Things I am missing the most...

There is time for everything in life...and its called COLLEGE.

Today my cousin has finally got admission in a Medical college and so he'll be heading off to a hostel in a few days. He was asking me about college life and hostel experiences. Talking to him... remembering the great times I have had brought back many happy memories :)

So...

This post is dedicated to all the great friends I made at college and have made the 4 years of college an awesome memory.

This post is also dedicated to my cousins Mridul and Sujoy who are both heading off to college (and hostels) and I hope they will have even more fun than I had @ college and hostel. :)

Here is a list of some of the things that I felt I am missing about my hostel life.. (and it turned out to be a long list...)

*Pulling (Ankit)Govil's leg (THIS HAS TO TOP THE LIST :D )

(That's me, Vishal and Shashank Pandey trying to find out what Govil is up to ;) )

*AH3 260 yaani my room :D

*Govil (aka Aashiq) and his disprins (This guy ate 4 disprins at a time and when everybody refused to give him disprin's, he got them couriered from home)

*Listening to Meet Radio Balle balle.

*The time we spent in Angad's room (AH3 237) (considering the fact that he was the first one amongst us to get a lappy).

*Listening to 'Shubham ke mast wale FUNDE'. Remember the HAC theory :P

*Pandeyji (aka Shashank Pandey) ke PJ's..(Notice the 'ji' at the end of his nickname..that's the respect for his jokes)

*Pulling Abhay's leg

*Abhay's room (AH3 254),which was our common room.. Whenever any one of us came back from any class..we used to invariably stop at his room..infact sometimes he went off to attend classes and we used to remain in his room...

*It happened a couple of times that Phodu (rarely also known as Abhishek) slept off in Abhay's room and poor Abhay had to go and sleep in Phodu's room.

*Vishrut's room (AH4 234) which used to remain absolutely spotless any time of the sem.

*Meet's room (Ah3 252) with his simple rules of clothes- clean clothes on the desk, dirty clothes on the floor. keyboard and mouse of his desktop on the matress on the floor.

(Meet's room in all its glory ;) )

*Exams ke time par kabhi Pandey ke room mein, kabhi Vishal ke room mein padhai karna...aur waha Govil ka aa ke DOUBTS poochna aur phir khudd hi answer bata kar nikal jaana aur phir sabka usse gaali dena.

*Meet's room again where he taught us the OP RE, OPTI and NUMAL hours before the exam. 2-3 people on the bed and 2-3 on the floor and Shokee (Ashok Mittal) coming in between to ask the syllabus hours before the paper.

*Food and chocolates from Nimit's home (AH4 364). His room was the venue of our initial RDC meetings :)

*Hostel mein b'day aur birthday bumps, those eggs and tomatoes aur agle din ki treat :)

*Playing baddy (aka Badminton) in the hostel..

*Common room mein baith kar koi bhi Cricket match dekhna...woh continuous commentary aur woh kisi bowler ki ball par 4 ya 6 padhna aur phir usse gaaliyaan dena..

*Going to the water cooler at anytime of the day (or night) and finding Phodu in his standard Baniyan-trackpant walking in the corridor...

*Shouting BAPPUUU while coming back outside Bapu's (aka Rohan Gandhi) room (AH3 245).

*The three indications of impending exams 1) Andhraites playing cricket in the hostel, 2) Sudden improvement in weather (read cool breeze and rains) AND 3)POWER CUTS

*Sitting in the corridor during power cuts and trying to study..and when it became too dark to study..just sitting there and gossiping..

*Baarish...aur baarish ke saath woh sondhi sondhi mitti ki khushbu

*The discussions on DC on everything from averages in different courses to random bakwaas.

*Cooking Maggi at 2 in the night (and eating it too :P)..

*Walking into the corridor after that and finding Pandey, Abhay, Phodu and Meet all awake and then discussing some point for hours..

*Lazing between classes at Monginis or the stairs near the Library..

*Meal times par apne hi corridor se hi zor se "VISHAAAAAAAAL" chilla kar Vishal ko uske room se khane ke liye bulana..

*Mess mein baith kar logon ki mast taang kheechna..

*Shaam mein Basktball Court ke peeche wali road par walk karna..

*The classes in LT.. and ST ( aka Sagar Thakur) and (Purnoor Singh) Sodhi making up songs...(Harshvarshan) Mohta taking down notes..and Meet and Sagar cracking jokes..

* Workshop course (for obvious reasons :P)

*Electronic Lab ki woh masti aur EMEC lab ka woh terror..(shirt tucked in, wear shoes and not floaters, with diagrams drawn with scale and compass..)

*Woh single digits mein number..and then calculating how much below the average did we fall..and then thanking God for relative grading...

