..as good as it gets..

...nothing worse than waking up to a summer morning in roorkee, which i am realizing for about a couple of weeks now. Today was no different, with the unbearable heat acting as the alarm, and even sleeping in minimals didnt helping in any way that might be thought of as comforting. Ya well, after that, the daily routine of marking the attendence (young and sincere researcher in makin ....u see) and again weeding out any thoughts of a tentative reasearch work for the day, decided to go back to my havenly abode, which, to my dismay, was still as uninhabitable as before. Few minutes into giving it thought, i concluded that a little comfort can be sacrificed for another leg of hibernation and thus did some adjustments to make the conditions bearable(dont ask abt those..) and after a couple,well, a couple of couple hours later woke up to the second basic necessity that drives the human race...food (well, we all know the first one..). Had another tremendous mess food, seriously guys..i mean it...one has to appreciate this....its an art to keep anything so constant year after year...even when its lousyness.. and maybe inculcating at least this in us, we can make ourselves into better engineers, afterall, its one of the few things which are actually 'practical' here. Nyways, had a couple of hours off after that too(man..its too good being a dulla here) and finally my body eventually in to the stress of so much relaxation. So had to get up, only to find out its that time of the day when everyone else is off. So went to the market, did some research on smthin i had to buy..and ya, as i have an awsome ride for the vacations, that toiling in the sun and that endless walk dont seem to pull the spirits down for any kind of an excursion, even when the sun keeps the potential of baking my ass to cinder. Romaing here and there aimlessly constituted a part of the day, or the trasition of the day to the evening, which i hoped to be a bit more forgiving in terms of wheather. Was at a senior's room when a sudden thought to clean up that room propped up. The so called thrash that came out of there constituted of about 30 odd bottles, some cans, bedsheets, clothes, newspapers which have been used to diverse purposes(..."diverse"), and loads of different things that cant be described...for all those who know wat room i am talkin about its good, for those who dont....you DONT have to know. Anyways, suddenly the skies started showing eccentric but welcome colours, the dark ones. Its kindof usual here, one moment everything is clear then suddenly the opposite. Was clear that we had a bit of rain and maybe a little sandstorm at hand. The latter arrived earlier, and trust me, it was anythin but a 'little' one. So being a bit crazy myself, decided to put my bike driving skills to test, and just to make sure that i dont die alone, called up jojo to take the plunge. Well, i must say this, that one single round around the campus will always be the toughest one of my life....and even jojo's. Had sand flying around by the tonnes, seemed like bucket fulls of it were being thrown and we were being tested in a wind tunnel, trees were getting ripped apart and not to mention the debris like the broken branches and other stuff that the wind could lift at that time flying around like in zero gravity. Realised halfway that this was a bad idea, but had to go through it, and finally did do it. Found most of orifices in the body (....that are exposed, of course) filled with sand, the hair full of it, and the clothes having changed their color to brown. Obviously, shower was the next thing on the mind when suddenly God fulfilled this wish also, and then again the two gone-nuts buddies started off, only time picking another initially-somewhat-unwilling-but-finally-convinced alien(...read as jaadu) with us. After a few rounds of some stuff(...lol) , and choclate, there were a few rounds around the insti, with the rain beating down so hard that it actually hurt plus the temperature suddenly taking an unexpect and abrupt dive and so it was finally a combination of hard hitting rain, screwed up visibility, trees lying on the road, shivering wind(...yes..we came to the level of shivering...funny considering my intial state in the morning) and three freaks....and ya...no horn on that bike too. So after a single round, the possibilities seemed high and great and the next stop decided was GC(again for those who kno, good...who dont....no point in readin further). Crossing the iit main gate gave one realisation...riding in these conditions outside was the second most stupid idea of the day...but now that the decision had been made, what was done couldnt be undone. Roads outside were more brutual with their approach and didnt seem to make it any easier for us with that almost zero visibility( and did i mention that this was about 7..when usually its all sunny here). Finally did make it to that place, had to take a little pit stop...not to take rest but to look at the flow so strong and the level of that body of water so up the mark. It was one of the most powerful flow i had ever seen and with the rain still strong it didnt seem to ease down anytime soon. Anyways, after enjoying the view there(..i mean whatever was visible) we again decided to go on the road by that canal for a few kilometeres. Now, we had a narrow road, with that overflowing canal on one side, no-one-knew-what on the other side and occassional vehicles comin in from the other side, which never helped a bit coz of my specs (..and ya..no one else knew how to ride.. :) ). So the only thing that DID help was the lightning..yes...everthin was in full flow, even the freakin lightning...the thunders just made everything visible momentarily so clearly as if it were lit by the halogen lamps. It helped but we all know what happens when we get a flash of that halogen straight in our eyes....now imagine happening again and again.......and yet again. So eventually after realising that we shoulnt test our fate more after a few near misses, it was a u-turn and the same thing repeated all over again...one thing we were still more worried about was that shivering and it became so bad at a point of time that the muddy water splashed on us from the puddles seemed like heaven ......u guessed it....coz it was relatively warm. Back to square one then, took a real shower and again, the water that in the morning seemed a bit cold was like a sauna then. Then gave the bike a rest and grouped together some more people, so that the total headcount now was six, and went with one thing that was left to make it an awsome day...yep...the food and what better place to go than baadshah (...please close this window if u havent been there....), for the people who DO know what i am talkin about, they would be aware of the fact that the place is a heaven for the non-vegies and what the term saasta-aur-tikau really means and they also know what is the meaning to get a bill of six hundred plus there.... so thats wat happend at the dinner, the whole thing closed down, we were the last ppl to leave, we spent about and hour and a half there, and ate at the most alarming rate and to the most exorbitant quantities...and ya..some of the menu items were not available else the result woulve been smwat more severe. After a nice walk from there, came back, and since till now the electricity hadnt been restored, decided to go back to that cleaned-up room i mentioned earlier only to find out that the empty bottle count had increased and was actually escalating as we sat about and had some conversations. The individual dicussions converged into one final topic, which is kindof considered hot nowadays...politics. I decided to stay out of it due to some inexplicable reasons but was overhearing each and every word and ya....was one of the most hilarous ones i have heard (...sincere apologies to the participants). Finally, had another round of campus rounds in the awsome wheather and with the cold and shiver no longer being a problem and rain settled down a long time back, was much much more pleasant. Came back to the room, started a movie....had an awsome dialogue in that - to think like a woman, think like a man and take the reason and accountability out of it...( ..srry ladies...guys..high five) and ya the name of the movie was .... As good as it gets...indeed...