...................... The incident ............
I was bleeding, my shirt and trouser torn ... i was bruised ...i had mud all over my clothes .. all my certificates lay scattered on the road ....... i was literally "on the road" and was in great pain ..i cud only remember my moms words echoing throughout.. i was both conscious and unconscious at the same time when this "incident" happened .
This was one of the worst situations one could be in... i was taken to the hospital and the necessary medication was taken care of ...i felt bad ..REAL BAD ... this would probably be the worst way one could start off one's career (ya it was my first day at office or i should i say my career!!!) ...awesome beginning if u r considering a movie but hey this is real and that too my life (why me ??? god only knows )
........flashback ........ 2 days earlier ..........
I was both gungho and a bit depressed as this was the first time i would be away from home.Maybe from now on, i have to live away from home ....Almost an year back i was really happy when i got placed into this company(i think i need to write another blog for this ), but now its not even a day since i left home that i started missing my family, frnz, room, my balcony,my room .hmmmmm (wish i cud get back all that) anyways....
After a tiring and a long journey i was finally at the Infy campus @ mysore ....after the initial verification process i had to wait around for the golf cart to pick me up and drop me at the alloted room ...it was really an amazing experience looking at the lovely campus sprawled over 300 acres something, i was a bit worried as i was pondering "what if i got lost in this big campus and all?"
Me and my frnz loaded the luggage onto the back of the golf cart and got into it ... the golf cart started and we were looking at one of the best campuses with an infrastucture which is too good to be true ...then suddenly i heard a burst(hmm any guesses) it was the tyre of the golf cart that got punctured ... damnit!! ...ahhh wats this ?? Hare Raam!! ab ye bhi hona tha kya .... "arrgggh whyyyy ??" were the only words that were in my mind and my mouth at the same time.This was the least i had expected ... i had hardly entered the campus and wow such a grand welcome party ???... i ve never even thought of such a grand reception even in my wildest dreams damn it!! ... mera bad luck hi kharab hain ..wat to do??? so this got me into thinking .....
.........................again a flashback ......... (1 week prior to this)
My mom came out with a calendar in her hand and said "Beta,why dont u postpone your journey", my immediate words were "why??" ,she replied " it isnt an auspicious time to start", i was really annoyed and told her "mom these tickets were booked two weeks back and now you are asking me to postpone it?? ..that too now at this time?? .." and added " its not posssible ". What followed was a small fight and mom asked me to catch a flight instead .... i told her "ok, if i get it then good, else i have to travel on the very day i had the tickets booked for " to which my mom reluctantly agreed, luckily or unluckily .all the flights were full and there was no vacant seat for me. My mom was unhappy with the progress but some how she dint say a word,....just 10 minutes into me leaving for Mysore my mom asked me to go to the puja room and take blessings and added ... "pray well coz ur starting out on an inauspicious day and i m really worried about u" ... bas yehi nahi kahna tha ... i wanted to yell at my mom for this but stopped coz she is mom na ..she is worried about my well being ... kya kare?? ... i just smiled and kept quiet but i dint know that these words would eventually change my life (for good????)
.......................back to the present ..........................................
All this came to my mind ... i got into thinking, perhaps i should have listened to my mom and all this wud have been averted.
I was disturbed by the nurse's voice,she asked me if she could put some dettol to which i gave a green signal and added " whatever u feel like", she asked me if i needed a plaster ...i replied, " i dont know" .. she said " its better u take it coz i have applied a cream on it which helps in faster healing" ...
The funniest part was, i had a bad cut on my face which was infact visible but if this plaster were to stick on my face ...then god knows how i would have looked. I had a cut just below my nose and man i wud have looked absolutely funny with the new found add on.I realised that this add on was "ADDING INSULT TO INJURY", so i decided against the plaster as it wud do no good for my image and i went back to my room.
