Neeraj's Take On.......

Some time off the hectic schedule was always needed for us. Me sitting in front of the laptop day in and day out, my Dad working, my mom under rest post-surgery with nothing much to do, and my sister going through the same ordeal as I was..... We needed something different; something had to change.....  That's when my maternal uncle asked us if we wanted to come on a family trip to Coonoor and Ooty with his family, to which we said YES, but later became concerned abt my mother; whether she'll be able to climb up the stairs and steep surfaces. But she wanted to come anyway, and all four of us went on the trip.  We got on from Kollam, and my uncle's family got on from Kayamkulam. My uncle has a two-year-old younger son, and his antics kept us engaged till we reached Coimbatore. Stayed there for a night, and the next day, our journey began.......  We first went to Dolphin's Nose and Lamb Rock viewpoints, which were high off the ground. Was scared like anything to look do...

(This is a follow-up story of A Mom-less Home) With the semester starting (started on February 1, to be exact), my mind was planning on how to get the household chores and the academic work together. It's going to be one heck of a job to pull them together... But u got to do what u got to do... Ain't nothing changed, here we go..... U see, the timetable in IIT Madras is really different from what I know about the other colleges. Other colleges have a 9-4 timetable with classes every hour and a lunch break. In IIT, it's different. Our timetable is 8-6 (almost like training us for the boring 9-5 jobs atleast a few of us will enter). But we don't have classes from 8-6. Our timetable has slots, and each subject is assigned a slot, and classes only take place in that slot. Say Indian Literature is assigned slot A-it means Indian Literature classes take place only when slot A is there.  Moreover, not all days have all the slots, and we have to learn only 6 subjects (ONLY?!!)....