So far...this holiday

It has been so long I posted in this web diary of mine. The main problem is the obvious one which keeps saying me, “don’t put computer for more than a hour, virus will come.” Beyond that only I’m sitting in my computer and making my posts and chatting with friends online, possible. So I would like to post the happenings in a gist with the brief description so far.

My exams ended on 8^th may and the same day I started to veerabandi(theni) with my friends to witness the thiruvizha which we have been waiting for so long. The complete shift of the place from the looks which we witnessed last time made us realize the zeal of the festival. We had loads of fun there roaming in the thiruvizha in the night time watching the bike and car show and eating all possible stuff around. The next day we went to arun’s thoppu to have nungu. We ate so much that we got our bellies filled. From there we went to bath in running water which wasn’t so good this time due to the heavy crowd. Then the next day we went with our family to the thoppu and cooked and ate there. It was a great experience sitting in a grove and eating with rain drops falling down.

The final day we decided to go to kodaikanal the queen of hill stations. So we bid adieu to our family and then we left for kodailkanal. There we had lots of fun going to all the tourist places for the entire day We came back to Chennai on 13^th morning. (FOR PHOTOS CLICK HERE)

14^th and 15^th was those two days when we found our juniors so responsible. It was because of the tata consultancy services on campus recruitment process. We went as volunteers and it was great to see most of our juniors doing well in the interview process. Though the result overall wasn’t the number expected, it was a happy occasion to see our juniors getting into the company.

21^st may I went to satyam cinemas with my school friends to watch Chronicles of narnia prince Caspian. It was a different day amidst the normal schedule of going to friends house and watching movies there.

The next one was in the successive day, the outing with our college friends to city centre and inox to watch santosh subramaniyam for the second time…boo hoo…but we had a nice time criticizing each and every part of the film. Then we came out and had lunch at the food court and till that moment we were enjoying with normal heads and the news of the results injected tension in our heads. Though we were so relaxed in the last semester, when it came to the results it was terror only. Everyone had their own reaction for the result and then we had a great time in the fun world and then we moved to marina beach. There we all played with kites symbolizing our completion of degree. It was a great day after a long gap with our college friends.

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The next one was the best one in this holiday. The interview process at Sutherland which made me clear as what I have to do in these holidays. The call centre culture and the over strict rules made me decide not to go to part time or so. It was a two day period on 25^th and 26^th which made me clear as what I have to do in this holiday.

It was june 1,2008 and it was sarathys brothers marriage on that day. We all moved to the hall by evening and we had great time there meeting friends from almost all the departments. The dinner was brilliant with a new sweet chipoori and buffet for ice cream were the plus points of the dinner menu. The day ended with a bribe to the traffic police for samba not having the license.

Then came june 6^th which was the day which we all waited thinking we can make the reception fun with our dance and others. We got ethnic uniform of paijama kurtha and we all assembled there by 7. Me and sid were there for the marriage also which was more fun due to the presence of the “Vathiyar-the man” who made the morning session fun filled and also descriptive and informative. But in the reception the light music group had a melody list and we had a last laugh by dancing for the last song which was special request of jackpot kushboo…i.e kavin preethi who looked the previously mentioned name on that day…(in dressing sense alone). Then as it was too late to come back home, I stayed at vijay’s house and came home the next day.

Yesterday, 9^th june we had a get together with our school friends after a really long gap. It was like a breeze over the school memories and it was a great time to see friends whom I haven’t seen for the past four years. We had a great time. For more info on yesterdays outing, click here.

Thank god that I have got lots of friends so that they are making it possible to spend the holidays happily escaping the sui ki situation and there are many other plans for the days to come. So holidays…no more boring one!

Birthday celebration!

Yesterday I had the occasion of marking twenty one years of my existence in this world adhan ennoda porandha naal. I went to all my friend’s home on their birthdays and had a nice hearty meal and good celebration there. So I was thinking to put a shamiana in my mottai maadi and invite all friends with the specialty of my mom’s preparation. But all the plan was spoiled due to the reason which you all know. So I was in search of a location to invite all my friends to celebrate. Bhaabi and sid came out with the location sponsor and I chose the latter one as bhaabi had some work in morning. So the location was fixed and all the regular members were invited. Some of them said that they would be from the morning and some said they would join in the evening.

