Our Final Days

hey frnds its the same day of the year.....finally its here...this 1 year took years to pass away
... specially considering the last 4 years of our life which still seems like a short dream..which came to our eyes....gave us so many sweet and unforgettable memories...and went away wid a blink...not that m writing all this to revive those memories...i just cant do that...coz m still not out of those special times....and it still seems like everything is same....and next morning i will have to get up...see my watch and curse those coll authorities for these early timings of classes and bunk it again. But those images r still etched in my mind which i never ever thought i will be a part of ... times which i wanna go back to again and again......may be have this small desire of even changing them or may be stopping the time thr itself so that we never had to be a part of them ever...but unfortunately its they say is a part of life ........ We all have to bear this pain of separation...just writing this piece to rem all of u special ppl who r an indispensable part of my life now.....

12th of may 08

well the first time this feeling hit me wen it was time for pooja to leave us forever for her home on 12th may...whole day it was quite normal for us....but u realize it wen u go thru it...that slight tint of even looking at the smallest of things around u....just coz u wont ever be able to see them or be wid them ..bring loads of different emotions in u at the same time ........we really felt it wen in the evening as usual we went to our fav raba bhai(even visits to his shop were counted now)
...... saw nirmal thr...just too lost in himself and not uttering a word even...we knew y he was like that...and tried to cheer him up in our own ways....but it wasnt that easy considering the pain of ur close 1s leavign u forver... nothing can take their place ever .....he had many things to say to ppl who r leaving....and we never wanted him to live all his life wid a guilt that he kept things
inside him forever and never took them out...we were glad he finally did .. watever way it turned out to be...but the amount of tears that came out of his eyes after she left told everything.....we all were thr at the station to drop her...she had tears in her eyes every now and then
.... and wid it i got the feel of how it gonna be wen i willl actually leave all dese ppl who r everything for me now...she was trying to smile in dese circumstances too but tears just restricted them....finally her train came and she left us all ..... and we kept looking at her till we lost the sight of train.

Nirmal was again back to his norm after shedding loads of tears but was quiet again...it was more than 11:30 already.and all the attention now shifted to abhinav's bthday....we all decided to go to ccd to celebrate it...and thru it may be relax a bit after so much of unprecendented circumstances....we sat thr outside the ccd....brought cake for him...and celebrated his last bthday wid us together....then till late night every1 was just reviving those old memories of how we came to coll and whr and how we met each other for the 1st time...we stayed thr and kept toking for long...and then came back wid 1 person not thr wid us...and slowly but
surely we gonna lose every1 in a span of 2-3 days.

13th of may 08

it was a new day...may be the last morning in hostel for few of us....we all decided to cut abhinav's bthday cake in mayfair....we all went thr and brought a yummy cake for him
.... probably he was the luckiest among us to have got this opportunity to celebrate his bthday wid all of us .. probably for the last time coz we never know whr this tide of luck will take all of us....in all this celebration we got the surprise of our lives wen tyagi gifted us wid the symbol of our 4 years of frndship and special relationship ...covering it all in a sweet video featuring all our special moments wid her special comments on them..we saw that video together .... and those 5 mins were a mix of several emotions...we laughed together...cracked jokes on each other
seeing some slides....and at tyms got very emotional too wid the way some slide touched us.At the end of those 5 mins every1 was quiet for sometime.....as we made a long journey of 4 years in that 5 mins video made by tyagi ..some of us were smiling...some had tears in their eyes...for me it was like time has to be stopped here coz it wont ever come back.
thanx to tyagi who didnt sleep whole night to make this thing possible and she let us see our own life in this coll for 4 years through her eyes.

