A date with DESTINY : PART 1

“Most of the time crap happens in life but sometimes miracles do happen.”
For me august 18,2007 was one such day…Well you don’t sit for yours first campus selection everyday.
I woke up around six I (at least 2 hr before my routine) just to find out it was already morning…last night I had fallen asleep with Balagurusami (fuck man!!! It’s a book) while trying to handle the File Handling’s Chapter.

I checked the time, I didn’t had enough of it..the formalities were to start at 8.30 A.M. It was six already… and for once in my life I wanted to reach college early today. I glanced Bala and clock almost simultaneously. There was no option but to leave the file handling chapter. Bad move, I thought but was helpless… I had to get ready.

While brushing my teeth I made an eye contact with my image in the mirror, something inside my head said,”one good day and every one will forget how much you screwed your 4 yrs of engineering or at least it will help you to forget it”. I smiled, the white foam of toothpaste came out of my mouth…I smiled again..

By eight I was ready in my casual attire … checked myself in the mirror, man! I was looking damn good. I did a salute to god, something that I always perform on occasions when I feel heavy requirement of luck and I desperately needed it today. I stepped out .
It might sound melodramatic, but every thing outside that day was looking fresh and wonderful ( might be because I never stepped out so early in the last 3-4 years)…but it was really wonderful.
On my way to college a school guy who has missed the bus waived me for a lift, I thought of ignoring him and speeding..”Do good to someone dude, at least today”, someone barked inside me. I stopped and dropped him to the next stop. Well, I was a slightly changed person.
Within the next ten minutes I was in college..A poster of SAPIENT saying ”TEN REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD WORK WITH SAPIENT “ was fixed near Lincon..I glanced it. It said ”1. Wear up your sleeves- No dress code. 2. OUTLOOK SURVEY: best companies to work for in India and blah! Blah! Blah!”. Fuck you man! I get a job in your company I get to earn big money and make my Dad believe I have got some worth. That’s all I care. . Some people were so involved in reading it as if they will be asked to write the 10 points in written.Poor Chaps, I though and moved on

Started searching for some familiar faces. Found them near Library..A full beautiful girl from our junior batch was doing registration. She asked me for my name and No.( enrolment one yar). I fumbled. Look this is the problem with idiots like me, whenever we talk with people smarter than us we loose all our confidence…Though in the later part of the day I will have to talk to a person much smarter and intelligent than me, I thought..but that’s only if I qualify written.

I don’t remember much what happened between the registrations and written except that I went to Bon-Bon and puffed two suttas and came back to know that Jhadi has lost his cell on the way. Bad start of the day for poor guy.

The written started around 10 I think ( Ya! The guys were exactly on time). I strategically planned my seat, diagonally to N’jahwan in a way that I get the best view of his answer sheet. After all it was a big day in my life…I had to make my arrangements.

cont : in the next post

Confession....

Taking a beer doesent hurts one much.........
Taking a beer cocktailed with wishkey and the grass already doing its job inside your head....might.
Last day in college...11.30 P.M...our favourate spot for 4 long years(bon-bon)...4 harami friends...daaru making them confess how much they are attached and/or pissed of with each other and the highs and lows of the four long years of their existence here.....
Priceless!!!
The hangover was worthy...

Wrapping up....

Finally, I am done with my final year project…the viva was average, rather I should call it good considering my standard.

First it was the last internal exams, then the internal practicals and now the final year project.Suddenly it seems that I am hurriedly wrapping up everything for the last one time. I am wrapping my four years.

With this week the external practicals would get over and than the finals exams too.

Everything that we now talk and discuss has got a phase shift from earlier time…it would have been a great surprise if it wasn’t the final year. The panvadi, bon-bon, momo king and cricket might be loosing their significance in my life sooner…but than I will be eternally thankful to them ‘coz they made my b.tech bearable. This would have been very tough otherwise…

I remember my earlier days in the college, how desperately I wanted to get the hell out of here…but now when the time is flying by... I wish I could stay a little longer, for there are some things that are still left undone..

Harking back, the drama was no less than a bollywood movie for me. A billion heart breakes, thousands of twists and turns…tonnes of backlogs sinking into ass....semesters after semesters and then some pain in the ass professors, who always looked at me as if I slept with there wives last night ... and than a somewhat happy ending.(hope so..the last sems final are still to go)

Way back in my earlier semester, I often used to wander weather I will be getting placed or not? And leave anyone it was even me who wasn’t able to come up with an answer…So I decided to let time figure it out itself.

Fortunately in the end every thing figured fantastically well....I beleive by now I have learnt to survive and win in the system…but wait for serenity does not stays longer here, so theres software slump,the fuckin U.S economy slowdown and cost cutting, firing and all …

But somehow I have always been able to figure out things well in the end…hopefully I will get it done this time also..

Aamen

To begin with....

Once upon a time, there lived a boy called Rishi…. Well, he’s still pretty much alive. A little more rounder at the waist perhaps, but alive and well. And for a while all was good….He was like a Delhi roads… a perpetual Work in progress… sorry for the inconvenience; bear with us today for a better tomorrow and all that.
When people asked him what he did, He would easily reply, hey I’m doing my engineering man!! Royally screwed yeah, still got years to go to get it over and done with. Blah Blah blah… So, for a while… it was all good.. Well, not good in a yo ha hu yahoo!! way all the time, because there was the usually adolescent bullshit of heart breaks, exams, fucking pain in the ass college professors and oh yes… backs, backs and backs. But, then one fine day, He was done with engineering. He had done his time, paid his debt to society (No! the phrase isn’t appropriate, I know!! But hey, you haven’t been to my college either) and after 4 long years of chutypanti! (For lack of a better word) he’d say he had turned out pretty fine. Doubly placed!!! Even….
So, why am I referring to myself in the third person you might think…? I don’t know!!! So don’t ask.So, here I am..4 long years in engineering college has left a nice BIGASS void in my life! For which I will be eternally thankful.. A doubly placed instrumentation n control engineer, trying to make it in the world of software development. For 4 years, I’ve hidden myself behind the “work in progress” tag. And now as that reassuring bit of security is slowly getting dissipated, I find myself in a scary new situation. It’s Time to take on the big bad world. And I’m not ashamed to say, I am scared shitless!!
That blogging bug is back! For a while now, I couldn’t write.. Especially when all I did write was what I DID and how I DID it.. And forget another reader; it was ME who was getting bored of my own shit. So, a good long break and I think I’ve understood why exactly I had started this shit in the first place. I was nervous as hell, and had no idea what I was doing and I wanted a place to puke all the shit in my head out. And I wanted people to read it too.And I’m glad many people did and liked it, enjoyed it or reacted to it. :) Thank you. But I’m also sorry that you had put up with the crap that I was spewing for the last few months. This break had made me realize that unlike in the old days when I used this blog as a place to vent my thoughts out, I had reduced it a place where I gave near trivial accounts of the silly things I was doing once in a while…