Collection of some Scribbles!

Isn’t it so different an experience, when all of a sudden people around you start speaking a language familiar to you. That actually is happening when I’m coming back to North India. Till this point of time, I didn’t care much what other people around me spoke (even in Hindi). But when I happened to stay at Kerala & Tamil Nadu and people around me spoke an unfamiliar language, I having no other work, tried to extract the sense by some English words and their gesticulation. Obviously this didn’t work much but, now when I’m sitting in a train destined to North India and people are talking in Hindi, I’m much alert of their conversation, just for one reason that there could be an unfamiliar-lingo situation.

In the course of exploring my fellow-passengers, I had to reveal that I’m a Commerce Graduate. My fellow-passenger was working in a bank and had some “Commercial Law” book in his hands (most probably he was preparing for some exam, though he didn’t reveal this). So he asked me, “Did you study the Negotiable Instruments Act 1881?” I replied in positive. ‘Okay, then explain me the difference between “Holder” and “Holder-in-due-course”’. I said that I would try and took his book. The book was in Hindi. The words for “Holder” and “Holder-in-due-course” in Hindi are “Dharak” and “Yathavidhidhari” respectively. So I went through the book for 15 minutes and tried to explain him. Irrespective of the fact that he understood the difference, it was a nice time pass.

July 26, Sunday, 0845 hours; Tring-Tring. I woke up. My friend Sandeep from Lucknow told me that he was going to take the first SIM-Cat and he also got my name registered for the test held at Gorakhpur (First SIM-Cat at IMS is free). I was left surprised, but as usual I having no other work, thought to explore the test. Hopefully, my old pencil and eraser were there in my old pencil-box which I used to carry in one-day examinations. The test was scheduled to begin at 1000 hours and I left the preparation exactly one year ago.

Thanks to my reading habits, I found the English section much easy. DI was so-so, thanks to some Operations sessions & the novel “The Goal”. So I scored 30 in English, 10 in DI and just 2 marks in Quants. I guess this is where overconfidence came into play. But those two and a half hours were pure fun; I mean I didn’t have any stress/tension as I took the test aimlessly and I think that this is one of the most optimum ways to take a test, but yes, preparation should also be there.

I watched the movie “Luck” with old friends and was lucky enough to not to get bored. One should leave the critical-thinking mind home while watching a bollywood flick. Yet, there were some logical inconsistencies which I can’t help but mention. In the scene where our “lucky” Imran Khan, in the course of igniting the cigarette-lighter for five consecutive times, tries to turn on the lighter for the fifth and last time, the lighter doesn’t turn on for the first some three seconds. Imran Khan just keeps it holding and it turns on all of a sudden. Now, how does a lighter work? The happening of ignition and the supply of gas should start simultaneously. How come the ignition took place three seconds after the cock was pushed.

Second scene pertained to the release of our Bhojpuri star Ravikishan who was awarded capital punishment. Just because the rope slipped and the court cannot make a person hung “twice”, he was “ba-izzat” released. But where was he hung in the first place? Did not the slipping of the rope obstruct the hanging procedure? Probably I should have left my mind at home.