Purani Jeans …….Scenes from hostel life

SCENE1: One day two friends are getting naustalgic about their hostel life.The first guy tells about the lavish life they had in their hostel,about beautiful gardens,the scenic view of mountains,and the hi-tech facilities inside the hostel.The other friend was just smiling to himself.He had not seen all this but things which were much above the materialistic comforts.

SCENE2:As the first friend finishes boasting about his hostel,the other starts……………………..

“107!!!!!!!! Bhatia”, comes a loud shreik form the hostel guard.He is calling as my father has called up from home at the common hostel phone.He shouts 5 times before I go running towards the telephone in the warden’s(N H DAVE) room.After the phone call is over he calls out to all his friends on the ground floor and they all set towasd’s the hostel’s mess for having lunch.They were greeted by Jayeshbhai(a.k.a lala/o). They all(Saurabh,Nishit,Vivek,Bhavik,Vijay,Gaurav,Bhoru) stormed in the kitchen of the mess,with the contrator “Mukhiya” shouting orders, and rolling all over the place.He is like a big ball,with a glasses of very high power,has very good business sense and is a very clever person.Well,now we are inside the kitchen, talking to maasis(the ladies who cooked food for us),asking them to give us fresh rotis just taken off from the tawa.Whenever there is a talk of increase in price we shout slogans calling,”mukhiya jee hai hai” and banging the spoons on our plates.

SCENE3: The power has gone and there is complete darkness.As soon as the lights go off, howling starts.Sounds of shouting in various styles and voices start,soon things start coming down,glass slabs,a wooden door(most probably of the toilet)burning newspapers, and anything u can imagine to be worth throwing.It was a herculine task for the sweepers to clean the mess created in the night.

SCENE4:There are two shops side by side,owned by cousins just opposite to the gate of the college.Just as we move further towards the hostel gate we get “Deven ka Galla” whose vada pav everyone ate despite of being costly as he has monopoly.A bit further we reach chai ki dukaan owned by Narendra kaka…aka kaka.We are sitting there,sipping our teas,again the same group.The time is 6 o clock in the evening.The college has just got over and everyone is leaving.The rickshaws which take girls of the college are lined up waiting to get filled and we all are facing towards them wishing they were always there looking at some girl or the other.

SCENE 5: We have come for the movie Satta and it is 1:30 am. We don’t have anything to go back to our hostel which is around 12 kilometres from the place we are standing.The rickshaw waala tells a rate which does not suit our rates.Looking at all the factors, we start walking.We walk and talk for around 2 hours.As soon as we reach our hostel,we retire to sleep.

SOME FAVOURITES DURING THE THE FOUR YEARS:

These are all related to food.Favourite Chinese food place:MAHARAJA,there is still no place which can match this places’ chinese preprations in both taste as well as quantity of the food.Hotel shyam had a fentastic offer for the pockets of students–It used to offer punjabi thali for 65 rs which had the following:

Soup(once);2 Curries of our choice(unlimited);roti/naan/paratha (unlimited);jeera rice+ dal fry (unlimited);and ice cream(once)

the only condition was that u should have at least for people which easily used to get fulfilled,so we used to go there and hog on the food like anything.Another thing we loved was “GOLA”, we used to walk 5 kms just to eat gola and not to mention the santosh pani puri,the soda near daire,anand ice cream.The best scene was Nishit MIstry’s “Rakshasi Bhookh” when he used to eat anything that that came in his way and in any quantity…and now his complain is also catred to.Once he ate 2 plates fried rice,250 ml ice cream,Pani puri,omlette one after the another.Now u only can guess about his raakshasi bhookh.

For three of us(Nishit,Vivek,Saurabh) Sourabh Aggarwal’s room was a hot spot.We used to goto his place and watch movies,pester his stupid room partner Pratik Joshi,and he used to get pissed off badly.We used to love that sight.

We used to go to the mata’s temple by going through the cotton fields for taking the shortcut.

In short it is really difficult to cover the crazy,wacky,we can only dream of such life,and i remember my hostel days not my college days

ELTP ,BENCH@SATYAM,HYDERABAD

This part of my life was one of the most unforgettable part of my life. The most glorious period. The atmosphere there, was a superb one, the one which was not a college atmosphere but it was not even the corporate because we never followed that culture. Our batch numbered 349-352 had 122 people and we were i think, the most remembered batch of SLC. For bad activies,obviously ,for breaking the rules of the training and getting caught.For having fun when rest everyone was glum and for creating a college inside the company.

So here we were 120 odd people and they stuggled against the company rules, but led their life according to their wishes. Our program manager SWAPNA MUDHOLKAR shouted at us daily but at the end of the day she also was a sweet lady who wanted everyone to cross the training safely without hiccups. I had a lot of hiccups, maybe i will be the one with the maximum retests from my batch amounting to 6.

Looking for database just before the test,spending evenings at foodworld talking with friends(KHATTI MAARTE THE), that stupid eltp cafeteria, the convention centre, the zoo near it,the west wing and the east wing,hst-public\temp,hstslc005\eltp,Prasant Mohanty ka mike ke saath khelna,sabka usko gaaliyan dena,copter game khelna,Nagaraju Domula ki daant sunna,Ritu,Sushma,Kiran Maricharla's walkout, mass memos and what not. That time will not come again any time in the whole life. Now, everyone is separate and in different places,projects.This the fact of life and we were trained for that only, to be separated but the bond still remians between all the people of 349-352.

WE WERE THE BEST

Bench was another strange experience. Who in the world pays you for going to office and doing nothing??? Thats what we used to think. Waiting for the calls from CORCC(Corporate Resource Coordination Commitee) for projects we used to reach office by 10 am and leave by 1 pm. Every weekend we went for a movie.Everyday spending around 5 hours at the steps of foodworld in sindhi colony with sumit,mayur,varun,seema,mitali ohhh man what a time it was.i still have vivid memories of that time.

Memories of School—Strange but true

U know its really strange what was there in my school life that i should remember for my whole life…no events as such but yes i do have a lot of people to remember so many of them that if i start thinking about them i can continuously go on thinking for a month without a person being repeated.However,very few of them have survived in the memory and that too because they have remailned in contact.In many i have even lost interest in keeping a contact.I wont specify any names.So…the people i remember??? yeah Jaydutt Shukla, a geek and a unique person whose simplicity strikes you like anything.He is a fentastic human being you know the one whom you can blindly say as a best friend and he will always be there for you.

There were other people also to whom i was close but not like this guy.I was close a girl too.She was Pooja Aggarwal.Very few people know about her because i never mentioned about her anytime.She was the one who listened to all my talk patiently,every thing from my happiness to sadness.She led a very simple life as compared to me but now she is lost i dont know where.

We used to play games on a huge children's fence called "chocolate and freeze" and enjoy it a lot. People used to think we will never grow as we used to play it till 8th standard and they were right…we have still not grown up.However, we have lost the innocence of a 10 yr old who asks stupid questions at which we laugh at now.

I had a couple of crushes in school.My first crush in life was Kinjal Parekh my senior and later in commerce, then Anima who is going to read this and get a shock of her life. Well, that was long back and i was too shy to even talk with girls properly.

The prominent people in my school life were Jaydutt, Raghav, Kunal, Karan,Vivek, Nachiket,Ashish Kher and of course Anima.