Climax

I found myself in the middle of a dense forest. Trees patterned with green and brownish shade partially blocks the stunning view of the waterfalls a few meters away from me. Wait a second...

How did I come here? what is restricting my body motions? How am I able to see with my eyes closed? & where is that music coming from?... I opened my eyes and found a vibrating Nokia on my computer table which is about to fall. I am two cot distance away from the computer table. I closed my eyes again and went into the dense forest again.

Some wild animal moved beside me. I sensed that it should be wild and big hearing to the noise from its walk. Suddenly it started to talk in a loud voice.

 

“Amma, why did you call so early? hmm...ya.. he is here.. but...er... how can he pick? phone was very far from his bed...Don’t call me until I call you back”

I opened my eyes and saw my roommate arun standing very close to the computer table. My dream was right - He is wild and big but not an animal.

“Why can’t you pick it?” His look was very wild & to avoid that I closed my eyes again. Now into next episode to resume from the  “to be continued” spot. The wild animal moved away from me after sometime. Then few seconds an hunter with a heavily built body lifted me up by holding my hands[both] and then inserted a mild wooden log behind my back so that I cannot lie down comfortably anymore.

I opened my eyes again... Now it is the heavily built ananth in front of me holding my hands and then while I turned back I found mathan lying down in my bed in a cross way with my back over him.

“Guys... what to do you want?” I wanted to see the climax of my dream...

“Get up $$$$%%$$$$, you know who is gonna take the First hour” ananth toyed with his words.

“who....”[with a shock] “surya... $$$$... I am not into this...” I had no clue

“Come on..Then it will be double damaka...face this today...” Madhan had his own vocabulary of words...

I had to get up from the bed with all the energy I had. I went to the nearest restroom from my room and found that houseful. Then I walked to my seniors hostel where the water facilities were weak. Finally somehow managed with it and came back to room. Then I had to find my uniforms from the shoe rack which I had put during the last lab class.

“It is day number 5 and already your validity is gone.” Madhan told me when I was dressing.

“I have a booster which will keep me active for few more days buddy.” I told as I was picking my body spray from my bag.

“Madhan, I am serious. Really you want me to come.” I was really worried.

“Fine, Don’t come.... I am going. You should have told me few minutes before. See now, ananth and arun are gone & I have to go alone.” Mathan always want company for everything.

“Machan, even you need not go. I am here for your company and we will start Counterstrike rite now” I tempted him.

“Kidding.” Mathan was not sure.

“No. I am damn serious.“ I stressed.

“hmm... Even I hate that $$$$$$. But only we two..... It will be better if we are three. The damaka will dilute more da...” I was happy that Mathan came down a little.

“How come you guys are still here. It is surya’s class.” a mild voice came from the entrance of our room.

Both of us turned in a flash and found a 50kg tajmahal standing in front of us. It was naveen. We both laughed at each other.

“Naveen machan, We have a problem. Both of us are going to play a one on one counterstrike in a open map. We want someone to decide on the victory” I told him.

“So...” Naveen was about to open his mouth and Mathan jumped and lifted him up in air. I jumped immediately towards the door and closed it. Then I started back with my half done morning job while naveen & mathan were sitting in two systems playing couterstrike. Count was

Mathan - Naveen : 85 - 23

“Poor naveen” I had a thought in my mind. Sometimes when mathan shot him immediately after the start of the match, Mathan hit him on his head & forced him to be concentrating. I was back in the same forest after few minutes of closing my eyes.

Climax I guess. A lion whose face resembles surya sir was roaring and about to jump on me. I had the mild log lying beside me. I closed my eyes when the lion was jumping ahead in my direction but nothing happened to me but for a loud shout from close distance. When I opened my eyes,The wild animal which came in the dream earlier was near the waterfalls watching me. The mild log was lying in the same place and the hunter with the worried look was standing behind the angry lion.

But.....

The 50kg tajmahal toy was broken and was shattered into pieces. I started laughing and heard two voice in chorous..

“Dai chinna.... Why are you laughing...?”

GOA…… GOA……… GOA…………

Mohan was sitting near me in a small beach side hotel when I asked him “Machan, if suddenly some girl jumps and sit over you when you are lying near the beachside, what probably you will do?”

