Tuesday, June 3, 2014

just a scrambled egg..

     Wow. . its really been a long time! I think it's been around two years since my last post! Well truth to be told, I really don't have any business being here on blogger, as I have only managed to attract two followers! Both of them my friends, so I really don't know whether they liked my only post or just followed me out of pity! Anyway thank you guys for the support, much appreciated!
       So I remember why I started this blog, to write about the fun I was going to have in college life. A lot of things happened in this last two years. Good things and bad things. I really want to pen it down, but I seem to have lost my writing skills, as engineers don't need it! so don't get all judgmental about the post, remember, I have just started crawling!
      And I mean, I have heard about guys making up stuff and writing essays when it comes to exams, but it doesn't really work! No!
      I see students yell at top of their lungs about the pile of supplements they filled, proud of their work, like they've written some sort of Mahabharata or Ramayana! I used to be scared of these kind of people. Who wouldn't?! You tried your best to fill the pages, you double  space,  or  triple  space  even!  because  you  want  to  fill  at least  one  page  to  get  four  marks! And some nerd comes along, "Arey 2 supplement liya phir bhi ek answer nahi likh paaya. Pch. Time hi nahi mila." Sometimes they even add "pata nahi pass bhi ho raha ya nahi!" I mean, God! I sat there, staring at the ceiling, for an hour, wondering about what would happen if I marry Emma Watson, and how our children will look like, just because the grumpy supervisor said I can't leave till the bell rings!
     But with experience, I learned that half of the loudmouths are just showing off! I have seen many of the confident young men and women, in a Queue for the Reval forms, with the look of not knowing what went wrong, and why God has been unfair to them! (No offense to the Reval form fillers, but you and I both know that it's useless, and you just want your parents to believe that you tried!)
     So the only thing I have learned over the years is to be careless! Not to worry about the consequences, Hakuna matata all the way! It has got me in some pretty tough spots, but again, what hasn't?!
     I have to admit, engineering is a lot of work, hectic and tiresome. but the people you meet during this time, and the time you spend with them is worth it! Because whoever chooses to be an engineer is never sound minded! You'll find some psychos, pagals, crazy, unbalanced nutjobs in every corner for sure! And it's great to be insane With equally insane friends, because being sane is just boring!

Monday, September 17, 2012

The starting of MY lyf.

''Shit man! you sing worse than the beggers traveling in the trains!!''
''I think you should hear yourself sometimes, NO NO, just when you're singing!''

Yeah, my friends gave me the best advice I can get, but it would have been better with less amount of sarcasm and humor. Come on, who wants a room full of  'friends'  to laugh at you while mocking your 'heavenly voice'?!

But it will be different when we'll go our separate ways.. No, it's not like we have completed our graduation, or we are getting jobs somewhere (which is highly unlikely, given our grades!), we are on the verge of completing our F.E.
 Yeah, that's right, first year engineering!
in Pune university.

I arrived at the hostel a day before the date, just to observe the hostel, and if possible, meet my roomies.
 The hostel was good, and well furnished too. Some minor work was remaining, but it was nice overall.
The rector, a typical marathi manoos, sent me on the fourth floor. "Choose any room you want. You're first on this floor." 
He thought that I would be happy about it.
 NO!! I didn't want to spend my first night on a deserted floor with just a CFL tube and a fan! Not like I'm      afraid of the dark or something, but then I decided to look for a new room.

 I still remember the moment...
 On the first floor, corner room.
The door was open...
"Hey, is this bed occupied?"
Awkward silence, two pair of eyes staring at me...
"No, it's just two of us"  The guy on the bed near the window.
"Can I  move in here? I'm on fourth floor and no one's there yet."
...
...
"yeah, um, no problem."  The second guy, near the door. The first one nodded.
As I turned towards the lift to go and collect my bags, the second guy offered help.
"hey, I'm Avais." he said, helping me with the luggage.
"Leon." The first guy from the room, shook my hand.
"Shridhar." I replied, and the formality was complete.

And I swear, from that day till this, I have enjoyed nearly every moment of my college life. We made new friends, formed  a cool small group. Awesome people like Ankur, Nikhilesh, Ayush, Raj. Every one of 'em having a story about them, a character, and sometimes I ask myself, like, how in the hell did I get here, with these guys, Cuz I was different..
                                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                 (to be continued.... )