The way to the Mess
In the whole of the first year, we all used to have our meals in the guest house. And since the road in front of the girls hostel was not there, infact the girls hostel itself was not there, there were just two options left. Either to follow the road from the main building and then cross the playing ground, or go to the corridor in the main building facing the ground and jump the wall to enter the ground and then cross the ground. Needless to say, that in a hurry to get the best bowls of chicken, an average person would come near to the lab, then onto the corridor and jump the wall to enter the ground and sprint all the way to the guest house for food and it wasn't long before it became the only option and we all forgot about the road that existed in front of the main building.
This all went on fine until the June of 1999, just two weeks before the start of third sem. Approx 8 or 10 guys were called from their vacations, who more so wanted to be in the college and asked to attend the Linux workshop being organized by some guy from Illinois. The attendees were some bigshot networking guys and sysadmins and senior managers from various IT companies and other institutes. Now this was the first day of the session and all the IIIT folks were well dressed and on time. Usual introductions and all and it was told that food is organized in the guest house for everyone.
Without being an exception, I started feeling hungry as soon as 11 and the other fellas, kuttu prakash, prem, suzku followed. As soon as we broke for lunch, we started the usual habit of running out of the class, entering the corridor in front of the admin offices, then onto the back gate and onto the outer corridor. What kutta prakash realised 2 mins later, that everyone else is following us cos we seemed to be the only people who knew the way to the guest house. Until we reached the last corridor it was all fine. Then they all seemed wondering where is the way out until we geniuses took the long-practiced-and-perfected jump across the wall into the ground. All the folks were sheepishly smiling and seemed to be kicking themselves, but then the biggest factor -- pet ki aag -- overcame them and they all jumped one by one into the ground. How badly I wish I had a camera at that moment.
A few weeks later Govindu was also shown the same way...
This all went on fine until the June of 1999, just two weeks before the start of third sem. Approx 8 or 10 guys were called from their vacations, who more so wanted to be in the college and asked to attend the Linux workshop being organized by some guy from Illinois. The attendees were some bigshot networking guys and sysadmins and senior managers from various IT companies and other institutes. Now this was the first day of the session and all the IIIT folks were well dressed and on time. Usual introductions and all and it was told that food is organized in the guest house for everyone.
Without being an exception, I started feeling hungry as soon as 11 and the other fellas, kuttu prakash, prem, suzku followed. As soon as we broke for lunch, we started the usual habit of running out of the class, entering the corridor in front of the admin offices, then onto the back gate and onto the outer corridor. What kutta prakash realised 2 mins later, that everyone else is following us cos we seemed to be the only people who knew the way to the guest house. Until we reached the last corridor it was all fine. Then they all seemed wondering where is the way out until we geniuses took the long-practiced-and-perfected jump across the wall into the ground. All the folks were sheepishly smiling and seemed to be kicking themselves, but then the biggest factor -- pet ki aag -- overcame them and they all jumped one by one into the ground. How badly I wish I had a camera at that moment.
A few weeks later Govindu was also shown the same way...
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