Rohan - "Man, today we almost had it, imagine what could have had happened"
Me - "hmm"
It was a perfect evening that. The setting sun had painted the sky in a myriad of colors. There was a cool breeze blowing, just perfect. The three of us were just standing and enjoy the beauty, postcard picture type.
Rohan - "This evening is simply awesome, i hope it stays this way"
Me - "Ya, this is so great, a lot better than those lectures, wassay Sammer"
Sammer till now had remained quiet. You generally won't associate that kind if thing with him, the kind of person he was. Yet there he was, leaning against one of the chairs on the pavement staring at nothing, in deep thought.
Rohan - "I think he is drunk"
Me - "Can't be, he didn't go to velinos today, oye sammer what happened, are you okay?"
Sammer - "Me, umm ya, I'm fine. Guys you know , I was thinking, all of us are so differnt, this fattu rohan, you lover boy and me, yer we have something in common"
Rohan - "i an NOT FATTU, u liar...."
Me- "Calm down fattum aah i mean rohan, what are you saying sameer, we are totally differnt, we don't have anything in common"
Sammer- "yes we have my dear casanova. You see we have totally different ways of thinking, we were raised in different environments, yet we have something in common"
Me- "What?"
Sameer- "We all have a fear which we don't accept, which we always run away from, which we never try to confront, we all are escapists"
Rohaan - "Are you mad...?"
Me- "Shut up fattu, Sameer what does this mean?"
Sameer- "I speak from observation sir. You see this fattu. he is too afraid to face the fact that he is not a genius. He tries to overburden himself and tries to prove to the world that he is a person which he is not. That is why he ties himself up i his boring routine and lifestyle so that he can convince himself that he is super intelligent. And you my dear loverboy, you sir are too afraid to come out of your image. You are nuts about that girl but you don't have the balls to tell her that. You will take her on walks and speak bullshit. You know why, because you don't want your image to be tarnished"
I was dumbfounded, whatever sameer was saying was actually true. Out of self defense I said - "all right mr thinker, what do you hide from?"
Sammer remained quiet for a few seconds but eventually he said-"I have always been esacping from the fact thatm I could never be a good son to my parents. I always miss them but I am too coward too tell them this. I know that I have created for myself a rift which is too deep and I hesitate to look down"
All of us remained quiet for a little while. I had never seen this side of Sammer. The guy could br so emotional, I had no idea.
Rohan broke the ice - "all right guys, cut the crap. lets have ice cream"
Sameer - "You know it sounds strange but we are like the three musketeers, we have to fight one comoon enemy and that is our fear"
Me - "And we will"
Sameer - "who want's ice cream, lets have a race, run fattu run"
Rohan - "You.. dare you..."
And both of them ran off
I was smiling, both these guys were crazy but I had developed a strange bond with them.
Monday, November 8, 2010
Friday, August 6, 2010
Chamber Consulataion
Whenever there is something bad that you know is about to happen with you and you can’t do anything to stop it, you tend to try to forget about it for sometime and then you try to pretend as is nothing happened. I was desperately trying to do the same. There is only one hitch in this method that bad moment truly arrives and when it does it truly knocks the air out of you.
Something like that was about to happen with me. Here I was in Bits, hardly 3 weeks old and already I was going to pay my first visit to the teacher’s chamber, not for academic purpose. Have you ever had a feeling when you wait for something bad to happen, something like when you were waiting to take your first shot of vaccine when you were a kid. The feeling is very bad and the wait even more. So here we where Rohan , Sameer and me waiting outside the chamber of our teacher.
Rohan – “Sameer, Puneet you better behave inside, I don’t want any trouble inside because of you guys”
Sameer – “O come on guys, we have not any crime here , chill………..”
Me – “We’ll argue later, can we go inside now”
So we went inside, obviously after a knock and a ‘may we come in sir’ , just like obedient school kids.
Teacher – “Yes , yes so you are the trio that has been misleading me for some time , haan. Nice planning I must say, but we are more smarter than you , that is why we are your teachers.
Rohan had a very guilty expression on his face while Sameer had a ‘I don’t care, get over with it soon’ kind of expression. I was having a tough time striking the balance between these two expressions.
Teacher – “This is disgusting------------------------------all heard stuff but which was true too---------------------------------------, you know if I complain , you registration might be cancelled also”
This triggered Rohan off. He was soon overflowing with –‘We are sorry sir, we won’t so it again and similar type pleas, I too joined a bit
Me – “We are sorry sir, it won’t happen again”
After a rather hard elbow from Rohan Sameer too gurgled a feeble ‘sorry’
Teacher – “You boys are young, your parents have so many hopes from you. You people are intelligent too, why don’t you put it to good use?”
Strange and stereotype as it may sound all these things were true.
Teacher – “ I am leaving you now , but you three boys must be present in all classes and if you try anything smart again , you will have had it, now go,………”
After coming out
Rohan – “Almost had it today..”
Me – “That was close”
Sameer – “Told you , it is always like this , come on lets race to ice and spice, last one pays”
Rohan – “You will never improve right?”
Sameer – “you bet”
Something like that was about to happen with me. Here I was in Bits, hardly 3 weeks old and already I was going to pay my first visit to the teacher’s chamber, not for academic purpose. Have you ever had a feeling when you wait for something bad to happen, something like when you were waiting to take your first shot of vaccine when you were a kid. The feeling is very bad and the wait even more. So here we where Rohan , Sameer and me waiting outside the chamber of our teacher.
Rohan – “Sameer, Puneet you better behave inside, I don’t want any trouble inside because of you guys”
Sameer – “O come on guys, we have not any crime here , chill………..”
Me – “We’ll argue later, can we go inside now”
So we went inside, obviously after a knock and a ‘may we come in sir’ , just like obedient school kids.
Teacher – “Yes , yes so you are the trio that has been misleading me for some time , haan. Nice planning I must say, but we are more smarter than you , that is why we are your teachers.
Rohan had a very guilty expression on his face while Sameer had a ‘I don’t care, get over with it soon’ kind of expression. I was having a tough time striking the balance between these two expressions.
Teacher – “This is disgusting------------------------------all heard stuff but which was true too---------------------------------------, you know if I complain , you registration might be cancelled also”
This triggered Rohan off. He was soon overflowing with –‘We are sorry sir, we won’t so it again and similar type pleas, I too joined a bit
Me – “We are sorry sir, it won’t happen again”
After a rather hard elbow from Rohan Sameer too gurgled a feeble ‘sorry’
Teacher – “You boys are young, your parents have so many hopes from you. You people are intelligent too, why don’t you put it to good use?”
Strange and stereotype as it may sound all these things were true.
Teacher – “ I am leaving you now , but you three boys must be present in all classes and if you try anything smart again , you will have had it, now go,………”
After coming out
Rohan – “Almost had it today..”
Me – “That was close”
Sameer – “Told you , it is always like this , come on lets race to ice and spice, last one pays”
Rohan – “You will never improve right?”
Sameer – “you bet”
Monday, May 31, 2010
A smile is Enough
'I am a dead duck',I thought while I was returning to the hostel. What will the guys say. Rohan was pretty hysterical, he was acting as if the world was going to come to an end. Well that was expected from him, I would have actually been surprised if he acted with less fever . Anyways Sameer was pretty cool about it.
"Dont worry dude, its nothing, he will just scold us, people do get frusty sometimes,chill man."
But how could I. Sameer was cool about most things, whether it was missing classes, bunking tests and all. Well he could afford it I guess, his dad was pretty rich.
Next two hours went by at snail's pace. Guess when you are about to be kicked, all things seem wrong. Nothing absolutely nothing could improve my situation right now. But life is strange you see, it will be out to prove you out when you think you are dead right.
As you might have guessed I met Pooja during the luch break. She was looking stunning in a simple salwaar kammez. Some people just have it in them , they look beautiful in anything I am sure you must be knowing some people like those too. Anyways she had a lovely smile on her face when she came up to me.
Me - "Looking happy, some occasion"
Pooja - "Nothing yaar, just that I had given an audition for the dance club."
Me - "So what happened?"
Pooja - "I got selected in it , yey!!!!!"
Now that was not a very big deal to be very frank. Girls do get over joyed on small things (guys take note). But some how I was very happy for her and I forgot all my trouble.
Me - "Wow yaar, that calls for a celebration.Wassay, mongi chale? Mess ko goli maar."
Pooja - "Ya chal"
So I spent the next hour laughing on her silly jokes and she also returned the favour (my sense of humor is also not that great). It was amazing how I forgot all my tension with her. A smile was enough for me.
"Dont worry dude, its nothing, he will just scold us, people do get frusty sometimes,chill man."
But how could I. Sameer was cool about most things, whether it was missing classes, bunking tests and all. Well he could afford it I guess, his dad was pretty rich.
Next two hours went by at snail's pace. Guess when you are about to be kicked, all things seem wrong. Nothing absolutely nothing could improve my situation right now. But life is strange you see, it will be out to prove you out when you think you are dead right.
As you might have guessed I met Pooja during the luch break. She was looking stunning in a simple salwaar kammez. Some people just have it in them , they look beautiful in anything I am sure you must be knowing some people like those too. Anyways she had a lovely smile on her face when she came up to me.
Me - "Looking happy, some occasion"
Pooja - "Nothing yaar, just that I had given an audition for the dance club."
Me - "So what happened?"
Pooja - "I got selected in it , yey!!!!!"
Now that was not a very big deal to be very frank. Girls do get over joyed on small things (guys take note). But some how I was very happy for her and I forgot all my trouble.
Me - "Wow yaar, that calls for a celebration.Wassay, mongi chale? Mess ko goli maar."
Pooja - "Ya chal"
So I spent the next hour laughing on her silly jokes and she also returned the favour (my sense of humor is also not that great). It was amazing how I forgot all my tension with her. A smile was enough for me.
Monday, April 19, 2010
Proxy
The previous night was one of the better ones of my life. I had a hard time convincing myself to sleep. I was so excited, but sleep was necessary because tomorrow was my turn to do 'proxy'. You see we had an agreement, my friends and I. We were bound by the sacred word, an unspoken oath, we had to take turns to go the morning tutorials and mark the attendance of each other. There were three of us, Rohan, Sammer and I.Sameer and Rohan had served their terms respectively, I was next. I did not see an eye to an eye to the morning lectures. But I had no choice, we had marks for attendance, ya that's right, no need to be taken aback. So as per plan I slept early(which was at 1 by the way)to get up on time the next day.Next morning it took 6 alarms and the constant banging by my neighbor on my door( apparently he had woke up due to the alarms and was a bit irritated that I was still asleep and was switching the alarms off) to wake me up. So i woke up , had breakfast for the first time in the mess and then went to class as a dutiful slave.
What was taught in class is of less importance, it was like a tangent. it touched my head and went far away!!!!!!!!. So I am sparing you the details.
