Junes

10th June 2007, Sunday, day which brought another turning point in my life.

June I feel is the month for me that has brought maximum changes in my life. And always that month has made me a much better person. I realised this last year i.e. June 2006. I never expected June 2007 to be so harsh yet so fulfilling. People until now would have come to know about my accident here in San Diego and for those who don't, here is the oppurtunity. So much more that could have happened that day and yet so much more that could have never happened.


June 2007

Getting hit by a car in the night is dangerous in itself and it becomes even more scary when you have nobody to help you out. The car came speeding at around 80 mph, hit me and just disappeared. I could see the car coming at that speed towards me from behind and yet wasn't able to jump off the bicycle, coz of a vertical cliff on my right side. I fell right on my face and skidded for some 10 feet. When I got up it was all dark and lonely. For next 10 seconds I just couldn't grasp where I was, "probably not on earth anymore", the 1st thing that came to my mind after that huge impact. But after that I looked for my bag and bicycle. My home was still some 4 miles away. That is the time I feel you can extract each and every bit of strength from your body and that's exactly what I did. I didn't had enough strength to wipe-off the blood flowing from my forehead. I wasn't able to see anything from my left eye coz of the blood, my knees were bruised badly, my palm coudn't hold the cycle-handle and my nose was like a tap of blood, but still I never gave up.


After reaching home, when I saw myself in the mirror, I just couldn't recognize myself. I lost about half-a-gem sized chunk out of my chin and that left a hole on my chin. My left-forehead was so badly injured, that i couldn't see any skin there at all. My left cheek was all pink, coz the upper skin layer was gone. The same happened with the left-side skin of my nose. Another wound was on the left of my left eye (I dont know how to define all those areas on your face :D, but doing my best). I tried my best to clean some of those wounds but to no avail. I wasn't able to stand on my feet, wasn't able to touch anything with my hands with all those bruises. I somehow managed to reach home and call my guide at 11:30 pm coz there was nobody else at my home.


It was all looking pretty organised at the hospital with scans and everything until doctor came to give me some stiches. I just coudn't imagine how I took that pain of injections on my wounds. My body was shivering immensely but neither the nurse nor the doctor did anything to stop that. Probably they knew that getting 4 injections right between your wounds on your forehead will pain a lot. But with no surprise to me, there was more to come. Doctor gave me 1 injection in between my eyebrows, 3 between nose and lips and 4 on my chin. By the time doctor finished with all his stuff, I noticed that there was nobody in the room though my guide and a nurse were there when he started. Then came the easy part, atleast for me. Doctor started with the stiches. I never counted at that moment coz I was very tired at that time in the morning and wanted to sleep. So when doctor was stiching on my face I was resting as nothing has happened. But still I have no reason to hide how many stiches I received that day. I got some 15+ stiches on my forehead alone, got just 3 stiches in between my eyebrows on my nose, 7 stiches between my lip and nose and 10 stiches on my chin. A person with good arithematic can count the total I suppose ;).


But this was not it. I had a big wound inside my mouth which doc said will heal itself. It took around 15 days for that wound to heal and I was on liquid diet all that time. I had a fracture on the right bone of my nose and again the doc said it will heal itself. Luckily I had no inside damage to my skull and you will find the same old CHIRAG still :D, though only mentally. Physically or rather Facially I have changed a lot. I dont know how my left-eyebrow would look like after the forehead heals. Still not sure about the scars, whether it will remain or go, but some are definate to remain. My chin is due to sustain some deformity and my left lip might also sustain some of that. But after all these horrifying experiences, my experiments hasn't stopped. I went for a party just after 5 days, I couldn't eat much there, so I just drank :D. And the weekends after that has just been the same for me. Entertaining and fulfilling.


It has also taught me an important lesson about myself. No matter what happens nobody can snatch away my smile from me :). And I just wish to remain the same.


June 2006


I can't believe I am going to write about that, coz many people will just pour hundreds of questions on me to know more details, so lets leave it here only :P.


June 2005 and before


I think its mostly related to my school and 1st yr and its not as interesting as you would like it to be.


Hope you had something good to read and wait for sometime about my more deadly experiments here.


Cheers!!!!

The gains and the pains….

This blog of mine truly describes the year which went by. The year of lots of gains and also lots of pain. This blog of mine will describe my journey in short right from the day when I became the G.Sec sports of RK hall to the present day, the day when the final sports event i.e. weightlifting ends. This blog of mine might raise some eyebrows but I can’t do much about that.

RK hall won the Sports GC last year so it was upto me and my teams to defend it this year. But sadly we couldn’t defend it this time. Some say we lost because of insti poltu, some say we lost coz teams didn’t perform upto expectations but I say that we lost coz we didn’t had enuf cali. I feel sorry for all my juniors who won’t know this time how it feels to win a GC. I also feel sorry for the passout batch who would have definitely wanted to get hold of that trophy 1 more time. This will remain 1 of my biggest pains of the year. But some people who really deserve a lot of appraisal are chom (doing his hammer throw on 1 leg), rajesh (I really don’t recollect in how many events he participated in athletics and the breathtaking fight he posed to defend his silver medal in weightlifting by crossing all limits).

When there are pains there are also gains. My selection in the inter IIT volley team was my biggest gain this year. Winning gold there in inter IIT then in the inter halls was just icing on the cake. I don’t know how will the team be like next year as most of the star players are passing out, but one thing that I can assure that I will give it my best to raise the level of this volley team. Another team that really broke all records and won gold was the basketball team. I really feel proud to be a member of this really hard working basky team. When I entered RK hall in my 2^nd year I never knew what basketball was all about, but I was really fascinated by the game as I used to watch NBA on espnstar. I really wanted to be a basky player 1 day. Now especially after the way I performed against RP in the semis I can call myself a basky player. I would convey special thanks to Rathee, chochu and pikachu (abhijeet) for making me a good basky player. These are the people who rise above their personal glory and play as a cohesive unit. Players who help each other continuously to improve team game. These are the traits that I really missed in my volley team, where people consider themselves as GOD and never come for practice. Sometimes I really feel strange that I am the only person from my batch who plays volley. Things have been like this right from my 2^nd year.

Sometimes when you leave some things the way they are, you tend to loose out on opportunities. This is what remains as another pain of the year which I have to accept. To love somebody and waiting for the right moment is the biggest mistake a person can do. There are no right or wrong moments in life but only opportunities. Opportunity that I wasted. But now as I look back I don’t regret or feel sad having lost out on those opportunities but I feel happy coz those moments happened. Moments that will remind me of those beautiful days, moments that will make me laugh and cry at the same time and moments that will be with me forever.