Ho ho ho hum(bug)...

"The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, made his eyes red, his thin lips blue, and he spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice ..."

-Charles Dickens about E.Scrooge in A Christmas Carol

It is Christmas Season again, and for Bombay University's aspiring engineers its the longdrawn exam season.  I for one am bored already and very nearly Dicken's Scrooge. The examinations stretch from 4th of December to 14th of January, and we have only 5 papers to give. One can only imagine the apathy and complete displeasure at everything around that sets in. Exam time demands that time be spent with the books, if not convention its the conviction that tearing through the books and notes will help keep our head above water.

There is very little else that one can allow oneself to do. Its all got to be sit and home and study. No going out, no eating out, no long chats, no games, no movies, basically nothing fun. The weather in the mornings is so pleasant,so soporific just begs you to continue to snuggle the pillows and stay under the covers all morning, but that pleasure is short lived too-must rise early and hit the books. 

-Rising time from my Bedroom Balcony 

It comes as no surprise then that Ebenezer Scrooge was such a Scrooge, when one tries to put in the context that he too must have faced such a situation. Whats to be merry about? The people who went about setting the exam timetable, must have been scrooges as well...allowing us only a day off on Christmas.  I dont know if am making sense, but i for one am convinced-Ebenezer Scrooge was a student of banking or whatever it is, and his exams were as long drawn as todays engineers'.

So, No merry wishes to you, all I have to say is...BAH...HUMBUG!!!