Tashreef Rakhiye!…

I did hear somewhere that the literal meaning of the phrase “Tashreef” is one’s “Hind part” or what is more dedicatedly called the “Butt”..

In that case, “Tashreef Rakhiye”,should mean please place your Butt!…

A striking similarity between the American English and Urdu goes something like this.

American English has a very high density of reference for the “Butt”, like… “Get your ass outa there”… “I’m gonna shoot his ass off”… And Urdu in a very similar manner greets people saying, “Please place your ass there”… ..

Now thats some similarity!….

Frozen in time!…

With reference to a super hilarious day in college this semester.

The title of the blog(Frozen in time!… ) may have forced you to think that I’ll continue with a little bit more of nostalgia,memories,or life in general. But not to much surprise this ain’t the case……

I’m very much talking about the Mechanical Workshop of NIT Hamirpur.

Mechanical Workshop @ NIT Hamirpur..

Yes! The place where every 1st year goes to learn the basics of Engineering Sciences like,

1. Cutting and shaping Wood and Metal.

2. Screwing and Unscrewing things.

3. Making stupid diagrams of machines and tools obscure to mankind!

4. Sitting for hours and hours dozing off un-noticed.

Similar such things. The point I wanted to highlight from this blog is, that during the days I had Workshop classes, I always found the old, fossil aged job’s (intricate shaped articles we had to make from raw materials) of senior batch students who I could never even dream to ever see, still lying there, fresh, as if they were just made.

Three and half years into my graduation, I go back to the Workshop this weekend for some work, not so surprisingly to me, I found the articles my batchmates and I made during out workshop classes,preserved to perfection! (Come on, what would somebody apparently do with pieces of wood and metal shaped to no requirements).

The notice board of the Workshop proudly boasts a notice dated 07-01-2008 even on 24-01-2010. People dont read it, and people like me who do, dont bother removing it. (Who or What could ever disturb Kumbhakarna’s sleep? Similar is the Deep Freeze status of the Workshop which boasts of the costliest machines installed, who knows to operate them anywazz?.. Not even the shop floor instructors!)

The ironical thing to note is that,nothing changes there. Syllabus,techniques,job profiles,Telgi ram just about nothing!… It truly is “Frozen in time!…”

Four years of life… Worth it?..

Blogging after ages, and kinda following a senior’s footsteps in doing so (Junda, things i would wana do or rather re-do, if things were to go back all over again)….

It is general human tendency to wish to re-do or re-love something. At the end of every outdoor trip, we think, wish i could re-live the trip once again! At the end of every live performance watched, we again think, wish i could re-live the experience. Following standard procedure as mentioned and having a few bites of nostalgia, I was suddenly caught up with a simple thought, “What if I could re-live my engineering days once again?”…

I would certainly do the following things, which I effectively managed, to not do this time around.

1. Maintain a thick, fat notebook, which would suffice all my 8 semesters, and at the end of it all, I can surf through that notebook for the contents of all subjects of the coveted tag, all I know is gibberish uttered from my lecturers and nuffn else. ( Yep, am actually referring to my B.Tech, in Mechanical Engineering)

2. This time I would buy Nike shoes instead of Adidas.

3. I would definitely not Head Hill ‘Ffair 2009.

4. I would take “Kawwa” and his funda’s more seriously. (Grrrr, NIT’s are deemed to be varsities)

5. Never take any notes from Patnaik to get them xeroxed!

6. I would definitely get myself a pair of woolen hand gloves.

7. Would drink Vodka before my dinner, rather than after.

8. Would make better use of my library card, than my ATM card.

9. Would soon realize that an early bath in Himachal winters wins no accolades, other than jus viral fever.

10. Would put in all my efforts to reduce Adhiraj’s blabber. (No offense meant!)

11. Take up a panga with “Gay chachu”.

12. Would request the Himachal Road Transport Corporation for taller and more spacious buses in H.P.

13. Would drive away the misconception of people that Apples are actually not available all round the year, not even in Simla.

14. Would not have let Prof. Bhat kiss me, not once, but twice on stage in front of a capacity crowd. (Just incase somebody was jealous, please dont be so, coz I was embarrased!.. WTF??…)

15. Would join NIT after implementation of the strict Anti-Ragging regulations, coz the 1st year batch actually checks us out top,bottom,left and right and we cant even stare back at them. (Probably a visual ragging regulation would be coined in by the Supreme court soon!)

16. Will cherish the existence of a college canteen and wish it was reinstated. (R.I.P)

17. Would demand for a salary for all the extra curricular activities done in campus!

18. Will surely experience what is called a “Night-Out !”.(Studying of course!)

19. Will read all assignments and books suggested by teachers before going in for exams (coz the question papers are either problems from the assignment or solved examples from the suggested books, so scoring is actually not a big deal!)

20. And finally, I would re-do the College record of using the same bathroom slippers for all 8 semesters! (Not that I dint break them, I dint let it get stolen in a boys hostel. Kudos to me!)

Soon to be kicked outa this system, to yet another exciting journey, under the Chassis’ of many to be born heavy and light duty automobiles….. Cheers to life!

Srikanth Mantha