Woah Cat !!!
" November 20th 2005 " a Day to remember for me . First and foremost it was the D-Day , the day when the "CAT" was on a prowl ; was it a CAT or some pre historic monster . Have given quite a few exams in my puny mortal life ; but yesterday was different .The day was nothing exceptional to start with . I reached the secunderabad center at 9:50 . the crowd there was just humbug .
I t reminded me of my pre degree days , when doting parents would come with their swots and start giving jitters to one's around them .
i just could not understand the whole thing , I mean when the nerd has slogged for years together why do you need such last minute rotes ; and all this for an exam which tests ur apti ,"supposedly".
Just as I was walking towards the gates of the center , a guy comes up an asks me the details of the exam .
" what is the duration of the exam ?" , "how many do I have to answer ?" , " How many questions?"
God give me break . I mean who the hell told you to give the xam when u didnt know what it is for? I know some bloody bugger would have inspired this dolt and he was making a chicken 65 of my already fused up brain .
It would have been good had it ended here but ,na it didnt ; as in typical bollywoodish style
" This is the beginning" . As i reached the gates swamping my way across hordes of parents , I was given shock of my life by the watch man . He just said "Sir meedi ee centre kaadu "
I didnt understand , I mean what was this mushy saying ,of course it was my center , the same name of the school was the same , the locality was same ,then !!!
One careful look @ my hall ticket and I realized, gosh my center was 4 km from this place . Now what ?? Just as I was still thinking what to do, some over enthusiastic parents come up and suggest that I should take an autio as fast as possible ,yeah and where do I get an auto in a place where the road was clogged to an extent that people had to walk over the heads of others.
Some how I ran a km and then took an auto ,who luckily for me knew the address of the test center. I was already 20 min late to the centre and just i was ramming my way into the college , the watch man there stops me . I guess this was my day with the mushy's :) . he just said
"Nahin jaa sakte late ho gaye ".
Now what ???? My acting skills came to fore and I turned myself into a a sublime person whose life rested on this bloody mushy . Fortunately this chap fell for all my dumb excuses , "Like i had an accident " ,"I had to admit my friend to the hospital " ,"If I dont write this exam my life would be doomed (as if its not now :) )"
Finally into the center I ran towards the man who was showing the way to our classrooms.
I though atlast I was through with the whole episode . But no !! there was something else still left .
The attendees in the center didnt know whether such a room existed at all or not they made me run all over the place . If i had to interact with such dumb assess daily then I would be a HR manager for sure .
Finally I got to my hall and I see what , mine was the only seat which had a 2*2 writing pad . It was such a small thing that u cud either keep ur pencil or a rubber on it . So i had to write the whole xam with the question paer in one hand and answer sheet partly on the table.
After going thru this arduous journey ,I would have been happy had I belled the CAT .But as they say ,when things are going bad they wont go right .
posted by Maven's Atelier @ 3:20 PM
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