Notes on our heydays in Yuvaraja's..

Author: Raghu, et all..

Notes on our heydays in Yuvaraja's..

Me, Dany and Ravi landed in mysore along with his friends Milli and Kevin around 8:30 am Saturday morning. They had accompanied him to attend Dany's friend's wedding in Coorg. We stopped at Ramya's Drive-in near to our Alma-mater. We reminisced about the good old days when we used to have lunch behind CC.
Think it was 5 INR per meal (anna/sambar with an egg)..alva. The place is still the same (well, almost!) as it used to be those days.

Dany and his friends had idli/vadaa for breakfast as we finished off strong coffee talking about the group's fitness regimen (these days fitness is a buzzword) et al.
Dany and his friends then drove off towards Coorg.

Ravi and me decided to take a stroll through our campus. It had been quite a while. We walked in through the entrance near to Ramya's.
Waves of nostalgia swept us as we saw the facade of Yuvaraja's. Quite a quaint structure, our college is.

The big classroom beside the Physics department is now called "Einstein Hall" so it seemed as i spotted the board. We took an absolutely delightful little walk through the lush campus with those tall trees, the sneaky wild foliage around the roads and the chirruping birds in the cold morning with the sun rays peeking in through the shroud. Saw benches in the campus strategically placed for the morning walkers and the lot to take rest. The rooms (Electronics lab specifically) which had crumbled now seems to be set up in place.

Remember those days...
1. When we used to laze in the park adjoining the college staring at the chicks..Djinn wondering about Miss Ochre-legs and the Singh babe and Janhavi and so on..QQ waiting for a chance to talk to Naina shastri..D-dany getting notes from Miss Katchayilli..Ravi staring agape at the Coorgi babe (dont remember her name!) and the ever hormonally charged Mahendra jigging with Miss Yaakaagbaradu during our get-together party.
Ravi - Hmm that was rina. That blue skirt she used to wear used to look good on her.

2. Neat-Manju sledging at Jyothi saying "nimma amman taraa..."

3. Pandu going and pressing the girl's **** in response to a challenge posed by QQ and ravi in the college library. QQ regretted later that he had ever done that.. :-)
Ravi - I am not involved in this I was searching someother book(physics I guess ..) in the second rac when that happened. I just watched behind the scenes.. The talk and act.
Santu - La affaire Pandu and Girl : Me and Ravi were surprised spectators.Jyothi initiated the whole thing. Finally I had to settle the matter

4. Having endless rounds of sugarcane juice near Ramaswamy circle after our cricket matches..

5. when Balu romanced and felt Roopashree's muscles and hemant kissed sreedevi in the cycle stand near the toilet.. (now a full fledged toilet)

6. when we bunked the 8 am class (circuit seenappa's) to go to see Bandit queen in Lido..
Ravi - Me poor guy.. Came late to the class and had to stay in the class full.

7. when Scar-Manju used to follow Priya Rao on her way back to house..can see QQ squirming.. ;-)

8. how D-dany went apeshit & gave it back to Somashekarappa after the latter wrongly accused him of creating some peculiar sounds in the class..

9. when we suddenly decided to goto Srirangapatna on a cycling trip..had meals in Pallavi dhaba with our meagre resources..and on our way back it started raining so intensely that we're soaked to the freakin skin..

10. how Ravi struggled to keep himself in control on reading Irving Wallace's 'Celestial Bed' in the classroom while Sanappa was taking a physics theory class..

11. and our interactions with the crazy bunch of college lecturers..Neverending Lion, Moonmother, Circuit Seenappa, Dagar shetty, Divya who used to jog in the morning with tiny shorts...and the sober Algebra teacher DDS.

12. Divya..we made her to let us off for the supposed to be new year celebrations. Mahendra talking about 7'o clock blade in her class.

13. Yakaagbaardu in the movie Jumanji changing her seat From the seat besides Djinn. Djinn paapa saying "naaneno maadthidde".

14. And QQ getting the blame mahendra's bhava that "naanyaakri aalli(why should I cry)"

15. Shetty(thotti) blaming QQ for not giving due respect to his lecturers.

16. Cosmopolitan Club: The kille was chicken/fish for 5 bucks with some overly boiled very thick rice and sambar. We also had to eat it sitting btn shrubs which had droppings of food from the previous day to year...

17. Don't forget Sateesha whistling at a "piece" and later finding that the "piece" was the "akka" of Ravi.

18. Yaakagabaradu and Shobi trying to lift the cylces above the cow barricade and not pedal it thru the main gate.

19. Finally those incidents with the mother of all, Anitha. Scary...

20. Santu and Ravi getting blamed by 'Sober' DDS for talking. We were supposed to be the first students to be punished by DDS in our class.

21. Ramanna beedi Kaamanna .. Not to be forgotten..

22. Mahendra's making sounds of "tuyya tuyya" in SL's class.

23. Ramanna asking doubts to Santu .. And his take on the 'Ode On a Grecian Urn'(belagge snaana maadkondu thale kedrkondu bandre hengasu chennagi iruthanthe ...LKB)

24. Gurumurthy saying 'BOTH of you THREE get out'..

25. Remember we made our kannada teacher cry .. I remember she swore to herself that she'd not take any more kannada classes for our batch (she was gurunanjayya's wife)

26. Akkamahadevi's disco head..EPND!

27. Guys staring at SL's daughter..

28. Yenne prasanna(remember he and santu were drunk in SL's class) then prasanna sponsoring our treat (fish outlet in exhibition)

29. Suma taking english classes and talking about all english movie stories in that
..Feather weight lecturer she was really and that 'Luna' she used to come by.

