uneventful

i feel like a cog in a square wheel; on the surface, working 8 hours of the day, traveling an hour, sleeping 7 hours, and whiling away the rest of the day. This stat-line looks just about normal. But, the transition from a full-time student to a part-time employee cum student to full-time employee has not been as rosy as initially assumed. Taken a hit, my schedule has. Tired from work, all I can do returning home is eat dinner, complemented by some online activity, a movie or 2, and then sleep. That leaves little or no time for my preferred free-time activities (playing the guitar/basketball) and that does not make me happy. An increasing waist-line and decreasing play time makes kk a grumpy pseudo middle-aged individual.

Now I can see what self-employed people have and I covet it. Nothing against regular employment, I have. But, right now, all I would want is satisfaction both, at work and away from it. And so far, its been coming in spurts only.

In other unrelated happenings, a water balloon filled with purple-whatever was flung at a bus by random urchin. A nut on said bus forgets to close window on holi when said bus was approaching mankhurd. Result of oversight by abovementioned nut results in easy entry access by balloon. Result of accurate flinging by moronic urchin is not so desirable as a mind full of issues gets 1 more added to it. Yes, my mind.

squeal

my next-door neighbour has no heart or ears for that matter. he has bought his 10-year-old grandson a cute white puppy and housed the poor darling in a cage! inhumanity reeks from that bungalow, and reminding me that fact every minute are the pitiful yelps and high-pitched whines..and the only time that ceases is when the poor creature falls asleep out of fatigue.

i'm thinking of entering his house, and asking him in a very formal tone, how he would feel if I locked his grandson up in a cage because the brat runs around, yells juvenile nonsense, and throws stones at birds - things worse than what the pup's doing.. so if the caging was a form of reprimanding the pup, going by analogy, the kid should be tied up and hung upside down for a week every month.

papercut

looking back now, I realize how silly the education system was and continues to be.. atleast those in schools and junior colleges. They place so much importance on academic excellence that kids are finding it so darned difficult to hold on to this runaway train! The pace is so blinding, I feel as if I gave the SSC ages back!

Getting an 80-85% then assured one a seat in any good college in the 1st or max. 2nd merit lists; but, today, that sort of number on your marksheet will place you in the league of yesterday's 60-70% scorers.. Its really sad. And besides, these marks hold no water, they're just numbers reflecting one's memorization ability. Nowhere is it clear that academic excellence at age 15 paves a concrete path to success in later-life.

Its high time the government devalued the SSC and HSC exams, made them optional, or devise a system that evaluates a child on his/her own nook of excellence.. how on earth is a 15-year-old supposed to know whether commerce, science, or arts or whatever is their field of future expertise? How can one decide then and there!?

The education system encourages the harvest of students into stereotype streams, making students believe there are only certain things they can be good at, and deciding that for them on the basis of a geometry problem or social science short note.. now thats scripting a crazy tale..