At night, i couldnt sleep how could i?,with all this drama happening around ..i tried to recollect the incident to decipher wat exactly went wrong....... After coming out from the induction program, i was very hungry, i took one of they cycles from the cycle stand( ya a bicycle coz the Infy campus is against pollution ,even i felt awkward initially ,cycle ?? but seeing everyone around i felt comfortable) then i took some geared cycle and started cycling at great speed coz its been a long time since i had a ride on any of em .suddenly i sensed something wrong ....i figured out that the front tyre got punctured, i thought i cud make it to my hostel room and slowed down a bit and then came a turning ...i dont know what happened ..i just couldnt control the handle and i applied the brakes which werent working ...and then all of a sudden a big thud ...i dont remember wat exactly happened but i was on the road and that was then the incident had happened . i felt bad asi realised how foolish i was in not bothering to change the cycle inspite of knowing that it was punctured ...(to be continued)
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
The most crazy thing one can ever do ...but we did ...
Our final exams were over ... everyone would be busy in about a weeks time from now .....in 2 weeks i had to join Infy... my friends.. Adi,Raju,Harsha were asked to join different mnc's in about 2 days, 3 weeks, 1 month respectively.... Vinay @ Wonder was going to the US of A in 2 months from this day, Jayapal and Style were planning to move out some time later ....so we planned for a Get-together as this would be our last meeting of our Engineering lives and from now on we would be treading another phase in life.
We wanted this meeting to remain with us the for the rest of our lives ,we wanted this to be really different as this would officially signal the end of our college life!! Our exams were over just a week prior to this, so we wanted to celebrate our achievement of completing engineering which we completed wid a lot of huffs and puffs
..................... The Day .......................................
I dint know at what time i got up but when i looked at the watch it read 1 0 clock p.m i called up everyone and asked about the plan ... none of them had an idea ... so i brushed my teeth and slept again, at 6:30 in the evening i could hear my cell playing "i ll be there for you" (the ringtone of the tv show friends) and i rambled something over the phone ... i cud only hear the plan as i was half asleep ..
.......... ....................The plan..............................
We decided to go to Jayapal's place in the night and then do some crazy thing in the night,We dint have a plan but we thought of doing some adventure or crazy thing tat night
.
.............................. The Night ...................................
It was around 9 o clock ... Raju and Adi called me up asking me to come over to a specific place so that we all cud go together ...i informed them that i wud be there in about half an hours time ... i called up Harsha and told about the plan.... when i finally reached the point i got a call from Raju asking where i was .. i replied," i am at the meeting point" ... his reply was " arey o pagal saale, y did u go there" my immediate words were " arey paagal u told me to come to this point na" ..raju replied " oh my god ,what should i do now?? i m right in front of your building" ... i was like " wat the hell are u doing over there " anyways i asked him to come over to the meetin point ...
After 10 mins i got a call from Adi asking me where i was, i replied " i m at the meeting point",Adi said " arrey i m in front of u r building " :D This was the exact way to start out on an adventure ,see how well the plan went off smoothly??
After some time Harsha,Adi and Raju came over to the meeting point ....... we called up Jayapal told him tat we were coming to his place ...he told us tat we are not allowed since he took a new room in the same area ... we said " ##### ####### @@@@, we are coming over to ur place thats it", and ended the call giving him no choice but to say yes, we went to his place but he was already there, waiting for us below his apartment, ... then we thought that first we should eat and think about our adventure later ... it was 9 45 by then ... so we decided to go to "taramati",we started off, me harsha on one bike, Adi and Style on one bike, Raju and Jayapal on another bike and we started shooting videos and it was pure fun!!! ......
...........................At Taramati..................................................................
When we finally reached the place..... we were shocked to see that it had a closed board near its door ... we were really angry and hungry .... but we cud see some people eating in .. so we just barged into the restaurant ... the manger told us that the restaurant is closed ... but we asked him to provide him food as we were hungry ... he agreed to it but added "ok,but u guys have to eat fast as its past closing time and its not supposed to be kept open", We dint have a choice so we agreed. Before our food arrived we shouted,cracked jokes, took photos and did every sort of thing that u generally wont find in any restaurant and we continued this even after we were done wid the food.After we polished off the food we were wondering on what should be done next ... we thought of going to gandipet ... but the manager told us its risky coz the police catch u for no reason and they just rob u of ur money for something or the other stupid reason,We thought and thought and we knew a place ......it was just a few kilometres away that there is a lake ....for this we had to travel enroute our college ... so we were really thrilled with this development and we started from taramati and headed for the lake ...it was really dark and nothing was visible ...but wid all the beam from the bikes we could make it to the lake .....The lake had a kind of spooky feeling coz we were hearing all kinds of strange noises but we decided to hang around..we parked the bikes and started walking to find a rock near the lake ..we found a huge rock and made up our mind that this was the place we would be sitting for the next few hours.
