ATTENTION!!!
I was studying for my GRE when I wrote this article. I wasn't trying to show off, just having some fun and playing around with words. In retrospect, I know for sure that I will not remember half the words I used here!
Having received a plethora of requests commonly voicing an interest that i must start making my entries go public, i decided to give it a shot-and what better way, but to write my first entry on the B'lore trip we went to recently.
I must admit that when i first heard the possibility of an IV trip to B'lore from my classmates, i thought it was just another of those quixotic notions they had launched in their minds-and were now trying to implant the same in everyone else too!
It is interesting really,how the mind develops its own impermeable shield of thoughts to combat something that is unsettled for. I remember quite lucidly, how constantly my classmates fretted over college life(including myself). Eventually it dawned upon the seemingly defeated minds, that this was something to be dealt with, and ergo, spawned a distinct utopian character in all of us.
Well anyway, when whimsical minds finally(and rather, reluctantly), gave way to "realisation", the euphoria gradually began to sink in. I should perhaps mention here, that almost at the same time, we had formed a class group on the net, where we could post our messages and comments.
The fever caught on soon enough....
....... there was an influx of messages, both on the net as well as those exchanged in the classroom, each inflicted with excitement or zealous cries, as though it hurt to believe that this could actually be true!
......a yen to merge our imaginary world and reality, and anxiety punctuated ,by exclamations......
.......and finally, things took shape...we were no longer on terra firma anymore....
.........
DAY 1 (thursday) : The train journey
I am known in my class most prominently for two things:
1)my mimmicking skills-specialisation:class guys during mid-sem/model examinations and the different protean approaches they implement to copy/cheat, or to put it more colloquially, 'bit adachafy'.
2)my squeaky voice-the boys in my class can now actually modulate their voice to match my dulcet tones.
The last insult i faced in the class chat room went some thing like this:
sheikieonline: she's good at imitating machaan (machaan is a tamil slang which is typically , equivalent to the british "pal")
itssrk:yeah, Aishwarya, you should imitate a mouse
cool_kiss:she can't imitate a mouse
.......
Well, to be honest, i hadn't expected to be the triggering agent for all the fun and excitement that was yet to come in. Yeah, i did quite of a show of my mimicry, (earning heaps of laughter), trying to get back at them in the process, for all the squeakiness that could be punctured out of their vocal chords!!
.......
1.00 a.m. : on a massive hunt for FOOD-barbaric streak identified
2:00-2:30 a.m.:trying, but with failed attempts to catch up on some sleep. A "dose" from the teacher, is the last thing that registers in the morons' minds.
3:30a.m.:Which nutter thinks tickling peoples' feet is a fine way of waking people up?(or perhaps their idea of a joke huh?)
YUVARANI!!!!....PURLEEZE!!!!!!
Oh well, the damage is done- i get up, climp my way down, only to find half a dozen wide-eyed monsters looking up at me. The jerks won't sleep, and won't let me sleep either.
DAY 2 (Friday) :The visit to ISRO
On a more serious note, i must mention, the visit to ISRO was perhaps one of the most educational, enlightening, and intellectually stimulating trips i have ever made. The scientific lab was characteristically olympian-at its far end stood, carrying on its own, an imposing, majestic look-the crowning glory-the heaviest Indian satellite in its entirity...ready to search the vast expanse of space that is a world beyond us.........
.......
I have constantly imagined and laboured under my own self-defined delusions, about how space organisations must look like, or more so, how it must feel like to actually work in them. Of course, being hermetically sealed, i might not as much as gain access to any such kind of research institute, forget working in them-and yet, the place just sucks u in....
.......
What hit me straight home after we walked our way out was that i had to do sumthing BIG in my life. Yes, the thought was possibly rooted in my subconscious somewhere, but it was the first time i had plucked it out and made any obsevation whatsoever - realisation and evaluation of a "newly-found" thought.
6:00 p.m.
