The Chicken Phenomenon

Recently, I stumbled into a piece where the cricketer's take on this was discussed and it was fun, so I thought may be, I could come up with something on my own from my college days.

Disclaimer : Not every one will find this funny and will get every joke !!

Gautham Surya's version: The Chicken crossed road to read my new article on the Indian Cricket team in sportskeeda. God bless that chicken.

Satellite Sister's version: The Chicken crossed the road to get to the canteen, duh!!

Vishnu Gowthem and Nivas Natrajan's versions: The Chicken crossed the road to tease Chezhian who is on the other side

Chezhian's version: Dai evanda enna chicken nu solrathu !!!

A Certain Dancer's version : The Chicken crossed the road..Hmmm..Eats...Falls asleep..Wakes up...The Chicken crossed the road...Hmm...Eats...Falls asleep...Wakes up...The Chicken crossed the road...  - loop continues to infinity

A Certain Malayali Girl's version: What? The Chicken crossed the road? How many times I told it not to.. Thats it...I am not going to speak to the chicken for the rest of my life.

A Certain Sourashtra Girl's version: The Chicken crossed the road as I did not give it any false hopes.

Chezhian's version(again) : Dai solunga da yaaru da anda chicken !! ?

Gautam Ponnu's version: "ok, the chicken..it had a friend....(goes on talking for about 5 hours without telling why the chicken crossed the road)"

A Certain Twin's version: Achicho, the chicken crossed eh? I wanted to ask it "How to find out when you are in love and all"..

Another Twin's version: LOL

Ganesh Subramiam Sivagnanam's version: The Chicken crossed to road to buy poison after reading this

Pooja Ravishankar's version: There is a Chicken ?? Really?

Vinoth Arun's version: See da, the chicken and I joined jobs together only...(talks for 2 hours about rockets and stuff till people start throwing stones at him)

Chezhian's version(one last time): Dai B**tards, I hate that chicken, Vijay Vaalga...

Arun Mozhi's version: The Chicken crossed the road to get tickets for Nadal's next match

Ganesh Skanda's version: Don't talk to me about chickens, I am a Brahmin you see...Dai Ganesh, yenga da unga veetu fish fry ?

Rajkumar RKM's version: The Chicken crossed the road to get a shirt just like mine

Viwaswan's version: Enna anda chicken oru Omm**********************************(83 bad words with no gap)

Sudarshan Nanda's version: The Chicken crossed the road to listen to some Metal music may be?

Shankar Kumar's version: The Chicken crossed the road to take me to the hospital

Vinoth Babu's version: Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Uma Ridhi Swathee's version: Hahaha The Chicken crossed the road before taking a picture with me to put on FB Hahaha

Bharathi Srinivas' version: Gowtham, catch that chicken before it crosses that road, I want to take a profile picture with it for Facebook.

Karthik Selvakumar's version: The chicken crossed the road because we have the same hairstyle!! ?

Sivagurunathan's version: The chicken crossed to road? I told I will give it my shirt for its Batch day.anyways its bad luck..

SurjaJith's version : The chicken crossed to road, enna nethu athu adikala daaa !!!

Unithra Akka's version: Dai na than da anda chicken ey, enda enna ipde ootreenga...nimathiyaa oru road cross panna vidreengala !!

2007-2011 From knowing nothing to well...knowing nothing :)

I ll always cherish....