What was interesting is what followed
You see we have a sheet that is passed among students to mark the attendance. Teachers actually believe that students will not use any unfair means!!!!!!!!
So when the sheet was passed to me I marked mine Rohan's and Sameer's attendance.
I was relieved after that, a job well done. I was wrong.
Destiny has a personal grudge against me, always has. Never before had the teacher never before but then that day he decided to take a head count. There were 2 students less, ob.
Teacher - "Who has put proxy attendance?"
No answer
Teacher - "Tell me or zero to all of you"
Some geek, some moron gave the idea to call out the names.
'I am a dead duck' I thought
So he called out the names
"Sameer"
No answer
"Rohan"
No answer
"Puneet"
"Present Sir"
"Where are the above two"
"I don't know sir"
"I haven't seen you in any class, but your attendance is full, you people you think you can fool us. I want to see all three of you in my chamber this evening or consider yourselves repeating the course"
'I am screwed man' "Yes Sir"
What was taught in class is of less importance, it was like a tangent. it touched my head and went far away!!!!!!!!. So I am sparing you the details.
What was interesting is what followed
You see we have a sheet that is passed among students to mark the attendance. Teachers actually believe that students will not use any unfair means!!!!!!!!
So when the sheet was passed to me I marked mine Rohan's and Sameer's attendance.
I was relieved after that, a job well done. I was wrong.
Destiny has a personal grudge against me, always has. Never before had the teacher never before but then that day he decided to take a head count. There were 2 students less, ob.
Teacher - "Who has put proxy attendance?"
No answer
Teacher - "Tell me or zero to all of you"
Some geek, some moron gave the idea to call out the names.
'I am a dead duck' I thought
So he called out the names
"Sameer"
No answer
"Rohan"
No answer
"Puneet"
"Present Sir"
"Where are the above two"
"I don't know sir"
"I haven't seen you in any class, but your attendance is full, you people you think you can fool us. I want to see all three of you in my chamber this evening or consider yourselves repeating the course"
'I am screwed man' "Yes Sir"
Friday, April 9, 2010
A NIGHT TO REMEMBER - 2
So we were on top of on LT4 on a full moon night facing a river that was shining like silver. Pooja was loving it and I was feeling on top of the world
Me - "Have a seat maa'm"
Pooja - "Yes, yes why not"
I was thinking about a topic to start a conversation but couldn't find one. Told you I am a complete jerk at this. I was lucky enough that Pooja was in chit-chat mood.
Pooja - "So tell me , how did you find this place"
Me - (Sammer you \m/) "Just discovered, by chance"
Pooja - "Hmm , so tell me , you told me you write stuff and all. What kind of stuff?"
Me- "All kinds of. Depends on my mood. I write stories and poems......."
Pooja - "Poems , wow do you remember any of them "
Me - "Lemme see, I do remember quite a few"
So then I told her about my poems , mostly romantic ones(I did this on purpose)
Pooja - "Wow dude you are talented and romantic. You must be having a girlfriend"
Me - "Haven't been so lucky"
Pooja - "Dont worry yaar won't be much long. So any crushes in campus?"
Me - "Hmm I am not sure I am still considering one( you idiot)"
Pooja - "Who ,tell me"
Me - "Don't worry , the day I am sure you'll be the first one to know"
Pooja - "Thanks dude"
Me - "What about you meri hi raam kahani puche jaa rahi hai"
Pooja - "Not much luck here either. Every other guy I meet doesn't seem to be interested in my looks not me"
Me - (Can't blame them) "All guys are not like that"
So this random stuff continued on. I was surprised I was getting better at it. Sameer was right, you have to enter the field to get experienced.
Pooja - "Omg , it is 11 gotta go"
Me - "Ya , me too bye cya later"
Pooja - "bye , take care"
That was the most beautiful 30 odd minutes I had for a long time. Truly it was a night to remember.
Me - "Have a seat maa'm"
Pooja - "Yes, yes why not"
I was thinking about a topic to start a conversation but couldn't find one. Told you I am a complete jerk at this. I was lucky enough that Pooja was in chit-chat mood.
Pooja - "So tell me , how did you find this place"
Me - (Sammer you \m/) "Just discovered, by chance"
Pooja - "Hmm , so tell me , you told me you write stuff and all. What kind of stuff?"
Me- "All kinds of. Depends on my mood. I write stories and poems......."
Pooja - "Poems , wow do you remember any of them "
Me - "Lemme see, I do remember quite a few"
So then I told her about my poems , mostly romantic ones(I did this on purpose)
Pooja - "Wow dude you are talented and romantic. You must be having a girlfriend"
Me - "Haven't been so lucky"
Pooja - "Dont worry yaar won't be much long. So any crushes in campus?"
Me - "Hmm I am not sure I am still considering one( you idiot)"
Pooja - "Who ,tell me"
Me - "Don't worry , the day I am sure you'll be the first one to know"
Pooja - "Thanks dude"
Me - "What about you meri hi raam kahani puche jaa rahi hai"
Pooja - "Not much luck here either. Every other guy I meet doesn't seem to be interested in my looks not me"
Me - (Can't blame them) "All guys are not like that"
So this random stuff continued on. I was surprised I was getting better at it. Sameer was right, you have to enter the field to get experienced.
Pooja - "Omg , it is 11 gotta go"
Me - "Ya , me too bye cya later"
Pooja - "bye , take care"
That was the most beautiful 30 odd minutes I had for a long time. Truly it was a night to remember.
A NIGHT TO REMEMBER- 1
So here I was having dinner at shahi, with Pooja her friend and Sameer. To tell you the truth I didn't eat much (how could I, non veg and me well we do not see an eye to an eye). Still I managed to maintain a smile on my face.So after dinner while we were washing our hands, Sameer came up to me and said.
Sameer - "So dude, what now?"
Me - "What , what now , back to the hostel , I've to give those sheets to Rohan"
Sammer - "You are one dumb headed moron, you will let the go awa.y Dude this is your chance , take her for a walk. Get to know her or more importantly get her to know you."
Me - "Ehm Ehm , I get your point sire. There is only one slight problem. Why will she come? She hardly knows me. And by the way I am not good at doing all this. "
Sameer - "You have to enter the field to get experience soldier. Don't worry I will work my magic. Now go and talk to her On it soldier."
Me - "Whatever"
So I followed Sameer's instructions and started to chat with Pooja. I am lame at this and I sucked. She kept on laughing on stuff which was not meant to be a joke"
Anyways Sameer did work his magic and Pooja's friend went with him( for a walk I guess
While going Sameer came to me and said - "Dude take her to the balcony above LT4 , near the workshop, you have to just climb over a railing"
Me - "If somebody sees us , I mean is it all right"
Sameer - "Come on dude you are not robbing a bank. Trust me you will thank me for this later."
So after gathering all my courage I went up to Pooja and said - "I am feeling like going for a walk , are you game"
Pooja - "Ya , sure"
The reply was pretty prompt and quick. I was somewhat amazed , I didn't expect her to respond so quickly. 'Aren't girls suppose to take time and be shy', I thought.
Pooja apparently read my thoughts - "What , what happened?"
Me - "No , nothing I was just surprised......."
Pooja - "At what. Look you seem a nice guy , a safe guy. A guy with whom I can be friends with, you know just friends."
'Ya right, I am no saint maa'm don't be any wrong impression' I thought, but i didn't say so.
Me - "Ya why not? Sure"
So I started this first most important walk of my life.
Me - "You wanna have something at Ice and Spice"
Pooja - "Ok but your treat"
Me - "Sure"
We ordered two Ice creams(they were simply awesome. I would have actually loved them on some other day but today I was just concentrating on not making a fool out of myself in front of her)
Pooja - "These ice creams are really great.....should visit this more often"
Me - "True , true"
Pooja(laughing)- "Don't get too happy mister, that would mean more loss of money for you"
So after having our ice cream we just strolled around near the B dome stairs.
Me - "I know a great place wanna see it"
Pooja - "Huh ok"
So we went towards that part of the A wing .
Pooja - "Where are you taking me?"
Me - "No questions"
When we reached there , I mean near the railing
Me - "Climb over , after you maam"
Pooja - "Are you crazy this is not allowed"
Me - "Who said it isn't, if you are feeling afraid we can go back, chicken "
Pooja - "Huh I am not afraid"
Me - "Let me go first"
After crossing over we were on the top of a terrace. Well it was not a terrace , just the top portion of LT4 . The view from there was simply awesome. The river was looking silvery in the moonlight.
Pooja - "Wow, this is so lovely. I didn't know such a beautiful spot was there in the campus"
Sameer - "So dude, what now?"
Me - "What , what now , back to the hostel , I've to give those sheets to Rohan"
Sammer - "You are one dumb headed moron, you will let the go awa.y Dude this is your chance , take her for a walk. Get to know her or more importantly get her to know you."
Me - "Ehm Ehm , I get your point sire. There is only one slight problem. Why will she come? She hardly knows me. And by the way I am not good at doing all this. "
Sameer - "You have to enter the field to get experience soldier. Don't worry I will work my magic. Now go and talk to her On it soldier."
Me - "Whatever"
So I followed Sameer's instructions and started to chat with Pooja. I am lame at this and I sucked. She kept on laughing on stuff which was not meant to be a joke"
Anyways Sameer did work his magic and Pooja's friend went with him( for a walk I guess
While going Sameer came to me and said - "Dude take her to the balcony above LT4 , near the workshop, you have to just climb over a railing"
Me - "If somebody sees us , I mean is it all right"
Sameer - "Come on dude you are not robbing a bank. Trust me you will thank me for this later."
So after gathering all my courage I went up to Pooja and said - "I am feeling like going for a walk , are you game"
Pooja - "Ya , sure"
The reply was pretty prompt and quick. I was somewhat amazed , I didn't expect her to respond so quickly. 'Aren't girls suppose to take time and be shy', I thought.
Pooja apparently read my thoughts - "What , what happened?"
Me - "No , nothing I was just surprised......."
Pooja - "At what. Look you seem a nice guy , a safe guy. A guy with whom I can be friends with, you know just friends."
'Ya right, I am no saint maa'm don't be any wrong impression' I thought, but i didn't say so.
Me - "Ya why not? Sure"
So I started this first most important walk of my life.
Me - "You wanna have something at Ice and Spice"
Pooja - "Ok but your treat"
Me - "Sure"
We ordered two Ice creams(they were simply awesome. I would have actually loved them on some other day but today I was just concentrating on not making a fool out of myself in front of her)
Pooja - "These ice creams are really great.....should visit this more often"
Me - "True , true"
Pooja(laughing)- "Don't get too happy mister, that would mean more loss of money for you"
So after having our ice cream we just strolled around near the B dome stairs.
Me - "I know a great place wanna see it"
Pooja - "Huh ok"
So we went towards that part of the A wing .
Pooja - "Where are you taking me?"
