Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Campus Ganesan

--SnoopDog--

I had the strangest dream today morning and I'm writing this to share it with everyone... The alarm was set to go off at 7:00 am & for some reason I woke up for a brief moment at 6:08 am, being the punctual guy, I decided to go back to sleep... Then I had this dream about our class mates and some of them clearly stood out that I still remember them...

I call this dream strange coz it played out like a stand-up comedy show where this unknown voice (not Amitabh Bhachan) was making fun of everyone in our class while we sat in the audience along with lotta people, applauding & enjoying...

The first thing the voice made fun of was Jagadish a.k.a Jack... Actually the voice was making fun of Jack's movie debut (!!!!!!!!) The guy was saying how poorly Jack acted and how bad the movie was... There were also few video clippings of Jack on his Hayabusa (I meant his splendor :p )

The second thing I remember the voice making fun of was ME... For some odd reason, I'm in that show with a GIRL (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) and this voice teases me on how I valinjify with girls (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) Me getting a girl will happen only in a dream & this voice has to spoil it for me by saying things which I dont do ;)

But this is the best part... The voice next made fun of Sridhar... This was how the voice said it:
You know the Lord Ganesha idol in every campus where everyone goes and prays to relieve them of their sorrows, hence colloquially called as Campus Ganesan... We had a Campus Ganesan in our very own class... SRIDHAR... He is the guy to whom everyone talked to and poured out their feelings... If it is a girl, he puts a good word or two... But if its a guy & its regarding love, sridhar will conveniently cut the guy out & pick the pieces with that guy's lover...
The crowd erupts in laughter on hearing this and everyone starts clapping, well ofcourse, except Campus Ganesan... LOL

Then the show ends and as usual I'm hitchhiking a ride back to my home in some one's bike and I see Sriram wheeling in his bike to show-off...


Then my alarm went-off... I dunno why I had this strange dream, but if its going to be this funny, I wouldn't mind having more of these... I'm also wondering what happened to the girl who was with me!!! She could have been consoled and taken home by Campus Ganesan... LOL... I'm still contemplating on to whom the voice belonged to... The few candidates who are capable of pulling everyones leg are Arvind & Mark... But the voice no way belonged to them... Maybe this could be the voice of the Orkut legend Mama Biskothu...

Monday, March 31, 2008

College memories

-- Draconian Devil --

Just remembering these days forever.... I had already sent this as a mail long before..

1) Madhan spitting on his desk(on Senthil's place specifically) when Avi and Senthil sat on the corners of the desk and refused to let him sit on his place!!

2) Me and Avi "sight adicifying" that Priya girl and their friends and watching them sight adichify us (specially Priya.. remember how she used to gaze at us without even taking her eyes off!!). In fact for this we used to deliberately go to the toilet on the farther end of our floor!!

3) SenthilB going crazy on seeing "AATI" Divya anywhere in the college. Specially going crazy on seeing her 36-28-36 (OK i dunno abt the first and third no but i am damn sure 28 is a close hit) hips and her BUMS!!

4) Me failing in Digital Systems for the first time in my life (third semester) and standing before HOD literally begging him to pass me in that subject.. Flunk in Electonic Circuits.. Unfirtunately coudnt beg for marks coz there was seriously nothing in my paper!!

5) SenthilB.. Do u remember that Aarthi girl (was studying fourth yr when we were in second semester..) whom we used to sight adicify then..

6) The days in our second semester when during the Electric Circuit Analysis period when that ma'am (Premlatha) would either "joulu vitufy" Sriram or wouldnt properly wear her b*a for which we would comment "Dei.. Question paper out aayudichu da!!"

7) SenthilB.. remember the days when we used to study (ha ha..) in Shiva's place.. Particularly the day when you and Shiva assumed Madhan had slept and were talking abt him when Madhan suddenly got up and said "Dai dogs.. naan innum thungala da..

8) The day when Madhan described abt the car Maruthi Swift.. i don remember the exact phrase.. let me know if someone remembers it correctly..

9) The days of our practical exams when we used to prepare vigourously (not for the exam but for making the bits) and our stupid and ridiculous Viva voce's..

