Fuel for Future

Satyameva Jayate Season 3 has started; Aamir Khan & team have brought forward unique yet important topics on table for discussion.  I wholeheartedly appreciate their work. Every actor is here to make money, but he is an actor who also contributes to society while making moolah. He surely is a constructive citizen of India.

Of the 3 episodes telecasted till date in season 3, my favourite has been the 2^nd episode about Road Safety. This was one of those topics which frequently run into back of my mind.  I had discussed about this with my mom several times. I drive at least 80 km a day, so this is more important and relevant to me. Aamir discussed on following traffic rules, empathizing and helping people in trouble due to accidents, etc. What he missed is discussing what the rules say.

It is important to follow rules, we all agree with it, but we cannot follow them until we know them. May be we know the most important/common rules, but we don’t know the lane disciplines, complete rules, when to use horn, and many more intricacies to make driving safe and peaceful. We should all request daily newspapers to print a small column on one Traffic Rule/discipline and its importance every day. This will create an impact on us and there will be someone starting the change in the way we drive.

We will not follow if we don’t know, but we may follow if we know. This hope will be a reality someday, because if one person follows, there will be 5 other people watching him on road and will follow the same.

Another, very important concern which we would have heard and forgotten hundreds of times is the fuel wasted while driving. I was very conscious regarding fuel wastage earlier, but now I don’t care much.

It is always suggested to shut engines at long signals, pool the cars to reduce road congestion and fuel usage, also to use public transport as much as possible, but we don’t do any of them. I don’t do any of them.

I realised my mistake again and it hit me hard on the previous Monday morning when I was driving my parents to Bangalore Airport. Airport is 40 km one way drive from home. It takes me 30 minutes drive to reach airport at early mornings as traffic would be less and the 3 lane one way express highway is good. They had a 9.40 AM flight to Delhi and we left home at 7.40 AM.

10 km into the airport express highway, I could only see taxis racing to Airport. I observed many taxis; none of them had more than 1 passenger. This appalled me, and suddenly triggered guilt in me. Bangalore has one of the best bus services in India, buses to Airport are superfast, made by Benz & Volvo with AC & wifi facility. These buses are called Vajra(Diamond) buses to Airport, with frequency of 1 bus in every 30 minutes leaving to Airport from bus stand.

If all the passengers travelling to airport would have travelled through public transport, then may be 1 bus would have travelled instead of 25 -30 cars. The nearest bus stop to my home is 200 metres, I could have comfortably dropped my parents in a very comfortable bus, but I drove 80 km. This isn’t about what our wallet can afford; it is about what we can’t afford. We can’t afford to waste precious fuel, to jam the roads for unwanted reasons, after knowing that the travel options are equally good.

Travelling by Taxis is not wrong. It is very much required, when there is an early morning or a late night flight, but not at the time when public transport is available. We need to empathize our future generations. They wouldn’t have the freedom to drive like us, they wouldn’t have enough fuel.

Let us all drive safely, follow rules, be courteous & disciplined, save fuel & use public transport.

I haven’t done most of it, but I have started. I would request my friends also to accompany me. I can’t drive alone on this road to save the Fuel for Future.

Time No Bar

I am writing again, after years. Time No Bar isn’t about my logging in wordpress and writing after years, it is about special people who have been with me and are always there.

In my sales profile, I meet many people everyday. Few of them for the first time. I meet people, exchange few words, we exchange cards and forget each other. Only when need arises, we dig up our folder of Business Cards and try reaching them. It is even hard to explain them, where we exchanged the cards or where we met, as neither of us were expected to remember it. Life has become a process of increasing bank balance and right contact list. Most of the time is spent at office, following the process. The little personal time we get is what keeps us all happy, energized and motivated to get back to the process the next day.

In this little personal time everyday, we spend our time with Family & Friends. In few cases both Family & Friends live away from us. We stretch our professional life so much into our personal life that, the personal time is either spent discussing work or we end up spending very little time on phone/ in person with Family & Friends.

In this little personal time, we prioritize our Family. Talking or meeting friends becomes our last priority after work & family. With time,  we don’t talk to friends, loose contact, get away and then there is that awkward silence when we don’t know who should have been the first person to call or text. We lose our friends, few of them.

Then there are these Friends, whom you would have known inside out. Friends who would have been as close as you were to yourself. People who would have made fun of you with weirdest names, teased you with all girls in the world ( other than the few they were interested in), laughed at your poorest jokes, kicked at your mistakes, cried at your sorrows and later made fun about it to us. These are those friends with whom we would have shared our dark secrets, people who would know our weakness and our behaviors when weak.

These are those friends who would not think twice before coming home and announcing that they have arrived. Friends who would eat all our home made food and push us to canteen. Friends with whom we used to speak all night and sleep the next day. These are those parts of our lives, which we haven’t seen from some time, because they aren’t there.

Then, one day they call you at Midnight. The first thing is you have a broad smile on your face after seeing their name on you phone. When you pick up the call, you can hear – Kutte/Bhai/your surname etc instead of a hello/hi and we talk as if we last spoke 10 minutes back. As if life hasn’t changed, as if we are still there, with them and laugh our lungs out.

Friends who aren’t stopped by distance or work, ego or class, and definitely not time.

Summer of 2010-Internship Begins

After my disastrous exams, I was compelled to leave for my intern. I was not in a mood to leave & wanted to stay back. I had no real choice!  Missed my Indian Airlines flight cos of the lack of information provided to us. It was pathetic from the Airlines. Govt ka kaam after all, they don’t give a damn. I was pissed & felt sorry for Karthik. He had missed his flight too ! I was forced to buy another ticket n leave to Mumbai. It was another hot & humid summer noon in Mumbai when I reached. I took a bath & had my nap for dinner. I even slept early to feel fresh for the next day’s Orientation.

I was up in the morning & was ready to leave to ACC.. Accompanied by Karthik we had breakfast & reached 10 mins before the time. The orientation started as per IST i.e late. Most of the 1st half before lunch was about the introduction & HR details & works. I understood nothing of it & was blankly staring at the one who presents it. I was waiting for a session from Marketing team..N ofcourse I was worried about my place to stay in Pune, put my issue up there.. Din work much!

I was more bothered about the Lunch! Had awesome lunch & was afraid that will make me sleep on my orientation day with that super cool AC working. I worked hard to stay awake & listen through few more sessions. I was highly  disappointed to see no sessions in Marketing ! After signing tonnes of agreements, I was finally let off at 7 p.m. Booked my ticket to Pune & I was off to bed.

Had it pretty boring till then & the boredom continued for the next 2 days also. Found a PG in KP, Pune. Kaushik called me immediately to ask if I did find  it. Neither of us could do  much as both of us had paid advance to our landlords. Next day we were on time to office & it was SHOW TIME!

NITK- Chapter 8.3/The Final Journey

8th sem started with a search for electives.. I wasn’t bothered about it cos I had done my job pretty well in 7th sem & I got the required electives 🙂 Soumya ma’am was offering Advanced Topics in Computer Networks.. EDM was offered by Sequeira sir & Environmental Impact Assignment was offered by Civil Dept.. We had IS as our only compulsory course from the dept..

I needed a lotta free time for travelling so the subjects chosen provided me enough free time.. Pias never took attendance.. In EIA attendance didn’t matter & we took Soumya ma’am for granted (that was bad on our part).. EDM required some amount of attendance but I gave sir leave letters giving the reason of my processes & he was happy that I was taking up MBA.. My job was done 🙂

Nikhil had completed 80% of Major project by now & convincing the seniors about implementation wasn’t a big deal.. Our only problem was strict externals during the presentations.. Annappa had decided to screw us & he made us slog for the Major project at the end.. We had K.C.Shet as the external for mid sem & I was damn scared of presenting to him, so much that I was searching for the slideshow button.. LOl.. Happens 🙂 Nikhil managed everything very well in the project & I was more concerned about preparing the final document.. We had 2 repeats for the same & our report was accepted for the 3rd time !! We didn’t get screwed anytime during presentation but our biggest headache was getting the diary signed every week.. After standing for 1 hour in front of his chamber Annappa sir used to call us & ask Qs based on what we had written, of which he understood nothing..

For the final signature on the report he irritated us to core & made us wait for 1 full day.. On the other hand Vani ma’am signed it for Manish as soon as she saw him.. Manish was such a lucky ass!!

Pias was creating problems for most of the people.. His surprise tests were very irritating..They did not test concepts but tested the calculator’s storage capacity.. He got so crazy at times, that he gave surprise tests in consecutive classes 😦 I & Nikhil missed the surprise test on Jan 27th ..We didn’t attend the class as we came late after the IMS National Achievers’ Session held at Blore.. We learnt a lot from the session & we were extremely happy after it.. 🙂 I & Nikhil had chatted in the bus for long time & somehow it didn’t interest us to attend the class..  Big Deal!! I don’t think anyone would have scored more than 10 of 25 that means 2 of 5.. Pias screwed my mid sem by giving some shitty logic with which I & Arun didn’t agree.. End sem paper was awesome & it was not meant to be attempted: D Initially I thought I would flunk but then I was more bothered abt my grade cos I know he couldn’t flunk so many ppl below me.. Ofcourse he screwed my grade too!! Bah..

