My Experiences With Driving

Driving is not my passion.. Forget being a passion.. I hate the thought..

I think it was during my first year engineering that I started driving lessons.. at Siva Driving School in Poonkunnum.. I am sure my teachers there had a horrible time teaching me drive.. Any I failed my first driving test.. I could do the "T" pretty well.. But couldnt brake the car properly.. I am sure that examiner thot it dangerous to give licence to a person who cannot stop the car properly. Anyway, I managed to pass in the next attempt. That time we had a ambassador car at home. It was my cousin who used to drive it. One or twice he tried to make me drive. Both ended in accidents. Once I was just trying to take the car in reverse in the small road in front of my house.. I was not looking back while taking the reverse and the back of the car went and hit the wall of my neighbours house and the entire section of the wall came down.. Another time me and my cousin were driving to a temple. I had to take a left turn from Shornur road to go the temple. I took the turn without slowing down and lost control and the car went and hit a tree on the right side of the road. Luckily there were no vehicles or people on the road and hence no damages..Anyway with that my cousin gave up trying to make me drive and I never even dreamt of driving any more.

Fast forward 5 years.. I am on my first and only US visit till date. Since TI pays for the driving classes in US when u r on business visit, I too enrolled for driving lessons. With the automatic cars, I found driving there pretty ok. But then again, another accident purely from my mistake. And this time one of my friend who was in the back seat had her arm fractured. There were people who blamed the way I drive but luckily for me the girl who got her arm broken not only didnt blame me on my face but also showed the courage to travel with me in my car when I was driving.. Thanks for that Vindhya.. I am sorry for the mistake I did.. But the way u behaved was the only thing that gave me the courage to keep driving until I returned from US...

Back in India I again gave up driving.. Then for the past 2 and half years Anurag had been trying to get me to driving.. I do it once and if I fell I didnt drive properly I wont touch the car for the next 4 months until he finally pushes me one day.. The longest drive was around 120 kms from Coorg till Srirangaptnam.. And two weeks back when Anurag was not in Blr, I took my mom on a Sunday morning to the temple.. Then one day I drove to office again with Anurag in the passenger seat.. So slowly I am gaining the confidence to drive.. Hoping that I wont meet with another accident..

BTW, anybody who reads this, beware of having ever to travel with me when I am driving.. Hope u never meet with that situation :)

Mudakkiya kaashu veruthe poyi....

Can you image entering a movie hall and sleeping of through the entire movie? Its not the first time I slept while watching a movie.. I have slept after watching half a movie.. But this one was different.. The movie started off with some old story and then came to the portion where the titles are displayed.. whatever they call that segment.. to be follwed by the current story.. By the time the titles we displayed, I declared that I am going to sleep and not watch this movie.. I had a nice sleep through the movie only to be disturbed during the interval by the ppl walking around to get snacks and packaged drinks. At the end of the movie I learned that my brother whom I have never seen sleeping while watching movies, however horrible they are, also slept during the second half.. And my mom said she didnt sleep only bcoz she was having the house keys in her hand and was afraid if she will loose them if she sleeps.. While walking out of the Shenoys theatre in Kochi after the second show on 16th of Sept, I could hear lots of ppl mentioning that they paid just to sleep... It was one of the Onam release mallu movie in 2006.. And I saw an interesting poster of the movie whihc said.."Mudakkiya kaashu muthalayi"(It was worth the money spend..) .. I am sure its not for the viewer..May be for the producer... And a question remains.. Why did the heroine of the movie, a pretty good actress with lots of calibre, agree to do such a character which was just not required in the movie??

Last Onam, pretty good movies had hit the theatres..and we had watched all 4 of them.. This time I have watched only 2.. After seeing the second one I felt that MahaSamudram was far far better.. But I have missed the two movies which are rated good by the viewers.. Keerthi Chakra and Classmates.. Dont know if I will be able to watch Keerthi Chakra as it was already shown in blr.. I am waiting for Classmates to be released in Blr...

Nothing :)

I had almost forgotten about this blog when Manoj Sir today sent a mail to the groups asking for who all are maintaining a blog.. I dont claim to maintain one though I have one in my name.. When ppl started sending out the links to their blogs, I just found some time to go through some of them..

I saw Dhanush's post on the BITS exam.. I too wrote those exams for 3 semesters.. but I never noticed all that Dhanush noticed there.. there were sometihngs that I noticed.. like ppl drawing margins on answer papers.. I was taken by surprise when I saw that...I had never drawn marging from my SSLC exam onwards...

Anyway, I finally finished my MS in April this year.. But still waiting for the degree certificate....

I am waiting for something else now.. With Gods grace, I will be blessed next March.. Somehow there is always something good to wait for in life and thats what keeps life going on for most of us I guess....