The Hour of Truth..........
"Wake up now, you are driving me up the wall!!"...........that was my mother.It was one of those usual days(as it turned out, it wasn't to be), the same old morning blues, the same old reprimands and the altercations that would follow....and of course, my mother would have the last laugh. So I was determined not to get into loggerheads with her.But that day was far from usual....it was going to be a make or break.......everything seemed out of place, and i was mooning around to explore more and more gaucherie around me. It seemed as if the world was too curt with me, reality had dawned too quickly, and I was grappling to even breathe. BUT, nothing is going to STOP me, I thought. I was a little more than prepared to face my predicaments.....I had equipped myself to face the beasts that would spring upon me.........the scavengers raring to suck my blood.......NO, NOT TODAY.I AM HERE TO TRACK YOU DOWN!!
I got into my college bus, and that again was a tough ask, you see, for it is really a moon-ask to make me go to the bus-stop on time. But all that was pushed to the back-burner. My heart and soul was affixed on the night-marish task that I was going to take up.....so I remained totally a bump-on-a-log to all the gossips and chat that would follow........yes......no distractions today..........Mission possible........
The bus screeched to a halt, I looked out of the window to see if my college had come....but much to my dissatisfaction, it was'nt so.......my bus had bumped into a buffalo, and its proud owner had with ease got into Dutch with our driver.....yet another obstacle in my path to glory........hmmp...I said to myself, for that was all i could do.
As ill luck would have it, my bus made it 1 1/2 hours past-college time to get there.......that left me with little time to get every ounce of my strenght at my disposal.......and as a friend of mine rightly pointed out....it is the gripping-need of the hour that transforms ordinary people like me into LEONINE h(z)eroes.........with the chips down..........all odds up against me....I headed towards the ARENA......my brain the only weapon I had(and you might think I am nearly weapon-less!!!)......come what may......I am not stepping back.
The hour finally arrived, it sure was breath-taking, fears of all-sorts gripping into me......the scavengers, the blood sucking vampires.......they were all there in me.........BUT......there is always an element of confidence in everybody, and I had nurtured that from the bud....and it had finally grown into a mighty pillar.......big enough to shoo away all these minusses........I bottled up whatever little strenght that I had...and made my way through to the arena......there were a thousand red-ants and snakes in front of me....raring to sting me at the first instant........with their fangs streched out.......COME ON RAHUL.......you have come all the way.....there is no going back now.....have a go...
Go..goo..good mo...morning students......i started with my all-icy voice.......I am here to throw light upon the latest technology that has caught the market by storm......(A lot like Kaadal Kondaen Dhanush....but with the exception that there was no Sonia Agarwal behind me....I would not have minded really,you see:)
The day went well......I would'nt say it was a great hit.....but I managed to put across the facts and statements well with pefection........at the end of it...I was back, in my own-sweet-stupid bus......the driver was obviously fired......"Hey what happened to those two da...they were going along well, is'nt it..".."Idiot......didn't I tell you this morning....that fellow broke his hand yesterday and the two broke up today."......that was Shyam!!!
I got into my college bus, and that again was a tough ask, you see, for it is really a moon-ask to make me go to the bus-stop on time. But all that was pushed to the back-burner. My heart and soul was affixed on the night-marish task that I was going to take up.....so I remained totally a bump-on-a-log to all the gossips and chat that would follow........yes......no distractions today..........Mission possible........
The bus screeched to a halt, I looked out of the window to see if my college had come....but much to my dissatisfaction, it was'nt so.......my bus had bumped into a buffalo, and its proud owner had with ease got into Dutch with our driver.....yet another obstacle in my path to glory........hmmp...I said to myself, for that was all i could do.
As ill luck would have it, my bus made it 1 1/2 hours past-college time to get there.......that left me with little time to get every ounce of my strenght at my disposal.......and as a friend of mine rightly pointed out....it is the gripping-need of the hour that transforms ordinary people like me into LEONINE h(z)eroes.........with the chips down..........all odds up against me....I headed towards the ARENA......my brain the only weapon I had(and you might think I am nearly weapon-less!!!)......come what may......I am not stepping back.
The hour finally arrived, it sure was breath-taking, fears of all-sorts gripping into me......the scavengers, the blood sucking vampires.......they were all there in me.........BUT......there is always an element of confidence in everybody, and I had nurtured that from the bud....and it had finally grown into a mighty pillar.......big enough to shoo away all these minusses........I bottled up whatever little strenght that I had...and made my way through to the arena......there were a thousand red-ants and snakes in front of me....raring to sting me at the first instant........with their fangs streched out.......COME ON RAHUL.......you have come all the way.....there is no going back now.....have a go...
Go..goo..good mo...morning students......i started with my all-icy voice.......I am here to throw light upon the latest technology that has caught the market by storm......(A lot like Kaadal Kondaen Dhanush....but with the exception that there was no Sonia Agarwal behind me....I would not have minded really,you see:)
The day went well......I would'nt say it was a great hit.....but I managed to put across the facts and statements well with pefection........at the end of it...I was back, in my own-sweet-stupid bus......the driver was obviously fired......"Hey what happened to those two da...they were going along well, is'nt it..".."Idiot......didn't I tell you this morning....that fellow broke his hand yesterday and the two broke up today."......that was Shyam!!!
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