Longing for the Summer Holidays!

What a great feeling it would be to be at the top of things. Get everything done in due time, meet all of the deadlines, and maybe even have a moment or two for yourself. (I’ve seldom felt something like that but when I do, I feel like I’m at the top of the world – so elated) =P


The final week of the semester rolled in and rolled out and brought all of the end-of-semester-madness with it. Assignments, projects, reports, presentations – all were due this week. And then the final exams start next week. It is really hard to find time for anything right now and most of all, to strike a balance between work and social life. What makes it worse is that almost all of my friends are done with school for the summer and are back in the city. I haven’t been able to find time for them and they have been complaining a lot lately. I keep telling them that they’re busy having a good time but I know I’m just saying this to get them off my back for a while. Not been a good friend in the past few weeks. But all of that is going to change next week.


Can’t wait for school to end and summers to start (well, summers have already started.. I mean the holidays =P). So the partying starts from next weekend. Woot woot! =D

Goldilocks and the BIG FAT UGLY BEAR

So my sister and her family are visiting for the summers and I’ve been busy having fun with my nieces, Z and H. Z turns 4 this September while H is only 4 months old. Now Z has got me thinking whether the game I’ve been playing with her since the last 10 days exists for real or is just her own invention. It’s called “the Goldilocks”. I am sure you have guessed that in this game one person impersonates Goldilocks while the other one has to pretend to be a bear.

The first time I played, Z told me that I have to be Goldilocks while she’ll be the bear. She got slightly annoyed because I was not playing my part well. According to her, I also had to say “please don’t eat me, bear” while she tried to catch me – I forgot. As a result of this mistake, she quickly announced “IT’S MY TURN!” and then explained it to me that I have to catch her. I asked her why? (just because I love to see her little face while she thinks) and she was like “umm because… because, you are a BIG, FAT, UGLY BEARRR!”

And then I pretended to be a “big, fat, ugly bear”. The poor bear also got kicked in the face, rather hard, while he was trying to eat Goldilocks. Ha, I guess serves him right for trying to eat Goldilocks. =P

If Only Teachers Cared...

A major presentation right after the midterm week is never good. For one, you haven’t slept properly the whole week and second, you have to work your ass off when everyone else you know is busy catching up on sleep and having fun.

I had my last exam on Monday, the first day after the midterm week – go figure. Anyway, right after my exam, I, along with my group members, decided to get started on the research that we were required to do. After like an hour and a half of initial research, we still had not grasped the topic at hand. A friend and I decided to go to the teacher’s office and consult her but she was not there. I looked at the bulletin board that hung beside her desk and saw that she had a class at that very time. We decided to go and wait for her outside her classroom and ask her questions when she ends the lecture. We waited for like 10 minutes in which my friend plopped down on a bundled up carpet in the corner which, I still have a strong feeling, was infested with lizards. I told her about my hunch, but it turned out that she was not scared of lizards and in her day had hunted many lizards with her jooti – the first girl I personally know who has done that (How awesome is that? =P). Anyway after 10 minutes I decided to peek into the classroom to see if the teacher was even there. The classroom was totally empty. Turns out, the teacher did not come to school that day. So we went to our next class and after that decided to go home without actually deciding what we were going to do about the presentation. Well, I actually went to a friend’s birthday party while others might have gone to see the baby (another teacher’s precious little child because of whom our classes get cancelled every now and then).

The next day I woke up relatively late and looked around for my cell phone. There were a few text messages from my friend. One of them included a teacher’s number, asking me to request her to postpone the presentation. I never like talking to teachers on the phone. The last time I talked to a teacher on the phone was back in 2008 and at that time I was pretending to be a friend’s dad – but that’s another story. Anyway to cut the long story short, it was decided that I’ll text the teacher and if she does not reply in two hours then my friend will call her. It took me 15 minutes to come up with the perfect text message which explained how and why we cannot possibly present the next day and that the presentation should be postponed till next class (To which the teacher never replied).

At 4 O’ clock I got a call from my friend. It turned out that she had just called the teacher and the teacher was most displeased and had refused to postpone the presentation. In short we were screwed – 15% of the grade was riding on this presentation. We had till 8 am the next day to get done with everything. We divided the topic and set to work and worked the whole night. I got done with it at 4 am in the morning and managed to sleep for two hours, while 2 of my group members didn't even get the chance to shut their eyes, although I have a feeling they spent considerable amount of time on Facebook. =/

I woke up after 2 hours, dressed up for presentation and drove to school half asleep. Reached school and went straight to class. Sat down at the very back and started going over the things I had planned to say during my presentation. I looked up to check the time and was surprised to see it was 8:30 am. The class was supposed to start at 8:15. I thought maybe the teacher is late, she will show up in a while.

8:40 am - still no sign of teacher.

8:45 am - still not there.

That’s when we all decided that this means only one thing – the teacher is not coming today, and we were quite right, she didn't.

All of our work, the sleepless night, never ending reading, everything we had done was all in vain! (Well no, we presented the next day) But it was total injustice to us for we had spent so much time working under considerable amount of stress and pressure, and the teacher just decided not to show up. Grrr!!!

I really think that teachers should be courteous enough to tell the students in advance that they do not plan to take the class. All it takes is a text message or an email to inform the students. Now seriously, how hard is that? It would save students the trouble of coming to school or discomfort of waking up early in the morning or in my case, considerable amount of stress. I  feel that the teachers should be a bit more considerate than two of my present teachers (this one, and the one with the baby).