Aatha!! Naan Engineer aaiytaen!!!

Kavin B.E. reporting!!

Yay!! I’ve become an engineer. Two days since I did. Exams over. Project over. Studying over. Me free.. atleast for the next few months. These days, I realise are the last few months of my life where I can enjoy complete freedom. Once grad study starts it ain’t going to be easy and then comes a job (hopefully) and then there couldn’t be much enjoying later, to come up. So these days technically mean the ENJOY ONLY days of my life. ( I know that this is the too much of fore-thought), but heck I am like that.

Exams were ok-ish – not great, just ok. The last day was filled with mixed emotions. Happy and sad. Obviously, duh!! Last bus ride back home, I kept my promise and didn’t sleep. So many plans I had made, when the exams were on, but now doesn’t seem like I can think of anything to do at all. Guess, awaiting hols is more exciting than having the hols. Coz that way, you are more excited thinking that you’d do all those things you want to do and finally when the days arrive, you are just too lazy to get up and get those things going. So ultimately, you sleep and waste your time and wait for the next hols to come so that you can plan and make all those things come true again.

Some of my plans,

TENNIS – Going for my first class tomo at 6:30 AM
DANCE – Don’t think I am ever going to get the guts to pursue this
GYM – Yup!! This I am going to check out tomo and talk to my dad abt it and beg him to allow me to join.

That’s the classes part.

The remaining are pretty much just checking if all my body parts are intact and alive and kicking – read, appointments with doctors, specialised in each of those parts.

Then comes the shopping and then the visiting everybody who know me part.

Oh!! How did I forget.. COOKING. The most major of them all!!

If all these work out well, then my hols would be just the way I had wanted them to be – PRODUCTIVE (For once!!)

Wishing myself luck on that!!

For the last day to LAST!!!!

My college with the class room sessions are over finally. 1st April was the last day. No more sitting on those desks and stuff. Was pretty cool. We took pictures everywhere. I finally got to see the swimming pool in my college after four years and that was the first thing that the manager guy told me to ‘LURE’ me into the coll. Funny how the girls are never allowed to dip their feet in the water but just the presence of it is supposed to make me choose this coll over the others. Brilliant marketing strategy. Maybe the IIM’s should take note of it.

The last day kinda suddenly entwines everybody in togetherness. You love the ppl whom you have always hated. The teachers are not so bloodhound like, as they have always seemed to be. They are almost sweet, maybe coz they are relieved to know that we are off. But its nice to see them smile at us for once genuinely. But of course they called the gals aside and told us to pin our sarees on the final photo session that we are to have next. Well.. you win some, you lose some.

The trees, the buses, the two dozen monkeys that have visited our class, stolen lunches and pencil pouches, all seem to look different. Or may be I look at it in the very ‘I am going to miss you’ kind of way. I kept smiling all the way. The gals thought somebody asked me out, since I had this stupid smile plastered on my face. The smile was a result of, “Hey!! This is the last time I am seeing you”. I said that to the stairs, the benches, the desks, the board, the dept, the buses. So the smile was perpetual.

I took pics with all the gals. Lots and lots of pics. With the guys a few too. My good friends and the guys I’ve always liked for no reason, but have never really talked to. It felt like we were a huge family. It seemed like we were in this together all long. Of course I’ve known this, but it felt different that day.

I wanted to savour the last ride back home that evening. But I was too tired to stay awake, and I promised myself that the last exam I’ll travel all the way back awake. That is still a month later, so I don’t have to worry about that too much now. I have exactly 8 more days of coll. 3 for the exams, 2 for project, 2 for cat and the last for the photo session. I don’t know if I want these days to fly past me as I had been willing the last four years to, or want time to freeze and stay in this comfort zone forever with ppl I know (not necessarily like) and let things stay the way they are. I know I don’t have a lot of choice on the pace of things but hell.. I can’t stop wondering what I really want.

I just got a beautiful saree for the photo session and its really beautiful. Half cream and half maroon. Really pretty until I saw another similar and more prettier one (much simpler but more expensive). But had to stay with this one coz dad liked this better and he is to pay for it, so no questions asked. We are also planning a farewell for us. This would be at a hotel. Lotsa ppl trying to figure a place out for the event. The budget per head is 400 to 450, for which the only places we get are Harrisons and breeze. My dad can get green park cheaper, but apparently the food is just okaish. So I guess Breeze it is.

There is also this whole new confusion (only among girls of course) on what to wear. Some are getting dresses (I mean the evenin wear kinds). I still haven’t come to the part where I can pull of something of that kind. So will just have to wait for US of A to make me like that. So jeans and t-shirt it is. Though my major desire for now is to drive to the hotel myself and get out of the driver’s seat. Man!!! It’ll be AWESOME. I know, I know, that for this super duper driver, it wouldn’t be a gr8 deal. But bloody I am an amateur and these things more to me than the actual driving. (Psst. I am already dreading the ramp through which I have to drive to the hotel).

All said and done, I still have some unfinished business in coll. Ppl I have to talk to, Things that need to be done and Relations I need to patch up, at least to a, “hows the weather”, kinda conversations to be feasible. With all that done, I’d be only just satisfied with my college life.

Darn it man!! I thought I’d upload a few pics just to make the memories last. But its taking forever. Thanks to my new Canon IXUS 960, 12.1 Mp camera, the files are too large to upload. If you think I am bragging abt my new cam, you bet, my baby, I am. So now, I can point and shoot and keep the pictures and memories all.. to myself. Maybe that’s why dad got this for me. Hmmm!! Some food for thought tonight.