Nirvana Nites

hmmmm.... i'd almost quit blogging after one of my close friends told me that my writing makes no sense.... instead, i decided to start writing about the indian government and the stock markets.... but then... all i know about the indian govt is that the same sardar (with all due respect Mr. Singh, no racism intended here... i blame it all on my school... in my school, a punjabi is a sardar, a tamilian is a pandi, a keralite is a malbari, a gujarati is a gujju, and a bihari is always a bihari!!!... lol....) is PM for another 5years, and that some school kid is rural development minister!!!... So!!!!!!.... here i am!!!!... back again!!!!... writing nonsense.... :D

ah... speaking of close friends.... i was going through the Nirvana Nites' fotos.... Nirvana Nites were supposedly THE last parties (of my life.... of my life in chennai rather.... :p)....

Nirvana Nite part-I was on 14th March (this was to mark my last day in college... my project submission day).... at the Baikada House.... Abhi, Ajo, Nandu and me.... the usual people.... since i wasn't "very much in ma senses", i don't remember much.... so, i'll upload the pix, and you can make up the story....


that's the four of us who made it to the party..... (no one else was invited!!....)


abhi meditating before the superchargers were served....


and then the fun began!!!!.....


and i joined in the fun too!!!.....


ajo comes up with a spine-chilling story!!!!.....


and i had to come up with a story of my own too!!!!....


....while ajo took a drinks break....


....and while abhi tried to poke and gauge his eyes out.... (or was he doing something else????.... ok now i'm confused!!!...)

nandu was busy with the chips, so we couldn't manage to get his attention away from the chips and face the camera!!!.....

k... the next couple of pix were taken after we were all super-charged!!!.... :D


Ajo: Nandu, did you piss in my glass????!!!!.... this thing suddenly tastes kinda weird!!!!.....


Ah.... anyways it tastes gudddddddd!!!!!!......


Ah!!!!.... we finally managed to get nandu for a pic!!!!..... the facial expression says it all!!!!.... ajo's pinching nandu's ass as hard as possible.... and nandu's half in pain, and half enjoying it!!!!!.....


and then we went on a long drive.... which none of us remember.... only nandu does.... he was the only guy in his senses!!!....


hmmmm..... looks like abhi's in his senses too!!!!.... he can clearly see the spaceship parked in front of our car!!!....


We're 3rd standard buddies!!!!!.....


And We're 4th year roomies!!!!....

Finally it was abhi's turn to tell us a story!!!.....



Dudes!!!!.... i was going on my bike today and guess what happened!!!.... i came across this chick who....


was this muscular....


and had such massive assets man!!!!!.... phew!!!!.....


Duh!!!!.... Haven't you met khushboo???!!!!!.... (oh.... khushboo is ajo's ex-roomie btw.... a chinky chick!!!... hahaha!!!!.....)

ok.... so that was the end of Nirvana Nite part-I.....

then came Nirvana Nite part-II..... on 18th April.... again at the Baikada House.... (this was to mark my convocation day)....the only difference was that Nandu was replaced by a sheesha stand!!!!.....


the 3 of us....


...and the sheesha stand....



abhi's on fire!!!!.... as usual he's got the white stuff on his mouth....


learning how to do it....


since the sheesha stand wouldn't click pix for us, we had to pair up and click pix two at a time...

I GRADUATEDDDDDDD!!!!!

i graduated!!!!....
i'm a grad!!!!....
no more college!!!!.....
phew!!!!... i made it!!!!!
goda go!!!... got a party to yenjaayyyyyyy!!!!!!..... lol!!!!....

(pix coming up soon.... as soon as i get home and find my data cable...)

oh... this was one of the candid pix taken during the convo.... nahhhh... i wasn't actually sleeping... was just giving my future a deep thought.... :p... like duh!!...