*Those movies in the Audi and the 'nautanki' that we used to do during those movies..

*Sitting on the stairs of the Audi during Zephyr aur Waves right in front of the participants and then "encouraging" them..taking panga with other hostels...and pulling the legs of participants from other colleges..

*The T20 World Cup in the Audi after an exam...the rush of adrenaline and emotions...the last shot by Misbah Ul Haq, thinking that we lost the match, and then the catch and the celebrations breaking out afterwards..

*The Dj nights for any occasion and RDC (Rejected Dancer's Club) opening the dance floor. Nimit, Purnoor, Puneet, Vishrut, Vishal, Angad, Meet, Abhay, Anurag, Shubham and all the others who have made for some awesome Dj nites...

*Raat ko VGH par jaa kar baithna..aur waha baith kar Panjim ki lights dekhna aur gappe maarna..

*Sitting outside Shop Co after dinner ..

*GOD MADE MAN, WE MAKE THEM HANDSOME the quote on barber shop, the place where every time you go...you’ll come out with a weird haircut.

*B Wing ke bahar baith kar Kashi Dairy ke paranthe khana :)

*The 40 hours of train journey from Goa to Delhi (and the other way round too)..and the thousands of incidents that happened during those 40 hours

(The view from 2379/80 H. Nizamuddin- Vasco Goa Express)

PS: It's late at night and I can't remember more, though things can be appended to the list if I remember any more things.

PS at ST: The StarCast

Well..it has been a couple of months since PS II started...and ab to sab logo se jaan-pehchan ho gayi hai..And like minded people have ganged up now..So I thought I'll introduce you to some of the friends I have made @ PS.

KP aka KumarPrashant-I think KP was one of the first guys I had met when I had joined Goa...College mein to zyaada interaction nahi tha...but PS mein to khoob acchi dosti ho gayi hai...KP ke mast waale funde hi generally hamara breakfast time ka discussion hota hai.

Somanchi aka Shashank Somanchi-My namesake, he is by far the quietest guy among all BITS trainees. Campus mein we lived in the same corridor and there too...he was the quietest one. I still remember the late night movies in Abhay's room and in the middle (a half asleep) Somanchi coming in and requesting us to reduce the volume...
I think he is the reason that afternoons mein ST mein neend nahi aati...because we keep mailing each other the entire afternoon and our conversation generally begin with "I am feeling damn sleepy...Whats up at ur end??"

Akshat-He was the sole reason ki hamara Embedded System Design ka project complete ho paaya tha..3 baje bande ki train thi..aur 11 baje bhi bhai lab mein baith kar project complete kar raha tha..I think that gives you a fair idea of this guys dedication.
Aaj kal to zara Gymming-shimming chal rahi hai...aur ST ke LAN par mast links with lots of movies dhoond kar bhi share kar raha hai.

Sanket Jain aka Sankat-You have to hear his PJ's...bilkul below poverty line wale. Breakfast ho ya lunch ya Lunch ke baad Sanket Jain ke phatte sun full time on.There is no way that you will not laugh at his jokes.
Both of us are in the same group, so kisi ki bhi treat hoti hai to hum dono ko bas ek doosre ka sahara hota hai...And because me, Sanket, Rishi and Krishna share a pantry so we keep meeting between meals too...

Rishi-Ab iske baare mein kya boloon-he is the only guy from Pilani who has been placed in Cosmic Semiconductors(Agar aap BITS waale ho, then you surely know what I am talking about). A guy with a great sense of humour, he can match each of Sanket's joke with one of his own.

Mayank-This guy is also Sanket's roommate, subah shaam Sanket ke phatte sunta hai. Thoda asar to hota hi hai..though PS mein sabse tough life inhi ki hai..he stays back at ST till 7:30 PM to work everyday. Shaam mein ek din inhone socha ki Gym jaen thodi der. Waha pahuchne se pehle hi inke mentor ka phone aa gaya and his mentor tells him "Where are you..itni lambi break le li hai Next time I will not call you up, I will directly call your PS instructor.." Well uske baad se Mayank bhai se GYM ki shakal bhi nahi dekhi hai..

Ankit Agarwal aka ANkitag (Thanks to his ST internal mail ID)-Well, inke baare mein aap samajh jaoge when I tell you that he was the one who had written the acknowledgement I had posted in the last post. Jab Sanket missing hota hai, to uski kami Ankit poori karte hai. Yeh bhai ab to employees ko kisi tool ki training de rahe hai..

Sudipt-Iske baare mein kya kahoon after all he is the man who has got calls from all 6 IIMS. Inke mentor ne inhe kaam de diya hai and a deadline of 2 months..aur keh diya hai ki usse pehle mere paas mat aana...agar pehle bhi khatam ho jaaye to bhi mat aana.