30. English HOD(mm bhagvan the buddhist) teaching us Shakespherean tale of Merchant of Venice..

31. We yelling 'aiite aiite' at each other

32. Neat manju refusing to give notes for sanskrit class to santu.

33. Santu and Ravi going on for a Jog (Oval stadium, santu nimma mane naayi belagge eddu sussu maadoke hogtha ithalla).

34. Watching "godly" movies in santu's mane.

35. Jyothi getting drunk on new years day, dany's attempts on making that really oily egg burgi, raghu mane puliyogre..

36. Salim yelling at santu 'alli koothko bedi yella thull bittidaare'

37. Salim giving eid sweets to santu alone. Since other guys didn't turn up. Amele santu yellarnu 'Hursiddu'

38. Kissing(hemanth & sridevi) scene making headlines in college (I watched all that).

39. Cycling to chamundi betta. Santu & I could cycle through jyothi and raghu struggled.

40. Narsipura cycling dany, santu & myself. When asked whether shobi would come r not. she replied 'its so windy will we be able to cycle ?'. and Ibru nanna maklu sakathagi yenne hodedaru. Dany was fully exhausted.

41. Raghu paapa aa Hindi lecturer hathira ne Text book thagondu odi mugisda (own text book tagolle illa)

42. Kaathyayini asking somebody paapa yeno problem ansuthe raghu ge

43. Dany tuitionge antha thegeskonda cycle maariddu, amele paandu tuitionge antha 3000/- iskondu dabba nanna mage kharchu maadkondiddu

44. Raghu avara thammana jote football aadi 3-1 alli sothiddu. Naanu namma goalge ball vadiddu.

45. Raghu Luna dalli tow maadkondu .. 6 jana hogiddu.

46. Independence day dina ravi ammanige sullu heli ..film nodiddu.

47. Santu having dosey in dose deepa's mane..in Pandupura

48. Jyothi and manju taking a bet to lift the bench kallu.. jyothi losing the bet and his watch..

50. Last but not least raghu missing the trek for his aunt's birthday.
We got so many responses soon after we decided that we are going on trekking.Jyothi dabba nanna mage dose haakiddu...

Well...those were the days..

Dmen in Bannerghatta again

Author: Raghu

Dmen in Bannerghatta again!!

It's on the 4th of November, 2005 we decide to visit our adopted
quadrupeds in Bannerghatta.Its the first visit for Ravi,Dany and Sanjay
since we adopted the cuddly li'l kusha and the menacing Assamese king
cobra. Dany got his aunt's Maruti car for this planned visit.

Off we went at around 12 pm today.. after a heavy brunch in a udupi
hotel in btm.

We reached B'ghatta around 2 pm. We went straight to the office to talk
to Karthick (who had introduced us to this adoption programme the last
time) We couldn't find him and so I called up Kartick on his phone.
Kartick told me that he has quit this job and is interested in doing
something on his own.
He said that he has got some formalities to complete and so he will come
down and ensure that our passes and the certificate of adoption reach us
before he leaves for good.

Anyways, we filed our way into the biological park and went past the
elephants zone and saw the marsh crocs, caiman crocs on our way. These
giant thick skinned scaly animals seemed to lie still as if trapped in a
time warp. We also saw the gulley nari enclosure on our way to the
leopards den. We could spot some bums trying to shout and scare the poor
animals there.

We called up Dr. Das, the onsite vet and met him along with Venkatesh,
the leopards caretaker. He recognized me from our earlier visit. He took
us inside the enclosure, the same area where we played with the small
cuddly cubs about 3 months back.

Well, Lava and Kusha were still there with their mother - Gauri. But the
small adorable brats had grown up in size and were fast outgrowing their
mother. Gauri seemed to be exhausted and just lay gazing quietly at us.
The two cubs were up in a flash climbing the cage, trying to paw us from
the small opening in the cage, growling and enjoyed being petted by
Venkatesh and Us.

Ravi seemed to be excited and started talking to L & K and the two cubs
with big clear eyes looked up at him as he gestured at them and that set
them off again to tumble against each other. We all had a blast feeling
their soft fur. We touched their flanks, nose, and aws. Ravi touched
Kusha's moustache and the little guy was livid as it shook its head and
bared its fangs playfully.

Venkatesh told us about Gauri and its 7 kids of which only 3 lived
today. Gauri had apparently eaten up the first 4. The eldest female
sibling is called Chinnu and is 3 months older than Lava and Kusha. We
saw Chintu (we saw this young male leopard the last time we visited the
enclosure as it lay in the ext cage) in the open den playing around with
the other senior leopards. Venkatesh further informed that Gauri will be
operated upon to ensure that she lives longer. Lava and Kusha will soon
be out in the open with the other big cats in probably another 3-4
months. He told us that L and K feast on chicken everyday at 5 pm (one
meal per day) as Gauri gorges on her diet of beef. Venkatesh later
showed us Ganesha, another big one in the open den. He seems to be so
fond of all the inmates there and that showed as he talked to us about
how he's working in B'ghatta for the past 11 years caring for the
leopards and said he enjoyed every moment there.

Our hands smelt of the wild cats odor as we came out slowly. It was a
good 45 minutes of time that we spent with those adorable brats feeling
assured that they are being taken care of well. We next visited the King
cobra enclosure and saw the big snakes which lay still after a heavy
meal. There were around 3 cobras of which one was shedding its skin.

All of us - Ravi, Sanjay and Dany all felt very happy touching and
petting L & K. Dany soon got a call from his office and told us that he
needed to go back for some meeting. So, we left around 5 pm promising
ourselves that we'd back soon to check on them.