College

I entered Sowcarpet today for the first time in my life.

I studied in a merchant college (rough translation for ‘Saettu College’) and 70% of the peeps were from this place called Sowcarpet, but I had never been there.

Until today.

First the language - its not a scooter, but a ishcooter. Its not school, but ishchool.

Believe me, it was as though the merchant guys (again translation for ‘Saettu Guys’) had known that it was my first visit there that I saw a red carpet there welcoming me. it was then that I found out that it was actually the road ‘painted’ with ‘betel nut juice+shpit’ or paan!

Talk about painting the town red.

One more thing about Showcarpet is that all buildings are similar. All shops are similar. All lanes are similar. All men are shimilar. All women are shimilar. All vehicles are freakingly shimilar - then I realised that these people drove only Honda Activas and no other bike - all in shtriking colours. I saw a pink colour Honda Activa today being driven by a gentleman in yellow coloured shirt and fluoroscent green coloured troushers - E K Sh I!

A typical Shaettu guy

Coming to the buildings, there were all alike - narrow with shops on both shides of the alley and dark, thanks to the power cuts. The shops had names like Priyanka Paan Korner (Thanks to Ekta Kapoor), Agarwal Vastra Bhandar, Bhandari Chaat and there was even a Kareena Kapoor Jewellery Paradise! Since the buildings were dark due to the power cut, we had to grope the walls to reach the top and my hands felt some gooey. I carried on. Upon reaching the top, I examined my hands and to my horror found blood!

I shreiked.

A shaettu then calmed me down and said as a matter of factly that it was not blood, but paan shpit. Yuck!

Coming to the female shpecies - the ones less than 20 were hawt. The ones above 20 were fat! The poor hushband would have to go round thrice to hug her completely!

I entered Showcarpet at around 10 in the morning and left the place at around 4 in the evening.

I left humming - Sharoja Shaman Nikalo.

Enna Koduma Shaar Idhu!

Confirmation: I have nothing againsht Shaettus or Mechants or Northies. Infact, a couple of my beshtesht friends are Northies. Still if you have one, death threats and hate mails can be sent to msnarain@gmail.com

Its good to be back to blogosphere after a small hiatus.

I have moved my blog from wordpress.com to my own webspace. This move is mainly for experimenting with wordpress and some gethu ! So dont be surprised to see ads here as I may place them to take care of my hosting needs.

Also I have joined work at findnearyou.com and am enjoying work. The working hours are long and I am even working at home in the night (And if both of you are reading this, take the hint Mr. Ram and Mr. Seshadri! :D) and as result I may not update this blog regularly.

I know most of you would be secretly happy (some openly) due to prospects of reading less shit from now on.

Right now, revamped the About page and scouting for a good theme - 3 column and minimal. Tell me if you come across one.

There was a blog war starting brewing me and PSP but things got sorted out. Cha. I was expecting something big to happen! Anyway, PSP is going to Anna Nagar tomorrow for some entrance examination. The real motive though is that the boutique next to his examination centre belongs to Esha’s mom! He has even promised to tonsure his head at Tirupati if he manages to catch a glimpse of his mamiyar! Now what do I say? Pervert or hopeless!

Met more interesting people in the last week. Ram, Seshasdri (Both are my bosses) Ravi, Sivakumar and Sandhya. Ravi and Sivakumar are the techie guys in findnearyou.com and we have been working together for quite some time on the findnearyou blogs. Sandhya is a blogger who blogs at findnearyou.com and is the second person next to Shillika whom I have promised to take to A R Rahman’s studios. Only if they find out I dont even know his studio’s address. Yeeps!

Finally I went to college to collect my course completion certificate and met my college friends. We sat on the stone benches beneath the famous Mechanical Marathadi and it was good to relive the older times - pulling everybody’s legs- esp Sanjay and PSP, cracking wisecracks, the good old mokkais (We were shouting so much that we had to evicted from the campus!) and having heated arguments over cricket - today’s argument being who will emerge winner in the DLF IPL? Many supported CSK while there were some Rajasthan Royals fans(remember mine is a merchant college! :D) However my take is that the ultimate winner of the DLF IPL is Lalit Modi! I wont be surprised if acquires a Porshe by the end of the season.

