Bhanu gaadi sodhi kaburlu...

Bhanus' Chemistry

I guess everyone has some incidents in life... which, when they occur, make us feel cheated, fooled and our reactions to those incidents are rage and anger. And if we can, would want to bring hell on those circumstances or people who landed us there. But as time passes by... when one looks back... those things can be incredibly funny... Such a funny incident flashed my mind as i was passing through this Royal Junior College at S.R.Nagar today, this place reminds me of my Intermediate final exams and a funny story too...

I was never a champion at studies during my school days... but I wasn't a dud either... I was among those who were under distinction and rank above second class. In Intermediate I did make a rapid progress... i.e if you are guaging with right scales..:))) By the end of Ist year I was so happy that I managed to clear it... I guess my stars must have been in right place then. During the second year I discovered that College Life offers many more exciting things other than MATHS, PHYSICS & CHEMISTRY and they were real fun to me. So by the end of the year, I did add a few notches to my knowledge quotient but none of them were in MATHS, PHYSICS or CHEMISTRY. I didn't have a clue of anything in any subject what so ever, infact during my final week before exams... I was wondering if I was reading the right books... As I couldn't make an ounce of meaning from the text in front of me. So all done... finally the exams arrived... First few exams were done... and yours truely lived up to your expectations... forget about additional sheets, i never went passed the first page in the answer booklet.

Now comes the exciting CHEMISTRY exam... As usual practice I went through pages from dusk to dawn all night, though I never could make any sense of what I was reading... I tried... Honestly, Infact somewhere deep down I had the confidence that I will be able to clear this one... maybe one of those instinct things... I got a feeling that the clogs were in right place. There I was in the exam hall... ROYAL JUNIOR COLLEGE, S.R.Nagar... eagerly waiting for question paper, hoping to find the few questions whose solutions I was able to by-heart and rattafy, and there it was...
Brilliant!!!!!
Awesome...
Paper was like...
like it was being made by someone who is actually aware of questions I mucked up... I couldn't even find one question that i knew even by coincidence!!!:)))
Now what...????
What...???
Naaa... I guess This shouldn't be tricky enough situation for me!!!! I am used to this stuff!!!!! I Have done it with English and even Sanskrit... :):):)
"Sitting Idle and giving blank stares in exam hall", and this time even the invigilator was not spared of my stares, guy did gave me back the same blank stare... we exchanged looks for about 60 minutes... then the guy gave up, came to me and asked what's bothering me and why am I not writing...???
I gave him a honest reply... I strongly wish to write...but... unfortunately... there is nothing I could answer.

He seemed to be a very kindhearted man... he offered me to help and said he can provide answers of all(18) 1 mark questions which are usually one word or either true or false. and asked me to write something for another 6 marks as 24 was the pass mark. He even told me that he was a Chemistry lecturer at that college. Now he looked like my only beacon of light, as i was smiling my way to sky. Couldn't believe my luck, my heart was filled with joy as he was whispering those answers... we wrapped up 18 questions in about 15 minutes as they didn't require much writing. Then I guess he expected me to handover the answer booklet after a while and leave, which I din't do... so he came back to me again and asked what's the problem now...???
I gave him another honest reply..."Sir I don't know anything in this paper which can fetch me those 6 marks"...he then did give me this "You are Unbelievable" look and said "I'll see what I can do". After Half an hour or so, he came to me and gave an additional answer sheet, I promptly took it... but i had a question WHY??? additional now???, surprisingly it had a chit in the middle of it which had 4 answers for threemark questions... so that makes solutions for 12 marks, so now I have attempted total of 30 marks(18+12). Thougt i had cleared my Chemistry paper. I was boasting about my adventure with my friends during the whole term break.

Finally the D'day had arrived, The day when results came on paper, i was sure my number wouldn't be there in it. but my mom was too excited and started searching right from 3rd class to 1st class, much to my surprise she even looked for my number in the malpractice section. but thank god it wasn't there... heyyy i finally failed my intermediate, i jumped and screamed as i was already sure of the results. even my best buddies couldn't make it... all of us failed...:):):) and we all sang "Undigaa September March Paina"...

Later Me and my friends went to college to collect our marksheets so that we can apply for subjects again, but all the while I was confident that I would score 1 better than my friends as I will clear Chemistry and they would fail at that as well. so here were the marks...sheets...wow!!!!! ohhooooooo.....every thing was like expected, most of the subjects showed marks in single digits.....
Maths - 0
Physics - 1
English - 42
Sanskrit - 54 and
to my astonishment... i could only score 6 marks in Chemistry... The whole marks coloumn seemed like a telephone number...and I felt chemistry co-operated with other subjects just to keep the sequence.

My friends were making fun of me...I couldnt talk for a while... it felt like a bitter capsule had bursted in my heart, and diffusing its flavour all around it. I was in rage....I was angry... I wanted to trace that Invigilator...see to it that he gets killed, but they were all just thoughts....

Looking back at that experience, me and my friends still have a hearty laugh... It is one of those incredible comic experiences of my life... and we all still wonder if he really was a chemistry lecturer at royal college...

hey.. wait... me and my friends cleared all the subjects in september though... :)))))