my room is never clean, except during exam times. Just before the exams, I have this urge to clean my room. In my mind, I have a unique place assigned to each and every item that I own in my room. But, almost all the time, none of these items are there where they are supposed to be, and for this, i have my own version of Murphys law: “If I want some item badly, I will never get it. It will show up sometime when I absolutely do not need it, or when I have forgotten that I need that item!”.
But, come exam time, I like my room, as clean as a clean room in a fabrication company :-D. I just cannot start studying, if there are clothes lying on my chair or the bed, my locker is a mess, and my table has books/notes/note-books/photocopies/loose papers on just about all the courses I have taken in the semester. Just so that, I study and pass the exams, I have to start a clean-up drive everytime, just 2 days before the exam.
I am posting a few pics of my room before the cleaning drive!
On saturday, when I finally started cleaning my room, I called the “room-clean guys to work on my room. When that guy entered the room, his first comment (translated into english by me) was “How do you even manage to spend a minute in this room!”. I was pretty angry at him. Agreed, my room was a mess, but who was he to comment, and that too comment so sarcastically. So with a superior air, I told him (again translated to english):“Quietly do your job”. Well, he found a couple of spiders in my room!
After the room clean guy went, I got to my job. Stacked up the clothes in the laundry bag, cleaned the mess on my table, put new pillow covers and bed-spreads, and finally, this is how my room looked:
wish you were here 
#1 by RR on February 19, 2006 - 3:07 pm
Hmmmm…Just a thought IIT’s need to provide better rooms.
and was that PC from Zenith?
#2 by Hiren on February 19, 2006 - 3:26 pm
I have twenty years of management experience and one of the best things that I have heard a management expert say is that success in life depends on the KASH princinple-Knowledge, Application, Skills and Habits. A place for everything and everything in place -one of the best habits but the real importance only realized in practical life.
#3 by kaushik on February 19, 2006 - 5:26 pm
u c, the hostel that i live in was built in 1960/70….so chalta hai…
and the pc is frm pcs and it says pcs orion. is zenith a product of pcs, or is it a company? forgive my innocence.
#4 by Demonic Dude on February 20, 2006 - 4:05 pm
Chal yaar, your room reminded me a lot of mine before you cleaned it.. i guess the last time mine was clean was when my mom dropped in and freaked out :D.. anyways after she cleaned it, i felt kinda like exploring some unknown territory for my things as i could always find my stuff in the mess 😉
#5 by kaushik on February 20, 2006 - 6:52 pm
hiren: lovely principle KASH…guess, u pointing to my messy room in normal days…i have to improve on trying to keep my thingd in order.
DD: guess, living in a dirty room is in the blood of hostelites…..
#6 by Akanksha on February 21, 2006 - 4:37 am
nice eco cleaning drive.. if i get a new room today even i’ll clean it up.. mayb i’ll try to upload a few pics too!
#7 by kaushik on February 21, 2006 - 9:32 am
akanksha: thnx for visiting…generally females keep their rooms a lot more cleanser….anyways waiting for the pics
#8 by Yadhvi on February 21, 2006 - 5:54 pm
hey,
that reminds me of my room!! It was a 2-in-one-room…and at exam times, we’ll have one bed full of books/clothes that one of us have to lie on the floor!
#9 by kaushik on February 21, 2006 - 8:14 pm
yadhvi: he he he….
#10 by anshupratik on February 22, 2006 - 6:22 am
well…. i remember your old room mate and certainly ur guru who taught you how to survive in a clumsy place…. good to see that you still remember that… he he he!!!!
anyways i remembered Chamundi E-17 (or whatever was the room number) after seeing your room….
#11 by kaushik on February 22, 2006 - 8:11 am
hey anshu bro:
those were amazing days, were it not…chamundi 212,
it is not the same man, living without a room-mate:-(
#12 by Anna on February 25, 2006 - 8:27 am
oh god !!!
a kindred soul!!!
i also have this cleaning urge only before exams. its weird and most of the time, i am content to leave stuff where they fall but the day before the exams(is when i start studying)i absolutely cannot concentrate unless my books are neatly arranged and stray clothes are put away…
nice blog by the way…