Surreal Heroes in a Real world 😃 Part-2

We were walking back to campus  hostels.Girls and Boys.Talking.Laughing.Talking. There was never such a sighting recorded before in the history of our engg life.  if someone from outside ,who didn’t know abt us ,looked at that group, it would look like a utopian group of class mates.There was lot of boisterous talking happening. Sridhar,Ramesh Vijay ,Siva and some others were walking along with girls and they were all talking with lot of  excitement  .😃 .Never thought our class girls would talk so congenially. Everyone was so ecstatic. Me and Kishan were an exception and we were walking a few  meters ahead of them . Why we both were not with them??No idea!!..But we both were in their talk-audible-range. Ramesh was all over jumping like Pawan kalyan in Khushi and speaking merrily to the girls. Why wouldn’t he? That was his moment. That’s wat he imagined would happen when he came to this college 4 years ago  . He was enjoying so much  that he was oblivious of the fact that he was having his moment at the very end of the college life. Sreedhar surprised me. Like a guide to the new tourists, he was talking and explaining  things to them. He was very natural and he was having fun too .I am sure that in that specifc moment he forgot that he never spoke to the girls in the entire time spent in college 😃. There were Vijay,Siva too talking and also assisting Sreedhar in that walk-the-talk time 😃. As mentioned earlier, me and Kishan were walking silently listening to them. But our topic did come up in their chat. Sreedhar was asking the girls if they knew about kishan and me. I think they said something which kinda meant “yea..they are in our class..”.As Kishan became popular a few hours ago,they knew abt him and he got some attention in their discussion. My situation was like..haha…don’t ask !!!For them I was a guy from the class 😃 .Then sreedhar briefed them abt us that we were calm-silent, good-nice guys . We stopped when someone called from back and  me&kishan exchanged “hi”s with them.. ( haha such a shameful moment..after 4 years ….getting officially introduced now….haha ) . We dropped them off at girls hostel and we walked towards ours. Ramesh ,sreedhar,vijay,Siva and others were all jubilant. Me and Kishan were not that much I guess. I mean we didn’t bother much may be. Not sure. I remember that way.

That night, we all-ramesh,kishan,sreedhar,vijay,siva ,( not sure abt dadiravi and others..dadiravi was always a busy person) assembled on the terrace of new hostel.( or was it the roof of the mess hall ? I think so) . Everyone was all happy that the event was success and were proud. Feeling like heroes. Amidst the fun talk, Ramesh, out of the blue, quipped in his unique style “ entamma sreedhar ,  girls tho full matlaaduthunnaav kadaaa eeroju…you  were completely in diff world while talking to them” . That statement stung sreedhar very badly and he  retorted “ cha cha..why would I get carried away, Ramesh..i wud never do that. Only you guys are important to me.Not them ” etc etc . 😃😃.He was very embarrassed for a second. 😃. Ramesh would have thought that everything would change from the next day. Ramesh’s chronic  4 year-complaint abt the rest of the gang was that we never supported him in the matters of being friendly with girls. Whenever  I asked him in reply “did we stop u ever?” , his answer was “you aren’t understanding, because of u guys ,I had to be like this, I couldn’t talk to them,how can I go alone and talk, u guys never supported me, you all ruined my life” …haha. How many times have I been asked those questions by Ramesh...!!!

Wait for the worst moment..!!!! Sigh !!!

Next day, me ramesh kishan( think sreedhar wasnt there with us), had a burger at KPHB main road and walking back to the college campus. I didn’t know that  a few min later I was going to witness an event which could easily enter into my special  list of “the best embarrassing moments ever”.  At the main building we stumbled upon Sudheera, Neeharika and some others. Needless to say, it was a  why-am-i-still-alive-why-didnt-I-die-already  moment of  our lives. Despite having good talk last evening, both parties literally froze.World came to still for a second. Awkwarddddd!!! Finally  ,without knowing how, there was an exchange of some words and phrases  like “hi”  “uhhh” “ ohhh”  “where are u coming from” “oh ok” “bye” , not necessarily in that order 😃. It wasn’t a talk, was it?. Theres no scale to measure the artificiality of that situation .The whole time-period of that encounter was hardly 1 min. We met, we spoke,we left. But that 1 min was like an eternity for all of us. Atleast to me . To kishan too,I guess.  I think ,after they left,while walking back to the hostel, we laughed like hell . We laughed at what just happened on earth and how the equation with them would never change. And with Ramesh around in those kind of situations, you bet  there would be a guaranteed one hundred percent entertainment 😃😃😃