EIA was so much cool & most of the topics were repeated from Air & Noise Pollution so I could easily do well.. EDM was an interesting subject & now I realize that he had covered few good topics!! Very useful course & it went well.. TCN put no pressure at all.. We had simple presentation & mid sem for the internals.. Finals were also easy.. My mid sem was delayed cos of IIFT 2nd round process & this provided me a longer time to study for it, so it helped me 🙂 For internals, I hadn’t even seen the presentation.. Manish had downloaded it & had changed few things.. Ma’am had given us 10 mins to present & we dragged it to 45 mins..Ma’am was being deliberately soft on our batch 🙂

Semester began with the new year.. New Year celebration was special this time.. Went out with Arun, Yash, Nikhil, Adarsh & Shankar to watch Ghajini, then had an awesome dinner at Palkhi .. Guess that was the best dinner I ever had at that place.. Adarsh then told an awesome definition for vegetarian J Eating all the curry from chicken curry made him vegetarian.. Only if he ate the pieces, it made him non vegetarian.. We found an empty bus to return but only after some wait & it was good experience shouting in an empty bus… The best part was the game we played later.. The game was that the name of 3 gals were given to every1 & they had to choose whom they wld marry, the one they wld kill & the one who wld be just a fren to them.. The names were given to every1 so that it could make them uncomfortable..Later we changed the format a bit with an awesome addition!! Shankar was kinda disappointed after listening to similar answer from all of us on his true love: D Later every1 was kinda forced to choose one of their fren whom they wld like to marry.. It was too easy for me though 🙂 Nikhil Bhat was the kid who was caught with awesome answers.. Later we had the 1^st photoshoot of the year & we left to my home with Charith joining us in coll.. We found a kitten on the road & we brought it home.. We named it Asin, it was sooo cute..  Adarsh’s one liners abt cat is memorable.. I & Yash had enjoyed food like never before J

This sem was a happening one.. Everything was so fast & I was struggling to manage time, yet I never stopped spending time with friends.. I enjoyed their company 🙂 Bunking classes & sitting in hostel had become a habit now.. Uneven timings of the classes made me spend much more time bugging Yash, Arun & Nikhil..

A class trip was planned & even the buses were booked.. Finally it got cancelled for some weirdest reasons 🙂 Few guys didn’t turn up cos gals din.. That was desperate!! Hehe..Then all those who had confirmed for the trip had to contribute for the advance paid  to the bus..Even i did.. Shankar was busy in social service & he had forgotten food & sleep for that..

Incident 2009!! This time we had Kunal Ganjawala & Nikhil Chinnappa performing on stage.. I tried to participate in every other event…Arun’s script was used for the drama.. We weren’t ready with the heroine even on the morning of the show.. An MTech gal finally became the actress & she did well in the given time of 10 mins to prepare.. Drama didn’t go well as much as we expected it to..The script was simply superb 🙂  Vinay had come for the Inci to meet Shishira & they were surely having a great time..Vinay attended most of the major programmes & this couple was a centre of attraction for many kids in the junior block..Lol.. I participated in Quiz & Kannada & Hindi Antakshari..Ofcourse I lost it..

Again the same things continued.. I stayed at Nikhil’s room & we stayed awake for long time.. Though we didn’t touch 5 in the morning this time.. We had a good photo shoot after the Ganjawala’s performance & we knew it was the beginning of the end.. Bhatta was getting senti during the photoshoot & that made most of us feel bad.. It was the most happening night 🙂  Time spent with Natasha , Sukhi & Amogh during Inci was awesome.. Natasha & I had this regular habit of chatting after the class for sometime.. On so many occasions we had to see the watch to leave the coll but our discussions never ended..At  times when bored to study for exams we calld up each other & arrived early for the exam & sat in the hall chatting with books closed.. God knows how we managed to do well in exams :)We discussed anything & everything in world.. Our discussions hardly revolved around the academics as neither of us were interested in it.. Smriti video was getting ready & all the shoots were on for a day.. It was time to fill ur thoughts abt ur frens & I was travelling, missing most of it..

After Incident I spent about 10 days away from college & April looked nearer.. I had told Shankar about the FMS interview date, yet he couldn’t arrange the class trip on different day cos he was expecting a particular group to join in on that day..Alas, neither the group joined nor I.. Shankar wasn’t feeling happy abt that.. I missed the fun of class trip but I had set up my next 2 years & I didn’t regret 🙂

Then it was the time for the class photoshoot & Comps had an excellent 2 hours of photoshoot unlike other branches.. We clicked more than 1500 pics that day.. That was amazing!!We had a special photoshoot on bike with all of us sitting on it..Jagat & Nikhil looked desperate in those pics 😉 Finally a dog was ready for the pic with Jagat after most of them had run away.. Later I went to beach with Rama, Manish, Jagat , Arun & Nikhil.. We drank litres of sugarcane juice on the way..We shouted in the beach as if the whole sea & the beach was ours 🙂

Ring Ceremony was the most expected function & the whole batch was already talking about it.. NITK is the only coll in India which has such a ceremony.. This was supposed to happen in SAC & everything was ready.. Soumya ma’am was looking good & even the class gals were looking extra cute 🙂 Ajey Sudeep gave an awesome speech & we were enjoying the evening.. The rain disturbed the evening & we shifted to SJA.. SJA was filled up & there was hardly any place to sit.. Many students had to stand..We took oath 3 times cos of the power failure!! HOD was giving rings to all students & every student later put the ring to their middle finger to show it off in the photo 😀 We had a class photo again with the lecturers.. Individual or small group pics with fav lecturers..It was time for the dinner… Dinner was arranged @ sports complex & photoshoot continued with ice creams in hand & ice cream sticks in mouth.. After that we went to watch Sarkar Raaj in SAC.. Mostly Compsies were there & few others from different branches who wanted to make out 😛 Later I sat with Natasha & Amogh till 1 a.m in front of the Civil Dept & had a good chat..

It was time for the farewell.. The gift was good but the farewell was boring.. Lecturers weren’t called.. The concept of farewell lacked creativity & even the food wasn’t tasty.. The same old musical chair, speeches & appreciations.. There was no humour.. I left after getting bored for sometime..

Thanks giving ceremony to thank our lecturers was arranged in Suraj.. It was a good event but unfortunately many lectures didn’t turn up.. Soumya ma’am, Vani ma’am , Freeda ma’am, Dwarkish sir & Annappa sir were the only one who were the part of this function.. We all interacted freely with lecturers & most of us got the chance to speak about our experiences.. Bala made Soumya ma’am cry.. Hehe..Lunch was awesome & the day went beautifully 🙂

The best part of this semester was that Nikhil Bhat had agreed to give a treat.. Manish & Nikhil were finally giving their placement treat 🙂 OMG, it was the 8th wonder..We had to take revenge for making us wait, so we ate like never before.. Increased the bill more than required..Gave GPLs to them & left Suraj..They walked till hostel & I walked further till home..

The following Monday the exams started.. I had invited Soumya ma’am home & invited frens  for lunch..Picked up ma’am during lunch break & frens joined later.. Ma’am spent most of her time with Mamma & we frens were watching TV & talking nonsense as usual 🙂 It was a great time with Ma’am.. She mingled with all of us & got very comfortable.. She spent few hours with us discussing different things & time just flew away.. She saw all the weird pics we had taken, she appreciated those weird poses of Jagat in pics 😉 Ma’am made the day very special to us 🙂

Then we went busy in exams & time flew away.. Later I tried to arrange an evening at the beach & Comps night out.. Devika helped me particularly by getting the gals out of the block.. Without her the job wasn’t possible.. The evening at the beach was wonderful & was spent in playing , chatting , which followed by photos..:) Then we all had sugarcane juice which was supposed to be my FMS treat & later most of us had our dinner at GNPD.. Some frens couldn’t join us for dinner cos they were all wet after playing in beach.. We sat as a group & chatted with everyone.. The interaction was good & relaxed with no pressure of academics now.. Few of us had ice creams at Reddy’s & we dropped the gals back to GB.. Followed that were loud singing of songs on road.. “Pyaar Hame Kis Mod Pe le aya”.. Vaibhav, Jagat, MMM, Arun & Nikhil played football for sometime & rest of us were chatting.. Most weirdest photo shoot is what followed next, in the ATM.. Haha…

Nightout was arranged in 8th block but due to some earlier problems the security was stepped up.. Gals entering the boy’s block was impossible.. Devika, Anjali & Natasha were already out of the block & the block timings were strict.. This led to the shifting of the venue to Amogh’s house.. But the biggest problem was that Devika & Anjali were stuck up in electrical dept lab.. They had to come out of the compound which was 6 feet tall with the glass pieces etched on them.. I & Anup had to search for a place which was safe to jump without any glasses.. Later Vaibhav & Shankar joined Devika & Anjali inside the compound & I waited with Anup outside.. With the help of Vaibhav & Shankar , Devika & Anjali climbed the walls & jumped.. Both of them had bruises.. Poor gals!! Later we were joined by other frens at Amogh’s place.. SB was sloshed out & even Jagat was drunk..We played mafia for sometime & started chatting.. Amogh & Natasha went to beach for a walk.. By the time we realized it was almost morning, we started feeling hungry..Vaibhav & Kadli dropped SB  back to his room & rest of us went to eat Tadambail to eat.. Vaibhav & Kadli joined us on the way.. Already Kailash & DL were having their morning tea over there.. It was 5 a.m & we started hogging whatever was available.. After drinking tea, all of us left back.. Vaibhav went to play football.. I was tired & wanted some sleep..I had to get back to Natasha at 11.. We had planned to get our no dues signed @ 11(that never happened as she woke up late & I went to Soumya ma’am to collect my slam book)..

Next day I left with Natasha to finish our postponed work of getting the no due certificate signed.. We were finishing it fast before the delay occurred @ hostel office.. We were joined by Nikhil & Arun there, who had just started it.. After hostel we left to the dept, HOD was missing & we had to come back that noon for his sign.. We finished our job & left..

It was soon the time to say Goodbyes.. Manish was the 1st to leave..He left half an hour early & I could meet him only on the way after he had left his room.. I walked with him & other frens to busstop & he left after few mins.. This was the 1st time I felt so bad.. I missed his presence more than I ever did, knowing that we wouldn’t be meeting for min a year or even more.. I went home & cried to mom.. I couldn’t see Nikhil & Arun after Manish left.. They missed him more than I did..

The same evening I, Puthri, Arun & Nikhil went to the NITK beach.. We talked less  & we were all busy in our thoughts, every1 was feeling bad.. The period @ NITK had come to an end.. That beach never looked as special as it did that day. It was the last day when I went to beach with frens.. With each passing day, a close fren had to leave & I was left alone..

