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”