Heart can travel faster than light

It was the 15th March 2005. The day had finally arrived. The clock ticked 9:30 am (or 9:34am to be exact). The IIT Bombay's GATE web page had finally got a textbox saying "Enter your Reg No., to view results of GATE 2005".

It was a long and stressful wait. I had slept off the previous night waiting for it to be 12:00am to check the GATE results. Was a little tired, I guess the tension for the results during the day were telling on me.

It was 4:40 am when Mom woke me up. She had already started her morning prayers. Today was the D-Day. All activities in the house simply kept reminding me "Today is the D-Day, Today is the D-Day". I connected to NET after the bath and prayers at around 5:45 am. Murphy's law wins again. The IISc site was not coming up. The IIT pages that I managed to visit had result links pointing to IIT Mumbai's site(the organizing institute for GATE 2005). And the Mumbai site did not have a trace of the results. I was trying hard to look calm, I guess it was difficult. My heart had been pounding from previous night itself, and it simply refused to settle. Checked again the internet at 6:15am but still no trace of results. Also checked the GATE 2005 brochure to see if I was visiting the correct links.

Soon it was time to leave to office. I tried a little rehearsal to look calm in front of the mirror. Reached office. As a routine, it was breakfast time with friends. Should I eat Idly or Rava idly? Which would be better for my results? It seemed as though anything and everything I do can affect my results. What is right or and what is wrong? Oh! God! I had turned a MANIAC. Managed to swallow the breakfast somehow. Believe me, I found it immensely difficult to look, eat or talk normal.

Was in my cubicle at by 8:20 am. Only a couple of lights were on. Checked the net. Still no trace of results. Thought will start work but simply couldn't. Finally at around 9:30 am the IITB page had the results. Entered the reg no., and clicked on submit button. An there my future was being loaded........... It kept on loading... and loading..... and loading....., only to find a blank page. No! Had I not cleared? There should have been a message at least, if I had not cleared, not a blank page! My heart was racing. I'm sure had it traveled with the same speed in translational motion, light would have been no competition. I went back and clicked on Submit again. And there, finally there, my results. I had qualified and qualified pretty well. Thanked all my Gods and Godesses, called home, bros, friends and all those who were equally eager to hear from me.

This was followed by some heart warming congratulations. And now here I am again getting anxious now about the admissions. Just praying to get into one of the IITs(ideally IISc). Well I realized the heart can travel faster than light, but my doctors don’t agree… :)

A fly for Rs. 849

Yippeeeeeee!!!! Its the weekend again. No palns for office..... Just gearing up for stuff.... Looking back, this week wasn't all that bad.

Actually profesionally did just as any other week... Need to better next week....
Socially improved on friendships with two people.... Need to better on the numbers next week....
At home did not do anything new... Need to better next week....

That leaves a lot of scope for improvement in next week eh.... :)

Actually the best day of the week ::::: The Birthdays..... 8th and 9th of March..... 8th my bros and 9th mine. Was busy wishing and partying both days from dawn to dusk though not after that as I had to make it early to office the next days....

The 9th of March was a very happening and expensive day. I had to buy a fly for Rs. 849. Yes, Eight Hundred and Forty Nine rupees!!!!!
You know what, that morning I reached office and soon enough I had a wardrobe malfunction (as the celebs call it... :)). At around 9:45 am in the morning my dearest Van-Heusen trousers lost its fly.... Boo Hoo! I had to buy a new pair of trousers from the Indigo-nation stores, only for its fly.... Rs.849 for a fly!
However, as though to prove "Not only, all that starts well ends well!” the rest of the day was spent in birthday parties, coffees, cakes, ice creams... Sure enough I had a ball the rest of the day.... with my Indigo nation for company... My poor Van-Heusen... Probably it was his way of getting away from the Birthday kicks, which my new Indigo nation had to bear... and it did without complaints....

So did this week go as the lady in the TOI had predicted for me....
Well who cares now.... therez only time to plan for the next two days( and also check in TOI how my next weekk will be.. :))

I will meet THE STAR…

sob... sob... sob.... So went the movie that I happened to see this Sunday. This is a malayalam movie titled "Achhuvinte Amma". As my bro says "Very unnatural for the director Sathyan Anthikad to make the audience go 'Sob.. Sob..' rather than 'Ha.. Ha.. Ha..' ". Sathyan(director) is forgiven( and so am I for having watched the movie :)) as it definitely was not a waste of 3 hours.

The better part of the movie is that its screen play is by my bros classmate, which I guess or am hoping will open up opportunities of me meeting the stars( or should I say star) of the movie(you know who that is.)

Well, a weekend well spent.... and well ended with the beginning of a new opportunity.....

All in days work....

The title has been borrowed, the same way that I now borrow code. This art of borrowing code is something that I have learnt over the past two years. Gone are those days I guess when I was required or rather preferred writing code which I could label "Copy rights reserved". Infact this is one of the few skills I have learnt after college...

I pity myself who lives with very little vocabulary. The vocabulary limited by the compilers of my( or others) code. Putting the words in machine understandable is all that I can do now.

Hey! That, I know was a bad beginnig. Well! I guess I should come out of the limited world and give my monotonous thinking a break. A break from thinking only in terms of ifs and thens. I guess I should start reaching out. This I guess is one such attempt. Thanks to my friend who introduced me here. I know I am already late but I guess atleast " BETTER LATE THAN NEVER". Hope to get rolling from now on..... and say "NOT ALL is in days work"....