It’s been long since I blogged and people are happy about it I guess..!! It’s been almost 4 months that I left college life. Things have fallen, pretty well, in places for me and my friends. But there is something that is troubling me. I feel lonely, I can’t sleep at nights. Though staying in home, I feel aloof. It took me some while to understand what I am missing. Few days back I realized that I am missing the 64 characters of my MSIT –IIIT batch. Each individual is special and unique in his/her own way. Leaving the college, where all these characters dwelled few months back, has created a big void in my life. So this blog is dedicated to all those wonderful 64 characters with whom I have had some unforgettable moments. Wondering why I say 64, and not 63? The 64th is me. I am missing myself as well. I am finding it tough to pass the time on weekends. I don’t have anyone to talk to, in the evenings, about the daily chore on the weekdays.
So following is a small collection of the features/attributes of these 64 characters and what all I MISS!!
Prefix each of the following lines with “I MISS”
The hostel
The labs
The small ISB room
The ambience of IIIT
The JOJ
Taking the inputs from seniors
Giving inputs to juniors
The Spontaneity and dare to take a dig at anyone attitude (and that too very smartly) of Sricharan
The commitment of Dayanand
The photography of Srimanth, Budihal and Dayanand
The irritating attempts of Sai n Sandy to be in every photo…!!
We all going through the enormous number of photos almost every day in some room or the other and laughing at/commenting on them
The silence of Harishwar, Budihal, RaviKanth, Tarun and few other girls like Prithvi, Hiranmai, Divya (for gals, it’s like whenever they are not in their group)
The calmness and patience of Gyan,Pavan Kishore, Srimanth and Muthi bhai
The impatience and aggressiveness of Jay, Sreedhar, Bhanu and Paul(though only sometimes)
The voice of Rajender anna and Muthi Bhai
The noise of Thadaka and Kiran Pothina..!!
The singing of Shirish and Dany
The WALK and the TALK of Sreedhar anna and Matham..!!
The way Vallala runs..!!
The never moving Gyan kiran, Vamshi and pavan kishore while they were in their room, on the bed and watching movies or doing something or the other
Vamshi’s love for participating in online programming contests
The 4-6 abs of Narsa, Sitaram,Paddu, Raghu
The 3-tier architecture (read as bellies) of Yasaswi, Dutt, Sreedhar, Katakam, Ravikanth and ofcourse me..!!
The consistency of Sitaram at Gym
The consistency of others at just PLANNING to go to GYM…”mama Gym ki vellali repatnunchi”…but that t’row never came..!!
The way Nikki and Preneeth take their tongues out
Preneeth pushing his specs upwards almost twice a minute..!!
The smile of Sowmya
The anger of Mahathi and Vasavi
The creativity of Lavanya and Vasavi
The silence of Prithvi aka Monica
The gestures of Sandhya
The 10s of chat (IM) boxes open on the laptop screen of Lavanya ...!!
Divya’s orkutting…
The Gandhian specs of Professor Adi Bava..!!
The big gang of Vizag
The small gang of Vijaywada
The rivalry of Chiru v/s BalaKrishna groups
The very effective one liners of Gyan, Sitaram, Muthi Bhai, Budihal and Tarun as they speak less but speak right.
The sollu of Sanuks, Rahul, Unnati, Yashu and me
The MORE frequent bath taking( seen in the bathrooms most of the times) guys like Dutt, Yashu,Tarun, Sitaram and few others
The NEVER take a bath guys like Sandeep, Sairam, Sai Kranthi, and ofcourse me..!!
Our never ending discussions on the issues like “MSIT v/s IIIT”, “what would we want to change in MSIT” and “the management of MSIT” and we all taking a dig, on a regular basis, on the “MSIT management”, especially by Matham
The very impressive English of Sitaram, Raghavendra, Gyan and Rahul
The English lingo of Matham and Sreedhar
The true telugu tones of Yashu, Dutt, Kiran and Dany, Vamshi and few others.
The funny telugu lingo of Unnati, Adi and me
The funny hindi lingo of almost everyone except Sohail, Muthi bhai and me
The clean and tidy rooms of Deepak VSKS, Preneeth, Sricharan
The unclean and untidy rooms of Kranthis, Sharma, Rajender, Narsa and mine being the worst
Naveen and Kiran Pothina taking a dig at Chaitu..
Chaitu’s retaliations…
The sutta gang
The love for biryanis of both d Kranthis, Sreedhar and many others
The love for boozing parties of Sairam, Nikki, Preneeth, Bhanu, Jay and Deo
Our parties in the lab after each placement
Our weekly parties in the hostel rooms
The parcel in the hands of Kaka alias Vinod
The excellent problem solving skills of Rajender, Yashu & Vamshi
The persuasiveness and leadership qualities of Sharma, Raghu, SriCharan, Rajender, Bhanu and Lavanya
Yashu’s legside strokes and running between the wickets…!!
My few good offside strokes
The marvelous fielding of Vamshi
The all-round performance of Deepak VSKS, Raghu Prashanth and Pavan Prashanth
The lethal bowling of Sandeep
The throw bowling of Paddu, Sohail and Harishwar…!!(Sorry Harish, but fact is a fact..!!)
