There are two things to life.
1. Life changes continuously....
2. Yet there are certain constants in life....
I am not talking of a theory that says something always changes in life so that something else remains constant.
what has remained nearly constant in my life?
okay let me explain further : -
It started right from the time before joining college. After a miserable 4339 rank in TNPCEE, and padu flop in Board Exams, getting free seat in a decent ( how do we measure decent?) college is a real fight.
looking at the admission screen in anna university can create hormone surges, particularly when u see the so called open seats are gobbled up while the 'reserved' seats literally crawl. so much for meritrocracy.
so finally one last free seat for chemical engineering in VIT was in the waiting.... and i cd see a good 25 ppl ahead of me in the line. that is desperation defined. all set for climactic finish.
however GOD DECIDED that i was the one even if the last one. and so did the saga of chemical engineering in VIT start.
but this was just the start!!!!
why???? take a look:)
one year in VIT - enough of mugging - Frustration again, write JEE once more.
As if by design it happens to me, the University physics exam and IITJEE physics exam clash.
morning 10 AM - univ exam at vellore - Afti 2 PM - JEE physics at chennai!!!!
change plans- JEE centre shifted to TIRUPATHI. finish Univ exam at 11:15 AM - examiner looks askance at me- get into the car booked for the journey.
reach TIRUPATHI 30 mins before start of exam. only to find our names ( 2 more with me, sandy and praveen) missing from the list of examinees ( btw, does such a word exist?)
after running around here and there, we find our names at the last minute.
result of exam - flop again :) ....bright spot? atleast passed the university physics exam. no arrear. suprisingly i got a score of 77 in the paper for 75 minutes of scribbling.
What next? 3 more years to kuppa kottify in VIT. what else? But the next adventure is already in waiting....
CAT Maze- RAT Race : --
exam at 10 AM. my (bloody) buddy sandy ( that rhymes) gets up at 8. 15 and successfully completes a single cup of filter coffee in 45 mins ( sandy did that taste so good?) . we start at 9 AM. the centre takes around 20 mins by bike in a free road, and 35 mins if u manage to get caught in every signal ( and the way is only full of signals).
no sooner did i start the vehicle ( bajaj pride it was ), the bike was skidding. flat tyre. great start. nalla sagunam. apparam enna, we walk till the nearest bike station. clock says 9.10. As the mechanic repairs the puncture, 9.27 now. okay we have less time, so adrenalin pumped up and so did the accelerator. the bike had two rear view mirrors, protruding so beautifully. as if murphy always rules, the next lafda ( hindi for bejaaru) turns up.
zooming at a high speed, the light weight vehicle that it was, control was difficult. add a sandy road to it ( uh one more sandy, all the lafdas of the day have been dedicated to sandy).
cartload of tomatoes towards us. i try to move out of the way. the rear view mirror does not think so. it gets caught into the cart ( one more painful rhyme)
i manage to keep the bike on road. meanwhile my partner is tasting sand 50 ft behind . tomatoes strewn all over the road. 10 ppl around us . 9.35 time. interesting situation.
after sporting innocent faces amidst begging them that we have an exam, we manage to get out of the mess.
after having to put up with the signals as well, we reach exam hall at the lastminute.
now profusely sweating during the exam.
result of exam - fundoo flop.
had a written test for a s/w company immediately after CAT.
CAT usually requires u to shade answer bubbles marked 1,2,3,4. the written test was to be answered as A,B,C,D. ended up writing 1,2,3,4 in my test answer sheet.
result? even after getting all Qs right, the stupid company said, i cannot mark anything different from A,B,C,D and chucked me out. meanwhile, in all the hungama that ensued in the accident, the silencer of the bike had given away and started giving eeriee noises like that of a bullet bike/Rajdoot.
thanda selavu athukku mela. for repairing the silencer.
phew........have a kitkat.
more in the next blog
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4 comments:
heyy is all this true ??
I wud not venture out for an exam as big as cat ( or for that matter even univ exam ) in a bike...
U cud have taken an auto..
And u have some serious problems with reading instruction in the first page I believe ....
@ harini,
1. Hmmm....If u dont believe what I have written till now, probably u may never believe the rest that I will put in the next blog. check that also.
2. CAT is anyway just another entrance exam. nothing to hype abt.
3.Yeah I cd have taken an auto after the bike was punctured. but atleast one cant predict accidents, that was my first one.
4. Finally, after a day of complete fiasco right from time i started frm home,no wonder i missed the instructions in the first page:)
Just want to write the words of a song:
"Life is unpredictable
But if the end is right
Hope you had the
Time of your life"
BTW nice blog
@ both kulvir and anu,
thanks. it ws all 1% inspiration and 99 % desperation
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