The camp-fire (continued)

The three of us (Sreenath, Zaroof and i) stepped outside to find Rinsa and Prajeesh leaning against a wall, bearly able to stand (for obvious reasons), which was facing us. I gathered the courage to ask them where they were( as u must know i did not have any experience in handling people of my age group who were hammered prior to this day). Rinsa replied with a very toothy grin,"Namal sight-seeing cheyayirunnu ...just for horror." We (i.e is Zaroof and I, as Sreenath actrualy beleived them...remember who was no better in the sloshing part) let it pass and we prodded them along to the sight where the camp-fire was held and were looking at it with dismay
Zaroof: What a waste it was..nobody really enjoyed..
I: True..and those two had to fight to ruin the whole thing...what were they thinking ..
Zaroof: Ya..and that too the stupidest reason..chey
Sreenath: I love Vikram..
Zaroof and I: ehh..(it took us sometime to get used to this state they were in)
Sreenath:..I mean..they way he walked in Anniyan..what glamour he has
Prajeesh: athu sheriya..van glamour
Sreenath: I wanna walk like him avi...i really do..wait a sec..(he takes a few steps away from us and looks towards us)...Rinsa...when i say 'ok' just say , "Lights...Camera...action."..u know the way they do in the movies..
Rinsa: Okay da..i'll do anything..anything..allada avinyashe...(I was starting to get very uncomfortable with their sudden outburst of affection...but i nodded along)
Sreentah says ok and rinsa being the obedient dude that he is said: Start...Action..Cut..
Sreenath was dumbfounded(yes..u read it right...the drunk duffer was dumbfounded)..and was stopped in his tracks..it was hilarious to watch these guys grapple with reality at the same enjoying every minute of it.

The conductor and bus driver came to us and expressed their disappointments over the legit camp-fire.They kept saying," u guys are useless...so boring" and " we have gone for so many tours..always the camp-fire was the best part of it..the fire used to be thhhissss big(gesturing with their hands to show us the size of the flame)". From this it was apparent that they too had the 'ol 'grandpas cough syrup'...but i suppose it was that kind day. They retreated to the bus and apparently to call it a day. Meanwhile the three stooges were inspecting the fire and were jumping over it like a vikram or anyother hero would in their movies...shouting "FIRE,FIRE!!"( to put things into perspective there was no flame at all..and they were jumping over was the burnt remains of the wood which had some orange tinge which occurs at the end of the combustion process). Zaroof and I had nothing to do but stand and laugh at this..but we realized what fun they were having and decided to join in...so now u had 5 drunk blokes(actually three and half...coz zaroof was standing infront of sreenath who was breathing heavily onto him..but whose counting) jumping over burnt wood shouting "Fire, Fire!" and each rescuing the other from the catastrophy that is the fire. We sang and danced and basically had a blast. In between we even tried breaking into the bus to join the bus drivers who were watching..well..to put it simply...biologically informative movies.

This was the trend till about 2 o'clock..after which we decided to sit near our rooms and gossip the night away...we even thought of knocking onto the girls doors and flirt with them..but then that would have taken things too far...or would it have??

The camp-fire

All who are near and dear know what this post is all about..but since they are only a handful i thought i should share with u one of my most enjoyable experiences in college. Do bear with me if this doesn't sound funny..coz it really was and i suppose it is one of those things where u just had to be there to enjoy.

This incident, as u would have already figured out, was during our tour...S3 tour to be precise.Personally, i am not a huge fan of camp-fires...coz frankly i just don't see any excitement in jumping up and down infront of a fire and making a fool of urself...especially when girls are around and normally i am quite reserved and prefer seeing the Tamasha unfold infront of me. This occasion was no different as i stood back and saw some of my friends desperately gyrating to some popular tamil song. Then there was a small altercation between a couple of my friends(over the choice of music..above all else)..and the camp fire(well atleast the legit one) ended with the whimper. Everyone retreated to their rooms and went to bed..and so did I.

I was lying in bed when my friends Sreenath and Zaroof joined and were laying down next to me. Sreenath was, at this point quite, severly sloshed. He came to me during the 'legit' camp fire and told me with a dead-pan face,"Hey avi...I see three of u". Zaroof , not one to be left out enquired,"and what about me"...to which he replied," Oh i see three of u too". So now we were all lying in bed when the door knocked and entered George Sir(by far the coolest dude in the dept and also our staff advisor...reminds me of Prof. Veera in 5 point some1). As it was dark we had no clue who it was...and he asked us," Did u guys see where Rinsa and Prajeesh is?". (Rinson or 'rinsa' and Prajeesh were another couple of cartoons in our batch...both were quite severly sloshed too the last time i saw them that night). As i knew that i would be in trouble if i did know where they were...prudence came over me and i kept quite. Sreenath on the other hand in his drunken bliss blurted ,"avar evidingilum velladicha kedukuayirikum"(loosely translated as 'they must be drunk and lying down some where'). George sir said,"What?"...which was met with no reply. He realized that there was no point asking us...wished us goodnight and went upstairs. Zaroof and i started admonishing Sreenath for his loose tongue and then were just lying down trying to catch some sleep.

