I was telling somebody how much luck I bring to everyone. And I consider everyone who studied alongwith me in the same batch as I did to be really blessed. And if you were in the same states at the same time as I was then oh my! you are as elite as I am! Our fundamentals are very strong. Why? Because we studied the same thing over and over again. Check it out:
1992:
When I was in my 7th standard in AP, it was the public exam and I was all serious about it. That’s when it all started. My fundamentals really becoming strong you see! The exams got canceled because papers leaked. And I had to study all over again!
Three years, weak in fundamentals phase went on. Then God became kind.
1995:
10th standard, AP, yet again paper leaked. Fundamentals that much more stronger now!
After I passed out of my school, the school itself closed down! Whew! That was close! And in the meanwhile, the school in which I studied till my 3rd standard also closed down. Well, if you thought that was some track record, then read ahead.
Two years later, another fundamentals revision class.
1997:
Intermediate II year (XII Std) AP, after we wrote our first two exams, we went to the examination center as usual on the “Mathematics/ Biology” day. Some newspaper, I don’t remember which one, it doesn’t exist today, had printed the entire paper on its first page. (I was about to type homepage! LOL!) There you go. I would have got 100% in all those subjects!
Same year:
IIT JEE papers leaked. For the first time in the history of IITs, the exam was canceled and rescheduled. I would have got through the first time you know! You are reading a blog of a could-ve-been IITian.
EAMCET, AP, paper format was changed that year. For the only time in its history as well as future. Never again have they introduced that stupid analytical type of paper!
CET, Karnataka, counselling sessions got scheduled and canceled and confusion prevailed before they allowed us to pick an engg seat.
Oh and yeah! My Intermediate college closed down after that!
Somehow scraped through all this. Made it to some college of engineering where thankfully the processes were more stable and even if the paper leaked (no proof of that) we never came to know(sad though!).
By the time we were about to have our campus placements, the IT boom was supposed to be at its peak. So, we had the best placements ever. With the highest salary ever and all that! But by the time we were about to finish our engg and join those companies, the bubble burst! And we also received the highest number of offer-revoking letters ever! A few companies ceased to exist! Anyway, that can be termed a coincidence if you want. My leg cannot have that reach!
By the time we finished our engg, it was September 11, 2001. And Osama thought it was the right time to strike US. Does he also belong to my batch? Well, terrorising thought! So, let me leave it at that.
I joined my first company Intelligroup in Hyderabad and there were strong rumours that Wipro was going to take over the company but before the rumours could subside I shifted to CMC. Now CMC doesn’t exist anymore. It’s taken over by TCS.
I joined Oracle after that. And for the first time in the history of the organization they laid off people on a global level. Think about the the customer for whom I write software. UWB. It’s being taken over by IDBI now!
Oh! I forgot this one. I decided to write Subject GRE in 2002. And had applied for it and booked a date. Again a never before never again thing happened. Afterall, my leg na. It was cancelled. No reasons given. Money was refunded.
The college from which I did my engineering was affiliated to Osmania Unversity all these days. Now OU itself will not be there. It’s going to be made an IIT.
Then, I started blogging enthusiastically and had posted three posts in a week when the Governement of India blocked blogs itself.
And now, I am going to write an exam in the month of December. Do you know why I don’t believe in the words “All the best” now? Leg anna leg! I know.
I first thought that all you said was true and was wondering when you studied at CFTRI. But when I read Engg from OU, I knew what it was. :)
Well, I am surely not jinxed as compared to all this. :P
If its your own story ..Hmm.. but ultimately, I beleive things happen for a reason. We feel frustated just becoz we don’t expect it to happen that way. When we take diversions from our destined routes we have to struggle to come back..enjoying the struggle is one part of it !!
does blogrolling you also have similar effects? :P
anyways, I am happy that OU->IIT (though proposal is still on tables) as I can say with pride that I am an IIT alumnus ;)
oh my GOD what a luck!!!mm So u rock wherever u go is it?
bari leg alla…. “maTAsh leg” annu!
wow adi ! that is some ‘achievement’..hehehe..;-)
Good that all these things are only on the educational/professional front and not on the personal front !!
great news about OU becoming IIT…I too, like pavan said, will become IIT alumnus :-)
Adi, whom are you talking about? It’s definitely not you though!
But compared to this one, Hardu’s jinxes are nothing :P She just makes people move.. this person though forces colleges itself to shutdown! too much man!
ಲೊ, ಇನ್ನು ಸ್ವಲ್ಪ ದಿನ ಬಿಟ್ರೆ blogspotನೇ ಮುಚ್ಚಿಸಿ ಬಿಡ್ತಿಯಾ ಅನ್ಸುತ್ತೆ.
ಆಮೆಲೆ ಈ factಊ fictionಊ ಎಲ್ಲ ಮಿಕ್ಸ್ ಮಾಡಿ ಪೊಸ್ಟ್ ಬರಿ ಬೇಡ ಗುರು, ಮೊದ್ಲೇ ಮೆಮೊರಿ ಬಹಳ ವೀಕು ಅದರ ಮೇಲೆ ನೀನು ಈ ಥರ postಗಳು ಬರ್ದು ಬಿಟ್ರೆ ಒಳ್ಳೆ ನಮ್ಮ ಹಳೆ Cyrix-233 MhZ ಕಂಪ್ಯೂಟರ್ ಥರ ನಿಮಿಷಕ್ಕೆ 3 ಬಾರಿ hang ಆಗಿ ಬಿಡ್ತೀನಿ.
Anyway, it now sinks in… the very fact that I am sitting in my office and writing this comment in spite of being from the same batch is nothing less than a miracle.