Nikhil was the next to leave..His parents arrived.. Aunty & Uncle visited home & that was very sweet of them 🙂 They even brought us the sweets .. They didn’t stay for long as they had to leave the same afternoon.. Nikhil was leaving & I felt as if my own brother was leaving me.. I went to hostel to bid him goodbye.. As the time arrived the feeling of his leaving was more painful.. 😦 But, he had to leave… I was almost into tears when he was leaving, Nikhil hugged me before he got into the vehicle & told ” I’ll miss U hero”.. I cldn’t even reply & by no time he had left..  Arun told me later that even Nikhil hadn’t slept all night.. He lived with those guys for 4 full years, he wld miss that place & frens more than I ever could.. I told mom everything & cried again.. One of them would leave everyday & make me cry.. These loafers were making me feel alone..

Later it was Arun who left with his family.. His family had come to pick him up.. Had met his parents before but now met his sis & aunty also.. They all were so happy when taking their son back.. Arun was mixed with emotions & every1 was understanding the importance of this place.. This place meant a lot to us, it had changed our life.. Crying had become routine for me..

Jagat & Vaibhav then left in an unusual way. I & Shankar went to bus stop to drop them.. We waited for 2 hours & we came back when their bus didn’t come.. They themselves waited for 4 hrs & when they got bugged & returned to coll they saw the bus coming then.. They had to stop it & then they left to Pune..

Yash’s Uncle came from Tumkur.. Yash was leaving in the evening..It rained that evening & it was lil bit of a problem for him then. He left the coll wet in the Surathkal rain & mite be his eyes were equally wet.. He didn’t want to leave that room & that place, but he had to leave cos an awesome future was awaiting him..He was the last to leave form the group.. His sms made my tears flow..Its always good to leave early cos there wldn’t be a need to cry after each of ur fren leaves..

I was the last one to leave after a month.. I came to college with mom to take pics before I left.. That building had the sounds & memories of the time spent.. The empty main buildings, the fountain, the lions reminded me of the photos we had taken there.. Empty corridors missed the flare it had.. Notice board was empty..  Could feel the beats of music in SAC.. Missed frens while eating samosa at Amul.. Met Adarsh @ college & it was time for me to leave the place I loved for what it was.. But I was taking the memories of each moment I spent there.. NITK had taught me dreaming & I dreamt of living those 4 years again..

NITK was just not classes, it was more. It had Friends, Windows Lab, Putty, Mid sems, surprise tests, end sems, chair race, flash games, Soumya ma’am’s room, chocolates, power failure, Friends, DDS Lab, Reddy’s shop, Shanbhag’s shop, hot chocolate, cone ice cream, maggi, Friends, ATB, co-op society, DC, D-006, rockets in MTP class, Dwarkish Sir’s video, FC/SNP, Friends, movies, hostel, night canteen, 8^th block mess, loud music, Incident nights, assignments, stupid chats, Friends, Placement Dept, SAC, SJA, concerts, GNPD, sugar cane juice, Friends ,light house, temple, beach, rocks,A1 , night out b4 exams, copying, Uday shankar’s derivation, movies, Friends, LAN, dusty roads,  ADLABS, Pizza hut, CCD, Palkhi, Friends, Gold Finch, Depot, Punjabi Dhaba, Ideal Ice creams, Pabbas, Cherry Square, SadS, Suraj, treats, Panambur beach, NITK beach, Malpe, Friends, egg burji, gossips, secrets, crush, proposals, rejections, tears, anger, fights, love, Friends & Life.

NITK- Chapter 8.2/Friends

I didn’t grow intellectually in my 4 years of Engineering, but life in NITK taught me more useful things than numbers, bits & bytes.. All I learnt in NITK was hardly from any lecturer but mostly from frens.. Time spent with them were fun..Sometimes I even spoke like my frens.. I learnt those typical words very early.. Like “Sayakkhogu”, “Chachax”, “loafers”,”chindi”,”baddi maga”, etc ..Mostly to be blamed on my frens with whom I interacted the most 🙂 Frens made my life in NITK so so special 🙂  Miss them a lot..

Adarsh : One of the closest frens  of mine who worried more than me for my failure & who went mad over my success.. Playing carom at my place, chatting with him for hours, our trips to Sadanand to eat chaats, discussing future, discussing preparation, discussing IMS , our discussions never ended.. Finally it had to be a call from his house or mine to get us back for dinner..He was really nice to me, even after I used to shout at him.. I feel sorry many times for shouting at him … I haven’t seen anyone else who loves life to this extent 🙂  He always believed in the importance of the journey than the destination 🙂 He was  unreal for the race but he was real for what everyone of us would be after 20 more years.. He was one of the strongest hearts who was never bogged down by failure.. He took it as a stepping stone & tried to improve..May all his wishes come true 🙂

Aditya :I was lucky to spend 2 years at SKA with him.. Aditya was stuck in EEE which was the craziest branch & it went to extremes..Initially they screwed the grades of everyone & later they gave them bitti grades with no work & no classes..Aditya was not the one who kept on cribbing around with these things.. He loved trical dept & the faculty over there !! He was one of those  few ppl whom I have never seen in rage.. His polite speaking was always the best part of him..May be due to this quality he is an instant hit among female frens 😉 He is good in physics & mathematics.. That helped me a lot for sure.. I wish we were in the same branch.. I could have shared or yapped anything to him unhesitantly..He was one of those few ppl who spoke more than me..Hehe.. The comfort level I had with him was unmatched.. He was one of the sweetest,harmless, ever charming & fun loving fellows I know 🙂 6 years with him were wonderful!!

Charith: Vegeta was amazing.. He hardly spoke any offensive words, that too after having Jagat as his roommate.. I dono, how did he control himself from hitting all of us :)Even now, the 1st person we get hold as our target to make fun of is, Charith.. He has great patience.. Gets extremely nerdy during exams, he slogs is ass day & night & never forgets to finish the booklet.. His hand writing is worse than mine,OMG, I pity the lecturers who read it 😉 He was always ready to get GPL, but we were the unlucky fellows who had to lift him.. Our legs got tired but he never felt anything !! He loved dragonballzzz & played prince of persia n no of times.. He loved sleep & thats the 2nd most lovable thing after his galfren( who was created by us, rather Manish)

Fantastic 4: I was to be credited for naming their group as fantastic 4.. Akhil, Rakesh, Srikanth & Vinay were an undetachable group.. They used to sit together in class, labs & even during tests..They reserved the bench if any one of them was late 🙂 They were all highly competitive & it was an extremely intelligent group.. While breaking into 2 for projects, I guess they used claps method (not sure).Shaany & Vinny wanted there career in mgmt, Varna & Srikanth always wanted to continue their tech career..Though all 4 were highly competent in their tech knowledge..

Shaany was  always that humble chappar, with smiles on like headlights of the car..Irritating him was hard, as he took everything very lightly..He spent loads of time slogging or watching movies after turning his monitor to the wall  😀 Never leaves even the half chances he might get to get closer to a gal!!(MCA) Its cos of his notes I survived thru many semesters 🙂 Highly legible handwriting..

Vinny was always cool headed, & the most silent of the group.He was the Presi of the NITK chess club.. He was very fast in grasping & hardly spent time in books.. He entered coll with the tag of one of the best coders.. Excellent VA knowledge.. He got a 99.97 percentile in CAT.. That was near perfect!!!!! He is the most truthful of the 4 🙂 (Vinny never lied that he hadn’t studied like other 3, cos Vinny never studied till “the day”)

Varna always entered there room with a hmmmmm sound & he used TU instead of saying goodbye 😛 He was a big dota fan ,who also loved playing cricket .. He was always ready for any kinda sports.. He was prepared with the answers much before exam dates & I  bugged him with doubts.. He was the one who arranged almost all GPLs & I was one of those who arranged his 1st GPL at Mining Sem hall:P

Srikanth was another dota, cs master who was on for full night & slept thru the mornings.. I don’t think he never slept before 3 a.m any day.. He had all the news happening in the college.. I was a frequent visitor to his room & our gossip sharing sessions were immense..He is highly opinionated & pissing him off hardly took time 🙂 Last time I saw him highly bugged was when his saptapadi news was spread( after class trip :D)..

This was an awesome cartel they had formed & these guys were awesome frens 🙂

Harish : S.B is is an ambitious student who used his talent & energies on right things at right times.. He is a diehard ManU fan & I get bored seeing his status messages abt ManU.. He is a good speaker & gets done with his work pretty fast.. FIFA champ, who was always found in Kadli’s room playing FIFA.. He loves to speak NK kannada, & loves Kannada movies.. Guess he has watched more Kannada movies than I have.. This man doesn’t want to come back virgin from USA, lets see if he will manage it 🙂

Jagat: Oh My Fucking God!! (Jagat’s style) I am feeling weird to even call him by name now… So much used to calling him as dawg(dog) or the female version 🙂 It was he who started it but now I guess everyone calls him like this.. He is one of the those guys who is never in hurry/pressure/tension..He is fun loving, simple, light headed fellow..He is so much fun but he is  matured on the other hand.. He & Charith made a hell out of  their room.. They had maintained the dirtiest room in the hostel, though Jagat took bath twice a day, that makes me blame Charith for making the room dirty 🙂 Master of C & C++..He loved dogs .. Jigsaw loved saw series & it was from him that I copied all awesome movies..He clicks the craziest photos ever..He has great talent in searching weird sites & we share all the perverted jokes!!! I miss this bitch..