Shopping .................and women ....always go together. Inseparable, so men say(with a distinct resonating tone of irritation). Aaaw well, we agree with u!
.......
Sujatha, Kausalya, Shalini and I branched away from the others and ventured out into commercial street.
........
Bangalore offers variety, agreed, but the prices are exhorbitant!!!-thankfully, i had found my own devious means of extracting enough money from my "miserly-to-the-highest-order" grandfather.
I didn't buy anything as such on that particular day-preferred 'taking in' whatever B'lore had to offer me.
I must deliberate at this point, that i have been constantly fed the notion that B'lore is the most happening and rocking place in South India.I do not think so. B'lore lacks substance-a homely touch that i can associate Chennai almost instantly with.
........
time: 9:30 p.m.
place:Trishla Residency, Room 302
anything unusual heard/sighted?: screams, occasionally interjected by squeaks, random(SCARY) outbursts of laughter, frequented by uncharacteristic noises such as dismantling of tables, all apparently eminating from the room.
:SPELL P-A-N-D-E-M-O-N-I-U-M
.........
DAY 3(Saturday): the visit to Sivasamudram
The journey to Sivasaumdram is 4 hours approx. from Trishla. i slept for 3 hours and 45 minutes of the journey.
.........
Sivasamudram breeds a hydro-electric power plant -as i say this, i am instantly reminded of how my classmates tried to argue with our HOD that this visit was not purely electrical and overlapped with our branch of study as well(ECE) (for otherwise, the trip would have had to have been cut short by a day). I have a faint suspicion that she saw throught it anyway, but preferred to let us have it our way.....
.........
As an industrial visit, Sivasamudram was an impressive choice-it was one of those 'unusual' trips where we actually knew 'something' (quantization of 'something' is of no interest here) related to the visit. Atleast we could pick out words from the tour guide's(?) speech which we've HEARD BEFORE, ergo, not feeling wholly left out.
I will however, remember Sivasamudram most, for its waterfalls and the breathtaking view it offers. Quite easily, the screeen saver image of any desktop.
To put it all in one phrase, "any nature lover's paradise"
..........
DAY 4(Sunday): FUN WORLD
The trip to FUN WORLD was born out of a fiasco of sorts. The inital 'sightseeing plan' was called off(almost abruptly). Instead, there rose essentially two schools of thought voicing their opinion as to how the remainder of the day was to be spent.
GIRLS(atleast most of them) :We want SHOPPING! We want SHOPPING!
BOYS(atleast most of them) :We want FUN WORLD!We want FUN WORLD!
Finally, Malathi(the teacher accompanying us),made everyone suddenly notice that she was still around and said : We're ALL going to FUN WORLD!
i must say, the trip to FUN WORLD and WATER WORLD will be one that will remain etched in my mind forever-WE HAD A BLAST TOGETHER, and that's saying the least!!!
........
6:00 p.m. -on a shopping spree!
i finally managed to buy myself a pair of slippers, sunglasses, and earrings...something i have never been able to do without my mother's aid(the decision maker).
p.s.: raining in B'lore at this moment
........
9:00 p.m.
dined out with a group of friends at Woody's
11:30 p.m.
dance party(?!!??!!!!!)
..........
DAY 5: THE VISIT TO ELECTRONIC CITY, ANNIYAN AND THE JOURNEY BACK HOME
I cannot comment on the visit to Electronic City, as i was sick most of the time. One of the highlights of the day however, was that i watched the movie Anniyan (on an offnote:perhaps one of the best climax scenes in recent times) although for a brief period of time, the thrill in the movie was lost, when we learnt our results had come out.......
The journey back home was uncharacteristically saturnine, some still not recovered from their result marksheets, others(i presume most of them) wondering, if we would ever get a chance to go together again, relive those moments..the best moments of our lives..........
I was studying for my GRE when I wrote this article. I wasn't trying to show off, just having some fun and playing around with words. In retrospect, I know for sure that I will not remember half the words I used here!
