Happy days

Before getting started, I would like to give the background of what I want to say here.
"Happy days" is a very recent movie in Telugu well received by an eclectic mix of south Indians. My mother tongue is Tamil. Although Tamil and Telugu are amidst the same neighbourhood, these 2 languages are very different in dialects, scripts and have different ethnicities. I heard excellent remarks about this movie and was longing to watch this from time immemorial. I am especially bad at learning new languages and the very reason this movie was in Telugu put me off every time. I bugged my roommate sufficiently long, when at last today he sent me the link of this movie WITH SUBTITLES in English. Thanks to Ravi.
Happy days is about a bunch of fresher's who start their bachelor's in mechanical engineering in CBIT, getting united by the tag of 'F.R.I.E.N.D.S.H.I.P' during the usual ragging sessions. Starting from friendship, Ragging sessions, gala in first year, beauty and brains, love at first sight, jealousy, chut-chut(small) fights amidst friends, passion to try new things, Cricket game between seniors (claimed to have state champions) Vs Juniors (who finally wins the game), ballroom sessions all the way till campus interviews and the farewell day, all the bits and pieces of emotions is well-crafted into a jigsaw puzzle that makes you tightly bound to the seat for a good couple of hours waiting to unveil the climax. Kudos to the director!! It left me with nostalgic memories of my good old college days.

I gave a little serious thought about recollecting my college days and tried my best to relate most of the events in the movie. Surprisingly, I found a good chunk of it missing in my life. I managed to get into one of the famous schools known very well amidst the elite Indians, lining up right in the midst of the 5 Indian Institute of Technologies. I am one of those poor souls who got ragged right on the first day, when I went to meet Rat, my sole inspiration right from childhood. Also the eventful 2 hours of copying notes for a 3rd year elec. engineering class senior. I distinctly remember crying in saraswathi temple after getting ragged by seniors for showing me the porn magazines which I hadn’t seen till that day. I could actually sit down and count the number of times, I was ragged. It wasn’t much. Might be because I was the neighbour to Mr.G.Su, the chief warden that time. I joined the department of art and decoration and got introduced to a big chunk of people (Reminder: I should write someday about Art n Dee) .
Although, I was tripped with 'n' number of girls,(I should accept, I did manage to have a crush per year), the most unfortunate thing being, I was never actually in a relationship with somebody. Crushes didn’t really make it to the next stage. I admit, I probably remained geeky and spent most of my time worrying about my acads, or rather wondering how to merge with spray painting. Looking back at my orkut friends list, I really wonder how did I manage to maintain such a high girl:boy ratio. But the truth is I never had a girl friend, rather I should put it as “I never had the time to spend with a(one) girl”. I blame it on the bus(y)ness created by the course structure at BITS that didn’t let me have my own time. Wait a second !! Psenti sem (Last semester on Campus) is probably the time when I should have done something creative. May be the feeling of getting old mixed with scripting my final few months of college life could have made me not enjoy the libertines of time. BITS remains still afresh in my memories. I should probably come back to this topic someday.

Graffiti (A one-liner of sweet memories):
Orientation week, first year wing, One-pitch cricket outside billy’s room, oil spa treatment and my meeting with G.Su, fresher’s party, trip back home during oasis 2000, ThermoD, My Gen.B textbook got stolen during a momentary power failure, Art ‘n’ Dee, KG Mess, First sem c.g.-9.05, Best PR (85), Krishna Bhawan’s nite, first year APOGEE, dilemma of taking a comp.sci or a eee dual, Major c.g.drop after 2nd sem, Shadowz wing formation(New-wing upstairs facing insti), Geetha B’s Report writing class, 1st Oasis -2001, .........(owing to current busy schedule am stopping it here. Look for the rest later !!!! )