........... ............. The Lake episode..........................
We did a some rock climbing and ensconced on a rock and we talked about various topics ranging from our wonder boy to our Engg life(how fast it went by) and our exams,the labs,our experiences,the way we copied,and so on and so forth...it was beautifully lit night with the moon smiling over us and taking a peek.We were still feeling strange, we saw some broken bottles,some empty gutkha packets and a piece of cloth which looked like worn and torn.Generally nobody frequents this place.I actually felt the jitters i dont know its sixth sense or whatever but i wanted to move out of this place ASAP.We moved out of this place.We all got on the bikes and started .While we were travelling i saw a Tombstone. I was frightened because it just looked like straight out of a movie scene. I tried not to think about it.The drive back too was scary.Silence everywhere except for throttling of the engine.
...........Photo Session in front of college at 2:30 in the middle of night.................................
Finally we reached our college ...we wanted to relax ...and u know this was the best part of the day .. We took pictures of ourselves right in front of college ..looks ordinary ..but this was at night 2:30 imagine how the lighting would have been?? All dark except for the moon .. so the way we took our pics is wat was exciting ...The bikes were parked right in front of our college and the Engine was not turned off .One of us was hitting the throttle and the Light from the bikes headlight would throw out some light and at the very moment we clicked away our moments of glory "photos right in front of our college,With the light from the bikes at 2:30 in the night" crazzy rite.
...............Another photo Session..............................
After the crazy photosession We headed for Jayapals room .We stopped near Golkonda fort and drank tea from a small "bandi" near it ..and we took some exciting snaps ,We sat in the middle of the road and took photos and tat was another awesome experience."SOMETIMES SIMPLE THINGS IN LIFE TURN OUT TO BE EXTRAORDINARY", this quote would hold true in all aspects to my 4 years of engineering.
...............Rakshak vehicle and the siren ..........................
After we drank tea ,we stopped a few meters away from the bandi, there was a cannon almost in the middle of the road ..we thought of taking pics over there ...we parked our bikes a few feet away and were getting ready to take pics just then ..we could hear the siren of the rakshak vehicles nearby so we decided against the pics as surely we would have been questioned by the police as to what we were doing at this place and it would have been unnecessary trouble.This is because we were near golkonda fort at 2 45 in the night and it was a military area and surely our movement would have been under scanner. We moved out of the place as fast as we could.
......................Racing against wind ...................................
When we reached nanal nagar adi raju and harsha though of a race,and everybody was reaching their topspeed on their own bikes.The cc of the engines were 180,150,150 so it was no race at all...it was just the power of the engines ...we finally reached jayapals room all exhausted both the machines and us
.....................Playing thief,............................................
Jayapal lived on the pent house. Though the gate was open,there was another kinda gate which opened up to the pent house ,but this was locked ...what we were supposed to do was ,we had to climb a wall and get onto the stairs ..i never climbed on the wall or something, so i was apprehensive about this ,but my friends told they would help me do this. As we were climbing the staircase the power was gone, we heard dogs barking, i dint feel like doing this.If someone was alerted then we would have surely be mistaken for thieves i asked my frnz to wait till the power was on ..but they dint listen to a word of mine and instead convinced me tat it would better if we climb the wall without any light .everybody climbed the wall easily except for me, i couldnt do tat .so adi came back and helped me out .while harsha was pulling me from above and i managed to climb the wall...but what happened was ..everyone was laughing with the way i climbed the wall ..and raju couldnt control his laughter and dropped the helmet which rolled on the stairs creating noise ...we all felt the jitters but surprisingly nobody woke up ...when we reached jayapals room the power was back and we were thankful to god tat nobody was awake or else surely we wud have been mistaken for thieves.When i reached the room i felt my hands hurting, when i happened to check em ..i had a bad bruise near my elbow and a lot of scratches on my fingers and elbows,but i dint feel the pain.