.) The orientation program
.) The first day @ college
.) A6 and A8 in men's hostel
.) Hostel mess
.) My roomie in Hostel (Bharath Bhat)
.) My last day at hostel
.) 54/1 Vinayagar Nagar, TPK road, Pasumalai.
.) The Mess
.) Hotels Singam, Annapoorna and JB
.) Pani poori kadai
.) Jigarthanda
.) Gowthaman Illam
.) IPL trip
.) DF 3, Agrini Appartments
.) 06/12/2009, 06/02/2010, 25/10/2010, 28/09/2009/10, 04/01/2009, 17/01/2010
.) I Love you/ I love you reloaded
.) Combined Studies with classmates and Amigos
.) Zeeshan's "inum konja neram votna na aluthuduvan"
.) Gowtham's "Oh Ooh"
.) 3rd year Prahaar finals
.) Open Air dance
.) Vishnu Gowthem and Gautam Ponnu's misleading movie reviews
.) Ganesh and Sikkandar's "inaiki namma project panrom da !!!"
.) Nivas' "dai padam 1 late aam da, athan 1 class vandutu polaam nu vandan da...malai la enga poga :( "
.) Dosa kadai
.) A1, B8, A17
.) IPL 1,2,3
.) WC T20-07, WC 2011
.) Prahaar co ordination
.) Gowthaman's mom tea
.) Fazil's veetu Biriyani
.) Night out with boys
.) Long Night talks with Suriya
.) Kodura kadalai
.) Kriya' 10
.) Mithun's Zoo Zoo dance
.) The Fight
.) The tears when seeing Ganguly ending like Bradman
.) Seeing Sachin's daughter when everyone was talking about the world cup in his hand
.) the "pages" venture
.) The balcony at D3, Manor Apartments
.) The SuperNovan Premier League
.) The SuperNovan Awards
.) Farewell
.) IVs
.) Lab sessions
.) Project Vivas
.) The Jain Figure that got away (Suriya's not mine)
.) Satellite Canteen
.) The lock up on the last day
.) Kurta trial
.) Seelu's hair dos
.) RKM's manja and poo potta satta
.) The Road and Kodai trips
.) Bhai's enquiry
.) Don's enquiry
.) Zeeshan's reckless driving
.) Rajesh's "driving"
.) My mom's stay with me
.) Cadburies
.) The Swing (Bday Gift)
.) The Bike rides
.) The peas pulav
.) Mr. "Germanus" Ilango
.) Pollachi
.) Every place I visited in Madurai
.) EB/BSNL bills
.) Ramji's - 82- present sir, 83- present sir, 84- ada present sir
.) Sadasivam sir's - "thambi pesama neenga velila ponga"
.) Lakshman's "dai naa project panran da"
.) British Bakery Veg Sandwich
.) Sriram's Kalaignar TV
.) Senthil Vel's scene
.) Shankar kumar's vella colour shoes
.) Archies dance
.) Vicky's 6 fingers
.) Can(e)-Can
.) Vijaykanth's "Come Back"
.) Movie Quiz
.) My first and only Flood Light game
.) Every movie I ever saw in madurai
.) Prison Break, 24, Lost, himym, elr, community, cheers, scrubs, big bang theory, dexter

History Repeats Itself

june 25, 1983

sometime after 23 00 hours

He was just finishing up his works at the college and being his final year in the bachelors, he was taking a stroll to his mansion with his friends. This day was extra special as the underdogs, the Indian team takes on the mighty West Indies in the Third Prudential World Cup final and he was to see the match with his friends on a very questionable Television set on the reception hall of the place he was staying. The match ended and the Indian team emerged victorious, he went on rides through the empty roads of the city, celebrating the victory with his friends. 

                           

april 02,2011

sometime after 23 00 hours

He was getting ready to go to this friend's place. All his friends were supposed to show up to see the grand finale of the tenth World Cup between two formidable sides, the Indians and the Lankans. It was the final year of his bachelors and the fact that this match would be the last which he will be witnessing with his college friends never left his mind. The match was witnessed completely with uninterrupted power supply, thanks to the TNEB. The Indians won it after 28 long years. He celebrated in his own way and took a drive with his friends through the city with his friends.

                                        

In the first half "he" refers to my dad and in the second half, "He" refers me.

Right from when I was little, my dad his own version of the World Cup winning moments and what happened and I never get tired of listening to it. His story always made me wonder what it would be like if I went through something same and never did I know, I will go through something exactly the  same. 