Me - "No questions"
When we reached there , I mean near the railing
Me - "Climb over , after you maam"
Pooja - "Are you crazy this is not allowed"
Me - "Who said it isn't, if you are feeling afraid we can go back, chicken "
Pooja - "Huh I am not afraid"
Me - "Let me go first"
After crossing over we were on the top of a terrace. Well it was not a terrace , just the top portion of LT4 . The view from there was simply awesome. The river was looking silvery in the moonlight.
Pooja - "Wow, this is so lovely. I didn't know such a beautiful spot was there in the campus"
Thursday, March 11, 2010
At Shahi
Me – “ Rohan will kill me for this. I had promised him and now I am bunking and doing t p (time pass)”
Sameer – “Arrey bro , li8 le. I will take responsibility if Rohan says anything. For now , just chill. Man , I’m really hungy , missed breakfast and lunch today.”
Me – “Really , when did you get up ?”
Sameer – “Around four or five “
Me – “Then why did you go to velino’s?”
Sameer – “My head was huting like hell, I really needed something to get my mind off that”
Me – “Wow dude. Usually people have headaches after drinking , you know hangovers kind of thing. But you drink to cure your headache, you are certainly something “
Sameer – “Come on man do you call a few pints of beer drinking. They are not even enough to get me started”
Me – “ Whoa , do you drink a lot?”
Sameer – “Doesn’t matter . See we have almost reached shahi . What do we order , hmmm……. . I’v heard that the chicken tikka is highly appraised of.”
Me – “No way man , I’m a strict veggi , there’s no way I am going to eat that crap. I would rather not eat anything. Mera dharma bhrasht ho jayega”
Sameer – “You still believe in all that . Come on dude this is the 21st century , in which world are you living--------“
I could only hear some of the lecture that Sameer was saying for the rest …….
Sameer – “Are you even listening? What are you staring at man. Hey Puneet , dude……”
Me – “Uh … huh you were saying something”
Sameer –“You look lost dude . What happened”
Me – “Look Sameer , there she is sitting with her friend”
Sameer – “Who she , wait a sec , do you mean Pooja . Cool man , now is your chance , go and talk to her.”
I couldn’t believe my luck . I thanked my stars for having listened to Sameer and come to shahi.
Sameer – “Let’s go and sit with them . There’s no one sitting there, even her friend looks kind of interesting.”
Saying this he went towards them literally pulling me . I was quite apprehensive of his approach because I didn’t want to freak her out.
Sameer to both the girls – “ Excuse me , mind if we join you ?”
Now there is a certain inherent quality in some guys of pleasing girls. Girls go gaga over such boys , they will treat them as some kind of studs always laughing on the dumbest of jokes they make and all that kind of stuff. The sad part is that this quality is inborn and cannot be taught to fools like me. But usually guys from the metros like Sameer are masters of this art , therefore all the beautiful girls fall for them . Now I didn’t see Pooja interested(this doesn't imply she was not beautiful, she was just different) but her friend immediately took a liking for Sameer .
Pooja’s friend – “Ya , why not”
Sameer – “Hi , I’m Sameer , this is my friend Puneet.”
Pooja’s friend – “Hi , I’m Srishti”
Pooja’s friend did not say anything to me but I was relieved to get a small ‘hi’ from Pooja. ‘Nice, she has not forgotten me entirely .’, I thought
Sameer – “So we were confused over the menu , do you know anything good that we can order?”
Srishti – “I don’t know dude, I’ve come here for the first time. Pooja might be knowing something.”
Pooja – “The non-veg food is pretty good here . I have not tried anything else. I am a pure non-veggi , you can say that. We can order some chicken dish. Is it ok with you guys?”
Before Sameer could say anything
Me – “Of course , I simply looovvveeee chicken. I say we order chicken tikka first, then we can order something else.”
Sameer gave me such an astonished stare and an even wilder elbow nudge as if to say ‘What happened to Mr Dharam Bhakta who was a pure veg one minute ago’
Sameer – “ Do you guys know our friend Puneet has an exceptional taste in non veg food. Isn’t it Puneet.”
Me – “Uhh ….huh…. ya why not. I mean ya of course”
Pooja – “Really , then we have that quality in common. I mean what is life without non veg , nothing.”
Me – “ Ya of course and to think of those people who spend their entire life without tasting it just because of some stupid reason . Come on you’r living in the 21st century man.”
I got another nudge from Sameer.
Sameer – “Anyways bottom line is I’m really hungry. Let’s eat”
Srishti – “ I second that”
Sameer – “O K then I am going to place the order. Srishti, would you like to come?”
Srishti – “Of course , chalo”
That left Pooja and me alone , well not really, you can’t be alone in a open kind of restaurant. At least I didn’t have the nagging presence of her friend . She was more interested in Sameer than her friend , the food or anything else. Way to go Sameer , friend ho to tere jaisa.
Me – “So how’s college going on.”
Pooja – “Fine , just a few patches here and there , other wise it’s ok “
Me – “What patches?”
Pooja – “Arrey nothing much , was just having a bit of problem with the workshop pracs , this fitting job is not my type. Anyways apna batao.”
Me – “Nothing great , these morning lectures are not of my type . I always end up missing them. Prob Stat is going over my head. I haven’t attented a single lecture of thermo and I always end up sleeping in the maths lec . Physics is not also going that great. Bas baki sab thik hai.”
Pooja laughing – “You have a horrible sense of humor”
Me - “Ya and a horrible sense of time managemattent as well. I really need to start attending some lectures .”
Pooja – “Arrey , it is only the start, you will surely improve. By the way, if you have
not forgotten, you have promised to show me some of your stuff”
Me – “Stuff what stuff?”
Pooja – “You had promised me to show some of the pieces that you have written , don’t you remember.”
Me – “Ohh that, ya will do …….”
Just then Sameer came holding two bottles of soft drinks and Srishti holding two.
Sameer – “These guys are too lazy . It will take at least 15 mins for the order to be served.”
Sristhi – “ Anyways , what I was saying was that ki our campus is so boring , there is no fun no masti.”
Pooja – “No , not at all . I thinks our campus is very cool , you should see other colleges before commenting on your own.”
Sristhi – “What I was trying to say that we are in GOA , goa man . We should be out there on the beaches, not here wiling away our time in the library like you do.”
Pooja – “Who says that ….. I don’t go to the lib…..”
Sameer – “Time out , time out , cool it girls . The topic of the great debate is that what are we planning to do during the weekend.
Me – “ Weekend , what weekend , what are you planning to do ?”
Sameer - “Beaches, beaches and booze that is what goa all about”
Me – “Huh…..”
Srishti – “ Ya , good idea. I am dying to see beaches , haven’t visited any of them”
Sameer – “ Then it’s done , this Sunday we are hitting the beaches, wassay Pooja “
Pooja – “Hmm …. I’m not quite sure”
I glared at Sameer trying to say ( ‘Dude are we not going too fast. Slow down or I’ll bite the dust’)
But Sameer did not
Sameer – “Come on Pooja , be a sport”
Srishti – “ Yaar tu bhi , kabhi to campus ke bahar soch”
Pooja – “Uhh.. I’ll think ….”
We spent the next half an hour eating chicken tikkas and chicken this and that .I felt like vomiting , the stuff had been always hard for me to smell, let alone eat. I wanted to throw up but I somehow managed to keep a smiling face and even talk sometimes. Meanwhile Pooja didn’t talk that much while her friend kept on chatting and laughing on every stupid joke made by Sameer. I was in a way glad when all this was over and we were about to head back .
Sameer – “Arrey bro , li8 le. I will take responsibility if Rohan says anything. For now , just chill. Man , I’m really hungy , missed breakfast and lunch today.”
Me – “Really , when did you get up ?”
Sameer – “Around four or five “
Me – “Then why did you go to velino’s?”
Sameer – “My head was huting like hell, I really needed something to get my mind off that”
Me – “Wow dude. Usually people have headaches after drinking , you know hangovers kind of thing. But you drink to cure your headache, you are certainly something “
Sameer – “Come on man do you call a few pints of beer drinking. They are not even enough to get me started”
Me – “ Whoa , do you drink a lot?”
Sameer – “Doesn’t matter . See we have almost reached shahi . What do we order , hmmm……. . I’v heard that the chicken tikka is highly appraised of.”
Me – “No way man , I’m a strict veggi , there’s no way I am going to eat that crap. I would rather not eat anything. Mera dharma bhrasht ho jayega”
Sameer – “You still believe in all that . Come on dude this is the 21st century , in which world are you living--------“
I could only hear some of the lecture that Sameer was saying for the rest …….
Sameer – “Are you even listening? What are you staring at man. Hey Puneet , dude……”
Me – “Uh … huh you were saying something”
Sameer –“You look lost dude . What happened”
Me – “Look Sameer , there she is sitting with her friend”
Sameer – “Who she , wait a sec , do you mean Pooja . Cool man , now is your chance , go and talk to her.”
I couldn’t believe my luck . I thanked my stars for having listened to Sameer and come to shahi.
Sameer – “Let’s go and sit with them . There’s no one sitting there, even her friend looks kind of interesting.”
Saying this he went towards them literally pulling me . I was quite apprehensive of his approach because I didn’t want to freak her out.
Sameer to both the girls – “ Excuse me , mind if we join you ?”
Now there is a certain inherent quality in some guys of pleasing girls. Girls go gaga over such boys , they will treat them as some kind of studs always laughing on the dumbest of jokes they make and all that kind of stuff. The sad part is that this quality is inborn and cannot be taught to fools like me. But usually guys from the metros like Sameer are masters of this art , therefore all the beautiful girls fall for them . Now I didn’t see Pooja interested(this doesn't imply she was not beautiful, she was just different) but her friend immediately took a liking for Sameer .
Pooja’s friend – “Ya , why not”
Sameer – “Hi , I’m Sameer , this is my friend Puneet.”
Pooja’s friend – “Hi , I’m Srishti”
Pooja’s friend did not say anything to me but I was relieved to get a small ‘hi’ from Pooja. ‘Nice, she has not forgotten me entirely .’, I thought
Sameer – “So we were confused over the menu , do you know anything good that we can order?”
Srishti – “I don’t know dude, I’ve come here for the first time. Pooja might be knowing something.”
Pooja – “The non-veg food is pretty good here . I have not tried anything else. I am a pure non-veggi , you can say that. We can order some chicken dish. Is it ok with you guys?”
Before Sameer could say anything
Me – “Of course , I simply looovvveeee chicken. I say we order chicken tikka first, then we can order something else.”
Sameer gave me such an astonished stare and an even wilder elbow nudge as if to say ‘What happened to Mr Dharam Bhakta who was a pure veg one minute ago’
Sameer – “ Do you guys know our friend Puneet has an exceptional taste in non veg food. Isn’t it Puneet.”
Me – “Uhh ….huh…. ya why not. I mean ya of course”
Pooja – “Really , then we have that quality in common. I mean what is life without non veg , nothing.”
