Author: akshay

Woke up at 5 today.

And cook called me at 5.55 today!
She left early after making breakfast. This provoked all workers. In store for her tomorrow is everything bad.

Was very sleepy. Slept on wheat bags for a while. Then slept in the room.

Got one more record to write by tomorrow.

Awesome yellow white sweet for lunch.

Happy diwali.

Finished records one by one.

Wheat conversion to flour by the security was severely criticized by everyone else dealing with chappathi. It might go back to lakshmanna.

Had everything in plenty.

Finished records again.

And a late goodnight.

This the sunday. Dosa was on time, but not the pallya.
Brought all sweets, fruits, ice creams, on time for lunch, but samosa didn't last till the interns came. Suhas had to go again.
Plus, the sweet was of low quality.

Afternoon, had planned to go for skyfall, but didn't happen.

Went to get puli ogre powder for tomorrow. But the puli ogre powder wouldn't be used tomorrow, after a 2 hour talk with seniors in mess committee, about what's wrong with our prefect ship and how we can improve.

We should find better bargains.
Too late to sleep. Got early surprises tomorrow.

Gone are the distant days of worrying about mess when I'm not there.
Gave everything for breakfast. Ate leftover bananas as breakfast.
And went for a research workshop with sumanth sir, venkatesh darshan, swathi and priyadarshi at HD Kote.

The workshop was useful. Didn't take down notes because participants are gonna get the materials e-mailed. So, no luck for you thinking I'd post my notes here.

While there, got phone calls from so many people.
Nikhil called to ask if accommodation could be made available at alappuzha or trivandrum. I called dad.
Somanna called to ask whether he has to take back the sambar powder from the mill soon, because there's a power cut at the mill.
Pavaman called to inform about the meeting happening on Tuesday.
And I had a lot of questions to ask Sumanth sir too.

Thus the one hour ride from there, was entirely useful.

Served eggs and banana, slept.

Yesterday, after I slept*
(*-almost slept)

10 o'clock, one of my friends calls me and comes to my room for converting a set of videos in his laptop. While I'm on it a senior from a neighbouring room comes in and asks me to go get a rice bath from chat street. After successfully delegating it, I continue the conversion work and then I get a call from generals secretary, his friend needed two garlic from mess store. While returning from the store, I got caught by the final years studying and they aren't satisfied with my first year aptitude. Left there and reached room to complete the conversions and slept at 12.

And then! Close to 3 o'clock I get a phone call from previous prefects asking me to get the bill from the newspaper guy today.

And I'm up.

For breakfast, the cook needed tomatoes. I ordered the vegetable guy at 7.10 and waited. Waited. Waited. 7.30 and I understood it wouldn't be wise to wait longer, called manjunath. He and uday went for tomatoes at 7.40, came back at 7.50. In short the bisi Bele bath was late by 20 minutes.

Then, I got ready to go college. But manjunath had to go for surgery posting. So I bunked posting.

At 10.15 went to sbi to activate the new atm card. The pin hadn't reached the bank. Gave application to activate e-banking and went college.
Exchanged key with manjunath on the way.

Had a friend's chappathi for lunch, didn't go back hostel.
Manjunath and me got into pharmacology lab after that.
And suddenly we got upto 5 phone calls. The electrician who had said he'd come next day didn't leave the hostel instead went to the gs telling nobody was accompanying him. Thus gs called suhas who was in bank. And he called us.
At the same time manjunath had given mess keys to Vinay to give uday. And Vinay had gone out, so uday didn't get the key.
We got out of pharmac lab in between went hostel, and it was all alright. Electrician had left uday had the key. Went back to class.

On the way back to hostel, I found mahadevappa sir walking. He talked to me all the way till hostel about how to do research.

Dinner with chicken. No egg because of late delivery.  Everything extra because of people leaving.

Gave only 4 packets of milk and even that was extra.

And slept in seconds.

Woke up to the alarm.
The 17 rupee 3G smart internet recharge had expired at midnight. Got a 128 recharge online at 8 o'clock.

Main cook left after making breakfast because her dad has a heart operation. Tomato bath once again.

Since there is a plumber work today and since that requires an additional prefect be present, I'm bunking today too, along with manjunath.

Anyhow that internet recharge will pay off.

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The plumber came only in the afternoon. Manjunath worked with him.

Had not asked the substitute cook to put exact amount of rice. And there was shortage in the night. Made somanna do it by bribing him 30 rupees.

The commercial gas bill hadn't come yet.

Tripathi came back, and Federer is playing a match. Awesome night.

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In between, magically my atm card came through speed post. Luckily it was security who received it and I had called him just two minutes before that and he had noticed my number and he saw the same in the address (the name was concealed) and he delivered it directly to me.

Should activate the card tomorrow.

Today I'm on my first official duty 😛
Dosa in the morning.
And the girls took another gas cylinder taking the count to two.

