The longest day in my life part-II

OMG! How will i return home... first of all how would i get my photo?? Questions raining in my mind... It was raining outside too. Monday, october 22nd was one hell of a day for me and for coimbatore... heavy rain all over coimbatore...
I didn't bring my DIO. It's raining and it's already 6 o clock...
"hey did you bring your vehicle?"
"yeah"
"great"
"aravind..."
"what da?"
"I think my pep needs a drink!!"
The pep+'s 90 cc (i guess i am right) engine started again, but it was raining hard this time... It pierced the cold water this time (The downpour was so heavy that my aura was full of water) carrying two people... Me and Ajay...
I took a right turn even though my house was on the left side... 'Time for a drink' i guess... It was so smooth... so smooth than DIO... I couldn't hear the engine running or was it the rain that has caused the muteness... I couldn't feel the vibrations too... It was like the engine was never started... So smooth or am i wrong??? Yes i am... The engine has turned off... It was pouring hard and i am already wet inspite of the ample shelter given by an umbrella (borrowed, ofcourse) for the two of us... So i got down and i pushed it towards the petrol bunk... I tried a lot of times but it didn't start... It started after sometime and zoomed to the bunk after pushing it for nearly 100 mts...
Back on the road, my mind began to calculate the probability of me being caught in a traffic jam if i traveled straight after venkatapuram signal... It was greater than 1 (I suck at math)... So I went through the road which has the famous 'centum' suresh tuition centre... My calculations were wrong... I didn't calculate the probability of me being caught in a POND!!! So i took the parallel road which also was no exception... The pond was right next to sharan's apartment..!!
Somehow i reached my home (NSR road, church road, a right after darwin tuition centre, first left and through the road bordering the so called "peter's pitch" right, right, left.......... HOME) and went inside... My mom was giving me a "who-is-this-guy?" look... I took my photos and avoided JUJU staring me as if i am from 'high charity'...
Back on track (light drizzle this time)!!! I heard the phone ringing... Ajay attended it and it was our class rep... He asked us to buy gum because the whole class was perfect like me!!!
So i stopped near the stationary shop, my body shaking from top to bottom... so did ajay... If you have no faith in zombies, then you have to consider it one more time because two zombies just entered a shop... That's how we were walking!!!
As i opened my purse to take the money, i found a familiar person... So small... yellow shirt and a glass... that looked like a photo... Yes indeed it was a photo and it was MY PHOTO!!!!

The longest day in my life part-I

What not to do at GCT!!

I woke up at 6 i guess... Oct 19 was the date on the calendar in my room... But actually it wasn't... It was actually 22nd... yeah i didn't "update" it for 2 days (do the calculations)... i "updated" it and i thought "What if (i hate 'what if's) the calendars and the days were relative... Like if i didn't "update" it for two days then the day when i "update" it will be as long as three days!!" Now i am thinking "why did i think that way!!!"
THE PLAN for the day was:
* Vikram (Tenga) and ET (Sri hari) coming to my house at 2
* We chaffer, play, eat and i move to my college at 4 to collect the hall ticket (the exam was starting the next day!!)
* I come back and prepare for the practical exam

Et and tenga made it to my house somehow.... At 2:45...! It was actually punctual according to our standards!! Tenga picked ET in his maruthi 800 and arrived to my house... Et after seeing the halo 2 game, was glued to the seat... I was on the last level of the game and We both finished the game to see the ending video which we have seen many times in youtube before halo 2 was released in PC... The game has may disadvantages in PC... I have played in xbox (varun's place) and in PC and the game sucks in PC...
"Halo" - this word takes me out of the topic often... The same thing happened that day too... The time was already 4:30... Our faculty advisor who has to sign the hall tickets was returning from Erode and he has not reached the college... 4 became 5:30... so I went with tenga leaving my DIO at my home (yeah, this is an important scene)... We went to pick tenga's mom from work and reached tenga's house... After a little chat we reached the gates of GCT... leaving me there, ET and tenga left for ARC...
THE REVISED PLAN:
*getting hall ticket
*Tenga picking me at 6 or 6:30 and vroooming to kausthub's house and to my house (both are not very far away, in fact they are very close!)
*preparations for prac at 7
*Tenga catching a train at 9

He started the 'big Green machine' with just a gentle pres of a button... The self start, a smart invention... The Green scooty pep+ pierced the cold air and reached GCT parking lot in not more than 5 minutes... The fuel indicator was very lazy to rise even when the battery was on... some problem with the indicator or simply there is no fuel in the petrol tank (This is important too!!)... I hope the first one is true...

The plan (the revised one, ofcourse) was perfect... I still have lot of time... I didn't bring the gum to paste the photo in.,,, OMG! where is the photo???
"i brought it da... I am sure"
"you must've kept it in some note, but you didn't bring any note"
"Ahh my poor memory... Think... Did I keep it in a note??"
"you better go home and bring it"

Without further ado i took the phone and called ATenga (that's how i have stored it)...
"dei tenga, where are you?"
"ARC da"
"come soon da... I forgot my photo"
"hey sorry da... I have to catch a train at 7 and i cannot pick you up da... sorry da"
Rest in part two...

