Torchlight man :D

Overwhelmed by the comments in my first post, i thought i d write abt one incident , outside of college which only a very few know about... This is about one of the quietest guys in class.. Sasikumar..

This incident happened in his house in the middle fo the night when he was watching 'saami padam'. After successful completion of the movie at about 2 am in the front hall of his house in the dark, he gropes for the torchlight, creeps to his parents bedroom and flashes the torchlight on his mum's face to check if she is still awake after his 'secret operation' had been performed...

The next day mornin his mum comes up to kumaran and goes like "Enna pa intha payan night thoonga modhu en moonjila light adikiraan !!" ;)..And thus came the name 'LIGHT HOUSE' sasi ...

Committed to her OR Committed to hers ??

Just thought I d go a lil bit off topic to get away from all the heat of teasing everybody :)

Its something I had been observing ever since I landed here in Perth 9 months ago and just thought I d put it up so that all of you can put out your comments or views in it ..

Most of the guys here mostly studying with me and mostly Masters guys ( I would say 90% ) have girlfriends in INDIA... Every other guy i ask is 'COMMITTED' to a girl who is in an IT company (mostly) in India or in Call centers.. Its become so common that getting committed is some everyday activity, which is pretty natural to any guy doing his studies abroad, and will eventually get a job there.. (not that i wana criticise the fact..but m puttin out my views in it).

Is it because the girls in India are attracted to guys stayin abroad (primarily because of the money power) OR the guys are able to attract girls in India easier than they were had they been in India ??!

Anyway MOST of the so-called 'COMMITTED' indian guys here in perth do not seem to adhere to their 'COMMITMENTS' in India and go to Pubs, Discos, Foam parties and Stripteases... Are the girls gettin 'FOOLED' by the money and their luxurious afterlife OR are the guys doin a little 'experimenting' before turnin back to their 'COMMITTMENTS' back in India??

Its kinda intriguing to me anyway ..!! Wat do u ppl say ?!

Class Pairs :-/

Even though I m not sure if its OK to put this up, I m putting this up simply cuz Sathya said he ll take responsibility for it.. Anyway any objections can be put up as comments and i ll remove if the objections s strong enough :)

Well here it goes.. to all the class GIRLS who were naive about who they were 'teased' with or were aware about it but pretended not to know ;)

Om Sakthi - Suganya
Sathya Narayanan - Rekha, Sunitha
Kumaran - Supriya, Nagajothi, Lisa Mathew, Anuthama Motilal
Masco - NIL
Baskar - Amudha, Geetha Priya
Shivaraman - Shobana, Bhuvaneswari
Koteswaran - Smriti, Shruthi
Haja Mohideen - Rekha
Prathap - Nivedana, Randip, Sivaranjani, Mahalakshmi, Sivankini and Priyanka
Ramakrishna - Sharmila
Raghuveer - Muthu Meenakshi
Avinash - Nivedana
Balachander - Rekha
Sridharan - Nivedana
Bharath Gopalakrishnan - Priyanka
Samson - Geetha Priya
Gokulnath - Anitha,Priyanka
Premnath - Sharmila
Madhan - Smriti
Kalyan - ******
Senthil.B - Gayathri
Gowri Shankar - Premalatha
Nambi - Sharmila, Pradeepa
Karthikeyan - Srilena
Sriram - Nivedana, Sasikala, Aarthy, Pavithra, Premalatha
Swaminathan -Rekha, Pradeepa
Gopinath - Sivaranjani
Antony - Sivaranjani
Rajaraman - Sathya (IT), Shruthi
S.K - Velammal, Priyanka
Sampath - Sangeetha
Dhanavel - Akilandeswari
Annamalai - Priyadarshini
Mark Rohan - Shruthi
Easwar - Priyanka, Gayathri
Muthu Krishan - Smriti
Mahendran - Nivedana
Aravind - Vedhavalli sivaprakasham, Lisa mathew ,all girls and female teachers
Jagadesh - Janani
Sasi Kumar - Sasikala
Loganathan - Rekha

Again if anyone has any prob .just put me an email and i will delete it... Thnx again :)

Super-man ( Sappar Man )

One of the interesting characters in my class is Mr.Saree Potter (and his bag of female clothing).. I m assuming u already guessed it .. Its Rajaraman alias .Raja (Pulli Raja).. Some of u may be dumbfounded what all of this means..Don worry ll give u a clear explanation of all of these (and more...)