We took jayapals laptop and scanned for movies and harsha was orkutting on the computer in the room ..we all were just gazing at the monitor as harsha was checking out his scraps ....we teased him a lot on this and it was fun ...we dint know what to do as we had a lot of choice i.e ..one laptop and an another pc ..so we saw the movie vennela for some half an hour and then we decided to sleep ....we put a blanket on the floor on the outside of the room so tat we could see the sky above us and we talked some crap and slept while one of was talking on....
.............The morning..............
I woke up to find i was soaked in sweat as i was exposed to the sunrays hitting me ..i got up and woke others and we got ready to move to our respective houses as it was already 9 0 clock in the morning ...but raju was still sleeping ...( to be continued)
We wanted this meeting to remain with us the for the rest of our lives ,we wanted this to be really different as this would officially signal the end of our college life!! Our exams were over just a week prior to this, so we wanted to celebrate our achievement of completing engineering which we completed wid a lot of huffs and puffs
..................... The Day .......................................
I dint know at what time i got up but when i looked at the watch it read 1 0 clock p.m i called up everyone and asked about the plan ... none of them had an idea ... so i brushed my teeth and slept again, at 6:30 in the evening i could hear my cell playing "i ll be there for you" (the ringtone of the tv show friends) and i rambled something over the phone ... i cud only hear the plan as i was half asleep ..
.......... ....................The plan..............................
We decided to go to Jayapal's place in the night and then do some crazy thing in the night,We dint have a plan but we thought of doing some adventure or crazy thing tat night
.
.............................. The Night ...................................
It was around 9 o clock ... Raju and Adi called me up asking me to come over to a specific place so that we all cud go together ...i informed them that i wud be there in about half an hours time ... i called up Harsha and told about the plan.... when i finally reached the point i got a call from Raju asking where i was .. i replied," i am at the meeting point" ... his reply was " arey o pagal saale, y did u go there" my immediate words were " arey paagal u told me to come to this point na" ..raju replied " oh my god ,what should i do now?? i m right in front of your building" ... i was like " wat the hell are u doing over there " anyways i asked him to come over to the meetin point ...
After 10 mins i got a call from Adi asking me where i was, i replied " i m at the meeting point",Adi said " arrey i m in front of u r building " :D This was the exact way to start out on an adventure ,see how well the plan went off smoothly??
After some time Harsha,Adi and Raju came over to the meeting point ....... we called up Jayapal told him tat we were coming to his place ...he told us tat we are not allowed since he took a new room in the same area ... we said " ##### ####### @@@@, we are coming over to ur place thats it", and ended the call giving him no choice but to say yes, we went to his place but he was already there, waiting for us below his apartment, ... then we thought that first we should eat and think about our adventure later ... it was 9 45 by then ... so we decided to go to "taramati",we started off, me harsha on one bike, Adi and Style on one bike, Raju and Jayapal on another bike and we started shooting videos and it was pure fun!!! ......
...........................At Taramati..................................................................
When we finally reached the place..... we were shocked to see that it had a closed board near its door ... we were really angry and hungry .... but we cud see some people eating in .. so we just barged into the restaurant ... the manger told us that the restaurant is closed ... but we asked him to provide him food as we were hungry ... he agreed to it but added "ok,but u guys have to eat fast as its past closing time and its not supposed to be kept open", We dint have a choice so we agreed. Before our food arrived we shouted,cracked jokes, took photos and did every sort of thing that u generally wont find in any restaurant and we continued this even after we were done wid the food.After we polished off the food we were wondering on what should be done next ... we thought of going to gandipet ... but the manager told us its risky coz the police catch u for no reason and they just rob u of ur money for something or the other stupid reason,We thought and thought and we knew a place ......it was just a few kilometres away that there is a lake ....for this we had to travel enroute our college ... so we were really thrilled with this development and we started from taramati and headed for the lake ...it was really dark and nothing was visible ...but wid all the beam from the bikes we could make it to the lake .....The lake had a kind of spooky feeling coz we were hearing all kinds of strange noises but we decided to hang around..we parked the bikes and started walking to find a rock near the lake ..we found a huge rock and made up our mind that this was the place we would be sitting for the next few hours.
........... ............. The Lake episode..........................
