A Surprise to Parents

These days my mom is feeling too lonely at home as both me and my brother are not living at home ( me in kgp and brother in US) and the news of my not going home added to her misery. So from the day i informed her about my summer, she started asking me when ever i make a phone call to come home when ever possible though i said her that its not possible for now.

21st march -friday -holiday (good friday)
22nd march- saturday- holi.

5 out of the 14 people in the wing were going home on 21st. On the night of 20th around 11 PM, when i was thinking about the weekend, the idea of giving a big surprise to parents came to my mind. I decided to catch the train scheduled at 9AM the next morning. Luckily my room mate was also going home by the same train but to vizag and so i thought my problem of not having reserved ticket got lessened at least till vizag.
Thus i could catch the train on 21st and reach secbad station at 10 Am on 22nd from where i could reach my home in 5 min. we and one of my cousin's family live at the same place and when i reached home my mom was busy in cleaning the house and so dad was in cousin's house. So mom was the first one to see me and when i knocked the door, she thought its my cousin or dad and told to wait for sometime with out looking at me and when i said mummy, she looked at me and didn't say or do anything for a minute, perfectly shocked by looking at me. Then, by standing near the door of my cousin's house, i called my dad (he was reading newspaper with full concentration), who looked at me as if he doesn't knew me and seeing me for the first time and both reacted in a similar way after that, asking the questions of my coming home, which anyone can expect in that situation.

many of my realtives were also there in my cousin's house who came there earlier week to attend the marriage i missed i.e., is of my cousin. Every one was busy in the after marriage works and so not all were so surprised as my parents were, but every one started asking why i came after the marriage is over.
The first two days i went by the same way which i follow when ever i go to home i.e., going to Nallakunta and meet my friends and to my old house (again in Nallakunta) where one of my cousin and their family lives. When i was in train,I thought i will spend the whole week in home but sadly the first two days i was in nallakunta, third day in Ramantapur, and the next two days shopping followed by meeting my school friend.

I never thought that my trip will end with me not staying at home on any of the days (during day time). However, i planned (with my parents) of their trip to kolkata in April ending(hope they won't come to my hall and room :P).

One of the achievements of my trip is that i overcame one of my weakness as i feel it is, which is that i never go to railway station to give anyone send off, at least from my 5th class up to 10th, i never went and before 5th i neither remember nor expect any such case. That is because i feel that something is taking away someone or something from me, when some one is leaving by the train (may be i felt too sad, when i went to give any one send off earlier in my life but i don't remember of any such incident). I still remember the incident when i went to station ( in my 10th) to give send off to my dad when he was leaving to someplace on some office work. Actually dad asked me to come to station. I wanted to go but my fear of going to station to give send off was stopping me. Still i went. To the extent i remember, that is the only time in my life that i went to give any one send off untill last week and i still remember how i felt on that day. I was normal until the train arrived but when the train started to leave and as my dad's coach started going away from me, i could see i had tears in my eyes. There was no reason to get tears as i know that my dad will return in 3-4 days. I was on a platform in the railway station and the tears from my eyes were unstoppable. I couldn't control myself and that is the reason why i never went to station thereafter to give anyone send off.

However this time when i went to home, i dared to do that. I went to the station to leave my cousin (nallakunta guy hehe..) who came to Home just like me but came a little early (thus could attend the marriage) and even went early. Strangely we both have the same names at home 'Bachi' though from the same family. Actually i wanted to try this with him i.e., wanted to go to give him send off because i chat (internet) with him at least once in a day even though i don't see him. So i felt i don't feel sad when i try this with him. My expectations were right. I went to the station came back with out any tears. My dear bachi there are no tears for u hahaha...It might appear silly but i treat that as an achievement as i know the pain i had earlier. Thank you bachi.
Well, with this i felt my bunking labs and going home also payed me :) .

Those 2 minutes..

The day i had Thermodynamics mid sem exam (2-4 PM), i went to mess and came back to my room at 1 PM and with a book in my hand i was lying on bed, fully tired as i didn't sleep the earlier night. I did not know when i closed my eyes, but when i opened my eyes i realized its 5PM. Then started various thoughts wandering in my mind...what happened??Exam time is over..did i give the exam..noo..then what was i doing.. for about a minute i was fully confused and then when i became sure of what happened, the next TWO MINUTES (probably the toughest ones of my life) i felt like living in hell.

