Place :Jnanajyoti Auditorium , Bangalore
Date : 15 May 2015
Time : 10.00 am
PC announced…
“Mr.NAGESH
PATIL”.
I
was Breathing heavily…..( 12.20pm)
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I woke around 6.30am , actually it was my
sis who woke me up. I was staying with
my akka and bhavas home may be around a month.yes
I wasn’t in hostel!
Then I jumped from bed, thought not to be late for this day atleast!
Yes, Last fest of any graduate, It was TheG’day!
I got
invitation a week back..
Finally went to fresh room and later had
light Breakfast and it was already 8.15 am
.
Formals , yes it was compulsory… I selected the same which I wore
yesterday (Went for the campus interview (Synergy) ) ….8.30am
I rushed to Attiguppe bus stand and hostel
mess isabout 45 min from there…(9.15am)
When I was about to get down from bus , I
saw Veeresh (Bhai)(I told him that i will join you tomorrow) , Thippesh(Mr. IIN) And
Mahantesh( manty) , they weren’t dressed
up.
I rushed to mess , and asked “ what happened
guys” ?
No hurry ,
don’t worry and the timings are temporary! Bhai sang.
We will move from hostel via SAI ground and
will reach the RR gate and get a bus to KBS, Mr. IIN told. Yeah “ let us have breakfast first “, I
told.(another time , yes ) and it was 9.20am
vijay, ranjith , kannan , Tn, riz .rajesh,
swamy ,patel , gowda , vinu ,raju, maddy, ravi ,teja, tippa, dhotre, yama, deva
,prash ,sathish , salman ,sheik ,Imran , cheluva , mahadev, yogi ,and harsha
were already had breakfast moving to the university gate to get bus for kbs.
Then we had breakfast (again i), went to hostel, when I came here in hostel ..
I got to know these idiots didn’t have
bath.
I remember Vijay and rajesh once ask there in mess “ coming?” . I would have told
yes!
And three got freshed , and bhai started
iron his shirt, I thought OMG !
Finally we left hostel(10.15am), I
calculated time , now it is 10.15am from
here to rr gate 15 min and from rr gate to kbs around 50 min.(including traffic
time ) and from there to audi. It takes 20 min if we still have same enthusiasm
, we may reach around 11.50am . I told “
guys we will reach around 12.00 “ and I may miss what we waited since from the
day I joined here “. We may reach at lunch time.
No hurry ,
don’t worry and the timings are temporary! Manty sang.bhai told “atleast we get lunch” .
I smiled.
We were in SAI(sports authority of India) ,
Mr. IIN had a piece of paper and from
that he read “ Around 18 schools got 0% in SSLC results” , for that manty said very sad..
“it is mainly due to bad teachers “Mr. IIN
continuing bhai interrupted him it is students who showed strength in
togetherness(“OGGATTINALLI BALAVAITI”
guroo) , and we burst into laughter.
And we took many photos of each other, later we finally in bus . Mr, iin and manty got seats I and bhai
still got no seat…..10.50am around
We reached the kbs finally at 11.20am ,
actually we get down near rajkumar circle,
Manty leading us,He was taking us via
santosh theatre , I stopped him and told “ this way guys , it takes just
fifteen minutes from here”. I took them via
vijaya café (rangamandir) near Annammatemple ,
while rushing to audi. I showed
the gym(BU) , I used to go when I was in second sem , they just did not care.
Yeah finally in jnanajyotiaudi. 11.35
am Bhai told” see like I said no one is here”, now its Mr. IIN “No hurry , don’t worry and the timings are just
temporary! I just get irritate, “ let us go inside” Manty told.
As
we were going , watchman stopped Manty “
where are you going Youngman“? He frozed and asked “G’day will be here, right”?! . “you guys late, it is already
started , run “ he told . I stared all of them and they just ran
towards door , there someone asked “ which Branch “? “Civil Engineering” we cried, he pointed that
way. we began to move that way.
OMG!
“It is a Black ocean” I thought. Auditorium almost full! We just trying
to get seats for us , our pc walking towards us and told “ there you go you get
civil guys”. I asked him “ where are our
ROBES”?.