KrishnaMohan aka krishna-Another IIM guy he has got 3-4 IIM calls and he is also Sanket and Mayank's roommate. Even after 3 years at Pilani, his Hindi is a gone case..And one of the very few people I know who doesn't eat potatoes...I can't imagine how he survived in Pilani for the last three years.

Ritesh and Ranjot-One of my school friend at Pilani has told me earlier that two of his good friends had also got ST...so they were two PS mates from Pilani who I knew before the first day atPS. They have breakfast at PG so we generally meet them at lunch.And Ritesh is one of the 8 people from BITS who has got an admit from Stanford..PRO banda hai...

And whenever we sit down together for a meal, it feels like sitting down at the campus mess..and not just because the plates are similar, but because wahi harkaten karte hai...wahi ek doosre ki taang kheechna...wahi ek doosre ka din kaisa raha uski kahaniyan sun na aur bade bade plans banana.
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And that sometimes makes me feel nostalgic remembering the things that these are the same things that we used to do at Goa too...in fact mealtimes used to be the best times of the day for having animated conversations, Ankit Govil ko mess ke across chilla ke taang kheechna..and ek doosre ke mast wale funde sun na.

Ab bas table aur table par baithne waale different hai...waqt...bas waqt badal gaya hai...aur kucch nahi...


(but don't worry bhai log...phir waise hi baith ke timepass karenge kabhi...)

Google Talk

Whats the first thing that you do after logging into your Gtalk Account?

Its Obbb re...you check everyone's status message. Different People, Different status. Sometimes even Different People, same status....

On a rare minority of people in my gtalk list use the 'Available','Busy' or 'Idle'message. Logo ki saari creativity inhe messages mein hi to dikhti hai aur kaun kya kar raha hai...yeh bhi samajh mein aa jaata hai..

These days the placement seasion is on and statuses read "(Shubham is) a victim of recession" or "When it hits ur Fren its Recession, When it hits U.. its Depression :P"(Shokee).

With the coming of exams..log padhai kar rahe ho ya nahi..status zaroor lag jaate hai..like "DND, unless i m d only one who can diffuse d bomb which is about to blow"(Gangwar) or "Study as if you were to live forever. Live as if you were to die tomorrow.."(Prateek) or "YOU DEESTURB ME, I KEEL YOU. SEEMPLE."(Bhiday).Though in the last sem with electives, status messages like "Kitne T1, T2 , Compre aaye aur gaye...bt hum wahi ke wahi ;)." come forward.

Want to let everybody know about some one's b'day or some event then your status reads "Happy Birthday " or "Please come down at 12 to wish XyZ a Happy Birthday"

Want to inform people about some important meeting then people have sm's as "BITSAA presents a lecture on MBA basics @ 5:30"or "Yahoo coming for placements tommorow @ 9".Some other SM's are situational. For instance, say on Republic Day about 75% of the people will have their SM's as "Happy Republic Day" or another common one is "Proud to be an Indian".

Concluded an event (with reference to Mime Club or Music Club, (yahi ek aad club hai jo ache se kaam karte hai hai ;) ) successfully the SM's are "Mime Performance Rocked as usual..." or "Cheers to Music Club...".

With Valentines Day coming there are desperate SMs like "I need a date" or "Wanted a Love Guru !!"( Rajesh Bhasin) or "Searching for someone..." . Billu bhai's awesome message on recession and Valentines day reads "True love is when you tell you tell your Girlfriend that you work for SATYAM-and she still loves you" and Abhay's message on the same subject reads "Due to recession Girls are finally marrying for love.". Then there are some SMs(like Abhay's or Bhaven's ) which have link to some mast fundoo sites.

But the best ones are the ones which convey a message or has a funda behind it. I remember one SM that read "there are some things in life that money can't buy ........ but for the rest I NEED MONEY.."( has to be Pandeyji to come up with something this good). Others of that kind I like are of the type"destiny is calling me... so i put your call on hold!" or " I get enough exercise pushing my luck" or "Progress isn't made by early risers or hardworkers,but by lazy people, trying to find easier ways to do the same job." (Henry Ford) .

Sometimes I do see different people with the same status messages like Shubham and Chillu both stating "A victim of recession". Another example was when a few days back Vishrut and his room mates( thats Bhasin, Kazi and Bhaskar) got WiFi net in their room, all thier messages were similar.

Thanks to Gtalk that it has provided such an wonderful option apart from the boring "Available","Busy" and "Idle" SMs. So next time dont leave your SM any one of the default boring ones. You may be lucky and someone might like your SM and in turn you...

Also Vodoo(Manish) and rDx(Kushal) have embarked on the difficult mission of trying to analyze the gtalk status messages of BITSians...