A lil intro about Rajaraman : One of the studious guys in our class, wit quite a high percentile in exams, so much that he performs well in cycle tests and other internal tests.. In his past time, this walking encyclopedia spends time in his bathroom inventing new technologies to sight and impress girls.. One outcome of this neverending venture is the "WATCH-SIGHT (WS)" technology. This can be shown by the illustration above. For this we can consider the layout of our class and how he uses his watch to sight..

Another incident tht can be related It dates back to the days in third year when we went for our FAMOUS hyderabad tour.. It was when (to make a long story short ;) ) our famous 'Multimedia' Gilli (Palli) raman got mokkai frm Nivedana when he tried to present her with a saree, which he took pains carefully selecting.. I was told she went like "Sorry, I dont wear sarees !! " :P.. I still don remember y he was called 'Multimedia' (If anyone can remember why i can update it)...

Well, the next best thing abt rajaram is his continuous visits to the gym to put on weight , in steps of 0.0000001 kg and tells the whole world how proud he is that he has put on weight.. His initial weight loss was due to AIDS ( Eppadi irundha pulli raja ippadi ayitaan !! ).. It was then he decided to put on weight by going to the gym .. He drastically started puttin on weight (yeah, in steps of 0.0000001 kg), but little did he realise that his increase in weight was due to the fact he was wearin jeans instead of shorts :P

Right now he is workin in GDA doing research (apart frm his research in the bathroom) to effectively increase his weight to steps of 0.000002 kg and feel even more better about it :D

Adding the little titbit frm easwar.. "He was also called 'Angel-boy'. That happened in the 7th semester when nivedana went to stage to talk abt something when Mr.Watch Sight (on my left) got restless. When I asked him wat was wrong, he breathed a sigh of relief and said Nivedana luks like an 'angel' and henceforth he was called ' the angel-boy'... the song 'Girl, you're my angel' (by Shaggy) was dedicated to him. And whenever watch boy went to the stage to talk, he never used to luk at the boys side of the class (which is pretty obvious :D). he mostly concentrated on the right wing back bench-warmers... oh sorry back benchers"

Comical Classes

Comprehension class is the most interesting class of the entire engineering course as we can see the lecturer(SS) sleeping like a log when v take presentations on the board..The only source of inspiration for our class ppl who sleep in class.. Perhaps we should construct a statue for this living legend or somethin.. What do u say ?.. The Q&A session was the best as she would bring some objective question book to class, ask us questions from Electronic ckts, give us 4 options, look at the back pages of the book and read out d answer (Odds are 25% of the time ur answer may be correct due to random guess-work)..

The next class would be "Robotics & Automation" by Mr.Insect Boy.. What a genius he is, he is fit to teach in IIT's or even Harvard!!.. He would come to class, copy off every single line, including diagrams and write em on d board..It does require guts to pull off somethn like this depite him knowin v have d same book and to top it all HOD appreciates him for handling the subject..TO add to our misery he uses a loudspeaker and a mic so that v can listen to his classes better (duh, I d rather read frm the book than listen to him read it to me !!).. I, including many others selected this elective to learn about the technology behind which robots work but it ended in disappointment as some lame idiot (Mr.Karimedu Karivaayan) played spoil-sport.

