Our Gang sleeps in the back bench during lectures. There were 2- 3 guys and all gals who were curious about lectures all the time. We never disturbed them as we need help from them during exams and assignments. For them classes were precious or something more than that. We didn't simply gave up listening lectures. We also tried once to listen but failed. That one was a computer science class S1S2. Computer Science Miss used to come everyday and says "Its a computer, thats a computer whats a computer" and all. After that she will start asking questions. I didn't even understand the questions and asked my friends for both question and answer. great, to whom I am asking. We all were same. But its just standing for 5 mins when she asks questions. So we never cared about em after that. Some lecturers were very strict, so we couldn't enjoy those classes. These were till semester 3.
There were some subjects which we couldn't understand at all. Even now we don't know why we learned all those stuffs and how did we pass. Some Financial Management and crap. That Lecturer (Sathar sir I guess) will come to the class and will start spitting on us. I was never able to control my sleep in that class. For me whenever he talks about Ledger and journel in Financial Management, I felt he is telling some nice story. Like, Long long ago there were some liabilities and commodities and then I will go to a deep sleep. I have seen even gals sleeping in that class.
We loved talking and laughing in the class. I was the no 1 in that and caught almost all the time. I could never control my laugh. Lecturers used call me and ask to explain whatever they were teaching that time. I used to look at the board and make sentences based on whatever were written. And always I escaped like this.he he.. you won't believe, once Database Miss thought I was really good and listening even though I laughed. she freed me and gave warning to my friends.
Someone had said that Engineering is an art of acquiring skills to invent something. Well we heard it first. We invented loads of games for time pass during lectures. Games like PRAV and all. We played Anthakshari, kinda gay, still ok. We also played Police and thief game during class time. I still remember Prabin searching for songs when I gave letter B. He was like " damn.. B..Ba.. Baloon... aah.. Baaletta Baaletta Baaletta Baaletta Baaalettaa..Ba" and gave me a B..I was blinking and never played that game after that..
Life is to explore and do what your heart says (watch 3 idiots)..After Semester 4 we realized that we were a disturbance to class as our classmates were not able to concentrate. This is why we started bunking classes. Another sacrifice from us for the benefit of class. We used have round table meeting to plan Mass bunk. But never got all the votes from class. We bunked almost all after noon lectures after S4. Prabin and Unni were the one who used to plan it and rest of us will approve it. " Today 2 Tele communication and 2 system programming class after noon and they won't take attendance so we will leave by sharp 1". This is how we built our plan. I'll tell you one thing. Bunking is like drinking alcohol. Once you started it, there is no go back. We were so determined about bunking. There were so many occasions when we couldn't bunk and were shivering to bunk like a drunkard will feel if he doesn't get to drink. I remember Prabin used to scold us and murmurs all the time during these classes for not cooperating with his plan . We thought those were the horrible times in our lives. But nope... It was yet to come.
One day on a sunny noon we were just chatting as usual after lunch with no plan of bunking. Suddenly we realized that its going to be a FULL Software Project Management (SPM) class. The class was about to start and SPM Miss was on the way. We quickly jumped out of the class and saw Miss coming. So I and Unni Hid behind the wall. Our hero prabin stood in front of the Miss with his bag on shoulder in Rajani style. Our classmates were very nice to us and they nicely pointed out where we were hiding to The Miss. She felt bad and irritated and said "If any one who is not interested in my class, they can leave". "Da she said we can leave; lets go" said Prabin and we left. Poor Miss was standing there for sometime......
Saturday, March 27, 2010
A Few Things That I Remember - Chapter 2
Copying is an art. You should have special skills to do that.It can be very dangerous and its not for kids. In college and all, apart from studying, to make your run rate high, you should be flexible in copying. We learned it gradually and Mastered in it. My(not mine) first copying experience in college was funny.
