A Good Time

Was thinking about events that occurred all through my life and realized that it doesn’t take a lot to have a good time. Everyone would agree that the penniless days at the college hangout and the chipping in for a shady meal contributed to the most memorable days.
Being a person that would narrate a normal day as one of utmost importance makes me think of all those then worthless hours I’ve spent in the K.C. College canteen with a few of my seniors who then had no direction in Life. For those who don’t know K.C. stands for Kishinchand Chellaram College or as we called it KISSING-chand Chellaram college.
An ordinary day would consist of a chem.lecture by Prof Meera Parwani (who for the guys reading was quite hot and also had an awesome command over the subject), whose lecture I never missed…then a huge totally wasted canteen session that would generally end up in completion of lyrics of songs by some boy band or rockers that I started compiling in really boring lectures that were attended to just complete my attendance. This book was my only treasured possession then. Btw I still have it!!!
Then after all this we’d suddenly decide and go to watch the latest release and since seniors were around they’d generally be paid for …hehehehhe. After that started the only exercise of the day…the long amazing walk home….. MARINE DRIVE….. it was much clean and beautiful then but lately has lost all its charm due to the sad cops and “bagha” public that come and ruin its surroundings by littering. “Bagha” is the word used to describe ppl who are basically tourists and venture out on the weekend to litter places.

Nothing seemed to change after joining Engineering. We still hung around the shadiest areas to find ourselves penniless again. Cracked similar jokes with interests shifting from music and fine arts to sports and new technologies.Growth was evident but not the one we actually gave tution fees for ;). But the bottom line still remained TIMEPASS. It was a lotta nothing to get through all the something someone tried to teach us then. All we wished that lectures would be held in the gym whilst we played TT or carom heheehhe. Atleast all our “TIME” could be utilized well thenJ. All this would not make much sense to most of you but then all we needed to have a good time was someone we could relate to and those who thought on the same level. No Tolerance of bullshit and a kick-ass therapy to cure any sad or majorly fucked up attitude! Getting High on life was easy. General Cribs about college actually weren’t cribs at all just are way to say that we care.
Everyone loved this “SHITHOLE” named VJTI. Anytime spent together turned out to be a GREAT Time.

All this has somehow changed. Money and the want for more has brought about this radical unwanted way of life. Now we go and enjoy a drink or two with someone who doesn’t even have the slightest clue of who you are! At times at team dinners when ur laughing at a not even remotely funny joke (normally narrated by the boss paying the bill) ur always hoping that u’d rather get outta this and spend it with people u actually did care about. All the while thinking you have no life and rightly coz your company has substituted that with work, money and these long lists of facilities no one has the time to use except when on bench. Loyalty is an issue as one’s always actuaaly searchin for a place they can call home…A hoem away from home… Happiness is all that matters and now since they don’t make it the way they used we gotta buy ourselves a bit of it each day.

All I think about our my friends and the years we’ve spent “foolin around” having a great time.

Good times now seem to be a thing of the past…

History unfortunately has somehow has forgotten to repeat itself….

Memories linger as time flies by …knowing one day it’ll be our time to die!!!!!