Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Mutations ..

Wait wait.. dont assume anything by just looking at the title. It's definitely not about Science. But yes, its about my Life science. Here mutations mean the changes/experiences which made me a polishded diamond from a rough uncut stone ..
Yes, its all my college life that made this happen where i did my masters in Computer Applications. I have reserved this particualr room completely to talk about my life during "Post Graduation in Chennai", Tamilnadu.
Yeah,it was the day i have entered my college "Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering" aka SVCE. It was my very first day i had entered college campus along with my dad and also with little English and no Tamil knowledge.. :)

MCA_SVCE_Chennai
Introduction days ..
Luckily with no hiccups, we have enetered MCA dept asking for one lecturer named "Janardhanan". He's the man who can speak fluent telugu which can be understood with great difficulty. ;) Ofcourse, he's the one who guided me initially... God bless him :)
Now all doubts clarified.. But hungree. yeah, its the lunch time. So, we have entered the college canteen..Got the tokens for full meals and ready for batting ;). Now started kinda hiccups; Yes, a stream of gals in nice ethnic wear asking me to take a snap for them.. No doubt, the picture would have come blurred cos i was completely numb, shaking seeing the gals, the language, the ambience etc etc.. if one question they ask, i can only smile and nod my head; that kind of situation.. Actually its not that i dont know English, its like i had never used spontaneous english to respond to someone. But now, its different. I completely appear on the other side of the coin :)
Now, its my Hostel turn (SKPD Vysya Students Home) a great hostel renowned for Chartered Accountants. Infact, its called as CA hostel where majority of students were doing CA course. So, in seek of my admission we had gone all the way to Old Madras aka Parrys where we have our Vysya community temple with "Sri Vasavi Kanyaka Parameswari Devi" as the goddess. After so much testing our patience, manager had confirmed the room no.
Ahhh, finally got admitted into College as well as Hostel. Now starts the real story.. Trust me, it will be really interesting. Just watch out..!
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Sem 1
It was my day1 of first semester of MCA searching for my class room. Suddenly, a strange voice asking "Searching class room for MCA 1st year??". Then, the same voice guided me to my class room. I still remember, i just entered the room with some feeling of apathy as im an alien there. Found one table to sit in the middle of the class. My very next person started asking "Are you from Andhra, whats your name?". i said, "Yes, i'm Raj kumar". Then, he replied saying "Oh, meedhi Andhra naa?. Nadhi kooda Andhra'ney.. i'm Kiran". He meant to say "He is also from Andhra". Then, i took a relaxed breath as though i found my family memeber in a new planet. ;).. That's how i got to know Kiran who was so closely with me till the last day of MCA.
Then it was the same voice (who guided me to my class) standing on the stage and saying "Good morning students. i'm Ramakrishnan (Ramki) your Class teacher." Likewise, the day has passed with all the other lecturers and their intros. Emmm finally it's 4 pm; Bus catching time. Hey, so far i talked about fully serious moments na. Okay,now lemme share some fun moments here.
Its time for my bus. I ran to my regular bus (Route No: 14) and got settled. Hey you know, i really used to enjoy the travel - pushback seats, nice audio, frenz, ofcourse sleep and bla bla.. I remember, movies like Run & Baba were the most played audio songs those days.
Now, see one funny thing here. My stop is nearing and i donno how to say "I have to get down here" in either Tamil/English. Thought for a long time to recall the words "Get down" and finally said, "This is my stop, plz stop".. LOL. See, here we realize the value of real english putting in use.
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Good moooorning Chennai..! Its 7.30 am now, Fresh n hot sun and i'm waiting for my bus. My bus came and we all got in. We??? Hey, hold on hold on.. one other interesting creature accompanies me from my hostel. Emmm yeah, he is Chaitanya newly joined BE Chemical in the same college. For looks, he is white, thin and innocent. For language, i'm little better in case of english. He is from Coastal Andhra. His telugu was so funny for me that time. So, native feeling.. we both sat next to each other in the bus. Here comes another funny thing. Unknowingly, another telugu creature (this time gal :) sitting infront of us. Shez good, her name is Sarada. Knowing we are telugu guys, she started talking to us. I liked it ;). Now you should see the response from both of us. This innocent thin fellow also started responding in the same momentum like me. Thats all. she started asking "Do you have Aadi cassette". She pronunced the word Cassette like "ku'set" instead of "ka'set" which was hard to understand for both of us. So we had to ask three times the same thing. Some how i have tried the entire hostel and got the cassette(ku'set) for her. Bcoz she is a gal. Things were always like that. I guess still its the same from guys. Always sweet people ;). Hey i forgot to tell you. I had two other people in the same bus who are my classmates too: Ashwant and Sailaja (Andhra gal). Remember these characters..lot to say about these two esp Ashwant.


Ahem, we reached college, finished as usual breakfast. Second day, i entered the class with same numb feeling and english fear :(. But, thats fine i learned out of that fear :) Now, i was searching for comfort. i meant to say Kiran (Yu gotcha? hez a telugu guy yaar.). Slowly started to find out who else speaks Telugu and who speaks good to me. Infact in initial days, my frenz were little reluctant to interact with me.. No guess what reason. The only thing i firmly believed was to show who i am with my studiuosness.