In my room I have one table fully meant for studies and another one is used for half studying and other half for all pointless activities.
Here is a list of the 'valuable' things I found out.
- Tickets. Yes I used to collect and store bus tickets since the day I of my school (then my father used to do, now I am continuing his legacy).
- There were 3 half tickets... by that I mean physically only half was present. I travel by bus from home to school....
- A map of Kolkata that I had copied from wikimapia ages ago.
- A xerox which was a copy of someone's project work and I had also made it mine, but all this was in class 10, now am in 12... So 2 years back...
- Some rough notes (yes the numerous rough drafts) of my class 10 study materials. (I wonder why I was only finding class 10 notes. Maybe class 9 was too old or class 11, huh did I make notes then?)
- A long lost handkerchief.
- Some origami art works from the girl next door.
- A page containing excuses for escaping scoldings at tuitions. (In school you did not even need an excuse). All were my class 10 works.
- Old rubber bands which started smiling on seeing me as they were breathing fresh air after years.
- A rough paper which was preserved like some ancient artwork as it contained the wrong no. which I stole from my friend thinking it to be of that girl who came in my tuition and sat opposite me.
- Some small rough paper which were cutouts of large used copies and were supposed to be reused for rough work but remained preserved since the last time I cleaned my table.
- A small puzzle book which had almost been crushed to death.
- Two year old magazines which were bought to be read but never read.
- A free pass to a fest.
- Tracing paper and carbon paper that I used to copy my class 10 Bio pictures. In the +2 this was one of the reasons why I left Bio.
- Some small pictures which were not dignified enough to find itself in my projects.
- Xerox that was meant for studying but only dust had touched it.
- An used SMS card.
- A 'minto fresh' which I had bought for some purpose showed its manufacturing fate to me 08/08...(August 2008) and was best before 12 months. I wonder why I didn't eat that...
- A new copy which I had must have brought for some purpose but had ended up buying yet another one for that purpose.
- My school timetable which was still under the glass even though school had ended more than 2 months earlier.
- My school ID card which was never around my neck.
- Newspaper cuttings containing pointless stuff with no pictures of celebs in two-piece .
- Some coins which were supposed to be added to my collection.
- Some game CDs which I used to play way back in class 9, were lying all under my rubbish. It was not injured though.
- My first graph book in which I learnt how to draw graphs.
- My class 10 Bio notes copy which was modified to copy Chemistry notes but was used only once.
- I had one wooden pencil (I generally don't use the wooden ones - I use eco-friendly Camlin Nouvel Pencil) and I had a couple of sharpeners. But when I tried to sharpen the pencil, I found out that not a single sharpener was good. But I had found this out even earlier, but still had kept the sharpeners as exhibits.
- Paper weights that had long gone missing.
- A green ink pen which I had bought when I was in may be 7 or 8.
- A piece of chalk was peeping out at me from a corner. I wonder how it got in that hiding place.
- An old and used ruler with no measurements on it.
- Some paper clips.
- A penbox with no pen in it. I don't know why the box wasn't thrown away even after the pen had been broken.
- Some leaflets coaching institues that were handed over to us when we used to come out of our school. I never joined one but collected those leaflets to use them as rough papers.
- A separate 'last page of my notebook' which had my very own predictions about this world written. Becuase the first prediction was of 2100 so I don't know if they will come true.
- Lists of various things that were compiled and kept on my desk for future use.
- An empty box which once contained Nivea cream.
- A greetings card from the girl next door which was placed on top of every paper under a glass on my table.
- A list of the frequently confused oxyacid of phosphoros...
- A Fevi Stik which won't stick if used now. It has become teflon coated - non sticky.
- My geometry box which was never touched after I passed my ICSE. In the +2 when ever I required a compass, it was during the exams and I had a friend who used to bring it for me and all other forgetfuls. And yes her pencil box contained more valuables than my table!!!
- A blade... No you guessed it wrong. It wasn't used to cut my hand like a romeo but to cut papers for my projects.
- The bill of a restaurant where I had dined once upon a time. I had more records than the restaurant owner.
- Numerous chits containing phone numbers of some friend or teacher. All were saved in my mobile but a backup was always kept. No none were of girls as the ones who were of girls were preserved properly in some book copy.
- The dead body of an ant which was trying to move a dead mosquito to its kitchen.
- A list of the astronomical events in the year 2008. Shit I missed them all.
- A chit containing the my first email address and my password.
- A secret invisible love letter for my lady love, I only found out a blank page in which the letter was supposed to be written but actually I had written and posted in dreams.
- Last year's card calendars... Its end of February still I have the calendars.
- An inkless refill.
Now these old things were still found even after I do halfyearly clearings. I don't know why... I have thrown many unwanted things but still some are just in front of me. Am I keeping them as memoirs? Like the year and a half old Minto Fresh and all???
Aah now come on... stop thinking that all these are true... I made up some, atleast my beautiful room can't be that bad after all.