dis ones gonna be a lengthy one as it summarizes the life of a student (or i guess a "just-another-guy-in-a-million guy) for a span of two years...(20 or 30 days less but i guess dats not gonna make a big difference...)
im verymuch delighted to introduce myself as the protagonist(i know dat its exxaggeration
to the core but pls gimme a break....)....well the 2 years long, tiresome, boring but delightful n joyous ride started way back in 2005 on july 17th. dat day of my journey to allahabad in pursuit of a PG course dat was coveted to many students...but to me it was not a great thing as i knew dat my percentile was not good enough to get me to the PG studies....also i was not passionate abt my career from da beginning as i always said i do the things just because i dont have any other better things to do at that particular time n MTech is no difference to it....it just came my way n even after coming to the verge of completing it i dont think im an eligible candidate to recieve this degree.....
so lets cum bak to the main theme of dis post..describing two yrs of the life in an allahabadi(here they call it illahabadi) way....on the first day of my journey i was not quite sure if i was making the correct decision..i donno y but i missed my home teribly all of a sudden...tears started rolling my cheek for no apparent reason n i made no attempt to stop them...i donno if i was drained out of tears or sleep embraced me but the next thing i remember was my friend rajesh goin in search of something to eat....soon i joined him and met his frns krishna reddy n nagesh....we struck an instant rapport and the journey no longer felt boring.....
we got to allahabad n soon finished all the prerequisites for gettin admission into the college n we were immediately allocated rooms in C V Raman Hostel....i found an entirely new set of peopple who are different from all those whom ive been seein till then...i spent most of my time only with telugu people...but still could not identify myself as one among them....i was feeling totally out of place (later i came to know that most of my friends have felt the same way...)the transformations which we had to make to adapt to the circumstances seemed extremely irritating...n suddenly i got a feeling that i set out for a wild goose chase...we were served aaloo and roti 14 times a week...the transportation was always by means of a tempo which just had 4inches x 30 inches space to every single individual...and allahabad has the extremes for all the seasons...temperatures varied from 50C to 2C.....
seniors here in the college were very helpful with word and deed and life would not hav been remotely interesting if not for the friends i made in hostel....v came from different places n had different slangs..(some of them i dont even know that such slangs exist in telugu...) n v studied in different specializations...but v had only one thing in common..its da hatred towards allahabad...its dirty streets....roti,rajma n aaloo...college administrative building painted wid red pan....n hell of a lot of other things abt allahabad...occassionally we studied...n attended classes...da entire first year was filled with classes, assignments, internals, labs, cricket n not to forget goddamned aalooo...
soon we were in the second year of our course...i guess nothing about allahabad has changed in this year but it didnt luk dat boring then....we spent a good one month for our campus recruitment n it was gr8 fun...at dat time we got acquainted to orkut( may b a bit late but v made our presence felt afterwards :P)..all of us got placed...n this time allhabad was much more fun though it has very litle to offer....cricket and orkut ruled our time...der neva seemed any other activity for us...v orkutted days n nights away...der were occassional misunderstandings in cricket but overall all of us were pretty happy to have known each other n we shared a strong emotional bond.....da greatest thing ive learnt by
cumin to dis place is the importance of humanity and compassion towards our fellow beings....which was often done by my friends be it admitting bhaskar in hospital for his
operation and lukin after all his things....or the consoling words by rajesh n raju after i lost my infosys interview....helping out rajesh in completing his thesis by phani ,swami n raju...n all da times wid nagesh....der were innumerable incidents....i guess dats wat frns are der for...v can always count on them...
in 3 days im goin to submit my thesis....n no gifts for guessin dat even this work is also not passionate and dedicatred....it just cxame in my way and i had to do it...well no regrets watsoever....in about a week i would be leaving allahabad...but i cant forget it for the best and the worst things it has given me or done to me....allahabad gave me many things....friends, fun, memories, job, PG Degree, love, pain, grief, anguish..neva in my lie i had experienced these many emotions within a short span of time.....every emotion has been true n not even once was i faking them.....
finally friends i luv u all......widout u i cudnot ever dream of the present position that im enjoying...i know dat i did hurt some of u ppl on some occassions....n im terribly sorry for those things n i neva intended to take things in dat way...a big thnx to my professors who made it look easy for me in each and every phase of the two yearsw f academic career here in allahabad....n last but not the least and the most important one....ORKUT...well it rox for sure....