Stitches is bigger than the Ashes

"Ok machan...Sure da...I ll get on it" and I ended the call with Ganesh. It was a lazy sunday afternoon and I was supposed to get started with my project. I texted Fazil about the whole thing that was decided with Ganesh. Surya was sitting in his room watching the painful last moments of Uthamaputhiran. Surya and I, apart from the fun moments as being the room mates, apart from the late night talks, had nothing monumental done, so it can be remembered by both of us in the future, as our own special room mate event.

That streak ended today when we came with the ultimate game that redefines the concept of cricket. With the aim of giving Ashes, a run for its money, I co created "Stitches" with Suriya.

the creators with the "stitch"

the official rule post of  stitches  

.) It involves room mates who have interest and knowledge about cricket.

.) The ball is paper stuffed cello tape.

.) Stumps are the basket where the old clothes are supposed to go.

.) Bat should be a binded note book which must the friend's of any one of the room mates.

.) Its basically a three over game and the whole game is played knelt down.

.) It hurts like hell when you play like that so better get a pillow for the knees.

.) The room must be filled with music, I mean slam bam music, to up the tempo.

.) Music should not involve the romantic genre, as it might create diversion ;)

.) This game must be played only under proper supervision, any attempts to copy what Surya and I do are not encouraged. We are trained professionals. :P

.) Do not try any other type of balls, even for experimenting, if used, then note kilinjirum. :)

.) Do not text when you are batting, you might getting hurt by the bowler.

.) The main thing is not to tease the bowler with the girl he does not like during the game, the ball is insanely hard.

the whole game is under construction, so these are the initial rules


The Firsts :

.) Surya won the first ever toss

.) He hit the first ever four

.) I won the first ever match and hit the first ever six

.) Surya got the first catch

.) I bowled him over for the first time

inspirations : Chandler Bing and Joey Tribbiani's creation - Fireball

engala pathu copy adikaathenga da :P

And the Supernovan Award goes to....

The final batch day was celebrated on 18th august and the core of the function is in Fazil's blog. So let me go straight to the main event, the award function and I must say, I was very much honoured to be asked to host the show and the comments were, I did put a decent performance. This was the best batch day and we had thorough fun. So the categories and winners are as follows.

The following awards were voted by the entire class

mr sincere - mr ram babu

There was no second thoughts in this category, as Rambabu single handedly is responsible for the notes of almost all the guys and also for the marks in the exams sometimes. It must be said that Sivakumar gave him a fair fight for the prize.

ms sincere - miss vidhya lakshmi

This,on the other hand was a tough choice with girls like Shobana, Virasundarii not very behind, but it was Vidhyalakshmi's day and she walked away with the award, fair and square.

mr co ordinator - mr sabarish

There were few names which had the competition, but he got through and throughly deserved the award.

miss co ordinator - miss vira sundarii

She comes first, she comes good and she does well and so she walks away with this award without a doubt.

mr entertainer - mr r. sriram

This was more like an award for a comedy piece and who make people laugh. This went rightly to Sriram for his endless busting in class.

miss entertainer - miss r.pooja

Seveeeeeenty, she said attendance for the first time in our class and it was instantaneous that she got registered as number one comedy piece in every one's mind. From teachers to students to freshers, there is none who tried and succeeded in immitating Pooja.

cerelac boy - mr vignesh

The winner was chubby and deserved it. (the girls' part was eliminated for some reasons)

back bench boy - mr paul durai/ mr sabari kumar

The so called "rebels" were kind enough to come for the function and get this. 

back bench girl - miss k.niveditha

Well, she is sitting in the last bench and deserves this most among all the last bench girls, so we did not have much of a choice.

best budies - miss rajapriya and miss niveditha

When everyone is singing "Mustafa mustafa" and running on the beach, they will use the same theme for their endless journey to canteen. They can never be spotted alone and so they ended up with it.

mr aarva kolaru - mr vinoth arun

Well, this was inevitable. He talks more than the teacher in the class and is actually proud of it. This is enough for this category.

miss aarva kolaru - miss virasundarii

Female version of Vinoth Arun.

