The Craziest Week - Part 2

Day 3: Sunday

Sunday is a day I used to wake up late at BITS. Similar... Wasn't sure what I wanted to do... Happened to check movie listings and saw that "Alice in Wonderland" was playing at INOX Panaji. Me, Ara and Voldy decided to go and see it. Voldy was hungry on the way, so we had some stuff to eat at Temptations and I had a Chocolate Milkshake (yummm!!!) and took a bus to Panaji. The movie was quite decent, Johnny Depp's acting was brilliant, and being a Disney movie, it was children-safe.

During my stay at BITS, I had always been to Panaji only when I had some sort of work, and it used to get late by the time I got back to campus. For the first time in 3.5 years did I casually stroll the streets of Panaji, actually looking about, exploring and getting the feel of the beautiful city. It was evening by the time we got back to campus.

I hadn't met quite a lot of people yet. Domi invited me to a walk in the late evening. It had been almost a semester that we had spoken in person with each other. As I discovered, a lot had changed. Back then, we were only worried about grades, but now as we stood on the threshold of our life at BITS, there were more important things to worry about. After a nice long walk around the campus (multiple times, actually :P) I finally bid goodbye and headed to my room for some really required rest. It had been a tiring but enjoyable day.

Day 4: Monday

I had still to meet faculty members at BITS. In the morning, I first met DMK sir, Manas bhaiyya and some of the CC staff whom I had worked in close coordination with just a semester back. I also met the entire CompSci gang, Era, swings, Califus, mumble, etc... - from Goa and Bangalore/Hyderabad who had come to visit campus that weekend. Don't know for what reason I treated them to whatever they wanted at Ice n' Spice. Whatever it was, I enjoyed the feeling. After some good nature jabbing and photographing Califus looking ridiculous, we split up for lunch.

Caught up with Voldy, Shadow and Ara for lunch at Shahi Durbar, also met Vigi on the way and had food with him. It was great to catch up with Vigi. We had worked together in running a WoW server one time. In the afternoon, I went to meet BMD sir. We talked a lot about the changes being implemented in campus and about other general stuff. I had already met RSJ sir in his chamber yesterday (yea, Sunday :-O) Unfortunately, I could not meet MB sir.

In the evening, I collected my yearbook (and many more for all the guys I live with at Bangalore) I spent time hanging out at Ara's room watching OMG Music Videos on DC that I had missed out on during the semester. Also downloaded a lot of the latest TV series episodes onto my 8GB flash disk so that I could watch them at leisure when I returned to Bangalore.

Another interesting thing happened today. The GATE results were due, but unfortunately, my admit card was at home, and my parents were out of town, so there was no way I could get my results unless they came back and sent me my registration number. They reached home only late evening and ended my frustration and not being able to get my GATE score. Thankfully, my GATE rank turned out to be AIR 185 (yay!)

To be continued...