"Da.. show it to me ... come on shimith.. at least one yaar.. be a man..!!" This is S1S2 Electrical Technology Series exam. Adarsh is so nervous to get answers like everyone in the hall.. He saw me taking 1 or 2 extra papers and thought I was writing something related to the subject..poor dude.. He started pulling my shirt even after telling him that my answers were wrong. You can't blame him. When the time is so bad, you will be desperate to fight against it. Also you would love to write something on your answer sheet. We had a worst experience of Computer Science paper asking to draw a cat in Q-Basic program and all. Not knowing that the question paper was interchanged and not related to B tech IT, our Adarsh wrote Q-Basic in the answer sheet and made a drawing of a cat. He was the one who wrote something on that exam.
Anyway, as a friend I felt bad and I handed over my answer sheet by telling that the laws and calculations used for the questions are Wrong. Who cares..He was like a kid who got Ice cream out of nowhere and completed the exam Bindaazz. When the results were announced we were caught for copying, as same answers were wrong in mine and his papers..ditto...!!
We do copy during exams all the time. If it was Class test , series test, lab test or Semester exam.. All were same for us. On last semester exam the one sat next to me was one of the class topper. I was saying Thanks to God for first 10 mins. She was a bit confused about Ist question and I corrected her. We had 10 questions to be answered and I got 9 from her. I deserved it right, as I resolved her starting trouble ?
I used get very much tensed just before the day of exam and then call Varun, Unni, Adarsh, Prabin and Jijin 10 times a day. Whenever I asked them about some chapter, "da did you study that.. any idea" everyone would say a long NO and I would go to bed aaraamse.!! We were very open about studies. If we say we didn't study thats the end. We can't write a right answer to that question eventhough we write a lot. . We thought Varun was also like us. This guy will say didn't study that chapter, this chapter, blah blah and will get nice marks. One day just before the exam Varun asked a series of tough doubts to Adarsh and he only answered em. Then only we realized that this bugger knew all answers. When we checked his Text Books, we saw he had underlined all the chapters. After that we never trusted him in exams.
There were exams like computer science lab and all where we used to bi heart all programs and vomit in the system. Man.. Nobody knew how to use a system at that time.. We thought Varun had a little idea and we often asked doubts to him. We all were very bad in programming. Once Unni wanted to open C program window and as he doesn't know he asked Varun. He told him to goto RUN command prompt and type " Open C program please". This poor Unni did the same. Moreover he was complaining that C program was not launching. I still remember remember Vigil kumar claiming that he got partial output in C Lab exam for finding Prime numbers. His program will print "Enter your Number" display message and won't do anything after that. You can't deny that its a partial output..
"Da.. show it to me ... come on shimith.. at least one yaar.. be a man..!!" This is S1S2 Electrical Technology Series exam. Adarsh is so nervous to get answers like everyone in the hall.. He saw me taking 1 or 2 extra papers and thought I was writing something related to the subject..poor dude.. He started pulling my shirt even after telling him that my answers were wrong. You can't blame him. When the time is so bad, you will be desperate to fight against it. Also you would love to write something on your answer sheet. We had a worst experience of Computer Science paper asking to draw a cat in Q-Basic program and all. Not knowing that the question paper was interchanged and not related to B tech IT, our Adarsh wrote Q-Basic in the answer sheet and made a drawing of a cat. He was the one who wrote something on that exam.
Anyway, as a friend I felt bad and I handed over my answer sheet by telling that the laws and calculations used for the questions are Wrong. Who cares..He was like a kid who got Ice cream out of nowhere and completed the exam Bindaazz. When the results were announced we were caught for copying, as same answers were wrong in mine and his papers..ditto...!!
We do copy during exams all the time. If it was Class test , series test, lab test or Semester exam.. All were same for us. On last semester exam the one sat next to me was one of the class topper. I was saying Thanks to God for first 10 mins. She was a bit confused about Ist question and I corrected her. We had 10 questions to be answered and I got 9 from her. I deserved it right, as I resolved her starting trouble ?
