and so kau went to kollam....
well.. it all seems to have happened just the other day.. yet it seems such a long time ago that i got the all important transfer.. it feels very snug now, to sit at home and go over all those memories again.. with hawkmoon268 by U2 playing in my ears..
the moment i recieved the uty order abt the transfer, i called chak and gave him the news.. i guess he was a little cheesed at having got the transfer with me behind.. he was on the way back from klm when he got the call.. he jumped off the bus at skm and ran to my house.. wearing boots and all.. never mind the corns!!
he entered to find me humming 'take me down to the paradise city where the grass is green and the girls are pretty..' .. an unexpected celebration later, when the dust settled i went around clearing all them formalities for the take off..
The first few days at tkm were nightmare... it was a rapid change from the easy going govt office set up to the strict school like dicipline suffered by the 2nd years of tkm.. they expected you to have separate notebooks for each subject, and if that wasn't punishment enough, one had to turn them in for valuation as well! Boy, it was too unbelievable.. but then it was too bad to be false.. I moved in at sreebhavan, hostel for juniors, us, who were in the wings to be moved to a new hostel.. met sgp,tenny,nambiar,hg,jty,rohit,shaheer,buji,and SHON, the ace at six string! this guy was aweome,it was the first time i saw a guitar being played like a pro..live.. the excitement was brimming.. I couldn't wait to get together with this guy and jam the guts off!! Any doubts on his alleged rythm problem was soon rubbished by me.. Initiative began to creep in..All i needed to realise my college dream of rocking live was a drum guy..which turned out to give me a long wait....Anyway, having hg around was a real break.. he was one of the few peopl there with who i could speak hindi without a care in the world.. he didnt care about the mistakes i made, and it ws all ease!!
He was pretty perturbed during the hostel allotments for shajik..i soon realized why.. it was something we'd never shake off.. but it all turned out ok in the end.. well, almost..had to deal with wet blanket for greater part of college life.. something i never got used to..and don't intend to either,now that college life is over.. second year was awesome.. after the MoS training i'd given hg in sreebhavan, he never ceased to drum impossible concepts of royal engineering into my skull.. we also discovered music.. i infused the metal and rock bug into hg.. and it took the hair off the head of jty..it started with dave mustaine's latest dishouts, and moved on later to other things.i also got a first hand experience of the reason for calling the mess a mess.. the food looked inviting, but that was about the only plus i can offer about it..but yeah, the beef roast used to be great!!
Academics wasn't too smooth in the first instance either. I landed up in tkm bang at the begining of the series tests. It was pretty rough. I did have the option of skipping the thingie this time and re-appearing later, but i was brave, and took the risk.. and plummetted.. royally! It didn't do the morale much good either. I'd stay up all nihgt to complete some cursed lab record, only to wake up to a strike in the college. Or an objection from the lab supervisor who didn't know more than I did about anything in the lab. But one has to take certain things in the stride, (and crib about them later.. hhee)
Also met asha. The meeting totally surprised a lot of people. A shake hand was totally out of place in a place like this, where men and women usually maintained a good 2 feet distance between skins of different sexes..(Rakesh still takes my trip on this..heheh)
Socialising with the fairer sex took a back seat during the second year.. chak kep telling me about ajash..and he kept telling her about me, but we never met in that year.. And most importantly, our chief source of recreation: Liseux Bhavan, the girls convent hostel just a compound across the shajik balcony.. The occasional sight of the flutter of a nightdress was enough to humour our simple young souls.. and so it was, they'd sometimes appear on the terrace, somtimes in the windows, and once we saw a meagre bathroom scene.. but pshhh!!!
Fast fwd to third year.. new year.. new profs, new hostel.. Socialisation was better this year.. met and made quite a few friends and acquaintances..and most importantly, new location for the classroom.. (we could communicate more with the fairer thing this way.. things were definitely improving) The new hostel was a vast improvement over the cramped lifestylee of shajik. More room, greater dilution of blanket wetness.. lol.. We shared the floor with a gang of the mast mech seniors..
jeevan,zach,pattalam,midhun,podiyan,jaleel,vinod,sandeep,parpi,aashiq,anoopda,sumitro, shaiju,reni,iype.. too many to type.. Jeevan was a real break from the mundane part of life. His attempts at ragging were quite a grin, and so were his attempts at magic..one thing hg,jty and i wont forget for sure is the vanishing shaft trick!!
The first trip away from home came soon..the south India tour.. We rocked goa, blr, and chennai.. the trip took the toll on some of our healths, but hell, it was worth all the crap.. yeah even the gastroenteritis!!
I soon got my first chance to get on stage..got a little practise with shon..jty forced in with some emotional blackmail..but it didn't work out to much.. No one could hear us perform, not even me for gawd sakes.. i got a handful of 50ps at my feet, while there was a well directed fiver into jty's ear at full tilt!! That was my first experience of the rock lover's reaction in tkm..which is to say, i doubted seriously whether there were any at all! However, i was all but itching to get a plugged show on.. unpluggedbe damned!!
Consummacy showed up around the corner.. Got a first hand experience of the kind of work that goes behind organizing an event. The hitch here was that renji did it all, mostly single handed.. :-O I was with him on some occasions, for instance the one after the rockshow when our car broke down at 2 in the morning in the middle of nowhere!! The consummacy rock show is probably one of my most precious moments. 3 bands showed up.. great one for a start!! We couldn't have the dances that year though.. thanks to some crazy issue regarding cultural activity in the college, consummacy had to be held at Sana auditoruim. the trouble was that the people of the neighbourhood had it with the decibels from the rock show.. that brought the events to an ugly full stop..
That was second and third years for me.. It wasn't too uneventful.. But yeah, it was paving the way to a more eventful final year.. both in and out of college!! keep watching this space.. (whoever is, that is!!)
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