Note : Mr and Miss Aarva Kolaru are batch mates...and guess who is the third one?

its our own Vinoth Babu.... let his soul Rest In Peace !!!

sinthanayalar - mr vinoth babu

"Dream inside a dream" - Christopher Nolan's concept on Inception. "Dream inside the Class" - Vinoth Babu's concept.

mr busted - mr senthilvel

Gives a good company to Sriram and its appropriate.

koduthu vacha batch - miss shobana theepa, mr sikkandar fazil and mr shriram narayan

Probably, the lab batch mates who have seen a lot of drama among them and still sticking together.

mr supernovan - mr sikkandar fazil

The Big One , the God, The Immortal and the Best. No one will ever use this words for him, but he is the best at what he does and so gets this with thumping victory.

miss supernovan - miss virasundarii

An headache in class, Only enthusiast of a certain tamil speaking teacher's class and a victim of friends back stabbing ending up loosing the mobile phone in class. But these aside, talent wise she is second to none.

The following awards were voted by girls 

miss proxy -  miss rajapriya

She is the reason why the next category was suggested.

miss bunker - miss sri nivedita

I love classes as long as I am out of it

mr scene party - mr sabarish

The biggest shock of them all. When everyone was thinking it was going to be Vinoth Arun, came out Sabarish's name and hence emerged - "Scene Sabrish".

mr silent - mr rj rajkumar

Arguably, the least talkative and rightly the award.

miss sleeping beauty - miss seethalakshmi

Sits in the first bench and yawns so big, you can see bats flying off.

The following were voted by Boys

mr proxy - mr ramji

The legend, the indisputable and the king. Although faced a stiff challenge from Suresh, Raj DM and Nivas who are not far behind on their calibre on this category,

miss scene party - miss shantini

No second guesses, why should there be any? 

miss silent - miss vimala

The most innocent and most deserving.

mr bunker - mr vimal

Even Vijay's hit films are more often than his visits to the class.

mr sleeping beauty - mr shankar kumar

Was trapped many times, dozing off and was honoured for it.

Long and Strong

I spent my first year in the hostel and like all the hostellers, I have my stack of fond memories and my room mate Bharath Bhat is an integral part of it. I still remember him sitting in the cot with his dad for the first time. We had no problem as our interests were mainly coincidental.

Without a second thought, our room could be rated as the dirtiest in the hostel, yet we had fun. We spent the late nights discussing movies and nothing but movies. I would never stay back in the weekends and so the time we had together was very little. We spent most of the weekday evenings with both of us deeply occupied in the songs of our respective walkmans.

3 days back, we had a considerable time together after almost two years and we did not waste a second without discussing the movies again. It was really good and fun to catch with him. We never studied together and didn't care about others' mark and I guess it was one of the factors for a good time that we had.

Also, on the first year, our final years would drag us out to work for the next day function (if there is any), setting up the decorations. He was vital in helping me escape as I would roll on the other side and become invisible. The seniors, finding no one but him from the door will miss and the night will be spared.

His snacks from mysore were great and I would be hoping for him to return with packs whenever he return from the holidays. He was rather shocked at the first to know that I am moving out, but came around the situation eventually and has made many friends since then.

A tough life gets tougher

Ok, so I am officially a final year student and with the posts getting filled and friends and friends of friends taking up the herculean tasks of taking a post and surviving in the same for an entire year, and their reactions of what they have to go through to make 5 % of what they have planned for any event come true, made me think of the basic qualities one must possess so he/she can take a post, hold on to it and actually do not get a rise in level of blood pressure at the end of the course.

The first thing is that, you have to take your spine off and hang it back home when you go to college. When you do not do so, you tend to contradict your superior and before you know it, you will be on the streets.

You will have to avoid the iodine contact of the food you take in, so you not find yourself shouting at the poor fellow standing in the mirror "yenda sothula uppu pottu thana sapadra, antha aal solrathukellam thalayaatra" ?

