Friday, January 5, 2007

Our Hostel Life

Our hostel was situated in salem junction,one of the main attractions in salem. We always were proud to be associated with our junction hostel and everyone will agree with me on this.Daily, we used to commute to our college in our college jeep in our early days.It as a joy trip to people who took it that way and it was a terible thing for people who took it other way.Due to lack of space we used to do foootboard travel and we enjoyed it to the core. We had 3 drivers selvam,mubarak and one more guy whose name i dont remember.Selvam was the fast and the furious, who used to do rash driving and we during that time (youth ille) used to enjoy it.He used to zip in while overtaking and drive at high speeds on the salem flyover.

We guys hanging in the back would smile and wave and feel that everyone watching us would think us as heros.Mubarak was a slow one and he could drive fast but he was more good with his mouth than his driving.He was close to our guru.The third guy i dont remember how he was.Since most of the time (twice a day or 4 times a day) we used to meet these guys.Since they also were just in the same frequency as us we got along with them very well.They used to come in the morning to pick us up and then to drop us in the evening.Once again in the nite to bring our dinner.

There were 2 characters that we would never ever forget in our hostel life.One is our great ED professor and the other our princi.Both will be remembered for their own actions and the way we behaved with them.As all of us know our ED was our time pass during hostel days.We never felt that we didnt have TV or other modes of entertainment in our hostel premises.We knew very well that whenever our ED comes to hostel,it would be total enjoyment and everyone in the hostel would come to see him.The pets were yuvaraj,bhaskar,joe,kumar and of course our favourite thala.Who could forget those days when he used to say his famous dialog "YO enna ya panreeeee?",Yo harisheee enna ya pannitu irunthey???Athu etho anth mukkule ninnu neyum anthey vimalumpannitu irunthingaley.Enna yaaaa??Yo yuvaruu evalo ya innikiiiiii???.Really missing all that even today.We first were silent but later we found out the real joy in being in his company and his english was the best.It was the highlight of his talk.Still (iam laughing writing this.) i remember bhaskar cracking a joke on how he would put marks in the ED tests that he counducts.Miss priya would go to him and say sir enna sir mark kammiya potutinga,then he would say appidiya ma..Onnum seri illeyeeeeeeee,.............I know the rest all the guys in our gang would know...


The next person whom we fear is our princi.He was a man of power,he never abused us or beat us. He would make us feel for what we had done wrong.I liked his character and most of us respected him for that.There were days when we used to stay in the hostel bunking college saying fever and stomach ache.Our princi would come to the hostel,call each and everyone of us and he would make sure that we are really well and then only leave us to stay back.Once it happened such that we were four guys,myself,thala,golti & yuvaraj bunked college and stayed back,as usual our princi came and he called each of us and we know how hard it was acting at that time but thala and myself managed to act and got leave as an oscar for the same.The rest
of the guys who failed to convince, were told that if they were not well,then they will be taken to doctor and then dropped in college.As soon as the princi's jeep left our hostel premises we would escape to palaniappa or one more theatre nearby to enjoy our hosliday.

Many such incidents that really stand out and will be in memory forever.Cant forget those guys....I think i have missed many things.I want u to point them out and make this blog more interesting.


catch you guys then!!!

enjoyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

love
vimal