short.. but good!!

Shot-1

JAN 31-2010 : 4-35PM

Dude, it was that useless auto chap at Jogeshwari !! Hey.., but what about ur sleeping for another 10 mins?
I would rather blame it on the slow locals upto Dadar, and the other which stood for 2 mins at the prev station(Masjid station) to CST.

OK FINE!!! forget it mann!! i fell short of around 10-15 seconds!! thats it!! i missed my train to pune!! its done! dont think of it anymore!
Dratt!! now how i got to go back to Dadar and pick up a bus to Pune!

And again goes my mind:
I could see the train leave the platform da... it was a matter of 10 seconds at most, for my defeat in the sprint to the train!!

aaaahh!! i cant believe it!!

I had been to Rohit's place in Mumbai for the weekend and was to return to pune this evening by the 4-30 train.. i missed it...!

Contemplating on my 15 seconds deficit, i got a range of very genuine factors which played spoilsport to my catching the train!!
An auto-driver took about 25 mins to reach the local station against the general 5 mins! Then the local train to Dadar, n switching railway lines to reach CST!!
The scenes were playing again and again !!

Ohh!! the ATM has no cash!! Shucks!! Let me try the third and last atm at CST; i have no cash in wallet to get back home!! I tore the train ticket with an anger that was basically out of disappointment!

I recalled.. it just cant be my fault.. GOD decided it, say for some good reason!! This is what BABA always says.. that nothing happens without HIS Will..

Now my anger shifts towards GOD, and every time my anger is directed to GOD, it takes HIM a second to cheer me up! So too was in this case!!

I left to Dadar for a pune bus.. loooong line!! aaaah!! An alloy of anger and irritation raised !!

" chod baba.. load mat le yaar.. aaram se jao na yaar.. "- said Rohit, with his ever-smiling face!!

OH MY GOD!! Rohit was with me all the while..!!!

"yes Rohit.. i was 15 seconds SHORT.. but i surely loved this extra 2hours!! a thrilling experience today with u!!:) " - i told rohit mentally!!

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Shot-2 :

Mar 24-2010: 9:09 PM

What the... helll !!!!
we are out?? dude, hey captain, .. are we out???
man, tell me we are not out.. i cant take it man!!

i was in tears.. literally in tears..

Heart shrunk to the size of a pebble from a conch n i felt blood being squeezed out!!

Dude, we won the first 4 matches.. and there were 2 more to go.. but the ego had set in,..

BAS-KYA-DOST team !! it rocks man.. we will slaughter any team, i used to say out..
i felt like MahaBali, when Vamana Avatar in HIS great Splendour and Size demanded MahaBali for one more foot of land..

yes, our team's ego was thrashed.. we did not even know of its existence earlier!!

HOW??
We won 4 matches on 4. Table Toppers!!
The next 2 matches are against the easiest of teams to be faced, we got to know.

We lost the 5th, scheduled last week, by a run.. We gave away the victory to them..!!
We still didnt get up from our pride-slumber!! Rather that loss was not enough an alarm for us :(
Coz, we told ourselves, "we virtually won that match!!" [ i repent for that now !! ]

Today.. the 6th match.. the opposite team had 3 players short.. yet our shots found the fielders' hands!! YES, we lost in a most embarrasing manner..

"Never Mind, we will smash the other teams in Quarter Final, Semi, n the Final" - we told.
I thought we were thus self-confident!

Alas, we had been lured by the lust of fame! BAS-KYA-DOST fame had reached all nooks and corners of Avaya after all !!

We took for granted that no other team is going to win 4 matches to grab us off our QF spot!!
but the online-score/points table talked otherwise.. yes.. we felt 'cheated',.. by ourselves!!
We then calculated that... had we scored 5 runs more, we would have been through!!


What is disappointing is we never knew uptil now that we were already out.. !!

" i found very good friends in my team.. all of them are sweet hearted but we are still young blooded.. tend to make mistakes!! but we learnt!! yes we learnt!!"

SHORT of 5 runs.. but somehow i got 5 times closer to my DOSTS!! :)
BAS KYA DOSTTTT !! :)
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BEING SHORT IS BEING GOOD, Baby!! :) hehe!!

OR, simply putting it, GOD makes everything happen for the bestttt!! :) Cheers! :)