Manish: The PJ Master bugged us with his PJs so much, that every1 was ready to give him a GPL all  the time 🙂 Mite be we loved his PJs & we missed it after he left the college before every1..His Cricket playing skills always  put me in wonder (EA Sports game, not on ground).. I had even calld him up to ask how to play few shots & score well during the holidays, when he was slogging in Shimoga 🙂 He had tonnes of patience to teach the same topic to every1 coming to his room on the previous night of the exam..But, the best part was that he understood the concept which the whole class couldn’t understand!! Undoubtedly the best coder of the coll (I & Shankar had many arguments based on this & now even Shankar agrees)..He is fun loving person, with the best one liners in the group & with the best PJs..

Note: He even started a blog to write PJs !!

Natasha: I gotta know her well during DDS Lab.. We were lab partners & crime partners.. Guess we have copied in every exam possible & of course never got caught.. I loved her hot chocolate & dairy milk treats 🙂 She was amazing to chat with & she was really sweet 🙂 Gossiping was our fav pastime & we used to spend hours in it.. Ever charming face & a million dollar smile was her USP.. She was one of the hottest gal in the coll & guys went crazy behind her.. She was very easy to mingle with & never put up an attitude..She was clear abt what she wanted from life & was always composed.She worked hard when required & partied harder.. I could easily confide to her & I knew it wldn’t go out 🙂 She was great to hang out with & a very matured gal 🙂

Nikhil: Nikhil was my closest fren in coll.. We didn’t fight even once 😦 That remains the saddest truth.. I used to live in his room, sleep there & of course did no work..Academically he was brilliant & it helped me to concentrate on my preparations when he worked on the projects.. I envy him cos my mom thinks that I shld become like him & I surely can’t.. He is the biggest Kanjoos I have seen in my life.. He was one fren to whom confiding was easy & he gave healthy suggestions when required..He was the biggest bakra for GPL.. Though he doesn’t know yet that I had given him a GPL on class photoshoot day.. Inci nights, movies, arguments on MTV Roadies(cos I liked Tamanna & he didn’t) to Sachin Tendulkar , discussing issues of socio economic importance, getting “rapped” during major project by Annappa sir & roaming around to get printout, all these memories would remain..  Nikhil wasn’t sure what to take up for career but he was dedicated to do well in whatever he takes(either mgmt/tech)..  He is a voracious reader & he followed up every sport.. I could literally discuss every topic with him & he would know about it.. He always had deep knowledge about subjects & tried to learn more.. He never gave a negative comment on anything with the 1st impression, he used to say that it was mediocre.. He tried to be as diplomatic as possible.. We kinda have similar tastes,&  thoughts flow in a similar fashion which helped us in gelling up easily..He is a very bad singer & he can kill u with it 🙂 He was the worst fellow in Rotract club, he didn’t do a single job in it.. He would never call up anyone, he has made his cellphone one way I guess.. Every time I talk to him I see something new in him which is worth learning & I guess he is the fren whom I miss the most 🙂

Nitin: Bakki is a very emotional person,extremely hardworking & intelligent.. He gets hurt easily sometimes cos of his soft & emotional nature , but its easier to make his mood better.. Very kind at heart.. He is a database of Hindi songs.. Master in antakshari & a good singer.. He has helped me a lot when I was stuck with circuit subjects & his notes were always there for photocopy 🙂 His academics where always at peak & he consistently did well.. He is a very sweet fren who always gives right suggestions 🙂

Prathik: P2P, my only roommate till date was straight forward & gets pissed off easily.. Manish pissed him off very easily & quickly 🙂 During the classes whenever Prathik asked anything, Manish had only 1 answer, ur wife.. Where were u? With ur wife..What are u doing? I am with ur wife.. etc.. Guess anyone would get angry on listening to it for n number of times.. Yet Manish & Prathik were project partners for a long time.. Prathik loved singing aloud & he listened to music whenever he was high after boozing.. He liked the fan on in full speed even in cracking cold.. I used to wait till he is deep asleep & switch off the fan before I sleep 😛 By morning it used to be in full speed again !! He loved drinking soda.. Puthri always used to get me out while playing cricket with smiley ball in our PG.. Had a great time with him for a month in Blore..

Ramakrishna: We were benchmates in 1st sem (until he attended classes :D) & we used to chat a lot about movies in holidays.. We spent hrs discussing reviews of movies & we planned what movies to watch.. We both liked Aamir & used to discuss his movies.. Cricket was our another fav topic.. Once we checked seniors placement record & even after quite some time Roll No. 41 & 51 weren’t placed. Those were our Roll no.s so we thought even we wont get placed 🙂 But Rama ditched me & was one of the 1st fellows to get placed .. He was a fun loving person who loved to sleep a lot 🙂

Shankar: He was one of the most emotional & sensitive characters in class.. He worked a lot for the class & he enjoyed doing it.. He tried to remain in good lines with everyone he met & was always dependable :)He is a good poet & he is a good listener too..He is a good speaker when he is in a flow, but he is the worst speaker when someone interrupts him..He is soft spoken & polite.. A lady charmer, who always had doubts in the subjects taught by female lecturers!! We shared a great rapport & he was one person who always got me gifts on my birthdays… He takes time to adjust at any new place.. He had run away to home many times in 1st semester 🙂 May all his dreams come true !!

Srinidhi: We were classmates  for 2 years in SKA.. He was the best student @ SKA.. He was brilliant in both academics & sports.. He was full of energy & was surrounded by frens..He never prioritized frens & his charm made him a leader of the group.. I still remember those days, when we played cricket in front of my house in a small pitch 🙂 His imagination of the monster turtle was memorable.. He is a polite & soft spoken guy who speaks thru his actions.. His hunger for knowledge made him reach the heights.. Cricket is his passion & even when he visited us, he pulled everyone to play.. I missed him a lot for the last 3 years of my engineering after he left to join IITM..

The Roommates: Arun & Yash were roommates for 3 years & it was their room where I & Nikhil spent most of our time..  Yash & Arun shared one of the weirdest chemistry.. They spoke very less to each other & even for the slightest inquiry they pinged me or Nikhil.. That forced us to pass any information to both of them or pass it to anyone & specifically tell him to pass it to the other.. That never meant they had hard feelings, they supported each other & argued when either I or Nikhil was against one of them.. Just that they didn’t show off the friendship they had for each other 🙂

Naturally with high temper but soft looking Arun & Yash were were generous in bearing me & Nikhil all the time.. That was their room where I studied for my every exam..Nikhil  used  to join in there & later the groups would go larger when the discussions started.. Before AI exam there were about 12 ppl studying in that room !!

Arun was very soft spoken, humorous & reserved.. He opened up only with close frens.. He liked & saw all the daring & scary videos of animals & snakes.. Sometimes we used to bang his head for that.. He liked Bobby( Roadies 6, God she didn’t even do any task still).. Nikhil liked Natasha & I liked Tamanna & Natasha both.. So our arguments & discussions over them went for hours.. We usually saw the episodes together… We went together for lunch, dinner etc… Yash usually stopped our arguments on Roadies females cos he used to get irritated when our voices went up & disturbed his sitcoms 🙂 His love for dota bored me & that ofcourse didn’t matter.. Yash talked non stop  but at times he never even opened his mouth..He greeted every1 who entered the room & made them comfortable.. Many times I used to come back to hostel after finishing classes to see him still sleeping 🙂 Yet he maintained his attendance as much as required 🙂 These 2 guys are very close & any writing of mine wouldn’t do justice to them..

Vaibhav : The child prodigy with an extremely sharp brain.. He is quick in picking up ideas & extremely good at converting them into something tangible.. Excellent coding skills, high on creativity, fun loving, smiles flashing always, thin like a bamboo & the lazy style of walking 🙂 We spent lotta time discussing nonsense during 2 nd sem & the holidays following it.. When classes got boring, he used to open the last page to draw some puzzle which he had seen & started solving them.. A superb fren 🙂

Yohan : Yohan was the athletic kid who liked to play any kinda sports available.. He was strong , well built & I still remember his performance in Bharatdarshan… OMG!! It looked scary, fighting with swords & all… Pakka Mallu who used to check if he has sloshed out after boozing by drawing a straight line & trying to walk on it 🙂 To realize in the morning that the line in itself wasn’t straight..:) Crazy guy.. I guess there would be nothing in life on which he wouldn’t have laid a hand on.. He would have tried out everything & I guess that makes him more lively & going 🙂

Its not just these loafers but there were many more frens who made my 4 years of Engineering very spl..

NITK- Chapter 8.1/The Big Battles

Semester 7 was done with a good note as it was the  best in terms of my grades.. Coming out of the semester I had a goal to reach & I was on my feet to take it on.. My abilities were on stake & survival needed a fight with the best to be among  the best of the country… Each battle ahead was big & I wanted to be the Dragon Warrior  🙂

My preparations had almost come to halt by the end of my 7th semester &  I thought I shouldn’t be putting extra efforts on my small brain.. I thought I couldn’t grasp anything new in the last month which I hadn’t grasped in the past 1 & half years..My concentration sticked on solving papers & analyzing them.. I was pretty successful in doing what I had planned..

It was time for “THE DAY” &  messages wishing me filled up my cell phone 🙂 I felt good that I had good support 🙂 I never went to write any major exam or attended any major interview till now without mom.. I feel highly confident when she is with me 🙂 After all Mom is Mom, none can be as good & supporting as she is.. 🙂

November 16th…I was still thinking of my dream on the way to my center.. It was a nightmare, where I had wasted 2 n half hours filling the feedback form rather than solving the actual Qs.. I had mistaken the feedback form as to my Q paper..Stupid dream.. 😦 I had my CAT exam centre in JP Nagar.. I was there much before time & was totally tensed.. Mom was with me & telling me to do as much as I can, to be calm, not to worry, etc.. 🙂 I felt nice.. I was searching for some more familiar faces & it was Shaany there, finally..Spoke to him for sometime & later we wished each other & I went in..