10) The days when we used to write our record notes when the class was going on(specially in Brijet ma'am class)..

11) The day in second semester when Swami was caught red-handed when he was eating with a spoon and Sivakumar (Engg Drawing) never spoke but was furious and motioned Swami to get out of the class..

12) Avi.. remember the day when Priya ma'am (remember our Analytical instruments ma'am) was taking attendence for the first time (she was new to the class) and we made a deal that i would say for u and u for me.. but ultimately the whole thing flopped..

- Prathap

Sunday, March 30, 2008

Lakshya

-- Draconian Devil --

One of the curses of BBB was that we never used to hang out until we made our official hanging out ceremony when we went to Mahabs.. So before this sometime in our third year we went to a movie "Lakshya".. Me, raghuveer, avinash and madhan went to Ega theatre to watch this movie..

so in this movie Hrithik joins the army and one of his colleagues is this guy who has a mush which is of course a fake one.. i dont know the name of this guy but i can recollect that this guy is the friend of Aamir khan in the movie "Qayamat se qayamat tak".. Raghu was teasing this guy with the fake mush from the time he appeared on the screen..
There was one seen when there is a fight between the pakistanis and our heroes when some of our ppl die.. one among the dying guys is our man with the fake mush.. as usual as it appears in our Indian cinemas ppl dont easily die after being shot.. probably our Indian lives have a tolerance level of five to ten minutes cos we have so many dialogues to deliver within that time.. so our guy with the fake mush is about to die while he has pages of centi centi dialogues to talk with Hrithik..

The scene : Our guy with the fake mush get shot and is about to die

The environment : Everybody in the cinema hall are literally sitting at the edge of their seats watching the scene which is supposed to bring tears

The twist : Four guys in the entire cinema hall are laughing like anything

Reason : Raghu starts commenting about the guy with the fake mush.. he says that since that guy was kinda overacting his mush might come off.. "dey avan meesai konjam nerathla kelandikka pogudhu da.. kelandi oru padhi mattum thonga pogudhu da.."

ufffffffff.... we were laughing like for five minutes.. that is one movie i cant forget..

- Prathap

cruise control.. LOL

-- Draconian Devil --

Godha le yerengitom ille..

Had a small blog to write about Sridhar..
we were in Bangalore doing our project when the movie Rang de Basanti got released.. U must be much aware of the song "Lose control" a.k.a "Be a Rebel"..
we used to listen that song in MTV and guess what Sridhar used to sing/hum.. CRUISE CONTROL.. he he :P.. it was so hilarious listening to that.. one day when raghu listened to this he was polambifying something like this "dey jayaraj sir kuda seradhae seradhae nnu sonnen.. kaetiya?? ippo song kuda andha aal madhiriye paaduriye da.." it was damn funny when i listened to this comment..

anyways had a lovely time doing my proj with Sridhar and Raghu.. unforgettable days.. uff i wish i was in college again..

- Prathap

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

The making of Modern Mahabharatha

--written by madhan--

It all started in our final year…the topic we got for the skit was “thinking of future in the present”…a junk topic which made me sick.. i was not interested in doing a skit…It was also a time when people from different departments were teasing us & our skit saying that there ll be a Indian flag for sure n things like that… I myself was convinced that was gonna happen this time also… until raghu spoke to me…

Raghu was really upset as he got teased very much in his bus… he just asked me to come up with a full comedy story n asked not to care about the topic… when I was thinking about it, the story that we performed in the class in the PD hour came to my mind.. I decided to do the same one and improve few things in it.. n it began like that with raghu, shivaram, senthil.b n most others chipping in with their contributions in selecting the songs…we thought of bringing the topic given to us somewhere n so I found apt for it to come in place of bhagavatghita…

A lot of songs that came was accidental like once I was a pillion rider to senthil.b & he was riding very rashly.. I instantaneously sung the song “rasavae unna nambi” and immediately realized that this will fit it for panchali when she was betted for the gambling…doing the dubbing work was equally fun… we were trying different voices n tried speaking in different modulations also.. u might still remember priyanka’s voice as a news reader… it took around an hour for her to do it in a single go…partly becos of my handwriting I guess but the final outcome was good…I have to mention about shiva here… he took up the panchali character n was teased by some unknown faces also... but was not bothered n did the role to perfection…

The day b4 the event, we performed b4 our guys n even our juniors were there… everyone were waiting for the next scene when the skit was over n it took some time for the claps to come.. this was when we realized that we need a good climax… me n shiva were discussing about that while going back home… n suddenly haja came up with the idea of bringing in ravana n Ramayana as the climax.. we felt it was too good n so were relieved from our worries..

