The End of Days

Good day ladies and gentlemen ,
This topic might sound a little grim. The days are coming to an end. Some are glad and and some are not. The some which are glad, are glad because it's a life coming to an end..a life which did not go as planned. The some who are not glad are the ones who are going to miss this life. Miss all it's ups and downs, happiness and sorrows, their beloved ones and people they hate. Tears come to our eyes when we think of the end of days. No, I'm not talking about the apocalypse! I'm talking about college life coming to an end. With only a few weeks remaining, there is a lot of mixed feelings.



It was as if I joined college yesterday. Four years have gone past so quickly. I still remember the first day of college. It was after a very long holiday. I didn't want to do engineering or join in this college If I decided to do engineering, but I didn't have enough marks to do MBBS(the only two choices we have after school are to do MBBS and Engineering) or join in some other college and so I was put here.

Okay, back to the first day. All the parents were called for the orientation and after the boring speeches in the indoor stadium, we were given a tour of the different department buildings in the desert. My parents never came to college after that day. Not even once. I'm in the ECE department, and the ECE department had two classes, A and B. Each had around 60 students. A lot of new faces. I saw a few familiar faces. Those who came from my school. They were put in the first floor classroom and we were put in the dungeons in the ground floor. No lighting at all.

I then went to the other class after a couple of days, where I saw some familiar faces. New numbers were added in the phone directory. There was NSS period where we played football, basketball, volleyball, table tennis, shuttlecock,..That made a few bonds.

There were girls and there were boys, both separated by an imaginary wall in class. But the wall was broken down soon enough, through physics and Chemistry labs where we were put into groups, the Internet, borrowing stationery and assignments. We started to mingle slowly. Classes were fun. There wasn't any group in particular and all were united as far as our class was concerned.

We had tests for which we prepared reading line by line. CITs they were called. Centralized Internal tests. Everyone studied really hard and got 90 and more. And then came exams which we studied equally hard for. The performance declined as time passed by. Less importance was given to studies. More importance was given to the better things in life and exams were studied for before the day of the exam and some during that excruciating period of days called the study holidays.

Results come really late for us. We are under the control of Anna University Trichy. The results for a semester come out before a month the next semester ends. And we thought we were lazy. Results are usually unexpected. In a paper we were sure of failing, we'd pass it. God Bless the bloke who corrected our paper. And in a paper we thought did really well, the result was not satisfactory. Damn the bloke who corrected my paper!

Days passed quickly and it was the second semester. The classes were shuffled and were according to the alphabetical order of our names. Many strongly objected this. But nothing could be done. The strong bonds which were formed during the first year were broken down by management; for their work to become easy.

It was not all that bad. Some beautiful friendships were made. Some were separated. Groups were formed within the class. But that's life. We were now becoming close with the people whose names were alphabetically near ours. We had the Industrial Visit. We really enjoyed this. Wait, what? Visiting an industry is fun? No. We just spent half an hour of our one day joy trip at the industry :P

At first we went to Kodaikanal, then it was Pollachi and finally the much awaited 3 day tour to Kerela. It was so nice to be with our classmates for three whole days visiting water theme parks, temples, restaurants, waterfalls, .. etc.

Getting back to the topic...

The days are coming to an end. Some are glad and and some are not. The some which are glad, are glad because it's a life coming to an end..a life which did not go as planned. The some who are not glad are the ones who are going to miss this life. Miss all it's ups and downs, happiness and sorrows, their beloved ones and people they hate. Tears come to our eyes when we think of the end of days. No, I'm not talking about the apocalypse! I'm talking about college life coming to an end. With only a few weeks remaining, there is a lot of mixed feelings.

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three and a half years of college have passed so quickly and the remaining few weeks are going like lighting quick. There were petty fights and misunderstandings. It's time we forget about all that. It's time to move on and treasure the memories of little events that made us happy and carry it on into the future. Memories such as sitting in class, pretending to listen to what the teacher is saying, making fun of our friends and laughing along, sharing food, playing games, playing pranks, sitting in the CIT hall for the entire time and not cross a single page, getting additional sheets and writing crap, taking photographs, ....Will these days ever come back? Sadly No. Next year everyone will be gone in their separate ways. Work is calling. Full days will be spent in front of the computer screen and there won't be time to meet our college mates. Some people will be remembered and some forgotten. We really should have reunions. I request everyone to create facebook accounts so that we can organize reunions later on and everyone gets invited. But life has to move on. As these incoherent thoughts come out of my head and onto this page, my eyelids are getting droopy and i must sleep cos i have college tomorrow. I mean today.

dedicated to all the final years students of klnce..and to other colleges as well


bye :)

P.S this post was not checked for any errors except for the spell check of course

College Food

Hi Everyone,
This post is about the food served in the college I go to KLNCE (11 km from Madurai). I couldn't find anything to write about so I asked my friend for suggestions. He listed many and food was one of them and I decided to make it about the food in the college.

