the holidays.......

its mid of january now and finally the college has reopened after a month long vacations... so i got to wake up early now, get ready(ohhhh no!!) and run to college... all that in the chilly morning... leaving the rajai in the morning is nothing less than a torture at a time while the temperature is setting new records.


the holidays passed off quite quickly(atleast it seemed to be) with most of the time spent with friends.all that i had planned to do in the holidays went haywire as usual..i have already mentioned about my toota foota december.the naya saal has not been that bad till now.it started with my brother returning back to ahmedabad after a week at home and it was the time when i felt i was noone at home...

beta gaazar ka halwa kha le... beta badaam
ka halwa kha le...

(atul trying to get something from the plate..)

atul tu dur reh khaane de ise...tu to
ghar par khaata hi rehta hai...is
bechare ko hostel me kuch nhi milta(bechara!!!)

(atul trying to sit with him and have a little bit fun)

atul ise disturb mat kar...aaram karne de...upar jaa.

was all i got to hear from ma during is stay.jale par namak chidakne k liy bhai to tha hi.he added to this fun...

ma dekh lo ise ye hath maar raha
hai khaane me, khanne nhi de raha
hai...hata lo ise

and all i used to get to eat my mom's scolding.finally, he is back at ahmedabad and i am relaxed and happy(though a bit sad also..)

the cat results were out and i cud see the tension on my friends' faces.i cud feel that tension on their face,i wud also get through that phase next year...some were happy some were dejected...kahi khushi kahi gam...

the registration(some asinine formality of filling forms) marked the beginning of next semester.but a very unexpected thing happened this time...for the first time in my college life,we had classes in the first week...usually the regn is followed by 2-3 days mass bunk and classes start only after the week.but then India is progressing why not DCE and why not we???

i got to sleep now...got to wake up early for the college...

bonne nuit

minatory december!!

it all started on the twenty-nineth november-just two days
before the start of that ominous december.i could not imagine
that this was just the beginning of my misery and it is
continuing till today...although the whole november was screwed
up due to the end semester exams but then they are the part
and parcel of any engineer's engineering life.

so on that baleful day i was returning home after a strenous
exam in the afternoon.it had gone dark by the time i left
the college and given the condition of delhi roads and
lighting on roads,i think it is easy to fall prey to the
trap laid by the road caretakers.the road was slippery with
water or some similar liquid-i dont know what it was exactly
but then that is not important.my scooter slipped as i applied
some hard brakes and no sooner i was lying on those pieces
of stones called road--lucky enough to have a nice lead over
other vehicles.my four fingers of the right hand were bruised
along with some other small injuries.i somehow managed to
reach home,somehow managed to hide my hand from ma wondering
what would she say--she wont even take my excuse that it was
not my fault but of the guy who spilt that liquid on the
road--not caring about other people like me who are always in
some sort of hurry.next day i bandaged my 4 fingers with 4
band-aids and was not surprised when my friends sarcastically
commented on my condition and on my side of story.i could
use my injured hand only for writing the exam allowing it to
rest in my pocket for the remaining time.

the life went on,the hand was healing when on the tenth of
december i met with another disaster-again no fault of mine.it
was of that car driver who jumped the traffic light without
caring for the traffic rules-wanted to take advantage of
the early morning situation.he samashed my scooter and i went
flying away on the road off the scooter.my body parts were
intact(lucky enough!!) however my left wrist refused to twiddle.i
caught the driver who then promised to pay for the nice
dent i had got on my scooter-all this on the day when my
brother was returning home from ahmedabad for his
convocation-he is finally an engineer and my parents all set
to leave delhi for some urgent work.

u careless,irresponsible
chap,hamesha jaldi mein
rehta hain,teri galti hi hogi

was all i got to hear from ma and then my brother was there to add
some masala to the fun.this time it was the turn of my
right hand to dutifully play the part of my left hand also.

again the life went on,when after a week the weather pounced
on me.it seemed i would pick the bed for some days but
somehow managed to skip fever and got away with sardi jukam- 4 steams a
day-life was certainly hell.i asked mom,"yeh mere sath kya ho
raha hai ma" and she sarcastically replied,"yeh tere galat
karmno ki sazaa hai" and i wondered,"mere paapon ka ghada itni
jaldi bhar gaya.abhi meri umar hi kya hai".in this age of
science and technology cant we prick a hole in that pot of
boob. anyway i continued to struggle with my health and left
hand-it finally started to help me.

the life went on,i again started my workouts in the gym when
on twenty-seventh december i chose the wrong weight for my
little shoulders.end result--my neck paying the price for it.i
was back at home applying medicines on my left wrist and the
newly added stained neck and all the while remembering those words from
ma...currently,i am serving for all the above mentioned
pains--my right fingers(yes,the pain is still there),my left
wrist,my neck and it now seems my right wrist also wants to
join the rocking party!!

with december and the year coming to end i am wishing for some

nice time ahead...hey bhagwan,help me out.punish me in installments,not
all at one go-this litle child of yours cannot handle so much
pressure.

anyways,happy and prosperous new year for all!!!

adios