I used get very much tensed just before the day of exam and then call Varun, Unni, Adarsh, Prabin and Jijin 10 times a day. Whenever I asked them about some chapter, "da did you study that.. any idea" everyone would say a long NO and I would go to bed aaraamse.!! We were very open about studies. If we say we didn't study thats the end. We can't write a right answer to that question eventhough we write a lot. . We thought Varun was also like us. This guy will say didn't study that chapter, this chapter, blah blah and will get nice marks. One day just before the exam Varun asked a series of tough doubts to Adarsh and he only answered em. Then only we realized that this bugger knew all answers. When we checked his Text Books, we saw he had underlined all the chapters. After that we never trusted him in exams.
There were exams like computer science lab and all where we used to bi heart all programs and vomit in the system. Man.. Nobody knew how to use a system at that time.. We thought Varun had a little idea and we often asked doubts to him. We all were very bad in programming. Once Unni wanted to open C program window and as he doesn't know he asked Varun. He told him to goto RUN command prompt and type " Open C program please". This poor Unni did the same. Moreover he was complaining that C program was not launching. I still remember remember Vigil kumar claiming that he got partial output in C Lab exam for finding Prime numbers. His program will print "Enter your Number" display message and won't do anything after that. You can't deny that its a partial output..
Sunday, March 7, 2010
A Few Things That I Remember - Chapter 1
"Run.. Run guys…eaahhh …Freeedommmm.....! " Varun screamed. 4 guys are in home run and they are using the gap between guys and gals desks as their playground. 2 of them finished with ease but the other one...Oh dear..RIP. At last Varun also finished but as a true hero.. he was bleeding with wounds on ears and hands. You all might think this as a sport event and guys with great team spirit.. Bet You are wrong.. Though the later one is true.
Location College of Engineering Thalassery.. Poor pupil’s CET. This happened in Year 2002, Semester 3 IT class. I am Shimith and I am one of the 2 who escaped from Rasheeds beefy Biceps.. The other one was Mr. Adarsh. Poor Varun ( though he is rich ) failed to get out of the class with no injuries.. Rasheed, the fourth guy, almost killed him .. Great athelates say if you can improve your timing you can always succeed.. Its just a matter of reflex to the gunshot. And Myself and Adarsh had shown it to all our classmates. Now coming to the matter.... We 3 were attacked by Resheed.. It was all becoz of me.. There is no one in my class who never got irritated of me.
We used to call Rasheed as Mariam Rasheeda.. And it happened like this. One day when I was sitting next to Rasheed , I saw “Mariam” written on the desk next to his place. Then I started calling him Mariam Rasheeda..And it got free publicity and made him popular.. The whole college started calling him with his new name concatenated in front of his name. So was my bench mates.. Adarsh, Varun, Prabin, Jijin and Unni. But Rasheed was an innocent and introvert guy who never believed in Popularity and show offs. So obviously he wanted make an end to this. And we were attacked. Only 3 of us though. Bloody Unni, prabin and Jijin escaped... But for me this was nothing. I already had a near death experience with Rasheed when I met him in a very early morning class on the same day I belive. Aamen..