After all repetitive announcements( which were very irritating), Q booklet & OMR sheets were handed over to us.. I filled them up with atmost care & was ready for it ..Probably my heartbeat was 100 beats/ min then…I prayed God for the final time .. Saw thru the paper & I felt I din know even shit in it.. I always started with my strongest section (Quant)… I was tensed & 1st 5 mins led to no solutions.. I sat for 2 mins without doing anything & remembered mom 🙂 The calmer I got, the lesser was the time taken by each Q..In next 40 mins I could solve 13 with 100% accuracy.. From then on it was a bad paper.. My usually good DI went to dogs & it was my worst performance in VA till date.. My DI was as good as my Quant & I wasn’t ever good at VA, but this time I had crossed all limits in jumping to the bottom..I guess I had stored my worst performance for my CAT!! 😦 I had hit the bottom & by the next morning I knew it was over)..

After comparing my answers with TIME & IMS I told my parents , they felt very bad, especially mom..  Then left to meet Adarsh.. He was still counting his marks in detail by checking solutions of each Q.. “He liked slow death I must say!! ” He was one of those frens, who really felt bad cos I was depressed after my performances..He really cared.. He also had screwed his CAT & it was mourning time for both of us !! I guess those 2 hrs we spent chatting were the worst ever.. We both wanted time to run back .. We checked all the websites to get different answers which would match with ours.. We tried to find different logic to prove our answers were correct.. But in our hearts we knew it was over & I knew that I had lost the opportunity to study in an IIM…Parents & frens supported me a lot during my weak phase,especially Nikhil & Rashmi, who tried to bring some positive thoughts in my mind…

IIFT was scheduled for the next sunday.. Now I was not tensed 🙂 Not that I was confident of cracking it, but I knew how to take pressure & also how to take failure.. Of course Mom supported me in everything.. :)Without her support taking risks & career decisions were never possible.. Love her the most 🙂 I was in Sheshadripuram college on time for the exam..

Now everytime before entering hall I remembered the Chak De India dialogue 🙂 I know its filmy, but I am like this 🙂

Sattar Minute, sattar min hai tumhare paas. Shayad yeh.. tumhare zindagi ke sab se… khaas sattar minute. Aaj tum aacha khelo ya bura khelo, yeh sattar minute tumhe zindagi bhar yaad rahegi. Tho kaise khelna hai.. aaj mein tumhe nahin bataunga.. Bas itna kahunga, ki jao aur yeh sattar minute jee bhar kar khelna.. kyunki iske baad aane wali zindagi chahe kuch sahi ho ya na ho.. chahe kuch rahe ya na rahe.. haro ya jeeto..lekin yeh sattar minute.. tumse koi nahin cheen saktha, Kyunki mein jaantha hu ki aagar yeh sattar minute is team ka har player apne zindagi ki sabse badiya hockey khel gaya.. tho yeh satar min khuda bhi tumse vapas nahin maang saktha

That is what i thought everytime now..I just wanted to give the best I could in every exam  🙂 I knew I was good at this, I wanted to do the work which I loved.. Cracking aptitudes gave me a high which I guess ppl get when they booze..  Following weeks went in writing exams.. IIFT, JMET, SNAP & the last one FMS..

JMET was @ NITK.. SNAP was @ Christ college.. Rashmi had the same centre & we were in the same room.. She complains even now that cos I din show the answers, she didn’t crack the exam..Lol.. She is impossible 🙂 FMS was then the best ranked college after top 3 IIMs & XL.. This was the most important exam I had after CAT..I badly wanted to crack this, else I had to suffice myself with Symbi or IITs.. There was a task ahead..

After every exam I used to feel I wouldn’t clear that exam.. 🙂 So I was all ready to go to Symbi thru mgmt quota.. It was God’s grace that I cracked all the exams & that was the worst feeling after CAT.. Now I had taller hurdles to jump..:( I had Essay writings , GDs, PIs, GTs & Extempores in different colleges & had to crack them..

Parents–IITB

After postponing my N/Ws mid exam , I attended my 1st essay writing, GD  & PI process of IIFT at Coffee Board .. I met Ashray there.. From here on we met in almost every GD, PIs & we had cracked exactly same  exams.. He was my classmate in SKA , the IIT coaching center.. Incidentally we both are in FMS now 🙂

IIFT started with the essay writing for half an hour..I wrote an awesome essay quoting loads of no.s.. Then we had a GD process for 55 long mins..OMG!! It was killing.. 1 min of speaking by all 15 people ( Yes, 15 people!!), then discussion & finally summary by each one of them.. SO we got 25 mins for discussion.. It was a peaceful GD & I did decently.. I was the 1st one to be called for an interview, & he asked me everything about electronics & accounts 🙂 Mad man.. Now how many times should I tell him that I was from Computer science background.. I answered everything he asked me about Cricket 🙂 Thats when I had finally driven the interview to my strong area 🙂 I almost knew that I was out of IIFT after the interview 🙂 I had smallest hopes cos of essay & GD..

Next were SCMHRD & SIBM.. For these I had to travel all the way to Pune.. I begged both the colleges so that they could reschedule my process on consecutive days.. They did it 🙂 Went to Dharwad, stayed there for a day & then left to Pune.. It took just 5 hrs to reach there 🙂 Our driver is too good.. The same evening I had my SCMHRD process.. It was the best organised process I have ever seen 🙂 Beautifully organised by the students & it got over in just 2 hrs.. I was the best in GD & had done exceedingly well in my interview.. Met Vidya there, even she had her process on that day.. Met a senior from NITK (Comps), who was swearing at K.C.Shet..

Next day Ashray joined us & we lost the way to SIBM.. Our driver had to go thru bumpy muddy roads to get to SIBM cos we had come by longer route.. A shorter route was awesome, & we realised it while returning back.. SIBM’s process was totally ill managed & for the job which took 1 hour 15 mins, they made us wait for 6 full hours..:( 😦 It was bad to see this mgmt by mgmt students.. GT was awesome, GD  & interviews were ok..

It was then time to see IITB.. 🙂 Awesome campus.. Excellent infrastructure.. Beautiful atmosphere & the canteen food was good :)Even this process was extremely well managed & I got through my process in 1 hour.. Parents were seated in the conference hall, which looked awesome.. 🙂 GD was again a general topic & I put all my thoughts which made sense 🙂 Did well.. Interview was all about recession & my major project.. I told them everything about major project, which Nikhil had taught me 😀  I spoke non stop about my project for 15 mins.. Hehe.. Then they stopped me 🙂 Later had a good time at Mumbai & was visiting Taj after 26/11 attack.. So it looked even more special 🙂

In 2 days I had my IIT Kharagpur process @ IISC.. I was feeling extremely comfortable cos of the place 🙂 I had spent lot of time in IISC cos i stayed in Malleshwaram for 2 years.. There was some waiting but process was good 🙂 Speakers in GD were dumb & I changed the whole direction of GD.. I felt it was noted by the panelists when they appreciated me during my interview.. Interview was about Software Engineering & I smashed it 🙂 Was extremely happy  by then & had started feeling secured about atleast getting 1 MBA seat.

FMS was the final one on March 16th.. I ate wada in FMS canteen & it was awesome 🙂 I guess that was the last time anna

made good wadas.. Process started on time & we had GD as the 1st round 🙂 Again ppl looked tired & bored to speak on a simple topic & I made the most of it 🙂 I eventually turned out to be the best speaker in GD.. Happiness never stays for long at FMS, cos my extempore was mediocre & in interview they grilled me with electronics again 🙂 I was bugged up now.. Even after telling that I was from Computer Science background  D.D.Das asked me another electronics core Q abt some circuit.. I wanted to get up & go now, but I didn’t.. I gave a ‘No’ for 1 st 5 Qs with a smiling face 🙂 🙂 Narag sir liked my smile I guess,cos after that he gave a big smile..Few Qs followed about packets,routing,TCP etc.. A personal Q & then I was done.. I came & told my parents that I wld be rejected.. So we saw almost all major places in Delhi, before we left cos we never expected to come here & stay 🙂

March 23rd I went with Rama & Manish to buy my 1 TB hard disk 🙂 Then had to bring some clothes from laundry & on the way back to coll I had to pick up Rashmi.. Frens from PESIT had come to meet me.. Rashmi, Smita, Sujay, Priyanka, Rizwan & Shreya had come to meet me 🙂 I was so happy 🙂 Gave my HD & laundry clothes to Manish & roamed around till evening 🙂 Had a great day.. Played in beach, drank about 3 glasses of sugar cane juice, was damn tired.. Came back home & at 10 remembered that it was time for the result..Opened the website & it wasn’t still up.. Was so tired that I had dozed off.. It was 11.30 & I saw that I had not cleared the 2nd round.. Told it to mom & it was total silence..Then realized that the list ran into 2 pages.. I saw my name there in 2nd page 🙂 Mom gave a big hug & then we called up dad 🙂 Messaged Soniya, I called up Rashmi & her phone was off.. Smita’s cell was not reachable 😦 I guess bus was in ghats.. Nikhil Bhat didn’t pick up the call as he was with his aunt who had come from US.. Oh Man, none were listening to me 🙂 Calld up Shankar, Aditya, Adarsh & Arun.. Told Roshni online & messaged Yeshwanth 🙂 I was extremely happy & was bugging every1 at midnight.. 🙂

I was officially into FMS then 🙂  Adarsh was so happy that he actually gave me a treat when everyone was asking for one 🙂

NITK- Chapter 7

Holidays after 6th sem was quite a happening time 🙂 With Puthri I shifted to a PG near ITI.. We had 3 roommates there..Abhinav Sarkar was our 1st roommate( He worked in Infy & enjoyed his free time in movies. His sis stayed near by & he spent most of his time there..We discussed his work & about Infy a lot). Another roommate was from Chennai & he worked in JP Morgan..He had a TV, which we used whenever he wasn’t there & my job was to leave no clues that we were in his room 😛  Our 3rd roommate was Balakrishna (He called himself as balls…lol)..He was a 40+ fellow who was a mech engineer, who learnt java to work in an IT industry, but had opened a furniture shop.. He bugged me to core & asked me to play old Hindi songs all time..I argued with him for everything I could,just to irritate him :)..He was drunk 24 hours & Puthri loved him cos Puthri got free cigarettes & we both got dinner treats from him 🙂 He even gave us a booze party while we were leaving.. Alas.. I don drink 😦 😦 Puthri & I could find new reasons everyday to escape from ITI.. He put proxies for me when I bunked.. I never went to ITI without him.. We went 1 hour late everyday & escaped in lunch break after signing up the attendance.. Roney (HR mgr) once caught us bunking & he gave a lecture for an hour.. After the lecture we escaped 🙂 He couldn’t control us, we used all the deficiencies in the system to escape each day 🙂 We sat in the PG & watched every other stupid movie we could.. Due to unsecured wifi we got free net in our PG, which made us download everything we wanted..Life was fun & I roamed all around Blore with frens 🙂

Finally it was final Year

7th sem was an important sem for the whole coll… It was time for placements.. Whoa, that didn’t excite me.. I wasn’t bothered about placements & MBA was my priority.. Mom had no problems & Dad didn’t feel it exciting 🙂 He thought it was good to have a back up.. I preferred on taking risk :)Taking risks made life awesome 🙂 It gave lotta tension & put pressure on me.. Sometimes pressure was horrible to bear but sometimes it kept me going 🙂 I guess if I was placed then I wouldn’t have taken preparations so seriously..