it was time for richa to go...the koolest 1 of us .... but in these tyms even the most stable 1 r hit on a major scale.....and even she was no exception...she had her train in the
morning itself.....and considering the long list of frnds she made here........every1 just lined up at the station...to bid gudbye to this bindaas gal who has smiled always and made others smile.....but this day it was a different scenario altogether...that unique smile and voice of her was missing and a tinge of tension covered her face....and so was on the faces of every1
who were thr to give her a last hug which gonna stay wid her forever....she met every1...specially sandy who left his date wid a gal to rush to station to meet her and he did everything so fast that in a blink he was gone too..then she toked to every1 and was quiet
bubly till then as she always is....but the moment train arrived....its really very difficult in words to describe her ... it all changed....and she was crying like hell....she refused to go inside even though the signal was made...train finally left but not her tears and she held her body and hands outside the gate....and kept waving at us.......at this particualr moment for the first
time in 4 years i saw 1 guy broke down and lost his kool and started running towards to the train in a desperate attempt to either stop the train or not let richa go or may be not let the sight of her go away frm his yes...never seen karan break down like that..kannu kept waving at her till we lost sight of her and even richa did so till the very last moment...

we didnt get much tym to get over this ... as we had to rush down to hostel as jadu was leaving in 2 hrs...some of us went to have lunch and me ,jadu and nirmal went back to hostel to get jadu's luggage....nirmal all the way kept repeating abt the things of last nite....we came back to station which had become our new home till then...jadu was as kool as ever...though too subdued by his own standards .... obviously the situation has taken its toll on every1...we were joking around while waiting for his train to come...got so many stills too ... after some time train arived....we all went inside to his seat and sat thr....for the last time we all started singing for jadu ..... and typical jadu song it was....yaa u guessed it right....." SUTTA NAA MILAA" .....time to bid gudbyee to him as his train was abt to leave....every1 hugged him and said last few words to him .... wid tyagi making the situation light by telling him to get a "deo"....in the blink of a second we lost 1 more of our frnds .... for a long long time....knowing things wont be same ever again.

we all returned back...to our hostel..had to write many cds...containing all the pics of our special moments in last 4 years..after some time it was abhinav's turn to leave as his car was waiting outside...my rumy for 4 years...i was gonna feel more coz he was the part of everything we saw and faced in coll...going back to rum and seeing 1 empty bed was enuf to tell me that
its was all coming to an end....his car was waiting outside the allahadbad bank's atm...last rituals had to be made...and this time he lost his self control too...loads of tears flowing out under his specs and all of us trying to comfort him thru our hugs...he got inside the car .. waved at us at the last moment....and just 10 mins after he left....we all at the same moment got a very touchy msg frm him in our cells....that made us feel that though he has left....but all those memories wont.

Shaam me it was moti who had to leave us....this 1 gal who starts shedding tears in the slightest of tensions.....had been crying non stop for last 3 days seeing her closest frnds leave her 1 by 1.....really gave a big shock to all of us left there by not shedding even a bit of tear....may be till then she had her eyes so dried up that she wanted to leave on a good note...with that
ever smiling face of her.....and may be we rem her wid that smile only.

14th of may 08


it was all for the day...most of us has left us...came to my rum finally wid a heavy heart.....my both rumies had left .... it was silence all around...felt hollow from inside...it was my last night thr...had to leave this place tomm morning early at 5 o clock...the same place whr i have had all the fun and masti for last 3 years...now felt like a calm and a haunted 1 whose dead silence was killing me....in the evening only i told tyagi to meet me anyhow ... though i knew it will be really difficult for her to come down....considering the xtra rules that these hostel ppl put on them.i packed everything and tried to go to sleep .....cudnt switch off the light or i was sure i wont be able to sleep....i was loaded will hell lot of thoughts ... wat life will be without these very ppl wid whom i have shared erything....till 3 i barely had had any sleep...got up at 4 somehow...called every1 to wake them up...wanted every1 to be thr .... was shocked to see tyagi calling herself...and later got to know she didnt sleep whole nite just to keep her words and meet me in the morning...finally every1 came up....i left rum and gave a final glance to this special place...looked at everything for the last time and said gudbyee to them.........i first went to girls hostel...was sad that she wont be able to come to station...but somehow she managed to come down thr to the gate...saw her and cudnt control myself..though she kept saying not to cry...wont ever forget that final hug thru those door grills...bid gudbye to her and left for station .....every1s eyes were damn sleepy...was feeling bad for them as y i had taken such a early morning train...but had no choice..it was time to say my final words to every1 ... nirmal ... told him to get over all wat happened ...... sandy....told him wid whom i will play tt and cricket .... kannu...told him wid whom i will have all the fun time in class....finally had to get up on train..cudnt let them go out of my sight...but finally they did....but still kept standing alone on the gate for a long time....thinking whom i will miss the most....and the ans that came fom within was each of u ... but the moment i sat down...got a call frm tyagi...and i was bak to normal again !!!

