bits and bytes

it's long since i last wrote something here , its not that i have been too busy rather too lazy to write anything , as a matter of fact it was only after seeing piyush's blog that i decided to write myself.
it's the last semester of my college life and frankly speaking being at college has made my memory so rusty that i cant remember most of the part of first and second year, but still i will try my level best to summarize some of the events which i can gather from here and there ( bits and bytes really ) , and i cannot say whether i will be regular now or not after-all it depends on my mood.

the sigra kand .. first acheivement of our guyz :)

It happened that Rahul, Vikrant ( the topper of first sem ) , Body (arpit from MNC) and of course Himanshu kandpal (with kand in his name) ...

planned a visit to Sigra just for exploring city and having fun ..(it was about 12 km from our hostel) on bicycles(!).

Himanshu (the master of ****) (think think) ....convinced all of them to have a glass of thandai fully ‘enriched’ with light (if u beleive it)

after having their glasses and savouring evry last sip of it they started bicycling back to the clg....

when suddenly, all of a sudden Rahul started feeling dizzy and so do others.

Then they realized that it was a ‘heavy dose’ they had just swallowed down their throat as .....their legs started shivering.....

what else they all tripped down there, on the road, lying .... and talking all crap and rubbish like ..

“Mummy!!! What I have done? How m going to reach the hostel?

I promised her not to drink.”, Vikrant cried out (being his first experience and a padhaku sort of guy), ”All this is b’coz of this f**king bewara ”(awesome ha?) (guess who)....

They thought of eating something so that their drowsiness could lower down a bit.

So there they found a cafe.

Body (with a brilliant idea) tried to smack his eyes with water and what the but ended up throwing water on every one behind him except on his face….. amazing nah .. isse kahte hai nasha :P.

then they called in the hostel so that somebody coukd go and get them but unfortunately

it was time for closing the hostel gate.

but finally, they managed to hire a couple of rickshaw and somehow came back.

itwas the 1^st official and famous kaand of Comsci students that nobody will ever forget.

Our batch rocks ..

hail compsci :)

hail our batch .

Along came the CT's

by this time everyone knew each other .. we were becoming friendly .. time was flying by .. seriously it was just flying....
meanwhile everyone started becoming cool .. more of the chill types ... dudes .. except few ones ( including girls .. de just dont know how to chill ) ..
bakchodi ke session badte jaa rahe the ... even u can spot people late at nights doing nothing except bakchodi ..
playing cricket .. behind the canteen ,in middle of hostel and even late at night around 2 am in the basket ball court under the flood light ..
in short fulltoo masti .. aakhir sab itna pad ke aaye hai :P
but then it came
the time for first ct ...
time to test what we have learned in last few months (if we had) ...
the first buzz was to gather study material .. kahaan se padna hai and kitna padna hai ...
as obvious who else but pondi baba came to rescue providing us with all the material ..
the cts were like .. 2 a day .. making it a 3 day issue .. i.e. 6 subjects in 3 days :)
the atmosphere was like of chaos ..
every one was doing one nite stands .. with the subjects (again leave the exceptions ) :) .. 2 sleepless nite's .. 2 days full of ct's.. 2 days of hell in the kindom of heaven :) ..

but finally it ended and ended fast ..

and then it ended ..

The Legend of Pondi baba

by this time everyone have heard about the "legend"
wait for it
"ary" .. the legendary "pondi" baba.
the one man army , the solution to all ur problems, the man in white kurta and can always be spotted in hostels (mostly 1st year) with a cycle ..
..
you all may be wondering .. whats with the name "pondi" baba ..
well bahut purane zaman ki baat hai ..
jab computers nahi the hostel mai .. aur bache entertainment ki talaash mai bhatakte the ..
idhar se udhar ..
tab hamare "bhaggu prasad" uncle aka "pondi baba" un bacho ki sabhi zaroorto ko poora kiya karte the (daudao daudao dimag ke ghode daudao) :P ..

haan to pondi baba can cater all your needs ... from stationary to ED ka samaan ... from cycle to cooler ..
inko to hamaara syllabus bhi hamse zyada pata rahta hai ..
kaun teacher kis buk se padata hai ..
books ki photocopy jo ki xam ke baad wapas half rate mai bhi uplabdh hai pondi baba pe ..
even last sem ke questions paper.
pondi baba sab kaam kara sakte hai .. reason .. aise he maine ek baar poocha tha ... aap har kaam kara kaise dete to
guess reply kya tha ..
"arre itne saalo se hun yaha par .. aakhir contacts hai mere" ..

