Thank you..

Huh! what a month it has been!
So many feelings!

Happiness, encouragement, dullness, sadness, boredom, frustration, tears, anger, dejection, rejection, encouragement, turmoil, acceptance, sarcasm, distrust, misuse, more tears, disheartening, hope, love, pleasure, high, lethargy, attachment, detatchment, craze, fun, enjoyment, memories, repentance, stress, pressure....

Yesterday, as I sat down and went through project presentation and changed the extensions and mailed it to my project-mates, I just remembered how long it had been since we all friends had a good time together. Time took away with it a lot of things.

I still remember how all the professors in the department had come to our 3rd sem class and introduced themselves and wished us luck and gave some mini lectures on behaviour and attendance. Three years have passed since. That was the time when we were making friends in the new crowd, creating a identiy.Those classes with full strength in third semester, when the benches were not suffecient and peon had to arrange for extra chairs - nope, they dont exist now- all have been replaced by dusty ones.. Mass-bunk was a new term! Bunking a senior professors class was offence! When I come to think of it now, I think fun lied there, then. I miss the times when we waited in the corridors for the next professor to come; when bunking meant once in a while and break meant : go and come back to class! not just go, get lost!

I liked standing in cafe and drinking coffee in light mood with my friends; the times when we just ate and at the end one or two people ended up paying for all;  those golden little trips of ours - which were decided on a fly- vtu, Vyjnath,tank and even Shiroda; the times when a person came late to college and forced everybody who came later to bunk the class; the times when one person just mentioned movie name and all end up in theatre instead of a lecture!; those stupid gossips; those visits to Cafe Ajanta for neer dosa and toast; the morning walks and laughs; the carefree chatter and a little jokes turned most of us rolling on floor, laughing; the times sitting in front of the dot matrix printer and taking printouts for all; the lunches in Hotel Panchamrut; sitting in Entrepreneurship and Management class and dying to impress that lecturer; cribbing about Prof.Madi and complaining and fighting with him; when we decided if we should go to class depending on the crowd in juice centre and cafe; ten people crammed into a table of four in canteen for breakfast; when the person who got tea never got a sip; when we fought for a glass of banana shake; when one gave a hundred rupee note for a thirty-rupee-per-head bill and got only ten bucks back!; the frustrated lab sessions; the silly but funny gossip..
I miss grabbing and fight for a single bite of Vasu's tiffin (of which she never got a bit!); poo's narration of "Nid-dhant" incidents ; Peets' - Mithun PJ's; the smile that Vinay and Shirish's little blunders and jokes brought; Shrawan's stories and charm; shweth's silent smiles and angers :)... I miss those damn days filled with laughter; those stupid days when there was no big reason to laugh; no big reason to meet; no reason to celbrate; no reason to go out and drink a cup of tea..

I never thought all those little things had made so much difference to my life and how I see my class, my people in college... These empty classes, canteen and cafe; no laughter; creases of worries on every forehead! All I hear is "has your implementation started?", "your seminar is selected??!", "my guide's angry".. " who's your examiner?" .. "whats your seminar topic?"... frustrate me.. get me craving to see a genuine smile on a face...

To the list of my feelings, here I add: Nostalgia..

And I dedicate this post to ALL the people who are the reason for so many memories and smiles: Peets, Vassu, Poo, Shweth, Mith, Shrawan, Vinay, Shirish, Prati, Pratima, Iesh, Anu, Shwetha and Shwetha H... To those people who have no idea they'll live in my memory: KKT sir, Rodd sir, Math Sir, Madi sir, Anjana(Go-mata!), Sabde sir, Gudi sir, Seema ma'm, AHK and Upparmani sir, Rajesh Joshi sir,  and on goes this list. And to all those little "fun weekends ;)" that happened in this city!

Thanks to all you guys, who made my stay in this city golden;  for the soo much love; you got me smiling when I was low even without asking; you made me feel at home; you have made life here fun; thanks so much .. for making  a mark in my life; for leaving me those platinum moments of happiness..

Well, yeah.. I will move on but you have already made the differece :)