Its one of those times in life when u feel sad and dejected about something which u can never get back again..Yup, its that time when our college life ends and suddenly we seem to be far away from the place which has almost become our second home for the last four years. Life has become a lot different in these last two months when we wake up in the morning and realise that we’re not going to CEG,not scrambling to reach class in time.
Who can ever forget the great time we had together in CEG? Coming to college after completing a hectic school life, those years were simply amazing. New friends, new things to learn, new places, treats, movies, beaches, cultural events- all of these made college life an unforgettable experience.
How can we forget our canteen? The place where you could find all students when not in class, the ‘free’ lunch which we took turns to sponsor:)? How can we forget gurunath-Our ‘second’ canteen- the place which was very useful to us, from where we bought snacks to eat in class 😛 ? and the hostels, which were very famous for being a repository of all those things we students needed( GB’s and GB’s of cinemas :P)? Whenever you wanted something, the first place you would go is not the Internet, but the hostel. We can never stop thinking about all those cricket games,especially jegan diving to catch a ball coming at a comfortable chest-height 🙂 lol , and AOE (for those who dont know, it stands for Age Of Empires) which was a craze at one point of time, the nights after a Techofes concert or a rock show when we stayed in the hostels watching ‘flop’ movies(especially the Sam Anderson Classic).
What can I say about those IV’s?..Goa and Kerala,which were more famous for some ‘incidents’ that happened rather than other things. Bun’s IV ideologies , Kant’s story about “A rowdy in T Nagar”, Madhan Raj’s famous cursing of Nari – these were unforgettable! We had a hell of a good time there!!
Finally, the classrooms and the department. Students messaging and updating each other with cricket scores and other useless rumours, when the professor was monotonously scribbling something, the attendance rule which made students do complex calculations just to make sure they can write the exams :), the labs where we had a variety of software to learn and use, but only ended up learning how to copy from the network :), the days our results came when, while some people were calculating their ‘S’ grades, others were like “Machi!! naa pass ayitten!!”.
Well, its all over now and as the saying goes “All good things must come to an end”. We had our fun, four years of it. Coming to think of it, there were times when we felt “God! How many more semesters are there?”. But when it came to the final sem we were like “Oh no, there s only one more semester left”. College has been a wonderful place. Everyday,when I go to office, I cross college, and every single time, I think of making a right turn and going inside college for one more time.Well,one thing is for certain. Wherever we go,whatever we become in life, every time we travel on Sardar Patel Road, Guindy, that famed red building will bring back happy memories of what happened in those four years. Gandhiji, Rajaji may have memorials on the opposite side, but this sprawling campus is the only thing which we will not only remember, but cherish as a memorial of all our happy times. 🙂
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July 12, 2009 at 3:45 PM
madthanu
Everybody misses college … And people like me go there when we are vetti … sad sight though, college without all you guys …
Aanalum, indhu’s scooty la kadaisi varaikkum sugar podama vanthathu thaan manasukku rombha kashtama irukku
July 12, 2009 at 3:52 PM
madthanu
great post da … lots of memories
July 12, 2009 at 4:03 PM
Srivatsan
@thanu: vidra vidra..same case with yogi :)just think like this..they werent worth a revenge..:P
July 12, 2009 at 4:04 PM
Nitin
Nice post da! Amazing life we had. Will surely miss all of it.
July 13, 2009 at 4:11 AM
sanjay
kuchi awesome post da…. thinkin of those wonderful days nd reading ur post just bought tears da…………………..
July 13, 2009 at 4:43 AM
Jegan
hostela pathi correct a eluthirukka… though we day scholers have internet at home, we are damn-to-the-core-lazy, we dont even move a muscle or mouse to start a download… but these hostel guys go to rcc, search for a proxy, simultaneously pretend as if they were searching an IEEE paper(god knows how it looks like), stick their asses on the chair for hours until download completes, come back….. and we go, nogaama nongu!!!!
July 13, 2009 at 3:33 PM
vinoth
Good one da… lot of happy moments that we had in our college came to my mind when I read ur post.
