Exactly 10 years ago, I was on my way along with my parents to join Haryana Engineering College (HEC), Jagadhri, Haryana as a first year student of Instrumentation and Control Engineering. Instrumentation and Control Engineering was a branch with "bahut sahi scope", it still is.
All I wished for on seeing my college was for it to get over as soon as possible. But at the end all I could think of was how fast time flies by when you have great company and friends who become more than your family. Aah......friends, your hostel mates, class mates, beer buddies, best friends, band buddies, the-know-who-i-have-a-crush friends.
My life would have been an empty can if not for the people I met in HEC, Jagadhri gaon, Yamunanagar zilla Haryana. They taught me how to live alone, curse, smile, have a sense of humour, and basically have fun in college.
Reminiscing about those four years always brings a smile to my face. A few memorable lines from those four years are:
1. "tu toh mera yaar hai" - This line is spoken usually after downing a few beers. Male camaraderie reaches a new high at this point, and suddenly its all bros before hoes. A few drinks later this line even gets changed to I love you yaar, especially by guys who have a crush on a girl and unable to tell her, but they still want to utter this sentence for the satisfaction of saying it to somebody.
2. "Abey woh sahi ladki nahi hai" - Fast friends look out for each other and the single bros look out for each other even more. No matter who the girl you have a crush on, if she does not reciprocate, these i-got-your-back friends would put her on the "nahi sahi" list. This list is basically a list of girls who are not worthy of your attention and for whom you are too talented and cool to be seen with. At the end of four years, you might even reach a point where every girl in your batch or college is not sahi. Except for the one who said yes to your friend.
3. "Ek second bike diyo" - Having one's conveyance is always good. But having friends who do not have their own, is a pain in one's carburetor. Frequently, you will hear this dialogue from a friend, or an acquaintance, asking you for your bike/scooter for just ek second, and you will have an expression on your face saying "bhe****d, ek second mein toh chaabi bhi nahi ghoomegi". But nevertheless you do give the bike, because lord knows when you might be on the other side of the road.
4. "Tune notes banayein hain?" - This line is sometimes said angrily, but most of the times its said with a relief like one feels when the power comes back on after a long power cut. Relief because all the while you had been bunking classes, or staring at that nahi sahi crush of yours across the room, your friend had thankfully either been making notes or jugaading them from some diligent student in the class. But 2 days before the exam, what more can you ask for.
5. "Is semester se pahle se padhai karenge bc" - The exams are over, the beers have been drunk and now the brainstorming for making a road map for the next semester begins. This line is told a minimum of 7 times during the course of years, and each time it is more earnest and from the heart than the previous time. But alas, it is just a noise brain makes, and you wish you hadnt said it aloud in front of your other friends, who immediately reply back with either laughter, or a "bc.....har baar yahi bolta hai.....bc".
6. "Bhai ke saath aise karega tu"/"Papa ke saath aise karega tu" - During the four years of college, each guy in the batch becomes your brother or father at least once. The first sentence here is mostly said by guys who are not your close friends and who are requesting a favor from you. You of course try to say no a couple of times, but in the end bow down to their "bhai ke saath aise karega tu" line. The second sentence is said by your close friends who demand, not request, a favor from you. You of course try to say no a couple of times, but in the end they snatch the money/bike keys/pen/toothpaste/note book from you while shouting "bc papa ke saath aise karega tu".
7. "10 minute mein utha diyo" - When its the regular semester, every one of us is an insomniac. We stay awake till 5 in the morning chatting online, on phone, smoke signals, and what not. But all this quota of sleep has to be finished during the exams. There are sure to be a few in the group, who nod off after reading the first two pages of the above mentioned notes. Their pet line "10 minute mein utha diyo", to which if you reply "Yes" they will fall asleep for two hours and then curse you for not waking them up. But if you say "No. You always do this during the exams", they usually say the papa ke saath aisa karega tu line, fall asleep and wake up after two hours cursing you.
8. "Oh bhanchod....." - One of the classic lines one learns in college, or today's children learn in school. It can be used when one is happy/angry/confused/drunk/bored/sad/urinating/playing/sleeping. Each of the above sentence usually begins with this one and ends with it. "Oh bhanchod, it is raining, bhanchod", "Oh bhanchod, tire mein hawa nahi hai, bhanchod", "Oh bhanchod, bhanchod chod gaya, bhanchod".
These are only a few lines which I can remember as I am writing this blog, but I am sure that there were many more. But my memory seems to be fading after 10 years.
