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Well Let me start with one of the best thing happened to me till now.

It was back in Jan 2002 during chilly winter at Bareilly. Miss World Priyanka Chopra hails from here and one of my close friend claim that he didn’t gave a damm to her during school days. But thats another story and some other time i will come back to it :)

I was looking for a flat desperately. After a hell lot of follow ups with one of my lovely senior Mr. Dushyant Singh Yadav, i met Mr. Kapil Gulati. I found nothing interesting in him other than a angry look on his face. It looks like he had fought number of people on that fateful day. He asked me to accompany him in college bus back to his home in the city.
I was asked to sit in back of the bus. On the way, i met an ultimate character. Looking to his short hairs, i can understand that he is my batch mate so thought of interacting with him. But Bhai Sa’ab (fellow brother) he was in more angry mood than our senior and replied very rudely.
Excerpt from the conversation:

Gaurav(G): Hi, kya haal hai?
Batchmate (B): Tujhse matlab (with a weired look on his face)
G: nanhi aise hi, kaun si branch?
B: CS
G: arrey main bhi CS main hoon, kahan se hai?
B: kya karega?

G: aise hi pooch raha tha yaar (me irritated now)


(meantime a senior called me up)


B: Bahut khujli hai!! Ab Jaa Marra sale se!!
Senior: Oye kuch bola kya tune?
B: No Sir!!

Now me and the other senior
Senior (S): Hann bey kya naam hai?
G: Gaurav Sir
S: abey ye “Sir” kaun sa Second Name (sirname) hai India main?
G: My name is Gaurav Shankhdhar (now with few months in college i know what did he mean?)
S: Ab sahi hai (with a smile)

Suddenly Kapil Gulati (Mr. K) shouted “Oye Candle !! jyada hero mat ban chor de isse. Gaurav tu peeche ja!!”
I was confused about what to do? But again a more loud voice from our Gulati Sa’ab towards me “Oye teri samjh main nanhi aya kya?” and i was moving back to the last seat of the bus. From that point the journey was quiet and nobody called me. Our fellow Mr. B was surprised and a little impressed with this event and this time start the conversation:
B: Abey ye Kapil Gulati ko kaise janyta hai?
G: I know Dushyant Sir and he asked me to meet Kapil Sir.
B: humm, mera naam Abhinav Agarwal hai aur kaliwadi main rahta hoon tu kahan rahata hai?
G: main Budaun se hoon aur abhi Rajendra Nagar ke ass pass room dhoond raha hoon
A: acchi jagah hai!! Kapil Sir ke sath rahega?
G: pata nanahi abhi to room dekhne ja raha hoon
A: teekh hai

and here comes our Bus Stop (famous Deenanath ki Lassi ki dukan & Awadh Plaza) and i said good bye to dear Abhi’v and move on to see the room.
I get down with Mr K & Mr. Anurag Tyagi (AT). It was a surprise to me as i was not aware of his presence in the bus. I already met him during my first few interactions with Dushyant Sir. Mr AT was not very noticeable too, but always had a smile on his dusky face. At the Bus stop i met two more guys who seems to be their friends and my senior. Both of them are good looking and tall but thin (comes under the weak category :) ) These guys were seeking advice for the new shoes from Mr. AT & Mr. K. The thinner one was riding a Hero Honda CBZ and both of them were looking quite decent. Well, we move on to our room with following:

K: tune in dono ‘bina akal ke jaaton’ ko bhej diya jute lene. tu dekhna dukan ka sabse ghatiya piece lekar ayengey
AT: Arey “Gulu” jane dey. kaun dimag kharab karta udhar.
K: tu dekhna kya layengey ye dono.

Mr AT was smiling (his trademark) and i was thinking “Ek to ‘motu’ and ‘chotu’ doosra ‘kalu’ and ye dono shaq kar rahain hain do smart se dikhne wale bandon par huh..”

Anyways i found the room come Villa owned by Mr. K . Its a 2 BHK house and i kind of satisfied with it as i need it very badly. After all there will not be any landlord & neighborhood “bak bak” and i will be kind of joint owner of the house. I was living with a full joint family of my “Mausi Ji” and even after all her love & affection, i want to leave the place. She wept when i left the house Sad Na :( But there it was a big joint family and i know, i can’t spend my 4 years there. So, I said yes to him (Mr. K) and came back to my Mausi Ji’s place.

At the flat, i met Mr. Ali Sleem too. My first impression of him (or kind of portrayed by him and Mr. K) was of a Casanova. Mr. K and Mr. Ali talked about Mr. Ali’s girlfriends and about few gorgeous girls in the college on whom Mr. Ali is kind of “Line Marring”. Later in my college days and friendly relationship with Mr. Ali, i came to know that he was actually the Casanova personality ;) .

It was about the journey to the house. I boarded the Villa after few days and on first night there i realized whats in the pipeline for rest of the four years in the house. Some other time about the fateful night.

