Tag Archives: Life

Failures

I recently received numer­ous exam­i­na­tion results of mine (well, two, to enu­mer­ate, but that’s still more than aver­age). And I failed in both. I didn’t fail per se, but the results were pretty bad that they left lit­tle, if any, scope for being happy. I con­sider that fail­ure enough. What’s the value of a result

Major Joke: That kid makes up questions for himself, and even those he can’t solve

Major truth: He is truly awe­some. Or at least, so I believe. When Lock­hart said, In fact,  if  I  had  to  design  a mech­a­nism  for  the  express pur­pose  of  destroy­ing  a  child’s  nat­ural curios­ity and  love of  pattern-making, I couldn’t pos­si­bly do as good a  job as  is  cur­rently being done. I didn’t quite agree with

Everything that could go wrong, went wrong.

Thus goes, the basic “tenet” of Murphy’s Law, which I expe­ri­enced in full force today. It was fun though, rather exhil­er­at­ing, if I must say so! Today, as you may, or may not know, was the [in Namya’s words] “big vidya­mandir test”. In the morn­ing, I get up (which is rather unchar­ac­ter­is­tic of me —