Comfortably Numb

woooooooo!!!!!!.... i managed to pull off a predy decent surprise for my parents' weddin anniversary... although i ended up eating most of the cake lol!!!.... thanks to my sis' new braces!!!... jeez!!... i was totally shocked when i saw her with the thing on her teeth!!!!..... yeeeeeessshhhhh!!!!.... ah.... even i used to hav a set of those horrid things on my teeth back in school!!!!.... ah anyways.... oooooooo..... valentine's day's coming uppppp!!!!!.... oh!... before i forget!!!!... gotta put up some cheesy status message on facebook!!!.... just to make ppl think that i'm cuddling up with some chick on val's day, while in reality i'll have to sit at home and do nothing!!....

ah... wonder when my switzerland trip is gonna work out.... i really want to get there before i get old.... sigh.... the stupid project!!!..... i hate the bullcrappy garbage!!!.... hafta travel all the way to my stupid college!... jeezzzz!!!.... i've been spendin half my allowance on travellin to college!!!.... friggin' 2hrs of travel!!!.... wut the.....!!!!!..... ha!!!... that reminds me of this particularly annoying mallu habit.... there are these mallus who would have been to chennai maybe once or twice, and that too decades ago!!!.... and then they act smart and ask questions about the location of the place i stay and my college.... a typical convo would go like this....
MALLU: evideya college???.... (where's your college???)
ME: OMR
M: adhu evideya???.... (where's that???)
M: IT Highway
M: adhu evideya???.... (where's that???)
M: on the way to mahabalipuram
M: adhu evideya???....

ha!!!... and it keeps goin on and on!!!.... mallus!!!!.... guess i need one more of those cheesecakes to cool me off..... gawd!!!!... THE CHEESECAKES!!!!.... it's the most evil invention by mankind!!!!.... my oh my!!!.... they're little drops of heaven!!!!... the way it jus melts in your mouth!!!... if i were to choose between a chick and a cheesecake, i'd definitely go fer the cheesecake!!!!.... or.. no!!!... wait a minute!!.... i'll actually go for the chick!!!... but if i were given an option between an ugly chick and a cheesecake, it's the cheesecake, hands down!!.... ah... need to get to one of those cheesecakes asap!!!.... wonder when i get to raid Cake Walk next!!!.... sheeeeesh!!!!.... i'm running ouda time!!!..... project work.... need to go velly sumtime nxt week.... Broadspire.... have to get back home before dad leaves.... have to go suratkal.... jeezzzz!!!!.... when am i gonna do all this???!!!!...

oh... off late, some people've started thinking i'm a devil worshipper!!!... like duh!!... and i play along and tell them stories too.... wanna know how you pray to the devil??... it's pretty intresting.... first off, you must have an empty room with absolutely nothing but a chair in it... on the chair, you must place an image of the devil... now don't be an ass and ask me where to find an image of the devil!!!... download it from google, or draw it urself!!... now place the image on the chair... then take an apple... place the apple on your head, and go around the chair ten times... if the apple falls at any time, you must start all over again... go ahead and try it out!... lol!...

bah... guess i'll be meeting all those nutheads from my place, at the church festival... i get so irritated whenever i talk to those idiots... can never mind their own godaim business!!!... i'm already bugged 'cos i'm late fer THE party with ajo, for getting don e with all exams... yeah!!!... both of us are friggin engineers in a few weeks!!!... ha! anyways... we only need a reason to party!...

oh btw... grandpa finally invited me over to his secret hideout in chennai couple of days back.... was fun... we had the "mature" family talk and stuff.... jus the two of us... and he thought i looked like a total 'kuttappan' 'cos i was clean shaved after a very very long time!!!!... it excited him so much that he picked up the fone and called granny, who was all the way back in kerla!!!.... just to tell her that i shaved!!!.... like duh!!!.... ah... old people these days!!...

oh btw!!!... guess whom i ran into today at the burger place!!!.... ashwathy!!!... ha!!!.... anyways... i'm off.... ciao!!!... and happy valentine's day people!!!!.....

Weird people!!!...