It was then that i flicked on the light on my watch to check the time and found out that it was just 10:30. I exclaimed," What the &*%$ it's just 10:30...we are supposed to be on tour..both of u get up". They duly obliged and we then walked outside to begin what was known later as THE camp-fire...
****To Be Continued****

The Band of 'Whatevers'

It irritates me no end when i find out that my creation(this low life post that is) is presented to the world on the very same day that i loathe...Valentine's Day. Why do loathe this day? Quite simply for the fact that it keeps reminding me, what a no-good sucker i have turned out to be. But the only bright spot in all this is the fact that i am not alone...wooohoooo. Infact the number of no-good suckers are growing so thick and fast that we have decided to form a community...and that is called the F.LU.M.E.C.H. For the brainiac types flumech is short for fluid mechanics...but for us it stands for.. Foulmouthed-Loveless-Underachievers-Maintaining-Every-Cheetha( bad)-Habit. Yes that's it...lo and behold. We have a very strict selection criterion...which mainly is the following:

1. U cannot have a lovelife..infact people in the group are not supposed to be blessed with good looks..so that sought of solves it.
2. U have to know and repeatedly use the common bad words of the following languages- Hindi, English, Malayalam and Tamil( Other languages will be included if the group expands)
3. U cannot and i repeat cannot have good grades..no sir. Such people are sadly looked down upon
4. And last but not the least u must have some bad habit to call ur own..yes that's right ..smokin, dopin, drinkin...anything u r not very proud of but have it all the same
   

So do u have it in u to join...if so then...well..really nothing much...ur just it..be happy or sad that u r and move on in life. U may think that i have nothing better to do in my life than make stupid groups where only i and a handful of other can be a part of...coming to think of it..ur right.

Things I just don't get

Every once in a while there comes a time when things work in mysterious ways in my world....infact in all our lives. It is at times like these that no matter how smart we are we just don't get it. I personally love such moments because u can get to be dumb and not act it and hence save urself from taking the responsibilty of such things when they go wrong (coz normally things do go wrong). I am not a fan of being spoken to as a 4 year old but if that is what it takes then so be it.
To be very honest with u..this sought of happens quite often with me nowadays...worrying signs. I can't explain it...but when it happens u really can't do anything about it. To throw more light on this issue...i have taken the trouble to assemble a set of examples:
I just don't get..

1. When people visiting home ask u to take ur dog away before they have even seen her
   
2. When Paddy (refer last post to know who he is) cracks a joke
3. Why people insist on saying to the parents " this baby looks a lot like u" ( surely cannot be the scandal can it).
4. When people say "What are u doing here"..when u r in a temple or a library or a movie theatre
5. When i learn Structural Analysis or for that matter any other subject that Jain(refer last post to know who he is) has graced
6. When Zaroof(my intellectually challenged friend) beams over the fact that a girl slapped him across his face
7. Why the commies shout capitialism in bengal and communism here(i know it sounds too political...but well...i just don't get it)
8. Why girls expect an explaination for everything from u whether it concerns them or not
9. Why a billion people give a damn whether Shilpa Shetty is reminded about her Indian (if i am allowed to say that) roots.
10. How the hell Himesh Reshammiya sells albums

The list actually is much longer than that..but by now i hope 'u get it'.

Arrested Development

"..and that is why we have a detailed estimate, so as to obtain a technical sanction", Paddy (name changed for anonymity) concludes with an broad smile and slight snigger....such is the drab that i have to encounter on a day-to-day basis. Paddy for those who are not in the know is my Survey lecturer and he has this unfortunate misconception that he has an extremely good sense of humor...trust me it's the pits. It's so bad that it makes u stop playing the game u have on ur mobile and cry. To be honest he is not the worst that we have..no sir not by a long shot.
There is Jain(name changed for anonymity) who teaches us structural analysis (and has been doing so since i joined the college) who in my opinion can make even the most attentive student go bananas with his method of teaching. From what i have observed( i must confess i haven't obseverd much...all thanks to 'master blaster' on Sanal's cell or snake on Jinu's cell) his style is quite unique...which really has to be seen to be believed..he has this uncanny knack of staring at the cieling after a point he has made as though he forgot something (it invariably looks like he got stuck in a momentary trance) and then ofcourse his mobile which has the nokia 'rocket' ringtone which plays out invariably everytime he takes a class. We once put the ringtone on our own mobiles and called each other...the result...well let's just say we now know what the term 'self' frisking really is.
No post about the civil dept. lecturers can be complete without a mention of Rakri( name cannot be changed to any other). Rakri is not a very conventional teacher...in fact he is not a very conventional human being.I could go on for sometime about him...but i think it is best that u look at the following conversation and the decide...
Rakri: " Why did u draw the bathroom on the left side"
Confused and tad nervous student: "Sir, i had no other option...u said i have to draw the entire floor within this lenght...and i had onl.."
Rakri: "Enuff...i don't want hear anything more from ur mouth...go back a draw it in the right side...got it...right side"
CaTN student:" But sir...that will take me a lot of time...sir please understand.."
Rakri:"Enuff i tell u...i had enuff..u must take this very seriously..Do u know why the bathroom has to be on the right side..do u ...tell me".
CaTN student doesn't and nods his head
Rakri:" The bathroom has to made on the right in this case because if we apply the laws of vasthu in ur diagram my bathroom will be away from my neighbours house not towards...Now u tell me how am i going to impress people with my singning if the room is so far away...."
CaTN student nods his head and takes the paper and leaves....Haven't seen that student since.