Saying 'bye bye'..our way!

I was talking with Sandy on the mobile phone when the battery killed itself (not being able to withstand any more 'mokkai'..goes without saying).

So I reached for the land line, to 'say bye'.

Me (G):Hi de..it got cut, so I called to say bye.
Sandy (S): As usual, you and your mokkai phone di (giggle giggle)
M: Ye right (grunt) Sandy I dont know ANYTHING about Strategic Management de..We ll clear na?
S: Chi its very easy de..Learn Competencies and Comparative Advantage and crap around..42 pages..chill!!
M: I hope so di..oh oh oh! Sandy!!!!
S: Enne di????
M: Are you online??? (giggle giggle)
S:Aama sollu..fb eh?
M: (heh heh heh) this guy has commented on my status de!(gloat gloat)
S: Ahem ahem .. wait Ill go check.Aah (giggle giggle)
M: Macha we are SO hopeless.
S: Adha pathi nammele sollikirom (giggle giggle)
M: Ye right..oooh hey how is that IIT guy de??
S: He is out of town de..worst po!
M: Free free..see see Deepika Padukone splits with Ranbir Kapoor
S: About time de...But I liked Wake Up Sid!
M: That guy is just so GAY Sandy!
S: (laugh laugh laugh)
M: I mean..What DID she see in him??!!
S: (laugh dying)Hey girlie..see this..jog openings in Trent !
M: What Trent?(totally clueless)
S: Tata Trent de! (exasperation) They own Westside...those people!!
M: (WOW!) Oooh whats the profile??!! Something to do with Marketing eh?
S: Yes yes..we ll get free kurtis too!(giggle giggle)
M: (More WOW! WOW!!!) I am Liking this de!!! (giggles)
S: Seriously de..we could ask them for final year project! We can do something in CB concepts!!
M: At Westside? Like..what colours are the 'in' thing in which season?
S: Ye..something like that..why not de!Sounds nice!
M: Ah I dont know Sandy..so how are those baby pigeons in your balcony?
S: They are SO cute!Hey animal girl..you could still do a CB project on something to do with ANIMALS!!
M: Uh huh..?Like?
S: PEDIGREE!!! (in all seriousness)
M: Erm Sandy, they sure will have animal experts for THOSE! And I DID NOT do an MBA to taste Dog food!!(GRR)
S: (loud loud giggles)
By the way, those giggles are pretty loud, my mum hears them.
M: yes yes ma, Im just saying bye..
S: Yaeeesss aunty (giggle) say hi to aunty de!
M: huh huh (weak grin and vigorous noddings at mum who is pointedly looking at the timer)
S: Ooh girlie, Im joining a new gym!
M: Woo!! Why? Whats with the old one?
S: This has a better deal de..
(mother clearing throat very loudly)
M: Okay macha I got to go now de..My aatha is giving me the looks..
S: (giggle giggle) ok ok de..chal, ciao, bye bye!!

My brothers mobile phone kills itself.So he calls to say bye next.
Bro: Dai macha, cut aaiduchi da..seri vera prechane na sollu, paathukalam da..mm, bye dude. (hangs up)

Cheers..to all of us!

