Main Thana Station Pe Hoon...

So long time no post, was busy..went to Bangalore..did the most AWESOME advanced course ever...more about that in a later post..

For those of you who know our gang...you already know from the title who this post is going to be about...For others, the meaning of the above phrase will be explained in due course..

As ritesh is going to be one of the first people from our batch to move on to "Greater Things", i thought why not write this post about him, before he leaves and all...well we have already had a farewell party and all...and considering that us guys weren't really a part of the (gay) scrapbook...please consider this to be your farewell gift buddy..

So Ritesh Vaidya...the first time you see this guy, if he is wearing goggles and all, you are sure to think he is a foreigner, saala itna gora hai...aur upar se chubby bhi hai...poora firangi dikhta hai..style bhi kabhi kabhi waise hee maarta hai. And in Goa, some priest actually mistook him for a firangi...so we have proof to back the theory as well..right K2??

But as they say. Light travels faster than sound. So the moment he opens his mouth and all the choicest of hindi gaalis come out, you will come right back to earth and realize he is just another Mumbai teenager.

The first time i met him was i guess in 2nd year, he had just joined our class from another division, and in his own words..he din't know wat the f*** was going on...i mean..he was just lost. He was pretty much forced to hang out with our group as i think he knew one or two of us before hand. And i can't even imagine wat our group must have been for him, i mean it was irritating for ME sometimes, is bechaare ka kya hua hoga..But of course he din't really have a choice..so he gelled...and soon realised that there are at least SOME sensible people amongst the hooligans...

I remember him narrating one experience of the early days..when he was hanging out with us and we actually spent 2 hours at the main gate deciding where to go..normal routine for us but so completely new for him...finally he was rescued by some other people he knew from first year..poor guy...

From the 3 years that i have known him..i can tell you one thing...HE DOESN'T CARE!!!yepp..thats right..he just doesn't give a damn....iske aas paas jo ho raha hai hone do..he won't give a damn...he lives his life exactly the way he wants to...and no amount of opinions and advices can sway him...and most of the times he doesn't bother giving people advices or opinions either...he is the true proponent of the mantra "Live and Let Live"..

He is freakishly Lazy...and i mean freakishly Lazy...we call him Whizzy as tht is his yahoo id...so we have a song for him..based on Khwaja Mere Khwaja from Jodha Akbar...it goes..."Whizzy mera Whizzy...Hai bada Lazy..." sung by his mom of course...LOL...

He is almost always late...Just like me...i mean it happened so many times tht wenever you called him...and asked where r u..his response was almost always "Haan, Main thana station pe hoon"...so its a standing joke now...that in a movie based on our lives, Ritesh Vaidya will not be introduced on screen...his voice will keep saying throughout the movie..Main Thana Station Pe Hoon...ROFL...

Whizzy has had a lot of alteractions over the years...and almost all of them with girls...reason, he doesn't tolerate non sense...and i mean he DOES NOT tolerate it. I have never seen him take crap from anyone..He always gives it back...so in the course of this giving and taking...he has hit, abused, shouted on various girls..and i must say all for pretty valid reasons...He just cannot stand nonsense..as simple as that...

He has a typical style of saying "Paaaagal ho gaya hai...kya ******* hai kya..." he stresses so hard on the abuses its almost as if the gaalis were made for his mouth only..

I remember sometime in 4th year we were all actually scared about him, coz he used to show this total non chalance towards everything, we were scared kaheen yeh fail toh nahin hoga..his response to wat r u doing was almost always "who the f*** cares man", even one day before the exams..so it was a little unnerving...thankfully Deloitte happened..then SCMHRD happened..so at least he is going to do SOMETHING now...WHEW!!!

Now lets talk a lil about his interest in the fairer sex...for a long time i thought he had none..LOL...but soon stories of his sojourn with some people started filtering out...i still remember Jas's dialogue..."Maybe it is destiny that has brought you guys together into VJTI"...LOL...dude i still remember the expression on your face...as if you had eaten sour eggs or something...ROFL...

In his own words he let a very good opportunity go while in junior college...and man we rubbed the salt into the wounds...he still sometimes thinks about it i guess...do u dude???

As for the current scene, well lets just leave that...i mean i don't wanna spoil your chances by jinxing it by announcing it on a public domain man...LOL...i can almost feel the hatred on your face right now..HEHE...