“And now, I am going to write an exam in the month of December.”
hey m.s.:
how long ago was it that you announced you were visiting a certain country in a certain month of this year? did you tell adi that you might come visiting? he is already charting out an exam excuse/ruse!!
- s.b.
Hardu:
This is not at all fiction. 100% truth and has happened.
Your claims on being that jinxed might not really be strong enough in front of this! :)
Pavithra:
The beauty of this is that when you go through this, you don’t really feel the pinch. Once you are through it and everything is fine it makes for wonderful story-telling! :)
But yeah the struggle, once it becomes that, is really something that makes you come out as a stronger person.
Pavan:
Well, there have been a few reports on that. But I would like to believe that they are all coincidences. Though you might not want to believe me! ;)
And yeah, for every OU alumnus, this is now a big brand equity boost. Even otherwise, OU has a great brand equity. But I am not really sure about the affiliated colleges!
Shubha:
Seriously rock! :) Wanna try it out?! ;)
Anonymous:
Correct maga! :)
Would be IIT Alumnus Jo:
Shubh shubh bolo yar! Shubh shubh! Personal front – touchwood! Everything is fine. I don’t want to be overoptimistic but it couldn’t get better I guess! :)
Shark:
Bingo! Not me, but it is someone’s true story. Not fiction at all. It’s not an autobiography, but a biography with the narrator being “I” that’s all!
Well, Hardu kis khet ki muli hai yaar! ;) :P
*Hiding behind the nearest wall*
Shastri:
LOL Sari guru! But idralli fiction enu illa. Everything is true. Just that the narrator – “I” – was narrating the story of somebody else who went through all of this.
Cyrix 233 Mhz for 33k. Hmmm… great comp maatra! Estu service kodtu papa nammge!
s.b.
I didn’t know she was coming here! Now, that you know it’s not my story, I guess I have to meet her! :(
Or will I move by then?!! LOL!
Adi:
“The beauty of this is that when you go through this, you don’t really feel the pinch. Once you are through it and everything is fine it makes for wonderful story-telling! :) ”
100 marks to you.. Really ,I never felt the pinch, not even once…
Sudhakar:
Thanks!
*Blushing*
Perhaps for the first ever in my life I ve got good marks somewhere!
To All of you:
Now you know whose story it was! The guy who hasn’t thankfully felt the pinch and I wish and pray that he never feels the pinch either!
Way to go Sudhakar! :) Keep it going! ;) :P
Adi u have made a History!
“Printed the entire paper on its first page” it’s the ultimate of the series. Imagine if all Newspapers print the Question paper of the Exams, sure every one will get 100 out of 100:)
Jeevan:
It’s true. The entire paper was printed on the first page of the newspaper. And we were all so shocked. But being the good students we were we went into the exam hall and wrote the entire paper sincerely. The frustration when you come to know that the exam has been canceled flies away when you know that there is one month vacation before the rescheduled exams begin! So, there we go off to play whatever we want to… Video games, etc.
Yappa!!! adenu kaal aa athwa bagaal aa??
Mast maja bantu odi…full kooLe.
Viky:
LOL!
Btw, bagaal andre enu sisya?
Adi, I think you must be very happy now… LRMB is indeed going to the oscars!
Coincidences… and any designs?
Everything happens for the good…BTW, I was associated with Raj Koneru’s dotcom for a while.
Shark:
The minute I saw that news I was jumping around. That’s very very good news. Added to this, there is the news that RDB is applying to more categories than only ‘Best Foreign Feature Film’, which is indeed superb news! I really hope atleast one of these films win atleast one Oscar. They deserve to win. The effort is there, recognition is awaited!
Pradeep:
My designs seem to be less powerful than the coincidences! LOL!
Thanks for coming here! :)
Kishor:
Yeah. I also think the same way.
Which one was Raj Koneru’s dotcom?
kaalu iTTa takshaNa mucchoytalla, adne bagaal annodu….
Can be used interchangably with “maTaash leggu”.
Hey adi, very good write up man.
I am happy that even i could recollect all the things(95%) happened to me either.
But i guess one correction “I joined my first company Intelligroup in Hyderabad and there were strong rumours that Wipro was going to take over the company but before the rumours could subside I shifted to CMC”.
i guess first company for him is CMC right?
Adi,
From now on before I do something, I’ll be sure to check with you… just to ensure you are not doing the same :-)
Good post… the coincidences are mind boggling… let us know what happens in December…
Viky:
That one’s for the kannada glossary e-mail fwd! ;)
Kittu:
He told me that Intelligroup was his first company. I need to check with him on this.
Thanks! :)
Vijay:
Please do check. Or else I will announce whatever I am getting into on my blog and then proceed to do it! LOL! What say? Will save so many of you the trouble of checking with me! :P :P
Kittu / Mysorean:
Well, thats true ,CMC is my first company but i’m associated with I.G too and the rumors are still floating on..
Didn’t correct you as I felt it doesn’t make much difference.
I donot know who you are but the way you have told about your fundamentals of schooling till college and the way it went on till your JOB is very very nice . I guess you can try putting the same efforts in some writings so that would be useful for us . I got this link from your friends webpage thats Mr.Sudhakar’s ..Anyways i really enjoyed reading your blog hope the Govt does not block this . he he he he he he he he he
Sheela
Sudhakar:
That’s okay. It added to the aura! ;)
Sheela:
Hi, first time here! Welcome!
Thanks for your comment! I really hope they don’t block blogs!
Do read a few of the archived posts, maybe they will interest you! :)
full masti, odta odta are idu nijaana anso ashTu kutoohala bantu, maatra yaaro puNyaatma ne sari :-)
sakkat maja bantu.
Veena:
:)