In the loving memory!!!

You can shed tears that she is gone, 

or you can smile because she has lived.

You can close your eyes and pray that she'll come back,

or you can open your eyes and see all she's left.

Your heart can be empty because you can't see her,

or you can be full of the love you shared.

You can turn your back on tomorrow and live yesterday, 

or you can be happy for tomorrow because of yesterday.

You can remember her only that she is gone,

or you can cherish her memory and let it live on.

You can cry and close your mind, 

be empty and turn your back.

Or you can do what she'd want:

smile, open your eyes, love and go on

Dearest Shilpa (sounds so wrong to me, but can’t put your nickname)

I first came to hear about you in Fugiya first year. Apparently Mota had found some cute girl and actually given her a rose.  You once again popped up in the picture, when we were messing with Cj.  But this was first year and you were in a different section.  First time I met you , was , I guess  in PK Sharma’s Office as he was our guide.  It was almost 3 years later when I actually started speaking to you, another 4-5 months when we actually ended up being friends. To be honest , this is something I had never expected , and as I had told you I was very surprised. But there we were chatting away to glory .  Eventually chat changed to phone call. It was amazing how much we had that could be discussed. As a gossip queen , you were a perfect person to waste time with.  And it was awesome that, we never really ran out of subjects to discuss. We had indeed come far from just knowing each other. We spoke way to often, we schemed and planned things out. I got stuck in  the war being waged between you and ravish. Every bit of it ws more fun than the previous. We had discussed it , you sad we have all the time in the world and that we’ll meet for holi.  And than it all changed.

It’s been an year since I heard your voice. Something that I had got accustomed to very fast. Makes me wonder , how quickly things change. One day we are fighting over which place you should be for the valentine’s day, the next day I am traveling in a bus all alone, not understanding what just happened. You used to say way too often, “waiting is not good”  but I doubt if  you ever imagined that you were in such a hurry.

I don’t really have much to write, just that I loved you and I miss you. And  I am only one of the many who feel the same. You should know and I am sure you would have known when you were with us, you were a friend who was greatly valued.

 From my point of view pretty, Hot and of course, a Nerd !

Rest assured, as time passes we’ll heal. Some faster than others, but one thing is certain, no one who knew you, can ever , shift + del you from their hearts.

(just so that u knw, m yet to watch twilight)


                
                                                                                                        Love,
                                                                                                            Supple

The PlayList...

Music and songs have always been a special part of college life. No matter what the occasion be, without music, it would be incomplete. During my four years there were some songs, which I will always remember more for why they were sung or played than it’s music or lyrics. The songs that take me back to the time when I heard them, to the people they were heard with, giving a reason to remember the awesome days and bringing back a smile.

With 5th Year anniversary since ragging around , this can be a playlist of our memories.

10. Now Or Never :- Song by a band called dope, after listening to which Smaran had decided to form his own band, in which he would be the LEAD VOCAL GUITARIST. Over the years he did prove his skills as a lead vocal, especially during the exam time. Now if he can only learn how to ‘pull strings’, he might actually be able to accomplish his dreams.

9. Bang Bang Bang ( Hello) :- The song came out b4 the GL party at my home, and I remember everyon had “one step” that displayed the essence of “bang “ ,and this bang was in know were related to a gun shot. The moves showed what bang actually was.

8 Masti :- It was the first HIV 2k5 dance. And credits to Ravish, Gogi and Nunz , brilliant dancers like me and Rohan also managed to pull of a show at the dance night. One of the funny things about the dance was, J being there for all three songs and getting less camera time than me. In fact poor guy was hardly seen in the video.

7. Right Na Na Na :- One of the most heard Akon song towards the ned of our college life. It was Sharad’s room where I first heard it. And I remember Gogi, Ravish and Sharad displaying some dance moves which gave the “make up” an impression of “ make love”.

6. In the End :- I am not really about the Linkin park version, though it was heard playing often in the old 2k5 lobby. This song had a yet another not so popular version. I doubt it was heard by everyone among us. But I think it was the first time I had heard anything original by Mr Gogzzz , and he had dedicated it , with lots of love to the brain of our batch , Smaran Sanadhya , during the days when the maths wiz was desperate to wake up for morning walks.