And he has been happily flirting with Preity Zinta all along! While the whole of India stomach burnt.

Clear winner!

Anyway, I have lost all my blogrolled links in the transfer. I remember most of the links I visit. Incase, I forget one or two, just remind me. Also, people who have blogrolled me as sathyanarain.wordpress.com, kindly edit the link to sathyanarain.com.

Today was the last day of College.

After the 2 PM to 5 PM exam, we spent the next one hour sitting at all our favorite hangouts of college.

First it was the famed cement benches (mechanical marathadi) After a session of photographs there, we moved to the OAT and spent the remaining time there.

It was nostalgic and many of the guys broke down - surprisingly, I didn’t feel like crying! I was enjoying my day! Even the lateral entry guys who are over six feet and weigh above 90 kilos with a mush and beard that would put Ved Vyas to shame cried! Maybe, I am just a heartless joker!

Thinking of the bygone four years, I am reminded of a few incidents that were simply awesome!

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Swivel 08 stood to its name.

A well received symposium - as usual.

Check out snaps and videos of this event here.

It was total fun right from the beginning.

Rotaract Club of MNM Jain Engineering College had organized the Inter Government School Culturals, Sangamam ‘08 in the campus and this fest was attended by around 200 kids from 6 Government Schools(8 were invited) from ECR, Karapakkam, Neelangarai, Perungudi and Sholinganallur.

With events such as Group Dance, Solo Dance, Oration, Drawing, Solo Singing, Rangoli and other informals, the kids lapped up the fest with enthusiasm. So much enthusiasm that the kids jumped up to the stage in between events and started dancing! And the organizers(including me) joined the jig!

Sponsored by the Rotary Club of Adyar and Gaurav Singhal Group this fest was graced by Mr. Vittal Rajan and Mr. Gaurav Singhal, who attended the inauguration and Mr. Srinivasan & Ms. Saraswati who distributed the prizes.

And again, the kids were joined by the organizers in a jig on-stage.

With too much excitement and too little time, the organizers promise to make the next year’s edition grander.

Click here for behind the scenes pictures!

People who dont quite understand the meaning of the title, please take a look at this previous post here.

I was sitting with Aishwarya in the Open Air Theatre in college overseeing the work that was being done for our college Rotaract Club’s next project.

Aishwarya: So, when are you going to treat us for having got this job?

Me: Hmm.. Let me first lay my hand on the first salary.

A: You say the same thing always!

Me: And you ask me for a treat always though i give you one almost every other week!

A: Well.. Ahem…

And then I saw her!

There sitting in the midst of the group of girls working for the Electronics and Communication department symposium, was this really pretty girl doing some decoration stuff.

Hell yes! She was pretty!

And I had never seen her before in college. I guessed her to be in her second year. Discreet enquiries revealed her to be V… Well, let me not name her here. Me= Gentleman!
All my love lives have been short lived and do not last more than a semester!
What about V?

Well, I cant wait to find out!

And the first impression was a really bad one - I made the mistake of telling about my latest love interest to Aishwarya and she in turn told this to every member of Rotaract Club present there and the scream that came out was enough to scare the wits of the poor terrified girl!

So, V doesnt stand for Vexation alone!
Update:

March 13th - Saw her today also - Same time - Same place!

Swivel is back - in its latest edition as Swivel 08.

The last edition was held in 2006 and was enthusiastically lapped up by students all over Tamil Nadu especially the Radio Control techies.

RC Cars, the most successful event of last edition is being reincarnated into a tougher event involving both on and off-road track, thus testing the skills of the makers in not only the electronics and steering, but also the mechanical design.

The other new events are Airborne - Gliders which will test the aerodynamic skills of the students in the form of constructing gliders and an Autocad Design contest.

The other events include Paper Presentation, Technical Quiz, Adzap, Technical Extempore, Crosswords and Brain Teasers.

All budding mechanical engineers and others with an eye for everything mechanical are invited.

Come and discover the spirit of everything Mechanical!

More details at http://swivel08.in