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Oh! The wretched exams! Look at the scene outside, its beautiful! Light breeze and a cool drizzle, how romantic! And I’m sitting here trying to hammer in some Data Structures into my head! Three more days to go and the entire syllabus to finish! How can I study in such a beautiful weather? I cant even leave my house. In case you don’t know I’ve been grounded! For what?…not studying enough! Where has civilization come to? Where an adult individual is not allowed to exercise his right to freedom! I cant study now anyway. Might as well go outside and get drenched. Curse those exams!

School exams were so much better. I had notes prepared beforehand, memorized the syllabus, known about the important questions so on and so forth. I had my Mom to ‘remind’ me to study 8 hrs a day, everyday for about five thousand one hundred and ten days. I had tutors to keep me in touch with studies (they always wondered how I managed to get such low marks in spite of all there effort). Overall exams were eventful and exciting. I remember we used to collect money and have a feast on the last day of the exams. And of course the complimentary football match at the end of every exam.. Good old days. Can never forget the school days can you? Such unadulterated fun. We didn’t need occasions to celebrate. Everyday was like a huge party. A perennial state of festivity…

But you cant stay in school forever can you. You have to give yourself freedom to grow and move on to serious stuff. For the world is made up of serious people and serious stuff. People seriously studying, people seriously working, people seriously flirting and other people seriously doing nothing. I think it is your choice as an individual to explore all the dimensions of life in whatever way you want to. To hell with seriousness! Its goddamn raining outside. You cant be serious now. It’s the perfect weather for fun. So just get up climb up to your terrace and dance a bit in the rain!

Its time again to decide whether to keep my hair long or cut it short. Why dont you suggest something for a change? What will it be, rock star or nerd?

Absolutist’s Guide to the Universe

Rumours : It is of course well known that careless rumours cost lives, but the full scale of the problem is not always appreciated. For example, a human named Sam who at one point of time was the CR (read ‘sacrificial lamb’) of a particularly uneventful class, once said, “I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my lifestyle." At the very moment that Sam said this, a freak wormhole opened up in the fabric of the space-time continuum and carried his words far back in time across almost infinite reaches of space to a distant Galaxy where strange and warlike beings were poised on the brink of frightful interstellar battle. The two opposing leaders were meeting for the last time. A dreadful silence fell across the conference table as the commander of the Cl’Clunks, resplendent in his fluorescent orange jewelled battle underwear, gazed levelly at the Vk’Vnutts leader squatting opposite him in a cloud of dark green foul-smelling vapour, and, with a million shapelessly streamlined and horribly beweaponed star cruisers poised to unleash fiery death at his single word of command, challenged the vile creature to take back what it had said about his pet dog. The creature stirred in his sickly broiling vapour, and at that very moment the words I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my lifestyle drifted across the conference table. Unfortunately, in the Cl’Clunk tongue this was the most dreadful insult imaginable, and there was nothing for it but to wage terrible war for centuries. Eventually of course, after their Galaxy had been decimated over a few thousand years, it was realized that the whole thing had been a ghastly mistake, and so the two opposing battle fleets settled their few remaining differences in order to launch a joint attack on our own Galaxy - now positively identified as the source of the offending remark. For thousands more years the mighty ships tore across the empty wastes of space and finally dived screaming on to the first planet they came across - which happened to be the Earth - where due to a terrible miscalculation of scale the entire battle fleet was accidentally swallowed by a small frog.