My dream came true.. Once I had a dream in 2nd year, in which Nikhil Bhat  was placed in MS & Shankar was waiting for his interview result of a good company.. I had shared that with both of them 🙂 Nikhil got a PPO from MS!!!! 🙂 Shankar got into Symbian later 🙂
All frens got placed in awesome companies 🙂 Oracle was 1st company on campus & it took  Jagat,Anup, Dutta, Vaibhav,Lala  &  our beloved Nitin  :)Jagat thought he wouldn’t be able to crack STG & was applying for App dvpt..He still doesn’t know his capabilities for sure..  Later Shaani made into Yahoo.. Charith smashed the dragon balls into Adobe..Varna, Vinny,SB, HD & Magga thru HP R&D ..Aditya, Natasha, Yohan & Ningi got thru HP App Dvpt..Srikanth had IBM PPO..Puthri got thru Exeter .. Arun after facing initial bumps got into IRunway…Yash into Bank Of America & TCS.. Rama into TCS.. Bala into Goldman..Mithun into JK Tyres..Anil made it into ACC.. Kadli into StrandLife..Deepan started his connection with Nokia then ( Now he is doing his intern from IIMA in Nokia.Connecting well I must say )..Surely the company loves him..Avinash into Aricent  & Premm & Nanda  into Samsung…Anoopie cracked CDOT & Biswas into ZS…Sukesh into IGATE & Piyush into CSC.. Nipun was into Philips..
Ofcourse I ain’t missing mentioning about MMM…Manish M Mulani.. He got placed in DeShaw.. By the way it was the 1st company he applied for & he cracked thru it 🙂 If by any chance ppl have forgotten about what he is, lemme bring it back..He was our batch state topper in 10th standard with 617/625.. !!! He was the one on whom all of us depended for our exam preparation.. He took about 8 hours to finish the whole sem portions & he was ready to sleep at 10 P.M on the previous night of exam!!!!!!!   Then we made him stay awake till 3 a.m cos we forced  him to explain what he had prepared for exams 🙂 Most of us passed Compilers, DAA, IS etc only cos there was Manish guiding us..  🙂 Atleast I passed cos of him.. I never saw MMM tensed at any point of time 🙂 Might be that was the secret of his success 🙂 He was versatile & tried every other language he could put his hand on( I am talking about coding & not speaking).. His hobbies were to participate in topcoder & create games like Minesweeper (which turned out to be better than original ).. He wasn’t a nerd, he didn’t mug up books, he didn’t waste time seeing what was in the portions.. He did well cos he loved his job 🙂 He made himself capable of doing what he loved the most,coding.. Remember Rancho of 3 idiots?? Manish worked hard cos he wanted to & thats y he was successful..

Manish feeling fresh

View from MB ground floor

Pratik scaring someone

I sat thru the written of many companies, I practiced cracking aptitudes for entrance exams by attending them.. Many a times I solved the paper, marked wrong answers & turned back 🙂 My intention was to crack  thru written & never thru companies.. 🙂

It was time for major project.. Soumya ma’am was done with 8 groups & we were late to approach her..Vani ma’am wasn’t sure of taking anyone then.. We weren’t sure about HOD & the only logical option which remained was Annappa sir 😦 We took it on.. I guess most of us were under Annappa sir.. I & Nikhil Bhat, Arun & Avi, Yash & Puthri, Varna & Vinny, Srikanth & Shaany, Nitin & Lala & Natasha & Sukhi..

Nikhil decided the topic, he knew what to do.. He sent me some material to read & he decided the platform 🙂 My job was to just make some documents ready for submission & make the ppt ready 🙂 Ofcourse I had to ask him  till where had he completed it & I made sure I got all the flowery part to explain & pushed the thorny part to him.. As he was the master in managing it 🙂 Annappa sir had decided that he would literally rape us everytime we met. We had to get the diary signed by him every week.. How sick!! We missed it almost each week 😀 Then loads of lectures & waiting.. The process repeated itself 🙂 Though the worst was yet to come..

I finished my MAT exam, which I took as a practice exam before CAT & did pretty well..IMS classes were now being held in Mangalore & Adarsh loved it.. It was in St.Agnes (gals’ coll ).. There were 2 good looking gals in IMS class.. Melinda & I forgot the other gal’s name 🙂 Adarsh was mad behind Melinda & Pai thought we should gift her to him (as if she was our property!!).. Frankly speaking Melinda was too good 🙂 Extremely good looking.. Other gal was also  very cute & Adarsh liked her too , cos he felt she was girly:) I remember a GD where it was Melinda & 4 of us.. She was driving the GD & none of us were actually speaking against her even though we didn’t agree with her point 🙂 We didn’t want to cut her conversation after all.. Finally I was the unlucky idiot who spoke against her 😦 There wasn’t a need though..Pai was cruising through all the SIMCATs with his highest being in DI everytime.. He was setting up new records each time 🙂 By the way he is in IIMC now.. 🙂

My performances in SIMCAT varied from 0 to hero & I didn’t know how to maintain good performances consistently 🙂 Nikhil Bhat, Arun & Ningi started taking SIMCATs & made competition harder.. 😦 😦

Academics had come to an halt with placement preparations or placement parties being the priority to us..

ITA was taken by K.C & we didn’t really care much.. Half of the class he wasted in boasting about himself, half of the remaining in screwing students & trying to look angry.. Rest in teaching or taking attendance.. He thought he told the best one liners.. Once he threw out everyone who didn’t bring the course structure.. I was in the class with 5 other unlucky ppl.. 😦 I should have walked out like many others did..  He loved fantastic 4, especially after Srikanth & Shaany bunked some initial classes 😉 K.C wanted to access hostel LAN to get Kuchelan movie.. Lol.. Good that he didn’t.. Bala was quick to reply that he would copy it in a DVD for him..There was a long mail thread running with different opinions when I had called for a mass bunk of his viva cos it was on Diwali evening( Viva never happened).. We were losers, 4 years & no mass bunk..  :X Fumes.. Fumes.. Hehe.. Lack of unity I must say.. I vote for PESIT in this case over NITK.. 🙂

Artificial Intelligence was taken by HOD & now I used to put proxy for min 6 ppl per class 🙂 I was getting better in these things 🙂 By now I had stopped caring abt our dept rules & regulations.. HOD’s surprise tests were pathetic, as none knew nething, he told he would give 1 mark of 5 for just attending.. Lol.. Even Anirudh started giving blank papers 🙂 I & Nikhil had become masters by then in copying in HOD’s subject.. We copied in all surprise tests 😀 In his final test HOD requested us to not reveal it outside that he was allowing us to copy in surprise tests.. After that he left the room with papers in our hand 🙂 Sweetest deed ever huh?? 🙂 Rakesh taught me how to do well in exams, he asked me to write “Machine beats Man” after every answer, it was the favorite line of our HOD while teaching AI 🙂 Guess it worked for me..

Air & Noise Pollution was my civil engineering elective 🙂 I took it so that I didn’t have to study for my exams.. I never did.. Earlier it was taught by Varghese sir, he made even this subject interesting & then he left the coll .Someone else took it up later.. He never taught us anything about Air & Noise.. He taught us Water pollution for the whole sem !!!! Once Thufi asked him that why was he teaching water pollution, when the requirement of the subject was air & water pollution.. Sir was blank, he told he had done his PHD in water pollution so he is teaching it.. ROFL.. This was the most interesting answer ever heard I must say 🙂

Civil Engineering Systems was also another Civil elective I took for similar reason 🙂 I attended one class of some 20 classes he took & I studied for finals for 3 hrs i guess.. Subject was done with a decent grade & I was happy..

I was busy in solving as many CAT papers as possible.. Solving online papers on studyplaces & catindiaonline helped.. Studyplaces had started that year & it was free then..Awesome site 🙂 I guess I was happy with decent preparation & CAT was scheduled on Nov 16th, which fell in the holidays of 7th sem. I was excited & tensed to core!!

NITK- Chapter 6

5th Semester was my best in terms of grades & I had the max variation in my scoring levels in class by now. 2nd sem being my lowest to a 5 point+ & 5th being my highest till then with an 8 Point+… 6th semester was expected to be happening with Incident & Internship offers coming.

Compiler Design was taken by Santhi ma’am.. Subject was interesting but her pace irritated a bit.. Shankar hated ma’am to core & he always had to say this

Kitna ganda sa smile karti, lagta hai use pakad ke maaro

It was apparent that he didn’t like all female lecturers, only the selected ones were the privileged 😀 We didn’t even bother to write a single code in Compiler lab.. Now we meant 95% of the class.. We were expected to learn Lex, etc.. Instead we brought codes from seniors & submitted it.. We weren’t in the condition to even explain it.. 😛 Compiler Labs provided so much free time that it  helped us to master in all the games & set new records..

