School Chale Hum 1..

"A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked." ~ Bernard Meltzer

Your best buddies generally are the ones you have grown up with.. Langotiya Yaar..
mine happen to be from school and a few from the gullies that I used to stay in.
We had joy, we had fun & amazing seasons in the sun.. good old days of sly-less innocence.. lol.. certain transformations are hard to believe.. some out-spoken smarties are now silent spectators and vice-versa.

Thanks to the A.P. students' career development programmes** (solely constituting of the starry-eyed "ek din mera beta bhi..." parents) , even I joined the race of the "ideal" student totally brain washed with the preaching that anything lesser than an engineering/medicine seat isn't worth a life. Hence followed a grind of 2 years in "the Guinness Record holding" Kalashala of Sri Chaitanya.(ask Abhiram & Jimmy for apt descriptions).Finally I ended up in an engineering institute that promised to instill a sense of discipline & decorum into the students' heads.. so we had distinctly separate canteens, transport facility as well as seating arrangements for people not belonging to the same gender. I still wonder if the reason for comparatively less internal marks of some of my classmates was due to their proximity in just oral communication with the girls of our class.

Of course, like always, I had good times..made a friend out of each & every person I met in college, and had a very vibrant social life..all those feasts,traveling,biking,celebrity fests,paper presentations(still don't know how we*** pulled it off each time),anchoring,organizing the events & meets and one night stands with the books just before the exam,life was on a roll.. a few niggles here & there didn't matter much.. except for a couple of disturbing instances towards the end of the 4th year(that still haunt me).. my 4 years @ Gokaraju Rangaraju Institute of Engineering & Technology can be best summed up by the following quote..

"He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson



**currently these programmes start right at the birth of the child
(during my time, it was in standard 10th)
*** read - MAB,KRN