Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Thank You


Shobana - For being the first girl to talk to me on the first day of college. You are not here anymore... very unlikely of you seeing this but still. Thanks.

Srividya.R - For looking like the absolute nerd and making me feel jealous about your awesome English grades from school. On the first day of college you creeped me out and i never thought you would in the course of time become my buddy. I loved being your dustbin. I miss it sometimes. Its my fault, i couldn't be the same with you this year and my sincere apologies for that. Going to call you once this note is done. Cheers to our chatting sessions!

Kavitha Manoharan - Podi, NCC. Thanks for Volunteering to be the asst class rep and then pulling out to join NCC. Duck. Teacher daughter. THANKS for everything di. For the gang, for the campaign, for the Love, for listening to me, for calling me a kid... SO many things. Thanks di. And Sorry for you know what. I didn't mean to.

Shilpa Sasidharan - THANK YOU FOR BEING EVERYTHING YOU WERE TO ME. :) Actually no. Get lost. I WONT write a SLAM entry for you. Feels so wierd. :P CHINJU i LOVE YOU MOLAE!

Vishnu - thala! Miss the good old days and the clap and the punch. The mix Chaat!!! :) The endless grin, the mokka jokes! The 'edward', The mysore trip! THe Campaign!!! THe Canvassing! THe TALk! :) Gethu thala.

Jee - Aunty, teacher, mature, Nirmala ma'ams pet! Writing/drawing cover pages for my assignments. :) mokka with shakil. SMS (the movie that all o you went for except me) :P THe kind words and the warm deeds.

Sharmi - Heeroyinee. Namma thalayoda heeroyinee. Gethu. Thanks sharmi! For talking, for taking care of vidya... She bonded with u somehow. :)

Preethi Mani - For letting me listen to 'Mundhinam Paarthene' on your phone every lunch hour, every day for two years! For the heart melting hug you gave me yesterday. For always hitting me and saying 'enna?', For changing your phone every four months. all of them korean mobiles no doubt. :P

Suganya - For the random text messages that get me laughing. :) For being soooo minute and thin and yet getting yourself heard in all that noise, For photocopys, for digging at grinder at the slightest reason! :)

Philo - For holding my chin and combing my hair, for putting powder on my face, for sharing lunch with me, for the absolutely funny moments when i ve cried of laughing for an hour, teacher! thanks di! The pretty woman of the class... :)

Shakiiil! - For the laughs in class. always. For being the person to encourage everybody, for spending some unforgettable time with me, for just letting things be and gracefully taking the seat. :P For getting into an accident that changed everything forever, that brought all of you together and kept all of you together. Some things in life, like shakil, have a reason.

Baayamma - For being the cool baayamma you were. yum biriyani that i nvever got to eat. bring some more Zia! :)

Kumutha & Shobana - I spent my first month in Ethiraj with you guys. ANd i was absolutely stunned watching and observing you. Glad and glad that i had the opportunity to help and observe you guys for a brief period of time. I loved the experience. I couldnt continue... i am really sorry guys. You ve touched me a lot. THanks for that. :) Hugs

Mahaboobi - For cheerfulling the short time i spent in class this year. for making me dance in the mysore trip. ok i just shook my legs literally but still. :P thanks

APPY - Wat the hell appy?! Cool, funny, cracks jokes at me, says random stuff, HAS SURVIVED MOGHANA SUNDHARI AND ISHWAREEYA KARTHIK for three years. Standing ovation! whines so cutely (is that a word?) and makes me wanna listen to her whine all the time. :) (ok no i dint mean anything perverted) Hugs apppy.:) :* miss youuuuu

MeghAna Sumesh - The most hardworking class rep, the absolutely unworking asso sec, drama queen, thanks for being who you were moghana. :P YOU know HOW MANY things ishould thank you for.Thanks for ALLLL that. and more. three years dammit. thanks for being my wife. :) oh and mobile notes and topping the classes all the time. BLEH. oh oh oh how can i forget carrying the mic part.... :P Louwe you. seriously. 

