A Day

6:30 AM - Buzzzz ... Alarm goes off. [Damn... I wanna go back to school]

6:45 AM - Selecting the coat and dressing up in crisp clothes pressed last night.... Admiring my dressing sense [Not doing it everyday though!! Only when I am really impressed by my choice of clothing]

6:55 AM - Boiling milk for Wagh-Bakri tea

7:05 AM - Walking towards railway station with tea in hand. Admiring green nature's beauty in surrounding areas. Listening to Pink Floyd/Radiohead/Cold Play

7:13 AM - On board express train to NY Penn Station. Standing near the door because of no seats left.

7:35 AM - Finally get a seat when train comes to Newark.

7:45 AM - Dozing off on seat.

8:00 AM - Arriving NY Penn Station. Wake up. [Damn... I wanna go back to school] Run to catch the subway train. Pass near the repulsively smelly Pretzel stall.

8:05 AM - On Subway train. Trying to avoid being a sandwich. [Too many people. But I like it! It feels like home. It feels like Mumbai locals or Chennai buses.]

8:15 AM - Walking towards office on Lexington Ave. Looking at the board of TGIF restaurant (Thank God It is Friday) And counting remaining week days.

8:30 AM - Breakfast time ! Bread, Sinful amount of cream cheese and juice

8:45 AM - Surfing News, Checking mail

9:00 AM - Work starts finally. [Come on. Stop being lazy now and start working]

10:00 AM - Juice time. [This will keep repeating throughout the day almost every one and a half hours]

12:30 PM - Lunch time. [(curse...) I am hungry. Tired of eating same food - pizza, subway... Forget it .. Will skip again... Let me get a cup of soup]
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4:00 PM - [Excitement... Day coming to end] Fill the time sheet. Fill Programmer Notes.

5:00 PM - Hurray ... Day over!

5:30 PM - Finance class starts... 3 very interesting hours about to start [When was the last time I eagerly waited for a class like this? I can't remember in my 17 years of academic life!]

8:30 PM - Class over. Walk towards subway. Look at the brightly lit streets with skyscrapers at both sides and fall in love with the city all over again. And again.

8:42 PM - Arriving NY Penn Station. Run for NJ transit. [Literally. Run. Otherwise will miss it by a few seconds]

9:00 PM - On board NJ Transit. Dozing on the seat.

10:00 PM - Walking back home on dark streets.

10:05 PM - Microwave frozen food. [God bless these frozen food makers.]

10:30 PM - Chat/Talk/Surf

11:00 PM - Reluctantly set the alarm for next morning.

11:10 PM - Deep sleep after a long tiring day.