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..