So the day started with birthday wishes from friends through mobile and wishes from my parents. I got five hundred rupees from dad for giving treat and then I prayed to God for a good year ahead and then had the super meal by my mom and started to tambaram as vijay said he would take me in the bike. The bike travel was the ultimate comedy. To go to west mambalam we visited teynampet and we came back to gunidy and then went to mambalam. Poor city side knowledged fellows myself and vj so we had no other go. Finally we reached sid house and it was kapathu in front of sid house just entering. So we started chatting and I gave the chakkari pongal which I bought from home. We were then joined by prasi and samba, satish.

The terror for vj started there. We kalasified him to the core. Finally the panel decided not to kalasify him anymore. And then we had the cake cutting and to mention it was a decent one. And then we started to komalas which was chosen as the place to give the treat. Bhaabi,raja and sadesh joined us there. To mention about the hotel…”DON’T GO THERE”! The pulav was the ultimate comedy there. But I think I gave a sumaar treat… sorry for that people. Will make a better one within the next birthday.

Then we started to the bezant nagar beach and we were joined by juniors lux, Deepak and bala. We had a nice game of catch-n-catch( a different one adopted for Bessie beach) and then MUDUGU puncture..really I got my back punctured. Then after having a round of ice creams we departed from there. I reached home by 9 and that is the only reason I couldn’t go to thiruttani today to sd house as scheduled. Sorry sd for not coming today, will surely come another day.

The birthday was a great day of fun and enjoyment. Thanks to all those who made it and also thanks to those who wished through phone and messages. Do stay in touch for the years to come too. I was so happy to receive wishes from hod mam and prem sir too!

P.S: Really sorry for the poor treat…. It is still pricking…will make a better one within the next birthday..promise! And makkale inime vj ya kalasa koodadhu!!

THE CUP OF JOY!!

Yesterday marked the best day in the lives of each and every student of the computer sciecne department of our college. This was the dream of our team for the past four years and we achieved it this time. Yes.. CSE won the overall cup amidst internal politics. The offstage events were over before itself and the standings before the start of the onstage events were as follows:

ECE-92, EEE-90 and CSE – 88

We were so strong in dance with choreography of leo Tolstoy one of our seniors. But the variety and adzap had the last minute preparation as usual ;). The variety got third place and we won the first place in adzap. The deserved winners of dance team won the first place. The final standings were ECE completed as runners and we emerged as WINNERS.

It was the most clear win ever in the history of sairam. The junior boys and girls and also friends of our batch proved themselves both in the team and in the crowd. The way they shouted and cheered for us reflected in their voices which were deep inside by the evening. We all were in the skies and after winning the overall cup we ran together with the cup on seeing which all the other departments felt that we deserved to win.

The happiest day ever in my life where the dream of the overall cup came true! Though there was lots of politics and lots of confusions in the mark allotments was there we emerged as the winners. The moment when they announced the results of the onstage events was so enthusiasm filled and we were experiencing the happiest moment of our lives when we confirmed that we were the winners. The cultural team requires a big round of applause and on my behalf I congratulate all the members of the cultural team which includes each and every member of the department.

Then we had the light music where each and every one danced till the last calorie of their body is burnt. The last song Mustafa Mustafa made us feel the departure slightly but it was a great feel altogether.

Finally, on behalf of the cultural team I dedicate this CUP to the DEPARTMENT CRICKET TEAM who made their best efforts to make it this time but missed it slightly. A happy day to end the college life!

Theni- The lifetime experience!

I have experienced true love, affection, adventure, friendship, thrill and enjoyment for the past four days. Yes. All this was possible due to the trip to theni. We went to Arun’s house to celebrate the pongal festival. The experiences which we had are something which is so close to our hearts. Village always rocks in its way of treating the people with respect and guests as their family members. Right from day 1 till yesterday night till we boarded the bus it was ultimate affection and care which was always there from arun’s family.

