting toppled over :-D
   
   Crazy mind wondering if Mallika didi got inspired from all this Hisssssssing for her movie :-D 
3. Sabu Dana Saga - Our hostel is bent upon feeding us with this very special dish occassionally.
   Unable to track the taste on the first encounter, its the first thing I avoid; and many in company for that...
   But the dish preparation continues, and so does the piling up of plates with filled Sabudana at the wash basin !!
4. Bedless - This one is totally personal ;-)
   Didnt take the bedding for the first few days, in the feel of the self-formed bedsheet semi-bed..
   But by the time the realization came that  bed is a necessity, all the bed vendors within the campus had moved out :-/
   Next up is a semester's wait to get a proper bed !!
5. Moodle - Ok, now this might be a Intellectual Property(IP) issue O-o !!
   The flaw I have observed is that it offers course enrollment, but when you drop the course; you dont get unenrolled automatically !!
   Easy way for diligent sit-throughs and knowledge-gainers to get course related resources :D
6. Assignments - Hmmm. After all that exposure and experience that we had in first sem at PESIT, it should be a piece of cake right ??
   Apparently not, I find myself back in square 1 - submitting at almost the deadlines, working on most of the weekends, and postponing important things to study for the same.....
7. Hostel Mess - Many of you might be thinking - "Is this guy ever going to stop whining about the hostel food??"
   But thats how sometimes the menu turns out - Rasna on the day when curds are available, Poha for Monday breakfast, almost everything aloo-fied, quickly depleting resource called Pulao(that wont be available after half-an hour of mess opening!!)
   But the beauty is that I have gotten used to it these - all the above stuff is not complaining; its just stating facts ;-)
8. Night labs for juniors - Guess thats what it means to be at IIT. Imagine if you had to sit sit for your 'regular' lab hours slotted at 8.30PM to 10.30PM !
   Hard workers arent they - first JEE, and then this...

Hmm, that went more pictorial than expected :D
Well, some thought for the night :-)