More studying in the morning for the presentation at AAI. After a long time am studying 3-D surfaces,angles,slopes from an aviation point of view. Abhi bhi bahut kuch samajh mein nahin aaya. Have a meeting with the AAI guys on Monday. Will have to ask them to take an ‘extra class’ for me. The presentation is scheduled for the 15th. Hopefully, clarity will dawn by then.
It reminds me of a specific course in our second year of engineering. After about 23 lectures had been taken and a semester test was approaching, we (the entire class) decided that it was time to confess that we had not understood anything. Hence in the next class before the professor could put on his microphone on the collar, we raised our hands and four of us walked up to the podium where he stood and walked (now and then)to give his lectures and told him that we had not understood anything. That none of us had understood anything. He was flabbergasted and exasperated. He turned around and asked the entire class (of about 1000 as all the engineering streams were mixed in the first two years) and the answer was in the affirmative. He raised his hands in the air (seemingly to pull his hair) and walked up and down the podium restlessly. He also asked why the confession time could not have come earlier. In the end it was decided that extra classes would be taken in the night (and our only concern was of course the dinner, how could we miss dinner in the mess?). And so it was fixed that the classes would be conducted after the dinner timings of the mess were over and in case they were held earlier, the professor would arrange for the dinner(that was enough cause for a cheer).
For a long time, I tried getting my mothers’ love and attention. At any cost.For close to four decades. Didn’t work. I think I joined ‘M. Tech’ to look good’ for my parents. Batane mein achha lagta hai. Beti M.Tech kar rahi hai IIT Delhi se. Sounds respectable. I remained a topper throughout (B.Tech from IIT Kanpur was a different ballgame altogether. I could never top there) but left without submitting my thesis. I have been declared the craziest of cases by most.
The gas has been booked by my daughter by SMS. She is the technosavvy person in the house. The land line number is mostly never picked up by the agency guys. Amma has begun to cook lesser quantities of food ( after a lot of jhamela) and that implies lesser wastage of food and decreased shopping of rations in the house.
The Infrastructure client has indicated that the payment terms could be difficult. Meaning that it would be ‘back to back’. As and when their client pays, they will pay us. That could mean five to six months. That would be a very difficult call to take. A running payment to maintain our working capital is extremely important for us. Toh dekhna padega.
There was yesterday. There is today. And there will be a tommorrow. I guess.
The past, present and future. All mixed up for me at the moment.