5. Billo Rani/ Paani Them Them :- This was the set of the songs for the 2nd HIV 2K5 performance as a batch on BITOTSAV Stage. Performed within the confusion of the fight between 2k3 and the profs. The song had likes of me and chabra dressed in salwar as Billo Rani to give a duet look. To be soon followed by my super slow cat walk across the stage on song Paani them them , that almost caused enough worry for ravish on the stage to have asked me to walk faster off the stage.

4. Pehla Nasha :- I used to love the song, but now I hear it and I can think of only 1 person. There was a period when this was the only song to be heard if your near Sharad. The songs spanned through our initial days of meeting each other. Playing Pranks, and me and Shrikar’s case, discovering secrets by going through an innocent Sharad’s messages. The song lasted till Sharad met the true love of his life, in form of CS.

3.Kajara Re:- If there would be one song that could define our ragging, it would be this one. And if there was one person who could bust the same moves as Aish in our batch, it would be Shalu the Chaluguy. It seemed there was no session complete without us dancing on kajra re. And Shaleen always used to be the show stealer.

2. Tarzan and Jane :- Whenever I hear the song, I can actually see Gogi jumping around the lobby. We were caught by J’s Favourite professor, chota chatri (RK Narayan) before M3[ which later all 4 of us flunked] and had a half an hour lecture on okhal and mosal, the reason to which I am yet ignorant.

Finally one song that stand apart from all the rest, primarily because of the man it was sung by accompanied by the mystical events that followed. Shrikar actually managed to blow up a tubelight just by the power of his voice while singing Saawan me lag gayi Aag. Most will say it’s unbelievable, but I was a witness to it, along with Amit. First time, when he sang the tubelight filled with smoke. Than he stopped, observed and resumed. This was too much for the tube to handle. It decided to make way for the Neon.

I might have got some details wrong. Please people feel free to correct me. I know there have been other memorable songs, but these are the ones that came to my head. Please add the ones you remember as comments

They'll call me Freedom.......

When I get older
I will be stronger
They will call me freedom
Just like a waving flag.

Simple 4 stanzas from the Fifa World cup theme song, those describe the irony of life.

How many times, we have found ourselves thinking that in future, life will be different, better. I think Mota will remember this; we had to wear half pants till class 5th. In class 5th we kept waiting for the year to get over, because full pants seemed cooler. Once we reached class 6th pants were least of the concern. We had become juniors, yet again.

From that time, the last 2 years of school looked the best. We again found ourselves waiting to be older, free from basic rules like doing homework on time and bringing notebooks for all subjects. And slowly we reached class 11th. We had always seen our seniors bunking classes, having a ball, bullying others. We had no intention, of being anything different. But once we reached 11th we came to know the truth. 11th, 12th came as a disappointment to our expectation. There was too much to study for, and too less time. Not that it stopped us from partying, but it always ended up creating a guilt factor.

We entered college, Freedom at last. Freedom from wearing a uniform. Freedom from subjects we didn't need.(It is now that i realize we never need any subject to do the work i am doing right now.)Freedom from being continously told what to do.Freedom from returning home after a fixed time. But from day 1 school seemed so much better. Probably it was because of initial ragging.Freedom was yet another illusion. Dress code existed as formals 24/7. Not only we ended up taking care of things like cleaning room and doing work for ourselves, but we were doing the same for the rest of the hostel. From the start of ragging people kept waiting for the day it would end and we would be free from all troubles. Well once it ended, for some of us it still remains, the most memorable time of our college.

The 2nd Year, the much awaited time to rag came .Freedom from doing our own work. We were finally seniors. But ragging brought along its own set of problems. And it ended up rather painfully. “The bat incident”. All the risky times, when guards showed up. The complain. We had to be careful,cautious.General reminders everyday from home not to be involved in any such activity. And we always had our seniors, monitoring our ways of ragging. Though it was fun, we couldn’t do exactly as we pleased. Freedom always had a line of control, which was not supposed to be treaded past. 2k5 will remember , the objection 2k4 had when we assigned 'Guard duty' to 2k6. Or how Yasir didn't want us to call of ragging.

We waited for reaching the final year. When there would be no one to question us. We would be the authority. But freedom yet walked away from us. It started with Tension of placements (yet another hope of bringing freedom).Followed by a world of problems.(The only freedom i got was when it was decided to free him from my room, and it wasn't pleasent) . Soon we found ourselves waiting for the day, when we would no longer have to get up to go for attending lectures.

