It was a cold winter morning of the last week of December 1999. I, with my family had boarded the train from Indore (a small town in MP) to Delhi, the previous evening. It had arrived at the Old Delhi Railway station at 5 am. With a few and scattered auto-wallas, the place was still in slumber. I (aged 10), my parents and my elder brother (aged 14), seated ourselves in an auto-rickshaw.
Going further back in time,
I was born in Delhi. When I was 3, we had moved to Indore due to my father's transfer. Indore, was a well-knit city with full of warmth.
Life or rather childhood, was and so much fun. I would wake up at 7.30 for my school starting at 8. It was, and sadly so, an all boys Christian school. But I would still sneak into an all girls school nearby once my school got over. Not yet 10 and I was already being thrown out, by the guards.
Great beginning, Dude.
Being the teacher’s favorite(I hated that..), I was the class-monitor and was responsible for getting everybody else’s ass kicked. It gave a devilish pleasure(..smirking). I went to a crache where I met Prachi, my first crush. Again, hardly 10 and already a first crush. Woohoo..!! She had amazing green eyes.
In the evening, I would run to my mom to show her any good remarks that I got in school that day. After a quick snack I would pick up my bicycle, chase Prachi down to her home. After returning, I with my friends would go playing and eat icecreams with whatever little we had collected as the pocket money. Being extremely naughty and troublesome, I got a lotta beating from my elder brother. Such a useless brat.
Toute et Toute, a life which many of us, lived and a lot more who wished they had..!!
Coming back..
The auto-walla blarred the horn. We drove past the old red fort and some other monuments, huge buildings, some sort of river-body; on my way to my nani's house. I would see these big named schools buses rushing past us in a hurry. Well dressed kids flashing their heads out of the bus and looking at me as if asking ‘Why are you here..?’. Then, I had made up my mind. One of these days I would sit in one of those buses and study at the best possible schools, colleges in the city.
It was 28th of May 2005, my X class CBSE-board result was out. I had scored a well deserved 94% which was good enough to take me to DPS.RK Puram (a big named school...which I had always cherished). I don’t know why but I took up Science Stream(May be it was the dream to study at an IIT which fuelled it). I prepared very hard for IIT-JEE 2007. But, not hard enough. I had cleared it but not with a great rank. I joined I.P University. I appeared again, cleared J.E.E again, but to my dismay not worth a rank again. A silver lining this time was, I successfully cleared the C.E.E-08, which brought me to Delhi College of Engineering (and I'm still proud of it).
I am pursuing B.E in Information Technology.
That should be enough for the introduction..!!
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