There was a pause from other side for almost 10 seconds. After that, when he was about to talk I interrupted him saying “Rite machi, so I understood what you will do…”

Mohan asked in a mild voice “what did you understand?”

“I understood that after the girl sit on you, you will pause for 10 seconds to think what next to do....?” I told in a loud voice and all our friends started laughing aloud…………

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This happened in a place called GOA.

GOA…… GOA……… GOA…………          =   HEAVEN…… HELL……… (No synonym)……

I always enjoy writing something related to my college and this time, again it is one more posting related to my college IV. IV stands for Industrial Visit but the place decided for our IV was GOA. We were all given a threat of some disease spreading in Goa and so we were in Goa for 3 days with the getup shown in the photo below……

There were many joyful moments which are unforgettable and I would like to write few of those here……

1.       Ananth and I :

23:55

Few people were playing cards in the room and few others were sitting around them watching them play. Ananth and I were not interested as we were watching TV. There was a glass in between us which might have had some 5 tea spoons of vodka in it. I think that, it was left by someone in the room. When I took my eyes to TV & back to the glass, nothing was left in it. I was confused. Only both of us were near that glass to drink it in that short span. I know that both of us don’t have the habit of drinking.

I asked ananth “Mama, where is the vodka left in this glass da…”

Ananth’s reply was “I don’t know. You might have had a illusion or someone might have drunk that. Who knew… Even I could have drunk that…”

2.       Galatta at Goa bus stop :

Few of our boys [Not interested in giving the names] were drunk and not in full conscious. They saw a girl sitting alone in one of the bus stops in Goa and these guys [let us call them “Vodka boys”] were interested in fun. Four of the vodka boys went and sat near or you can even call around her. She was afraid of these guys. They got up when she got up and they moved with her when she moved. She was struggling to get away from these guys. Finally she started to run away from the place in total panic to escape from these guys. All were laughing when she ran away from that place.

3.       Thanni thotti thaedi vandha Neps Mama:

Just in few seconds after the bus started back towards the Margoa station. Neps mama [is how we call him but his name is Nepolion] was in full mode [hope you guys understand]. When the bus started with the song “Thanni thotti thaedi vandhu” from “Sindhu bairavi”, he was out of control. Got to the centre of the bus and started dancing for the song. Our professor who came with the family was sitting in the front side of the bus and unable to resist the act but also didn’t do anything to stop the enjoyment. He danced for the entire song in the bus and I would say he was better than the sivakumar in original song.

4.       Shanmuganathan kadalai poduvaana………?

While returning to shoranur in train, boys and girls were playing dumb charades and the guy leading the boys team was shanmuganathan. Few were playing cards in the next compartment not involving themselves in these activities. One such was mathan raj who had the cell phone of shanmuganathan with him. Shanmu was playing seriously when he had a call from his house. Mathan was trying to call him from behind but he did not respond. Mathan was even pulling his pant from behind but there was no response. Finally he turned and shouted at mathan for disturbing him.

Visit Goa at least once to ‘LIVE THE LIFE WHICH YOU DREAM TO LIVE’ – because people over there don’t worry about others.

Sheela ki Jawani

April 2020

Mohan was looking into his office files in his bed room and he heard a song from his daughter kalyani’s room. The song was the greatest hit of its time.

“Sheela ki jawani” was the song and mohan entered the room asking “Dear, How do you get to know about these old songs”

“Dad, I always like good songs……don’t care whether they are new or old.” Kalyani spoke and that song helped mohan sail back 11 years to his college 2^nd year.

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July 2009

Three guys were walking in the college ground as slowly as they can. Three guys had very similar looks with very minor difference in their heights and color texture. The Moon was brightly up lighting up one side of their dark faces. The first button of all their shirts was unbuttoned and that means……. Ya, I get your mind and of course they are from the mechanical department. All three were silent for the last few minutes.

“Mama, why did we take mechanical Engineering da?” Mohan was the first to talk.

“Our second year classes are going to begin from tomorrow and why do you think of this now?” Arun spoke and turned to Praveen

“Maybe we took this course just because all the heroes in the tamil movies are Mechanical Engineers.”Praveen told and others started laughing.

