A Window to my World [IV]

Yes. This is a filler post. No. I have nothing better to do. Yes. I do have writer’s block. No. I shall not let it get the better of me. So, well, here goes my latest offering ...

I have somewhat settled into the groove of attending college (whoa! Saying ‘college’ makes me seem so ‘grown-up-ish’). I mean, I’ve gotten accustomed to climbing five storeys six days a week, attending classes, grumbling about the additions to our already overloaded schedule, wondering what new questions will be thrown at us or what new concepts shall be rammed down our throats in the next class, and finally (this is the good part), lounging about after classes with my friends and enjoying the sight of a beautiful blue sky speckled most adorably with wispy clouds that make different patterns on different days.

In fact, this very day, after today’s afternoon class got transferred to tomorrow afternoon, I spent quite some doing just that. And four of us went to the coffee shop near the college and hogged on two chocolate and walnut brownies. We all behaved as though we had been starving for centuries and scraped out the last remnants of the brownie from the bottom of the bowl it was served in. And yes, it was rather entertaining to watch how Hindi film actors and actresses on the muted television gyrated in sync with a Spanish song (which had a rather nice guitar sequence) playing on the jukebox. A friend and I had a hot chocolate each. While she heaped packets and packets of sugar into hers, I had mine ‘raw’ and found it excellent for my throat. We received quite the shock at the rather ostentatious bill, which caused another friend to remark, “No one orders two brownies! Not unless there are fifteen people with you.”

Speaking of friends, I am grateful and honoured that I have found some, in spite of bad experiences in the past. And I shall not mar this with words.

Things have not been the best on the home front. Something serious has taken place and there is also another, er, ‘event’ that I must attend to tomorrow evening ... something that I am rather apprehensive about. Nevertheless, I suppose that I shall be able to pull myself through as long as I keep imagining the “Jerry mouse laugh”, (which I am quite good at emulating) along with a wide range of other inane forms of laughter, every time I am faced with troubling thoughts.

Power cuts have started showing their ugly faces once again. The mp3 player that I was given recently has turned out to be a useless piece of junk. I have no idea when I shall resume my piano classes and am even more clueless regarding the date of commencement of guitar lessons.

I shall wrap up today by mentioning that balconies should not have grills since the grills make it seem as though you are trapped inside a cage. That feeling is far from pleasant if you want to spend some time contemplating in solitude while staring at the fading light in the sky.