Everyone misses his/her college days but still everyone defends himself/herselh saying that he/she will miss it the most. So you wont argue with me when i say that my college days were golden too...
I will miss everything about my college starting from my friends, all the time we had together, sleeping through the lecture hours or sitting on the very first bench if the teacher is cute enough. Man I will miss it all....
One of the most memorable trips though was our road trip to ooty. It was a usual Final Year Weekday Evening and obviously we were in a pub ( chumma demo:) no pubs in Kozhikode only Bars) trying to drown our Final Year Sorrows in Beer (veeendum demo :) werent rich enuf to drink beer until we got drunk ). Well at midnight the bartender comes up to our table ( his eyes r red with lack of sleep and he is positively frustrated with his life n his daily routine of having to serve to us idlers) and asks us to leave as he , unlike us, has to go home n sleep. We push off not wanting to test his temper and get onto our bikes (ahankaaram.. I was actually on a Vespa .. hehehe but a must say for all us guys - it was the life line for all of us ) .
We were on our way back to our college singin songs n stopping at every alternate paadam ( field ) on the pretext of wanting to take a leak but the real motive being the desire to extend this golden time for as long as possible. Kozhikode is indeed beautiful at night... the lonely roads and the light fog hanging around, the occasional pettikada on the road, and the huge expanse of nothingness on either side of you.... it truly is romantic. Anyways so we were on our way back to the College when suddenly the heavens open up and large heavy raindrops start descending on to us. Not to be fettered by such a small hindrance though the six warriors (us in case u got confused) push on. In no time all of us are thoroughly drenched.
Not at all diffused by the rain we decide that we shud make use of this opportunity. I crack the famous mallu saying " entaayalum nananju ini ippol kulichittu kayaraam" - we are wet anyways y not take a bath.. and we decide to go on a trip .. drunk and senseless as we are this seems to be an amazing idea to all of us.. we start arguing about the destination... even bizzare and impossible places like pondi and goa are not discarded without a thought... finally we settlle on Oooty.
For the imbeciles who dont know Ooty - its a hill station in Tamil Nadu with some really Breath-Taking views and the ride up to the place is a once in a life time experience indeed ( especially so if you are doing it in a drunken stupor on a vespa with no idea about the route and with heavy , i repeat heavy , rain thrashing down on u. We reached Ooty at around 4 in the morning. What we did there is not as exciting as the trip itself and so I wont blabber on about how we spent the day.
Wait a min... Y did i post this particular incident???? Ohh yeah.. it rained in Mumbai yesterday and i got thoroughly drenched and couldnt help but be reminded of those GOOD OL' COLLEGE DAYS.
Dedicated to JT, Bullshee, Naxi, Maaman and Chotta Khaled - my comrades in arms during this particular adventure.....
Thursday, March 29, 2007
Monday, March 12, 2007
IGNORANCE IS BLISS !!!!!
"An Idle Mind is the Devil's Workshop" they say. Judging by the fact that I have been sitting idly in office for the past 8 months , my guess would be that Satan has had ample time to make my mind his SEZ.......
However unlike many others I really dont regret having nothing to do in office but wait for my ever increasing coffee breaks , counting the number of times my boss' phone rings and devising my latest plans for world domination. Ok mybe the last one was taking it a bit too far but there certainly have been days when i have been forced to work out the second option. But it really isn't as bad as many people say it is. All you have to do is to let your mind take you whever it wants to and you will realize that you really are capable of thinking up a lot of bullcrap.. On one such occasion I ended up in the Mir Space Station ( isn't that what they call the Russian Space Station ) with Anna Kournikova as my co-cosmonaut.... hehehe....
Anyways my last few days of dreaming ( I prefer to call it contemplating my future steps towards success but then WTF ) have been exceedingly self-satisfying as compared to the previous couple of months. The reason - CAT results were published somewhere in Jan 1st week and I , shattering all popular beliefs and superstitions and surprising even the Municipality Commisioner of Trinidad and Tobago , managed to get calls from 3 of the IIMs. Now these IIM interviews are supposed to grill you on your Engineering Fundas and as I knew for a fact that I had learnt lotsa things during my time in college but no egineering whasoever, I was scared stiff. No longer were the idle sessions at office fun coz all the time my mind kept on reminding me that I was suposed to be studying something. I am sure it was the devil in my mind that was doing this - the idle bastard. Anyways I was not ready to give up on my Self-Assessment Sessions ( to be read as idle time in office ) so easily and I devised a marvellously ingenious technique to fool myself. I would just open up wikipedia search for some stupid electrical term and then minimize the window and continue dreaming. This way my conscience is satisfied ( at least I opened the window ) and I get to go back to my favourite past-time. But still all things said and done Idling around in office had sure lost its fun and the guilty twinge in the heart persisted.
But then now that all the interviews are done and I , with sincere help from my Interviewers , have realized that I dont know anything about anything ; Ican peacefully go back to dreaming in office.
Ihave learnt 2 very important lessons in life thanks to this grand ordeal :
1. I am an ignorant lazy ass.
2. Ignorance is Bliss.......
However unlike many others I really dont regret having nothing to do in office but wait for my ever increasing coffee breaks , counting the number of times my boss' phone rings and devising my latest plans for world domination. Ok mybe the last one was taking it a bit too far but there certainly have been days when i have been forced to work out the second option. But it really isn't as bad as many people say it is. All you have to do is to let your mind take you whever it wants to and you will realize that you really are capable of thinking up a lot of bullcrap.. On one such occasion I ended up in the Mir Space Station ( isn't that what they call the Russian Space Station ) with Anna Kournikova as my co-cosmonaut.... hehehe....
Anyways my last few days of dreaming ( I prefer to call it contemplating my future steps towards success but then WTF ) have been exceedingly self-satisfying as compared to the previous couple of months. The reason - CAT results were published somewhere in Jan 1st week and I , shattering all popular beliefs and superstitions and surprising even the Municipality Commisioner of Trinidad and Tobago , managed to get calls from 3 of the IIMs. Now these IIM interviews are supposed to grill you on your Engineering Fundas and as I knew for a fact that I had learnt lotsa things during my time in college but no egineering whasoever, I was scared stiff. No longer were the idle sessions at office fun coz all the time my mind kept on reminding me that I was suposed to be studying something. I am sure it was the devil in my mind that was doing this - the idle bastard. Anyways I was not ready to give up on my Self-Assessment Sessions ( to be read as idle time in office ) so easily and I devised a marvellously ingenious technique to fool myself. I would just open up wikipedia search for some stupid electrical term and then minimize the window and continue dreaming. This way my conscience is satisfied ( at least I opened the window ) and I get to go back to my favourite past-time. But still all things said and done Idling around in office had sure lost its fun and the guilty twinge in the heart persisted.
But then now that all the interviews are done and I , with sincere help from my Interviewers , have realized that I dont know anything about anything ; Ican peacefully go back to dreaming in office.
Ihave learnt 2 very important lessons in life thanks to this grand ordeal :
1. I am an ignorant lazy ass.
2. Ignorance is Bliss.......
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