Ishwariya Karthik - for kwaambatore. For folding my sleeves and taking off the collar button. mine that is. for maknig me laugh and cry. For Prophesying my becoming president--- let me tell you all she started saying srunika president from second year beginning--- for The Life Changing Talk You had with me. For applying kajal and make up wen i looked bad. LOads of Lurve.

Chitraa Ma'am - For everything ma'am. :) For being warm and encouraging us all when it mattered the most, for scolding me in a nice way and ma'am got angry only near the end of the year! :P For showing us how things are done and how to do them and what matters actually is the effort and not what others think is the outcome, for standing by us and standing for us LOTS of times. LOVE YOU MA"AM! And Sir, thankyou for aalll the farmville gifts and video tags and help with so many things backstage around the year.

~Ze Union~
Meens- Stupittt! BEST VICE PREZ any president has ever been blessed with. She has had to prove so many people wrong and shut a lot of people up. My love and admiration for you just grows di. Always ended up paying for me when we eat out after a tiring day, would give me money to go home, without me asking, "illana na nee pozhappeduththu poi nadappa di loosey" ULTIMATE she is!

Uma- Super B?!@# But still we alll loved her. Noisy. VEtti scene, Fake Tamil Accent, storms into the union room, storms out, creates storms inside. Someone i knoew  since pre union days. Charisma. (you better buy me food for alll this) No seriously has got a lotta charisma. I loveeeeee her. the CHarming Mistress of CEremoinies. ( its not mistress of charm, Uma!)

Iswarya - She is ze quiet, hardworking, azhuththamaana ponnu. THanks for being so supportive and for encouraging us all wen we were in sadness. LL Miss you, silly.

Anuuuuu - Naa enna di soradhu unna pathi?! Has changed my accent to the iyer bashai slightly, became a part of mytransport facility. :P Bike rides up and down the town di!!! NO. I simply loved going with her on the bike. Thanks for putting up with all my bike antrums and dropping me wenever wherever union work would take ussss! AArambh maithri Big bazaar shopping! So many things after that. Lets become colocators di. Looking forward to it. FOr being The strong woman of the union. LOUVE Will miss the bike rides so badly, anu.

Neha - Loves to stress on the fact that she and I are of the same age, my cutie pie treasure who managed to turn pink with anger, frustration and a whole lot of negative emotions wen ACCOUNTS DONT TALLY. For Guarding  union money like a dragon, breathing fire down people who took money and ran after them screaming for signatures! THe calm, blissfull look on her face once accounts are submitted... CLASSIC. :) Love the nehaness.

Dippy - Waaderrr! (roll your R) Thnakyou for being who you are to me you silly. I knew i missed her when she went off to chandigarh for her surgery. only then I knew. And thats all i will say. For being the sweet little thing cheering everyone up, for making my day so many times [;)] for just being the lousy Deepa Anant. :*

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Sharon Thulasi Manickaraj - Life has been French, Roller Coaster RIde, Cake and Chocolate Cake and MUN and HOGGING and ENDLESS talking and comforting and staying over and laughing and crying and lies and pgone and texting and love and hugs and men and women and bitching and SURPRISES and sharing some really meanigful moments. For keeping me sane. Dunno wat i would ve done sans toi. Dunno wat i am gonna do sans toi. HOW did i push ONE year sans toi? For being my only reason to hate the passage of time.For making me countdown. ALRIGHT. ~~ I hereby declare, to one and all, that this woman, Sharon Thulasi Manickaraj, and I, Srunika Kannan, are the bestest freaks together ever alive.~~ T.H.A.N.K.Y.O.U. 

Hemaa Thiagarajan - I am in love with her. FOr being there for me, for driving sense into me, for the laughs and the Francais and the Santaaaaa and the loooovvveee and for really, genuinely, sincerely loving me for who i am, all my lameness and craziness included. YOu re the Hemma cullen. THe dark angel. ANd YOu shall forever be Mon AMour Ma cherie! Je Ne SAis Pas Quoi faire sans TOI! OH OH not to forget YOussuff and chocolate cakes and the library at the alliance and you know who. ;) WE ROCK!!!!!!

Rishanthi - :) For being life saver rishi. For beaming smiles, for helping so much with all the evnts we did as a class and as a team. For keeping your temper and being unconditionally nice! :) thanks

Michelle- The mama in the house this woman is! THanks michelle for being this supportive, strong and genuine person you were! YOu ve inspired me to work on ahead so many times. You rock! Keep Rocking!!

