FLASHBACK:
THIS IS THE RECAP OF ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT YRS OF MY LIFE...HOPE IT MAKES AN INTERESTING READ....
JUNE 2006.
1 week has passed by. I am surprised at how fast I hav recovered from the shock of failing to get thru JEE. I've blatantly rejected an ECE seat in Pilani and have taken the bold decision of dropping. Thank u mom! Thank u dad ! for being the best parents in the most difficult time of my life ! Thank u for showin immense confidence in me. I am going to live up to ur expectations !
JULY 2006
After a thoroughly relaxing holiday n attending a cousins wedding, I am mentally fresh to resume my unfinished task. But on a new-for-me, but the more trodden track in AP... yes ! I am talking abt the Narayanas and the Sri Chaitanyas... the numerous mills and factories...with students in place of machines.. running round the clock for endless hours... locked (literally locked) on a stinky 3rd floor classroom... enduring the most boring classes I've ever sat thru. But I had to go on !
AUG 2006 - JAN 2007
As it so happened, these months turned out to be one of the most interesting periods of my life. It is very difficult to do mastii ( n i mean fultoo mastii) with the ever-mounting pressure on ur tender head... but somehow i had my share of mastii .. thnx to some really cool frnds...shaily, varun and rohit.
Me n mom had shifted to a 1 room apartment near my college..to save travellin time. So classes were a 5 min walk. The timings were 6 am- 11 am. (thank god they were less than the freshers batch.. .. poor guys had to sit for 14 hrs :P).
I used to wake up at 3.30.
3 30 am - 5 30 am :chem
6 00 am - 11 00 am : classes
2 pm - 5 pm : physics
6 pm - 8 pm : maths
8 pm - 9 30 pm : Question paper
This was my gruelling daily schedule. So where do u think I had mastiii? Obviously, 6 -11 !! that is the claasssesss !!
those were the relief hrs for me. A net centre beside college charging 8 buck an hr . kewwlll ! 4 of us regularly bunkd classes to go thr. But that was not to last long. Soon the class incharge had discovered that we were regularly missing ! Alas ! We had no option but to endure the pain of listening to monotonic ,lifeless n most-weird-expressioned teachers.
No. This is getting over our heads. We have to find a way out. We had a small attached bath kinda room at the backside of classrooms. "hey shailly, hav u ever noticed teachers coming to the back? Arent they always on the dias?" "yes dude, neva seen them coming here!".... great ! the next thing we did is pulled a bench into that small attached room ... and lo ! our new hangout was ready.... so near ..yet so far !! we are geniuses ! heee hee haa haa haaaaaaaaaa...
Although we cud not avoid hearing their voices, but not seeing the teachers' faces was big enuf a relief. We wud pass away time..kill time..maraud time...sittin in that spooky small room...among bricks and iron rods...playin n watching videos on cell phones... makin cartoons n passing them in the class...(shaily is a gifted cartoonist)....and very rarely solving problems for a change ! Sometimes some sickened ppl wud join us !!
Physics class going on.. we in our hangout.
"Yaar Shailly I am totally bored. I have finally resorted to playin with this sick iron rod. Shall I toss this ?'" " hey no! it might make sounds" . It was too late... the iron rod was already in the air.. slipped thru my hands... fell on the bench..and then...took some ages to come to rest on the grounnd, making all sorts of rattling ear-shattering noises. Nooooooooooooooooooooooo !!!
THE GREAT ESCAPE.
One fine day.. 8 of us back benchers were gettin bored to death. Our hangout had been discovered and the benches pulled out. And every floor stairs were guarded. The class incharge was on the prowl .
'" ENUF IS ENUF ! we r geniuses.. we ought to find a way out !" . and hence began the great adventure. Physics class goin on..door shut...... sir luks at the board, vivek disappears behind the door in a jiffy !! one by one...eight of us...right under the nose of sir , manage to come out of the classroom.. WELL DONE, BUT THIS IS THE BEGINNING !...
. "arre 1 of u go n keep the class incharge busy..meanwhile we will go down to to 1st floor".. We manage to come 2nd floor. But wait..who's climbing the stairs??? oh no !!! princi !!!!!! ab kahan jaeyein ?? arre sab toiet mein ghuso...jaldiiiiiiii "...
10 mins have passed by. I sneak out of my cubicle..only to find 6 other faces sneaking out of their cubicles...linearly !! lolll.....the funniest scene.. i eat my laughter !! the ordeal is still incomplete ! chalo, princi's gone. we literally run down to the ground floor.. noww,, the watchman !
"Bhaiyya..pleaasse jaane do naa.... plzzz....hamein doosri jagah exam dene jaana hai.........hamare pass permission hai..........meri tabiyat kharab hai......"
Then we hear a voice? " heyy whr r u ppl running?? kahan bhaagre tum log? " followed by some rapid-paced telugu. It was the class incharge.. He catches hold of 3 guys...literally catches them.. watchman goes over............. "shaillyy..now.... run ! " We run thru the gate in the space of 5 seconds..... yippeeeeeeeeeee...... we run out of sight....hide in a nearby bakery.........me,shailly n rohit !!!! the kewlesst guys on the planet !!! yooo hoooooooooooo ...........
That was the most exciting of the numerous escapes we had carried out !
So ppl, I had my share of mastii too amidst the full serious atmosphere..JAN had come. to an end..2 months to go.....now the pressure was pinching me....
FEB 2007- MARCH 2007
By now I had become totally serious..no more mastii... only n only padhai ! 10 ghante se 12... 12 se 14..... bass...14 se jaada not possible....i will die !
ek din mein 3 question papers + daily revision.
I had never worked harder than this in my life. But the best thing was, I was shedding nervousness n building up confidence, 1 thing i lacked in the previous attempt.
By end of march, I was ready n raring to go !
APRIL 2007
1st week was probably the slowest week. time just not seemed to move. I was waitin for it to get over.
then came the d day.. n m glad to say that i was quite confident and nothing cud take anything away from me that day. After the 1st session,. I knew I had made it.. now 2nd session wud decide wat sort of rank i wud get.. that went well too ! i was expecting a rank btwn 1000-2000.
Meanwhile aieee was quite ordinary..dint do that well. bass, was waitin for jee results.
And finally, in last week of may.... they came out.
please enter ur registration no. My hands were shivering. nothing has to go wrong,..nothing can!! god forbid......
AIR 914.. i am numb..feelingless..expressionless....a vacuum ....for a few seconds.
YESSSSSSSSSSS.... I HAV DONE IT !!!!!!!!!!!! I hug mom tightly.......she's cryin... thnk u mom, its all bcoz of u !! all !!
I was experiencing all emotions together...i wanted to lauf..wanted to cry... donno why........for ppl it may seem just qualifying an exam.... but for me it meant the world.......coz my world is my parents...... was their dream.......... i;'ve fulfilled............
SO PPL.. THIS WAS, I CAN SAY THE MOSST IMPORTANT YEAR OF MY LIFE....... HELPED ME TO FACE BAD TIMES WITH A SMILE....AND TRULY MADE ME REALISE WHAT MY FAMILY MEANS TO ME......... MADE ME STRONGER IN MANY WAYS !!
SO FINALLY DROPPING A YEAR PAID OFF.....AND HENCE I SAY, " THE BIG DROP"
