The DD/MM/YYYY When Everything Went Wrong
Date: 28th February 2020 Time: 0000 hrs Place: G-411, SD Hall of Residence, NITR Tragedy struck at the beginning of the disastrous day itself, at midnight to be exact. My plans of filling the application for the IITR’s SPARK saw a dead-end when I received a message in English and Odia (local language of the SIM) that my data pack was over. I couldn’t recharge my data at this hour because my debit card's OTP came on mom's phone and she would have been fast asleep I grinned when I remembered that I still had LAN. But I knocked off my roomie's bottle while connecting the LAN wire and then all hell broke loose. My roomie, who I had assumed to be in deep sleep then, woke up in a flash when I was picking up his bottle. He scolded me for being up so late and told me not to touch his things before I could even clarify why the bottle was in my hand. As it often happens, LAN leaves you hanging when you need it the most. So I sent a query message in the SD group.