Me – “ Ya of course and to think of those people who spend their entire life without tasting it just because of some stupid reason . Come on you’r living in the 21st century man.”
I got another nudge from Sameer.
Sameer – “Anyways bottom line is I’m really hungry. Let’s eat”
Srishti – “ I second that”
Sameer – “O K then I am going to place the order. Srishti, would you like to come?”
Srishti – “Of course , chalo”
That left Pooja and me alone , well not really, you can’t be alone in a open kind of restaurant. At least I didn’t have the nagging presence of her friend . She was more interested in Sameer than her friend , the food or anything else. Way to go Sameer , friend ho to tere jaisa.
Me – “So how’s college going on.”
Pooja – “Fine , just a few patches here and there , other wise it’s ok “
Me – “What patches?”
Pooja – “Arrey nothing much , was just having a bit of problem with the workshop pracs , this fitting job is not my type. Anyways apna batao.”
Me – “Nothing great , these morning lectures are not of my type . I always end up missing them. Prob Stat is going over my head. I haven’t attented a single lecture of thermo and I always end up sleeping in the maths lec . Physics is not also going that great. Bas baki sab thik hai.”
Pooja laughing – “You have a horrible sense of humor”
Me - “Ya and a horrible sense of time managemattent as well. I really need to start attending some lectures .”
Pooja – “Arrey , it is only the start, you will surely improve. By the way, if you have
not forgotten, you have promised to show me some of your stuff”
Me – “Stuff what stuff?”
Pooja – “You had promised me to show some of the pieces that you have written , don’t you remember.”
Me – “Ohh that, ya will do …….”
Just then Sameer came holding two bottles of soft drinks and Srishti holding two.
Sameer – “These guys are too lazy . It will take at least 15 mins for the order to be served.”
Sristhi – “ Anyways , what I was saying was that ki our campus is so boring , there is no fun no masti.”
Pooja – “No , not at all . I thinks our campus is very cool , you should see other colleges before commenting on your own.”
Sristhi – “What I was trying to say that we are in GOA , goa man . We should be out there on the beaches, not here wiling away our time in the library like you do.”
Pooja – “Who says that ….. I don’t go to the lib…..”
Sameer – “Time out , time out , cool it girls . The topic of the great debate is that what are we planning to do during the weekend.
Me – “ Weekend , what weekend , what are you planning to do ?”
Sameer - “Beaches, beaches and booze that is what goa all about”
Me – “Huh…..”
Srishti – “ Ya , good idea. I am dying to see beaches , haven’t visited any of them”
Sameer – “ Then it’s done , this Sunday we are hitting the beaches, wassay Pooja “
Pooja – “Hmm …. I’m not quite sure”
I glared at Sameer trying to say ( ‘Dude are we not going too fast. Slow down or I’ll bite the dust’)
But Sameer did not
Sameer – “Come on Pooja , be a sport”
Srishti – “ Yaar tu bhi , kabhi to campus ke bahar soch”
Pooja – “Uhh.. I’ll think ….”
We spent the next half an hour eating chicken tikkas and chicken this and that .I felt like vomiting , the stuff had been always hard for me to smell, let alone eat. I wanted to throw up but I somehow managed to keep a smiling face and even talk sometimes. Meanwhile Pooja didn’t talk that much while her friend kept on chatting and laughing on every stupid joke made by Sameer. I was in a way glad when all this was over and we were about to head back .
Sunday, March 7, 2010
GETTING FAMILIAR
I had started to get the hang of thing s in the campus having spent a few days . Basically getting the hang means what to do and what not to do in campus. I had been hearing a lot of things and had certainly come to know what were the things that I should never do in campus. First and the foremost thing was – NEVER VENTURE INSIDE THE GIRLS HOSTEL , unless of course you wanted to pay a fine of 25000 bucks or have a disco against you . I would like to specify here that disco is no fun as the name suggests . It is the disciplinary committee comprising of a bunch of blood sucking vampires waiting to screw your life at the first given opportunity . If you are lucky enough the disco will not throw you out , but having a disco against your name in your resume means that your chancres of getting a job are as good as nothing up .In short words if you get a disco you are f*****.
The next thing on the not to do list was never ever take ‘panga ‘ from any of the seniors, and then there were the usual don’t be in the bad books of teachers and all that sort of stuff. Basically stuff that your parents always keep reminding you every day dozens of times. I was not very sure about the to do list .One of them was certainly to impress Pooja . I had also been advised by many ‘padhaku ‘seniors’ to attend all the lectures .”If you attend all the lectures you are sure to score above an 8 point .”Sadly attending all the lectures was not as easy as it sounded. Into the first week only I had missed many lectures.
Anyways things were going quite normal. I had almost become habituated to the boring and hectic routine . ‘I had better do something quickly otherwise Pooja will forget aal about me . Man this routine is so bad , all the time go to lectures , this routine is getting to me.’ These thoughts were ringing aloud on my mind while I was coming back from the last lecture.
Sameer – “Hey dude wasup.”
Me – “Nothing man, thanks for helping me out with the D C stuff.”
Sameer- “ No problem bro , anytime .Waise what are you doing in the evening.”
Me – “Nothing much , why?”
Sameer – “Aise hi I was planning to go to velinos.”
Velions is not any place inside our campus but that in no way undermines it importance in the life of the students of our campus. It is a shelter for most of the guys during frustration , sorrow or even for that matter happiness . Now let ,e make it clear if you are wondering something else. Velinos is a bar , a place where you get cheap booze . It is almost every time filled with the students of our campus.
Me – “No yaar I don’t drink “
Sameer – “Real chicken you are . Come on man everybody drinks . You gotta start some time, why not today?”
Me – “No yaar not today , sometimes else , waise bhi the warden has called a meeting of all the students in the common room today .”
Sameer – “Your choice , anyways I ‘m not coming to that useless piece of s****”
As ypu might have guessed by now Sameer was the typical metro city boy . Booze and gals were a very common feature for him. He was nice at heart though. He was a computer wizard, he knew all those things which normal people like me take a lifetime to know. One other feature about him was that he used to help each and every guy that used to turn up to him for help , at least that is what I had observed. In a very few days we had become good buddies , though our nature was poles apart still we somehow gelled together.
Rohan was waiting for me outside my room when I reached there
Me – “Yo wadddup how was your day “
Rohan – “Ok , in fact if you ask me good in a way. I have been made temporary hostel rep until the elections don’t take place”
Me – “Whaaaat , Wow man , is baat pe treat to banta hai”n
Rohan – “What treat do you know how much work I’ll have to do and it’s only temporary . Once the elections come anyone can become the hostel rep”
Me – “Yaar you are ever so grumpy”
Rohan – “Whatever , anyways as a hostel rep I have been given the responsibility to collect all the guys in the common room in the evening so you had better been there”
Me- “Aye aye captain ”
Rohan – “Shut up””
The common room in the evening had a different feel to it . Normally it was a place to laugh about and jokea around play T T or watch T V but today it was full of students who were looking very serious.
“What could be the matter , why has he called a meeting?” A boy asked me as I was goining toward the common room
Me –“I don’t know probably introduction”
“OOO I see , by the way my name is Ayush . I live in the room opposite you “
Me – “ I’m ----“
Ayush – “ Puneet I know”
Puneet – “And how is that?”
Ayush – “I saw you in the first workshop lecture but since then you have not shown up for any lecture”
Me – “Oh that , ya man I am just too lazy to get up “
Ayush – “I ‘m from Delhi and you ?”
Me – “Patna”
Ayush – “Oh nice …….hmmm”
Me – “Let’s go to the common room before it gets late. Waise bhi I have a reputation of coming late and I don’t want to live up to that “
Ayush – “Ok chal”
In the meeting called by the warden we were just lectured about the usual stuff you know the stay in your limits type stuff. We had two wardens one was a residential warden and the other was a non residential warden . The only good thing about the meeting was that I could all guys of our hostel all together . After the meeting there was a lot of buzz among the boys. Young boys and rules , these two words don’t go side by side . The boys were not very pleased regarding some of the rules especially the 11:30 rule.
Boy A- “What does he mean by saying that we cant go outside the outside hostel after 11:30 in the night”
Boy B – “Arrey the CSA is trying to break that rule , they are saying that this rule is not long to stay it will go soon “
Boy c – “And how come we can’t come into the campus after 10 :30 in the night “
Boy A – “Dude we are in goa , the haven drugs so they had to be a little more strict”
Boy B – “What they can’t expect us to live like saints “
Me – “Li8 lo boys we can’t do anything about it “
Boy A – “O yes we can we can kick that warden’s *** and tell him who’s boss”
Me – “No way man we are just a week old in this campus , you don’t want to get into some sort of trouble “
Mean while Rohan was silently taking down all the cell no’s of the boys to keep a record for the warden .
Me – “Way to go hostel rep abhi se hi kaam , not bad not bad”
Rohan – “Shut up your big mouth and help me get these sheets photocopied”
Me – “Wo Wo how did I come into the picture man “
Rohan – “Coz Mr Big Mouth thinks he’s my friend”
Me – “Okkkkk man, I give in , god only knows why do I listen to you “
I spent the next half an hour getting the sheets that Rohan had given me photocopied .Meanwhile I saw Sameer coming from the opposite side.
Sameer – “Yo bro doing some work eh ……”
Me – “Nothing man , was just getting these sheets photocopied”
Sameer – “Work and only work is what is on your mind, you should learn to enjoy life man “
Me – “Chuck it man “
Sameer – “What chuck it these are the golden years of your life you are letting them go down the drain , I bet you didn’t have any girlfriend before what is her name…..aha haan Pooja”
Me – “I didn’t have any girlfriend , true , but Pooja is not my girlfriend at least as of now”
Sameer – “Don’t worry man , if you stay under my guidance she will soon be”
Me – “You must have had tons of girlfriends , you sound like a pro “
Sameer – “Girlfriends kya cheez hai bhai , all this is moh maya. I had many flings but didn’t fall for anyone .How can you spend your entire life with a single person , at least I can’t “
Me – “I am a noob , I don’t know anything”
Sameer – “Don’t worry man , lets go Shahi .I ‘m feeling hungry “
Me – “Shahi kyun , mess chal abhi paise nahi hain”
Sameer – “Don’t worry bro , tera ye bhai hai na , chal”
Me – “Where do you get all the money from ,you spend it like water”
Sameer – “Li8 le man , I don’t do ant wrong stuff, my dad has his own firm in the U.S.”