I'd like to divide the food into four main categories.
1. Food from home
2. Food in the old canteen
3. Food in the new canteen
4. Food in the hostel mess

1. Food from home:
Food from home is always the best, in my opinion. You can ask your mom to make you your favorite dish and all your friends can eat it :D The only problem is you have to carry it from home :(

Before going into 2 and 3, I must tell you this. The college canteen block is big and has two sections. One is the old canteen and the other is the new canteen.
The difference between them is the paint and the furniture.
Old Canteen: Old worn-out paint and as for the furniture, it has steel benches, tables and wooden tops for them.

New Canteen: Less worn-out paint and as for the furniture, the tables have steel legs and marble tops with lots of plastic chairs scattered here and there.

2. Food in the old canteen
Food in the old canteen is not much different from the new canteen. It has almost the same menu as the new canteen. The most frequently bought meal being the parottas and dosas.
Oh and one more thing, the kadala mitta is 50 paise each here. It's less when compared to the new canteen.

3. Food in the old canteen:
menu: Dosa, parotta, pongal, thayirsadam, tea, soft drinks, ice cream...
We also have the Mushroom soup. It's just extremely-hot murky water with some oil-fried corn flakes on top and all the coarse pepper-like-substance in the world to make the soup taste not bland. Nevertheless we still buy it almost every single day. And as for the kadala mittai, it is 1 rupee for one small piece. It's ridiculous, the price and we are even more ridiculous to buy them.


NOTE: Never go to the canteen during lunch time. It's worse than those stock market places where all the stock-brokers buy/sell shares everyday. And people you have never seen in your entire life time get a piece of your food.


4. Food in the hostel Mess:
If you really want to fill your stomachs go here. Each meal costs rs. 20 and it's unlimited. That's right, unlimited meals and you don't have to worry about leaving empty stomach. There's a catch to it though. You have to walk all the way to the hostel from the main block. That is like more than 150 meters away and there are no trees in the path.
Nothing in this life worth having come without having to work for it.

But there is nothing sweeter than bring a meal from home, sitting in the temple grounds(in college ) surrounded by trees*, sharing food with your friends and taking a nap after eating.



*the only few trees in our college have been cut down to make room for the girl's hostel.

Cricket World Cup 2011

Good Day to all the Readers,

This is my first post of 2011 and it's about Cricket. That's right. India is crazy about cricket and I'm a crazy Indian. I used to watch cricket. Still do. But not as crazy about Cricket, as I was before.

But it's world cup time. I stopped being a fanatic about cricket when I found out about football. But that's a whole other topic. Lets go to cricket now.

Ok, the cricket World Cup comes every 4 years. I have noticed that every time the world cup is played, some teams get added and some get dropped. Teams like the Netherlands, US, Canada, Bahamas, Trinidad and Tobago..they come and go. I'm not exactly sure how many teams play in each world cup.

This time India is the strong favorite to bag the world cup. They are hosting it along with Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, which I recently discovered in a buzz post. So far they have won all their encounters. The first two warm up matches, one with the champions Australia and the other with the New Zealanders. The first match, against the host nation Bangladesh India made a very huge score of 370. It was no surprise and the match was very predictable. Some people are still mad at Sehwag cos he got Sachin, the God of Cricket out, even thought he made India win :P

Cricket is so popular in India that people stop doing all their work just to watch a game of cricket where India is playing. Today I went to the gym(yeah, i go the gym sometimes :D) and wondered where all the people were. In an always crowded gym where there are usually 15 people minimum, I found only 2 people including me. Then my friend came later on and told me India was playing. Now, why didn't I remember that??

Ok, so people waste their gym membership money to watch Bangladesh batting.

What is so great about cricket anyways? People pay thousands to go the stadium and watch an almost invisible ball from distance being hit by a piece of wood, and people waiting to catch it. Why can't they just watch it on TV where they can watch it close up? The atmosphere may be..to cheer on their favorites..Supporters are what makes games what they are.

Cricket I must say is more fun to play than to watch. But the fun lasts only during the batting and the bowling part. At other times, you just have to stand and stare, under the hot sun as the ball passes by you.

Coming back to the world cup....

I'm going to sleep. Keep you eyes fixed on the TV screen.(get a LED TV for the best experience)

Bye Bye..