Long Kept Silence...

Yes. I apparently know that there is hardly anybody out there on this entire globe who follows my blog regularly... (If there is anybody, let me know)... So it hardly matters if or if not I do update my blog or post any damn shit...!!! So even after the greatest news of my entire life, I have not posted anything of my blog... Because I know that nobody cares...

The greatest news of my life is that I scored 96.15% in my S.S.C. exam... Yes i.e. 625/650... I scored 150/150 in Maths, 90/100 in Marathi, 99/100 in Social Science, 100/100 in Science and 99/100 in Sanskrit and SURPRISINGLY 87/100 in English... I have made the record in my school... The result was declared on 25th June 2009... But in fact I had understood the result 2 days ago... (I informed my result first of all to my dear friends Omkar, Sanket, Janhavi, Bharati, Pradeep and Namrata.
Nikhil Kerkar - 99.07% (95.23% + 25 marks of sports... He played some state level game which I neither even had heard the name of!!), Sneha Kanekar - 90%, Omkar Madiwalar, 92%, Ashay Dhuri 94%, Adwait Sonar 94%, Sanket Rudre 89%... These are some of my friends' percents... Now I would really like to mention my hard competitor (whom I now miss a lot I don't know why) Gauree Aravkar who got 95.79%... She used to travel about 20kms daily to reach the school, she had done no classes or any paper series and yet she scored such a great percent that I am happy for her more that what I am for me...
Few days before the result there was a rumour, which I knew was sure to be false that I had secured 1st rank in the state... Yes it was highly impossible, because I was in an English Medium School IN MAHARASHTRA!!! But I hoped that I might have secured at least first rank in the district... On the day of the result, my school had arranged for a huge procession as they were damn sure that with such a giant score I was surely going to be 1st in district at least... Which apparently didn't happen... Two girls named Shruti Sawant and Pooja Thakur had scored 629... Yet as they were from Marathi Medium, my achievement was nothing less than a miracle... So I was awarded a silver coin and 2000 Rs and a grand procession was held in the entire town...
For about next 3 days I had all types people wishing me on phone and in personal... Friends, reatives, Baba's friends POLITICIANS (who came just to take a pic with me while feeding me a pedha or giving me a bouquet and published in in the next day's daily)... But great was the day when I first understood my percentage...
I would like to narrate this incident partcularly because it is really very close to heart... I and Baba very trying utmost to get the resut since 20th... On 23rd Deuskar sir (my Sanskrit sir) had come to teach me Sanskrit, yes I had started my study of Sanskrit for FYJC. We had just started a new chapter when Baba screamed loudly 'DADU' (that is what he calls me) and came running in my room... Aai and Jui followed him... He and Aai were literally CRYING!!! He opened the door DHAAAAMMMMMM!!! And said " Sujay, result kallay mala... Sang baghu kiti milale astil??" (I know the result... Guess your marks)... Now atleast I knew that the result was really great and I lost all the fear of bad result... I said that I didn't knew... In fact I expected something near 94%... He screamed again, "96%"... And that was the first time I saw him crying... I had not seen him crying even when my Aaji (granny) expired even though she was really close to him... Aai was not able to speak anything.... Jui was jumping... In midst of this, Deuskar sir was just smiling... Ya!! what can we expect an elderly person to do on such an occasion when he is seeing a Doctor crying with happiness??? Baba then hugged me... Wiped his eyes and became serious and warned me that I should not tell the result to anybody before the official declaration... I promised him so... But next day entire Kudal new this news as Baba himself out of excitement had told my marks to each and every living person on the world by now by calling them PERSONALLY...
Smita Mavshi gave me Rs. 10,000, Akerkar Kaka Rs. 10,000 and school Rs. 2000
The total awards, gifts, greetings I recieved summed up to about Rs. 45,000. But the greatest gift I got was on the day I got my result and I saw what happiness really means in the eyes of my PARENTS...

P.S. I have not asked for anything from my parents and instead I bought a new Samsung Star cell phone for Aai who used to use an old model of mobile and always cursed it... It costed about Rs. 11,000 and I bought it to her from my rewards... I think that the phone now really means a lot to her... Afterall it is my first EARNING!!! :)

My New E-Bike -- The Yo Byke

I am really very much glad to inform you all my readers out there that I have now bought a E-bike. It's Yo Speed. Now this is not a review or any publicity of the company, which I would like to tell you initially. These are just my thoughts about the bike which might be useful for the about-to-be-buyers...

Now it has been about more than a month since I have bought the bike. I purchased it on 29th March 2009, with my family. The day was especially selected by Aajoba, my grandfather, through Panchang which is the book which contains the dates and times for certain special occasions. The time recommended was between 9.00 - 11.30 am.

To tell from the first, we first had a try on the e-bikes of the Yo company at Kolhapur about 3 years ago and were planning to buy the then top model, Yo Smart. But later due to some FORTUNE TELLING (you can understand, what else can LOVING mothers do?) by my SWEET Aai, the plan was cancelled as everybody agreed on the fact that I was too young to ride a bike (even though it didn't require a license or RTO passing).

