220V, 50Hz, 16Amp, No Power. Enjoy the lab ‘Praanis’

Well what could be better than attending your maiden electronics lab next day after attending your maiden classes a day before? Attending your electronics lab when there is a ‘load-shedding’ and the generators power the entire building but the electronics lab. Now here allow me to introduce a term which is very frequently used in the northern parts of the country. It’s called ‘load-shedding’. Especially during the 12 months of the year (not just the summer as the government claims. They are just a bunch of lying blood-sucking parasites.), parts of the country are deprived of one of the greatest inventions in the history of mankind, Electricity. Electricity Board claims that they do this to provide electricity to the rural agricultural areas. But everyone knows the truth. Now I think I got carried away.


So our electronics lab was an unscheduled lab (nothing to do with castes). We all gathered there and when all of a sudden 60 people hit the lab it was a ‘Reign of Chaos’ the lab assistant, ahhh!!! The lab assistant of electronics lab brings back these memories that I had suppressed for such a long time. The man looked harmless and down-to-earth kind of guy on first glance. And to some extent he was down-to-earth, but harmless, no way. I mean the guy was paranoid about his stupid principles. That was something that we didn’t get on the first day. I would call him an unpleasant ‘flat-tire’ on long long journey.

But the first day was good. There was no electricity in the lab sockets but luckily the window air conditioners had their power-supply from the generators. They were working. We all gathered in the lab getting hold anything that we got to sit on. An informal introduction session had started, which was good in a way since most of us had not been introduced to each other. One guy then stood up, and if I remember correctly he was wearing a blue jean and a blue shirt in the summer. His hair looked as if it had already borne the brunt of a personality development program. He claimed that he was ‘karate Black-belt’; saying that he had rechristened himself with a name that he would be known as for the rest of his life. Another guy stood up to introduce himself. Dressed in pure ethnic clothes, he talked in a tone similar to a ‘Politician’ and had hobbies like ‘listening to Mohd. Rafi’, ‘Mirza Galib’. In my mind only one word came, “BULLSHIT”. And when my turn came, I was ‘blank’. What the f*** did I do as a hobby? Ahh! Computer Games. I remember only these two guys because they would be an integral part of the journey, especially the ‘karate-kid’. Others, I am sure would be remembering the rest of the guys in their own memories. Stay tuned for the exciting episode of this journey, anytime after 12, tomorrow, same URL. Tomorrow’s special, “The Unholy Alliance”.