I always thought engineering college is like, Oh My God .. Its Engineering college.. Yeap.. I had no clue about an Engineering college .. not even about a college as I was a Plus 2 student.. Most of the people grow after 10th.. So they will opt for College; pre degree.. For me Plus 2 was a Demotion. I went for Plus 2 science as my cousin was there and I can get his books. No expenditure whatsoever. It was like back to Nursery school… Anyways.. Mom was very optimistic about my higher studies.. She never expected me joining an Engineering college. As, for her people should study very well and do day to day home works, like my cousin and she got good entrance marks and joined B Tech IT as well. I was not that bad.. I also got Bigg rank in entrance exam, around 8 thousand I guess. To tell you the truth, I was never interested in B tech as I was inspired by my other cousin, neighbor, who goes to Arts college and comes home in 10 mins like Sourav gangly bats for India. I was even short listed for Bsc chemistry in same college. But I got Mechanical Engg seat in a Calicut engg college also.. Yieks.. Total confusion. My dad is a very smart person. He convinced me that I won’t be able to finish Mech engg as I don’t have that much brain.. Huh.. He questioned my Medulla oblongata.. Isn’t it..? But I didn’t say a single word coz I know that was true. He told me to opt for IT or CS in Kannur, my place, keeping in mind that I can get my cousin’s books and no extra hostel fees. Double Bulls Eye on a single plate.!! Anyways, Ramayana or Mahabharatha.. Both are same for me. So I opted for it and got placed in CET(ly).. Now here is the thing, if you are going for something bigg, (as others think) there will be a hell lot of people to advice(scare) you as if they have gone through all of em. Same old crap ragging shit stories.. But I was stuck with a new fact that I need to speak English in Engg college.. Now that made shit out of me and made me nervous. I knew only “welcome to ooty and Nice to meet you” in English. Thanks to Jagathy.. What to do what to do. So, I started to learn more. But I could learn only one single sentence with no spelling mistake and grammar.. “What is your Good name?”. Who cares.. Atleast I learned that bit.. huh. So my first day in my college, I met this a bit fat guy, who was sitting alone.. I told myself, shimith my boy, time to prove your English skill(s).. I went to him and asked “ Haai, what is your good name?” He said “ My name is Rasheed KP and Good name is Rasheed.. From that day onwards Rasheed was my prey, until the day when I became his.
First and second semester were clubbed to make us shit in the class a whole year. As Plus 2 hangover was there, I used to listen all lecturers for a year. I made some good friends as well. Varun, Adarsh, Unni, Prabin and Jijin. All my classmates were my friends. But these guys, I felt they were different.
Adarsh is a cool guy. No tension at all about anything. Initially I felt like he got Kidnappers look because of the way he was staring at me on the day I joined college. Later I realized that he was my ooold schoolmate. His parents are teachers. But that didn’t affect him at all. And, I don’t know why, whenever I see him coming to college with a plastic cover of books, sorry book, tucked in his shoulder, I used to feel like he is coming in slow motion with background music of “coolie number one main coolie number one.. “ Yeah baby he is cool.. Unnikrishnan ( Unni), I met him in my Plus Two school and he was my senior , my cousin’s classmate. He was the only guy in our class with clear cut Mustache. He is a guy with lots and lots of expectation. Not about lecturers. Though Professors are exceptions. Whenever a gal smiles at him he thinks that’s his gal… There were lot.. He knows how to soap all Professors. Prabin Prakash, a very smart name in our gang, a silent student.. No one knew that he was our classmate for the whole first year. That much quiet fella. Later we came to know that he was doing meditation to capture all Small talks happening in the whole class. He was very much passionate about Two bus stands in Thalassery. He often thinks about minimizing distance between both for some business purpose, I guess. He used to sit just next to our Desk and bend like Dish Antenna whenever we were discussing the importance of life and future(J). Varun Mohan only found this. Aah Varun Mohan, Nobody knows that he is the richest guy in our class. His Father is in TATA Tea, got an estate in Munnar. A real “estate” guy, still acquiring Govt’s Land. He was a classmate of my close friend and the brightest student in our group with background record of some 15th rank in SSLC and Pre Degree Topper in his college with Distinction.. But never showed that headache. So we thought he was a dumb guy like us. Jijin Raj.. Our nations new face, the rising Sun of CET(ly).. A true Communist party follower.. Now Developing s/w for a French client.. He used to get some stories about communist people from his Father , who is a Leader , and share those valuable stories with loads of masala. But he was a person with good heart. He was the official ball boy of our college football match.. He had returned countless balls (Foot) into