Of Weekends, Alumni Meets & EARTHQUAKES

Well Well Well........ This is as excited and happening as it can get. Weekends which were always the most sought after but yet the most boring and uneventful ones had a different story to tell this time round.

It all started off with the ever exciting, most awaited Friday evening with a dear friend of mine Tarique bhai who treated me with beer, crab, fish and more sumptous chinese delights, followed as usual by Old Monk which was like a topping on the cake.
I was looking forward to the following day (Saturday) as we had our Alumni Meet for the Delhi Chapter at IHC, Delhi.
It was a real treat to meet some old friends and lost lost seniors at the occasion which was indeed a remarkable effort by our juniors who took it on them to organise the entire event. The event started with some informal introductions and then some formal ones, interactions with some old and some very old seniors as well as juniors. The entire crowd could have been divided into different sets of people. Some trying to catch up with seniors who could be helpful in their career pursuit as they were working in the same industry or functional areas. The other half having a gala time with their own lost out batchmates with whom they lost touch with. A small fraction (esp the juniz) were busy with the arrangements and were aiming towards a prospective database of alumni who could be helpful for the institute in many aspects. It was strange that even in the midst of all this hullaballu everybody had a connection with everybody else. Some leg pulling from here, some taunts from there. It was pure fun. It all ended with some lovely dinner and the typical IIFM anthem sung with full pomp and unison.

That was as good as it could get and just when I started to think that the remaining weekend would be boring, up came Old Monk again and Saturday was past. I woke up surprisingly with a heavy head (had caught a cold - dont blame Old Monk), bid Tarique bhai good bye as he was to leave for Raipur that morning. I kept sleeping then till afternoon, did nothing all day as was not feeling like doing anything. The test match kept me busy and they were also screening Desperado on AXN. So came the evening. Old Monk resurfaced. My brother was supposed to come back with his family that night. They came, we chatted and caught up on the events that had taken place over tha past few days and went off to sleep early, in the hope of getting a good sleep.

Yeah i remember theres an EARTHQUAKE mentioned in the title of the post and i'm coming to it guys........ As i was saying, I slept off and in the middle of the chilly night came a tremor, I felt I was dreaming and suddenly the bottle of water beside me fell to the ground. It never struck to me that it could be an earthquake. It lasted for a few seconds and I didnt care about it as I was too drowsy to understand whats going on. Back to sleep again.

My phone rings at around 5 in the morning. Prashant (one of my juniors on his internship in Delhi) calls up and enquires how am I. I was furious, Why do have to call at 5 in the morning to ask me that when i left you at 9 in the night. Obviously I'm okay. He then told me that there was an earthquake shock that Delhi had experienced now. I started to regain conciousness....... remember what I thought as a dream????? Well thankfully I was fine and so was everybody else. I started thinking that what if it comes again but I was too lazy to get out of my bed. I thought "If it has to happen then be it, I dont wanna screw up my sleep" but I was staring at the ceiling of my room above which were 4 floors. This suddenly made me realise of the very vulnareable position that I was in just in case theres an earthquake. It also reminded me of all the tiny insects, flies, mosquitoes that I had squashed. It seemed that in the event of an earthquake all those insects would join forces and request to God to give me the same kind of treatment. All this made me realize that I did not want to die.... At least not like this!!!!! So unwanting though I got off my bed and the love to not die took me to the door from where I looked outside and saw that it was an empty scene. So I came back thinking all is well....... That marked the end of the eventful weekend that I had but it left me with some questions.....

1. What if Delhi would actually experience an earthquake??????
2. What happens to the country then??????
3. What happens to the economy??????
4. Will Pakistan suddenly launch an attack on India to seize this golden opportunity?????
5. Why cant we relocate the country's capital to a place which does not fall in the siesmic zone????
6. @ Alumni Meet - When will I go back to IIFM, Bhopal????? :(
(I know thoughts no 4, 5, 6 are really foolish and kiddish but remember I was sleeping, so I am allowed to think insane ;))

Well thats it folks!!!!!!! Catch you up on my next post!!!!!!!!!