Check out their efforts here.

Both of them have done a gr8 job at being vella's..maybe being at PS-II does that to people..

Cheers guys...Continue the gr8 job ;)

Celebration

Celebration means......

Four friends.
Bahar barsaat.
Four glasses of beer.



Celebration means......

Hundred bucks of petrol.
A rusty old bike.
And an open road.



Celebration means......

Maggi noodles.
A hostel room.
4.25 a.m.



Celebration means....... ..

3 old friends.
3 separate cities.
3 coffee mugs.
1 internet messenger.



Celebration means.......

Rain on a hot tin roof.
Pakoras deep-frying.
Neighbours dropping in.
A party.



Celebration means......

You and mom.
A summer night.
A bottle of coconut oil.
A head massage.

Missing the best days of my life :(

Last Post from AH3-260

The corridors are empty, most of my friends have left( in fact there are just 4-5 people left on my floor of 62 rooms..) , some to come back next sem, others forever..and all of them have taken with them memories of this place..both good and bad...
...the years of friends and friendship, of fights and make ups, of ups and downs, of trust and brotherhood, years of cracking meaningless PJ's and still eliciting laughter from the audience( read like minded pagal log :) )..of exploring Goa, exploring the world of electronics (and electrical too :P) and ending up an IT job...


With regards to Academics in general and EEE in particular, the words that sum it up-

Been there, done that, can't remember most of it...

Learning everything from Biology to Report writing, from Advertisement and Sales to Analog and Digital Very Large Scale Integrated Circuit design (pheew) BITS ne sab kuchh sikhaya...

I will miss cribbing about mess food, complaining about the light and water problems that came up, especially the times when during exams A-wing plunged into darkness and electricity was there in C-wing..ohh those shouts of "Maaro Govil ko" ( our mess rep- kuchh khana nahi sudhar paaya) to "itna mat padhon saalon...mar jaoge padh padh ke"( during exams to "PHODU" ( which became the first name of half my hostel mates thanks to me) and how the hell I forgot HACs which we had coined in our first over dinner one night.I will miss sitting in Angad's room or Vishal's room at night trying to prepare for next day's exam, the tension at 8:50 AM for a 9:00 AM paper and the relief and the feeling "ki bas ho gaya paper.." at 10:00 AM...well life used to stand still during those 3 days of T1 and T2...

I will miss sitting in CSD in mornings with Vishrut, Gill, Vishal, Choos, Pantar and Chillu, will miss the BITSAA PR work, working on everything from BITS Website to Glimpses '06 to Melange '04, those deadlines and the work put into getting the work done..

i will miss spending time sitting at Mongi, juice corner or even the b-dome....hell i will even miss the dinner time discussions, which even made the bad AATISH food bearable. I will miss those movie sessions in Gill's room, the nightouts with Gill and Nimit playing CS in his room, the nighout before the exams and those nightouts at end sem, just being awake to wish everyone a goodbye before they left at all odd times ( arre bhai yeh low cost carriers ko subah 5:30 ka time hi milta hai re..). And to think the time for the final goodbye will come so soon...

And who can forget the treat about everything, those Birthday parties at Bogmalo, the cake, the birthday bumps and the awesome celebrations in the hostels..it used to really make us forget the last 18 birthdays we had celebrated at home, and the fact that we were away from home..

The Zephyr and Waves and Quark, which used to be events to showcase our talents onstage and off-stage, winning the hearts of the crowd and taking panga with other hostels and colleges..I will also neve forget the awesome AH3 dance-I like to move it that made the crowds go wild... :)

I will not forget the elections and the drama associated with it, 7 candidates for a post, the audi debate, the results in the audi, those fates hanging in balance..( bas ek wish poori nahi ho paayi-watching "None of these" win, lets hope yeh feat bhi manage ho jayegi Goa mein...)

This is the last post I'll ever write from my room AH3, 260 BITS Pilani Goa Campus..and no matter how much I cribbed about everything under the sun..the fact is "I am still gonna miss it..."

And no matter how everyone tells me that its still gonna be the same...deep down I know...it never will be...


I'll end with the true feelings that sum it up..

The pain of missing friends isn't their absence but...its when you think of the times you have shared and ask '..will those ever happen again...'and your mind silently says "NEVER"

Time line of a DSP assignment

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4th September 08, 12 PM- An assignment of 8 questions + 4 MATLAB questions

DATE OF SUBMISSION- 16th September, 6 PM


11th September 08, 11:30 PM- Conversation between me and Sagar

Shashank: Oye suna hai DSP mein kuchh assignment mila hai???
Arre uss din Redpine aayi thi, I hadn't gone to class. Kahi se questions arrange kar.
ST: Haan yaar, arre I had gone for the class re. I have the questions written down.
Shashank: Arre badiya, chal tu kar liyo, I'll take the completed assignment from you.
ST: Chill yaar ho jayega, CH4 mein ladkiya kar lengi.