Looking back, these two years would have just swooshed past, but right here, right now, it seems so strange that we have just a week of classes more to go, before we break for the exams. It is a mix of emotions- happiness, warmth, elation; for having met some of the finest people I've ever known; and this heart-tightening feeling...that most of us will not have as much time as we did for others, or be as close to one another as we have been all these days!
And thus, since August 20th, 2008, we have come this far ! Made friends, teased, fooled around, became 'best' friends, fought with one another, all the hostel masti, the sleep-overs..combined studies, class bunking, getting blasted by faculty members,standing up for one another, 'being there' for each other..Growing Up!! Each one of my 58 classmates- friends.. Every single person has made such an impact on me, I will miss each of you very much!
This is my own personalised way of saying it; so.. here goes :) (p.s-There is no particular order I'm following)
Swaroopa (Roo) - One of my bestest friends here :) She taught me how it is possible for a happy-go-lucky kid to actually top the class- hard work always pays!
Deepika- My room mate and good friend :)She taught me how important friends are, how much miracle a hug can do :)
Nisha- what the word 'lady-like' means..she personifies it :)
Badri Another of my very close friends..on what it means, to just 'be there' for friends..no matter what, this guy is one person I ve been able to turn to, at any hour of any day :) thanks bum :)
Ramnathan- Another very close friend .. On the power of 'never giving up on friends'.. he has been the 'rock' :)
SandhyaAnother super cool friend :) On how, when you want to change, and make an effort, and eventually do, the world gives you a standing applause, and there is nothing better than that :)
RagavanOn what the term 'genuine concern' for friends means.. this guy .. guru ;)
Preethi On what is.. Unconditional love .. love u Pt :)
PriHow.. Smiling through your tears, colours a different picture :)
Priya(=Chess)How humble can an International CHess player get? Not more than this girl!
VigneshOrderliness=super marks!! His Exam answer papers are fit to be worshipped!
ShankeySensibility, how much more a person can achieve, by talking so much lesser!
ArchanaThe Mother Teresa of our class.. She would help anybody in distress!!
AravindOn how to affirm and re affirm one's view.. Stand by what your heart says!
DavidWho knows the greatest one-liners and the 'timing kalaichifyings' , who makes you feel so special..David, you rock :)
RameshMy jogging partner..Smartness personified! And the venn diagram has another circle eh, Ramesh?;)
SwethaTime manager! This woman.. has time for everything!! TT, books..and major roamings!
BalaOn hard work :)
SaiJananiMiss Networks!!
AbhishekOn how to say .. NO!!
SuriaCreativity .. Personified!!Keep doodling, dude :)
AndalOn family, loves and the 'i CAN do it' attitude :)
ShobanaThe cherub of the class :)A good heart is all that it takes :)
SubaOn what it means to be a 'friend in need' :) I ll never forget that weekend da :)
KarthikaOn how exactly a girl should behave.. modest, calm, no-noise types :)
SelvaThe knowledge bank of the class.. How important it is to be well read :)
JayaOn smiling through everything :)
KarthikDignity, Diligence, Leadership personified :)
RoopashreeThe most self-confident girl Ive known here!
Saravanan SrMr super-smile :)
Saravanan Jr'Possessiveness' ;) How hard good friends are to keep!
RekhaThe most photogenic girl here! :)
ThivagarOn how much fun a student can have sitting in the last-row :P
Ramya Another mix of brain and beauty :)
Lakshmi NarayananOn how, with a little confidence, a man can do anything!
RajanOn how, anything can be thrown away, for achieving your dream in life!
SyedAnna paasams :)
SumanaOn how a cute smile can make your day!
SuvarnaThe perfect, docile girl-next-door :)
HarishThe computer wizard.. 'use your strengths, and use them well, help all with them' :)
Suganya On how one can get places by minding one's own business :)
SriniWho does the best in all that he does, and eventually IS the best in it :)
SrideviWho can have ultimate fun and still top the class..anything is possible!
SripreethiFirst row damsel, most sincere girl I ve known :)
KamalFrom whom I learnt what it means to 'command respect.. it is not demanded, it is obtained' :)
GBWho has mastered the art of winning ;) but those who ve seen him practice for it will know how :)
BiswaThe guy who brings the best best lunch!!!
LawrenceMr Gold Medal :) stormy beneath the surface.. You should hear him in his 'kalaichifyin' element outside class ;)
PavithraThe head strong girl, another good friend, she can defend her stand , in ways nobody would ve known existed!
SinthiyaMiss Hairstlye ;) now that is important too!
RajiMeow! The girl who introduced me to blogging :) taught me many lessons on diplomacy :)
Praseelawho proved the proverb.. 'God helps those who help themselves'
DurgaOne of the most diligent students :)
AnanthuMaster of Multitasking ;)
BanuMiss Pretty pretty eyes!!
AbiramiWho believes, 'wherever you are, do best what you do' :)
Kumar KannanUsing your means to achieve ends.. :P He uses his 'finance boy' status..for what not ;) but thats a secret :P

Love you, all you guys!! :)

The week that was...

