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I’m 20 now

February 3rd, 2008 Roshan Posted in Me |

My birthday’s on the 28^th of January every year - that’s funny, I was born only once. In any case, I’m 20 and I look back on those two decades and see no greatness. Why am I not yet a violin virtuoso? How come I haven’t yet got a billion dollars to spend? Ah, if only. In any case, things that I actually should have done include getting a voter ID card. But I have an explanation for that. When I turned 18 I was eligible to vote. However, the elections that year set the limit at 18 years old at Jan 1^st. I was still seventeen years at the time. The whole thing is ridiculous because the elections weren’t even in January, or even in February. It’s not hard to set the limit at the date of the first polling day, it’s not like it adds any more to the checking process. I was pretty keen on getting a voter card at the time, and I should’ve anyway. I’m sure I could’ve got one. I wonder how one goes about getting one.

This year I graduate with a B.Sc. in Mathematics (unless my playing truant kills my attendance). I cannot honestly say I learnt much during these 3 years, I cannot even say that I deserve the degree if the amount I learnt during college is the criteria. There’s something wrong with the whole system when you have an Astronomy course but you aren’t allowed into the college post 10 PM. It’s funny, in a not-amusing way. However I do not regret joining MCC, of course. It’s just that the things you learn aren’t the things you get a degree for. Such is life.

I haven’t yet gotten around to cycling around, something that I’ve always wanted to do. I’m getting too old to hope to do it later, life catches up on youth too fast, and strangles it with responsibilities. Delayed gratification is something I always go for, but delayed too much and it may end up denied. I should get around to that post April, and before May, I hope. I’ve got my eye on this simple 10-speed bicycle, but in the end the problem’s always with the cyclist. I haven’t played a sport since I left school. Sedentary doesn’t even begin to describe the way I live. That has to change.

There was a paper I was supposed to do. It didn’t go so well the first time around, I was preoccupied with other things. Let me just finish this course and I’ll get right down to it. It can be done well, it should be, for the benefit of everyone involved. Fine, I botched it the first time around, my maths was shoddy for reasons even I cannot know, but something bad is only something that can be improved upon. A little effort, a little thought and a lot of getting back to the basics (I’m thinking I’ve forgotten my fundamentals)

I’ve always wondered why people make resolutions on New Year’s Day (Jan 1^st). That’s about the worst time to make a resolution, you’re drunk, or stoned and you don’t know just what you’re thinking. It’s cold and dry, and your lips feel like death valley during the winter. There’s a whole year ahead of you, but it’s nothing much, it’s not your New Year’s Day, it’s a generic New Year’s Day. Your New Year’s Day is your birthday.

Oh, and thanks to everyone who came today, I appreciate it, it was nice. I like the fact that I got a big pink Aladdin puzzle. Anyone who couldn’t make it :) it happens, some other time. I’m not very good at organising things, I tend to forget stuff, and cannot remember to remind people. Fire and forget, not exactly efficient, but that’s all I can do.