ABHISHEK GOT MARRIED!!!!!.... haha!!!... that's the controversy of the day!!!!.... everyone's in shock and wondering whether it's really nammude Abhishek or someone else!!!!... chill people!!!... it's not nammude Abhishek!!!.... it's Abhishek Dutt!!!... the ex-headboy of ism... nammude Abhishek would definitely tell us if he were getting married!!!!.... wonder whom AD invited to his wedding.... jeez!!!!.... people from my batch are already getting married!!!!... and we're not even invited!!!.... gawd!!!!... the weird things people do these days!!!!.... ha!!!... talk about weird things.... i almost became double yesterday!!!.... ah.... almost... yet another case.... guess this one was the smoothest so far!!!...

and wonder what's up with my parents!!!.... why are they dying to get me home??!!!!.... i hope there's no "reason" as such!!... as lee suggested.... people of my batch are getting married... hope my parents are not thinking on the same lines lol!!!!.... NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!..... oh... or maybe it's the tigers!!!.... no!!!.... not the actual tigers!!!.... it's the tamil tigers.... some moron burnt himself here, and now all the tigers are on the prowl!!!!.... (ha!!!... now i realise why my mom never used to let me play with sri lankan kids!!!!...).... all the damn colleges are closed.... and yet.... my sweet little college, like some lone soldier in some battlefield crap, is still working.... was supposed to submit my 6th project title today, but crap! i couldn't even open my eyes after staying awake the whole night trying to get double!!!... i called up my college to find out whether they're working tomorrow and BANG! comes the reply, like a slap on the face, "of course the college is working!!!.... we're working the entire week... only tomorrow is a holiday.... but otherwise.... even if all the colleges in south india are closed, we'll still be working!!!!..."....sigh... that's my college folks...

and damn!!!... what's wrong with my stupid fone... i knew i couldn't trust the koreans... or the chinese.... or whoever made the damn fone!!!.... i must have dropped the thing atleast 30 times on the ground.... and yesterday i dropped it the 31st time... and BAM!!!!... the keypad lighting's gone!!!!.... damn you Koreans!!!!.....

oh btw, i think my friend from canada is gonna call!!!!.... yeah!!!... beat that!!!!.... all the way frm canada!!!.... just to hear my voice!!!!... lol!!!!.... ciao.... i'm off.......

Ha!

wow!!!!... life's finally getting better!!!!.... my money's back in ma pocket!!!!.... the entire 7000-something bux.... i'm so damn richhhhhhhhh!!!!!!..... wondering what to do with all the money that's coming in!!!!!.... hmmmmm..... maybe i should start an account in Deutsche Bank!!!!... nah.... what would i do when my account gets wiped out!!!!.... maybe i should invest in a life insurance policy, since i might die soon.... nah.... not a wise idea.... should i return JJ's money????..... nahhhhh.... he doesn't need the money.... donate it to charity???.... what tha heck is wrong with me???!!!!!.... ugh.... i think i need to wax my legs!!!... lol!!!... ha!!!.... don't wanna end up looking like a gurl!!!.... should i get a bike???... jeez i dunno how to ride a damn bike!!!!.... i need more clothes!!!!.... yeahhhhh!!!!.... i definitely need more and more clothes!!!!!..... i need new shades!!!!!.... yeppppp!!!!.... do i need to take taekwondo classes???.... nah... not right now..... a new G-shock!!!!.... hmmmmm.... oh!!!... i need a new hairdo!!!!.... and i need new headfonessssssss!!!!!.... those hugggggeeeeee ones!!!!!.... and i need to go clubbinnnggggg!!!!!.... oh before that i need to rent a girl and a car!!!!.... AAAAAAARRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!...... so many options!!!!... guess i should just stick to what i decided to do in the first place!!!!.... go tripping, blow up the cash, and get bk home, broke!!!!.... ha!!!!....

oh!!!!... btw.... i was just wondering what's gone wrong with my HOD!!!!... suddenly she's being all nice to me!!!!.... hope these good things stay long!!!!.... oh.... and the crap project got rejected yet again today!!!!.... what tha heck is going on???!!!!!.... all those dumb idiots get their projects approved the first time itself, and here i am!!!!... the damn thing got rejected the third time today!!!!....

