H2 just withstood another earthquake of magnitude 6.7 ish (My estimate). The hostel jolted enough esp on the second floor to have everyone wide awake and on their feet running. I meanwhile was enjoying a nice hot cup of tea, so I waited for the others to descend first. Earthquakes are bad enough. Hot tea can be bad as well. I just hope the folks up north are doing fine, though I seriously think that this earthquake would have brought even more landslides and distress to those up north. I just hope releif efforts this time are as eager as the earlier ones. Especially because intense cold is going to be the number 1 killer up north.
I just hope this doesnt continue, aftershocks make me nauseatic. Moreover in exam season this means chaos. A lot of the people who work at GIKI are from up north and Kashmir (cooks, mess attendants, etc). I wonder what thoughts go through their heads whenenver there is such an incident. They have so much to lose.
This semester has been one of my gloomiest ever semesters here in GIKI, my grandmother had recently departed when the semester started, then there were some issues with the administration of GIKI which were more or less resolved at the end followed by a week of earthquake spells. And then there was Balakot. There's a lot of difference in what the TV tells you and what you get to know otherwise. Balakot was one of those experiences. Not everyday does once see a dead body being carried over a bridge every minute. In fact the 2 days I spent there were so full of events and accounts that I came back and wrote 2000 words just about one day, which will be published one day in my other blog as soon as I get the time, after my exams hopefully. And then there was guilt that I couldnt go and help BA set a school during the eid break at balakot later. Then there was the additional load of 21 credit hours, most of which was from 400 level courses. And just when I was about to break apart into a million pieces, my sisters wedding came along and that was fun. Right now I just feel like graduating and leaving this place for a break in which I will travel to a secret place where I will sleep for a thousand years. The truth is that I cant sleep for a thousand years so I'll sleep for four hours instead. So I'm off to my bed. (For a place where time flies by in seconds, this was surely a long long day).
P.S. The following blog was supposed to be published 2 days ago but couldnt be due to internet problems.
Today has been a really long day and now the night is also about to end.
The weekend started off with a CDMA workshop(FYI CDMA Means code Division Multiple Access), and its a better standard than GSM because in it every user uses every part of the entire frequency spectrum which reduces the net effect of noise on every user and supports 3 times as many users as GSM. If you dont get it then forget it :P. The workshop is being conducted by an ex GIKIAN teacher who taught batch 3. GIKI apparently was much better back then. At first I thought that I would pass the weekend studying for my final Exams which for me is watching series and movies with my books open. However Imad convinced me to check it out, so I decided to give it a try and even though I didnt have any interest in the Telecom sector or Mobile Technology, the teacher( Mr. Ismail) created a lot of interest. I may even take SatMob next semester. I am not however looking forward to my CDMA exam on the basis of which I will be certified if I score 70% or above. And I'm not looking forward to my Compilers Presentation, Computer Graphics Presentation, Operations Management preperation and semester finals that are all coming this week. I have a feeling my GPA will show another random fluctuation this semester(the last one was for the better).
This weekend the folks from Queen Mary were here too in thier futile attempts to trap unsuspecting GIKIAN's into joining their institue for which they demand a fee of 15000 pounds per annum only/=. The Briton they had gotten to speak on the behalf of QMC was quite a funny person whose research is in the area of male female interaction. I would add excerpts from his presentation in here but I'm just too sleepy right now. Need to start university Hunting once I complete my Bachelors. I might have to take the Toefl in the holidays. The only sucky thing is that every test costs Rs. 8000 which makes one think twice before appearing. I'll try applying to Europe, Aussie Land and the U.S. (I dont think that MIT and Stanford would take me although I could try for Renaissler Polytechnic :P).
Right now I'm deciding whether to sleep or not to sleep considering the fact that the workshop continues at 9:00 am and I have been up all night. Oh whatever I guess I'll sleep.
