A Farewell

Well, since I ended up missing my own farewell I went to the dept. farewell (it shall be called VALFI from now on), it was a staid affair at least for the time that I was there. I was told that the VALFIs at the hostels are a lot more important and interesting. On the plus side, I got to have vanilla ice-cream with gulab jamun, a nice combo indeed.

I hunted on the net for VALFI and found a blog with a couple of links to it ... seems to be a guy from IIT-B himself.

http://kaustubhyn.blogspot.com/2006/04/start-of-valfi-s.html
http://kaustubhyn.blogspot.com/2006/04/my-valfi.html

Seems to be a sentimental thing. Well I got to have my share of food, the profs. made lame speeches about making sure that they kept the IIT-B name aloft etc. ... well I guess I am calling them lame maybe some people were inspired, but hey this is a subjective thing not an activist blog (there are wayy too many of those in my opinion). Any ways ... an interesting experience if there ever was one. You could kind of tell that the sentimentality of the situation had gotten to some of the people if not all.

Some points to note
- Seems that these guy had their endsems at this time (well 16th is one exam I know that for sure), so they could have their farewell this late so should we...
- Instead of titles to some people, they have profile readings (these are written by and read by your own batch mates it seems) and this happens for every one. It is way better and more senti as it should be (it also lasts all night).


Thats all I guess, I am sure that people reading/not reading this may/may not find this interesting. Any ways till then.

Hastalavista BayBee ...

So long, and Thanks for all the Fish!!!

As ussual, I have made a half hearted attemept at a witty title and yet ... not managed it. Any ways, I remember some time back, I was in 2nd year I guess, thinking to myself that the seniors were getting way to attatched to the college I mean they actually missed being there, and they liked it and ... well you get the general idea. Then during the 3rd year when we gave the seniors their farewell once again I was all gung ho about not caring for the college once I'd pass out.

Well ... Today is our farewell, which I wont get to attend cause of the fact that my BTP is outside, in BBay which is not all that far away, but prior comitments have been made and must be kept. This is the only thing I have against my juniors they kept the date at some akward time which is neither too close to BTP-1 in which case I might have managed to attend it, I managed synapse after all, nor too close to BTP-2 which I can't fault them for, cause they got their endsems at that time I guess.

Any ways, my point being that I had thought that I would not miss the college when finally my time came to leave. I was right of course, but I was wrong as well, I dont miss the place, what I do miss are the poeple. I mean I have spent 4 years of my life living with the same set of people, they are as close as friends can get, so although I cannot attend the farewell I am doing somthing else. I am ermm... wrting a sort of 'Thank you for ...." for a lot of the guys that I knew over the course of the 4 years, I will most probably miss out on most, that I did know, that isnt because I forgot them (though it might be), but cause - 1) I am lazy, 2) There isnt anything specific man .. it's just in general. So, for those guys I am thanking them right now for whatever interaction small or prolonged (yeah, poor you) we had. I had thought of making the list alphabetical or somthing, but thats too difficult so I'm jsut typing them just like that, randomised to remove any sembelance or priority.

• Thanks Harsha for a Bed even though you wanted to sleep, a fellow anime fan even though I spoiled them all for you, and well simpely for being you man ... For doing wiered things like not having chocolate, for doing SEN with me, for well .... being you ...
• Thanks Kayal for the nights of conspiracy theories cooked up, with wild political debates.
• Thanks Kaloo, thank you for the music, thank you for the songs your bringing . ..
  
• Thanks Pradeep for the bed even though you wanted it more, for allowing us to make your room the common room for the wing, for listening to the music that I forced upon you and finally for shouting yes to TOOL when Black performed it.
• Thanks Neta for not beating me to a pulp as yet, or strangling me in my sleep.
• Thanks Garry for being as wild as you are, for the time we took apart muskaan laptop, and for TAgiri bitching.
• Thanks Bharad for being one of the few I know interested in math and in culture :O ... I mean whoaa ...., oooh and also for that time we went to mica and were the 250Rs. area.
• Thanks Prakhar for being artsy man, life would have been a little duller without you.
  
