Blog 305: Nishachar!!

The silver moon catcheth my eye,

the night sky is sprinkled with stars many

Silent. Calm. They stand alone in the sky...

...whilst i give them company.

Yeah...I'm a night person. I love to stay awake at night. Love to listen to the birds chirping in resonance outside. Love the silence of the night. Love having everything all to myself.

Its a quarter to 5 in the morning and i still dont feel like sleeping. Cut back 5 years in time and I would have been getting up 15 mins from now!!
Lemme go into flashback mode...
Class 2: That was a time when we used to have only Doordarshan on TV. I remember there was a serial called Mirch Masala hosted by Avtar Gill or someone which used to be telecast at 8 pm or sumtime. I had to go to bed at 8.15 in those days. The reason i remember the time and the serial is that once they were showing an interview of the late Divya Bharti and i had to morosely(heart-brokenly) go to bed without watching it!!

I graduated from 8.15 to 9.15 pm in class 4 courtesy Home Tv and Darain Shahidi's 9 pm news. Those were BAD times in terms of sleeping hours. I had to wake up at 5am and leave home at 6.30 am to get to school in time. In time here should be read as 'by 8.40 am'...coz thats how far my school was frm my home:(.

Not until class 10 did i ever stay awake till after 11 on normal days. Abnormal days would be those when my cousins came over or i went to their place. On such days, the entire code of conduct would be fed to the dogs and we'd all stay up late watching tv, playing ludo eating and making stuff from the fridge etc etc...
3pm was as late as i had ever been awake till before kgp happened...and that was the night of durga puja and we'd all gone pandal hopping etc...

Cut to the present: My usual time for going to sleep is 2.30 am. If i go to sleep anytime before it, i feel happy that i'm going to sleep early!! Come exam time and all floodgates fall open. I dont remember the last time i slept before 5 am on the night before an exam...or even a test. Its like....all evening i feel like i have so much time left and so i leave all the 'mugging' stuff for later. This later happens to refer to the period between 2 am and 5 am when realisation finally starts dawning that maybe there isnt so much time after all!!

That apart, i love walking around at night. that, coupled with the love for tea/coffee, often lands me in eggies. Timess of financial duress (like the one at present) result in me making more landings at Chedis than at the ...err...slightly (!!) overpriced Eggies!

Like a true cancerian, I am awfully attracted to the moon. Regardless of where it is in the sky and how faint it is, i never fail to notice it. In fact, in class 11 and 12, the moon used to be visible through the window of the room i used to sleep in and i'd always go to sleep observing it...!!

Anyways...there's another thing on my mind...

Varun left for home today...the first final year from my wing to have left. I wonder if i'll ever meet him again. Doubt it. Everyone else seems to have been so peaceful about it...but i just cant get over the fact that till today i had been living with this guy and now, in all probability, i'll never see him again in my life. Anyways...all the best to him...and to all the other final years...in life :)

There was a small farewell ceremony on the jumble room itself in DC++!! Ppl with whom i'd been playing till now...never known who they were...they too wud now leave and i'd still not know who they were. Its all a bit too strange...

Anyways...life goes on...and so does my yawning.
Gnite!!