Any ideas you have to take the event, a step forward must be locked into a case and the key must be given to actor Vijay with a deal that, he must return you the key the instant he gives an hit.

Unless you are a billionaire, you shouldn't even think of roping in a professional, to deliver a speech or organising a workshop for that matter.

Have yourself understand the fact that, once you get into the post, there will only be three other professionals who will be working as hard as you, the american marine, the hindi film industry trying to bring an expression out of John Abraham and the TCE'11 batch trying to find a "genuine" figure before their term expires.

You will feel that you are economically crippled when you hear people say the first prize for any event in the department is 30 bucks and trust me, you can do nothing about it.

You will be pushed to the reality, where there is no colour in the world other than blue and white, try to sneak in even a dot of other colour and your poster finds itself in bin before you could explain anything.

A Dream College

.) Girls who can shut up in class !!!


.) Guys topping the charts at the results


.) Girls borrowing assignments and records from Guys instead of the other way round 


.) "Pretty" Girls


.) Mobile Facebooking and Texting encouraged in class


.) Entire college cheering for the same team in the FIFA WC


.) A pretty female faculty wouldn't hurt ;)


.) A enjoyable culturals


.) Guys taking notes and asking doubts in class


.) Shakira's waka waka as the anthem 


.) Aaromale as the Prayer Song


.) Smart and classy "english" names for the clubs


.) A Grant of more than 30 bucks as prize money for an event 


.) College "full" of Delegates at Symposiums


.) A food that is worth tasting during special functions


.) "Active" clubs


.) Canteen tender to Chennai Saravana Bhavan


.) A website with colours other than blue and white


.) Useful "Smart" Training


.) Guys having a better subject to fight at

The Three Booksketeers

Not a big exam fan, just like the millions of students across the globe, there was always a special thing when it comes to a common subject for which three students from three departments come together to study!!! It is not like just another group studies where there will be a padips who will be teaching like hell and some friends of his/her having absolutely no clue about what is happening.

Me, Gowthaman and Mithun will converge at Gowthaman's home (the best place in the world to hang out and "study"). The situation will always be the same, no matter what time it is but mostly, we will be studying in the night. Gowtham ll be sleeping like as if he just got married yesterday, I ll be arriving exactly for dinner and the first thing I do will be going in and asking "aunty, dosa venum...pode venum, chutney venaam :)" and I ll have a great dinner. Mithun will sneak out of his home with just his mobile charger and the mobile.

After assembling, Gowtham ll go "machi, nalaiki ena exam, important questions solu" and Mithun ll be on the phone for atleast an hour to find out the answer to these questions. We will go just 10 mins into reading and then,all of a sudden there will be a change in topic of discussion and we will end up talking mostly about Fazil and his stint as the Godfather of ECE.

Exactly 15 mins later, Gowtham's mom ll call out "thambi, tea ready vandu vangiko". Me and Mithun are slow drinkers so it ll take another 45 mins for us to settle. Then Mithun will start reading as if his life depends on it, Gowtham will think as if his friend has got tons of care for him but little does he know about the latest message he received from some one special which read "Read and teach me the entire syllabus if you want to  see the sunrise tomorrow - a puthur resident".

Inorder to pass the next days exam, I ll complete a lesson or too and will sleep. The funniest thing of all to be noticed is that an almost entire A sec of comp sci dept boys will be waiting for Gowtham who is supposed to teach them. Gestures like these make me question the phenomenon, that is evolution if it is complete or not. 

There will be fun and there is no question about it. Me and Mithun will be playing on the bed, Trying to change Gowtham's status in orkut, end up watching a late night classic, Talking utter non sense, Hear Gowtham say "Aiyo, enaku 1 girl friend iruka koodatha", the puthur resident teasing Gowtham from Mithun's phone, Me, having no regard for anything that is happening around indulging myself into my conversion to being a golti, making fun of Fazil(we do it everywhere), thinking of a good lie to tel Rajkumar for leaving him out and seeing a latest movie and many many more.

The good old days, studies can't get any better than this :D