• Thanks Muskaan and Gandhi for entertainment man ....
• Thanks Prof. for being awesomely sucky ;), being yet another victim of my taste in music, for orkut stalking with me, and then letting me use your account to orkut stalk others for all the good times man ... the bad times, the rants and the discussions on which was the best ship, for being the guy for awesome comics and games and series and for putting up with me.
• Thanks Kaus. for putting up with me whenever I was in your room, for bearing with me making prof. laugh, and for being witness to that time when I pushed prof. down the stairs. for bringing Neta and Bhuvan to my notice :D .... and for not losing your cool when I would try to rag on your instead.
• Thanks Akansh for putting up with me in all those projects, for copying allthose assignments with me and for well an ear whenever I needed to rant, and a sounding board for my ideas and for sticking with me through the DP, and RNB :D ... for being the few that took electronics with me, and remained for the love of the subject.
• Thanks Asthana, Pentium, Nikhil, all you guys for providing us with an endless source of entertainment, and then after an hour of being ragged on making us stop with just one line
• Thanks Ravi, cause you are da Man !!!
• Thanks Pyro and Divey for being the two I know who have heard Belafonte.
• Thanks to all the girls of my batch for providing me and my friends with endless entertainment based on wild speculation, heated discussions and juicy gossip, without you guys(girls --wotevah), life owuld have been a lot more boring, and time would have passed a lot more slowly and pointers would have been a lot higher(well not really there is still the net but .... you get the picture :D ..)..
• Thanks to karry, cause you are the laziest guy I can imagine, and you still teach people a day before your own exam,
• Thanks to minni for being the few who took up cause for my own meme -- "Bloody Hell priety Sabbarwal" when every one else was shouting "This is Sparta"!!
• Thanks Ari for trying to burst the bubble around my head by making me think you were letting me win in arguments (he wasnt, he lost each time, but he did it so that every one thought that he was letting me win).
• Thanks Akhil for inflating my already inflated head by letting me win in arguments, even though you could easily have won each and every one, and also for calling me for cake that one time, and for being the butt of every joke from 4th sem onwards, and for not killing me while I slept for each time that I beat you up.
• Thanks Rahul Reddy for the Bourne Identity and others, my first ludlums, not great but time pass nonetheless.
• Thanks Divey for ermmm being nice, the very few nice people I know man and you are one of them
  
• Thanks to Harsh, Nimish Ari and the rest for their "Awesome" ness (not!!!), well Harsh is the gawdFather if nothing else thanks for being that man. And for company during the GRE crap.
• Thanks Bhuvan who will now give me a job, cause he will be a bigshot by the time I get out of Grad school (if I ever get in that is ...).
• Thanks Nirmal for being the only Kishore Kuma Listener between two Metal Heads.
• Thanks Sai, for the walks in the morning and being as shameless as me, and the always interesting Mac Vs. All debate. (you are in the RDF, there is even a paper on it now)
• Thanks to Kutte cause you put up with me during two months or was it one ? of RI, without killing yourself, esp. since I was going through my japanese words phase about then.
  

And now of course I follow up with the lyrics to a song, this one is stuitable for the occasion, its called 'The Graduation Song, it's by Vitamin C- apt I think, though I am sure I am a little too sentimental at the moment.

And so we talked all night about the rest of our lives
Where we're gonna be when we turn 25
I keep thinking times will never change
Keep on thinking things will always be the same
But when we leave this year we won't be coming back
No more hanging out cause we're on a different track
And if you got something that you need to say
You better say it right now cause you don't have another day
Cause we're moving on and we can't slow down
These memories are playing like a film without sound
And I keep thinking of that night in June
I didn't know much of love
But it came too soon
And there was me and you
And then we got real cool
Stay at home talking on the telephone with me
We'd get so excited, we'd get so scared
Laughing at our selves thinking life's not fair
And this is how it feels

1 - As we go on
We remember
All the times we
Had together
And as our lives change
Come whatever
We will still be
Friends Forever

So if we get the big jobs
And we make the big money
When we look back now
Will our jokes still be funny?
Will we still remember everything we learned in school?
Still be trying to break every single rule
Will little brainy Bobby be the stockbroker man?
Can we ever find a job that won't interfere with a tan?
I keep, I keep thinking that it's not goodbye
Keep on thinking it's a time to fly
And this is how it feels

Repeat 1

La, la, la, la�
Yeah, yeah, yeah
La, la, la, la�
We will still be friends forever

Will we think about tomorrow like we think about now?
Can we survive it out there?
Can we make it somehow?
I guess I thought that this would never end
And suddenly it's like we're women and men
Will the past be a shadow that will follow us 'round?
Will these memories fade when I leave this town
I keep, I keep thinking that it's not goodbye
Keep on thinking it's a time to fly

Repeat 1 (3x)

ok so I had tried to link to everyones blog/orkut profile but blogger seems to be making it difficult for me so, I'll leave that for another day ...