Me – “Wow , then why are you studying here , go and join your dad’s firm”
Sameer – “Why should I , he manufactures bathroom fittings , bathroom fittings man , who would be interested in that . I have my own plans”
Me -“Like”
Sameer – “I want to develop an operating system that is fully hacker proof , then
I want to develop the world’s fastest supercomputer . In theory it is possible but no one has attempted it in practical”
Me – “Wow man you have all the things figured out I have not even begun thinking “
Sameer - “Li8 le , lets go to Shahi”
Me –“Arrey yaar first let me give these to Rohan “
Sameer – “Arrey he can wait , apna hi admi hai .li8 le”
Me – “Ok chal , but if Rohan says something I am blaming you “
Sameer – “Ok , Ok now come”
The next thing on the not to do list was never ever take ‘panga ‘ from any of the seniors, and then there were the usual don’t be in the bad books of teachers and all that sort of stuff. Basically stuff that your parents always keep reminding you every day dozens of times. I was not very sure about the to do list .One of them was certainly to impress Pooja . I had also been advised by many ‘padhaku ‘seniors’ to attend all the lectures .”If you attend all the lectures you are sure to score above an 8 point .”Sadly attending all the lectures was not as easy as it sounded. Into the first week only I had missed many lectures.
Anyways things were going quite normal. I had almost become habituated to the boring and hectic routine . ‘I had better do something quickly otherwise Pooja will forget aal about me . Man this routine is so bad , all the time go to lectures , this routine is getting to me.’ These thoughts were ringing aloud on my mind while I was coming back from the last lecture.
Sameer – “Hey dude wasup.”
Me – “Nothing man, thanks for helping me out with the D C stuff.”
Sameer- “ No problem bro , anytime .Waise what are you doing in the evening.”
Me – “Nothing much , why?”
Sameer – “Aise hi I was planning to go to velinos.”
Velions is not any place inside our campus but that in no way undermines it importance in the life of the students of our campus. It is a shelter for most of the guys during frustration , sorrow or even for that matter happiness . Now let ,e make it clear if you are wondering something else. Velinos is a bar , a place where you get cheap booze . It is almost every time filled with the students of our campus.
Me – “No yaar I don’t drink “
Sameer – “Real chicken you are . Come on man everybody drinks . You gotta start some time, why not today?”
Me – “No yaar not today , sometimes else , waise bhi the warden has called a meeting of all the students in the common room today .”
Sameer – “Your choice , anyways I ‘m not coming to that useless piece of s****”
As ypu might have guessed by now Sameer was the typical metro city boy . Booze and gals were a very common feature for him. He was nice at heart though. He was a computer wizard, he knew all those things which normal people like me take a lifetime to know. One other feature about him was that he used to help each and every guy that used to turn up to him for help , at least that is what I had observed. In a very few days we had become good buddies , though our nature was poles apart still we somehow gelled together.
Rohan was waiting for me outside my room when I reached there
Me – “Yo wadddup how was your day “
Rohan – “Ok , in fact if you ask me good in a way. I have been made temporary hostel rep until the elections don’t take place”
Me – “Whaaaat , Wow man , is baat pe treat to banta hai”n
Rohan – “What treat do you know how much work I’ll have to do and it’s only temporary . Once the elections come anyone can become the hostel rep”
Me – “Yaar you are ever so grumpy”
Rohan – “Whatever , anyways as a hostel rep I have been given the responsibility to collect all the guys in the common room in the evening so you had better been there”
Me- “Aye aye captain ”
Rohan – “Shut up””
The common room in the evening had a different feel to it . Normally it was a place to laugh about and jokea around play T T or watch T V but today it was full of students who were looking very serious.
“What could be the matter , why has he called a meeting?” A boy asked me as I was goining toward the common room
Me –“I don’t know probably introduction”
“OOO I see , by the way my name is Ayush . I live in the room opposite you “
Me – “ I’m ----“
Ayush – “ Puneet I know”
Puneet – “And how is that?”
Ayush – “I saw you in the first workshop lecture but since then you have not shown up for any lecture”
Me – “Oh that , ya man I am just too lazy to get up “
Ayush – “I ‘m from Delhi and you ?”
Me – “Patna”
Ayush – “Oh nice …….hmmm”
Me – “Let’s go to the common room before it gets late. Waise bhi I have a reputation of coming late and I don’t want to live up to that “
Ayush – “Ok chal”
In the meeting called by the warden we were just lectured about the usual stuff you know the stay in your limits type stuff. We had two wardens one was a residential warden and the other was a non residential warden . The only good thing about the meeting was that I could all guys of our hostel all together . After the meeting there was a lot of buzz among the boys. Young boys and rules , these two words don’t go side by side . The boys were not very pleased regarding some of the rules especially the 11:30 rule.
Boy A- “What does he mean by saying that we cant go outside the outside hostel after 11:30 in the night”
Boy B – “Arrey the CSA is trying to break that rule , they are saying that this rule is not long to stay it will go soon “
Boy c – “And how come we can’t come into the campus after 10 :30 in the night “
Boy A – “Dude we are in goa , the haven drugs so they had to be a little more strict”
Boy B – “What they can’t expect us to live like saints “
Me – “Li8 lo boys we can’t do anything about it “
Boy A – “O yes we can we can kick that warden’s *** and tell him who’s boss”
Me – “No way man we are just a week old in this campus , you don’t want to get into some sort of trouble “
Mean while Rohan was silently taking down all the cell no’s of the boys to keep a record for the warden .
Me – “Way to go hostel rep abhi se hi kaam , not bad not bad”
Rohan – “Shut up your big mouth and help me get these sheets photocopied”
Me – “Wo Wo how did I come into the picture man “
Rohan – “Coz Mr Big Mouth thinks he’s my friend”
Me – “Okkkkk man, I give in , god only knows why do I listen to you “
I spent the next half an hour getting the sheets that Rohan had given me photocopied .Meanwhile I saw Sameer coming from the opposite side.
Sameer – “Yo bro doing some work eh ……”
Me – “Nothing man , was just getting these sheets photocopied”
Sameer – “Work and only work is what is on your mind, you should learn to enjoy life man “
Me – “Chuck it man “
Sameer – “What chuck it these are the golden years of your life you are letting them go down the drain , I bet you didn’t have any girlfriend before what is her name…..aha haan Pooja”
Me – “I didn’t have any girlfriend , true , but Pooja is not my girlfriend at least as of now”
Sameer – “Don’t worry man , if you stay under my guidance she will soon be”
Me – “You must have had tons of girlfriends , you sound like a pro “
Sameer – “Girlfriends kya cheez hai bhai , all this is moh maya. I had many flings but didn’t fall for anyone .How can you spend your entire life with a single person , at least I can’t “
Me – “I am a noob , I don’t know anything”
Sameer – “Don’t worry man , lets go Shahi .I ‘m feeling hungry “
Me – “Shahi kyun , mess chal abhi paise nahi hain”
Sameer – “Don’t worry bro , tera ye bhai hai na , chal”
Me – “Where do you get all the money from ,you spend it like water”
Sameer – “Li8 le man , I don’t do ant wrong stuff, my dad has his own firm in the U.S.”
Me – “Wow , then why are you studying here , go and join your dad’s firm”
Sameer – “Why should I , he manufactures bathroom fittings , bathroom fittings man , who would be interested in that . I have my own plans”
Me -“Like”
Sameer – “I want to develop an operating system that is fully hacker proof , then
I want to develop the world’s fastest supercomputer . In theory it is possible but no one has attempted it in practical”
Me – “Wow man you have all the things figured out I have not even begun thinking “
Sameer - “Li8 le , lets go to Shahi”
Me –“Arrey yaar first let me give these to Rohan “
Sameer – “Arrey he can wait , apna hi admi hai .li8 le”
Me – “Ok chal , but if Rohan says something I am blaming you “
Sameer – “Ok , Ok now come”
Thursday, February 25, 2010
LIFE IS NOT A PARADISE
My college had a very unusual timing , for instance classes used to start at 8. Wow , have you ever heard of any college starting at sharp 8 in the morning ,give me a break .We students work our a**** off during our high school , studying late till nights, going to all sorts of coaching classes , mugging up useless formulas and theorems to get THIS. I had been kept under the impression that you just need to work like a slave in your school days , once you get into a good college life will be paradise. BUT I WAS WRONG . Life here was no paradise , where in a paradise do you have to get up so early an attend useless lectures and tuts all to get one magical no , your C.G.P.A. C.G.P.A (cumulative grade point average) is literally like a hanging order. It means study or you’ll be screwed . Even if you study and all and write your exams well , there’s no need to be happy. The reason is that some or the other guy who must have been more intelligent than you or must have studied more than you will score more than you and on an average scale you will be pushed downwards. So you had better study and hope that others don’t to score a good cgpa. Our director in his introduction had also mentioned the same thing he had said QUOTE== ALL THE ATHELETES THAT COME TO THE OLYMPICS ARE GOOD BUT ONLY THE BEST AMONG SURVIVE. ==QUOTE . What this meant that the rat race was still not over, you were caught up in it and have to keep running until one day you grow very weak and incompetent and are ultimately thrown out of the race . So you get the point , life here was no paradise. The only thing that was keeping me up was the thought of Pooja.
Just the thought of being able to impress here somehow made me look forward to the next day. My friends were one of the biggest reason that I was hoping to survive in this rat race. Rohan , ya that stupid a** hole was actually a very good friend, He was stupid , grumpy but he was still a very good friend. There was this one day when I was in urgent need of some thing and this guy went out of his way to help me and even made sure that my work had been completed . Now you don’t get such a**holes everyday. Being around him kind of made me feel happy , probably the thought that I am not the only one miserable , there’s someone to give me company.
My first meet with Pooja had turned out to be awesome but after that I could not meet her for many days or 4 days to be precise( I had been keeping count). The college lectures were not helping me to find her , I had a jam packed routine and had hardly any time in which I could meet her or more importantly she could meet me. Moreover I did not have any weird reason to accidently bump into her. The only class which we had in common was the workshop lectures , but the problem was I could never get up on time.
Anyways bottom line is that my days in college were not passing very jolly. When you get into an engineering college and start disliking the lectures from the very start that is the signal that something is very very wrong .
Just the thought of being able to impress here somehow made me look forward to the next day. My friends were one of the biggest reason that I was hoping to survive in this rat race. Rohan , ya that stupid a** hole was actually a very good friend, He was stupid , grumpy but he was still a very good friend. There was this one day when I was in urgent need of some thing and this guy went out of his way to help me and even made sure that my work had been completed . Now you don’t get such a**holes everyday. Being around him kind of made me feel happy , probably the thought that I am not the only one miserable , there’s someone to give me company.
My first meet with Pooja had turned out to be awesome but after that I could not meet her for many days or 4 days to be precise( I had been keeping count). The college lectures were not helping me to find her , I had a jam packed routine and had hardly any time in which I could meet her or more importantly she could meet me. Moreover I did not have any weird reason to accidently bump into her. The only class which we had in common was the workshop lectures , but the problem was I could never get up on time.
Anyways bottom line is that my days in college were not passing very jolly. When you get into an engineering college and start disliking the lectures from the very start that is the signal that something is very very wrong .