Engineered!!!!!

ah! finally i can relax!!... no more "when are your results coming out????" sort of pestering questions from my anyone!!!.... my results are out!!!!... no.. actually they came out yesterday... and yesssss!!!!... i'm through with all of them!!!!..... cleared every godaim exam!!!!.... boy am i proud of myself!!!... over the past few weeks i used to worry myself about the consequences of getting an arrear in the last sem.... it's so screwed up!!!... anyways i needn't worry anymore!!!... i really thought i'd screw up this sem exams, thanks to some "untoward incidents"!!... now i only got the project submission left... no big deal!!!... since i'm very conveniently buying my project!!!... lol!!!... the only trouble i got to go through is squeezing the money out of my dad (which should be a breeze!!... dad's suddenly become a money minting machine whose more than happy to throw money around for me!!!.... good for me! lol!!!...), and then throwing the project at kamakshi's face (which wouldn't be that breezy, esp. after she asked me to get lost with my first project!!!.. .sheeesh!!!... that reminds me!... i havn't called that fat pig of a palanivel to decide on my new project!!!... palanivel is my project guy btw... he's the guy who works hard and constructs my project while i sit at home and relax.... hahaha!!!!....).....

{post-edit: i'd written this post long long back!!!!... wonder why i forgot to post it on the blog!!!!....}

A Big Thank You

now that i'm back home, i guess i'm in a much more safer situation..... therefore, on this occasion, i'd like to thank all those who helped me get out of my worst financial crisis.... by "those", i meant JJ, nandu, aunty lee for the financial support, uncle MPV for the political support, and ranjo for the emotional support.... thanks guys.... i owe you guys some....

SOS

gah.... i've been goin thru the one of the worst crises in my life, in the past few days....
i jus lost 7500bux last week!!!!.... and i'm tryin to make up for it without even telling my parents!!!.... gosh!!!... what would i have done if i didn't have such wonderful uncles!!!!.... :D....

C4

C-4 Vignesh Apartments
South Mada Street
Thiruvanmiyur
Chennai

a very familiar address!!!.... my home away from home....
even though i wasn't an official tenant of C4, i've spent 75% of my time at this place....
a place where many "great" people have come, stayed and gone...
Venky, Shankar, Anuj, Sriram, Shyam, Amitabh, Pulsar, Tilak, Nagarajan, Nikhil, Sudhan.... jeez!!!... i don't even have count of the number of people who've stayed here!!!....
Venky (now infamous for the Pissgate incident), the guy whom, when i first met, i thought was a wee bit unfriendly.... little did i realise that he'd go on to become my mentor and role model (ha!)...
Shankar, my pal with very serious attention disorder when it comes to one-on-one conversations....
Anuj, a champion faker, can't be bothered much....
Sriram, my FIFA pal.... even if i thrash this guy 8-0, he'll still maintain that he's champ!!!....
about the others, hmmmmm.... guess i'll describe them some other time....
it was fun hanging out with you guys....
you guys made college life a little more fun!!!!!.....

