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.