From that day onwards i live three and half precious years of my life there. Witnessed to lot of events,fights,birthday celebrations, daru parties and other interesting happenings. I met number of peoples there involving 2-3 year seniors to 2-3 year juniors in my college and few people from outside the college. About more than 6 years from that day, those personal transactions had evolved to a second family to me. All kind of people are there and now has presence in every city of India & most of the major countries in the world.

With this post i wanted to say thanks to all of them who were part of my personal & social development. I learn’t a lot of things from each and every personal interaction. Guys, It so nice to have all of you around. I am thankful to Almighty for this.

To end the suspense in the story, the two guys on the CBZ were our own Dada (Mr. Prashant Teotia) and Munni (Mr. Munedra Singh) and they buy something like this for the Munni’s college dress shoes :D Now you know that how correct Mr. K was ;)

August 11, 2007 - Posted by Gaurav S | Personal | | 13 Comments

13 Comments »

  1. hahaha… this was a nice one. But you know wat I cant be so rude to you on the first day that not at all me… or was I?

    Fuck i dnt care u r the best bro to me..

    Love you
    Abhi’v

    Comment by tigeraevi | April 18, 2008 | Reply

  2. :)
    i don’t have that strong memory but yup you were rude (not sure about the extent though)
    and it was quite a day for me all kind of things happen during those two days
    u know abt that Sagar sir wala case bo bhi ek do din baad hi hua tha hahahaha

    it was a sweet memory :)

    Luv
    -Gaurav

    Comment by Gaurav S | April 19, 2008 | Reply

  3. on the same day Amitabh Bachchan also turns blogger :D

    http://blogs.bigadda.com/ab/

    Comment by Gaurav S | April 19, 2008 | Reply

  4. If you are wondering why i started it ?

    i ve been thinking of it for long but motivation hi nanhi mil raha tha lekin kal ek junior aya tha room par and he was surfing to our college days snaps on my laptop.
    he used few of them in his blog and orkut profile. so i just thought of start the blogging and here i m ….

    Comment by Gaurav S | April 19, 2008 | Reply

  5. hehe…ultimate post to begin with…as i already told u it is quiet chatpata..ofcourse kudos to ur style of expression but still the credit goes to the meaty characters also…it made me go nostalgic to the times when I met these bunch of bindaas mundas the first time…
    See I told you Abhi will give all the postive feedback..although usko footage kamm mila hain…haha..
    Keep blogging and I’ll be waiting for some more interesting write-ups from you…have fun.. :)

    Comment by harshi82 | April 19, 2008 | Reply

  6. its Abhi’s generosity ;)
    baki kahani ki maang ke anusaar hi sabko footage diya tha
    lol :D

    Comment by Gaurav S | April 19, 2008 | Reply

  7. A good blog to start with.The description of chotu, kaalu, smart ppl is incredible. Although u told most of these events during our evening walks but it was nice reading it.

    Comment by champgaurav | April 19, 2008 | Reply

  8. Well, what to say….. ofcourse its like a lovely walk down the memory lane….. ofcourse some forgettable people are mentioned but then aisa bhi kya :-) ….
    Mujhe achha nahi laga ki mein “weak” bhi lagta thha besides being thin but then that’s Gaurav’s notes for you all…accepted!! :-) )
    Waise in other mail Kalu sir(Param adarniye Pankaj Srivastava sir if “Kalu” the adjective at all seems to be offensive here) has put strong objection to some quotes and adjectives but I think that creates a good balance in any kind of Journalism(I consider a blog as one) as a writer does require all kinda critics :-) ….
    But for sure I completely agree to Kalu sirs one point, my lovely and dearest Kalu’s(Abhi’v) footage could be increased…but as I said its all subjective thing :-)
    All in all, it was great to go back 7 years distance of this curvacious “history”(don’t tell me it should have been historic) road…… KUDOS!!
    My appetite has only increased!! Carry on boy……
    Luv
    Dada

    Comment by Prashant Teotia | April 21, 2008 | Reply

  9. Nice Post ..and really nice to read .. “one of the best thing happened to me till now..”…
    The memory of College days…that too after almost 7 years…
    Waiting for the next Post on this Blog…
    Cheers!!
    Manikya

    Comment by manikya | April 22, 2008 | Reply

  10. thx Dadu!
    baki log to atey jatey rahte hain ;)
    it seems everybody is concerned about Abhi’v footage but honestly while writing i haven’t think of it.
    I penned down most of the things happened on the day and came into my mind as it is.

    Luv
    -Gaurav

    Comment by Gaurav S | April 24, 2008 | Reply

  11. Oye Hoye puttar!! footage or no footage the fact remains the blog rocks!! :) Keep blogging…I’ll b waiting for more posts…

    Comment by harshi82 | April 24, 2008 | Reply

  12. Fantastic Dude :)
    LOved it

    You don’t seem to be a naive in blogging like MR. Bachachan
    GooD.

    And I completely agree with Mr. Prashant aka Dada (as always he make sure that you are left with no other choice ;) )

    Looking forward for more of LiTeRaTurE

    Don’t make us wait long

    Again Kudos to ur effort.

    Keep Blogging :)

    Comment by Vivek Singh | April 25, 2008 | Reply

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