Final year is a time when you never have to go to college. Whether we go to college or not, Sharad always kept alarm for 8am. His Nokia Ngage woke up two lazy pigs with the tune of the song “One last breath”.
Sharad:(Still in bed) Going to college?
Me: (half asleep) For what? Anything special.
Sharad: Nope, thought will do something diff today.
Me: Didnt that HOD ask everyone to come today?
Sharad: Yeah but we got leave for project right?
Me: Right, just message ajith to put attendance.
Having your friend as class representative is a luxury and luckily for us Ajith was our friend and the class rep. 
Thanks to airtel, sms was free those times. 
Coming to the main story. I finally convinced Sharad not to keep alarm at all. We slept late, very late, sometimes 4am after playing pranks and chit chatting with other 3 roomies. One fine morning I was awaken by the annoying “tring tring” sound of my cell; it was my mom. Hutch had no range inside the house and I have to run outside to the lawn before attending it. On the way I had a quick peek at the clock and it said “9am”. I wondered why she was calling so early.
Me: Hi
Mom: Hi. What are you doing?
Me: Nothing. Just sitting idle
Mom: Finished your project
Me: Going on well. Lot of time left.
Mom: When did you wake up.
Me: Looooooong back. Around 8:30 
Mom: Had breakfast?
Me: No.Just getting ready to.
Mom: WHAT? YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE BREAKFAST NOW?
Me: (Suspicious) yes?
Mom: When did you say you got up?
Me: Half an hour ago.
Mom: What time is it now?
Me: (somethings definitely wrong) 9am?
Mom: Its 12:30pm!!! Which world are you living in?
Me: WHAT????????
(And then half asleep I told the most stuipd thing in life)
Me: I think its bcoz of time zone difference 
After blasting from her when I went inside Sharad was sitting next to the clock reading paper.
Me: What time is it?
Shard: (casually) Cant you see the clock. Its 9am.
(A long pause…. We stare at each other for a long time)
Both together: The f****** clock stopped!!!!!!!!!
We had seen two of our roommates Nikhil and Chiranjib, in kitchen with milk packet. So we assumed they were boiling milk in the morning. Turns out they were playing cards with the milk packet for “Aisha Takia” (thats a complicated concept, never mind). Also we had seen the 3rd roommate Abhishek going out dressed. So we assumed that he was going to have breakfast. Turns out he did go out to have food; not breakfast… but lunch. And how did the clock stop? Someone used the rechargeable battery for his cassette player and forgot to put it back. ! @#$%^&*()
for a guy to smoke & drink to be a man”. Her point was that these are a guys thing and if you dont do it, you are not a guy. Ehmm… technically she wanted to prove that I am not a guy. So why do some girls smoke or drink? Her explanation was that girls are equal to boys in every field and they didn’t want to be left behind, moreover its a style to imitate guys. According to her I was not having the fun of life avoiding the two ‘major’ guys thing.
next four years. For some reason, the staff decided that formal classes would begin only on coming monday coz that was a very auspicious day. The first period was Physics and a lady who introduced herself was Usha madame came to the class. She always had a smiling face, was very smart, experienced and within a few days, she became the favourite staff of all 
first years. In fact later on I learned that she is the favourite of all. That was the first day of class and boys were sitting to the left side of class and girls to the right. So she started her class like this.