the ground. Unni and Jijin always had mutual understanding on what they talk. Rest of us know that all are blunder. But still we used to support our friends. So we also participated in those arguments as well.. There is not even an Atom on which they didn’t comment on from our college. They just need a glance at one person, the whole history and biology of that person will print as output. I used to think that they should have been in psychiatry or someone like the palm reader in our temples. Not more than that. One more guy was there.. Mr Vijil Kumar.. Smart good looking mallu guy from Goa, who always wonder what he is doing and why he is in Engg college.. So we became good friends to invetigate whats after college .!! I think Unni and Varun had some thoughts about it initially but we killed all of em. I had no idea what I am doing there neither anyone of us. Varun was having some idea about M tech and all I believe. He used to mention some GATE frequently in our discussion. Didn’t undertsand what he was trying to say till last semester. And he is the one who brought the word Infosys in our team and Ist one to get placed there. (More to follow with good English…)
Location College of Engineering Thalassery.. Poor pupil’s CET. This happened in Year 2002, Semester 3 IT class. I am Shimith and I am one of the 2 who escaped from Rasheeds beefy Biceps.. The other one was Mr. Adarsh. Poor Varun ( though he is rich ) failed to get out of the class with no injuries.. Rasheed, the fourth guy, almost killed him .. Great athelates say if you can improve your timing you can always succeed.. Its just a matter of reflex to the gunshot. And Myself and Adarsh had shown it to all our classmates. Now coming to the matter.... We 3 were attacked by Resheed.. It was all becoz of me.. There is no one in my class who never got irritated of me.
We used to call Rasheed as Mariam Rasheeda.. And it happened like this. One day when I was sitting next to Rasheed , I saw “Mariam” written on the desk next to his place. Then I started calling him Mariam Rasheeda..And it got free publicity and made him popular.. The whole college started calling him with his new name concatenated in front of his name. So was my bench mates.. Adarsh, Varun, Prabin, Jijin and Unni. But Rasheed was an innocent and introvert guy who never believed in Popularity and show offs. So obviously he wanted make an end to this. And we were attacked. Only 3 of us though. Bloody Unni, prabin and Jijin escaped... But for me this was nothing. I already had a near death experience with Rasheed when I met him in a very early morning class on the same day I belive. Aamen..
I always thought engineering college is like, Oh My God .. Its Engineering college.. Yeap.. I had no clue about an Engineering college .. not even about a college as I was a Plus 2 student.. Most of the people grow after 10th.. So they will opt for College; pre degree.. For me Plus 2 was a Demotion. I went for Plus 2 science as my cousin was there and I can get his books. No expenditure whatsoever. It was like back to Nursery school… Anyways.. Mom was very optimistic about my higher studies.. She never expected me joining an Engineering college. As, for her people should study very well and do day to day home works, like my cousin and she got good entrance marks and joined B Tech IT as well. I was not that bad.. I also got Bigg rank in entrance exam, around 8 thousand I guess. To tell you the truth, I was never interested in B tech as I was inspired by my other cousin, neighbor, who goes to Arts college and comes home in 10 mins like Sourav gangly bats for India. I was even short listed for Bsc chemistry in same college. But I got Mechanical Engg seat in a Calicut engg college also.. Yieks.. Total confusion. My dad is a very smart person. He convinced me that I won’t be able to finish Mech engg as I don’t have that much brain.. Huh.. He questioned my Medulla oblongata.. Isn’t it..? But I didn’t say a single word coz I know that was true. He told me to opt for IT or CS in Kannur, my place, keeping in mind that I can get my cousin’s books and no extra hostel fees. Double Bulls Eye on a single plate.!! Anyways, Ramayana or Mahabharatha.. Both are same for me. So I opted for it and got placed in CET(ly).. Now here is the thing, if you are going for something bigg, (as others think) there will be a hell lot of people to advice(scare) you as if they have gone through all of em. Same old crap ragging shit stories.. But I was stuck with a new fact that I need to speak English in Engg college.. Now that made shit out of me and made me nervous. I knew only “welcome to ooty and Nice to meet you” in English. Thanks to Jagathy.. What to do what to do. So, I started to learn more. But I could learn only one single sentence with no spelling mistake and grammar.. “What is your Good name?”. Who cares.. Atleast I learned that bit.. huh. So my first day in my college, I met this a bit fat guy, who was sitting alone.. I told myself, shimith my boy, time to prove your English skill(s).. I went to him and asked “ Haai, what is your good name?” He said “ My name is Rasheed KP and Good name is Rasheed.. From that day onwards Rasheed was my prey, until the day when I became his.
