Hmmm… Wanted to have 1 post every month this year. Didn’t have a proper post in June or July… but then I did start a new sports page and stuff so i guess that counts 4 somethin! Right now I’m at my new house in Manipal using my friends new laptop and accessing the net through our new Airtel landline cum internet connection… Lots of things are new I guess but lots more are still the same and that i guess again is the beauty of life!

Not to get off on a very philosophical note let me just tone things down a bit. I’m a senior in college now and that to be frank is a bit putting off! Every time a junior passes me by they suddenly get all nervous like and say somethin stupid like ‘hello sir’ and shit like that and i’m like ‘What the *uck ppl?’… Who asked u 2 call me sir and stuff!!!… Neway the thought process of being a senior itself has not shrunk in let alone being called sir!

One year in Manipal flashed by so suddenly that i’m a bit lost now 2 recount all that happened in our 1st 2 sems. I remember as in a dream the orientation ceremony and then going to Malpe on the first Sunday that we all reached here and then the Expload event conducted by YELL and taking part in extempore and debate and then the first real thing that I clearly remember is being back home in Trivandrum 4 3 weeks in the beginning of September, down with typhoid. I went back and still managed to gel right back in I guess and then football practices at Endpoint took more out of me than the rest of my coursework combined. Still we ended up loosing to KMC Mangalore 4-0. They were damn good but i also have to say that we played quite decently at least in the second half. Then life again becomes a major blur punctuated here and there by stuff like Article 19 pre-events and the Movie Goers’ Club, the Decennial Year Celebrations and other such things and stops this time at the 1st sem exam time in December. Actually that massive blur of 2 months stops some 10 days before our exams began in mid December and everything that took place in those 10 days also happened in Trivandrum.

I reached home on Dec 4 and the day was quite eventful as I broke up with my girlfriend!… I really wasn’t faced by this… i dunno y… and after 3-4 days i got 2 knw the real reasons y this happened and stuff. It seems a guy was after her life like everything and doin crazy stuff and in the end her friends got involved and she started liking him. Fair enough, but if everything had ended their then life wouldn’t be life would it [:D]… Before I came back to Manipal on Dec 14th or something we were back on track again and things looked quite rosy!… That is until I came back from Manipal after giving my exams and met her on Jan 2nd at Style Plus. After that things slowly started slipping again and it was quite obvious that it was just a matter of time again. And meanwhile 2nd semester was on and work for Article 19 and MMSC (our 2 national communication fests) were in full force. Yell week was also held and Utsav was also drawing near. I took the initiative and saw to it that a fair number of us participated at NIT-K Incident as well. Campus rock idols also happened somewhere along that time and so did MIT Revels. I came home during Easter and the second break up happened… (Funny how life is always busy in Manipal but real ‘life’ incidents always happen at home!) This time around i guess it was quite mutual… and the reasons were quite the same again and though i still liked her a lot, to my credit i didn’t go and call her after that. She did call me a couple of times and we did talk quite normally but then that was abt it. By March end with A-19, MMSC, Utsav and all other such events being over, life was virtually at a standstill. Exams were looming in early May and the month of April seemed to drag on quite a lot with nothing much happening. But then work for our class play Macbeth started and i took up directing just to remain involved with something and that occupied most of my time.

Macbeth was staged on May 3rd and I came back home (again!) on the 4th. I stayed at home for about a week and that Sunday i got a call from her again and pretty soon i understood that she had broken up with that other guy. We talked quite a bit and i came back to manipal that night and things just seemed to drift for a while. I came back home and got bored to death for the best part of 2 weeks as all of my friends were having their exams and stuff. Finally sometime in early June i started talking to my ex again and we have been in touch ever since then. Don’t ask me where this is going coz quite frankly, I DONT KNW!…

My parents, bro, sis and me went on a 10 day Singapore – Malaysia trip in late June. Had lots of fun and lots of really memorable situations too (not necessarily happy). Came back to Trivandrum and went and helped out with LA Fest (our inter-school cultural fest) for a couple of days. Screwed my left ankle playing football in the process. Right now as i’m typing that same ankle is bandaged up thanks to a recurrence of that injury which led to a ligament tear. I came back to Manipal on the 21st and started living in this new house. Still lots of tidying up to do. Am sports rep of my class again and am already sporting a sporting injury!… Still find it a bit hard to believe that I’m a senior here. 1 year passed by so fast that apart from these memories that i have detailed, i can hardly remember anything else clearly.

Right now I’m feeling what the hell is the point of this post! I have no clue really… just a lot of time to waste! Its been 2 days since i started writing this post. Felt like writing when i started but for many reasons could not complete it then. Then the whole thing with my leg came up and this just drifted away from my mind. Now I’m just finishing this post rather mechanically because i started it and that’s all. Feeling very hungry. Its 12 o’ clock on a Sunday and i haven’t eaten yet!… Oh shit I’ve got medicines to take… Better be off!!!… Got to do something about food…. Cya….

- BiBinhio.