15th of may 08


At home i was in constant touch wid every1...next day it was tyagi's turned to leave...and after knowing wat happened at that time really made me feel for her ... she was just not ready to go inside the airport and kept crying.....she was the 1 who came all the way frm delhi to study in bbsr which is just too far away frm her place...this place which was so alien to her became so special at the end of 4 years that she just refused to leave ... her soul was still thr and she gave everything in her to that special video that she made....still rem wen i met her in delhi and saw the video in her car again...and she still had her eyes soken....she went inside the plane and sill kept crying very badly that ppl around her even noticed it...she was going far
frm us distancewise.....but the attacement inside our hearts will always be thr....In the night nirmal and nikhil had to leave....i cud easily understand wat must they be going through...seeing each one of us leaving in front of their eyes...they had just sandy wid them to see them off to station...sandy still staying thr for some obvious reasons .... i toked to them and both nirmal and nikhil sounded very low...told them that we all will meet in the future soon...... sandy was obviously too tensed abt being alone thr....but even he was trying his best to have smthing he loved the most ... and stayed in hostel for many days though he wasnt allowed to...At last he was the last person to say byee to our sweet hostel..


So this was the way how things went for 3 days ..... and for most of the time we found ourselves sulking in those flood of emotions which took us by storm and left us alone and totally disillusioned.But the fact is the thing which makes me happy and strengthens me is the unity and togetherness that we still have towards each other ... whichever part of country we may be in.Thnx to u people that m still alive and going strong watever problem comes in coz i know u ppl will always be thr wid me and each other...LOVE U ALL !!

Your First Song

Your first song
came as a sweet blow of wind
and took my heart away in the end
it was soothing to my ears
as while listening to it my heart shifted gears
it was like a sweet journey of life
for which I was waiting since while
it was like those mushy grains of sand
which flows everywhere on waves' command
it was like a star-studded moonlit night
when it showers on us its glowing delight
it was like a smooth foggy morning
when dew drops kisses the leaves in the spring
it was like an innocent aroma of soil after rain
which I wish to hear again, and again and again
your first song was just a punishment for you
but for me it was a lifetime dream come true
your song was a music to my ears
which I am not gonna forget for infinite years
now I wish for one thing dear
keep that sweet voice close to my ear.

Meet The" KOLKATA KNIGHT ....... (Sorry) TRAM RIDERS"

It was the most fateful day of our lives on 4th of april when names of final selected ppl where called out for WIPRO and we 4 (me ,jadu arli and suprita) made it except karan who unfortunately culdnt make it thru tech round.Since that day wipro has been so kind in showering lots of love on us by constantly nagging us wid irritating sessions,Boring project and stupid mails.Every little endeavour that wipro shows towards us to make it a part of their family just recedes us away frm this comp and we culdnt stop but curse it weneevr we are called to meet various "san" ( Sriniva"san",Gane"san" and lot many) of wipro.

This time wipro decided to suck more blood frm our veins by ordering us for medical checkup.we decided to go to kolkata as it is the nereast to our BBSR. i made more plans for myself to visit my home as it was long due since october.So packed wid my whole luggage we all gathered at the station and embarked on our abt to be a surprisingly special and memorable trip.No 1 was sure abt the plan as to what we will do there and wen we will be coming back as we didnt book our return tickets.But suprita and jaadu had everything clear in their minds and had already planned to see every nice thing of kolkata and go for a night stay too to achieve it.we reached howrah station early morning and decided to get fresh thr.i even bought 1 toothbrush on the station itself and wid suprita was on the lookout for a place whr we can clean our teeth.we found some taps right at the back of a restaurant and like true bihari style we 2 went their and brushed as fast as we can saving ourselves frm the eyes of guard of the restaurant standing thr.we had to pinpoint our at the tap coz of the funny way it was made and kind of dirty it was .

