These 4 years

This is my first post on this blog. Basically, I wrote this post on my own website but Ranjeet asked me to post it here also and so he added me to the author's list today. At first I didn't want to post because of all the apprehensions I had but then dost ki baat kaun taal sakta hai..

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The heat of the town is people expressing in all possible ways, how they are going to miss their college years. All the parties, photo sessions, senti status have a promise hidden in them. Do I feel Nostalgic? May be. Will I miss these 4 years? Definitely.

When I come to think about it, these four years have been a random set of events which some might call boring but I enjoyed every single moment of it. The stay has been spectacular in a way as I enjoyed whatever I did. I didn’t do things just for the sake of doing them. I didn’t do things just because I was in an engineering college and I had to do them. I didn’t become the part of the rat race. No one became(agrees to be) a part of it.

When I look in the mirror today I see a geek. Totally engrossed in his own worldly affairs, fascinated by technology, surfing net, reading blogs and xkcd, having a weird sleeping pattern and bathing pattern, careless, narcissist, nihilist and an idealist. These past four years have contributed a lot in moulding the person I am today.

The life in the college revolve around friends. The people who know me also know that I am a difficult person to cope up with. The way I openly despise things I don’t like, the way I speak my heart out and the way I always put more stress on logic then on feelings become a strict no-no for many people but few things don’t change. They are their to stay for good. Let me put things straight. I have always had few friends as I have openly despised a good bunch of people. I didn’t care if someone was cool, smart or was my friend, the axe fell if it had to fall. There are tiny few who sustained the blows. Here is the list of them in alphabetical order(to avoid controversies) whom I am going to miss after we part our ways. There is a second sponsored list which is empty now. People can offer me treats to move from General list to sponsored list.

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General List :-

1)Abhrajit Ghosh : People call him ‘Teddy’. I am Roll No. 11 and he is Roll No. 12. He has been my lab partner in all the labs and had to bear the brunt in vivas as I was interviewed just before him.The only localite who is my good friend. He party a lot and is very good-natured. Would have been one of my best buddies if he was a hostelite.

2) Arpan Bose: He is a pro gamer and known by the names he uses in games, Zed, CSK, Blood etc. Has been my friend since my stay in Kota during my +2 when we used to roam around together. With my reduced interest in Computer games we have spent lesser time together in college. Who is going to format my windows once I pass out is one of my biggest worries. I seriously want him to become more serious about his life and strictly refrain from playing games.

3) Anshuman Nayak: We call him ‘Ansh’. A great biker with lot of knowledge of general stuffs. A movie buff. Frankly I didn’t used to like him a lot when I didn’t knew him but he is a great guy. Jab tab treat deta rehta hai. A great NFS:Most wanted player. Itni badai ki maine ab treat de bhai.

4) Ashutosh Jha: He is one guy who can go to any extent for friends. People call him CR for obvious reasons. A very care-free attitude.He is also from my hometown. I remember very vividly the day when I was admitted in hospital, down with fever, during the 2nd semester endsems. He was awake complete night, sitting by my bedside , wiping my head with wet towels to keep the temperature down. Way to go man.

5)Debarchan Mitra : This person can’t be defined as there aren’t exact words in english language to describe him. He is random and weird. He can sleep in any possible yoga position. He laughs for an hour more after everyone has stopped laughing on a joke. His first answer to everything I have asked for has been NO but eventually I got him into agreeing to them. He does things at extreme. A true delight to be with and an under-achiever. Just need to focus.

6) Kaushallendra : We call him ‘Kaushal’. One word from him is ‘Altruist’. He can go to any extent to help people. Although he may seem harmless but he takes immense pleasure in making fun of people. He is also from my home town and was my junior in school. Nature-wise he is completely opposite to me.Was a stud before but mediocrity of my college took a bite out of him. Recently he has also started Gyaan sessions. Contact me for appointments.

