My first ever-driving class (I mean the first ever on the road one), I was so so excited about it… As I reached the driving center I was in all smiles… the excitement really reached a great height, and I just kept smiling at everyone, looked as if I had just come back from a heavy course on smile therapy… As I told the counter fellow that this was my first class (and theory class was overJ yippee), he went to call the instructor and told him about it being my first… Guess what! The instructor really got furious and started saying ‘how the hell in the first class itself I make her go onto the crowed heavy-traffic-ridden roads, she’ll get tensed, she’ll have to come earlier’ you bet man, I was really broken but then the counter fellow was like, its ok jus take her today from tomorrow onwards ill tell her to come earlier… that fellow then told me to come by 6 the next day!! I was like ‘whaaat!!’ but guess they were right in their place also… By now the excitement had come back… wow.. I’m at last going to drive hurray!! As I got into the car and started I was so very excited I guess I forgot that it’s the first ever time I’m doing this and thankfully so, nervousness and fear didn’t occupy me.. After the successful drive (mainly because he always had the steering wheel in his control;)) as we reached back he said ‘Aren’t you scared of driving on these roads at all?’ the sudden timing of the question took me by shock and all I could manage was a flimsy smileJ…Then guess what he said ‘I guess its okay you can come at anytime from tomorrow’ you guessed it right I was in my 7th heaven of delight…
Now 7 classes and 35kms since the first day all excitement has died down… just go for class out of practice… I was hardly given full control of the car which mad me madder (is there such a word) I thought all this was a kids game and he should give me total control… today when all of a sudden he stopped helping I was totally caught unaware… the car just kept swerving totally out of control, tried changing gear without pressing down the clutch, did some nonsense n suddenly the car stopped in the middle of the road, heavy horns and abuses from other fellow drivers… oops suddenly the car made a sudden change from a well trained pet to a totally untamed wild animal!!! Sad… guess it’s not as easy as it seems… my salute to all the drivers in the world!!
Saturday, June 14, 2008
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Rains...ahh bliss!!
Ahh… at last.. Thanks to the well timed rains that the scorching heat has subsided and I’ve at last been able to have a bath with normal tap water. And ya that’s not because there is any lack of water but, because of the scalding hot water that comes out…it feels as if the water has just made a trip to some furnace or got a free ride in a boiler before reaching our home taps…at home as we used to store water in another big bucket (err…Kind of small tank as stored in the dark interiors of the washroom that it would be cool!!) Due to which bathing was actually possible… At times the water would be too cold that you’ve got to mix the tap (aka hot water) and the bucket (aka cold water) water in the right proportions (a great bartender in the making eh… jus that mugfulls would become pegs;)…Nice career prospect though) I actually believed that there’ll be a day (keeping in mind the skyrocketing climatic heat and temperatures) that we would start getting GBW (wonder what it is eh? it means gasified bathing water;)) seriously man the heat is like so so much that water would be a rarity it would be steam all over… we can then have free steam baths… forget bathing with liquid water…At times I have this idea maybe we should have something like an anti-geyser, you know, something that works opposite to a typical water heater, cools super heated waters to some proper desired temperature.. And this idea was inspired by seeing the state of the geyser at home which is just catching dust and I believe a good residence for spiders and other creepy crawly insects…I don’t think anyone has ever used it and why would someone when is it like never cold here…
This maybe one thing I like about hostel, although outside it maybe terribly hot, the water is always cool... It gives you a feeling that this bath should never end… But then u have to face the reality you can’t always be bathing there is the awful clause of having 75% attendance to complete the course… But then I have always wondered how can the water be so cool when the outside temp temperatures are way higher than here… Then I thought maybe the tank is like covered in years of muck and dirt that even heat cannot penetrate it (awesome cover (up) eh...)
But seriously thanks to the rains we can forget the scorching hot days at least for some time… Ahh… bliss cool climate, cool water but it could sure seem hell for people down with cold;)... Rest rock on!!!
Sunday, June 8, 2008
Overdreaming
After long hours of fights atlast i started going for well my my heavily awaited driving classes... Dad well felt that anyway for the next few years ill be definitely stuck in coll and i'm definetly not getting a chance to drive so y get a licence now..but i would't give way.. i wanted it means i wanted it...
after long hours of search mom and i zeroed on 1 driving school which seemed relatively good... after paying the fees n all they were like "okay u can start off ur classes tomorrow" you bet i was mad with excitement.. Wow atlast something...Whoa!! A mechanical thing is gonna be run by me!! itll hopefully move at my beck n call...was damn happy...
the next day i went all ready for action on the road... he asked me to wait..
that is when all the drama begun..;)
"I started dreaming about how my first run ll b... on the drivers seat.. ill just glide through the roads and then the instructor will be like are you sure its ur first time.. ill give him my confident smile and overtake the roads... and immediately as they are overimpressed ill be given my license... they suggested F1 as he saw the potential in me to overtake the fastest n the best... there ferrari agrees to sponsor me n i go for my first match... all heavily experienced men all over i compete i win!!!
n there i stand on the podium giving my victory speech..as how i got into all this.. holding the prestigious cup in my hand with happiness written all over my face....:) "
Suddenly the drving school guy comes up and says "ma'am lets start" im like "o cool!! sure"
i was almost about to get out through the door to get into the car..that he calls me again... "ma'am first class only theory ma" im like"Whaaat!!"....
and ya he makes me sit behind the dummy steering wheel and gear stuff teaches me how im supposed to hold the steering wheel n the different gears and the A-B-C(accelerator-brake-clutch) this went on for a painful half an hour...
And ya obviously what was i thinking... overtaking the roads without knowing the difference between an accelerator and a brake!!!
my goodness i can seriously get carried away... never knew could get so so terribly wild ideas...
man.... wat da hell am i upto.......
The Beggining!!
Ahh.. At last im writing my first ever blog:), which was what I was thinking for like ages but could never convince myself to actually get up and do…and even now I’m like dead shocked… It was the lecture by Ms.Bansal on blogging, which actually got mental wheels churning… She had come to our college for the same, for which me and my friend (another aspirant who maybe can race me in the art of laziness;)) had planned to attend.. And at the same our wretched math papers had to be distributed (which took loadsa time). After that somehow when we reached the Audi the first line we heard was ‘And I conclude by saying…’ but like any other lecture conclusion went on for another 20 mins..Which I would was pretty interesting to get me hooked…
What the hell am I doing??? Writing has never been my forte… maybe talking endlessly crap (if it can be considered as something sane)… but then blogging??
Always wanted to try it out but then there was something pulling me back… some of those invisible and seemingly invincible threads of apprehension and laziness always kept me away… Believe me it took loads of determination to actually get me to do this… (Sounds as if I did some super hi-funda robbery…)
Who am I? Some question I can just keep asking without getting an answer ever.. I could call myself another eating talking homo sapien walking totally aimlessly on the face of earth…. Or maybe call myself like calvin (of calvin and hobbes fame) ‘we’re just tiny specks on a planet particle, hurling through the infinite blackness’ ;)Just hoping I can keep the excitement alive and go on…:)
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