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………

Angamuthu Solutions

Hi friends,

I would like to talk to you……… from my heart. I have been a regular follower of many blogs and I always wanted to own one. But the time has come only now….. I thank everyone who is supporting me in this journey of scribbling… (You can say that rite) whatever comes to my mind. I have seen many bloggers write about their interview experience but I would like to write about my experience with a company as a Placement Representative [Substitute].

Our PR had a personal commitment and wanted to be in his hometown deliberately. So, He asked me to take care of the Interview Procedure as I had the experience of being a PR in my 3rd year of college. The name of the company is Angamuthu Solutions (Fake name….. Sorry I cannot give the name.) And the number of persons cleared the first round were totally 80+ from our college and 9 in our class.

The second round was scheduled to start by 12:00 and students were expected to be there by 11:45.

Our College’s computer science department was the venue and it was the decent building of our college which itself looked like a dirty bungalow which can be used for the climax scenes of Rajinikanth movies. There were 25+ chairs outside to wait and 100+ students waiting for the interview. By 11:45, the department looked like the crowd outside the hostel mess (when chips are included in the menu). The universal dress code followed by the GCTians for the interview is a light blue full hand shirt with a thick blue tie. 75% of the boys were in the same dress code.

“Everyone have two copies of resume with you. Rite” I asked them

“ya” “yes” “hmm” I heard their replies

Few seconds later, we heard them call names…. “Sebastian” “Sathya” “Shanmuganathan” from our class. I was wondering how they can interview these many people at a time. They had 15+ people for interviewing and they have taken over the lab. The lab had opaque wall on 3 sides and a transparent glass covering on one side. We were able to see the happenings from outside and the lab looked exactly like a fish market.

PRs of all departments were sitting together and we had a lot of fun that day. We were discussing about our own experience in interviews. 5 minutes after the call, sathya came out with a smiling face.

I directly walked towards her and asked “Are you shortlisted for the next round?”

“No. I don’t think so.”Sathya told me. “What did they ask you?” I asked her. Just for the sake of helping others. “They asked me about the pointers in C. I replied that I don’t know” Sathya was telling while I interrupted and asked “What was their reaction..?”

“They said ‘aiaiyoo, .................you can leave ma’” She told with a sad note.

I came back to take my place while two others from my department came out. They were Sebastian and shanmuganathan.

Sebastian came with the smile saying “Hmm…….Done..........Awesome”

I asked with anxiety “Are you shortlisted?”

Sebastian replied “Two of them who interviewed me were girls and more importantly........................” he gave a pause as a good orator always does and then told with a magical voice “they were beautiful”

I was at the peak of my anger but controlled it and asked with a smile “Ok, What is the result”

“They gave me some program and asked me for a particular output. I told them that I don’t know. But they forced me to try. I finally did it and they have rejected me.” Sebastian said while he was removing his tie.

“Was it wrong – your answer?” I asked with a worry.

“It cannot be da. I wrote a program with only a printf statement containing the output they asked me.” Sebastian said with a smile.

“You will never change da.” I told turning to shanmu. He was a special guy in our class holding the record of most number of interviews attended. “What is the case with you?”

“Bad da. Only one of the two girls was ok. The other one horrible da. ” Shanmu told and all of us started laughing.

“I am not shortlisted and I am happy for that. I don’t like the company.” Shamnu said and left the place.

We had few experiences of this kind and finally when it was about 19:00 that I felt something was flying inside my stomach. Then understood that it was hunger and I have not taken anything for the last 7 hrs. I went for a tea and came back by 19:30 while Maadasaamy of ECE department came out.

“Machi, they were asking many questions about the pointers and gave programs as well” He was explaining to his PR. He looked outside while he was talking and told “Machan, I went inside when sun was brightly up and now when I come outside it is extremely dark. Hell with these interviews.”