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Mess
My freshers party was not so bad. In fact it had turned out to be pretty good. The ragging and all was a very small cost for getting to talk to Pooja. I was overjoyed
Rohan - "You seem very happy , you escaped the ragging or what?"
Me - "What ragging,who cares about ragging ,I talked to Pooja dude"
Rohan - "Who Pooja?"
Me - "Arrey ,Pooja ,the girl which I had shown you"
Rohan - "Oh that girl , so what"
Me - "Come on man , I talked to her in the cafeteria , TALK , CAFETERIA , do you get something."
Rohan - "No , you are talking as if you proposed and she said yes.Dude she must be talking to tons of guys like you everyday , who cares. In fact if you ask me she might have forgotten you by now . Trust me there is no need to get overexcited. Abhi to tune kuch kiya hi kahan hai."
Me - "As if you are , pro , huh"
Rohan - "Li8 le, let's go to the mess."
Now the setting of the mess is of great importance. There were two mess or dining halls for the entire campus, mess A and mess C. The name A and C coming from the wings in which they were located. Most of the boys hostels were in A wing so the A mess entertained mostly the male population of the campus with very few girls , so rare that it would have been easier to find uranium in our campus than girls in A mess, so it was popularly known as the 'gay mess'.As you might have come to know by now most of the female population went to the C mess. We could have also taken C mess, but as it was the start of the semester we were given A mess by default.
The food in the mess also deserves a special mention. There were in particular two types of curry , green colored and orange colored, both of them tasting equally bad.All the vegetables found there place in these curries only. These were the types of vegetablles that were unlimited,meaning you could help yourself to them as many times as you wanted(although nobody did). There used to be one eatable curry vegetable but that used to be limited.There used to be one person standing there serving you, who used to as miser as you can imagine.I dunno whether he wanted to save all that curry for himself or what.Anyways you had to be a pro to extract more from his miser hands.
Student - "kya bhaiya, thoda aur digiyena"
Mess worker - "Limited hai sir."
That was the standard answer. If it was your lucky day ypu would get some more or if you from his state he would surely give you more.You had only ato prove your identity and he would play into your hands.
Same was the case with the one 'mithai' that we used to get.
Me - "Man , these rotis are as hard as rock"
Rohan - "Even the daal tastes as water"
Me - "Why didn't they let us choose C mess"
Rohan- "Why do you want C mess , wahan pe food ke saath me free entertainment hota hai kya?"
Me - "Obviously"
Rohan - "You and your theories."
Me - "Look dude I'm a normal guy who behaves normally not like you who---"
"Excuse me , is somebody sitting here?"
We got distracted from our argument and looked up
Rohan - "No"
New Boy - "Ok" so I can sit here, all right with you guys?"
(The first impression of this guy only made me realize that this guy was a total stud , you know the kind of guys who keep various fancy hairstyles , who wear Man U or Arsenal jerseys and whose facebook and orkut accounts are always filled with friend requests from girls)
Me - "Ya why not?"
New Boy - "Sure difficult to get a place to sit tn the mess around this time , looks like the whole college turns up ay this time."
Me - "Guess so."
New Boy - " I am Sameer."
Me -"I'm Puneet "
Rohan - "Rohan here, you are in which hostel?"
Sammer -"AH4"
Me-"Hey we are in AH4 as well"
Sameer - "Cool, which you are from which stream? I'm from E.E.E."
Me -"Computer science, Rohan is from M,Sc chemisrty"
Sameer - "Nice"
Me - "Ya, by the way you are from which place?"
Sameer - "Mumbai, and you guys?"
Me - "I am from Patna"
Sameer - "Oh! Bihar , nice, I've heard of some super thirty from there , pretty famous , eh"
Me - "I guess so"
Rohan - "I am from gujrat"
Sameer - "Ok , hey you guys got all your books and stuff?"
Me - "No , thinking of gettiheng them from a senior"
Sameer - "And how will you will contact them , through D C?"
Me - "What is this D C?"
Sameer - "Man you don't know D C do you have a lappy?"
Me -"Ya?"
Sameer - "Then you must install D C , it is awesome man?"
Me - "Ok will do, once I get to the hostel ,do help me out bro"
Sameer - "All right"
Me - "Ok chalte hain , I have some work "
Sameer - "Ok"
Rohan - "You seem very happy , you escaped the ragging or what?"
Me - "What ragging,who cares about ragging ,I talked to Pooja dude"
Rohan - "Who Pooja?"
Me - "Arrey ,Pooja ,the girl which I had shown you"
Rohan - "Oh that girl , so what"
Me - "Come on man , I talked to her in the cafeteria , TALK , CAFETERIA , do you get something."
Rohan - "No , you are talking as if you proposed and she said yes.Dude she must be talking to tons of guys like you everyday , who cares. In fact if you ask me she might have forgotten you by now . Trust me there is no need to get overexcited. Abhi to tune kuch kiya hi kahan hai."
Me - "As if you are , pro , huh"
Rohan - "Li8 le, let's go to the mess."
Now the setting of the mess is of great importance. There were two mess or dining halls for the entire campus, mess A and mess C. The name A and C coming from the wings in which they were located. Most of the boys hostels were in A wing so the A mess entertained mostly the male population of the campus with very few girls , so rare that it would have been easier to find uranium in our campus than girls in A mess, so it was popularly known as the 'gay mess'.As you might have come to know by now most of the female population went to the C mess. We could have also taken C mess, but as it was the start of the semester we were given A mess by default.
The food in the mess also deserves a special mention. There were in particular two types of curry , green colored and orange colored, both of them tasting equally bad.All the vegetables found there place in these curries only. These were the types of vegetablles that were unlimited,meaning you could help yourself to them as many times as you wanted(although nobody did). There used to be one eatable curry vegetable but that used to be limited.There used to be one person standing there serving you, who used to as miser as you can imagine.I dunno whether he wanted to save all that curry for himself or what.Anyways you had to be a pro to extract more from his miser hands.
Student - "kya bhaiya, thoda aur digiyena"
Mess worker - "Limited hai sir."
That was the standard answer. If it was your lucky day ypu would get some more or if you from his state he would surely give you more.You had only ato prove your identity and he would play into your hands.
Same was the case with the one 'mithai' that we used to get.
Me - "Man , these rotis are as hard as rock"
Rohan - "Even the daal tastes as water"
Me - "Why didn't they let us choose C mess"
Rohan- "Why do you want C mess , wahan pe food ke saath me free entertainment hota hai kya?"
Me - "Obviously"
Rohan - "You and your theories."
Me - "Look dude I'm a normal guy who behaves normally not like you who---"
"Excuse me , is somebody sitting here?"
We got distracted from our argument and looked up
Rohan - "No"
New Boy - "Ok" so I can sit here, all right with you guys?"
(The first impression of this guy only made me realize that this guy was a total stud , you know the kind of guys who keep various fancy hairstyles , who wear Man U or Arsenal jerseys and whose facebook and orkut accounts are always filled with friend requests from girls)
Me - "Ya why not?"
New Boy - "Sure difficult to get a place to sit tn the mess around this time , looks like the whole college turns up ay this time."
Me - "Guess so."
New Boy - " I am Sameer."
Me -"I'm Puneet "
Rohan - "Rohan here, you are in which hostel?"
Sammer -"AH4"
Me-"Hey we are in AH4 as well"
Sameer - "Cool, which you are from which stream? I'm from E.E.E."
Me -"Computer science, Rohan is from M,Sc chemisrty"
Sameer - "Nice"
Me - "Ya, by the way you are from which place?"
Sameer - "Mumbai, and you guys?"
Me - "I am from Patna"
Sameer - "Oh! Bihar , nice, I've heard of some super thirty from there , pretty famous , eh"
Me - "I guess so"
Rohan - "I am from gujrat"
Sameer - "Ok , hey you guys got all your books and stuff?"
Me - "No , thinking of gettiheng them from a senior"
Sameer - "And how will you will contact them , through D C?"
Me - "What is this D C?"
Sameer - "Man you don't know D C do you have a lappy?"
Me -"Ya?"
Sameer - "Then you must install D C , it is awesome man?"
Me - "Ok will do, once I get to the hostel ,do help me out bro"
Sameer - "All right"
Me - "Ok chalte hain , I have some work "
Sameer - "Ok"
Friday, February 12, 2010
\m/ li8 \m/
Before I continue any further with my story I need to introduce you guys to a word that is on the minds of every student in the campus. "LITE"
The history of this goes back to the time when our campus came into action.
We do not exactly know who coined this term but whoever he might have been I salute him today.The life of us Bitsians is incomplete without this word . It somehow finds a place in every conversation. Some examples being-
Query - 'Yaar Prob stats kuch samajh nahi aa raha hai'
Ans - 'li8'
Query- 'Kitne saare plates karne hain E G main , kaise hoga?'
Ans - 'li8'
Query- 'Yaar kal subah tut hai pehli class kasie uthunga'
Ans- 'li8'
Query - 'Yaar I love that girl kaise bolu '
Ans - 'li8'
Query - 'Aaj ek bhi lec attend nahi kiya pata nahi proxy laga hoga ya nahi'
Ans- 'li8'
Query - 'Yaar mera workpiece bhula gaya phir se sara kuch karna hoga'
Ans- 'li8'
Query - 'Next week se exam shuru ho rahe hain , book bhi nahi kholi hai'
Ans- 'li8'
Query - 'Ok students this is your homework for tomorrow I want everyone of you to do it'
Ans- 'li8'
So you guys must have understood the importance of this word in our lives . It is like the second skin , the universal remedy for all problems. In it we find comfort, in it we find solace , it is like your true friend never leaving your side always there for you.
The history of this goes back to the time when our campus came into action.
We do not exactly know who coined this term but whoever he might have been I salute him today.The life of us Bitsians is incomplete without this word . It somehow finds a place in every conversation. Some examples being-
Query - 'Yaar Prob stats kuch samajh nahi aa raha hai'
Ans - 'li8'
Query- 'Kitne saare plates karne hain E G main , kaise hoga?'
Ans - 'li8'
Query- 'Yaar kal subah tut hai pehli class kasie uthunga'
Ans- 'li8'
Query - 'Yaar I love that girl kaise bolu '
Ans - 'li8'
Query - 'Aaj ek bhi lec attend nahi kiya pata nahi proxy laga hoga ya nahi'
Ans- 'li8'
Query - 'Yaar mera workpiece bhula gaya phir se sara kuch karna hoga'
Ans- 'li8'
Query - 'Next week se exam shuru ho rahe hain , book bhi nahi kholi hai'
Ans- 'li8'
Query - 'Ok students this is your homework for tomorrow I want everyone of you to do it'
Ans- 'li8'
So you guys must have understood the importance of this word in our lives . It is like the second skin , the universal remedy for all problems. In it we find comfort, in it we find solace , it is like your true friend never leaving your side always there for you.