Day 1- 14^th January, 2008:

We reached theni by 7.20 in the morning and from there we reached Veerabandi by 7.40. We took a auto and reached to aruns house. We kept our bags in the room allocated for us in first floor and then we did our morning jobs and then came down and got the intro procedures done. We planned that day to go to suruli falls and so we started to suruli falls by 10.30. We reached Suruli falls by 1. We thought of kulichifying in the lower falls but all guys wanted to go to the upper falls and so we trekked to the upper falls. Such a great place to be! There was so much fungus there in the rocks that we were sliding every now and then. There happened the worst incident of the tour. Some other group of people came to kulichufy there and one man slipped in the fungus and pushed me too. I totally missed my balance and fell right on his head. His eye got hit in a stone and the skin peeled off. All of us got terrified. So we came down in an hour and in the lower falls we had a great bath for an hour. Then we came down and had the tamarind rice which we took from arun’s house. First impression of aruns mom was that tamarind rice and that proved to be best! We came back home by 6 o clock in the evening. Then we experienced the delicious meals by arun’s mom assisted by his sister aarthy. A great day to begin the trip! Then we went to the maadi room and dozed off.

Day 2- 15^th January, 2008

We woke up by 8 in the morning and it was the day of pongal and we thought that there would be pongal celebrations and all. But then we came to know that in villages Maatu pongal is more special than pongal and that all will keep pongal on the day of maatu pongal only. So we all went to have a game of cricket there and we had a broken bat and so we were forced to put a match with the local team. We won the first one and lost the second. Then we came back and had the lunch. Then we planned to go to the periyaar(big river) to bath. Vijay,myself and sano weren’t in a mood to bath there. But after seeing the flowing river we also went in. Satish tried some of the fashion tv shots with vijay. We were enjoying in the water making some formations and catch-catch game for nearly three hours. Then myself and sano came out before all and we were sitting near the temple. But all of them didn’t come via that route and we both came home after being chased by dogs nearly an hour after they had reached. Then we went to the “Karupannasamy temple” who is the family deity for them and there we offered pongal to Karuppannasamy and then we all had a round of pongal there. Then we went to watch the “Kabaddi match” which was going on there. The commentary which was there was ultimate and it was perfect example of what is called “gramathu kusumbu”. Then we came back home, ate and slept. It was appu the rajapalayam dog which woke up all of us daily. We miss him too!!

Day 3- 16^th January, 2008

We planned to go to thekkadi on that day, but aruns dad told that only boating was there at thekkadi and that too not so good as it used to be in the season times. So we changed our plan and we went to the thoppu of arun. It was a tough way with marshy one way sand roads and when we reached there we could see arun’s grandfather who is 85 years of age but still firmly working in the fields. He came there and he chiseled off the tender coconuts and gave it to us. The sweetest tender coconut you could imagine of! After having stomach full of tender coconuts and a small visit around the thottam-thuravu of arun we went into the coconut grove and had a nice sleep for an hour. Then we came back home and had our lunch. By 6, it was the most awaited event- the pongal keeping ceremony. We changed our costumes and were ready to shout “Pongalo pongal”. But the full verse was a different one as follows,

“Pongalo pongal, paal paanai pongal

Patti peruga, paatha kannu vedikka

Noyum piniyum theruvodu poga”

So after the pongal here we went to have a second round of pongal in aruns uncle’s house. There too we had a good time with the pongal and sugarcane. All the four days we had sugarcanes in our hands and our mouths chewing them. By that time, we were so close to arun’s family members and we came back home by ten and had our dinner and we dozed off.

Day 4- 17^th January, 2008

All of them were saying us not to go, but we all were in a plan to start that evening. Arun’s brother said that we can go to “vaigai dam” on that day. So we started to vaigai dam and we had a nice time hanging out there and all of them revisited their childhood by going in the park fun rides. Then we came back by 3 to arun’s home. We were really out of energy and we had a great meal(veg and non veg separately). Then arun’s mom showed us the photo album which she hadn’t even shown to her relatives. Arun’s sister got all our address and birthdays written in her diary. We then witnessed the “JALLIKATTU” where the temple bull, mr.karuppu proved to be the most devastating bull of the event. We had a family photograph with all the members of arun’s family…no…our family. Then we started by 6 from his house. All of them came with us till the bus stand and arun’s father came till theni and was there waving his hands till the bus left from his eyesight.

These are just the happenings which can be expressed. Beyond these we gained a new family for us. A brother, a sister and loving parents for us in theni welcoming us always is there for us now. Friendship has beautiful things like this which no other thing in this world can bring. All should realize this as a matter of fact. Thanks ARUN for this scintillating experience and for opening us towards a loving family. We are going to go once again in the month of may as there will be thiruvizha in the temple there. So expecting the month of may and still I’m not out of the village of veerabandi.

