My tryst with Superstitions............

...................... 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)