Firstly I started the month with a meagre amount of cash in my pocket, just Rs 400. Who on earth can survive in NITK for a month with just that much amount of money, when every alternate day one has to pay FC a visit. This was all thanks to the spending spree in the first three days of the 'new year'. The new year party and the release of Ghajini at the same time burnt a huge hole in my pocket. I had to drag on with 400 bucks for another 27 days, which meant no frequent darshans to amul or nescafe or nc. Well, but somehow I was able to survive the month, probably because I was assured a mess change the next month.
Then comes our prof., Udupa. Supposed to be our mechanical teacher but has proved to be more of a MLC teacher( he probably is even better than N N Das)! To begin with, he is the only teacher I have ever seen come running into the class, so much for being on time(though he never is). Then is his attendance routine where he loves replacing and leaving out syllables from a persons name, for instance Priyanka is Priyank in his class(that changes the gender itself) and Sabnis becomes Sabsin...whatever! Once he settles down and opens his book ( a teacher with a book!), I dont know what gets into him he starts narrating stories, which he calls his 'fundas', that even the KG kids wont accept for bed time stories. I plan to write a whole post about his 'fundas'. When he is done with his preaching he relaises that half the class is over, thus he starts teaching with his amazing over use of 'might you have seen'. And before he figures out what the guide says and tries explaing to us, the class is over.
We also had our mechanical test, and it was conveniently held in his period. Not only did he give a question in the paper that he hadn't taught us, he also started teaching us the idea behind that problem and gave us all the formulae that had to be used in it(and we sat there bulbing)!
Another person worth mentioning is our computer teacher, Reshma. A stark contrast to the 'funda' man, she takes her own sweet time to come to the class, and in her terms 'own sweet time' would be anything around 15 to 30 mins (thats all!). Where is she during the first half an hour of the class? FC... It looks like she visits the FC guy after (and before) every class! In class not one day has passed when she does not ask the last benchers to answer her seemingly 'tought' questions; and I dont know why but she shows special interest in people wearing the yellow shirt!
Do you like physics? No? Oh, you better do, cause it is the most 'exciting' stuff ever! The person I am referring to would be our physigc prof., GRU. Nobody can escape his hawk eye vision. It appears like he is completely engrossed in what he is doing and suddenly he catches some), and tells him..."...if this is not going to excite you, what will?...".
He surely doesnt realise that boys have a lot more things other than physics that excite them!
