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First of all, for those who don’t know, I wasn’t smoking the whole day, Hukka is what we call humanities courses here at IITD. I know it would come as a surprise to people over here, but yes; I did spent an entire day ( A holiday in fact!!!) studying hukka. No, I don’t have a minor tomorrow. But as I said before, tomorrow is my presentation on Forgiveness and Guilt. My day started when Nikhil called me to decide on our “plan of action for the day”.  Right after having breakfast he came over to my room and we started seeing the movie Schindler’s List as a part of our preparation for the presentation. I had already seen the movie once, though it was the first time for Nikhil as well as Anshul aka maggu (though he claims it to be a ghost of his past) who is my roomie. We saw two thirds of the movie before lunch, and the last one-third after it. By the way, I had my lunch in Nilgiri, where they had scrambled eggs (bhurji) and mah ki daal plus nicely done (i.e. not burned or undercooked) tandoori roti which actually had ghee on them, which for us people is the best we could ask for. I guess, I would start going to Nil on monday afternoon as well as soon as they stop serving lassi in our hostel.

After finishing the movie, which all three of us loved, I just lied down and thought about the movie and the characters, while Nikhil started working on the presentation. Meanwhile, Anshul watched some Nelly Furtado videos on Anubhav’s Laptop, followed Naruto and DotA ( more to come on the rising dota fever in following posts). Then I started searching the net for stuff relevant to the presentation. After a while, naturally for me, I felt sleepy so I took a nap for about half an hour. I woke up at around 5:30 pm and resumed searching. I found a nice but lengthy article on Forgiveness and Guilt, which I started reading. Though in the end, only the initial part of it was of much use. So while i was looking for more material, Nikhil was jotting down his points, and created the general format. Then, after having dinner, we sat together, combined our material, and made the final draft of the presentation, while making the presentation more organised. We were done by 10:30 and then we gave a mock presentation to Anshul; and Srijan (anyone better when you need someone to ask you arbit questions! ) . Courtesy of all the questioning, (as expected), the mock presentation took us almost an hour, and closed the lid on the presentation.

So, I spend more 13 hours of my day (except for the very few and short breaks in between), working for the presentation. Obviously, I was thoroughly exhausted, but still didnt want to sleep, and since I couldn’t thing of anything fun (and not time consuming) to do, I decided to write this blog entry. So now, I am going to sleep. Wish me luck for tomorrow.

To know about how the presentation went go here

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