Anyways my blog is about the coffee misadventures of three idiots who came with a grand idea of studying before the exam night with stomachs full of coffee...so its 8 o clock in the night and our group study session comprised of 'Nitesh' 'Paresh' and me...we had grand plans of completing the mountain loads of course material in front of us...we were all gung ho about studying the whole night and we started off religiouslyit was like 10 minutes of deathly silence....and then my ever hungry friend Nitesh had an idea which ruined the whole night...
LETS MAKE SOME COFFEE...caffeine is good for night studies quips Paresh and recounts his twelfth class tales about how he used to study long hours nursing just one cup of coffee... i cut him short and send him scouting for coffee,amul and sugar...and thus begins a long winded hunt that reminds me of the film i saw recently...NATIONAL TREASURE...first i go knocking on every door of my wing mates who sympathize with my plight and suggest me someone who may have some left over coffee with him...then i go knocking on that someone's door and he suggests someone else...and someone else and someone else...and finally as i am on the verge of tears my own room mate Anurag has a pack with him....of course he is a coffee aficionado and he is the only genuine person i know who can stay awake and study after a cup
...And then i return to find Paresh and Nitesh too holding up amul and sugar as if they had come back from the city of El Dorado with treasure....and by that time it was already dinner time so we decided to scrap our coffee plans till after dinner...
Time 11 00 pm:- We still haven't gone past the preface page of the book...but we were lost in the delusion that coffee would make us read like crazy. And then we start the long winded process...First there is an argument about who should clean the kettle and fill it up with water...that took us around 20 minutes and finally i had to fill it up thanks to the senti story that Nitesh cooked up that he hadnt studied a page and i had atleast some idea about the subject..I grudgingly accepted..And then all sorts of silly details took up our time ...the right temperature...the amount of amul...the amount of sugar...i favoured lots of sugar.. :P and then finally after all my silly deductions ...i gave the best insight of the night...i advised Nitesh not to pour coffee directly from the packet into the steaming kettle..it would cause the coffee inside the packet to melt into a glob(my previous experience )and i had to remove the coffee from the packet using my tongue...:)
And my idiotic friends congratulated me on this insight...and i was all floating in my cotton candy world dreaming about how i would be an engineering consultant someday dishing out smart insights like these when one question by Nitesh and Paresh brought me crashing back to reality.....have you brought any glasses for the coffee...??
of course i can't tell you ...and the words they used against me then...lets censor it folks...beep ...beep...beep...beep...and once again i have to venture outside in search of glasses...i again go on banging all those someones doors but have to return empty handed..and am subject to malignant stares of my friends....by that time the coffee had cooled down and had to be heated again..and this time it was really emanating a heavenly fragrance...it cooled all of us down and then the thick headed Nitesh struck upon an idea that forever changed the coffee drinking scenario in West hostel...he took a one litre bottle and cut it in half using a pen knife...and we decided to mark our brilliant idea by clicking pictures of the improvised glass and posting it on facebook...even facebook users were amazed at the creativity...or some people were groced out of the idea of drinking coffee in plastic...
And the book was lying at the side of the bed demanding our attention, but we were all stuck up in our own caffeine induced world...and whilst we were enjoying our coffee...i dished out some of my own coffee trivia telling my friends about the KOPI LUWAK coffee beans that are extracted from the excreta of the asian plam civet...and once again i am greeted with a host of swear words ...beep...beep...beep...beep..and a flurry of kicks..
And even after our last dregs of coffee had disappeared... we were no where near to studying...caffeine had induced a high in us and we were reminiscing about our school days...and a cursory glance at our watch...its 2 30 in the night...DAMN THE COFFEE i say and sit down to study....paresh is teetering on the edge of sleep...and soon we all follow suit...coffee made us sleep even more than normal...Nitesh was snoring his head off...
And what happened in the following morning in the exam hall is fit for another blog...HORENDOUS would be an understatement....and i discovered that perhaps we three were the only idiots in the world who fell asleep after a jug full of coffee...yes people i had around 1 litre of it.
So to all my readers...one word of advice whenever you get that idea about group study and coffee...just remember my blog ..and stay away from Nitesh and Paresh...i dont know what they mixed in the coffee that day... :P
HAPPY HOLIDAYS FOLKS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR IN ADVANCE
