Ghostly cows and deadly dogs!

Pretty weird month; august of 2006 is rememberable, atleast will be remembered by we three - deepu, anunag and myself.

The first week, initially spent loiterring around the college 24/7 sprang to life as the registration date came up and made most of us here in the college run to and fro to the bank. Most of the guys are still at home and sent the dd's or left the cheque books so that we can draw the money and pay for them. There must be some unknown chemistry between me and the bank guys. A problem awaits everytime I need the job to be done immediately and by gods grace if they are not going to create one, I create it myself.

I woke up a bit early in the afternoon that day and in a trance found the total amount that is to be drawn and filled an already signed blank cheque by subhash and left for the bank. After I handed over the cheque to the cashier, I noticed something which at that instant I wished and prayed she wouldn't notice. Alas, she did and was startled to find something really really interesting; afterall its my birthdate in the date coloumn of the cheque. I cursed myself, laughed and said "ohhh! it should be 2006 not 1986" and she laughed in return(that hurts) and asked me to get it right and also get the signature of the owner of the cheque who is in Hyd at that time!!! Cleared the mess by transferring the money to anunag's account and got the money in time. ICICI guys are really fast.

The second week, the first week of the classes and nothing much except the confusion over compiler design prof who declared compiler to be a hardware and found a sudden increase in the inflow to that particular elective. Everyone wants to have a break in the final year and prof's are making lives much simpler. That saturday, I along with deepu, anunag and psr went to ahmedabad and it was late in the night while we were returning. It started to drizzle and the view through the helmet's glass was blurred. Should have stopped the bike and cleaned it up. Should have searched for a handkerchief and wiped it up. Should have stopped for a while for the rain to stop. Neverthless we went on dashing through, finally ending up head butting a lonely cow on the heavenly highway.

It came from nowhere, all of a sudden. The last thing I heard was anunag shouting but couldnt see anything. The last thing I saw and understood was I am the special someone, unlike zidane, who has got the opportunity to headbutt the cow. It could have been the path to heaven or hell if there were other vehicles behind us. It was a sigh of relief to find everyone safe with almost no injuries!! Hopefully, let it be my first and last accident. The very next day, the sumo we were travelling almost killed a cow which came onto the road all of a sudden!! I just hate gujarati cows. They dont seem to have an idea to follow the minimum traffic rules.

Into the third week of the month and I decided not to leave the college, not even if kiran more promises to take ganguly into the team. Little later that week, I discovered that it is useless to take ridiculous decisions. In the last month there were nights when we found dogs sleeping on empty beds but this time I found something soft enough under my feet to wake me up looking in to two glowing eyes gazing calmly at me. Imagine to be in a forest with all the animals with glowing eyes surrounding you!!The only one way out of the room is blocked by the dog which just kept staring as if I am unnecessarily creating a scene while everyone in the room is sleeping quite peacefully till then. The little shreak I made was enough for my roomy to be awake and we both stared at each other!! Infact it three of us staring at each other for sometime, neither of us moving an inch. The dog felt awkward and tried to open the door to leave the room but couldnt open the damn door. It took nearly fifteen minutes for me to open the door hanging by the wall while balancing on the couch and letting the dog out of the uncomfortable situation. Its really a bad idea to open the door and sleep for the fresh air :( and I hate daiict dogs too. Not even having the minimum commonsense to knock the door before pushing and coming in.

The final week of the month and the sluggish nature imparted obliviously by the very idea of being a final year student slowly and gradually let me into a kind of state reminding me of this post by Ritesh. Its apparently dull and its almost a month I am actually away from the internet!! Hibernation as he says, and the reason for the state is unknown. Stopping any work in the middle and watching five to six movies in four hours, playing games and restarting at the very first goal against my team, trying to open the browser and closing as soon as it prompts for the password.... genuinely this month is real real bad. I even forgot my bro's birthday and my dad had to convince him to talk on the phone. Sometimes brothers are real stubborn and August turns out to be ghastly this year!!