Little PR accidents are important

Who says it takes a plan to make /catch a friend.Made 4 brilliant by pure accident.In chronological order-

1.Sadi- Rank 1758 , ya , i choose ECE . Rank 1759 , Shiv Ram Krishna Pande , well ECE seems a catchy enuf name , Ok meet too ECE and we go on to become the best of friends.. now i come to know there are dating coulpes who envy our friendship!

2.Mihir- Soham introduced me to Mihir on the first day of hostel . Shiv- Oh Mihir , thats a easy name to rem ... we go onto work on all projects together apart from the usual dinners !and visiting each other rooms once in every .wt..10 mins or so :)

3.Dhir - I later came to know his parents had named him Gaurav.Text Book section water filter area it was , where dhir was seemingly studyin , 45 mins later i knew this boy could be a damn nice person to work and share a beer or a laff with ,Right i was . Cheers mate.

4.Prateek-Pre MUN debate , a weird sunday morning , hardly nebdy turns for it , but i knw this was my chance to get a headstart for Manipal MUN 2009 as a del. although i didnt win it , i and prateek go onto become damn nice buddies , winning the VIT MUN , vice chairin the Manipal MUN. Did i say i woke up early on that sunday morning hoping to be a del at Manipal MUN????????? :D

Date and Happenings

Remember the next 24 hours , could be quite important . Something that could change my college life completely.
Remember Shiv , remember.
18th Jan 2010 , 21:54

Some quotes you get to hear in the campus...

3 years , unlimited masti , moments of sheer genius , unimaginable stupidity , smiles , heartbreaks ,sleepless nights and even sat eves where i dozed off at 10 pm .
Seeing it all , Doing it all .


All this generates some rather interesting quotes from your friends.Here goes the best 3 that i can remember as of now.

3.IEEE guy interviewing a pretty first year on marketing of the club- So , how do you plan to sell youself ??????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2.Shiv addressing the HRC just after 3 days of council - So delegates , did you enjoy your chairpersons!!!????(Rahul looks on in disbelief)

But this one , beats all , coming from Sadi.

Sadi to Shiv describing her experience in a ladies badminton tournament-

You should have seen her calf muscles Shiv , She was sooo smoking hot .( I could see sadi close to salivation)
Shiv to Sadi - Yeah! i finally have a friend who swings both ways!

Life: Mr.Pande? Shiv: Ya? Life: So u dont want any more adventures between the end sems? Shiv: WHY WOULD I? Life: OK , There you go , Life screws you

I had a very clear aim , pass these bloody end sems with the least of extra curricular work(which i thot were my main distraction)
Normally i tend a nice routine during exams , needless to say , thats why i dont score much :D.8 hours of sleep,a bit of sitcom watching and everything.
So first , end sems dont get off to a gud start , but recovery happens. then health swings.then end sems become better.Now 4 down , 2 to go.Slowly the happy phase is about to come.coz well AOOPS is there after a 2 day break, so must be good eh?

Now my dear Life comes into focus.

So when the dearest friend of yours comes to tell you , that she is heart broken (or something like that) , with her (pseudo)BF - who BTW is one of the biggest nutcases around- News like this tends to shock the bloody living daylight out of u.

See, there is a pattern , at the first attempt , the worst of guys get the best of girls.Now that coudnt happen to this frnd of mine ! could it! It DID.and nobdy apart from me knew it.
It pains , its a searing pain when u see ur frnd cryin over a jerk .. u dont know what to say ..curse the guy or appreciate the lady...and well seeing tears are just not pretty..that too when the lady is resting on you.so our little doubt clearing session in the lib became a consoling session on the lib stairs.
My world , i havent been that hurt in a long long time.. that too when the guy is tryin to hurt the lady by not accepting her call of parting ways. So now do u corner and hit the guy , or do u respect ur frnds call?.

i discovered later , you should respect her call and give her time. I didnt.
Being the normal analyst that i tend to be , I put some blame on her , and curse her (pseudo) BF. NOT pretty Shiv , not pretty.

But then , there is a certain level of confidence and trust u expect from your frnd. telling me about all this so secretively when everything has gone spiralling out of your hands is quite agitating.

Yet , i held onto my calm(dont know how.)

I DIDNT LIKE THE SITUATION I WAS PUT IN , A BIT.

But as a dear frnd , but someone confides in you, u have to step up.
And in the coming days , my health degrades, further and further.Emotional trauma doesnt go well with my body.
somehow i sit down to study , and give a great exam.

