The most important part of any residential program is the hostel life. so having completed one year of my PGDM program, I thought of reflecting at the life that has been in our hostel.
First day on campus was pretty intriguing for me. I was simply lost in the maze of rooms and had a tough time finding my room while coming back from lunch and evening tea. Even as I was just settling down into my room nicely, a new allocation of rooms came. I was shifted to the "A" block top floor(ATF). I had heard lots of stories about the particular block. This was the only block where there were girls on the ground floor and first floor with guys occupying the top floor. Also it was a bit distant from the other three blocks, so people were saying that u will be cut off from the main action and all such stuff.
Highly apprehensive and completely unwilling I moved my entire stuff to my new room. Even as I was approaching the room, I saw a vaguely familiar face. Yes, this was the guy whom I had seen at the "TIME" classes in Mumbai. As it turned out by a strange coincidence,four of the five guys from our TIME classes who made it to IIM Indore occupied consecutive rooms. Pawan - 307, Wayne - 309, Raj - 310 and me - 311(308 was the common tv room).
The striking thing as far as our hostel life goes are the birthdays. At exactly 12 in the midnight, all of us goto the birthday boy's room, make some customary wishes and then the real fun starts. The birthday bums were first given to the birthday boy and depending on the mood of the guys, to some other people. Maggo was the one guy who always got bums irrespetive of whose birthday it was.Can't help feeling for the poor guy but I do enjoy seeing him getting kicked:) After the bums, the birthday boy is taken outside the mess wherien the 'kumbabishekha' starts. To begin with, a few eggs are broke on the guy's head. This is followed by pouring of sauce,pepsi,coffee... After sometime, it becomes a free for all - almost anything that people find will become a decorative ornament on the victim. Dahi, atta powder, vegetable peels, left over mess food were some of the add-ons observed during the year. Finally, the slaugtered goat is allowed to go and have a bath after a chorus of "happy birthday" song. The whole thing is great fun to watch unless it happens to be your birthday.
If I didn' talk of FIFA, my hostel life would only be half complete. FIFA is the computer football game. Initially, it was a rage amongst many of our blockies althought most of the other guys found AOE and NFS more interesting. However, within a short period most of our guys uninstalled FIFA as it was getting too addictive. Finally, there were just three of us(Me, wayne and niket) who were playing the game throughout the year. We had some memorable matches and even longer analyses after the game. By now, we have mastered most of the moves and the game is beginning to lose its charm.Infact we are eagerly waiting for the release of FIFA 2007.
Our TV & printer room was unique - it was just another student's room converted into a common room unlike other blocks where they had a separate, spacious common room. Our room had just three chairs and at any point of time, not more than 6 or 7 people can be inside the room. We had some great moments there watching the football and cricket matches. My favorite moment was when Pathan picked up a hat-trick against pakistan and I woke up the entire block on that sunday morning with my screams of joy. The printer in the room is a very old one and doesn't work most of the times. We spend most of our times trying to get it running but ultimately end up printing it from other blocks.
There are many more things which I just want to go on and on about, but I think I will stop here. Now that a new batch with bigger size is going to come in, we will have to vacate our rooms in the second year as it is converted into an all-girls block. Iam definitely going to miss A-block. The entire feel is something which cannot be described in words. Things would probably be never the same again, but then it's always the people who make it special rather than the place itself. So hopefully another exciting year of hostel life is in the offing.
First day on campus was pretty intriguing for me. I was simply lost in the maze of rooms and had a tough time finding my room while coming back from lunch and evening tea. Even as I was just settling down into my room nicely, a new allocation of rooms came. I was shifted to the "A" block top floor(ATF). I had heard lots of stories about the particular block. This was the only block where there were girls on the ground floor and first floor with guys occupying the top floor. Also it was a bit distant from the other three blocks, so people were saying that u will be cut off from the main action and all such stuff.
Highly apprehensive and completely unwilling I moved my entire stuff to my new room. Even as I was approaching the room, I saw a vaguely familiar face. Yes, this was the guy whom I had seen at the "TIME" classes in Mumbai. As it turned out by a strange coincidence,four of the five guys from our TIME classes who made it to IIM Indore occupied consecutive rooms. Pawan - 307, Wayne - 309, Raj - 310 and me - 311(308 was the common tv room).
The striking thing as far as our hostel life goes are the birthdays. At exactly 12 in the midnight, all of us goto the birthday boy's room, make some customary wishes and then the real fun starts. The birthday bums were first given to the birthday boy and depending on the mood of the guys, to some other people. Maggo was the one guy who always got bums irrespetive of whose birthday it was.Can't help feeling for the poor guy but I do enjoy seeing him getting kicked:) After the bums, the birthday boy is taken outside the mess wherien the 'kumbabishekha' starts. To begin with, a few eggs are broke on the guy's head. This is followed by pouring of sauce,pepsi,coffee... After sometime, it becomes a free for all - almost anything that people find will become a decorative ornament on the victim. Dahi, atta powder, vegetable peels, left over mess food were some of the add-ons observed during the year. Finally, the slaugtered goat is allowed to go and have a bath after a chorus of "happy birthday" song. The whole thing is great fun to watch unless it happens to be your birthday.
If I didn' talk of FIFA, my hostel life would only be half complete. FIFA is the computer football game. Initially, it was a rage amongst many of our blockies althought most of the other guys found AOE and NFS more interesting. However, within a short period most of our guys uninstalled FIFA as it was getting too addictive. Finally, there were just three of us(Me, wayne and niket) who were playing the game throughout the year. We had some memorable matches and even longer analyses after the game. By now, we have mastered most of the moves and the game is beginning to lose its charm.Infact we are eagerly waiting for the release of FIFA 2007.
Our TV & printer room was unique - it was just another student's room converted into a common room unlike other blocks where they had a separate, spacious common room. Our room had just three chairs and at any point of time, not more than 6 or 7 people can be inside the room. We had some great moments there watching the football and cricket matches. My favorite moment was when Pathan picked up a hat-trick against pakistan and I woke up the entire block on that sunday morning with my screams of joy. The printer in the room is a very old one and doesn't work most of the times. We spend most of our times trying to get it running but ultimately end up printing it from other blocks.
There are many more things which I just want to go on and on about, but I think I will stop here. Now that a new batch with bigger size is going to come in, we will have to vacate our rooms in the second year as it is converted into an all-girls block. Iam definitely going to miss A-block. The entire feel is something which cannot be described in words. Things would probably be never the same again, but then it's always the people who make it special rather than the place itself. So hopefully another exciting year of hostel life is in the offing.
5 comments:
hey kadal... there was no mention of the "COOL GUY"
COCO!
how could u miss out on ur pivotal role as COCO!
how could u miss out on vimalization!
how could u miss out on RJing "aama"! :D
@deepti:
Why mention things that are going to damage my non-existent image? Anyways, looking back,that post doesn't cover a lot of things!
still a good read for a fuchcha like me!
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