purani jeans...aur guitar

few days back...i logged into orkut and to my surprise, found abt 50 new scraps...as a reflex action..i raised my left eyebrow, looked towards the ceiling fan... n started wondering wat was that all about...yeh kya horiyaaaye....na toh aaj apun ka happy b'day to you hai..aur na hi apun ne himesh reshamiya look-alike-sing-alike contest jeet liya hai...to fir itne saare scraps kyuon aaayele hain baap!!...the 50+ scraps were from two of my frnds...vaibhav n varun...it was just another idea from there destructive brians..they didn have yahoo messenger working in thier offices that day..so decided to chat through orkut...but... in my scrapbook

surprised??..well dont be...this super intelligent bunch of people(dese two n a few more) called my friends are capable of doing even more crazy stuff as i found out in collg...although i was the target of almost al there pranks....i enjoyed them as much as they did.

I met vaibhav right on the 1st day of college...when we were checking the time table to get into the class as soon as possible n escape getting ragged....but as everyone who had studied in my collg....ITM(institute of technology & management) knows...ragging is non-exsistant...atleast inside the campus...as the senoirs are more scared of getting suspended....yeah..thats how ITM is...one of my frnd was slapped with a 1000buck fine and a 1 week suspension..just coz he took a short cut out of the canteen...using the window instead of the door..poor chap..some grumpy prof spotted it...n punished him as if he had proposed the prof's daughter...

inspite of these dese strict n at times ridiculous rules..collg years were the best...thanx mostly to the frnds i made....so vaibhav me n..varun were together most of the time...well..we were gud frnds..but also...our roll numbers were consecutive....so it meant that we were in the same groups in all the labs.....n labs were the place we had most fun...doing all kinds of crazy things with resistors..transistors...diodes..capacitors....mostly trying to scew up oder ppl's apparatus.....franlky...most of my time was consumed in figuring out which one was what...let alone doing the actual experiment....the only relation between me n Electronics was the letter 'E'...which appeared quite often on my practical's grade sheets..

in classes...we were chronic back benchers...i don know if this has ever happened to u....but whenever the papa-ka-honhaar-beta-going-to-be-a-good-engineer inside me woke up..n gathered the courage to sit in the front row..n try to understand what.. 60yr old man is talking abt maxwell's equations...i wud immidiately get the symptoms of yellow fever or something...aankhon ke aagey andhera chaa jata tha..saans nahi li jaati thi..aur chakkar aate they....so...after a few attempts..i just dropped d idea...n returned to the peaceful world of the last row...eating lunches...sending sms to d guy sitting in d front row..to wake up...n if me n varun happened to be sitting together....singing jagjit singh ghazals...yeah...we were one weird bunch

the scenes in the flat in we stayed in was no different...as most enng students..staying in a hostel...or a PG...we were always living below the poverty line...not that we looked like ppl from some refugee camp in somalia...but we were mostly broke....so we used to come up wid our own innovatives ideas to cut down our expenditures...the following coversation might give u some idea

apparantly...my folding bed was broken wen a frnd had jumped on it trying to grab a centre-fresh tossed up in the air...so..i had no option but to shift to the floor...n vaibahv being a true frnd also abandoned his folding so that i woudnt look like his servent sleeping on the floor...n his folding bed was now the place to find everything...clothes(both clean n dirty...books..empty water bottles...etc etc..

me(squashing the 18th machhar for the nite): yaar vaibhav...aaj bade machhar hain..all out on nahi ki kya??

vaibhav(busy finding his practical file in the pile of clothes, books and a whole lot of stuff on the bed): kar di thi...yeh itne kadpe kyuon hain bed pe??? kiske hain yeh??..kitne log rehte hain yaha??

me(wanting to spary 5 bottles of baygon into our room): arrey...yaad aaya..all out to khatam ho gayi thi...tu refill le aaya tha uski aaj??

vaibhav(giggling in his own unique way..n i knew that anoder pathetic idea was around the corner) : tu bhi pagal hai...maine all out on kar di hai...usmain lite jal rahi hai...ab machharon ko kya pata hai ki woh khaali ho gayi hai...itni akal hoti to kya machhar hote woh...dekha...maine paise bachaye aaj

i now wanted to spray all those 5 bottles at vaibhav...but vaibhav was just being..well vaibahv...had a ball being his room mate..this guy wud come up with a joke in the most hopless of situations n make evryone laugh...nevr saw him upset or angry...same goes for varun...u spend 5 min with this guy....n u'll be holding ur stomach

exam time was no different...the bhaichaara between all of us was on a real high during xams...with me n vaibhav dividing the course betwwen us...but after we saw the paper..cursing each other..saying....arrreyyyyy...yeh 5 questions to tere part ke hain...kuch nahi padha tune...ab dono fail honge

there was anoder incident that stands out...EMT(electro megnetic technology)paper was on next day...n we didn have a clue abt this subject....it was late in the nite n MR i-know-eveything-abt-maxwell-n-his-equations-vaibhav...closed his book n told me..dat no matter how hard i studied that nite...he wud get more marks....now this was just not acceptable to me n i challenged him that my score wud be twice at him(thinking in my mind...kuch zyada to nahi bol diya)....we the exam was really scary...n we walked out without spending much time...but as it turned out...i won the bet....vaibhav had got 1 and i had managed 2 out of 20...i don think any guy who got 2/20 any any test wud be as happy as i was that day

well...this post wud make it to the guiness book for the longest post if i mention all the things we did..and i havent even started abt the 2 other culprits...hemant..n saurabh..i'll keep their exploits and adventures...for some other time....raelly...i feel collg years r d best in everynes life...so if u r in that stgae of life..enjoy it to d fullest..