Every1 till then was ready to leave to the assigned hospital for our chkups.we got into a typical kolkata overcrowded bus to reach park street.We then get to the hospital and got started wid the process.after some initial chkup we went to submit our blood samples and i still curse that doctor who put a big injection and took out so much blood frm my body.Time for our urine samples and here deepak shaw showed his heroics.1st of all arli found him coming out of the "HER" toilet wid instant begging frm his side not to tell this fact to any1 in the coll as he did it by mistake( God knows how this self assumed shakespere in english read "HIS" instead of "HER") .Then he finally got inside "HIS" toilet and was supposed to submit his samples thr itself.but instead he took it in his hands and came out in front of all of us to ask whr he was supposed to put that bringing in all of us a pill of uncontrolable laughter.he got rebukes frm the nurse too for his situational comedy.Meanwhile jaadu and ishaan who forgot to bring their pics went to a studio to arrange for their pics and finally get on wid the process.So finally at 1 we were done wid our medical chk up and came out of that hospital.time for some food and then i had to leave for home too biding good bye to jaadu suprita arli and all.But fate had something else in store for me as constant requests frm these 3 to stay wid them and njoy in kolkata put me in a big dilemma as wat to do.shaw on the other side was in no mood to stay but i changed my mind and decided to stay thr and have fun at kolkata rather than getting bored alone at home.

So shaw and ishaan left us and rest of us decided to go to Ac market to buy some branded stuffs at unbelievingly cheap rates.Time for us to get to metro station and get a feel of that famoues kolkata metro ride.we went to Esplanade called the heart of city.To move thru those narrow pavements full of so many stalls selling everything from a pin to clothes to electronic gadgets even at such cheap rates is a feeling in itself and doing so 1 just feels a part of the happening and crowded city .we kept roaming frm 1 end to other stopping in between to buy stuffs at many stalls specially those gals who culdnt control themselves and were ready to empty their purses by showing their bargaining talent.Till now only 5 of us were left and rest of us left for coll and jadu and suprita were quite successfull in executing their plan to perfection.meanwhile jaadu got in touch wid some of the seniors of our coll who were working for CTS now at salt lake.and at the same time suprita got in touch wid didis and they both arranged for our night stay at salt lake.So over wid this big headache of finding a place for night stay we got too relaxed and every1 got into fultoo masti mood.we again went to metro to leave for shovabazar frm whr we can get an auto for salt lake.but at the station we were stopped by the guard as i had so much luggage wid me and according to them metro was meant for light luggage only.we kept on arguing but he didnt bend even a bit from his stance and didnt let us thru.But jaadu did take our revenge wen he took a video shoot of this nautanki by those guards bringing instant fear in their eyes of getting exposed wid their stupid stuff.We simply left that place and got inside the staion frm the other side and boarded the metro to reach shovabazar. All gals specially miss suprita was over excited to fulfill her long time unfulfilled dream of getting onto a tram.and luckily for them or rather unfortunate for all of us we did find a tram thr and we all get onto it without giving a 2nd thought to it even though it was destined to same location frm where we just came.after boarding it jaadu in all this excitement paid for the last staion as the total cost was a mere Rs 4.The tram journey gave us an opportunity to see eevry nook and corner of kolkata moving thru those narrow kolkata streets in its own slow ,gentle pace.but after some time we did realize that it way too slow and and will take 45 mins to halt.After taking a U-turn we again came back to shovabazar by metro.and the credit for all this crazy act goes to none other than miss suprita jha who ensured that 1 mery-go-round trip frm 1 station to other and frm metro to tram to metro again.

Frm shovabazar we took an auto and that autowala told all 5 of us to adjust in the back seat only.we somehow adjusted wid jaadu sitting on me and his legs almost out of the auto.and the most funny thing was the way that autowala was driving...truly inspired frm famous south indian actor "rajnikant" ..following his style he was taking his auto out of any kind of gap possible on the road.evrything was going fine though till that autowala crossed an aunty so closely that jaadu's legs struck her and she fall down.aunty in all her furry started hurling all possible bengali gaalis on jadu and we somehow escaped thanx to that rajnikant style driving of autowala.

