Its been a while since I wrote anything here. A multitude of factors ensured that blogging for me went from regular to sporadic to non-existent. So why am I back ? Let me sum it up
-College rules being changed at the whim and fancy of the administration - boy they pissed me!
-Me finally being free from the clutches of GRE - now I can write!
I like to make a smaller picture of things around me, without most of the details. It helps keep things simple (not a fan of the acronym KISS though). So what exactly happened here that is worthy of mention ? The administration got bored and suffered from what is classically known as "the staying in Hyderabad for too long syndrome" (no offence to anyone who loves the city, I am just speculating on reasons for erratic behavior). It is a well researched syndrome with many concrete examples of effects of the city on innocent people (in this case, wait before thinking that the administration is innocent, more to come). It just amounts to sucking all the fun and all positive things in your life (pretty much like a huge dementor doing it to you, and you not having a patronous). Yeah, I need to explain things well these days (like subscribing on mailing lists, or how to use portals) and Harry Potter references are something that most people get.
I digressed .... , so, coming back, the administration got together during one of their club meetings (guess what they are called ... starts with a "j") and brain stormed on how to bring back the element of fun. As it turns out, torturing students by making them guess about what the rules of the college are, is a brilliant way of sadistic fun. Not any rules mind you, these are rules pertaining to graduation of the final year students, or relating to "courses" which many students have partially done (don't ask me what the "courses" are, there is only this much bad publicity that a college can handle. It involves making students run around and perform various poses for 85% of the semester).
So the club "j" meeting's outcome was an idea so devious that it would have won them "the Hitler award for not killing people but making them want to kill themselves or someone else". Executed with finesse, the plan was complete and the faces of confused, angered, cheated students was compensation enough for being condemned to stay in Hyderabad (again, I repeat, no offense to those who love the city). Just add a "muhahaha" background score, and you have your perfect tyrant-rules-over-the-meek setting.
So all was well once again with the college administration. If any one dare protested, they were called for "life-problems-resolution" sessions, a clever way of renaming the "friday night dinners" from Bheja Fry. So all in all, I am impressed. We are coming up with creative ways to resolve our boredom and focus on research. Research is the ultimate goal of course, sadistic fun is just something to spice it up (or so they have you believe eh ?).
On a sidenote, is it just me or can anyone else see a similarity between Anna's campaign, his arrest and the government's "oh-so-awesome" answers and the not-so-long-ago mail exchanges between famous celebrities regarding one of the "courses" ? (hint hint, its the same "course" - "the-course-which-cannot-be-named" for my HP infected readers).
Oh, and from my recent experience, for the record, I was being sarcastic, just so that it is clear (don't want non-sensically put, without-intimidation-abuses+garbled-words hurled around)
Comments welcome.
PS: Those unaware of the randomness - for the college rules, you can't determine the content of the rule and its applicability, both, at the same time. Hence the Heisenberg reference.
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Wednesday, August 17, 2011
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