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Ar. Veepa B. Jariwala An Emotional Journey Called B.ARCH. A bright Monday morning, though Mondays never seem so bright after a lazy Sunday. But for me as for any other student of architecture Sundays are never Sun(ny) days. You see other people end and start their day, you can also feel their Weekend Pleasures and their Monday Blues. But for us, Sundays seem to be overloaded with submissions, leaving us always in a state of Bibhatsam “a feeling of disgust. I hate them the most because I can hear my family laughing together over breakfast table and I am slogging it out over my drafting table. I curse it even more when all my friends insensitively decide to go for a long drive leaving me alone. I take a shower to wash away this feeling of despair. Whatsapp is a great app to know the emotional state of your friends mind and so of his sheets. I scroll through the names. Arav’s status reads “Straight 54 hours….for design STRAIGHT 54 hours and can still manage a smile…State of Bhayakam, a feeling of terror…I buried still deeper into my sheets. As it happens every time so it happened this time. Spent the whole day trying unsuccessfully to design, but the jumble of lines I sketch in the middle of the night, out of the feeling of frustration, evolves to be my best design. Handmade white sheets spread throughout my room bore my Expressionist Design in bold curves. I was falling in love….again with my design. The rendering in water colors was bringing my design to life. Nothing can be more beautiful than this….my design. Experiencing the state o