Having received a plethora of requests commonly voicing an interest that i must start making my entries go public, i decided to give it a shot-and what better way, but to write my first entry on the B'lore trip we went to recently.
I must admit that when i first heard the possibility of an IV trip to B'lore from my classmates, i thought it was just another of those quixotic notions they had launched in their minds-and were now trying to implant the same in everyone else too!
It is interesting really,how the mind develops its own impermeable shield of thoughts to combat something that is unsettled for. I remember quite lucidly, how constantly my classmates fretted over college life(including myself). Eventually it dawned upon the seemingly defeated minds, that this was something to be dealt with, and ergo, spawned a distinct utopian character in all of us.
Well anyway, when whimsical minds finally(and rather, reluctantly), gave way to "realisation", the euphoria gradually began to sink in. I should perhaps mention here, that almost at the same time, we had formed a class group on the net, where we could post our messages and comments.
The fever caught on soon enough....
....... there was an influx of messages, both on the net as well as those exchanged in the classroom, each inflicted with excitement or zealous cries, as though it hurt to believe that this could actually be true!
......a yen to merge our imaginary world and reality, and anxiety punctuated ,by exclamations......
.......and finally, things took shape...we were no longer on terra firma anymore....
.........
DAY 1 (thursday) : The train journey
I am known in my class most prominently for two things:
1)my mimmicking skills-specialisation:class guys during mid-sem/model examinations and the different protean approaches they implement to copy/cheat, or to put it more colloquially, 'bit adachafy'.
2)my squeaky voice-the boys in my class can now actually modulate their voice to match my dulcet tones.
The last insult i faced in the class chat room went some thing like this:
sheikieonline: she's good at imitating machaan (machaan is a tamil slang which is typically , equivalent to the british "pal")
itssrk:yeah, Aishwarya, you should imitate a mouse
cool_kiss:she can't imitate a mouse
.......
Well, to be honest, i hadn't expected to be the triggering agent for all the fun and excitement that was yet to come in. Yeah, i did quite of a show of my mimicry, (earning heaps of laughter), trying to get back at them in the process, for all the squeakiness that could be punctured out of their vocal chords!!
.......
1.00 a.m. : on a massive hunt for FOOD-barbaric streak identified
2:00-2:30 a.m.:trying, but with failed attempts to catch up on some sleep. A "dose" from the teacher, is the last thing that registers in the morons' minds.
3:30a.m.:Which nutter thinks tickling peoples' feet is a fine way of waking people up?(or perhaps their idea of a joke huh?)
YUVARANI!!!!....PURLEEZE!!!!!!
Oh well, the damage is done- i get up, climp my way down, only to find half a dozen wide-eyed monsters looking up at me. The jerks won't sleep, and won't let me sleep either.
DAY 2 (Friday) :The visit to ISRO
On a more serious note, i must mention, the visit to ISRO was perhaps one of the most educational, enlightening, and intellectually stimulating trips i have ever made. The scientific lab was characteristically olympian-at its far end stood, carrying on its own, an imposing, majestic look-the crowning glory-the heaviest Indian satellite in its entirity...ready to search the vast expanse of space that is a world beyond us.........
.......
I have constantly imagined and laboured under my own self-defined delusions, about how space organisations must look like, or more so, how it must feel like to actually work in them. Of course, being hermetically sealed, i might not as much as gain access to any such kind of research institute, forget working in them-and yet, the place just sucks u in....
.......
What hit me straight home after we walked our way out was that i had to do sumthing BIG in my life. Yes, the thought was possibly rooted in my subconscious somewhere, but it was the first time i had plucked it out and made any obsevation whatsoever - realisation and evaluation of a "newly-found" thought.
6:00 p.m.
Shopping .................and women ....always go together. Inseparable, so men say(with a distinct resonating tone of irritation). Aaaw well, we agree with u!
.......
Sujatha, Kausalya, Shalini and I branched away from the others and ventured out into commercial street.
........