13th September 08, 8:00 PM - Dinner time convo between Angad and me

Angad: Oye DSP mein assignment mil gaya...
Shashank: haan yaar
Angad: yaar i had not gone for the class, questions hai tere paas naa..assignment kar liyo, i'll take it from you.
Shashank:Arre ST has the questions, woh kar raha hai..
Angad: oh! phir theek hai, jab to assignment kar le to de diyo...


14th September 08, 11:30 PM - Conversation between Angad, Shashank, ST and Uday

Uday : Arre assignment karo
ST, Shashank, Angad: abe 9 pointer tu hai..assignment kaun karega tu ya hum???
Uday : Arre I don't go for DSP re...
ST: Arre aasan hai..ho jayega..CHILL...
ST: kal Baithe hai..pakka shaam mein...sab abhi padh lo...


15th September 08, 5:30 PM- 7:00 PM - Angad's room- Angad, ST and Shashank ( trying to do the assignment..)

Shashank: abe yeh kya ho raha hai???
ST: arre aasan hai...
Angad: Abe kaise hua???
Angad: Accha yaar tum log karo, tab tak main Microelecronics padh leta hoon.


15th September 08, 7:30 PM- 8:30 PM - ST's room- ST and Shashank ( trying to do the assignment..)

Shashank: Accha yaar, main Gadgill se pooch ke aata hoon..


15th September 08, 9:30 PM- 9: 45 PM - Neeraj Gadgil's room- ST and Shashank and Gadgill

ST,Shashank: abe we have done these questions...
Neeraj: Arre yaar..mere se bhi abhi yahi hue hai...
KP( coming after playing badminton): Oye ho gaya assignment, abe jaldi karo, mujhe copy bhi karna hai...


15th September 08, 10:00 PM-12:30 AM - ST's room- ST and Shashank ( STILL trying to do the assignment..)

Shashank: Arre Gill se pooch lete hai...
ST: Haan chalo


15th September 08, 12:30 AM-2:00 AM - Angad, ST and Shashank ( finally calling it a day..)

ST: Arre subah I'll get a copy from CH4..ho jayega..Chill...


16th September 08, 8:30 AM - ST's room- Shashank( outside ST's room) and ST sleeping inside

Shashank: Oye uth, tujhe copy laani hai..
ST: Haan yaar..uth gaya..jaata hoon CH4


16th September 08, 9:00 AM - ST's room- Shashank( STILL outside ST's room) and ST still sleeping inside

Shashank: abe uth yaar..tu marvaye gaa...
ST: arre yaar, utha hi nahi..phir so gaya tha...


16th September 08, 9:30 AM-11:30 AM - ST's room- Shashank and ST still trying, Angad attending his classes

Shashank: Abe kal shaam se same questions par atke hai...
ST:Chalo Gadgill ne kar liye honge...


16th September 08, 11:30 AM - Neeraj Gadgil's room- Neeraj, Aniket (sitting on chairs), KP, Pranav, Harish, Mandar, Shashank ( sitting on the bed), ST and one more guy (Standing)

Somebody:abe 12 bajne waale hai..kaise hoga??
Somebody else: arre class mein thodi naa dena hai...5 baje submit karna hai..
Another guy: arre class mein maang liya to..complete to hona chahiye...


16th September 08, 12:10 PM- All seven of us enter the class late


16th September 08, 12:15 PM- 2-3 people enter the class..

Prof: Guys, lots of attendence today, thanks to the assignment..


16th September 08, 3:30 PM - Embedded systems lab, lab underway

SMS from Angad to Shashank
"Oye ST says we have to submit a write up along with lab assignments, about how we did the
questions etc, when will you do it??"

Reply from Shashank to Angad
"5 PM, just keep it ready by then."


16th September 08, 5:15 PM- Angad's room- Angad and ST waiting for Shashank

ST: oye jaldi copy kar..
Shashank: ho gaya yaar, he has said, he'll be in his chamber till 6:00 PM.


16th September 08, 5:30 PM - Angad's room- 3 of us ready to leave

Uday and Avinash : abe jaldi assignment do, lab wala...


16th September 08, 5:40 PM - Angad's room- 3 of us ready to leave, Uday and Avinash still copying

Angad: Oh S***, I had to go for my LOP presentation at 5 PM.
ST, Shashank: LOL, you are so dead.


6th September 08, 5:50 PM - Outside Faculty chamber's

ST: Chalo ho gaya...
Shashank: yoyo woh bhi 10 min before deadline :)




That's how assignments are completed on time, every time ;)

Kahani abhi baaki hai...

