It’s been a low profile week after New Year bash. I still have less work at hand and more time at office, well, to snooze! I wonder how, I, who pleaded for some relief from heavy workload, now sulk for having none... It’s true; you always realize what you had only when you miss it… After rushing early morning to reach office on time, all that I do until evening is reading blog, newspapers, chatting with friends on office communicator, mail all long lost friends, disturbing Rag & Chamki, playing bubbles & finally snoozing, with eyes open!
This reminds me of then embarrassing but now feel funny situation. This longs back to my Pre University days when I was still a serious studious student. Physics lecture in class and Electric Current, Ohms law, magnetism etc were the topics. He was one damn boring, expressionless non interesting lecturer and only girls in first row could hear him speak. Due to this lullaby effect and lunch before his class, I never know when my eyes shut close. I was wide awake when girl next to me poked & to my horror I see the lecturer staring at me in anger is shooting a question “Can you tell me the SI unit of current??”
By now I was sure he had seen me blissfully sleeping and hence wants to humiliate in front of the whole class. Sense of all the 60+ eyes watching me in doubt scared me to sweat. Not knowing what to answer, hopelessly I blinked when my friend in back seat whispered MPR MPR… Unaware of the term, I blankly repeated loud what I heard. He paused for a moment sulking over lost prey and asked me to sit. Saving my face felt reliving and I passed on a warm thank you smile to my friend. Later she told me it was Ampere and not MPR and we laughed out loud realizing the way we fooled the lecturer unknowingly to save our image!!
After many years of this incidence, I still remember this, as it repeated many more times, but me being the spectator :D Even while I type this, one of my colleague friends is swaying in nap. Giggling ear to ear on his situation, I happily found topic for my blog post
This reminds me of then embarrassing but now feel funny situation. This longs back to my Pre University days when I was still a serious studious student. Physics lecture in class and Electric Current, Ohms law, magnetism etc were the topics. He was one damn boring, expressionless non interesting lecturer and only girls in first row could hear him speak. Due to this lullaby effect and lunch before his class, I never know when my eyes shut close. I was wide awake when girl next to me poked & to my horror I see the lecturer staring at me in anger is shooting a question “Can you tell me the SI unit of current??”
By now I was sure he had seen me blissfully sleeping and hence wants to humiliate in front of the whole class. Sense of all the 60+ eyes watching me in doubt scared me to sweat. Not knowing what to answer, hopelessly I blinked when my friend in back seat whispered MPR MPR… Unaware of the term, I blankly repeated loud what I heard. He paused for a moment sulking over lost prey and asked me to sit. Saving my face felt reliving and I passed on a warm thank you smile to my friend. Later she told me it was Ampere and not MPR and we laughed out loud realizing the way we fooled the lecturer unknowingly to save our image!!
After many years of this incidence, I still remember this, as it repeated many more times, but me being the spectator :D Even while I type this, one of my colleague friends is swaying in nap. Giggling ear to ear on his situation, I happily found topic for my blog post
Ashwini
Really great work Ashwini... Keep it up... Nice way to pen your experience ;-)
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