As the end of college drew closer, the freedom didn’t seem as pretty as it had looked before. We had almost achieved the freedom we wanted. We were not attending classes. Spending all the time, together. Vellagiri had reached its max. But such a thing was not meant to last. College got over. We separated.

Most got their wish. Joining came. We were placed. Independent from home (Poor Niyati). Somehow the older we grew, the further the freedom went. As of now the cost to meet friends is minimum 6k. For saving that 6k, we work 48 hours a week. Cut down expenditures. It would have been much better to stay back in college meet the same people for free and attend lectures with them , partying all the time, rather than being in the place where most of us are right now. Atleast at that time we had the freedom to bunk if we didn’t like a lecture.

We constantly find ourselves hoping as the future changes, as we grow old, things will get better. We will be more independent. But more we traverse in future, the better past seems. If only we had realised the value of present during that time, rather then putting high hopes on future.

By growing older, we are supposed to be independent, but independence brings responsibility which in turns obstructs freedom. The more independent we get, lesser time we get to cherish and enjoy life.

Maybe it's time we stop singing...

When I get older
I will be stronger
They will call me freedom
Just like a waving flag.

Dead Man Walking.......

Happy B’day :)

One fine day , Long long time ago, I met a boy with a long name, living in room no. 6 of in hostel no. 4 in a place called BIT Mesra. Long name generally isn’t a problem, but for us it was. Specially, since we were supposed to remember the spelling, and it was one messed up name in that regard. The boy did have brains and was hardworking, this made him quite different with the breed of people he had ended up with. His wits were on display everywhere, especially in ragging sessions where he generally never used to get any facts wrong except for the legendary “CALL OFF NIGHT” where poor guy didn’t get single fact right.

Watching him study for first mid-sems, I realised two things.

1. This guy is going to be one of the highest scorers in the batch
2. He has some major maths issues.

One thing about raging is, if you get a nick name by seniors, it’s going to stick for a long time. Well the boy always had a dead man expression, as if he was about to choke slam the person in front and asking a senior to read between the lines did not help his cause. And so he was named UNDERTAKER and, boy, would he have been glad if that nick name didn’t change to what it became.

Given a choice, I doubt he would have ever kept me in his team. But we ended together , first in Kamshad( well it was a 2k5 batch team) , HIV( Sharad , Shrikar, Mota, Boy, Jess, me and we did have a draw with the best 2k2 team) and finaly after several ditching incidents, Genesis(The Boy, Jay, me). Kamshad , I still have a video of him charging with Shrikar to the umpire, asking to give bibek out ‘hitwicket’ on a no ball. In genesis we had our moments especially Spin a yarn:-

( I looked down and I realized I forgot to wear pants, after spending all brains and building a nice humorous story together , the star of our story reached ED lab where once again he was stripped thanks to The undertaker)

KLPD night, the boy missed the big announcement by 2 minutes. When he reached the dreaded 2k2 lobby, everyone was standing in a line and he was smirking. Well he ended up encountering a pissed of mandy .

Soon after the raging got over, the nickname changed, courtesy mota I guess, first to Undeshwari and than modified further to the Great

...................................UNDI ..................................

Undi never had a problem with his nickname though, atleast I never heard him cribbing about it, or even if I did, we were a good batch, we ignored such trivial issues.

So Undi as we know him today had travelled from Sidhartha Maheshwari to Undi.Undi was always very focused , the man with a plan, hard working as hell. But this did not prove him to be a innocent little maru. When it came down to pranks(Haraamipan as some like to call it) Undi was no less than a pro.An active member of the EVS lab with full attendance, his greatest venture according to me was flicking of shrikar’s laptop (with a minor flaw of him leaving his slippers behind because mota lost the track of the plan while feasting on chocolate coins). He was a member of band of chocolate raiders.

Not only did he team up to play brilliant pranks , but he used to take pranks well even when played on him or in some cases played on someone else and him taking a blow.

Once we had a pile on on his bed. It was more than a pile on , but i don't have the words to describe it. All i remember is that shard was down adn Sujith was a t the top with a lot of other people sandwiched between. We broke Undi's bed , while he was preparing for end sem. He never blamed anyone.

A call at 2 in the night today(because I would have forgotten to wish him tomorrow) reminded me of a certain routine we shared. We used to study in different rooms, we used to study in different ways, and we used to take breaks at different times. But one thing was common , whenever we used to take a break , we would go to the other person’s room and disturb him. May be only for 5 minutes , or maybe, if discussion became interesting for longer. Not to forget that every night during exams, he could be found in mota’s room, waiting for hot Maggi.

