Yes.. This happened when i was studying in std 11.. It was a long pending request from my side for a new PC for my self which I felt could help me to reach great heights in life where am today. At last the bill got passed in the 5 year plan and the order was placed.
As soon as I saw the copy of purchase order, Mr.~Suz started having his dream trip thinking about how good it will be to sit before a PC and browse through net, chat, mail, play game... It needs some one to drag him back to earth..
It was earlier informed that it takes a week for the delivery… The hours turned to be days & the ecstasy grew higher as the week pass on...
And at last the day came & the engineers reached my home in an auto rickshaw at around 11:45 PM... Dozens of fancy colored cartons with the colored pic of the gadget over it got unloaded from the vehicle. The installation of the stuffs took more an hour.
As soon as they left my home around 12:30AM (early morning) my exploration over the newly arrived gadget started. My exploration over the mere OS went on… and on… and on... Felt really excited to see the default blue wallpaper of the Windows98 getting loaded majestically over the screen.
Then I tried connecting to the world of internet through a dialup connection & a modem which makes a hell lot of noise during the connection. The dialup package was "Mantra online" which came as compliment for buying the PC... It was early 4:00 AM in the morning when all my exploration came to an end for the day & I went to the bed. The set of default loaded wallpapers, the set of preloaded screensavers, Solitaire card game were the targets for my exploration. That was the first time I saw a computer as my own possession. The dream of buying a PC has become true after a long time.
During my schooling, there were days where I have reacted to my dreams a bit much.. Many days my dad use to tell me in the morning that I walked while I was in sleep the previous night.. and was blabbering some thing... (Mr.~Suz:- May have leaked any truth bout me..!?!?!?! :-) ) . Once I have even took bath at 1:00 AM in the though of getting ready to school... (~Suz:- Crazy guy...!)..
One such day came where I did a same sort of exploration on the previous day and had a sleep less night. The next day was a day to the school with sleepy red eyes. There was a close mate of mine.... Bala, a close friend of mine in those days who always accompanies me for almost all the tution classes I go.. (But having absolutely no idea what is he doing currently...). It was during the 2nd hour in the morning... & it was a chemistry class. The subject that comes first in my hated subject list…
For this class, I was sitting the left corner seat of the 3rd bench (Usually not my place… The places in the first 3 bench are unquestionably allocated for the brainees of the class. ). Bala was sitting to my right.
The teacher Latha (God.! Please don’t make my chemistry teacher to view this blog) the one who was taking chemistry in my 11th started the class. She started reading out her notes loud in the middle of the class from her old bunch of hand written 2 ruled papers.I went to my usual state (Sleepy state..) because of the effect of the previous day explorations.
Around 30 minutes of the notes writing session passed. I herd a feeble voice calling out my name. I did not respond to it since it did not sufficiently disturb my sleep.
Few minutes later, I found a left hand tapping at my shoulder with a hard attempt of waking me up… Since I had enough disturbances, I made an attempt to see the source of it and found Bala trying his level best to wake me as per the teacher’s order.
On seeing her face, she asked me to stand up and she asked me a million $ question.
“Do you know that you are sleeping … ?? “
“ Yezzzz…”, I replied with a sleepy voice and sat back on my seat to continue the activity…
Since my chemistry teacher was lenient enough & also was very sure that there is no point in making me awake did not wanted to disturb me… She continued on with her old notes…
The climax of the day
About 20 minutes passed and she was running at the fag end of her 1 hour session.
I was keeping my pen over my note to make others believe that I am taking the notes promptly…
Suddenly I made a hard tap over the pen with my right hand index finger and got up from my sleep with a shock. I felt quite uneasy as suddenly the continuous voice of the teacher stopped near me and the entire set of guys sitting in the first 3 bench were giving me a strange look. I felt even more shock to notice that the lines of notes I have written on the paper took a steep curve towards the upper margin of the note crossing all the above lines…
Since the bell rang, she was about to start… I found all the boys coming near me and were enquiring what has happened to me…
I found Bala with a puzzled face; jointly interrogating me along with the other guyz. He came near me and asked...
" Machan.... Enna da aachu...?!?!?! "
For those who don't know the wonderful Chennai tamil... It means (Antonym) "Friend... What has happened.?!?!?! "
Later I realized that because of the previous day explorations, I had a dream during the course of the class where I have made a strong “double-click” over the pen. On hearing this the entire class started to laugh at me… :-) :-)People felt happy that I have not played the “Age of Empires” games the previous night… Else the class would have become a battle field…
The whole class began to laugh at me… Having no way of escaping from the situation, I gave a Colgate smile and left to the place…
Happy school days…!