 Shailee Shah - For being the Brat, the inspiring, non sleeping hardworker, the workaholic, the sponsor team head, the genuine encouraging person (if using nice words and not so nice words at times), for running around, screaming, shouting and actually getting work done. FOr that breathtaking, amazing, unforgettable, Beach view! Raised my mood magically! For being someone i feel bad about leaving behind at college. :)

Shiva! - B.L.E.H. For being, doing, saying, writing things that have moved me personally and emotionally. For making me feel special and showing me what it means to be young and mature and really talented. Not really sure if i should call you my younger sister, shiva. YOunger?! ok D.O.B. give me that much credit. :) For making me feel its time i brought out those old poems and writings of mine to the open.  FOr LOUVING Me. :) Yes you're growing on me.

EVERYBODY WHO LOVED ME, PRAYED FOR ME, WISHED MY WELL BEING AND HOPED FOR ME - I dont find words to thank you all. FRom girls who come shake hands with me, smile at me everytime I pass them by, saying they like me, to Annas and akkas who so caringly ask if I ve eaten and how my people are at home. Ethiraj has shown me what it means to be CARED FOR, LOVED and to FEEL at HOme. :) May god bless all o you! THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING! :)  

List be  updated. Has been  edited  since Farewell day.

You Know You're in IIT When


1. Your parents are proud to even get an auto to come drop you at the hostel.

2. Your friends get bitten my mysterious invisible insects that cause allergies, tears and room changing in the hostel.

3. Hostel food is good, and a monkey steals appalam from you. And chases you for calling it cute.

4. Every tuesday night you find yourself running to the hostel mess despite the canteen upstairs and the CCD, for the amazing aloo parota.

5. You call this new friend of yours to come with you to watch saturday night movie wit you at the OAT and you end up going alone.

6. Birthday celebrations, cake cutting and photo sessions happen at 10 in the night at CCD inside campus.

7. At eleven o clock in the night your class gets over and you still hop skip and jump to the hostel despite hunger, fatigue and having to walk that distance.

8. You come back to the hostel room to find monkeys have used the clothes that you washed painstakingly as swings to swing themselves. And you have to wash again.

9. You spot red wierd poochies that run everywhere. Two of them or one? You can never make out.

10. You love, get used to and miss Lab sessions in the middle of the night with your favorite protective brother. :)

11.You get used to complicated commerce terms like Bplan, Investment, MBA, break even, profit, loss, merger, limited liability partnership and so on. So much so your English lit classmates go WOW at you.

12. You try to act go between for two best friends who are arguing and end up bein the main criminal. :)

13. You Befriend your own personal Zoologist, Graphologist and Chartered Accountant. ;)

14. Certain things Crush you and a certain things hurt you and while you are inside it you hate it but the moment you are out of it you long to be in it again.

15. Gajendra Circle becomes a convenient crying spot, when you leave after one month of your stay.

16. You go to yoga class for the first week like a big wannabe and then you pray for it to get cancelled.

17. You act like you didnt hear wen the warden wakes you up for yoga. :)

18. When you grumblingly walk towards yoga class you find spotted deer giving you this sad look.

19. You feel like writing poems looking at the long lonely road in the middle of the night lit up with yellow bulbs. :)

20. You act like you can race up to the entrance which is a good 20 km with a friend.

21. People  stare at you like you are mad if you take your phone with you to the shower cubicle and play songs like " Barso re..". What do you expect, they are real IITians.

22. Forget a new bottle of shampoo and costly perfume in the girls bathroom you will find it just the way you left it the next day. Swear.  

23. YOu find notices that call you for Math Decathlons, Science Quizes and Lectures but not one notice of a college cultural meet.

24. Almost everybody walks around  with an IIT T Shirt. With the typical unkepmt look. Even girls' idea of fashion limits itself to Saarang T Shirts all thru the year. Oh and also Math association, EEE association and other association t shirts.

25. Years later, you ve forgotten about case studies and guest lectures but all you have are good friends for life.

Thursday, August 11, 2011

You Know You're in HYDERABAD When...



