Memorial Day Weekend

This weekend is a long weekend for most of the people living in America. Why most? Because I come in the second group of people who work on the weekends. In a way it is good that I have the weekdays to myself and I can do my school work then. But otherwise it's a pain because I can never do anything on the weekend. Yes, after 6pm I'm free, but can't really go for an out of town trip. Only if I had this Saturday and Sunday off, we would have decided to go somewhere, do something exciting.

The long weekend - as the Americans like to put it - is due to Memorial Day. It falls on the last Monday of May and is a day in the honor of all those who died on the battlefield.

This is something I really like about America. "What?" You may ask. Well, the idea that a national holiday falls either on a Monday or a Friday. There's no set date for them, only a set day - first or last Monday or Friday. Instead of two days to relax, people get three. I doubt that this could be accomplished in India. First of all, if something major - Independence Day, Republic Day, or Gandhi Jayanti - happens to fall on a weekday, schools ask their students to attend the "missed" classes on a Saturday. This is how it used to be a while ago. Eventually, Saturday's became another one of the "weekdays." So was the case at my school - Xavier's, Delhi.

Be it students or employees, everybody in India is pushed to their limits. And it starts early on. Why do they have to work so hard? Why can't they live like their American or British counterparts? I understand, the answers to these questions are Population and Competition. But that certainly doesn't mean that a human would be tested on every corner, in everything he/she does. Huh, and with the quota, things are definitely going to get worse.

Filming...

I realize that I haven't written anything for quite sometime now. I tell people that this is due to being busy, but in reality it is laziness.

I am taking summer courses in an effort to get ahead. Until June 6th, I'll have classes every single day. From the 15th, however, I'll have classes on every Tuesday and Thursday. I'm not working at the Computer Lab until June 7th. Am still going to Fernbank on every weekend though.

A week ago, I helped Suban in filming. Mine was a special appearance towards the end. I don't know if he has edited the entire thing yet, but I'm eager to see it because I also served as the camera-(wo)man for quite a large portion of the film.

I have moved my photoblog from Blogger to Shutterchance. The new URL is www.snapdcosmos.shutterchance.com. Please drop by if and when you get a chance.

exam fever

Exams this week...

Tuesay
12:30 to 2:30 - busa 2106 - legal environment of business
Thursday
8:00 to 10:00 - geog 1112 - introduction to weather and climate
10:15 to 12:15 - econ 2105 - principles of macroeconomics
Saturday
2:45 to 4:45 - cis 2010 - introduction to computer information
systems
Monday
8:00 to 10:00 - spch 1000 - human communication

The Saturday and Monday exams may be moved to Friday and Wednesday, respectively. Most likely, however, I'll give the CIS exam on Saturday. Speech to be moved on Wednesday is highly possible.

luck?
need it badly!