facing upto the music!

well trying to break free from the self imposed exile,i return to the arena nd d only place where i get to review my inner self..................nd since being different is the "in" thing right nw,so i will try to showcase a lighter aspect of my life..............one which cud be narrated publicly coz most of the other funny incidents which i have gone thru can only be shared among guys...........u all no y...........after all "men are from mars and women from venus" .....................and if both the sexes are treated alike it can create havoc in one's life and cud easily tumble the prevalent social order.................so narrating a chapter of my life which i found to be funny in ways more than one........................it happened way back in march..............when after toiling hard for a year and a half preparing for the coveted CAT............ i cud barely manage to get a call from one lesser known institute called LIBA and that too i applied for it juz to get a feel of the interview process.........................needless to say i wasnt too gung ho abt the opportunity nd didnt take it seriously nt that i wud have cracked it had i been serious....................bt i was more optimistic that than realistic at that particular point of time that i cud into a A+ institute in d future much better than LIBA............so treating it like a holiday,i trodded off to kolkata...............kolkata,being one of my fav cities,was a welcome respite from the uncluttered,unsophisticated and unglamorous life of bbsr..............so i reached my interview centre with an uncluttered and pleasant state of mind...........on reaching thr i found one of my collmates and one of my senior also thr.................so the milieu wasnt too unfamiliar...........after a brief conversation with my acquaintances i headed straight off into the gd room...........................topic of discussion was "is it necessary to follow the rat race of life to achieve success"......................as usual there was lot of chaos and i cud enter the discussion only once or twice..............preferring to look at the eye candies instead...................and as a last hope to impress the panel members and salvage my pride invited a few of my hopeless and awestruck colleagues to enter into the melee.........................so gd was done and dusted...................it was nw time for the pi session.............and my turn was after an hour or so............so i was juz chatting with my collmate...........in the meanwhile out of nowhere,a sweet little thing came and sat beside me..............i juz cudnt believe my luck and instead of focussing on d ensuing pi,i initiated a conversation with d new guest...................nd believe me einstein was rite wen he stated the theory of relativity in layman's term as "Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute,and it seems like an hour.Sit with a pretty girl for an hour and it seems like a second.".......................i cud feel the theory coming to life...............and within seconds(in the new frame of reference) i was called for the ordeal...................unaware i went away hurriedly completing last min formalities..................the interview started with a few hr questions juz to break the ice..................however none of it was reqd,coz i was already super cool...................the topic of discussion then veered towards my and most of the other guy's passion ie. cricket...........i shot back even before the questions got completed and even gave certain extraneous information just to prove hw much a genius i m................like he asked me abt my fav. player............i gave a cliched answer...........sachin...........then he asked me abt his last hundred.............i told him abt his knock of 160 unbeaten odd runs against the kiwis.................then seeing my enthu.............he asked against which particular bowler he scored maximum of his runs...........i immediately replied back Tim Southee with a wide grin on my face...........then he asked how much did he score against vettori.............i continuing in d same vein said that vettori was missing from the match as his wife was about to conceive................that was it i thought they r sure to take me in ,nt that i wud over the moon bt atleast a favourable result over here was one way to prove my mettle.............bt life is nt that simple as it seems.....................obviously impressed by my cricketing knowledge,they asked whether i had the same amount of interest in general knowledge.....................i was in a fix wat to say coz as matter of fact i was very poor in gk and that too is an understatement coz the only thing which excited me in a morning newspaper was cricketing news,bollywood gossips and pics of sexy babes in skimpy clothes.............my efforts in gk in both IIFT and SNAP resulted in negatives scores 2.............................bt i was optimistic that perhaps by a wave of some magic wand i wud be able to tide over my weakness..........and to keep up my impression i said a very faint "YES"......................and that was the turning point if u can call it so..........else for me what followed was no less than a catastophe........................like he asked who is the telecommunication minister................as usual i didn't had a clue................then changing his stance from one of admiration to that of displeasure he rebuked me that as a telecommunication engineer this is the least u should know.................i quietly put up my hands wondering what else is in store.................he then asked me my views abt the ongoing events in singur which i was hardly aware of.....................explain the ethical principles of TATA group as i was from a place which is governed and maintained by the TATA STEEL......................i cud mumble up a few lines...................then he asked me about the interim budget and who presented it..................i recalled that as far as my knowledge goes Mr P Chidambram had been the finance minister but after 26/11 he was shifted to the home ministry and PM Manmohan Singh handled the finance ministry position till the new elections were held...................so going by logic he must have presented the budget...............so with gr8 conviction i said PM Manmohan Singh....................bt the interviewer asked that wasn't the PM not well and in ICU for a heart implant surgery at that particular point of time.................to which i replied no he got ill after presenting the budget as if he acquired a stroke after forsighting the repercussions............the person on the other side gave me a blank look and i cud nt gauge the accuracy of my guess at that moment.............he then wrapped up the interview with a few more questions rearding the industry minister,hw to get over recession bla bla of which i answered only a selected few...................when i came out i was aware how much i had spilled up a gr8 start and wanted to thrash the person who famously said that"well begun is half done"..................it certainly wasn't the case with me..............thats for sure.........wen i chatted with my friends they told me that the answer i gave regarding the interim budget was absurd to say the least coz the fact was that interim budget was presented by pranab mukherjee and the PM was indeed sick at that time...............i realized my stupidity although nt for the first time and wanted to leave on a happy note by chattin for the last time with that pretty young thing ..............bt was even denied that and told to leave the place immediately....................i wondered hw cruel life can be and the place which reverbrated a joie de vivre in me was stinking and wanted to leave the place and the city immediately...............i was nt disappointment abt the imminent outcome bt was disheartened by the sudden change in the state of affairs....................someone once correctly said "Good Things come in small packages"..........................