Software Engineering was taken by BRC sir..For all those who thought it was a shitty subject, guys U need this knowledge when U become a project manager.. after 5 years in IT, U wld be doing only this..It was more important than Compilers..We only used to have debates in this subject. Each class had 2 debates on a given topic.. I guess groups got quite some time to prepare.. It was according to roll no.s & as expected my partner was Nikhil Bhat 🙂 By then we had already signed the deal that Arun would do a minor project & I would do the major project with Nikhil Bhat in final year.. Nikhil was the most qualified & capable to do any work amongst 3 of us.

SE lab was awful with about 30 pages of documentation required. All the SDLC phases had to be reported to Rahul Godbole (a senior in Mtech batch). He looked like terror cos he was capable of finding mistakes in our project  however good it be.He crashed our project with his destructive testing methods every time.. His strict correction & valuable feedback came handy cos our project improved with time & final presentation to him, hardly had any problems…He supported us when required & helped us..Our final presentation was seen by Pias & he din even bother to see our project..He asked about HTML standards we used & threw us out.. That was pathetic I must say..

Distributed System was the continuation of OS in the worst possible form.. Annappa sir now didn’t allow late comers.. Students had to answer a Q based on his previous class to get attendance.. I remember how Nikhil, Fantastic 4, Arun, Puthri, MMM were all caught & they had to answer the Q.. Shaani, baddi maga was the only one who escaped thru it..

DAA was taken by Vani ma’am.. I was never qualified to understand such subjects.. Its always hard for an Arts student to get into Engineering & understand it..I felt it would have been better if I took Arts.. I have high regards for Vani ma’am cos of her support to  MMM & Yohan in their Major project !! She never ever scolded them & also stood by them against externals at times..

The show stopper of the sem was Indrani ma’am.. She taught MTP.. Her classes were brilliant 🙂 We sang, we slept, we threw rockets @ her, we blamed all that on Shravan.. Whoever got caught told his name as Shravan 😉 Shravan was always absent & we escaped using his name:) Ma’am had a class at 11 & everytime we celebrated birthdays in her class.. Once she was angry  & asked that  Y do we always celebrate birthdays in her class.. Vaibhav was spontaneous to tell that we all were born b/w 11 to to 12.. Lol.. I am sure she never understood it 😀 N ofcourse, Shankar was the only one who asked doubts..

IMS classes got interesting & the population got thinner.. Adarsh & I used to discuss about preparations, shortcuts, strategies  while walking back home everyday..We thought in opposite directions so it was helpful to get into thinking with  other perspective.. I learnt a lot from him, different perspectives, different books to read & I loved his passion towards the goal.. He was a dreamer & thought what would he do when he became the CEO of some big company..I was a looser, I used to think what should I do to score well in CAT,FMS,JMET, SNAP etc.. He always believed in long term plans & he had clear path & direction..But, He was very moody & I hated his speed of drinking coffee or tea, OMG he wasted 15 mins in drinking a glass of tea in the top floor canteen..He loved home so much that he never came to coll :DHe bunked all the classes,attended all the fests & came to hostel in the evenings & made it special for friends..He lived each moment of his for frens 🙂 He was a true fren 🙂 Always there for anything U ask for..

Coll Fountain

Adarsh in Adlabs

Entrance of the college

Incident was awesome with KK performing in it.. That was the best live show I ever attended..It was beautiful & throat was paining after we shouted for hours..Eastern musicals was at its best & NITK won it as it did every year..Fashion show was awesome for obvious reasons 🙂 Gals were looking hot..:P I had few visitors for this Incident 🙂 Rashmi had turned up for this Incident 🙂 🙂 & I was very happy to see her after a long time..She stayed for 2 days & time ran thru those 2 days..Most memorable 2 days 🙂 I wished Soniya had come too..Vinay had promised to come, but he din turn up.. Baba had come..Mithun’s mom too had turned up.. Mithun was my classmate for a week when I was in Mech..He was a frequent visitor to my place..He loved home food & mom made coffee..He spoke more than I did @ my home & made me feel like an outsider..He always told me that he would only marry the gal & I was allowed to take her away right from Mantap 🙂 He wanted to help me by finding a gal for me.. 😀 He never understood that I was faster 🙂

Whole day I loafed around & at nights we played loud music in hostel.. I slept in Nikhil’s room & Nitin had to sleep elsewhere 🙂 Poor fellow Nitin.. I & Nikhil used to chat till the sun rose & we slept thru the day.. Almost every Inci night we both used to chat & discuss every interesting & not so interesting things we did in life.. Inci nights were memorable & it seems like I remember everything of it 🙂

Yash,Yondy, Nikhil & I were the partners in Software Engineering Project..3 of us made only documents & we made Nikhil code for the whole project 😉 He did it all alone. He was getting ready to code all alone for the major project 🙂

MMM provided me all the codes for Networks lab 🙂 It was like, I survived thru my engineering only on his,Jagat’s & Nikhil’s codes..I & Natasha had  actually run the codes  & typed the whole thing  again to make sure we knew the algorithm, & we didn’t make any major mistakes.. Colgate took our Viva & he knew shit about Networks.. For Compiler lab I had enough data on LAN & on my PC to get the output.. But getting 2nd stage output was unrealistic, so I never copied that code.. 🙂 Though I tried to write the code with some shortcut method which Arun had shown b4 exam..Got some decent result out of it 🙂 Nanda had completed his 1st stage output & was caught playing games during lab exam.. Hahaha.. I dono Y Nanda tried to play games in his last lab exam of his life 😀 I know we were addicted to computer games big time..

This sem Nikhil Bhat got internship offers from IBM & ISI,Kolkata but he joined Microsoft to complete his internship & came out with a PPO in MS 🙂 He was amazingly talented.. I dono why din I ever learn anything from the closest fren I had.. Nikhil Bhat was a child prodigy 🙂 Shaani, Srikanth, Charith, Varna, Vinny, MMM , Jagatall got good Interns 🙂 I & Puthri(Pratik Puthran) spent a month in ITI..

6th sem was filled with those moments which anyone would love to remember throughout their life 🙂 I definitely would ..Though many of those talks can’t be shared & many feelings can’t be expressed in this post.. I rate 6th sem as the 2nd best sem of the 8.. This was when I felt I should never leave NITK  🙂

NITK- Chapter 5

4th sem holidays were awesome 🙂 Had been home for a month, then Bangalore, where I met up with frens.. Met Milan in between.. He too had come home… KMC had made him cooler.. Now he had actually started speaking about & with gals, but a lotta improvement was needed 🙂

5th semester started with class confusion, our favourite Ground Floor class was given to juniors & we were sent to 2nd floor. 😦 We tried to have our classes in GF whenever we could.. Ground Floor class was so much fun & it felt like home..

The Parade also started.. We had to walk to the dept to attend 2 hours of OS class & then back to Main Building(MB).. OS class was like a slide reading session..It was boring to come back to MB, many students never turned back after the OS class..They left to hostel directly.. Sometimes, it was irritating when it rained heavily & we had to go back to MB in that rain to attend the next class.. Might be 2/3 ppl in an umbrella( ofcourse every1 of us got wet).. Whenever the power went off, Annappa sir used to teach the same slide which was on then, until the power came or he found some1 in the class to screw up & waste time ..
DBMS classes were earlier taken by Santhi ma’am ( Yes, the spelling is correct). She was torturous, she spoke continuously & non stop.. Nothing went into my head.. Then it was Soumya Kamath ma’am.. She was  awesome 🙂 She went through the required topics with a reasonable pace & she made sure we understood the concepts.. Even labs were handled by her & ofcourse we never worked 🙂 MMM had found out a new game for us in the lab.. “Gold Miner”.. We all went crazy about the game & we actually played it for 1 full year!!! In between there were always Chicken Invaders & Eggs.. FYI I completed 92 levels in Gold Miner & I still have the proof for it 🙂
Systems Programming was a comedy class… D’Souza ma’am wrote on the board each word she knew & never explained anything of what she wrote.. We had to copy whatever she wrote on the board , or photocopy the notes of the one who copied it & reproduce the same in the exam.. I guess this was the worst subject we had in 4 years.. In end sem exam, she literally asked us to write all she taught us.. In a question she gave 12 (3 digit) numbers to be sorted, by 6 algos & each intermediate step had to be written.. It was a 4 marks question!!! MMM had taken 2 extra booklets (OMG.. He sucked, & so did Charith )
Computer Networks was an awesome subject.. The reference book was awesome & more over subject was taken  by Soumya ma’am..:) So we had no pressure 🙂 Just listen to the class & put it back in the paper was the method in case of theory.. In case of problems it was hard at times, but with little effort it could have been cracked.. Ma’am stopped taking attendance, classes got thiner with each passing day:) Her announced test was a copy paste.. Whole class had same answer & Ma’am voluntarily asked that whose one paper she had to correct. That would have saved a lot of effort to her;) Poor ma’am ahd to correct all papers..I had copied well. Got 10 on 10 like another 50 ppl who got it 😉 We pleaded ma’am to bunk/cancel classes.. She did it few times. She was really sweet & understood that we were lazy asses 😀
It was K.B.Kiran Sir for Engineering Economics.. I loved the subject, I loved all management subjects.. They didn’t ask me to write a code or construct an algorithm 🙂 Life was much simpler there.. I knew sir personally from 1st year  & my 1.2 Trillion USD answer had put a not so true image of a good student in his mind.. He promised me to give 2 extra marks in internals(he never did :()..So in most of his classes I had shut my mouth & maintain my not so true image.. It was hard.. He had excess love towards Ajey (called hippi by Sir) & Biswas.. He always wanted to screw Biswas, but Biswas was too good for him.. His surprise test on the last day was so interesting.. Most of the class knew shit in it & all pages were empty.. Yet he made sure he gave some good random marks to everyone around.. He gave us an assignment with the answers & expected us to copy it in a sheet & submit it to him.. He somehow wanted to give us marks 😀 He was awesome 🙂 we faced no problem in his class & he gave awesome grades:) Guys in ECE were jealous 😛 Kiran sir was a great help when I & Nikhil Bhat needed reco for the MBA applications later in 8th sem.. He actually spent more than an hour with us discussing what to write & helped us in the best way he could..

