The Gr8 Day...!!!

This was my magazine article for the coll magazine. Do post ur comments.



"RINGGGG...!!!!"
"Abinav a call for u.." I heard my mother screaming at the top of her voice.. I opened my eyes and saw a lizard on the wall near the clock. It was 12 in the night and I was sleeping dead on my table with my face on the book for the next day's test.

"A call right now??"

I picked up..
"Hello.."

"da Abi... Robin here. What were you doing?"

"I was sleeping.. Great timing to make a call"

"ya,,,by the way you finished studying for the exam for tomorrow?"

"No man. I started studying and don’t know when I fell asleep"

"Great.. Anyway I wanted to know the portion."

"Excellent, so both of us are sailing on the same boat right now." I said.

I told him the portion and the next thing I knew was it was 7 in the morning. I understood there was no point writing the exam. The only thing I knew was some roughly 2 chapters in Chemistry. Thats it..! And I was going to write Chemistry and Mechanics paper for the 2nd series. Well, with all might I went to write the exam. There was not much for me to write in that paper...Scribbled something here and there.
Well thats that..! Though I saw many initials like BOD and COD in the paper it was useless for me to think over something I didn’t know. So I gave the paper back with no idea why I wrote the paper. I came out and got 3 hours to study for mechanics because I left the hall 1 hour before the end of the exam. So I decided not to have lunch and went on to study Mechanics with my friends. As I expected I had no idea what they were talking about. So I begged one of them to teach me something for 20 marks at least. One of them taught me some friction and ladder stuff and by the time I could digest everything into my head it was time for the exam. So there I was to enter another battle field with no weapons, no army, and also not knowing for which side I was fighting for. I went in and found out that there wasn’t a single question from friction and ladder. I laughed looking at the paper and the person who sat near me thought I was going to crack the paper. I turned around and saw my classmates and found out that half of them gave me almost the same look I could have given if I saw a mirror.



So at least I had an army finally. But sure enough, an army geared up for losing. I wanted to write something but no use. It was worse than the morning Chemistry paper and I actually saw the pulleys on the question paper move up and down..!!
Well, guess what ,,,I left the hall before the first half an hour. I created two records on the same day leaving the hall well before the end. What an amazing day..! And the next day was civil and BME. I hoped I would study something for that at least. So I went home and on the way in the city bus I realised that my pocket was very light. I checked and saw that my purse was missing...I was naturally thrown out of the bus. So that made me walk 4 kilometers till home. I thought of hitch-hiking and luckily one guy stopped his bike. On the way his bike got punctured. Another bad luck. I had to walk the rest of the way home. So I walked 2 kms and reached home. I found my house locked. Unbelievable ... How could so many things happen on the very same day?? I rang them to their mobile from the next door and found out that they were at a hospital as one of their friends met with an accident. So there I stood in front of my house without the key, with all my books locked inside for the next day's exam. It was clear that I was heading for another Jallian Walla Bagh the next day…...!!
I sat in my neighbour's house having no idea what I had to study. And imagine, it was civil and mechanical, both the subjects were loaded with theory. Thinking about it i fell asleep in their couch. My parents reached home by 9 in the night. Went in and had our dinner. Then I sat to study something for the next day's exam when there was a power failure . Luck could not favour me more in any other form. It was in its full flow. A first year guy could not have asked for a worse situation having a civil book in his hand at 10 in the night and that too in front of a candle light.
With the plight I was in, I had no clue what I was reading, when I heard my neighbour scream..!! We all rushed out. She was in tears. Her kid was missing. All of us searched the whole compound but no use.. We started searching in different directions. I started looking for that 4 year old in the middle of the night with a damned torch light which apparently gave no light. I went so far that I went right in front of a huge dog which rather looked like it was in search for some bones and meat. I gulped looking at it and it started starring at me. The dog was, for my good luck, a Doberman. I froze to -273K and slowly turned around when I heard a ‘grrr’ sound from that great dog. The next thing my mind started telling me was ‘Run… u idiot, what are you waiting for??’ I didn’t know why I ran but I ran at full speed faster than any guy of my age could even imagine to run. And the funniest part was that the dog was running as if it was some Mexican horse with a strength of an African elephant. I guess I produced around a million litres of adrenalin in a fraction of a second. I kept running and running... While I ran I was angry with myself thinking why the hell I ran. I had no idea where I was running. I jumped over a compound wall and found out that I entered another house which had a German Shepherd waiting to hog me. I could not ask for this situation anywhere else in my life at any point of time… The scintillating Doberman waited for me outside. Seeing the other dog inside I got over the compound wall and started running on the wall.


And I saw both the dogs running in parallel with me on both the sides of the compound wall. In this enigmatic situation I didn’t know whether I should stop running or not. For a second I imagined million things, why I came to this place, why God created such an animal or rather why didn’t He give me wings to fly.
I started sweating like hell. As there was no power supply and only moonlight I didn’t know I was reaching the end of the wall. When I reached the end I went straight 90 degrees downward and landed the road with a huge THUD...!!!
When I opened my eyes I saw the same lizard on the wall near the clock and the time was 12 midnight and I heard my mother scream...
"Abinav a call for you.......................!!!!!!!!!!!!"