I loved every bit of it :)

End of college, endless wait for the updates from universities..I wonder how one can stay back home or how can one practice patience? I can’t is all I know and everybody around me does.

This is the time when every engineering student stays back home, waiting for results, counting days for the semester to begin..Half of the people go to their hometowns and the others like us sit at home struggling with their siblings, yelling ‘subha se tumhi baithe huye hai system pe…’

Every time the break embarks I have it in my mind..-this time I’ll do something different! Cook, glass paints, Martial arts  :P Nothing escalates and I am left handicapped with the social networking sites. Before you say ‘Huh!’ stop! No they are not a waste of time always like Mom says.

Potter sis’s friend Monica came up with something good…A  group run by students called Street Cause needed volunteers. They were setting a medical camp in  a school and needed volunteers to aware people of the same in slums. And this was posted on Facebook..

This was something really exciting…something I never did.. with the same interest of serving people behind the  chopped ambitions of joining navy, becoming  a politician.. I was getting it do now.

Monica, Potter sis, Keshu and me registered our names..We were asked to volunteer in Banajra Hills.

8th June: Potter sis gave a hand..The indifference she wore was Pa’s anger at her unnecessary hangouts with friends. Huh! I was adamant about doing it, and once decided I don’t avert things. Sweet friend Keshu  and Mona joined..We were asked to halt at a a place and Manoj(the guy who posted it on FB) came and took us to the slums.

90 people posted ‘attending event’ on FB and they were only 12 members including us and the organizers there.

We were divided into teams, teams were divided accordingly..

One telugu speaking and the other hindi speaking partner. Major population spoke telugu there..I was sad that I don’t know much  telugu and that’d be a barrier in communication. Monica kept jabbering the same three four lines in telugu and I kept interrupting..with English words-free medical camp, free spectacles ..11th roju(day). Hearing it so many times then…after sometime even I started in telugu :P Each time we entered a house Monica asked ‘ Telugu aa? Hindi aa?’ She sighed each time they said Hindi…

At the doors sometimes dogs welcomed us and sometimes old women bathing kids…women sitting with open hair combing hair fighting lies.. :P

There were instances when we got scared of men too..An autowala followed us wantedly asking ‘I can also come?’

At a place a women listened to me quietly..I was wondering why is she not saying anything..then she started shouting ‘I can’t listen anything..you go ahead..’Other team narrated how they came across a AIDS patient and how people treated him..not touching him.

After tanning and sweating in sunlight for four hours day-1 ended.

9th June: My eye pained badly coz the previous night I watched Raajneeti late night on big screen.So, I couldn’t go..

10th June: After Mona’s much persuasion potter sis decided to come.

The slums on the other side had muslim people..Hearing syed nagar my eyes twinkled. It was my turn now to play the speaker. Mona and Manoj were spectators here.

Working in this area was painful than the Hindu basti(area with Hindu population). Safety  and hygiene was something badly sacrificed, Potter sis got a shock when she touched an electric pole. They were some houses where I  came back foot coughing  experiencing  nausea, coz they smelled that bad.  Cats  were scary  fighting for thrown mutton and beef pieces on roads.

While explaining them, I once said- ‘Checkup aankhon ke liye(showing teeth) and daaton ke liye(showing eyes)….’ :P

Muslim population was difficult to deal…many of the teenagers asking stupid questions just to pass time. So we winded up early.

11th June -THE IMPACT DAY.

The whole thing was sponsored by Deloitte. A blue parade landed on the camp site( delloite employees). We were left in  a corner in the blue cloud..but then we started inspecting how things were running much to disappointment the deloittes were disorganized. No volunteers positioned properly..then we two(keshu and me) took over the Dentist zone-me playing  a peon cum security guard with all the patients prescriptions, Keshu-pharmacist, Mona and humz stood at the entrance serving people water. The only thing delloites did was ran with aquafina bottles after the foreign delloite workers, may be sponsorers. I don’t understand why few people still love to lick the whites shoes..so what if they are the sponsorers..One of the white men said ’No I don’t drink warm water..’the Indian deloitte worker replied ‘Sir, it’s normal water..’