Bangalore offers variety, agreed, but the prices are exhorbitant!!!-thankfully, i had found my own devious means of extracting enough money from my "miserly-to-the-highest-order" grandfather.
I didn't buy anything as such on that particular day-preferred 'taking in' whatever B'lore had to offer me.
I must deliberate at this point, that i have been constantly fed the notion that B'lore is the most happening and rocking place in South India.I do not think so. B'lore lacks substance-a homely touch that i can associate Chennai almost instantly with.
........
time: 9:30 p.m.
place:Trishla Residency, Room 302
anything unusual heard/sighted?: screams, occasionally interjected by squeaks, random(SCARY) outbursts of laughter, frequented by uncharacteristic noises such as dismantling of tables, all apparently eminating from the room.
:SPELL P-A-N-D-E-M-O-N-I-U-M
.........
DAY 3(Saturday): the visit to Sivasamudram
The journey to Sivasaumdram is 4 hours approx. from Trishla. i slept for 3 hours and 45 minutes of the journey.
.........
Sivasamudram breeds a hydro-electric power plant -as i say this, i am instantly reminded of how my classmates tried to argue with our HOD that this visit was not purely electrical and overlapped with our branch of study as well(ECE) (for otherwise, the trip would have had to have been cut short by a day). I have a faint suspicion that she saw throught it anyway, but preferred to let us have it our way.....
.........
As an industrial visit, Sivasamudram was an impressive choice-it was one of those 'unusual' trips where we actually knew 'something' (quantization of 'something' is of no interest here) related to the visit. Atleast we could pick out words from the tour guide's(?) speech which we've HEARD BEFORE, ergo, not feeling wholly left out.
I will however, remember Sivasamudram most, for its waterfalls and the breathtaking view it offers. Quite easily, the screeen saver image of any desktop.
To put it all in one phrase, "any nature lover's paradise"
..........
DAY 4(Sunday): FUN WORLD
The trip to FUN WORLD was born out of a fiasco of sorts. The inital 'sightseeing plan' was called off(almost abruptly). Instead, there rose essentially two schools of thought voicing their opinion as to how the remainder of the day was to be spent.
GIRLS(atleast most of them) :We want SHOPPING! We want SHOPPING!
BOYS(atleast most of them) :We want FUN WORLD!We want FUN WORLD!
Finally, Malathi(the teacher accompanying us),made everyone suddenly notice that she was still around and said : We're ALL going to FUN WORLD!
i must say, the trip to FUN WORLD and WATER WORLD will be one that will remain etched in my mind forever-WE HAD A BLAST TOGETHER, and that's saying the least!!!
........
6:00 p.m. -on a shopping spree!
i finally managed to buy myself a pair of slippers, sunglasses, and earrings...something i have never been able to do without my mother's aid(the decision maker).
p.s.: raining in B'lore at this moment
........
9:00 p.m.
dined out with a group of friends at Woody's
11:30 p.m.
dance party(?!!??!!!!!)
..........
DAY 5: THE VISIT TO ELECTRONIC CITY, ANNIYAN AND THE JOURNEY BACK HOME
I cannot comment on the visit to Electronic City, as i was sick most of the time. One of the highlights of the day however, was that i watched the movie Anniyan (on an offnote:perhaps one of the best climax scenes in recent times) although for a brief period of time, the thrill in the movie was lost, when we learnt our results had come out.......
The journey back home was uncharacteristically saturnine, some still not recovered from their result marksheets, others(i presume most of them) wondering, if we would ever get a chance to go together again, relive those moments..the best moments of our lives..........
Comments
this is sujatha...Guess you'll have to change ur settings coz it allows only bloggers to comment..anyways, it was really nice reading ur blog..Hats off to ur vocabulary...too good:-)Reminded of all teh fun that we had together...Never got bored even for a sec...wish we cud go together again to some other place like this..and i absolutely agree with what u'd written about banglore..The life style there is pretty different..anyways, nothing like chennai!!! Home sweet home :-)
and do keep writing...:-)Ur too good!!
reva here. u have carefully woven every colourful moment into a ravishing garland. The blog surely brings back the memories of the ephimeral pleasures and joy that v had at b'lore. please continue to pen(or rather key in ) ur experiences
it was gr8 reading ur blog..
i got reminded of the entire trip.. and the fun we had at water world... and how u embaressed me... it was the worst!
neways keep writing..ur vocabulary is too good for me to catch up...
sorry ...
