Today started off very normal. Nothing unusual. But the day ended very unusual - I showed magic to a MAJOR personality - Mr. Ashish Vishnoi.

Today was our maths coaching. When I reached there, the class started earlier than expected. So my plan of showing magic to Mr. Neeraj was foiled. Today's class was quite interesting - graphs. Liked it a lot!

When the class was over, I decided that I would show magic to Mr. Neeraj now. I asked him, and he cheerfully replied, "Yup"! He positioned himself under a light so that he could clearly see what was happening. And then I started the magic.

As soon as other students saw cards, everyone flocked around Mr. Neeraj and me. Both of us were surrounded by students! Did the magic... and everyone was literally stunned. The two cards he was holding changed right in his hands... and I never touched them!

Earlier I had thought that I would not be able to do the trick successfully... I was surrounded completely on all sided... but I was extremely surprised that I was able to pull off the trick wonderfully!

Anyways, Mr. Neeraj had some work, so he left. After some time (while I was keeping my cards back), I saw Mr. Vishnoi coming near his car. It was completely unexpected. I just asked him... "Would you like to see some magic?" It was wonderful to see the expression on his face - completely surprised! But he cheerfully agreed to see some magic.

Let me introduce you to Mr. Ashish Vishnoi. He teaches us maths. He is very tall... maybe around 6 feet 5 inches. A really good teacher with a good sense of humour. He has been interviewed on Aaj Tak too!

I had thought that he would frown or do something else and not watch the magic... but he smiled and accepted my "proposal"!!

Then, I began. I asked him hold is hand palm up. And placed a card (Ace of spade) in his hand. Then he placed his other hand on the card. Then I took another card (Jack of diamonds) and waved it over his hands. And presto - the card that was inside his hand was in my hand! And the card in my hand reached his hands! He was completely befuddled!!!

Then he asked me...

Kis school ke ho? Appearing ho kya?

(You are from which school? Are you an appearing student?) To this I told him the name of my school... and told him that I was an appearing student!!

Then he said...

Toh tum IIT ki taiyari kyun kar rahe ho??

(Then why are you preparing for the IITJEE?) I just smiled back and took it as a compliment!

Then he asked if the pack of cards was special. Of course, it wasn't! Then he "challenged" me that these tricks can be performed with only certain cards... not all cards can be used.

Immediately I spread out the cards in my hands and and asked him to pick one - any one. But it was by chance that he picked one same card again... the Ace of Spade. Using that card, I did a trick in which the same card keeps jumping back to the top! Not once... but thrice the card jumped back to the top after being placed in the middle!

But then he checked the deck to see if there were any duplicates... and there were none!

And then he went back to his car for some work... and I reached my van. There were some people there... all of them asked me question about it... but I was too happy to answer properly!!

One of the other vans was not starting, so they used the battery in our van to start it (it did not start by pushing). That took about 15 minutes. We stayed there outside the coaching. Then we returned back... on our way back, our van's back tyre got punctured. But luckily, we had an extra... so our driver quickly replaced it!

And I'm here... writing this blog! Extremely happy!!

PS: It seems that Orkut's "Today's fortune" is true. My fortune today is

Your present plans are going to succeed

So, maybe I should start trusting the fortunes! Link: http://www.orkut.com/





Happy Deepawali everyone! Enjoy the holidays!