“I want to tell one thing and I want your full concentration…….” Praveen told and others made gestures to show that they were listening.

“I spoke with one of my friend in GCE,salem and he told that there is a transfer from their college to ours.” Praveen stopped to check whether they were listening and continued again.

“The name of the girl getting transferred is Kalyani and she is into mechanical department” Praveen told kicking a small stone in a fashion of kicking a football.

“A girl to our department….. I think last time we had a girl in our department was in 2005” Arun spoke with more energy now.

“Ya. Since then for the last three years, it was only boys.” Mohan also spoke with more energy.

“Any other details” Arun asked Praveen.

“No da. We were in a chat and he told that there is transfer & the name is kalyani” Praveen told the others.

“Why don’t you ask him other details …” Mohan was disappointed with only these details.

“I liked the curiosity inside me after hearing to that and I want that to continue at least till tomorrow da…… so I acted as though I showed less interest in that matter.” Praveen spoke with shyness now.

“Ya. True……..This is a great feeling” Mohan told as they reached the auditorium entrance and decided to go to bed.

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The next morning mohan was sitting in his bed laughing to himself…….His roommates came to him (Arun and Praveen) and asked “Machi, Whats the matter da.”

“Machi, I had a dream da. ‘Sheela ka jawani’ song da……….. I was akshay and the new ‘kalyani ’was Katrina da” Mohan told with still a smile in his face.

“How was she looking da?” Arun asked him while Praveen hit him hard on his head saying “It is just a dream and he has not seen her like all of us da….. Get up guys……it is getting late”

“Ya ……enough of the wait and lets go & face the reality” Mohan told and jumped from his bed.

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Classes started and it was almost two periods over and no one turned up to the class. The three were sitting in the same bench and looked at each other for every five minutes. The wait was getting longer.

By 11:30, when the classes were going on, a fat, dark boy who looked like the tamil comedian ‘senthil’ in his 20’s came in. The professor collected some paper from him and referred it. Then he spoke which was a great shock to all of us

“You have a new classmate and he is from GCE, salem. He is a student of transfer for his merit and his name is KALYANARAMAN”

All three gave a look of shock at each other and in few seconds all started laughing. In few minutes, Arun and Praveen laughed at mohan saying “your Katrina is so beautiful da……..”

Mohan felt really disappointed in one way and at the same time shyness for all that he had in his dream and what happen at the room. All those feelings together gave him a loud laugh which made all his classmates look at him including the ‘KALYANI’ [sorry ‘KALYANARAMAN’]

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“Papa, why are you laughing?” his 7 year old daughter asked him. He hugged her and told “I also like this song very much and happy about you listening to old songs too”

Arun spoke from behind him “We know the reason for your liking towards this song…….”

Mohan turned and found his college day friends Arun and Praveen standing behind him. He hugged them all and now Praveen spoke “We also know the reason behind your daughter’s name”

“Papa, what is the reason?” She asked with an innocent voice when all gave a weird look at each other and started to laugh…….. Thinking of the KALYANARAMAN – KALYANI - & - Sheela ki jawani………

Life@145

Krish was in front of his computer with a plate of Good-day biscuits and a cup of tea. He heard his mother saying “Krish, Take bath at-least today. It is going to be almost 3 days since you took bath”

Krish scratching his head gave a weird reply “Amma, it was only 2 days back that i took a bath”

Mom replied from kitchen “Do whatever you feel like doing. But take care you don't smell bad.”

Krish felt cold suddenly. He was not like this when he was in his college and now............. What basically changed? What is happening to him? Why is he like this? Who is he?

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Here we go,

People used to call him Krish but his name is Krishnamoorthy. He is expected to join TCS by the 25th of august. He completed his course by the end of april [Thanks to the state election]. Since april, his only job everyday is to check the facebook account and update his status at-least once a day. He was waiting for august 25th, not because he can join the company and do service to TCS. He was waiting for the day to get along with his friends and begin his 2nd innings of college there.