Your choice of words has left me astounded! I didnt know that I was studying with a literary giant like you! (I dont think u need that vocabulary book to prepare for GRE!) I am eagerly looking forward to reading more of your blogs...
Great going... Keep writing
Arthi
-charan
splendid job!
the presentation is sure "glossy".
good use of epithets...etc etc.
the article works as a wonderful "rewind" button of those
relishable moments in bangalore.
"ELYSIUM WORLD"--the best suitable name for ur blog.
iam not that good in describing stuffs....
so i end up here saying that the article is simply superb...
HATS OFF TO U
great going...
cheers ,
kausalya.
this is sandy....firstly i'll tell u you've made the right move by creating a blog....Your vocab is too good and uve been a little too modest by saying that ure vocab is constrained!!!! This write up was a little too long. I'm not sure if i can tell u this cos im a beginner myself, but the article kinda slowed down a bit inbetween and the choice of words was of a very high level. A layman mite not be able to relate as well to it as any other person who has a strong knowledge of the language. But however a great job and do continue writing...all the best!
u did a good job!! u have a good
vocabulary power... keep it up!!!
all this kind of trip will happen rarely in the life time.. and its nice to recollect things through ur writtings...
yuva
k cya...n keep up the good work..
only you can make a mundane trip to b'lore sound like a trip to the bahamas...anyway im pretty sure u guys had a blast...
continue leaving us spellbound...u seem to be doin a pretty gud job.
thanx so much for FINALLY posting ur comments.U r one person whose comments i really value a lot(believe it or not!) since well, how much ever i may teast u(for the others out here, more on Uths in my upcoming entries!), i respect u much more than that!
Gee, for one fraction of a second, u did make me feel like "I AM THE BEST"!!
If my entries do have the magic of "memory refreshment",then, i am sincerely honoured!!
Thanks so much for passing by!..Do keep visiting!
thanx for those flowery comments-u should start thinking of creating a blog for urself!
Krupa,
hahaha..yeah, but i wouldn't want to let my first time visitors know the "inside story" .....u get my drift!!!
Arthi,
Ur comments were truly motivating... ("literary giant??!!"..boy..was bowled over by that one!)
Charan,
thanks for dropping in to post ur comments. Will try for the sake of ur sanity, to post "enlightening and thought provoking entries"..although that's expecting a little 2 much from me!!
Kausi,
Thank u for all the praises u showered on me-really, u make it sound ten times cooler than it actually is!!...
Sandhya,
Have taken note of ur critical comments(p.s...thank u for dropping by!)..hopefully, my next entry will be much more comprehensible!
Sidd,
I really didn't expect u to pop up-it came as such a pleasant surprise!...thank u so much-seems like u were the only 1 who noted the humourous undertone in the article(or more like, we share the same wavelength of humour or sumthing!!!)
Alok,
Yet another person i didn't think would come here....thank u so much !...i never expected to create the impact i did(or atleast, in the way u put it!!).
To have comments like that from ur end(since ur one of the best critics i have around here), is really very encouraging!!
Keep visiting guys!
watever i wrote in my last entry was frm my heart.glad that u liked it.i too enjoy it zob(the zenith ...) every time u try to tease me.guess that's how our friendship started right frm sem 1.....k do let me know when ur done with ur preps for ur next entry.bye 4 now.
this is nadeem. its an honour to me to be on ur blog. i got to refresh my memories regarding teachers. after reading the trip to bang i feel like i hav not missed the trip. i felt like being with u the whole trip. good work buddy. keep writing.
with lots of luv,
Nadeem