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 .
Thursday, March 11, 2010
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”
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