“Kalloori enna thandhadhu, kanmoodi paarthal puriyudhu,

Verum kalvi mattumalla, kanavu mattumalla, KANGAL KALANGA VAIKKUM URAVUGAL”. Its true…its true.

Kapathu house hunt!

Today we had one more nice hang out at our saviours place- Kapathu’s house. Today the star of the day is her mom who has joined the elite panel of “SUPER SAAPADU” along with my mom and cyber mom. As kapathu had driving class she told to come after 12. So I started from home by 11. I got into the usual 5A bus and as usual sidharth picked me up near the subway and we both reached her house by 12.15. We had some vetti talks going on as I was copying the films which I took there for kapathu. By half an hour we were joined by the gang containing members, Samba, satish, vijay,raja, ragavendran and ramanujam. We had two rounds of masal vadais as the preliminary round of our meal.

Then by 2 we sat to have our meal. The THALAI VAAZHAI ILAI SAAPADU with the following menu- Mysore paku, palkova, paruppu usili, urulai kari, kadamba sambar, thakkali rasam, thayir and appalam.

Then we all settled down in the sofa and had a nice hearing to the songs in kapathus music system starting from old songs till billa. As a matter of fact we moved to the computer room. There we had a nice burst out laughter session talking about the cool happenings and interesting facts on sadesh. In meanwhile we were talking about blog but kapathu understood nothing and so we changed the topic and so we had all the topics that we could talk on and the session went on with ultimate fun. Then we had one more round of horlicks and coffee. Then by 6 we all started from there to their respective places. On the whole, the day was a filling one for both the belly and mind. Nice to have such sessions often and looking forward for many more such get togethers in this semester as this is our last sem to make all these done!

SANKARA TERRORS!!

Here comes the list of terror actions done by us in our school days.

Eleventh standard:

1. We used to keep the sundal which we get as prasadham under bala so that it smashes and sticks to bench as a paste.
2. We sprinkled ink on each other and I went with ink in all parts of my face and shirt out of the computer class without permission to wash it off.
3. Vijay and visu kept a sharp pencil just before I was to sit. It went deep so that tears came out of my eyes.
4. I went out for the consecutive third time in maths period for saying that rajaganapathy has lost his bag.
5. I holded dinesh in his neck and lifted him so that he was suffocating. It was my reaction to his severe blows on me with the bench.
6. Hari dragged sesha in the floor and pushed him on to the steel bench for sesha beating hari with chalk piece.
7. Sri ganesh ran inside the class as he feared that mam would have heard him scolding her.
8. V.N.Vinodh took my pen and wrote some stupid stuff in bharath’s shirt which made him to go till vice principal.
9. Krishna kumar and dinesh got caught red handed for scolding Michael Jackson and rajinikant respectively using family bad words.
10. The entire class stood for an hour for not doing the so called silent prayer during maths period.
11. Chemistry mam* asked me to be polite against the lab assistant because that day morning I scolded the lab assistant thinking that it was some other friend beating me from backside.

Please add on if you can remember any more.

Twelfth Standard:

There are lots of galattas of us in twelfth standard. I will just post whatever I can remember.

