Yay! Thank God for small mercies

[mnemosyne89]

Hey!

First, I'd like to take this opportunity to actually end up wishing Gautam what is essentially a very belated happy birthday. Awfully sorry, but was swamped with work this past week and couldn't come online at all. So have a great year... and best of luck with all the debating stuff you're involved with.

As far as college is concerned.... the

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[kprateek88]

Was fun reading this long post. :-)

How do you manage to remember long conversations so well?

(or maybe I said 'programming ki koi fight nahin hai')

LOL! I don't get to hear much Hindi here, let alone typical Delhi Hindi. :-)

'Subeh maine ek student ko 8.5 diye the, abhi tumhe 9 de raha hoon. Subeh se maine kisi ko 9 nahin diya.' and gives me a 9/10. This totally reminded me of the way those little kids selling agarbattis come up to one at traffic lights and go all, 'Subeh se ek bhi nahin bika, ek to le lo...

This, along with the revoking-good thing, reminded me of how some chemistry teacher in school, after increasing my marks in some question, looked around at other places where she could decrease my marks (because I was supposedly getting "too many" marks), and found a question where she had initially given full marks along with a good.

Next entry, probably post-Innovision.

Umm... don't you seem to have such events too often?

And your handwriting is indeed very good. :-)

[mnemosyne89]

*Was fun reading this long post. :-)*
Really? I doubt that. Probably a huge pain (no pun intended).

*How do you manage to remember long conversations so well?*
Um... like I said, these ain't the exact words, dude. Most of the time I'm either too frightened to speak (or to register) or simply trying to concentrate on not making an ass out of myself (which, as everyone knows, I have rather a penchant for). This time, however, we weren't talking about technical (by which I mean purely mathematical) stuff, and for once, I knew I wouldn't say something that was way outta line. So I was actually paying attention to what he said. And what I listen, I retain. Especially when it's people I like.

*LOL! I don't get to hear much Hindi here, let alone typical Delhi Hindi.*
Oh, goodness, I seriously have to get out of this habit of saying 'koi fight nahin hai'. Stupid NSIT getting to me, I guess. I suppose I might have said 'No problemo' or something similarly occidental back in MIS

[apokilips]

*Us: Sir, Newton-Raphson method padha do. (Editor's note: Yeah, bet you guys forgot all about that, didn't you?)
NK: Haan, agli baar. Maine to abhi inko sirf bisection, trapezoidal aur simpsons rule karaaya hai. Agle Thursday aa jaana, padha doonga.*

It actually went a bit like this;

NK(having spotted us walking up to him once again): Kya hua?
me(staring and grinning stupidly at him): Sir Newton Raphson!
NK:Wo agli baar hoga(actually he meant: no matter how much of brotherhood we have, no one finishes the course before my class) Maine to abhi inko sirf bisection, trapezoidal aur simpsons rule karaaya hai. Agle Thursday aa jaana, padha doonga.

And this is seriously the funniest entry on your blog till now, so congrats on that :)

[piper_of_dawn]

Thank you very much! :) And if that's even more belated, I'm afraid...

So you're reading A Song of Ice and Fire. Good luck! It's certainly original, well-written and far more realistic than most contemporary fantasy - yet I can take only so much graphic violence! I stuck it out until the third book, but couldn't take up A Feast for Crows.