Haha.. the previous evening, we felt like  we achieved something. We felt like heroes. Haha.. Not at all. We were not. We were just the same. We were not real heroes. we were Surreal  heroes in the Real world 😃😃😃

Surreal Heroes in a Real world 😊 Part-1

Final semester - Farewell party days :

There was a  lot of cold war happening at that time too  like it had been on various instances in 4 years between Hostellers and Day scholars. The bone of contention this time was the  Farewell party. Farewell? 😊 . It’s just our class thought we should have some kind of get together as we would be leaving soon and we called it  Farewell party . The coordination between the groups wasn’t happening properly and don’t know the exact reason but finally , day scholars Tilak, Suhas and others  said “ok you guys plan and arrange, we don’t have issues “. If my memory serves me right, from the beginning , sreedhar wanted to drive this event and prove everybody that we could make it success and we could do better . Now as it came to us, we HAD TO DO  it well.  By the way, Kishan and I did shopping  too 😊  while coming back from the legendary Chenna kesava reddy project-work class. Many of you don’t know who this Mr. chenna kesava is. We were doing project work under him. He was a professor  from other college. To Kishan and me, he was a legend. Will write about him some other time. Ok.. We went to shopping and bought new shirts ..mine was Plain Black shirt and his was red checkered one 😊 . When we went back to hostel after shopping and showed what we got, Sreedhar, DadiRavi  liked Kishan’s shirt and said black wouldn’t suit me :(  They didn’t like my shirt ,at all 😊 .

On the party day, We took some invitations and went to the professors. Giving invitations was an impromptu idea.  It’s a print out invitation designed by Kishan. I don’t remember if we really gave the professors the invitation but we did work on that design , headed by our then computer geek kishan 😊  . Indira rani( or indrani?) ma’am said she couldn’t come and chided why it was not informed at least a day earlier. Our mistake!! We were novices . I could sense that she really wanted to come.  For sure, ma’am was fun-loving and affable.

At the event:

We all reached Swagath party hall ,KPHB.  I cant really explain  what that feeling was ..but we all were feeling so good abt it. Sreedhar,vijay,siva,kishan,me and all others whoever was involved in the organizing team. We felt responsible. We were exuberant and  felt like real doers. Karthik was emceeing the whole event. He called up on stage HOD Kishan kumar reddy , professor Ashok Kumar and couple of other professors. During the event, HOD sang hindi songs of KishoreKumar and Prof Ashok kumar sang old telugu songs of Ghantasala. (Confession: Almost Every page of my class notebook was filled with variety of drawings but I hav to say  the caricatures of these 2 professors always occupied prominent place. They had unique features  which I could draw easily. I used to draw their caricatures and pass on the notebook to our friends 😊😊  ). We played anthakshari too,I guess. Later whoever wanted to speak/share anything was asked to come on to stage. Some were going.  Sivaganga was all high  . He went on there and spoke something. He was emotional too for a brief moment while speaking 😊 .  

As I am writing this ,it just occurred to me… I remember …. that Kishan did some thing special that day. He created some online friends group or forum or something like that where we could discuss/share/connect  in future. Everyone was in awe  of him and HOD appreciated him very much. Kishan spoke too ,on stage. I remember he spoke well – Impeccable English and confident body language with hand gestures. He just became superstar there, at the very end of 4 year journey. I remember Ramesh saying later something like “ kishan gadu superr kadaa..asalu aa style anthaa super..” .I think, Everyone of our gang spoke except me. haha. How stupid I was. No wonder, that was me.  Later we had photo session , dinner and in the  mean time we had to pamper our friend Srinivas reddy as he was in bad mood bcos he thought we were not giving enough importance to him. He was fine after we all spoke to him. Srinivas Reddy was a very hardworking and genuine guy. He was more close to Sreedhar.  

At the end of the party, some day scholars came to sreedhar and appreciated that the party was well organized . We all bade goodbyes and started walking back to hostel. As it was already  late , we would drop the girls off at their hostel in the campus. So WE ALL WERE WALKING.

P.S:  Come back to read part 2.  It was what happened in  part 2 that actually made me write this post 😊😊😊 .