1. The entire class went out for not putting English class work notebook except very few in the class.
2. We narrowly escaped the sudden raid on the day of India Australia match when we brought radios and cell phones to school.
3. Sesha and I was caught during English period when mam was teaching “ode on Grecian urn” for which I samalichufied saying I was talking about ancient sculptures of madambakkam temple nearby.
4. Sriganesh was caught by mam as a reaction to haris complaint that sriganesh was trying to copy from him during exam.
5. Chemistry mam told rajaganapathy that his way of looking at her doesn’t look nice. It was actually his looks with half sleepy eyes.
6. V.N.Vinodh, sriganesh and myself were caught for copying from a bit for which we went till principal and escaped with no punishment for us but with a -5 for sriganesh
7. In the same bit incident, sriganesh made chemistry mam to cry by tearing off the bit which she collected from us so that she kept on seaching.
8. Ramakrishna siva asked our chemistry mam the actual use of urinary antiseptic and where it is used. Mam remarked just to study for the sake of two marks
9. V.N.Vinodh did all drama which he can do for not allowing chemistry mam to take classes on the last day.
10. Hari haran broke bharaths nose for bharath calling hari with family names and the ultimate comedy is that when we went to the doctor in our school he kept a thermometer in bharaths mouth and said that temperature was normal. Later only he saw the bleeding and gave medicine.
11. Saravanan of 12c went to the doctor as he fell down when playing. When the doctor said that he will put an injection he said the doctor to just make the bleeding stop and that he will put injection in a good doctors clinic. The doctor went to peak tension!
12. Hari said that his parents would kill him when maths mam said to bring a letter from his parents for not putting the class work and failing in unit test
13. Sriganesh shouted in the middle of the class to mam saying that “hari is calling me with family names”.
14. Vijay Krishnan got caught red handed when he was laughing hiding back bala. Mam saw it from an angle and told vijay and co to go out.
15. Vijay Krishnan got caught in a small matter for which he hid himself under the bench
16. Sesha called Deepak with the name “NIRMI” by kalasing him with a girl of next class so deeply that our computer science mam asked Deepak has he changed his name.

Please add the ones which I left out.

• - IT was chemistry mam who experienced most of the terrors. Some cannot be put here as the censor board will cut those. We were so terror that she cried aloud to Deepak during the closing days saying always she is the Bali aadu. It was me, vinodh.v.n and sriganesh who were in the hit list. Mam willnot take the lessons unless we three come to the first bench.
• Sweet memories! You too can post some of your sweet school memories.

SSV- The beginning of terror!!

It was SSV which turned me to what I’m now. It was the first day in Sri Sankara Vidyalaya(SSV). I was sitting in the last bench and oolai(rajesh) came and told me to go and sit in front. I refused for which he scolded me in a bad word and immediately I went and complained to our class teacher. She laughed and said that those were common and not to complain such things. The ultimate comedy was I got caught for speaking bad words the next week. It was the same teacher and she couldn’t control her laughter and so I escaped!
During the eight standard, Shafeeq was my best friend. The very first year at SSV was full of KALAIs and when we were standing in the assembly, one of my classmates pointed to a boy in the next row and said his name was S.Sriram and not to talk to him as he will use ultimate abuse language. Ha ha… Time does the work. Today Sriram is one of my closest friends and the boy who told me so is not found in the city today.
The tradition of Sitadevi continued in SSV where I had friends from all classes and the I.V which we went to Pondichery brought us closer.
It was in the ninth standard where actually I remember nothing other than the stupid magic show which we went. It was a year where nothing specific happened. Anybody please add up nice incidents of ninth standard.
Here comes the terror sprouting out. Tenth standard! It was me, seshadri and r.s.arun who were sitting in the bench behind the last bench of girls. We will have chalkpiece wars and fulltime enjoyment in kalasifying our English madam, Mrs. Saroja Seshadri. Once she told sesha, “Mr.Seshadri, please go out of the class” for which he replied “ok,mrs.seshadri”. She got stunned and told him to sit. The F***ing girls of first bench started a story that last bench boys(i.e ourselves) and last bench girls are in love with eachother. Sesha scolded with all the bad words possible. And I did a master plan to cut the telephone line of the girl who started such a rumour. I made her to ask sorry and then after a long time of four months I made her telephone line to work. Thanks to my fathers colleague in Chennai telephones.
We completed our tenth standard with complete kalais and we stepped into our eleventh. This was the greatest terror of all times I have witnessed so far. The class strength plays a major role here. There were 38 boys and 10 girls. I joined the company of great members like V.N.Vinodh, Visweswaran, Sundar, Praveen*, krishnakumar*, Sri ganesh, Pambist(sriram), vijay Krishnan, S.Sriram, balakrishnan, narayanan, shankar, srivatsan,dinesh and so on. The * ed members remained silent and were padips. The remaining members somehow contributed to the terror in the class. Bala was the frequent target of us under whom we will keep the sundal given during birthday of sankarachariyar.
Our frequent targets were our beloved chemistry teacher, Ms. Latha and our maths teacher Ms.Rajeshwari a.k.a akka balli(sister lizard). Ms. Latha experienced the toughest time in her life with our batch for two years that she cried at the end of twelth standard. As there are lots of incidents in our school days which can be mentioned on and on, I will post all mischievous activities as a separate post! The next one!