I have also changed the outlook of my blog a little.....thanks for noticing. Its kind of more cheerful now, I hope. I also hope that I can change from the depressed, self loathing individual I used to be from inside. As in the words of Bob Dylan -
All I wished for on seeing my college was for it to get over as soon as possible. But at the end all I could think of was how fast time flies by when you have great company and friends who become more than your family. Aah......friends, your hostel mates, class mates, beer buddies, best friends, band buddies, the-know-who-i-have-a-crush friends.
My life would have been an empty can if not for the people I met in HEC, Jagadhri gaon, Yamunanagar zilla Haryana. They taught me how to live alone, curse, smile, have a sense of humour, and basically have fun in college.
Reminiscing about those four years always brings a smile to my face. A few memorable lines from those four years are:
1. "tu toh mera yaar hai" - This line is spoken usually after downing a few beers. Male camaraderie reaches a new high at this point, and suddenly its all bros before hoes. A few drinks later this line even gets changed to I love you yaar, especially by guys who have a crush on a girl and unable to tell her, but they still want to utter this sentence for the satisfaction of saying it to somebody.
2. "Abey woh sahi ladki nahi hai" - Fast friends look out for each other and the single bros look out for each other even more. No matter who the girl you have a crush on, if she does not reciprocate, these i-got-your-back friends would put her on the "nahi sahi" list. This list is basically a list of girls who are not worthy of your attention and for whom you are too talented and cool to be seen with. At the end of four years, you might even reach a point where every girl in your batch or college is not sahi. Except for the one who said yes to your friend.
3. "Ek second bike diyo" - Having one's conveyance is always good. But having friends who do not have their own, is a pain in one's carburetor. Frequently, you will hear this dialogue from a friend, or an acquaintance, asking you for your bike/scooter for just ek second, and you will have an expression on your face saying "bhe****d, ek second mein toh chaabi bhi nahi ghoomegi". But nevertheless you do give the bike, because lord knows when you might be on the other side of the road.
4. "Tune notes banayein hain?" - This line is sometimes said angrily, but most of the times its said with a relief like one feels when the power comes back on after a long power cut. Relief because all the while you had been bunking classes, or staring at that nahi sahi crush of yours across the room, your friend had thankfully either been making notes or jugaading them from some diligent student in the class. But 2 days before the exam, what more can you ask for.
5. "Is semester se pahle se padhai karenge bc" - The exams are over, the beers have been drunk and now the brainstorming for making a road map for the next semester begins. This line is told a minimum of 7 times during the course of years, and each time it is more earnest and from the heart than the previous time. But alas, it is just a noise brain makes, and you wish you hadnt said it aloud in front of your other friends, who immediately reply back with either laughter, or a "bc.....har baar yahi bolta hai.....bc".
6. "Bhai ke saath aise karega tu"/"Papa ke saath aise karega tu" - During the four years of college, each guy in the batch becomes your brother or father at least once. The first sentence here is mostly said by guys who are not your close friends and who are requesting a favor from you. You of course try to say no a couple of times, but in the end bow down to their "bhai ke saath aise karega tu" line. The second sentence is said by your close friends who demand, not request, a favor from you. You of course try to say no a couple of times, but in the end they snatch the money/bike keys/pen/toothpaste/note book from you while shouting "bc papa ke saath aise karega tu".
7. "10 minute mein utha diyo" - When its the regular semester, every one of us is an insomniac. We stay awake till 5 in the morning chatting online, on phone, smoke signals, and what not. But all this quota of sleep has to be finished during the exams. There are sure to be a few in the group, who nod off after reading the first two pages of the above mentioned notes. Their pet line "10 minute mein utha diyo", to which if you reply "Yes" they will fall asleep for two hours and then curse you for not waking them up. But if you say "No. You always do this during the exams", they usually say the papa ke saath aisa karega tu line, fall asleep and wake up after two hours cursing you.
8. "Oh bhanchod....." - One of the classic lines one learns in college, or today's children learn in school. It can be used when one is happy/angry/confused/drunk/bored/sad/urinating/playing/sleeping. Each of the above sentence usually begins with this one and ends with it. "Oh bhanchod, it is raining, bhanchod", "Oh bhanchod, tire mein hawa nahi hai, bhanchod", "Oh bhanchod, bhanchod chod gaya, bhanchod".
These are only a few lines which I can remember as I am writing this blog, but I am sure that there were many more. But my memory seems to be fading after 10 years.
I have also changed the outlook of my blog a little.....thanks for noticing. Its kind of more cheerful now, I hope. I also hope that I can change from the depressed, self loathing individual I used to be from inside. As in the words of Bob Dylan -
People are crazy, times are strange
I'm locked in tight, I'm out of range
I used to care, but things have changed
