It is good to see our wives chipping in....hey gals, you need to wait for a few more blogs for the Fabulous Four to make their grand entre!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well, here we were, the Awesome Foursome, so very unsure of our future, still having 5-6 years of our basic education to complete, dreaming and fantasising of good jobs and juicy salaries. Hey, it was time for me to change my cycle, i took a second-hand BSA Mach 1 from my school friend, bharath(wow i remember his name), i think i paid almost 450 bucks for that, what a deal. The cycle had no gear case, no mud guard, no carrier, just enough parts to make it run!!!Pachu rightly named it as 'Silk' (after silk smitha).
Raghu pursued his commerce studies, and kishore was in no need of any tuition classes to clear his 12th, so it left me and pachu to join Bangalore Education Trust(BET) tuitions for PCMB. For one full year, every evening after college, we dragged ourselves to Malleswaram 4th cross to attend the classes till around 8pm and ran back home just in time to see 'Chitrahaar' and 'Chitramanjari'(popular countdown shows at that time).
It was one of those days when i lost my 'Silk' which was parked in front of the tuitions class and someone flicked it. Pachu and me even went to the extent of going to the police station and giving a written report of stolen cycle, but to no vain. That marked the end of my cycling era!!!!It took a few more days/months for the other three to sell/scrap their cycles.
One of kishore's friends, taught us a new game with playing cards, i dont remember the name guys, do let me know if anyone of u does. We got so obsessed with that game, we used to bunk college and play it all day long. Sometimes we used to come up with crazy ideas, like once we decided to get hooked onto the local cable network. We straightened one of those shirt hangers and tried to make a hook off it, and locked it with the cable running next to the window in pachu's room. All we got was a blank screen with some blurred images running about!!!!
Another one was when we purchased this filmfare just for a free audio cassette of 'Roop ki rani, choron ka raja' along with it!!!It turned out that the cassette was just a 10minute audio clip of the songs. Hey hey, we were not to give up there, wait till you hear what we did next. We had this good mallu friend of our's who had a small audio shop in subramnyanagar main road. (his name anyone???). We went to his shop, asked him for empty tape, opened up that cassette and rolled it up. Then we even recorded some film songs over that and made good of it, Shabhaaash!!!!!!!!!!
Most of our nightouts were in raghu's place, his folk were always out (attending all different functions), and he used to call us. Good boys that we were those days, we used to take two BIG BOTTLES of #$@$@#@%...guess what...thums up!!!!!!!!Kishore and me were in charge of 'rasagolla' and pachu always ended up paying for the stuff. Kishore had complete listing of all these 'sweet-stalls' which were famous of juicy 'rasagollas' and never missed an opportunity to pick up a few for these nightouts. Pachu used to initially avoid these sweets, but couldnt resist when we three were enjoying late into the night. One of those nights, we tried to prepare Maggi for the first time in our lives...it came out great, except that we didnt boil any vegetables(u can imagine!!!). Egg omlets were common each nightout and the worst part was we had to wash the utensils so clean since even a slight smell here and there would be recognised by his mom.
Our 2nd PUC results were OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!Raghu had cleared his to continue his B.Com, kishore had cleared with good results to get an architecture seat in a renowned college in Bangalore, pachu got through into BE Civil, and I had FLUNKED!!!!!!!!!!!Pachu was busy consoling me outside KLE College gates, when my childhood friend, G.K.Praveen, made his grand appearance from nowhere, said he will enquire and there should be something wrong in my results(wow he did hv a lot of belief in my abilities)...and came back saying my results were withheld and i had NOT flunked. To everyone's relief, i got my results after a few days and landed up joining B.Sc. Agriculture(what the hell, did i want to end up being a farmer??)
All the four of us, started going in different directions in our academics, made new friends in our new colleges, learnt new things, realised these were important to make our career and started focussing on our future. Raghu was bent upon pursuing his ICW along with his graduation, he did clear the initial exams but later shifted his attention to a good job. Kishore had an extra 5th year of his architecture and so was the last to graduate among us. Pachu and me joined some computer classes which was a Hot Cake those days. Everyone was shifting to learn computer languages which we had never heard of till then. Pachu was the first to buy a comp and we were surprised to know how soon he learnt all the nitty-gritties of the system and started to turn out being a pro.
Raghu joined Indian Institute of Science immediately after his graduation, pachu got into a software company called 'Datacons' and pursued his new born interest in the IT industry, kishore joined an architect firm after his 5 years of graduation, and I stayed home for 9 months - Unemployed graduate life, applying to all sort of job openings and waiting daily for the postman to deliver an interview letter.
Well, there are a few more interesting things to remember before all of us got into our jobs, but i think this blog is already too long and i dont want u people to doze off reading the whole stuff. I will start my next blog going back a little in our lifeline and then continue towards our bliss marital life!!!!!!
Well, here we were, the Awesome Foursome, so very unsure of our future, still having 5-6 years of our basic education to complete, dreaming and fantasising of good jobs and juicy salaries. Hey, it was time for me to change my cycle, i took a second-hand BSA Mach 1 from my school friend, bharath(wow i remember his name), i think i paid almost 450 bucks for that, what a deal. The cycle had no gear case, no mud guard, no carrier, just enough parts to make it run!!!Pachu rightly named it as 'Silk' (after silk smitha).