In The Cafeteria
Now that our ragging session was over, it was time for the fun part of the 'party'. For a change the seniors were not looking menacing and were actually interacting freely with the juniors . I too had a chat with some of the seniors , but my mind was somewhere else . I was looking for Pooja ,'what if she didn't bear a good impression of me , then my chances are as good as over'. I dreaded the thought. Finally after some time I spotted her , she was sitting alone on a table.'Good ' . I thought , 'this is my chance. Chal bete Puneet , abhi nahi to kabhi nahi.' I went towards her and casually sat in front of her
Me - "Hi"
Pooja - "Hi"
Me - " I'm Puneet"
Pooja - "I know, I'm Pooja"
Me thinking - ***' Don't sit mum like a fool , say something , what to say? what should I do****
Pooja - "By the way you sing quite well"
Me (over the moon) - " Thanks , I didn't mean to offend you by singing that song It's just that----(*** you are so lovely ,can I be your friend***)---
Pooja - "It's okay I understand , have you received any vocal training?"
Me - " No no , I'm quite a bathroom singer . In fact this is the first time I sang in public"
Pooja - "Wow , inborn talent I'm impressed"
Me (*** good going Puneet ,aise he chalta ja***)
Me - "Hey can I buy you a coke to go with that samosa"
Pooja - " Sure , but I don't like coke , maaza would do"
Me - "Sure , I'll be back in a minute"
Pooja and me over two maazas
Pooja - "You have quite a dressing sense"
Me - "What I did't get you"
Pooja - "I mean the morning lecture in the LT"
Me - "Come on , it was not that bad ---(*** dam it, there goes my good impression***)---"
Pooja(laughing) - " Ya not that bad , you should have seen the face of the teacher"
Me - "Chuck it, let bygones be bygones"
Pooja - "So you are from Bihar."
Me - "Ya from Patna and you?"
Pooja - "Delhi"
Me -"Cool so you must have visited the Raj Bhawan"
Pooja -"Come on living in delhi does not mean visiting the raj bhawan , I am in delhi from the past two years , before that I was in chandigarh"
Me - "To tussi changi punjabi bolte hoge"
Pooja - "Assi to Punjabi hi hain , how do you know punjabi'
Me - "Movies , you don't watch them?"
Pooja - "Ya i do , in fact that is my favorite past time apart from--"
Me - "Apart from?"
Pooja - "I do a little bit of dancing"
Me - "Wow "
Pooja- " Come on tell me what are your hobbies I know singing is on of them"
Me -" Singing is just t p (time pass) 'actually I love writing poems and stories and stuff"
Pooja - "Impressive , will you show them to me sometime"
Me - "Sure"
Pooja - "O hell , it's awfully late I better get going I have to set things up in my room"
Me - "Bye , so I will see you around then"
Pooja - "Ya , see ya, bye"
Me - "Hi"
Pooja - "Hi"
Me - " I'm Puneet"
Pooja - "I know, I'm Pooja"
Me thinking - ***' Don't sit mum like a fool , say something , what to say? what should I do****
Pooja - "By the way you sing quite well"
Me (over the moon) - " Thanks , I didn't mean to offend you by singing that song It's just that----(*** you are so lovely ,can I be your friend***)---
Pooja - "It's okay I understand , have you received any vocal training?"
Me - " No no , I'm quite a bathroom singer . In fact this is the first time I sang in public"
Pooja - "Wow , inborn talent I'm impressed"
Me (*** good going Puneet ,aise he chalta ja***)
Me - "Hey can I buy you a coke to go with that samosa"
Pooja - " Sure , but I don't like coke , maaza would do"
Me - "Sure , I'll be back in a minute"
Pooja and me over two maazas
Pooja - "You have quite a dressing sense"
Me - "What I did't get you"
Pooja - "I mean the morning lecture in the LT"
Me - "Come on , it was not that bad ---(*** dam it, there goes my good impression***)---"
Pooja(laughing) - " Ya not that bad , you should have seen the face of the teacher"
Me - "Chuck it, let bygones be bygones"
Pooja - "So you are from Bihar."
Me - "Ya from Patna and you?"
Pooja - "Delhi"
Me -"Cool so you must have visited the Raj Bhawan"
Pooja -"Come on living in delhi does not mean visiting the raj bhawan , I am in delhi from the past two years , before that I was in chandigarh"
Me - "To tussi changi punjabi bolte hoge"
Pooja - "Assi to Punjabi hi hain , how do you know punjabi'
Me - "Movies , you don't watch them?"
Pooja - "Ya i do , in fact that is my favorite past time apart from--"
Me - "Apart from?"
Pooja - "I do a little bit of dancing"
Me - "Wow "
Pooja- " Come on tell me what are your hobbies I know singing is on of them"
Me -" Singing is just t p (time pass) 'actually I love writing poems and stories and stuff"
Pooja - "Impressive , will you show them to me sometime"
Me - "Sure"
Pooja - "O hell , it's awfully late I better get going I have to set things up in my room"
Me - "Bye , so I will see you around then"
Pooja - "Ya , see ya, bye"
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Fresher's Party
'All's well that ends well' , I thought to myself as I was heading towards the hostel. The first day had gone quite o.k. barring the hitch in the morning I had managed to attend all the lectures even managing to pay attention in some. Along the way I met Rohan who was not looking very pleased.
Me - "So how was the first day?"
Rohan - "Forget it man."
Me - "Why, what happened?"
Rohan - "The teachers over here think they know everything."
Me - "I didn't get you."
Rohan - "Nothing dude. It was this chemistry teacher. First he comes to the class and starts bragging about himself ,his degree and all other bullshit , then he says that half of the class will get av- in chemistry if we don't study like mad from the first day."
Me - "What is that supposed to mean?"
Rohan - "That is not all. Then he makes the noobest mistake while teaching and when I point it out he gives me a long lecture , something like what you got in the morning."
Me - "Chuck it man let,s go and check out mongi"
Meanwhile we arrived at the hostel.
Rohan - "Oye , why is everybody standing near the noticeboard"
Boy A - "Its the fresher's party , All the departments have put up their notices."
Boy B - "I have heard that they rag the freshers like hell in these parties."
Boy C - "No man , they won't this is BITS, idhar ragging nahi hoti hai"
Boy B - "But I have asked my cousin , he is in 3 rd year."
Boy A - "Will there be beer in the party?"
Rohan - "Oye Puneet look , your department's party is today at 6 :30"
Me - " Man ,why I am always the first one , its already 5;3o ,lemme see ."
The notice read -
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE - ASCII
This is to inform to all the students of computer science stream that there will be an interaction session held in LT 1
NOTE - ATTENDANCE IS COMPULSORY FOR THE FIRST YEARITES
Me - "I better go and change."
Rohan - "Whaaat , you are not going to a prom ."
Me - "Still man , she might be there I heard that she is also in cs"
Rohan - "You are a real despo"
Me - "And you a real gay"
Anyways I put on some better clothes and reached LT 1 this time before time. I was right , she was there sitting with the other girls.
After some time the proceedings started with the faculty giving there welcome speeches (:this part is boring so I'm omitting it:). When all this finished the faculty left the LT. We could sense that the bad part was about to start.Then this guy comes up who seemes to be the head of the assoc.
MR HEAD - "Now we will have all our so called interaction sesseion. All the juniors sit in the middle rows . Second yearites on the left and third yearites on the right."
We did as told.
MR HEAD - "Now I need some volunteers from the juniors"
Nobody moved.
MR HEAD - "No problem, we'll pick . Guys who do you think should come."
In the next half and hour the seniors kept picking juniors randomly and made them do all kinds of things including pole dancing and catwalk.Meanwhile I was praying that I don't get picked but apparently my prayers were not answered.
MR HEAD - "You there , you in the blue T shirt ,come over here" I had to oblige.
MR HEAD - "So what is your name"
Me - "Puneet"
MR HEAD - "From where?"
Me - "Bihar"
MR HEAD - "Ohhh, Bihari , I D no"
Me - "2007A---"
MR HEAD - "In hindi you fool"
Now my hindi is not that bad but I couldn't give the hindi version of BITSAT in my intro
MR HEAD - "So guys what do you think our Bihari friend should do"
SMART GUY 1 - "Dance"
SMART GUY 2 - "Make him propose a boy."
MR HEAD -"It's common , so puneet do you have a crush on any girl from your batch"
MR HEAD - "Come on select any girl you like"
I thought 'this is my chance' . I pointed towards her.
MR HEAD - "What is your name?" ans - "Pooja"
MR HEAD - "So puneet you have to propose this,girl by singing a song"
Me - "I can't sing."
SMART GUY1- "NOOB"
MR HEAD - "It doesn't matter"
Ultomately after a lot of booing from the audience I sang the song 'pehla nasha'.
MR HEAD - "Not bad bihari,if only you had more guts"
MR HEAD - "Guys the first yearites are all noobs without any talent, they are making this session very boring , so I say we all move to the cafeteria for snacks and juniors it's FREE for you guys."
Me - "So how was the first day?"
Rohan - "Forget it man."
Me - "Why, what happened?"
Rohan - "The teachers over here think they know everything."
Me - "I didn't get you."
Rohan - "Nothing dude. It was this chemistry teacher. First he comes to the class and starts bragging about himself ,his degree and all other bullshit , then he says that half of the class will get av- in chemistry if we don't study like mad from the first day."
Me - "What is that supposed to mean?"
Rohan - "That is not all. Then he makes the noobest mistake while teaching and when I point it out he gives me a long lecture , something like what you got in the morning."
Me - "Chuck it man let,s go and check out mongi"
Meanwhile we arrived at the hostel.
Rohan - "Oye , why is everybody standing near the noticeboard"
Boy A - "Its the fresher's party , All the departments have put up their notices."
Boy B - "I have heard that they rag the freshers like hell in these parties."
Boy C - "No man , they won't this is BITS, idhar ragging nahi hoti hai"
Boy B - "But I have asked my cousin , he is in 3 rd year."
Boy A - "Will there be beer in the party?"
Rohan - "Oye Puneet look , your department's party is today at 6 :30"
Me - " Man ,why I am always the first one , its already 5;3o ,lemme see ."
The notice read -
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE - ASCII
This is to inform to all the students of computer science stream that there will be an interaction session held in LT 1
NOTE - ATTENDANCE IS COMPULSORY FOR THE FIRST YEARITES
Me - "I better go and change."
Rohan - "Whaaat , you are not going to a prom ."
Me - "Still man , she might be there I heard that she is also in cs"
Rohan - "You are a real despo"
Me - "And you a real gay"
Anyways I put on some better clothes and reached LT 1 this time before time. I was right , she was there sitting with the other girls.
After some time the proceedings started with the faculty giving there welcome speeches (:this part is boring so I'm omitting it:). When all this finished the faculty left the LT. We could sense that the bad part was about to start.Then this guy comes up who seemes to be the head of the assoc.
