Mitsubishi Cedia Great Driving Challenge, the first ever contest/competition/challenge I ever participated outside my academics and culturals at academic institutions.

I met a good friend at Costa in CP after almost a year and got to know about it. Dunno what hit me and suddenly I was so keen to participate. I took the details from my friend who himself was a participant and it was there I knew it was going to be real tough. My biggest challenge was to look for a partner who would be the perfect match. I have writer in me and I love photography. Now I needed someone who was an excellent driver and a good navigator. And then I thought of Rajat, my friend of 4 years. He is an exceptionally good driver and an amazing companion. When I shared this idea with Rajat, willing would be a wrong word, he was so much excited about this that he wanted us to register right away. Driving is his passion and anything like this would be a dream come true for both of us.

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We registered ourselves when there was not more than a week left for the first round result. Profiles and voting was the major criteria for selection. Getting voting would normally wouldn’t have been a tough task for us as both of us have a huge social network but challenge here was the time. This gave us the right opportunity to get in touch with the old forgotten friends. We almost spoke to everyone we had ever known by getting their numbers from our mobile phonebooks, old phone diaries and even slam books that we used get filled in while we were at schools. We did all this just because we wanted to get through especially with contestants like my friend (who introduced me to this challenge), it was a tough battle.

I was so much into all this, that I at one point I felt as if I am going to screw up things at the office. And today I am so glad of almost screwing up with my boss for getting votes that I have actually landed up in the Mitsubishi Cedia Great Driving Challenge top 100 from amongst over 1000 couples.

I know the fight doesn’t end here, in fact this is where it actually starts. 9 to be selected outta 100. we really got to work hard.

Wish me luck.