Then i washed my face to come down and started thinking what to do..then, i immediately ran to my senior, salman sunny who advised me to meet the professor of that subject (A.K.Thakur, also my Fac-Ad coincidentally). I went to his office which was locked then and also i didn't take my phone with me to make a call. Then with out a second thought i asked some unknown person for his phone (later i came to know he is elec. dept prof S. Mukhopadyay as a week later, he came to teach us an electrical course which i took as my breadth subject). He could see signs of worry in my face and gave his phone saying "there is low balance..but its sufficient to make one single call". Thank you sir!! But that had not helped me much as my fac-ad's phone was switched off.

As i could find no way to meet my prof, i sat in front of library thinking what to do, which resulted in medical certi idea. So, i went back to my room, took medical book and went to B.C.Roy hospital. Initially, i told the doctor "presently i am alright but afternoon, i had severe head ache because of which i also missed my exam and so i may need medical certi". The doctor could immediately understand from my words that there is no head ache but i just need a med. certi. He wrote some heavy biological terms in my medical book to make it look a severe problem and told me to meet the professor and find out in what exact form the medical certi is needed. By the time i met my proff and came back for med. certi. that doctor went on leave. So, i had to contact Head, who was very rude. She told me i won't get any med. certi. inspite of seeing the heavy biological terms, as i was not in the hospital during the exam time. She also frightened me saying "now you have no way other than supplementary exam". So, i waited till the doctor was back to the Hospital and explained him the whole situation. Thanx alot to that doctor.. he managed to get me a med. certi. with out letting the Head knew about it.

With the med. certi. i went to my proff, who told me to get the med. certi. so, we both went to B.K. Mathur, Phy dep head who says "there is no need of any med. certi. for the mid sem exam (required only for end sem), a professor of a subject can conduct a re-exam if he is convinced with the reason provided by the student". Thus all mine and doctor's efforts for getting med. certi. went in vain, as re-exam was conducted with out even looking at it. Though i felt like i got killed once, it became the incident that i can never forget. At that time, i thought no more such incidents can happen in my life but it almost happened twice again though not of that intensity.

Second time:
This time it was on quantum mech end sem exam day (at 9 AM) on which almost the same was about to happen but my room-mate woke me up at 9:20 AM and so i could reach the exam hall by 9:30. Though i was late by half an hour, it didn't matter to me as i could finish that exam much before the deadline. But the comic part of it was when i entered the hall, i was given statistical mech question paper instead of quantum mech which i took with out noticing. I sat in my place and was relaxing for sometime as i came in a hurry. when i saw the question paper i could understand some questions, but i felt i knew answers for none of them. I felt its right that i did not prepare well but not to the extent of knowing zero answers and thought i am still half asleep and so waited for 5 more min. Then i realized that it is not my paper and went to the proff Krishna Kumar to get the correct one who asks me "y r u saying this after 40 min??now u continue with that paper itself :P" as he did not observe me coming late by half an hour. Then the right paper was given and i could finish the exam in 1 hour itself,as i did not prepare well.

Third time:
This time it was not on exam day, but the day i planned to go home. Train was scheduled at 9:10 AM. When i got up from bed it was 8:45 AM and i was not done with packing too. Just washed my face, took the clothes on the table (which i washed the earlier day and kept on table) put them in a bag and ran to krishna travels (by 8:55Am)which is just about 100 m from my (Patel) hall, took a taxi and was in the station by 9:05 AM. Thus i could catch the train.

First time, I felt tensed, worried and for a sec, i even thought i did the biggest mistake one can ever do. But after the first experience, never there was any sign of worry in my life and during the second incident i was so cool that, though i woke up at 9:20 when the exam starts at 9,i washed my face, set my hair which normally takes at least 5 min (as i had a very long and irregular hair at that time) but didn't take my calci as i felt its not necessary. From that day my friends tease me saying whatever the situation may be, i may forget calci but not setting my hair :D

Hope there won't be any fourth incident, had enough of them.