A Painful Trip 2 IBM, B'lore

What shall I say? What is the definition of "Luck"? What is the science and history behind some people getting lucky always, some people just getting a chance to touch victory for a sec and then being send back to the same olden days and some people always unlucky..?

It is the 2nd time this year, I am missing chances to convert some big opportunities into realities..!! Is it called fate? Who decides fate?

The first one being the GSoc2009. My mentor gave me all hopes saying my proposal was great and he liked to see me doing their project this year etc etc..
But finally what happened....It seems I was ranked 6th among all the applications they received and unfortunately the organization got only 4 slots from google...and thus I was out of the whole thing...Maybe I should have chosen a project that they wanted to get done with urgently...But how the hell am I supposed to know which are the projects important to them...!!
The mentor even apologized saying they would surely consider my proposal next year....but an opportunity missed is lost forever...

The 2nd one was our trip to IBM, Bangalore on 8th May to engage in their tests and interviews to get selected for doing their Summer Internship Program. The opportunity was great!! Thanks to the Placement Cell students of our college!!
But inspite of clearing their aptitude and technical tests which only 11 among all of us did, I couldn't make it in the interview...Though I believe I answered well for most of the questions, I was not considered among the three who made it...I think I was not able to convince my interviewer that I was capable of doing Java programming, though I had completed Java and J2EE courses from NIIT last year...
But still some hope remains..as the rest 8 of us will have a telephonic interview within a week and maybe I hope to convince them what I am capable of... :-)

Its summer vacations now for 2 months, all of us frm college are trying to get engaged in either internships or other computer studies to add more value to their resume...coz this is the time of recession....u knw?
Currently I am doin a remote project for MindTree - Course Evaluation System...we r doing it in Java ...its pretty simple one...jdbc and mysql being the main domains....hope to finish them soon... so thats it...
I am curious to know- if life is programmed by fate then is there any need for emotions like hope, expectations, ambitions, aspirations etc...
But a great movie/documentary I saw few months back named "The Secret" says its not so.....but i am still confused!!! Looking for a satisfying explanation....:-)

bye...!!