Another class which intrigued me was Industrial Chemical Process.. All i could remember was smriti takin the case study of Tannery Industry like 5 times and some others (including me) taking the Power plant operation a few times..Then one fine day Mr.LJ comes into class and says "Surprise, suprise !! Thus i ve completed the portion for ICP!!, All the best for your exam".. I still wonder if he took class for that unit in that semester...Neverthless, from past experience of his valualbe teaching ( from Electron Devices) all of were aware of what was coming and we cleared ICP anyway :)

The last of the top 4 comical classes is by Mr.Raj Narain - The VLSI God (Analogous to Madhan(Mokka/Matching Madhan) - The Microprocessor God)..He would come into class and write on the board pretty vigorously (he used to sweat in the process, showing how much time he took to copy it off the local author book), then turn toward and explain to himself how the stuff works (May be we should study telepathy before doing VLSI so that we can mind-read or may be purchase some hearing-aids :P)..Neverthless he was in his own world and we were in ours and used to give a satisfactory smile after every lecture ( I guess he impressed himself thoroughly..:D)

As Raghu reminded me of our course in "Industrial Automation", i would rate in top 5 comical classes and write about it...As Law of Velammal states " Thou shalt be punctual and give 100% attendance at all times even if u are sick or are in calamity, especially if u are doing IN-HOUSE projects :P", we were asked to be punctual as attendance was taken for it.. It was in the '5-Crore' library building (U cud identify wats worth in it for a 5 crore project, for one) where the systems were loaded with a FREEWARE software called Keyence ( If ur IT enuf, u cud scour up hundreds of free ladder logic proggie's on d net!! ) and taught us kids stuff like LOGIC GATES ( Helloo , we already learnt tht in skool and also in Digital Logic theory ) and 3 ppl to clear our doubts for it.. The best part came when SCADA started ..This time the software was SHAREWARE and had a 2 hour demo limit ( Which lame idiot course offers you practice and conceptual learning on a demo software..I still suspect Mr. Navin (Owner of Dubakoor Automation Pty Ltd) downloaded the demo off the internet and installed it on our college PC..This shrinks our practice time to 2 hours and the course was a mere time pass.. The irony of this is that the E&I department signed a department signed an MoU with this cheat.. I think the department staff were satisfied to get the course fee down to Rs 2500 (when initially it would have costed Rs 7500 otherwise.. U d be the biggest loser in the world had u done this shitty course for 7.5K !! X-( ) when infact the guy made us waste our time for no goddamn reason (A big applause to those who din get cheated by this !).. The topping was the DCS part in which i have no clue of what he taught us..I still remember there was one day of on-board lecture and thus it satisfied the criteria on our ceritifcate that says "DCS" !.. Anyway tht certificate is not worth a thin dime and it can be used as toilet paper alone :D!

I still think Velammal has signed and MoU with Annamalai University so that they can do "R&D" with fresh graduates from there by making them take classes for us (To find out how students can get good results without teaching the subjects- Kinda negative psychology thingi i guess)..

Electronic Telepathy =)

One guy who can never be forgotten for his female fans following is Prathap.. Every girl in E&I and other departments , including juniors had their eyes on him...Statistics show that there is a significant increase in female workers in the IT industry (especially Wipro) after Prathap got placed.. This has led to such adverse effects that people are getting kicked out from IT companies due to over-flooding of female employees (one example being the recent fiasco at TCS)..

Anything electronic can be related to Prathap, starting with "P-N junction diode" (which was his Univ exam lab experiment), just after this unofficial "Notty boy" was named so by Shivaraman.. It was the start of the set of 'meaningful' ;) abbreviations that can be related to him..A few of em tht i cud remember are :

ESB - Existing signal betrayal
MSR - Multiple signal reception
NSI - New signal intake
POC - Point of correlation

After this died down, his interest in playing shuttle during the TIES period cause him to take interest in Table Tennis Bats which resulted in "The Chinna bat - Periya Bat scandal" :P ( Pls ask him wat it is as I cant explain more )!!

Then after topping the class in the semester exams, his interest shifted to class toppers in the juniors and their interaction with them.. It was after this, he saw 'someone' in a nighty, which disturbed his sleep soo much that he din do well in the cycle tests ( More elaboration can be asked from Prathap ofcourse ).. And last (but NEVER the least :P) is an sms to 'another someone' saying "HI GIRLFRIEND" after he got into Wipro...

