Sunday, July 31, 2005

the day I scored 74% At NIIT

Well after that day, most of my memory was occupied in studying for MT and performing fact-finding techniques for my project.
So I just remember the day I really had my MT.
On 22nd, I had my MT at 7:30, but what is so great about this day, well it is simple, read furthur.
The thought of getting up early i.e.4:30 is not something which used to bother me much. But now it does, as now, I have got a bad habit of staying up late. On 22nd, I had practicals(java) at 9:30, that meant I had to wake up early, if not @4:30.
But thanks to the fact that, last night I had slept at 2-2:30 as I was studying, I only managed to get up 6:30. This simply meant, catching 8:38 CST train from thane(i live in kalva) was going to be a racy job, and eventually I had to grab a 18 bucks rickshaw ride to thane, then I ran from rickshaw stand to the railway station. I went by the shortcut(i.e.crossing the tracks) and got into the train waiting at platform no.4, within seconds the train started moving, I quickly stationed myself in a corner, to save myself from the crowd, which I was sure of encountering at furthur stations. The train slowly picked up pace, and I saw the train moving onto the fast train track, damn!!!wrong train,,,, the train would only stop @mulund and ghatkopar damn!!it was 8:30 train I was in..
I got down at mulund, changed the platform, waited there for the 8:38 supposed to reach mulund @8:44, the train shows up at 8:52,
Just 38 minutes and I thought I was going to be late for the pracs and will be marked absent(second one). But that wasn't something which bothered me, I was more worried about getting into this train at peak hour. Anyway, I managed to get in, managed to stay close enough to the door, so as to aid me get down at vidyavihar, but as soon as the ghatkopar crowd got in, I was pushed so much, that I would pushed the guys at the door out of the train, I was very much eager to get down at vidyavihar. Got down, walked as quickly as I could and then started running, it paid off, I reached on time. The pracs. were the usual ones, where instead of doing my own program, I was busy debugging others programs. But the news I recieved, after the pracs shocked and confused me.
The only prof.(Mr. J.Singh) who had lectures for us on that day, was down with fever and wasn't coming.
Now I had MT at 7:30 @ghatkopar niit, it was 1pm, I could go home and study there, but I would loose 1 hr. approx. after reaching home(I live @kalva), and then I would loose more time in sitting down for studying. The other option of studying in college and then going to NIIT(its a 15 minute slow walk), but there was a problem in finding a place to sit and study, the library was full, no class room empty, and as it was raining I couldn't find a spot outside(there are many). So the only option I had was to go to NIIT, by the time I reached NIIT, it was 1:30, there I sat in the machine room, opened www.niitstudent.com, went to the tests section, started giving some mock tests, simultaneusly revised the stuff. It was hard for me to stay awake, I tried everything, had a cup of tea, ate four coffee bites. Proving my hypothesis that coffee makes me feel sleepy, I slept there for about 15 minutes. In this way, in a drowsy stance, cursing pathetic net speed at niit, I studied till 7:00 pm. I was shocked, I had spend so much time, but I made good use of it, I came out of the room, met some of the guys, I was talking a test with. I was hungry, but had no place close. SO i gulped down 2 energee's(flavoured milk). It would be enough to keep me wake. The test supposed to start @7:30, got delayed, the machines in the machine room, refused to detect the shared printer(the testing software requires this). So at 9:00, they decided to let us take tests in the server/faculty room, since there were just 2 of us(others had turned wimps and hadn't showed up). So @10:00, I came out with the score of 74, which isn't bad nor excellent. Had to wait there as we had to escort our faculty(lady) to ghatkopar station, the perk, she paid for the rickshaw ride, reached station waited for the 10:54 pm kalyan local train. The train wasn't crowded, which was a welcome change, I stood by the door, feeling the wind in my hair, singing hotel california, reached home by 11:30, dad served me dinner and went to sleep(mom and sis were asleep), I was having my food and suring channels, when I saw the cable movie channel playing, Hero(the jet li one) in chinese, I saw it, then he played kung fu hustle, damn! what a outrageous comedy, couldn't see it completely as I fell asleep.

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