Then it was about 4 months before my SSC exams, in December that a Yo World (showroom of Yo Bykes) was started about 50 metres away, both from my school and house. In spite of being in 10th it was a matter of great attraction for me and my so-called-eco-friendly-like-minded friends, especially in a place like Kudal. (You know the craze, don't you?) We would organise some INQUIRY TRIPS to the showroom and would collect lot of brochures, pamphlets, etc. Later we understood that the manager was getting irritated by our unsubjected irrelevant questions relevant to occasions when she one day asked me for my surname, father's phone number and whether I really intended to buy a bike with an expression which I suppose would be common to be seen on the face of Sherlock Holmes...!!

Then one day I spoke to my father about buying the bike when he looked up to me from his reclining chair as if I was Bakasura the myth demon who rapidly devoured on any type of food, even men (in this case I thought that I was a Bakasura rapidly devouring on his money). But my Baba, as he was, he was too intelligent for me. As usual again I had to win a challenge to get anything. For those who don't know me, I never get any luxury free of cost, I have to earn it. I had to secure MTS scholarship for getting my first mobile phone, another scholarship for a simple 512 mb MP3 player, State level scholarship in Elocution for getting iPod classic and so on. This was the habit that my father had developed in me since I was a small child in Senior Kindergarten. I had to secure first rank in the class or win certain competition even for getting a small car or a batman toy. Some people would find this habit as harassment but for me, it developed a sense of Competition and an urge to win, the will to fight.

That day he asked me to secure more than 95% in the SSC board exam which was in fact a tough shot (which he thought or might not have thought, I don't know, impossible for me). I first argued with him that he was being unfair to me by raising the bar above my capabilities. But later I accepted because it was fair enough for the Rs. 40,000 top Yo model, Yo Speed.

And then with the vigour to EARN the bike I started studying hard. Seeing my study time before and even during exams, when I studied late up to 3.00 am and woke up at 5.00 am, one day Baba himself came up to me and told me that he and Aai had decided to give me the bike just after the exams and this in fact added up to my courage of studying as a form of a RETURN to my parents.

And after the exams on the eve of 20th March (the day when exams ended) Baba himself called Aajoba and asked for the auspicious day... It was 29th!!!

It was a Sunday. I, Baba and a crew of compounders from our hospital Palav Kaka, Kadam Kaka, Jambhale Kaka, Amit Dada and Prasad Dada all of us (!!!!!!!) went to the showroom and scrutinized the bike (as you can say it). We selected the colour of the bike, Baba made payments, Amit Dada and Prasad Dada spoke about the technical details with the mechanics while all the Kaka's wondered if we were going to throw a party for the new bike in the BAR which was besides the showroom. We then did all the Puja after bringing the bike home by cracking the coconut, putting garlands and worshipping by a Garhana by Palav Kaka, a type of prayer wishing well being of the bike and the family members in our native language Malvani. Then each of us went out for a ride on the new bike after savaging the party ice-cream.

Now you might hear many rumours about the e-bikes, as did I, regarding their efficiency and capacity but for my model of bike they aren't true. The carrying capacity of YO SPEED is 135 kg which means that it can seat 2 persons easily. It takes about 5-6 hours for full charging after being completely discharged and then it runs about 55-60 kms easily. Charging the bike for one hour comsumes about one unit which costs around Rs. 4.5 or so. Thus it is quiet economical. It's speed is zippy, which is enough for a busy street, which is 45-50 kms/hr. It requires RTO registeration and license but the advantage is that most traffic police here don't know about this part of YO SPEED. This is because it's power is 750W.
Uptil now I have not experienced any problem regarding the bike except a minor problem in the horn piece (the outer switch) which I got repaired in 2 minutes under guarantee. I had my bike serviced once, few days ago. Now, my take on Yo Speed... It is really a great bike for school goers or even for daily works. Best single seated as it does become quiet slow when seating two. Over all.... WOW!!!!



Please leave a comment if you found this post useful.

Busy Time Pass...