Undeshwari was always very talented. Brilliant at G.K and equally good at English. Full of confidence. A Tnp member( I am sitting in Wipro office and I do give him credits for it). Super hardworking , coming second maybe only to Smaran.(I may feel this because we always heard smaran studying,whereas for undi we had to see to realize that he’s studying).He was a maru, vey particular about money transactions. But he did take over 2 years to return my Rs 450 because i was too lazy to go and ask for it and he was too lazy to come and give it.(Money was finally returned when i owed Jay cash and he widrew it from Undi's account without Undi's knowledge).

P.s : I am so sure once he’s done reading this , he would say ‘Haaaiinnnn’ ( I dunno how to spell it but I expect 2k5 people to remember this sound.)

Supple's Nitty Gritty...........2 (750)

The waiter approached. "Would you like to see the menu?" he said, "or would you like to meet the Dish of the Day?" "Huh?" said Ford. "Huh?" said Arthur. "Huh?" said Trillian. "That's cool," said Zaphod, "we'll meet the meat."

"Resturant at the end of universe" came up with the solution to the debate of "killing of animals for meat" by growing an animal that wanted to be eaten.

Unfortunately in our world, this has not yet been possible, so here goes.....

According to food habits, humans can be broadly classified into two categories- Vegetarian and Non-Vegetarian. Vegetarians are the people who believe in eating only plants and plant products , whereas non vegetarians ,they eat anything they get. But there has always been a conflict between these two categories though not very large in scale but still good enough to let a jobless person like me give it a thought. Reason of conflict, well if I am to summarize it, I would say “Non vegetarians (the ones I know) don’t see anything wrong in eating whatever they get and believe that vegetarians are missing something brilliant in life by not eating ‘CHICKEN’ and so begins their conquest to encourage the vegetarians to start eating ‘CHICKEN’, whereas vegetarians (not all of them) believe that they are right in eating only plants, not hurting animals, and some of them have even tried to convert non vegetarian to veggies.

Generally, live and let live should be followed but at times people just can’t help interfering. So here are some facts for my vegetarian friends who think eating non veg. is a sin.

Let’s start from the beginning of time. When human’s came into existence, they started off as vegetarians. Roaming from place to place, gathering food. It was not an easy task and required lot of time and effort. Also in off-seasons, they had to move locations in order for search of food. And then they learnt hunting. Hunting and gathering together brought stability to their existence.Realizing that river banks provided nice hunting grounds ,as the animals came to drink water and also abundance of fishes in river, they slowly moved towards rivers and settled there. And that is where the first civilizations began. If they had not converted to non vegetarians they would not have been interested in animals, and thus never understood the difference between animals that could be tamed and beasts that had to be eliminated. So eating meat, had its contribution to bringing about civilization.

For eating meat being a sin, we would have to believe GOD does exist and humans were created by him. Well if you believe that full thing to be true than I would like to bring to your notice the structure of human jaw. Well, we have been given a pair of canine teeth which is generally absent in all herbivorous animals. If God meant us to be vegetarian, why did he give us a set of teeth that would have no use while eating plants? And if God doesn’t exist, the whole discussion is a waste because than there would be no concept of sin.

Now as far as the fact that vegetarians love animal more than non vegetarians, there could not have been a bigger misconception. Just because you don’t eat something, doesn’t mean you love them. Its’ definitely a lie if every vegetarian claims that they don’t eat meat because they like animals. How many people actually give a shelter to a dog, and moreover how many have actually kept a pet, that to a hen or a cock. Veggies claim that they don’t like hurting animals, well it has been scientifically proven that even plants are living, What about their feelings. Where does all the love for living go when you break fruits from the trees, or pull off full plants (killing them.) How come killing an animal is heartless but killing a plant is OK? And just for the record plants provide us with oxygen, greenery and shelter. I would like people to name advantages of having a flock of chicken running in your garden? From where I see it, by eating plants, not only are the veggies killing them but they are also slowly destroying the planet.

All said and done, “Most vegetarians are not the people who love animals, They are the ones who hate plants.”