so if u r a student in itbhu ... and u dont have some one like pondi baba ... passing sem and gathering notes is tough .. really really tough ..
kyunki ye to yaha ki life line hai
ham jaise naa padne waale bacho ki jaan :) ..
so kudos to our one and only pondi baba
hail baba pondi

first few days ... the hostel scenario ..

the first few days in the hostel were full of discussion about ragging ..
everyone was terrorized about ragging ..
when will it happen
kya kya hoga
kya kya karwaenge
...
kapde to nahi utarwaaenge ..
some wud say .. mai to nahi utaarne waala .. aisa kya kuch kar lenge .. jaan se thode he maar denge ..
everyone was afraid but still everyone showed that they are not afraid ..
some brave ones ... wud say .. mai to aisi ragging dunga unki fat jaaegi ..

the days were full of discussion about ragging ragging and ragging ..
meanwhile we all came to know each other ..
every one would boast about himself .. his great deeds etc etc ..

the atmosphere was full of tension and everyday u can hear some rumour ( though some where tru) ki aaj uski ragging hui .. aaj kisi aur ki ..

also this was the time when we became familiar with all the short forms .. the concept of "muski", 90, tech father etc ..
some most famous short forms include
VT -- for the vishwanath temple in campus..
LC -- the famous limbdi corner .. yahaan ki jaan.. samose ki dukaan
HG -- hyderabad gate .. nearest gate to freedom (:P)
Lanka -- was the area where main gate was located ..

also the concept of tech father ..
tech father is a some one's direct seniour .
and u can hear all sorts of stories tera baap aisa hai
tera baap waise hai etc etc

regarding muski ...
muski ke baare mai na jaano to behtar ..
and 90 .. u will come to know .. ask any engineering student :)

so in short .. everyone was enthusiastic but afraid :) whether they accept or deny

the mechanicals ...

ok time to brief you about the mech department
sabse jallad department hai ye itbhu ka ..
another name of terror ..
in our first sem we had engineering mechanics .. workshops and engineering drawing ..
.. ok some of the instruction from mech teachers
1. workshop mai loose clothes allowed nahi hai .. jisko bhi maine loose clothes mai dekh liya i will throw u out .
2. engineering drawing mai shoes pahen ke aana compulsory hai, and ur hair shud be combed and u should look like a gentlemen.
3. workshop mai shoes pahen ke aana zaroori hai and again no loose clothes .. fir chahe mitti mai he kyu na kaam karna ho (foundry) ..
4. class mai late aaoge to allow nahi karenge .. it will not be tolerated.

and to top it all they said "tum logo ki ragging nahi hui na isliye kuch manners nahi .... jo chahe
pahen ke chale aate hai"

there were rumours also that mech department sabse zyada fakke lagata hai subjects mai ..
and that last year engineering mechanics mai 140 fakke lage the and etc etc ..
fakke (jargon) : fakke is another name for supplimentary :P

this will give u some brief idea about the mechanicals :P ..
detailed incidents later on..

the first few days ... the classes and the acedemic side

keeping aside the department visit and the orientation program .. the first few days or even weeks as from the academic point of view were somewhat boring ..
ok
this was everyone's first step to the outer world .. first day in college ..
everyone was full of enthusiasm ..
classes started from 8 am in the morning ...
this was the first day scene ..
everyone got up early .. did their daily chores ( brushing, bathing etc) .. which people never did later on ... hehehe (:P) .. had their breakfast early .. before 7:30 and every body was in the first class 15 mins before ... gosh :O before that too 15 mins .. i just cant imagine it ;) hehe ..

first year classes were common and were taken by teachers from different faculty ..
speaking of the faculties .. we had the most terrorizing faculty in IT-BHU ... ask any guy or gal ( though hard to find ) .. and he (rarely she) will name it ..
The Meachanical's or the mech department .. another name for terror ...
inke kisse to famouse ho gaye the even before we attended the class .. ( everyone has source of information) ..
haan to mech waalo ke course namely .. engineering mechanics, workshops, thermo and ED ..
sab terrorizing ..
ok coming back to few days of classes ... ( mech ke kisse baad mai ) ..
everyone attended every class .. with full concentration :O ...
and we studied though hardly for first few weeks :) ..
while going to classes students moved in groups ... ragging ka darr tha yaar ...
however proctor ka vehicle hamko bahut strength deta tha ... aur sab ke sab class to pahuch jaate the ;)