When illness becomes a luxury you can't afford

No. This isn't my first experience with illness as a luxury ... nevertheless, I'm amazed at how it ACTUALLY is a luxury! Being the VOC {(Voice of the Class) - a term coined by my classmates to replace the conventional CR - class representative}; I agree that the college management expects me to be present in class 9 on 10 days! And me being me, I diligently oblige them.

HowEVER, there are days when I'm GENUINELY unwell, and would like to be home, just laze around and take a breather. These are 'coincidentally' the days when the Dean decides to pay us a 'surprise' visit to check on attendance. And, courtesy my stars, on that day the attendance is at an all-time low of just 6 people outta 22! The obvious question pops, "Whrz the CR?" "Sir, she's absent." "WHAT? The CR herself is absent???"

Then follows a personal phone call from the Dean's cellphone to my cellphone (right in front of my classmates) ... tempered with questions, demands, commands, and "I want you in college as soon as possible with a justification for today's low attendance and your absence!" Obviously, none of what I said on phone has mattered to him, all he wants is me in college right away. "Yes Sir, I'll be there in 20 mins."

No, it ain't rocket science to handle the responsibilities of a VOC of an MBA class, nevertheless... a VOC is an individual first who is as vulnerable to the common flu or mild headache as anyone else, and very much deserves the 25% absence period that is alloted by the University guidelines in the 75% compulsory attendance mandate! Give us a break, let us put our feet up n chill out sometime.

I don't know if its my lack of intelligence or that my brain weighs 11-12% lesser than a male brain, BUT, and this is a big but... BUT, I simply do not have an answer to the question, "Why is the rest of your class absent?"

Amazing! I started writing this post on the day this incident happened.. April 12... and today is May 14! Looking back, its funny :) Therefore, no hard feelings! Sab maaf, itni choti life mein kitna waqt naraaz rahoon? I've moved on and realized that THIS is what makes my life here so much more interesting :) 

I admire Kailash Kher. In "Allah ke Bande," he says,

'Kal ko apne saath mein le le

Dard bhi tere kaam aayega..'

Point noted Sirji :)

Aabha.

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My first words here ... after the title, that is! Italic font, green colour - I like green. When I have a choice for the font colour, I mostly write in green. Its like saying I speak Orange (for Hutch), or Pink or Red, now, for that matter. I write Green. I like the look of it.

I am blogging. Something I never did before. Why? Coz I feel a strange urge to write. Not express, but write. I don't know how that's different, but it is for me. My writings aren't my expressions; I don't express in public. Neither am I writing for the heck of having my own blog. Just writing. Am gonna write till the moment I feel like continuing; I'll stop thereafter. Its like my Orkut account - I can't figure out what made me create one ages after most of my friend's had theirs, I decided I'll stay put for sometime n then leave. I still haven't left.

When I was in the process of thinking of topics to write on for my first blog, I thought of many: The experience of putting on weight ( my own experience), being with yourself when you're alone ( I overheard that one in the cab on my way back home ) and I'm not mentioning the others ... lemme keep some with myself. Essentially, I am not writing on any of those in this blog. That would come later.


Nothing more to put down for now. I made a beginning ... the first step's taken. I shall come here for a walk every now and then. Hope to find company.

Aabha.