The sign is promising….it just might happen this year!

I had taken the day off from work to try and catch up on some studies. I’ve come to realise that I can’t live like this any longer and need to take my exams seriously if I am to improve status quo. So, I spent the afternoon catching up on sleep. ( I am going to hell )

Anyway, just when I was dreaming about something wonderful like Chocolate Mousse Cake or Chicken Tikka, the door bell rang. Courier guy with a mail for me. And Lo…behold…my application to insanity has been accepted….(big deal..send them the money..they’ll send you an exam pass). I had got my CAT admit card. I unenthusiastically opened it to check which god-forsaken college was to be my exam center. I’ve always had bad luck with this. I always seem to get centers that are in some remote end of the city.

Anyway, I opened it and would you believe it. Home was calling me. My center was the Oxford Engineering College. Now, while I completed my engineering from another prestigious institute (cough…cough….cough…puke….cough); most of my school, the best years of life till date, was from the Oxford School (run by the same bunch of guys). So in a manner of speaking, it was a sort of homecoming. The college wasn’t that far away from home. I felt like Luke Skywalker, when he returned to Tatooine post Return of the Jedi, where he feels the strongest connection with the force. The place where it all happened. Maybe it was a sign from God. Maybe, this year, it might actually happen. The force is strong with me in such places. I can’t explain it, but my spirits lifted the moment I saw that somewhere, in some weak connection in the whole establishment of karma and the universe, my alma matter may be helping me; like Obi Wan Kenobi from beyond the grave to Luke Skywalker. (StarWars geek..ain’t I ?)

I’m normally not one to pay too much attention to superstition, but right now, if someone asked me to sacrifice a goat to Kali, I just might do it if I know it would improve my odds. It’s kind of like the Bitter Sweet Symphony song by The Verve, ‘ I never pray, but tonight I’m on my knees…yeah!’

Come on 'Force'…be strong with me!!!

PS: This month’s Rolling Stone India edition features Metallica ( doing the devils horns \m/ \m/ and head banging)….and has a feature interview by Dave Mustaine( doing the devils horns \m/ \m/ and head banging again) before he went on stage in India…It’s a heavy metal edition.