After a long time

There are only two who know my secrets that how capable i was for this event called ASTRO-BOUT : myself and the Almighty. But,one guy had more faith in me than i do.
All started with a discussion with SURYA who convinced me enough to participate in ASTRO-BOUT.I thought that i would be out by the next round only.So, i made SURYA my confidante( so that if i m out the nobody knows and i m not made fun of) and we talked about the event at back of others and in signs( Oh my god , what we were doing!).Then some who went to SB by chance (like CHAMMO), came to know about my participation and started yelling like NETAs do with loudspeakers blaring...humff humff ,i somehow managed to get out of his view so that for time being he forgets about me.By the time, fourth round results were out, even GUPTAji knew about my secret plans...and myLord!! the biggest threat was the news of my participation coming to RAHUL as i had promised him that i would not take part in any event and also, he had told me that he was taking the pain of tearing any poster of TECHNEX in his sight so that i do not get lured towards that and waste my time in those events.
So, i could do anything in the world but to tell him about that.
The time i dreaded arrived and GUPTAji unknowingly uttered something about the prize money, the winner of the event would be receiving ,and tried to encourage me and...... RAHUL with his expertise as a listener (as he wrote in his resume) heard,...... and saw me with a sharp glint in his eyes and i was like having my heart in my mouth.
Well then, he encouraged me to get through the last hurdle.
This was the story of sequences which was personal.

But, now see what happened when i went for the written test of ASTRO-BOUT.
For the second round 46 candidates had been selected.I was late by 5 minutes for that test which consisted of 30 MCQs and luckily i had prepared for 1 day in a way that i was able to solve around 20. But before that i wore my Black Pant( the placement ones,just pressed by lungiwaala dhobi baba) .When i was trudging for my seat located in far corner in the main Hall , i felt my pant tearing off at my thigh area,the my eyes fell on a sharp tin protruding out of that fucking chair i happened to pass by and my B.P. must have ticked more than AGP's ( 110/180).I felt like i lost the most precious thing in this world.
But then a thought revoked in my null mind. The scenes of F16 started dancing in my mind.
Last year,in Panchatantrika(TECHNEX) in 1st round, i happened to pierce a sharp piece of timber of desk in the flesh under nail of my index finger ,and i had happened to reach final rounds then.So, i got relieved now" Yes Man!! it is auspicious & now i'll reach its final rounds ..hehehe "and i started writing paper with full confidence.
Next, we had a GD where after hearing topic, i started figuring out solar system in my mind but after PLUTO i could not see anything,it was like DARK MATTER there and some Einstein's ideas about time as 4th dimension & like erroneous ideas popped from my mouth even before they emerged in my mind without any thought process going on....
Any way it just happened and next round was Essay writing ,and i did not know till my arrival at SB that it was going to be a TECHNICAL ESSAY ROUND.But then there were RAI, TARUN who made me cool and in senate hall when i saw the topic i was scared REALLY !! i was ..it read like:
you know, we know that everything in this universe seems like fallen into place and well organized. The Black Holes are located at the center of the galaxies after billions of years and there seems to be purpose to be behind all these being organized in a particular way. What do you think that that purpose might be? And over that, they were supplying us with an extra sheet to write the essay....i could not think of how to start..But then i did write what i felt and then arrived the final interview round .I thought it would be DCV Mallik but it was BND , and he started interviewing all alone in semi dark Senate hall.Then my call in 3rd number and i thought it would be good to make a friendly gesture with him. I shook hand with him and before i would take my seat he started firing questions at me "Srikant, tell me the most important discovery in space exploration which you think revolutionized the Space Era?" I started looking upwards and i was felling like kicking myself for doing that as it makes your 1st impression really bad..anyhow i controlled myself and answered after a lot contemplation .
Then he began asking about different satellites ..their carriers ,the radiations ,the sun and many!!
Then a lucky question :"Do you know any other planet where phenomenon of lightning occurs as does in our earth?"I knew the answer yeah but i pretended to think and also laughed cerebrally "sir, you know i m sabu and do not ask me questions which will make me ANGRY ,nahi to jwalamuki ke alawa us planet pe ab bijli bhi karakne lagegi"And you know the answer now...So that was how my weekend ended at a sound note...
Hope you enjoyed it!!:)