I believe....

Yesterday(in chronological order)…..

Exams got over .
Got rejected by Company 1.
A friend back in school days called after 7 years.
Got rejected by Company 2.

“main roun ya hansoon……karoon main kya karoon”

Neways…. Let me tell you all a little incident. I was filling up the form for a company few hours before my exam in the department.

“a Adarsh Shekhar…”

He sounded like my batchmate…. So I didn’t bother to look up and almost blurted out “bol” but then settled with a “hmmmm”

“You don’t have exams today?”

Why is he asking that?? I looked up and…… to my utter surprise …. He was my Supervisor.

Moral of the story: EYE-BELIEVE.

Talking about beliefs….. all of us believe in one thing or the other. In lay-man’s vocabulary… Superstitions. More often than not there aren’t any reason but yes….. people do believe…. Some feebly….some very strongly (jai (k)ekta maiyya ki)

I am also one of them…… gradually shifted from the strong domain to the weak one.

Over the years…. I have had many superstitions. But ‘due to unavoidable circumstances’, I had to let go of them sometimes. Let me recall some of them….

1. I don’t shave during exams. The latest exception was on my 22^nd Birthday (Birthday tha yaar…..). I think this harms me a great deal. When everything goes fine, enter the bloody exams….. I appear (accidentally or not) before my probable GFs in my jhingalala avatar and then…. FULL STOP.
2. I give all my exams in the same set of clothes. [All my exams == all papers of a particular mid-sem or end-sem.] I have a particular set of formals… in which I have given my 2^nd JEE, GRE, TOEFL…. a mid-sem /end-sem sandwiched in between.
3. I used to do a mini-puja , with agarbatti and all, before exams till my second year at IIT. This is not exactly a superstition but I used to start the sequence of bath-puja-dress-lunch-exam at approximately the same clock-hour before each paper. I still follow the same sans the puja.
4. Apart from exams, the other thing in which I followed some superstitions was CRICKET + TEAM INDIA. [The recent run of Team India is responsible for the previous sentence being in the past tense]. Here also my superstitions were restricted more or less to my dress. During the World Cup 2003, I changed my dress after India lost to Australia in the league (actually I didn’t mind changing my dress after that match) and watched all the remaining matches of my team in the same dress. It worked you see….. India won 8 consecutive matches except the Final. ( I never claimed that superstitions always work :P ) That was my contribution to Team India’s campaign in the World Cup.

In the late 90s this belief of mine was stronger. I remember sitting in the same posture till India won in a match in 1998 (I can give you the details but all of you would not connect to it).

Another instance that I remember is when Australia toured India… 1996 or 1998… I don’t remember now. I watched the first match (that India won) in a pink half-shirt. On the day of the next match, my mom forced me to have a hair-cut and she was prepared to wash that shirt too. I tried hard … but you know how moms are. I had to go. But I couldn’t let my team lose just like that. So I returned from mid-way and told mom that some dogs chased me and I couldn’t go further.I couldn’t save the shirt from being washed but yes… I managed to save some luck for my team by not cutting my hair. I was a good fan … you see.

So these are some of the few superstitions that I follow(ed). And I, hereby, TAG all of you to share some (I won’t mind All) of your superstitions…..hee-haa-haa-haa.
Okay….its on your wish but Godiva, Darsh and Cardamom are officially Tagged.

I am waiting……
C ya