In the competition our skit was the last one…n all the audience enjoyed it like anything except the judges…the comments from the judges were disheartening n we consoled ourselves by saying that it was only due our college.. we still believe that as the same skit without any modification got 1st place in ssn culturals.. that too in the absence of our star performer raghuveer…

It was really a nice experience that I got from doing this skit…one that I ll cherish forever…

Exam jitters --NAY, Not for us--

--SnoopDog--

Exam time... Comes twice a year for lucky undergrad students but not for velammal students... nooooooooooo... not for us, who have already been subjected to lot more cruelties in velammal... After all the mid-terms, its time for a mad scramble for internal marks, which will normally tally to 19 or (the max) 20 unless the lecturer has a personal vendetta against you (which most of the time happens... hey, juz now it struck me, if V is for vendetta according to the popular movie, then VEC would expand to Vendetta Engineering College... whoa, that sounds so apt... Hope the management doesn't read this... lol)

Then comes the semester exam, spread over the duration of a month or two like the obsolete CB series format down under... If you are subjected to this torture for once a year like in SSLC or 12th board exam, you can think of pulling the plug before the exam... But writing exams every other 6 months over a course a 4 years really takes the charm away from it... That's what happened with us...

--First semester--
The exam starts at 10 am while the college bus drags us outta our houses & dumps us in college at 8:25 am... So we sit in the corridor or exam halls, preparing for the next 3 hrs like there is no second chance (obviously getting an arrears is a bad thing) Mugging up formulas, scramming through pages till the hall correspondents bully you to go inside... yup, that was us, like every other student taking the exam on the same day... After the exam, discuss all the questions, in and out, and by the time we get finished, we would already know how much our percentile would be...
There was one exam that needs special mentioning here though... Engineering Mechanics... The question paper leaked and I still remember sk calling me at night and asking for help to solve some problems... But he didn't come that night & we ended up solving the paper on bus, but we were vary if the leak was true... To our surprise, it was the real deal and I thought I had aced it... But Anna Univ got the wind of it and cancelled the exam and rescheduled it... They set the toughest paper possible, I think even they couldn't come up with a proper answer key... Passing that exam was like a flip of a coin... Around one-third of the class failed and those all who passed did so by hanging on to a thread... The arrears percentage reduced considerably after revaluation (wait for a note on the king of revaluation, it will be explained in the end of the post) and the arrears exam was so easy that not only did everyone pass, they aced it... Arvind, one of the unlucky ones to get the arrears, became the topper in that course after the arrears exam (not so unlucky now, huh)
...Alls well that ends well...

--Second semester--
Refer First semester first paragraph... The other insignificant thing that happened with this exam is that I managed to top it, atleast to my surprise...

--Third semester--
By now most of us were immune to the exam fear, so much that we would sit in the corridors and make fun of each other instead of studying... The group kalasal gang included BBB, shivaram, nambi durai, rosaraman, gokul nath and a few others... Our main target of kalasals would most of the time be Gokul... Me & shiva would rip him apart... Also senthil and prathap would contribute with their group studying escapades... The attention of the group would sometimes shift to nambi and sampath... We used to create so much raquet that sriram, prem nath and many others would maintain a safe distance from our sphere of influence... As the exam time neared you would expect the intensity to reduce, but the hero madhan would make his appearance at this critical moment along with avinash and sk...
The whole scenario double folds after their entry as we gang up on madhan and he wont go down without a barrage of mokkai... Also we would be bedazzled by madhan's use of technology to compress long answers into cryptic numbers which only he could decompress, and store them in calculator memory... I can go as far as saying that madhan's patented compression technique can beat WinRAR, as it can compress answers spanning 5 to 7 pages into a 32 digit number which will easily fit into a calculator memory... (One time he didn't have enough memory in his calculator to store all the answers) So me and shiva would store these digits in our calculators and get a quick decompression tour from madhan which would eventually make us forget everything we have read so far, and in the end, even forget the technique itself... So that's how I went from being a topper to nobody in my class, all thanks to madhan & shivaram...

