Okkkk here goes !!!

So... ya... after loads and loads of perseverance, commitment and vettiness, I have successfully managed to force myself to type in this entry. One of the important factors inducing this decision, was the feeeling of guilt that this absolutely STUD domain name (prematurethoughts! Pa! lol. thanks!) is lying unused and vacant just because I managed to get it. Ok , so why did i go and reserve this name in the first place then? Well, the same reason why many people do many other things. Cos ‘N’ other ppl I know blog. And some of them are very interesting to read.

I've been sort of jobless for a few days now. Physical activity has dropped to a previously unseen low. The most notable physical activity nowadays being racing against time on my cycle to reach classes... I make sure I reach just as late as to make sure I feel proud about the achievement and at the same time early enough to make sure the prof doesnt throw me out. This is something I’ve been subconsciously practising ever since VM ( :-) couldnt contain the smile at the mention of my school.. :-P) days. I mean, just imagine going late approximately THIRTY times in a term considering the facts that

1. My house is 5 minutes away from the school by foot

2. I used to go on my cycle

3. School started at 8 am (not 4 am like say Ramaiya.. for those of u who know it)

4. You are supposed to meet the vice principal (MK) everytime you are late and get your diary attested before you can actually enter.

5. Punishment was awarded for repeated late coming (which meant coming late more than THREE times.
(Compare it with my 30 times... ha ha ha.. Ofcourse I found ways of not getting caught and that’s how I managed the incredible feat. The methods basically involved using other very less used gates to enter, hiding in the toilet etc , to waiting outside the gate and coming 15 mins past time instead of 5- Cos if you did that there wont be anyone to catch you! Seriously! I guess they weren’t against you coming late. They just dint want you to be too early when you come late. If that makes sense).

The level of punishment totally depended on MK's mood and to an extent on student’s reputation (I had a good one compared to the mean reputation of the class.)
He usually greets me with the dialogue - "Good studentss will not come late".
And I can’t help but smile.

For ex. the punishment could be
a. just a warning with a big smile on his face(which in his case means trouble)
b. Asking the latecomers to get parents and teachers sign. Never a problem for me.
c. Once in 10th i was made to work out 10 problems from the math text book. Ha! He calls this a punishment? I thought to myself.. Had fun solving the problems and even helped out few others who had got the same punishment that day! Also got to bunk Physics or Chemistry, or both and man .. was i happy. But the happiness was short-lived. As soon as I go submit the paper he strikes out all the questions. I was surprised. How could all be wrong! Then i saw that he had circled the "implies" and "=" signs in all the problems. Supposedly implies sign is to be used only while solving equations and not when generally proceeding from one step to the next. WORST. And the = looked like a 2 to his eye it seems. (it actually DID look that way only – I say it that way just for the cribbing effect! :P). Was asked to do the whole thing again, but again as usual using my God given skills I managed to escape ( by begging ofcourse :P) .
e. Once he got pissed off and wrote "Sent back home. Last warning".
Eventually though I did manage to stay on.
f. Once in one of the lower classes, on a particular bright and sunny day there were these 30 odd latecomers. You guessed it. I was one of them. He made us all stand in the ground for an indefinite period of time (turned out to be 3 periods) and except the muggumax ppl and those who had tests everyone else was more than happy. A guy took out his tennis ball and we stared playing bench tennis right there.

In spite of all this I was never deterred. Look on the bright side. I made soo many new friends, by coming late and standing with all those of 'my kind', spread across all classes. Whenever I met one of those guys a smile automatically surfaced. I also happened to be the unofficial late comers’ counsellor. There always used to be these first timers who had to be convinced that nothing was gonna happen to them. This usually involved just telling them this in a sweet tone to showing them my diary filled with late coming entries (in the more extreme cases of worried people.)

Hey...... why did I start talking about latecoming!? Well...... have to refer back... now you know how bad I am at this...
Oh ya. Going late to classes here in insti.

Basically this habit of starting things so late that I end up doing them late is because of this part of me that tells me don’t waste time. Like for example assume I go sit in class 5 minutes before the beginning. In effect those 5 mins are being wasted sitting there staring here n there (Besides the 50 mins that follow these 5 mins like in say Applied Mechanics). Thats how I think of the issue. Instead I prefer to spend that time wherever I am before the class and leave for just 2 mins or so before it actually starts. This way I actually believe I’m making sure I don waste time.

Well. I'm actually quite proud of this theory of mine cos it justifies my actions. But the theory, upon proper inspection fails. I mean in the past 4 months that i ve been in college I have eaten breakfast only on some 20 or so times, despite the food in the mornings being quite good..! This is a direct result of my laziness. Also I’ve been late and been not allowed to enter the class 3 or 4 times (most profs are peaceful and dont mind it.. still!!!). So I’ve been putting some thought into this. And decided that it is high time I trained myself in being punctual. After all, this habit has made me lose quite a few marks in tests when I manage to go late even for them, made me miss trains, miss the beginning scene of most movies, and the list goes on... Seriously punctuality does seem to be a good habit to develop. I used to think its boring for one to be punctual. But now I guess I’m bored of being otherwise :). So hope this thing works out and I’m able to make myself do what i want.

P.S.
The topic of this post should’ve been PUNCTUALITY or some high level thing like that, BUT I had no idea that I would even be mentioning it, when I actually started writing. LOL. Anyway one successful full length post over! Yaaaaay! :D