This led to the construction of Prathap's bridge (analogous to Wheatstone bridge) in memory of hi continuing services..

Gutsy One-Liners

I could remember a few incidents where the lecturer gets mokkai or scolded by our class ppl..

Here are a few instances that come into my mind..

1. Sriram to Nandagopal (Kambili Poochi) / Chemistry - "Baba - Cinema, Cinema", which made him complain to shahil that the musician's son was doin "unwanted" stuff in class

2. Antony calling LJ "Poda M****" after he hit him with a chalk on his head

3. Samson when called by Sasi Kumar (Kona vayi poochi payan) to work out an answer on the board, runs briskly to the board instantly, goes near him and says " I donno "!!

4. Sriram (again) laughs for a joke cracked by our guys durin class, gets caught by Germin Nisha and when asked why he was laughin , he goes like "He he, ulagatha ninaichen, sirichaen !"

5. Arvind goes upto Davidraj and asks him if he studied in IIT, to tell him the spelling of IIT first , for him to believe so..?!

6.Another incident that happened in d canteen when SK shaved his head, Mr LJ goes upto him and sarcastically says "Yaaru pa idhu engayo patha madhiri irukudhe..", to which Raghu replies "Onnum illa sir unga hairstyle a thaan avan ippo try panirukkan !!"

7. Finally , me, going like "Endha b**** da en mela chalk piece adichathu", when (U know who ;) ) hit me with a chalkpiece on my head!!

8. (As narrated by Sathya) Once we were playing shuttle badminton, when Mr.LJ was taking rest, he was explaning to arvind that once when he was playing cricket the ball hit his finger and finger got twisted....then he showed his leg and saying when he was playing foot ball or kabadi (i dont rememeber exactly) at that time some one fell to his toes and it got bent ...as n when he was saying so ...arvind started laughing and asked him ... "Unga vayi epadi sir ippadi ayidichu ?" :P (I m not sure his answer was, anyway, but antony gave a nice explanation for it !!)

IF u remember more, send em to me and ll add it here :D

The GURU - Shri Karthikji :)

This post is about (Guru) Karthikeyan Nallathambi, who needs a definite space in this blog for his various contributions to mine & other's college life..

As any of you may know Karthi, he is the quietest guy in the class, the most soft-natured pal of the class and the ideal match for any girl (Still considering his wife d luckiest in d world !!)

Anyway this guy was in my next room and had a split personality - One as actor Madanbob in the morning and as actor Vijay in the night.. He supplied all of us with compact discs frm the first semsester till his reputation was damaged by one frustrated client in our class :)..Thus arose the name "CD Karthi".He loved eating outside a lot and u can get a list of good places to eat in and around chennai from him. The best contribution to Indian Soceity by him is his "LIFT POLICY".

It states that :"If you have a car, then only that car is yours..but if you don't have a car, u can ask for lift in any car on the road as all the cars are yours.. In the same way, if you have a girlfriend, the only that girl is yours, but if you don't have one all the girls are yours" :D

He always visualised himself to be a policeman ( for obvoius reasons ;)!!) - Karthikselvan IPS - CD Police - - His Goal -- To eradicate video piracy in Tamilnadu -- To which he was a victim once upon a time ;)...If any of u can guide him into becoming an IPS it would be much appreciated..He has the oddest taste for songs (The mokkaiest songs are melodies according to him..:P) Die hard fan of Kamal Hassan.. He was also called 'Blue Baby' after Environmental Engineering classes started ( Guess why ?! )

Jokes apart, a guy with a big heart who would lend a hand to anyone ( i mean anyone & this aint Social Service :P ) who comes to him for help, especially if its computers & technology !

D Most happening people ;)

It would be useless to keep this blog continuing if I don write about the most happening couple of EIE 06.. Yeah u guessed it... "--Easwar & Priyanka--"(applause and shouts!!). One of the incidents that NOBODY in E&I would forget.. The topping of all d incidents and here it goes...

