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Procrastination

Why am i so lazy? Most of the time i just feel like sitting quietly in a secluded corner of the lab or the institute or my room doing 'nothing'. I cant even count the number of jobs (both professional and personal) which have been pending for a while now.

One such job has been pending since past one year (i m ashamed of myself). Last year i went to Goa for attending a workshop. I carried a friend's digital camera and took million photographs. Since past one year people have been constantly begging me to send their photographs to them. And here i m doing 'nothing'. And i call myself responsible.

If i start making a list of such jobs (forget experiments) it will fill at least 10 A4 size sheets (typed on single side, font size 12, 1 1/2 spacing). I wont do that. I will just finish all pending jobs, one by one before the end of July and save people from reading boring stuff. I m aware that now the number of people visiting my blog has increased. Thanks to a few friends and their friends.

"Sometimes i wish i had had a friend, even if that meant a lower GPA."

Speaks Prof Cherian in Hari's dream, in Chetan Bhagat's Five Point Someone. I just finished reading this book. So many things remind me of my days at JNU, New Delhi specially the mention of Jia Sarai and Munirka which were the adjoining market places close to IIT and JNU. And of course it reminds me of Abhay, Ashish and me, the trio nowhere in comparison to Ryan, Alok and Hari. We were not that adventurous, but we do have small adventures to our credit. I think all of us have similar memories of our school and college days. I will try to write something about our days in JNU in the coming days.

"You know, it is strange, I might have passed out of IIT, but in some ways, my
soul is still there. May be in the hostel corridors, or at Sasi's, or at the
insti roof..."


Speaks Hari in Five Point Someone.

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Princess Fiona said…
The things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done. ~ Buckminster Fuller
:)

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