First and second semester were clubbed to make us shit in the class a whole year. As Plus 2 hangover was there, I used to listen all lecturers for a year. I made some good friends as well. Varun, Adarsh, Unni, Prabin and Jijin. All my classmates were my friends. But these guys, I felt they were different.
Adarsh is a cool guy. No tension at all about anything. Initially I felt like he got Kidnappers look because of the way he was staring at me on the day I joined college. Later I realized that he was my ooold schoolmate. His parents are teachers. But that didn’t affect him at all. And, I don’t know why, whenever I see him coming to college with a plastic cover of books, sorry book, tucked in his shoulder, I used to feel like he is coming in slow motion with background music of “coolie number one main coolie number one.. “ Yeah baby he is cool.. Unnikrishnan ( Unni), I met him in my Plus Two school and he was my senior , my cousin’s classmate. He was the only guy in our class with clear cut Mustache. He is a guy with lots and lots of expectation. Not about lecturers. Though Professors are exceptions. Whenever a gal smiles at him he thinks that’s his gal… There were lot.. He knows how to soap all Professors. Prabin Prakash, a very smart name in our gang, a silent student.. No one knew that he was our classmate for the whole first year. That much quiet fella. Later we came to know that he was doing meditation to capture all Small talks happening in the whole class. He was very much passionate about Two bus stands in Thalassery. He often thinks about minimizing distance between both for some business purpose, I guess. He used to sit just next to our Desk and bend like Dish Antenna whenever we were discussing the importance of life and future(J). Varun Mohan only found this. Aah Varun Mohan, Nobody knows that he is the richest guy in our class. His Father is in TATA Tea, got an estate in Munnar. A real “estate” guy, still acquiring Govt’s Land. He was a classmate of my close friend and the brightest student in our group with background record of some 15th rank in SSLC and Pre Degree Topper in his college with Distinction.. But never showed that headache. So we thought he was a dumb guy like us. Jijin Raj.. Our nations new face, the rising Sun of CET(ly).. A true Communist party follower.. Now Developing s/w for a French client.. He used to get some stories about communist people from his Father , who is a Leader , and share those valuable stories with loads of masala. But he was a person with good heart. He was the official ball boy of our college football match.. He had returned countless balls (Foot) into the ground. Unni and Jijin always had mutual understanding on what they talk. Rest of us know that all are blunder. But still we used to support our friends. So we also participated in those arguments as well.. There is not even an Atom on which they didn’t comment on from our college. They just need a glance at one person, the whole history and biology of that person will print as output. I used to think that they should have been in psychiatry or someone like the palm reader in our temples. Not more than that. One more guy was there.. Mr Vijil Kumar.. Smart good looking mallu guy from Goa, who always wonder what he is doing and why he is in Engg college.. So we became good friends to invetigate whats after college .!! I think Unni and Varun had some thoughts about it initially but we killed all of em. I had no idea what I am doing there neither anyone of us. Varun was having some idea about M tech and all I believe. He used to mention some GATE frequently in our discussion. Didn’t undertsand what he was trying to say till last semester. And he is the one who brought the word Infosys in our team and Ist one to get placed there. (More to follow with good English…)
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