Then and now..

    A year ago, I wore purple and black.

    Today, a year later, I wore purplish black.

    A year ago, we were together, but boundaries were abound.

    Today, we're miles apart, but the boundaries have faded away.

    A year ago, every feeling, every reaction was distinct.

    Today, I was one big pickled bag of feelings.

    A year ago, my goal was clear--broadcast it would be, I had decided.

    Today, I work in the field of convergence.

    A year ago, I was on the terrace, thinking, I'd miss every moment of the ten months to come.

    Today, I look back, and I know I couldn't have been more right.

 

Compiling memories of the last days..

May 3, 2012
Two more days to go before we're officially kicked out of the college. Kicked out of our rooms. Kicked out of Kumbalgodu. The journey has been short. The journey has been mental. Frustating. Exhilarating. Embarassing. Tiring. Rewarding.

Time flew! But not by normal standards. It flew at supersonic speeds. It seems like it was just yesterday that I made myself pick up a newspaper and forced myself to read. Just yesterday that I woke up at 7 a.m., got ready, read the newspaper for the news quiz and went down for breakfast like a good girl.

Seems like just yesterday that I named my roommates Baba and Mantri. Just yesterday we laughed like a pack of hyenas in the room till 2.a.m. Just yesterday, we were nervous wrecks about story idea grading.

And today I sit, with 2 others in the lab sans electricity, on what might as well be my last day in the lab, fending away flies at 8.p.m in the night, while writing this article.


June 11, 2012
Well yes. Post the graduation, we cried. We parted. We started a new journey.(PS- I started working in the meantime..)
To add a few more details to that day before I forget them:
The reason there were flies in the lab on May 3 was because there was no electricity and it was raining outside.
Gwyn was the only other person in my cubicle. He was there for the same reason I was- there was no net or electricity in the hostel, although, he was gaming to glory and I was transferring data into my hard disk, occasionally getting all nostalgic and misty. About half hour before I logged out, Lolly and Arjzoma were there. I made sure there was photographic evidence that we were once upon a time, PC partners, lest she decides to ignore me sometime in the future. You never can predict Lolly.
Sometime after Lolly signed out, I did too. Arjzoma and I took a walk back to the hostel, discussing about her plans about the future.
Thank god it rained that night. The hostel was blacked out. And Mantri and Isha were in the room, minding their own business.
I made sure Mantri came out, sat on the wet terrace. (I made sure her polished, well-refined habits lost sheen over the course of the, well, course.)
We sat in the rain, and we talked, not for long, but we did talk. We got hungry, went back to the room, *we knew there never was any food in the room* but still.. Sush and Veeney came back after a while.. and here's where my memory betrays me.
Will update this post, when I remember more of it..