Friday, June 09, 2006

Once upon a time @ College..

Hmm..pretty bored at office...Wonder how many times, i've employed this phrase "bored at office" in the past few years.. Oops that is gonna result in a myriad,don bother counting that. Wanted to scribble abt this for a long time and am in a perfect position to do this, as iam "Pretty Vetti". No wonder,these two words rhyme with a perfect cadence...
I've hardly ever noticed ppl in my gang getting 'bored' during weekends @ college times.. How colourful were they and how quick those days passed.. We always had something interesting to ponder about or do.. Be it the assignments, weekend beach visits, late night dinnerz, GRE/CAT preparations, flooding the ever famous "kaiendhi bavan", movies at satyam, an more... We were just engrossed in whatever we were doing..Those were times when we yearned for a 25 or 26 hr day so that we could extend the fun and gayous moments..
Early in the morning, with a long standing grudge towards that tiny alarm piece , which wakes up the whole damn apartment,we begun the day. Then would be a quick sneak peek at the sports section of HINDU and without dadz attention, the 2 pages that contain the crossword section gets expurged artistically from the whole bunch. Next a quick sip of the fresh 'Kaapi'and a mad rush towards the bathroom. Bathing would become an additional payload during sem exam times.Thanks to all the denimz and axe effects, which kept other ppl around us alive !!
With 95% of our bag reserved for lunch box , 3% for news papers and novels the subject books got a really extravagant 2% space. That mean figure too, got dwindled as time progressed and we cleared sems!!
Now then With some adreanline rush and extra juices flowing around the whole body, we'd rush to catch the morning hogwarts express which took us safely to college. Real fun begins there. With a wrap up of the local and international news in a jiffy, someone from the gang wud start "machan therz a new girl in the ECE dept da..". That'll then trigger a huge discussion which lasts long enough until we reach college. The best thing abt them is nobody wud be spared.Right from the person who started the snippet, to the head of the department :-).. Train travel wsa always filled with fun an frolic!! Simply unforgettable..
Upon reaching college too.. the fun times continued. Itz Worth another post .
Alas...On the contrary,after getting into the IT world, things have reversed literally..We really wan the day to wind up asap so that we could free ourselves from the gory clutches of PM's, TL'S an rush home for some peace of mind. At the weekends ppl instead of meeting their close ones and freaking out, cite lame excuses and refuse to move their butts even. Therez this element of happiness missing definitely..But this is gonna be a vicious cycle, neverthless - office - home - office. Not even 2 complete years into this industry an here iam composing this blog, narrating the ennui at IT.. Life which was like a 40 GB external HDD then, has shrunk and resized itself into an ultra compact 1 GB flash drive ..... Huh damn this IT..even analogies are turning technical..

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi da, this is much better ;-)
U never ate much in keiyendhi bavan to enjoy. Always preferring stylish restaurants! chumma dialog adikatha...
If u have to be bored in college, u should have attended 8hrs class which u never did.No wonder u wrnt bored

BadhriNath said...

2 % reservation for the books !!. man this reservation is bad ;). you reserved too much space.

And how many times did u attend college classes to get bored. you should listen to "lectures" which where lullabies.. I know I know you made Royal inn richer by atleast a few thousands... ;). All is not lost here in It. it depends on the gang u create @ office...

Kartik said...

Hey bat, gang@office is alrite. Still that wud never even come closer to the gang that we got@coll..

Anonymous said...

A nice casual read. Makes one reminisce his/her college days

Nice usages:

No wonder, these two words rhyme with a perfect cadence...

The 2 pages that contain the crossword section gets expurged artistically

Narrating the ennui at IT

Humor sprinkled effectively. Line buttressing the same:

Bathing would become an additional payload during sem exam times.Thanks to all the denimz and axe effects, which kept other ppl around us alive


Nice thinking:

Life which was like a 40 GB external HDD then, has shrunk and resized itself into an ultra compact 1 GB flash drive

Even analogies are turning technical..

Hareesh.S

Vimal said...

good one, dude! I too really missed my college days when I was working. They are the easily the best part of one's life.

Anonymous said...

hey.. i can see so many of my frds complaining abt thier job.. don worry man.. find ur self a gud gul and marry her.. ur life will seem more intresting.. asu see bigger probs, ur prob with ur work will seem really small....