College life..the best

I am having a chat with my cousin and he is working on some webpage and he wants to put down his 24 years of life and then I realized that even I have lived 24 years and going to complete my 25th soon..
When I look back, recall my memories, so many things crossed my mind both happy and sorrow ...Though its 5 years since I have graduated from college...My memories are still so vivid and so fresh that I can feel them happening in front of my eyes...
I don’t even know where to start and to whom to start with… Though there are different phases of life, I think, I have enjoyed my college life the most. I can still remember the day when I went to Coimbatore to get an admission in the ECE engineering because of this one sole reason ECE, I went that far else I would have got into any college near my hometown. Now I don’t even remember what a diode or a transistor is… sometimes its funny when I think that I have taken a lot of interest and effort in getting into it but now landed up somewhere else doing some funny stuff on the computer…
To talk about life in Coimbatore, it is so different, beautiful weather all round the year, wonderful hospitality of kovai people, nice temples, 2 hours from ooty, and lots of flowers, educational city, and industrial city as well. Women and college going girls still put flowers in their hair; they still put bindi, kumkum on their face. Unlike metropolitan cities, the tradition still exists. They have a lot of respect for elders by calling them anna(brother) and akka(sister) irrespective of their social status which is highly appreciated.
As my college being a Hindu missionary , though strict , it has taught a lot, to believe in God, to thank God Everyday,to respect ur professors, to be punctual ( as we should have 90% attendance) .Even the view is very beautiful which is one of the reasons to chose it., There is a big stretch of Nilgiri mountains behind and coconut farms in the front view.. Sometimes the clouds used to come so near that, we feel like as though we can touch it or grab it...Though there are some things which we couldn’t stand like bad food which is quite nutritious( Our chairperson is world wide renowned 'amma avargal' in the field of food and nutrition..;-) ),college and hostel used to be full of fun.. It being a deemed university and girls college... There used to be gals from all over India but everybody are quite fond of each other irrespective of the region barriers which made me a liberal minded,warm and friendly person.
Living far from family where you don’t even have relatives and in a different environment with different culture where u have to depend on only friends. Lucky me...I had couple of my school friends with me particularly Lahari without whom I wouldn’t have thought of staying there...that really taught me the value of people and friends, to share, to respect others feelings, to adjust to different mentalities and surroundings,behave with proper attitude, competitive spirit which will not hinder friendship and lastly, not the least, the sole purpose why we are there... to study...To score well is never left behind.
I can still remember the days when we came out of college hostel and started residing in a private hostel, again new people, and some really wonderful girls whom I will never forget in my life. I know a girl who used to be my roommate who became my best friend;a very really sweet person...I never saw her getting mad at me, making weird faces or complaining for unnecessary things. I have learned to be patient, think upon the situation and to think twice before speaking. She is so down to earth, no ego feelings though utterly beautiful... She is awesome...I just want to say, Anitha thanks for being a part of my life... Thanks for being my friend…
Some real good friends, late night talks, making fun of each other...Celebrating frnd’s bdays...Particularly one of my frnd’s bday happened when we went for a fun trip to ooty and we reached there quite late...there were 3 of us searched almost all the ooty shops for a cake and finally managed with some tea cake and chocolates…that was psyche going out knowing nothing abt the place in chill weather at night…quite scary if I think of it now..This credit goes to Gowthami who is quite daring giving thunderous looks with her big eyes..:) buddus u rock..
Things used to be so funny, like most of my friends use me like an alarm as I am very poor sleeper who wakes up even for very small sounds...Then comes the exams, .as usual we think of studying everything beforehand which never happens and ends up in one day batting .As it is a private hostel, we used to have gals from different colleges whose exam dates differ from ours..So there comes real friendship... hehhehe... Everybody used to share the portion and explain to us so that we can score pass marks... Trips to ooty , kovai kutralam falls, temples and more importantly not to forget our vacations and train journeys to home together in one train …are so memorable. There used to be a Kerala express which starts from Kerala with final destination to be Delhi... so around 150 or 200 of us use to board the same train with different destinations when we used to go home for holidays... It used to be full of fun, comments, pulling legs…best moments of my life...
There used to be gals from ooty with good educational background who are quite broad minded doing some tourism management...I really want to appreciate them in pursuing some different course with a different motive in life. These gals used to be a barrel of monkeys who r quite boisterous and yet so helpful expecially when our cheques come late ( particularly Indra(my landlady) who didnt even have a bank account and will have some 10k or 15k in her bag for surviving 6 months probably..).., it used to be like in the month starting, we used lead a luxurious life going to big restaurants, movies and... If it is bourbon biscuits in the month starting, it used to be tiger biscuits in the month ending...now though we have lots of money in hand... we still are not satisfied and continuously search for a better life which is ridiculous but cant help it…
There used to be regional feelings and fights in the mess to watch TV, as some opt for Hindi and some opt for Tamil…but at the end of the day, everything is forgotten which is the best part..
Almost all of my friends are quite easy going and doesnt take things to heart which is very nice and that helped to sustain good relationships..
There used to be days where we used to come late to hostel and say some cock and bull stories to my warden to enter inside the hostel crossing PEGGY( the Dog) ... I remember one day when my friend just joined our hostel and then we decided to have coffee in the ‘coffee day’...So went all the way in a bus to have it... Then lost the way... But then after some struggle asking locals about directions ( When we ask people who travels in bus about coffee day shop,who will know it..my bad..) ...finally made it… but then we realized that its quite late and we gotta go back soon... and as we decided on that, rain started pouring down and to our bad luck , there were no autos in the sight ..again my bad..So we just went just like that with no umbrella in the heavy rain, dripping wet ,but had to make a story again but even that failed as my warden’s daughter was also there in that shop whom we didn’t notice … so got a bash...Huh... Tiresome day... But had a good laugh at our adventure after going upstairs...
There used to be some 10 gals in our hostel and some 10 -15 close frnds in collg who used to hangout together...We used to go for movies 'hindi movies' with those who dont understand it and pass on a running commentary disturbing other people...but never caring about it ..shoooot I was this crap!!!..Industrial tour to Chennai, industrial training in PRICOL, the leading auto meters company in Asia were all so informative and the days are cherish able..
I will never forget priyas who helped me all through the journey in Coimbatore...The beautiful Gujarati temple, particularly Ganesha temple where we can see the aarthi even when u just pass by that temple.Archie's gallery where we spent all of our savings buying gifts..project works...

Though there are lots and lots more...Well I think now it’s time to pen "down"...
I wish all the happiness for everybody..