My IV....

GCT, EEE 2nd year for IV... Bam... Yes you are right it was ooty... One day... Ooty, the last place you would ever wish for an IV... It was not that horrible... Any place on earth with your friends would be heaven...

I dunno what the hell i was saying!!!


Da gang!!


Da gang again!


Ah the pic!! This was not taken in a 'turn a lil' bit to ur left, say cheese' kind of way... He called me and i turned, as soon as my brain sensed that a picture is going to be taken, it forced a smile as it requires minimum muscle movements...





It's the iceman who comes out victorious after what has bee a thrilling and exciting season right from the first qualifiers to the belgian chequered flag.... It's his cool head (rightfully called as ICEMAN) that has got him his maiden championship... A well deserved win for ferrari too... The race ending the weekend with a happy air... A new week with sem practicals coming up!!! Let the battle begin!

Madhu

8:00 clock... It was raining.. My jaws typewriting in the cold, i zoomed through the cold air on my DIO... I couldn't see anything because my spects didn't have wipers (like rajini had in sivaji..lol)...
All these obstacles didn't seem to bother me because I was on my way to my grandma's house... After a long time... My cousins and my aunt were there... I know it is an odd time to see them, 8 o clock in the dark... Nevertheless the excitement was very high.. My cousin was waiting for me to play WWE RAW in his computer (even though the game sucks , i like it when i play with him)...
I reached there within 30 mins... it was not the welcome i expected... Silence everywhere... She lay beautiful and humble as ever in her specially made mattress... My cousins sitting around her... 13 years and 6 months since i first saw her as a baby... It was like yesterday... I could still remember my uncle bringing her. Very small and cute even when she was the size of my fist which was small at that time...
Those days!!! Cricket at 6 o clock with professionals and a long, joyful jog around the ground, coming back home in the old green LML vespa... Those days with our friends in the 'compound house'! those fearful days during deepavali... I can still remember the day when she was hiding inside the kitchen, afraid of crackers... The day when she had four cute little babies... All flashed before me when i saw her lying as if she was sleeping...
Madhu bala was it's name (my grandma named it just like that because she was on the television dancing, and we didn't give any convincing name.. The name we suggested was sweetie.. lol.. I came up with olive!!)... A very quiet dog (except the time shouting at cats or at invisible cats when we say 'meow'!) which did nothing even when my cousin started hitting it with whatever he gets... Both were very small at that time!!!
I always wonder why time travels very fast even though it has some 'speedbreakers' like fluid mechanics classes... Those days passed very swiftly... Now she lay in front of me waiting to go under the earth...
I had been in a situation like this before... I know I will be in this situation sometime... Though i was prepared it happened (many, (including me) think (thought) that this would not happen)...
A silent drop from my lacrymal gland fell hard on the floor...

The 25th!

"FEAR BUILDS IT'S PHANTHOM MORE FEARSOME THAN THE REALITY ITSELF"


Yeah it is my 25th post!! (My 25th CRAP!!!)
All of a sudden, this number 25 has been in my ears for so many reasons!
This is my dad 25th year as an engineer!
Also this is the 25th year of his service!
Most awaited halo 3 (The biggest launch, bigger than spiderman 3, according to THE HINDU!!) released on 25th of september (which is my best friend's B'day!)!

Lot of 25's... So i was thinking about my 25th post... What to write? How about 'road sense'... DO NOT overtake by the left, wait until you get the "GREEN SIGNAL", blah blah... It is my 25th post, not any campaign! So what should i do? Write something about the number 25?!
THINK, THINK!!! Loads of thinking lead to nothing... NOTHING!!



It was 7:00 o clock... I was almost chewing the brush (It doesn't taste good though)!! I must write something interesting... My brain was searching (faster than google) my database... Found 0 results??!!! Is there anything in this world that is interesting??
bussssssssssssshhhhhhhh!!!!!
That was the pressure cooker blowing the steam out of it like a dragon breathing fire! I wonder who in the world invented it... Really... To be honest it scares me... Weird huh? A small kitchen device made of aluminium did not scare me when i was in 11th, nor at 12th.. It was the IIPE coaching classes that was responsible...
The chemistry class.. The one which i like the most (it's because of the sir)... He started of with organic chemistry (my favourite)... the equation was a polymerisation reaction! The temperature for the reaction was nearly 3000 K and the pressure was 1200 atm... It was normal in polymerisation reactions to encounter such huge magnitudes.. It didnt bother me until He asked us "What do you think would be the pressure inside the pressure cooker?"
There were many answers... One said 300, one said 250... I was thinking 100 atm...
He said "Not even close"... So i thought it could be 1200 atm (How stupid am i to think it!!) as the reaction had this pressure... There were silence... He, with a small smile on his face said
"it is just 1.013 atm!"