This guy loves his booze and hookaah...total charsi hai saala...jab free time mile chalo daaru peene...chalo hookah maarne...kya pata kaunse janam ka gamm baha raha hai daaru peeke...I do not wan to disclose the exact details, but at one party he got pretty sloshed...and not-so-pretty dirty...quite easily one of the scariest things i have seen happen to a guy...Dude word of advice...Respect Your Drink...

Well that is about all that i remember about him. Its great that he is going for his MBA..to a school where he will be required to get up at 6:30 EVERY morning...man that would be fun...hehe...it would have been great to have been working with you at Deloitte man...but i still wish u all the best...hope you join Deloitte after 2 years..and hopefully not as MY manager..LOL...

Have a great life dude...and please don't be at Thane Station anymore...

The Laughter Precursor

So continuing with the last post, this post is about a pretty integral part of our group. Before i begin...let me just say that i am NOT writing these posts to make me or any of my friends emotional (although i know that is something that is just not possible). I am writing this only to make a record of what my thoughts are about my friends. Maybe this is like for reference in future...or maybe after 15 years if i forget some things i will open this site and laugh again...

So this post is about Mr. Kushal Gurunath Sukthankar...yepp...that is his full name for people who do not know...

I remember meeting suktya (that is what we call him..more on his zillion or so names later) for the first time in college...he was this short, small faced, dishevelled haired, and hairy guy (BELIEVE me on this last part...there is a reason he always wears full sleeved shirts). And frankly, he is still the same, except maybe he has more hair now, has a pretty huge paunch and is getting woozier by the day.

Suktya is the eternal casanova (or so i thought..until he started failing in all his ENDEAVOURS)...he always tries SO FREAKING HARD to flirt....we (Pranay and I..more on him in another post) had this joke that suktya will flirt with anything that moves....and we mean ANYTHING...LOL..

The long list of his romantic ambitions are legendary..he still gets a lot of flak for all the times he has tried to patao some or the other gal....and its always so freaking hilarious to watch him land on his face...dont mind dude....this post is quite a honest opinion of what i have seen you do...please dont mind...

Suktya has this knack of saying things that are intended to hurt someone else or take someone else's case..but end up degrading his standard like anything...I mean get this...one of his most awesome quotes was..."Main khud kee nahin sunta toh tum log meri kyun sunteho..."...HOW can u be so freaking DUMB!!!!!

He also once said..."Main anyways bina soche kuchh bhi bol deta hoon"...and u can trust our group to remind him of his words again and again...

Suktya has this way of walking, he will bend backwards...throw his paunch out...his arms will be about 3-4 inches away from his body...and he will walk like he has muscles of Arnold Schwarzenegger..flailing his arms to and fro....just looking at him walk makes you wanna throw your head back and roar with laughter...or punch him in the face and repeat step 1...

Suktya's expressions are legendary...once he was walking behind me and Tea-Le (Save this for another post...)Suktya hit Tea-Le on the head...Tea-Le turned intending to hurl the choicest cuss words on Suktya...but just seeing the pathetic smile and kiddish expression on his face, we both burst out laughing....Suktya is a total kid...someone who behaves like a total jerk in a few situations...but he also has the uncanny ability to be understanding sometimes...and that is something i have expreienced a LOT of...especially through a very hard time of my life..

I remember all the awesome times we guys had as part of The Brotherhood (maybe a seperate post later...man i m lining them up...)..all the crazy nightouts at Suktya's place were the most memorable ones...i especially rememeber the one time Suktya Pranzy and I were up till 6 talking some serious shit....Suktya has this ability of keeping secrets too...and he hides them well...even his own...he is mostly a closed book actually...not a great thing i wud say but it works for him...

Now for the funniest part about suktya...well its his names...as i mentioned...we have a zillion or so names for him...and they keep coming up every week...i remember there was this time when we would come up with a name for suktya almost every other day...in first year Technovanza (our Annual Tech Fest) we named him...bouncer...coz of his black gogs and the way he would man the security gates...then we named him robo...i do not remember how this one came up though...guys please refresh my memory...then we named him Robo BP....please do not ask the full form...its not mentionable...we came up with this on the way to matunga station and i remember laughing all the way home about this...