Last week had so many things happening..and suddenly..it was over!! And now I look at myself-suddenly, a teeny bit more sensible, mature, wiser..a summary and..the learnings:
* Started off with me, having the worst-ever attack of cold, a horrible shoulder sprain, and a huge task that I had volunteered to do, for the class (ie the placement brochure), and a deadline for the same. Now visualise this: Im stuck alone in the hostel. Almost everyone has left for the weekend. And there was a LOT of work to do..Now I have this thing about asking people for help. But this situation was too pressing. It was like I was inside this cube that was pressing on me from all directions. Awful.
Learning: The world is full of nice people :) We just need to look out for them :) Suba, my classmate ditched her Sunday plan, sat up with me through the night, and helped me through. Harish drove all the way to college, on a Sunday, again, as soon as I made this, frantic, desperate phone call, and we DID finish it!! Love you guys!
*Over a 30 minute lunch, I learned one of the most valuable lessons for life. We have all heard it.. 'Give everything your best'.. But only when we hear it at the right moment, from the right person, it hits you in the head, and you go, ' Ah.. This was what everybody meant!'
Learning: No more resentments. No more, 'Jeez what am I doing here????' Its all a waste of time!
* One of my closest friends left India to go abroad, to study. It was like, suddenly, everyone close to me was leaving! It was downright depressing. Saddening. And even though I tried to act grown-up and everything, it plainly was not working. Distance..is bad. You cannot meet up as often, you cannot talk as often.. And more than anything, there was this nagging question; 'Will this be the end of everything?'
Learning: 'If you lowe someone dearly, let them go..If get back, they were always yours; otherwise, they never were!' And anyway, thank God for the Internet :)
*We had a MAD session in college.. Make A Difference :P We invited all our faculty over, and we took turns and spoke a few words about each of them, and trust me- we were so happy talking about them, they were so happy listening to us; it was all smiles.. *sigh* :)
Learning: To MAD in someone's life, everyday :)
Thinking about all this, I felt so alive :) Thank God for this life :)*touch wood*

screw the education system :(

A couple of days back, I accompanied my brother to his Anna Univ Engineering counselling. Now Venki my bro is a classic example of MPD..lol..he was oh-so-tensed, but tried to put on this brave front, and ended up with a fever. He has his priority list set, and wanted Computer Science really bad ('I love programming..Im born to code!') but it was very sad, because his first and second choice colleges did not have any CSE seats remaining, so he had to settle for IT. All prepared, we stand in the queue, the family, for moral support, and we were, lets put it this way, listening to everyone else talk, simply because we had nothing else to do. So picture this. My brother, getting constant updates from friends..'dai machan, 3 seats left in Meenakshi da', my mum, who goes like..'cha, whats the point in having scored so much! No CSE..we should have paid up somewhere and got a seat..you know..XYZ aunty's sister's daughter got into CSC in ABC college paying 4 lakhs! What is the point in earning so much money..who else can I spend it for..' and on and on..!And I was just looking around, fretting about how old I have got, because I really felt old, looking at all the kids around..('man so young these people are.. oh great..Im aging :(' )
So then I was 'chanced to overhear' this girl's dad on his mobile. It was very convenient because she was standing right behind us. 'Sollunga maaplai, no problem! She will surely get computer science from PSG or CEG..Being an SC ST carries with it its own advantages!' My brother turned around and his jaw dropped like..like it would have hit the ground if not for all those muscles and everything else holding it in place. I mean, here is a girl, who is just as intelligent as my brother, who has scored the same marks as him, but is allowed to study in a college that any other equally intelligent student from a different caste will not even have in his priority list, simply because it is way beyond his score!
I know many of you reading this would have had first hand experience in the same. But well, what is the point talking about experiences right now. The question is what can be done regarding this??!! A good many private college (not those that sell seats) take in students on merit basis.For instance, SASTRA, Tanjavur, has just one criteria for students applying to it-a score of over 1100 for 1200. Colleges like Symbiosis have their own screening tests which only the best of the lot clear, and so do IIT and IIM, but the caste-shadow-ghost-evil spirit makes its presence felt everywhere.. and how! Finally, everybody, except those benefited by this, everyone else cribs about it. I mean..why why WHY cant we adopt something like the western education system??!! After one entire semester of a paper called Research Methods, and cramming this detail answer on how to do a questionnaire, my internship guide asks me to frame a questionnaire. My first practical attempt at it. I took one entire day with 3 re-do's. I mean, why dont we have any practical learning!! A few zoologist friends from the USA work in zoos through the summer, because such practical exposure will only get them into a good college. So how many of you guys have done anything like that...? I believe every module taught must have the students experiment it themselves. But this needs to be initiated from primary school.We might say how important this is, but we are not at all accustomed to this method and we might rebel..Whatever..Maybe I might just teach my kids to not make the same mistakes I did..to love derivations; to understand equations..and to revel in the magic of numbers..*sigh* OMG!!Did I pen that last line??!! Okay guys, lets bench that for now..Bring out the exam guides people..You shall PASS!! cheers!