Well, today was the end of our last serious t2( Test2 or the 2nd internals)...as the last year at BITS is for electives and a six months training, so we'll I am gonna miss u T2 :P

However the misery of the toughest sem for the toughest branches( EEE n Eni if you guys couldn't realize that out yet ) is not over yet...With us getting a checked copy of Analog Electronics papers tomm morning( wtf we just gave the exam on saturday..)...the dates for the final lab exam are out...n I am in the first batch :(

And after that is the Communication lab exam..

n then just a couple of weeks for all the nostalgic we can be...some of us are gonna be attending our last few classes together, eating in the mess together for the last few times... cause some of will be moving out for PS2..n will come back in the 8th sem when we'll be out...so its adieu time... :(

So guys its down to 35 days or 840 hours or 50,400 seconds (or simply its too less a time) to have fun n enjoy n talk and spend with all the people who have been a cushion for all the bumps and kicks life has given you these 3 yrs...
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This post is for Nimit, Abhay, Meet, Bapu,Alekh bhai, Sagar, Goyal,chillu, Shokee, Choos and all the guys( n gals ;) ) who are going for PS in the first sem and all to all those who have to bear with me for on more sem [ :) ]... the people who have made the times at campus memorable...because everything we do together becomes a memory... ;)


Here is a toast to our friendship....and to the great times we've shared together...

Thanks a lot for just being there...

20 Things I'll never forget about my college...

On the night before my 20th Birthday( 30th Jan)...I was waiting for the Birthday Bumps( point no. 9) and thought of what all my college has given me...and so here i noted down some of the most memorable things...

1. The College itself-BITS Pilani Goa Campus

2. Friends I have got for life- Vishal, Vishrut, Nimit, Angad, Govi...whom I can trust with my life...

3. The Wingies- Adi, Meet, Abhishek, Abhay, Pandey and Govil( though he is never at his room)...available for help, masti or just for being there..anytime and everytime...

4. Cooking Maggi at 1 AM...

5. The Mess(definitely not because of the food)...but because of the time we spend here just talking and pulling each others legs

6. The nighouts..

7. The DJ nites for every occasion and the RDC( Rejected Dancers Club) meet that ensues.

8. The treats at Monginis or Nescafe...

9. The Bumps(read kicks) we give out on Birthdays...

10. The beaches

11. Watching a match in the Common room with 180 people screaming at every hit and miss...

12. The class at 8 in the morning...

13. The lab reports...be it Analog Electronics, EMEC, DECO or CommSys-all of them with more than 10 pages of writing theory...and EEE'ites have two of them each sem..

14. Assignments about things not even heard of...

15. Mess Food( It wasn't bad...it was simply AATISH..)

16. Slow Net

17. LOLest Courses...

18. The closing of the hostel gates at 1130 PM

19. The fact that it made an engineer out of me and more importantly a Man..

20. ...(Waiting for this one..will let you know soon ;) )

Anyways I'd like to thank Vishal, Abhay,Abhishek, Meet, Pandey, Adi, Pophali, Bhasin, VNV, Govil, Gill, Bapu and others for the wonderful Birthday bumps and kicks...n everybody else for the wishes and the kicks...
God bless..

Kissa Kursi ka....

The election of Sidharth ( aka sid_bloke ) to the post of Zener president has inspired us,the common man, to stand for power...so now we have decided to go into Bihar Politics...i.e. coalation government...all of us are thinking of filing our nominations for president tomm....

The team...
Myself, Adi, Abhay, Pandeyji, Vishal, Vishrut Paras( kaka ), Govil... though we r still open to new members..

our funda..

15 ppl standing for the post..No serious campaigning lest we should win....will go to the audi debate..n question each other on things like..."why weren't u online yest??" or "tera cg mujhse zyaada kaise..." or "yeh teri t-shirt ka naya rang kasunsa hai..." or simply if somebody asks Adi a question, i will answer n vice versa...

All 15 of us will go to junior hostels for campaigning simultaneously n ask a junio "kiske liye vote karega??.."....if he says any one name...he is dead... :)


Our motto...

united we stand
divided we kick ass


...anyways this is just a plan... n here is a gud news.. BITS Pilani Goa Campus placed its first students today...Clinston and Arpit Shah in Nvidea..for a whooping 6.9 lpa....yoyoyo guys...n its Microsoft tomm...

The Guy next door....

(this is in no way related to the movie with a similar title n even the theme is not similar...so kindly don't expect anything like the movie here.....)

Well...to tell u as a matter of fact.."It is a known fact at BITS, Pilani-Goa Campus..that we were both born so that we could be enemies..He is alive so that he can piss me off..n vice versa..."