It all happened when we went for the all famous hyderabad (Industrial) tour..The only damn outing we ever had with all our classmates ;'(..

Back to the fun part, it was Easwar who came and told me that some of the girls (including Priyanka) were laughing at him when he took the lift to the floor where our rooms where..So he was goin to ignore her and not even give a recognition smile when he sees her..After which he came and told me and was pretty enthusiastic that he ignored her 3 times..

It was the next day which was the final day of our tour when v were (finally) allowed to shop..We were left at kothi bazaar, which was quite a busy street (like ranganathan street, Tnagar) with a road like an incline upward.. We were all busy shopping in groups, buying stuff for ourselves and the ones at home..Suddenly all the people around me disappeared into thin air and I decided to start lookin for antony.. It was then I started to look for Antony..Then Raghuveer came along pretty much losing the people around him..So we both decided to look for him together.. We started to climb up the incline when Raghu spotted Easwar, and we still continued to go up the incline when both of us spotted Easwar with Priyanka and we started goin like "Aeeeehh Oooohh..."..It was at this moment i spotted Easwar carryin Priyanka's bag ( Wotta moment , that too Raghu & me , who always teased Easwar spotted him - Bad luck for him and good luck for us..:P) And Easwar was 'PUMBING' when i saw him with her bag.. That was d end of d incident and a start of d biggest Kalasals of all time.. ( The hidden part of this incident was that Sriram was carryin her bag and immediately gave d bag to Easwar on seein Raghu..Guess he was aware of what was comin :) )..

Eventually he said he was doin 'Social Service' to her and always loved to help others (Notice the contrast of statements in the third and fourth paragraphs)..Then came nicknames for him such as Porter, Kooli, Pai Thooki, Kooli Koli, Koli Pumber etc to the ones he already had ( He was already called Koli, OB - Observation Boy ).Anyway this was one incident that was memorable and every single person of E&I 06 knew about it..

Note to girls : If u want any help or social service, pls contact Easwar @ TCS..He may be busy, but hey he's never too busy too help !! ;)

Junior S.P.B

There will be lots to write about this person, whose name is 'Millionaire' in english.. U guessed it...Koteswaran, but this time i would write about his singing...Wow what an excellent voice he has got.. Though everyone ran away when we sang ( even though we cudn run away durin class ).. Many of us get insipiration for singing from various sources , say from the singer or the genre of the song, but this guy got d inspiration from - u guessed it - a girl.. ;)

The actions (animation) that he does when sings ll make u think that he is a good and over-enthusiatic singer , but on hearing his voice u d definitely run away from him :P. ... A few of his favorites are :

1. Idhu kadhalauuuuu ( stress the 'U' with your nose )

2. Devadhaiyai Kanden

He still dreams of going to Mexico ( beats me why he chose the place ), with his girlfriend...:)

He sings his songs facing 45 degrees in the negative direction, so that he can "see" his insipiration, get enthusiastic and seemingly entertain us with is voice...

Eating Time :)

Final year was when the "Eating in class" became extensive.. We started to eat in class right from semester 1 ( in Chemistry class ) ( Still remember ejilson throwing a chapatti to us from the back bench !!)... The best challenge was eating in Rajeswaran's class ( Maths ), when me & sriram were eating Hide & Seek biscuit and were about to get caught, bent down and stuffed the biscuit in or mouth...

Neverthless in semester 7 onward eating in class was pretty casual as our stomachs started rumbling right from 3rd period.. Our target would be Koti's lunch first as he bought papad and chips pretty frequently... Next would be antony's tiffin box which had some non-veg stuff in it... We would never touch Mr.K.Bhakyaraj's tiffin box as it mostly contained drum sticks... This reminds me of Annamalai ( Dooma Mama ), who got the award for the "Maximum usage of our College mess" (despite its shitty taste), who paid Rs 17.5 for the food but ate for Rs 87.5 always, which made the mess construct a Statue for Annamalai to honour him for eating their food (and still suviving) ;)...