He
stared us and told “ guys what is time now”? ,
Bhai told its 11.40 am.
“I meant
you guys are late, I gave two ours back . cant do anything now and I need to go to college to bring those”,
pc told.
We just went there where we could find our
mates. I saw at the stage few lectures from different depts., I could recognize just two of them. No sign of our dept. lectures and Professors .
Hosts of the day called a girl I didn’t hear her name , she went to stage and started (cheers from their mates)
“ I don’t believe how four year went with
you , my buddies” claps, cheers and whistles filled the audi. Later many speeches
from different branch students , “ I may missed speech , from our dept. “ I
thought. Later one by one , its
lectures.
Hosts announce Deepashenoi mam
please.
Mam began
addressing the day and started “ dear students (cheers , whistles filled audi.)
this 2014-15 batch had a wonderful placement than any other batches and she
started giving statistics
“ Computer science dept. out of 120+, 100+ students were eligible and 85+ are placed,” cheers , claps and whistles . it was from far away
from where I sat…
“ Electronics and communication dept. 85+
eligible 55+ students placed, (cheers from middle of audi.) and she also announcing statics of Electrical and
Mechanical depts..
“Civil dept. out of 140+ odd students
100+ students are eligible in that just 8 got placed” I thought .
Cheers from mechanical dept. I just came
into reality.
“
next it is Information science dept. All 55 students got placed, yes 100%
placements”, Huge cheers from dept.
My heart was pounding , may be for all
civilians,
“Thank you
giving this statistics’ she
addressed to students and that was the end of her speech, she not even
mentioned civil dept. name!
“ Our department not even considered a part
of UVCE” I felt. That was obvious even
after having 30+ odd Ph.D lectures out of that 10+ professors and just
Eight got placed , not even 6%(3- ACC ; 2- Total envi. And 3-Brigade).
Principle came and he started “ good to hear placement statistics”,
“Good morning my dear students” (cheers ,
whistles and claps filled audi. For a minute,.
‘tape recorder on ‘ started I thought)
“ Thirty six years back I was graduated
from the same place (claps) now you students” ,
“ Not even
writing final exams you are graduating , that is the beauty of uvce , we
laughed .
“From this place about 20 meters a great
engineer Bharat ratnaVisvesvaraya started this college,
“10 meter from here Nobel prize winner C.V. Raman from the same
university of course he was a professor “.
“Bharat Ratna CNR rao is also part of the university “,
“So you are very lucky to be a part of
this, someone wants this 100 year old college to be moved to JB campus(civil
dept. is here) , we should not allow that to happen”(whistles , claps again
filled all over audi.)
“ you students are like Ekalavyaas and Sir
M Visvesvaraya is your dronachaarya”, again whistles.
I am hearing the same
since I was in first sem and it was
started from the hostel day four
years back. Same content addressing different events , like
“This Hostel Day”
“This Fiesta”
“This Milagro”
“This Civista”
“This Graduation Day”
Yes, The speech was over……, 12.10 pm.
Hosts again came to mike and they announced
“Placement Co-ordinators”(pcs)of all branches please come to stage and receive “momentos”.
After that Hosts told “ Civil engineering students get ready to take momentos “.OMG! I told myself , I
went to one of our pc and I asked about robes, He just shrugged .
And
they another pc started calling names
one by one , we four still don’t have
our robes. There were few , later she is going to call me.
Eureka………!
I ran outside straight to the Backstage , some of my mates
coming towards me,
“Would you like to give me your robes? For
a minute ? I didn’t get my robes”,
Yes Ofcourse , sure . Akash told.
Then I rushed to audi.
“Got
robes” ?Muruli asked. I said yes..
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“Mr.NageshPatil” she again announced ,please. It broke my day dream,
I went to stage and received momento and
turned to camera “flashlights”! I just moved forward and went outside .
When I came outside, “Would
you like to give your momento for a moment”? we have shortage , someone asked.
I knew him he’s junior pc ?! I said
“sure”
and I gave robes back to Akash. I thought atleast for a minute I was graduated!
Nagesh swamy asked me “NageshPatil , why you late today ?"
I smiled and sang
“ No hurry ,Don’t worry and
Timings are Temporary”
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