Now , walking back along with her after the exams , the topic is raised again(to the least of my pleasure)and then i call the guy an 'emotional psychophat!' , Well , i hold onto my words(just ill timed as i later clarified)
and then i hear out of her mouth ,"He is a nice guy, dont comment on people u dont know , U r a a bloody rude person". DONE. THATS IT. You make a wretched call in your life ,cry all over me , then i get this .
Sorry lady , as much i like u , Incompetent Fucks and wretched calls arent accepted.

You are indeed a special frnd to me , and i try my level best to repay ur trust in me...yes agreed , i hurried up your relapsing behaviour , should have respected ur situation a bit more. But me dear , i came to know one thing. U DONT KNOW ME A BIT.NOT A BIT.

I thought you would see the real me, apart from the fake image i keep in college to ward off flies , but u didnt and that day , u put a nail in the coffin.I am indeed a tad dissapointed.

Acceptance isnt a Yes or a No , its a grey area.Theres where you have put me in .

A interesting one...Rather amazingly complex to decipher

5th sem , Its been quite a sem for me , and although still a month is left for the closure of the sem , but I would not want any more 'interesting ' experiences this sem , the quota seems pretty much complete.

The rising social issue i had melted away , but it had its minor repercussions every now and then.

Winning the VIT MUN was the highlight of the sem , alongwith being elected as Vice Chair of the HRC at the Manipal MUN , about 40 days in this sem my life was only circling around MUNs , and that was a massive experience , theres not one college competition which can rival it , be it with regard to the amount of work one has to do , the degree of professionalism , the exposure that one obtains or the sheer intensity of competition , 3 fucking days!!! Kills u , but yet manages to leave a smile on your face.

TMR- Brilliant , nothing short of sheer brilliance , although i didn't work as hard as i had thought , workload goes down and performance just increases manifold when u have a great team or should i say a great set of individuals working on it.
Lakhs of Rupees pouring in by the end of the sem , Shirt deal , Logistics deal , Press deal , Media deals , Cash deals, Registration deals . You name it , We got it done...

Internship- Got selected at Reliance InfoCom within 2 days of sending my CV , again sheer brilliance ,unfortunately that means i cant attend Porcupine Tree at Mood Indigo , as much i hate seeing PT at IIT- B and not MIT , Manipal , u cant take the fact those nerdy bastards are indeed more passionate about their work than 99.99% percent of MITians .

Academics- the less said , the better , 3rd sessionals is getting me out of big trouble and now all i can do is work my ass off and leave the rest to god and my dear oh dear nastingly suicidal department ...

In General- There are times when u feel let down , broken apart .. but when u have a rather great set of friends in different places in different capacities , when u have a fight and next day u receive a even more closer friend than last time , it leaves a eerie smile that doesn't go away for quite some time...
Also, Work attracts jealously , and then you actually discover who is your buddy and who is not , leading to change in set of friends , not the core ones , their importance becomes even more critical, but the others....and that transition was quite smooth this time...And hence I like this sem.

5th one in the series of 8.

I keep a mental track of what i do on the first day and last day of each sem, this time decided to put it down.

4th sem ended in the best possible way for me , another sleepless night , no alcohol in system , but felt damn fit after a long long time.

Courtesy - My Love - Football , even though i aint that good at keeping her happpy , lets just say i keep (her) fairly well :P

first day of 5th sem alongwith a new director is already seeing points of authority being established in the college.

Anti Ragging posters everywhere, seriously dude ,we arent after the blood of young 18 year olds .

A campus patrol car that the Delhi Police would like to have in its squadron.

17 , no less than 17 2nd years facing suspension coz of ragging , I m guessing they asked the name of some junior.

While the academic block looks damn hot on plans , its doesnt resemble it anyway right now (4 months needed for completion), and since MIT , Manipal likes showing off , took in about 2k students ,leading classes to be til 7 pm in the eve (till acad block is complete), even 8 in certain sections.Corporate Torture Training is the only positive reason I can possibly think of.

The sem has barely begun and loads of issues are engulfing me . Be it the 12 k or EnC or TMR ..i can see a lively but a very very challenging sem ahead of me.

And yah , there is a quite terrible social life issue rising in my head, most of it is based on certain observations , it might compound or it might just disappear .But reasons for either of them happening are more or less the same , this is what you call Catch -22.

There is a serious lack of a particular type of FRND in my life. and i not speaking of a G-F or a BF for that matter :P

Manipal has such amazing people to be friends with , but somehow even in my rather large of friends i just could not get that one. That essential one, sadly, that TYPE OF FRND , i found in someone or the other no matter where i went , just not in college.

I have put my hopes on someone who cares but cant just express it that well.Problem.