HIT!

how can this be happen to me..."yeh kya hua??"

it must have been a bump...ok ..its losing balance..and so the thoughts flowed

"ITs ok..everything s alright"..i think i said soemthing like this..

ok not the divider...damn! ...alright..let it not topple..uh oh...now WHAT? and sot eh thoguth flowed again...

some distant shrieks and my head banging on to the roof of the rick is all i remember of that moment..dunnno how and when i got up..how i managed to reach the drivers area and pick up the rick to remove his stranded leg...nothing

shocking..still shocked.. jus like how sudhi said an hour or so later while we were in the hospital gettin her xray done... "kaise ho gaya na..."

though it finally turned out to be a very small accident compared to what we are used to hearing.. i mean the very next day i was reading about and an etnire family being wiped out on the highway... but that moment of helplessness was scary when a 100 possibilities run through your mind and there is not a single thing you can do about it, but hope you stand up alright after all of it...

we were coming back after a break at slice of lime, malad... me, aviraj and sudeshna..heading back to office..while the rest were bound home..

i have no idea what happened.. but the rick gave a jerk..i thought it must hav hit something on the road..it seemed to gain balance back..but lost it just as soon as i thought it had..

sviveling widely we went and hit the divider..both aviraj and me instinctively tried to pull sudeshna towards our side..dunno whetehr we managed to.. but the rick bounced off the divder as expected and agaisnt all hope...very conveniently and liesurely it fell on the road at a wierd angle..

aviraj s left leg was trapped under the rick..i fell behind him n hit the road with just the roof cusion between.. and i saw some purple thing flying above...it was sudhi falling god knows where...

Like i said before i don t remember what happened after that... my memory straightaway takes me to me pulling the rick up to remove the rick guys leg..the poor pity bhaiya look actually seemed a bit funny at that moment..strangely...anyway i managed to pull it just enough for him to squeeze his foot inside hoping all moment that it doesnt slip back onto his feet ...by that time a small crowd had gathered already...it was unnerving to be right in the middle of it..the rick guy got out.. i followed suit...

minal had come along by then..she was with another friend of hers right behind us probably.. i walked around to see whats the scene with sudhi and aviraj...they had managed to free his leg by then..and both of em were still stuck in the passenger side standing somehow lost... I pulled sudhi out... aviraj cudn get out..so we turned the rick back onto tis feet..i eman tyres...and he managed his way out after that...

and this was just the beginning of a long night...

a fracture ...nerve damage...and not a single scratch ..described the three survivors of this accident... or victims of a hit and run probably

jay sahil sagar n natasha joined us while we were hunting a clinic to check things up...while all 3 of us were int he midst of consoling each other and wondering about the hows and whys of what we just went through...

"this will not be with us in our dreams for long" ... aviraj told sudeshna much later on the phone... the seriousness with which he said it made it even more funny as this has been the only thing in mind since...

A couple of hospital visits..goodbyes and take cares .. encouraging words and silly one liners followed as the night hours fell through...

Initially i felt left out coz nothing happened to me... felt glad later that i could stand by my closest friend when probably she needed it the most...dunno if i actually was of any help..also with brendon making sure everything was in place things went easy..anyway just beign ther made me feel secure and thoughtfree...coz it s always an irritation when u want to know everything that s going on and have to rely on someone else for all of it..

It s a lot difficult to put into words what happened then..though it wasn't very drastic..such things do take the wind out of your sail (thats what they say right??) .. the silent glances...reassuring jokes and smiles..holding hands..phone calls...scary thoughts...a long drive...


the night over.. its another day..and what happened is now just another page of story to tell...

Adieu Schumi

i have never really been a big fan of Schumacher...
In fact i started supporting Kimi, coz I had to choose someone else other than him

call it irony that the last man schumi overtook had to be Kimi..not only from the perspective of the fact that he is going to be the successor at scudderia.. but also from the way things were at my end.. the man i disliked the most in F1 sendin the one i adore the most into retreat...

But no matter what... I thank Michael Schumacher for having been The Michael Schumacher...

I had not seen him till the summer of 2001.. but I still knew I didnt need to support him. I have this soft side for the underdog and high disregard and dislike for the favourite... Knew what schumi was capable, without even watching him... and that is the greatness I respect him for.

For all i know, he is what we call a once in a lifetime man...

I have heard of legends of the past..heard of what they did and achieved.. Bradman, Jesse Ovens... the list is endless...But i never got to see anyone of them...Schumacher gave my generation a name to talk of. There will never be anyone like you, and I thank you for giving us the opportunity to stay wtiness to your genius...
I am from the era when Michael Schumacher ruled the F1 ... he gave us this tag to live with...

I saw his fans singing him a farewell.. all of 'em teary , very suddenly i caught myself moist in the eye.. I didnt cry, but i was mighty well near it.. and i dunno y...

coming to think of it ..i feel maybe schumi was the one i always liked..prolly not..

but now it no longer matters... I dont need to cry foul every time he stepped on the podium beginning from nearly no man's land at times.. coz i know i will never see him on the track that way again.. and somehow it seems to have taken the charm out of F1...

anyway.. hes gone.. n now things aren't as straightforward as it was before..there is no Michael Schumacher to hate.. and Kimi is goin to Ferrarri.. and Alonso coming to McLaren...things can't get worse than that for me...

Here s how things are.. I like Kimi and McLaren..coz i hate Michael and hence i had to naturally hate ferrari too.. Of late I had to hate Alonso too coz I like Kimi and they both have a nice rivalry going on...

Now.. Kimi is going to Ferarri which i hate...and Alonso who i hate is coming to Mcalren whcih i love..

Ab mai kya karu?

confoosan confoosan!