--Fourth semester--
Sins from third semester gets repeated

--Fifth or sixth semester--
Loganathan a.k.a carrot got caught for copying by examination committee member... The incident sounds serious, but the way it happened was interesting... I don't remember which exam it was but carrot decided to go fully prepared, and hence, decided to make cheat notes (or bit) to bail him outta the exam... He was strong hearted till he entered the exam hall, when he bailed out and decided not to use the cheat sheets... So everything was going fine until the committee guy came & checked carrot... Carrot forgot to throw away the cheat sheets and got caught even though he didn't use it... Talk about irony... He appeared before some disciplinary committee.. So thats the action we got other than the pre-exam jibes...

--Seventh semester--
If normal semester exam schedule seemed long, this particular semester's exam was like the 2007 cricket world cup... Everyone just wanted it to end, as the result was known even before half the event was over... The thing with this semester was that the rain gods finally decided to bless chennai and bless they did... The roads were flooded making us not wanting Cauveri water anymore... So the vlsi exam got rescheduled 3 times totally... The first time everyone felt revealed coz there was lot to study as we literally didn't listen to Rajnarayan sir when he was teaching to the board instead of the class... The second time, we all thought of it as a holiday and the third time was one time too many... I didn't feel like going through the material again... I was so sick of VLSI that I ended up choosing the same for my Master's specialization (LOL) I got 70% in the end, not too bad, but something which I wouldn't tell my advisor ;)

--Eight semester--
Only two subjects, so it was like the test match india won against australia in 2 days on the mud bed in mumbai... But it was the last time we got to tease and play around before exams... Very sentimental semester, except for one idiot who VEC hired to critic our projects :)

--King of all revaluations--
Let the numbers speak for itself...
First semester - 2 arrears, cleared after revaluation
Second semester - 2 arrears, cleared after revaluation
Third semester - I dunno if he had any, let me ask him about this...
Fourth semester - 2 arrears, cleared after revaluation
Money spent - 6 times Rs 600 = Rs 3600
Having NIL arrears in your certificate - PRICELESS

Everyone put your hands for Madhan Kumar, the true king of all revaluations...

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

the name is TONY

---witten by madhan--

The whole class knows a lot about our very own antony… I have few moments which most of you won’t know…

We both studied in the same school.. this incident happened while in 10th… we were having our public practicals in the afternoon session n so where waiting for it in the morning… tony was sitting next to me(at this time was standing).. I had a pencil in my hand…I have to say that it was very sharp as the practicals we had was biology.. I held it in his seat n shouted at him to sit.. he sat very quickly and immediately shouted in pain…I was not laughing for long as the blood came out pouring… he was not hurt badly but had to take the exam standing…

I narrated the above incident to sk in our 1st sem.. just after that tony was standing in our shahil mams class… sk called me and showed me a pen in his hand… I realized what he had in his mind… I pleaded him not to do it… but u can never stop sk, that too in things like this… when tony sat he gave a very odd sound (like silk smitha)…and the whole class burst into laughs….

It was in the same 1st sem that we had to fill up a form to appear for the univ exams..we were doing that in shahil mams class…I was not doing it at her request cos of my beautiful handwriting… so I was helping tony… he would keep his hand over the text boxes and look at me for my approval b4 ticking.. he did this for around 3 times and then the moment came… it was while filling the field of SEX.. he kept his hand over the box for MALE and looked at me for my approval… I couldn’t control myself and laughed like anything with the whole class looking at and ofcourse our shahil mam staring…it took me some time to get myself back….i hope tony would have cleared his doubt by now…(lol)..

Anyways it was really good being with this guy…he is quite a character n I enjoyed every moment with him…