i LivE CiviL

A typical day and its untypical goings-on.

How often can you boast of a foreign influence in an institute like ours- where the only flavour you ever taste is just Indian! Well Dr. Asano made our day. A highly qualified scholar from the Dept. of Ocean Civil Engg., Nagoshima University who was to leave for his homeland today, may be thought of enlightening us about Tsunami prevention and all that. Boy! little did he know how great a time we had, thanks to his ununderstandable PPT. A 2hour respite from the lectures bugged by powercuts and the sumptuous 2biscuit-60mltea snacks. Just one glitch- his English was as comprehensible as is Japanese to most of us! No hard feelings though. Sayo-nara.

For every smile there is a tear. How true!

Prashant sir was just one among the 3 spoilsports of today- his able aides being Indrani ma'am and Virupaksha sir. To say the least they tormented us like hell- notwithstanding their well wishes! Their characteristic quotes delivered in the unimitable style of their own, their goof-ups, their lectures- all just make sure we don't have a perfect ear-to-ear smile.

Prashant sir's handling of CT is highly laced with "If at all..."s, "What they have done is..." and "Actually..."s. If at all you haven't taken note of these, then what you have to do is be a little more attentive in class. Never mind his closed eyes-head shaking-mumblings.

Indrani ma'am has this absolute ability to petrify us with "If you don't stop shouting, I'll give you an assignment" statements- that surely works. It seems McDonald's has appointed this MTP cutiepie as its brand ambassador in this part of India, and its working. Mangalore is getting its first McDonald's outlet very soon!
That's the lifestyCle change we are experiencing. She says "I didn't ask you to clap" and the class erupts in even more claps. Fianlly "You can leave the class". OK ma'am but spare us all this bakwaas.

Virupaksha sir is going to make our 2credit ES into one hell lot of PPTs, the contents aptly dispalyed for the shortest time possible, his explanations being just a cryptic crossword game for us. We just hope, we are spared from his "You needn't jot down everything from the PPT" and at the same time "Everything that's there in the PPT will come in examination".

O! This world couldn't get worse for us. Just everyday we are awakened to this rude shock...we are the future Civil Engineers, and a verrry verrry Endangered Species- thanks to all those core companies who are in the habit of not recruiting any of the eligible Civil populace from our institution!

If not us then who the goddamn will civilise the world!