1.       You find good old autos with ornate paintings of peacocks and “Horn OK Please”; with rusty iron rods pointing at you from all possible places, threatening to pierce through you at any moment. The worst part is when these Autos from the Pre Independence era struggle to go over a speed breaker because you are inside.
2.       The roads are SO wide with not many vehicles on road, clean and yet a little too scary. You will know what I mean if you have gone shopping at Pondy Bazaar.
3.       You notice that almost all shops are named either Venkateshwara or Mahalakshmi and all hotels named after synonyms of the word ‘Chef’.
4.       You suddenly wonder if you have been transported back in time when the Auto-walas ask for Meter charge with Govrnment auto fare cards that resemble Lunch Menus.
5.       You find Thums Up Ads splashed everywhere. Everybody ordering Thums Up as if it is water. And There you were thinking Pepsi and Coke were the only esistent Cola brands.
6.       You  find a Hookah shaped mug in the loo. Very Hyderabadi you would think. But. Er. Manouvering that thing in the loo itself, you will learn, requires Nizami strategy.
7.       You begin to think everybody in the city changed their name to “Babu”.
8.       You find lady Bus Conductors!
9.       You feel proud about great grand Mount Road back home.
10.   You realize that the Nizams got all their strategical skills from eating the Hyderabadi Biriyani. MAN! The only excuse you havet to NOT eat it when youre in Hyderabad would be your death.
11.   You know its boiling hot around the place and you DON’T SWEAT. Not a drop. 

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

வளர்த்தி

ஆறு வயதில் கொள்ளை ஆசையாய்
 நான் கையில் ஏந்திய என் தங்கச்சி பாப்பா ,
என்னை விடவும் உயர  வளர்ந்து
 என் கைப்பிடித்து நடப்பதற்கு யோசிப்பதும்...

பால்குடித்தபின் நுரை மீசையை அம்மாவிடம் காட்ட,
அவர்கள் முன்போல்  கன்னம் கிள்ளி முத்தம் வைக்காமல்,
 "இன்னுமா " என மனதுக்குள் பெருமூச்சு விடுவதும்...

அப்பாவின் வயிற்றின்மேல் தலை வைத்து பள்ளிக்கூட கதை
முழுவதும் சொல்லி முடிக்கும் ஞாபகம் ,
இப்பொழுது முடியாதென்ற எண்ணத்தை உதடுகள் உச்சுகொட்டி  உணர்த்துவதும்...

இன்னொரு வீட்டில் குப்பைக்கொட்ட
 நேரம் வந்ததென ஊர் சொல்லும்போது
மனதில் பயம் கவ்வுவதும்,  
கண்களில் நீர் தளும்புவதும்...

தோழியின் தந்தை மறைந்த வீட்டில்,
அவளருகில் என் தந்தைக்காக அடக்கமுடியாத
அழுகை வந்ததும் ...

வரவர எனக்கு ஏனோ வளர்த்தி என்பதே பிடிக்காமல் போய் விட்டது.

Sunday, August 7, 2011

வெகுளித்தனம்


கடலலைகள் வந்து கால் தொடும்போது..

குளிரதிகாலை மிதசூட்டில் பாலருந்தும்போது...

சத்தமில்லாத கண்ணீர் விழுங்கும்போது, விம்மல் அடக்கும்போது...

வெங்காயத்தோடு விரலையும் நறுக்கும்போது...

மலையுச்சியில் விடியல் பார்க்கும்போது...

செல்லமாய் வளர்த்த பூனை இறந்தபோன காலை முழுதும் அழுதபோது...

உன் குருந்தகவல் வரவெதிர்ப்பார்த்து அது வராதபோது...

என் என்றைக்குமான தோழி நீயென்ற உன் பழைய மின்னஞ்சல் பார்க்கும்போது...

வருடமிரண்டு சென்ற பின் முன்பு நாம் நின்று பேசிய மொட்டை மாடியில் நிற்கும்போது...



ஒவ்வொரு கணமும் என்னுள்ளில் இருந்து கசிந்து காற்றில் கலக்கிறது கொஞ்சம்  வெகுளித்தனம்.