I woke up when my alarm rang at 7.30 am in the morning. Without even having to look at the time and the cellphone I was able to hit the right spot on the (touch)screen to switch off the ringing. Then again it started at 7.31 am and I followed the routine of switching it off. This incident continued two more times at precisely 7.34 am and 7.35 am when I decided that it was too early to wake up and I needed more sleep before going to the uni and stare blankly at hundreds of lines of C code. So I set an alarm for 8.30 am that I conveniently stopped again and finally woke up at 10!

It doesn’t take long for me to get out of the house when I’m out of the bed. A quick shower and casual dressing takes no more than 10 minutes. Taking the bus at this time of the day is a good option which I usually exercise and it takes about 30 minutes on average to get to the uni.

Breakfast is something I never cared about. A cup of coffee on the way to my place in the lab is essential to provide a kick. Today I was in the lab at about 1030 and the place was deserted . No one in the lab, but that wasn’t unexpected. With most of the undergrad courses coming to an end the place is likely to be haunted in few weeks!

Another hour went by in gathering the happenings around the world before I finally decided to get started on some work.

I realized that not getting out of bed despite having sufficient sleep was caused by the boredom I was expecting in the lab. I’ve been toying with the SD card for a couple of days trying to make it talk to my micrcontroller….

Time went by quickly as I continued playing with the options and then when suddenly I solved one of my many problems I decided to celebrate the moment with a quick break. Just then a friend walked in and then we talked for an hour or so. I’m still unsure who’s the more talkative one. By this time a couple of guys had checked in to the lab but that’s more or less the maximum strength of people I’m going to witness around me for the coming months.

I had lunch and then wanted to sleep. What else can happen to you in a peaceful and quiet room? The room is so peaceful that a number of times the lights go off because the automatic sensors detect no activity for some minutes and hence switch the lights off even when I’m sitting there. (So bloody annoying!!)

Anyway, the next few minutes were spent on Youtube. This again is due to the large and lovely monitors in the lab and high speed internet

Just when I accumulated enough guilt I was ready to hop back to work. I don’t know how the next few hours went by but I kept on (trying to) work until 8pm when I finally decided to end the day.

It is absolutely annoying again to walk out after 8pm still to find the sun shining!! Raat kab hogi?? Its bright almost until 10pm (WTF?)

It wasn’t a bad day, I did manage to proceed in my problem solving activity. However it prompted me to make a plan, just to keep things in check. So tonight I will sit down attempting to plan my week ahead.

Meanwhile, I am trying to keep a track of my project online at project.anasimtiaz.com. It is not detailed at the moment, but that is probably the place where the more technical details of the project will be posted. Do have a look and let me know if you find it a little interesting.