Finally we reached salt lake safely and this place totally seem too different frm kolkata wid so less trafic,lots of peace,no rush of crowed and beautiful buildings towering over our head.We went to the most happening place of salt lake whr all the it employess rush to have some fresh air after some tiring day at office.jaadu who was looking for KFC whole day finally got 1 here and we all went thr to have some much needed food.suprita meanwhile met her our seniors and then we all went to meet them at CCD.they all were soo happy to see their juniors who came to meet them and some even got senti remembering their college days memories.Frm their talks it was quite clear that they still are ao much attached to coll and they havent totally settled down to the demands of IT industry.frm thr bhaiya took all of us to 1 of the best restaurants which was supposedly saurav ganguli's one and ordered so much food for us.they were treating us as their own family and being wid them was so full of fun.Time for us to leave and have some rest.suprita,arli and nivi went wid didis and me and jadu came to bhaiya's place.in their flat we met all the other bhaiyas and each one of them were so kool that every moment spent in their flat was fun.Chayan bhaiya started rememebring their college stories and those were so intresting that he went on and on till 3 and still we didnt wanted to sleep.we finally went to bed as next day was planned for Aquatica and we had to get up early.

Next day all the bhaiyas agreed to go to aquatica wid us as they never went thr in their 4 months stay at this place.all the gals joined us at technopolis and frm thr we went to Aquatica.This was 2nd visit to a water park in less than a month for me and jaadu and we didnt wanted to miss any fun.all bhaiya and didi were also seem to be njoying a lot in our company and we never felt as being seniors or juniors.We spent a lot of time in the waves of bath bed and every1 wished to touch the wall at the end of bed.Jadu helped arli reach thr as it was so difficult to get thr coz of the water level which was more than her height.after that it was time to njoy other rides and we really missed those 60 and 90 degree rides of water kingdom in mumbai.But here also Nirmal made his presence felt as we took his exapmle to inspire girls to go for all the dificult rides as then they would be able to tease him on his inability to go for those kinda rides.The most funniest 1 was the dark amazon where nothing was visible inside and jaadu held arli's hand and went alongwith her inside it.and everytime they came out of it ,their expression on the face said it all that they njoyed it to the core.Nivi who was constantly fighting wid cough and cold and a sore throat ignored everything and njoyed all the rides just on 1 mention of nirmal's xample.We all had a nice time thr and after 1 Grp pic of all of us we left aquatica and came to Bowling centre.each 1 of us being a 1st timer to bowling were so much excited abt playing this game.Each one of us had a go at this and me and jadu got a fair amount of success too.But 1 person who really did SUCK in this game was suprita jha who was not even able to make the bowl reach the strike as she hit the floor too hard wid the bowl that it stopped thr itself and all of us cant help but laugh at her soooo much. Even arli and nivi did far better than her.After completion of the game it was time to plan for our return as we culdnt decide whether to leave next day or that nite itself .this confusion was thr just coz of the fact that gals stay st didi'd place was not taken too well by her landlady and in the moring she did said many thing to lodge her disapproval.But didis being grown up under the harsh treatment of Sukanti in the 4 years of coll life were kool abt it ans they asured us that they will anyhow handle it.So finally we decided to extend our stay for the night and leave the next morning.All the gals left and me ,jadu and all those bhaiyas went to have our dinner.Their also we had some great food and some nice moments wid them.They again had some nice stories to share and nice words as to how much they njoyed wid us and thanked us for visiting them.Girls also had fun at di's flat as they did cooking for their sweet juniors.Next day we had to get up early morning at 5 as our train was at 7:30.it was so nice to see that they sacrificed their sunday sleep for us and came to drop us at the stand and all these little getures shown by them really made a special place in our hearts and we wont ever be able to forget those 2 days spent wid these bhaiya and di.My experience wid Kolkata has never been such a good 1 as all previous viits were marred wid some really some bad moments ...but this 1 trip was truly special as we 5 wiproites had time of our lives spending time together and wid those seniors.