Ok back to the situation.. I would call my class (or would thank the management) the best comapared to others simply because of the "Tap with a drain", where we washed our hands after our mid-class snack... Everytime the Professor turned to write something on the board, we would immediately scurry to the back bench (where Sasi, Masco and Gowri were already sleeping :) ) and wash our hands... Cuz cleanliness is required in whatever v do isn't it ? :P..

One gutsy eater was Arvind, who din give a damn about the lecturer and eats oranges in the first bench.. And one of the girls puttin nail polish sittin in the first bench in d class ( Beauty comes first , i guess :P )...

Once again thank the management for their innovative thinking to help the students help eating in class.. Kudos to them!!

The Start of Semester 7

Exams just got over and I thought I d continue what everybody found interesting at first - Blogging..

Final Year @ college was the best of all the years mainly for 2 reasons.. One of them was because there were less subjects to study and secondly it was prject time - the most vettiest time of your college life...

One incident that keeps flashing to my mind when I m reminded of my final year is a breakthrough in kalasifying - Student teased with teacher.

A lil bit of background about this guy - This guy was one of the few who was not teased with any girl in our class ( while most of us were..) and this was a great opportunity for him to tease otheres without gettin teased back... There were times when a single person was teased by a gang of our class mates and this guy used to bump and and tease him badly...

All this ended when 'The Teacher' for Management Science came.. D perfect time for this "Ultimate teaser" to get caught... Like all other incidents, she was teased with another guy , Rajaraman.. But fate changed and eventually she was teased with Kumaran..( thnx to me actually :))...

It all started when out Mgmt Science teacher peeped into our class when some other class was going on... I shouted "KUMARAAANNN" in a different voice, naturally for d reason tht i shud not get caught... Incidents later led to the ma'am calling Kumaran and inquiring why his name was shouted when she came to class ?.. His reply was "Ma'am , I dono..they are simply blabbering.."

After that it was total enjoyment for d class ( ofcourse for me ;) ) to get back at d "Ultimate Teaser" who was terrorising us with his one-liners.. Everytime it was Management Science class and ma'am used to come in, i took pleasure in shouting "KUMARAAN.."..And there were days when both of them wore matching color dresses..Those days it was "MATCHING KUMARAANN..".. Fortunately for us ( and unfortunately for him ) she was also the lab incharge for one of our labs..

The ultimate turning point came when Ma'am came to know that she was indeed teased with Kumaran in class.. Arvind calls Ma'am and tell her to ask why Gokulnath is sighting one particular girl in our class... This ma'am , immature as she is, goes upto Goklunath and puts up Arvind's question.. Gokulnath, in his anger replies "Maam, even you are teased with Kumaran"...!!

U might have expected her to go and complain to HOD about it, but nah!, she dint !!... ( It's still a mystery why ;) ! ).. After that the routine of shouting :KUMARAAN continued, even in the 8th semsester , when she took TQM for us...Ofcourse, she was acting ignorant about it and everytime she asks questions to Kumaran in class all the guys go "Aeeeehhh....Ooooohhh....Aeeehh....", which results in Kumaran blushing in a 1000 vibrant colors...:).. And that hand-shake she gave to Kumaran 'ALONE' when he got placed in Essar.. (PRICELESS !! ) .. It is believed that Kumaran dint sleep for days after that incident...

Its still a mystery why she quit her job as soon as we graduated in 2006.. (We are still assuming tht she has moved to Gujarat, for obvious reasons ..:) )..

Ok this is the first incident , hope u ll enjoy reading it as much as i enjoyed writing it :)

Da Introduction

On this wonderful night, I decided to start blogging ( even though i had assignments to finish and exams coming up ), but hey better late than never isn't it? Anyway i have quite a bit of info that i would like to share through this blog, an important component of this being my college life, unfortunately the longest amount of time i had been in the same institution ever since school...

So lets start away hoping that i have the time and memory to get whatever i can in this blog...

Cheers,
Mark