idiots @ bartonhill

Well I have to start somewhere and what more suitable than the first day of my college life. It was an orientation class for the freshers. The class was supposed to start by 9am and I crossed the the college gate with my dad at around 8.50am. I came early deliberately so that I could get myself comfortable in the front seats. The sight in the class was shocking. I could hardly find a vacant seat. I searched for a seat with the same vigour as if I was searching for some lost gold or something.. Eventually I was offered a small space on the last bench. There wasn't an inch of space left as 5 students were already comfortably placed there. In fact they might have thought that the space allotted was more than enough for me!!!

'Your name please'... I was as polite as I could as I wanted to make sure that the guy nearby wouldn't push me down :p

'Akhil VS.....yours? '
'Ashik.M.S' - I don't know whether I have this bad habit of telling my full name all the time.. Maybe I like my initials or maybe because I felt like making him understand that if he had a VS with his first name.., I have a MS with mine..
So Akhil it is; the first person I met in my college. I found his face somewhat familiar to me. In 'Koi Mil Gaya' and 'Avatar' I have seen a familiar face.. So now you can guess what I might be relating his face to!! :D

Class began.. The HOD of the Electrical department and Principal spoke about the achievements of and the facilities in the college and they were fighting among themselves to prove that Bartonhill is the 2nd best college in the state. Then they talked about GPA and CGPU and all those things that we had no idea before. Maybe he might have felt that it was easy to confuse freshers than to convince them!!! The session was over by 11.30am. I noticed that my dad was busy talking with 2 uncles. 2 girls were also standing nearby. My dad greeted me and said that those two are my classmates pointing to the girls.
'I'm Sreya '
'I'm Soya'
'And I'm Ashik' - deliberately skipped initials this time :)

Sreya and Soya..... Sreya was a familiar name for I've Shreya Ghoshal's songs in my mobile.. But what's this Soya? I was familiar with soya beans only-that edible bean that we use in foods. Suddenly another vegetable came into my mind-Tomato or 'Thakkali' in malayalam. There was a person in my native place named 'Thakkali' !!!! So it might be the new trend to give vegetable names to people..  Crazy eh??

Well, I will tell about my other friends.. There is one guy.. a fatso, named Nikhil Oomen Jacob. When I first noticed him he was trying to catch attention by doing magic. I felt like he had spent considerable amount of time previous day studying how to be a magician..:) Despite all his efforts he was unsuccessful in bringing on the magician in him. Every time his magics went in vein he had a smile. His size itself is an attention seaker. Still I don't know why he was trying to do something he didn't know..

Another guy is Ayoub... who thinks that college life is all about cutting classes. He had even shown his special talent in that area by leaving the class even when the teacher is taking a lecture.. Amazing guy he is!!
Then comes 2 K's - studious Karthik and the handsome Krishnanunni. They both hardly free their hands.. either they will be writing lecture notes or they will be texting girls!!! Then there is Ajmal - the show!! He may be the most popular guy in the class as he's a jack of all trades..

Then comes the Kozhikodan duo- the most intelligent Kiran and the most funny Abhijith. Their malabari slang itself is a feast to our ears.. One noticeable legend is Akash or "pattom muttada".  When some one asks his place he couple Pattom and Muttada and tell " I'm.. Pattom muttada " LOL . I still doubt if even he knows where actually his house is!!
Then there is Arun,Ashwin,Appu,Anoop, Govind - a gang which equally studious and humorous people.. Other noticeable legends are hyperactive Josy,typical CBSE product Pranoy, tallest Vishnu and Rahul, the most social Anoop J , singer Nithin Mani, ks,rakesh and the most decent Azhar. Finally there is an always happy Manjith & jithin, genius Leo and the best class representative in Deepak... Not to forget the lateral entry guy Sethu :)

Coming to girls.. I've already mentioned about Sreya and Soya. They are the lone witnesses of whatever stupid things I happened to make in the college and unfortunately that earned me a name 'Sasikuttan'!!! :D
Then there is a highly brave and multi-talented Aswathy, the athira duo and a High five, always united DASRA- named after Deepthi, 'thattathin marayath' Azmiya, brilliant Shincy,Reshmi and Archa..
Other popular names are  studious Lekshmi and Amrutha, class representative Hema, Geethu, Rohini,Aneesha,  and English girl Kalyani.. to name a few..

Also the space allotted is not enough to describe my whole class.. And one more thing..title says idiots..  After the film 3 idiots no on in the world may like to tell the word idiot in negative sense..Of course all engineering students are idiots... So happy to be called as Idiots!! :D

366 Days

18th July 2012 - You might be thinking what's the speciality of this date.. o..O   Of course it's today's date. For some curious ones, let me tell you my last post was also dated on 18th July; but exactly an year ago.
There is no use pondering over why I didn't update my blog for the past one year, for even I don't know why!! But one thing I know is during those 366 days I had my first year in college... that is; in Govt. Engineering College Barton Hill, Trivandrum...

So 366 days it is... including the unnoticed Feb 29. Okay; coming to my college.. Like everyone I'm proud of my college. I'm a part of it. So I can describe it in my own way.For everyone who hasn't even got a chance to visit it I can give them a brief description.. the way I see it. It's actually a small college.. Small in the sense too small!! If you could call 2-3 buildings with some teachers and a thousand students a college then ours too is one such. Of course it's a newly formed one, just about a decade old; and it's on the developing stage. So there is no point going on telling it's small. We just have to accept that it is in Kerala, and hope our college becomes 'bigger' before we pass out..

" Perfectly no ragging.. " - that's what everyone told before taking admission.. However if you ask some of my classmates including girls, then their reply may definitely be different, I tell you. Fortunately I'm spared from every piece of ragging. Thank God and "thank you" my sweet seniors.. :-D

Coming to the lectures, teachers were fighting among themselves to give the most boring lecture. Most of my classmates copied every word that they told onto their books like trained parrots. Some bunked classes, some used this opportunity to text each other, while the fourth kind of students, including me, felt it's a time to sleep!!!

Other memories include my IEEE membership, participation in All Kerala Young Scientist Competition and above all an unbelievably awesome night at our college fest AAGNEYA 5.0 . Finally a hand full of hangouts with my bhavanites..
Yes those 366 days have been simply AWESOME!!!