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 😊😊😊 .
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