December 21: An Interesting Day

The date today is December 21. Thanks to Google, today's Doodle reminded me the date and bring back to me a truckload of memories into my head. This particular date has something amazing to its credit, something to remember by since my childhood. I had read in my book that December 21 is the shortest day of the year. I used to take part in literary events and December 21 has actually save me a mark to win a competition back in my high school. Exactly a year ago, on December 21 2012, the world came to an end. Finished. Gone!

The new world begin. And here we are. Exactly a year later, today, a not-so wonderful day. I woke up at around 10 O'clock to a foggy Delhi morning, hoping the weather will get better as the day progress. The whole day I was looking for some sunshine which never came; a sunless day, indeed. A friend of mine had to go somewhere to send a package home for Christmas and asked me to accompany him. We did the job, and since we don't have much to do at home, took the route back home on foot which was a long 5 km, or so the map says.

A to B: 5 km

Later, as usual I was on Facebook when a notification from a friend pop up on my screen. Clicking on it, it redirects me to a class group and the line read: "CHECK YOUR RESULT HERE" followed by a link to the university result site. My heart jump, and click the link to see the inevitable. For those of you who are wondering what is going on here, this is what happen: The result for the semester examination I appeared a fortnight ago, along with many other undergraduate students from the University of Delhi has been declared.

Filling the details they asked for, I made a silent prayer and wait for the page to load only to see this :

Server is too busy

I refreshed the page a couple of time but the same message came every time. Not satisfied, I went to the main site and see this:

The last line read: "4YUP-Examination Results - Semester 1 - Nov/Dec 2013- Link 1, Link 2, Link 3"

Oh my God, they have given three links to check the results. Maybe the webmaster(s) knew that the server will crashed in case the traffic goes too high than normal. But alas, all the links show the same annoying message:

"SERVER IS TOO BUSY"