The "always bowling wides" guys like Sandeep and Thadaka
The “never bowl a wide” guys like Deepak, Raghu and me
The spin of Sreedhar, yashu and Raghu(Whenever Raghu wished to change from pace to spin..!!)
The deceiving slower ones of Pavan Kishore and me
The comeback of Pavan Prashanth (Hats off to u ra)
The optimistic attitude of Sricharan, Raghu, Sharma and Paul
The pessimistic attitude of many
The “Never say no” attitude of Paddu and Thadaka
The “never say yes” attitude of Rahul..!!
The namakaran(giving funny names) to almost everyone by Raghu Prashanth
Deepak Deo’s love for collecting HD movies and shouting from the top of the world, saying… “mama ee movie HD print vachindiiiii..!!”
The love for watching HD movies by Gyan, Pavan Kishore, Sitaram and many others
The love for some different online games by Kranthis, Charan sai…
The commenting of Raghavendra and Sanuks on almost everything in the world..!!
The preachings of Dany
The encouragement, “u can do it” and supportive attitude of Raghu, Paul, Sharma, Rajender and SriCharan and Muthi bhai towards everyone and everything
The punctual timings of Charan Sai and Srikanth(10 AM to 4 PM..!!)
The impuntual timings of Vamshi, Rajender, Mahesh, Sitaram and Rahul
Narayan Chaitu and Mahesh’s love for watching music videos
The offspin of Chaitu in CCL(Corridor Cricket League)
The way Murali says “Bongu” and “Bongem kaadu”
The “never come INTO the hostel rooms” guys like Paul, Pavan Prashanth, Muthi, Srikanth
The “never come OUT of the hostel rooms” guys like Mahesh, Vamshi, Prashanth Budihal and Suresh
The blogs of Raghu Prashanth, Sricharan, Raghavendra
The sober dance of Sandeep, Mahathi, Tarun, Lavanya,and Pavan Kishore
The mass dance of Yashu, Chaitu alias Sanuks, Sharma, Kranthi, Murali, Sohail and me..!!
Gyan’s “always in formal dress code”
Sandy’s “never in formal dress code”
Sandeep and Narsa’s dress code in the hostel…!!
Sharma’s mimicry acts
The water bottle in the hands of Dutt and Chaitu
The never ending discussions in the hostel rooms
The nicknames of everyone in the different games we played and the shouting ofcourse…!!
The analysis power and the enormous data storage capacity in the mind of Mahesh
The non-stop nonsense of Yashu and Chaitu aka Sanuks in the Group Discussions
The never-understandable inputs of Rehman in the discussions…!!
The “never-talk” attitude of Narsa, Murali, Vamshi, Shekhar, RaviKanth, Charan Sai and Srikanth in the Group Discussions
The infectious smile of Sri charan and Katakam
The unbearable laugh of Raghu Prashanth, Yashu and Nikhil and the 90 degree backward bending laugh of Jayvardhan..!!
The snoring of Pavan Kishore, Nikhil and Sharma in (D 309)
The patience of Mahesh (the sufferer of the snorings…!)
Jitu’s excellence in games…
Bhanu bringing in the business angle during discussions
The sollu “jokes of Jay” known as Jay Jokes..!!
Sohail’s,Tarun’s, Yashu’s and Budhihal’s love for bikes
My love for ibnlive and rediff
Mahesh’s love for Cricinfo
Sricharan’s love for google, cuil and then bing
Downloaders love for their respective downloading websites
Murali's love for CCL
Dayanand, Sitaram, Vamshi and Raghu’s love for books
Muthi and Sohail’s love for shayaris
Dutt’s love for Chaitu..!!
Sai’s love for Sandy..!!
The corridors of MSIT block in the hostel…
The cake cuttings…
The Birthday bumps…
The view of Gachibowli Stadium on one side and our very own cricket ground on the other
The food of Yuktahaar…
Watching the gals in the NBH mess…
The food items everyone used to bring from home to the hostel
And to end it all, the only one thing I DO NOT miss is the missiles of Sandeep..!!(I know Sandeep would not take this to heart, but there was not any other fitting last line better than this..!!! )
Before coming to MSIT, most of us had a rough patch in the life…either B.Tech was not in a good college, or friends were not good, or B.Tech percentage was down, or many other personal reasons. But I feel, and I guess many of you as well do feel, that we have been lucky to be a part of these 64 characters. God has been kind to us, as we met some very unique, normal, abnormal, intelligent, passionate, admirable, understandable, not understandable,ITEMS, lovable, affectionate and caring personalities ( and probably every adjective that defines a character). Its getting tough, we all are staying apart. I don’t want to write anymore emotional and touchy lines about it. Good that we have technology and our very own Xtremos to connect through. Luv u all… and of course “Miss you all”
P.S.1.: Do not take this to heart, if I have written anything wrong or embarrassing about you. Don’t worry it will stay only among these 64 characters, unless otherwise your BF/GF ( or spouse later) visit this blog and discover some really funny things written about you here..!!
P.S.2: I am sure that I have missed so many things that you all think should have been written here in the MISSING list, but the above are the ones that I could recollect over a period of 1-2 weeks..!! If you feel anything more can be added here, tell me and I will append it here, so that we have a large collection of these MISSINGS..!!
