Cold. Cloudy. Rainy. Gloomy. Lovely.

Perfect.

The whole of yesterday it was raining and raining - nonstop. Well, almost.

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By the way, some time back, I came across this blog - The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs. It (obviously) isn't really the secret diary of Steve Jobs, but most of the posts are real laughs.

Sauce is heavier than mustard*

So, we (finally) had our Exun Farewell today in Nirulas (Chanakya). It was rather good - there were more people than last year (although that's probably because we have more members now). Here's a (random) list of much of what happened:

1) Kartikeya and I were the only two (of around ten, officially) tenthies present
2) When we arrived (Karky and I) we found loads of people standing outside under the (wrong) impression that sir hadn't arrived
3) Aditya Jain's driver had him and many of the juniors gallavanting to god-knows-where till they finally succeeded in reaching [the correct branch of] Nirulas
4) Mohit sported a really cool haircut
5) Sid (one of the twelfthies, ie, one of the people for whom the farewell was being held) completely forgot about the farewell
6) We had pizza. Lots of it. Around 20 I think.
7) Karky got terrrorized by Gudi and Mohit
8) Sauce, mustard and chilli flakes got put into a total of three coke glasses (as opposed to one, last year)
9) The juniors actually said that it tasted nice
10) We took photos (obviously!)

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* Well, it might just be that sauce is miscible in Coke, whereas mustard isn't, but who cares?

January

Wow, that was one helluva long time. And I was getting soo irritated by the 'Merry Christmas' smiling at me every time I arrived here. Well, then ... it having been so long and all, I decided to write a post about most of what's been happening (which isn't much, by the way).

2007 - the new year and everything - was kicked off in one of the most enchanting ways possible by [ahem] the pre-board exams†. Legend has it that these are actually tougher than the [shudder] boards, and I don't think we'll be disappointed, although some people still managed to do [really] well. To top it all off, I also missed two of my exams (English and Science), which was one of the prominent reasons that lead to the increased wastefulness of January. Even when the pre-boards finished, there wasn't that much end-of-the-exams-let's-party joy because the day after the following day, we had our Maths [shudder] Board Exam Practical. And the SSt Project Viva. And the Computer Board Exam Practical. And the Science one, too. (Obviously not all on the same day).

But even then all this might have finished by the 24th. Except that on the 27th, we had this Aptitude Test in our school for selecting people for IIT (and Medical) coaching classes. And that wasn't the end of it either. After that, I still had to give the pre-board papers I missed (both of them). And so it went on till 2nd February, leaving exactly one month (or, as I like to think of it, 28 days) for the Boards.

* Sigh *

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† Technically, the New Year was kicked off by CAS being implemented in South Delhi. And - will you believe it - since then I've had only Free To Air channels coming on our TV, because the Cable Operator has run out of Set-Top-Boxes...
Maybe Tata Sky then...