Exam week was not grilling this time.Dont let this first line cause you hallucinations that I was well prepared for the exams beforehand. It was simply becoz by the third term if anything at all I've learnt in MBA, its what the Geeta says "fal ki chinta mat karo" but with a subtle manoeuvring from my side; I say "karm bhi mat karo". After all studying doesnt help at all if you get "form the sentences" questions in your exam & you are asked to write down exactly the same sentence as those bloodsucker authors wrote while crookedly trying to make their book more voluminous. Not with my gold-fish memory atleast. Last few days of term weren't very happening either. It was damn monotonous routine: getting busted twice in a day and then hanging loose by watching virtually anything you can get hold of on Zamorin. And thats how my seemingly incessant wait for 31st march ended.
3 of us Me,Samir n Vaibhav were desperate to get back to our very own City beautiful. We had to catch flight SG#224 from Bengaluru Airport scheduled to depart at 0845 hrs on 1st April. I could have written another blog on how did we finally come to consensus to travel by "Golden Travels" volvo from Kozhikode to Bangalore. But dont worry I'm generous enough not to make you read another blog by me.
We had done our part of calculations. We were supposed to reach bangalore city at 0530 hrs on the 1st morning. Another 45 mins to Airport and we will be there by 0615 hrs. 2 hours or 20% of margin, statistically sounds more than enough!! We were supposed to board the bus to Bangalore at the IIMK gate itself at 2230 hrs. Inspite of Vaibhav's heroic efforts to be late for the bus, we were right there at IIMK gate at 2225 hrs. Time simply flew by and not before 2345 hrs we did realise that the bus was late and we were still stranded at Kozhikode. It was only after we saw the shimmering lights of the volvo at 0000 hrs and driver convinced us that we'll reach bangalore city by 0630 hrs, we got a bit sigh of relief and settled into our cosy seats.
When the 6 o'clock alarm woke me out of a nice dream, Samir was standing right next to my seat with wretched looks. We needed to be faster than a bullet train to reach Bangalore by 0630. "Bhaiya thodi jaldi karo...flight miss ho jayegi" we said to the driver. "7 baje pahunch jaoge" was his reply. Just when we wore our backpacks at 6:55, he delivered the killer punch. As per his latest estimate, we wouldn't make it to Bangalore before 0800 hrs. Thats when we realised it was time to push the panic button. We reworked our plan and decided to get off the bus at satellite roundabout and called a radio cab there itself. As soon as we get off the bus at 0730 hrs, we pounced on the cab waiting for us.
"Bhag dhanno bhag...aaj Veeru ki flight ka sawaal hai..." was the thought that struck me at that time. It was one of the april fool's day when everyone seemed to be playing pranks on you: bus driver, traffic, traffic lights and even your own destiny. Even the radio jockeys seemed to chuckle at us. Else why would they play "Golmaal" and very ironical at that time "aaj main aage zamaana hai piche" numbers. The cab driver vroomed his way through the busy Bangalore roads à la Schumacher to drop us at the airport at 0825 hrs. We leapfrogged towards the departure terminal entrance gate with Samir even jumping the security check. 3 uncouth guys gushing out sweat from every part of the body; I reckon any security guard would have gunned us down mistaking us for terrorists.We had to jump the queue which ofcourse did create some scene out there. We reached the counter huffing and puffing at 0830 hrs. Believe me the boarding pass at that time was no less than a winning lottery ticket for me as I was screaming my lungs out "Eureka eureka! we did it". But Vaibhav didnt seem to be much elated as all this simply washed away his dream of using airport's facility.
First thing we did after landing in Delhi was to visit a Dominos outlet for a cheese-burst pizza.We did afterall deserve a cheese-burst after our meticulous planning and execution as we narrowly escaped the falling into (de)famed league of Dhoop Mittal & JD. Yeah they did somehow manage to miss their flight during last term break.
