once upon a time, part two

so the girl moved on and the poor boy agian left with no choice but to wait and wait for those lucky moments, two years went by in despair for the boy , the boy cleared class 12, prepared for a year again for the various entrances , the girl was also to give her entrances that very year , and they filled form together, even gave most of the exams together and finally the boy got admission in a very esteemed college , the course not being in lines with something very common, and the girl also took admision somewhere in some course, the guy started missing her further more as, somethings donot happen for the benefit of the boy everytime, the families which were very close initially began drifting away and finally the meetings which were initially once a month or so turned to once every six years to no more meetings except the commuity gatherings , his friends in the college supported him big time to get rid of this anxiety by speaking it out, but actually he never got a chance, the chance he finally got in the year 2007, a community gathering that spans for over five days, that day came on the second last day of the gathering when he had to finally give in to the wishes of his friends who decided to go in on a hunger strike if he didnot propose her, so the boy proposed her not verbally though but through sms, he got a reply but that was not the reply he had waited for ten plus years, again he reproposed her the next day this time verbally though but the answer didnot change and broken and shattered he went on, the boy considered a bright prospect in the college dropped in academically, even his friends tried to talk to the girl but the reply was that she does not had any problem with the boy but she was not going to do anything that hurted her family members, the year passed by, the boy worked, left his job, prepared for mba, joined a prestigious college in delhi to do his mba, the girl is working somewhere , but till today there is a void in the boys life which he is not able to fill, void that remains even today the 24th day of june 2010, and the boy does not know again as to how he will get over this, how he loved the girl and waited for a positive reply since that day 23october 2007 to this date, how he misses her and though they have not had any communications for the last around a year but he still misses her.
many people had said that the girl even liked the boy but if we considered what people said then earth would have been jupiter to say the least,
what more this is one of the biggest dreams of the boys life but again his another big dream was that the girl remained happy in her life and maybe that had come true.
DISCLAIMER:
though it comes at the starting , this post is a little different as you may find resemblance between some characters in here and some person you know in real life:

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once upon a time

once upon a time, chronologically speaking say in the mid nineties there lived a boy, a boy, yes an ordinary boy who suddenly woke up one morning to find that a friend of his , who he never thought was his best friend or even special was moving out, not out of delhi, but just to another location, heartbroken the boy was,but could not figure out why, yes why would he he was just around 10, he was confused, sad, shocked, everything but never gave a second thought as to why he was getting those feelings, the meetings they had came down to once every 2 months, to once every three months, move on to the period when the boy just waited for the community get togethers they had and found an oppurtunity to meet her, the time they spent together be it 5 mins to sometimes when they (or better said when he) got lucky to around an hour, but the boy enjoyed everybit of it.
time moved on and one day, when nothing seemed special one of his very special friend again made the day special for him...hmmm special is less, he made it very special for him, the day he cherishes till date, he said nothing like winning a treasure or fortune or about going in for a foreign trip, what he said was that the girl who left that place so many years ago was coming back, coming back as she had mved to a higher class, yeah class eight it was and there was problem finding tutors for her, that was january and she was to move in in april, each day seemed like a year but time waits for none, the day came and they were together finally, hope this had been the ending for the boy but alas, happy endings donot come so easy, moments again became special, the boy used to wait for the gal everyday after school as both their buses used to come at almost the same time and somedays he used to wait for 15 minutes to just walk the distance of 5 minutes together, somedays that was not the case as maybe her bus had arrived earlier.cyclerides became very special for the boy as he never missed an oppurtunity to cycle round her house and wait eagerly to catch a glimpse of her..

again came the spring of his life and the girl and the boy studied together at the same tutor and the boy again waited everyday so that he can drop the girl home and spend a few moments with her.
day in day out he grew more and more towards her, he started liking her and that was the first love of his life, he thought of proposing her, but somehow couldnot get the courage to do so, he waited , in between came the boy's class tenth exams and his friends suggested to say it to her the day he finishes his boards, he waited eagerly for his boards to get over and began the countdown, the boards were over, so the next day morning was decided as the day he was going to do it.next day morning he had a two hour task of writting the exam for a blind boy, went there and while returning found the complex filled with cars , the number of cars he had not seen before at a time in the complex, went home but no one was there, waited , waited after about an hour his mother came and they went inside only to listen that the girls someone very close, very special had died the previous night and everything came shattering down, he still remembers the date , the boy went there but to see his friend, his girl, his everything crying over....well destiny played its part and the boy got to learn that the girl and her family were leaving the next day morning to their home town for around a month.

the month passed by they returned back, the boy now also used to wait for the girl, be it tuitions , after school or anything and used to observe the moistness in her eyes, the void that had been created in her life, at the tender age of around 15 when people still enjoy being with family, to loose out somebody ,who constituted more than her family was shocking and can break anyone, time started to move again , she was in class tenth and the boy continued to find reasons to be with her, to spend time together, he came to know about that the girl and her remaining family were again relocating somewhere and the short dream period the boy was having ended , but before that the boy made various attempts to atleast let her know of his feelings , sometimes asking his same old friend who told him earlier about their planning of returning back, the girl also seemed to like the boy as reported by his friends and as suggested by his observations.

