The night before the battle

Hello people,

A warm welcome to all of you. This is my first entry in the blog. It's been a long time since I have been thinking now of starting a blog and finally I've found the time to make it a reality. I figured writing one should be a piece of cake, since any drab and dingy kid on the block is starting to write one now. Jokes apart, it's 00:48, make that 00:49 by my laptop's clock. I had lain down some time ago and was thinking of useless things like many of us do while embarking into slumber, but I just couldn't get that much wanted sleep. Then I thought to myself, this looks like de-ja-vu all over again from two days back. It was a Friday night, I went to bed at around 2300 hrs. Y so early u ask, well I had my GMAT CAT the next morning (seems such a hep name doesn't it when u write CAT after the GMAT. GMAT by itself doesn't sound that imposing).

Believe you me, I had absolutely no tensions about the exam and there was nothing that could keep me from sleeping, also, I had no qualms of having been to Pune Central one day before the exam. I had got up at 8 in the morning that day, add to that the travel from Nira (place where my Mom n Dad stay). All this should have been sufficient to ensure a good night's sleep. After one hour of rolling in bed, trying each position to get the comfortable position for sleeping, I got up, had some water and said to myself, 'C'mon man, now you'll sleep, it's midnight and your daily time of sleeping has come. Seven hours of sleep is enough'. I kept the bottle and was flat on the back again. Five minutes into the bed and there it was, a god damn sneeze, two seconds and another one, and it continued till like 8 - 10. As if insomnia was bad enough, a vicious cold set in. I was now frustrated to the hilt. Another hour went by with no sleep and an hour in which my best friend became by handkerchief. My friend had warned my to make it a habit of sleeping early so that I can sleep on time before the exam. But clearly, two past midnight was way of limits. I'd always be in deep sleep by then. Anyways, finally I lost my much unwanted unconsciousness but before you know it, I was up again. As frustrating it was to not get sleep, it was more frustrating to get it and again wake up. I was thinking to myself, 'Don't worry dude, you've never slept more than 4 hrs before any exam in your life (this was not b'coz I am sincere, but hey, face it you can't waste much time on sleeping when u have 12 hrs to prepare for an entire engineering subject)'. The whole night went on with short spells of sleep and distortions of sleep. To add to my nusiance, the sleep spells were dream-ridden ( I should say nightmare-ridden really), dreams of Critical Reasoning questions from the exam. It was the worst sleep anyone could ever have, when you have an exam the next morning, you can imagine how happy I elated I was!!

It was now 7.15 and the alarm in my mobile started ringing. It took me 2 seconds to get yup (it wasn't difficult since I was not doing a particularly good job at sleeping anyway). I got fresh, took a warm bath and got ready by 8.15, fully dressed. I checked with all the stuff required for the exam, got good luck wishes from my roomies and was off to have some breakfast. Normally I have cornflakes and eggs from breakfast but today just wasn't the day to get the milk, boil the eggs, etc. I went to the hotel below and ordered a plate of 'idli sambhar'. I had got some notes in my bag to read till my order gets in. Wouldn't you know it, that day the waiter got the order in 5 minutes. I had the idli and a glass of milk that I'd ordered and I took off.

Guys, I'll write the details about the actual stuff at the exam center and how I fared in the exam tomorrow. It's 1:30 and I'll try to get that sleep now. Also, I have to create a blog to post this stuff. I am hard-pressed to find a name for the blog. Umm, how do you like Swapnesh's Endeavours, or Swapnesh's Ventures? I guess the later is a lil of the mark, I'll go with the first one.

Till tomorrow then,

Ciao
Swappy