Wednesday, November 15, 2006

So what do i miss????

This is a question that i asked myself after i landed in the UK... When i thought about it for a while my mind returned with astonishing amount of 'MISSING' list....

Family is obviously the first thing.... (although sometimes u feel like missing ur friends more than ur family....that's the magic of friendship...) But yes, mom and dad r d ones u miss d most... b'coz they r ur source of genes.... ur blood.... ur everything..... personally i miss d bashes i get from my mom when i sit in front of d TV for a long time... nowadays my mom askes me to get a TV for myself if i feel bored here.... what a change??? ofcourse not doing a single job in home... no cooking, no washing, no cleaning.... I can realise that when i' on my own here....

Friends..... here comes the BIG miss list... Whenever i think of this thr is a sudden empty feeling that surrounds me... I had a huge gang of friends around me..... Terribly miss them.... It was like strings of a guitar... everybody were very different from one another yet the best of friends..... The other day when i was in London with my new set of friends, i thought how good it would have been if i had my VIT gang wit me.... I was almost in tears thinking abt it....

The no of fights i had with my best friend Abi (nayyy... hez actually my best enemy), the no of times me and abi tortured jeeva (karuvaya, kyana kirukk r d 2 decent words we used with him.. rest is censored), the no of time jeeva use d word F_ _ K, the no of times i bashed chinni, the no of bike rides i had with ash in my bike and abi, jeeva, prabhu and Dr in their bikes, the no of presentations that i did with raju, the no of times i asked kaivu to give me a smile , the no of time i called anshu as bokka, the no of times i was called 'ennada kanna' by pravs, the no of times i listened to kani speak (she'll speak some crap but still u'll never get bored), the no of times i teased sindhu, the no of times me and thee cried for fun (actually adu oppari...), the no of times i roasted kadalai with bhuvs, the no of times we listened to satish talk, the no of times we imitated rock's tamil (ennada pannudu), most importantly the no of times madhu teased me... (ni pant podarathuku ore karanam thaan),the no of times me, gokul and jeeva discussed virtually everything in the same of group study,and of course the no of times i spoke with Indu.....

and of course people who know me will never forget 'YES SIR' .....

Miss my college terribly(Sharp contrast to the way we used to curse the coll when we were there).. i was in the best college and the best department... (VIT, BIOTECH), KJ's golden words (what d fuck is happening in this dept), arnold sir stuggling in our classes, Sethu-the perfect teacher, one dumb headed A_ _ H_ _ _ _ called anand samuel, library...err...lovers park, food court..err...another lovers park, canteen (place whr most of d friendships and loves start and end), a comedy called assignments, an even better comedy called exams, passing chits across d class in the first year, when technology improved chits were replaced by sms's (the best part is that when the class gets overboring sms is sent to the person sitting next to u), the long walks around the campus with a girl next to u (nw that's one thing that i really miss here)...... thr is everything about VIT that i miss......

Yercaud and the training is one unforgettable one but that will take another post..... it has that much..... madhu, jeeva, sindhu, abi, satish will accept my point...

Chennai is another place that i miss like anything..... that again is with another post b'coz that simply is chennai... if i write along with this u guys will get over bored....

A single drop of tear from my eyes that dropped into Thames river is a clear testimonial of how i miss my friends, my coll and my family......

Monday, November 13, 2006

Life in the United Kingdom

Since i landed in the united kingdom, the most frequent question i encounter is this, How is life there??? well... nothing much of a difference.. i'm still 6 ft... 68kgs... legs on ground.... talking thro mouth... seeing thro eyes.... hearing thro ears.... nothing has changed... no worries... i'm still alive...

But lifestyle????? May be thr's a difference... The only considerable difference here is the cost of living.. its pretty....eh nope... very costly... just imagine getting one kg of rice for 100 bucks in india.... poof.... its a reality here.... i get to travel a whole day in brighton by bus for 300 bucks... I love u india...

But... what surprised me here r d people here.... thr is just no hurry here (atleast it loks like..)... the other day i was travelling by bus at 4 am when d bus stopped for a traffic signal... the best part is except the bus not a single vehicle was nearby.... still the bus waited till d signal to turn green and then proceeded.... no hurries... that was a pleasent change from a relatively hurry burry india....

People always seems to have a smile on their face... When u abt to enter a place thro a door and thr is another person coming from inside, he/she would be holding the door open until u enter... that too wit a smile... they r all easily approchable for help....

the best part here is my studies.... no pressure... except for something called plagarism... (right opposite to Indian system whr ctrl c and ctrl v r the favorite comands while doing assignments..) its more abt thinking than just memorising..... open book tests r coomon place .. but nt for every subject.... still its better.... thr just too much time to do self study.... dont ask me if i'm doing that... having 13 hrs of classes every week is a far cry from 40 hrs of classes i had in my undergrad days... But still i bunk a few classes in those 13 hrs.. he he... somethings in life never changes.... like sleeping, bunking, flirting etc.....

well that's abt the life here.... thr r a few things i still ponder abt.. one such thing is i always wonder how girls over here can wear skirts a good 5 inch above their knee when the temperature outside is 2 degrees.... dont ask me why my eyes look at that... after all i'm a college guy.. what else do u expect... huh....