MR HEAD - "Now we will have all our so called interaction sesseion. All the juniors sit in the middle rows . Second yearites on the left and third yearites on the right."
We did as told.
MR HEAD - "Now I need some volunteers from the juniors"
Nobody moved.
MR HEAD - "No problem, we'll pick . Guys who do you think should come."
In the next half and hour the seniors kept picking juniors randomly and made them do all kinds of things including pole dancing and catwalk.Meanwhile I was praying that I don't get picked but apparently my prayers were not answered.
MR HEAD - "You there , you in the blue T shirt ,come over here" I had to oblige.
MR HEAD - "So what is your name"
Me - "Puneet"
MR HEAD - "From where?"
Me - "Bihar"
MR HEAD - "Ohhh, Bihari , I D no"
Me - "2007A---"
MR HEAD - "In hindi you fool"
Now my hindi is not that bad but I couldn't give the hindi version of BITSAT in my intro
MR HEAD - "So guys what do you think our Bihari friend should do"
SMART GUY 1 - "Dance"
SMART GUY 2 - "Make him propose a boy."
MR HEAD -"It's common , so puneet do you have a crush on any girl from your batch"
MR HEAD - "Come on select any girl you like"
I thought 'this is my chance' . I pointed towards her.
MR HEAD - "What is your name?" ans - "Pooja"
MR HEAD - "So puneet you have to propose this,girl by singing a song"
Me - "I can't sing."
SMART GUY1- "NOOB"
MR HEAD - "It doesn't matter"
Ultomately after a lot of booing from the audience I sang the song 'pehla nasha'.
MR HEAD - "Not bad bihari,if only you had more guts"
MR HEAD - "Guys the first yearites are all noobs without any talent, they are making this session very boring , so I say we all move to the cafeteria for snacks and juniors it's FREE for you guys."
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
First class
I had slept pretty late last night mainly due to the girl that I saw at Ice & Spice. It was almost 2.30 when I finally caught some sleep. It seemed that I had slept for only 5 minutes when I was woken up abruptly by a loud banging noise at the door, it was Rohan . "Get up you lazybone",he was shouting, "we're awfully late. ITS 7:55, classes start at 8." "Whaaat", I said half asleep,"but i had no sleep." "You keep on sleeping. I'm going." .It was then that I realized that it wad as late as hell."Man, I don't wanna get late on the first day itself. I just put a shirt and put on my sneakers, grabbed a notebook and glanced at the routine. First class was in LT 4. Then I started the first really long sprint of my life. Now I am no athelte.It took me a good 5 minutes before I reached the LT. The teacher was already writing something on the board.
"May I come in sir." , I said
Teacher - "You are late. why?"
Me - "I overslept"
Teacher - "Why?"
Me - "I was not well"
Teacher -"What kind of a dressing sense is this.What do you think of yourself. Why did you even come. -@@##@@##@$^^^$$@!!!!!!!!-------------------------------------------------------- --@#$%%^^-%$$$!@#!!@!##@@#@!###@@#$$%^--------------------------------------.Today is your first day so I'm letting you in.Go sit."
There were a few guys in the first row. They had one thing in common , they were all nerds wearing shirts buttoned up to the collar and with enough oil in there heads to cook food for a handful people. They stared at me as I were some alien.But I didn't care for I was staring at someone else, there she was sitting among the girls looking even more beautiful than ever.I went and sat beside Rohan who had already seated himself comfortably in the last row.
Rohan -"Look at you man . Don,t you have anything to wear?"
Me - "Stop joking.I was already late . Aur late hota to hitler class main aane nahi deta."
Me - " Look Rohan , there she is ."
Rohan - "Whatever"
Me - "How come you are not into beautiful girls .Are you gay? Stay away from me man"
Rohan - "Don't you start blabbering .I AM NOT GAY .I have other priorities "
Me - "Like"
suddenly out of the blue
Teacher- "You two in the last bench.Stand up.You in the shorts.What is your name."
Me - "Puneet Mishra sir."
Teacher - "ID NO"
Me - "2009A7PS007G"
The teacher noted down something
Teacher - "And his friend .I D"
Rohan- "Sorry sir . Wr are very sorry sir."
Teacher - "Give me your I D or I will throw you out of the class"
Rohan - "2009B3PS576G"
Teacher - "So care to tell us what is your aim?"
Me - "What?'
Teacher - "Why did you take up engineering ?'
Me - " To earn money."
Now I don't know why I said that but it was perfectly true , everyone has the same motive but they say something else something like 'to improve the society'; but I didn't and on my response the whole class burst into laughter.
Teacher -"Don't act smart with me . Sit down both of you"
I don't know what happened in the class but the teacher kept on stressing on the words dimensional accuracy and surface finish. Meanwhile Rohan was busy taking notes.
"May I come in sir." , I said
Teacher - "You are late. why?"
Me - "I overslept"
Teacher - "Why?"
Me - "I was not well"
Teacher -"What kind of a dressing sense is this.What do you think of yourself. Why did you even come. -@@##@@##@$^^^$$@!!!!!!!!-------------------------------------------------------- --@#$%%^^-%$$$!@#!!@!##@@#@!###@@#$$%^--------------------------------------.Today is your first day so I'm letting you in.Go sit."
There were a few guys in the first row. They had one thing in common , they were all nerds wearing shirts buttoned up to the collar and with enough oil in there heads to cook food for a handful people. They stared at me as I were some alien.But I didn't care for I was staring at someone else, there she was sitting among the girls looking even more beautiful than ever.I went and sat beside Rohan who had already seated himself comfortably in the last row.
Rohan -"Look at you man . Don,t you have anything to wear?"
Me - "Stop joking.I was already late . Aur late hota to hitler class main aane nahi deta."
Me - " Look Rohan , there she is ."
Rohan - "Whatever"
Me - "How come you are not into beautiful girls .Are you gay? Stay away from me man"
Rohan - "Don't you start blabbering .I AM NOT GAY .I have other priorities "
Me - "Like"
suddenly out of the blue
Teacher- "You two in the last bench.Stand up.You in the shorts.What is your name."
Me - "Puneet Mishra sir."
Teacher - "ID NO"
Me - "2009A7PS007G"
The teacher noted down something
Teacher - "And his friend .I D"
Rohan- "Sorry sir . Wr are very sorry sir."
Teacher - "Give me your I D or I will throw you out of the class"
Rohan - "2009B3PS576G"
Teacher - "So care to tell us what is your aim?"
Me - "What?'
Teacher - "Why did you take up engineering ?'
Me - " To earn money."
Now I don't know why I said that but it was perfectly true , everyone has the same motive but they say something else something like 'to improve the society'; but I didn't and on my response the whole class burst into laughter.
Teacher -"Don't act smart with me . Sit down both of you"
I don't know what happened in the class but the teacher kept on stressing on the words dimensional accuracy and surface finish. Meanwhile Rohan was busy taking notes.
Monday, February 8, 2010
First day in clg - 2
First day in clg had not been that eventful. Meanwhile Rohan and I had started out to explore the campus. The campus looked way much better at night. Firstly it was a lot more cooler and secondly with students moving around it really looked like a clg . I suggested that we take a walk around the campus. It was a little strange roaming around at 10 in the nught aimlessly but it was thrilling as well. 'Lets go have another coke',Rohan said .'No ', I said ,'I know a better place.' I had been told by someone about the juice centre of the campus and its delicacies.'Ice and Spice' it read. Both of us ordered a chocolate shake.'Its awesome', Rohan said.'Told you',I said . Meanwhile I finished my shake and was waiting for Rohan .We were about to leave when I saw her. Now guys I dont know whether you have had this feeling but I felt like suddenly some machine had suddenly made my heart pump ten times faster. It is a strange kind of feeling like you suddenly start craving for something.She was chirping away with her friends , trust me she looked like and angel. 'Who's she ?'.I asked Rohan.'How am i supposed to know', he said.'Lets go and find out',i said.'Are you crazy dude,Its only the first day .You'll get your chances.Lets go and take some rest.Tomorrow we have classes to end man !!' 'I dont know about you but i am defenitley lookin forward to it'. Suddenly the first day in clg wasnt so boring.
First day in clg - 1
I was nervous, excited and god knows what not. Previous day had been hectic enough but today promised to be no better. I read the schedule first we had to get our names enrolled followed by a very long orientation programme .'Well' I thought to myself it cant be that bad and started walkin towards the computer centre (cc). On reaching there i found a long queue of students already standing. I chkd my serial no it was still quite far away so i decided to take a stroll around the area.There were all kinds of students around there ,many with there parents.Somewhere in a corner I saw a guy whose was lookin as lost as me. I went towards him nf introduced myself.'Hi I am Puneet.' 'Rohan here', the other guy said. After half and hour and two cokes i had come to know quite a lot about the guy, he was from gujrat (Oh i forgot to tell you , i come from the city of patna) and was well ,i dont need to tell you more about him after all its my story, nyways we had our registrarions which took ages to complete.Then we decided to spilt up and meet in the audi for the induction ceremony.The induction ceremony was also a sad affair ',the director kept on stressing on the need to study nd how they would nurture us and bla bla .I slept through the entire thing.So first day in the clg was not turning out to be that eventful,Rohan too agreed with this. We decided to have and early dinner and then set out to explore the campus.
Puneet
Well guys heres it there is this guy named Puneet .Puneet is a very obedient studious bla bla and what not kind of guy . You know of guys to whom your parents will always point and say "See him ,why dont you try to be like him , his parents must be so proud". Well the story is that Puneet had alwyas been a meritorious student in his academic life always topping his class. When he came in his std 11th his only aim was to get into a good engg college, so he studied day and night and finally ended up in bits pilani goa campus. What follows is his story.
(guys one thing I've chosen to write using an imaginary name because this is a kind of a story but a story which everybody experiences in his/her life but their experiences remain somewhat incomplete due to many reasons. I have just completed those experiences using an imaginary character , the character might be img but the story is very real , the kind which everybody lives or hopes of living)
(guys one thing I've chosen to write using an imaginary name because this is a kind of a story but a story which everybody experiences in his/her life but their experiences remain somewhat incomplete due to many reasons. I have just completed those experiences using an imaginary character , the character might be img but the story is very real , the kind which everybody lives or hopes of living)
About me
Hey guys . im a first year student of engg . well why i took up engg is still a mystery , not that i dont like what i study , in fact i dont really know what i would have done if i hadnt taken up this field . It is just that i have a constant nagging feeling inside me a feeling that constantly tells me that somethings empty 'somethings out of place. I dont have many moments in my life to which i can look back and say that 'that was a great day'. I have lead till now a very quiet life kind of normal as some ppl would put it .I guess this blog is just one of my attempts to start something new with my life. What you guys woud be reading in the following days are experiences that every guy has in his clg life. To find out more keep reading
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