I miss class room sleep 🙂 and those AOE games we played in hostel a lot da…
July 13, 2009 at 4:19 PM
Pradep
Small yet powerful post da . One thing is certain , Evvalo peru ‘college pudikkala , college sucks , eppada mudiyumnu irunthudhu , i hate college ‘ nnu kodipidichaalum ; Anna Univ thaandi pogumbothu chatnnu oru flash namma manasula odama pogathu . Oru chinna sirippo , oru kanner thuliyo illama andha pakatha yaaralayum thaanda mudiyaathu . Padathula llam vara college maari dham adichittu kutta paavada potta ponnungaloda namma vandila suthaatiyum, namma college la adicha koothu yaaralayum marakka mudiyaathu . Aana oru farewell kooda vekka thuppilla . Enga poi muttikardhu .
July 13, 2009 at 4:23 PM
vatsa88
yeah da..I cross college everyday..Even in heavy traffic, i turn and look at the red building while i pass da..
July 14, 2009 at 4:58 AM
Sudha
very cute post 🙂 seriously man! oru vishayam inime kadayadhu, mudinju pochunadha, adhoda madippu puriyidhu!… as you said, every time i cross that huge entrance on the SProad, i stare at it say, “ah! my college”…wid one big smile! i just wish i could relive those four years! 🙂 🙂
July 14, 2009 at 7:06 AM
Vijay
Kuchi.. Touch pannita da… 🙂
Very nice post da.. Felt the same when I went there for my brother’s counselling.. All our old haunts.. Funny thing was I kept mistaking juniors for our batch people 🙂 Unna maariyae bagum green checked shirtum potutu oru junior suthitu irukan..
Maybe we should arrange our own farewell 🙂 Oru Sunday Mayajaal poi koothadika vendiyathaan!
July 14, 2009 at 2:36 PM
vatsa88
Mayajaal agreed..but this time we ll choose a better movie 😛
July 15, 2009 at 3:41 PM
Rajesh
post pathutu konjam all memories came… evlo koothu adichirukom… chumma chumma treat ….. classla prashanth ne siva sanjay lam pota mokka… ippo college pona apovum everything came to my mind…. Missing you all and the college….. and great post polachi po :p..
July 17, 2009 at 4:08 AM
vinod
9:01pmSrivatsan dei blog la comment pannu da
9:02pmVinod 20 times i have read it …
9:02pmSrivatsan ada paavi oru vattiyavadhu comment pannu da
🙂
9:02pmVinod i don’t know whtt to comment
9:04pmSrivatsan 20 times padichiya??
9:04pmVinod ya
9:04pmSrivatsan dei..enna vida nee than da neraiya vatti padichirukka
naa 15 thaan
9:04pmVinod evry time i log into facebook i go read ur blog
9:04pmSrivatsan dei..appo comment pannu da
July 17, 2009 at 6:14 AM
madhumitha
hey.. really nice blog da. very touching.. wish i could have the four years all over again..
July 18, 2009 at 9:44 PM
Sivaguru
Scene post machi….We will all surely miss college. Had a wonderful 4 years at CEG.
July 22, 2009 at 5:56 PM
Srikanteaswaran T K
Machan.. Over sentiment:p dei enniku da namba avasara patrukom class ku vara.. pathu nimsham late a vantha kuda attendance kudupanga nu gurunath poyitu thaana class ku varuvom:d inga vanthonathaan anna univ madipu theriyuthu.. rendu nimsham seekarama pona.. avala thaana nu paakranga da inga:(( mummy..:(( kadaisiya onae onu thaan.. naa romba nalavan:p btw if any of u guys can make it back to chennai during first week of jan lets meet up.. looks like thats the earliest i can get back home.. btw kuchi u left my “security feature” in web tech lab to abirami da..:p and ur own classic”my friends have already told all my points”.. u made up for it this time.. u said wat we all wanted to say..:d
July 23, 2009 at 4:42 AM
vatsa88
lol..true da:)..and btw indha ‘nallavan’ dialogue a nee vida mattiya da :P..
July 29, 2009 at 7:30 AM
Smrithi
hey unakulla ivlo peelings ah!!! we had our bestest times in coll.. will surely miss it.. btw we should have had a proper farewell 😦 no time though..