Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Thy great big one on me!

"Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee ; And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me"

- Robert Frost.

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August 26, 2009.

We have just taken a quiz of Managerial Economics. Every passing quiz reinforces my belief that there is no managerial quotient in me, let alone economics. Getting royally screwed up in the quizzes is a fact of life I've have now accepted, willy-nilly. But it hurts bad when the guy with the class's lowest cumulative score in Eco - half of mine - does the proverbial dance on the streets on coming out of the Father Prabhu Hall. Anyway, this post is not about that.

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"God has a sense of humor? Of course! It explains everything." - Dogbert

We have less than an hour to prepare a power point presentation for the BFA assignment. The assignment is somehow completed by other members of the group. My task is the power point crap. The very notion that shadowed us throughout the assignment was a simple logic of probability. Only two out of ten groups are going to be selected at random. The odds are stacked in our favour. The event that we would be asked to present is a long shot.

The lecture hall. As the events unfold, only one group will be raped. Probability of being asked to present gets halved to one-tenth! It is now that Pavani (not in our group) bets that we would be the group. We're pretty sure - hell, more than sure, we're convinced - that we're safe. The bet is accepted. We pity Pavani. Brave girl, naive girl!

"When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it." - The Alchemist.

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Our group is numbered 9. Over to Sengo and his classic theory of randomization by tossing a seemingly unbiased coin.

Heads : Groups 2,4,6,8,10 ; Tails : Groups 1,3,5,7,9

Tails it is. We're still 80% safe.

Heads : 1,3 ; Tails : 5,7,9

Tails it is. We're 60% safe. I'm convinced. I'm watching an episode of "The Three Stooges" on my laptop. Pavani's ecstatic. Alok's heartbeat shows a bullish trend.

Heads : 5 ; Tails : 7,9

Tails it is for the third time in a row.

The big moment. I turn off my laptop. Its any one's game.

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"If anything can possibly go wrong, it will." - Murphy's Law.

Sengo does a somersault by reversing the order. Tails : 7 ; Heads : 9. Now I'm convinced we're secured. I love you Sengo.

The coin is tossed. There's a pin-drop silence. The flight of the coin is closely followed by the class from the moment it makes a snapping noise of Shubham's thumbnail hitting it till it takes a lifetime and Shubham announces...

"Heads!"

FUCK!!!

13 comments:

  1. gud sense of humor...i appreciate ur selction of quotes..u keep inspiring me albeit intermittentli to begin mi own blog

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  2. thnxx man...bhai tuu jaldi kar apna blog shuru...i'll b ur first follower :)

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  3. "Mind it Varun, the coin was indeed unbiased. And did I toss it? No!! Your own classmate tossed it!!! - maney I had no hand in your group getting the chance to present. You get my point?"

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  4. A dearth of words in ode to your fate and its description.

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  5. @ mandar

    hehe...nice'un!

    "shall i start...ok...y did u change the order at the last toss...i repeat...y did u change the order at the last toss" :P

    @ ishita

    same here...nonplussed!

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  6. Pavani's luck overshadowed urs... but u cant be lucky always n u cant get away with things always.. i think "serves u right" is a bit harsh for u to take .. still that's what i mean..[:P].u finally got wat u deserve..

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  7. it seems lck mam bitrayed our GUTCH manager....

    :)

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  8. @ devil

    i'm missin my lady luck...agle saal se dekhna...i'll b a destiny's child again :)

    @ condo

    ya man the GUTCHness is taking a toll!!

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  9. Just came across..
    Nice Blog :)

    By the way,how did the presentation go? ;)

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  10. hey thnxx dipa...know wot the prersentation wz one hell of a story...with rape and laughter all arnd...cud b a new post!!

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