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He was online in his facebook account and suddenly felt like checking his account in orkut. Just to check the testimonials written by his friends. While reading the testimonial written by cheena, he clicked on cheena’s name.

Cheena’s profile loaded. He clicked on the photos → ooty tour. He was smiling even without his knowledge when he saw the photos loading. He clicked on the first picture and it loaded [ first a dim shade and it became sharper as it was a digital camera high quality photo ]. He saw himself wearing a t-shirt which looked like that of a painter. [ To be more specific..... T-shirt was brown in colour with horizontal stripes. Excluding this it was designed like paint was randomly sprayed on it ].

Krish was smiling while his mind flashed back to his second year hostel room. 145

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Time : 02:30
Place  : 145, GCT Hostels - 2nd year
Date : hmm......[Don’t remember]...... :)
Event : 04:30 - Ooty Industrial visit for EEE and EIE

“Dai cheena, how about this t-shirt” Krish was shouting at the peak of his voice. He was asking this for the 36th time (i.e) he changed his t-shirt 36 times.

Cheena gave a smile and told “machan, weight da...”

Krish smiled at the others in the room and they also gave him a smile back to tell the t-shirt is good. Others in the room were devanand and anumanth squares. [ anumanth & anumanth are dear friends sharing the same name, initial , YOB, MOB but different DOB ]

Devanand (shortly called as deva) spoke for the first time “you look like a painter da”

“See deva, this will become fashion after our tour” Krish told

“Iyerae, hmm...... you are not ajithkumar da..... to make something fashion by wearing it” one of the anumanths told as the other one nodded.

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Suddenly when krish touched the tea, the hotness of the tea brought him back to the real world. How beautiful life was when he was in 145. Scrolling through the photos, he was thinking of the roommates anumanth and devanand. Anumanth was caring and more adjudtable while devanand is a lovable guy but he wants the room & surrounding to be clean always. The other anumanth and cheena were not his roommates but they were day-scholars spending most of the day in their room.

Krish’s eye was struck on one of his group photo and his thinking now changed from 145 to sunitha....... His mind flashed again to their beautiful days in college.

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Time : 16:30
Place  : pykara falls, Ooty
Date : The same day

“so........... what do you say” sunitha asked keeping her eyes away from him.

“See, Let us wait till the final year. We will have job in our hands. If we talk about this that time, the reception will be slightly better than now” Krish told.

“You think so” sunitha asked like a child.
“For sure.....” Krish told and he opened his mouth again......

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“Krish, You will never listen. Take bath or at-least think of it” Mom told from behind him

“Amma, I am going to a matinee show today. Before that I will take bath” Krish told

“Movie.......... hmm.................ok” Mom said and left the place.

The mention of the matinee show took him to his 3rd year of college.

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Time : 12:20
Place  : KR bakes, Venkitapuram
Date : Probably someday in September

Krish was sitting opposite sunitha asking her “So, what shall we order?”

“Anything you take” sunitha told with a shyness in her voice.

Krish was about to order while his phone started vibrating. The name showed it was devanand. He didn’t pick it. He placed the order and few minutes later the phone vibrated again and this time it was cheena. Then in few minutes he had a total of 21 missed calls from deva, cheena and anumanth squares.

“Why don’t you pick it” Sunitha was asking and suddenly she turned cold. Krish was worried about the change. Sunitha told “A call from deva ….............to my mobile”

“Don’t Pick” Krish told but she replied “I am not like you”. She attended the phone and in tension she also turned the speaker on.

A childish voice asked “Hello, give the phone to krish”

Krish replied “Ya, I am here da.”

Deva continued “ Dai dacalti, Where are you? We are planning for a matinee show and can you join”

Krish fumbled with words “I.I am busy da.... you …...You carry on”

“rite da.....bye” Deva told while krish and sunitha heard smiles from other end of the call.

“You are an idiot” Sunitha told and Krish was still shivering while she continued “But a sweet idiot”

Krish smiled, a broader one this time.

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“What happen to you krish, you are laughing to yourself” Mom asked standing near him

Krish suddenly realised and told “Old Memories amma”

She tapped his back and went away from the room. Krish was about to get up from the chair while he heard his phone ringing. He picked it up and told “Hello” while he heard a lot of noise from the other side.