glimpses of the real me:part 3

so had a short trip to sikkim before joining irctc, great place to be, especially the monastries and the scenery,returned from shillong and still now had not received the joining letter from irctc,
visiting the irctc office became an alternate day event and calling them up a regular phenomenon so finally got my letter by the end of july and 4 august was my date of joining which was also my parents wedding anniversary, so reached office on 4 august they checked all our documents, and 11 august was the date induction would start somewhere in kishanganj, delhi.
the d day came and all dressed up me and ankit reached kishanganj via auto, metro, and rickshaw.
the induction period went off well, even we didnot knew what lied ahead untill we got posted at the new delhi railway station base kitchen,and man people call it love at first sight, i say it whatever it is other than love at first sight, the first expression i had was how am i going to work over here, but again the fighter that i am,started working and each passing day my level of depression in life increased and my will to do a mba also increased.
work there was nothing more than some 30 odd people cooking the food and another 15 odd people packing the food and looking over the logistics so that they reach the train safely on time,
it followed with ankit saying it quit in the month of january and i still fighting it on with the only thing good about it being receiving the pay check at the end of the month, i could sought of never like that job, the feeling of doing something satisfactory was no there and that blended with the frequent trips to nizammudin railway station in some old motor bike and to reach on time made me think of giving february mat, a b school entrance examination , that too without any preparation, and my plan was to leave the job if i get something in and around the ninety percentile score, but somehow the exam seemed easy to me and i got some98.xx percentile, then came the ultimate test of will power that allowed me to leave the job in early april, but i didnot feel good about sitting idle for so many days so finally i joined a ngo which was working with the times of india group for the teach india movement, that was one of the best decision i took in my life and that gave me immense satisfaction and i felt like achieving something, working with the kids who were not as lucky as we are , and trying to make there life a little better,
i joined a coaching centre and prepared for my dream........
time flows like the dots in the previous line and soon i was writting the real tests and hoping for he best, some of the exams i wrote were good, pretty good like irma,delhi school of economics etc., whereas some like iift were complete disaster in which i couldnot reach the total cutoff.
while others like the CAT were , lets leave it types...
so finally i managed some good calls and some good converts and i am now a student of DELHI SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS..

few pointers and things i have learnt till now, never do a job which you donot enjoy, nor that it adds to your knowledge base, and it further de moralises you like anything, and always do what you feel right ( till the time it is legally right as per the law of the country), i joined delhi school of economics or the d school leaving aside many good colleges , maybe the d school will not be able to provide me with the 7 digit salaries and beat skipping profiles but still i can boast of that i choose it for myself
i left my job at the reputed psu organisation that people call irctc much to dis belief of many of my colleagues and relatives and friends but it is better to leave something you do not like than to cry about it for a lifetime like many of my colleagues would do.

thats me as of today the 26th day of the sixth month of 2010......

glimpses of the real me: part 2

so summer of 2004,went by i took admission in a coaching centre along with one of my dear friend kaushik and started again from the scratch, but this time on i had decided to try everything be it engineering, b pharma,hotel management,fashion designing etc. etc.( the common confused teenager who doesnot know what he is upto), came the time of forms and i dropped a bombshell by saying i wanted to fill in hotel management and fashion designing forms, somehow i knew i was not a engineer type species who could study hard, so as they say "when you aspire for something, the whole world conspires to let you achieve that thing". i got a air 212 in the hotel management jee, people said it was very cool i would get through ihm, pusa, new delhi, the so called best hotel management institute in the country, i decided to give it a try not because i didnot have any other option i had offers from nift mumbai , bit mesra(b pharma) and numerous other engineering colleges which i thought were stupid but now in summer of '10 i know they were not that bad either.
i was excited, excited in true sense of the word, i got through a college (though not engineering, but again it feels good to get through any college which is best in the country in its field).
kaushik got selected at uiet a engineering college under punjab university and my girl yeah the same one i mentioned in my previous post got selected in another college in faridabad.....so fast forward to 16 july 2005, first day ihm, pusa:
there i was sitting and waiting for things to get going, first day at college people have such mixed feelings of happiness, fear, tension, anxiety, a sense of achievement everything, time flew by in college( college episodes would require another blog which i will post pretty soon)
so another fast forward to end of 2007, placement time, around the campus just the same news in different words were flowing, taj is coming , hyatt is coming, x is coming, y is coming.....poor me got eliminated in the final round of taj, so finally my day came and when i narrated the answer i answered to all companies that were retail i got selected for itc retail, then aditya birla group and then irctc(the so called psu and which experts thought was a once a lifetime opp.), so joined irctc and left college with a sense of satisfaction of having achieved something.


but when you gain something you loose something, i lost out on my childhood love, out of sight out of mind, or a so called gap she considered between a hotel management grad and an engineer, whatever i had proposed her finally last durga puja, she said no in a very noble way and that resulted in my percentage dropping from 76 to 67 in a years time, thankfully bhm is a three year old course :p

still to come in my next few blogs about experience at irctc and plans for a mba....

glimpses of the real me:part 1

this is me abhinandan considered to be a bright student till around class seventh, with the only complaint my parents faced during the pt meets was that " your lad is very talkative".

come class eight, ninth the new sense of the teen years come to you and studies take a back seat and that as the case with me too.

suddenly all of a sudden everybody who met me, be it on the streets, markets, get togethers had just one piece of advice for me : beta abb toh boards hain, parr loh", but as they say some things never change and i nearly flunked in my pre boards hindi, but somehow i managed 82% in my boards. one more thing was also cooking up along with my studies and classes, i was falling in, falling for a girl who lived nearby, whom i knew from my childhood but whom i feared to propose, she was a class younger to me and studied at st.xaviers , but again life has its twists and turns and i had planned to propose her the day my class tenth boards ended but something drastic happened which changed everything.

so back to school, class eleventh studies seemed to be the last option for me and all other things had priorities, and as they say "every action has an equal and opposite reaction" i flunked in second term exam of physics and chemistry......

but the fighter that i am i fought had against all odds and somehow managed to get through eleventh and eventually class 12 also with some 74%marks.

the drastic fall with all my friends getting their marks in high 80 and early 90 left me shattered , that was the summer of 2004.

most of my friend got through some engineering colleges or medical but i decided to try once more and for the last time...

i would soon be back with part two with more stupidity on my parts