We also created a fictitious superhero titled GHONCHU...played by suktya of course...he had for his accessories a pair of goggles, bluetooth headphones and he was dressed ONLY is black underwear made of cement...(this last part was K2's addition of course...)the entry was on the op of the Dome in the VJTI quad...it was one of the most hilarious jokes we ever made up...

Lets talk about his flirting abilities...well he has NONE...he thinks he does...but well...he DOESN'T (dude get the hint...) because of all the various crushes and link ups and trials...he has had various names... like A**** cha pikachu (ROFL...)..V***** cha pikachu....and other pretty hilarious ones....he was also called IT ki Gaddar Aulaad and Comps ki Najayaz Aulaad..both coz he used to hang out in the comps class more than the IT class in 2nd year...and everyone knows why...

The train incident with Suktya's neighbour is also a stuff of legends...i remember how uncomfortable he was talking to a girl in front of us...and we din't make it any easier by singing "Dost dost naa raha" when he got off at the station with her..LOL..

Suktya is also pretty phattu...i mean he just loses it at times...i remember two incidents..one was during the climb down from matheran...there was a tricky part and he was pretty scared...you could see on his face that somethings had shot up into his mouth....another one was when Karani Sir had questioned him about his attendance...he had repeatedly scratched his chin (where he used to keep a small beard...the style wannabe that he is) and said.."Sir...but i sat quite a few lectures Sir" LMAO....

There have been many talks about his sexuality too....the lack of it thereof...i mean some girl came up to him and said..."Kushal...You can't do anything"(although in a completely different reference)...but we still interpreted it as the lack of....well you get the point...Suktya has been called gay....people claim there has been substantial proof of it too...but i want to think those rumours are baseless...atleast i would like to say this on a public domain like the Internet

Ok i know Suktya might be steaming around the ears on this last para...but dude NO post about you is complete without a mention of this...and u know it...

Well now suktya is off to the US...and we have all begged him to change his mannerisms and hair style before going there...i mean dude...you are going to represnt VJTI man...have some sense of basic style atleast....

I will end this post by saying Thanx to him...for providing so many opportunities to rag him and take his case...for being such a dork that helped us to pick on you...for letting some of the most well kepped secrets to lie dormant...and for being a Precursor to so many Laughs...

When the Curtain Drops!!!!

So this is it then....4 years....this is what we get at the end of the 4 years...a simple fullstop on the paper and that signifies the end of a rocking/reeling/pathetically-mind-blowing phase of our lives...

So simple isn't it, one full stop..one small little dot...and we will never be engineering students again (Subject to results of course..but lets just assume for now we have ALL passed....even if not with flying colours atleast with a little streak of our own). It's so easy to just sit there..stare at that dot...and imagine that your whole life is going to be another blur from now on, just another extension of that small black dot

When we all came into engineering, trust me, none of us had a clue as to what to do. None of us, even the super brainy CET toppers, had any idea of what these 4 years were going to do to us. I mean you just cannot fathom the unfathomable right?

And yet, here we are, 4 years later, looking at another phase of our life where NONE of us has any idea as to what is going to happen. All the cliches of "You never know where life is going to take you" and "Always expect the unexpected" are SOOOOO applicable right now.

I always thought life would be made up of these MILESTONE events you know...like we learned in Project Management(i am SOOO sorry for this one...just could not resist...LOL). Events that would signify the end of some important phase or the achievement of some goal. Well this is both...end of a phase...and the achievement of a goal. And every event has associated with it the Past and the Future.

I do not think i can, or even want to, predict the Future of this event. Whether we will grow apart or closer is for the future to know. I am not interested in it. What i am interested in, is the Past. A past that brought us so many memories, heartbreaks, laughs, friends, enemies(not for me though), embarassments and moments that will probably shape what we are and what we will be.

In the next few posts, i will try to analyse and bring forth some of the moments, circumstances and events that i remember and want to learn from. More focus is going to be ont the people though.

Of course its a pretty obvious thing to do. I am doing this not for emotional or nostalgic purposes, just as a tribute and a thank you to the people who made these 4 years worthwhile.

So look forward to the next few posts, even i am...coz i dont know what and who is going to come out. I hope to explore my psych as i pen these down.

To end, two lines that i will remember forever:

"Past is destiny, Future is freewill"
-Khurshed Batliwala

"I open at the Close"
-Harry Potter 7.