26/7 or 26/11

9.00 am Tuesday 25th Nov 08, University Road - Just got off heavily loaded Arriva bus number 80 and stand for a minute thinking "Only if any one planned a bombing attack on this bus in the wee hour, what a devastating effects it would have.

9.00 am Wednesday 26th Nov 08, 2nd floor Henry Wellcome Building- Learnt from one of my colleague that her father expired last week end due to cancer. I am silent for next 20-30 minutes with thought of what would be my reaction if I get any such news and what all things I would need to take care of including how do I move ahead with my studies/job. In a quite shocked state, but i get over it and start moving for my daily activity.

12.30pm Wednesday 26th Nov 08, 2nd floor Henry Wellcome Building- I am not bothered about finishing experiments any soon, so have a relaxed start for the experiments even though I have 2 of them to do in one afternoon.

4.30pm Wednesday 26th Nov 08, 2nd floor Henry Wellcome Building- I log on gmail chat and change my status to "Life- biggest question ever". Nothing had gone wrong with me or any of my experiments, just a prompt thought completely out of random.

5.05pm Wednesday 26th Nov 08, 2nd floor Henry Wellcome Building - I am labelling slides with date, specimen and name. On one of the slide i put down the date as "26/7" , dont know why , but realised it after 10 mins the incorrectness and changed it. (26/7 is the date when mumbai had heaviest rainfall few years ago and people of mumbai had suffered a lot. Whole of mumbai was closed and even the stock markets.)

5.40pm Wednesday 26th Nov 08, 2nd floor Henry Wellcome Building - Completed experiments finally. Never been in lab so late recently , but no hurry in me to get home/library.Move towards Library

5.50pm Wednesday 26th Nov 08, University Road - Only to find a girl was hit by a moving car. Luckily the girl survived and received minor injuries, but was lying on road and people surrounding the place and waiting for the emergency services to arrive. As its a peak period, traffic block had started to built up. For some unconscious thought, I could not move away from the scene. Only a single girl took charge of handling the task of regulating traffic coming from both the sides of the incident. I have enough courage filled in me to offer her a helping hand and coordinate busy traffic so that the road is not blocked for the emergency services. Felt like i had done a course in "Traffic Management". Emergency Services arrive and taking care of the patient, and I am still on road helping regulate traffic around for next 20 minutes or so. With task completed successfully, the first thought in my mind, "this was just a minor road accident, am I ready to handle situation if any thing more serious is going around, say Terrorist attack, they are not rare these days. Quite frequent. I am still unsure what exact reaction i would give to such situations, but thinking about people who suffered /or at the location for the london underground bombings and mumbai train bombings in recent past.

6.15pm Wednesday 26th Nov 08, Ground Floor David Wilson Library - I am looking forward to a good search on my essay topic and log onto a computer. Just happened to log onto "Times of India" website to check for the news of the day , as did not get time to do it throughout the day and the headline reads " Terrorist attack in Mumbai: 2 dead ; 10 injured". I am like a terrorist attack and only 2 killed.. but later realised the number climbed high every time i refreshed the page.. m speechless....



Now i am speechless with the thought that the events with me are mere co-incidence or were really some sort of signalling thoughts. I strongly believe it to be some sort of signalling thoughts.

There is always a time when life story starts to converge to the most selfish bit and all that matters is "i me myself"...

a really difficult turning point when the recent life one lived was dedicated selflessly for benefit of some one who is not even a blood relative not seen face to face for almost more then a year and the mode of communication remains mobile and internet instant messaging...

childhood friends who were together in school bus to playgrounds, and now miles apart are still in contact .. thanks to the advancement in the technologies and its penetration into lives of common man. telecommunication was a revolution, mobile boosted its speed and the Web2.0 has changed the face of the world and the way image of the present world reflected as.. with the increase in the complexity a in-depth thought regarding time management to strike a balance for time dedicated for personal and professional life is getting very critical.. and probably driving one to be more selfish then ever before..