Raghu pursued his commerce studies, and kishore was in no need of any tuition classes to clear his 12th, so it left me and pachu to join Bangalore Education Trust(BET) tuitions for PCMB. For one full year, every evening after college, we dragged ourselves to Malleswaram 4th cross to attend the classes till around 8pm and ran back home just in time to see 'Chitrahaar' and 'Chitramanjari'(popular countdown shows at that time).
It was one of those days when i lost my 'Silk' which was parked in front of the tuitions class and someone flicked it. Pachu and me even went to the extent of going to the police station and giving a written report of stolen cycle, but to no vain. That marked the end of my cycling era!!!!It took a few more days/months for the other three to sell/scrap their cycles.
One of kishore's friends, taught us a new game with playing cards, i dont remember the name guys, do let me know if anyone of u does. We got so obsessed with that game, we used to bunk college and play it all day long. Sometimes we used to come up with crazy ideas, like once we decided to get hooked onto the local cable network. We straightened one of those shirt hangers and tried to make a hook off it, and locked it with the cable running next to the window in pachu's room. All we got was a blank screen with some blurred images running about!!!!
Another one was when we purchased this filmfare just for a free audio cassette of 'Roop ki rani, choron ka raja' along with it!!!It turned out that the cassette was just a 10minute audio clip of the songs. Hey hey, we were not to give up there, wait till you hear what we did next. We had this good mallu friend of our's who had a small audio shop in subramnyanagar main road. (his name anyone???). We went to his shop, asked him for empty tape, opened up that cassette and rolled it up. Then we even recorded some film songs over that and made good of it, Shabhaaash!!!!!!!!!!
Most of our nightouts were in raghu's place, his folk were always out (attending all different functions), and he used to call us. Good boys that we were those days, we used to take two BIG BOTTLES of #$@$@#@%...guess what...thums up!!!!!!!!Kishore and me were in charge of 'rasagolla' and pachu always ended up paying for the stuff. Kishore had complete listing of all these 'sweet-stalls' which were famous of juicy 'rasagollas' and never missed an opportunity to pick up a few for these nightouts. Pachu used to initially avoid these sweets, but couldnt resist when we three were enjoying late into the night. One of those nights, we tried to prepare Maggi for the first time in our lives...it came out great, except that we didnt boil any vegetables(u can imagine!!!). Egg omlets were common each nightout and the worst part was we had to wash the utensils so clean since even a slight smell here and there would be recognised by his mom.
Our 2nd PUC results were OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!Raghu had cleared his to continue his B.Com, kishore had cleared with good results to get an architecture seat in a renowned college in Bangalore, pachu got through into BE Civil, and I had FLUNKED!!!!!!!!!!!Pachu was busy consoling me outside KLE College gates, when my childhood friend, G.K.Praveen, made his grand appearance from nowhere, said he will enquire and there should be something wrong in my results(wow he did hv a lot of belief in my abilities)...and came back saying my results were withheld and i had NOT flunked. To everyone's relief, i got my results after a few days and landed up joining B.Sc. Agriculture(what the hell, did i want to end up being a farmer??)
All the four of us, started going in different directions in our academics, made new friends in our new colleges, learnt new things, realised these were important to make our career and started focussing on our future. Raghu was bent upon pursuing his ICW along with his graduation, he did clear the initial exams but later shifted his attention to a good job. Kishore had an extra 5th year of his architecture and so was the last to graduate among us. Pachu and me joined some computer classes which was a Hot Cake those days. Everyone was shifting to learn computer languages which we had never heard of till then. Pachu was the first to buy a comp and we were surprised to know how soon he learnt all the nitty-gritties of the system and started to turn out being a pro.
Raghu joined Indian Institute of Science immediately after his graduation, pachu got into a software company called 'Datacons' and pursued his new born interest in the IT industry, kishore joined an architect firm after his 5 years of graduation, and I stayed home for 9 months - Unemployed graduate life, applying to all sort of job openings and waiting daily for the postman to deliver an interview letter.
Well, there are a few more interesting things to remember before all of us got into our jobs, but i think this blog is already too long and i dont want u people to doze off reading the whole stuff. I will start my next blog going back a little in our lifeline and then continue towards our bliss marital life!!!!!!
2 comments:
Rasgulla!!!! hehehe guess u missed out on something!!! werent u caught by Raghus bro while enjoying the "sweet". come on dont tell me u forgot. :-)
Hey Praveen,
Recalled some good memories together.
How can you forget those moments. Remember the inspector vijay kumar who offerred a cup of coffee in Malleswaram Police Station.
Jay Kumar is the mallu guy from the audio shop.
You should write about your house moved from Rajajinagar and our first so called job which ended in Sales rep and we went running from there. Awesome moments.
Card game was Crazy Seven where Kishore was so irritated with all of us.
It is going very good. Lets help you out about some more stuff here.
Remember our cassette business. Kishore's hassan bakery. Raghu's TTD Laddu queue. Hirraniaah's drama which you recorded in that small tape recorder at your house. Wow, that was our life.
Cheers,
Pachu
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