19th Nov, It was a another Sunday morning, I woke up around 8. Last night I watched the new James bond movie Casino Royale with Rohinton (my MCA batch mate who also works in Pune) and my cousin at E-Square. We came back around 1 in the morning.
I thought I would have breakfast at Niranjan and then will go to center. I walked down from my house till Niranjan thinking about the things that happened on CAT Sunday seven years back. Almost the whole 3rd block (the
All these thoughts were crossing my mind when I reached the center and this time there was no Pandit helping me find my seat number. Tublu called at that time to wish me luck. I just saw the crowd out there, who had come to give exam, I was looking the odd man out. Do I need to say what differentiated me from them? Well you guessed it right, I was the old guy in between all the young blood. All anxious faces doing their last minute preparation before the BIG EXAM.
When I sat on the seat, it felt so nice to sit in an exam hall after such along time and that too without any pressure. Though there was no familiar face around - last time it was Joy sitting ahead of me. Those two and a half hours flew and truly speaking this time I was able to concentrate better then last time, though there was a good looking babe sitting ahead of me and was constantly swinging her long hair in front of my face.
After the exam, it was the same scene - people discussing the answers with their friends. Some looked happy as the paper was easy. Some looked gloomy as English was tough and they feared that they would not clear the sectional cut-off. Others, who did not do that well were looking really sad. Looking at them made me feel me very nice that few years back we all were like them. I was missing all of you folks and the golden days we had. And how with time we all have gone at different corners of world busy with our own lives and doing well in what ever we are doing. Though only two of us managed to clear CAT, and there’s only one idiot still trying for that :-) . Yes folks its me. But then its CAT which made me remember so many things.
I am sure people to write such a thing again, do not know which year, but will do so again.…
3 comments:
There are two things which I cant believe
1)You still sit for CAT
2)Obvious one – that you wrote the article….. J
There was no name of Mohit jha mentioned anywhere so it took me a while to guess that who is this guy who gave CAT with me way bk in 1999 in the previous century.
Great post…. Expecting more such ones.
In fact the first thing i remember of that day in 1999 in SP College was Tublu doing last min study... yes even for an aptitude test like CAT (prob the 1st one to do so). And also i remember A2 da being there. It was a very cold morning (12th Dec).
Great post Mohit. I still remember the discussion which we had a day before cat 99 with the great Picu Bhatia abt the billion dollar business plan and tasaru :)
Joy I was looking at the formula's :P
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