56 admission forms were piled up on the table.Chin on palm,a young boy looked tiredly at them.Half a cup coffee was turning cold beside him.The table fan rotated at top speeds.A clock ticked slowly in the corner.Tension ticked too.
'Shoofville institute of Technology' read the first line of the first form.
"I like it.But I.... this is good too..." said the young boy Anroop Noklue to his extremely busy mother.He held up the form--'Scoxine school of medicine'.
His panicky mother,apparantly in some haste,shouted,"You are 17 Anroop , for god's sake !Can't you decide on a small thing like this?I've got work to do!My speech begins in 10 minutes and I haven't had breakfast!"
"If only you helped me mom..."started Anroop.
His mother raised a hand in disapproval
"I REALLY don't have time!"she said as she slipped on her high heels.
Anroop followed his mother,still begging,to her car.Not with any difference.
5 minutes later--- 'Medical engineering---AGHKCL institute' 34th form.
A black benz zoomed out of the driveway.
The phone rang.
"I hope it's Abel" muttered Anroop as he received it.The news was shocking.
"GUTWINE????" he shouted. It was Abel.
"Abel....No....seriously?" he asked.
"Damn.Where is it?"---"50 miles off the campus of shoofville."
answered the other voice.
Anroop sat down disgruntedly.He tried to drink the coffee...he couldn't.It was too cold.'Just like my life' he thought.Atrena, the pretty girl with the black curtain of hair,too was off to an institute not in the 56.17 of his best friends were off to 17 different colleges.'Damn this country for having so many colleges' he thought.So many options!So many different courses. 'What the hell are my interests?' thought Anroop Noklue. 'How do I realise?Man! This is a difficult choice!If only there was someone who could help!' was another wasted thought in the mind of Anroop Noklue.
***
Just fifteen miles away a man, standing on a dias , said , welcoming a smart woman in high heels and who had just got down from a fitting black benz,"So....After an unlikely delay,here is Mrs.Noklue....Internationally noted Career Counsellor."
5000 claps welcomed her.
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Wednesday, November 28, 2007
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4 comments:
Undoubtedly the best among all your blogs so far!!!
Nice irony.....
Good one :)
Thanks!!
My first critic!!(with an unusually kind heart though)
this one is really good. felt you could have dramatized it a little more though..........
my favorite :)
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