EuphoriA - A - A!

"Somethings in life are just meant to be the way they are... U cant do nething about it... Everything happens for the best..." I kept telling myself. I had an exam the next day and I had to study but the mind kept wandering... It was then that I decided that if Cal doesnt want me....I do not want Cal :) hehehe....grapes are sour in the hindsight but effectve then nevertheless!

Burned the midnight tubelight energy till 2 30 or something and then decided to call it quits for the night...Had enuff for the day...rather night! Term tests were at 9 in the morning...It came as a relief as I wouldnt have to face my parents who would feel sympathetic towards me and I absolutely hate bein sympathized...

So next morning, after tellin my parents that IIMC dream was over and that I may get an all 5 rejects that was unheard off.....I was off to college...Again partners saved the day... Copied wholeheartedly...and attempted for all 50... My mind was relieved from a bit of stress....now that I knew I had a talent for survival :))

I come out of my test and my proj partner asks me my A result! Poppy had made it thru .... I say "I will have to check!" ... Knowing the great internet access that our college provides, it would be close to impossible to get my results before Term 3 at these institutes! So I ran to the Directors office knowing pretty well that here the internet access is the fastest... After askin the ever sweet PA of the Director... I log into the IIM A site.. put in my reg and dob and the pic shows wht I saw!!!!
I had been selected to THE BEST... Ahmedabad it was!!! After spreadin the word around....gettin a lot of well done and congrats and also some bumps... I went back to the pracs tht I was supposed to be in long ago....People were mugging for the next test... I tried but culdnt...It was the time to enjoy and studying seemed like the last thing to do....Treat was decided to be after the test... Again I relied majorly on my partners for my tests...the gang of infinte lukkas...
The best part is I aggregated 87.5 in my term tests!! Topped with 48/50 in the last paper......This WAS the best day EVER.......

And the results ........

Deal Ya No Deal......This serial didnt take off much in India as its original did abroad...One day I was watching it and saw how there are various boxes....And how people were disappointed when a box from the "baddi rakham" was lost.....Then, I didnt seem to understand wht it must feel like.....

Its been quite long since I last posted....Laziness being the most mighty factor....Orkut bein another(Addicition has always been my forte)....Then there was an eye operation for my cousin(the dude got hit by a ball on his specs and the latter part of the specs went into his eye which became critical.....but he is doing excellent now)And lastly due to the term tests...Okay I agree I didnt touch my book till midnight before the tests....but it doesnt feel good to write a blog when u have exams loomin...Its much better to gab with cousins and friends and kill time!

IIM results were expected from the 10th of April....So had to consistently go and check their webpages too...Term tests 1 and 2 were on Monday and 3 and 4 were on Wednesday.....Tuesday many of my relatives were comin home....and what better way to show off ur coolness by gabbin with them on the day before twin tests :)

So as I was saying Monday termtests were really gud.....Am still surprised at how havin good partners is much much more important than studying!
Tuesday just passed time....gabbing and playing a good host along with ma and dad....The real fun(?) begins after 8 in the night

Still guests around...I open my orkut account to check if there are any scraps...and also whether my popularity had increased (kahan yaar!)...suddenly my google talk tells me there is a message with the title "IIMB results are out"....and I knew.....that the time had come...the results had started to pour....The next 4 hrs were frustrating...for me cos others werent putting up the results and B was the only call I had not got...and even more frustrating for my cousin, who had his eyes under those Karunanidhi type glasses, as I was switchin the lights on and off in the room with the comp where he was trying to "get better" by sleepin.

Term tests next day....and had to study!...but knowin tht results that could change your life might have been put up at that very moment was too unnerving...At 12, after I had promised my cousins twice at 10 30 and 11 tht tht was the last time I m checking the results, I went and switched on the monitor again...this time I only heard a grudge from him(who had asked u to play cricket baby!)...I again refreshed all the window panes :) of the 5 IIMs...the only one tht showed a slight difference was the one of IIMC....
IIMC final calls it said....
Knew this was it!
the world seemed to zero in on the computer screen...
entered my reg no. and dob...
and then what I saw was the screenshot shown....

For a moment I couldnt say anything....or think anything.....and the whole room seemed to be echoing disappointment...So I sat there lookin at the screen for sometime...this was not the news my mom dad would like to hear when they wake up tom...but tht is the truth!

A story that means a lot to me

Fourty years ago, on a rainy evening, Dadar station, the train comes to a halt....and a youth in his late teens steps out of the train. Wearing a shirt and a lungi, a briefcase in one hand(a metal one....the kind the dubbawalas use) and a rolled bed on the other, two hundred rupees in his pocket and a half torn letter, he put his foot on the soil that was going to change his life forever.
A man standing in his mid 30s walks towards the boy and confirms that he was the boy that was supposed to be there as per a letter he had received a few days back. The boy hands the letter he was carrying in his pocket and looks at the man with anxious eyes.
The man reads the letter twice and shakes his head and says in fluent malayalam " My brother knows nothing, What can I do to help u kid? I myself stay in a lodge.".
Dumbstruck by this revelation, the boy says nothing...he simply stares at the Dadar platform board and recollects the statement made by his fathers friend ' You take this letter to him, he is well off there..I will in the meantime post that you are coming on such and such day...Dont worry, he will take care of everything'.
The man after thinking for sometime continued " See, I cant help u today in anyway....as I cant take u with me."
The boy said nothing again....he just kept staring at the board. Rain had already done its work on him. He knew the chances of spending the night on the platform loomed. This was not what he had expected when he had left his home in Kerala, with the responsibility of providing a helping hand to his father so that his six younger siblings could have a better life.
The man went on.." May be I will be able to help you tomorrow, but today as u see I m helpless"
This entire conversation was being listened to by an old woman and her son, who were fellow travellers in the same compartment as the boy and had generated a liking towards this boy because of his gentle mannerisms.
The old woman steps forward and suggests that the boy could spend the night at her brothers place in Parla! The look on the face of the boy, was not of delight, not of relief but of supreme gratitude. He understood what this woman had offered, though just a shelter for the night, was not one anyone would offer as it was very difficult to trust anyone for that matter.
Forty years have passed since that evening, and he still remembers every instant of those few moments. The journey had been no way easy. He had to struggle quite a lot initially. Knowledge was never his problem and he knew that. The problem was communicating with people as the only English he knew was the one in the text books used in Malayalam colleges. But slowly but steadily he improved, started climbing the corporate ladder and today he stands as the Country head for the IT Dept of SCI.

He had done all that he had set out to do, he had taken care that all his siblings were settled in, he had made sure that his name be taken with utmost respect everywhere, he had helped many relatives and friends realise their dreams by bringing them to Mumbai and giving them the right breaks for which till date he keeps getting cards on New Year's. But more than that he had made sure that his wife, his kids never faced a problem. He had made sure that his daughter and son would get the best education possible, best comforts possible and despite his tedious schedules, he made sure that his children wont ever complain that there was not enough love available.

The story above is of my father's. Wishing him Many many happy returns of the day( I m such an useless kid...forgot to get any gift!!)....I love him a lot...And whatever I m, however I am, I owe it completely to him...Thanks Dad for being there always!