Today i attended the wedding of my school friend. I was in same school with same classmates from 1st grade till 9th grade, before i moved to Hyderabad.

Today was emotional.

I had a school picture from 5th grade in my phone. The bride was my friend sitting next to me in the picture. I showed it to her, she showed it to her groom. That was precious. Cant believe my friends married already.

Today was wonderful.

I met my maths teacher. I said what i always wanted to say. I said “You are the best teacher. You are the greatest.” He had tears in his eyes. I had too.

Then i met my Hindi Teacher. Before i could recognize and say a word, i saw a tear rolling off from the corner of his eye. I greeted him and moved into his vision to see if it indeed was a tear. It was.

It was wonderful. I told my teachers that they should be proud to be a teacher. They were.

They were proud of me. They were proud of themselves. How lucky i am today, to go back to my favourite teachers and let them know that they are the best.
When i look at my school teachers, i felt myself in the white-maroon uniform. But looking at all the people around, how they grew older, how they are discussing about what their kids achieved, how they are acknowledging their kids grown up as adults with their lives, their future with Satyam / Wipro / Dell / GE, i had a reality check.

Today was as if i walked into Nizamabad 10 years ago.

Cant believe all the kids i went to school with are so grown up!

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PLACE:

Hyderabad, India

TIME:

Any sunny crappy day to chose!
Preplanned events:

Talk to an agent and setup a day to meet at rto’s office

Day 1:

1. Go to the RTO’s office

2. Talk to the agent and fill in the forms(passport copy/birth date proof/address proof)

3. Wait in the queue for 2 hours for your turn

4. Finally you get a receipt to go in for a photo session

5. Take a crappy photo and wait in another queue for your name to be called

6. Finally you are in a queue where others are freaking out looking into some figures and traffic pictures

7. Since you have an agent, you can sing and just look at people freaking out

8. Finally your name is called out, you walk into a room of computers and a senior personnel at the end of the room, and an assistant who walks you in.

9. You start the test, and just stare at what the questions mean(unless you know driving, but i don’t!!)

10. Then suddenly out of no where, the assistant who walked you in will ask people to settle down outside, will boss around and close the door.

Suddenly its all dark inside and you wonder whats going on. Then the assistant will come down to your computer, review how many incorrect answers you made, and will finish the remaining till you can pass the test.

11. My case i answered only two questions, one was right, obviously one was wrong. So he answered some 10 more in 20 seconds at lightning speed.

12. Suddenly the door opens up behind you, and someone yells : “5 more minutes for the exam, finish off soon”

13. Now that you know, that you are going to pass with the cutoff being reached, you can have fun with the rest of the questions

14. I was surprised that i answered all right with the confidence that i am done!

15. Stand at the officer at the end of the room, say your name, he will ask a silly question, like who is MR.XYX from the form, and you will answer, its my dad sort of silly question

16. He will sign and give you a final sheet

17. You will come out, the agent will ask you for his money, will take the xerox copy of the sheet. keeps the original with him, and you start off the driving lessons with the xerox copy.

more to come, hands on with the phase II

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