We did a some rock climbing and ensconced on a rock and we talked about various topics ranging from our wonder boy to our Engg life(how fast it went by) and our exams,the labs,our experiences,the way we copied,and so on and so forth...it was beautifully lit night with the moon smiling over us and taking a peek.We were still feeling strange, we saw some broken bottles,some empty gutkha packets and a piece of cloth which looked like worn and torn.Generally nobody frequents this place.I actually felt the jitters i dont know its sixth sense or whatever but i wanted to move out of this place ASAP.We moved out of this place.We all got on the bikes and started .While we were travelling i saw a Tombstone. I was frightened because it just looked like straight out of a movie scene. I tried not to think about it.The drive back too was scary.Silence everywhere except for throttling of the engine.
...........Photo Session in front of college at 2:30 in the middle of night.................................
Finally we reached our college ...we wanted to relax ...and u know this was the best part of the day .. We took pictures of ourselves right in front of college ..looks ordinary ..but this was at night 2:30 imagine how the lighting would have been?? All dark except for the moon .. so the way we took our pics is wat was exciting ...The bikes were parked right in front of our college and the Engine was not turned off .One of us was hitting the throttle and the Light from the bikes headlight would throw out some light and at the very moment we clicked away our moments of glory "photos right in front of our college,With the light from the bikes at 2:30 in the night" crazzy rite.
...............Another photo Session..............................
After the crazy photosession We headed for Jayapals room .We stopped near Golkonda fort and drank tea from a small "bandi" near it ..and we took some exciting snaps ,We sat in the middle of the road and took photos and tat was another awesome experience."SOMETIMES SIMPLE THINGS IN LIFE TURN OUT TO BE EXTRAORDINARY", this quote would hold true in all aspects to my 4 years of engineering.
...............Rakshak vehicle and the siren ..........................
After we drank tea ,we stopped a few meters away from the bandi, there was a cannon almost in the middle of the road ..we thought of taking pics over there ...we parked our bikes a few feet away and were getting ready to take pics just then ..we could hear the siren of the rakshak vehicles nearby so we decided against the pics as surely we would have been questioned by the police as to what we were doing at this place and it would have been unnecessary trouble.This is because we were near golkonda fort at 2 45 in the night and it was a military area and surely our movement would have been under scanner. We moved out of the place as fast as we could.
......................Racing against wind ...................................
When we reached nanal nagar adi raju and harsha though of a race,and everybody was reaching their topspeed on their own bikes.The cc of the engines were 180,150,150 so it was no race at all...it was just the power of the engines ...we finally reached jayapals room all exhausted both the machines and us
.....................Playing thief,............................................
Jayapal lived on the pent house. Though the gate was open,there was another kinda gate which opened up to the pent house ,but this was locked ...what we were supposed to do was ,we had to climb a wall and get onto the stairs ..i never climbed on the wall or something, so i was apprehensive about this ,but my friends told they would help me do this. As we were climbing the staircase the power was gone, we heard dogs barking, i dint feel like doing this.If someone was alerted then we would have surely be mistaken for thieves i asked my frnz to wait till the power was on ..but they dint listen to a word of mine and instead convinced me tat it would better if we climb the wall without any light .everybody climbed the wall easily except for me, i couldnt do tat .so adi came back and helped me out .while harsha was pulling me from above and i managed to climb the wall...but what happened was ..everyone was laughing with the way i climbed the wall ..and raju couldnt control his laughter and dropped the helmet which rolled on the stairs creating noise ...we all felt the jitters but surprisingly nobody woke up ...when we reached jayapals room the power was back and we were thankful to god tat nobody was awake or else surely we wud have been mistaken for thieves.When i reached the room i felt my hands hurting, when i happened to check em ..i had a bad bruise near my elbow and a lot of scratches on my fingers and elbows,but i dint feel the pain.
We took jayapals laptop and scanned for movies and harsha was orkutting on the computer in the room ..we all were just gazing at the monitor as harsha was checking out his scraps ....we teased him a lot on this and it was fun ...we dint know what to do as we had a lot of choice i.e ..one laptop and an another pc ..so we saw the movie vennela for some half an hour and then we decided to sleep ....we put a blanket on the floor on the outside of the room so tat we could see the sky above us and we talked some crap and slept while one of was talking on....
.............The morning..............
I woke up to find i was soaked in sweat as i was exposed to the sunrays hitting me ..i got up and woke others and we got ready to move to our respective houses as it was already 9 0 clock in the morning ...but raju was still sleeping ...( to be continued)
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