Last week-end started a bit early from Friday evening itself turned out to be a rather rocking one with a party every evening. It started with the Uttar Pradesh freshers' party on Friday (5th Jan, 07) evening, followed by the DLF placement party on Sunday (6th Jan, 07), and our (West Bengal) freshers' party on Sunday (7th Jan, 07).
Usually parties are a welcome break and provide a good oppurtunity to gobble some good food and gulp loads of alcohol for the 'starved' and 'depressed' souls living in the campus. However this time it was almost an overdose of fun, and I badly prayed that I could bunk atleast one of them. So lets retrospect on those three days and list the good and bad things that happened as a result of going to this series of parties.
First the bad things:
(i) Lost out on GRE preparation. [Hope I remain this serious till I give the exam.]
(ii) No
hacking.
GNU Songanizer,
GNOWSYS and
GNU Parted all need some attention urgently.
(iii) Venturing anywhere outside the hostel, and especially the campus, at a time when temperatures are dropping below freezing point is never a good idea, unless there is an emergency. Good food has lesser priority than warmth in this case.
(iv) My ITC jacket got spoilt due to the antics of a character who had drunk much than what is good for him and his fellow party-goers.
(v) Sometimes one does tend to think 'enough is enough' after listening to the confused
bakwaas and being an eye witness to the endless
nakhre of intoxicated people three days in a row. Does not mean I hate drunks or drinking, though I remain a teetotaller, but I do have a tolerance limit.
Now the good ones:
(i) The fact that temperatures
did drop below freezing point (see an earlier post), was confirmed. This was significant since I my information was based on the observations of the
Forecastfox plugin in
Mozilla Firefox, and not on weather report published in the print or electronic media. The cab driver had found that the water on his windscreen had frozen overnight, while I heard unconfirmed reports that people about water freezing on the roof of a bus in similar fashion.
(ii) Good food. Even though the cold does make it a bit more difficult, chili chicken
does taste nice. The effect is enhanced when you are regularly fed on tasteless hostel food.
(iii) Fun with the juniors. In a freshers' party you are never short of this.
(iv) Was witness to Rohit's decision to start maintaining a blog. This happened when we were leaving the party on Sunday evening.
