The Poison ivy in Us…

Poison ivy, Dictionary Meaning: vine causing itching rash

Well, only the writers of Dc comics will be able to tell us , what came to their minds when they created a villainess out of a poor plant. Perhaps one of the most scientifically advanced , super mutated villainess. And obviously she was hot. As her abilities grew , she developed a special skill “Kiss of the death” . As the name suggests whoever was kissed by voluptuous ivy dies.

Ivy was literally able to control people with weak mind using her odor. In fact she almost managed to captivate everyone apart from Batman , Superman included(another proof as to why superman sucks, smelled a woman and became her bodyguard)into doing her bidding.

What is special about ivy is that she wasn’t evil or mutated by birth. In fact she was rich and naïve. Thanks to her bio-tech professor’s experiments, she got mutated. And through the series , it was seen that there were lot of time poor girl tried to reform , but either some people of her own league asked for her assistance or the community forced her to be vengeful.

This brings us to notice an important aspect of our own life. We all started like innocent kids(at least most of us). Than we reached college and were given the freedom we never had at home. We met seniors who helped us grow(mutation). Studies took a back seat. Late night football. As per Shaleen’s own words “ we have become the people our parents asked us not to hang out with”. There were times when one or another of us realized that we needed to focus. But as ivy was approached by Clayface and Dr Freeze , our own pals came to us and brought us back to the so called “injustice league” . We stuck together doing things that have been considered wrong by institute. Which includes things from staying out of institute till 3 in night(KLPD night) , breaking roses from rose garden or playing cricket in lobby. Oh I forgot to mention ragging.And towards the end even girls defying the end time(staying at my place or in town) for night outs.Boozing throughout the night and at times even before an exam. Most of these things were for purpose of fun.

Once upon a time Ivy took a small inhabited island , changed it using her abilities to a garden. But before she started living happily , a research company from Gotham came over and destroyed the place because they needed the land, forcing her to be vengeful again. Even we have been through this. The system hurt us with rules like 70% attendence ,extra classes. Forcing us to be vengeful , making us break rules. Proxys and bunking classes became a second nature to us. I remember spending full days in canteen , doing absolutely nothing. I doubt anyone ever attended 8 am lectures on time.


In another appearance ivy was manipulated by Riddler. I am sure that at some point of time we have been in both ivy’s place and in the place of Riddler. Manipulation to such an extent that none of us can ever stand up and say “it wasn’t my fault” . All of HIV will remember nunny’s message to smaran saying “I Love u”. For one ,Gogi tried to make, an ivy out of all of us, when it came down to him and D. But even Poison ivy managed to escape from the control of riddler and so did we.

I have a world of examples , but I will leave it for sometime else , just in case Gogi comes up with another IDEA to molest my writing skills.

The Man The Machine The MOFO...

For some1 who inspired me to write

THE MAN


5 Years now, and perhaps one of the most talented guy I have met, Sweet ,considerate and amazingly popular with girls (specially the once who have D in der names ) . A guy whose always there for friends , be it partying or in misery. An irreplaceable part of most of our(HIVian) lives. The man practically has an over sized brain which comes up with most brilliant IDEAS (especially under effects of some extra ingrediants ). Fierce enough to scare the likes of people like CJ and Mota wheras soft enough to keep audi in his room , even when she kept crying in his room whole night.(audi := ‘ first dog owned by HIV 2k5 ‘) . Bold enough to watch his first love(jyoti: yet another dog) go through immense trauma outside his own room. Kind enough to accept flowers from D(dunno which 1) even though it was pollen season and he ended up in hospital spoiling our nights. Brave enough to face the mallu nurse in Apollo who made him strip in order to give him injection and than to treat us for it with CTBM even though bird flu scare was on.

THE MACHINE

When talent is considered he’s unmatched. Let me start of with dancing. Flexibility that makes you feel that the person literally has no bones in the body. Theres nothing much to say about dancing because those who know him have seen him dance, and those who havent seen him dance won’t understand until they see him . Sports , I doubt ,jay will ever forget to call him for puchka , specially after getting hit for a 6 that landed on the road. And I still can’t forget the night before BEE where we(me chams J and ) spent entire night playing TT. A ligament tear(courtesy J) never stopped him from doing anything he was good at be it dancing or playing.



THE MO***** F*****

A sinner, watching videos(and not the music ones) in mota’s room b4 every midsem. Luring everyone to give him company . And than clearing all his papers . Or getting people to dance on tarzan and jane just before m3 and getting caught by chota chatri(R.K. Narayan J’s favourite prof.) Coming up with brilliant ideas to rag juniors(like writing down a full newspaper). Or using Chams deo to create fire . The brilliant song ‘ In the end -the smaran version’.I doubt anyone can forget the mood swings. Or the m2 midsem where he literally ripped his room apart. When it comes down to ditching, he can almost compete with the likes of J.Still remember the room change, or the time when he skipped the parties. Almost ditched the full batch to catch a glimpse of D (b4 puri trip).and the latest, not showing up for the convocation. I doubt he realizes people miss him and will always do , even if he starts ignoring them.