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… :)