College trip has been finalized. I got the 5000 I put in mess back, and I paid 4600 for the trip, all in 5 minutes.

Tried to open laptop in the mess. Attracts too many problems.

Electrician came to remove the non working exhaust fan.

Very sleepy.

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Note on next day: the shrinking posts can only mean one thing, I'm no loner bothered/excited about prefect duty.

Obama winning election yesterday was a reminder that hard work pays off, that hope is never futile and that opportunity strikes those who are prepared for it.

Everyone was sleeping when I woke up today. Switched on the tv from standby and watched election news. Hope and change, more about it later.

So, chithrana by laxmanna. The main cook was absent because she went Bangalore with her child for health care. And this guy found all the leaves stuff he needs from the hostel compound itself. The security bought lemon powder instead of lemon and it was just fine.

Went college today because manja is sitting back today. Amazingly he didn't loose anything from even the practical class by sitting at mess.
Tomorrow, I'll bunk. Day after again him. Then again me. Then again him. And so on till we go away for trip.

Came back early from micro lab and went to book gas cylinder. Ha, the girls. They didn't have cylinder today also. Sources say they booked it only today. And thus they had to beg us today for a cylinder. Like they were asked to write a request letter. And god knows where we kept that after receiving it.
That's why we went to book it soon, with two cylinders left liquid and one deposited at LH.
And the gas agency manager wasn't at the agency. So we came back to go again later and get it booked.
Warden had come. Talked to him about how gas is burning like gasoline. And he said the right thing: "There's nothing we can do about it. Want to cancel dinner for a month?"

Light moments like those have made us feel very relaxed today.

And I took Zigu's cycle and flied like an eagle would do when freed from captivity.

Like I said, change is hard. And hope is what enables us to go through it. And in the end, change is good.

Went to bring banana afterwards, 260 of them. I sat sideways in what proved to be a very risky ride. The bike swayed for a while. Then Manju could balance.

Chicken was enough. Banana too.

Tea, but no drink.

Sleep.

The security was sleeping when I woke up. Amazingly, everything was in store today. Nothing bought from outside. Scrubber still not delivered.

Suhas stayed at mess today waiting to draw cheque from warden. But he didn't get it today.
And just as I was about to leave for posting, got a call from ladies hostel prefect asking us to return their gas cylinder. Sent it via their security and went away.

Reached back only at 8 for supplying banana. It was just enough. But these days, the heart beat isn't rising very much while serving. Pallya had become empty by 8:30. Still survived unscathed.

Then, finished that sugarcane which I got the day before on the road from a lorry coming against which jumped into a pothole right next to me.

Waiting to wish an old friend on his birthday.

And today, is a great day for amazing friendships.

In the morning, it's not as cold as the first day, these days.
Anyhow I've returned Aquib's fest hoodie.
It was rotti in the morning. Attendance was maximum.
Sunday. It's feast for noon. After breakfast Uday and Manja were running around Mysore for things.

While I sat at the kitchen:
"sir, onion should be big otherwise can't peel, cut"
While they went market:
"sir, onion should be small, otherwise it collapses into uselessness"
In the fight between big onion and small onion indecision prevailed until the senior most sharath sir quips in like Gulliver in Lilliput to settle for status quo.

Then, gulab jamun arrived. But ice cream delivery number ceased to exist which was a blessing in double disguise. We bought costly small packets and that didn't last for everyone. But in the process we found a shop closer to hostel where we get cheaper ice cream too.

Chicken was in excess. But fruit salad was less even after we bought 150% of initial amount bananas on workers' advice.

Then, I saw ice age 3, matrix reloaded, titanic and rowdy rathore all in parts.

And was sleepy, slept for 3 hours after tea. Well that's because I slept late last night because of the porting issue. Sunday holiday, so the first recharge has still been not done.

Supper was just enough. Only hostel general secretary and a few of my friends had to go empty stomach.

And then, I went chat street, filled mine with a falooda. And here I'm.

Unlike yesterday, eventhough I was slightly aware at 5 o'clock, I woke up only when the alarm rang at 6.
Remembered that I had left the workers' attendance book in Fadnis room last night and woke him up early in the morning.
In the mess, milk and curd were just arriving.

Everything was bought from bandipalaya yesterday.
The cook comes in.
"Everything is here, I'll have no trouble today"
"saaaaaar, kodambari soup [or something that sounds like it] illa sir"

Thus uday had to go market.
But from today everything for tomorrow will be made ready today itself.

And me and manja bought some 40 coconuts from day market.

And since it was Saturday suhas managed the rest of the day by himself.

I went sbi, opened an account, ran to college, went blue lagoon, and came back and slept at 6.30.

When I opened my eyes it was 9.
And apparently the banana distribution was slow in mine and uday's absence.

Tea was done while I was watching Chelsea Madrid last minute draw.

And then my phone got ported from Docomo to Aircel.
So, this post might be a bit late.