Serious Thoughts

It had been a very long time since I saw the Nat Geo and Discovery channels. There was one point of time when I used to be really crazy about those.. Wildlife and conservation and the like.. At one point of time all I wanted to do was to live in the jungle like Mowgli. No laughing please. Then somewhere sometime, a lot of *well wishers* drained that idea from my head and here I am. MBA. Any way, no regrets. But I got to make many many friends who also had this 'wildlife-y' streak, and one of them is Ram (www.ramnathshekar.com ). Ram is one of my very good and famously famous friends. And he had worked with Nat Geo on King Cobras, and they made this documentary movie of which he gave me a copy and hence broke my sabbatical. Super. :) It is an excellent movie. Highly recomended, They air it very often on Nat Geo these days, and please do watch it!! (If you are not snake-scared that is). It touched on a lot of issues and one of them was the man-animal conflict. Man encroaches into animal territory, animal is homeless. Animal wants place to stay and food to eat. So it does what it has been doing since it had evolved. Hunt. Only that now, animal has no choice but hunt only available prey- domesticated animals. So man gets wild, and kills the animal, and one fine day, its extinct.There are some movies that get you thinking. This was one. Because, this is one issue that everyone can relate to. Especially everyone at the new SSN ladies hostel. (Strictly no laughing)
Our hostel had no inmates, except, ofcourse, us. And sudenly, on one blessed morning, this family of monkeys came to stay. And trust me; one of them was huge!The Macaca rhesus (right spell?); the ones you find in the temples. Bless them. We never had a problem with them..we kept to ourselves, and so did they. Until one fine day, when they toppled our big blue dustbin, scavenging for food. okay..forgiven. Next, they raided the bathroms. God knows for what joy. They messed up the entire bathroom, toppled those bins, and what not. Forgiven. No damage caused. But it reaced the climax when did the same thing when X* was in one of the loos. She screamed and yelled and cried and brought the roof down. Well who could blame her. She had this super mega size primate-o-phobia. Which has only increased with time. Poor thing. But this was a day before we left for vacations. I have no doubt the watch men would have tried relocating the monkey family by now. But the problem is that relocation almost always never works! They have tried it tim,e and again in Delhi, and in Chennai too, with dogs. But animals accustomed to one environment will will most certainly come back o the same. The only permissible solution is to do the birth control thing to them, so that the adults will not have any progeny, and the blood line will die out. Sadness.

why girls like guys

So here it goes..
(This is an original)
1. The way they ARE there, no matter what
2. The fact that they will move mountains to just see you smile
3. When you put your head on their shoulder, everything is going to be okay
4. The way they hold your hands and cross the road
5. The way they make you believe you ought to audition for the Miss World crown
6. The way they feed you ice cream from their cup
7. They share chocolates!
8. They are okay with you crying into them
9. You dont have to act brave while watching a horror movie with them
10. The way they relish whatever you cook for them
11. Because they will hit anybody who makes a pass at you
12. The way they put their arms around you that sends across the message..’my girl!’
13. They way they sing for you
14. They always manage to get tickets for your favourite movie
15. The way they always make you feel like you are the centre of their world
16. The way they fight with you and make you cry
17. And the way they make up with you, and make you cry again
18. The way they introduce you to their friends
19. The way they say ‘my baby’ and you are instantly transported to heaven
20. The way they put up with your pms and mood swings and tantrums
21. The way they travel 40 kilo metres with your favourite pasta ‘with extra mayo, please’ because you are not in the mood for roti that night (this one is for Pri  )
22. The way they tuck your hair behind your ears
23. The way they pluck flowers off the road to give to you
24. The way they kneel and mouth ‘i love you’

A few reasons why guys like girls

1. they always smell good, even if its just shampoo.
2. The way their heads always find the right spot on your shoulder.
3. The eas with which they fit into your arms.
4. The way they kiss you and all of a sudden everything seems right in the world.
5. How cute they are when they eat.
6. The way they take hours to dress but in the end its all worthwhile.
7. Because they are always warm, even if its minus 30 degrees outside.
8. The way they look good, no matter what they wear.
9. The way they fish for compliments.
10. How cute they are when they argue.
11. The way their hands always find yours.
12. The way they smile.
13. The way you feel when you see their names on the caller ID after you have had a big fight.
14. The way they say 'Lets not fight anymore' even though you know an hour later..
15. The way they kiss you when you do something nice for them.
16. The way they kiss you when you say 'I love you'
17. Actually, just the way they kiss you
18. The way they fall into your arms when they cry
19. They way they apologise for crying over something silly
20. The way they hit you and expect it to hurt
21. The way they apologise when it does hurt
22. The way they say 'I miss you'
23. The way you miss them
24. The way their tears make you want to change the world so that it doesnt hurt them anymore
source: the internet.
But its here simply because I think it makes a lot of sense :) coming up next, why girls like guys :) please feel free to add your points for the same :)