And the Geek Shall Inherit the Earth

I burn a lot midnight oil when I’m working on something. I work late, though not necessarily hard, and I find it find that brain works much better in the dark. Curious isn’t it ?, how something I could never achieve on the eve of examination seems like child’s play when you do something that you love. ( And that doesn’t mean I don’t like exams, mind you )

There are some unique advantages to working late. Your brains starts working at speeds that you didn’t think was possible for one. You are able to roam unharnessed around the cloaked hostel grounds and the college campus, which in a manner inspires creation. And then there is always the fact that the night air does wonders for skin texture.

It was dark, and I had decided a stroll at 3.a.m. would certainly revitalize my tired circuits. I was working on something and having had little success, sleep was not an option.

I got out of the hostel and turned right, heading for the college campus. There was a figure some distance front of me. I peered. He was holding a mobile phone to his ear and purring away in the mouth piece.

An aching heart ; I smiled.

Turning away from our friend with the aching heart, I walked on towards the hostel mess only to find one more estranged soul perched on the steps with (yep!, you guessed right) a mobile glued to his ears.

Hokay!, weird. Wondering how these guys could actually stay awake talking I moved on. Only to be
confronted by yet another mobile-talking-wonder!. My eyes sweep around, taking in the hostel and its premises.

My jaw dropped of its own accord; the window-sills, the door steps, on top of all the bikes were sitting patient listeners, solemnly enduring their loved ones’ crooning. ( I even found one up a tree! ).

What is with these girls anyway? How they manage to wake up at these ungodly hours and keep whispering into their phones is fairly beyond me. It would take nothing short of an act of God to have me doing that at this hour of the night, ……unless…….yes!………..its……..my phone……..and its ringing…..