And all that for nothing

My dislike includes so many things, not that it matters but it is important that I mention it. A very important item on that daily increasing list is the computer program.

It is like one of those unanswerable questions like ‘Why should nature choose earth for life?’- Why should you write c programs?
Nobody has given me an acceptable answer on both, the students and teacher mere claimed that it is important for me, so I accept it without much of a rebellion
As by faith, I believe in the word of the teacher and other over-ambitious but at the same time docile students.

Five days, the stipulated time for me to memorize the given programs for my university practical, and none of them I am quite familiar and comfortable with, so what I do call one of the class big shots (students who are in their third revision)
And ask them how on earth should I read these ‘things’. With the best of their ability, they explain to me what should be done and still nothing penetrates my titanium head.
Day one passes idly including one fruitless trip to college and one fruitful trip to a library where I have lot to choose; keeping in mood the Booker fever I pick up V.S.Naipaul’s In a free state the book which got India’s first man booker (I don’t think it was called man booker then. I still don’t know why it’s called that now), the book is immensely engrossing until now and I’m still reading.
I pick out other books, which includes fictional account on the life of James Bond, which apart from my academic interest in James Bond had a satisfying picture of a white bikini clad blonde (people at the counter claim that this is the only reason I picked it up and I agree shamefully)

In addition, was a movie, which I was waiting to watch for almost a year “All the President’s Men”, starring my all time favorite Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford- a write-up about the movie I am planning to write later.

Day two was spent at a symposium in SRM University, we attended a quiz we had no idea about but still managed to clinch the second place.
Day three and day four being Saturday and Sunday were spent how Saturday and Sunday should be spent.

Tuesday being the practical I decided that I should start by Monday to say the least and by evening I had read through some four programs and still had no clue how I would finish the remaining six or was it seven.
I keep trying to remember the void mains, the int, ptr and all other useless short forms in the C language. Believe me it was an honest attempt sometimes I even thought I understood.

Then comes the rain, we take the morning bus only to return early and facing no practical, it still gives me time to prepare but will I is a million dollar question; and so I have won this short war against the C language. For me it’s enough if a computer is available for writing and looking through the various websites that I usually do-programming is definitely not for me
And all that for nothing.






Satyeki