Last week can be tagged " lively " considering the events. Not just for me, globally I mean.. !!
Solar eclipse, iPhone release date announced for India, and my driving test.. Yes my driving test for license..
I got my learner's license back in April but due to misfortunes and my own efforts kept delaying things. But finally the day , date, time everything clicked for once n I was finally up for my driving test. First the time of the test was at 11:00 in the morning, but it got stretched to 2 ( for god knows obv reasons ). The govt officials really don't give a crocodile's ass for keeping others on wait.
Reaching the pt. where the test was going to be, i suddenly saw people peeping into some paper, cramming something. I went up to see and oh oh !! Traffic signs ... Yikes !! I just didn't see that one coming, not in my wildest of dreams. Honestly. Not that I am not aware of traffic sign boards or nething, but there are whole chunk of them , n specially Indianized ones which gave me a scare. Some were really confusing i tell you, and something similar i could sense was happening .. The long lost feeling of collg days ! They just flashed back i tell you. Really, the whole scene, people crowding in, to sneak and read from the piece of paper, even if it doesnt make any kind of sense. It was just as if we rolled back the days, friends standing outside E-F block, to take a quiz or exam. For quiz i guess, we were more involved in making formations :-) Okay, lets not get into that.
Coming back to the test..
After 2 also, RTO officer was no where to be seen and the ever growing tension on people's faces was somewhat giving me a shiver too. Cuz, if you dont get atleast 3 out of 5 right, "Next time " is what you hear before you can even press down the clutch for the 1st gear.
RTO came at around 3 and i no how i passed that 1 hr cramming those road signs, this was something which took me off-guard honestly. I never expected Indian driving test to be with such deeper and intricate detailed stuff. I thought it would be just a simple drive zig zac or back or watever kind of thing.
As the test started, the officer asked ques , not the road signs, just normal situation given questions. They were okay but some girls just stumped miserably in the questionnaire round. One guy was told to come back next time bcuz he had BECKHAM written on his bike's number plate :-). And what was more funnier was, the officer asked, who's Beckham ?? I no, some of you will point fingers at me that '- oh cumon, ' its not that everybody knows Beckham ' . I totally agree but still you no, i cud have dropped my jaws honestly when he asked - who's beckham. I mean Beckham has to be one of THE most famous footballers on the planet. And as it turned out, the officer didn't ask ne ques n told me to reverse uphill. Thats it. Nailed it !! It was one of a kind experience i must say. Experience which reminded of my viva's in collg :-).
N ya, the Solar eclipse which recently took place was a mob mover really. People didn't step out of the house during the eclipse, didn't turn up to the gym. I mean damn !! Even i was ordered though, not to look at the sun directly. But neways, in India i don't think nebody saw the actual moon earth n sun lining-up thing. But certainly these dude in the video were the luckiest of all i guess to have witnessed a solar eclipse from a plane.
ok, iPhone !!
It was honestly a patient wait from my side with few bumps of emotions ( recently ), But nehow, the thing i have been wanting to hold the day it launched is finally here. Airtel confirmed the launch date of iPhone 3g. 22nd Aug. Nobody has any clues abt the price tag its coming with. 20k to 25k's shud be worth a Flutter. Nething more than that will seriously ( as i said earlier ) price out my emotions.
