Totally Roded

hhhhhhhhmmm.... now i guess tht the heading is rather self explanatory...


all those of you who has any doubts as to what it might mean... yes, what you are thinking is right!.. it does mean FUCKED...now i agree tht its a rather mean term to use, but unfortunately oxford doesn have better words to describe conditions similar to the one tht the 2nd yr mech is in right now... with five 4-credit courses, a math elective and an elec course, this sem was supposed to be rape... but now it has turned out to be a total gang bang!!!...after writing four continous days of exams you are left with a weekend and suddenly you realize tht the math, PMT and the vito course is left....

last sem during my internet write ups here and elsewhere i had always maintained the view tht RAJA RAO was the worst of nature's creations... but i was proved hopelessly wrong with nature proving just how imaginative she can get in a work of art like VITO... now this guy is just unbelievable... he started of the first lecture by saying he will grant you a cup if you cant hold onto your balls during an exam of his(translation: he will fail you if you have a nature's call during the exam).. while the entire class was invloved in an animate discussion about the various methods of prevention and some methods of cure( the simplest being a portable water bottle), he came out with the next commandment... he wants 5 theory classes per week instead of the 1 which he was originally assigned and tht he wants to take 3 continous hrs once the lab gets over in first month... now thts 8 hrs per week( for the uninitaited 8 hrs is the no of hrs tht a frnd of mine attneds in the whole sem)...

now before i go on i need to clarify a point... i started writing this blog on friday, then got bored and thought i will complete it on saturday and left it at the end of last paragraph... right now its the NEXT thursday.. a lot of things as happened in between, like the entire first quiz has gotten over and my rather insensitive description of vito took a beating after the rather easy paper(i am NOT bein sarcastic here) he gave us...

ok.. i agree .. so he did set us an easy paper and i am extremely thankful to him for tht(trust me ..a bit more harder and i wud hav probably cupped)... but why in the hell does he try to psyche people out...??..its not as though we are jail criminals or something!!( hmm.. actually we are a lot worse),, but all tht withstanding, wouldn everything be a lot better if he just started behaving normally to students.. a couple of my friends who do have the enthu to attend his class have told me that the classes are really good.. so he is a good teacher and he sets easy papers, then why cant he stop acting as a psycho as well.. its really weird when people who are so good at something waste their talent by being so bad at something else..actually this topic too is too old and boring.. so let me start a new post.. tata

Encounter with the celebrated kind

so this post is supposed to continue with the great trip tht the mallu fellowship of IITM took couple of weeks back....

but it aint gonna... i simply don have the mood to write bout tht write now.. perhaps later.... yes perhaps..

the true reason why i decided to blog now is tht something great happened yesterday... You know Siddharth(the guy who acted in Boys and then acted as the next to lead role with Aamir Khan in Rang De Basanti..)... yup tht very Siddharth.. yesaterday i got to meet him and actually give him a handshake!!!!....

now this may not seem all tht great to an outsider... even i used to be a great critic of all hero worshippers who used to crowd around stars and throw up glitters in the theatres whenever their name is displayed or any arbit stunt like tht, but the fact of the matter is these guys are really larger than life.. you just gotta admit tht... when u see a great film then the guy who acted in tht willl remain in your memory not tht as the actor himself but as the character he represented....
and believe me after Rang De Basanti i am a huge fan of Siddharth myself and when i got to meet him it was as though the character had jumped out of the big screen and was standing as a mortal in front of me....it really helped me emphathize with all those guys who go mad when they see Mohan Lal's name on the theatre screen... i am not justifying them, but i can emphathize with them, at least for the time being....

Sojourn TADA

Ok... so much time has passed since my last update and this that it just and simply doesn’t make any sense to update it any more!!!.... That too with just 30 more minutes for the LAN to be switched off...

but still I am going to blog... Whatever the DUCK the reasons against it are!!!( now this is an expression that I learned from a friend of mine who stayed with me for saarang.. he uses the D word instead of the F word, an excellent idea I must say)..

Now to give a brief intro into all the things that happened... I wrote my end sems, went to Muscat to see my parents (truly had gr8 time eating FOOD after almost 4 months.. the stuff we get here is HUGGA), came back to this Ducking place,, went for an awesome (SIMPLY AWESOME) trip to TADA falls and finally lived through a SAARANG...

now I will go on bout the TADA trip in this blog... the other things shall also be converted into black and white but later..

to start with, this crazy idea of going to some really uninhabited area and spending a night there, or doing something really adventurous like that came up while the entire mallu gang of iitm was at SHAKES and CREAMS being treated to some delicious ice creams by B'Day boy jikku...
though the initial enthu was shown primarily by only three people (I wont go into names here, but yours truly was one of them.. I just hate being modest), there was a general consensus among junta and so it was decided that we will make an adventure trip... the initial place suggested by hari annan was a place called aerkkad... after some amount of research we found that actually there were much better places much closer to Chennai, thus we further arrowed our options to KAMBAKKAM and TADA...

Hair’s brother was an ex- iitian and was a member of the (now extinct)adventure club of iit... he had gone to this TADA falls before and thus it was decided that the place of our sojourn was TADA.... a group of 3rd yrs from my hostel had gone there some months back.. But they went for a one day trip hiring a cab... this very idea was on the spot vetoed by all... we wanted a raw trip... a pure adventurous trekking trip that one day we could blog about the way I am doing right now... so we made our own plans... on the 2nd day before the scheduled departure date we found luck in the form a 5th yr who gave us valuable information about the place.. He had made a similar trip to TADA (a RAW trip) while in his second yr... they had set a camp and had spent one night there in the forest... now this was exactly our plan and the very fact that someone who did the same was there helped us a lot (at least mentally)... he told us not to worry too much about water and that the river water in the upper streams is drinkable... this single piece of info reduced our luggage by at least 4 kgs per person...
on the last day before D-day (departure day).. We started our food collecting.... it was real fun... ashith and I went for food collection... our policy was simple... go to a store and then literally buy that store... We did actually buy the entire glucose, Maggi noodles and tiger biscuits that was in a mini supermarket... It was good! A first hand experience of sorts into how whole sale dealers feel when making transactions...

Thus on the next day morning we were all ready. To make the extremely tiring process of making each guy get up on time easier most of us had decided to stay in Godav for the night... ..... Quite incidentally enough there were NINE of us ...the magic number reminding us of the immortal FELLOWSHIP in LORD OF THE RINGS.... (and obviously since I am writing this blog I get to be Aragorn).... and so finally with backpacks containing food, water(in some cases a bit impure water also), torches, knives and what not!!!, we set foot on a journey to our very own MOUNT DOOM....

... to be continued

P.S... Anyone who thinks that over dramatization of common mundane matters has taken place, is thinking right and can go get his donkey Ducked!!!!!