The Walk That Went Wrong

ha! i was debating with myself whether i should name this post "the walk that went TERRIBLY wrong"!!!!!..... anyways i decided that then the title would be too long, and you people'd fall asleep before you even start reading the post!!!... k... enough for the intro!!!....
this was way back in third year.... when i was staying in thiruvanmiyur in chennai.... in the house whose landlord had committed suicide..... it was holiday time.... since my roomies had gone home, i was alone in the house.... (with the owner too.... i said i was alone, 'cos firstly, i don't count that guy as a human being... of course he's not a human being now... he's dead!!!!.... but even before he died, i'd never counted him as one!!!... and the second reason is 'cos i didn't want to say i was alone with the owner 'cos then, you weird people'd start using your weird brains and start coming up with weird ideas... maybe something on the homosexual side!!!... :p).... anyways.... the basic idea is that i was alone at that time and i called my friend ajo over for company.... (the good thing about ajo is that, after me, he's the second most jobless guy around!).... and whenever i meet this guy, superchargers are always present.... and that night too there was supercharging.... now, my house at that time was just in front of the beach... so all you had to do was get out of my building, walk around it to the back.... (oh and don't forget to watch out for the birds above you on the trees!!!!.... they're beautiful to look at... and even more beautiful when they shit on your head!!!.... VG'd got bird shit on her frankie once.... and she accidentally took a bite of it too!!!!..... belch!!!....)... yeah you walk to the back and bingo! you're at the beach!!!!.... so late night, after getting "whizzed", we decided it was time to hit the beach.... (now before you read on.... a word of caution.... i'm terrible with directions.... when i shift houses, i usually take more than a week to figure out the directions to my house....)..... the beach was cool... nice breeze.... it was around half past three by then.... suddenly the bulb above my head brightens and i come up with a brilliant idea.... i suggested we should go to the malbari tea shop and have a lime juice!!!.... now the malbari tea shop is right next to my friend's place, which is a 10min walk away if you take the main road.... my second brilliant suggestion was that we should walk along the beach.... and so it was.... we started walking.... we walked.... and we walked.... and we kept walking.... we saw a lot of things on our way.... fishermen pulling their boats in.... guys shitting on the beach and washing their derriers in the water (in which, the next day, people happily go and wet their feet!!!!....).... we tried to look around for turtles but didn't find any.... we kept walking.... the last thing we saw was a Barista cafe.... now... i didn't remember any Barista cafes in thiruvanmiyur!!!!..... i tried to think harder.... and then i saw the familiar long stretch of the parking lot.... and then!!!!.... then it struck me!!!!.... we'd reached Besant Nagar!!!!.... i looked at my watch... we'd been walking fer the past one n a half hr!!!!.... all i said to ajo was "dude i think we passed the juice shop... and now i think we're in Besant Nagar".... and all he could afford to say was "WHAT THA !@#$????!!!!!!"..... since it was early in the morning, there was no transport on the road yet.... we had no choice but to walk back all the way back to my house!!!!.... i don't even remember whether i woke up the next day!!!!!....

IMB

OFFICIAL NAME : ISM Malabari Brotherhood

FORMED IN : Late Summer 2006

MEMBERS : Abhishek Anand (Ramachandra Medical College)
Thekkedath Ajo Jacob (Madha Engineering College)
Kalady Nandagopal Prathap (Loyola College)
Peter Davis (Loyola College)
Randeep Joseph Roy (Sathyabama University)

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES : 1> To achieve the perfect way of life
2> To find the ultimate girl (also known as "charak")

DESCRIPTION :
After spending a year in college, RJ (formerly known as RJR) had lost hope in most of his college friends and set out in search of his old school friends in the same city. Realising that finding friends would be impossible without the help of the internet, he used Orkut as the ultimate friend-finding tool. That was when he hit upon Nandu (formerly known as Nandagopal). Within a few weeks time, RJ met up with the remaining members of the IMB.

These youngsters soon came to realise that they shared similar problems such as problematic roomies (Ajo's!!!!), being surrounded by "backstabbing" friends, lack of good food, lack of funds etc... This inspired the five to be best friends.

But it was not until late summer of 2006, that the group decided it was time for the inevitable... the formation of the IMB.

Once the IMB was formed, Chennai saw a new light dawning on the city. The face of Chennai would never be the same again. IMB was here to take the city by storm. There was no looking back for the five young men. Weekend was the time the IMB usually came together for action. There would be aimless wandering around the city's premiere shopping mall, Spencer Plaza. This mall soon became a second home for the members. Then there was the occasional movie (which usually crashed at the box office) and the night-time crash at RJ's place for "refreshments".

Inspite of all these activities, the primary objective of the IMB was 'charak-hunting'. Soon the motto of the group became "Enjoy life!... when ur broke, depend on Nandu".

Nandu, being the HOD of the charak-hunting department, soon became the official financier of the IMB when funds were alarmingly low.

After more than 18 months of vigorous acivity, the time came for one of the members to split from the group. This happened when Peter had to move out of the city.

Inspite of the split, the remaining four members continued to meetup until late October, when a second member had to move out of the city.

Even though the IMB no longer remains as active as it was in its initial days, the members still resolve to be united and continue to be a source of inspiration for the hopes and dreams of the millions who look up to the IMB.

OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH:

THE WALL

nahhhh.... this post is not about some damn cricketer.... nor is it about any psych rock album that puts you off to sleep...
thissssss.... is about THE WALL!!!!.... (perhaps one of the most important posts in my blog!!)
the wall is actually just an imaginary structure that is formed around a person/persons when they feel they're psychologically very much seperated from their peers/family....
i always had this wall around me... ever since i'd come off age to undastand things in life, i noticed this huge structure around me.... only thing is i din't have a definitive name for the structure until a half year back....
the first time i established my discovery with solid proof was just a few weeks back...
it was a fine weekend... at my friends' place... (i'm rarely at my place!!..)... my friends had just finished a huge dinner.... (i'm not into the habit of having huge dinners on weekends.... or on any other day of the week for that matter....)
so these asls after the dinner decide to hit the sack!!!!.... what a perfect way to enjoy the weekend night!!!....
so there!!!.... i'm wide awake and my friends are sound asleep... suddenly my pal Shankar decides it's unfair to leave me alone and gives me company...
we decided to set out on our mission... to search n download the best comedy movies with "scantily clad" chicks in them.... (oooooooh... we love comedies with SC chicks in them!!!.... :D...)
it was past 1am.... here's the convo... (i've changed the dialogues here and there, partly because i need to cut out many "unwanted" details... and partly because i don't remember the exact words!!!.... it was more than 2 months back!!!...)
SHANKAR: dude.... we're so friggin jobless man....
ME: i swear dude.... anyways... don't mind... keep searching....
SHANKAR: sigh... look at those guys.... so fast asleep....
ME: ahhh... i don't care... keep searching....
S: dude have you ever noticed how these guys are so different from us???....
M: hmmmm.... yeah... sometimes.... dude how about that movie???....
S: naaahhhh... it's only got a rating of 3.5..... must be a sucker.... (i hate it when these guys talk about imdb ratings!!!!.... at times even good movies (according to me) go unappreciated jus because the stupid people at imdb have given it a bad rating!!!)
(long silence....)
S: dude have you noticed that these 3 guys are so friggin weird???....
M: yeah... i thought you were weird too!!!... hehe... just kidding.... what makes you say so???...
S: dunno.... sometimes i see 'X' (identity concealed) sitting alone in the room with his book, studying... but whenever i walk into his room, this guy is always staring through the window at the next building's wall!!!!....
(and then he tells me weird things about the other two as well.... blah blah...)
M: dude... have you heard of 'the wall'???....
S: you mean the pink floyd album???...
M: noooooooo..... look carefully around you.... do you see a thick physical structure???.... and i'm the only guy on your side of the wall... do you notice??...
S: holy shit yeah!!!.... the wall!!!.... yeah i see it clearly!!!!.... oh my gawd!!!.... it's so huge!!!!....

hmmm.... so that was how i established the presence of the wall around me....
and shankar krishnamurthy was the only guy who could manage to cross over and get on to my side of the wall....
sigh....

Trip To Kodai

after three and a half years, i finally decided to join my college pals on a long distance trip.... to kodai.... KODAIKKANAL.... left on 30th sept.... as usual i couldn't tell my parents i was going on a trip.... since the mobile connectivity in Kodai is pathetic, i had to make up some excuse for that.... "the airtel tower in my area had fallen and is under repair, so i won't be able to attend any calls for the next few days" was the smartest i could think of!!!!.... (geeeez!!!... how stupid!!!!....).... and so we set off on our trip!!!!.... five of us... Amitabh, Amrit, Anuj, Shankar and me... and then!!!... it happened!!!.... we reachd!!!!.... some weird-ass place named bottle-a-goond.... wonder what drug these pandis take when they're naming places!!!!.... and so frm bottle-a-goond we took a bus ride uphill to kodai.... took us more than 2hrs!!!.... and then we reached the god forsaken place!!!!.... amazin place i must say!!!!.... an average temp of 12degrees!!!... predy cool for a place in tamilnadu.... then there was the usual superchargers... had mushrooms for the 1st time in my life.... and promised myself i'd never ever touch another mushroom in my life!!!!.... (not because i almost got killed or something.... but because i had no idea whether i was high, or was acting stupid!!!!) sept 3rd.... we got our asses out of kodai and back into chennai the next day.... oh n btw.... my friends and me have decided to observe oct 3rd as International Puke Day because of the number of asls who puked in the bus on our way back to chennai.... on d whole, one hell of a trip....