Arun Kumar(AK). He called himself as Kichcha

Nikhil Bhat sleeping in class

Yashwanth fresh from sleep

None of the subjects were creating pressure this sem, all were cool.. I had to choose between (low fees + scholarship) TIME or (high fees + newly starting @ NITK) IMS for CAT coaching.. I took opinions from my frens joining coaching institutes.. All those who were joining TIME, joined cos of brand or low fees @ NITK.. Got a good feedback about regular & structured approach @ IMS.. I chose IMS over TIME & i never regretted it.. There were no gals there, which made it not so happening 😛 but it had awesome lecturers & was a great place to learn. Small batch made it easier for interaction..

After a long break I started going back to the temple near the light house.. Started going more often to beach with frens.. Was becoming regular drinker of sugar cane juice on the way to beach.. Natasha was always there to treat me with Hot Chocolate near Gals’ Block 🙂 But it was Yohan & Piyush who emptied my pockets.. Loafers, they never improved.. Chocolate cones were awesome at Reddy’s.. Sev Puri & Bhel @ Sadanand were yum  🙂

Nikhil, Arun & I continued our fights about who would carry the photocopies back to room.. Nikhil Bhat once left the books on a footpath after getting pissed with us.. Lol.. He was always high on temper.. But then I & Arun got pissed cos he kept books on footpath.. Nikhil Bhat developed a sadistic pleasure in getting all treats from me & saving all his money :X  He never treated me for nething, he was amazingly stingy 😛 He never ever gave a Bday treat in his life..
Arun,Yash & I got immense pleasure in irritating Nikhil & his roommate Nitin.. Nitin was an electrical student & he couldn’t even change a tube light:D 😀 He was lazier than Nikhil Bhat ( I swear..I am not lying!!).. I always saw him doing socio-political service and coming back to room in the morning at 5 a.m. He never did any work in dept.. He listened to all the shit his classmates told him about others & still never slapped them (He was the CR of trical dept)… Nitin was a very sweet speaking & diplomatic guy, which helped him attracting more than the required no. of gals, turning to confusion (remember Garam Masala ??).
Arun & Nitin used to argue every single day on issues from charger, soap, bucket to college Dean. Arun (AK: had 2 names in it,Arun Kumar & ….shhh) had his own secrets.. He is a silent & reserved chap.. Earlier I & Nikhil felt little hard to understand when Arun was joking & when was he serious.. Later I managed to understand, Nikhil is still trying.. 🙂 Arun was one of the sweetest fellows.. He was down to earth & easy to mingle with.. He had a good sense of humour  & his Kannada one liners were mind blowing.. We used to sit & create MTV Roadies episodes keeping our lecturers in the show..We almost created a whole season.. Arun & I both had one GOD in cricket: Sachin.. We used to argue for hours with Nikhil Bhat : who liked Lara over Sachin(He hated Sachin cos every1 liked Sachin ,he wanted to be different!! Retarded explanation I must say).. N when it came to movies, I & Nikhil Bhat liked Aamir but Arun liked SRK.. In this case I & Nikhil argued against Arun for as long as we could. Arun would never give up on his stands, whatsoever it be. I was always a winner cos I always had a support in both the cases & majority won(votes only amongst 3 of us)..

I spent most of my time on phone or in Arun/Yash’s room.. Nikhil, Arun & I used to sit & chat all time.. Yash played Dota or watched Southpark when free from Dota.. Yash always had good future plans..He asked me to study well, atleast for my children (my children would love their Yash uncle :D).. He suggested awesome movies to watch &  we ended up arguing on AVAST & VISTA (I loved them both cos I used them :D)..Yash was a very good batsman, but he played only once in a year (Super 6)..He loved friends, he was good at arguing & not giving up his stands just like his roommate Arun..But Yash preferred not to get into one 🙂 Yash had a good knack of speaking to people (Thanks to his dad).. He  loved home food a lot, he skipped meals in hostel, cos he hated it..He was even too lazy to walk to the mess..

Days passed to months & months into a semester in such short time..I had completed 5/8th of my engineering chatting with frens.I didn’t even gain a bit size knowledge,where as lecturers expected us to know in GBs(It is gigabyte & not gals’ block).

NITK- Chapter 4

I wasted my 3rd sem holidays in ADCOMS. I had joined ADCOMS only for a good grade, but it didn’t work. I lost interest in food  @ ADCOMS  after 2 days & stopped going.  Nikhil, Arun & Rakesh were regular & were the only one who heard K.C’s speech. Those seminars they attended made them get scared of K.C.Shet, he actually slept all through the presentations done by PHD students & questioned them for an hour minimum only based on the conclusion he observed.

After a short break, the 4th sem began. This time we had very interesting subjects. I guess this was the most interesting sem till then. PDC was mind blowing & Forouzan made it very interesting. Classes by HOD were boring as ever but this time we had started giving proxy to min 3 per class by each person present, so we were doing some good for the other folks. Reading Forouzan was so interesting that I never felt like closing the book.  Madhavi ma’am was the main attraction in OT class..Ppl attended the class just to see her, later they got bored of her strict lectures.  Bala loved even her 🙂 Shankar’s doubts were highly oriented towards female lecturers & he had no doubts in the class of male lecturers… Asha ma’am was highly impressed by Shankar & his doubts…  But MMM was ahead of  the whole college by scoring 98 / 100 including mid sem, end sem & all tests in NM… MMM went mad with such subjects.. Microprocessor was taken by Bharati & her aldraam was always on ( spelled as alarm).. She screwed the subject big time & we hated her more now.. But Hebbar sir, gave good add ons.. Aparna ma’am continued her good work thru TOC but the lecturer who got the closest to us came in to the frame then.. Soumya ma’am had come up with her 1st subject for us.. Computer Graphics… She had a straight & simple style of teaching.. Anytime approachable for any problem.. She was the mentor for our class & cos of that she had to keep an eye on us.. However close she was to anyone in the class, she was never partial in evaluations… She loved our class & always gave us chocolates & sweets.. It was more than a class  to lecturer relation with her.. Aparna Ma’am & Soumya Ma’am were the only 2 lecturers who became so close with the batch..

An incident to remember in Bharati’s class when she told, whoever accepted that they were talking in the class would get chocolates. Yohan & Ankit were greedy to get them & stood up & then she told them, meet  HOD for talking in class 😀 Favourite pastime for me & Srikanth was to gossip in class about everyone around. It was basically a knowledge sharing session everyday in class 😉 Later irritating Nikhil Bhat was the next favourite job.. He used to get pissed off pretty early then… MMM was getting famous for his PJs.. Adarsh used to go home on every thursday night & returned on tuesday mornings.. He took a day off on tuesday so that he gets fresh.. He used to book ticket on wednesday &  was busy packing on thursday.. He didn’t find enough time to attend classes.. Yash’s interest in Dota & sleep was increasing.. Arun was concentrating more on books.. He was still determined & I clearly saw his hunger for grades.. Jagat had lost interest in classes completely , Premm had seen all the movies(u know what movies) available in the whole college..Kadli was building new algos.. SB was busy changing places in class.. Bharath & Ankur were competing with me ( I arrived min 10 mins before the class & always won )..Shaani & Vinay were busy playing crosswords & Varna asking doubts.. This was a typical day for us..

In February we had been to Pilikula & it was awesome fun.. We had to teach school children the usage of  Internet & Computers.. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed it.. Natasha got a portrait made , by some famous painter there.. A day there flew away:) By the time we got back to coll , communal riots had started..Then it was time for another Incident, but Indian Oceans made it boring on the most important day.. I realized then , that it was never the programmes, it was the friends who made the Incidents wonderful.. I swore that I would never miss the Incident for the coming 2 years.. I met with an accident after my birthday again & was hospitalized.. This time I took it very lightly & managed up very well.. Din allow it to affect my academics.. On the day I completely recovered, there was a send off party for seniors.. Attended it & it was awesome fun.. I have some memorable pics of that day (Nikhil Bhat having samosa, with the photoshop work  on it by varna & me, it looked much better).. Then it was the usual exams, labs etc.

Send Off for seniors

Behind the temple

Pilikula

We had TOC as our last exam. Ankur left the exam hall at 4 cos he had booked tickets for the movie starting at 5. He was crazy. He was always like this 🙂 He enjoyed what he did & none would change him. He slept everyday at 10 or 11.. Never bothered how much more to study for the next day’s exam, but he did very well in class..  After exam I, Shankar & Nikhil Bhat left to watch Spiderman, didn’t get tickets so had to go for Bheja Fry. What happened then in Pizza Hut was hilarious.. Unexpectedly a fren of ours bumped in (name won’t be revealed) & we didn’t want the fren to join us nor we could avoid. All 3 of us picked up our glass of water & started drinking.. Finally I had to strike the conversation & was proud of facing the situation & picked up my glass again.. Shankar did the same but Nikhil had decided that he wouldn’t open his mouth.. He drank all the water.. If he was provided the bucket I am sure he would have finished it too..

I was stuck up in the movie between Nikhil & Shankar.. Shankar was sad & in the condition of almost breaking down after an SMS he received..Nikhil was enjoying the movie & laughing his throat out.. I was confused how to react, might be I didn’t enjoy the movie much cos I was busy thinking how should I react.. Shankar was sad & movie was hilarious.. Soon Shankar was all good, he got the good news 🙂 This semester was awesome & I bonded really well with Nikhil & Shankar in this sem..