Unfortunately for both of us..we gt neighbouring rooms...though we were lucky enough that there is a gap n stairs between our rooms....

Well the story starts when this guy from next door comes n knocks on the door..this would be say like a week after we joined college...He wanted a disprin...( well with mini tests in the first sem...it was enough to cause any one a headache...) so I gave him a disprin...bt after some time realised he is a serial disprin eater (He gets tensed up near the exam time n takes a disprin like it is some sweet...(well...u might not have heard about the time this guy ate 4 disprins together n managed to stay alive...well..we kicked him hard though)...as a result has been warned by all of us n no body gives him a disprin now...in fact came to know last sem that he had gt a whole pack of disprin couriered frm home....(saala bas sudharega nahi...)

He is generally seen in hostel (thats real rarely..) in his trademark black shorts n full sleeve shirts, looking tense n running here n there... (nt putting up a pic..cause I promised him..).During the exams, he believes in not wasting any time walking to somebody's room to ask doubt..he literally RUNS...in the corridors...n has gt hurt too.. a lot of times..the most serious being last yr..the day before his birthday..(18th Nov...his b'day) when he had to get bandaged on his head...

And even his parents r worried that he gets so tense etc etc..n had called us too to tell us to take care of him...bt how do you tell them that finally he has found a girl to take care of him....We used to tease hima bout a girl he really liked..n used to get angry at us...bt he finally gt commited a few months ago( not with the same girl... ;) )..n celebrated four months of togetherness..last week on some date..(i just forgot the date...was it 8th...)

Well,thank god his priorities changed..or he would have been sitting in my room...biting my head off..over some issue or the other..however he now comes to my room only after 11pm..when the hostel gates close..n then kicks my door ( for no rhyme or reason) n moves on...He is the reason that we have fun on the dinner table..pulling his leg frm even the other side of the mess..if he is nt sitting with us..The one thing I don't understand abt him is that whenever somebody pulls his leg..he is bound to kick me...event though I am such an Innocent (notice..with a capital I) guy...

This pretty much sums up our story..trying to kill each other

This was just one of his side..the other one being the fact he is a very hard worker, dedicated, knows what he wants n gets it (including you know whom), a gr8 person to be with, you should just hear his brlliant ideas, his stram of achievements..being a MCSE...an enthu Forex (the M.Sc Economics Assoc) member, and also a member of ASCII.. (the not existent CS Assoc), part of the BITSAA team, Embryo team, BnB team, n Wall street club...etc n you know that this guys knows his stuff....

Well...will not praise more..or he is gonna kick me...

and in the end...after all the leg pulling, he got really pissed of n i had to make one promise to him...n here it is...

"I solemnly swear that I will not trouble my neighbour (won't name him..cause I promised him so..), will not pull his leg,talk about his past lovelife and lead him to my murder or his own suicide and use no names in my status msgs."

Signed Boxer

unfortunately...bad habits die hard..n i am back to pulling his leg..n his girlfriend bears it with a smile...( nt that she has any other choice..)..n he keeps kicking my door and giving out "SUPARI'S " for me to everyone he meets...and life continues...

Friendship Day...

"It's the friends you can call up at 4am that matter."

"Yesterday brought the beginning, tomorrow brings the end, but somewhere in the middle we've become best of friends."

Yesterday..5 August was friends day...gt a lot of msg's n scraps wishing me(the above two r a part of the lot that i recieved...n it got my thinking... it really nececcary to have a day to celebrate friends...or for that matter valentines day,mothers day, fathers day etc...

Spending time together even while working..me n shubham with nimit in the back n vishrut in the front.....

Isn't every moment that we spend with friends a celebration??

The times we spend together sleeping during lectures,bunking them,studying in library, watching movie in the audi, spending time like a vella at shop co, Monginis..or even eating dinner together is a party...a large n noisy one that is...

Its frnds who make life interesting n worth living...n i can say...just see us in the mess at meal times n you can make out..this is one of the best part of our day(..not the atish food dumbo..its the friends...) n we eagerly wait for this time....sadly though..it will end next year when we move on to PS II, bt till then the party is on....

Hope life continues likle this with all of us together... always n in the meantime..here is a quote i particularly liked...
"I don't remember how we happened to meet each other. I don't remember who got along with whom first. All I can remember is all of us together...always."

Memoirs...

Today, August 5th 2007, Friendship day...n i was just going through my album....

n found this pic of class II at AFGJI Delhi...could remember quite a few of my classmates, bt need help with the others...

Ist row...

1st Jaspreet

2nd Himanshu

3rd Arshdeep

5th Priyanka

2nd row

1st Varun
2nd Sanaa

7th Himani

9th Kiran

3rd row

2nd Mandeep

4th Raghav

7th Sajal

8th Ankit

9th Harpreet

10th This looks like Prashant...though i am nt sure..