7) Rahul Ranjan : He is the ‘bubbly’ of first floor. The winner of a controversial poll. A great soccer player. I like the way he swears, it’s really funny. 1 number ka maggu. He has lot of stories to tell and is fun to be around.

8 ) Rahul Singh Samant: One of my roomies. He is a nice person but because of some unavoidable circumstances we are not on talking terms any more. But anyways I will miss the good time we spent together.

9) Rakesh Kumar: Log isey ‘Tyagi’ ke naam se jaantey hai. 8th wonder of the world. He can talk non-stop while staying funny. After all his self-medication, he has been outlawed by the medicine community. They don’t work on him leave alone the side-effects. Yeh mast banda hai. May be the most helping and caring person in the college but very formal at times.

10) Ranjeet Pratap Singh : Some call him ‘BMR’ some call him ‘MP’, you can call him anything unless it begins with ‘ThE’.One of my closest friends in the college. I have dragged him around a lot in scorching sun as I hate eating in the mess. He is a kid who has suddenly overgrown. He dreams a lot and has all the potential to turn most of them to reality. Seems to get impractical and have a ‘holier than the lot’ attitude at times and is very much emotion-driven but is among the most wonderful person I have ever known. I have had many debates with him all ending without any conclusion. Friends come before family for him :O . His favourite time-pass is giving Gyaan. Talks are going on for his shows on Sanskar and Aastha. Revisit the blog for more details. Contact me for special private sessions. Although the price will be high but you won’t need any more gyaan ever.

11)Siddharth Das: He is the celebrity of my branch. People call him ‘Uncle’. A real gem. Sid tu to Hira hai Hira . My second roomy. He is great fun to be around and is a total narcissist. One of the most popular guy in my branch, known for his helping nature and random remarks. Was a ‘besingh ka gau’ when came to college today he is a cult.

12) Sukhram Manda: We call him ‘GB’ (reason is a secret). He is from a very small village in Rajasthan but he didn’t let it come in his path. One of the best programmer of my year and is very much hard-working. A bit introvert but is very helping once you get along.

13) Sunny Kumar: Pyaar se badey isey ‘Chotu’ bulatey hai. He is the King. Not in real life but in AOE. Another one of my closest friends. I have dragged him also around a lot. A very lazy guy , takes bath once a week or even lesser but I get things done by him because of my godly convincing powers and senti-maaring. He is the bank for mango man. We have a lot of debates and his expected answer to most of the things is ‘NO’. He is also one big under-achiever. A very talented guy and on of the best AOE player in my college apart from Ranjeet. One shortcoming, gets easily convinced and impressed by things.

14)Vishal Anand: People call him ‘Bajrangi’. He is a different kind of guy. His talks are of different dimension, a true Bihari. I have had a lot of feasts on all the edibles he brings from home after vacation. A very helping guy and a wonderful person to spend time with. He is the one who coined the name ‘Beti Pushpa’ for me, inspired somehow from Bhool Bhulaiya but I don’t know how!!

15) Vishal Jalan : “ours lovely VJ” aka ‘**** Face’. This guy could have been a millionaire if he had sponsored his body for medical research. A true mystery. Each part of his body has its own intelligence and can move on its own without his knowledge. Mr. Fresher of my branch. Victim of Juice point incident. His great attitude will take him places.

The list ends here. Some might think it is huge but in a batch of 150 students it qualifies as just the 10% of the total batch size. With the college getting over I will try to be in contact with all of you but you all know that it won’t happen until the effort is taken by both the parties. Aur kuch nahi to atleast sab apni shaadi mein to jaroor bulana dosto.

I adore many of the other guys and hate many more other guys but this is life. In the end I would say that, there are people who buck the trend and go against the flow. There are people who are fierce individualists and believe in blazing a trail for the future to follow. There are people who don’t care about the race and focus on maximizing themselves, for their own sake. These are few and far between. We don’t encourage them. They are virtual outcasts. We envy them the most. And yet, we aspire to be them.