College memoirs....

KRAZZY 3!

These 3 years just flew by..like a roller coaster...it was fun! with all its ups and downs..it got the real me out...I just turned out to be a surprise to everyone, esp to myself...Chennai turned the Mumbai girl to a pukka chennai-ite! the quiet and reserved girl from Mumbai become the unstoppable mocke mistress in Chennai! all thanks to my perrrfect friends!

Ya so it all started with my dad getting transferred from the mumbai branch to chennai...Just like anyone wud hate leaving the place where they lived for over 18 yrs i just hated to come here...i was told that we were shifting to chennai (which only reminded me of KOOVUM river and HOT climate, sweat ( eeewww!), fighting auto guys! )....i just felt like jumping into the arabian sea...but instead flew to chennai on 10th April 2005...in a bigger version of a helicopter! it was a cute little plane with just 48 seats...and flew just above the last layers of clouds closest to earth...

After getting over the depression part of shifting we got on to the college hunt! i got through Viscom into the famous M.O.P. Vaishnav...i had no idea what the course was..i just liked the name..Visual Communication and applied , appeared for the tests and interviews and got through! LOL! anyways...

My first day of college dawned with tension and fear of ragging...i got onto the share auto and zoomed off to college! ( thanks to the share auto guys..i was never late to college! they shud be chosen in the Force India team! we wud win each time! )... But it was pretty cool...the seniors weren't the bully type..i was happy sitting in the first bench...not at all hep ( don't ask me how! i know i am from Mumbai)...but all that happiness ended with the first day!

The first month in college was just pathetic! i was new not only to this singara chennai but also to the ppl, their behaviour and to college... i like a goody to shoes and a studious freak ( which i only look like...i have Bibliophobia! ;D ) sat in the first bench hoping for someone to match my wavelengths to sit beside me like anyone wud expect...but no..things werent supposed to be a bed of roses...i had three ppl sitting beside me talking bout books and intellectual stuff and their life..( apparently they knew each other ) I just didn't have anyone to talk to... every seemed to have their perfect match but me!

Ok ..I consoled myself saying it happens..I am not going to be friendless with my eyes going red with tears brimming over...days just went by in college without much dialogue exchange...like a kid just got into pre-kg I used to refuse to go to school...oppss..i mean college... ( oh god! was i like that! )... I was hoping for some ray of hope..a msger from god to be my frd!...lol..I was desperate!

Then came our language class...i had taken Sanskrit...thanks to our ancient language I got my buddies there...after a month! i met Adithi and Dvijavanthi a.k.a. DJ who were my classmates who had thankfully taken Sanskrit too! .. I started to talk to them and they sure were msgers from god! I slowly got to know the rest of the gang and they were coolest of the lot! just my type! why did I take so much time to know them! darn the first bench!

From then onward it was fun! we had our share of fights and misunderstandings and hugs and kisses and loaws :D...we all had different tastes but still like salt, pepper, sugar, and sour mixed together gives a nice hot and sour soup gr8 for the gloomy days ..we made a each other happy any day!

Ramachandra Canteen and the O.A.T. were our favourite spots! u could always find our hanging out in the canteen..Dj drinking tea always, Maggi having the famous Sambar rice and buttermilk, and i parcelling Potato Bondas! there comes my nick name Bonda from! hehehe...

Hanging out was new to me! But i loved to go out with them..there is no place we haven't visited...Spencers, Citi Centre, Gindy Park ( dont gimme a look...its to take pictures for our assignment! ),Ispahani, Satyam, Flowerdrum, Ashvitas, Beach, and ya the list goes on .... Chennai suddenly looked great! i learnt to fight and argue with the auto drivers in brahman tamil! they wud sometimes give a smirk...but i just don't care! i started to defend chennai from any person talking bad about it! hmmm...thats quite a change!

These girls got out the mocke in me...! getting my second name mocke mohani..which is lost now though...and since i am extremely healthy i got my third nickname..Teddy! thanks to maggi and dj...

With all the fun we had tensions tagging alone with s about projects...in the first year i used to get freaked out with all our last min work...but by the third yr i was comparatively chilled out...i knew we could finish it...god..we were good at last min work and also in breaking the promise of starting early next time! nah! we never did it... :D wat the hell! promises are meant to be broken! LOL! we only ended up blaming each other for the delay and then laughing in over it after getting decent marks...!

The college is a bit strict which made us crib every single time we got a project as to when we will get out from here...but now...we miss those terribly! the times we thot were bad were actually not so bad wen i think of it now! these 3 years were just Crazy! WOW! i love it! And now we are GRADUATES!

I realise now that i were so protected from the outer world that i didn't realise its worth..we could meet every single day and have fun!..but now..wen i step into the real world i feel those days in college were the best days of my life! but as all good things have to come to an end this chapter too had to..but who knows this new chapter may turn out to be the best one after it gets over! hahaha...the grass is always greener the other side of the fence...

Moral of the story! don't take things for granted! Live life to the fullest and one day at a time! enjoy it the way as if it were your last day God has given you! and every single day will become your best day! thanks to my friends! Guys....u have made my life great! Sniff..Sniff... :D