Venkatraman came running by 20:00 and I thought he was gonna tell the result. But he ran away from me directly towards the restroom. After few minutes he came out and told “Interview is a test of patience da. They will not send you outside until you say ‘I give up’”

“Hold on. You can make it.” I told him and started thinking about the day. I was waiting for people to tell “I am selected” from this morning. But I heard only disappointing news and saw only sad faces. Every member of our class came out and I felt like India lost another wicket in a match against Pakistan.

Finally by 20:25 we were left with two wickets (i.e) two from our class. By 20:40, Vignesh came out for the first time since he entered. “Whats up machi. Are you through?”

Vignesh lifted his tired eyes towards me and told “Almost, one more round to go. The HR round. What about the others?” I understood from the question that he was under tremendous pressure that he was not even able to notice people around him. “Only venky and you are left for the HR interview.”

After a quick tea, both of them were now ready for the final battle with the HRs (Who are creatures looking exactly like humans......  sorry if some HR is reading). The Battle began and two of our soldiers came out with a smile after the war. I was happy for them.

20 odd students were waiting for the result and 2 from our class. My watch showed 21:40....... 22:20........22:40. “its better you go. We will take care of this and tell you the result” Vignesh told me while venky nodded. I kicked my bike with all the anger I had on the company people.

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23:35 my phone was vibrating “Machan, two of our batsmen scored a century  J ” was the message that I received from Vignesh.

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]///////////////////

5 Idiots

There was a dark room locked from inside and only light inside the room was the light from the monitor of the system. Five people were inside the room. One was talking and others listening. Except his voice there was no sound.

“So, This is our Plan. I will show the map later. We go with 3 - 2 strategy” Shiva was explaining.

“Map. Want to see it now” Stephen was stressing.

“Ok. Just a second” Shiva’s hands were comfortably moving on the keyboard.

“So, It will be Raju and me through this way and others have to take the other door” Shiva was pointing it in the map.

“Only Two of you through that way. It is dangerous” Vinay told rolling his eyes like something.

“No other go. They will expect more people from this way and have more people here. We have to surprise them” Shiva told.

All this time Raju was typing something in his mobile but suddenly acted as though he was listening. He was a guy of that kind. He talks less, listens even more lesser but performs great. Srinath was listening and made gestures like a new wife will make to her husband.

“Is that all ok” Shiva told.

“Done” all four told in a single voice.

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How the entire conversation looked to you. Didn’t It looked like a Plan to break through a bank or a plan of mafia attack. But it is not. It is something everyone will not know about. go reading further you will get it.

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“All this plans will not work. Last time when i died no one was with me.” Stephen told.

“Machan, I was with you. Just before you died I was attacked by someone from behind and I have to hide” Vinay told

“Lets plan and see whether it works. No matter even if only one survives  - winning is important” Shiva told

“I take sniper this time” srinath told.

“Done. Me as well.” Shiva said looking at others just like asking them what are they gonna take.

“Maverick - all of us” Stephen told just pointing at others.

“Be careful. Friendly fire is on. Raju be careful” Srinath told as all started laughing

“That was unusual. Forget it. It will never happen again” Raju told as vinay had a call and Stephen opened VTV movie in his system.

So the Team dispersed.

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Many of them would have got what it is all about. But for those who still don’t get it go ahead......

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‘SAME TIME SAME PLACE - THE NEXT DAY’

“I know this will happen. They are professionals. Probably their only job is playing CS” Vinay told

“The case is same with us.” Shiva told

“Its ok da. Quarter finals to semifinals. Whether it this is not an improvement” Srinath said like a child.

“Dai, Only 16 teams participated da. Next round after the first is Quarter finals” Stephen told.

“Its ok. It is better to maintain the image saying Semifinal exit” Shiva told

“What next” Raju asked looking at shiva.

“Just now checked in website. There is a match in KCT tomorrow” Shiva told.

Everyone laughed and the room went dark again. The plan starts again and execution will come good one day was their dream. It was not about winning. It was not about Planning. It was about Pleasure of Playing. It was a Memory that you can take from your college and keep it for years. Think of the pleasure you get when you think of all this when you are 60+ years old............................................

LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL............ with friends.