“Iyerae , This is cheena and we are on a conference da. You, Me, Deva and Anumanth square..... ” cheena said.

“yup. Whats up da.” Krish asked.

“Did you get the news. Sunitha is getting married next month.....” Anumanth said.

“What the hell are you telling....... She must have......said …..said …....i can’t understand.... when.....where....... who told you.... Hold on....   ” Krish was blabbering while he heard few smiles from otherside.

“Are you kidding.... Idiots....... !@##$%^*()&^$” Krish blast into laughter after shouting at them for few seconds.

“Krish........ She will get married one day. If you are not the bridegroom that day..... You will be killed four times.......  ” Devanand told

Krish heard a chorous “Yes........ You will......”.

Krish had a thought in his mind “I am lucky to have them as my friends. They have made me happy. They have found the talent in me. They understood my problems. They have consoled me and today they are concerned about future also....... THANK YOU MY LORD......for giving me such wonderful friends.”

Treat Time 23 + 2

“Sir, No more sea food, would you like to order something else......” Waiter told in a tired voice. Waiter looked like a guy who was working for the last 48 hours without rest.

22 heads lifted up their sight from their plates to the waiter. But one head was still and a voice came from that head “how about chicken 65 boneless”

Waiter came back after checking and told “sir, available, but.......... That will be the last of the Non - veg available for today.......”

“Machi, Then our target changes now to vegetarian” Mathan told as all 22 looked at the 2 people standing just few metres away from the table.

One of those two spoke “Machan, Why can’t we order desserts........”

Mathan said “We will for sure, but not now........”

Ananth lifted his eye towards those two and asked “Don, Whether Parcel allowed.....is it included in the treat”

Everyone started laughing and the sound was like 10000 walla cracker Bursting out.

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Let me introduce them to you and continue. The two people who were giving treat that day were Our PR (Placement Representative) and Don (That is how we call him). The guy who ordered chicken 65 boneless was the Mr.Cool of our batch; Mathan and ananth are known for their one liners just like the veteran comedian Goundamani........ Others are one of those common people whom you can see in your day to day life.

The treat is for getting placement and the number attended the treat were 23 + 2.

After another half an hour of vegetarian orders, they have decided to order ice cream for desserts.

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“butterscotch” “Faluda” “strawberry” Many voices were shouting and finally Ananth came into picture after washing his hands. “We are professionals. We have to behave in a decent way.I will place the order.” saying this to everyone he turned to the waiter and told “bring 10 ice cream in all flavours you have”

Again the cracker was on light as everyone laughed. The so called don and our PR were near the reception of the hotel getting ready to pay the bill, but the placement of orders never ended. Even when they were about to pay the bill “Machan, Two Mountain dew ….... include that as well” someone said from behind him and ran away.

After sometime Mr.cool came near the reception and told “Machi, make the count of mountain dew from 2 to 23. It will be better. you don’t want one - rite. It is not good for health, you may catch up cold”

Few minutes later all of them were outside the hotel.

“Whassup guys, someone told that there will be a treat here. When is it gonna start?” Mathan asked and everyone gave a gentle smile at each other.

They were discussing something between themselves standing in groups smiling. What they were discussing was not important, but they were smiling all the while which was more important.

A girl in early 20s who looked like an angel from the stars passed near them in a scooty pep. All 23 + 2 heads moved along with the scooty pep till it turned at the end of the road. Then everyone looked at each other and gave a gentle smile.

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Shanmu made a comment that time to bring everyone back to this world which i will never forget in my life time.

“Machanssss........ In this age, if you see a girl............hmm............Beautiful girl and don’t feel anything inside you, then you are having a serious problem. Consult the doctors to get it corrected”

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Smiles again listening to that. 20 minutes later the entrance of the hotel was empty but still our heart is filled with all these memories and it will be forever.

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///////////////// Shanmu, Mathan, Don, PR, Ananth and Mr.cool ---> I know you all will not mistake me for using your names. If you feel something is offending......... :) kochikitiya machan, kochikitiya machan …........... kochuko, kochuko [Poladhavan Dhanush style]///////////////////