Huh!Angrez kab ka chodhh gaye..hum hi abhi tak baaz ni aye!

We had Rahul working with us one of the senior Deloitte worker, wee bit sane when compared to others there. Dentist was smart…I should have taken a picture with him..shahh!

Playing peon was fun, people tried flattery on me so that I’d let them in to the doctor first.. :P Every other minute people’d start fighting, break the queue and I’d then switch to a security guards role :P Lunch time and everyone ran..we didn’t go for lunch, we thought we’d eat together with  humz and mona who left for a mall in middle of all this.

Lunch time was over and Rahul came urged us to eat..we still didn’t eat..it was three then. Annoyed with our no’s he went and brought plates and food for us..It was a scene to watch all chicks staring..… :P

They started winding up things at four..but the dentist zone had so many patients left I didn’t stop taking the patients in, though they asked me to stop registering them. They closed their medicine kits and sat I went like a Jhansi ki rani and ordered them to give medicines..I can never forget that moment people holding my hands and thanking..

I never thought I’d feel this happy playing a peon and a security guard…

Thanks Street Cause & Deloitte ..

I got a Street Cause T-shirt too :)

The Mini Project!

Caution:This might be boring!
I don't think I'll have to give a brief account of what a mini project is..
For those who donno here it is.. :P a tit-bit!We are given a small assignment called a mini project in our third year of four years of our study..and this mini project can be anything in electronics or communications..(our options to choose:embedded,VHDL,DSP)so,both the departments got the internal guides dealing with the subjects..It's a rule that if you choose this you cant choose that in your major project.The nightmare was Udaya Lakshmi(yes you roll no 28 fame) remember?Ya..she..so,she'd be dealing with one of the option and for I am her favorite student me and a bunch of my friends very well knew she's gonna twist us in the majors if we opt the option she's dealing with!so..now or then..we have to deal with her,so we decided we wont let our majors marks effect coz of this devil,we'll take VHDL(dealt by her) in our Mini project.That's it!

It's a rule that you gotta do your project in some institute outside the college and present it.Lecturers hardly intervene in which institute you go for and all...but Lakshmi had to interfere she suggested us some institute 25-30 kms away from our place..and we like losers did go to the same insti!The institute director was in touch with Lakshmi and he was 10 times more cruel than this evil lady!trust me,really!I just don't rant like this...Did I ever?bitch/rant..?no!na?
The institute was hardly of any help,we had to go through net and all..for the project's documentation.The term Project was obviously new and the thing to search on was very much"Advanced Encryption Standard(AES),"heard it anytime..?It deals with Encryption(hiding)of your data.

Documentation and all was done.Now comes the internal guide part,the guide's gotta check if your project is presentable to the University.The lady every time wanted us to make changes font style,margins this that...MS word became a nightmare,I remember I fought with my bro,"why did you install a newer version,i am used to 03 version of Word!Why did you install 07?" :P
Every other day my friend and I would sit opening Word.My parents doubted if I am capable of doing anything... :P The printouts shopwala made a merry,every other day print outs!print outs!(thanks to pa for letting the cartridges stale in his office).

It was last saturday, we gave our final document for hard dinding of our record.It was raining so heavily...We ignoring all the pani puri and ice creams beside ... it took us 4.5 hours to take printouts.. arrange,re-arrange them all for the 3 copies to be submitted to the University.

And yesterday...I opened Word and..I felt so bad that it was all empty..nothing to be done..all over!I missed my Project.There was no tension now,all over..At an instance I felt bad,but at the next I recollected what all we've gone through-Thank God!it's over!!

I dedicate this blog to my project partner,everyone who dealt with my temper during the project tenure and obviously Microsoft Word :)