Friday, March 09, 2007

Moodswings

Funny how small things decide how your day goes.
Consider the scenario.

You wake up on the wrong side of the bed on the wrong time of the day. No, not 1 hour before the alarm shrills(that would be the right time), but rather 6 minutes. Now 6 minutes is not long enough(for some people) to doze off. So taking the less popular option, you are now left with a total of 16 minutes to

1)brush + business + bath
2)iron + dress up
Piece of cake.
Not.

Cause now you realise today, of all days, is your presentation day. But you dont worry because thats what engineering does to you. It teaches you to be calm in a storm. So u improvise and revise the list to

1)dress up
Piece of cake.
Not.

Here is where Murphy's law comes into play. Murphy's law states that within approximately 10-15 minutes of your departure from home, slow cells in your brain which were sacrificed last night(Buffallo theory) will start getting activated and from no where, you will realise that you have bloody well forgotten your id card. But you dont worry because thats what engineering does to you. It teaches you to be calm in a storm.So now while you are riding back to your house, your brain starts scanning for believable excuses that you can get away with for being late, provided the same excuses were not used they day before.

Enter office. You forgive people for staring and glaring at you. You go and sit in your cubicle. You are the king of this cubicle. You can go on looking at the screen and pretend you are the busiest person in the planet without anyone questioning you. So now the only hurdle left is the presentation itself.
Piece of cake.
Not.

You are sitting with your team in the conference room. Its a round table,so naturally it reminds you of King Arthur and his Knights and Excalibur and Natalie Portman topless. You can hear the team speaking, you can see them listening, you can see some people taking down notes. You know you have to do one of the 3 to survive in the corporate world team meeting. So what do you do? Thats right!! You frigging sleep off. Never a better time to make up for those lost 6 minutes.

Sparing the techicalities that followed, you are now on your way back home. Home sweet home,yes, where nothing can go wrong, where you can sleep and watch tv and be sparsely clothed all the time. Nothing can go wrong..unless ofcourse your friends have locked the door and gone out with the key. But you dont worry because thats what engineering does to you. It teaches you to be calm in a storm. You take out your Nokia phone and try to call them. But there is a limit to what engineering teaches you in 4 years. So when you get a heavilly accented female speaking on the other line informing you that your outgoing services have been barred,you lose it.

Expletives censored, you go somewhere where you know you will be calm, where you know your friends will turn up eventually and where you know nothing can go wrong. And it works each and every time. One sip and you are back to "normal".

Fosters- one hell of a mood swinger.

Your day has never felt better. Infact comparitively speaking, today might have been the best day of your life.

Times like these makes you think...why the hell dont i start my day off with fosters?

1 comment:

Vivek Menon said...

Well you talking abt engg bro...Do an MBA to realise wht it really teaches u to do....At the so called Knights of the Round Table u can nod your head whenever someone is speaking,ask an intelligent sounding question and best of all give an eloquent presentation and question the very reason for it.... ALL IN YOUR SLEEP.

PS: whts with Natalie Portman topless??

PS PS: Fosters good but RC On the rocks with Classic Milds is as u call it l3333t