12th Urminder

4th Row

1st Vaibhav

2nd Karan

3rd Hitanshu

5th Keshav

6th Shashank

7th Hardik

now help me find the rest of the names in the class pic guys..

n as a coincidence, Keshav uploaded another pic on orkut of some of us frm our last yr at school..n u can make out all of us there....

Clockwise frm top left:Nihit, Jaspreet, Me, Nishant, Vivek, Govinda, ,Prashant, , Arjun, Sid, Ashish, Arshdeep Singh, Himanshu and Keshav....frnds forever....

The Entrepreneurs

BITS has always been famous for all the entrepreneurs it has produced..n..this one is an idea that came to us (..namely me, gill, nimit n vishrut..not in the correct order..) about what we were gonna do after BITS...

n we thought about starting a company...started with a competition to Microsoft..but our dwindling grades brought us back to reality...n we decided to open a Cycle repair shop outside our campus...

Nimit was to do the mechanical part...i was to do the Pump N light, fan repairs etc, Angad had to look up at the "Physics" part of the shop....n Vishrut ( the 10p) had dual job...He was to prepare the computer billing software...( arre BITS wale hai bhai...kuchh to izzat chodo... kam se kam bills to computer wale banane do....) and at night..he would use his contacts to get him inside the campus n he would deflate the cycle tires so that we would have regular customers....

bt Vishrut with his 9.something Cg would get a job in Apple Inc..and it is now up to the three of us to get our Cycle shop "up and running"..oops..sry "up and cycling"...

anyways this was just our idea....

What is this world coming to??

I remember hearing sometime "What is the world coming to??..Man doen't care for man anymore..."..I didn't realize the true meaning meaning at that time..bt it hit me yesterday..I was reading Reader Digest and came across an article about how mountaineers climbing the Mt Everest desert thier own sick teammates in thick snows n blizzards in a bid to reach the top...even competitors don't deserve such treatment...and here i was reading about teammates.....n i couldn't help saying..."wat the hell...wat is this world coming to??"

and then look around..isn't this happening everywhere..man killing man..just to reach the top...Is reaching the top more important than your own friends??What happiness in reaching the top..when you leave people who care for you behind...is it true sucess??

well i dont think so cause i know...i wouldn't have survived in college without any of my friends.....Vishrut, Nimit,Vishal,Angad,Govi, Adi, Govil,Shubham( aka ravemzdin) ,Sodhi,Sagar,Rao,Andrew,Maddy and Puneet..and all the others who make college life rock..( and ATISH food,those boring lectures etc bearable..)...

Next post will be about all of u guys..keep rocking as always n enjoy ur ps....

The Comedy called CAS

CAS..Circuits n Signaal as our prof calls it...finally gave the compre yesterday bt i still have no clue why we were doing that subject...Lemme tell u abt that lecture...

The course:
EEE/INSTR GC 272...Circuits n Signals...supposedly a pre requisite for DSP...dont ask me wat that is...that we can take as an elective in 4 th yr...

The Timing:
The lectures used to gr8 fun..The actual time for the lecture was frm 11-12 in the morning..bt i can actually count on my fingers the number of times the lecture has gone for more than 1130...
The first few classes: Ok this is one of Murphy's rule in..."there will always be a professor in the coll. whose accent or language who wouldn't understand"....well the first few lectures were spent on repeating SIGNAAAAAL as our prof use to pronounce signal...n there was also this song frm some movie with the same word in it...

The Company:
Ob...with a common subject for EEE n EnI...we had expected to b sitting next to some serious looking nerdy eeeite or an instruite...bt i was really lucky to have some gr8 company...Sagar, Harsh me n Meet on the same bench...n KK n co.. behind us...man it was nothing less than a party...me n Sagar cracking stupid jokes...Harsh like a dedicated student taking down all the crap the teacher was teaching n Meet asking us DOUBTS...as if we were even concentrating...n there was also Sodhi sitting in front of us who used to turn back n he n Sagar would start singing wat they used to call "a song"...bt i beg to differ.....
Behind us KK used to be the guy who generally used to start shouting time up at 1125 itself... n make those 10 ptrs look back at us in annoyance..well they could listen to the prof speaking all yr long...

The End result:
Ok the prof is leaving coll next sem..bt he did some really boring part at the end telling us that it would be useful for DSP in 4th yr..hell man i dont know wat electives i will take next sem...n this guy is talking abt 4th yr...absolutely mental....
Well..am really proud of this statistics..none of us bunked more than one odd class..n it was such a gr8 fun attending the lecture..i could do it all over again..

n i think i'll scrap a B in CAS... but only the prof know :)