Saturday, June 12, 2010

Chapathi versus Assignment

This entry is again a page from my college lyf…U may wonder wat s d relation between Chapathi and Assignments…In a common man’s view der is no perceptible relation between d two…but definitely it got some meaning in our B Tech class…something which we still share among us not only as a piece of fun but also to tease somebody…
Assignments...one of d irksome word u find in ur college lyf…As long as u r in college u r expected to hear dis word at least 6*3 times/semester…supposing u have 6 subject and each having 3 assignments…Writing assignments won’t ever be a problem if der is somebody in ur class who is solely dedicated for dat…Conditions applied: He/ She should be kind enough to give d upshot of his/her hard slog… Here goes d reason why we hate writing assignments by our own bcoz it involves several steps we need to follow…
1) You need to go to library.
2) Sign in to the register neglecting “new to college” stare of staff at register.
3) You now entered to the chimera of books.
4) You think it’s easy to find d desired book as d book rack has its subject name pasted beautifully.
5) But you ended up asking d librarian which side of library dis particular book belongs to. At times u will be fluky enuf to miss his sarcastic glare.
6) You walk towards the pointed side wid a hunch dat u r going to solve an arcane case of murder.
7) By the time you reach dat particular side of d library, u will find that the issuing time is about to over and u take a leap to the issuing queue wer u need to satisfy a position dat will never reaches the issuing counter in less than half an hour..
8) However u manage to reach the issuing counter, the librarian’s checking of ur id card will give u a feel that u have queued up for a boarding pass.
9) Wid lots of fervor, u run to ur desk to start writing d same but soon realizes dat dis content will never satisfy ur lecturer.
10) Now only one way left...u need to ask d help of “Google Mata”.
11) Lots of thoughts will rush thru ur mind in a sequence which convinces u to dis conclusion…”Not again”.
Hence proved it’s better to copy the assignments. It doesn’t mean dat we r not intelligent but it means dat we r smart enuf to manage our time to some useful purposes rather than wasting it in a library. But we do have written some assignments seriously and dat happened in very rare cases like lecturer not accepting single copy of content from a class of 64 and wanted 64 opinions on d topic.
So dis was d custom we were following after the first semester…First semester is always an exception…You think u r smart enough to write an assignment by ur own and u don’t feel like sharing ur manuscript to d other technocrats of d class… u have joined d college after getting a prestigious rank in entrance exam…Whatever be d reason nobody prefers to write assignment by their own after d first semester...
For us, in later semesters der was no point of having dis question “Who will write d paper first?” Bcoz we have this one girl in our class…she used to write down all d assignments. And she is so kind dat she will let us make a facsimile of d same and a copy will be sent to boy’s hostel ASAP…So our life was going smooth wid out much trouble… It is now wen somebody got dis weird idea of writing an assignment all by her own. Let’s call this lady of spirit, Anjali (d name is not real, author’s contribution). We tried to daunt her by all our ways just for her good as we knew she is new to this field…But Anjali was in all her spirit dat even if she withdrew from her effort she knew we will pester her like hell throughout our years and she need to face the mental torture we saved for her…So she decided to go wid her plan.She justified her movement wid just one question…
"Which Chapathi will u prefer to have…d one which u cooked or d one ur mom cooked?"
We unanimously told “The Chapathi by mom”, which she never expected…and her expression dat time was really an embarrassing one…
After our reply we start thinking why she asked such a question…Here goes Anjali’s explanation…
The Chapathi u r going to make is something special when compared to d one made by ur mom. Because u r giving so much passion, care to ur work (here…making Chapathi) and u want it to be d best…even if it reach no wer near d excellence…u will still have a satisfaction inside…dat u have done it all by ur own…which makes our Chapathi more tastier…Now u can relate it wid assignments…d assignment u write has some value than d one copied…
She meant a very beautiful thing but d way she expressed it wid her chapatti concern make us laugh d whole night…Even now we used to recollect those memories…and yes still we used to pester Anjali for her Chapathi dialogue…
And now back to story…We watched her writing d assignments…flipping pages in a hurry…checking her specs every fifteen minutes to see if it’s still der in its place…scratching her head wid d pen…all des gives us an impression dat d author of d book have done some serious mistake or he might have written something which she don’t believe it to be in dat way…
Whatever be it…So just for a change many of us copied from Anjali to give a moral support to her venture neglecting our friend from whom we used to write…and submitted on time. This is a happy ending story till now...Just check below to know wat happened after few days.
After few days we got our assignment paper back wid a comment…”Rewrite and Submit”. Wat our lecturer meant by d topic was little different from wat we submitted…We piled all our assignment papers before Anjali’s and demanded an explanation…U cud imagine her expression of d moment and we all burst to laughter dat we together shouted "Not again"….and we all started writing d new copy from our friend who have submitted it wid proper answer.

1 comment:

  1. how seriously she tried to advise us...and i still remember her expression coming back to the room , goofily asking for a "copy"...

    kudos to the one and only swa - only she can render such stupidity...

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