Ps: Save the world , Buy Your own KFC Meal tonight :P

Change Change, Come again !!!!!! (360)

There once was a time in past
When we sat in canteen and had a blast
Slightly hungry, if we would ever be
Solution was always Chawla or Jungli.
Those were the times we prayed
“Everyday should remain the same
Our sweet life must never change”

Never forgotten will be the charm of LAN
CS, Dota and CS again
Day in and day out time we would waste
Downloading stuff and running to kill with haste.
Shooting each-other and abusing in volume high,
We would pray once again to thy
“Everyday should remain the same
Our sweet life must never change”

Memorable were the hostel events,
Be it Kamshad, Hiv, the super sixes.
Ragging was always fun
KLPD was like chicken steak on a bun
EVS lab and nightlong argument
On topics that weren’t even remotely relevant
Done finally with all the work ,when we would be
Sitting together, we would again plead
“Everyday should remain same
Our sweet life should never change”

Countless, are the number of night
When, High was the state of everyone in sight
Listening to music and shouting so loud
That made, even a few of us look like a crowd
Though drunk, we once again prayed
“Everyday should remain the same
Our sweet life must never change”

And then, one day the exams came
Brought troubles that made our prayers change
Through day and night we had to slog
And to save time mess food we would hog
Still after every exam unsure of results when we would be
Meet each other and we would plead
“Every F***ing day’s the same
When will our life change?”

Of the many prayers, the one that got an answer
Caused the change and made us falter
We were thrown to different parts of the nation
Forcing us to be filled with frustration
Not knowing if each-other we would ever see
Accepting that all of us together, might never again be
Now we work hard day and night
Pleasure time has been reduced out of sight
Time forces us to wonder once more
"Every day’s the same
When will the stupid change come again?”

Supple's Nitty-Gritty......1 (711)

How many times we have seen each other exclaim, ‘I have become so fat’. Recently Mohit’s status stated that he gained hell lot of weight when he was at home. Most of us gain weight at an incredible rate when we are at home. Even though, we might be eating the same regular meal that we always eat. Sitting in office today, utterly jobless that I am, I was wondering why this bizarre phenomenon occurs?

A lot of things come up, whenever we discuss gain of weight at home. Apparently food is good, so we end up eating more is one of the prime reasons, which is always stated. But think of it, even at home you do not overeat at every meal. You eat till you are full and same thing you did in college. In fact while in college, you ended up eating way unhealthier food than what you get at home. Still it is at home that you gain weight, and not in college (certain exceptions always occur). You might say that it is because the food is cooked in ghee, but how often is that the case?

In my four years of stay in B.I.T, I gained around 2 kg of weight. And six month since, at home, I gained another 4 kg. And in my 2 month stay in Chennai I gained an awful 6 kg.

This got me wondering what was different in my BIT stay as compared to my stay in other places. In Chennai I was not getting home food, the food was same as college, I was regularly playing basketball and walking (exercising and sweating) way more than what I do, either at home or in college. Yet I ended up gaining more weight as compared to either home or college.

From above I concluded, it was not the physical exercise that had been controlling my weight in college, nor was it because the type of food I got. There was something else, something different, and something that everyone had overlooked over the years.

And than it sunk in, the only difference between my habits in Chennai and college were, in Chennai I used to order my own food and eat it from my plate. Whereas, in college, hardly did I ever order food. Sharing was my motto. And I always used to eat from other people’s plate. In order to name the people on whose food I have lived my college life, I will need a whole new blog. It would start from Ravs, Mota & 2k5 rise upto Akku , Amit in 2k2 and slope down to Akash , Tauroski in 2k7.

In college it had become a second nature for most of us to see food in other’s plate and consider it our own. There were always people who ordered their own food. And these people somehow gained more weight than compared to others.

From this I conclude a fact: Your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate. This indeed means that if you keep eating from what other people order, you will not grow fat.

Even during school days, students who share their tiffin and don't eat their own are generally thinner as compared to children who just eat only their own tiffin.(Mota is an exception here, he used to share tiffin but ate major part of all the tiffins that existed in class including his own.)Any other exceptions in the school days that occur , maybe because the children have only 1 meal in school to share and rest at their home, which cannot be shared forcing them to eat from their own plate.

I will give yet another example to back this fact. Ever wondered why most girls are thin when they are going out and become fat when they are single? Or why they gain weight at a lesser pace when they are in a committed relationship? And why for guys, weight doesn’t really depend on any such factor?

Think about it!!!

P.s : People with increased metabolism rate like Sharad, Gogin are exceptions to this theory.