biplane

Biplane
becoming a pilot was my purpose when I was a child. The same ambition held on to me till I was in degree. It was jessy aunty who taught me the word ‘pilot’ when I was in KG, and staying at chengalam. she told me if I wrote it several times and studied it, I would become a pilot.

but it was too costly. Even training on the rusted Cessnas in this rusted Kerala cost u a fortune of over 10 lakhs and think about training under some good companies!! Though becoming a commercial pilot was at my heart, I was the same interested in pursuing the path of an air force pilot. Thatz how I wrote the combined defense services (CDS) exam. I passed it!! but then was the interview! The interview is much harder than what the exam is. 7 days interview. It was in between that interview that I got the very first sms from you. I wrote a story as reply, I knew later, that u got only the first 2 lines! I thot whatever I filled in that box went 2 ur fone.

Only 2 people out of those 60 were selected for the medicals. The medicals, I’ve heard, is funny. They ask u to ‘smile’. When u open up ur mouth with all the 28 odd teeth, they say, ‘smile ur buttocks’. I didn’t belong to that 2. That was the end of my air force carrier. I don’t have anymore chances! I wrote the CDS again, and was called for the army, 4 months b4. Through CDS, you can get the best post when u enter the defense. but I’m too much in love with the oceans now! I didn’t go.

I haven’t lost my desire to be airborne. Maybe I would have a biplane for myself…

hey, Richard Bach has a biplane. He’s a philosophy-fiction-ideas-life mixed writer too. Thatz what attracted me to him.

Still I strain my neck and wonder over the speck soaring far above.

14 Oct, 2002

4 Responses

  1. anubhavi says:

    i think roxy

    its good that u have not bcm pilot

    otherswise u would have floated on the clouds, ddreaming and making poemssss…..

    thank god…

    anubhavi

  2. rocksea says:

    hmm.. let us see. have to do a lot of work on land first 😀

  3. sarah says:

    We can still pursue that dream. Then, remember kitty chechi and co trying ot teach you to fly! 😀 I wonder if that led you to make it your ambition! haha…do you go, “thank god, i did not get thru”, when you knew what all they ask you to smile! :p
    Also, remember the dream I had…you flying…the movie…making a difference…Oprah Winfrey…my plan to streak my hair (Oops! that was out of topic).
    By the way, was country in your mind too or just the ambition when you gave CDS exam?

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