The summer vacations have started after my 10th SSC exams and I have had about one month of being busy in doing, surprisingly to me and my family,-- NOTHING!!!!! NOTHING AT ALL!!!!
About six months before even my 10th exams had showed up their faces, I was completely insane at the fact of doing more studies about HALF YEAR more than what I had done... Then, it was the time when I used to build castles in air [or whatever you call it] of doing many useful, creative things and ventures once my exams were over and vowed to not to touch books anymore after exams... Three months before the exams I think the ghosts of William Wordsworth, Shakespeare, Kalidasa and other such great writers entered in me, together when I had suffered, which I consider a plague of LITERATURE!!! When it was the time for me to study vigorously I had a wave of writing poems and short stories... Just for time pass... I used to get scoldings from my parents for wasting my PRECIOUS time!!!!! I wrote about 13 poems in just 4 days..... And after people read my poems I got discouraging comments that they were too philosophical and of high level for my age and that I should have written some childish poems.....
Now that my exams are over and I have a lot of time, I can splurge a bit of it for poems, but I am afraid that my thoughts and writings are usually typical and philosophical for which I did not get much encouragement. My grandma now laughs and says that now when it is time to write some good literature, I am wasting my time. But now I am very much bored to write them because I think that there is no consideration of my writing skills.
I have now joined MS-CIT course [A computer course], and spend about 2-3 hours a day for it. Now I am engulfed by the computer game Counter Strike: Condition Zero and have a foolish craving to complete all the levels of it. I wake up 9.00 am, spend some time over web, go to the MS-CIT course nearby, come back and watch the IPL matches which now-a-days don't happen to be interesting as they were last season, then play some gulli cricket in the evening and end the day with my idiot box. That's all. That's my daily programme.
We are going to go to London on 10th May and my vacation uptil now has been a lot boring because of the problems of passports and visa.
Recently I was in Mumbai for quiet a few days, where I ENJOYED MUMBAI BY JUST STAYING IN THE RELATIVES' HOMES!!!!!!!! I have started reading the Apoorvaayi and Vyakti ani Valli books by P.L.Deshpande and just completed reading the book The Three Mistakes of My Life by Chetan Bhagat. Yet my mother shouts at me that I don't read.

Now tell me, aren't I really very busy doing all this TIME PASS!!!?????

It's all done

Yesterday I came from the last paper of S.S.C. exam at about 2.00 p.m. It was a great feeling....Neither did I dance, nor did I shout happily or laugh.... Relieved to be away from studies.... But was also sad because it was the last time I touched the books of std 10th..... These were the books, I had shared most of the time of my life for about one and half year with.... They were not MY books, they were MYSELF.... But now!!!! After all, Time moves on, and nothing but change is permanent....

It just seems to be yesterday that I came from the last paper of standard 9th, dancing and shouting...... [ Just a paradoxical situation, to what I am now..... From just this, one incidence, I feel that I have grown up a lot in just 1 year ].... As I was just about to announce my BREAK for at least 5 days, my mother asked me to bring the second hand books from one of our neighbours for the next, 10th standard. Now my mother did not bother buying new books, but it was just that she wanted me to start the preparation for THE MOST IMPORTANT YEAR.....It was not a surprise On me....... I was already receiving such phone calls, form December, from even FAR AWAY RELATIVES who were wishing me Best LUCK and expressed their expectations from me..... As the year started in, in fact MARCH itself, I found that I was studying more than ever... I studied up to late night 3.00 a.m. woke up at 7.00 a.m. I studied even in lunch breaks... I had all the determination, hope and vigour and aimed at being FIRST in state..... [ Just a MIRAGE]..... Yes, I worked hard.... And as October approached, I lost it all..... Not that I was tired, but I had understood that the accomplishment of my goal was next to impossible.... But my dear distant counsellor, my aunt, Gauri Tai [ as I call her ] was up with the duty of re-energizing and rejuvenating me . It was during this period that I enjoyed the privilege of late night web-cam chat with her as she was in USA then.... She was the one who filled me with hopes and made me aware of my deep hidden capabilities... Also travelling to and fro for the Phalashruti lectures in Mumbai [ which meant a one night journey ,two times EACH SESSION ] was a great experience.... During this one year I met several people who have devoted their lives selflessly for students..... Living with such people was sometimes like walking on fire, while sometimes it was like the touch the well know Paras stone [ a mythological stone known to have the capabilities to even change an iron piece into gold ]..... I will always be grateful to all the teachers at Phalashruti, like Varde Sir, Nayak Madam, Kulkarni Sir, who after knowing that I had some potential, even took me to their homes, to teach me..... Most of the times it used to be afternoon and all the times we were made to [ forcefully ] have lunch with them.... I will also be grateful to Dilip Rane Kaka, Nadkarni Kaka and Hatwalne Kaka [ of Pune whose both the children were first in the state in their 10ths], Deuskar Sir, etc etc for all that they did by being my GURUS...
But the most important members were my family members, especially my mother and father.... They did whatever they could do for me.....They used to stay awake with me as I used to study..... Even during my exam time they used to stay awake with me as I used to study up to 2.00 a.m. at wake up at 5.00 a.m. .....Most important is that they loved me from the core of the heart which gave me the strength to FIGHT!!!!!!...
All my competitors Gauree Aravkar, Nikhil Kerkar, Shruti Sawant, Ashay Dhuri and all those unmentioned ones were important in making me work hard because Adversity does the work of eliciting talents which in Prosperity would have lain dormain....... In Sanskrit there is a shloka which says---

Let the group of my enemies have a long life... For the more and more they trouble me, the more and more they teach me and make faultless....

All the percentage that I would get will be of these people and all those that I haven't mentioned here.....

I would also like to apologize all those who I troubled or hurt, and even those not mentioned here... I would also like to thank them with all my heart for whatever they might have done for me..........

To express my emotions I would like to say.... I made It...... Better would be....... WE MADE IT......

We Made It ---- by Linkin Park and Busta Rhymes

P.S.-- Can you all please suggest me what I can do for this 3 month LONG VACATION??? I feel studies were better.........

Thanking You

---- Yours Faithfully,

Sujay Nigudkar